Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 546

The meal was ready, and the soldiers stood in a row in an orderly manner, waiting for the cooking soldiers to distribute the meat and soup to themselves.Suddenly, a dark object flew from outside and landed in the pot of soup impartially.See this scene.Everyone started yelling.After all, it is really disappointing to have such a thing happen while eating, but soon this disappointment turned into a disaster.The black thing suddenly exploded in the pot, and the hot soup mixed with the chicken and the iron piece mixed with white smoke, enveloping the people nearby.Then, screams came from the crowd, and everyone else was dumbfounded.

It was Nakamura who reacted the most at this time, "Damn it! It's a grenade! A grenade from the Chinese army. They touched it. Everyone is ready to fight back!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Everyone yelled loudly at once, and then they threw away the lunch boxes in their hands and started looking for their weapons.But it was too late to act at this time, Xu Lanzhou and his men did not give these flustered Japanese soldiers a chance.Soon, more than thirty grenades flew into the trench from different angles in the second round.

In an instant, accompanied by dozens of violent explosions, the entire trench turned into a blazing fire channel.The broken limbs were mixed with red blood and black muddy water, and the screams were mixed with the messy gunshots, which made all the Japanese soldiers feel that the god of death was coming. They stuffed bullets into their gun chambers in a panic, and shot indiscriminately. .The entire trench was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder smoke and the stench of soldiers' excrement and urine!

Xu Lanzhou immediately and decisively blew the offensive whistle. The stern whistle was very sharp amidst the gunfire and the chaotic noise. The commandos shouted and rushed through the very sparse firepower net, and then entered the trench, the narrow space Li and the Japanese army launched a confrontation.

This time they were equipped with submachine guns, grenades, daggers and engineering shovels. These weapons are very effective in narrow areas, especially submachine guns. Due to their relatively strong firepower, the [-] large covers equipped by the Japanese army Although it is more useful in field battles, it is extremely clumsy in this kind of trench warfare.Coupled with a burst of mindless raids like being beaten by a sap, the focus of this battle fell to the Chinese army from the very beginning.Moreover, the Chinese army's offensive was very methodical. It did not entangle the Japanese army too much, but aimed at several important areas of the opponent, such as temporarily built machine gun bunkers, and places that looked like command posts.Accompanied by an explosion, several machine gun bunkers were successfully destroyed, and at the same time, a signal was sent to the follow-up troops ambushing not far away.

"Come on! Kill Xiao!" Xu Lanzhou roared, and the follow-up troops of the second two regiments rushed forward. The addition of this new force caused the Japanese army's defense line to collapse in an instant, and most of the devils gave up. Many people chose to flee for their lives, discarded their weapons, and began to drill out of the trenches, fleeing to their own line of defense.The number of Chinese troops on this line of defense also began to have an advantage. They used submachine guns and grenades to finish off the remaining recalcitrants, and then began to count the results.The raid lasted less than 10 minutes. The Japanese army lost about 8000 people and more than 200 people escaped.A Japanese battalion leader and three squadron leaders died in the battle, while Xu Lanzhou's 28th Division only lost ten people and injured 16 people.

After a brief repair, Xu Lanzhou immediately ordered: "Repair the position and prepare to prevent the enemy's attack. Send power to the military headquarters. We have captured the opponent's position and are building a defense line. We need their support." Speaking of which, he glanced far away. Then he muttered to himself: "Now is just the beginning, the real encirclement and suppression is yet to come."

After learning the battle report ahead, Kawamoto became furious and immediately issued a strict order, "In war, soldiers must perform their duties as soldiers until the last moment. All soldiers and generals who escape without authorization will be shot after being caught."

At ten o'clock in the evening, after some rest, the Nakamura Department of the Japanese 4th Army led the 3rd Division and North Korean mercenaries to make a comeback.In order to ensure the strength of the attack, Kimura assembled four brigades of troops from his own defense line, together with the North Korean mercenaries, as the advance, and concentrated 20 field artillery pieces, 10 mountain artillery pieces, 8 infantry artillery pieces, and messy guns. Mortars and grenadiers and more.He knew that the Kwantung Army headquarters didn't have much time left for him. If he didn't take the position as soon as possible, his life might be lost. As soon as the troops were ready, he immediately ordered the attack.

Countless bright spots suddenly appeared in the originally pitch-black night sky, and soon those small bright spots gradually expanded, turning into white balls of light.Under the illumination of those light spheres, the originally dark land was illuminated like daytime.The dense artillery shells sprayed out flames, and in an instant, countless pillars of fire rose from the position of the Chinese army.Kimura put all his eggs in one basket this time, and did not hesitate to use the ammunition to cover the Chinese position with artillery fire.

After half an hour, the Japanese artillery shelling stopped, and then the infantry began to charge.The North Korean soldiers took the squadron as a tactical unit, lined up horizontally in skirmish lines, and under the leadership of the squadron leader, they slowly moved towards the positions of the Chinese defenders.At the same time, the Japanese heavy machine gun unit and grenadier unit also slowly suppressed fire from the flanks.

