pdf-ebookys #280 - By fighting each other, they become powerful countries?
#280 - By fighting each other, they become powerful countries?
Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye were making plans.
The Brigade Commander, however, couldn't relax. Intelligence from the front lines poured in like a flood. The staff team had now expanded to more than 30 people, but it still felt insufficient.
A row of radio stations constantly received information from various levels remotely. Outside the radio stations, in another room, the voice transmitters rose and fell one after another, never stopping. This was the dispatch situation near Jizhou.
Information was aggregated in real-time to the command post through the voice transmitters.
"The Eighth Division has appeared?" The Brigade Commander suddenly frowned when he heard the operations staff report on the progress in She County.
He knew that this was a division that headquarters had sent through secret transmission channels, a division that must be eliminated.
It was personally designated by his brother Ren.
Therefore, the Brigade Commander was very sensitive to information about the Eighth Division.
"Yes, Brigade Commander. The Eighth Division has divided its forces into two routes. The vanguard has already entered the Longhu Township and Shidong area. According to the plan, we have no defenses in this area. We plan to let the main force of the Japanese devils enter Yangyi before starting to resist step by step, pulling the devils into the valley of more than ten kilometers between Yangyi and Xishu to annihilate them!" the operations staff reported.
There were two roads from Wu'an to She County. One was a main road along the valley, passable by vehicles and tanks. If the Japanese devils wanted to bring heavy weapons into the mountains, they had to take this route. The other road was over mountains and ridges, not passable by vehicles and unable to carry heavy weapons. At most, the 92 infantry gun could be disassembled and carried on mules and horses.
The Japanese devils on this route were naturally mainly light infantry.
There were 2 Class B regiments ambushing in the mountains. The Brigade Commander was not worried about this direction being lost.
The big problem was how to completely annihilate the Eighth Division. Because it was necessary to lure the enemy deep, it was not easy to send people to ambush and cut off the retreat on both sides of the Shili Dian pass from Wu'an. The Japanese devils would most likely dig three feet into the ground to scout these key places before entering the mountains.
If the retreat could not be secured, then the requirement to completely annihilate the enemy would be difficult.
However, the Brigade Commander only hesitated for a while before discarding the idea. For him, the battlefield was ever-changing, and it was impossible to consider everything thoroughly. He would just do his best. Anyway, these Japanese devils had left their old nest in the Northeast, and now they shouldn't even think about going back.
"What is the latest situation in Jizhou?" The Brigade Commander put aside the She County situation and turned to the present.
"We have already found the location of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and confirmed that 48 150mm howitzers are following behind the 1st Division. The vanguard has reached the vicinity of Qi County."
The 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade? The Brigade Commander looked at the enemy's key units marked on the map, his face a little solemn. The Type 4 150mm field howitzer was a great weapon. Only the most elite troops were qualified to equip this kind of 150mm caliber howitzer, and only in a real decisive battle would the Japanese devils bring out the field heavy artillery.
So, the Japanese devils were really driven to desperation by themselves?
A slight arc appeared at the corner of the Brigade Commander's lips.
Two years ago, the Brigade Commander would have gone as far as possible when encountering such troops, and there was no room for resistance at all.
The range of artillery is the truth. Two years ago, the Brigade Commander didn't have any hard goods in his hands. It wasn't until the end of the year that he had accumulated a batch of 107 rockets! During the New Year, he fired hundreds of small rockets at the Japanese devils' airport to cheer up the people of the whole country.
But today, the Brigade Commander has many things he can use.
The once invincible monster of the Japanese devils had become quite useless in the eyes of the Brigade Commander. The range was not good. Compared with the 105mm howitzer in his hand, the range was several streets behind! The maneuverability was also not good. The artillery was heavy and had to take the main road to be towed by trucks.
The power of a single bomb was sufficient, but the rate of fire was not good, only 3-4 rounds per minute. This was quite garbage compared to the 105mm howitzer in the Brigade Commander's hand. The 105mm howitzer he was currently using had a maximum range of 11 kilometers and a maximum rate of fire of 16 rounds per minute.
It could completely crush this heavy weapon of the Japanese devils.
