March 30, 1941, Du Fu Thatched Cottage, the former enemy headquarters of the New First Army
Wang Yue helped Li Yunlong contact the "tactical guidance" in this time and space. Li Yunlong on the other side was also busy without touching the ground. The Southern Bureau, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Huangshan Official Residence had only one purpose, which was to request permission to use chemical weapons to attack the Japanese army in Wushan. , the most basic conditions for the Japanese army to launch the Great Battle of Eastern Sichuan no longer existed.
Although everyone knew that Li Yunlong was right, almost every aspect opposed the matter. Until Wang Yue brought the poison gas, Li Yunlong only convinced General Chen of the Military and Political Department, and he only maintained Silent promise, how can this work? This is the rhythm of making the son of our plane a scapegoat.
Wang Yue immediately used his "money power" and began his own unique lobbying. In the end, at the cost of 200 P-39 fighter jets, he received an order from the highest authority requiring the newly formed First Army to use any means to seize Wushan at any cost. , and the Eighth Route Army also expressed after receiving the assistance of 100 P-39 fighter jets that as long as the final general offensive order was not issued by Eighth Route Army personnel.
On the 30th, the four divisions of the New First Army took turns to go into battle, constantly advancing with tank troops, destroying the Japanese perimeter warning positions. Anan Weiji judged that this should be a precursor to the national army preparing to launch a large-scale attack, and simply gave up. Part of the warning positions, concentrated the main force to stick to the second-line positions. He believed that relying on the terrain of Wushan as a support, he would have to pay at least 100,000 casualties for those second-line positions, and there were only so many national troops on the opposite side now.
It's just that Anan Weiji didn't understand why the Chinese Air Force was bombing Wushan Xijuan's position with all its strength all day long? Because it is of little significance, his second line of defense has basically built a semi-permanent fortification group. It is difficult for the Chinese Air Force's one hundred B-25 bombers to completely destroy it because it does not yet have the firepower density to carry out bombing on complex terrain. However, It's not a big problem, anyway, it consumes the opponent's precious resource reserves.
The only thing that made Anan Weiji angry was the idiots in the navy, because they didn't discover the small wooden minelayers of the Chinese Navy and let the other side place hundreds of mines near Wushan, making it impossible for the naval fleet to get close to support the mines on Wushan. garrison troops.
But the problem is not big. Although he lost a batch when he was in Zhongxian, he now has more than 500 captured artillery pieces and his own artillery pieces, and has sufficient ammunition reserves. He is not afraid of fighting against the new enemy on the opposite side. When the army was engaged in an artillery battle, even the B-4 howitzers in the hands of the New First Army did not dare to speak easily, because there was no generational difference in long-range firepower between the two sides.
After nightfall on the 30th, the artillery unit of the newly formed First Army advanced towards the core defense line of the Japanese army under the cover of tank units. If Anan Weiji knew about it, he would definitely understand the purpose of the opponent's indiscriminate bombing during the day regardless of the cost. It was nothing more than forcing him to The troops retreated to prevent the advancing troops from rushing into these forward-deployed mortars.
A hundred M1938 120mm mortars can definitely be regarded as a large artillery group on the Chinese battlefield. Even if there are large 150mm mortars in the hands of ghosts, there are only so many mortars in a division. It is impossible to form such a group. The artillery group, however, the current artillery position is extremely deserted. A large number of soldiers wearing full-body protective clothing are checking every artillery shell there lightly, and the soldiers responsible for guarding are scattered far around. Some vehicles were still on, apparently ready to evacuate at any time.
It was actually the first time they used such powerful poison gas shells. It is said that the toxicity is not comparable to the mustard gas of the Japanese. A total of 10,000 rounds of large-caliber mortar shells. This is just one position. There are four such preset positions in the surrounding area of Wushan. Each position has prepared 10,000 rounds of artillery shells. Li Yunlong does not plan to be frugal. , 50,000 rounds of artillery shells, and he plans to use them all at once. Since chemical weapons have been used, he will simply get a big one.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the New First Army's artillery group opened fire first. Hundreds of artillery pieces were scattered in more than a dozen artillery positions, and began to launch a sudden artillery attack on the Japanese positions. The shelling only lasted a few minutes, and the Japanese artillery over there had not yet calculated. The artillery stopped at their artillery position. After the Japanese counterattack started, the artillery of the New First Army here had already moved its position.
However, the exposed Japanese artillery was destroyed by the B-4 howitzer of the New First Army. As before, the bombardment stopped after a while, apparently shifting the position. This time, Anan barely ordered the B-4 howitzer in his hand. -4 howitzers opened fire. He knew that he had relatively few B-4 howitzers and could not easily expose his position. He had to save these artillery pieces for the most appropriate time to fire.
In this way, in the next few hours, the New First Army and the Japanese Eleventh Army launched repeated artillery bombardments and counter-battery bombardments. The fighting was back and forth with losses to each other, and the torment lasted until midnight. It wasn't until after one o'clock that the fight finally stopped, leaving both parties exhausted.
But just when everyone thought that tonight's battle was coming to an end, raindrops of artillery shells hit the Japanese positions again. The Japanese and puppet troops on the front line subconsciously seemed to avoid the shelling, but after waiting for a long time, there was still no news. There was the sound of exploding shells. Seeing this scene, Anan Weiji suddenly felt something bad.
Sure enough, frontline troops soon reported that they had been attacked by special bombs from their opponents. However, compared to the frontline positions that sent back the news, more positions continued to lose contact, and the number was increasing. Obviously, they The opponent launched a special bomb attack on an unprecedented scale.
He intended to let the artillery troops counterattack immediately, but the opponent used large-caliber mortars. At such a night, it was difficult to grasp the position of the opponent's artillery position, and it was impossible to launch a counterattack. In just ten minutes, his first There are only a few points left on the second line of defense that are still in contact with the headquarters, but the situation is not optimistic. The commanders of the three points combined can control less than a thousand troops.
The position is shrouded in poisonous mist. This is a brand-new poisonous gas. It is colorless and has a light fruity aroma. Even if you wear a gas mask, you cannot completely isolate it because the skin absorbs it very well. As long as the skin is exposed to the poisonous mist, Among them, symptoms such as pupil constriction, difficulty breathing, bronchoconstriction, and violent convulsions will soon appear, and death from suffocation can occur within just a few minutes.
Now Anan Weiji could only pray that the poisonous fog would dissipate as soon as possible so that he could mobilize troops to fill the second-line positions. However, he was not too panicked. In this situation, the opponent could not seize the position. After all, gas masks were not cheap.
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