Chapter five hundred and sixty second just playing casually
Compared to the trapped beasts still fighting, Wang Jun, who had already led his 18th Division and 54th Regiment Headquarters to advance into a residential house outside the east gate of Tongliao, was not very happy. It could even be said that his face was gloomy.
As the sky gradually darkened, the visibility became worse and worse, and the Japanese army put up a desperate resistance. Before it completely darkened, he crossed to Yongfu Street, divided the Japanese army into two parts, east and west, surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army in the east city first, and gradually captured the west city.
The plan of the Japanese army to compress to the Liao River failed to be realized.
Since the troops rushed into the city, they have been defending layer by layer and consciously saving their troops. Although the Japanese army has not launched a tactical counterattack, it can be said that it is almost necessary to fight for the land when defending. There are layers of barricades in several main streets in the city.
Although the various firepower points were made of sandbags, they were numerous in number. Moreover, all the houses facing the streets were converted into fortifications by the Japanese army without exception.
In addition, in addition to the Japanese barricades on several main roads, it was almost impossible to use artillery support to deal with the fortifications built by the Japanese army based on the reconstruction of residential houses in various alleys. The terrain was unfamiliar and there was a lack of effective urban maps.
, the city is a county structure filled with narrow alleys.
They wanted to adopt flanking tactics, but they often got lost or separated in the maze-like alleys. For frontal assault, the Japanese fortifications were too dense. Under such circumstances, the attacking troops' offensive became slower and slower until they reached the county seat.
The entire Xiaodong Street front line was blocked.
Putting down the telescope in his hand, listening to the intensive gunfire in front, and looking at the hands of the watch on his wrist, which was about to point to 11 p.m., Wang Jun frowned more and more. It was almost midnight, but the troops were still blocked.
From the Wabun kiln to the mosque, most of the offensive has stopped except for some areas.
According to the current progress, if we continue to fight like this, let alone at the fastest speed, we may not be able to capture Tongliao City after another week of fighting. The current tactics must be adjusted. The current progress is really too slow, and it is simply impossible.
Failure to meet the commander's requirements.
It was just that tactical adjustments were necessary, but how to adjust them gave Wang Jun a headache. The Japanese army opened up almost all the houses facing the street and converted them into firepower points, even some private houses in key locations or in alleys with convenient transportation.
It was converted into a fortification.
These houses that have been converted into fortification groups are closely connected to the residential buildings behind them, and some are even separated from ordinary residential buildings by only a wall. In the entire Tongliao County, except for some families with courtyards and cellars that can be used as anti-gunnery bunkers, there is almost no protection.
.And even these cellars cannot withstand a single 75mm artillery shell and will collapse.
What's more, apart from the thugs and lackeys they have trained for themselves, the Japanese will not allow China to receive any military training or self-protection capabilities. Even if these ordinary people have cellars in their homes, whether they know how to use them or not is still a different matter. If artillery is used,
Who knows how many people were involved in this one shot?
Although Tongliao County is located outside the Great Wall, it is actually not much different in structure from counties in other parts of China. Except for a few main streets and some small streets that can barely pass horse-drawn carriages, most of the other places are
It is a narrow alley that cannot even pass through, except for pedestrians.
After the tank rushed into the city, it could only be used to attack the main arterial roads, but it could not even turn around in other places. Even if it forced its way into the alley, as long as the Japanese army set up some anti-tank obstacles at the exit of the alley, it would be equivalent to
Became the turtle in Wengzhong.
In some alleys that are too narrow and rugged, tanks will either get stuck in there and be unable to move, or they will face fire attacks from all directions at the same time. The narrow alleys make the tank's firing range only face the front.
.In addition to reversing and moving forward, it is impossible to even turn around. Some even get stuck in it and cannot move forward or backward.
Although machine gun bullets do not pose a threat to tanks at such close range, grenades, Molotov cocktails and small-caliber direct firepower of Japanese soldiers cannot be underestimated in their lethality to tanks at close range. Especially the rear and engine parts.
, being hit by a Molotov cocktail is definitely unbearable.
As for the infantry accompanying them, the alley was too narrow. Once a tank got stuck in it, the infantry might not be able to pass. Or the entrance to the alley was blocked by Japanese machine gun fire, and they could only watch helplessly as the tanks were destroyed by the Japanese using incendiary bottles or fire bottles.
It was a cluster grenade that blew it up.
After losing two tanks, the tank troops participating in the battle did not dare to let the tanks cooperate with the infantry in roundabout attacks. They could only launch assaults from the front of the north and south streets. In fact, at the moment, the tank troops could play a role in the battle.
Its role has been extremely limited.
The most difficult thing is that each attacking force currently does not even have a detailed map of Tongliao County, let alone Japanese military fortifications and deployment plans. There are many ordinary people who are familiar with Tongliao, but these people are afraid of Japanese retaliation after the Anti-Japanese Alliance withdraws.
No one is willing to lead the way for the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Even if they are forced with a gun, they will not lead the way for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. In the words of the common people, if I don't lead the way, the most you can do is kill me. If I lead the way, the Japanese will definitely kill my whole family when you withdraw.
.I can't trade my family's life for mine.
