Major General Isayama waited for Lieutenant General Iida to calm down before he started talking about the burning things:
"Your Excellency, Commander, the 55th Division has been cut off by the Chinese Expeditionary Force and is in danger of being annihilated at any time;
The Flying Warriors can only provide the support they can to increase the losses of the Chinese people. To rescue the 55th Division, they have to send ground troops to tear apart the Chinese encirclement. Otherwise, the 55th Division will disappear from the battle sequence of the 15th Army. . "
Isayama's reminder made Lieutenant General Iida break out in a cold sweat. He was so busy spraying blood that he forgot the most important thing. Now there is only one voice in his heart warning him:
"The 55th Division must not be wiped out! Absolutely not!"
Lieutenant General Iida forced himself to calm down, and after considering the pros and cons, he said:
"Jian Shanjun, order the 56th Division and the 33rd Division to stop pursuing the defeated Chinese Expeditionary Force, and rescue the 55th Division with all their strength, opening a hole at all costs, and the aviation team will fully cooperate;
Order the 55th Division to shrink its defense line, defend the core position, and wait for reinforcements;
Order the 18th Division to attack Mandalay and contain Chu Xiong’s troops..."
On the Western Front battlefield, the New 38th Division and the 1st Brigade of the Independent Division once again penetrated the 55th Division's defense line from east to west, cutting the 55th Division horizontally into three non-connected pieces;
Sun Fumin was also satisfied. The only drawback was that the already insufficient fuel was completely exhausted. Most of the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were lying down because they had no fuel. However, he did not intend to stop the attack and shouted loudly. :
"Brothers, get out of the car. Without mechanized equipment, our new 38th Division is still an elite. Let's compete with the Eighth Route Army of the Independent Division to see who can kill more Japanese!"
Liu Fangwu shouted very cooperatively:
"Of course it's our new 38th Division! Without tanks, we will kill the stubborn Japanese with gunfire."
The soldiers below who had gone crazy and killed all agreed, and their morale was unprecedentedly high. Now let alone asking them to clean up a group of defeated soldiers, even if they were taken to the foot pot chicken to catch any bullshit emperor, they would respond, so the elites were all fed by victory.
When Sun Fumin saw that his morale was ready, he immediately ordered:
"Okay, brothers, you are worthy of being the soldiers of my new 38th Division, all of them are good!
Now let's fight back together, and let the Japanese go in and out seven times, killing him until he bleeds like a river. As long as there is still a Japanese standing in the encirclement, the attack will not stop, kill! "
"kill!"
"kill!!"
"kill!!!"
Thousands of soldiers' shouts of killing resounded through the sky. Then, under the leadership of Sun Fumin, they abandoned their vehicles and continued to encircle and annihilate the Japanese of the 55th Division.
It was their luck. Not long after they abandoned the car, dozens of Japanese planes came over in a swarm of waves. The commander leading the team looked at the big guys on the ground below and shouted excitedly;
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
The plane's nose was pressed down, and it dived down at high speed, pulling down a bunch of shit;
"Boom boom boom..."
A long series of violent explosions engulfed several trucks, and then other Japs followed suit, bombing the mechanized group that was lying down until all the bombs were thrown away;
The Japanese commander looked at the scrap metal on the ground below, and then he excitedly ordered to withdraw to the airport to resupply ammunition. This trip would take at least half a day, and it depended on whether the 55th Division could survive the half day.
Sun Fumin watched the Japanese Big Birds leave after bombing. He was secretly glad that he had escaped disaster. He continued to lead the New 38th Division to sweep away the Japanese in the encirclement circle, constantly compressing the Japanese's movement space.
The New 38th Division is responsible for the left wing, and the Independent Division is responsible for the right wing. They constantly intersperse, cut, and encircle and annihilate, eating one piece after another.
At the 55th Division Headquarters, Hiroshi Takeuchi looked frustrated, like a defeated rooster.
