GBP Chapter 568: Zhang Dabiao, stop holding on, and quickly take the armored troops and withdraw from he
Chapter 568: Zhang Dabiao, stop holding on, and quickly take the armored troops and withdraw from he
The person in charge of the outer position was Colonel Ichiro Akai, who had a total of more than 1600 soldiers, including the wounded. According to Jun'ichi Aoki's request, he either had to hold the outer position for a day or severely damage Li Yunlong's armored forces. No matter which task it was, it was very difficult for Colonel Ichiro Akai to complete.
"Colonel, the division commander has just ordered us to attack immediately, requiring us to severely damage Li Yunlong's armored forces within an hour!" Major Yamazaki bowed his head with a serious face.
Ichiro Akai put down the telescope in his hand and did not directly give the order to attack. He was waiting for the arrival of the air force. Without the cover of the air force, it would be difficult for him to achieve much result even if he used the pig surprise tactics.
Taking the phone from his men, Ichiro Akai stood up straight and said solemnly, "General, Li Yunlong's armored forces have cleared an attack channel about 300 meters long. Half of the tens of thousands of mines we deployed have been destroyed."
"Two of the six minefields have been destroyed. The other minefield was bypassed by Li Yunlong's armored forces. Our Akai Task Force is too far away from the enemy's armored forces. If we launch an attack rashly, we will most likely be wiped out by the enemy's fierce firepower before we reach the enemy tanks and armored vehicles."
"I think the best time to attack is when our air force arrives. With the air force's firepower support, our warriors can fish in troubled waters and inflict heavy casualties on Li Yunlong's armored forces."
"In order to completely wipe out Li Yunlong's armored forces, I still need your Excellency the General to provide artillery support. Our heavy artillery is definitely an advantageous weapon for attacking enemy tanks and armored vehicles. As for the anti-tank artillery in our hands, it has been proven on the Yoshiwara Brigade that it cannot break the defense of enemy tanks at all, and can only destroy enemy armored vehicles."
Jun'ichi Aoki interrupted Akai Ichiro and looked towards the outer positions. He reprimanded with a gloomy face, "Akai-kun, I am very disappointed in you. You have lost the courage to die with the enemy. In consideration of your many military achievements for the empire, I will explain to you the fundamental reason why I asked you to launch a counterattack at this time."
"Last night, the remaining troops of the Yoshiwara Brigade tried to join us under the cover of darkness, but the existence of the minefield made our joining up very difficult. Now I have only a few soldiers, and there are only 7000 imperial soldiers who can really be used for combat. Excluding your 1000-plus soldiers, I only have 6000 imperial soldiers who can really be used for combat. As for the 7000-plus so-called puppet troops of China, their combat effectiveness is so weak that it is unbearable to look at."
"My original intention was to have them serve as a death squad, but I was afraid that they would mutiny on the battlefield, so I could only use a gradual attrition method to force them to help us defend our positions. The only thing that can really threaten us in Li Yunlong's hands is his armored forces. He can use tanks and armored vehicles as fixed artillery positions and firing points, which can completely form a strict fire suppression on our positions."
"I'm not afraid of a war of attrition, but I'm somewhat helpless against the enemy's movable steel fortress. As long as you can blow up Li Yunlong's tanks and armored vehicles, my division can hold out until reinforcements arrive."
"As for why we don't wait for the air force to arrive before we fight? The reason is very simple. I don't trust our air force. Yesterday's air battle proved this. They simply don't have the ability to break through the interception of enemy aircraft. We must be prepared for a tough battle!"
"According to my estimation, the situation on the battlefield today should be infantry versus enemy infantry, artillery versus enemy artillery, and aviation versus enemy air force. But now the enemy has an extra armored soldier, which is our biggest weakness. If we want to win today's defensive battle, we must kill the enemy's armored soldier."
At first, Ichiro Akai thought that Junichi Aoki was taking a risk, but now it seems that Junichi Aoki's judgment was correct, and the situation on the battlefield was very likely to be the same as he expected. After realizing his mistake, Ichiro Akai bowed and apologized, "General, I will now order the death squad to launch a pig-rush tactic and request that you provide us with artillery support. I will destroy the enemy's armored forces at all costs to reduce the defensive pressure on the inner position."
Aoki Junichi nodded with satisfaction. Before hanging up the phone, he reminded them, "My Aoki Division has no way out. The only thing we can do is to fight to the death. No matter how much it costs, we must destroy the enemy's spirit. Otherwise, we may not be able to hold on for even a day and will lose our position directly!"
After Ichiro Akai hung up the phone, he immediately ordered the wounded suicide squad to prepare for the attack. In order to ensure that the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles could be destroyed, Ichiro Akai specially organized the suicide squad into a team of 18 people. The 17 people in the front had to block guns and artillery shells for the 10th person. They had to destroy the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles at all costs.
