"The communications staff officer from the Mongolian Army Headquarters just spoke to me."
"The 17th Tank Regiment of the 3rd Tank Division of the Mongolian Army and the Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Tank Division circled around from the right wing of the Eighth Route Army's defensive position."
"Prepare to go directly to the north wall of Datong to support my 1st Division out of the city."
"The commander of the Mongolian Army, Lieutenant General Gan Ze, asked our 1st Division to immediately counterattack the Eighth Route Army and defeat the Eighth Route Army through cooperation inside and outside."
At the 1st Division Headquarters, Chief of Staff Taro Eguchi reported to the division commander Mitsuo Nakazawa with excitement.
When the combat staff heard the news, they couldn't help but feel excited.
In the past few days, the 1st Division was surrounded by the 40,000 main force of the Eighth Route Army.
Although the Eighth Route Army only fought street fighting with the 1st Division on the first day, it did not continue to fight the 1st Division in the following days.
But the feeling of having a knife on your neck and having your life and death in the hands of others is really uncomfortable.
after all.
As long as the Eighth Route Army is willing to engage in street fighting with the 1st Division, it will only be a matter of time before the 1st Division is wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
"Yo Xi, Yo Xi..."
Division commander Mitsuo Nakazawa even called him "Yoshi".
The battle plan previously agreed upon with Jutaro Amakasu was for the 1st Division to break out from the northern city wall on its own, and then flank the Eighth Route Army with the main force of the Mongolian army.
Now, the main force of the army stationed in Mongolia sent an infantry regiment and a tank regiment to attack the Eighth Route Army from outside the northern city wall.
This more than doubled the success rate of the 1st Division's counterattack.
After the communications corps of the 1st Division contacted the communications corps of the Mongolian Army, the 1st Division also learned about the Eighth Route Army's deployment outside the city.
That is, fortifications were built in the Gudian and Huayuantun areas.
Mitsuo Nakazawa smiled coldly. Datong is surrounded by plain terrain. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a flat river. It is extremely stupid for the commander of the Eighth Route Army to order the construction of such fortifications.
Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army treats the Locust Army as a fool.
Either the commander of the Eighth Route Army is a fool.
The tank troops stationed in the Mongolian Army can bypass the Eighth Route Army's defensive positions, attack the infantry and artillery positions behind the Eighth Route Army, and even reach the foot of Datong City.
Mitsuo Nakazawa's right hand tightly grasped the handle of the Tianchu imperial sword:
"Send the order!"
"The attacking troops immediately attack the north wall!"
"Hi!"
Taro Eguchi lowered his head suddenly, turned around and went to deliver the order.
Military orders are like mountains.
As the attack order from the 1st Division Headquarters was issued, the Japs from the 1st Division rushed out from the streets and alleys and approached the four walls of Datong along the streets and alleys.
The east, west, and south walls were used as cover and feint attacks, and the Japanese's main attack direction was the north wall.
Ding Wei was naturally very aware of the Japanese tactics, so he had already strengthened the firepower on the northern city wall and even deployed some 0mm anti-aircraft guns on the city wall.
The 10 Type 89 10mm cannons of the 6th Heavy Artillery Regiment were pulled out by the Japanese and prepared to fire at the northern city wall.
The Japanese Army's Type 89 10mm field cannon has a total weight of 104 kilograms, a maximum range of meters, a muzzle velocity of 734.m/s, a firing speed of 1~rounds/min, and uses Type 93 grenades.
This type of artillery began to be widely used on the Chinese battlefield after the September 18th Incident, playing a huge destructive role.
However, it takes a lot of time for the Japanese artillery to set up artillery.
But as soon as the Japanese cannon was pulled out, it was discovered by the artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army on the city wall.
Immediately, the artillery observers quickly calculated the firing elements at the location of the Japanese cannon and reported them to the artillery positions in the rear.
The Japanese had a total of five cannon emplacements, and each emplacement was surrounded by round sandbags.
Each emplacement has a 10mm howitzer, and hundreds of artillerymen are busy there, preparing to fire on the northern city wall.
Although in terms of power, the Japanese 10mm cannon is not as powerful as the Eighth Route Army's 10mm howitzer.
But after all, the caliber is here. If the 10mm cannon is used to blast the masonry city wall, it is tantamount to killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.
Of course, the 1st Division had no choice. After all, the 1st Division no longer had 7mm mountain guns and 10mm howitzers.
Each artillery observer, responsible for a cannon position, began to guide the artillery bombardment.
Since the shelling target was in Datong City, the Eighth Route Army's artillery did not dare to cover it with unscrupulous artillery fire, and could only use precision methods to carry out precise shelling.
At a distance of five kilometers, it is very difficult for one artillery to accurately destroy another artillery, and also to hit a cow from across a mountain.
First of all, the artillery device must be in absolutely intact condition and cannot be loose in the slightest.
Secondly, the level of artillery observers who calculate and shoot Zhuyuan must be high, otherwise the slightest mistake can lead to a huge difference.
Even a difference of a few tenths of a ruler may cause the impact point to deviate by dozens of meters or even further.
The cannon is the king of war, a symbol of mighty power, like a strong man with infinite power, but serving it is a delicate job like a woman painting her eyebrows and lips.
By coincidence, the artillery observer responsible for guiding the artillery bombardment on the Datong City Wall was a member of the Sharp Sword Squadron.
Under the guidance of the members of the Sharp Sword Squadron, the Eighth Route Army's 10mm howitzer five kilometers away seemed to have eyes, and its landing point was extremely accurate.
