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Chapter 266: The silence before dawn

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    "Boom boom boom"

    More than a dozen aerial bombs landed on the air defense battalion¡¯s position, causing a huge explosion and a large amount of dust and smoke rising, blocking the sight of the soldiers and blocking the Japanese bombers.

    In the face of the huge power of heavy aerial bombs, some civil fortifications on the air defense battalion positions were destroyed in an instant, and even those reinforced concrete fortifications shook for a while.

    An aerial bomb exploded at a machine gun position in the air defense battalion. An anti-aircraft machine gun was blown away directly. After landing, it turned into a pile of parts. An anti-aircraft machine gun was easily destroyed.

    When the machine gun was destroyed, several machine gunners and ammunition handlers were also blown away. Those who were not blown away also lay on the ground vomiting blood.

    Being blown up directly in front of such a terrifying aerial bomb is probably the best result. Many people seemed to be fine at the time, but after leaving the battlefield, they were in pain for three to five days before dying. The pain was really frightening.  .

    The forward position of the 38th Division was also in a bitter battle at this time. Since the air defense battalion was bombed by Japanese fighter planes, other Japanese fighter planes had no suppression and all rushed to the defender's forward position.

    Like the treatment of the air defense battalion, when aerial bombs fell from the sky, the fortifications on the defenders' positions instantly became like paper. A large number of soldiers were killed and injured, and weapons and equipment were destroyed.

    What¡¯s more important is that the regiment command post of the 225th Regiment was hit head-on by an aerial bomb. Five officers, including the chief and deputy regimental commander and chief of staff, were killed. The command system of the 225th Regiment was knocked out by the Japs and paralyzed instantly.

    At the same time, the field troops of the Japanese 26th Brigade, which had already charged to the defender's forward position, also took this opportunity to rush forward and jumped into the defender's trench to fight with the defender.

    Bengbu City. The 59th Army Headquarters and Bengbu Former Enemy Headquarters!

    "Reporting to the military, there is a call from the front. The south gate position was breached by the Japanese army. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers rushed into the defending position!"

    Commander Zhang roared angrily: "Where is Zhou Tiehu? How come he was rushed into the position by the little Japs?"

    "Reporting to the military, the command post of the 225th Regiment was hit by a Japanese aerial bomb, and many officers including Commander Zhou were killed!" the operator said through gritted teeth.

    Commander Zhang slapped the table with his hand and said with a sad and angry expression: "Asshole, call Zhai Zifeng immediately and ask him to transfer the 113th Brigade to the South Gate for me and take back the South Gate position at all costs!"

    "yes!"

    Following the order from the headquarters, the two regiments of the 113th Brigade, which had been regarded as reserves, immediately appeared at the south gate of Bengbu, and then headed towards the fighting forward position.

    At this time, the Japanese command also saw the reinforcements from the defenders. Numata Shigetori immediately ordered a reserve team of a brigade to also fight.

    At this time, since the Japanese army had already entered the front-line positions, the soldiers of the air defense battalion could no longer support the front-line positions. After all, it would be easy to accidentally injure friendly forces if they opened fire at this time, so they aimed at the Japanese fighter planes in the sky.

    After the Japanese bombing, the air defense battalion suffered extremely heavy losses. Only 8 of the 15 machine guns were left. There were only more than 80 soldiers left out of more than 200. Even the company commander Hu Zhong was killed.

    But the deputy battalion commander Niu Erhu did not order the troops to retreat. Instead, he strictly ordered the remaining troops to continue shooting!

    "Bang bang bang"

    After a few minutes of silence, a sound was heard on the battlefield again that boosted the morale of the defenders and frightened the enemy.

    As the air defense battalion soldiers opened fire again, bullets flew toward the Japanese fighter planes carrying death invitations.

    Although the Japanese fighter planes have been very careful and tried to raise their flight altitude as much as possible, due to the huge gap between weapons and equipment, the Japanese bombers are still like a living target in front of the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun. Once locked by the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun,  It's hard to escape.

    Although the air defense battalion only had the last eight anti-aircraft machine guns left, and the firepower density was not as good as before, this round of firing still shot down two Japanese fighter planes and wounded two more.

    So far, 8 Japanese fighter planes have been shot down and 7 have been injured. The losses are not heavy.

