Age of Conquest Reborn

There is pressure. The pressure does not come from the order from the Corps Headquarters, "Within eight hours, wipe out a division of more than 30,000 Kwantung Army troops." It comes from the fact that there are four brigades and a tank brigade behind, six

Seventy thousand people are waiting to pass through the Baolong Mountain line. Countless pairs of eyes are watching from behind. If it takes too long to break through the Kwantung Army's blocking line, the three brigade commanders will be embarrassed without a severe rebuke from the commander. Therefore, how to fight?

key!

Major General Xu Guofu, commander of the second brigade, who was catching up quickly, spoke with Song Guotai, commander of the first brigade, and Wu Yaoxian, commander of the first tank brigade, through the walkie-talkie in the armored command vehicle that was running away in smoke.

A speeding military meeting was held. In just ten minutes, the attack plan was determined.

Since the second brigade is catching up, but it will take about an hour, the assault will be completed by Wu Yaoxian's tank brigade and Song Guotai's first brigade. After the second brigade arrives, the breakthrough will be expanded, and then the Kwantung Army will be divided.

Surrounded and finally eaten.

Wu Yaoxian's tank brigade adopted a linear offensive formation with more than 300 tanks to ensure that it opened a 20-kilometer-wide gap in the Kwantung Army's blocking position on the Baolong Mountain line. This was not difficult to accomplish, given the lack of artillery and counterattacks.

The 36th Division of the Kwantung Army, equipped with tank weapons, hastily switched from retreat to defense. It did not even complete simple fortifications and was unable to stop the assault of this torrent of armor.

Wu Yaoxian also tended to use tanks to tear apart the blocking positions of the Kwantung Army, but Song Guotai considered that the previous losses in the tank brigade were caused by the desperate tactics of the Japs. If the infantry accompanied the assault, casualties would increase, so he took

It’s not worth exchanging the lives of the tanks and soldiers for the lives of the little Japanese soldiers! "Old Wu, those tough guys of yours, please bear with me for a while, and I will use artillery shells to give the little Japanese soldiers a head start!" Song Guotai said to Wu Yaoxian.

Wu Yaoxian was surprised and asked: "Brother, your troops are also in constant pursuit, and the artillery has caught up? Besides, it takes time to build artillery positions, but we can't afford to wait! I should use tank guns.

, blast the Eastern Army’s blocking position!”

Song Guotai laughed and said: "I have two self-propelled artillery regiments in my hands. Just follow me. I don't need to build any artillery positions. I can attack them right away. Take a look, brother!"

Standing on a hill on Baolong Mountain, the only highland that can be called a highland, the temporary headquarters of the 36th Division of the Kwantung Army is located here. The commander of the division, Lieutenant General Rongcang, held up the telescope and waved slightly with both hands.

Shivering and cold all over, in the open area in front of the hillock, the soldiers were nervously digging fortifications. Behind the hillock, the field artillery regiment directly under the division was hurriedly unloading artillery and constructing artillery positions.

But all this takes time. Without more than three hours, it is impossible to build a basic blocking line. In Lieutenant General Rongcang's telescopic lens, more than 300 tanks of the Independent Division in the distance lined up silently.

The horizontal formation, the muzzle of the gun pointed at Baolong Mountain, the steel armor of the tank reflected the luster of metal under the hot July sunshine in Western Manchuria. This silence itself was an invisible pressure.

This pressure made Lieutenant General Rongcang feel cold. He also noticed that the soldiers who were nervously building fortifications stopped their movements from time to time and looked at the tanks of the Independent Division visible to the naked eye. They were crouching like beasts that were about to explode at any time.

On the long yellow sand, Lieutenant General Rongcang could feel the inner fear and uneasiness of his soldiers, and as time went by, this fear and uneasiness gradually expanded.

"Damn it! This is the Chinese commander's psychological tactic, intended to undermine the fighting spirit of the imperial soldiers!" Lieutenant General Rongcang cursed fiercely. More than 300 silent tanks, in a position within sight of the soldiers, did not

Attacking without firing artillery is a huge coercion in itself. If the tanks of the independent division start to attack when your own troops are retreating and turning to defense, the situation will be very different.

The imperial soldiers of the 36th Division are still in a state of excitement, and it is easy to ignore the pressure brought by the tanks. If they use the flesh and blood of soldiers to blow up dozens of independent division tanks, the soldiers will definitely be aroused.

Their fighting courage!

But things are different now. Lieutenant General Rongcang even feels that those steel monsters silent in the sun seem to be sucking away the fighting will and the inner fighting will of the more than 20,000 soldiers and officers of the 36th Division.

The proud courage drains all the spirit of the imperial soldiers!

"Despicable and cunning Chinese, the tricks of an inferior nation!" Lieutenant General Rongcang cursed fiercely again, "Staff officer, order the division's field artillery wing to fire within thirty minutes, and the target of the bombardment is the independent division.

tanks, if that is not possible, the United

Captain Hosokawa committed suicide by caesarean section to apologize for his crime!" He was almost roaring and issued an incredible order. The tanks of the independent division must be destroyed. Otherwise, the morale of the soldiers will fall to a low point before the attack.

