Age of Conquest Reborn

In the Western Liaoning Corridor area, the Daling River battlefield, the attack on the Kwantung Army's defensive positions, the fierce artillery fire and aerial bombings amazed Major General Battelle, commander of the armored forces of the Independent Division, who was used to seeing the grand scenes on European battlefields. According to this battle, the independent division's battlefield

With the cooperation and intensity of air firepower, even in a head-to-head battle with two or three German armies, they would not lose at all, and could even gain the upper hand!

Battle was proud and excited, excited that his brother had great strength now, and that he was one of them. At this moment, Feng Jiwu's order came, and the radio soldier's report interrupted his imagination, "Say!

"Bartelle quickly brought his mind back to reality and said simply.

"Commander Feng ordered that the bombing is over and the armored troops will attack immediately!" the radio soldier was even more concise.

Battelle immediately issued an order on the tank formation communication channel: "Attention all brigades, all tanks will be activated immediately, approach the embankment on the south bank of the Daling River, eliminate the remaining enemies, and cover the pontoon bridge troops erecting the pontoon bridge!"

The roar suddenly sounded, all the tanks stepped up the accelerator, the engines roared, the tanks rushed out, a layer of smoke rose, more than a thousand tanks came out, the earth shook, and the tracks crushed the soil and debris.

The sound of "crush!" emitted by the rocks was another loud sound that shook people's hearts on the already quiet battlefield. The huge steel monster drove up the embankment of different heights on the south bank of the Daling River.

The shelling had passed and the bombing was over. General Umezu Yoshijiro's estimate was very accurate. The Ninth Army's defense system extending along the north bank of the Daling River was almost destroyed to nothing. Even the underground fortifications mostly collapsed.

After burying the lives of the offenders, there were more Kwantung Army soldiers who were shocked by the shock wave and bleed from all their orifices, and fell limply in the crumbling underground fortifications.

Added up, one hour of artillery bombardment and forty minutes of aerial bombardment brought heavy casualties to the Ninth Army. The number of troops in each forward regiment was reduced by more than half. However, the spirit of Bushido was in the mind, even in the

Even in the Imperial Army, they consider themselves to be superior. The Kwantung Army soldiers, who are determined to devote themselves to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan and do not take death seriously, are the few remaining strong troops who will fight to the end.

Of course, this determination to fight to the death and not retreat also comes from the orders of superiors. If you fight to the death, you will die, and your soul can enter the Yasukuni Shrine. If you retreat, you will die and be cast aside by future generations. The sinners of the empire will be scolded by the surviving officers.

, survived

The Kwantung Army soldiers who arrived crawled out of the dilapidated underground fortifications, emerged from the ruins of broken bricks and tiles, shook their heads that were dizzy from the shock, and fought desperately in the ruins with their bodies covered in dust and numerous wounds.

Go up and build temporary fortifications.

At this moment, the surviving troops of the Ninth Army of the Kwantung Army were poorly equipped. Mortars and Type 92 heavy machine guns became the most powerful weapons. On the ruins on the north bank of the Daling River, there was a sound of engineers shoveling the soil and digging.

The sound became a strange sight on the battlefield at night!

When more than a thousand tanks commanded by Battelle, like a steel monster, rushed onto the embankment on the south bank of the Daling River, they naturally alarmed the hard-working Kwantung Army soldiers. They exclaimed, "Look! That's China."

People's tanks, get ready to shoot!" There are more experienced veterans who are busy wrapping grenades on themselves. This is the sharp weapon of Yamato warriors, transforming themselves into bombs and blowing up the tanks of the independent division!

The tanks were lined up in a line, squatting on the embankment of the Daling River, but they were surprisingly silent. The engines roared low, and the turrets did not fire shells. But in the dim night, the steel monsters brought to Kanto

The pressure of the soldiers of the army was lingering. They didn't know what these independent division tanks would do across the Daling River, which was several hundred meters wide.

Battelle sat in the tank commander's position, his eyes narrowed, and he calmly ordered in the armored formation communication channel: "Every vehicle, pay attention, listen to my order, turn on the headlights together, and the tank guns should pay attention to clearing the surviving Japanese fire points."

!Break through the cluster and be ready to cross the pontoon bridge at any time! The commanders of each formation began to report the preparation status of their formation!"

In the earphones, reports from the commanders of each tank brigade kept coming, "Report to commander, the first formation of the third tank brigade is ready!" "Report to commander, the fifth formation of the first tank brigade is ready!" "Report to commander, the fifth formation of the first tank brigade is ready!"

Report commander! The first formation of the second tank brigade is ready!..."

Battle listened calmly to the reports of the brigade commanders, calculating silently in his mind. When the last brigade commander finished his report, Battle opened the infantry contact channel, "Attention infantry commanders accompanying the attack, prepare for light artillery fire!"

Then, he suddenly shouted: "Turn on the lights!"

"Brush!" Very suddenly, thousands of bright tank lights suddenly lit up on the south bank of the Daling River. If it were dark night, the sudden thrusts of lightsabers instantly blocked the Kwantung Army's defense on the north bank of the Daling River.

