Chapter 793 Armored Breakthrough
Gao Yuan said that if you break through the Japanese defense line, you should not wait if you have the chance, save if you have the shells, use them if you have tanks, and rush if you have the gaps.
After receiving a report from Wang Laohu controlling Niushan Town, Gao Yuan, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Brigade, who was the commander of the assault force, reported to Liu Yimin and urged the baggage force to speed up. While ordering the armored regiments crossing the Dasha River, the 1st regiment to attack the Japanese Longhai Road defense line between Hongzhuang and Niushan, and at the same time, he ordered the 1st Brigade artillery regiment to concentrate artillery fire and bombard the Japanese defense line for ten minutes.
In the battle sweeping across the Jiangsu and Anhui regions, the armored regiment was basically a dispersed cooperation with various troops. This time, the entire regiment followed the main force north. The regiment commander Zhao Dahe and political commissar Wang Ping had long planned to take on the main offensive task when breaking through the Longhai Road defense line to reduce the casualties of infantry. What they did not expect was that the Japanese army set up traps here to attempt to attack our troops south. After receiving the order, Zhao Dahe said to the political commissar Wang Ping: "The Japanese actually wanted to rely on the defense line formed by trenches and open bunkers to block the main force of the instructor. They didn't know how to live or die! This time I want to teach them a lesson and let them know that this line of defense against light infantry is simply vulnerable in front of the armored group!"
After the establishment of the armored regiment, it took on assault missions in the Battle of Thailand. With the cooperation of the artillery group, it was majestic and unstoppable. Not to mention the regiment commander Zhao Dahe, almost all the cadres and soldiers were eager to find opportunities to fight another battle, and they called the name of the Eighth Route Army Armored Regiment in front of the entire army.
Although Wang Ping is an old Red Army cadre who is old in war, he is used to life and death, fighting and killing, and is already calm in his heart. However, he is a soldier after all, and the soldiers are just to win. He commands the most advanced armored regiment of the entire army. At this time, the Japanese army set up a trap, and there is a black muzzle in front of him. Naturally, he is also surging blood and is eager to try.
After looking at the sky, Wang Ping said: "The nearest airport of the Japanese is Xuzhou Airport, which is very close to this place. We should act quickly and completely destroy the Japanese defense line before the Japanese plane arrives, and then we can maneuver to avoid Japanese plane bombing."
The armored regiment is located in Ahu Town, south of Shihu, about ten kilometers away from Longhai Road. After crossing the Dasha River, there is no large river barrier. With the off-road ability of the tank, you can completely wading across the river. These situations have been investigated. When the morning glory tactic was implemented for the first time, the instructors knew the terrain of this area well.
Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping directly deployed the first-line map of Hongzhuang, Shihu and Niushan drawn by the brigade reconnaissance company. This time, Zhao Dahe adopted the method of breaking through the middle and circumventing the two wings, and they wanted to capture all the Japanese who were blocking the Eighth Route Army's northward return front in one fell swoop.
Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping's combat plan are simple and practical. In fact, they use the characteristics of armored troops with fast speed, strong firepower, and not afraid of conventional infantry weapons and positional warfare, and bully the weak with strong.
Plateau quickly approved Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping's combat plan, and unified the armored vehicles of the First and Second Regiments and the cars equipped with guards under the command of the armored regiment, forming a powerful armored force with tanks as arrows, armored vehicles as auxiliary firepower, and cars equipped with infantry firepower to concentrate assaults. This kind of deployment, in the current world military circle, is absolutely advanced deployment.
Soon, the Armored Regiment, the First Regiment, and the Second Regiment all the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were removed from the camouflage nets, forming a battle formation, divided into three routes, and roared towards Longhai Road. When Wang Laohu was controlling Niushan Town, the Armored Regiment of the First Regiment had already arrived at the Longhai Line.
After teaching the artillery regiment of the 1st brigade to cross the Dasha River, the soldiers beat the pack horses quickly and the artillery carriages galloped on the country road. They knew that the brigade commander only asked them to shell the gun for ten minutes, and they wanted to destroy the Japanese defense line within ten minutes. Then they quickly transferred their positions, quickly passed through Longhai Road, and established positions on the north side of the road, preparing to deal with the large troops rushing from Xuzhou and Pi County.
After calculating the preset position, the artillery regiment immediately set up positions. At this time, Wang Laohu had already controlled Niushan Town, Hu Laohu led a cavalry regiment, and the artillery regiment of the Cavalry Brigade also rushed to Niushan Town. As soon as he arrived in Niushan Town, Hu Laohu ordered the artillery regiment to quickly establish a position and immediately start artillery attacks.
