The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Lieutenant Tom almost choked on his weird English. He frowned and looked at this guy carefully. No matter how he looked at it, he felt unreliable. He turned to the sentinel and asked, "How did you find him? Is there any credible contact?" means?"

The traitor did not speak very well, and seemed to have excellent hearing. Before anyone else could speak, he hurriedly shouted, "Ser! I have the supporting documents here, and the relevant connection codes, all in my pocket!"

There really are!Under the alert at gunpoint, he swiftly took out a piece of paper with the seal issued by the Allied Forces Command and a set of passwords attached to it, which was exactly in line with what the lieutenant knew.

Tom waved his hands a little irritably: "Okay! Anyway, we don't have anyone else to find! Then Mr. Guide, you should have prepared our temporary repair camp?"

"Shredded coconut! It's all ready! It's very hidden, and the Chinese can't find it!"

The traitor patted his chest to make sure.Lieutenant Tom didn't dare to be careless. Before they set off, they were repeatedly warned that the Chinese are scheming and the Japanese are not very trustworthy. Don't put all your hopes on them. In short, everything depends on yourself. cautious.

He divided the soldiers of the entire company into two major parts, and first sent a squad to follow them to explore the way, and at the same time launched a vigilant search to the two wings to prevent ambushes.

"Ah! It's a pity that the radio station can't be used, otherwise it should be much easier for us to contact the battalion department directly!"

The sergeant major took a cigar in his mouth, but didn't light it. He squinted his eyes and looked around at the surrounding pines and cypresses. A ray of sharp light shone, obviously not very convinced.

The area they parachuted into was much worse than expected.All are mountains, forests and wild lands, with few traces of human activities, plus years of wars.As a result, it is sparsely populated and even the road is hard to find.Now, the front line of the Jiang defense line behind has already heard the sound of fierce explosions, and the rumbling roar of the shells passing overhead makes people feel terrified. It is not difficult to judge based on their experience.Within a few kilometers, there is likely to be an enemy artillery position!

Then, according to common sense, maybe they have a slightly larger range of activities, and they may run into the opponent's outer guard infantry. If they don't get heavy weapons, it is definitely not a good thing to head-on with the enemies lurking in the fortifications of the position.

In the sky, the fighter planes of both sides were still frantically entangled and killed.From time to time, there are dull explosions, and you can see a group of muddy fireworks flickering from a distance. Sometimes, the figure of a war eagle passing by at low altitude, and the bullets and shells fired indiscriminately, give people an illusion of being in hell .

Unable to contact the rear and the top, they can only move forward according to the preset action plan to find the enemy's artillery positions or firepower points.Try to signal and attack to root out.

Not long.The soldiers from the previous squad came back and reported: "Lieutenant! Our forward camp is just ahead, and there is no abnormality found around! It should be safe!"

Lieutenant Tom nodded: "That's good! Gentlemen, move your heavy buttocks and rush to the front to rest immediately, damn it. My feet are a little sore! I have to deal with it quickly."

Parachute jumping into the valley itself is very dangerous.It is lucky to hang on a tree, and it may happen if it hits a rocky cliff, or falls into a deep valley.And worse.If you break your arms and legs, you will not only be unable to fight, but will become a burden instead.

This is the first operation since the official establishment of the 101st Airborne Division, so there must be no mistakes!

Hundreds of people roared through a valley and arrived at the hidden camp pointed out by the guide.Sure enough, it is a good place, embraced by a steep and sloping valley, with dense trees above it, which cannot be detected by aircraft reconnaissance. Not far away, it is estimated that the enemy can be found, which is extremely suitable for launching a surprise attack.

Parachute jumping from the overwhelming battles exhausted their soldiers. One and two ran into the mountainside platform with heavy packages on their backs, and put them down on the spot. Except for the sentinel, everyone felt sore all over and hurriedly untied them. The shoes bring active smelly feet to evacuate tiredness.

