Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 418 The End

The radio station responsible for liaison with Li Honggang's troops was silent for sixteen hours. A sudden tweet broke away the tense atmosphere in the headquarters. The flashing red light was like a cheerful note. The operator sent a message from Li Honggang.

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"Division Commander, after sixteen hours of marching in the mountains, our unit has now reached the west bank of the Liugu River. We have built defensive and blocking positions with our backs to the water. We have suffered minor casualties and our structures are intact. We are ready to go into battle at any time."

In four golden hours, Li Honggang's troops arrived at the designated position four hours ahead of schedule in the muddy and difficult-to-travel Nuruerhu Mountains, and finally got ahead of Itagaki's division and blocked their retreat.

"Chief of Staff Li, Itagaki has been aware of our troops' intentions and is now preparing to retreat to the Jinzhou line. You can use half of your troops to launch an attack on the rearguard of Itagaki's division. The remaining troops will closely monitor the second of the Kwantung Army's southward marching corps.

Echelon, one hour later, the front and flank troops will launch an attack on Itagaki Division at the same time. Pay tribute to all the soldiers on my behalf!"

This was a telegram from Tang Qiuli to Li Honggang. He really admired these soldiers from the bottom of his heart. They were the first to be responsible for annihilating the Itagaki division and blocking its retreat.

The well-trained brigades of Itagaki's division were busy but not chaotic after receiving the order to retreat. Each unit followed the marching sequence in an orderly manner, took turns to cover, and evacuated the position in an orderly manner. This alone made Itagaki proud enough.

But at this time, Itagaki was not in this mood. He regretfully wanted to slap himself in the face. Why didn't he think of Nuruer Hushan on the left? Even if he sent a squadron of security troops, he wouldn't be like now.

passive.

To challenge our Itagaki division head-on, even though the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli has superior strength and firepower, he still has to have a good mouth. Itagaki is confident that under the full impact of the ** division, the division can hold on to the second echelon.

After arriving, but being cut off from the retreat, the situation is different. Being attacked from both sides is a taboo for military strategists.

The nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Akino Regiment, who were responsible for breaking up the rear of the entire division, silently took off their helmets, fixed their bayonets, and wrapped a menstrual belt-like white cloth belt with the word "Must Win" written on it around their heads.

Such a soldier's behavior means a fight to the death, with his head tucked into the waistband of his trousers, and he or she will die. The soldiers of the Akino Regiment know very well that this mission is a dead end. If the division commander loses his pawn to save his car, he is the one who

Pawn.

An hour later, the main force of the Itagaki Division had been assembled and began to move. The soldiers of the Akino Regiment did not wait for the swarming Chinese soldiers. On the opposite side of the ** Division position, there was a loud thunderclap and countless rounds of artillery shells.

, falling from the sky like a black crow.

On the blocking position of the Akino Regiment, there were flashes of fire, pillars of smoke rising into the sky, and shrapnel flying across the sky. The Japanese soldiers cursed in despair, "Here we go again, can't the Chinese use some other tricks? If you have the skills, join me, the Empire of Japan."

Warriors fight with bayonets!

It is a pity that the ideas of the Japanese soldiers were not realized until their death. The Japanese soldiers who advocated hand-to-hand charge could not find an opponent against the Japanese army. Tang Qiuli did not give them such a chance at all. In his words, let them go

Instead of using artillery, it was a fool's errand to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, killing a thousand enemies and inflicting eight hundred losses on one's own life. It was a last resort after running out of ammunition.

The shells fell, a puff of smoke rose up, and the bodies of several Japanese soldiers were thrown high into the air. They were eager to give their opponents a try, but their opponents were endless shells. They could only run desperately and avoid in vain.

, the artillery fire was so dense that there was no blind spot at all.

The shelling finally stopped, and the remaining Japanese soldiers, with faces that looked like little devils covered in gunpowder smoke, dug out of the soil. Captain Akino was dug out of the soil by several staff officers, like pulling out carrots.

Unfortunately, the captain's left ear was completely cut off by a cannonball, and he is already in a semi-conscious state.

In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, the life of a Japanese colonel is no more precious than that of a second lieutenant. Once upon a time, the Japanese army relied on its superior artillery fire to kill people in raging massacres. The history is surprisingly similar, but...

Those who were massacred were Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers finally saw the figures of the Chinese soldiers, with desperate eyes gleaming fiercely. Before they died, they killed several Chinese soldiers, but they were willing to die. They shook off the dirt on their guns and silently aimed their sights forward.

The figures of the Chinese soldiers were getting closer and closer, and the Japanese soldiers were breathing heavily. It was strange, why did the Chinese soldiers stop? And they were just outside the range of their infantry weapons.

A row of mortars exposed their muzzles. The remaining Japanese soldiers almost fainted. Amaterasu! Did you get syphilis from picking up girls? There are so many artillery pieces from the Chinese.

The sound of "dong dong" mortar firing was like the note of death from the Lord of Hell, blasting the Japanese troops out of hiding. The desperate Japanese soldiers took off their shirts, holding bright bayonets, and rushed over howling. A dense burst of

There was a hail of bullets, and there were many bodies covered with bullet marks on the ground.

In less than half an hour, the Akino Regiment was wiped out by the heavy artillery and mortars of the ** Division Artillery Brigade. This is also the strength of the ** Division Artillery. Cars tow artillery and move at extremely fast speeds.

