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Chapter 867 Battle 7

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    "Inform the people in the guard camp to clear those two positions. Clear the passage for the motorized infantry regiment's attack," Xia Yang said.

    Hu San heard this and immediately said: "Yes, Master."

    After finishing speaking, he immediately led his soldiers from the guard battalion and began to divide into two teams to attack the machine gun positions and combat artillery positions built by the Japanese army on both wings.

    At the same time, the sniper team also began to advance the sniper position and continued to carry out long-distance sniping against the fire support points on the Japanese rear line.

    Sato Yanagawa, in the semi-embedded bunker, watched the troops on both wings deploy smoothly.  The enemy's motorized infantry regiment in the rear also began to slowly come to a standstill under the firepower of heavy machine guns and combat artillery on both wings.

    Seeing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

    Because this means that the enemy may not continue such a violent attack considering the casualties.

    After all, although such an attack is fierce, correspondingly, in such a high-intensity battle, the casualties of soldiers will be a big problem.

    As long as Xia Yang didn't care about this, he didn't dare to continue the fierce attack.  Then their fifth brigade can build a simple position in this open area to support them until their reinforcements arrive.

    It¡¯s now four o¡¯clock in the afternoon, and there are still more than three hours before dark.

    Once it gets dark, the enemy's attack should come to a standstill.  Sato Yanagawa thought this way, and that was their opportunity. Taking advantage of the darkness to build a position and choose to continue to hold on, or find an opportunity to break through directly, were all ways to preserve their main force.

    Of course, Sato Yanagawa is more inclined to choose the former at this time, because in this way, once the reinforcements arrive, they can complete the counter-encirclement of these enemies. Not to mention annihilating them all, it is enough to cause huge casualties to them.

    After thinking about this clearly, Sato Yanagawa breathed a sigh of relief.

    But at this moment, a roaring sound suddenly came from the front.

    Sato Yanagawa turned his head and saw that his troops were on the temporarily constructed defense lines on both wings, and the rumble of artillery had already started.

    At this time, the artillery regiment began, under the command of Cai Heyuan, to launch a ferocious bombardment of the Japanese troops' temporary positions on both wings.

    The artillery shells flew several kilometers from the artillery position and landed directly on the heads of the Japanese troops.

    The Japanese army was not yet on a stable footing at this time, and the rest time they had just had was only more than half an hour.  For more than half an hour, they were busy building positions and digging foxholes.

    With the successive shelling attacks, these Japanese soldiers had no place to hide.  Only some soldiers who dug foxholes got into the foxholes, covered their helmets with their palms, and shivered.

    As the shelling continued, the Japanese soldiers began to suffer a lot of casualties.

    Although the area they were in was not small, there was really no bunker. If they were exposed to artillery fire, their casualties would naturally be even more severe.

    While the artillery regiment was shelling, the tank regiments and cavalry regiments on both wings were already ready for battle.

    They reloaded their ammunition, and during this time, they transported the wounded to the rear and began to appropriately adjust the formation of tanks and armored vehicles.

    Sato Yanagawa is hidden in the bunker. Occasionally, artillery shells will fall on their side, but the location here is slightly further back and is basically beyond the fire coverage of the artillery regiment.

    He took out his binoculars and looked at the battlefield covered in artillery fire, his heart pounding.

    The bombardment started at about four o'clock and continued until about five o'clock, when it gradually subsided.

    The whole time lasted for more than half an hour, with thousands of artillery shells bombarding the open land where the Japanese army was.

    In that area that was riddled with holes, you could clearly see the corpses of countless Japanese soldiers, as well as the tanks and armored vehicles that had been bombarded into scrap metal, burning in the wilderness.

    The Japanese soldiers climbed out of the foxholes and shook the dust off their heads.  Look into the distance where the gunpowder smoke gradually dissipates.

    The smoke caused by the shelling has not dissipated at this time, but behind the smoke, they can hear the faint rumbling sound, starting to approach them.

    You don¡¯t need to think about it to know that it is the tank regiment of the Fourth Division, advancing this way."Build a position!!!" The Japanese officers shouted loudly there.

    They used foxholes and craters created by artillery shells to quickly build positions.  At the same time, the few dozen remaining tanks and armored vehicles also began preparations for battle.

    Behind the smoke, thousands of soldiers from the tank regiment began to advance rapidly under the cover of tanks.

    The Japanese army had almost no anti-tank weapons. The only weapons they could use were the artillery on dozens of tanks and a small number of combat anti-tank guns.  Otherwise, they would just rely on flesh and blood to stuff the explosive packets under the tanks.

    It¡¯s just that this kind of combat method will have almost no practical effect in the Second Tank Regiment and the Third Tank Regiment, which have excellent infantry-tank coordination tactics.  Those soldiers were basically turned into sieves by the crossfire of machine guns and rifles before they encountered the tanks.

    The smoke of gunfire is getting lighter and lighter, and the sound of the tank engine rumbling along with it is getting clearer and clearer.

    The Japanese soldiers were hiding in foxholes, holding up their rifles while nervously watching the huge tanks gradually emerge from the smoke.

    "Fire!!!" the Japanese commander shouted.

    The Japanese soldiers in the foxholes began to fire violently.

    But these bullets cannot penetrate the thickened tank armor plates, not even their heavy machine guns.  The real threats to these tanks are the combat anti-cannons and the artillery on the tanks.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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