Chapter 295: The Battle of Tianzhen County (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

In addition, Yang Chengwu's headquarters did not immediately launch an attack after arriving at the predetermined attack site, but first sent a sharp platoon of the division headquarters guard battalion to the Japanese position to check the situation.

Although the 92nd Division Guard Battalion is not as good as the Thor Special Operations Brigade, it has also undergone special training. Moreover, the soldiers of the guard battalion are the same as the special combat team, and they have been carefully selected, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary field troops, so many times the 92nd Division uses the guard battalion as a special combat team.

Although the battle plan for the assault had been set this time, Chen Xudong finally decided to send people from the guard battalion to take a look, and it would be great if he could solve the problem unnoticed.

However, soon after the sharp platoon touched in, fierce gunfire rang out on the Japanese position, knowing that it had been discovered by the enemy, and there was no need for the troops to hide, Yang Chengwu immediately issued an order to attack.

Immediately, the main force of the 274th Brigade of the 92nd Division launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese Wayaokou defensive line.

The two lines of defense of the Japanese army in the north of Tianzhen City mainly played an early warning role, in fact, Takahashi Tundra did not expect these two lines of defense to be able to block the attack of Ma Zheng's department, so there were not many troops, and the two lines of defense added up to less than two squadrons of Japanese troops plus two battalions of puppet troops, with a total strength of less than 800 people.

The 274 Brigade has two main regiments under its jurisdiction, plus some directly subordinate troops, and the strength and firepower are not something that the Japanese can contend with, so the Wayaokou defense line was broken through by the 92nd Division in less than ten minutes after the battle began, and the defenders retreated and were annihilated.

After receiving the report, Takahashi Tundra was shocked and immediately ordered the troops to assemble, and at the same time issued a first-class alert order to the defenders of the defensive positions outside the city.

Just when Takahashi Tundra was hesitating to go out of the city to reinforce the Stone Buddha Temple, news came from the front again. The defense line of Shifoji Temple was also broken through, most of the defenders were killed, and a small part successfully broke through under the command of Captain Ishihara, and now they are retreating to the county defense.

Takahashi did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the arsenal to distribute ammunition to the units and prepare for a big battle. At the same time, the situation was reported to the headquarters of the 26th Division and the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia.

At 1:10 in the morning, Yang Chengwu's troops arrived outside Tianzhen County, and at this time, the Japanese army's position was brightly lit, and a large number of devils entered the fortifications, waiting for them to hit the muzzle.

After checking the layout of the forward positions of the Japanese army, Lu Ming, who was in charge of the front-line command, reluctantly said to He Xiulin beside him: "Old He, these little devils are indeed not ordinary, they are much more shrewd than those reported by the intelligence department. It seems that this Takahashi tundra really has two brushes. ”

"Lao Lu, these devils are indeed more difficult than the intelligence says, but it doesn't matter, anyway, our mission is not to take the county seat of Tianzhen, as long as we beat these cunning guys outside the city, it doesn't matter to them" He Xiulin said with a smile.

"Lao He, you are engaged in political work, and you still lack experience in fighting. The commander did not say it explicitly, though. But do you think that the devil who hit Tianzhen County so hard will dispatch our entire infantry division? The commander subconsciously meant that it was best to take Tianzhen City, and if he couldn't take it, he would hurt them. Hehehe. The more this battle is fought, the more interesting it becomes. Lu Ming said as he walked.

"Lao Lu, don't worry, the combat effectiveness of our brigade is not bad. Even if the little devil is difficult, it cannot be the opponent of our army, and the little devil on the opposite side is destined to be a tragedy. ”

Lu Ming nodded and said, "Lao He, you wait here for the follow-up troops, and I will go to the front line to command the battle." I'll leave it to you. ”

He Xiulin immediately said: "Okay." ”

By the light of the fire on the Japanese position, Lu Ming saw that the defensive position in the direction of the east gate of Tianzhen was about two kilometers long and about one kilometer deep, with 24 exposed firepower points and more than a dozen pillboxes half-buried underground. The communication ditches on the positions crossed each other, and the Japanese troops seemed to have a lot of troops.