Quickly, in several years of combat career, the artillery unit of the ** Division summarized a complete set of methods for quickly arranging artillery positions, almost able to follow the advance of the infantry.

Itagaki Seishiro listened to the earth-shattering gunfire behind him. He bit his lips in pain. The Akino Regiment would definitely be wiped out. He only hoped that they could support it for a while longer to buy time for the main force of the division to cross the Liugu River.

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The dense gunfire was getting closer and closer, and the staff rushed over in panic to report that the rearguard troops and the pursuit troops of the ** Division had exchanged fire. Because the troops were too few, they were obviously outnumbered. Please give instructions to the Division Commander.

Itagaki's body swayed and he almost fell from his horse. In just over half an hour, more than 5,000 people from the Akino Regiment were swallowed up by the Japanese Army? It's unbelievable, damn the Chinese people, damn the Chinese artillery,

Without such fierce artillery fire, the Akino Regiment can sustain at least three hours.

Itagaki gritted his teeth, called a regiment captain, and ordered his regiment to immediately launch a counterattack against the ** Division's pursuers and get involved with the ** Division's artillery. This was the best way to avoid being killed by the ** Division's artillery.

Good idea.

Itagaki had no choice. To put it nicely, he was blocking attacks step by step. In fact, he was taking the corpses of soldiers to slow down the pursuers. He was as arrogant and powerful as Itagaki. Like the soldiers of Itagaki's division, facing the artillery of the ** division,

They also had to adopt a cost-effective approach, as the bayonets could not reach the cannons.

Itagaki's method worked. On the charge path of the Japanese counter-assault wing, there were no artillery shells flying like meteors, and the moving artillery of the ** Division had no time to arrange artillery positions.

The shouts of thousands of Japanese troops resounded through the fields, and they rushed towards the forward troops of the Japanese division like a yellow wave. The Japanese soldiers, angered by the blood of their comrades, broke out with unprecedented ferocity. In a face-to-face battle, the Itagaki division

The Chinese, who are not afraid of any troops and without artillery fire, are targets to be slaughtered in front of bayonets.

Sure enough, the Chinese soldiers stopped. Were they scared? A strange gun they had never seen before appeared on the opposite side. Several gun barrels were connected in parallel. The dream of the Japanese counterattack regiment ended here.

This is the high-level dual-purpose machine gun of the ** Division Air Defense Brigade and the infantry brigades. During the several days of fighting, due to continuous rain, Japanese aircraft did not visit, so it was not put to use. In a hurry, it was used here by Tang Qiuli.

Hundreds of high-level dual-purpose machine guns with four barrels connected in parallel fired at the Japanese charging formation. It was not a "click-click" sound, but a dull "bang-bang" sound, like countless large drums beating at the same time.

The bullets used by aircraft are much more powerful than heavy machine guns. One bullet can stop a person in mid-range.

Flesh and blood are flying everywhere. The Japanese charge formation can only be described as flesh and blood flying everywhere. The Japanese soldiers were hit by bullets as thick as their thumbs. Their bodies were broken from the middle. The blood mixed with their internal organs and turned into a rain of blood all over the sky. The remaining force was

The unabated bullets, carrying the body temperature and flesh of the previous Japanese soldier, penetrated into the body of the Japanese soldier behind. The huge kinetic energy sent his body flying backwards. When it fell to the ground, it was already in pieces.

Horrible, absolute horror. The soldiers who participated in the battle of Shanhaiguan to completely annihilate the Banyuan Division recalled later and used these two words to describe the scene at that time. To hit the infantry with an anti-aircraft machine gun was to use a red-hot iron bar to penetrate the cheese.

The huge "bang bang" sound stopped. Not a single Japanese soldier from a regiment participating in the counter-assault was alive. It was useless to lie down. The bullets passed through the soil and still entered the body. Hundreds of high-level and flat dual-purpose machine guns,

It was like countless iron rods, smashing into the Japanese charging formation, blood splattered everywhere, and corpses flew everywhere.

Stepping on the soil mixed with flesh and blood, enduring the pungent smell of blood, the troops continued to pursue, and the scene just now was deeply imprinted in the minds of the soldiers.

The retreating vanguard of Itagaki Division suddenly became commotion, and then intensive artillery fire sounded in front of them. Li Honggang's blocking troops finally fired, giving the Itagaki Division that retreated in a hurry a head-on blow, and

Up came a salvo from an artillery brigade.

Itagaki's face turned pale. He still did not escape the fate of being surrounded. It was the artillery of the Chinese Army Corps again. How did they cross Nuruerhu Mountain and run behind me? The place where I heard the sound of the artillery was from Sui

The news coming from the direction of Zhongcheng was also lost in Suizhong, and the idea of ​​clinging to the city also failed.

Itagaki seemed to smell the smell of death in the air. Now that all of Itagaki's courage was lost, his only hope was that the two divisions of the second echelon could arrive in time, and he might still have a glimmer of hope.

At dusk of the battle, the troops from the Nuruer Hushan Mountain area suddenly rushed out and stabbed the Itagaki Division in the left side, which was already weak. The Itagaki Division finally could no longer hold on, and only more than 26,000 troops were left.

, was compressed into a small area of ​​less than ten square kilometers in the Yonganbao, Qianwei, and wasteland areas.

The three troops of the ** Division quickly encircled and tightly surrounded the defeated remnants of Itagaki Division. It was only a matter of time before Itagaki Division was destroyed.

(To be continued)