Age of Rebirth

Chapter 410: The End

The radio station in charge of communicating with Li Honggang's troops was silent for sixteen hours, then suddenly tweeted, dispelling the tense atmosphere in the headquarters. The flashing red lights were like cheerful notes, and the operator sent a telegram from Li Honggang .

"Master, after [-] hours of mountain marching, our troops have now reached the west bank of the Liugu River. We have built a defensive and blocking position against the water. The loss of soldiers is slight, and the organization is complete. We can go into battle at any time."

During the golden four hours, Li Honggang's troops arrived at the designated location four hours ahead of schedule in the muddy and difficult Nuluerhu Mountains, and finally rushed ahead of the Banyuan Division, blocking their retreat.

"Chief of Staff Li, Itagaki has detected our troops' intentions and is preparing to retreat to the front line of Jinzhou. You can use half of your troops to launch an attack on the rearguard troops of the Banyuan Division. Echelon, one hour later, the front and flank troops launched an attack on the Itagaki Division at the same time, and pay tribute to all the soldiers on my behalf!" [

This is Tang Qiuli's telegram to Li Honggang. He really admired these soldiers from the bottom of his heart. The troops who were able to annihilate the Banyuan Division and block the way back were the first to bear the credit.

After receiving the retreat order, the well-trained brigades of the Itagaki Division were busy but not chaotic. Each unit followed the marching sequence in an orderly manner, took turns to cover, and evacuated their positions in an orderly manner. This alone, Itagaki is proud of himself.

But at this time, Itagaki was not in the same mood. He regretted and wished he could slap himself a few times. Why didn't he think that Nuluer Hushan on the left wing would not be as good as he is now even if he sent a squadron of security troops? passive.

Challenge our Itagaki division head-on. Although Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, has the upper hand in terms of military strength and firepower, he must have a good mouth. Itagaki is confident that under the full impact of the independent division, the division can persist until the arrival of the second echelon , However, the situation is different if you are copied from the rear. It is a taboo for military strategists to be attacked by the enemy.

Nearly [-] soldiers of the Akino Regiment, which was in charge of breaking up the entire division, silently took off their helmets, put on their bayonets, and wrapped them around their heads in white cloth belts like menstrual belts with the words "must win" written on them. Such actions by the soldiers meant a desperate battle, with their heads tucked into their trouser belts, that would count as death. The soldiers of the Akino Regiment knew very well in their hearts that this mission was a dead end. pawn.

An hour later, the main force of the Itagaki Division had been assembled and began to move. The soldiers of the Akino Regiment did not wait for the swarming Chinese soldiers. On the opposite side of the independent division, there was a loud noise like a thunderbolt, and several shots were fired. A black crow descended from the sky.

On the blocking position of the Akino Regiment, the fire was shining, the smoke column was soaring into the sky, and the pieces flew across the sky. The Japanese soldiers cursed desperately, "It's coming again, can't the Chinese use some other tricks?"If you have the ability, fight the bayonet with the warriors of my Great Japanese Empire!

It is a pity that the Japanese soldiers' ideas were not realized until their death. The Japanese soldiers who advocated the charge of the sword fought against the independent division, but could not find an opponent. Tang Qiuli did not give them such a chance at all. In his words, the cannons were fired No, playing hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, killing one thousand enemies, and self-defeating eight hundred, only fools do it, that is a last resort when the medicine is exhausted.

When the cannon fell, a puff of smoke rose, and the corpses of several Japanese soldiers were thrown high into the air. They were eager to fight their opponents, but the opponents were exhausted. They could only run desperately and dodge in vain. The artillery fire is too dense, and there is no dead angle at all.

The shelling finally stopped, and the surviving Japanese soldiers, with their faces smoked like little ghosts, emerged from the soil. Captain Akino was dug out of the soil by several staff officers like pulling a carrot. Unfortunately, the left ear of the regiment captain was cut off by Pao Qigen, and he is already in a semi-comatose state.

In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Independent Division, the life of a Japanese commander is no more precious than that of a second lieutenant. Once upon a time, the Japanese army relied on the superior artillery fire to massacre the lives of Japanese people. The history is surprisingly similar. It was Japanese soldiers who were slaughtered.

When the Japanese soldiers finally saw the Chinese soldiers, their desperate eyes shot out a fierce light. Before they died, they killed a few Chinese soldiers, and they were willing to die.

The figure of the Chinese soldier was getting closer and closer, and the Japanese soldier was breathing heavily. It was strange, why did the Chinese soldier stop?And just outside the range of their infantry weapons.

A row of mortars exposed their muzzles in unison, and the remaining Japanese soldiers almost fainted, God Amaterasu!You fucking got syphilis, right?The Chinese have so many artillery pieces.

The sound of "dong dong" mortar fire, like the note of Yan Wang's urging, blasted the Japanese army out of hiding. The desperate Japanese soldiers, stripped of their shirts, rushed over howling with a shining bayonet in their hands. The heavy rain brought many corpses covered with body marks on the ground.

