From Onimu Goichi's point of view, no matter how fast your rifle fires, I'm afraid it's impossible for me to invest so many troops at once and use artillery cover to charge directly to a distance of 100 meters. At such a close distance, they could completely withstand their own group charge. Even if they were piled up by force, the last 100 meters would have passed.
Onimu Wuyi, who was furious, did not even care whether he was within the opponent's firing range. He forcefully ordered an engineer squadron attached to carry steel plates to cooperate with the artillery, and the division commander's two Type 41 mountain guns reinforced by three The Taisho 11-year-old infantry flat-firing artillery and an Italian field artillery used rear artillery cover to force forward.
The thickness of the steel plate was not enough, so we used the corpses scattered all over the battlefield to form a fortification. Even if the cooperating engineering squadron was all fired up, we would still have to knock down all these artillery pieces at all costs. They were 200 meters away from the defender's position. beyond the line of life and death.
The move that Onimu Wuyi came to was to use the infantry to cover the artillery advance, and then give the Anti-Japanese resistance a tactic of attaching bayonets to the cannons. He would shoot at close range to knock out the most threatening large-caliber machine guns in depth, and then use the infantry to cover the artillery advance. Swarm forward and deal with the infantry firepower.
He believed that with the quality of the Japanese artillery, even level fire would not be able to penetrate those solid semi-permanent fortifications, but as long as it was within close range, it would be no problem to drive the shells through the firing holes. Even if it could not destroy those abominable fortifications, it would still be possible. There was no problem in killing and injuring the Anti-Union defenders inside.
Of course, he would not let go of the more abominable mortars. He directly contacted the artillery behind him in Tongliao City to implement all-round fire coverage on the defenders' positions, and asked the artillery behind him to use artillery shells to carefully guard the defenders' positions. After careful review, he did not believe that the infantry could hide in the artillery holes, and that the mortars could also be brought in.
In Onimu Mayi's opinion, as long as those nasty mortars are destroyed, at least half of the defenders' supporting firepower will be destroyed. The division artillery in Tongliao City definitely has this ability, and there are enough artillery shells to carefully provide the anti-alliance forces with Screen the position to find the mortars and eliminate them completely.
In order to retake the Kongjiawo Fort in one go, the Onimu Fifth Colonel directly asked the artillery to divert the artillery fire when the infantry charged to the charging starting line 100 meters away from the defender's position. When attacking the front, It is necessary to implement continuous fire suppression on the depth of the defenders' positions.
Looking at the group charge launched by the Japanese army, as many as eleven skirmisher lines came up at once, as well as the several infantry artillery and mountain field artillery pushed under his nose, and the Japanese army's artillery fire once again completely covered At the forward position, even though the Japanese army had launched a charge, the artillery fire still did not stop. Hai Jingqing understood that this was a desperate attempt by the Japanese army to jump over the wall.
Hai Jingqing, who had always felt that the time had not come yet, had repeatedly refused his subordinates to launch counterattacks to pursue and defeat the Japanese army, trying to completely defeat the Japanese army in one go, and even rushed directly to the gates of Tongliao City. Hai Jingqing felt that now was the time to weaken the Japanese army to the maximum extent. The time has come, and he will take advantage of this opportunity to bleed the Japanese troops in Tongliao County.
For Hai Jingqing, not only has the time come to weaken the Japanese army to the maximum extent, but in his view, as long as he can defeat the extremely rare sea of people and sea of fire tactics launched by the Japanese army this time, he can launch a counterattack across the board and go all out. The time has come to wipe out all the Japanese troops in front of us.
At this time, he used the main force to cross the Xiliao River from the front with great fanfare. Under the cover of the cover, he sneaked a battalion of troops across the Xiliao River from the Xinglong line. At present, he had taken advantage of the opportunity that the Japanese army's attention in the entire Tongliao battlefield was attracted to the Kongjiawo Fort line. From the rear of the Japanese army, Bangtongwo Fort, which had almost no defensive forces, successfully crossed the river secretly and seized Bangtongwo Fort, cutting off the enemy's retreat.
The tank troops assigned to him, with the cooperation of engineers' directional blasting, used the wood collected from various villages and towns since crossing the river and the abandoned positions of the Japanese army to erect five anti-tank trenches on the three anti-tank trenches built by the Japanese army to the east of Kongjiawo Fort. The passage was successfully opened for the armored troops.
The reason why he did not conduct a tactical counterattack before was that all the troops were waiting for them to be in place, especially the battalion that was to help Tongwo Fort. At present, except for the lack of artillery firepower, the rest of the troops that should be in place were already in place. He All the forces prepared for counterattack across the board have been put in place.
Hai Jingqing's plan for this deployment is very simple. He wants to keep all the Japanese soldiers who participated in the counterattack and send them to the Dragon King of Xiliao River as a guest. As long as these Japanese soldiers in front of him are completely eliminated, the next step will be The battle for Tongliao County will undoubtedly reduce the pressure a lot.
However, if you want to achieve the goal of completely annihilating the enemy in front of you, even if all the troops to carry out counterattack are in place, for Hai Jingqing who does not want to pay too much in the counterattack, the Japanese troops in front of him still have a certain strength. , some more blood needs to be drained.
After those armed foreigners who were like cannon fodder were consumed, the remaining Japanese troops were all regular Japanese troops. These guys who were deeply influenced by the bushido spirit were not comparable to those armed foreigners. Armed foreigners and regular soldiers, that is Completely two different things.
