After much deliberation, Chen Yu decided to abandon the two strongholds of gun towers in the west and north, and turn to street fighting, using the advantage of weapons to fight.Relying on the position, there is no advantage in such a fight, and sooner or later he will be slowly worn to death by Takeuchi.

Kicking the man who was shooting wildly, Chen Yu said: "Place explosives, and all withdraw to the town center blockhouse and the east, south, and south blockhouse strongholds. Send someone to inform the artillery platoon that the firepower will be suppressed after we evacuate, and we must not let them bite. Come on us."

You turned your head numbly: "What, why do you want to retreat?"

"You stupid head, tell you you understand?"

"Melon skin is stupid!" Yao Ma sullenly cursed.

Chapter 145 The Collapsed Japanese Army

The defenders on the outskirts of the town all retreated, and the [-]mm mortars they carried fired wildly and rapidly to buy time for retreat.High-explosive grenades exploded in the farmland, saving the Japanese army from digging trenches.

Chen Yu glanced at the Japanese soldiers who were struggling to dig trenches in the farmland, spit out a mouthful, turned and left the gun tower.Several soldiers were putting explosives into the gun tower, and the gun tower had to be blown up. Chen Yu didn't want to see the Japanese soldiers standing in the gun tower and shooting at him.

There was a loud noise from behind, and the three-story blockhouse was completely in ruins, not only the north blockhouse, but then another loud noise, and the west blockhouse was also blown down.

The gun tower was blown down, obviously not by the [-]nd machine gun, nor by the heavy artillery, but by the foundation.The Japanese army also fully understood, gave up the tactic of digging positions and confronting each other, and rushed into the town shouting.

As the shouts in his ears became clearer, sandbags were used to pile up simple fortifications at the intersection of the alley. Cui Yong stood behind the sandbags and waved to the retreating people, telling them to run behind him.

"Run, the Japanese are following!"

'Whoa whoa whoa! '

A few bullets whizzed by, and the guard who followed him was shot in the thigh and fell to the stone road.Chen Yu turned around and raised his carbine to face the darkness behind him. He saw bullets shooting out of the place where the fire came out. Master Mai ran past him, carrying the shot soldier on his back and ran forward.

Chen Yu lowered his head and crawled towards the sandbag fortification. Cui Yong manipulated the heavy machine gun to load the bullets and started shooting at the fire behind him.

Crawling to the back of the fortification with hands and feet, Chen Yu was dragged into the fortification by his arms and neck. Behind him were a few slow-running soldiers, who were the ones who installed the explosives.They were not so lucky. The bullets shot from their backs, pierced their entire bodies, and fell to a place more than ten meters away from the fortification.

Hiding in the fortifications, the blockhouse blockhouse behind which was poured with reinforced concrete, with granite and volcanic stone as the main body, began to emit shooting flames.Bullets shot out from the shooting holes in all directions of the gun tower. Chen Yu was dragged into the gun tower, as was Master Mai.

Reaching out to take someone's water bottle, Chen Yu took a sip and sprayed it all out with a 'poof'.I don't know who it is, but it was actually filled with wine. Turning around, it turned out to be Master Mai, who was staring at Chen Yu with resentful eyes, because the wine was sprayed on his face.

"You are disgusting, Major."

Chen Yu wiped the drink from Master Mai's face with his sleeve: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Master Mai pushed Chen Yu away and tightened his water bottle: "I'm starting to hate you, this is my last pot of wine, and now I'm missing a sip."

"Drink less, it's easy to miss things." Chen Yu comforted him in embarrassment.

Without time to linger, Chen Yu climbed up to the third floor and pushed away a soldier who was shooting with a Dazheng 11-year light machine gun.Flares rose from the sky again. Luo Jinlong was quite experienced and knew that the Japanese army relied on the night.

The third floor has a wide view, and Chen Yu saw a steady stream of Japanese troops appearing from the road, rushing into the farmland and attacking Tongbo Town.The Japanese army began to set up mortars. There were more than a dozen small-caliber mortars. The mortar brackets had not yet been erected.

Not long after the flare was lifted into the air, the M2 800mm mortars on Qingliangsi Heights began to shoot extended.The mortar with a range of [-] meters has a maximum rate of fire of [-] rounds per minute. Such a range and rate of fire are beyond the reach of the old Japanese mortars, so Chen Yu saw a fireworks show.