After calibration, the third shell accurately landed on the Japanese cannon position.
Boom boom boom...
Accompanied by the explosion sound like a landslide and the ground cracking, there was an explosion wave that swept across the entire Japanese cannon position, and the Japanese artillery was blown to pieces.
An artillery shell hit the Japanese ammunition truck, and the 10mm high-explosive artillery shell exploded, causing fireballs and smoke to rise like a mushroom cloud.
Not long after, all the Japanese cannons were destroyed.
In the headquarters, Taro Eguchi, the staff officer of the 1st Division, couldn't help but gasped when he saw this scene.
The quality of the Eighth Route Army's artillery was so high that it destroyed a heavy artillery brigade of the 1st Division in just a few minutes without using artillery fire coverage.
The heavy artillery firepower was suppressed by the Eighth Route Army artillery, leaving them helpless.
In desperation, Taro Eguchi had no choice but to send infantry to attack the northern wall.
Mortars, infantry artillery and grenade launchers fired direct fire at the northern city wall occupied by the Eighth Route Army.
At the same time, the artillery and 0mm machine guns of each Eighth Route Army battalion on the city wall opened fire on the Japanese artillery.
Amidst the roaring sound of artillery, the Japanese infantrymen of the 1st Division held Type 38 rifles and shouted "Platform" loudly, and launched a pig-like attack on the city wall.
On the city wall, light and heavy machine guns and 0mm machine guns were spitting flames, and dense rain of bullets poured down on the Japanese infantry.
The battle at the northern city wall soon became intense.
The Japanese organized a small force to launch a sneak attack, which almost succeeded, but failed again.
Gunfire like exploding beans was also heard from the other three directions.
The Japanese fell one by one, and several echelons of Japanese demolition teams approached the city wall with explosives. They were quickly shot and killed 0 meters away, but the Japanese behind them continued to rush forward.
…
Outside Beicheng.
A dense explosion exploded in the smoke array area, and the expressions of Jutaro Amakasu and Issaku Nishihara changed.
The battle situation did not develop as the two old devils thought. The Eighth Route Army's artillery fired heavy artillery fire into the smoke formation area again, and it covered a large area with heavy artillery fire!
The firepower of this heavy artillery is very strange.
It only lasts for ten seconds, but the shells are very powerful and cover a wide area.
In an area covered by heavy artillery fire, it is difficult to survive.
At this time, Jutaro Amakasu and Issaku Nishihara finally understood why the 1st Division reported to the North China Front Army Headquarters that the Eighth Route Army had the firepower of a heavy artillery division.
Those losers in the 1st Division couldn't even report the enemy's heavy artillery firepower.
Is this more than the firepower of a heavy artillery division?
The firepower of at least two heavy artillery divisions can produce such a heavy artillery fire coverage effect.
But facing the Eighth Route Army facing each other, it is absolutely impossible to have two heavy artillery divisions.
The reason is very simple. The artillery of a heavy artillery division, plus the logistics personnel, has a total strength of at least tens of thousands.
Two heavy artillery divisions require at least 20,000 people to serve them, and the total strength of the Eighth Route Army is only 40,000.
Suppressing the doubts in their hearts, Jutaro Amakasu and Issaku Nishihara quickly looked forward through the field of view of the telescope.
As the smoke grenades fired by the Japanese and the smoke from the explosion of Katyusha rockets dispersed.
All you can see are dense shell craters. The 1st Tank Regiment and the anti-tank brigade that rushed into the smoke formation lost most of their lives.
The tanks were bombed and scrapped, and some tanks were even blown into parts. Even a complete body of the anti-tank infantry could not be found.
Seeing this scene, Nishihara Issaku's legs went weak. After holding on to the handle of the ladder in front, he looked horrified.
What kind of new weapon is this?
It's also too powerful.
This is definitely the most powerful weapon he has ever seen, bar none.
There are such ferocious and powerful artillery firepower weapons in the world.
This is the second time this weapon has used heavy artillery fire to clean up the troops stationed in Mongolia.
If he were the tank commander of the Eighth Route Army and had such artillery firepower in hand after the enemy released smoke grenades, he would definitely retreat immediately and call for artillery support.
Taking a deep breath, Nishihara Issaku asked: "Your Excellency, Commander, the artillery firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too strong. Do you want to withdraw the 13th Tank Regiment and the 17th Tank Regiment?"
It has only been a few hours since the troops stationed in Mongolia arrived in Datong and started fighting with the Eighth Route Army.
The 3rd Tank Division has already lost almost a tank crew and tanks of a tank brigade, and the losses are almost half of the 3rd Tank Division.
Such a loss made Issaku Nishihara feel his heart bleed.
The development of the war situation was completely different from what he thought.
In the imagination, the scene of destroying all the tanks of the Eighth Route Army and the steel torrent of the 3rd Tank Division rolling forward, defeating the Eighth Route Army, did not appear.
The losses of the Eighth Route Army were not great. If this rate continued, it would only be a matter of time before all the tanks of the 3rd Tank Division would be wiped out.
Nishihara Yice has already begun to intend to retreat and wants to stop the loss in time.
However, Jutaro Amakasu remained unmoved and looked crazy: "Don't be discouraged, Nishihara-kun. We only lost more than a hundred tanks from two tank regiments. The Locust Army can win this battle!"
How could Jutaro Amakasu be willing to fail after paying such a heavy loss?
This is the mentality of people who have a gambler's mentality. They always feel that they can win back all the lost chips in the next move.