I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 211: The Japs hit the muzzle
Chen Qifeng went to convey the order, but Zhou Weiguo took the initiative to stay and asked Xu Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, will the tank battalion participate in the battle?"

"Can the tank battalion participate in the battle now?" Xu Qingfeng asked back.

"I'm afraid it's a bit confusing." Zhou Weiguo pondered: "Although there are about a dozen soldiers at present, they have already learned the basic operation of tank driving.

Barely able to start the tank and drive away, but the rest of the crew is still far behind.

Especially the use of tank guns, without a month or two of running-in training, I am afraid it will be difficult to meet the combat requirements. "

Xu Qingfeng said: "Is this okay, you and Xu Hu drive a tank, and you are in charge of manipulating the most difficult main gun of the tank.

Xu Hu is responsible for driving, and I will be responsible for the machine gun on the roof. We mobilize a tank to participate in the battle and cooperate with the infantry battalions. "

Zhou Weiguo nodded and said: "This is feasible, anyway, the firepower of this American tank is stronger than that of an artillery platoon.

With it cooperating with the infantry battalion in combat, whether it is attacking or retreating, it is more secure. "

Xu Qingfeng waved his hand and said: "Since this is the case, then it's settled, you will go to the tank battalion to inform Xu Hu to choose a tank with full fuel and ammunition to participate in the battle.

The other nine tanks and all the officers and soldiers of the tank battalion hid on the spot, stayed in the field hospital and the temporary camp, and served as the reserve team. "

"Okay." Zhou Weiguo nodded, turned around and walked quickly towards the training camp of the tank battalion.

At the same time, the reconnaissance company and the cavalry company, under the command of Wang Changgui and others, took advantage of the night to leave their temporary camps in batches.

The cavalry company was in front and the reconnaissance company was behind. With the cover of night, they launched a roundabout reconnaissance to the east and west of Hefei City.

On the Japanese side, an infantry regiment of more than 2000 people was also divided into two groups and was conducting roundabout penetrations from the east and west directions of Hefei City toward the north of Hefei City.

This infantry regiment comes from the Eagle Mori Detachment. The captain of the regiment is Shinichi Watanabe, with the rank of Colonel.

The detour of thousands of people can certainly hide the Hefei defenders who are huddled in the city and dare not show their heads.

But they couldn't hide it from the reconnaissance troops of the Huben Regiment who happened to come to reconnaissance. The cavalry company was the first to discover the movement of the Japanese army, and quickly sent people back to report to Xu Qingfeng and others.

"Reporting to the regiment, it was discovered that two outflanking troops of the Japanese army were outflanking the city from the east and west directions of Hefei."

Xu Qingfeng, who was already ready for battle and was about to set off with the main battalions, and Zhou Weiguo, who had just brought the tank over, couldn't help being surprised when they heard this.

Xu Qingfeng asked hurriedly: "Have the Japanese discovered you?"

A cavalry platoon leader who came to report quickly shook his head: "Probably not yet."

"Does the enemy know how many?" Zhou Weiguo, who had already jumped off the tank, asked.

"Both groups of Japanese troops should have at least a thousand soldiers." The cavalry platoon leader thought for a moment and replied.

"It seems that the enemy's detour force has at least one regiment." Zhou Weiguo turned to Xu Qingfeng and said, "Qingfeng, I think the purpose of the devil is to encircle Hefei City, not us."

Xu Qingfeng nodded and said: "That's right, otherwise the cavalry company should have already engaged in fire with the devils."

Xu Hu, who had climbed out of the tank and exposed half of his body, couldn't help but ask: "Captain, what should we do now?"

Everyone present, including Zhou Weiguo and Chen Qifeng, all turned their attention to Xu Qingfeng, waiting for his next decision.

Obviously, the devils are about to complete the encirclement of Hefei City.

At this time, if the Huben Regiment retreats, the Huben Regiment can be assured of no worries, but Xu Yuanquan and the more than 1 defenders in Hefei City may be in misfortune.

It was a matter of life and death for more than 4000 soldiers in the regiment, and even Zhou Weiguo had a hard time making a decision.

What's more, Xu Qingfeng is the supreme commander of the Huben Regiment.

Therefore, Xu Qingfeng still had to come up with this idea.

Facing everyone's eyes, Xu Qingfeng pondered for a while and said: "In the face of national crisis and the autumn of the nation's peril, our generation of soldiers should unite to fight against powerful enemies.

I think everyone knows that we can never sit back and watch, and do nothing to save our lives. I think everyone knows this!

If we abandon our friendly forces in Hefei today, we will also be abandoned by other friendly forces in the future.