Major General Mixed Brigade Commander of the 22nd Japanese Independence Mixed Brigade, Major General Misan Mirage, also discovered the Eighth Route Army cavalry and armored aircraft group, and ordered Major Shichi Yokogawa's mountain artillery team to open fire, attempting to stop the Eighth Route Army's powerful assault.
Major Shizuki Yokogawa's mountain artillery team was well trained and had good tactical quality. In a short period of time, the cannons had been removed from their cannon suits and pushed them to the position. The muzzle was raised high, pointing directly to the direction of the Eighth Route Army's attack. With the series of observation data reported by the Japanese artillery observer, Major Shizuki Yokogawa waved the small flag and issued a series of commands, and the four Japanese mountain artillery fired.
While the Japanese mountain artillery team fired, the 71st Independent Infantry Battalion and the 125th Infantry Battalion of Independent Infantry Battalion also fired, including the four infantry artillery of Colonel Inoue, who was deployed on the side of Niushan Town and had not yet been captured by the Eighth Route Army, also joined the shelling. Instantly, the four mountain artillery on the Japanese defense line between Hongzhuang, Shihu and Niushan, all 12 infantry artillery fired. The shells exploded in front of the Eighth Route Army's armored group and in the formation. The dust and smoke from the Eighth Route Army flowed into the sky together, showing the cruelty of the battlefield.
The quality of the Japanese artillery was indeed high and it was very accurate to fight. A car carrying 15 soldiers and equipped with steel guards was hit by Japanese artillery, and 15 soldiers were killed and injured.
After all, the number of Japanese artillery soldiers was too small, which did not pose too much threat to the Eighth Route Army armored group. After the Eighth Route Army's first brigade and the two artillery regiments of the Cavalry Brigade began to roar, the doomsday of the Japanese artillery soldiers came.
When artillery combat, the first thing that strikes the opponent's artillery position is the first to attack.
Major General Mishan Milu, the commander of the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade, originally planned to hide his strength. When the Eighth Route Army infantry and cavalry launched a large-scale attack, he ordered artillery and machine gun fire to let the corpses of the Eighth Route Army cover the frontier of his position. This idea was not wrong. If the Eighth Route Army had only light firepower as in history, his independent Mixed Brigade could indeed make the Eighth Route Army go to a bloody head. However, the current Eighth Route Army instructors is not many times stronger than the Eighth Route Army's heavy firepower in history. He also thought of intercepting the Eighth Route Army's teaching 1st brigade, Cavalry Brigade and New Brigade with four mountain cannons, 12 infantry cannons, three trenches, and three trenches, and open bunkers to intercept the Eighth Route Army's teaching 1st brigade, Cavalry Brigade and New Brigade, which was obviously a bit naive.
Now, when Major General Mishan Milu saw Niushan Town fall, Hongzhuang and Shihu were in a hurry, and saw the Eighth Route Army armored group rumbling towards the Longhai Road defense line. In desperation, he decisively ordered the artillery to open fire, intending to intercept the Eighth Route Army's attack group. This exposed the artillery position and indicated the target to the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions. Now, the two artillery groups of the Eighth Route Army, one east and one west, first covering the Japanese artillery positions. The Japanese artillery positions became absent from the first round of attacks of the Eighth Route Army, and then the artillery shells exploded. Fortunately, the Japanese independent 22nd Brigade had limited artillery troops and did not have many artillery shells. The shrapnel flying in the air only harvested the lives of those artillery soldiers who were showing off their might, and did not cause much damage to the infantry positions.
Major General Mishan Milu saw several artillery positions being destroyed, the bodies of the artillery were flying in the air, and the broken limbs were floating all over the ground. Then he saw the lucky living artillery running away in the dust. He was so shocked that his eyes were almost pulled out, and he kept muttering, "So that's it, so that's it!"
Major General Mishan said this. He finally understood how the Japanese division-level troops such as the 8th Division, the 10th Division, the 14th Division, and the 10th Division were broken as a whole. Unfortunately, he woke up too late. If he understood earlier, he would never have used three independent infantry brigades to fight and block. At least he should have brought up all the entire brigade and the puppet Manchukuo Defense Force under the command, and asked Yamashita Fengwen to add an artillery to the corps.
Major General Mishan Milu was destined to spend this evening in surprise, because the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, who had packed up the Japanese artillery positions, began to implement 10-minute firepower coverage on the Japanese defense line. A regiment fired 40 or 50 field artillery shells at a time, and two regiments had 100 artillery shells. How considerable the firepower density was, how could the Japanese who had independent mixed into the 22nd Brigade afford it!