When these things flashed in the Brigade Commander's mind, a thought suddenly popped up. It seemed that the current Japanese devils were really old!
In order to fight desperately with himself, he was now taking out his family property, which was also an outdated product from more than ten years ago. For the GMD, which had no heavy artillery equipment, such equipment was naturally invincible, but for himself now, it was far too far behind.
Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and the Brigade Commander returned to reality.
He turned to the Chief of Staff and said, "Can our vehicle-mounted rocket artillery battalion and heavy machine gun battalion attack the Japanese devils by surprise?"
The Chief of Staff of the Brigade Department was stunned for a moment and shook his head slightly, "A surprise attack can be launched, but if the infantry can't keep up, the results may not be good. According to our plan, when the Japanese devils arrive at the front line and have not yet gained a firm foothold, we will send the vehicle-mounted rocket artillery battalion and heavy machine gun battalion to break into the Japanese devils' rear positions and launch a lightning attack, using cloud bombs to solve this heavy artillery brigade in one fell swoop!"
"Next is our tank battalion charging, and the mechanized infantry brigade launching a strong attack, striving to seize the Japanese devils' heavy artillery. Although some of the heavy artillery may be directly incinerated by the high temperature, in places far away from the core area of the cloud bomb, the Japanese devils' soldiers cannot withstand the lack of oxygen and die, but the artillery does not have this problem."
Because heavy weapons were still insufficient, Ren Zhong mentioned to Staff Officer Ye that if the Japanese devils' heavy artillery could be captured, it should be captured. Producing shells was not a problem. The Japanese devils had built many fortresses along the way in the Northeast. After years of construction, the Northeast had become a defensive monster like an iron hedgehog, which could not be gnawed without heavy artillery.
Especially some reinforced concrete fortifications, which were hard to gnaw even with 75mm mountain guns and field guns. If there was no suppression from 150mm howitzers and 105 howitzers, the accuracy of the 107 rockets was not very good, and it would be very laborious to fight.
It was not impossible to win completely, but the key was that it was time-consuming, delaying Ren Zhong's plan to quickly seize the Northeast and build a large industrial base.
Moreover, protracted street battles would not be conducive to future construction and could very likely turn the entire Northeast into a ruin. Therefore, it was necessary to quickly pacify it like a whirlwind in the original historical time and space, minimizing damage to the industrial infrastructure as much as possible!
This required the attacking team to have overwhelmingly powerful firepower!
Now the Brigade Commander's strength was not afraid of the position at all. The mechanized infantry brigades that were gradually being equipped had exceeded 10, and the three mechanized infantry brigades of Li Yunlong and the others were fully equipped with cloud bombs.
Like the several vehicle-mounted 107 artillery battalions in She County, they had a strong area killing ability. The Japanese devils' numerical superiority was completely meaningless under this weapon of equality for all.
There were currently two main types of cloud bombs in the hands of the Eighth Route Army infantry. One was the Dongfeng Express loaded with cloud bombs, with a killing power comparable to 44 tons of TNT; the other was the RPG-80 rocket launcher cloud bomb, a single-soldier weapon. After being fired, it would spread the cloud agent to about 20 meters around, and then detonate it, causing a violent explosion, which would produce a strong shock wave and high temperature, effectively killing personnel within the range, with a killing range of about 50 meters!
The maximum range was 850 meters, and the direct aiming and accurate strike target range was 200 meters.
This portable cloud bomb, which infantry soldiers could fire and throw away or fire two shots before throwing away, completely changed the definition of front-line firepower for infantry. Under special terrain conditions, it already had the killing power of heavy artillery! Taking a few shots with them at the front could cause fatal damage to a Japanese devils' large team charging formation!
As for the 107mm rocket cloud bomb, the killing power was even more powerful.
With this great weapon in hand, the Brigade Commander was really qualified not to panic when facing the elite of the 300,000 Kwantung Army!
While fighting, how did I become like a great power, starting to bully the Japanese devils with firepower?
The Chief of Staff of the Brigade Department couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dwell on it. Anyway, this battle was the most important one in his career, but after calculating it, it seemed to be the one in his career that wasted the least brain cells.
This was too unscientific.
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