The Japanese artillery shells hit here from Tongliao City are already at the end of their game in terms of accuracy and power, and they do not pose much of a threat to the defense system of the defenders. These antique-like large-caliber artillery are indeed powerful, but they actually carry The threat posed by the enemy was not as great as the Northeastern Army's Qiqi Field Artillery captured by the Japanese, which posed a greater threat to the defenders' frontline.
If the Japanese Army's 38-type field artillery and the captured former Northeastern Army's 77-caliber field artillery still pose a certain threat to the depth of the defenders due to their long range, these ranges are only five thousand meters, which is not the same as the one hundred meters of anti-alliance equipment. The so-called heavy artillery, which is almost the same as a 20mm heavy mortar, can't hit its own depth when fired from positions deployed in Tongliao City.
Even if it reaches your own forward position, it is already at the limit of its range. If you want to accurately destroy your own mortar position, it is even more impossible.
Moreover, our own mortar positions adopt the tactics of dispersed layout and concentrated fire. In addition to the lightweight 60 mortars that can be transferred at any time and are deployed in the first and second line positions, the remaining 82 mortars and 120 mortars are deployed in the first and second line positions. The position of the 10mm heavy mortar is not in Kongjiawo Fort at all.
Especially for the 120mm mortar with a maximum range of nearly 6,000 meters, several positions are nearly a kilometer away from the east of Kongjiawo Fort. Even the position of the 82nd mortar is also in Kongjiawo Fort. Three hundred meters to the east, the Japanese army's forward artillery observation post could not observe its mortar position in front of Kongjiawo Fort.
Whether it is the Japanese army in front of them or the Japanese artillery observation post in Tongliao City, if they want to find their mortar position, they can only roughly judge it through ballistics. According to the tactical literacy of the Japanese artillery, this should not be a problem.
But the problem is that the gap between roughness and precise locking is still quite large, and the Japanese army may not be able to calculate the newly upgraded mortars of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, whose range is much farther than the range of similar artillery in their hands.
Hai Jingqing was not stupid. Knowing that the Japanese artillery had an absolute advantage in firepower, he concentrated all the artillery he had in the Kongjiawo Fort. Dispersing the artillery and concentrating the fire was what best suited his needs. If the tactics of the current situation were concentrated in the Kongjiawo Fort, it would indeed be quite convenient in terms of command and deployment, but it would also give the Japanese army the opportunity to take over everything at once.
In previous battles, the Japanese army also concentrated artillery in the rear in an attempt to destroy its own mortar positions, but their shells basically fell on their own 82-mm mortar and 120mm mortar positions. At least 300 meters away, the range of counter-alliance mortars was underestimated, making the Japanese army basically in vain.
The maximum range of the 120mm mortar of the Anti-Japanese Alliance is nearly 6,000 meters, and the maximum range of the 82 mortar is 3,000 meters, which is much farther than mortars of the same caliber, and during the battle, Hai Jingqing built quite a few reserve positions for these mortars.
According to his request, after the 82 mortar fires five rounds and the 120mm mortar fires three salvos, it must immediately move its position. If the Japanese forward artillery observation post still follows previous combat experience, To assess the position of the artillery, they would only be wasting artillery shells.
As for the infantry cannons that Onimu pushed under his nose at the forward position on May 1st, he really didn't notice them. Did they really think that there was nothing they could do about the fortifications made of corpses? The Japanese army was stunned because they underestimated themselves.
However, although these gadgets may not have much effect, they are still a thorn in his nose, right? To deal with these infantry cannons, Hai Jingqing is not willing to use recoilless rifles, a powerful weapon for attacking fortresses. There are not many shells left. They should be reserved for critical moments. These simple fortifications built with human flesh are simply not worth wasting precious 57mm recoilless artillery shells.
Instead, he directly used the phone to call the anti-aircraft machine gun position at the back. After giving a simple and non-sloppy order to kill them, Onimu Mayi's thoughts and his gunners became piles torn apart by 14mm bullets. Broken apart parts.
Even a 92 infantry gun was killed because a 14mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullet penetrated the human fortification and hit the shell carried by the gunner. The artillery, together with the gunner and the fortification were The bodies of the fortifications turned into a downpour of blood and flesh.
Onimu Mayi thought that with the Japanese corpses everywhere and the simple fortifications built with steel plates, the defensive capabilities would far exceed those of the civil fortifications built with sandbags. However, he did not expect that there would be no change in the result. The opponent's High-rate, small-caliber artillery can tear apart these fortifications effortlessly.
And he invested most of his troops in one go, forming eleven lines of skirmishers who were originally thought to be able to attack continuously. He hoped to take advantage of the strength and artillery cover firepower to quickly assault and attack at an extremely close range of 100 meters. Apart from a significant increase in the number of casualties, the result of the chaotic tactics of the defenders remained unchanged.
His eleven lines of skirmishers were almost like death. Under the intensive crossfire of the defenders, the attacking troops were knocked down in rows. The advantage of the troops he invested did not translate into an absolute advantage on the battlefield. , the offensive he launched was still difficult.
The defenders' new, larger-caliber rapid-fire firepower cooperated with the previous small-caliber artillery that fired extremely fast, forming a cross-fire network. And this new small-caliber artillery was different from the previous rapid-fire extremely fast Compared with other small-caliber artillery, the rate of fire is not only almost the same, but most importantly, the power is greater.
