"Labor and capital are fighting back again!" Li Yunlong looked at the familiar landscape in the south of Yangcheng and looked back at the strong and powerful team behind him. When he fought out, he led the first attack group and the second attack group, with a total of only more than 6,000 people. horse.
But now that we are back, the first attack group alone has more than 8,000 people!
His goal was to block the southward escape route of the Yangcheng Japs.
At the same time, the second attack group led by Xing Zhiguo detoured lightly to the east of Yangcheng. With more than 6,000 people, together with two newly formed guard regiments from the military division, they locked the Japs' eastward route.
In the north, the base area had long been recovered, and the main force of Jinsui was watching.
This allowed Gao Jianwu to calmly lead the third attack group and the fourth attack group with Shen Quan, and slowly besieged Yangcheng from the west with the main force.
This time, in addition to sending troops by surprise and quickly detouring to block the three brigades of Japs entangled in Yangcheng, the rest were advancing in an upright manner. Gao Jianwu began to clean up the remnants of the Japs in Jin and test the strength of the newly formed attack group. .
Starting from Jinyang, along the way, the Third Attack Group opened the way with an infantry battalion and a support artillery battalion. Whether it was a county town or a stronghold, the battle was resolved very quickly. The horse-based support artillery battalion completely kept up with the advancing speed of the infantry battalion. , when encountering a stronghold, use fierce firepower to directly blast the stronghold bunker. A company basically cleans the battlefield if it goes up.
This battle was planned, and the surrounding county brigades and district squads were notified in advance. They would carry out the final cleaning of the battlefield and leave most of the captured materials to the local areas for their own development. In this way, Gao Jianwu's attack group's marching speed was almost unaffected. Influence.
Even in the county town, it only takes an hour or two to end the main battle, and then hand it over to local troops for final clearance.
So when Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo returned to their positions in a roundabout way, Gao Jianwu and Shen Quan were also standing on the land in the western suburbs of Yangcheng.
“The Fourth Brigade has constructed a complete defensive position in the western suburbs, consisting of bunkers and criss-crossing trenches, as a key defensive position.
Our inside information shows that the Japs parachuted a lieutenant general named Nishio Shoucheng. As the commander-in-chief of Yangcheng, he coordinated the command of the entire army in an attempt to build Yangcheng as a bridgehead to recapture Jinyang.
To the east, Nishio Shoucheng placed the Lianjie Special Detachment near the train station and built a defense system based on bunkers.
In the southern suburbs, there is the defensive position of the 14th Brigade, which is also mainly composed of trenches and bunkers. Without overwhelming artillery fire, it is almost impossible to advance solely by infantry. "
Shen Quan acted as chief of staff this time and shared the collected intelligence with Gao Jianwu.
"It's okay. We have two main artillery battalions and three support artillery battalions here this time. Although small things like bunkers are a bit annoying, they can't stop us. At most, they will only add a little trouble to us."
Gao Jianwu said easily.
A hastily built bunker like the Little Devil does not even have reinforced concrete. It is a masonry and civil structure at best. It can protect against mortar attacks, but it does not have much protection against 75mm mountain cannons, howitzers, and 105mm howitzers. Defense effect.
Of course it's a bit useless.
But after winning the Jinyang Arsenal, do the artillery shells still need to be considered by Gao Jianwu?
Well, if it were a European battlefield, even cheating Gao Jianwu would really require careful calculation, but here, Gao Jianwu was not facing the Maginot Line.
"Submit the battle plan and launch an attack immediately. Let the little devils know that they will be destroyed when they stay in Jin!" Gao Jianwu looked at the looming trench not far away and said to the combat staff beside him.
"Yes!" The combat staff officer began to direct the walkie-talkie communications troops, issuing combat orders and combat objectives one by one according to the plan.
Everything started moving like a sophisticated machine.
Gao Jianwu used his telescope to overlay and mark the remote enemy bunkers and trenches on the map in his mind, and quickly established an accurate mental coordinate system of the on-site combat terrain map!
The artillery commander who had entered the artillery position in advance began to receive the coordinates of the artillery targets and the parameters of the artillery from Gao Jianwu.
Soon, dozens of long-range howitzers began to roar!
The bunkers were opened one by one by artillery shells. On the position and in the trenches, artillery shells one after another began to fall in the trenches, blasting the little devils inside until they howled like ghosts, and their broken limbs flew everywhere!
Separated by six or seven kilometers, Gao Jianwu's main artillery battalion had no opponent at all. The two main artillery battalions' 36 large-caliber field guns and howitzers turned the Japs' position upside down.
For ordinary brigade-level Japs, the most powerful artillery is the Type 41 75mm mountain cannon or other similar types of mountain cannon. Even the Type 38 75mm field cannon is relatively rare. Now there are only 6 in the entire Yangcheng.
At this moment, they were holding back and wanted to be covered by the charging Eighth Route Army.
But how could Gao Jianwu give them a chance?
The artillery observation posts sent out all around are monitoring the movements of the surrounding little devils at any time.
When the little Japanese couldn't help but fire, the artillery observation post discovered the target immediately and synchronized the information to Gao Jianwu through the walkie-talkie. In less than three to five minutes, the main artillery battalion adjusted over. Aim at the discovered Jaap artillery positions and carry out coverage strikes.