The suicide squad of more than 600 wounded soldiers was divided into teams. They wore cloth strips with the words "Wu Yun Chang Jiu" on their heads, held explosive packs in their hands, and used wet quilts as shields in order to reduce the lethality of bullets and shrapnel. It can be said that the Japanese had gambled everything in order to blow up the armored vehicles of the armored regiment, and there was a hint of tragic atmosphere.
Since the Japanese suicide squads were often in the trenches, Li Yunlong and his men didn't notice them at all. In addition, the Japanese air force was about to arrive at the battlefield, and no reconnaissance planes took off from the base today. This made Li Yunlong and his men really ignorant of the Japanese's sudden attack.
"Lao Li, the Japanese are really quiet too late. I always feel that the Japanese are preparing a big move. We must be careful. It is already 6:30 in the morning. The soldiers have eaten breakfast and are making preparations for the battle. They can ensure that they can launch the attack on time in half an hour."
"I am afraid that the Japanese will launch a counterattack at this time, which will bring us huge trouble. After all, the troops in the rear are quite far away from the vanguard. Even if we want to reinforce, it will take a quarter of an hour to get there. I think we should give orders to the vanguard and let them retreat. It is better to fight this battle steadily. We must not leave the Japanese any chance!"
Before Lin Zhenhua's voice fell, Jun'ichi Aoki ordered the Japanese artillery units to open fire immediately. The six protruding tanks and eight armored vehicles were completely within the range of the Japanese heavy artillery. They were all destroyed in the first round of artillery fire, and the Japanese began to extend their artillery fire immediately afterwards.
More than 600 wounded Japanese suicide squad roared like wild beasts and rushed towards the leading armored troops. Zhang Dabiao reacted very quickly. He immediately ordered the armored troops to retreat. Unfortunately, the armored vehicles did not have reverse gear at this time, and it was very troublesome to change direction.
When Li Yunlong saw the armored vanguard being overwhelmed by the enemy's artillery fire, he quickly grabbed the phone next to him and shouted in an anxious tone: "Zhu Zi, immediately have the rocket launcher company fire a round of salvos to cover the armored troops' retreat. The artillery battalion fires immediately and sends out a barrage of bullets to cover the armored troops' withdrawal from the battlefield."
"Zhang Dabiao, you son of a bitch, release the smoke immediately to block the Japs' sight and retreat quickly!"
Lin Zhenhua held the intercom in his hand and connected the communication with Ding Wei. He ordered anxiously: "Old Ding, immediately send our heavy rocket artillery company into battle and use up all the heavy rockets. You must destroy the enemy's heavy artillery for me!"
Under the orders of Li Yunlong and Lin Zhenhua, the armored regiment and the independent regiment quickly launched a counterattack, mobilizing all the heavy artillery and rocket launchers at their disposal to bombard the Japanese outer positions and cover the retreat of the armored vanguard units that were in trouble.
When the artillery battle between the two sides was at its most intense, the Japanese air force also arrived at the battlefield at this time and started a fierce fight with the independent regiment air force battalion. Compared with the Japanese land and sea air forces that rarely cooperated yesterday, today they reached an agreement for the first time, temporarily gave up the hatred between the two sides, and launched an aerial stranglehold on the independent regiment air force battalion.
The air battle between the enemy and us was even more brutal than yesterday. The battle entered a white-hot level at the beginning. The independent regiment air force battalion could not resist the fierce fighting style of the devils. On the surface, the number of fighter planes on both sides was almost the same, but the quality of the fighter planes was quite different. The transport planes that were urgently modified could not compete head-on with the devil bombers. In desperation, the brave pilots could only adopt the man-machine combination tactics to try to reverse the decline on the battlefield.
"Brothers, we must help the armored forces withdraw now. I order the First Suicide Squadron of transport planes to launch a suicide attack on the Japanese heavy artillery battalion on the ground. We must destroy the Japanese heavy artillery at all costs!"
"The rest of the transport plane suicide squads will immediately launch a suicide attack. No matter how much it costs, we cannot let the Japanese seize air superiority. Brothers, charge with me. The brave will win when two meet on a narrow road. There is not a single coward in the air force battalion of my independent regiment!"
Under the leadership of Liu Haishan, the commander of the air force battalion, hundreds of fighter planes launched a desperate charge towards the enemy aircraft group with an indomitable momentum. Fujiwara Ichiro and Sato Ichiro, who were in charge of commanding this air battle, also led their fighter planes to launch a counterattack without any retreat. The pilots on both sides of the enemy were not lacking in courage. They used their lives to defend their dignity as a soldier!