The army advanced, and after a long journey of more than 300 kilometers on difficult mountain trails, they finally arrived at Monywa, which was heavily fortified by the Japs.
The enemy in front of you is the 15th Division. The current division leader is Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi. This division is not considered the main division of the Little Devils, but a typical three-unit guard division. It is composed of the 51st Regiment, the 60th Regiment, The 67th Regiment is composed of 7 regiment-level units, including the 15th Search Regiment, the 21st Field Artillery Regiment, the 15th Engineer Regiment, and the 15th Transport Regiment.
Second Theater Expeditionary Force Group Headquarters.
Colonel Smith assumed the role of Gao Jianwu's adjutant well and placed a stack of aerial reconnaissance photos and a 15th Division defense map in front of everyone.
With the help of the Allied Forces, we can get to the bottom of the little devil's defense intelligence.
Gao Jianwu knew about Monywa because there was a huge copper mine here. After all, it was a strategic mine that Watu invested in and developed. So this is basically a must-visit place scheduled by Gao Jianwu.
He looked at the map provided by Colonel Smith and compared it with the high-definition map in his mind. He quickly matched it and began to form a 10 km * 10 km grid map with precise coordinates. Gao Jian's other irrelevant things Removed, leaving only the position of the Japs and a few landmark buildings, and a simple grid line map was generated in the brain.
The location of the cluster artillery positions was quickly determined, and a brief cheat sheet of artillery bombardment targets was quickly output in his mind.
While Chu Yunfei and the others were still discussing how to attack based on map information, Gao Jianwu had already completed the general plan for the entire operation.
In front of everyone, Gao Jianwu took a ruler and pencil and began to draw a grid with an accuracy of 50 meters on a 2-meter-long piece of white paper. He confirmed that the main position of the Monywa Japs was the coordinates of position 0 (0, 0), start to mark the positions that appear on the reconnaissance photo intelligence, name them one by one and mark the position relative to position 0!
Soon Chu Yunfei and Colonel Smith discovered the horror of Gao Jianwu!
Because he almost didn't hesitate to draw the map targets everywhere as if he had a belly in his mind.
This amazing ability to see map directions is simply astounding.
"Okay everyone, I have marked the little Japanese positions and the places where we will launch the attack one by one on the map. Here and here are our No. 1 artillery position and No. 2 artillery position. The main artillery of our group will be The array is here.
Based on the location of the Little Japanese's artillery position, their main artillery fire extension will not be able to cover our artillery position.
And our artillery completely covers all the main positions of the little devils.
Therefore, after the general offensive began, the artillery took the lead in launching a covering artillery bombardment on the Little Japanese artillery positions to destroy their artillery power.
Next, the artillery of each attack group opened fire together to destroy the fire targets such as the fixed bunkers set up by the Japs on the other side of the river.
Create conditions for the engineering troops to build pontoon bridges.
After the artillery made progress, the main attack force crossed the river to attack.
Before that, Lao Ding's first attack group took the lead in crossing the Chindon River about 10 kilometers upstream, bypassing the Little Japanese defensive positions on the other side, outflanking and blocking their retreat, and when the main attack did not go well. , attack from the flank.
The second attack group in Yunfei will undertake the main frontal attack mission.
This time, because we are separated by the wide Chinton River, our ability to cross the river is severely limited. The limited engineer pontoon force is limited and we cannot attack at the same time. The third attack group and the fourth attack group serve as reserves. "
As Gao Jianwu spoke, he marked the locations of each attack group on the map, so that everyone could clearly see where their attack group should go.
"This operation started at zero o'clock, and each unit took advantage of the night to enter the designated position. Then we launched the attack at dawn.
Taking into account the time it takes for Lao Ding to take a detour, it is expected that the attack will be launched five hours after Lao Ding sets off. The specific time of the total attack will be based on the radio code of Lao Ding's arrival at the predetermined location. "
"Considering the tight defense of this area by the Little Japanese, there is a possibility that Lao Ding's smuggling will be discovered. If so, we will bombard the Little Japanese's artillery positions in advance to destroy his artillery.
Then, artillery fire was used to prevent the enemy reinforcements and blockade on the other side, and the first attack group directly crossed the Chinton River. "
Although Gao Jianwu's plan is a bit rough, it is not impossible to realize it given the current strength.
So after everyone listened, they had no opinions and went down to prepare.
Although there are still some details that have not been elaborated, these should be issues for each attack group to operate on their own.
Gao Jianwu only needs to put forward his own big combat goals.
The rest is left to each attack group to refine.
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15th Division Headquarters.
Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masabumi almost frowned.
The expeditionary military aircraft attack group in the second theater included tens of thousands of people. Of course, the little devil will not turn a blind eye.