Basically, in one or two rounds, the Japs artillery position was reduced to ruins.
With the strongest artillery configuration and the strongest artillery commander, the defensive position of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade was almost as vulnerable as that of Zhihu.
The deafening sound of "boom, boom, boom" lasted for almost an hour before Gao Jianwu let the assaulting soldiers touch it to confirm the true results!
Although the progress is slightly slow, the safety of infantry advancement has been greatly improved.
The new assault group that Gao Jianwu has formed now is full of treasures, and he will naturally be satisfied if the casualties are kept to a very low level.
Now directing long-range artillery fire to carry out coverage strikes, Gao Jianwu hopes to clear the threatening bunkers or trenches discovered during the attack as soon as possible.
There are now several artillery battalions with different types of artillery, which can fully support Gao Jianwu's idea.
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"The first company is up! The second and third companies are outflanking from both sides. The fire company provides fire support. Don't use mortars to save shells for labor. Conduct covering artillery along the direction of the first company's advance to suppress the counterattack firepower of the Japs."
Zhao Dalei is now the commander of the 9th Infantry Battalion in the Ping'an Division and is responsible for the main offensive task.
Facing the smoke-filled battlefield, he commanded his troops to advance layer by layer.
There was no bunker, so they pushed forward from one shell crater to another. When they encountered a bunker, they directly called the supporting artillery battalion to destroy it directly. As for the machine gun fire points, the mortar team in the company could deal with them by themselves.
The 92nd Infantry Artillery Battery supporting the 1st Battalion of the Artillery Battalion followed the main force of the 9th Infantry Battalion, about one kilometer away from the enemy position, and almost directly aimed at the enemy's firepower point and started firing!
The two mountain artillery companies are deployed behind the 9th Infantry Battalion, providing the 9th Infantry Battalion with covering and accompanying advancing artillery suppression, clearing targets 200 to 500 meters in front of the assault company!
Coupled with the long-range artillery commanded by Gao Jianwu, after clearing the ground with artillery shells in advance, as the infantry began to charge, the target extended to 500 meters away, forming a layered fire coverage strike pattern.
At short range, the battalion's heavy machine gun company and the company's light machine gun formed a crossfire.
The little devils in front of them were a defensive team, and they were almost suppressed to the point where they couldn't even lift their heads.
"Is this the infantry-artillery coordination and fire coverage attack mode you mentioned, Lao Gao? I didn't expect it to be so powerful even against the Japanese field troops." At the forward command post not far behind the 9th Infantry Battalion, Shen Quan Seeing that his side had an absolute advantage through the telescope, he was greatly shocked. While observing, he said to Gao Jianwu beside him.
"Yes, we have achieved preliminary infantry and artillery coordination at present, but it is not complete yet." Gao Jianwu also answered while observing the artillery target, "The current firepower intensity is still far from enough. In the future, there will be one more rocket launcher and artillery unit. Battalion, just put 6 of the 107mm rocket launchers we are currently studying, and the current position of the little devil will be cleared by artillery fire in a short time."
"But artillery coverage alone is not enough. In the future, when our tanks are in place, we will use tanks to charge forward, and the infantry will follow the tanks. This kind of attack is the perfect attack mode for infantry."
"My dear, I can't even think of how to crack this perfect attack mode now. With the addition of tanks, it's no longer just bullying the little devils. It's even more difficult to crack than when they attacked us a year ago." Shen Quan sighed, feeling sorry for the little devil. The devils observed a moment of silence.
In his mind, the current infantry-artillery coordination is basically the perfect attack method in his mind, but he didn't expect Gao Jianwu to be dissatisfied. However, if he thought about it, if there were a few more tanks and the machine gun firepower was ignored, Then the attack speed will definitely be faster.
Because the assault troops did not need to stop to let the mortars unplug their machine gun fire points, the tanks could directly aim and shoot and it was done!
"Where are we now? We now have our own heavy industry system, and soon we will produce our own fighter jets and bombers. By then, there will be fighter jets in the sky dropping big bombs on the heads of the little devils, achieving air-ground coordination. That is the real The perfect attack mode." Gao Jianwu responded with a smile.
The impact he has brought to the Ping An Division has been great. People like Li Yunlong, who used to command troops, basically relied on the tactics of large crowds and personal fighting, are now completely out of step with the times, so Lao Li followed Gao Jianwu all the way here. , there have been great changes in my thinking.
Firepower is king has gradually become the consensus among the top leaders of the Ping An Division. With the abundant artillery shells provided by Gao Jianwu, everyone will no longer be careful and save the artillery shells for use at critical moments. Combat casualties have been controlled to a level that was unimaginable before. .
"Order the 10th Battalion and the 11th Battalion to follow up. The 9th Battalion will immediately open the door. After the 9th Battalion breaks through, the 10th and 11th Battalions will continue to expand the results from the two wings and finish the little devil west in two hours. Suburban position!"
After the long-range artillery broke through the depth of the Japs' position, Gao Jianwu saw that the Japs in front of him had been defeated, and decisively ordered a full-scale assault!
