Chapter 836: The Collision of the Main Forces (2)
Boom Boom Boom Boom ......
One after another, the shells fell on the position of the Second Supplementary Regiment in Okchun, and the shrapnel of the 75 explosive shells flew in all directions, and the arson fuel from the bursting of the 75 incendiary bombs hit the sandbags and the ground on the position of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, causing a raging fire, and the anti-personnel steel balls of the shrapnel wantonly hit the steel plates of the 2nd Regiment Supplementary Materials, making a palpitating impact sound......
The artillery shells fired from the south bank of the Biaoguan River smashed round after round on Ekechun on the outskirts of Tonggu, supplementing the Second Regiment, which could only carry the Japanese artillery bombardment.
The Japanese army had a great appetite, not just to supplement the first line of defense of the Second Regiment, but to the defensive position of the entire Ekechun, all the defense line and all the officers and men of the whole regiment were caught in the shelling of artillery, and it turned out that Zhang Wei's imminent battle arrangement was very predictable, and the Japanese army covered the artillery fire of the entire 55th Division to the head of the supplementary second regiment, and if the troops still maintained their original vigilant posture and held their positions, a round of artillery bombardment would have killed hundreds of troops.
The bombardment supplemented the artillery fire of the 2nd Regiment, not only the 36 38th modified 75th field guns of the 55th Division Artillery Wing, but also the 112th Wing in front of the artillery regiment.
It may be that this wing was eager to take revenge, eager to annihilate the defenders of Tonggu, and attack Tonggu with blood shame, before the infantry was deployed, the 112th Wing set up four 75 mountain guns of the wing artillery squadron to which the wing belonged, and opened fierce fire in the direction of Ekechun, attacking and supplementing the artillery of the 2nd Regiment, with a total of 36 field guns plus 4 mountain guns, and a full 40 barreled artillery, and the Japanese army could be said to have given Zhang Wei enough face.
The 55th Division in the battle with the British army mainly pursued battles and infantry interspersed assaults, artillery losses are not much, artillery shells are very sufficient, and the remaining shells in the battle with the British army are now all projected on the position of the second regiment, to some extent, this is also a pit teammate?
An artillery wing plus a mountain artillery squadron shelling regardless of attrition, supplementing the treatment enjoyed by the 2nd Regiment can be called the supreme level.
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The Japanese army fought wildly and ferociously, supplementing the second regiment here, but it was also prepared calmly.
Thanks to the Japanese army, the Japanese army's high-intensity air raids for several days in a row have prompted the recruits of the supplementary second regiment with insufficient combat experience to adapt to the anti-artillery life in the gloomy fortifications, and in the days of the air raids, the trembling ground, the sultry and dirty air and the deafening explosions constitute the daily life of the officers and men of the second supplementary regiment.
The bombardment intensity of the 40 guns of the Japanese army is nothing compared with the high-intensity air raids, and the soldiers in the fortifications have long been trained by the air raids, and the officers and men did not panic, they hid in the fortifications as usual, and were used to being bombarded by heavy aerial bombs.
In the concealed fortifications, the soldiers calmly wiped their weapons and checked their equipment, the veterans and squad leaders tirelessly nagged the soldiers who had never fought with the Japanese army about the essentials of the battle, and the officers listened to and conveyed orders on the telephone, and all the defenders were preparing for the fierce battle that was coming.
War makes people grow, and the air raids of the Japanese army are the accelerator in the process of growth, and those recruits who have not experienced a major battle have been tempered by the air raids of the Japanese army.
This fierce battle will be the first large-scale main force confrontation with the Japanese army after the establishment of the Second Supplementary Regiment, not to fight bandits, nor to compare with the outpost battle fought at Biaoguanhe, this is the real main force battle.
In the first line of the position, the soldiers of the first and third battalions of the second supplementary regiment were stationed, and two-thirds of the troops of the whole regiment were concentrated here.
The first line of defense is at the forefront, directly facing the attacking Japanese army, the second line of defense is based on the original Ekechun Village, which is the commanding height, which can overlook the first line of defense and give favorable fire support to the first line of defense, the second line of defense is the core line of defense, and then there are the positions of reserves and concealed artillery, armored vehicles and tanks.
The main firepower of the supplementary second regiment was placed by Zhang Wei on the second main line of defense, which is the core of the supplementary second regiment, although the defense line has a primary and secondary division, but Zhang Wei's defense has no primary and secondary division, according to the tactical goal of blocking the Japanese army as much as possible, Zhang Wei decided to defend desperately in each line of defense, so he arranged two battalions of troops in the first line of defense.
In a word, if the Japanese army wants to seize the position of the second supplementary regiment, it has to gnaw one by one, and every line of defense here is the main line of defense!
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The fierce artillery preparation lasted for more than half an hour, and after the number of shells smashed on the position, the intensity of the Japanese artillery bombardment suddenly decreased, and in the command post of the second line of defense, Zhang Wei, who had endured for a long time, raised the telescope and poked his head out to observe, Zhang Wei fought bloodily for five years, and his immunity to artillery and air raids was extremely high, and he was very keenly aware of the reduction of the Japanese army's artillery bombardment.
The shelling weakened, and Zhang Wei could guess the next move of the Japanese army without using his brain.
Zhang Wei in the command post picked up the telephone leading to the front-line position through the bullet cloud that covered the sky, and ordered
"The first line of defense, the units are ready to fight, to enter the position."
At the same moment, Zhang Wei's brief battle order was transmitted through the field telephone line to the first line of defense of the supplementary 2nd Regiment.
Qiu Wei, commander of the first battalion, and Ye Zhenhua, commander of the third battalion, who were guarding the front-line positions, received orders and immediately organized their officers and men to enter the positions.
In an instant, the officers and men of the two infantry battalions, who had been hidden for a long time, rushed out of the concealed fortifications, entered their respective defensive positions in an orderly manner, and the front-line positions that had been poisoned by artillery shelling for more than half an hour took less than three minutes to complete the combat transition from avoiding artillery to arming, and the soldiers who entered the positions used mud to extinguish the open fires, cleared the communication trenches, pushed open the doors of the light and dark fortresses, and completed the final combat preparations in their respective battle positions.
Zhang Wei transferred two two-pounder flat-firing guns from the artillery company, and then transferred the eight Liao-made Type 37 flat-firing guns that had been replaced by the artillery company, and equipped them with the flat-firing guns in the first-line position, with a total of two two-pounder guns and eight Liaozao 37 guns, totaling the firepower of 10 flat-firing guns.
Zhang Wei considered that the second-line position was the commanding heights of the nuclear, and after arranging most of the artillery company in the second direction, there was only a two-pounder anti-aircraft artillery platoon and a bunch of artillery companies for the first-line position.
However, if you count the six M2 large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns equipped with two battalions, which are comparable to small artillery, the firepower density of the front-line positions is actually quite rich, and each platoon or even each squad can be supported by flat fire.
The smoke dissipated, and in front of the Ekechun position, the infantry of the first brigade of the 112th Wing of the Japanese army poured out, and more than 800 Japanese infantry roared, shouting and loading, and rushed to the position of the second regiment to replenish it......
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