Dozens of high-explosive grenades exploded among the Japanese artillery, and even the Japanese artillery shells were killed.

The flares illuminated the Japanese army writhing among the ruined walls. The many shooting holes on the gun tower fired at the crawling or twisting Japanese army. The scattered fortifications around the gun tower fired bullets, allowing the Japanese army to accept the steel from the other side of the Pacific Ocean at a [-]-degree angle.

The fearless charge of the Japanese army, the dense rain of bullets and the wide and open field of vision caused them heavy casualties.The grenadiers they were so proud of hitting on the cement works were only scratching the surface, and soon the machine guns from the gun towers would be on them.

Heavy machine gun fire support from the east and south formed a "triangular" shooting area, and the crossfire prevented the Japanese army from approaching the gun tower.Even if they hold explosive packages and cluster grenades, take off their military uniforms and wrap their heads with cloth strips, and a dozen people conduct a saturated charge, they cannot throw the explosive packages within 50 meters of the fortifications.

Perhaps Takeuchi began to regret blowing up all the private houses of the cymbals, which would only open up our shooting range.

The crossfire formed by the three blockhouses all suppressed the Japanese attack, and no one could rush within 50 meters.Flares rose again after the curtain fell, and the firepower network composed of heavy machine guns, light machine guns, carbines, submachine guns, and even mortars made the Japanese army powerless.

Chen Yu didn't take his carbine to join the battle, but hid in the gun tower and watched the battle through binoculars.Seeing the young faces of the Japanese soldiers, under the reflection of the fire, screaming and screaming, they were fearlessly destroyed under the guns.

Young people with bodies as young as him shouldn't have such ferocious faces. Chen Yu was stunned to see those people falling under the rain of dense bullets.In the past, I was as brave as them and charged forward, and people around me fell down one after another. Now it's the Japanese army's turn to repeat the same mistakes, and it's their turn to experience what powerlessness is.

This was supposed to be a gift for the expeditionary army, just like the tree fort and the reverse slope, now let Takeuchi swallow this evil fruit by himself.

The battle lasted all day and night, and the counterattack force formed by Takeuchihua's huge manpower returned without success in the face of the triangular crossfire.The counterattack force composed of two squadrons hid in desperation on the edge of the town after most of the casualties, and neither dared to continue the attack, nor dared to cross the farmland and return to the dense forest again.

To attack is to die, to escape you have to cross the farmland, and you have to be covered by the range of mortars and heavy machine guns.

Cui Yong's arms were swollen and numb when he shot. The barrel of the Browning heavy machine gun was dropped on the ground, and more than a dozen magazines were emptied of bullets.He stared blankly at the road paved by the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the gunpoint. There were more than [-] Japanese soldiers who died at his gunpoint last night.

In the early morning, Master Mai called the Allied planes to airdrop again. There were bullets and shells for various weapons, maintenance tools and parts for heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and more bullets, bullets, and sufficient bullets.

For three days in a row, Takeuchi seemed to be hurt, and never sent soldiers to reinforce Tongcymbal Town.

The remnants of the Japanese army hiding in the ruined walls on the edge of the town, more than fifty Japanese soldiers.Without food and ammunition supplies, and without any reinforcements, whenever they climbed out of the dilapidated houses to find things on the corpses, they would be strafed by heavy machine guns in the blockhouses and bombarded by mortars.

Chen Yu tortured them all the time, using every means that could scare them.Chen Yu asked people to knead the cooked white rice into balls, throw them far away from the gun tower, and throw the cans and medical kits on the road. While they were picking up the cans and food, it was like they shot and killed the people in the cymbal farmland That way, take the rifle and fire it.

Whoever picks it up will die, it's time to practice marksmanship.

Cannonballs and heavy machine gun bullets randomly fell on the houses where they were hiding 24 hours a day, perhaps because they remembered how they tortured the cymbals, and the last hope of the surviving Japanese soldiers was shattered. Of the more than 50 Japanese soldiers, more than [-] were tortured to death by Chen Yu.

Maybe Takeuchi gave them the order, maybe he knew that there would be no reinforcements and help.

So, on a sunny morning, I sang for two hours.The Japanese soldiers, who were tortured by Chen Yu until they couldn't sleep, committed suicide collectively in a residential house on the edge of the town.

