Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1172

“Great victory!”

“Great victory in the air battle in North China!”

In the early morning of September 16, newsboys carrying large bags were shouting loudly on the streets of Jiangcheng.

The streets of Jiangcheng, located in the center of the Central China Defense War, were originally a bit deserted. Even if someone walked by, their faces were full of worry!

The cloud of war has enveloped this largest city in six provinces of central China as early as the end of May.

In Jiangcheng now, there is no longer the bustling scene of a few months ago.

Countless refugees who fled from Jiangnan, as long as they had some mobility, fled further south or southwest. The main military and political departments also moved to the mountain city, an important town in the southwest, as early as two months ago.

The ones left behind are basically the indigenous people who are unwilling to abandon their homeland.

However, under the vigorous shouting of the newsboy, many people still gathered around, took out the few coins they had, and bought a fresh newspaper to see the so-called victory in the air battle!

Although people need to eat, they also need spiritual comfort! Otherwise, where does the hope come from?

"The air battle in North China, 48 to 17!, our Chinese Air Force attacked with 60 fighter planes from five aviation groups. At the cost of 17 of our own battle losses, 48 Japanese planes were shot down and damaged, and the Japanese invaders were defeated! Haha, good fight. Ah! Our Chinese Air Force is doing great." A middle-aged man in a suit yelled on the street with a newspaper.

The cold streets gradually began to boil as more and more people cheered loudly!

The victory in the North China air battle does not seem to have much connection with the war situation in Central China, where nearly a million troops were gathered by China and Japan to fight, but for China, which was constantly losing wars at this time, especially for the people in the important towns in Central China that were deeply involved in the war. , but it was like being given a shot in the arm!

That means that China has not completely lost air supremacy. The hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground may not be able to get much help from the air. At least they don't have to worry about threats from the air every day. The Japanese army can no longer come to Jiangcheng from time to time like they did in the past few days. Drop bombs and make the people living there feel precarious!

This is the effect of victory news!

"Okay! Brother, take me to Dadongmen. I'll pay double the fare today!" The middle-aged man in a suit folded the newspaper and put it in his pocket, and got on a rickshaw excitedly.

“Hey! Master, tell me whether this is true or not. Is it the fake news created by the higher-ups to fool us ordinary people?”

Perhaps it was because of the news of the victory, or the fact that he could pull up his rickshaw and start jogging with great excitement. However, after enduring it again and again, he still couldn't help but have questions in his heart.

The news of this victory is actually a bit too shocking. I won't say when China had so many fighter planes. The key is that one guy killed 48 Japanese fighter jets. This is probably the number of fighters in the past six months!

Even if the rickshaw driver doesn't have much experience, he still finds this a bit too scary.

"Hey, brother, what about those people up here! They like to report good news but not bad news, and they also like to make some false records to deceive people, but have you ever heard of anyone who dares to report such a big fake record? Two days ago, General Xue led his army in The Japanese invaders fought **** battles in Wanjialing and severely damaged the Japanese 106th Division. The newspaper did not dare to say that the division was completely wiped out, but only said that more than 10,000 enemies were wiped out!" The middle-aged man in a good mood explained with a smile.

"Sir, when you say this, I feel much more at ease. Eight or nine members of my family, young and old, are all in Jiangcheng and have nowhere to go. I can only hope that the national army will win this battle." The smile on the rickshaw driver's face It's brighter, and my steps feel a lot lighter.

“Don't worry, China will definitely win!” The middle-aged man, who looked to the sky, nodded affirmatively.

His nephew, the eagle soaring in the sky, should be returning victoriously with his comrades at this moment!

As an employee of the Imperial Bank where the sun never sets, he didn't even go to work at this time. He was rushing to announce the good news to his brother and sister-in-law. His intuition told him that the nephew who had disappeared for two months must be responsible.

The middle-aged man with keen intuition may not have expected that tonight, an even more exciting piece of good news will hit Jiangcheng, which is at the center of the battle, and make the whole Jiangcheng completely boiling.

Victory belongs to China, but sorrow is left to his family!

In the Battle of Jindong in North China, the Second Theater defeated the 18th Division, the 20th Division and part of the 5th Division, defeated the 21st Division and completely wiped out the 39th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division!

Yes, Tang Dao did not break his promise and did not let the nearly 7,000 people of the 39th Infantry Brigade in the encirclement see the sun on the 16th!

