The east wind...has arrived!
Not the "Big Dongfeng", but the "Little Dongfeng" with a caliber of 107 mm, a 12-tube assembly, and a total combat weight of less than one ton!
In another timeline, this 107mm rocket launcher was the best partner for the AK assault rifle. Now that the Ming Dynasty Army has assault rifles, how can it not have the 107mm "Little Dongfeng"?
However, this kind of "Little Dongfeng", like the assault rifle, is now a high-end, elegant and high-end good thing, which the slipper guerrillas do not have. Assault rifles are used as squad machine guns in ordinary army units. A squad is only given two, and they can fire in turns, forming a continuous firepower that can be transferred after one shot. In the armored mixed brigade, this is the standard equipment for armored infantry. The 107mm "Little Dongfeng", because of its light weight, strong firepower, relatively short range, and very easy to operate, does not even require professional artillery and can be used by trained armored infantry (but it is usually still used by artillery) used), so it was regarded as a "road-opening artifact" for wheeled armored vehicles. When marching and fighting, the "Little Dongfeng" and 107mm rocket ammunition trucks can be hung on the back of the six-wheeled armored vehicle, and they can charge into the battle. When encountering an enemy's strongly fortified position, before the armored vehicles launch an attack, first "wash the ground with the east wind" and then the armored assault!
Of course, in the previous landing campaign, "Little Dongfeng" did not play. Because "Little Dongfeng" does not have "submarine launch" capabilities, it is impossible to ignite and launch in sea water. So the British army still doesn’t know the power of the east wind!
But in this armored assault on the Tibertop Mountain front, General Mu is ready to use all his strength!
So...the east wind will rise!
The sky was gradually getting brighter, and history reached the early morning of January 21, 1833.
Sudden attacks, as recommended in most military textbooks, are always launched in the early morning. This time is often when the enemy is the sleepiest and most sleepy, especially since this group of enemies had previously conducted long-distance marches and 6 consecutive attacks for 7 days. The fierce attack in the night made everyone exhausted to the extreme. Although General Hugh Gough had issued an urgent order to prepare for war all night, his order had to be conveyed level by level. And just when the order was passed down, but not yet passed to the soldiers at the grassroots level, the bodies of the British and Indian officers and soldiers huddled in the trenches trembled, and a flash of light passed over the Ming army position opposite.
The Ming army's artillery bombardment suddenly started!
The east wind of the Ming army finally blew!
The artillery shells and rockets passed through the positions held by the British, Indian and Japanese troops like hurricanes, with an astonishing momentum! Especially those 107mm "Little Dongfeng" rockets, although their caliber is small, their weight is less than 20 kilograms and their range is less than 8 kilometers. But this kind of rocket trailed an orange-red tail flame, whirled and made a whistling sound. Thousands of them gathered together and cut through the night sky, just like a sea of fire coming from the sky, rushing towards the enemy's positions. The scene is as scary as it gets! Some thieves who had done all kinds of bad things didn't understand the situation for a while, and thought they were going to hell. They burst into tears at that time... It turns out that there really is hell! If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have done so many bad things!
However, the British artillery group responded very quickly, and immediately began a rumbling counterattack. However, the artillery firepower of the Ming army on the front line of Taibultop Mountain was much stronger than that of the British army who came from afar. The British army used drafts to pull over some 6-inch short-barreled grenades, 3.7-inch field guns and 2.7-inch cannons. Infantry artillery can only hit the Ming army's forward positions, but cannot deal with the Ming army's artillery group at all.
However, the Ming army deployed 5 regiments of 155mm cannons, which can form a powerful suppressive artillery firepower. They had already stretched out their necks, waiting for the British artillery group to fire! Several airships dedicated to artillery fire have already been waiting in the dark night sky. The observers above can directly guide the artillery group on the ground to shoot and cover the British artillery through telegraphs.
The exposed artillery positions of the British army were suddenly filled with blood and flesh!
At the same time, a newly built airstrip near Liberation Beach has been illuminated by white light pillars. One after another, Ssangyong 2 bombers roared and taxied on the illuminated runway. It passed by, then jumped up and flew into the sky. After a while, several black aircraft groups were formed, overwhelmingly pressing towards the British line.
The Ming army's artillery also began to fire intensively. 75mm infantry guns and mountain cannons, 120mm light howitzers, 155mm medium howitzers, and 80mm and 120mm mortars all joined in the death. Cantata.
The artillery shells, rockets, and bombs rained down one after another, which not only made the British troops on the front line feel what a real hell of artillery fire was, but also destroyed the few obstacles in front of the British positions with the highest efficiency. The artillery shells also fell into the British positions in groups, and the smoke columns and fireballs quickly formed into one. Where the artillery fire was thickest, the ground trembled. The ground was crushed inch by inch, seemingly destroying everything, leaving only the pitted ground, which looked like the surface of the moon.
All the communication lines of the British army are shouting, the Ming army is obviously going to launch a major counterattack! All the battalion commanders and company commanders who could still use the phone to call the rear felt that the position they were responsible for was the key breakthrough direction of the Ming army!
In the real direction of the Ming army's main attack, because the Ming army's artillery fire was too fierce, even the telephone lines were blown up, and the communication soldiers did not dare to check the lines, so there was no way to report for a while.
Because the British army's forward position was very poorly built - they just started digging trenches and setting up defenses! So the Ming army's artillery fire soon began to extend backwards.
The extension of artillery fire means that the infantry attack is about to begin. The British soldiers who finally survived the shelling were driven by their officers to carry rifles, grenades, and machine guns along the traffic trenches toward the forward positions, where they were ready to meet the first wave of Ming army's impact.
On both sides of Highway 1, the infantrymen who had just survived the overwhelming bombardment of artillery shells, mortar shells and Xiaodongfeng rockets entered the forward positions that had been bombed to pieces, and heard the roar of motors. Voice!
Feeling a little strange, the British, Indian and Japanese soldiers climbed to the edge of the trench one after another, poked half of their heads out and looked out. Then they saw hundreds of armored tanks displayed on a long front. What kind of figure. These motor vehicles puffed out white smoke, swaying forward on the front line that was pockmarked by artillery shells, and rumbled towards the British positions.
This is not the first time that the British troops here have seen armored chariots, but what they have seen before is only a few or a dozen armored chariots. This is the first time that hundreds of armored chariots have been gathered together. See you there!
The British, Indian, and Japanese troops on the entire front were stunned. They just looked at these strange-looking armored vehicles with their mouths wide open, as if they rushed out of hell... Their number was so impressive. There seemed to be many infantrymen holding "machine guns" (assault rifles) covering the attack. It was impossible to resist!
And the Highway 1 they guard is the main road to Sydney. If it is opened by the Ming army's armored vehicles, these tanks with 6 wheels and carrying various artillery and machine guns will probably be destroyed. Break through all the way south along the road! Maybe it will break through to the outer reaches of Sydney...
