Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 570 Xiangtangpu ambush battle (3)

Chapter 570: Xiangtangpu Ambush (3)

The large group of Japanese troops soon arrived on the road in front of Xiangtangpu. The Japanese soldiers were relieved that their comrades were on guard, so they just went on their way. The Japanese tanks and cavalry in front had already turned around the foot of the mountain and disappeared from sight.

It was a rare good weather with no wind. Although the temperature was very low, the bright sunshine still made these marching Japanese soldiers feel very comfortable. Suddenly, there was a strange scream in the sky, and some Japanese soldiers looked around strangely.

Looking for the source of the sound, the experienced Japanese veteran's face suddenly turned pale. My Amaterasu, it was the sound of countless shells falling on his head.

The shells fell in an instant, and the screams turned into violent explosions. Clouds of black smoke rose into the sky with flames, mixed with human body fragments and blown up snow. The Japanese infantry was suddenly shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

Among them, countless shrapnel, with a metallic vibrato, rotated and cut briskly.

Cutting into the bodies of Japanese soldiers, puffs of blood flew up, and countless Japanese soldiers fell. Such a dense marching formation faced fierce bombardment, coupled with the suddenness of the bombardment, the result was catastrophic.

, a shell fell, and the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were thrown into the air.

Tang Qiuli gathered eleven artillery regiments, with more than a thousand artillery pieces of various calibers lined up in a row, covering all the Japanese infantry in a hail of deathly bullets. He had only one requirement for the artillery unit: full coverage.

, the artillery unit of the ** Division completed the division

Long orders and fierce artillery fire covered the Japanese marching column. The peaceful Xiangtangpu suddenly came to life. Explosion points followed explosion points. The smoke was filled. The clear sky was shrouded in gunpowder smoke. The mountains in the distance were

, echoing with deafening explosions.

The unobstructed and flat road left the Japanese soldiers with nowhere to hide. They were blown up by the whizzing shells and were blown up and down, with flesh and blood flying everywhere. The clever Japanese soldiers found that the village had not been shelled, so they rushed over and saw it.

Before entering the village, these guys breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting rid of the threat of death.

Suddenly, like a strong wind blowing from the ground, dense rain of bullets came from all directions in the village. It was the roar of hundreds of light and heavy machine guns and countless submachine guns. The Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were hit by the sudden rain of bullets.

I was dizzy and fell into pieces like sorghum stalks in a pool of blood.

The Japanese tank soldiers and cavalry who had turned the corner of the mountain were stunned by the explosion coming from behind. The Japanese commander sitting in the tank understood at that time that the imperial soldiers in the village were disguised Chinese troops.

Yes, he cursed "Baga" fiercely and quickly turned around.

The road was not wide to begin with. With so many tanks crowded together, turning around was no joke. The Japanese tanks were huddled together in a mess. The cavalry were still nimble, but they did not dare to rush into the hail of bullets that was like a volcanic eruption.

It was spinning around in a hurry, and at this moment, the ground suddenly trembled, and the road surface seemed to be lifted up by a strong force, and suddenly burst open.

The laid mines were detonated by the engineers of the ** Division. The huge explosive force was suddenly overturned by the Japanese tanks. Some exploded and caught fire, some had tracks pointing upwards, and the barrels were bent into twists. The Japanese cavalry did not even bother them.

Okay, they flew into the sky together with the Ocean Horse. The remaining Japanese tanks that had not exploded came back to their senses. The turret rotated and aimed at Xiangtangpu Village. They knew that there must be an ambush of many Chinese soldiers.

The car body shook, and a jet of metal exploded inside the tank. Shrapnel jumped back and forth in the small space, killing the Japanese tank soldiers. A thick smoke with dark red flames rose from the inside of the Japanese tank. This was

The anti-tank gun detachment of the ** Division was cleaning up the remaining Japanese tanks. In less than thirty minutes, more than a hundred Japanese tanks were lying like dead turtles on the road that was completely changed and the dirt was turned over.

In the covert department, Tang Qiuli, who saw the whole situation, secretly sighed, how many mines and bombs had the engineers buried? How did they dig the holes in the cold weather? He was full of curiosity.

Hirano Hirano, who was at the back of the Japanese army's march, heard a violent explosion like a volcanic eruption coming from the front, and his face suddenly turned pale. Needless to say, the thick smell of gunpowder smoke coming over already showed that his troops were suffering.

What a blow.

Despite repeated caution, he still could not escape this fate. As a senior general of the Japanese army, his inner feeling of powerlessness made his heart contract. Fortunately, he did not have a heart disease, otherwise, he would have died on the spot.

, and luckily, the three artillery regiments of the Japanese army and the artillery shells of the Chinese army were all exclusive to the infantry, and they did not suffer any hits.

After Hirano calmed down, he felt his chest was congested. That Chinese devil Tang Qiuli had brought out so many artillery pieces to deal with him. It was impossible to judge the size of the artillery bombarding his troops from the sound of explosions. The explosions could no longer tell the number of them.

, he immediately made a judgment that the Chinese artillery would mainly attack his troops.

Under his order, the Japanese artillery launched in a hurry and transitioned from a marching state to a combat state. It was not an easy task for the artillery. It was busy for a while. The Japanese artillery had just unloaded the artillery and had not yet established a good position.