Even though many of these armed expatriates are so-called soldiers in the countryside, that is, retired Japanese military officers and soldiers, there is still a big difference between the real combat effectiveness of a person with a family and a group of bachelors with almost no worries. Although the actual combat capabilities of retired military personnel and active-duty officers and soldiers have received the same training, the actual situation is still very different.
Once the crazy energy of the regular Japanese officers and soldiers comes up, and the Bushido mentality rises, they can hold grenades and explosive packs and die with the tanks. Even if the ordinary Japanese soldiers don't want to do this, their crazy squadron leaders and squad leaders can still Even front-line officers like Commander Cao would force them to do that.
Hai Jingqing didn't want the tank troops that were cooperating with him to suffer too much losses in the counterattack. These tank troops were all treasures. If one was lost, one would be lost. And for him, he would either do nothing or do nothing. For a character who always strives to do his best, in a battle where he kills a thousand enemies and damages himself by eight hundred, he will not cut it even if he wins.
The most important thing is that he doesn't want the Japanese troops in front of him to slow down his attack speed and expose his troops to Japanese artillery fire for too long, because he doesn't know whether the Chuanming secret commander in Tongliao City will be there. After his own full-scale counterattack started, in order to block the counterattack of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he jumped over the wall and launched an indiscriminate artillery bombardment.
What he wanted to do was to cleanly and completely annihilate the Japanese army in front of him in the shortest possible time, rather than make heavy sacrifices to completely annihilate the Japanese army in front of him, because he knew that the troops besieging Tongliao County were members of his own ten The Eighth Division, and in this roundabout battle, the Eighteenth Division only had two regiments participating in the battle.
As the main force of the Tongliao battlefield, he only has the strength of a reinforced regiment in his hands. If the losses on the Kongjiawobao battlefield are too great, the next main offensive of the division against Tongliao County will be insufficient. Therefore, even though all his units are in place, But he was not in a hurry to launch a full-scale counterattack, he still wanted to be steady.
And when launching a full-scale counterattack, he also needs to discuss the issue of artillery support with the division commander or even the commander. He does not ask his superiors to concentrate all the remaining artillery shells in his direction, but at least he must suppress the artillery fire in the Japanese city. At the same time, provide some fire support in your own direction, even if it is a salvo of one-two-two rocket launchers to suppress the enemy's artillery threat.
Carrying out counterattack operations without the existing hidden fortifications is equivalent to adjusting the current situation of the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield. The Japanese army can use the well-concealed artillery positions set up in Tongliao County to be stable and uninterrupted. Implement fire suppression against counterattack forces.
In order to achieve the greatest counterattack effect in the shortest time, Hai Jingqing not only made detailed and careful arrangements, but also planned to take advantage of the Japanese troops in front of them who had already begun to jump over the wall in a hurry to give them more blood, and at least achieve their own goals. standards in mind.
Over there, the Japanese army formed eleven skirmishing lines, concentrating all their artillery fire on the defenders' positions to cover the defenders' positions with intensive artillery fire. But here, they had made careful plans and were preparing to take this opportunity to give the Japanese army in Tongliao a good bloodletting. The Qing Dynasty was not idle, and was also closely adjusting the deployment of its troops in order to meet the Japanese army's most crazy attack.
He put one of the two companies that was originally in reserve into the front-line position, and the two twin-mounted 23mm anti-aircraft guns that the division commander had given him before the war were still in his hands. After pulling into the second line of defense, the Japanese army's east side was completely blown away by the Anti-Alliance explosions, but the permanent fortifications above their heads were intact.
There was also a reserve fire support artillery group consisting of a 120mm mortar and two 82 mortars that had not been fired before. He also mobilized it. At this time, in addition to the attached tank troops In addition, Hai Jingqing has already put most of his reserve troops on the battlefield, and he wants to bleed the Japanese troops in front of him.
That is to say, except for an infantry company prepared to cooperate with the tanks to launch a counterattack, he no longer has any reserves in his hands to use. At this time, Kongjiawo Fort, whether it is the defending Anti-League Eighteenth Division's 50 The fourth regiment, as well as the attacking second regiment of the 14th Division, had concentrated the maximum energy in their hands, preparing to deal the most fatal blow to the opponent.
It's just that compared to Onimu Wuyi, who has already sunk everything in front of him and invested all the strength at hand, Hai Jingqing, who still has an infantry company in his hands and has not invested any tanks to cooperate with the battle, still has reserve forces. There is a certain amount of spare power, but in terms of long-range suppression of artillery fire, Onimu Mayi has an absolute advantage.
Hai Jingqing didn't pay much attention to the dense Japanese artillery shells falling overhead. Since the Japanese army had made up their mind to use artillery shells to send their skirmisher line directly to Kongjiawo Fort, they should just come directly. Even if the Japanese troops were to be fought at a distance of fifty meters, there would be nothing to fear as they had already increased their forward troop strength by fifty percent and also increased their infantry firepower density by fifty percent.
As for the Japanese army's artillery firepower advantage, although Kongjiawo Fort is the last barrier in the eastern part of Tongliao County, it is still quite far away from Tongliao. It is indeed safe for the Japanese army to set up the main artillery positions within Tongliao County, but the artillery shells At this point, it's okay to implement fire coverage.
However, with the fortification system that they have formed, the lethality of the Japanese cover artillery is not that terrible. The Japanese field artillery has a long range, but is less powerful. The most powerful Meiji 150mm howitzers and 100mm howitzers are The twenty-millimeter howitzer opened fire in Tongliao County and hit Kongjiawo Fort, which was already its limit range.