When the Japanese artillery shells hit here from Tongliao City, both in terms of accuracy and power, they were already at the end of their strength and did not pose much of a threat to the defense system of the defenders. These antique-like large-caliber artillery were indeed powerful. But in fact, they brought
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 we say that 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 because of 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 arrangement and concentrated fire. In addition to the 60 mortars, which are lightweight and 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, which has a maximum range of nearly 6,000 meters, several positions are nearly a kilometer away to 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 forward artillery observation post could not observe its mortar position in front of Kongjiawo Fort.
Whether it was the Japanese army in front of them or the Japanese artillery observation post in Tongliao City, if they wanted to find their mortar position, they could 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. Moreover, the Japanese army may not be able to calculate that the newly upgraded mortars of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have a much longer range than similar artillery in their hands.
He Hai Jingqing is not stupid. Even though he knew that the Japanese artillery firepower was absolutely superior, he concentrated all the artillery he had in the Kongjiawo Fort. Decentralized layout and concentrated shooting were the best for him.
For the current situation, if the tactics are concentrated in the Kongjiawo Fort, it will indeed be quite convenient in terms of command and deployment, but it will also give the Japanese army the opportunity to take over all at once.
In previous battles, the Japanese army also concentrated its rear artillery in an attempt to destroy its own mortar positions. However, their artillery shells basically fell on their own 82 mortar and 120 mm mortar positions.
The distance ahead was at least 300 meters. The range of the anti-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, the 82-mm mortar must move its position immediately after firing five rounds and the 120-mm mortar firing three salvos. If the Japanese forward artillery observation post still follows previous combat experience,
To assess the position of artillery. In doing so, they are just 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. Do they really think that they can't do anything about the fortifications built with corpses? Yes.
Did the Japanese army lose their heads? Or did they underestimate 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 was not willing to use recoilless rifles, a powerful weapon for attacking fortresses. There were not many shells left.
It 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 exploded 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 fortifications 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. But he did not expect that there would be no change in the result. The opponent's kind
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 a very 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 ready to die. Under the intensive crossfire of the defenders, the attacking troops were defeated 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 cooperates with the previous small-caliber artillery that shoots extremely fast, forming a cross-fire network. And this new small-caliber artillery is different from the previous small-caliber artillery that shoots 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 very lethal, and it can even directly penetrate his eleven skirmisher lines. Under the trajectory of each artillery shell, a bunch of Japanese troops are left behind.
flesh and blood. And the extremely high rate of fire means that wherever this small-caliber artillery sweeps, there is basically no one who can stand or be intact 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 that has doubled compared with 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. However, they were still defended.
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. Moreover, the enemy's forward infantry firepower density increased by more than half.
After an hour of attack, the eleven lines of skirmishers put in by Onimu Wuyi not only failed to break through the defenders' defense line, but they themselves paid the price of two-thirds of the casualties of the troops participating in the battle. The entire Japanese army's charge was launched from the place where the defenders were attacked.
Fifty meters away from the front, there were piles of corpses and broken limbs of Japanese soldiers everywhere. The sound of the wounded soldiers who could not be removed almost suppressed the sound of intensive gunfire.
Moreover, the highly penetrating weapons of the defenders made the Japanese army try to use corpses to build fortifications and lie down at the closest distance to the defenders' position, unable to shoot at the defenders. The newly emerged calibers were 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 kind of shells is 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, these artillery advantages did not translate into corresponding results given the absolute superiority in the opponent's infantry firepower. 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 and 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.
And it dropped significantly. The subsequent offensive became slower and slower, and after less and less troops were invested, it was 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.
.Also 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.
The attack started. It turned out that the defenders on the first line of defense 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, during 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 we were completely unprepared for the tank assault under the cover of the counterattack infantry.
Taikai Keiqing has been planning a counterattack since the beginning of the Japanese counterattack. 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.