Fengtian. The frontline headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Hearing that his house had been robbed, the young Japanese general Yamada Otozo was a little confused. He stayed in his seat for a while before he realized what he was doing.
"Who can tell me, what is the Eastern Front Attack Group of the Eighth Route Army?"
"What does the intelligence department do? Why does the Eighth Route Army have such a large team, but the intelligence department doesn't have any feedback?" Yamada Otsuzo jumped up and pointed at a group of little Japs below and roared loudly.
"Trash! Trash! You are all a bunch of trash! You should all commit seppuku!"
A group of generals at the Shengjing headquarters of Fengtian remained silent.
To be honest, they still haven't figured out what's going on? Why did a team of tens of thousands of people suddenly appear on the Eighth Route Army and steal their hometown directly?
"Your Excellency, Commander, could it be Mao Xiong's team pretending to be the Eighth Route Army?" A leftist timidly interjected.
"Don't those people in Xinjing even know the difference between Mao Xiong and Chinese people? Asshole, if Mao Xiong and the others dared to take action, they would have done it long ago. They would not have waited until now. They are still fighting bloody battles with Sandoku on the Eastern Front. , where can such an elite team attack us?"
Yamada Otsuzo shook his head.
"This is the team of the Eighth Route Army, and it is most likely the original Jindi Expeditionary Force or the mysterious team of the current Southeast Task Force, otherwise our border defense forces would not have fallen so quickly, causing the front line to be extended to Xinjing all of a sudden. "At this time, Yamada Otozo finally remembered that special team known as the nightmare of the Locust Army.
Indeed, compared to the two teams of more than 100,000 people on the southern front, the one under the command of Gao Jianwu is more terrifying. It seems that wherever they appear, they will stir up the situation in that place.
"Your Excellency, Commander, the enemy came too quickly. All our main forces in Xinjing were transferred away. We lost Xinjing because we had no way to return emergency reinforcements. Now that they dare to go south to Siping, should we concentrate our main forces here and catch them all in one go?" "A little Japanese Major General Gao Shen said viciously.
"I don't believe that they have three heads and six arms. Compared with the Eighth Route Army on the southern front, intelligence shows that they have no tanks, and the number of the entire army is also limited. Currently, there are less than 30,000 people coming from the south. We can concentrate on 3 to 4 reorganizations. The divisions surround them!"
"The whole place in Siping is completely flat and undefeable. There is no advantage for the defending side. But on the other hand, if we encircle the eighth route going south here, then they will have no defensive advantage!"
"I believe that with the fearless onboard charge of the elite Locust Army of our Kwantung Army, even if we die together, we will definitely be able to eat them all!"
After listening to the words of Major General Gao Shen, everyone couldn't help but shudder. According to him, this battle was almost like a death squad battle. Who among the division commanders and brigade commanders led by Zuo Nei would dare to fight easily?
"Xinxi, Mr. Kuroki, according to your thoughts, which troops should we dispatch to capture this Eighth Route Army coming from the south?"
"Your Excellency, Commander, I believe that if we dispatch three reorganized Class B divisions, we may be evenly matched with our opponents, and we do not have the necessary confidence to encircle and annihilate them. However, if we dispatch three reorganized Class B divisions plus an additional With one garrison division, we will be 90% sure to annihilate them." Major General Kuroki Gao Shen said eloquently.
The B Division of the Kwantung Army now has 3 infantry regiments, 1 artillery regiment, an anti-tank rapid-fire artillery squadron, and a cavalry squadron. When fully staffed, there are more than 14,000 people. Compared with the small During the peak period of the Japs, auxiliary units such as cavalry brigade and engineer brigade were already missing.
The garrison division only has 8 infantry brigades and one artillery brigade with just over 10,000 men. Major General Kuroki wants to use more than 50,000 men to defeat Gao Jianwu's 25,000 men. It seems that he has an absolute advantage in terms of strength. Advantage.
In terms of artillery, three artillery regiments have 108 75mm mountain guns and field guns, and one artillery brigade has 12 mountain guns. The total number of 75mm caliber guns reaches 120, plus each brigade also has 4 90mm nine guns. There are 140 70mm 92 infantry guns in total, and the total number of artillery is as high as 260.
Major General Kuroki believes that purely on paper calculations, they should have defeated Gao Jianwu's troops going south. According to their current understanding, Gao Jianwu's artillery troops only took away 5 artillery battalions and 90 artillery pieces. In this way, Gao Jianwu did have a better hand in artillery. The theoretical value of the troops going south is to pull down the horse.