Not only the two infantry battalions, 6 infantry companies and 2 fire support companies of the Four Lines Regiment were all on the battlefield, the Third Battalion responsible for defending Niangzi Pass also transferred Li Jijin's Seventh Company overnight to join the battle. The security company of the Secret Service Battalion directly under the headquarters of the Four Lines Regiment Two companies, including the engineer company and the baggage battalion, also entered the battlefield around 10 p.m.!

The artillery battalion, except for the mountain artillery battery and the heavy force company, continued to provide fire support to the frontline troops with heavy firepower. The air defense company all withdrew from the air defense positions and accompanied the infantry to advance. The 20mm machine gun and 12.7mm heavy machine gun fired flat fire at the Japanese defenses. .

The 20mm machine gun fires flatly and can penetrate 17mm armored steel plates at a distance of 500 meters. In just one day, no matter how excellent the civil engineering works are, how can the Japanese army build an artificial bunker that can protect against such artillery?

Moreover, the number of such machine guns will be close to 30 when the four-line regiment is dispatched, not to mention nearly 60 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. Two of them form a cross-fire group, not to mention the Japanese infantry, even the 89 tanks. Crying after being beaten!

This is all the strength that the Si Xing Regiment did not use when facing the aggressive offensive of the 21st Division, but it was actually used all this night.

Lei Xiong personally led Zhao Daqiang's company to penetrate nearly 1,000 meters into the position of the 39th Infantry Brigade and establish a forward position. In order to facilitate the call for artillery support from the artillery battalion, he brought the most advanced American wireless communicator and directly communicated with the artillery battalion. Make one-line contact with Pangdahai!

That should be the first typical battle in the Asian battlefield where the infantry company level directly called for artillery support. The Japanese army, which was completely divided and surrounded, could not form a complete command system at all, and could only watch one position after another being forced to call out by mountain artillery and large-caliber guns. After shelling, a large number of Chinese soldiers swarmed up and beat the infantrymen who had been stunned by the bombs in the trenches into **** gourds on the ground with a rain of bullets!

The tactics of the 17th Division were slightly different from those of the Four Lines Regiment on the right. They sent a total of 3 infantry regiments of nearly 5,000 people to counterattack the Japanese invaders. Each regiment was responsible for three highlands defended by the Japanese army.

That is also the key defensive direction of the 39th Infantry Brigade. There are a total of 9 infantry squadrons with nearly 1,400 troops. In terms of strength, it is at an absolute disadvantage.

No, it should be said that it is also in terms of firepower!

The 17th Division concentrated all its artillery to provide artillery support to the three infantry regiments. The Fourth Infantry Regiment also divided four Bofors Mountain artillery squads and four 150 heavy force squads to provide fire support, while the 39th Infantry Brigade was in In one afternoon's artillery battle, 70% of the artillery in his artillery regiment was lost!

The military order received by the three infantry regiments of the 17th Division was to attack at all costs. From dusk to 11 o'clock in the night, the three infantry regiments launched more than 6 rounds of infantry attacks, locking the main force of the Japanese army close to the two infantry brigades. Not to mention the battlefield on the left wing, Li Dengxing knew clearly that he was drinking poison to quench his thirst, but he still dispatched nearly 1,000 second-line troops such as baggage troops, engineers, and medical troops to support the left wing despite the desperate calls of his subordinates.

This also caused the reserve force in its hands to be reduced to less than 1,500 people, which was unable to cope with the interception of the small and mobile troops of the four platoons that crossed the battlefield at the platoon level. The entire right wing defense line was completely shattered by 9 p.m.!

In the end, they could only watch in despair as the Four Lines Regiment once again sent out three infantry companies of nearly a thousand people, and with the support of artillery fire, they swallowed up the defenders on the divided hills and valleys one by one.

What is Tang Tuanzuo who is on the front line doing?

After leading a guard platoon into the gap and ambushing three Japanese squads that were marching in the mountains to reinforce their own positions, Tang Dao did not go deep alone again. Instead, he appointed Yang Xiaoshan, who had been following him, to lead a guard platoon to respond to the search. Gu Xishui's team, which was the remains of our own air force, returned to the main position with Xia Dayu and five guards.

Hooking Deng Guihai, who was a little confused, the two got into the Type 89 tank that had been parked there!

“Tonight, I will be your driver. Just fire the cannon and show me the strength of the elite gunners!” Tang Dao patted the army sergeant roughly on the shoulder. "I'll be the observer!" Xia Dayu, who was full of excitement, also got into the tank.

