Age of Conquest Reborn

Everything is fine. Relying on the powerful artillery firepower, it smashed several Japanese charges and prevented tens of thousands of little Japs from touching the edge of the position. The air raids in recent days destroyed the Japanese heavy equipment and the forward position of the 1st Brigade.

It is well preserved and not a single shell has been dropped.

Seeing the brigade commander and his companions approaching, many soldiers complained in front of the brigade commander, saying that the artillerymen were too greedy and did not even spare a single kid for the infantry. They fought all afternoon and just watched.

Shells rained like rain, and the submachine gun in his hand became a decoration.

While Liu Hongzhang was joking loudly with the soldiers, he frowned. He was tired, yes, tired. From the faces of the soldiers, he saw fatigue and relaxation after fatigue. It was understandable that although there were powerful

The artillery fire acted as a backing to block the attack, but the charges launched by the Japs one after another were enough to cause extreme fatigue to the psychology of the soldiers on the forward positions.

Observing the Japanese position opposite, there was no light at all. It was as quiet as a desolate cemetery. The corpses of Japanese soldiers that were mutilated by artillery shells lay scattered on the ground like bundles of grain in the dark night.

In the soil turned up by gunfire.

"Two old guys, what do you think?" Liu Hongzhang retracted his head and asked Deputy Brigadier Gao Jingkun and Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin.

This was a confusing question, but Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin had worked with Liu Hongzhang for many years and immediately understood the meaning. Gao Jingkun thought for a while and said: "Any army that maintains uninterrupted and high-intensity combat for an entire afternoon

After charging and being killed by the artillery boss, there will be a rest period to take a breath, to sum up experience and adjust the offensive deployment, and the little devil is no exception, there will be no battle tonight!"

"Cheng Lin, do you think so too?" Liu Hongzhang asked Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin again.

Liu Chenglin smiled and replied: "I agree with the deputy brigade commander, the Japs should attack again at dawn tomorrow!"

"I don't think so!" Liu Hongzhang said in shock: "There is a blocker in front and a pursuer in the back. Now the little devil is eager to escape. We cannot reason about it with common sense. The more he is blocked by our direct corps for an hour, the more he will lose.

If we are in danger of being annihilated, the little Japs will definitely make a sneak attack tonight!"

"Are you alarmist?" Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin didn't believe it. "Let's not talk about the situation of other brigades, but as far as our brigade is concerned, after an afternoon of fierce fighting, there must be tens of thousands of little Japs who fell in front of our position.

We didn’t even touch the edge of the position, but we were beaten to pieces by the brigade artillery group. Although the little devil is not made of iron, if you want to risk your life, you have to have time to breathe. A sneak attack at night is not possible!"

"You two don't believe it, right?" Liu Hongzhang stared at the dark wilderness opposite and said, "Let's make a bet. If the little Japs don't make a sneak attack tonight, I will give you two months' military pay.

Drinking, if my judgment is correct, Lao Gao, those bottles of good wine you secretly hid, and Cheng Lin, those cartons of cigarettes you are reluctant to smoke, will all belong to me, do you dare to make this bet? "

"Why don't you dare? Brigadier, just wait and treat us two to a drink!" Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin laughed and said, "The bet is settled!" Liu Hongzhang has the rank of major general and a generous salary. A month's military rank is not a small thing.

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"Okay, I'll make arrangements!" Liu Hongzhang said confidently, "Just take out your cigarettes and wine and send them directly to my tent!"

Returning to the brigade headquarters, Liu Hongzhang called the leaders of the four main regiments and ordered: "Each regiment will immediately withdraw the troops on the first line to the second line and deploy a 'V' shaped pocket. We will not use heavy artillery. We will not use heavy artillery."

Machine guns and mortars, prepare to ambush the little devils!"

"Ambush?" The regiment leaders were confused. Liu Hongzhang said impatiently: "Tonight, the little devils will definitely attack our position. Return to the army immediately and follow my orders. Remember, artillery fire

It must be dense!”

At around one o'clock in the morning, it is the most sleepy time of the day. Thick darkness enveloped the battlefield. On the forward position of the first brigade, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers suddenly started to move slowly, and each one was a dark shadow.

As if they were glued to the ground, they climbed over the crater and gradually got closer. They were less than fifty meters away from the forward position of the 1st Brigade. The battlefield was still motionless. Thirty meters away, countless black figures suddenly jumped up and threw themselves into the trenches.

"Hmph! Well done!" Liu Hongzhang looked proudly at Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin beside him, and said to the combat staff: "Order to fire! One spoonful of stew!"

The silent night suddenly became noisy. Countless mortar shells rose into the sky, with orange-red trajectories, and landed on the front line, bursting into flames. The sound of explosions echoed in the night. Nearly a thousand light and heavy machine guns.

, pouring down bullets like raindrops, weaving into an airtight fire net, covering the bewildered Japanese soldiers who were still in the empty trench.

The ambush battle ended neatly in less than an hour. The evacuated troops of the first brigade returned to the front line. The soldiers were shocked. The trenches were filled with the fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers, seven in total.

As many as eight thousand.

The same scene occurred not only on the positions of the first brigade, but also on the positions of other brigades directly under the corps. The only difference was that the methods of counterattack were different. Some brigades repelled the Japanese sneak attack head-on, and some brigades followed up.