"How many mobile troops do we have left in Bingcheng?" After listening to Kuroki's words, Yamada Otozo asked a new question. Obviously, Yamada Otozo was not willing to just eat Gao Jianwu who was going south.
It was just his question that silenced the group of generals below.
Of the seven divisions near the Black Province, five are on the border to defend the Bear Far Eastern Army. The remaining two divisions have to defend the huge Black Province. They are scattered. In Ice City, not a single reorganized division can be mobilized. !
Yamada Otsuzo wants to eat Gao Jianwu's troops going south and prepare to counterattack Xinjing from the north at the same time. This idea is very good, but everyone thinks it is not realistic at all now, especially those senior advisers who know the deployment of the Kwantung Army troops. For Yamada Yi Sanhao was a little dissatisfied with the great success, and secretly expressed his opposition by silence.
Yamada Otsuzo saw that no one answered, knowing that no one would agree with him after all, and now he was the only one to bear the responsibility for all this.
"Gentlemen, I have made up my mind. We will fight a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army in Fengtian.
Ordered to mobilize three divisions from around Fengtian to gather near Siping, and together with the 105th Division defending Siping, annihilate the Eighth Route Army coming from the south.
Ordered to mobilize another division from the troops on the peninsula to form the southern peninsula special army with the previous troops to strengthen the left defense force of Shengjing. The two divisions and one brigade that first arrived in the Longchuan area immediately went to Liaoyang. Set up defenses to prepare for a surprise attack from the Eighth Route Army in the south. "
"Order, immediately dispatch three reorganized divisions from the border of Heilongjiang Province and return to Anti-Ice City, and actively prepare to reorganize two divisions and wait for an opportunity to attack and recapture Xinjing!"
Yamada Otsuzo neatly ordered that at this time, he could only bet that he could defeat Gao Jianwu's troops first, and then concentrate his main force to fight against the main force of the Grand Brigade Commander. As for Xinjing, he relied on the returned Heilongjiang border defense troops. .
"Hey!" A group of generals from the Kwantung Army, Zuo, had no objection at all this time and completely agreed with Yamada Otsuzo's order.
Because under the current circumstances, no matter what you do, it may be a wrong decision. In this case, let the tall man shoulder the responsibility.
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The little Japanese's unusual movements were immediately reported from the intelligence system. After Gao Jianwu received the news of the little Japanese's large troop movements, he smiled contemptuously and mobilized three disabled divisions to encircle and annihilate his elite mobile force. The little Japanese really dared to do so. Yes I do.
Gao Jianwu, who had already completed the reconstruction of 10 artillery battalions, left 5 artillery battalions for the remaining troops in Xinjing this time. His troops dragged 3 105mm artillery battalions and 2 Type 90 75mm field artillery artillery battalions southward. Maoxiong's two 76mm howitzer battalions and three Type 41 mountain artillery artillery battalions were left in Xinjing.
Because there is a vast plain to the south and towed by trucks, the power and range of the 105mm howitzer and the Type 90 75mm field gun are much greater than the Type 41 mountain cannon that Gao Jianwu now looks down upon. Of course, these powerful good guys must be brought out.
In this way, the main artillery in Gao Jianwu's army is only 54 105mm howitzers and 36 Type 90 75mm field guns, for a total of 90.
However, the Blackwood kid never considered that in the main battalions under Gao Jianwu, since Japanese weapons were mainly used for this battle, each main battalion was equipped with a 6-gun 92 infantry artillery battery to carry out mortar attacks at the company level. The artillery was reduced to only two 81mm mortars. In total, the number of artillery pieces in each main battalion was only 12, which was much less than the original fine artillery. At least the main battery platoon firepower such as the bazooka rocket launcher There are no more, but despite this, the entire 20 main battalions still have as many as 240 artillery pieces.
It has far surpassed the little devil by 4 divisions, but the little devil still thinks that he has the advantage at the moment.
With this misconception, the little devil waited until Gao Jianwu arrived near Siping and immediately gathered four divisions to surround him!
Unexpectedly, Gao Jianwu, who was confident, had already prepared. After the Little Japs entered the 5-kilometer strike range, he first commanded the air force stationed in Xinjing to conduct a large-scale bombing of the Little Japs' artillery regiment. The Japanese air force pilots, who lacked anti-aircraft weapons, unscrupulously lowered their altitude and carried out low-altitude precision bombing on the Japanese artillery wing. In one round, the Japanese artillery wing lost more than half!