“I will be the ammunition hand and machine gunner!” The leader of the reconnaissance company had a dark face and was full of helplessness.

Originally, the security company was responsible for the safety of Tang Tuan Zuo, but Yang Xiaoshan was sent to the battlefield to perform tasks under Tang Tuan Zuo's order. Naturally, the task of protecting the safety of Tuan Zuo's commander could only be left to him, the commander of the reconnaissance company. The regiment headquarters has stipulated that if there is no one in the reconnaissance company, it is the cavalry battalion's turn!

But to be honest, facing the leader of my regiment who went to the front line even if they disagreed, whoever took this job would have a headache. No, the regiment finally returned to the main position, but something went wrong again. He wanted to play What a tank!

This thing looks very strong with steel plate protection, and it can't be used with any bullets. But this thing is too bulky, and it's so dark outside that you can't see anything clearly. If it's targeted by infantry, it can happen if you're not careful. Iron coffin!

Many veterans in the reconnaissance company have experience against this kind of iron turtle. They can hide in the dark corners of the trench and quietly stuff an explosive pack. Even if the explosion cannot penetrate the tank, it can completely disable the tank's maneuverability. Just rely on two explosives. A heavy machine gun and a short-barreled cannon cannot guarantee absolute safety.

“Haha, don't worry, Old Hei, there are two reconnaissance squads accompanying you outside! Let the little devils taste the power of their tank guns today!” Tang Dao laughed and started the 89 tank.

This 89 tank captured from the 21st Division did not have a new painting due to time constraints. It only used white dye to draw a white five-pointed star on the turret outside the original red sun, and this was circulated to the entire regiment.

This is also to avoid being accidentally injured by our own officers and soldiers. It is not that we are afraid of infantry coming over to throw explosive bags and Molotov cocktails. Nowadays, each infantry battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment is equipped with a 20mm machine gun. What if such a round is fired from a few hundred meters away? Tang Tuanzuo has to kneel even if he has steel and iron bones!

The officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment knew that the 89 tank with a red sun in the center and a white star pattern on the turret was theirs, but that did not mean that the Japanese knew that.

The 21st Division didn't even tell the 39th Infantry Brigade that it was running away, so why would it send a special telegram saying that all the tanks had been captured?

Therefore, when the 89 tank appeared in front of the Japanese position at a mountain pass for the first time and rumbled towards the position, the Japanese infantry were confused.

　　Were the idiots in the tank squadron confused by the Chinese? Why are you driving in the direction of your own position? Also, what do you mean by lowering the muzzle and making it flat?

It wasn't until a single shot from the 57mm short-barreled gun blew a heavy machine gun bunker that was firing desperately into pieces that the Japanese infantry realized that this was a Chinese tank!

The strange machine gun and the 38-meter cover desperately greeted the 89 tank which was already close at hand but only about a hundred meters away, but obviously, it had no effect.

The level of Japan's military industry is average, but it will never be able to build a tank that can be penetrated by machine rifle bullets!

At its peak, the 39th Infantry Brigade would have been equipped with a 37mm rapid-fire cannon to deal with this steel behemoth, but now, there really is none!

Under the crazy bombardment of the Chinese, not even a few 92 infantry guns were left! Even if there were, the infantry squadron-level position in front of us had no equipment. The only heavy firepower was almost all transferred by Li Dengxing to the left battlefield to deal with the fierce impact of the three infantry regiments of the 17th Division.

Therefore, the Japanese army, which had only light weapons on the battlefield, could only use machine guns and rifles in vain to deal with the steel behemoth that was spitting out artillery fire and bullets, and watched in despair as it got closer and closer, and then the infantry following behind began to throw Grenade, the damage caused by the rain of grenade bullets falling into the trench is even more terrible than the 150 heavy force!

Although there is no solution for the large 150-pound artillery shells that can spread nearly a thousand square meters with air waves, after all, the chance of falling into the trench is extremely low. As long as you keep your body as low as possible and have good luck, you can still save your life.

However, the probability of a grenade falling into a trench can be as high as 20 to 30%, which is something you can't avoid no matter how hard you try!

The Japanese army is also tenacious enough. Some Japanese soldiers use their quick hands and eyes to quickly pick up the grenades thrown at their feet and throw them away quickly. Others dropped two or three grenades in a row at a glance. They are not Nezha with three heads and six arms. He gritted his teeth and pounced on the grenade, using himself as a human shield to protect his colleagues.