    But this also aroused the ferocity of the little devil. Under the command of Colonel Takeda, the remaining fighter planes turned around and dived directly towards the air defense battalion's position. With so many fighter planes shot down, they had to kill this one.  The ant troops that dared to provoke the Japanese Imperial Army were blown to pieces.

    When the remaining twenty-odd Japanese fighter planes paid the price of four being shot down and two being damaged, they finally swooped down to the air defense battalion¡¯s position and dropped aerial bombs one after another.

    "Boom boom boom"

     A violent explosion sounded again from the air defense battalion position, this time lasting for a full five minutes.

    After the explosion, there was silence on the air defense battalion position. This time no one could stand up.

    Although the air defense battalion suffered heavy losses, because they pinned down the Japanese fighter planes and destroyed the Japanese tank troops, they greatly restrained the Japanese army's high-end combat power and bought time for the frontline defenders. Finally, before the Japanese reinforcements rushed up,  Previously, the reinforcements from the 113th Brigade drove out the Japanese troops who rushed into the position.

    At this time, the remaining Japanese fighter planes immediately withdrew from the battlefield due to exhaustion of ammunition.

    After losing the air support, Numata Shigetori had to stop the attack, and the battlefield became rare and quiet.

    At this time, the battlefield was full of corpses of Japanese and puppet troops. The whole day's attack had exhausted both China and Japan. There was a tacit understanding between the two sides that neither of them restrained the corpses and allowed those corpses to be exposed on the battlefield.

    At the Japanese enemy¡¯s headquarters, Numata Shigetori was holding a telegram in his hand to reprimand his subordinates!

    At this time, Numata Shigenori's mentality completely exploded. Just when he reported the situation on the front line to Chu County, he was severely reprimanded by the division commander.  After being scolded so harshly, Numata Shigetori could only vent his anger on his subordinates.

    "Baga, this is your performance. More than 1,200 people were killed in one day, but you didn't even capture the outer positions of the garrison. You are a loser. You are a loser."

    Numata Shigetori was completely angry. Such a record was too shameful. Not to mention compared with the records of other first-class divisions, even compared with the second-tier third-class divisions, it was far behind.

    You must know that since the base camp decided to expand its interests in China and launch a full-scale war of aggression against China in July last year, wherever the battle flag of the Imperial Japanese Army went, the Chinese army fled and was invincible wherever the sword pointed.

    Peiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhangjiakou, Baoding, Dezhou, Nankou, these and other military towns could only open their city gates in front of the bayonets of the Imperial Japanese Army, whether it was Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army or local warlords' troops in various places.  , in front of the imperial warriors, they were like piles of sand, collapsing at the slightest touch.

    To be honest, all the Japanese soldiers were a little disappointed in the face of such a record. Even their Prime Minister shouted the slogan of destroying China in three months.

    Although this slogan seems a bit ridiculous now, it is undeniable that the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army is still amazing, especially those first-class divisions.

    Whether it is the Fifth Division in North China or the Sixth Division in Central China, their actual results have proven that the First Class Division of the Empire of Japan is invincible.  However, things seemed to have changed when they arrived at the 13th Division. First, they were unable to attack Shanghai for a long time and lost a large number of elite veterans.

    Later, they were defeated by the Chinese defenders outside Nanjing City. They finally captured Nanjing City but suffered an unprecedented defeat in Chu County.

    The most terrifying thing was the three battles with Li Guoyao's troops. They were defeated every time. After the three battles, the number of soldiers lost exceeded 20,000, which was equivalent to the 13th Division being wiped out by Li Guoyao's troops.

    Fortunately, each loss resulted in a loss of one-third or one-half of the combat effectiveness, and the flags of the units were still in the hands of their respective units and were not lost. Otherwise, the 13th Division would really have been captured by Li Guoyao.  The Ministry was erased from the order of battle of the Imperial Japanese Army.

    I originally thought that this time I could avenge my humiliation and successfully capture Bengbu City, but I didn't expect that it would turn out like this. The troops suffered a lot of losses in one day, but the results were almost negligible.

    You must know that today he put all the chariot brigade and artillery brigade in his hands. If he can't take Bengbu City, he doesn't know how to explain to the division commander when he returns.

    PS: The fourth chapter has been delivered. Two more chapters have been updated today, so I¡¯ll just send them all!  I'll continue tomorrow. I've been in good shape these past few days. I hope I can update more!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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