The traitor leader smiled and said: "You guys can rest in peace! There is no one within two kilometers of this area! In fact, a few months ago, all the people along the river were forcibly removed! Except for us, the very few who stayed Except for those who insist on working, there are no ghosts!"

Lieutenant Tom instinctively didn't like this guy. He hated that muscular face and mean smile, and he was not used to this kind of flattery with a shy face. He frowned and listened patiently to him, then said He sent it away, and then called the officers of each platoon to spread out the military map to assign tasks.

According to the requirements of the division, they cooperated with the Japanese skirmishers in airborne operations. The primary goal was to find and kill the artillery positions or hidden troops hidden in the mountains, so as to prevent the large troops from being raided before they crossed the river.

It's easy to say, but it's not so easy to implement. Lieutenant Tom believes that the people in other battalions are not necessarily better than himself. This annoying mountain forest will greatly slow down the speed of action. Once there is a hidden attack, it will be very troublesome. !

After resting for about half an hour, the scouts returned to report the situation one after another. They confirmed that there was a firing artillery emplacement separated by two hills in front of the left. Observe its firing frequency and vibration sound. At least there are howitzers with a caliber of 105mm or more. Less than six doors, not a small bone.

But the good news is that not far from them, there is another parachute troop in place, but it is a Japanese commando, the number is about 20.The fly in the ointment is that the luck of those guys seems to be very bad. At least [-] of them fell and were seriously injured, and the whereabouts of more than a dozen are unknown.

"Ten percent lost before the battle started? They are really capable!" The sergeant major complained gloatingly.

Lieutenant Tom grinned sneeringly: "Those nasty Japanese dwarfs just can't learn advanced combat techniques! Their poor parachute technique makes people worry that they will all fall to their deaths! It seems that their pilots never wore parachutes before. I really don't know what to think!"

How do Americans know that the Japanese are so poor that there is nothing they can do. The cost of an umbrella bag is so expensive, and the cost of the cockpit plus ejection is so high. It is a little bit of savings. Anyway, imperial pilots are not afraid of death...

Shake off the irritability in your head.Tom ordered: "Get in touch with them immediately! After half an hour, we will start to move forward, let them coordinate their flanks, and if they find the enemy, they will attack immediately! We have given so many advanced weapons. !"

Speaking of this, he is also quite angry.It seems that the Japanese are equipped with new weapons earlier than they are!There are more, and even expensive nylon body armor is equipped for them, which can be called a luxury!Although, that thing can't stop bullets at all, and it can also guard against fragments of small-caliber guns, but it's better than nothing.

The sergeant major laughed and said: "They will do it! The Japanese dwarfs must behave better in order to get more weapons support!"

The liaison officer went to coordinate the operation with the traitor head. The soldiers of Company E here finished their rest and checked their weapons.Hulala stood up one after another, climbed to the top along the steep mountain behind them, and then carefully searched forward along the valley road among the dense forests. Just after walking for two kilometers, there was a burst of fierce gunfire from the right wing!

"The Japanese are exchanging fire!" Lieutenant Tom's eyes lit up, and he waved to a platoon of soldiers to speed up and rush to the front of the ridge.

I saw the sloping valley nearly one kilometer wide in front of me.There is a dense group of steel guys!Look at it, at least there are [-] to [-] tons of tanks.There are more than a dozen cannons scattered, and the thick tubes can be seen clearly even without binoculars, so they must be large-caliber ones!

The Japanese paratroopers on the right encountered the advancing defense forces from three kilometers away. There was a burst of machine guns, followed by the explosion of grenades and the firing of mortars.The roar became more and more intense and denser!

The steel monsters in the valley didn't seem to be worried at all, they stopped there quietly, like sleeping monsters!

Lieutenant Tom swallowed involuntarily, looking left and right at the soldiers and officers.What should I do if I find that everyone's expression is not good?If they want to rush over, it is estimated that two infantry chariots or tanks from the other side can crush them!Without heavy weapons, how many people would die if they went up!

But just look at it like this?Obviously not, those guys are clearly in ambush, if they rush out of the valley suddenly, how much damage it will bring to the troops crossing the river, it makes people tremble all over thinking about it!

