kingnovel Chapter 1028 Big victory!
Chapter 1028 Big victory!
When the cannon sounded just now, Zhao Songbai felt that he had to do something. Such an opportunity is really rare for us.
"Take all your men with you. I'll take the 11th and 12th Regiments, which are the main force of our division. Let's go up and do it."
Zhao Songbai said excitedly that this opportunity was extremely rare, and if you could seize it, you would most likely inflict heavy damage on the Japanese.
"Captain Zhao, let me be frank. The enemy before us has at least two divisions. Don't even think about occupying their positions. I mean we should launch a counterattack and kill a large number of their men."
Lu Xiaoguang was afraid that Zhao Songbai would misunderstand him.
If we were forced to hold our original position after we had attacked it, it would be fatal.
"Don't worry, I'm not that greedy. I know how many Japanese soldiers there are, but if we can cut a piece of meat from them, that's a good thing. At least when they attack us in the future, they won't have so many people."
In response to Zhao Songbai's statement, Lu Xiaoguang just smiled and nodded, without really agreeing, because Lu Xiaoguang knew very well that the Japanese army would definitely send more troops here just like they did in Luodian.
The various units quickly began to move. The tanks that had just been withdrawn began to refuel and load ammunition immediately. Then, with the tanks in the lead, armored vehicles and armed trucks followed, and finally, the two infantry regiments under Zhao Songbai.
Because many officers were injured, the Japanese army's command network was less than half of its original state, so when they saw the national army coming towards them, they were instantly in chaos.
The brothers of the 51st Division nearby saw Zhao Songbai's army counterattack. Although there were only two regiments left at this time, they were not idle. They took this opportunity to recapture the positions lost two days ago. Even if they only killed a hundred or so Japanese soldiers, it was considered as support for Zhao Songbai, which was better than sitting there doing nothing.
This time the tanks were charging at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, firing at the positions as they advanced.
The armored vehicles in the rear also used their 40mm cannons to the fullest extent, and the major firepower points on the Japanese positions immediately suffered devastating blows.
The brothers standing on the armed trucks carried iron fists on their shoulders. When they saw a fish slipping through the net, they would immediately fire another shot. In any case, they could not let the Japanese machine gun positions open fire, otherwise our brothers would suffer heavy losses.
When the Japanese soldiers saw this scene, they also wanted to defend their positions to the death.
But how can a human body be compared to a tank? Some of the timid ones were ready to run away.
"Hold on the grenades, hang on the grenades, no one can run back."
Some Japanese squad leaders brought two boxes of grenades from the ammunition storage area and instructed their soldiers to hang grenades on their bodies.
They had also trained all the men in this situation to hang grenades all over their bodies, and then lie down in the trenches and wait for the tanks to cross the trenches. Then they would detonate the grenades on their bodies and die together with the enemy tanks.
This was a tactic used by the Japanese soldiers specifically against the 72nd Army. It had not been used since they arrived at the Pujiang battlefield, but now it was finally used. However, most of the soldiers looked somewhat reluctant, after all, it was their own lives at stake.
"There are planes coming to support us."
Just as the tanks were about to step onto the Japanese soldiers' positions, more than a dozen fighter jets came over from the sky and strafed the Japanese positions, making the situation even more chaotic and even the anti-aircraft weapons could not be concentrated.
When the tanks began to cross the trenches, some Japanese soldiers, following their superiors' orders, actually detonated the grenades on their bodies in the trenches, but the effect was not very good.
The main reason was that there was a reaction time after detonating the grenade, but the Japanese trenches were not very wide and could not stop the tanks of the 72nd Army at all.
So by the time the grenade exploded, most of the tanks had already passed.
Some of the tanks were hit on the back, but the damage was not serious and they were still able to move forward. Only two tanks were unlucky and were blown up by the people below.
"Get out of the car and shoot."
After noticing this scene, some infantry squad leaders ordered the people in the vehicles to get off. There were not many Japanese soldiers in the distance who could pose a threat to them, and there were many armored vehicles to come, so we had to clear them out.
Soldiers holding submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles jumped off the trucks and basically fired a volley of bullets at anyone in the trench, whether alive or dead. If there were not many bullets left, they would just throw a grenade.
Many Japanese soldiers were lying among the corpses pretending to be dead, but now under the fire of submachine guns, they became really dead.
After passing the first trench, the tanks began to fire shells at the second trench, followed by heavy armored vehicles.
After the cleanup, the infantrymen were not idle either, looking for some wood or something nearby, filling up some parts of the trenches to allow the armed trucks to pass through, or simply stuffing a few pieces of wood on top of the Japanese corpses to allow the trucks to pass through.
The two Japanese defense lines were breached one after another, and the battlefield was littered with dead bodies. Including a group of their officers, they were all stunned by the scene before them.
We are the attacking party and you are the defending party, but why is it the other way around now?
Just as the tanks were rushing towards the third position with great interest, a naval shell suddenly appeared in front of them.
Lu Xiaoguang knew that we were ready to charge. If we continued to move forward, the Japanese Navy's artillery shells would tear us to pieces, so this guy didn't hesitate at all and ordered the demolition teams to blow up all the targets on the position.
The tanks and armored vehicles began to reverse, and the other infantry units stayed behind to provide cover.
The demolition team didn't have the time to place bombs, so they basically had bags with two grenades hanging on them. If one didn't work, they would throw two. There were plenty of grenades anyway, so keeping one wouldn't kill a person, but throwing one out might kill someone.
Many Japanese bunkers and machine gun positions were blown to the ground, and the Japanese soldiers hiding inside were sent to Amaterasu. It must be said that we all did our work in a set manner.
The Japanese army responsible for the attack had suffered a great loss. The total number of troops defending these two lines of defense alone was around 10,000. Add to that the five infantry battalions that had previously been responsible for the attack, and now there were only a pile of corpses left. Perhaps some people were still alive, but it was definitely not more than 15% of the living people...
A great victory! Over 10,000 enemies annihilated!