He is now numb to the bad news. There is only one brigade of escorts left around his division headquarters, which is surrounded by troops from the First Brigade of the Independent Division.
"Shimomura-kun, where are the reinforcements?"
Lieutenant General Takeuchi asked habitually. He would ask it basically every once in a while. Colonel Shimozuma answered tirelessly:
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the 56th Division and the 33rd Regiment have launched a fierce attack on the Chinese blocking positions. The progress is going smoothly. We will be able to break through the Chinese defense line in two days at the latest. Let us insist on holding on for two days!"
After hearing this, Takeuchi habitually cursed:
"Bagayalu, you are fooling the Japanese!
Two days, we can’t even last one day! They will be waiting to collect my body in two days.
Damn it, what a bunch of cowards! The two divisions couldn't even break through the Chinese blocking line, and the imperial army was completely embarrassed by them..."
More than 500 words are omitted here, but they are all words that made the commander of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Shozo Sakurai, curse him.
At the 33rd Division Headquarters, Shozo Sakurai was also greeting the eighteenth-generation women of Takeuchi's family. Fortunately, the Japanese cursed them with just those words, unlike the Chinese curse culture which has a long history. Many masters did not use any heavy words in their curses for a whole day.
“Bagayalu, you’re a bunch of trash, the empire’s face has been completely ruined by this bastard Takeuchi!
A division can still be surrounded by Chinese people, why doesn't he apologize to His Majesty the Emperor..."
The Sakurai Province scolded them three times, but those who should be rescued were still saved. The 15th Army could not afford to lose a complete division, so it could only force the 112th Regiment to continue the attack in conjunction with the Mountain Artillery Regiment and the 33rd Cavalry Regiment.
The 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Division defended its position. The sound of guns and artillery could not be heard. The enemy's offensive was getting higher and higher. The regiment was like a rock in the waves. No matter how rough the waves were, I would not be able to move!
"The Japs' Iron Bastard is coming up. Here's Hua Mulan's fire team, up!"
On the forward position, company commander Yu Bo shouted loudly.
More than 500 meters in front of the second company's position, there were more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles, followed by about a squadron of Japanese soldiers. The tanks rumbled over, firing guns as they walked, extremely arrogant.
After receiving the order, the 4-door Hua Mulan group of the company's fire platoon poked their heads out of the trenches and started firing several machine guns to attract the attention of the Japanese.
The vehicle-mounted machine guns on the Japanese tanks opened fire crazily on the second company's position. Large-caliber bullets hit the position with dust flying, and people were shot from time to time;
"boom!"
A tank shell exploded behind a machine gun, creating a large crater and injuring the main shooter of the machine gun with flying shrapnel;
Two stretcher bearers came up quickly and rescued the wounded. The deputy shooter did not have time to grieve before he stepped forward and continued to suppress the Japanese with fire.
Soon, the tank group entered the attack range of the Mulan cannon. A rocket jumped out of the barrel and headed straight for a Type 95 tank.
The bomb accurately hit the target. The 107mm warhead easily tore through the front armor of the tank and exploded inside the body. The huge impact instantly blew off the tank turret, killing all the Japanese inside;
One tank was knocked down with just one shot. At the same time, several other artillery groups also fired rockets at their respective targets. Three tanks were knocked down in the first round of attacks, one of which was hit. The jackpot was hit by two rockets, and the car was destroyed and the Japanese died.
The captain of the cavalry regiment was completely dumbfounded and quickly ordered the tanks and decoration vehicles to be recalled. Unfortunately, it was already too late;
Before the remaining tanks and armored vehicles could turn around, a few more were killed. The Mulan rocket launcher was simply the poor man's trump card against tanks. It was blood-line suppression, not to mention the enemy's thin-skinned and large-filled tanks, which were accurate every time.
"Bagaya road!"
The captain of the 33rd Cavalry Regiment closed his eyes in pain. After the tank was blown up, they returned to the cavalry in the traditional sense.