In the afternoon when the Japanese army committed suicide, Yu Xiaoqing called and captured the first line of defense after paying 4 casualties. At this time, seven days had passed since the general offensive was launched.Four hours after the telegram was sent, a speeding M[-] Sherman tank appeared on the road in the valley in the distance, pulling black smoke from the road.

Chen Yu hurriedly sent someone to stop the tank, otherwise it would not be a joke to hit an anti-tank mine.The person on the first tank was Yu Zhi, and there was another tank behind him. Each tank was covered with wounds, obviously having experienced the welcoming ceremony of the Japanese army.

The tanks of the chariot team rushed into two M4 Shermans, and two light tanks were blown up by the Japanese with explosives, and the rest turned around and ran back immediately.

1Chapter 16 Nightfall

After the general offensive force completely captured the first line of defense along the river, and after confirming that the temporary bridge could withstand more than a dozen tons of tanks, Yu Xiaoqing ordered the battle team to break into the road and go to Tongbo for support.

Rapidly advancing from the highway, Yu Zhi, as the chief officer of the combat convoy, stepped on the gas pedal and the exhaust of the tank emitted black smoke.Taking advantage of the uncalibrated Japanese artillery and the inability of infantry weapons to damage the tanks, they rushed all the way.Later, the Japanese army reacted and sent soldiers holding cluster grenades and explosives to block the tanks with flesh and blood.

The two Sherman tanks in the front moved fast, while the two light tanks in the back were blown up by the Japanese army, and the tanks in the back turned their heads to support the frontal battlefield according to the established plan.Two tanks broke into the copper cymbal under artillery fire and the Japanese army blocked it. This was beyond Chen Yu's expectations. He originally thought that maybe one tank could do it, maybe not.

But now that there are tanks, the Japanese army will have to pay a higher price if they want to attack the cymbals.

Guided the tank to drive into the copper cymbal along the route where no anti-tank mines were laid, Yu Zhi jumped out of the car, and then several tank crews came out of it, everyone's face had the feeling of the aftermath of a disaster .

The commandos standing on the cymbal took out food and drinking water. Ten people sat on the ruined wall in two Sherman tanks and drank water in silence. The commandos who watched around them remained silent.

They saw the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the farmland, and also saw the four destroyed Type 94 tanks. They also saw that the town was smashed into powder. Not a single house or courtyard was complete. The only complete buildings were the three gun towers and the fortifications around the gun towers. .

Yu Zhi took a sip of water and shook his head to look at the scrapped Japanese tanks in the farmland: "You guys are doing it well."

"It's very easy to fight." Yao Ma grinned and boasted: "I didn't think the Japanese tanks were easy to fight before, but with the American heavy machine guns, I replaced them with armor-piercing bullets, and a string of bullets pierced them."

"I can penetrate it with one shot." Yu Zhi said.

"Heavy machine guns can penetrate them, let alone tank guns!"

"The master seat will attack the Nantianmen soon."

"Hehehe~~~"

Yu Zhi stood up and said seriously: "Nantianmen will definitely be captured, the Japanese army is at the end of its rope, and the grasshoppers after autumn - they won't be long."

"Hahaha~~~"

"Hahaha~~~" Yao Ma and the others didn't say anything, they just kept laughing.

Yu Zhi put down the kettle angrily: "Believe it or not, you can chop off Takeuchi's dog's head in less than a day. You don't need to shoot and shoot, just squat here and watch."

At this time, Chen Yu came out from the blockhouse and put the notebook in his pocket.He had been counting the number of casualties and weapons and ammunition reserves just now, thinking about how the battle should proceed, and now Takeuchi could only fight with his back, and so did he and many of his colleagues.

"Chen Tuanfu, how many people do you have?" Yu Zhi asked.

Chen Yu took off his helmet and asked the medical soldiers to change his bandages: "93 can shoot, including the artillery, and there are more than a dozen seriously wounded."

"300 people, are there any left?"

Chen Yu couldn't help but roll his eyes: "The Japanese army lost more than 500 people, and we only lost 200 people. The exchange ratio is 1:2. Let's have fun. The tree castle next door is even worse. There are only 5 or 200 people left out of [-] people. Food is almost gone."