Even after one artillery shell can penetrate four or five of his skirmisher lines, it is still extremely lethal. It can even directly penetrate eleven of his skirmisher lines. Each artillery shell leaves behind a bunch of Japanese troops under its trajectory. The flesh and blood, and the extremely high rate of fire, mean that as long as the small-caliber artillery sweeps through, there will be basically no standing, or intact, person within a distance of several thousand meters.
Two types of small-caliber artillery with machine gun fire rates have become a nightmare for almost all Japanese troops participating in the war. Coupled with the rain of mortar shells hitting the depths and the infantry firepower doubled from before, the distance of one hundred meters is still It became the life and death line for the Japanese infantry.
The first few skirmisher lines were defeated by infantry firepower, while the ones behind were either blown up by mortar shells fired from deep, or were destroyed by large-caliber shells that penetrated the first few skirmisher lines but did not lose any power. Machine guns and small-caliber artillery fired dense shells at high rates of fire, crushing them hard.
The eleven skirmisher lines he deployed, even after paying the price of more than half of the casualties and even the destruction of almost the entire army in the previous lines, were able to reach within a distance of less than fifty meters from the front of the defenders, but they were still defended by the defenders. The military position was hit with intensive mortar shells from deep and intensive firepower from the sides and rear, and then came back.
What made him most angry and stunned was that so many artillery shells were wasted in vain. Instead of weakening, the defenders' mortar fire increased a lot. The number of mortar shells falling on the heads of the charging troops was even higher than what he asked for. The division's artillery force was almost one-third larger before the devastating bombardment, and the enemy's forward infantry firepower density was more than half that before.
After an hour's attack, the eleven lines of skirmishers put in by Onimu Mayi not only failed to break through the defenders' defense line, but they themselves paid the price of two-thirds of the casualties of the participating troops. The entire Japanese army's charge was launched, and the defenders Fifty meters away from the front, there were piles of corpses and broken limbs of Japanese soldiers everywhere. The sound of gunfire from the wounded soldiers who could not be removed almost suppressed the intensive gunfire.
Moreover, the highly penetrating weapons of the defenders made the Japanese army try to use corpses to build fortifications, lying down at the closest distance to the defenders' positions, and unable to shoot at the defenders. The newly emerged calibers were even more A large cannon with a very fast rate of fire. A cannonball came over.
The Japanese troops who had these intentions were torn to pieces together with the fortifications they used to build bunkers. The comrades behind them who tried to use the cover of their comrades in front were not spared. The penetrating power of this shell was extremely It was powerful and had a long range, making the Japanese army feel like they were fighting devils.
Although they had an artillery advantage in suppressing firepower, with the opponent's infantry having an absolute advantage in firepower, these artillery advantages did not translate into corresponding results. After an hour of fierce fighting, the Japanese army fired the artillery shells stored in Tongliao County. Halfway out, but Kongjia Wo Fort is like a hard bone that cannot be swallowed.
Hai Jingqing was very patient to bleed the Japanese troops in front of him. Until this time, the Japanese troops concentrated almost all the forces they could. The organized group charge was completely defeated. The offensive of the frontline combat troops suffered too many casualties and their morale failed due to continuous attacks. After a significant decline, subsequent offensives became slower and slower, and fewer and fewer troops were invested, I felt that the best time had arrived.
Just when Onimu May Day was about to ask Lieutenant General Kawami Mi for instructions, whether to move the 150mm and 120mm old howitzers of the Meiji 38 style to the front line to eat up those semi-permanent fortifications first. , and on the front line of Kongjiawo Fort, when some troops were invested, the situation on the entire Kongjiawo Fort battlefield suddenly took a turn for the worse.
Accompanied by three red flares suddenly fired from the front line of Kongjiawobao, from the northwest of the Kongjiawobao battlefield, that is, the battlefield to the north of Tongliao and the front and depth of itself, for the first time after the Japanese counterattack started, a burst of fire came suddenly Massive rockets.
As the intensive rockets fell, more than 30 tanks that had not been seen before suddenly rushed out of the front of the defenders. With the cooperation of a large number of infantry, they launched an attack on the troops who had begun to gather their forces to prepare for the final assault. In response to the attack, the defenders on the front line also jumped out of their previous bunkers and rushed out under the cover of dense artillery shells.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance deployed a considerable number of tanks on the battlefield of Tongliao, and even equipped a large number of tanks in front of them. He Guiwu Wuyi was quite clear about it. However, in the continuous fighting for several hours, one enemy tank He didn't participate in the war either, which made him somewhat relaxed.
He even subconsciously believed that the enemy troops in front of Kongjiawo Fort were only infantry. Their tanks were still blocked on that side of the battlefield by multiple anti-tank trenches, and they were unable to participate in the battle at all. If it was said that at the beginning of the battle, he still We were well prepared for an anti-tank assault, but now faced with a tank assault under the cover of counter-attack infantry, we were totally unprepared.
Taikai Keiqing has been planning a counterattack since the Japanese counterattack began. Onimu Goichi and his men, who were almost unprepared, suffered heavy casualties under the sudden impact of tanks, and the most critical morale was extremely low. The troops were instantly shattered into pieces, and even the simplest line of defense could not be established.