After hearing Tao Jingfei's thoughts on changing tactics, Yang Zhen did not answer him immediately. Instead, he stood up and looked at the map of the entire Tianjin city hanging on the wall. He looked at the red arrows marking the progress of each attacking force for a long time.
He then said: "Now you have a clear idea of the Japanese artillery positions. Do you have any detailed arrangements?"
"There is also the Japanese naval fleet on the Haihe River. Have you figured out the pattern of its actions? Judging from your previous battles, now we want to completely solve the enemy defenders in Tianjin and capture Tianjin as completely as possible. Solve the Japanese artillery and the Haihe River.
The Japanese naval fleet, this is the key issue."
No. 1 did not answer his request first, but instead asked about the Japanese fire support. After Tao Jingfei was slightly stunned, he immediately realized and quickly walked to the map and said: "No. 1, judging from the number of Japanese artillery that has been discovered so far,
Look, the artillery deployed by the Japanese army in Tianjin is quite strong."
"Although we eliminated part of the Japanese artillery in the peripheral battles, especially in the battles between Junliangcheng and Yangliuqing, the Japanese artillery in Tianjin is still quite strong. Tianjin is the strategic supply center of the Japanese army in North China, and the Japanese army here
The number of large and small military warehouses is far greater than that in Peiping."
"Here are not only the military warehouses and reserve weapons warehouses of the Japanese Army, but also a large number of naval warehouses. Almost one-third of the entire Japanese North China Front Army's reserve weapons are stored in Tianjin. The Navy also has a large number of reserves here.
Equipment and supplies.”
"The artillery installed on the Japanese naval ships and the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery groups on both sides of the Haihe River were mainly allocated from these military warehouses. Even some weapons and ammunition were produced locally by the Japanese army using the Dagu Shipyard in Tianjin. It is precisely because
Only with sufficient ammunition can the Japanese army use artillery on the battlefield regardless of cost."
"Although we eliminated part of the Japanese artillery in the peripheral operations, the Japanese army used the artillery in stock to restore part of its strength in a short period of time. The artillery currently deployed by the Japanese army in Tianjin City, except for the artillery belonging to one division, does not include Haihe.
On board the warships of the Japanese Navy, there is also an independent field heavy artillery group, two independent mountain artillery squadrons, at least one independent mortar group, and four independent artillery squadrons equipped with old-style artillery in stock."
"The combined strength of all its artillery forces includes hundreds of field guns, mortars and howitzers with a caliber of over 100 mm. From the past few days of combat, we found that the Japanese artillery deployed in squadron-scale decentralized
, the tactic of concentrated fire. In addition to each artillery group having its own blockade direction, all-round shooting is undertaken by a separate mobile artillery group. And these mobile artillery groups are mainly undertaken by the Japanese naval fleet guns on the Haihe River."
"Judging from the current locations where the Japanese artillery is deployed, its large-caliber artillery positions are mainly deployed in Shishan Street in the Japanese Concession, Yanshouli in the British Concession, Tongxingli in Hedong, and Mobil Kerosene Company. A total of eleven Meiji 30
Type 8 150mm howitzers, two Type 91 105mm howitzers, and six Type 91 120mm howitzers."
"Mountain and field artillery positions are mainly deployed in Zhonghouli and Liujiatai in Hedong, Shoufeng Flour Company in the Italian Concession, Xiushan School, Tianjin Normal School in Hebei and the naval camp line. In Hexi, they are mainly concentrated in the French barracks in the French Concession.
Yili, as well as the Confucius Temple and Yoshino Street in the Japanese Concession.
"All its artillery positions, except for the Shoufeng Flour Company and Xiushan School in Hedong, and the French Barracks and Confucius Temple in Hexi, are almost all set up in densely populated areas. They even use reinforced civilian buildings directly on site.
, open the artillery firing port on the wall. Although the firing range is subject to certain restrictions, it also prevents us from conducting air strikes."
"No. 1, the Japanese army was very cunning in setting up artillery positions. They left a large number of parks and school playgrounds in Tianjin unused, and set up most of the artillery positions in residential areas. They even ignored the difficulty of artillery maneuvers.
It was placed in the alley area, and the artillery positions selected were areas with the highest density of residents."
"At the same time, all the artillery positions of the Japanese army were set up at the core of the main defense areas they defended. After identifying the Japanese artillery positions, we organized ground assault troops to attack the artillery positions many times. However, because the surrounding Japanese army deployed heavy troops to block them,
And failed to achieve the goal.”
"But on the 1st, we also discovered during the battle that the Japanese artillery in Tianjin did not have many new artillery pieces. The main force was still the old 38-type field artillery and 41-type mountain artillery, and even a considerable part of them had short range.
The less powerful old Sanyi-type mountain cannon, as well as the trophies captured in the battle with Chongqing. The 150mm howitzers equipped by the independent heavy artillery brigade are mainly Meiji 38-type 150mm howitzers."
"It's just that these old gadgets are not worth mentioning in field battles, but in this kind of street fighting, their power is not small. The Sanyi mountain cannon has a range of several kilometers, compared with our divisional Soviet cannon, it is as powerful as
It’s no more than a toy. But it still poses a lot of threats to us in Tianjin City.”
"As for the Japanese naval fleet on the Haihe River, its activities range mainly from the mouth of the Sancha River in the upper reaches to the Yangzhuang River section in the lower reaches. However, there are no fixed anchorages, and they basically do not station in one location permanently. Basically, the situation there is critical.
