However, compared to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which has the overall firepower advantage, the 115th Division obviously suffers in terms of firepower. Especially in terms of artillery firepower, the 115th Division is at an absolute disadvantage. Although it was not possible before the attack was launched,
Initially, the 115th Division was equipped with a tank regiment.
But this tank regiment was in trouble in front of the anti-tank firepower network composed of a variety of light direct-aimed firepower and a deep 76mm cannon with excellent long-range anti-tank performance by the anti-alliance forces.
Po Xueli simply did not play the role that Lieutenant General Sugiura Eikichi expected them to play.
The Soviet-style 76mm cannon imitated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance was no longer powerful enough to face the new German tanks on the Soviet-German battlefield. However, it was not difficult to face the Japanese Type 97 and Type 1 tanks. The Japanese army invested
The tanks, like thin-skinned cans, were easily destroyed within a distance of 800 meters.
This tank regiment was dismantled and organized into squadrons to cooperate with infantry attack tactics. On the first day it was put into the battlefield, half of the tanks were destroyed, including the results of rocket launchers and recoilless rifles. The remaining tanks were destroyed.
After barely holding on for another day, they had to withdraw from the battlefield because they lost almost all their equipment except for a few Type 1 self-propelled artillery pieces.
A strengthened tank regiment loses combat effectiveness in a short period of time and has to withdraw from the battlefield. This makes the 115th Division, which already suffers from heavy firepower, even more difficult to support. This results in the situation of equal strength.
, although the 115th Division has been continuously replenished on a small scale, the number of casualties is twice that of the Anti-Alliance Division facing them.
By the time Du Kaishan implemented the interspersion, the two armies were actually in a situation where we were among you and you were among us. After more than 20 days of hard fighting, the 120th Division still retained three points.
The actual combat effectiveness of one of them. However, in this fierce battle, the 115th Division had simply been unable to fight.
Different from the 120th Division, which was expanded based on the left-behind division of the 12th Division and was originally intended to defend the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, the 115th Division was transferred to the Chinese battlefield as originally planned and was to be transferred to the Pacific.
It was based on the independent mixed brigade of the battlefield division and was hastily expanded.
No matter in terms of combat effectiveness or equipment, they are far from comparable to the 120th Division. Although in terms of light weapons, everyone is the same. Because the production of new weapons cannot meet the needs, they are equipped with weapons in stock. It’s just that
The difference is that when the production of new rifles was not enough to make up for the losses, they were equipped with thirty-year-old rifles in stock when they were established.
The other one is that in order to maintain the Japanese-Italian alliance, the Army imported 60,000 rifles from Italy and switched to using Italian 65-caliber Carcano rifle bolts. The quality of production and manufacturing was very poor. The Army did not want to give it to the Navy, but it was also used by the Navy.
The Italian-made Type 38 rifle that was thrown back.
However, in terms of heavy weapons, even if the 120th Division did not have time to equip all its artillery, it was only temporarily assigned an independent mortar regiment. However, with the addition of a howitzer brigade and a mountain field artillery brigade strengthened by the North China Front, the direct artillery force
, but in terms of overall firepower, it also surpassed the 115th Division, which had only one mountain artillery brigade, plus an independent mortar brigade reinforced by the North China Front Army.
Although Lieutenant General Sugiura Eikichi discovered on the first day he entered the battlefield that his opponent not only had more infantry firepower than him, but also the range and power of artillery far exceeded his own. He constantly requested the Twelfth Army and even the North China Front to increase the number of troops.
The number of equipped artillery.
At least the eight Type 41 mountain guns and two Type 38 field guns of the own mountain gun brigade will be replaced with Type 94 mountain guns and Type 95 field guns that can surpass the opponent in terms of range. In order to change the opponent's situation,
Tons of artillery fire hit him on the head, but he stared blankly, unable to fight back.
