Compared with the Grand Brigadier, Li Yunlong's progress is not that fast. Because the task discussed by Gao Jianwu and Li Yunlong was not only to block reinforcements from the north and capture Kitakyushu.
Another important task is to get Yawata Steel!
This was one of the reasons why Gao Jianwu chose to attack from the north. Yawata Steel is the largest steel plant in Xiaobenzi. As early as 1915, it produced 247,000 tons of pig iron, 382,000 tons of steel ingots, and 265,000 tons of steel, accounting for 70%-80% of Xiaobenzi's national output! In 1934, it set a new record, reaching an annual production of 400,000 tons of pig iron and 1.68 million tons of steel ingots! Compared with China under the leadership of the Prime Minister at that time, the steel output in 1935 was only 50,000 tons!
This scale is enough to dominate Asia. For the Fengtian Steel Industry, which is currently recovering, Yawat Steel's smelting machinery and related materials, including supporting materials such as transport belts, balls, small motors and wires, are still purchasing urgently needed supplies.
Even some experienced smelting engineers.
It's hard to put this matter on the table, that is, Li Yunlong, who often makes mistakes, is best suited to do this kind of thing.
Fengtian Steel is now under the management of Li Yunlong. There is nothing to say about getting some iron and steelmaking equipment from outside.
Li Yunlong and Gao Jianwu discussed the matter, and the transportation matter was naturally left to Kong Jie and Kong Erlengzi to figure out a solution. At this time, a 10,000-ton merchant ship had been collected by Kong Erlengzi.
Of course, this was not a coincidence. More than half of the fleet actually came from a transport fleet in Nanyang. They "happened" to transport a batch of goods to the Dalian port. When Kong Erzi saw this fleet, he naturally "requisitioned" it.
Among them is a 3,000-ton ro-ro cargo ship. This ship can transport anything big. This time it has the task of transporting T-59 tanks to Kyushu. At this moment, it is still at sea waiting for the brigade commander and the others to take down Fukang, and then Close to port for unloading.
Li Yunlong advanced more than 20 kilometers north. After taking Kitakyushu, he stopped advancing and controlled all the factories here.
He transferred a large number of former office workers from Fengtian. These people were all proficient in the Japanese language. Almost every company in the entire army had these people serving as translators for communicating with the local people. There was no language barrier when taking over the factory.
As for some stubborn reactionaries who want to attack and take over the team, they naturally have thunderous means to serve them. Li Yunlong is best at dealing with all kinds of dissatisfaction!
Gao Jianwu received the news of Li Yunlong's success on the flagship, and immediately sent a message to the brigade commander to speed up the process of capturing Fugang. The brigade commander, who had just arrived near Fugang, discussed with Gao Jianwu and decided to launch an attack that night.
In front of them were the defensive positions of two little Japanese brigades.
Several layers of criss-crossing trenches were dug, but because resources were invested in the defense construction of the Pacific islands, and the Allied forces advanced too fast, these places on the mainland lacked resources and did not build too many bunkers.
There was only time to build defensive positions with trenches as the main body, and most of them faced the coastline. The positions facing the land were generally weaker.
During the day, the reconnaissance plane took photos of the position and sent them to the flagship. Gao Jianwu had already integrated the defensive position of the little devil with the three-dimensional high-precision map in his mind, and obtained accurate regional coordinate data.
That's why Gao Jianwu was able to launch this attack at night. After fixing the position of each ship in the fleet, Gao Jianwu mapped the precise coordinates of each ship to a three-dimensional map, forming the original position data of the point-to-point attack. As the night progressed, advent.
When the little Japanese in the defensive position just breathed a sigh of relief, all the main naval guns of the Fifth Squadron opened fire, accurately pouring shells of different calibers into the preset area on the little Japanese's position.
There are nearly a hundred naval guns with a caliber of 127 mm or more. The coverage area of this round of bombardment alone exceeds 10,000 square meters. Of course, there are no bones left of the little Japanese at the point where the shells hit. Even the little Japanese in the bunker next to it, if encountered The 203mm heavy artillery shell exploded, and he was bleeding to death from all his orifices!
General Gao Jian's bombardment of Zhu Yuan started from one side of the position and advanced forward accurately, pouring hundreds of shells every minute and advancing along the trenches of the little devils. Even if he did not deliberately target the extremely rare bunkers on the position along the way, but this After a round of shells washed the ground, most of the little devils in the bunker lost their combat effectiveness!
Most of them were bleeding from their orifices and died instantly. Even if some of them were still breathing, their ears and nose were bleeding, and they could hardly see anything more than ten meters away.
