pdf-ebookys #348 - Iron Line Defense!
#348 - Iron Line Defense!
"Chief, Li Tianxi's company, the 3rd Battalion of the 531st Regiment, is in a firefight with the vanguard of the Rogue Eagle forces at Mulichuan. Li Tianxi took the lead and occupied Mulichuan's 2317 Highland, currently blocking the Rogue Eagle's vanguard and destroying 2 light tanks and 4 armored transport vehicles. However, the enemy's vanguard has not retreated and is in a stalemate with Li Tianxi's company, exchanging mortar fire."
"The 531st Regiment of the 112th Division is accelerating its advance and will arrive at Mulichuan with the entire regiment in one hour."
The operations staff reported after compiling the latest intelligence.
"The 112th Division is requesting instructions on whether to launch a limited counterattack!"
Kong Jie listened to the intelligence while looking at the map.
At this moment, his forward command post was still more than 20 kilometers away from Mulichuan.
Li Tianxi's company did not have the latest intelligence on the Kingston Task Force of the Rogue Eagle 7th Infantry Division, and they didn't even know who their opponent was, but judging from their faces, they were definitely foreign devils.
"If there is an opportunity to take out a portion, the front line can discuss it as appropriate, but be careful of the enemy's reinforcements. Mountainous areas are not conducive to the deployment of troops, both for the enemy and for us. Be careful of falling into their ambush." Kong Jie looked at the map for a while and felt that launching an attack would not be very meaningful. Along the mountain road, his troops could only meet the enemy in a single line formation.
In this situation, there was no advantage at all. With similar equipment, it would be a one-for-one exchange, which was completely uneconomical from the current perspective.
Mulichuan was like a gourd that could be let in. After occupying the surrounding highlands, the enemy could only come out of the mountain road one by one like gourd babies. On our side, we could at least deploy a regiment to form a crossfire position, and it would be a mountainous area that was difficult for the enemy's artillery to cover.
As the first line of defense, a regiment could effectively block the Rogue Eagles from passing through here.
It's just that the current situation is a bit bad, which is that the advance troops arrived there too hastily, and there are basically no fortifications to speak of.
If the enemy had more artillery, Li Tianxi and his men wouldn't be able to hold out for long.
After all, Kong Jie was very clear about the power of artillery.
Li Tianxi's mere hundred or so men, in such a large-scale battle, would basically be suppressed if the enemy sent over a mountain gun company.
"The 531st Regiment is too slow. Order a portion of it to advance with full mechanization and be sure to reach Mulichuan within half an hour to set up defenses and consolidate our position." Kong Jie was somewhat dissatisfied with his subordinates' actions.
"Mulichuan is the best battlefield to block the enemy's advance. Once it is lost, we will have to retreat to the Nanpingling line."
"The 531st Regiment's task is not only to block the enemy's vanguard, but also to find ways to strengthen the position and form anti-artillery fortifications in the short term that can defend against the enemy's mountain gun bombardment. Our 107 rocket launchers are flexible to assemble and can be disassembled and taken to the top of the highlands to suppress the enemy's heavy artillery attacks from a high position."
The enemy has a lot of artillery, not just mortars and mountain guns, but also 105mm howitzers and 155mm howitzers! These are very powerful and are a nightmare for defending positions.
To eliminate these threats, the current conditions are obviously not very favorable.
Currently, our army's artillery technology is still in the imitation stage and has not surpassed the opponent.
The truly mobile 107 rocket launcher has also lost its mobility characteristics in such mountainous areas and can only rely on the road for simple back and forth movement along the kilometer.
Although this can also avoid the accuracy of the opponent's counterattack, by firing a few shots and changing locations, it is still impossible to achieve the excellent traditional skills of our army such as outflanking.
It should be known that rocket launchers are our advantage, and if they can be used for large-scale mobile strikes, then the opponent will basically be crippled.
The power of the 107 rocket launcher is quite impressive. Its only disadvantage is that it consumes too much, and general logistics cannot support it.
But fortunately, at the beginning of this war, Ren Zhong revealed the importance of logistics work, and the supply of weapons and ammunition is orders of magnitude better than in the historical time and space of the main world.
Now, the most frequent task of each army's motor transport regiment is to transport ammunition, especially artillery shells!
Although artillery shells cost money, in Ren Zhong's concept, artillery shells are not as valuable as human lives. Although in the production of artillery shells, as long as the horsepower is fully utilized, then it will definitely produce as much as is needed. The current military industrial system has absolutely no problems in this regard.
Currently, the monthly production capacity of several artillery shell factories in Northeast China alone has reached the level of hundreds of thousands!
Dawn begins.
The 1st Cavalry Division crashed head-on into the 178th Division's defensive line.
A heavy tank company with a mixed M46 and M26 formation recklessly crashed into the 178th Division's newly deployed defensive line.
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Behind them was an entire infantry battalion, driving half-track armored vehicles equipped with Browning heavy machine guns, following behind the tanks. Facing the discovered 178th Division position, they began to follow the tanks and fire fiercely, and the Rogue Eagle soldiers jumped out of the cars one by one. They began to line up and form a charging formation with the armored vehicles!
Behind them, the artillery supporting the infantry began to find positions to deploy.
It hasn't been a few years since the end of World War II. The batch of soldiers who fought bloody battles against the little devils back then have not yet retired. At the grassroots level, they are all veterans with online combat experience!
This attitude of not panicking when encountering the enemy and directly facing the difficulties made the 375th Regiment Commander of the 178th Division feel very棘手.
He commanded the troops to quickly advance here to establish the first line of defense. Everyone had only dug a shallow trench less than 50 centimeters deep when they encountered the 1st Cavalry Division.
Looking at the size of the M26/M46 heavy tanks, Yan Zhong knew that they were not easy opponents to deal with.
The tank battalion that arrived together also did not hesitate and directly went to the top.
On the battlefield, the best weapon against tanks is still tanks!
When the tanks of both sides entered 500 meters, the sound of tank cannons firing began to be heard one after another!
This time, the Rogue Eagle's tank guns had a caliber of 90mm! When the armor-piercing shell hit the modified version of the T34 tank's composite armor, it immediately caused serious damage to the first layer of composite armor. Although it did not penetrate the tank in one fell swoop, the tank driver felt an ominous sign from the huge vibration!
At the same time, when the 76mm main gun of the 178th Division's tank battalion hit the opponent's tank, it did not penetrate the Rogue Eagle's tank in one shot as before!
In the first round of attacks between the two sides, the Rogue Eagles had a slightly higher hit rate, but neither side could do anything to the other!
The only thing for the 178th Division was that they had a numerical advantage, and the total number of hits was still better than the opponent.
The tanks were face to face, and no one had a way out. In the second round of frontal confrontation that followed, neither side hesitated. This time, the volunteer soldiers' tanks learned the method of focusing fire with 2 tanks. Finally, under the situation where two shells hit the same tank one after another, they destroyed seven or eight Rogue Eagle tanks, causing them to explode and emit black smoke!
But at the same time, five or six of our tanks were unfortunately martyred after being hit by more than 2 shells in a row, and the entire tank was detonated by the armor-piercing shell that had been chiseled through!
With the original armor thickness of the T-34 tank, it could not withstand the attack of 90mm armor-piercing shells after the composite armor was destroyed!
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