Besides, there are tens of thousands of innocent people in the city of Hefei, they are all our compatriots, how can we sit idly by? ? "

Xu Hu, Chen Qifeng and others immediately took the lead and said, "No! No!"

"Okay, now I order the first and second battalions to be the left wing, the third battalion, the fourth battalion to be the right wing, the fifth battalion, the reconnaissance company, and the cavalry company to attack frontally with the tanks.

After the fire cover of the artillery battalion, the artillery fire interception was carried out in the east and west of the city in the direction when the Japanese army came, so as to prevent the source of the enemy's follow-up troops.

All battalions and companies must remember to attack with all their strength without hesitation. We must take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to defeat them all! "

"Yes!" Zhou Weiguo, Chen Qifeng, Xu Hu and other people present all responded in unison.

About 10 minutes later, the two Japanese armies that had detoured from the east and west of Hefei successfully merged quietly two kilometers north of the city.

While the Japanese troops were busy repairing their defensive positions.

In the night sky to their north, three red flares suddenly rose.

Immediately afterwards, shells wrapped in raging fire came roaring from a distance.

According to the Japanese army who was building a position, they slammed down on the head.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

In an instant, the Japanese army was covered by the artillery fire of the Tiger Regiment. There were Japanese soldiers everywhere who were blown away by their men and guns, as well as various destroyed weapons and equipment fragments.

At the same time as the two groups of devils joined forces, Xu Qingfeng ordered Wang Changgui to withdraw the cavalry company, leaving only a part of the reconnaissance company. With the help of night cover, they secretly monitored and locked the exact position of the Japanese army.

And reported the coordinates to the artillery battalion, so the Huben regiment's artillery fire could be so accurate.

And just after the shelling began, the battalions of the Huben Regiment, which had already made preparations for combat, also quickly began to act.

The first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion and the fourth battalion, quickly outflanked the devil's wings and made a detour.

The guard company directly under the regiment headquarters, the cavalry company, the main force of the reconnaissance company, and Lin Baoguo's 5th Infantry Battalion all followed the Sherman tank driven by Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo, and quickly advanced towards the Japanese army from the front.

When entering a place less than 500 meters away from the Japanese army, the artillery battalion had already poured nearly ten rounds of rapid fire on the Japanese army.

Hundreds of shells can blow up the devils.

From hundreds of meters away, you can hear the constant screams coming from the Japanese position.

With the help of the flames of the explosion, it could be vaguely seen that the entire Japanese army's position had become a mess, and there were scattered devil soldiers everywhere.

Seeing that the time was ripe for a charge, Xu Qingfeng, who was on top of the tank and was responsible for controlling the heavy machine gun on the tank, immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Everyone is here, blow the charge horn immediately and attack!!!"

The guard company, reconnaissance company, and buglers of the Fifth Infantry Battalion who accompanied the tank immediately took out their bugles and sounded the horn of attack.

Inspired by the passionate charge horn, more than 800 officers and soldiers of the above three troops shouted almost simultaneously.

"Go! Kill!"

One by one, holding bayonets, they rushed forward bravely without fear of death.

Then came the two hundred cavalry company officers and soldiers accompanying the infantry on both sides. Under the orders of several veteran platoon leaders, they all drew out their shining sabers.

As one of the veteran platoon leaders swung the saber in his hand vigorously, he let out a thunderous roar: "Cavalry company! Attack!"

Two hundred cavalry athletes responded in unison: "Go! Kill!"

One by one, they urged their horses and swung their knives, and launched an assault quickly like arrows leaving the string.

Inside the Sherman tank, Xu Hu, who was in charge of driving the tank, also gnashed his teeth and roared, and slammed the accelerator pedal to the end.

The tank, which was still slowly moving forward at a speed of about five yards, then let out a deafening roar.

A cloud of blue smoke also burst out from the exhaust pipe at the rear!

Immediately afterwards, the tank weighing dozens of tons galloped forward like a steel monster.

As we all know, the Sherman tank has much stronger firepower than the Japanese tanks of the same period.

In addition to a 75mm tank main gun, it is also equipped with three vehicle-mounted machine guns.

Two of them are 7.62mm heavy machine guns, which are divided into front-mounted machine guns and side-by-side machine guns.

The former can only shoot in the direction of the tank body.

The latter needs to rotate with the tank turret to shoot.

The shooting angle and power are very limited. It is generally used as infantry support firepower and is mainly responsible for suppressing enemy forces within a range of 500 to [-] meters.

The last machine gun is the M2HB heavy machine gun deployed on the top of the tank, near the back, with a caliber of 12.7mm.

That's Xu Qingfeng, who is manipulating this.