The good luck ended here, and a dense barrage of artillery shells flew over my head.

With the sound of explosions, flashing fire, and smoke rising everywhere, the Japanese artillery positions were covered by fierce artillery fire. Zheng Yong, commander of the 1st Brigade of the ** Division Artillery, wanted this opportunity. The Japanese artillery of these three regiments was his focus.

object,

If the artillery was fired in advance, the artillery dragged by mules and horses might be able to escape with some luck. This was not in line with Zheng Yong's style. Therefore, he chose a moment when the Japanese artillerymen could neither escape nor prepare to fire, and killed them all in one fell swoop.

Hirano closed his eyes and felt miserable. The Second Army was finished. It was so severely damaged. It was not a injury to the muscles and bones, but a serious injury to the vitality. In the current situation, let alone rescuing Yamaguchi, it was still unknown whether he could escape.

, he couldn't even organize a counterattack, and the infantry was blown up by the artillery fire of the Chinese army and couldn't even assemble. Without soldiers, what could he use to counterattack?

Attack fiercely and kill the opponent. He is good at ambush and encirclement. He must annihilate the opponent in every battle. This is the style of the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli. Hirano Hiroshi learned the lesson. The bombardment has not stopped yet. Hirano Hiroshi saw from the telescope that the mountains and plains are full of mountains and plains.

The Chinese soldiers rushed forward, shouting. If they didn't leave, they might become prisoners.

He made a wise choice. All the troops of the Second Army immediately withdrew to the direction of Shexian County, hoping that there would be no intercepting Chinese troops in front. There was something he did not say clearly, that is, withdraw as many people as you can.

It depends on the nature of each soldier. Logically speaking, the Second Army with a strength of 100,000 should at least have the ability to fight back. It is not in line with the Japanese army to fight a few rounds with the troops of the First Division and then retreat like this.

style.

Hirano Hiroshi knew in his conscience that he could inflict such heavy casualties on his troops in such a short period of time. There were very few tank regiments, cavalry regiments, and artillery regiments left. Tang Qiuli used ambush and surprise attack.

Method, using artillery fire as the strike force, using no less than a thousand artillery pieces. With such fierce artillery fire, how many soldiers can fill this death trap?

If it was a head-on confrontation, Hirano Hirano was confident that Tang Qiuli would not be able to repel him so easily, but this was an ambush and a sudden attack, which disrupted the organization of the army. The Japanese troops who received the order rushed to risk

Amid the towering artillery fire, they retreated toward Shexian County.

Tang Qiuli issued an order to pursue across the board. The 110,000 troops roared like a tsunami, chasing the retreating Japanese troops. The Xiangtangpu ambush was fought beautifully. In just over two hours, 30,000 troops were killed.

Many Japanese soldiers fell under the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese division. Together with the Japanese tanks, cavalry, and artillery, the Second Army was crippled at once.

Under the protection of the guards, Tang Qiuli came to the battlefield that was still filled with gunpowder smoke. The thick smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of blood rushed straight into his lungs. The fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers, broken guns, and pieces were everywhere.

The helmets, the uniforms that were broken into pieces and burnt, it was a shocking scene after the battle.

In this battle, the ** Division troops and their minor casualties crippled the Second Army of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force. The first contribution was made by Tang Qiuquan's Second Special Forces Detachment. Without them, they cleverly took Xiangtangpu and lured the Japanese army.

Entering the ambush circle, the battle would not be so smooth. The credit should go to the artillery unit of the ** Division. Without the tens of thousands of artillery shells they fired, they would not have been able to kill more than 30,000 Japs in more than two hours.

What interested Tang Qiuli even more was the tanks whose tracks had been blown up by landmines, or the tanks that seemed to be intact. He wandered around a few tanks for a while. These iron guys were of great use.

One year later, Battelle, who studied at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany, was about to come back. He majored in armored warfare. When his younger brother came back, he didn’t have the skills of a tank. He couldn’t be a mere commander.

Tang Qiuli sent a telegram to Zhou Yushan, commander of the **Division's Transportation Headquarters, and immediately organized transportation troops to transport all usable things on the Xiangtangpu battlefield back to Huangyadong, and the tanks were sent to Dingbian Arsenal for construction.

Maintenance and refitting, he had a plan in mind to expand the army. No matter how rich his family was, he had to live frugally.

Zhou Yushan, who received the telegram from the division commander, was so happy that he had not fought such a battle for a long time. The fact that the division commander could send a telegram in person showed that cleaning up the battlefield must be very profitable.

On the evening of January 10, the ** Division pursued the troops, chasing the backs of the Japanese soldiers, all the way to the outskirts of Shexian County. Along the way, the bodies of Japanese soldiers could be seen everywhere, and the Japanese troops left behind to block the pursuers were unable to stop the flood.

The Chinese ** team had their blocking lines broken through one after another, and the few Japanese soldiers were immediately submerged in the torrent.

The Japanese army retreated into Shexian County in panic. The Japanese Army Division, under the order of division commander Tang Qiuli, surrounded Shexian County on all sides, forming a siege of Shexian County. Hirano Haoliang was looking at the next mountain pass.

(To be continued)

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