"Your Excellency, Captain! Please calm down! Please calm down!"
Seeing this situation, the adjutant on the side did not care about the order of superiority and inferiority, and directly suppressed Nobutsu Sakata to try to make him regain his sense!
Not long after, the chief of staff who heard about this also joined in.
During the dispute between the three people, four loud noises were heard from the tank position in front, and then there was a silence like dead water!
"Just now...how many more explosions were there?"
For a long time, Nobuyuki Sakata sat exhausted in the car, covering his head with his hands and asking tremblingly.
"Four...four sounds!"
"In other words... our tanks were wiped out without even firing a single shot?"
Hearing this, no one around him responded. Sakata then suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with grief and anger and shouted loudly: "The whole army moves forward! The whole army moves forward! I don't believe that Li Yunfeng can eat all of us in one breath!"
"Hi Yi!"
Everyone took the order and left, and the large army of more than 3,000 people immediately moved forward at full speed.
On the way, when passing by the messy tank wreckage on the ground, everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of fear.
At the right time, Li Yunfeng returned to his own position, and Zhang Dabiao also received a report from the scouts early in the morning. The Japanese tanks, which he regarded as a serious problem, had been completely wiped out. Now they can let go!
"fire!"
"Pass!" "Pass!" "Pass!"
As soon as the Japanese entered the position, three M2 105 howitzers fired simultaneously!
The shell cut through the air in an arc under the blue sky and landed on the Japanese position.
An explosion occurred instantly!
"Hahahaha! Commander-in-Chief! Beautiful artillery is so good! With a range of eleven kilometers, we can hit the Japanese! The Japanese can't hit us!"
After sweeping through the telescope the bombarded Japanese positions, Zhang Dabiao clapped his thighs and laughed loudly.
At that time, the artillery squadron directly under the Japanese infantry wing was mainly equipped with the Type 41 75mm mountain cannon, with a range of mostly within six to seven kilometers; large-caliber artillery with a long range, such as the Type 91 105 howitzer, was only available at the A-class division level, or Only the independent artillery brigade level has the opportunity to equip it.
Even so, its range does not exceed 10 kilometers, and the average rate of fire is 5 rounds per minute. The M2 105 howitzer equipped by the National Defense Force has a range of nearly 11 kilometers, and the average rate of fire is 10 rounds per minute!
At present, the infantry reinforcement regiment of an ordinary Class A division in Sakata has only one artillery squadron under its jurisdiction. Its firepower is no more than 4 Type 41 mountain guns and 8 Type 92 infantry guns with a range of 3.5 kilometers. How can it be compared with the National Defense Force?
Of course, this is not to blame for Sakata Nobutsu's negligence. After all, even Shinozuka Yoshio did not take the artillery squadron seriously, but only used it as a supplementary firepower. The real main force in annihilating the defense forces was buried under the gunfire of Barrett. Those 16 Type 97 tanks!
At the right time, the battle continued. After three rounds of shelling by the defense forces, the reinforced brigade suffered more than 200 casualties. Sakata Nobutsu also realized that the range and power of the opponent's artillery were significantly higher than his own by several levels.
Then he adjusted his tactics and asked the two battalions of security forces to charge towards each other! Provide opportunities for artillery squadrons to close combat distances.
Not long after, the puppet troops reluctantly launched a charge, followed by a squadron of Japanese soldiers who were called to assist in the battle but were actually supervising the battle. Anyone who dared to run back would be shot to death.
Seeing this situation, Li Yunfeng ordered the infantry to open fire. Most of this group of puppet soldiers had official or Jin-made rifles. The range and accuracy could not even match the 38-gun rifles, let alone the M1 Garand in the hands of the soldiers of the National Defense Forces.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Da da da... da da da..."
Because the place where the two armies were fighting was a flat, open area with a radius of dozens of kilometers, there was no obstruction at all.
The defense aircraft and rifles fired thousands of rounds in just one round, and more than 300 puppet troops fell on the way forward.
There was no way, Li Yunfeng had always pursued elitism, and all of his soldiers were veterans who had been on the battlefield before joining the army. After being trained by him a little, and fed with tons of bullets and trained, all of them were as strong as quasi-snipers!
Killing the enemy within 300 meters with all the members is simply not easy! More than 70% of soldiers can zoom as close as 400 meters; 40% of soldiers can annihilate enemies with one shot from 500 meters away; professional snipers like Kiko can even reach the terrifying 700 meters!
On the other hand, the Japanese's 38-meter Gai, with a maximum range of 450 meters, can't even touch the hair of a defense force soldier!
So, a funny scene happened!
After more than 300 puppet soldiers fell to the ground, the remaining puppet soldiers crouched in place and did not dare to rush forward until the Japanese supervising soldiers killed four or five people in a row and established their authority. Now they gritted their teeth. Get up and charge forward.
"Four hundred meters! Three hundred meters! Quick! Order the artillery to set up positions immediately, and send all the remaining security forces to charge! Order the first and second squadrons of the first brigade to also go up and buy time for the artillery!"
As the distance between the two armies continued to shrink, Sakata Nobutsu, who was always paying attention to the battlefield situation, immediately said.
"Hi Yi!"
True to his word, it took more than 700 days for the puppet troops to break away from the main force and charge forward.
Only this time, the number of Japs increased significantly, almost equaling that of the puppet troops!
The price paid for this was that after only two of the originally nearly 4,000-strong force were charged, only half of the force was left. There was no fire cover from the artillery unit, and many heavy machine guns and grenade launchers did not enter their intended positions. !
The output of the National Defense Forces continued. Facing the first batch of puppet troops charging close at hand, the M1 mortars directly under the infantry also joined the enemy-annihilating queue. The moment the shells burst out of the barrel, the charging puppet troops Big craters were blown up.
As the charging distance continued to shorten, the puppet army became increasingly dense. In this round of bombardment, at least more than a hundred people died here.
At the right time, the machine guns fired at the same frequency, and the two battalions of puppet troops were wiped out, including a squadron of Japanese soldiers responsible for supervising the battle!
Some of the shells even hit the second wave of charging Japanese and puppet soldiers, causing great damage to them.
Soon, all the second wave of assault troops were killed, and only a handful of puppet soldiers managed to escape from the large army and fled for their lives.
Fortunately, the twelve artillery pieces of the artillery squadron were set up at that time! Just as they were preparing to bombard the SADF positions.
But they never thought that the sound of artillery was rolling 4 kilometers away. Not long after, more than a dozen artillery shells fell into the position that our side had finally built with thousands of lives.
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander! The artillery is... finished!"
After a while, the chief of staff walked into the headquarters and reported to Sakata Nobutetsu as if he were mourning his concubine!
But he saw the latter taking a breath, and then said with determination: "Order! Everyone put on bayonets! Fight with the defense forces!"
In fact, since the 16 Type 97 tanks were wiped out in this battle, Sakata Nobutsu knew that he had lost the initiative on the battlefield. Even if he could annihilate the defense force in front of him, he would suffer heavy casualties. In the round, it will be even more difficult for the other two troops to approach Pianguan City.
However, at that time, he still harbored illusions, believing that he could still win this battle by consuming the lives of the puppet troops.
Until, the artillery squadron was completely wiped out, and we no longer had heavy fire support or cover!
At this point, only the entire army can charge forward to save the last bit of face of his Sakata Alliance!
However, what is surprising is that Li Yunfeng actually ordered to stop the attack, and the entire army switched to bayonets and fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese!
Not to mention that Sakata Nobutsu was shocked when he heard this, even the commander of the 771st Regiment who was always ready to take over the position behind him was also shocked: "This madman! He is really a fucking madman!"