Just support in that direction."
"Despite the attack by our aviation force, there are still one gunboat, two shallow-water heavy gunships and sea sweepers each on the Haihe River, seven temporarily modified motor barges and motor sailing ships, and three icebreakers equipped with artillery.
and five small gunboats."
"According to the intelligence of the Tianjin underground party and the combat experience of the past few days, these ships are equipped with a total of one 152mm naval gun, four 120mm high and flat dual-purpose guns, and 76mm high
Seven guns. The number of temporarily installed Type 41 mountain guns and Type 31 mountain guns is at least ten. As for the original equipment and temporarily installed small-caliber machine guns, the number is as many as dozens."
"In fact, the threat posed by ships like No. 1 to our entire combat operations, apart from the long range and powerful naval guns, the biggest threat is their extremely strong maneuverability. They drove up and down the Haihe River, where the Japanese defense line appeared
It's critical, fire in that direction immediately."
"Although the city of Tianjin is a river port, large warships cannot operate. However, after years of painstaking efforts by the Western powers, the city not only has several large and small docks, but also the waterways and docks have been specially designed. Small and medium-sized warships can not go out.
The U-turn can be completed in the urban area."
"Before we attacked the city, the Japanese army exploded the ice on the rivers in Tianjin. Coupled with the strengthened cooperation of the three icebreakers, they continued to break through the refrozen ice on the Haihe River. At present, the ice on the Haihe River is not only
It failed to restrict the movement of Japanese warships, but our military was unable to use the ice on the Haihe River to open up the connection between the two sides of the Haihe River."
"The Japanese army also preset a large number of 25mm anti-aircraft guns and 13mm anti-aircraft machine gun positions along both sides of the Haihe River. A cross-fire network was formed on both sides of the Haihe River in almost the entire urban area of Tianjin. In addition, the surface of the Haihe River is not
wide, in order to avoid accidentally injuring the people on both sides of the river, our attack aircraft group can only dive and attack along the river."
"The route happened to fall in the cross-fire network formed by the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery groups on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, so the attack aircraft group suffered heavy losses during the attack. Although the aviation force has withdrawn from the battlefield, as the top military commander of the Tianjin battlefield, I think
They have tried their best."
"It's just that after the aviation force was forced to withdraw from the battlefield and there was no air threat, the Japanese broken ships on the Haihe River became even more arrogant. They even dared to park downstream of Jintang Bridge without making any maneuvers and directly fired at us with naval guns.
The city's tank troops. I used tanks and infantry to attack Japanese artillery positions several times, but I was destroyed by these small gunboats."
As Tao Jingfei reported, the combat staff beside him also quickly replaced the Tianjin map on the wall with a detailed map that marked all the Japanese artillery positions that had been exposed, as well as a stack of Japanese artillery positions captured by aerial reconnaissance.
photos.
Yang Zhen looked at these photos and maps very carefully. Just from the Japanese artillery positions marked on the pictures and shown in the photos, Yang Zhen could see the layout of these artillery positions. The Japanese army was indeed targeting the Anti-Alliance firepower.
The features are a lot of painstaking effort.
As Tao Jingfei reported, most of the Japanese army's artillery positions are set up in densely populated areas in Tianjin. And most of the artillery positions are set up in private houses, using private houses directly as bunkers. They are responsible for providing supplies to that direction.
For fire support, shooting holes were opened directly on the wall in that direction. Moreover, judging from the photos, the houses selected were all solid buildings.
Although the range of fire was greatly affected by this, the maneuverability of the artillery was also subject to certain restrictions. However, each artillery group had a strict division of labor before the war, and all artillery groups had their own goals.
The artillery positions that can fire in all directions, as well as the ships on the Haihe River, have built a dense firepower network throughout the entire urban area of Tianjin.
Even though these artillery positions are very simple, apart from using the original civilian houses, almost no reinforcement has been carried out. After all, the solid buildings are civilian residences, and the protective power is not comparable to military fortifications. Not only can they not withstand a single shot,
Artillery shells with a caliber of over 100 mm, even a 76 mm artillery shell, can easily destroy their simple artillery position.
However, although the Anti-Japanese Alliance has an absolute advantage in artillery firepower, facing the artillery positions set up by the Japanese army in residential areas, it is simply impossible to retaliate. Unless they can achieve a first hit, it is not necessarily the Japanese army that will suffer in the first shot.
artillery, but the surrounding common people.
By doing this, the Japanese army used the surrounding people as human shields. They used the Chinese as bunkers to block the counterattack artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The main reason why the battle against Tianjin was so difficult was that the Japanese artillery positions were delayed.
solve.
While Yang Zhen was looking at the map, he was constantly thinking about how to resolve the current stalemate. If the Japanese artillery was not eliminated, not only would the troops have to pay a heavy price on the battlefield, but the liberation of Tianjin would also be delayed indefinitely.
.The most important thing is that the Japanese army's unscrupulous use of artillery fire will cause heavy casualties to the civilians in Tianjin.
If the current situation continues, even if Tianjin is captured, this largest industrial and commercial city in North China will be completely reduced to ruins just like Xinjing. As for the number of civilian casualties, I am afraid it will be an astronomical figure. If this is true.
If this happens, even if the city is captured, it will have lost any meaning.