Major General Mishan Milu was sadly discovered that under the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, the defense line he had spent a long time to build became fragmented, curled up in the trenches, huddled in the bunker, and the bodies of the soldiers in the bunker kept flying into the sky, and a trace of dirty red was painted on the sky that was originally setting sun and full of sunshine.
If the Eighth Route Army's artillery ended here, maybe Major General Mishan and Milu could organize troops to fight to the death after evading the artillery. However, the Eighth Route Army's instructor was a legendary unit, and the legend always started to attack the Japanese army unexpectedly, and with one blow, he was killed. Just when two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army were *** from the south of Longhai Road, an artillery unit joined the chorus of cannons from the north of the road. The Eighth Route Army's 5th Brigade commanded by Hong Chaoyuan arrived, and the Artillery regiment of the 5th Brigade of the Longhai Road began to launch artillery on the Japanese army a few kilometers away. The shells made sharp whistles, crossed the sky, smashed the Japanese defense line hard, and inserted a knife from the back of the Japanese army.
At this time, Major General Mishan Milu no longer believed in Yamashita Fengwen's plan. He knew that even if the main Japanese army on both sides arrived within an hour, he could not save his independent 22nd Brigade. Hiding in the cover, his eyes began to circulate, thinking about where to go.
The firepower coverage of the Eighth Route Army artillery lasted for ten minutes and finally stopped. The lucky Japanese officers on the position were running in the trenches, shouting at the top of their lungs, trying to wake up the soldiers who were stunned by the cannons and prepare for battle.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army's armored group roared and crushed over.
The platoon of Yuan Guoguang was still the assault arrow in the middle of the Eighth Route Army armored group. Since the last time he established the Grand Reunion in the Battle of Thailand, Yuan Guoguang felt that he was too lucky to be the Eighth Route Army, fortunately transferred to the newly established armored regiment, fortunately became the vanguard platoon, and fortunately guided the armored forces into the enemy formation in the Battle of Thailand.
Yuan Guoguang could not have expected that luck would come to his head again, and regiment commander Zhao Dahe ordered him to continue to serve as the assault sharp knife platoon in the middle of the armored group. This made Yuan Guoguang's eyes lit up excitedly, and even the voice when he issued the order seemed to have a sense of majesty deliberately pretended, which made his comrades laugh in their hearts. The laughing platoon leader regarded himself as the company commander, the battalion commander, and even the regiment commander.
When Yuan Guoguang commanded his sharp knife to raid three tanks into the front line of the Japanese army, the Japanese may have suffered too much casualties, or they may have not been confused by the artillery bombing, and the counterattack was very weak. The 38th large cover, and the machine gun bullets hit the tank, and they dropped down.
Yuan Guoguang ignored these Japanese soldiers who had rifles and light machine guns to block tanks and shouted through the on-board radio station: "Crush over, crush over, maintain speed, insert the next line of defense of the Japanese, use machine guns and tracks to talk to the Japanese! Use cannons to kill the Japanese bunkers and castles, and clean up obstacles for the cavalry and infantry."
Major General Mishan Milu, who was thinking about where to go in the cover, saw groups of Eighth Route Army tanks break through his first line of defense and attack the second line of defense. He didn't bother to think about it anymore and immediately ordered the second line of defense Japanese soldiers on the third line of defense to blow up the Eighth Route Army's tanks with grenades and explosives.
This order is a bit cruel. It is purely to use the lives of soldiers to block the tracks of the Eighth Route Army's armored troops. However, Major General Mishan Milu had no choice. His independent 22nd Brigade and permanent divisions were incomparable. There were neither tanks to attack the Eighth Route Army's armored group, nor anti-tank guns, nor anti-tank guns, nor subjects such as mobilizer making. The only trick to deal with the Eighth Route Army's armored group was meat bullet attack.
What made Major General Mishan Milu feel regretful until his death was that the firepower coverage of the Eighth Route Army artillery severely damaged his three infantry brigades, and the fierce artillery fire took away the soldiers' martial spirit and spirit. Only a few officers and soldiers still had a little determination to die for His Majesty the Emperor. Holding explosives, holding grenades, howling, and rushing toward the Eighth Route Army tanks that broke into the position without fear. The ending can be imagined. It was either a machine gun on the tank to be shot into a hornet's nest, or an armored vehicle following behind the tank, or a machine gun on the car to be shot into a blood gourd.
Major General Mishan Milu completely opened his eyes and knew what armored assault was. He closed his eyes and dictated the farewell signal to Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwen, commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Iida Sadaki, and then ordered the radio station to be blown up, burned the military flag and codebook, evacuate the position, and scattered the breakthrough.
Chapter completed!