"That's enough, we just need to wait for the reinforcements from the division to arrive." Yu Zhi sighed.

"Wait for them, the grass on our grave is several feet high."

Chen Yu drove the soldiers standing outside the fortifications in: "They are all standing here holding their corpses. They don't know how to guard against the Japanese army. The Japanese have their knives stuck to their necks, and they are still laughing. Everyone thinks that the tanks will save their lives. Yours Your life is not in your own hands. When you triumphantly return to Zenda and eat meat with a bowl, your life is your own.

Be alert, don't force me to beat you! "

After driving people into the fortifications, Chen Yucai restrained his anger.Now is the most difficult time. If Takeuchi wants to survive, he has to break through the cymbals, otherwise the road will never pass, and they will not be able to retreat safely.

Yu Zhi asked in bewilderment, "Do you still want to fight?"

"You want to be a deserter if you don't fight?" Chen Yu glanced at Qingliang Sigao and said, "You drive your tanks to the high ground behind and use them as fixed turrets. Your tanks are useless in the alley."

"Then you still ask the commander to let the tank support?"

"If I can cross the river with anti-war guns, I still need a tank. If I want a tank, I want the 75mm gun on your tank. Do you think you can charge with a tank?"

Yu Zhi's face turned red from being scolded, he thought he was very important, but in fact he was very important.He thought tanks were very important, but in fact tanks were not important. Chen Yu only wanted a direct-firing gun, a gun with a longer range than a mortar and with armor-piercing capabilities.

The main attacking force had captured the first line of defense, facing the precarious second line of defense halfway up the mountain, and the tree fort was occupied, resulting in a useless reverse slope line of defense.Takeuchi was unable to capture the tree fort. Facing the crossfire between the artillery fire from the east bank and the tree fort, the massive shells on the east bank greatly helped the tree fort's defense.

Then Takeuchi had only two choices, stick to the reverse slope and wait for death slowly, or mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized, and attack the cymbals that are not guarded by many people.The tank crossing the highway to reach the cymbal is a powerful dose, speeding up Takeuchi's choice.

After Yu Xiaoqing captured the first line of defense, the Sichuan army led by Ah Yi braved the suppression of the Japanese army halfway up the mountain, and began to penetrate along the animal path under the cover of the dense forest.The reinforcements from Yu Xiaoqing's main force could not be counted on, and only Ah Yi's interspersed reinforcements could reach the defense. However, interspersed reinforcements took ten hours, and marching at night was even more difficult.

Chen Yu leaned against the thick granite wall and took out the six-round pistol Yu Xiaoqing gave him.Enough has been done, and if Takeuchi wants to escape, there will be no one guarding the Nantian Gate, which will save many people from dying.This is a large number, which can save more than 3000 deaths, and exchange 300 for 3000.

Interspersed with 300 troops, one life is worth ten lives, no matter how you think about it, it's a lot of money.

Master Mai came over and handed over a piece of paper with an indifferent expression: "Your division commander is calling. They are attacking the second line of defense with such force that the Japanese have lost more than half of their troops. There is also a commendation from the military department. Level up, die, die, and so do they."

Chen Yu glanced at his watch in silence for a moment, put away the six-round pistol and said, "Everyone checks the weapons and ammunition. It is still an hour before dark, and the Japanese army will come two hours after nightfall."

The bullets were loaded, and Yao Ma and Cui Yong had already asked people to bring a large number of ammunition boxes for themselves, as well as the parts and tools needed to replace the barrel of the heavy machine gun.Everyone is checking the ammo for their weapons, and now everyone has two guns so that they can be replaced immediately if they are damaged.

Leaving the blockhouse in the center of the town, Chen Yu went to check the south blockhouse where Bura was stationed, as well as the east blockhouse.The guards on the east side of the gun tower are veterans who used to guard the Myanmar airport with Chen Yu. Chen Yu doesn't want to know and make friends with too many people. It is a very painful thing to make friends with people on the battlefield.

Without too much communication, Chen Yu saw that the old brother was getting someone to carry explosives into the gun tower, stopped to look at it, and then left in a hurry.

Back to the town center gun tower, dead dead sent a telegram, and the Japanese army on the reverse slope braved their firepower and used thick steel plates to transport several [-]-step guns along the ground.