"Teacher, the enemy is coming!" A communications soldier said to Xu Lanzhou in a hurried voice.

"Understood! Don't worry, the devil is still far away from us. At a distance of 500 meters, it will take a few minutes to charge. If we enter the position too early, we will be blown up by the devil's artillery." Xu Lanzhou's eyes were on Flickering in the darkness, calmly observing the enemy on the opposite side.

Seeing that the opponent's position had not opened fire for a long time, Kimura became anxious and ordered the North Korean soldiers to go ahead as targets, and use these people to lure the Chinese army to fire, so as to confirm the targets for his artillery and grenades.At this time, they had come to a distance of 200 meters, but the opponent's machine gun still did not make any action.

Kimura couldn't bear his temper any longer, and swung his command saber hard. Seeing this signal, the soldiers rushed up howling.

"Machine gunner is ready!" Xu Lanzhou said in a low voice, "ready" he raised his hand high.Suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound from behind the position, Xu Lanzhou frowned, knowing that it was his own artillery that was intercepting and shooting at the enemy, one after another the shells accurately landed in the Japanese army's skirmish line, and immediately exploded. Hundreds of people.The artillery fire caused the Japanese army to immediately disperse and slow down the speed of the charge.

Xu Lanzhou saw the opportunity coming, he waved his hand immediately and shouted: "Fire! Hit me hard!"

Suddenly, gunshots rang out from here, and countless bullets swept towards the enemy like a gust of wind.In just half a minute, hundreds of Japanese soldiers and Koreans fell down.

At this time, it was late at night, and there was a rumbling roar in the sky, and a group of 36 Chinese bombers flew over the heads of the Japanese army. For those who were frightened, this sound was undoubtedly the call of death.The group of bombers flew to the predetermined location, immediately divided into four formations, and dropped a large number of incendiary bombs on the 3rd Division, the main force of the Japanese offensive follow-up force, and the Korean mercenaries.

The fire is very eye-catching in the night, providing an excellent target for the Chinese artillery group.Thousands of artillery and rocket launchers began to roar, first 30 rounds of rapid fire, followed by 5 hours of standard fire rate bursts.Tens of thousands of shells completely overturned the soil of the position where the Japanese army was located. Except for three or four hundred Japanese soldiers who escaped from the flames of the incendiary bombs, almost 5 people were reduced to pieces in the shelling.

At the same time as the shelling, the 2st Division of the 21nd Army came around from the left side of the Japanese army and stabbed the left rib of the 3rd Japanese Division fiercely. Cut off at the middle, and finally formed a double-teaming situation with the 3th Division against the enemy.Xu Lanzhou would never waste this opportunity, and immediately mobilized four regiments under his banner to attack the Japanese army from the front, and soon cut the Japanese army into four halves. All the 28rd divisions of the Japanese army were wiped out.

On the right side of the Japanese army, nearly 3 North Korean mercenaries have become a mess. They have never seen large-scale aerial bombing and incendiary bomb attacks. Coupled with the continuous shelling for several hours, they have completely lost their previous fighting confidence. The slightly older North Korean soldiers began to preach the idea that they should not fight the Celestial Kingdom. The 3 North Korean troops faced the threat of death and began to waver.Taking advantage of the darkness, many North Korean soldiers took the lead in fleeing, and then as the Chinese army approached, the entire team began to collapse on a large scale. They dropped their guns one after another and ran blindly in all directions, but they were often caught by the Chinese soldiers who came from behind. After a burst of shooting, he fell into Anton's land.

After annihilating the invading army across the river, Zhang Zuolin gave an order to dispatch all the 1st Army to launch a large-scale attack across the river against the Japanese troops stationed in Shuozhou and Guicheng. Follow-up troops, followed by follow-up.

The 5th Division was stationed in Shuozhou. Compared with the tense battle ahead, this division only sent out a few guard posts deep in the rear, and did not realize that the enemy would suddenly launch a cross-river operation.The 2st Tank Battalion of the 1nd Armored Division suddenly appeared in front of the Japanese guard posts. Except for the 3 tanks that failed to arrive due to a break down, all 1 tanks of the 40st Tank Regiment quickly rushed into the division's garrison.The track crushing, the explosion of high-explosive grenades, and the firing of vehicle-mounted machine guns knocked down the Japanese troops who had just woken up from their sleep in pieces.This is not a battle, but a unilateral massacre by the Chinese army against the Japanese army.In order to achieve the suddenness of the entire battle, the 1st Tank Regiment destroyed the headquarters of the Japanese Army Wing at the first time, making it impossible to contact the rear Japanese troops.The entire battle in Shuozhou lasted less than an hour, and all more than [-] Japanese troops were wiped out.

(End of this chapter)