The power of the heavy artillery of naval guns is incomparable to that of mountain artillery or even rocket launchers.
Gao Jianwu's preparations for this round of artillery fire lasted for half an hour, cleaning the little Japs' position side by side. Almost 70% to 80% of the Japs on the position had lost their combat effectiveness!
The remaining little devils were all trembling, holding their Sanba Daigai or crooked handles and silently chanting God's blessing.
Even though they know God has abandoned them long ago.
Under the darkness, each of the elite assault companies equipped with Type 43 assault rifles had sneaked up to about a kilometer ahead of the Jaap position and lurked while the naval guns were bombarding them.
Heavy machine gunners and snipers began to look for suitable battle positions to provide long-range fire support. The 40 rocket launcher team followed the assault company in the assault.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Japs were busy dodging to save their lives under the cover of naval guns and had no time to observe, the assault companies continued to penetrate towards the Japs' defensive positions one by one. By the time the artillery fire was ready to stop for half an hour, the main forces of each assault company on the front line had basically already arrived. They rushed to the barbed wire fence about 500 meters from the front of the little devil.
The assault soldiers who were well prepared took out their iron scissors and crawled on the ground to cut the barbed wire, making big holes one after another.
The remaining little Japs who were stunned by the shelling finally stuck their heads out to take a look at the forward position. Seeing that the barbed wire had been cut, the little Japs who noticed something unusual panicked and started shooting at the broken parts of the barbed wire!
The sound of gunfire seemed to wake up the remaining Japs on the position. The remaining Japs in the trenches began to stand up one by one and look at the front of the position, setting up their guns one by one and preparing to fight.
However, this movement fell into the eyes of the snipers, rocket launchers, and heavy machine gunners lurking at the front. As the snipers took the lead in shooting and killing some of the little Japs who showed up, the Bazooka men even aimed at the little Japs' outstretched arms. Machine gun fire!
The long-range heavy machine guns also began to suppress fire, igniting the flames of war in an instant.
The forward assault company, accustomed to fighting in the field, did not panic at all when facing the enemy's endless shooting.
They move in groups of three, alternately covering their advance, and behind them, bazooka shooters and snipers are ready to clear obstacles in their path!
With the support of these two firepower points, the forward attack team made very smooth progress. They crawled all the way to the front of the trench. After turning over and rushing into the trench, the powerful close-combat firepower of the Type 43 assault rifle immediately played a huge role.
As long as two or three soldiers rush into a section of the trench, they will not be afraid even if they face the dozen or so remaining Japs inside. With a single sweep, at least several Japs will be brought down. Once two or three soldiers form a back-to-back cross With all the firepower, even if there was a small team of little devils inside, they would be overthrown in minutes!
What's more, there are only a few little Japs left in each section of the trenches on the Jaap's position. After the commando team rushed up, it was almost a unilateral crushing. After seizing the single trench gap, the commando team came like a tide. They continued to pour in from the gap and began to encroach on the entire position.
The Grand Brigade Commander has always set up his headquarters at the front line. Almost all the progress on the front line is under his eyes, and he can grasp the situation of the troops at the first time.
Seeing such a large-scale position, they rushed in with a round of artillery fire. The success was so smooth that the brigade commander was a little surprised. Isn't this going to cause some trouble?
The brigade commander carefully observed the situation on the front line through the telescope, making sure that the Japs had no conspiracy to counterattack.
Everything is moving so fast.
This speed feels like after meeting Gao Jianwu, everyone had the 92nd Infantry Artillery to attack a Japanese artillery tower. They would just blast the artillery building with a burst of artillery fire. When the building collapsed, the Japanese inside were almost dead and injured. , just like the infantry went up to clean up the mess.
Bullying people with firepower.
There was no decent resistance at all.
Of course, the Grand Brigadier would not dislike the attack being too easy.
On the contrary, he was highly vigilant about whether there was anything fishy here. He was in a completely unfamiliar place. At this time, he especially needed to hold on tight to avoid capsizing.
Seeing the rapid progress of the positional warfare, the brigade commander divided the reconnaissance battalion around him into countless teams and sent them out. These three-person reconnaissance teams with walkie-talkies will conduct infiltration reconnaissance within 10 kilometers of the main force.
Once any problems are discovered, they will directly feedback the military information to the command headquarters' walkie-talkie information receiving center through walkie-talkies in a timely manner.
Relying on powerful cutting-edge wireless communication capabilities, the army's combat information transmission is now more powerful than before. Wireless communication has spread to platoon-level units, allowing superiors to grasp the situation below at any time.
After all, the place where we are landing now belongs to the enemy. We do not have any mass base, only people who are full of hatred. We must rely on our own eyes to keep an eye on the surrounding situation.
