Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 416: Killing

The heavy rain in summer comes and goes very quickly. In the middle of the night, the rain has stopped, the sea breeze blows, the dark clouds disperse, a few stars are revealed in the sky, but the air is a little cooler.

Tang Qiuli was not tired at all. He listened carefully to the movements in the Nurluhu Mountain area. If gunshots came from that direction, it meant that Li Honggang's troops were discovered by the Japanese army during the intervening process, and all plans would be affected.

affected, he will have to readjust his deployment.

The troops on the front line of Shanhaiguan will definitely retreat to the Pingjin area, which will be a situation of fighting and fleeing. Not to mention embarrassed, very passive.

At this time, Li Honggang was contending with the mud and small rivers all over the place. Nuerluhu Mountain is Manchu, which translates to Black Mountain. It is the remnant of Yanshan Mountain. The average altitude is not high. Its main peak, Daqingshan Mountain, has an altitude of only

One thousand two hundred and twenty four meters.

One end extends to the north of Liaoning, riding on the Mongolian Plateau, and the other end plunges into the Western Liaoning Corridor, close to the Shanhaiguan Great Wall. However, after years of rain erosion, thousands of ravines have caused great difficulties for the troops to march.

This place is inaccessible, and there are no rich products or dangerous passes. The Japanese army did not pay attention to this direction, and there were no checkpoints or strongholds along the way. The troops did not worry about encountering the Japanese army or Manchurian troops, but the road was too difficult to walk.

some.

After contacting the special operations unit that came to respond, the troops followed the route that the special operations unit had surveyed in advance and inserted themselves behind the Itagaki division. Some small villages along the way had been controlled by the special operations unit. All the villagers were

No one is allowed to leave here.

These villagers who have lived in the mountainous areas for many years have never seen such a large formation. Good guys, tens of thousands of troops, and countless mules, horses and cannons. Why did they leave the main road and take the mountain road?

Although they are not allowed to leave the village, these soldiers are much nicer to the Japanese and Chinese soldiers, and the eldest daughter and the younger daughter-in-law are not abused like that family. Borrowing a house and paying back the money is a waste of money.

Have you ever seen some brave young people brave enough to strike up a conversation with the troops?

Knowing that the army was going to pass through the mountainous area to the direction of Liugu River, these young people who were familiar with the local conditions volunteered to lead the way as guides. In this way, the army's march speed was greatly accelerated. Moreover, under the leadership of local people who were familiar with the situation,

I also found a shortcut.

Tens of thousands of troops could be said to have missed Itagaki's division. If Itagaki expanded his warning radius to the mountainous areas, Li Honggang would have no choice but to retreat. However, Itagaki did not. He had a high degree of confidence in his own strength.

confidence.

At dawn, the Itagaki Division repeated its old tricks and deployed a brigade. Its leading regiment, taking the group as a unit, entered the attack starting point. It first used light artillery to blast a burst of artillery fire at the forward position of the ** Division.

Extended, Japanese troops swarmed up.

The troops of the ** Division began to fight back. Feng Jiwu's strategy was that the heavy firepower of the Itagaki Division did not appear, so the heavy artillery of the troops could not be hidden. At the critical moment, they would give the Japanese a heavy blow. Tang Qiuli fully agreed.

His plan.

Therefore, the defenders fought back with only a few mortars and more with light and heavy machine guns and submachine gun fire. As soon as the Japanese attack was slightly frustrated, they retreated across the board. After taking a rest, they pushed and blocked them again and again.

After several rounds, the troops of the ** Division suffered slight casualties. As the attacking side, the Japanese army suffered far greater losses than the troops of the ** Division.

In the afternoon of the battle, Tang Qiuli, who had been observing the characteristics of the Japanese attack, was annoyed by the tactics adopted by Itagaki. Who was the hooker, himself or Itagaki? If he didn't give Itagaki a beating, he was too leisurely.

Li Honggang and the others will be safer if we don't let this fierce old devil break out of his spirit.

During the gap between the Japanese attacks, Tang Qiuli moved all his mortars to the forward second-line positions. At this distance, the Japanese attack assembly point was within the fire coverage, and he did not plan to use heavy artillery yet.

All mortar units were organized into four artillery groups. Each mortar was required to evacuate the second-line position immediately after firing ten rounds. Otherwise, it would attract retaliation from the Japanese heavy artillery. Fortunately, Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang commanded the troops to

The defensive trenches were dug very well, and when more than 800 mortars moved to the second line of defense positions, the Japanese troops on the opposite side were not aware of it at all.

After the Japanese army on the opposite side assembled their troops, they first launched a burst of artillery fire, and then the infantry began to charge. Just as the Japanese commander gave the order to attack, a strange roar suddenly sounded in the sky. The Japanese veterans with combat experience turned pale at that time.

It was the sound of countless mortar shells flying towards my head.

Before the Japanese army could react, a swarm of sparrow-like mortar shells hit their heads. Then, more shells fell with a strange roar. The Japanese army's attack assembly area was immediately shrouded in thick smoke and the sound of explosions

In all directions, countless sharp steel shrapnel were flying and spinning, harvesting the lives of Japanese troops wantonly.

The sound of artillery stopped, but the smoke had not dispersed. The soil at the Japanese army assembly area seemed to have been plowed over, and the craters could no longer be distinguished. More than 8,000 mortar shells were fired at a fixed location in such a short period of time.

, the lethality can be imagined.