Taking into account the weak artillery capabilities of the 15th Division, the 22nd Division sent a new artillery regiment, which greatly improved Yamauchi Masafumi's artillery strength.
But this was still not enough. According to intelligence, Masafumi Yamauchi knew that the opponent's artillery was ridiculously strong.
To this end, he requested tactical guidance from the commander of the 15th Army. Air force reinforcements were requested. It's just that the Allied air force here far exceeds theirs, and the commander of the 15th Army called back to do his best.
In fact, he declined his request politely.
"Gao Pinjun, how do you think the enemy will launch an attack?" Masafumi Yamauchi turned to his chief of staff, Major General Gao Pinbiao, and asked.
"Yamauchi-kun, if I were the enemy, I would obviously send two teams across the river to fight if I had the upper hand." Major General Gao Pinbiao replied without hesitation.
"This is the place where they are most likely to stow away. It is recommended to send at least one brigade to defend here." The location pointed out by Major General Gao Pinbiao was surprisingly the place where Gao Jianwu suggested stowaway!
Because that is the narrowest place on the river. Anyone who is familiar with the terrain here knows that it is a good place to cross the river.
"Xinxi, as you wish, send a large team to defend there immediately!" Masafumi Yamauchi said without hesitation.
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On the other side, Gao Jianwu actually knew this, so he told Ding Wei before he set off: If the sneak crossing fails, it will directly become a force attack.
Because Gao Jianwu set the main artillery battalion position just within reach of these two battlefields.
So even if the little devil was defending there, Gao Jianwu said it didn't matter and just used his strength to crush him.
24 155mm howitzers and 48 105mm howitzers are not vegetarian. Even if the Japs put a brigade there, it would be useless, because Ding Wei still has an artillery battalion!
This is pure bullying when firepower is king. Even if the little devil sees an opportunity, no matter what, he will still be bombarded by artillery and leave nothing behind.
As soon as midnight arrived, the assault company sent by Ding Wei began to swim with arms further upstream.
The assault company's operation was very successful. They successfully reached the other side without alerting the little Japanese's secret sentry...
The members of the assault company who were the first to swim across the river then used the long ropes that were placed across the river to drag the rubber boats across to transport their company's weapons and ammunition.
After they reached the target location along the river bank, they suddenly encountered the little devil's secret whistle. Caught off guard, both sides opened fire almost at the same time, instantly waking up the 3rd Brigade of the 51st Regiment, which had just arrived.
This group of prepared little devils immediately took action and surrounded the place where the shots were fired.
The commander of the assault company did not panic when he saw the groups of Japs. Instead, he ordered the deployment of positions and carefully observed the movements of the Japs with binoculars.
Although the target was exposed, the other party did not know how many of them there were.
After quickly determining the opponent's position. The commander of the assault company began to call for artillery fire.
Seeing that the sneak attack failed, Gao Jianwu also gave up his illusions and ordered the main artillery to directly blast the Japs' artillery positions.
The little devil had no idea that the opponent's artillery was so sharp, launching a direct bombardment at night, and delivering large-caliber artillery shells to his own artillery position very accurately!
Although they have made fortifications to prevent shelling, they are basically for 75mm howitzers. This time when they encountered 155mm and 105mm howitzers, as long as they hit the top of their heads, almost the entire fortifications would be wiped out!
After several rounds of heavy artillery washing, the artillery position that the Japs had finally established was almost reduced to scrap metal.
At the same time, the artillery battalion of Ding Wei's first attack group also began to fire with anger, tilting the artillery shells directly on the heads of the little Japanese who were trying to surround the assault company!
Except for the river that divides Monywa into two areas, after the bridge was blown up, the Chinton River formed a natural line of defense. However, Monywa, which has a flat terrain, is otherwise undefeable. In the face of artillery fire, it stood upright in groups. The charging little devils almost brought a dozen with them in one shot!
Immediately afterwards, the little devil heard the sound of mortars flying in the sky, and it was the assault company itself that began to attack.
After charging 500 meters under artillery fire, the little Japanese suffered almost half of their casualties.
The most terrifying thing was that the enemy's artillery continued to fire, as if they were not worried about the shells falling on their own heads.
The number of stormtroopers visibly disappeared under the bombardment of artillery shells, and then came the oncoming firepower of twelve Browning M1917 machine guns!
The little Japs who had just set up the 92-heavy machine gun to fight back quickly discovered in despair that the opponent's rockets fired with bazookas easily destroyed the 92-heavy machine gun's firepower point!
The grenadiers on our own side now have very few opportunities to even reach 500 meters. They are often killed by enemy howitzers or mortar shells on the way, let alone destroying the enemy's machine gun fire points.
In this way, an assault company faced a large group of Japs, using artillery support and its own firepower advantage to defeat them all!