It is best to report to the division headquarters, or destroy it with heavy artillery, or bomb it with the air force, whatever!

"Damn it! The radio still doesn't work!"

The walkie talkie is full of electromagnetic noise, which is their own trouble.Lieutenant Tom cursed irritably, turned around to find the annoying guide, and asked if there was any other means of contact, but suddenly found that there was no one there!

"Huh?! Where did that guy go? He was just asked to contact the operation, and he will be needed to guide the way later!"

The officers looked at each other, but they didn't pay attention!The sergeant major's face changed, and he exclaimed: "No! We may have been fooled! It's too easy to get close to the enemy so easily! As far as we know, the Chinaman's ability will not commit such a crime." mistake!"

"Ah! Is that guy a liar?! Spy?!"

Lieutenant Tom's hairs stood on end, and he waved his hand to step up the investigation. A loudspeaker yelled from the mountains on both sides of the cold: "You are surrounded! Put down your weapons and surrender immediately! Otherwise, you will all be blown to pieces!"

Immediately afterwards, dozens of melon grenades were thrown out, and fell among them and exploded with a "bang bang", but a thick smoke was emitted, and the American soldiers were caught off guard, and suddenly coughed violently!

The loudspeaker yelled again: "The next time you throw it will be the cannonball! Put down the weapon immediately!"

The soldiers who got into the mountain forest were thrown down by the strong figures that suddenly jumped up around them. The guys in camouflage uniforms were as vigorous and fierce as cheetahs, and they all fell down in two or three blows.

The soldiers on guard at the rear were also cramped by the smoke bombs falling from the sky, and they were all captured without firing a single shot.

After Lieutenant Tom managed to catch his breath, he suddenly saw the traitor head with a large group of Chinese soldiers whose faces were painted with oil paint. He smiled at them and said in very upright English: "Gentlemen! Congratulations!" You are the first prisoners of war!"

Compared with them, the Japanese paratroopers on the other side were more unlucky.

Under the leadership of commando captain Toyoaki Horiuchi, the entire paratrooper unit of the Marine Corps dropped down, and the three hundred or so people were the core force led by him personally.He is ambitious and wants to make a great contribution.To justify the name of the Marine Corps, he jumped off and sprained his own foot first.

This is not a big deal, after all, the entire paratrooper unit has more than a hundred injured and missing... The key point is that he is more unlucky.One fell into the middle of the lurking ground of the armored soldiers of the 12th Army's forward attack group!

The main forces of two armored divisions are hidden in the surrounding wide valleys!Among them are four regiments of tank soldiers, two regiments of mechanized infantry, and two regiments of self-propelled artillery. There are also two other regiments of mountain artillery positions deployed on the surrounding mountains, and they are doing feint bombing without any hurry!

They were all waiting for the battle to be officially launched. They had not expected such a large-scale parachute operation and strange electromagnetic weapon attacks.To a certain extent, the early deployment was disrupted, resulting in a significant reduction in the front-side security and air interception forces, but it also strengthened the security of personnel.

The Japanese army had repeatedly tried and tested before, thinking that such a thing would not happen, and it would be great to be caught off guard when it happened suddenly, how could they have expected to get into the belly of heavy soldiers!

They are not Monkey King, and the 12th Army is not Princess Iron Fan!This is Zhu Bin's core team.The most elite force among the millions of troops in China!Any soldier is a guy who has been carefully selected and equipped to the teeth!Hundreds of people rushed in and thought about it.None of that door!

Basically, the transport plane in the sky began to drop white umbrella flowers, and the battle deployment was already done below. The infantry was hidden in the mountains and forests without dogs and could not be found easily. Before the strength of the squadron could drop, they were hit head-to-head with machine guns and were beaten dizzy!Immediately afterwards, self-propelled mortars and other curved short-range artillery were launched one after another.Destroy the dead and generally blow them up first.