There were nearly 5,000 Japanese soldiers in a fully-staffed field regiment. No more than 700 or 800 of them could stand up. Some were rolling on the ground and wailing, and most of them were corpses that were still warm.

There were broken pieces and Yin Hong's blood, which merged into the accumulated water last night, making it bright red and dazzling.

Seishiro Itagaki, who was studying the military map in the tent, received the report from the front. He was stunned for a long time, and angrily broke the pencil in two, with a fierce light in his eyes. The despicable Chinese people originally wanted to play the game of eagle and chicken.

, but was blinded by the chicken.

If this revenge is not avenged, the great reputation of Itagaki Division will be greatly damaged. The heavy artillery regiment immediately bombarded the positions of the Chinese army and responded with a saturation bombardment. The tank brigade was immediately dispatched to assault the positions of the Chinese army.

To let the corpses of Chinese soldiers fill up the offensive path of our division, Itagaki lost the patience to play games.

The heavy artillery of the Japanese army went crazy, with large-caliber shells flying like locusts all over the sky, hitting the first- and second-line defensive positions of the Japanese Army. The positions seemed to be violently destroyed by an invisible giant hand.

The soil rolled and shattered, and the earth trembled violently.

The Japanese bombardment had no effect at all. Tang Qiuli had long expected that Itagaki would retaliate after suffering such a big loss. All the frontline troops withdrew to the fourth line of defense. There were not even any troops left behind on the third line of defense.

The Japanese heavy artillery is not just a display.

The soldiers on the fourth line of defense turned a deaf ear to the Japanese bombardment and kept doing whatever they were supposed to do. These were veterans of the Army Division and had experienced more intense scenes than this. Some simply took the time to take a nap.

Come.

The position of the Japanese heavy artillery was exposed. Tang Qiuli quickly ordered the artillery unit to immediately determine the coordinates of the Japanese artillery, wait for orders, and destroy the Japanese heavy artillery unit that posed the greatest threat to the army in one fell swoop. After looking for you for a long time, he finally showed up.

The Japanese heavy artillery bombardment lasted for an hour and a half before it stopped. More than sixty Japanese tanks roared over and threw up thick smoke. They fired aimlessly as they marched. Behind the tanks were nearly 10,000 Japanese troops.

Once, Itagaki was hurt by a sudden blow from Tang Qiuli, and finally took out the capital in his hand.

The Japanese tanks roared, running over the unrecognizable first- and second-line positions, and approaching the third-line position. The Japanese infantry following the tanks struggled to pull their feet out of the soft soil, and secretly admired the artillery of our Imperial Japanese Army.

The power was so amazing that no trace of the Chinese soldiers who were bombed could be seen.

Itagaki was convinced that the heavy artillery bombardment, tanks and infantry assaults would mean that the Chinese army on the opposite side could only escape and be annihilated. Let the despicable Chinese understand what would be the consequences of offending Itagaki?

It's no wonder that Itagaki was confident. Feng Jiwu had always deployed three brigades of troops to confront Itagaki, and had not yet used the artillery brigade. Itagaki's misconception was that the Chinese army on the opposite side only numbered 40,000 to 50,000 people.

Wanting to fight against Itagaki's division is a big joke. If it weren't for the execution of the overall plan of the base camp, Itagaki didn't have the patience to fight Feng Jiwu. He would have already commanded the troops to kill him. Itagaki has never been a defensive general.

The Japanese tanks were still more than a thousand meters away from the ** Division's third-line position. There was no movement on the position, and no one could be seen. The Japanese infantry shouted wildly, and the Chinese were scared away. They quickened their pace.

Some even rushed to the front of the tank.

On the third-line position, the anti-tank rifle units of each brigade of the ** Division lay quietly on their gun positions, looking at the crazy Japanese troops and feeling amused. In the eyes of these anti-tank riflemen, more than sixty tanks were just sixty.

There are many vehicles as living targets, more guns and fewer tanks, and only seven or eight anti-tank guns can hit one. Whoever has the quickest eyes and quick hands will get the credit.

When the Japanese tank entered more than 400 meters away from the position, it stopped. The Japanese infantry swarmed up like a swarm. The Japanese tank soldiers leisurely opened the cockpit cover. If there were defenders at this distance, they would have opened fire long ago.

On the opposite side of the originally silent position, countless black gun muzzles suddenly appeared. The Japanese tank soldiers hurriedly got into the cockpit. The vehicle suddenly shook, and a dull explosion came from inside the tank. A plume of thick smoke rose from the inside of the tank. Then, another

Concentrated by several rounds of armor-piercing shells, the fuel tank caught fire and the ammunition in the vehicle exploded. All Japanese tanks faced the same fate and exploded into burning fireballs.

No wonder the Japanese tank soldiers were careless. Did they know that the anti-tank guns that originally appeared on the European battlefield appeared in China a few years in advance, and the entire army ended up being wiped out.

The charging Japanese infantry seemed to have been swept head-on by an iron broom, and was shot back like dust. It was not the fire of dozens or hundreds of light and heavy machine guns, but thousands of light and heavy machine guns and tens of thousands of Somi submachine guns.

The concentrated fire shooting was all automatic firearms. With the dense Japanese formation, there was no need to aim at all, just pick up the gun and shoot.

The Japanese infantry crashed headlong into the iron plate. The firepower of the Chinese troops on the opposite side was as dense as a heavy rain, and their guns could not withstand bullets. The same was true for the arrogant and cruel soldiers of the Itagaki Division.

(To be continued)