Chapter 24: Another Ghost Chariot
The Japanese army's attack was not smooth and encountered a stubborn obstacle from the national army. They had to mobilize reinforcements and surrounded Ishidou Mountain. The attack commander was the deputy of the 20th Regiment of the 19th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.
Asano is in his early thirties and is not tall. He always has a cold light in his eyes, looking like he is not close to anyone.
The Japanese division he commanded had nearly 2,000 people. In addition to a full Japanese combat brigade, there was also a chariot squadron, a mountain cannon squadron, a heavy machine gun squadron and other non-combat troops.
Nakajima Atsugo gave him the task of occupying the line from Mengtang to Dahu Mountain, cutting off the Hangzhou-Ningxia Highway, and breaking the military deployment of the Chinese army on the periphery of Nanjing.
But now they were blocked in Shidong Mountain. After several battles, they were defeated by the Chinese army, which annoyed him.
Nakajima Ashigo also kept calling him to advance westward and form an attack on the left wing of the Chinese army. The main force encountered the stubborn resistance of the Chinese army in Jurong, and the losses were quite large.
However, the approaching 9th Division was progressing smoothly and had occupied most of the Chinese defenders in Chunhua.
If the 9th Division is asked to enter Nanjing first, the Nakajima Division commander must twist his head off.
You must know that these two division commanders have already been secretly competing. Of course, both troops want to compete for this honor!
Therefore, the 9th Division must not be allowed to take the lead!
"Report!"
"Come in!" Asano's face stretched for a long time. Today's failure in the attack, Nakajima called him severely and ordered him to destroy the China army entrenched in Shidong Mountain before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
However, now the problem is that after fighting for a day, they have insufficient ammunition and oil. The combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is far beyond their original imagination. The baggage team that originally transported ammunition and oil encountered an accident on the road.
The baggage team and a cavalry unit escorted the baggage team were wiped out, and the troops who went to the scene to check came back to report.
No obvious signs of enemy attacks were found at the scene. Was this an accident or something unknown?
If they were attacked, why did the radio station they carried fail to send any information?
"Master Asano, General Nakajima ordered us to find out the cause of the fire and explosion of the baggage team."
"I know, call back. I will send someone to the accident site tomorrow morning to investigate in detail." Asano was not concerned about the cause of the fire and explosion of the baggage team, but about how to take down the position of the Chinese army in front of him.
After attacking several times, what methods were used, and finally defeated, which caused Asano's inner pride to suffer serious setbacks.
"Hayi!"
"Sir Yagi!"
"Yaki Jun, you will come. How about it? Will your chariot be dispatched tomorrow?" Asano turned around and saw the captain of the chariot team, Lieutenant Yagi, walked in.
"Most of my chariots can still move, but the oil consumption is too high. If the oil supply is not delivered tomorrow, my chariot will have to stay here and watch others make achievements for the Great Japanese Empire." said Lieutenant Yagi.
"There will be oil. I just contacted the division and the division headquarters. A batch of oil will arrive tomorrow. Will your tank have any problems at that time?"
"Thank you Asano!"
"I heard that the Noda United team attacking Jurong was in trouble, and almost all of our imperial chariot squadrons were wiped out?"
"Has Yagi Jun heard about it?"
"Yes, what's going on? Can Asano Jun tell me?" Yagi stood attentively and put his legs together, with a serious face.
"I also learned from the division headquarters that the Chinese army seized a Type 97 infantry fighting chariot from our empire. When our army launched a fierce attack on the Chinese army's positions and was about to capture it, it suddenly launched a fierce attack from behind..."
"The Chinese army captured the imperial chariot, this story sounds too ridiculous!" Yagi was surprised and felt that this was simply impossible.
"Maybe it was the story that the front-line troops were unwilling to fail, and they were fabricated." In fact, Asano didn't believe it. Not only was the poor equipment in the Chinese army, but the quality was also extremely poor. I'm afraid I had never seen the imperial chariots before, let alone driving the chariots to fight it.
You should know that the chariot troops of the empire were all rigorously trained, and in the case of eight-on-one, they ended in a crushing defeat of losing seven chariots.
This sounds like a fairy tale.
If the Chinese were so powerful, how could they lose Shanghai?
"Haha, Asano Jun said that this time we cooperate with Asano Jun, we will definitely be the first troops to invade Nanjing, the capital of China!" Yagi said arrogantly.
"Sure!" Asano is also an ambitious person. What a glory it was to enter Nanjing the first troops.
"Yaki Jun, come and have a drink. Colonel Noda is a arrogant person and has extreme paranoia. It is not surprising that he made up the story of ghost chariots!" Asano poured a glass of wine and handed it over and said disdainfully.