Then, clusters of light infantry fighting vehicles rushed out of the valley and crushed along the road, machine guns swept left and right, and cooperated with the motorized infantry to intersperse and kill them. It took only ten minutes to beat them to the very few living people!

Poor Your Excellency Lieutenant Commander has a great ideal to invigorate the navy.He was killed before he made a contribution.

Relatively speaking, the fate of American soldiers is much better than them.It wasn't that the soldiers of the 12th Army were merciful. After learning that the other party had dropped paratroopers, Lin Zhencheng sent an order: "Try to catch them alive! Try to gather 1 American soldiers first, and see if they come to redeem them!"

According to the order of Boss Zhu, the war against Britain and the United States must find a way to escalate the war to the point where it cannot be ended.In the early stage, more captives should be captured, and then exhibited like monkeys, so as to dispel the national fear of foreigners little by little.

This move is quite vicious, but it also has the meaning of prescribing the right medicine. Simply blowing up the dead bodies all over the place, the effect of publicizing it is not as good as capturing it alive.

In addition, there is another purpose, which is to cultivate leaders and banner figures such as MacArthur and other Yankees who boast about themselves in the early stage. After reaching a certain level, catch the living and slap them in the face!

It's the same with the regional combat deployment, let the devils come in to fight, and turn the Yalu River into their hell!

The fate of the paratroopers in Japan and the United States is similar. They originally planned to strike suddenly, but they turned into self-inflicted traps. The poor early detection of the Japanese led to fatal consequences. There is no return!

On the river bank, traffic was rolling on several pontoon bridges, and the Japanese army swarmed forward!There were endless boats and boats ferrying on the river, and the scattered shells exploded into layers of water columns, causing a sampan to capsize from time to time, and a dozen Japanese soldiers fell into the water screaming, and were washed away by the turbulent river.

But they don't seem to be afraid at all!The successive explosions were more like standing up and cheering for their brave actions, cheering and applauding!

2 people! 3 people! 5 people!The number of troops crossing the river has increased dramatically!

In the forward headquarters, Commander Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't help but beam with joy!Not only the infantry, but also many tanks, infantry and mountain artillery passed by, and the baggage also passed. The air battlefield began to advance past Fengcheng, and the parachute troops were delivered very successfully. Everything looked like an empty battle The sudden attack of the former scale has achieved a staged success!

Tanaka Longji sighed with emotion: "I have to admit that the military of the U.S. ghosts and animals is indeed powerful! Whether it is air attack, radio sabotage, or parachute delivery, it is temporarily unmatched by the empire. But fortunately, our army warriors, They will never be able to match! In the final analysis, the war still depends on the infantry to win the victory!"

Yoshio Shinozuka was deeply convinced: "Sweep Daisinai! It seems that China's response is very hasty! Even the artillery fire to prevent our army from crossing the river is so sparse. When all the troops enter the mountainous area, the balance of victory will be over. It will completely tilt towards us!"

At this moment, Lin Zhencheng, the headquarters of the 12th Army on the opposite side of the river, saw the number of Japanese troops crossing the river counted by high-altitude reconnaissance. Take a bite and order all artillery units to open fire!"

"Hit! Hit hard!"

A series of roars resounded among dozens of positions spreading across the mountains!

Far away from the two wings of Fengcheng to Kuandian, at a distance of forty kilometers across the river, rows of long-barreled rocket launchers suddenly shot out dazzling rays of light!There are more than 100 203mm multi-barreled artillery vehicles scrambling to explode, and the slender shells rush straight into the sky!

At intervals of a few minutes, more than 100 152mm double-barreled howitzers exploded at a distance of more than ten kilometers, and piles of shells pulled out scary monsters called meteors and shot out like a moon!

A few kilometers further forward, there are more than 100 36-tube 122mm rocket launchers!Follow Kuang Xiao!

go on!Over more than ten kilometers, more than 200 howitzers of different calibers joined the carnival, roaring at a faster speed!

In an instant, there were seven or eight thousand shells and rockets, large and small, forming a dense black cloud of steel, rushing towards the narrow and long river with precision! (to be continued..)