But neither his current boss, Eitaro Uchiyama, nor his boss, General Neji Okamura, could do anything to meet his request. There was no way that the North China Front had only so many artillery units directly under its control, and all of them had been allocated to the various divisions participating in the battle. Right now.
The North China Front Army and the Twelfth Army have nothing in their hands. Where can they find artillery and artillery for them?
Forty percent of the base camp's strengthened artillery was lost to the air strikes of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the way to the war zone. The remaining 60% had to be equally divided between the two battlefields. In addition, it was necessary to focus on ensuring the conditions of the Jinpu Road and Northwest Shandong battlefields.
Next, it can be assigned to the 115th and 120th Divisions on the battlefield east of Texas, which are in a coordinated role. Basically, there is nothing to strengthen.
With the 115th Division having strengthened a tank regiment before the battle, the artillery fire could only be tilted toward the 120th Division, which protected the far right wing of the entire Texas battlefield. When the 115th Division arrived, the North China Front Army and
The Twelfth Army really could no longer mobilize enough artillery.
After losing Peiping and Tianjin and a large number of losses on the battlefield, the North China Front Army's few remaining weapons in stock have been basically exhausted. Within the North China Front Army's establishment, the remaining stock equipment in the Jinan Army Warehouse is really gone.
How many. The mountain artillery brigade, which is mainly composed of Type 41 mountain artillery, was squeezed out by the Twelfth Army after trying to piece together.
Although your 115th Division basically has no long-range artillery fire, doesn't the tank regiment assigned to you also have an artillery tank squadron? Those nine Type 1 artillery tanks are all the latest Type 91 artillery tanks.
It is a modified howitzer, and its range is still barely acceptable. Regardless of whether it is part of the 115th Division, but since it has been strengthened for the 115th Division, it is best to deal with it first.
The firepower was not as good as that of the opponent in person, and the strength of the troops was roughly the same. After more than twenty days of hard fighting, the 115th Division was exhausted when faced with an extremely difficult opponent. The two brigades and eight infantry brigades that participated in the battle suffered losses.
It was also extremely heavy. Almost all the heavy equipment was destroyed.
By the time Eitaro Uchiyama gave the order to retreat, each of the eight infantry brigades he belonged to, together with some of the soldiers added in the later period, as well as the baggage and engineers who were gradually converted into infantry, only had an average of three to four hundred people left.
With the usual resilience of the Japanese army, they are still struggling to hold on.
After these days of hard fighting, and because the location is relatively critical, except for a tank regiment assigned before the war. In addition, its own strength is not as good as that of the 120th Division, and it still has more or less support from the Twelfth Army.
Take care of it. Although there are no large-scale reinforcements, with the occasional reinforcement of half a brigade today and two squadrons tomorrow, we can barely hold on to the current 115th Division. The total strength of the 115th Division is only more than 4,000.
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Where can the remaining troops of the 115th Division resist? Tao Jingfei, an elite division that has been recharging its strength for a long time, rushes over like the top of Mount Tai? He is busy shrinking his troops in accordance with the previous order, and has lost the ability to direct their actions.
The remnants of the 15th Division were instantly reduced to pieces.
The reinforced division that had been fighting fiercely against it had suffered more than half of its casualties due to continuous fighting and lost the ability to conduct a full-scale attack. However, it entangled the remaining troops of the 115th Division and cooperated with Tao Jingfei's newly reinforced division to attack a division alone.
The ability is still there.
The department cooperated with a division deployed by Tao Jingfei on the Ningjin battlefield to intercept the 115th Division on the spot and conduct a small-scale frontal assault. A newly deployed division from Tao Jingfei adopted the tactics of frontal division and flanking to attack a group of troops.
The remaining troops of the 15th Division carried out rapid division and encirclement and annihilation.
With the main force of the 120th Division already preparing to flee, Tao Jingfei's first wave of key attack targets were the 85th Brigade on the right wing of the Ningjin battlefield, and the 85th Brigade connected to its position.
