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Chapter 1,433 General Attack on Datong

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    I hope that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we can launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army from the north and south of Datong at the same time.  "Xia Yang pointed at the map and said.

    Liu Fudong said: "Okay, the 1st Tank Regiment and the 2nd Tank Regiment have rich combat experience, and they are perfect for attacking the south of Datong where the defenses are stronger."

    "The two motorized infantry regiments also started attacking from the side. As long as one part of the Japanese defense circle in Datong is torn by us, the fall of Datong will be a matter of time." Xia Yang said.

    Now they have assembled nearly 100,000 troops, and the scale of the attack they can launch is even greater than before.

    Xia Yang made detailed arrangements for the attack, and each unit, according to his arrangements, arrived at the predetermined position overnight.

    On the city wall of Datong, Yoshio Shinozuka, using a high-powered telescope, watched hundreds of rumbling tanks moving several kilometers away from the city wall.

    In addition, there are a large number of trucks, armored vehicles, motorcycles, infantry support vehicles, etc.

    At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka even had an illusion.  What he faced was not the Chinese army with backward equipment, but the well-equipped Soviet army or German army.

    ¡°It¡¯s not that they don¡¯t have tanks and armored vehicles in Datong.

    But these tanks and armored vehicles are only a hundred in total.  And in terms of tonnage and performance, it is incomparable with the tanks equipped by the Fourth Army.

    Their tanks cannot even withstand large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets.  The enemy tanks, with their thick armor, can even withstand the bombardment of 37mm anti-tank guns.

    Of course, Shinozuka Yoshio's army in Datong also has some artillery that can be used.

    But according to existing intelligence, the enemy seems to have powerful counter-artillery capabilities.

    As long as they use artillery, the enemy will immediately know the location of their artillery.

    In addition, the enemy's artillery not only has a long range and high power, but also has higher accuracy.

    During the defensive battle in Hunyuan County, Suematsu Shigeshi saw that the shells fired by the enemy's howitzers could accurately bombard the city wall.  And it will not accidentally damage the residential areas in the city.

    Coupled with the enemy's consecutive battles and victories, they suffered repeated defeats.

    The morale of the soldiers on both sides is simply worlds apart.  Even the quality of their soldiers is not inferior to theirs.

    Yoshio Shinozuka calculated over and over again that they seemed to have no chance of winning.

    And when he saw the raging torrent of enemy armor, he also understood why Honda Zhengcai could no longer hold on in Fengzhen.

    ¡°If he were to be the commander of Fengzhen, facing a large number of enemy tanks and armored vehicles, as well as extremely powerful artillery bombardment, he might not be able to be a better political candidate than Honda.

    "Order the soldiers to fight to the death! I will accompany them to see His Majesty the Emperor!!" Yoshio Shinozuka said this, his eyes filled with determination.

    Night fell, and the Japanese army organized a sneak attack at night.  He wanted to mess up the position of the Kagel Combat Division that had just arrived in Datong.

    However, although Liu Fudong and the others won consecutive battles, they were not arrogant soldiers. Instead, they were very cautious.

    This harassment lasted for less than two hours, and the Japanese army left hundreds of corpses behind and were driven back to their positions by tanks.

    Yoshio Shinozuka knew that it would be too difficult for them to attack the enemy no matter it was night or day.

    Xia Yang¡¯s troops are highly disciplined, and commanders at all levels maintain a high level of vigilance.  Even with consecutive battles and victories, there is no arrogance at all.

    At noon the next day, on the outer defense line of Datong City, a large number of tanks and armored vehicles began to appear in front of the Japanese positions.

    Also on this day, Huairen City was captured by the Fourth Division overnight.  The Japanese army's retreat south to Taiyuan was completely cut off.

    At this time, they only have one way to retreat to Zhangjiakou, but withdrawing here means giving up the entire northwestern Shanxi.

    They want to attack back again, but it will not be as easy as before.

    The three howitzer regiments are all uniformly deployed by Xia Yang.

    He used howitzers to bombard several key attack areas.  As for other Japanese positions, they were also under fire from mountain artillery and field artillery.

    Some simple fortifications built by the Japanese army on the periphery quickly collapsed under the bombardment of artillery fire.

    Those Japanese soldiers could only huddle in the trenches and pray.Don't let the cannonball fall on your head.  But dense shells were still exploding all around.

    Many Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches were directly hit by artillery shells and blown to pieces.

    After the heavy artillery bombardment ended, the full-scale formal attack began.

    Their troops are led by tanks and armored vehicles.  The infantry followed closely behind, using tanks and armored vehicles as cover for the charge.

    Many soldiers of the Fourth Army are very curious about tanks and vehicles.

    After all, many of them have seen tanks, but they all belong to the enemy.  It was the first time in my life to fight with a tank.

    Xia Yang didn¡¯t have that much time to train the infantry-tank coordination of these soldiers, so he could only let the infantry follow the tank regiment as a reserve force.

    The cavalry regiments are distributed on both wings, ready to cut in from the flanks at any time to harvest the fleeing Japanese troops on the battlefield.

    The Japanese heavy machine guns began to roar, but now they could no longer pose any threat to the advancement of the Fourth Army.

    Their bullets hit the armor plate, bursting out bursts of sparks, but for the tanks that kept advancing.  These bullets are like tickling them.

    The Japanese army was already planning to fight to the death, and many Japanese soldiers wrote suicide notes before the battle began.

    A large number of Japanese commanders used the spirit of Bushido to brainwash the Japanese soldiers in the trenches before the war began.

    When the tanks rushed to a position less than 50 meters away from the Japanese position, the Japanese soldiers who had been unable to stand in the position suddenly crawled out of the trench like crazy and rushed towards the tanks that were rumbling towards them.

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