area51novel #296 - Jumping tactics
#296 - Jumping tactics
"Anshan, Benxi, Dalian, Old Brother Ren's request is really a bit high." The brigade commander looked at the map locations of these three places, his head feeling a bit big.
Originally, if we pushed forward step by step, the troops wouldn't be afraid of the Japanese devils at all.
But suddenly, the demand to seize these important industrial infrastructures has increased the difficulty for the first attack group to a 5-star level!
Especially Dalian, to break through a peninsula, it would be difficult to conquer without a bit of time.
"Step-by-step won't work," Ren Zhong said, rejecting the brigade commander's new plan after listening to Chief of Staff Ye's introduction of the frontline combat plan.
"A slow step leads to constant slowness. We can't continue fighting in this way. It would take three months to conquer even one Northeast province."
Ren Zhong recalled the original battle against the Kwantung Army. The environment was different, and the troops invested were also different.
In the main world's historical timeline, the Japanese devils were being beaten after their headquarters had already surrendered. To be honest, the main generals had lost their spirit. Choosing to surrender on a large scale was understandable. The current Japanese devils haven't reached that point of desperation yet. The Japanese devils in each place are basically unlikely to surrender upon hearing the news.
Don't think it's easy to take Jinxi and Jindong. That's because Jindong has internal support, which greatly reduces the time and consumption of attacking and breaking through the city. Such opportunities may exist later, but don't expect them to always be like this.
Although there is now a firepower advantage in siege warfare, it also brings corresponding logistical pressure. The caliber and ammunition of the main weapons of the current attack group are not compatible with those of the Japanese devils. The captured weapons and ammunition are actually not very useful to the current attack group.
Therefore, the brigade commander and others are already considering transferring second-line troops to re-equip with Japanese-style weapons for auxiliary combat!
Otherwise, the expenditure on weapons and ammunition would worry the logistics department to death.
The captured locomotive transport capacity is now basically fully loaded and still cannot meet the huge demand for transporting troops and ammunition!
A large part of the Second Attack Group has to choose to march on foot or by car. For this reason, the logistics department is collecting 3,000 early-produced Red Star cars for emergency transport of personnel to the north.
It's not that the Eighth Route Army is no longer good at running, but the time factor has become tense as soon as Ren Zhong mentioned it. Originally, there was no problem in taking the Northeast in three to five months.
It's just that the plan at that time didn't even consider the factor of completely seizing the industrial facilities.
Now that Ren Zhong has come up with a list of industrial infrastructures that must be taken, the headquarters and the higher-ups dare not underestimate it and are beginning to do everything possible to speed up the advance. Not only the Second Attack Group, but all the troops are starting to accelerate!
Moreover, the key points of the attack are beginning to change.
"After calculating the number of Japanese devils defending, if it is not an impregnable fortress, the troops can completely carry out leapfrog attacks," Ren Zhong said to Chief of Staff Ye, taking out the rogue eagle's frog-hopping tactics.
"Originally, this tactic was extremely risky due to the lack of logistical follow-up, but now our army has an absolute advantage. In Liaodong and Liaoxi, we can completely leapfrog and blossom in multiple directions. If some fortresses cannot be captured in the short term, then send troops to watch them and prevent the Japanese devils inside from coming out."
After listening to Ren Zhong's ideas, Chief of Staff Ye felt it was a bit risky, but after careful consideration, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it. The Japanese devils in Liaodong and Liaoxi at most have five or six divisions. Now the First Attack Group has four columns rushing in. Even if the Japanese devils transfer a few more divisions, it shouldn't be a problem for the columns to defend one direction and wait for the Second Attack Group to come up.
In this way, if the mechanized infantry brigade is used as a sharp knife to quickly advance, there is no big problem in directly rushing to the Dalian Shipyard!
Who would dare to come out and provoke the Japanese devils along the way? Kill one if they come out!
In terms of subsequent follow-up, one column can just follow the mechanized infantry brigade to advance fiercely.
As for logistical supplies, reaching the end of Liaodong, the opposite side is the Shandong Peninsula! Supplying by boat is much faster than going by land!
The Japanese devils' fleet in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow River has now been wiped out by the Allied forces. An Allied destroyer squadron is waiting for the Japanese navy to emerge in Qingdao. In this case, Chief of Staff Ye feels that things seem to be very promising.
In fact, this is their limited thinking. Ren Zhong revealed this point, and the brigade commander and others' thinking suddenly diverged. They compared the progress and location of each column with the division commander and others, and decisively adopted Ren Zhong's ideas to launch a leapfrog tactic!
Not only Dalian, but the brigade commander also sent a mixed force to seize Anshan and Benxi this time!