Lu Ming took a closer look and found that the Japanese army had about one squadron of troops on the first line of defense alone, and there were at least two lines of defense from the first-line position to Chengguan, plus those pillbox firepower points, such a defensive position required two and a half squadrons of troops, and the east and west gates were the strength of five squadrons, plus other troops in the city, Lu Ming judged that the Japanese army had at least two infantry brigades stationed in Tianzhen City, which means that the main force of the Gaoqiao Wing was in Tianzhen County.

The battle soon began, and Lu Ming first ordered the artillery battalion directly under him to shell the Japanese position, and ten rounds of rapid fire bombarded the Japanese battlefield. The infantry, on the other hand, took advantage of the opportunity to move forward and establish improvised forward positions.

The artillery bombardment achieved certain results, except for the devils in the bunkers who were still shooting, the devils in the trenches all hid in the anti-artillery holes. Therefore, the infantry of the 99th Regiment easily established an improvised position 500 meters away from the Japanese defensive line.

Although improvised positions were established, the ensuing battle was still arduous, and the Japanese pillboxes were still a great threat to the infantry, dozens of heavy machine guns were constantly pouring vicious bullets on the front-line troops, and from time to time soldiers were hit and let out miserable shouts.

The Japanese army had already occupied a favorable position, and it was obviously impossible for the 274th Brigade to break through this line of defense as quickly as possible. However, the artillery of the 274th Brigade has an absolute advantage, as a second-line garrison wing, the Takahashi Wing is only equipped with a small number of mortars, and its power cannot compete with the 75mm mountain artillery at all. When the Japanese artillery squadron had just fired a round of shells at the Luming Division, the artillery battalion of the 274th Brigade followed the trajectory of the mortars to carry out retaliatory shelling, and only three small-caliber mortars were left in a reinforced artillery squadron that could barely be used, and the rest were blown up into scrap metal by the artillery of the Luming Division, and could no longer be used.

Without the threat of Japanese artillery, the soldiers of the 274 Brigade burst out with strong combat effectiveness, although there was still the threat of Japanese pillboxes, but the soldiers had their own methods. Before coming, Huang Haibing, the commander of the first regiment of the 274th Brigade, knew that the Japanese army had built a lot of pillboxes outside Tianzhen City, and Huang Haibing knew better than anyone about the role of pillboxes.

As the infantry regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness of the 274th Brigade, the first regiment must be the unit that bears the bulk of this operation, so it must be prepared in advance, so he specially summoned all the officers of the regiment to give advice.

Not to mention, he really found a good way, a veteran who had been in the Kuomintang army for five years gave him an idea, the enemy's most powerful weapon in the pillbox is the heavy machine gun, so as long as the lethality of the enemy's heavy machine gun is minimized, then the Japanese pillbox will lose its effect.

Huang Haibing was right when he heard it, it was not easy to knock out those pillboxes, but it was not easy to reduce the lethality of heavy machine guns. Already in the first few battles, the commander found several ways to deal with the enemy's heavy machine guns.

Huang Haibing ordered the troops to collect a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, combat vehicles and even the shells of scrapped cars before the start of the attack, and brought them to the battlefield, and after the shelling, Huang Haibing ordered the troops to attack according to the predetermined plan.

I saw that seventy or eighty "big shields" were suddenly erected on the position of a group, and these shields were all pieced together from the shells of huge tanks or armored vehicles, and there were several unequal shooting holes on them. Four warriors carried a shield, and behind the shield were seven or eight soldiers, all of whom hid behind large shields and fired through firing holes as they went.

The Japanese troops on the opposite position were also confused by the sudden situation, and they did not know what the opposite Shina army had come up with, coupled with the smoke and fire generated by the shelling, the Japanese army actually thought that the Chinese had used some new weapons.

In particular, those slow things can ignore the blow of heavy machine guns, and the bullets will bounce off immediately, which makes the Japanese troops on the position frightened.

However, it is a pity that the Takahashi Wing itself is not treated well by the Japanese high-level, so it is inferior to other units in terms of weapons, and the so-called heavy weapons of the department are only a dozen mortars, which have also been beaten almost just now, so the Japanese army really has no firepower in their hands, so they have to frantically use heavy machine guns to strafe.

Dozens of heavy machine guns firing at the same time are actually quite shocking, but when encountering a dozen millimeters thick tank steel plates, the firepower is still too weak. Although the armor of the Japanese tanks and fighting vehicles was so thin that sometimes even mortars could burst, there was no problem at all against heavy machine guns, so the troops on the front line advanced quickly. (To be continued.) )