my bright sword career

Chapter 91 Gao Hongming's Revenge
Ping'an County is located in the southwest of Shanxi. It is surrounded by the Jinsui Army, the Eighth Route Army, and various bandit forces. The situation is very complicated, and it is also the front line of direct contact between the Japanese army and various forces.

Because the location is very important, the Japanese stationed a garrison brigade here, that is, about 700 Japanese troops, plus a regiment of the Imperial Association Army, the total strength has approached 2000. is also rare.

Since the Japanese troops stationed in Ping'an County are strong and store a large amount of weapons and ammunition, even the Jinsui Army, the Eighth Route Army and other armed forces have always wanted to take down Ping'an County.

But Ping'an County is not only strong in its own strength, once an attack is launched on it, the surrounding Japanese troops can quickly rush to reinforce it in only two to three hours, and it is too difficult to capture it.

Therefore, neither the Jinsui Army nor the Eighth Route Army have dared to take action.

But today, some people really don’t believe in evil. At [-]:[-] am on July [-]st, accompanied by a sudden burst of violent artillery fire, the Japanese troops deployed in the four positions outside the county were drowned in the artillery fire before they even had time to send out a distress signal. middle.

More than ten minutes later, when the artillery fire ended, the four blockhouses built by the Japanese army with great effort around Ping'an County had been razed to the ground, and not a single Japanese soldier inside could escape.

After clearing the outer positions of the Japanese army, a battalion of soldiers in gray-green uniforms launched a thunderous attack on Liantai County under the cover of more than a dozen tanks.

Because the leader of the 684 regiment who left without authorization last time was shot to death at Qixia Pass, the Jinsui Army sent a new regiment leader this time.

The head of the group is Gao Jie, in his 30s, but he looks old, and his dark complexion looks like an old farmer who is nearly five years old.

Looking at Gao Hongming in front of him, Gao Jie smiled wryly at Gao Hongming: "Teacher Gao, we were also in the same family hundreds of years ago, so you can't give my brother a face and stop causing trouble, okay?"

Gao Hongming said seriously: "Brother Gao, I don't like hearing your words. What do you mean by not causing trouble?
Don't forget, just over two months ago, I was set up here and almost wiped out.Three days ago, the Japanese even dispatched bombers to bombard my troops indiscriminately. If I were unlucky, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to talk to you here.

As the saying goes, coming and going is indecent. Since the little devil likes to play tricks so much, I naturally have to express it. "

In other words, after the Japanese made a surprise attack on Gao Hongming in the Wild Wolf Valley, the anger in Gao Hongming's heart was kindled.

The next day, he called all the officers above the battalion to hold a military meeting, and the topic was how to retaliate against the Japanese.

Everyone discussed for a whole morning, and most of them fixed their eyes on Ping'an County, which is dozens of miles away from Liantai County.

As an important stronghold of the Japanese in the southwestern part of Shanxi, Ping'an County has gathered a brigade of garrison troops and a regiment of puppet troops, which can be called a strong force.

Moreover, this is also a bridgehead for the Japanese army in the southwestern region. If Ping’an County can be captured, the Japanese army will be greatly deterred. Secondly, I also told Yoshio Shinozuka that coming and going is not indecent. Your return gift.

After some discussion, it was finally decided to send out all the troops except the supplementary battalion.

Among them, the first and second battalions were responsible for ambush on the east and west sides of Qixia Pass. The third, fourth, armored and second artillery battalions were responsible for attacking Ping'an County.

This time when they attacked Ping'an County, Gao Hongming did not notify the Jinsui Army in advance, but drove the large troops directly to the Qixia Pass.

As the commander stationed at Qixia Pass, Gao Jie was naturally upset, but he didn't dare to say anything in the face of the powerful Gao Hongming. After all, it was the former head of the 684 regiment he belonged to who beat Gao Hongming ruthlessly a few months ago. If it hadn't been for Gao Hongming's strength, the militia would have ceased to exist.

Now people have told him clearly that the buddy is here for revenge this time, and the reason why he didn't notify you in advance is because he was afraid that you would leak the news.

What else can Gao Jie say?
Say you are looking down on me, I will never do that.

Even he himself didn't believe it. The Jinsui Army had long been infiltrated by the Japanese and turned into a sieve. If you say that no spies were planted by the Japanese in it, you can only deceive a three-year-old child.

Faced with Gao Hongming's half-soft and half-hard attitude, Gao Jie had no choice but to compromise, but the compromise was a compromise, he still had someone quietly send a telegram to Yan Xishan, which can be regarded as fulfilling his due obligation.

But what surprised Gao Jie was not limited to this. As soon as the battle started, Gao Hongming taught him a lesson, what is mechanized combat.

When the eighteen M2 105mm howitzers of the Second Battalion fired at defensive positions such as gun towers outside Ping'an County, he was stunned by the feeling of the ground shaking.

More than ten minutes later, all the artillery towers and outlying positions arranged by the Japanese army in Ping'an County were all razed to the ground, and then a general offensive began.

The armored battalion led the attack from the south and the north, followed by the two infantry battalions.The seemingly solid city gate lasted less than 5 minutes before the tanks were blasted open, and then more than 1000 infantry from the two infantry battalions swarmed in behind the tanks, and the whole process went extremely smoothly.

If he hadn't realized that there were genuine Japanese soldiers stationed inside, Gao Jie would have thought he was watching an exercise.

But despite this, Gao Jie was still very worried. He knew very well that the Japanese would not just sit and watch the fall of Ping'an County. Their reinforcements would arrive in a few hours, and there would definitely be a big battle...

"Boom!" A group of orange flames rose from a window, and the violent explosion shattered all the surrounding windows, and the house was also knocked down by half in the explosion.

The "culprit" that caused this consequence was a No. [-] tank,
This is a No. 24 F tank, which is equipped with a short-barreled 75 times 34mm main gun and two MG[-] general-purpose machine guns.

Some people may ask, since the army has been equipped with a large number of MG42, why are tanks and other armored vehicles still equipped with old machine guns like MG34?

This is because these two machine guns are air-cooled, and the barrels need to be replaced frequently during combat.

When replacing the barrel, the MG34 only needs to be pulled from the side to change the barrel, which requires less space and is convenient for quick replacement in a small space like a tank.

On the MG42, when changing the barrel, you must pull up the receiver and then change the barrel, which makes it difficult to operate in places with small spaces like tanks and armored vehicles.

And after the No. [-] tank fired, the side-by-side machine gun installed on the muzzle also spewed out tongues of flame...

　Brothers, do you still have a monthly pass? Give me two!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)