After all, after fighting so many battles with the Japs, if the Japs also learned the traditional skills of their ancestors to ambush and counterattack, if they were caught by tens of thousands of Japs that night and attacked fiercely, even if the Japs' weapons and equipment were better than We are far behind, but if a wave like this occurs, the troops who are caught off guard may suffer heavy losses.
After all, all the little Japs are red-eyed now. If the tens of thousands of highly brainwashed Japs launch a desperate charge and cooperate with the pre-deployed artillery positions to blast them from all directions, even if our soldiers are able to fight, they will face Such a chaotic situation is also extremely disadvantageous.
The situation is now very good. It is no longer the time to rush forward and fight with bayonets face to face due to lack of guns and ammunition. If a problem can be solved with artillery shells, infantry will never be used!
This is Gao Jianwu's thinking when fighting a war. Of course, this is also Gao Jianwu's tactics after being so stupid that he can afford ammunition supplies.
The Grand Brigadier is a veteran in fighting old battles. He knows every aspect of a battle, so how could he capsize in the gutter.
These basic operations have long been engraved in the bones.
The progress on the front line was unexpectedly smooth, proving that Gao Jianwu's artillery preparations were very successful and completely destroyed the main firepower of the Japs' resistance.
The brigade commander knew that the conventional accuracy of artillery fire was especially compromised at night. It would be impossible for any one person to command the naval gun to achieve the effect that Gao Jianwu had.
For the brigade commander who was conducting large-scale infantry and artillery coordination with Gao Jianwu for the first time, all this was simply astonishing.
No wonder Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong were all full of praise after they collaborated with Gao Jianwu.
In the Battle of Pinangrad, although the brigade commander collaborated with Gao Jianwu, there were only a few small-scale artillery at that time, and Gao Jianwu's magic power could not yet be seen.
Today's large-scale battle suddenly highlighted Gao Jianwu. Two large defensive positions at the brigade level completely lost their ability to resist after a round of naval bombardment.
Although the Brigadier had heard a lot about Gao Jianwu's magic before, this time the Brigadier was still shocked when he saw it live.
Who would dare to believe this method of fighting unless they saw it in person?
Although artillery is the king of the battlefield and indeed plays a role on the battlefield that cannot be replaced by other arms, the brigadier commander has never heard of a situation where the enemy was almost eliminated by directly using artillery, but today he encountered it.
The artillery on the fleet had almost finished its work.
When the infantry is left, they basically go up to make up for the kills.
Fighting like this is not a challenging experience at all.
It's almost the same as an exercise.
The brigade commander didn't waste any time. After taking the defensive position, he took advantage of the situation and entered the city.
But the subsequent street fighting will be much more difficult. In the urban area, the Japs deployed a brigade as the main force in the street fighting. In addition, they also organized a militia of no less than ten thousand people to defend in a cold-blooded manner.
"The 1st Battalion of the Attack Group encountered a strong counterattack in the East District. There are currently nearly a hundred casualties. The Japs are relying on buildings to resist. We are relying on assault rifles and machine guns to counterattack, but the effect is not great. We request artillery support!"
"The 3rd Battalion of the Attack Group encountered cold gunfire in a residential area in the southern district. It has caused dozens of casualties. Requesting artillery support!"
"We agree to use artillery support in urban areas. Communities and buildings that open fire will be treated as enemy fortifications. The mountain artillery regiment and rocket launcher regiment will support frontline artillery calls at any time!
The mountain artillery regiment was broken into pieces and directly followed the frontline troops to approach and bombard! "
Faced with this situation where the whole city was the enemy, the brigade commander did not get used to it. Mountain cannons and rocket launchers were not fire sticks.
After this order is issued, the front line will no longer be restrained. As long as there is a place where the enemy is firing, the mountain artillery will fire directly in the direction of the fire!
At the same time, the propaganda team's temporary radio station also began to cut into the local channel to broadcast public notices in a loop, ordering to lay down weapons and surrender unconditionally. Any counterattack would be instantly annihilated!
Especially through the act of attacking a residential building, the entire building will be regarded as a war zone and bombarded with artillery!
The propaganda team also sent out a motorcade with loudspeakers and began shouting in the neighborhoods with loudspeakers, ordering an end to the resistance in the city.
Although the Little Japs were ferocious, after the frontline troops really destroyed some neighborhoods and completely extinguished the local resistance, the counterattack from the Little Japs militia immediately became much weaker.
Surrendered imps began to appear on the block.
Fukang, under the command of the brigade commander, was captured in one fell swoop after a day and night of fierce fighting!
(End of chapter)
