area51novel #263 - Lao Li's sigh
#263 - Lao Li's sigh
With the successive completion of the Daoqing and Jinghan Railways, Jizhou City became a junction of the two, thus becoming a major town in North China. In addition, the Wei River, which meandered around the city, was originally the Yongji Canal section of the Sui and Tang Grand Canal, with a wide river surface leading directly to Jinmen. It can be described as having complete water and land transportation, a hub of the north-south artery, so the city walls were solid, with brick cladding added to the earthen walls to become a brick city.
The terrain of Jizhou City is high in the middle and low around the edges, shaped like an overturned iron pot, and is also known as Turtleback City.
The city walls of Jizhou City have four gates, namely Yingen (East Gate), Laibin (West Gate), Chaoyang (South Gate), and Gongchen (North Gate).
Jizhou (Xinxiang) City walls and the Wei River around the city in the 1940s
In the historical time and space of the main world, this was a strong city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Japanese devils built more than 200 bunkers between the outer moat and the moat, forming a crossfire with the bunkers on the city. Villages and ditches within two kilometers outside the city were used to build firepower strongholds, forming a tight defense system of more than 500 strongholds of various sizes, all connected by traffic trenches with bunkers inside, and the firepower was very tightly arranged.
In the original time and space, this was simply like a hedgehog with no way to bite, because of the lack of heavy firepower to拔点 (pull out strongholds), Jizhou and Yecheng became the last isolated cities liberated on the north bank of the Yellow River in North China.
But in this time and space, Ren Chong was born, although only 5 mechanized infantry brigades launched the attack by the brigade commander, but there were five to six hundred artillery pieces of various types!
Whether it is a large 105mm howitzer or a small RPG rocket launcher, it is easy to deal with this kind of defense system. After the start of the war, except for leaving the Gongchen Gate in the north alone, a full-scale attack was launched directly outside the other three city gates.
First, a wave of 107 rockets completely covered the trenches, directly cleaning up the exposed Japanese devils and machine gun positions, etc. The several infantry regiments stationed outside the city were covered with corpses under the fierce artillery fire. The Japanese devils, who originally wanted to rely on defense density to resist the attack, did not expect the firepower of the Eighth Route Army to become so fierce!
More than a hundred 107 rockets used together are too powerful for surface killing, just like plowing the ground and turning over the Japanese devils' positions!
Although there was the cover of trenches, the indiscriminate artillery fire also directly killed and injured many Japanese devils in the trenches, and only the Japanese devils hiding in the bunkers were relatively safe.
But it was only a matter of living a little longer.
After the shelling, the assault company began to attack. Under the cover of mortars, the assault company advanced while reporting points, guiding the subsequent artillery fire to attack the Japanese devils' solid bunkers.
Near the anti-tank trenches, they also deployed collected 37mm anti-tank guns, but the Japanese devils never expected that Li Yunlong and the others were all experienced veterans, and after observing the front line for a while, they saw clearly the enemy's deployment and did not follow the Japanese devils' routine at all.
Now that they have more hard stuff in their hands, they directly use artillery fire to wash the ground first!
After clearing a large wave of Japanese devils on the ground, the assault companies of each battalion were pulled up to open a breakthrough.
Now the various artillery fire support of each mechanized infantry brigade is more than a hundred pieces. The assault company called for long- and short-range artillery fire all the way, directly breaking the Japanese devils' wishful thinking. They crawled forward all the way, and the firepower coverage plus the individual breakthrough of RPG rocket launchers made the Japanese devils' firepower points almost useless, and they were wiped out in artillery fire of different specifications.
They gave the Japanese devils a hard lesson in infantry-artillery coordination.
The Japanese devils, who were accustomed to artillery suppression, tasted the bitterness of being the king of war in this attack. They were suppressed by Li Yunlong and their artillery fire throughout the whole process. The Japanese devils within a few hundred meters were served by mortars or rocket launchers as soon as they showed their heads.
A little further away, they called for mountain guns to strike, infantry-artillery coordination! From 200 meters away to six or seven kilometers, there were different artillery fires supporting them at any time!
As for the Japanese devils' artillery, although they were desperately fighting back, the 107 rockets and mountain guns of the mechanized infantry brigade were constantly changing positions, and the Japanese devils' artillery could not catch them at all.
Instead, they exposed their positions after firing and were counterattacked by calling for long-range artillery fire.
Because the artillery positions of the 105mm howitzers of the military region's artillery regiment were beyond the range of most of the Japanese devils' artillery fire, even if the artillery positions were fixed, the Japanese devils could do nothing about these long-range artillery fire.
March forward, forward on artillery fire!
When the assault company took the anti-tank trenches, they jumped into the trenches and took out small shovels to frantically dig soil on both sides of the trenches, forcibly digging a slope more than ten meters wide out of the anti-tank trenches.
Soon, the ready-to-go tanks began to rush up. With this solid mobile fortress, the assault company followed behind, infantry-tank coordination!
In contrast, after the tanks leaned forward, the efficiency of hitting bunkers with direct aiming was increased several times at once. For the 76mm main gun, a smaller bunker was a pit with one shot!
On the vast position, more than a dozen opened tank passages put the continuous stream of T34 heavy tanks in, and began to clear the bunkers along the trenches, opening and clearing the passages for the infantry to charge.
"Da Biao, these don't need you to throw your hat on, aren't you used to it?" Li Yunlong said with a smile to Chief of Staff Zhang Dabiao on the front line.
"Regimental Commander, you are still talking about me. Now you don't even know where your broadsword is thrown. Fortunately, the brigade commander didn't see it, otherwise he would scold you for being a prodigal." Zhang Dabiao looked at the unstoppable advance on the front line, and the attack was like flowing water, and he was also very relaxed to talk nonsense with Li Yunlong.
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"Broadsword? Now the brigade commander probably doesn't even like the Type 38 rifle. Who would seriously fight with bayonets and broadswords? Just the kind of position we encountered in front of us, we wouldn't dare to touch it with our regiment in the past. A regiment would be pulled up and wiped out, and it is estimated that they couldn't even pass the tank trenches. Look at the small bunker with a machine gun, do you think a platoon of yours can blow it up?" Li Yunlong said with a smile.
"It's hard to say, the terrain is too bad. The Japanese devils' bunkers are crossed together, and there is no dead angle of fire at all. It is too difficult to blow it up with explosives." Zhang Dabiao shook his head, remembering the past days, as if it were another lifetime.
"Yes, we didn't have anything in the past. The Type 38 rifle and Hanyang made didn't even have a few bullets. Facing such a position, don't even think about breaking through. So people call us 土八路 (tǔ bā lù, rustic Eighth Route Army), it is indeed rustic, we can only turn to the mountains and draw a cold son to get close and fight with bayonets." Li Yunlong was originally lighthearted, but when he talked about the hard days in the past, his face was not so happy.
If we had these equipments now, how many comrades would have died?
"Yes, Regimental Commander, thanks to us having Boss Ren, these days are getting better. According to the current trend, in two years, our regiment can become 3 mechanized infantry brigades. By then, we may have to fight into the Northeast, right?" Zhang Dabiao looked forward to.
"Hehe, two years? Are you so bearish? In my old Li's opinion, we should take advantage of this opportunity to kill the Japanese devils' Ninth Area Army and kill all the Japanese devils in North China! Then directly send troops to Guang打 (Guangda, not found any relatable meaning) will not be a problem!"
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