Of course, there was no artillery support, because the then commander of the 10th Division, Rensuke Isotani, learned that Li Yunfeng, who was known as a massacrer, led his troops to join the battle the day after the Chinese Defense Forces were dispatched.
As the saying goes, the name of a Taoist is like the shadow of a tree. For this reason, Matsui Iwane, the commander-in-chief of the Central China Front, personally called Isoya Rensuke and asked the other side to withdraw troops!
Unexpectedly, the latter is also an ambitious guy!
He has coveted the position of the Fifth Division, the number one main force of the Central China Front, for many years. How could he give up so easily when he finally encountered an opportunity to prove himself?
Although he did not dare to disobey Matsui Iwane openly, he secretly linked up with a large group of middle and lower-level officers to send a joint message to the Central China Front Army and even the military headquarters in the name of "the Japanese Locust Army is fearless of any powerful enemy"!
In view of the fact that the Japanese army has always had a tradition of subordinates overcoming superiors, Matsui Iwane and the top army officials felt quite embarrassed when they heard about this.
Taking this opportunity, Isotani Rensuke cooked the raw rice and transferred the artillery and armor units to the places where the defense forces must pass through Shinto, intending to ambush Li Yunfeng's troops;
With one hand, he ordered the rest of the infantry to make rice all night, preparing to launch an all-out charge against the remaining 74th Army of the Central Army in the early morning when people and horses were exhausted!
But he never thought that the artillery wing of the 10th Division had just set up a position and was on standby in the hope that the defense forces would plunge into the prepared pockets.
Under the bright moonlight, a huge black bat loomed, flying out from the side of the sky from far to near.
Until the moment when the aircraft hovered over the artillery wing position and its body was exposed, the leader of the wing leader looked horrified when he saw this, and roared loudly:
"Enemy plane! Enemy plane! Anti-aircraft artillery! Anti-aircraft artillery! Shoot this guy down immediately!"
Hearing this, the soldiers of the anti-aircraft artillery brigade rushed to the designated position as if they had just woken up from a dream, raised the muzzle of the gun, calibrated the elements, and were just about to fire!
On the B2 strategic bomber, Li Yunfeng raised his hand and put a red button on the operating table and lightly touched it. 20 CBU-87 cluster bombs in the rotating bomb rack under the aircraft immediately broke away from the ballistic trajectory, piercing the air and swinging down!
Not long after, 20 cluster bombs that looked like small white iron cans exploded out of thin air above the artillery wing, and tens of thousands of small pellets rained down.
Some of them flew straight into the air and exploded; some landed between trenches and artillery pieces and exploded; some bounced off the concrete roofs and then landed with a loud bang on the ground. Even a handful of them rolled in the grass and escaped unscathed. The one that was detonated was also affected by external force. The moment the heel of the shoe grazed the body of the bomb, a dent appeared out of thin air.
For a time, the Japanese artillery position was littered with corpses and rivers of blood as far as the eye could see. A Japanese captain was cut into two parts. His lower body was thrown to the treetops not far away by the impact caused by the explosion; his upper body was bloody and bloody. , it could only be identified that he was holding a Type 41 mountain gun shell in his hand, with a look of horror on his face, and his eyes still closed.
Handsome male protagonists who often travel to military-themed works must know it!
Cluster bombs are large munitions composed of dozens or even hundreds of small bombs. Their main purpose is to destroy ground targets.
It has the characteristics of intensive instantaneous firepower, coverage area, and high damage efficiency. It is mostly used to attack cluster targets such as tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and troop assembly areas, or to block large-area targets such as airport runways.
According to the specifications of cluster munitions, they can be roughly divided into three types: conventional clusters, artillery clusters and missile clusters.
The CBU-87 cluster bomb Li Yunfeng used just now is the most powerful missile cluster among the above three types. One of its cluster bombs can cause 60,000 pieces of shrapnel to fly.
20 pieces, that’s a full 120,000!
Not to mention the artillery regiment of a standing division, even the tank brigade that the Kwantung Army was proud of (note: the Japanese army called tanks tanks in World War II!) had to stay away!
When the Japanese reconnaissance plane responsible for detecting the movements of the National Defense Forces passed over this position all the way from Shanghai, they were so frightened that they almost crashed the plane.
Immediately, he hurriedly reported the situation he witnessed to the Central China Front Army and the 10th Division on the same channel!
However, the bow has to be fired when it is on the string! Isotani Rensuke knew very well that if he retreated from this battle, he would be unable to hold up his head in the Central China Front at all. Therefore, he must take the initiative to annihilate the Central Army in front before the Chinese Defense Force was in place!
Only in this way can one save face; secondly, the two armies can effectively avoid Li Yunfeng's sudden air attack by fighting together.
It's a pity that Rensuke Isotani blocked the opponent's air attack! But the defense force's fully motorized army infantry was unstoppable to him!
【Early morning of August 3rd】
As Zhang Lingfu led the remnants of his troops and entered into the final fierce battle with the 10th Division, thousands of defense force soldiers in dark brown and green military uniforms appeared out of thin air on one side of the position. Their characteristic northwest broadswords were particularly eye-catching.
Not long after, there were thousands of soldiers in the dense forest on the south side of the position, like tigers descending the mountain, heading straight for the headquarters of Rensuke Isotani's 5th Division. However, they seemed to disdain to fight with ordinary Japanese soldiers, but were very keen to fight with Lieutenant Colonel , Zuo, and even general-level officers in hand-to-hand combat.
Until the last defense force entered the battle, the balance of victory in this battle instantly became one-sided. The officers of the 10th Division knew that the situation was over and advised Isotani Rensuke to retreat immediately!
But the latter knew very well that even if he escaped by chance in this battle, as the highest person in charge of the defeated party, he would never be able to escape the sanctions of the military!
Immediately he became listless and weak, and issued his last order before his death:
"Break through! Even if only one escapes, don't let the defense forces annihilate us all!"
After finishing speaking, he took out the pistol with lightning speed, put it in his mouth and drank the bullet to kill himself...
By the time Li Yunfeng arrived at the headquarters of the 10th Division in person, Rensuke Isotani's body was lying in the best position to view the dynamics of the battlefield, and the temperature had dropped to freezing point.
"Damn it! Why did you commit suicide by drinking bullets? Don't you bastards like to commit seppuku?"
Seeing this situation, Li Yunfeng was displeased. On the way back from flying the B2 strategic bomber, he came up with an excellent way to torture people. He was planning to test Isotani Rensuke on a living body, but he never thought that he would die like this!
"Commander-in-Chief, a lot of new Japanese weapons and equipment have been seized on the battlefield! Chief of Staff Zhou asked me to ask you, do you want to take them all back?"
At the right time, the monk came in and asked.
"Shit! No matter how new you are, how can we be with you? It's just a fire stick that makes fire, don't do it!"
"Huh? So you just leave empty-handed?"
As a security guard, the monk knows the temper of his commander-in-chief best. He always only takes advantage and does not suffer any losses!
Now, after saving the Central Army and winning a battle, is there any reason to go back empty-handed?
After hearing this, Li Yunfeng deeply agreed and felt that it made sense:
"That's right! You've come here, you can't go back empty-handed!"
