The night is getting darker and darker, and in the inland areas, the sound of firecrackers is still ringing one after another. The cadet army has entered Fujian, Guangdong and Qiong, which has caused the living standards of the people in these three places to rise linearly. The living standards have risen, and the people also have spare money to provide more for their children. Buy some firecrackers, and if it weren't for this damn war, how peaceful and lively the Fujian and Guangdong regions would be on the 30th day of the 1939 year.
Move the time forward three hours, that is, when it is just getting dark, in the Japanese temporary camp in Shuitou Township, six kilometers north of Cangnan, a group of well-equipped Japanese soldiers numbering about forty people are under a man named Qianjiang Ichiro. Under the leadership of the major, they walked out of the camp and then disappeared into the mountains.
An hour later, around 6:30, another group of Japanese troops, numbering about a thousand people, left the camp and then headed southwest along the highway.
The Independent 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under the South China Front Army Headquarters has just begun to fire artillery bombardments on the student army positions. In a private house under heavy military protection in Dupu Township, two kilometers southeast of Cangnan, Matsui Iwane is sitting on a Taishi chair with his hands on one side. Rubbing his temples, he quietly listened to the report of a major staff officer,
The South China Front launched an attack from both the north and south, and because the Soryu aircraft carrier fleet provided fire support on the southern front, it naturally became the focus of the attack. It is not surprising that Matsui Iwane personally took charge here.
"Commander Otani Brigade reported that the 41st Tank Regiment is ready... His Excellency Hisao Tani reported that the 13th Infantry Regiment is ready..."
Hisao Tani and Iwane Matsui were both lucky, because Ouyang Yun planned the Nanjing Massacre and prevented the Nanjing Massacre from happening. These two guys who had committed numerous crimes were not recalled to the country. However, this time, they were doomed. Hisao Tani was doomed. Iwane Matsui was at the rear and was controlling the layout. What they didn't expect was that about thirty kilometers away from them, the Xuebing Army's large-scale killer weapon, a brigade of rocket launchers, was moving this way.
"Duh, boom, boom," the artillery of the Xuebing Army began to fight back. The exposed artillery position of the Japanese army was four kilometers southeast of Matsui Iwane's headquarters. The sound of artillery shells piercing the air sounded overhead, followed by an earth-shattering explosion. The sound came from the southeast. Matsui Iwane listened attentively for a while and said: "Very good, the Shina people finally couldn't help but fight back. Now it's Tian Qinye's turn."
On the southern front, Matsui Iwane had a total of two brigade-sized artillery. Among them, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, which was reorganized from the 6th Division, was the sharpest. The heavy howitzers under the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade were the most powerful. The 6th Regiment is equipped with newly produced heavy howitzers. Compared with previous heavy artillery, the shooting accuracy, strike distance and firing speed of this gun have increased. Matsui Iwane has high hopes for it.
The major staff officer was very sensible. When he heard this, he immediately rang the phone to the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade. After the call was connected, he handed the phone to Matsui Iwane and said: "Sir, the call has been connected."
On the other end of the phone was Major General Ueda Qinno, the commander of the 6th Brigade. Matsui Iwane asked straight to the point: "Ueda-kun, did you hear the sound of the Chinese artillery? The Chinese is a self-propelled artillery, and it is very convenient to move positions. You only have five minutes at most, you understand."
"Hai."
Artillery is the king of infantry warfare, and because the tanks of the Xubing Army are far stronger than those of the Japanese army, whether they can first find and destroy the artillery of the Xubing Army has become a top priority, because only in this way can we guarantee In the subsequent tank battle, our own artillery can provide fire support for the tank troops.
When the Xuebing Army artillery began to fight back, Ueda Qinye and his technical officers began to get busy. As the second wave of explosions occurred at the position of the Independent 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, they also roughly calculated the Xuebing Army artillery force. Ueda should have been proud of being able to find the enemy's artillery positions so quickly, but when he discovered that there were actually three artillery positions in the Xuebing Army, he was a little dumbfounded.
The establishment of the Tenth Learning Division and the Second Guard Division is completely different from the divisions that Ouyang Yun brought to Jiangxi. The reason why the establishment of those divisions focused on certain combat skills was for the needs of the big battle, and they were mutually beneficial. As a result of the allocation between them, the establishment of the Tenth Division is that each infantry brigade is equipped with an artillery regiment, and the tank brigade is equipped with an infantry regiment on the basis of a tank regiment and an armored regiment. As for the Second Guard Division , then there is only one towed artillery regiment belonging to the division. In this case, even though the two self-propelled artillery regiments of the 10th Xuexue Division are under the unified command of Ma Chun, the commander of the 403 regiment, the positions of the two regiments are also separated from each other. It's about two kilometers away. As for the artillery regiment of the Second Guard Division, it's five or six kilometers away from them.
A difficult problem was posed in front of Ueda Qinye. There were three enemy artillery positions. Should we concentrate our efforts on bombarding one, or should we separately attack three at the same time? Concentrating our efforts on one could ensure the density of firepower output, and thus ensure one hit. Yes, but if they do this, they will suffer retaliation from the other two places; spreading their forces to attack three at the same time, not to mention the difficulty of deploying and commanding, the effect is also questionable...
The rate of fire of self-propelled artillery is more than three or four times that of towed artillery. With his hesitation, over there, a total of 72 heavy artillery pieces from six brigades of the Independent 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade have suffered a devastating blow. The rate of fire of the artillery is dense and fast, and the adjustment of micro-angle is even more convenient and fast because of the hydraulic assistance. There are two self-propelled artillery regiments, each of which has eighteen self-propelled artillery, thirty-six self-propelled artillery, and each gun has five rounds per minute. Six rounds of artillery shells add up to about 200 rounds per minute. With 200 rounds of artillery shells, the angle is adjusted every minute. Five minutes is enough to send the entire 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade to the Pacific Ocean to feed fish.
Ueda was sweating profusely as he weighed the powerful relationship, but Matsui Iwane couldn't wait any longer. The commander of the 6th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade reacted quickly and immediately organized a counterattack. However, their heavy artillery was not easy to operate. , and the officers and soldiers were under great pressure, so it took three minutes to roughly find the direction and fight back. In three minutes, more than half of the 72 heavy artillery had been damaged, so even if they launched a counterattack in time, the effect was only It was just nothing. Although Matsui Iwane was not an expert in artillery warfare, he still had basic common sense. He couldn't calm down when Ueda didn't see a counterattack for a long time. He called and cursed: "Ba Ge, Ueda Qinye, what are you doing?"
As soon as Matsui Iwane put pressure on Ueda, the little Japanese couldn't help but lose sight of one thing and lose the other. He quickly ordered the entire brigade to command forty-eight new heavy howitzers and thirty-six other types of heavy artillery to launch a counterattack against the two artillery positions of the Tenth Academy Division commanded by Asaharu.
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By now, six minutes had passed, and Ma Chun and the others were ready to stop shooting and move their positions.