The vanguard regiment and the puppet army regiment that revolted in Jindong are now even more useful. They will shoulder the heavy responsibility of assigning personnel to fully contact their old relationships, underground organizations, various volunteer armies, anti-Japanese alliances, and all national resistance forces. The goal is to preserve the local industrial infrastructure and launch a battle for the industrial facilities and a defense war!
Compared to attacking cities, this task is more suitable for the vanguard regiment and the revolted Second Northeast Autonomous Army local regiment to exert their specialties.
Now, without having to fight the Japanese devils to the death, they can strive for great achievements. For many puppet soldiers, this is a great temptation, especially Ma Tiancheng's precedent, which allows the puppet soldiers who have not done much evil to see new hope. If they add meritorious service, their future can basically be completely determined.
Regarding this situation, Ren Zhong was initially more entangled. Just because they revolted, it shouldn't be that their previous traitorous experience is whitewashed as if it never happened.
Anyway, in the current situation, without the active efforts of these puppet soldiers, it is indeed not easy to completely protect a preliminary industrialized Northeast, so Ren Zhong did not have any objections to this.
Soon, Li Yunlong once again took on the task of leading a surprise attack on Liaodong and capturing the Dalian Shipyard.
It's just that the Japanese devils of the Kwantung Army don't know that the Eighth Route Army has changed its strategy. They only see the Eighth Route Army starting to mobilize team after team in an unconventional manner. For a time, there are reports of attacks everywhere!
They simply can't figure out where the main attack direction is?
The Japanese devils' air force is also a bit at a loss when taking off, but soon they won't have to worry anymore. As soon as the radar sweeps, after discovering the taking off Japanese devils air force, the Shenying Brigade, which has moved to the front line, immediately takes off to meet the enemy!
They mercilessly annihilated the Japanese devils in the air!
Although the number of fighter jets in the current Shenying Brigade is not comparable to that of the Japanese devils' Kwantung Army, it has already overwhelmed them in quality!
In addition, the Allied Air Force entered the Shandong Peninsula, and it is also very convenient to support Liaodong. The air forces in both directions have completely suppressed the Japanese devils' air force!
Although the air force does not have much spare capacity to support the ground troops, they have no more problems in ensuring air safety.
Li Yunlong led three mechanized infantry brigades and crossed the entire Liaodong Peninsula in one day and one night.
Of course, they wouldn't do it so obviously. Instead, they surrounded the city opposite the shipyard, but in fact, they surrounded the shipyard, which was not well-defended, and announced that without permission, the entire city was not allowed to pass freely.
The Japanese devils have set up a fortress here. For Li Yunlong, attacking the fortress is still a technical job.
Faced with the 240mm fortress guns, Li Yunlong was still relatively cautious, but soon, Ren Zhong sent the Japanese devils' fortress gun performance parameters to Li Yunlong.
The fortress gun here uses a 240mm caliber, a barrel length of 3.89 meters, a total weight of 38 tons, and has a huge shield on the front.
Like the coastal defense guns at the time, the gun cannot be maneuvered in the assembled state, and the shooting flexibility is also relatively poor. It uses a nine-man gun crew. When shooting, the artillery needs to first flatten the barrel, and then the loader moves the warhead to the small trolley at the tail of the gun, and then loads the warhead, propellant bag, and fuze in sequence, and then adjusts the angle of the artillery to fire.
With this reaction process, for most of the artillery in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, four or five rounds would have been fired long ago!
Due to its history, the fortress gun has not much propellant. The initial velocity of the shell firing a fragmentation shell is 387 m/s, and the maximum range is about 10 kilometers. Although the power is sufficient, the flexibility and range are unsatisfactory.
Of course, it was very strong before 1930, but now this range is not enough to watch. After reading the parameters, Li Yunlong has a plan in mind.
He then adjusted his tactics, first using 107 rockets to wash the ground of the Japanese devils' defensive positions near the fortress! After cleaning up part of the Japanese devils' infantry, he then transferred the anti-aircraft 88mm high-altitude guns to attack the Japanese devils' fortress guns!
Using the 88mm high-altitude guns' range far exceeding that of the Japanese devils' fortress guns, the Japanese devils' several fortress guns were blown crooked!
Although it is not known whether the guns can still be used, it is certain that the Japanese devils' artillerymen operating the guns are useless, they are all broken!
After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Li Yunlong's assault group finally took control of the fortress and most of the urban area, and the next day, the supply transport ships from Shandong entered the port of Dalian under the protection of the Allied fleet to supply Li Yunlong.
This allowed his attack to maintain a strong firepower advantage.
It took more than a week to take down the two major fortresses of the Japanese devils on the Liaodong Peninsula!
Completely take over this most important port city in Northeast China.
Ren Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief.
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