In less than half an hour, the Akino Regiment was wiped out by heavy artillery and mortars from the Artillery Brigade of the Independent Division. This is also the strength of the Artillery of the Independent Division. In several years of combat career, the artillery unit of the independent division has summed up a whole set of methods for quickly deploying artillery positions, which can almost follow the infantry.

Seishiro Itagaki listened to the sound of cannonballs behind him, and he bit his lips in pain. The Akino Regiment will definitely be wiped out. I only hope that they can support for a while longer, so as to buy time for the main force of the division to cross the Liugu River .

The dense gunfire was getting closer and closer, and the staff officer ran over in a panic to report that the rear guard and the pursuit force of the independent division had already exchanged fire. Because the troops were too small, they were obviously invincible. Please give instructions to the commander of the division.

Itagaki swayed and nearly fell off his horse. It took only half an hour for the [-]-strong Akino United to be swallowed up by the independent division?It's unbelievable, the damn Chinese people, the damn Chinese artillery, there is no such fierce artillery fire, and the Akino Regiment can last at least three hours. [

As soon as Itagaki gritted his teeth, he called a regiment captain and ordered his regiment to immediately carry out a counterattack against the chasing troops of the independent division, and get mixed up with the squadron. This is the best way to avoid being killed by the artillery of the independent division .

Itagaki also had no choice. To put it nicely, it was blocking every step of the way. In fact, it was taking the corpses of soldiers and slowing down the speed of pursuit. He was as arrogant and powerful as Itagaki, and the soldiers of the Itagaki Division, facing the artillery of the Independent Division, also Had to take the method of fighting consumption, the bayonet could not reach the cannon.

Itagaki's method was effective. On the way of the Japanese counter-assault unit's charge, there were no meteor-like artillery flying in, and the artillery of the independent division that was in motion had no time to arrange artillery positions.

The shouts of thousands of Japanese soldiers resounded across the field, and the yellow waves generally pressed towards the forward troops of the independent division. The Japanese soldiers, enraged by the blood of their comrades, broke out with unprecedented ferocity, fighting face to face, the Itagaki Division was not afraid Any army, without artillery fire, is the target to be slaughtered in front of the bayonet.

Sure enough, the Chinese soldiers stopped, were they scared?On the opposite side appeared a strange gun that had never been seen before. Several barrels were connected together in parallel. The dream of the Japanese counterattack unit came to an end.

This is the high-level dual-purpose machine gun of the Air Defense Brigade of the Independent Division and the infantry brigades. After several days of fighting, because of the continuous rain, the Japanese aircraft did not visit, so it was not used. Tang Qiuli used it here in a hurry.

Hundreds of high-level dual-purpose machine guns with four tubes connected in parallel fired at the Japanese assault formation. It was not the "da da" sound, but the dull "bang bang" sound, like several big drums beating together. The pistols used by airplanes are much more powerful than heavy machine guns, and can cut people in half with one shot.

Flesh and blood flying, can only be used to describe the Japanese army's charge formation, the thumb is thick, the Japanese soldier who was hit, his body was broken from the middle, the blood mixed with internal organs, turned into a rain of blood all over the sky, the rest of the force The undiminished body carried the body temperature and flesh and blood of the previous Japanese soldier, and then got into the body of the Japanese soldier behind. With huge kinetic energy, the body he carried flew upside down, and when it fell to the ground, it was already in pieces.

Horror, absolute horror, the soldiers who participated in the battle to wipe out the Itagaki Division in Shanhaiguan used these two words to describe the scene at that time in retrospect.

The loud "bang bang" sound stopped. None of the Japanese soldiers in a regiment participating in the counter-assault was alive, and it was useless to lie down. It was like a few iron rods smashing hard in the Japanese assault formation, blood spattered and corpses flew across.

Stepping on the land mixed with mud and flesh, enduring the pungent smell of blood, the troops continued to pursue, and the scene just now was deeply imprinted in the minds of the soldiers.

The vanguard troops of the Banyuan Division, which was retreating, suddenly became agitated. Immediately afterwards, dense artillery sounded in front of them. Coming up is a salvo of an artillery brigade.

Itagaki's face was pale, he still didn't escape the fate of being encircled, and he was also the artilleryman of the squadron, how did they cross the Nurulhu Mountain and run behind me?The position where the sound of the cannon was heard came from the direction of Suizhong City, and Suizhong was also lost, and the idea of ​​sticking to the city also fell through.

Itagaki seemed to smell the smell of death in the air. Itagaki's courage was gone now, and his only hope was that the two divisions of the second echelon could arrive in time, and he might still have a chance of survival.

In the evening of the battle, the troops in the Nuluerhu Mountain area suddenly rushed out and stabbed the left side of the Banyuan Division, which was already at a loss. The Banyuan Division finally couldn't support it. The remaining 6000 troops, It was compressed in a narrow area of ​​less than ten square kilometers in the area of ​​Yong'an Fort, Qianwei, and Wasteland.

The third troops of the Independent Division quickly encircled and tightly surrounded the defeated remnants of the Banyuan Division. It was only a matter of time before the Banyuan Division was destroyed.

(To be continued)