"What Asano Jun said makes sense. What ghost chariot? If it appears in front of me, Yagi, I promise to let it go without returning!" Yagi Ichiro said heavily.
"Yaki Jun is a warrior of the empire. I believe you will definitely rush into the positions of the Chinese people tomorrow and kill all these stubborn Chinese troops!"
"Hai, Yagi must live up to expectations..."
boom!
Suddenly, a violent explosion came, followed by a tremor of shock on the ground, Yagi and Asano almost stood firm and fell to the ground.
"Where is the explosion?" Asano held the corner of the table in shock and shouted at the outside.
The sake in Yagi wine glass was sprinkled with half of it, and his face changed drastically.
At this time, there was chaos in the Japanese command.
Immediately afterwards, violent explosions kept coming.
Asano and Yagi rushed out of the house and saw a black tank rushing into the village like a ghost, and the muzzle kept firing at some buildings in the village.
That was all the areas where the Japanese army was vigilant.
As soon as a shell came down, the Japanese temporary ammunition depot exploded and caught fire.
Second Lieutenant Yagi suddenly had a red eyes. The place where the explosion and fire just now was the base of his tank team, and rushed out of the command center regardless of everything.
"Baga, what's going on?" Asano almost bit his steel teeth.
The Japanese army was in chaos, and the attack came too suddenly, and it was a Japanese army's own chariot.
It's simply unprepared.
"Big bull, conghu, fire, save bullets!" In the cockpit, Leng Feng drove the chariot while commanding the three people to attack.
"oh!"
"Tieshan, two cannons will come at nine o'clock!"
"Brother, there are only five shells left!" Tieshan reported while loading and firing.
"I know, then I'll shoot two shots and leave." Leng Feng said in a pity. There are too few shells. It would be great if there were a few more shots.
"Bang!"
Major Asano saw the dark muzzle on the turret suddenly turned to him, and was so scared that he shuddered all over and screamed: "Look down!"
boom!
A shell fell from the command center and exploded violently, directly blew up half of the house behind Asano, and everyone inside was buried alive.
But before he could get up from the ground, another shell fell down.
"No!" Asano screamed, and could no longer make any sound. The first glory that entered Nanjing would never belong to him.
Ghost Chariot!
Yagi looked back at the collapsed command center and felt creepy. When he mentioned the ghost chariot, why did it appear?
Could it be that Colonel Noda did not make up that story, and there was really a ghost chariot controlled by the Chinese?
Second Lieutenant Yagi is as stupid as a wooden chicken,
"Brother, are there only three shells left?"
"Fry another shot, the wind speed is three, the direction is southeast, the gun position is corrected downward, the left is corrected third, and the fire!"
Tieshan pressed the firing button without hesitation, and the shell flew out and hit the house under the chimney directly.
"Haha, youngest, good job!" Niu Miao screamed excitedly.
"Sit firmly, we'll break through!" Leng Feng pulled the joystick, and the tank quickly turned around, like a wild horse that broke free, rushed out of the village entrance.
"Stop it, stop it..."
The Japanese army who reacted rushed over, but unfortunately they were all flesh and blood, and they could not resist the cold steel machines.
In the dark night, tank targets are larger, while individual targets are much smaller. The Japanese army knew that guns and bullets had no effect on tanks, but they had grenades, mortars and grenade launchers.
Many ants bite the elephant to death!
Leng Feng knew that once they were trapped by the Japanese army, they would have no way to die, so his tactic was to shoot after the battle and not give the Japanese army any chance.
"Brother, the Japanese are blocking in front!"
"Don't worry about him, close your eyes and we rush over!" Leng Feng rushed over in the tank wildly.
Crunch...
The Japanese army had never expected that this crazy tank would be suppressed from their bodies.
After rushing out of the village entrance, Leng Feng drove his horse with all his strength and quickly sank into the darkness. When the Japanese bee pupa caught up, he could only eat the black smoke left by it.
"Ha ha……"
Leng Feng and the other two laughed. Although they didn't know what the result was, this sneak attack would definitely deal a very heavy blow to the Japanese army's partial division.
"Brother, where are we going now?" Cong Hu asked a very realistic question.
"Blast the tank, let's go and join the national army!" Leng Feng said.
"Now, the Japanese army blocked the way, how can we get there?" Niu Miao asked suspiciously.
"Don't we still have a Japanese skin, just find an opportunity to just pass it over. As soon as it dawns, we can't leave." Leng Feng said.
"We are wearing Japanese skins. If the national army discovers it, we will not treat us as Japanese..."
"Don't worry, don't we have a radio station? Let them cooperate with us." Leng Feng smiled and patted his backpack and said.
Chapter completed!