in2ebook Chapter 607: Approaching Zhangbei County
Chapter 607: Approaching Zhangbei County
The Japanese fighter planes found that they could not defeat the Hellcats of the Independent Column, so they picked the weak ones and directly aimed their spearheads at the Independent Column's Flying Fortress bombers, but they seemed to have forgotten the Flying Fortress's box formation and powerful firepower.
In the end, they drove away these uninvited Japanese planes with absolute superiority.
Matsuura Toyoichiro's face turned pale. He didn't expect that the massacre he had carefully planned would turn out to be the opposite, and now they were the targets of the massacre.
To make matters worse, the Japanese soldiers and the puppet Mongolian cavalry division on the front line decisively carried out Matsuura Toyoichiro's orders and immediately charged towards the independent column after the bombing.
Regardless of the outcome of this bombing.
Matsuura Toyoichiro looked at the large number of cavalry and the imperial army rushing out from Miaotan, Maliantan and Cainaobao, and his mood fell to the bottom.
He wanted to slap himself twice, he got so carried away with success that he actually gave the order to attack in advance.
"Maybe... maybe the Mongolian Cavalry Division will completely disappear from the land of China, along with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Infantry Battalions of the nd Independent Mixed Brigade!"
His guess was correct. Armored vehicles, tanks and even fighter planes in the sky joined in the encirclement and suppression of the cavalry and Japanese soldiers.
The cavalry division of the pseudo-Mongolian army found that the situation was not as optimistic as Matsuura Toyoichiro said, so they prepared to take advantage of the cavalry's strong mobility and flee in all directions.
However, no matter how maneuverable you are, can you be as maneuverable as an airplane?
The Hellcat machine guns were like whips, repeatedly whipping the cavalry divisions. Rows of cavalry were broken in half, and there were even many war horses carrying the lower bodies of the cavalry running wildly on the grassland, while the upper bodies were nowhere to be found.
Rivers of blood!
Shen Quan looked at the huge cloud of smoke explosion and felt a little dazed.
"Is this the end?"
Since Shen Quan became the division commander, he has never been stationed in Pingshun for a long time. Therefore, he certainly doesn't know that this terrifying thing is an enlarged individual-soldier fuel-air bomb, which is a real fuel-air bomb.
This sonic boom bomb dropped from an aircraft is basically based on the same principle as an individual soldier's fuel-air explosive bomb. The only difference is that this airdropped fuel-air explosive bomb is much more powerful and can destroy fortifications over a large area.
Shen Quan was still worried, so he sent a reconnaissance company to search for the Japanese artillery positions.
As a result, wherever the reconnaissance company went, there was a scorched earth with no grass growing. When they tentatively approached the Japanese's permanent artillery fortifications, they found that these fortifications had basically collapsed under the high temperature and high pressure.
Some soldiers lifted up the concrete fragments and found that the steel bars inside had melted. The molten iron was flowing everywhere, forming strange residues.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
The reconnaissance team sneaked into the Japanese artillery fortifications through a gap and entered the connected cave.
"My goodness, Captain, this is probably taller than a building!"
The reconnaissance company commander shone his flashlight on the dark top.
"That's about it. Pay attention to the search!"
As a result, the reconnaissance company discovered that the deaths of the Japanese soldiers were basically the same as those in the small caves bombed by individual soldier's fuel-air bombs. Many of them had their throats and faces scratched, and were bleeding from all seven orifices.
The commander of the reconnaissance company shook his head helplessly. He originally wanted to catch a tongue to ask about the situation, but now he can only catch a ghost!
"Report, the Japanese artillery positions have been destroyed, all weapons are ineffective, and no Japanese survived!"
Shen Quan hung up the walkie-talkie silently and began to think about life. It would be great if this thing could be fired with a cannon! I'll ask dear Chief of Staff Wang later.
"Order to quickly build a temporary bridge and cross the trench!"
At this time, the bulldozers and engineering vehicles that were temporarily deployed also arrived and forcibly filled up an anti-tank ditch that was more than ten meters long.
With a multi-pronged approach, a torrent of armored forces began to unfold on the battlefield, forming a posture of all-out offensive.
Under the command of the confident Matsuura Toyoichiro, the Japanese soldiers on the Miaotan, Maliantan and Cainaobao lines had fallen in large numbers on the way to the attack.
The tanks of the independent column rolled over the area, leaving meat paste everywhere, so much so that the mechanized infantry regiment behind, which was walking on two legs, cursed the tank regiment.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the troops arrived at the city of Zhangbei!
This important city, the throat of North China, has been torn to pieces by the Japanese.
When they heard that a war was going to break out, the common people either fled to Zhangjiakou or to the deep mountains and forests. Now, only the Japanese devils and a large number of puppet troops are left in Zhangbei City.
The enemy Shen Quan is facing now is no longer the almost wiped out Independent 63nd Mixed Brigade, but the 67th Infantry Brigade of the rd Division, led by Major General Liu Yong.
If Tanaka Nobuo, whose throat was cut, was a cunning fox who was confident and good at hiding himself, then Liu Yong was an out-and-out madman.
Liu Yong was born in a humble family. He was the son of a farmer in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Infantry Department of the Army Officer School. He was the first to participate in the Port Arthur Massacre, where he made military exploits because of the huge number of Chinese he killed. He then made great contributions in the battles of Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhongtiao Mountain and others, and was promoted to major general.
As an officer who grew up from the grassroots, he is full of ruthlessness. His combat principle is to be ruthless and kill the opponent at all costs, even if it means they die together.
It was also his idea to introduce the spike mines from the main island of Japan, so his 67th Brigade played an important role in the "Operation Katakuri" plan.
Liu Yong had already anticipated that the entire Zhangbei would be bombed by the independent column's artillery and aircraft, so all his soldiers hid in underground tunnels, separated by layers of cement and wooden boards.
If you are lucky, this is a shelter, but if you are unlucky, it is a living coffin.
His plan was simple. He would wait until the tanks or infantry groups of the independent column reached their shelter, open the lid of the turtle, and then blow it up like a suicide truck.
Liu Yong deployed the 24th and 25th Independent Infantry Battalions in Zhangbei County, and the 80th and 81st Independent Infantry Battalions on the road from Zhangbei to Zhangjiakou.
In a cave in Shanfangbao Township in the southern part of Zhangbei County, in the front-line command post of the Zhangbei Campaign, Matsuura Toyoichiro lowered his head in guilt.
"Mr. Matsuura Toyoichiro, you lost three of your five independent infantry battalions on the front line because of your stupid command, and then two of them were killed by the mysterious bombs of the independent column!
Perhaps, like Nobuo Tanaka of the 66th Brigade, dying in battle is the best outcome! However, I will keep your life for now and continue to serve the Emperor!"
Matsuura Toyoichiro broke out in a cold sweat, as if he saw a shining sword.
"Maybe I should seppuku!"