Broken bricks and tiles

The ground was illuminated as brightly as day, and the dazzling light made the Kwantung Army soldiers, who were staring nervously at the tanks of the Independent Division with their eyes wide open, suddenly saw a blinding whiteness in front of them, and could not see anything. In their field of vision, there was only white light filling their pupils!

The Kwantung Army soldiers who entered the ruined ground position were immediately exposed to bright lights. Then, the mortars and light infantry guns approaching the river embankment began to pour shells at the Kwantung Army.

On the battlefield, firelight flashed, and the sound of explosions once again filled the night sky.

Then, low-trajectory shells from tank guns roared and joined the artillery fire. Any spark from the gun muzzle of any Kwantung Army soldier during a counterattack would attract several shells. In order to counterattack, the independent division infantry crossed Daling.

river, request

After retreating to the second line of defense, the commander of the Kwantung Army's Ninth Army, Lieutenant General Kanago, ordered all remaining troops of each division and brigade to enter ground positions after his request was categorically rejected by the commander-in-chief, General Yoshijiro Umezu.

Carry out a desperate counterattack!

The commander of the 18th Division, Lieutenant General Watanabe, and the commander of the army, Lieutenant General Granary, were one step ahead. Before the order from the military headquarters was issued, the soldiers of the 18th Division had already entered the position, that is,

It is said that the remaining soldiers of the Kwantung Army's Ninth Army, which was defending along the Daling River, were all on the ground positions that had been blown to pieces, and Battelle's creative style of play became a decisive blow.

massacre.

Small-caliber artillery shells flew in the night, roared across the Daling River, and fell on the Kwantung Army soldiers exposed to the light. The sound was no less than the huge explosion when the heavy artillery group shelled, echoing in the night sky, and it was silent for less than ten years.

For a few minutes, the battlefield became noisy again.

According to the offensive coordination plan, when more than a thousand tanks of the armored forces turned on their lights and artillery fire began to attack, the vehicles of the pontoon bridge troops were ready to rush down the embankment and onto the river beach. The cranes roared and sent the steel pontoon bridges to the ground.

After entering the water, when the pontoon bridge troops were setting up the pontoon bridge, the bullets from the other side were so sparse that they could be ignored.

Zheng Yong, the artillery commander of the independent division, seemed to have nothing to do after his artillery completed its mission. He walked back and forth in the headquarters with unfinished thoughts. When he heard the loud sound of the artillery, he immediately rushed outside the headquarters.

What caught my eye was the headlights of more than a thousand tanks.

The light shone as bright as day on the battlefield on the north bank of the Daling River, "Hahaha! This guy Battelle, despite his young age, has so many clever ideas! I have had a few ideas, and I, Old Zheng, will never come up with this idea! Okay!" Zheng!

Yong was like a child, laughing happily and jumping to his feet to cheer!

Also sighing were Major General Feng Jiwu, Commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, and Colonel Zhang Hansheng, Chief of Staff, who were always observing the battlefield situation.

Night attack for armored groups

The classic tactic of completely exposing the enemy, and then using artillery fire to kill again, just like fighting in broad daylight. What a fantastic idea! It is worthy of being practiced in the European battlefield after drinking foreign ink in Germany.

Famous!" Feng Jiwu said with admiration.

After sighing, Feng Jiwu said to Zhang Hansheng: "Chief of Staff, I can confirm that the casualties we will pay by breaking through the Daling River defense line of the Kwantung Army will be almost minimal!"

Zhang Hansheng agreed with the commander's statement, and analyzed it from the perspective of the chief of staff: "Commander Battle's tactics need to meet several conditions at the same time. First, the Kwantung Army lacks anti-tank weapons, and second, after its artillery has been completely

After the destruction, there are no weapons that can threaten our armored group. Third, the surviving Kwantung Army soldiers have entered the ground position and are preparing to counterattack our infantry attack. These three conditions are indispensable, otherwise, the current effect will not be achieved!"

Feng Jiwu laughed loudly: "The chief of staff has his own ideas, but without these conditions, Commander Battle would not adopt such tactics! You see, he is only in his twenties, and his experience in commanding operations is no less than

Not for any of us! Our teacher’s younger brother will have amazing achievements in the future!”

The Kwantung Army's Daling River defense line, which had experienced a triple blow from the combined artillery fire of tanks, mortars and light infantry guns, basically became a no-man's land at the scheduled breakthrough point. The Kwantung Army soldiers on the ground were all

Absolutely dead.

The boat bridges, one by one, are like dragons stretching straight to the opposite bank on the turbulent surface of the Daling River, extending towards the north bank at a speed visible to the naked eye. On the boat bridge, engineers and soldiers from the Niangziguan garrison were nervously

use

The tools fixed each section of the boat bridge. More than a year of training showed the results. Sparse stray bullets flew aimlessly in the night sky, drawing dark red trajectories, but they did not affect the boat at all.

The speed of bridge erection.

The first pontoon bridge finally arrived on the beach on the north bank of the Daling River. Several high-powered engineering vehicles rumbled along the pontoon bridge to the other side. As anchor points to fix the other end of the pontoon bridge, they were almost connecting

At the same time as the report arrived, Battelle issued an order: "First Armored Assault Group, start crossing the river!"

(To be continued)