Liu Hongzhang's style of play was similar, and he also adopted an ambush tactic.

Among them, Chu Ziye's fourth brigade had an even more original style of play. They laid many mines in the trenches of the front line. As soon as the attacking Japanese troops jumped into the trenches, they were blown up by mines. There were not many explosions in the early morning.

Continuously, the sound of gunfire on the battlefield once again broke the tranquility of the night.

"Commander, all the sneak attack troops we sent were in pieces. The China Division troops were prepared, but the sneak attack failed!" Major General Shun Yokota, chief of staff of the headquarters of the defense zone in the northeastern part of Honshu Island, Japan, reported to the commander, Lieutenant General Yano, with a sad expression.

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Lieutenant General Yano's already haggard face was covered with a layer of dark gray. The sneak attack at night was a surprise move made by himself. Since the China Division's artillery fire was fierce and there was no hope of a frontal breakthrough, he could only use the night to carry out a sneak attack.

Hoping to use this to open up the blocking defense line of the China Division, the main force rushed out along the breach. Unfortunately, it failed again, and even sneaked in to attack tens of thousands of soldiers.

"At five o'clock in the morning, the troops continue to attack!" Lieutenant General Yano said in a hollow voice, with a heavy look in his eyes.

The battlefield in the eastern part of Honshu Island became a huge flesh-and-blood mill. The Japanese army tried their best and launched a division-sized group charge towards the directly affiliated corps positions. Countless Japanese soldiers, like puppets, unconsciously braved the overwhelming artillery fire.

The mountains and plains were filled with smoke, and the broken bodies of Japanese soldiers were scattered in the May sky of Honshu Island.

The Japanese soldiers fought like crazy. With their bravery and bushido spirit, they repeatedly approached the front-line positions of the directly-affiliated corps. The soldiers from the brigades of the directly-affiliated corps also fought like crazy. The artillerymen even went crazy. They used endless shells to rain down as dense as locusts.

Like bullets, the charging Japanese soldiers were torn into pieces. Dust, shrapnel and bullets were flying everywhere. The Japanese soldiers were covered with corpses and suffered heavy casualties.

On the third day of the battle, the Japanese army's bravery to break out of the encirclement had lost its vigor. However, under the orders of the commander Lieutenant General Yano, they still maintained an uninterrupted attack and even broke into the forward positions of each brigade several times. However, the Japanese army

Even this short-lived victory could not be maintained. The reserves of the brigades directly under the corps launched a fierce counterattack, turning all the Japanese soldiers who invaded the forward positions into bloody corpses.

"The Japanese army's breakout has reached its end!" Tang Qiuli was still standing on the high hill behind the First Brigade Headquarters, holding a telescope and looking at the battlefield filled with artillery fire and blood and flesh in front of him, and said to the staff officer

Commander Zhao Yuhe said: "Order Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang, as well as the Southern Fleet, to dispatch all combat aircraft to give the Japanese army a final blow!"

After the Southern Flying Group and the Northern Flying Group of the Division, as well as the carrier-based aircraft group of the Southern Fleet, joined the battlefield, they completely broke the backbone of the Japanese army and squeezed out the last drop of blood of the Japanese army. The ferocious ground and air firepower formed an airtight barrier.

The fire net strangled Japanese soldiers in large numbers in the fire net. Every day, the Japanese suffered tens of thousands of casualties.

The battlefield from Morioka to Ishinomaki, Xinzhuang and Tsuruoka, which is only a few hundred kilometers long and wide, became the place where more than 900,000 Japanese soldiers died at the headquarters of the defense zone in the northeastern part of Honshu Island. The air and ground firepower of the division troops was

In this area, plows were plowed repeatedly, and the flesh, blood and limbs of Japanese soldiers, mixed with soil, covered the ground.

On the fourth day of the battle, the leading force of the right-wing attack group that occupied Hokkaido and crossed the Tsugaru Strait, consisting of about 200,000 people and six tank brigades, was under the command of Lieutenant General Yuan Jinghao, commander and deputy commander of the North China Field Corps.

, annihilating nearly 100,000 enemies, breaking through layers of Japanese resistance all the way to Morioka, the hammer and anvil finally smashed together, creating violent sparks. At this time, the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northeastern part of Honshu Island had already

Most of the casualties were casualties.

At this point, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops no longer have the ability to break out. The North China Field Corps and the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, which are directly under the corps and the right-wing offensive group, have a total of more than 1.2 million troops.

Japanese soldiers surrounded an area of ​​less than 1,000 square kilometers from the west of Morioka, Ishinomaki, Xinzhuang to the east of Tsuruoka.

The battlefield in the northeastern part of Honshu Island was filled with smoke and blood, and the battle in the northwest battlefield was equally fierce. The Japanese troops suffered even more serious blows than the battlefield in the northeast, and the casualties were even more heavy.

The division attacked the Japanese mainland. Four of the eight field corps were deployed on the northwest battlefield. They had an absolute advantage over the Japanese army in terms of total strength, air superiority, ground heavy firepower, and number of tanks.

Under the unified command of General Tang Qiusheng, deputy division commander and commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were surrounded on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island.

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