Before they could react, after the Air Force reconnaissance had located the Little Devil Artillery Wing, the specific coordinates had been marked on the high-precision three-dimensional map in Gao Jianwu's mind, so Gao Jianwu commanded the artillery group to immediately launch the second round. Covered bombardment.
The little Japanese artillery regiment exposed on the great plain had no place to hide. Almost before entering the battlefield, the artillery regiments of three divisions were beaten to pieces by air strikes and artillery attacks on the left and right!
The problem that the artillery was not hit directly was not a big problem, but the Little Japanese's more than 2,000 artillerymen suffered heavy casualties under the continuous bombardment. Almost 70 to 80% of the artillerymen were either dead or maimed and lost their combat capabilities. The artillery regiment position was littered with corpses, wailing. Again.
Before the little Japanese could react, Gao Jianwu had already turned his gun and began to bombard the little Japanese infantry group indiscriminately.
The Jedi, which was originally surrounded on all sides, suddenly transformed into a new situation blooming on all sides under the attack of Gao Jianwu's artillery. Relying on the powerful attack capability of the artillery group, the infantry began to assemble into an attack group according to the five main battalions, responsible for One aspect of the attack.
Although their number is much smaller than that of the Japs, with the powerful firepower output of the 60 artillery pieces of the attack group on one side, and the ready support and response of Gao Jianwu's long-range artillery, there are almost hundreds of artillery supports on one side at any time!
The four attack groups penetrated the enemy group like sharp knives. Although each company reduced its mortar configuration, it strengthened the light machine gun with a machine gun platoon of 6 machine guns, bringing the number of crooked machine guns in each company to 15. There are many, and the forward fire support is not weak at all.
Gao Jianwu, who is extremely sensitive to firepower, did not weaken the firepower of the army just because of this lone battle. Relying on his powerful explosive supply capabilities and the seizure of a large number of small Japanese trucks, he not only allowed the troops to achieve rapid mechanization, but also weapons The supply of ammunition is also very sufficient.
Each light machine gun is equipped with 4 basic ammunition, each artillery is equipped with 2 basic ammunition, and each soldier is equipped with 500 rounds of ammunition. This way, the troops have no worries about ammunition shortage during field battles.
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Facing the little devil Gao Jianwu, now he has a big move, full of firepower!
Long-range artillery fire coverage, close-range machine gun coverage!
The theoretical numerical advantage is useless in the face of Gao Jianwu's real fire coverage. Just like the little devils beating up preserved fruits, now it is Gao Jianwu's turn to tell them how to use fire coverage!
The little Japanese with heavy responsibilities, even if they charge intensively on board one brigade after another, now have almost no effect on Gao Jianwu's subordinates.
The artillery group will take the lead in clearing the Japs cluster 300 meters away from the front line. From the attack group's own follow-up artillery fire to the coverage of long-range artillery, it can easily clean out the Japs covering an area of tens of thousands square meters with intensive artillery fire at any time.
The huge power of hundreds of artillery pieces, or even two or three hundred artillery pieces, was beyond human power. However, this battle started well, and the main artillery fire of the Little Japanese was almost completely destroyed in the first hour.
The little devils who were unwilling to fail would rush forward one after another in the subsequent charge, even if they were beaten with red eyes. However, Gao Jianwu's artillery fire would kill these little devils in the process of more than a thousand meters of charge. Part of it becomes new fertilizer on the black soil!
The fragile body is completely vulnerable to the fierce artillery fire. Looking down from the sky, every place where the little devils charge intensively will attract overwhelming artillery fire. The little devils who are lucky enough to rush in four or five hundred meters will be shocked. Find yourself in a crossfire network composed of hundreds of machine guns!
A battle of annihilation designed by Kuroki's senior adviser finally achieved its goal, but this time almost all the Japs were wiped out!
The little devil who was given the order to die faced the cruel reality, but no one escaped. They followed each other and charged, charged!
Although there is no skill in this battle for Gao Jianwu, he just waits for the little devils to hit the fire net and then harvest them.
But if he hadn't been fully prepared for the ammunition in advance, Gao Jianwu would have been a little unable to withstand the onboard impact of the little devil!
When the last squadron of little Japs fell in the charge, and while the bodies of the little Japs lay everywhere, Gao Jianwu had to go out quickly to find a suitable place to explode and release the ammunition!
Most of the ammunition originally prepared for the company battle was consumed in this battle.
Fortunately, this time there were many Japs and the battlefield was vast. Gao Jianwu led a commando team to clean up the battlefield and found the Japs' artillery positions, completing the battlefield replenishment of artillery shells!
Siping lost the main defense of the Little Devils, Gao Jianwu raised his hand and broke through.