Don't tell me, it's quite touching. Seeing my colleagues being riddled with grenades, they were lifted into the air by one meter. The Japanese infantrymen roared wildly, opened the bayonets on their guns, jumped out of the trenches, and planned to carry out the attack. The final heroic fight!

But this time, what greeted them was not the same sharp bayonet!

Instead, it is a nearly 20-ton steel behemoth!

“Fight with me on the bayonet? Okay!” Tang Dao's eyebrows and eyes were ferocious!

Stepping on the accelerator, the 89 tank engine roared loudly. The tank was accelerated to 40 yards on the mountainous terrain, and it crashed fiercely towards the Japanese infantry who were trying to fight to the death.

Thus, the most brutal scene on the battlefield occurred.

Even though most of the elite members of the reconnaissance company had experienced the meat grinder-like battlefield of Songhu, and had seen many **** scenes, and even felt the fear of flying severed limbs and debris hitting their bodies during the battle, more than 15 soldiers After the war, I still couldn't eat for two days in a row, especially because there was no meat or fish in sight.

In the exact words of a corporal of the reconnaissance company: "Don't say I'm not strong enough. That's because you didn't see the scene at that time. We are all farmers. Everyone has seen the stone roller in the rice field! Just think about it. If the roller is ten times bigger and a person is crushed, what will it look like in the end? "

“Then it can't be turned into a piece of paper?” Someone thought about it carefully and said with certainty.

“Paper?” The corporal curled his lips disdainfully.

"So you can't figure it out just by thinking about it. Let me tell you this! A person has become a piece of skin, just like paper, but the internal organs in a person's stomach will squirt out due to squeezing. Squirt out. It must be seven or eight meters away!" Corporal Xu recalled with his eyes narrowed. "That's when I realized what a person's kidney looks like, like a big soybean, and that liver! It's not the same as pork liver."

"The key point is, there is still the sound of someone being crushed, Peng! It's almost the same as the cannon we fired during the Chinese New Year! It's still a continuous fire! Really, the little devil is not afraid of death, but if you want to die, don't play with the tanks in the group. Fight with a bayonet!

You guys in Class 3 know it, right? It was Ming Yueye who charged with a machete and chopped off the heads of three little Japs, with a Japanese captain's head hanging from his waist. Is it fierce or not?

He was the closest to the tank at the time. The guy's head and face were covered with blood, and there were several lumps of meat hanging on his body. He vomited on the spot, including gall water!

That guy who stinks all over, I dared not get close to him most of the night! Even when celebrating the victory, I didn't dare to hug him, and even now Lao Ming still ignores me when he sees me. "

“Why is it so smelly?” Some soldiers asked blankly.

“Where do you think human feces would be stored?” the corporal asked with a sideways glance. "By the way, do you want to know how long it took to wash Tuanzuo's tank before it became odorless? That thing stinks even more, and there are big fats in those seams!"

"vomit~~~Brother, stop talking, I'm going to vomit too!" There was a sound of retching all around.

"You little brat, if you dare to mock me for not being able to eat, I will drag you into the water no matter what! Ugh~~~" the corporal mocked, but he couldn't help but retching from his throat!

As a person who has experienced it personally, it is difficult for him not to return to the battlefield that was a **** mill that night when he mentioned it again.

The steel giant driven by Tang Tuanzuo himself coldly and mercilessly crushed the Japanese infantry who were rushing over, carving a **** path!

The infantrymen who followed closely behind used automatic firearms to harvest the remaining Japanese infantrymen who tried to make a last-ditch effort with bayonets, and shot them all in the mountains.

A small hill position garrisoned by nearly 150 Japanese troops was captured in just 5 minutes. All the defenders were wiped out, while the casualties of our own infantry were in single digits!

And this is just a small test of Tang Tuanzuo, who has transformed into a tank driver, in the mountain attack battle!

What really made Tang Tuanzuo and Second Lieutenant Deng Guihai, who was promoted to the first tank platoon leader of the Four Lines Regiment after the war, famous was the battle with the Japanese army's five Type 94 tanks and three Type 89 tanks, which belonged to the Steel Giant. Beast fighting encounters.

That was also the first tank battle on the Taihang Mountain battlefield!

The 89 tank named 001 Taihang after the war, 1 versus 8!

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