Before, the Japanese army only used gasoline drums to transport weapons and personnel underground, but Takeuchi was desperate. Just transporting the [-]-step artillery and shells across the shooting range of the tree fort cost a small Japanese army reimbursement.

'Woo--! '

The roar of an aircraft engine sounded in the sky. It was an aircraft appearing from behind the cymbals, which also indicated that it was a Japanese aircraft.

1Chapter 17 Under the Night

explosion!

The flames of the explosion were a formation of Japanese bombers bombing the cymbals. The cymbals had been bombed into ruins, and only three gun towers and the surrounding bunker fortifications existed.

This is where the Japanese bombers bombed. Chen Yu and the others hid in the gun tower. He hoped that his luck would not be too unlucky, and the bombs from the Japanese bombers would not bomb directly above the gun tower.The probability of that is very small, but it is just fear.

Every time there was an explosion, the corners of everyone's eyes twitched, blinking.

After bombing back and forth twice, different engine roars sounded in the sky.Chen Yu poked his head out and glanced at the sky, thanking the Flying Tigers Air Force, even though you almost ate up all the cattle in Yunnan, I still want to thank you.

With support from the Flying Tigers, the Japanese bombers, unprotected by escort fighters, became targets.The bomber quickly climbed up and hid in the clouds of the night sky, trying to escape the pursuit of the fighter jets. Without the destruction of the bomber, the sound of explosions was still ringing in my ears, and the entire gun tower was trembling.

"[-]-step gun!"

Chen Yu shouted instantly: "Back to the battle position, the Japanese are coming!"

The shells can explode on the turret. There is no doubt that it is the [-]nd rifle of the Japanese army. Only direct fire can hit the exterior of the turret.

A flare was launched into the air, and the two tanks entrenched on the high ground of Qingliangsi acted as direct-firing guns. Yu Zhi was firing at Zhuyuan, aiming at the [-] infantry gun on the road in the distance, as well as the heavy machine guns on the tanks. .The mortar began to fire uninterruptedly, two rapid fires, four rapid fires, rapid fire, rapid fire...

A puff of smoke drifted in along the firing holes, and the Japanese [-]-step artillery fired gas bombs instead of high-explosive grenades.

"Gas mask, gas mask!"

Chen Yu and Master Mai were rummaging through the pile of boxes on the first floor. There were gas masks.Just in case, Chen Yu wanted all the combat equipment he could think of, and Yu Xiaoqing would not refuse anyone who came. There were more than 100 gas masks in the supplies airdropped by the Allied Forces, and they don't need that many now.

It seems to be back to the time when Nantianmen was firmly guarded, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers rushed into the town from the farmland, wearing gas masks.

The sound of wheezing breath echoed in the gas mask. Chen Yu used a telescope to observe the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side. With the help of the brief tracer of the flares, he saw the Japanese soldiers holding their rifles and bayonets pressed.Perhaps for the spirit of Bushido, each of the soldiers carried explosive packs on their backs or chests, and some of them hung grenades.

Crazy, the Japanese army is crazy.

This kind of madness comes from two lunatics. One lunatic robbed Takeuchi's tree fort and paralyzed his command system, causing the Japanese army at Nantianmen to survive only underground.There's another maniac, he took the back of Takeuchi, now those Japanese want to retreat, want to get out of this damn place, but they have to cross the cymbals first.

Takeuchi didn't have the energy to deal with the lunatics in the tree fort anymore, he could only discipline the lunatics who cut off his retreat.

In the yellow poisonous gas, the Japanese soldiers were indistinct, and the bullets rushed towards them densely, and some bullets also shot towards the gun tower.Fortunately, a few bullets came in from the shooting hole and hit a shooter who was manipulating a light machine gun imitated from the Czech Republic. The deputy shooter immediately took over his position, and another submachine gunner dropped his gun for him to be the deputy shooter.

Chen Yu carried a large pile of gas masks from the first floor to distribute to everyone, and at the same time carried ammunition boxes for them.Chen Yu is not a commander now, this kind of battle does not need a commander, the role of an ammunition officer is more important than a commander.

The saturated charge allowed the Japanese army to rush into the fortification for the first time within more than 20 meters, and an orange-red flame gushed out of the bunker fortification below the gun tower.The flamethrowers submerged the charging Japanese army in the flames, and the sticky napalm could not get rid of it.

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