Chapter 194 Danyang Offensive and Defensive Battle
Outside Danyang County, inside the frontline headquarters of the Hainan Army's Second Field Army.
Wang Shanhu was speechless as he looked at the fortifications built by the Japanese army in the distance. They were piled up with sandbags and pulled out of wires. He could not even see the original terrain.
But it is undeniable that the defensive posture of the Japanese army did have a certain impact on the Hainan Army's offensive. Facing the attack of Hainan Army tanks, you can hide in the vertical trenches like a marmot to fight back.
"Are you a telegraph operator? This is the headquarters, please pick up the commander of the artillery brigade!" The military staff officer picked up the field phone that had just been connected, said a few words, handed it to Wang Shanhu and said: "Military seat, the call is connected!"
Soon, the voice of Artillery Brigade Commander Zou Wencan came from the phone: "I am Zou Wencan, please give instructions!"
"Now, concentrate all the artillery in your heavy artillery brigade and launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese positions in ten minutes! Beat the little devils hard! Since the little devils like to build fortifications so much, let them have more "taste" of artillery.
!" Wang Shanhu looked at the Japanese position in the distance and gave an order to Zou Wencan.
"Yes, military commander!" Zou Wencan looked at the Japanese army's position and said, "Please rest assured, military commander, our department guarantees to complete the mission!"
Nine minutes later, the cannons on the Hainan Army artillery position began to make final adjustments. The artillerymen were busy moving the shells to the side of the artillery, and the black muzzles were aimed at the Japanese position in the distance.
There are a total of three brigade-level troops in the Hainan Army directly under the headquarters. In addition to the Commander's Guards, which has always been famous for its mystery, there are only the Hainan Army Tank Brigade and the Hainan Army Heavy Artillery Brigade.
Compared with the tank brigade, which is already famous abroad, the Hainan Army's heavy artillery brigade has a much weaker reputation. The only time they participated in a large-scale war was when they attacked Jiangbei County during the North Vietnam War. Of course, Jiangbei County was completely bombarded into rubble.
They can only tear it down and rebuild it, which is also their masterpiece.
Subsequently, the Hainan Army's heavy artillery brigade has been hidden in Wang Shanhu's hands, and only a small part of it will be used in turns to exercise combat effectiveness. As one of the main forces of the Hainan Army, how could it be possible that the Second Field Army of the Hainan Army did not have any brigade as outsiders speculated?
What about special skills?
"Report to the brigade! Three regiments, a total of 146 artillery pieces, are all ready! Please give instructions!" An artillery commander with the rank of major quickly ran to Zou Wencan, saluted and reported.
The artillery of the Hainan Army's Heavy Artillery Brigade is not the kind that even counts mortars. Basically every gun has a caliber of 150mm or more, and a few others even reach 210mm. You can imagine, more than a hundred giant guns
When the salvo was fired, it was like a scene of earth shattering.
Hearing this, Zou Wencan put down the telescope, looked at the watch on his wrist, and then said: "Start shooting!"
As the order was conveyed, the commanders of each artillery unit waved their flags, and these more than a hundred artillery pieces began to show the world their roar as the "god of war."
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Sparks representing death bloomed on the Japanese army's position.
If the Hainan Army Tank Brigade is the white light of lightning, then the Hainan Army Heavy Artillery Brigade is the sound of lightning. It is manic, shocking, and a terrifying force that makes people's hearts beat faster and suffocate them.
In order to protect their eardrums from being shocked, Hainan Army artillerymen all wear ear protection. Most of their communication relies on gestures, but this does not affect communication. The tacit understanding they have learned over time allows them to cooperate seamlessly, and each artillery shell is accurate.
It smashed towards the Japanese army's position.
"Oh my god! I didn't expect that the Second Army was still hiding this trick! Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, it is indeed a 'tiger', the old one is still hot!!" It was the first time that Wu Shaoting saw the Hainan Army's heavy artillery brigade firing with all its guns.
I was really shocked.
Seeing such ferocious artillery fire, even if there was a Hainan Army tank brigade inside, he didn't dare to say that he could escape unscathed.
Wang Shanhu, commander of the Second Field Army of the Hainan Army, is known as the "tiger" within the Hainan Army. This tiger does not mean Weifang, but the tiger's butt can't be touched. If Wang Shanhu, who always looks like a "good old man", gets violent, it is not something that ordinary people can do.
If you can bear it, the Japanese army on the opposite side will be able to bear it now.
Chaos, inevitable chaos, the Japanese army's position exploded instantly after the Hainan Army launched an artillery bombardment. Can you imagine that the fortifications that were painstakingly built were vulnerable to the enemy's artillery fire? The machine gun bunkers made of cement became complete after one artillery fire.
Did it create a huge crater? All the soldiers in the squad were wiped out.
The Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches outside were even more miserable. Even if they were lucky enough not to be directly hit by artillery fire, the violent tremors and explosion shock waves swept away fallen leaves like a broom in the autumn wind. Some corpses appeared to have no wounds on their bodies.
But that's because their internal organs have been shattered.
Explosions, flames, and occasionally one or two rounds of ammunition detonated, and shrapnel tore all the Japanese soldiers in sight into pieces.
In Danyang County, inside the headquarters of the Japanese Ninth Division, Yoshizumi Ryosuke's face turned blue and white. The contact with the Sixteenth Division was completely interrupted shortly after the bombardment. Maybe they had turned into fly ash!