With such a large caliber, the U.S. military originally designed it not to be used as infantry support firepower.

Instead, it is positioned as an anti-aircraft machine gun, specially used for air defense.

But right now, Xu Qingfeng is going to use it as a flat-fire machine gun.

In addition, since this is a frontal assault, there are infantry and cavalry on both sides to coordinate with each other.

Tank front and side-by-side machine guns can also be directly effective.

The front-mounted machine gun inside the tank will be controlled by driver Xu Hu.

The heavy machine gun juxtaposed with the 75mm main gun was used by Zhou Weiguo, who was in charge of manipulating the gun, and another soldier.

After the horn of his own charge sounded, Xu Qingfeng took the lead in setting up a heavy machine gun, and fired violently at the Japanese positions.

Tom tom tom tom... The 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun let out a dull and deafening roar.

The bullets fired, like large meteors, tore through the night sky and poured towards the Japanese positions.

Wherever they went, the devil soldiers who had not had time to rush to repair their positions, and had no shelter to hide from, suddenly fell ill.

But anyone who is hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun bullet will either die or be disabled.

Some Japanese were cut off at the waist, and some were hit in the head by bullets. The whole head instantly burst like half of a watermelon.

The appearance of death is terrible!

In addition, the other two vehicle-mounted machine guns also fired one after another, and the 75mm main gun also roared.

One high-explosive grenade after another was fired directly at the Japanese positions.

Every time a shell falls, it will definitely take away the lives of a large number of Japanese soldiers.

Boom boom boom!The deafening explosions, accompanied by the desperate wails of the Japanese soldiers, resounded through the night sky.

It is no exaggeration to say that the firepower of the Sherman tank driven by Xu Qingfeng, Zhou Weiguo, and Xu Hu is no less than that of an infantry company.

Suppressing and attacking the panic-stricken devils, who had already suffered heavy losses, made it even more chaotic. Not to mention organizing a counterattack, even raising their heads was a problem.

Taking advantage of this time, two hundred cavalry officers and soldiers of the Huben Regiment had quickly rushed to a place less than [-] meters away from the Japanese position with their horses and swords raised.

The distance of more than 400 meters can be said to be a blink of an eye for the cavalry running at high speed.

However, the cavalry did not rush into the Japanese position. Instead, they divided into two groups and quickly circled outside the Japanese position.

During this process, the [-] cavalry soldiers almost unanimously used the other hand to hold the Thomson submachine gun slung across their chests, and fired violently at the chaotic Japanese positions.

A distance of less than [-] meters is their absolutely effective firepower range for Thompson submachine guns.

Without even having time to dig out the trenches, the Japanese soldiers, who were unblocked and in a chaotic mess, were suddenly attacked by powerful firepower composed of [-] Thompson submachine guns and fired at close range.

Immediately, like wheat being harvested, pieces of them screamed and fell into the light of the fire.

The cavalry had just finished shooting in circles, and the guard company, reconnaissance company, and more than 800 infantry soldiers from the Fifth Infantry Battalion had also passed their own tanks.

Like a wave of flood that broke a bank, it rushed toward the Japanese position.

Some machine gunners and officers and soldiers of the guard company and reconnaissance company equipped with submachine guns opened fire.

In an instant, the devil's position was hit by another wave of dense firepower.

In the area of ​​more than 500 meters in the frontal attack of the Huben Regiment, hundreds of devil soldiers were beaten into sieves one after another, and they could not die any more.

The soldiers of the cavalry company who bypassed the two wings of the devil's position did not change the magazines, but directly rushed into the temporary Japanese position with a diagonal stab on their horses, and started a hacking assault.

Chen Qifeng, Lin Baoguo, and Wang Changgui also led more than 800 officers and soldiers from the guard company, reconnaissance company, and fifth infantry battalion to break into the Japanese position and launch a close assault.

Just as the remaining devils were trying to escape towards the two wings, a roar of shouts of killing suddenly resounded from their east and west directions.

Under the light of the fire, Sun Kui, Zhang Zhijie, Fang Shengli, Lei Xiong and others led the first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion and the fourth battalion with more than 2000 officers and soldiers, like a tide, attacking the devil's wings and rear.

Xu Qingfeng instructed Xu Hu and Zhou Weiguo inside the tank to stop strafing and shelling, so as not to accidentally injure their own attacking troops.

He himself, who is outside the tank, has a wider field of vision, so he closely observes the situation on the battlefield with the help of the flames from the explosion on the battlefield.

Once you find a certain place where the remaining Japanese soldiers have gathered to resist counterattack, you immediately set up your anti-aircraft machine gun and shoot them all with a rapid burst of fire!
(End of this chapter)