No matter how much the political cadres leading the team tried to persuade the common people who were worried about Japanese retaliation, no one was willing to be this guide. Not all common people were obedient, and they would rather live under the enslavement of the Japanese than be rescued by their own troops.
It was the common people who were really frightened and numbed by the high-pressure rule of the Japanese.
The people here believe that the Anti-Japanese Alliance is only staying in Tongliao for a while and will not last long. After the Anti-Japanese Alliance withdraws, the Japs will come back. The Volunteer Army back then also said the same thing, but what happened?
?Those people in the city who helped the volunteers, where did they end up?
Unable to find ordinary people as guides and lacking detailed urban maps, the troops suffered a lot during the attack. Some troops worked hard to capture an alley, only to find that it was a dead end and there was no way to rush forward.
Don't go there. If you want to bypass the Japanese firepower ahead, you can't hope at all.
Some even rushed into the alley, followed the path in the middle, and ended up back at the starting point. When they found the road again, they found that the location of the exit was completely opposite to the intended target. The alley was like a maze,
It made the troops suffer a lot. In such a situation, it is strange that the speed of street fighting can be so fast.
Looking at Wang Jun, whose face was a little dark because of the slow progress of the troops after entering the city, Lin Feng, the chief of staff of the 18th Division, hesitated for a moment and said: "Commander, now the entire frontline troops' offensive has been frustrated due to terrain restrictions. Some troops
The establishment has been disrupted."
"This is our first time to fight in a large-scale county at night, and we have almost no experience. Especially now that we have neither a guide nor a detailed map in our hands, and coupled with the maze-like alleyways, some troops are rushing in haphazardly.
, it takes a lot of time to determine one's position. If this continues, our army will easily suffer losses."
"I wonder if we can temporarily retreat the troops to reorganize, reorganize the already disrupted structures, and wait until daybreak before continuing the attack. At the same time, let the Political Department mobilize a group of guides as much as possible to indicate the marching route for our attacking troops.
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"After daybreak, the visual distance is good. We can appropriately use some small-caliber direct-aimed artillery fire during the battle. In addition, by mobilizing guides, our army will not be in the current situation of rushing indiscriminately. At least those in the alleys
They are dead ends. Those are open at both ends and have several exits. You can still figure out where each exit leads."
Regarding Lin Feng's suggestion, Wang Jun rejected it without thinking: "You can't withdraw. Once you withdraw and fight in, you still have to pay a price. Since this price has to be paid early and late, it is better to pay it early."
A few are good. What are you afraid of if there is chaos? If there is chaos, just fight indiscriminately."
"For such a small county with many alleys, it is more appropriate to spread it out in squads. According to the old rules, as long as your company spreads out, you don't have to do it deliberately, and it will naturally be divided by alleys.
Kai Lai. Moreover, the numerous alleys are not conducive to large troops fighting in groups. The troops are crowded on one street, but their own hands and feet are restricted."
"The current actual situation is that even the first-level troops cannot be deployed, let alone the battalion-level troops. In the current situation, it is useless even if you gather them together, you have to disperse when fighting. Since you withdraw, you can fight back after
, we still have to fight in pieces, so is it necessary to withdraw and regroup?"
"At present, the Japanese army is desperately defending every position, but once the position is lost, no matter how critical the position is, there has never been a tactical counterattack. Moreover, among the Japanese soldiers who have been killed so far, there are not only regular Japanese soldiers, but also many old and weak ones.
armed civilians. What does this mean? It means that the Japanese troops in Tongliao City are no longer sufficient."
"They can no longer even launch a tactical counterattack and can only defend passively. Relying on multi-layered and deep defense, the entire Tongliao County has been turned into a defense system to delay our attack and buy time for them to mobilize reinforcements, and
Kill and injure our troops as much as possible."
"The Japanese army is indeed more familiar with the entire Tongliao County than we are now. But according to the current tactics of the Japanese army, the focus of its defense is certainly on the two main east-west arterial roads. But the depth around these two arterial roads, they have been trying to control
, ensure the depth of defense at key locations as much as possible.”
"Since each of their defense areas has a defense focus, each position must have flank protection. Tongliao County is full of alleys, which brings a lot of trouble to our army who are not familiar with the terrain. But in this way,
The strength of the Japanese army must also be dispersed."
"We do seem to be suffering a bit at the moment, but in this way we have unintentionally formed a situation of multiple attacks and small groups infiltrating. This also makes it difficult for the Japanese army to figure out where our main attack direction is.
.Who said that when attacking a county town, one can only launch the main attack along the main streets? Who said that in street fighting, the direction of the main attack can only be fixed?"
"With so many alleys, it is impossible for the Japanese army to send heavy troops to guard every alley. We use squads and platoons as the organization, and multi-channel assaults can just find the weak points of their defense area. I think no matter how complex these alleys are, their area is still limited.
Even if the troops are a little lost, they will not be delayed for too long, and they will not be too scattered. Dispersion and concentration are also tactics."
"Our individual firepower has an absolute advantage. In this situation of close combat, the comparison is the rate of fire of the weapons in our hands. Moreover, our automatic rifles are much shorter than the Japanese 38 rifles. In the alley,
In a narrow situation, it is more conducive to combat."