Stationed outside the city is the headquarters of the Japanese 16th Division, which is also an important position that was hit by Hainan Army's artillery. However, before the change of defense, it was his 9th Division that was stationed there. Should he be grateful or regretful now?
Under that level of shelling coverage, the soldiers of the 16th Division are lucky to be alive! As for continuing to block the Hainan Army's attack, don't think about it! The Hainan Army's tank brigade is on the side, as long as the artillery fire stops, they can come up.
After two rounds of walking, the front of the Japanese Sixteenth Division was useless.
Originally, he wanted to rely on the positions outside the city to hold off for a few days, trading the depth of the battlefield for time, so that the Japanese troops from the direction of Nanjing City could encircle them from the west. You know, killing one Hainan Army's main force is comparable to wiping out ten Nationalist troops.
The troops must be cost-effective. And he will also become the first Japanese general to defeat the Hainan Army. All those famous generals, the flowers of the empire, get away! He seemed to see wealth and power waving to him.
However, the cruel "smile" of the Hainan Army's Heavy Artillery Brigade made him realize the despair of those defeated generals he once looked down upon in front of the Hainan Army's front. And his bubble of beautiful wishes was gently poked by the Hainan Army.
Broken.
The Japanese Army also has heavy artillery. He had seen scenes of heavy artillery firing during pre-war drills, but there was nothing like the end of the world.
Half an hour can be said to be long or short. But for the soldiers of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army who were shelled by the Hainan Army, every moment and every second was extraordinarily long.
The Hainan Army's heavy artillery brigade's firing had stopped, but after finally surviving the shelling, the Japanese soldiers could not organize an effective resistance, and many Japanese soldiers had their ears deafened.
The Hainan Army would definitely not give them enough time to consolidate their front. Soon after the shelling stopped, the Japanese soldiers could vaguely see the Hainan Army tanks through the smoke that had not yet dissipated.
"Click, click, click...!" The tanks covered the advance of the Hainan Army infantry behind them. From time to time, the secondary weapon machine gun on the turret would fire, and those Japanese soldiers were killed without any resistance.
The infantrymen of the Hainan Army behind them will choose to finish up after discovering one or two missed fish. As for capturing prisoners? After witnessing the atrocities committed by the Japanese army on the land of China, the word prisoner came from the Hainan Army.
has disappeared from the dictionary. Moreover, Japanese prisoners and Hainan Army soldiers have died together in many incidents before, so instead of wasting efforts to capture the prisoners, it is better to deal with them quickly.
The front was quickly pushed to the foot of Danyang City, and the Japanese Sixteenth Division basically lost the ability to continue fighting. The remaining Japanese soldiers who fled into the city were organized into the Ninth Division by Yoshizumi Ryosuke, while the remaining Japanese troops were either blown into ashes by artillery shells.
Or he will become an innocent soul under the bayonet of the Hainan Army infantry.
When the front line was pushed here, the Hainan Army soldiers had to stop, because it was very close to the urban area. Due to concerns that the shells might fall into residential areas, the Hainan Army's shelling did not cover this area. The Japanese army with relatively complete defenses gave the Hainan Army troops
The offense caused a lot of trouble.
At the same time, in the headquarters of the Japanese Ninth Division, the chief officers of the Seventh Regiment, the Nineteenth Regiment, the Thirty-fifth Regiment and the Thirty-sixth Regiment gathered together.
Yoshizumi Ryosuke stood in front of the map with a very calm expression on his face. Even after a series of blows, Yoshizumi Ryosuke did not lose his confidence in fighting.
As the old elite division of the Japanese Army, the Japanese Ninth Division can be seen from its designation that it was established earlier in the Japanese Army. The resilience and tenacity of the soldiers are unmatched by other divisions formed later.
"Gentlemen! It's time for us to serve His Majesty the Emperor! We should show the courage of the samurai and let the Chinese people on the opposite side understand the victory of our Imperial Japanese Army! The military fortunes are long lasting!!" Yoshizumi Ryosuke took the lead in facing Japan.
The Rising Sun Flag was saluted, and many senior Japanese military officers behind him followed suit.
"The military will last forever!!" Fanatic shouts resounded throughout the Japanese command room.
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"General, the plane is ready! Look...!" Adjutant Gao Yi came to Li Weidong and said softly.
Hearing this, Li Weidong smiled and said jokingly: "Haha! Let's go! If we don't go back, our Chief of Staff Ge Da may be tempted!"
Li Weidong has been on the front line of the battlefield for a long enough time. He can't really put down his work at a spur of the moment and always stay outside. The piles of documents squeezed out in the past few months are enough for those who stayed at the Hainan headquarters.
Chief of General Staff Ge Changming was so busy that his head turned pale.
Small things are okay, but for bigger things, you have to ask Li Weidong himself for instructions. But these days, whether there are online videos and remote mobile phones, all communications rely on telegraph machines. An in-depth discussion of a key issue is enough to use a basket of
Telegraph paper.
"Buzz buzz!" Li Weidong was on his special plane flying to Hainan Island. White clouds continued to drift back outside the window. Through the clouds, he could clearly see the young face of an escort fighter pilot on the west side.
What did this war bring to them? Is it dazzling honor, illustrious military exploits, or the blood that saved the nation from danger?