How can we still fight the blocking battle?

The officers who gathered around Lieutenant General Rongcang unanimously complained that the current field artillery regiment had just unloaded the artillery, and the artillery firing position did not even have a prototype. Under normal circumstances, a regiment would be constructed.

A large-scale artillery position does not have more than three hours. It is impossible to do it. Even if the situation is urgent now, it will only take about two hours. Didn't the division commander force Colonel Hosokawa, the commander of the field artillery regiment, to commit suicide?

Lieutenant General Rongcang did not wait for the roar of his field artillery. Ten minutes later, there was a piercing scream in the sky, a faint blue smoke rising in the distant field, and a dull loud noise.

Then, "Division Commander, the enemy has started shelling!" a staff officer exclaimed.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Hundreds of artillery shells hit the Kwantung Army soldiers who were building fortifications. Yellow sand flew everywhere, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown high, and in the sky, there were another

Nearly a hundred bombers and fighters from independent divisions flew in.

Fighter planes, combined with ground artillery fire, poured heavy aerial bombs and strings of machine gun bullets onto the Kwantung Army soldiers. There were no fortifications to hide from. The Kwantung Army soldiers lay desperately on the fine sand with an unobstructed view, resigned to their fate!

When the first round of shells fell, Lieutenant General Rongcang was protected by several loyal guards with his body, but he struggled and shouted: "Baga! Immediately order the field artillery regiment to move their positions!" Because

He saw more than ten

A bomber from the Independent Division turned around and was flying in the direction of his artillery position. Even if he thought about it with the back of his head, he knew what the result would be. The artillery regiment exposed in the wild would become a living target for the bombers from the Independent Division!

A few minutes later, an explosion that shook the earth came from behind the mountain. Lieutenant General Rongcang closed his eyes in pain. His field artillery regiment, the only heavy firepower unit of the division, was finished like this. Facing three

More than a hundred independent division tanks, the 30th

The more than 20,000 imperial soldiers of the Sixth Division will be helpless. Will they launch a suicide attack? It is impossible. The tanks of the independent division are on alert, and the suicide attack will be difficult to achieve. What's more, can the soldiers covered with grenades survive the fierce

Survive the bombardment?

Wu Yaoxian opened the top cover of the tank turret, exposing half of his body, and held up a telescope to observe the battlefield situation. While observing, he nodded repeatedly. He admitted that the bombardment effect of Song Guotai's two self-propelled artillery regiments was far greater than that of his own brigade of tanks.

The bombardment effect, after all, the caliber of tank guns cannot be compared with those big guys, and more than 300 tanks and guns fire in a salvo, and there is no such formation and deterrence.

Song Guotai's two self-propelled artillery regiments launched a fierce bombardment. The 36th Division of the Kwantung Army temporarily constructed the Baolong Mountain blocking line, which had no shape at all. It was just like paper. In an instant, a line as wide as two meters wide was torn open.

A gap of more than ten kilometers

, the upturned sand mixed with the bright red blood flowing from the corpses of the Kwantung Army soldiers, dyeing the Horqin sandy land in July with a striking dark red color, and the hot air was filled with pungent blood.

The smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke.

Lieutenant General Rongcang's hands were tightly grasping the soft sand, and his eyes were filled with despair. At this moment, he sadly realized how ridiculous and overestimating his decision to block the independent division was.

, the opponent only used cannons

The fire opened a large hole in its blocking line, which was enough to collapse the entire line. The only field artillery regiment was lost to the bombers of the Independent Division. The Thirty-sixth Division faced more than 300 independent tanks.

The division tanks were unable to even fight back.

Don't expect those mortars and Type 92 infantry guns to overturn and blow up those steel monsters. The flesh and blood of the Imperial Japanese soldiers cannot withstand shells, bombs and bullets. This blocking battle is destined to be a

Tragedy, at this moment, Lieutenant General Eikura seemed to understand the pain and intentions of the commander-in-chief, General Yoshijiro Umezu. On the battlefield in Western Manchuria, any form of obstruction would be a stupid move that would cause greater losses to the Kwantung Army, and he was exactly doing so.

Doing it.

However, the 36th Division cannot withdraw under any circumstances, and sticking to the Baolong Mountain blockade line, let's call it the blockade line, is a dead end. The artillery shells of the independent division will kill every Imperial soldier.

The soldiers were torn into pieces. In extreme despair and madness, Lieutenant General Rongkura made a decision that surprised and even shuddered his officers. "Convey my order to all troops. All imperial soldiers in the entire division, bayonets on

, launch a hand-to-hand charge against the Chinese army!"

Facing more than 300 independent division tanks, braving fierce artillery fire, bombs and bullets pouring down overhead, and countless independent division infantry behind the tanks, the imperial soldiers had not even rushed a few steps away.

It will be torn into pieces by the dense rain of bullets. Are you crazy, the division commander?

All the officers at the headquarters of the 36th Division looked at Lieutenant General Rongcang, who had a pale face and a death-defying light in his eyes, with horror and confusion in their eyes. No one responded to his order.

(To be continued)