The 259th Regiment of the 120th Division was trying to shrink its forces and prepare to retreat.
The 86th Infantry Brigade, located on the left wing of the entire Ningjin battlefield, was not in Tao Jingfei's main attack direction. It was only entangled by the old opponent in front of him, unable to advance or retreat. But the entire Ningjin battlefield was located in the direction of Tao Jingfei's main attack.
The Eighty-fifth Brigade on the right, as well as the 259th Regiment of the 120th Division on the Huangjia Town front line, were in bad luck.
Huangjia Town, in particular, was ordered to cover the retreat of the entire 120th Division. After the 260th and 261st Regiments on the right wing had completed their evacuation, the 259th Regiment began to secretly leave one after another.
As soon as the assembly was completed, Tao Jingfei's first wave of focused firepower hit his head.
When attacking Huangjia Town, Tao Jingfei, who had the detailed retreat intelligence support of the entire 120th Division, grasped the opportunity quite accurately. When the troops arrived at the front of Huangjia Town, he did not attack immediately. Instead, he used the original Huangjia
The blocking troops in front of the town continued to launch small-scale tactical counterattacks.
This gave the 259th Regiment the illusion that the Anti-Japanese Alliance was not aware of its retreat when it was in front of them. When the 259th Regiment's captain, Colonel Motoshimagi, moved the troops that could be withdrawn, ten kilometers deep to the southeast of Huangjia Town, they began to
When they were gathering one after another, he ordered the troops to start taking action.
He deployed the 4122 Rocket Artillery Battery on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies in Huangjia Town, nine kilometers deep. Facing the direction where the 259th Regiment could gather according to Yanagawa Shinichi's retreat plan, he determined the ammunition and material storage points.
With Li Gan as the center and within 300 meters of the northwest direction, a salvo was fired directly without any test firing.
When Tao Jingfei secretly transferred to the direction of Gaozhuang, just north of Huangjia Town, four companies of sixteen 122 rocket launchers suddenly opened fire. The dense rocket launchers fired extremely dazzling tail flames, streaking across the early morning on the Hebei-Shandong border.
The sky indicates that the entire battlefield east of Texas, which has been tumultuous for nearly a month, has finally entered the final stage of the decisive battle.
When hitting such a fixed target, the disadvantage of slightly lower accuracy of the One-Two-Two Rocket Launcher in combat is no longer a fatal weakness. More than 600 rockets dropped in just a few minutes, completely destroying the entire Dingli Rod.
This small natural village, together with most of the 259th Regiment that gradually entered the village, was covered tightly.
Following the volley fired by the four 122 rocket launchers that took the lead, the entire battlefield east of Dezhou, starting from Huangjia Town in the east and reaching the Leijiaying line at the junction of Ningjin and Dongguang in the west, rang out at the same time.
Intensive artillery fire. On the entire battlefield east of Wuqiao and up to the Leling line, the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had been defending for more than 20 days, turned into a full-scale counterattack.
Under the cover of artillery fire, an anti-resistance regiment in front of Huangjia Town took the lead in kicking off the counterattack. Tao Jingfei joined an infantry regiment in Huangjia Town, and with the cooperation of part of the original blocking force, the entire regiment attacked. In
To the west of Huangjia Town, we defeated the remaining three squadrons left behind by the 259th Regiment to block the blockade, and forcibly opened a large hole in the original front line of the 259th Regiment.
After opening the breakthrough, the regiment immediately followed the combat plan, ignoring the troops that were abandoned by the 259th Regiment and could not be evacuated. The regiment immediately divided into two groups, with two battalions on each side as the backbone, strengthening an organic battalion of the original combat unit.
It penetrated directly between Leling County and Huangjia Town, cut off the route of the remnants of the 259th Regiment from chasing the main force of the 120th Division, and implemented a comprehensive encirclement of the 259th Regiment.