Chapter 495 Marine Corps Assault

The sound of the G44 assault rifle pierced the silence of the night sky in Hai'an, followed by the roar of the LV amphibious combat vehicle. The devils of one of the squadrons guarding here did not expect the vanguard to come so quickly.

Although they were reminded that the vanguard army had parachuted from Xinghua, and there were also vanguard troops near Yancheng, even if the Huai River did not suffer from the flooding of the Yellow River for 38 years, it had repeatedly encountered the difficulty of the Yellow River in its history. This also makes the Huaihe River basin ravines vertical and horizontal, not to mention that Yancheng is nearly 100 kilometers away from Hai'an. There is still Dongtai in the middle, and you can't get to Hai'an for a while.

So even Shunroku Hataketake, who didn't expect them to attack so quickly. The garrison around Hai'an was actually not tight, and the marines rushed in directly into the night.

Meng Xiang and Fan Chong didn't expect them to attack so quickly. The initial plan was just to let them rush to Dongtai and connect with Xinghua. Who knows, the marines armed with LV amphibious combat vehicles are like taking strong medicine and rushing all the way to Hai'an.

When the plan was formulated, it was taken into account that there were two divisions of devils stationed in Nantong and Yangzhou, but the sudden landing of paratroopers and the strength of the marines were a little too weak.

The largest unit under the Marine Corps is the brigade, and it is currently equipped with six brigades. However, because the main force of the Japanese Chinese fleet was stationed in Shanghai, the navy of the vanguard army could not rely on Nantong and other places too close.

At this time, the devil's fleet in Huaxia was not the one in the original history.

Qingdao, and even those ports in North China, were occupied by the vanguard army, and their fleets in China at this time were only Shanghai and Xiamen, except for the fleets of the puppet Manchurians and Taiwan. Facing the strong enemy of the vanguard army, it is no longer just the scale of one light cruiser and three destroyers in history. Instead, nearly half of the combined fleet's military strength was diverted.

At this time, there was still a Nagato-class battleship docked in Shanghai, as well as two top-class heavy cruisers. There is also the aircraft carrier Akagi, which is stationed here, temporarily accompanied a Nagato-class battleship to Guangxi to deter Vietnam.

Because Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Koga Mineichi, and Toyoda Vice Takeshi and others were all in decline at the hands of the vanguard army, the main seat of the commander at this time was Takasu Shiro, who was transferred from the position of commander of the puppet Manchurian fleet.

As Mitsumasa Yonechi and Isoroku Yamamoto were both on the left side of the navy, he had been dragged to the post of commander of the Huaxia Fleet since the second half of his 39 years because he refused to fight against the United States. During this period of time, because the Vanguard Army did not have any major conflicts with the Japanese Navy, he sat more steadily.

The navy of the Vanguard Army has been constantly training, which has also made some people a little dissatisfied. Even Lao Jiang urged Meng Xiang to find an opportunity to fight the Japanese again.

Meng Xiang didn't mind this, but he just formulated some standards for qualified naval officers and soldiers, and those who reached the standard line could participate in the war, and those who couldn't reach it would continue to train when they couldn't. As a result, according to some comprehensive standards of Britain, Germany, Japan and other countries, there are few qualified, and they can only practice hard and hard. Those qualified officers and men did not form a fleet, and there were only a few other clashes of torpedo boats and gunboats in the past year to train their hands and build morale.

Over the course of a year, there were more than a dozen large-scale clashes with the Japanese on the Yellow Sea, in which they were evenly divided into victories and half defeated, which also made the naval recruits put away their contempt for the Japanese. You must know that in the conflict, the vanguard army generally has an advantage with the help of advanced fast torpedo boats and even destroyers, but it is still a little inferior to the Japanese in terms of operation and tactics. It was a tie.

Even Meng Xiang put away his contempt and tightened his grip on the navy, and the supply of ships and fuel was open, and practice made perfect to adapt to the navy.

Of course, the ducks in the pool could not withstand the waves, so the qualified sailors began their apprenticeship in the ocean. So in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and other places, within a year or two, there were more pirates from the East. Their plundering is generally not very harmful, but they are best at eating black and black, and they are often ruthless in the fight against pirates.

Sometimes, they even grabbed some of the goods that were being escorted by armed forces.

Over the course of a year, Meng Xiang found that the more than 3,000 naval seeds that had been sown and the goods looted were actually worth the consumption of the navy, and there was still a surplus. It's no wonder that pirates' hidden treasures are eye-catching, and the profession of robbery is indeed promising.

The modern navy was born out of pirates' dens in the past. Without that ruthlessness, without that kind of offense, in the end you can only build some yacht fleets. This is also one of the reasons why Meng Xiang scattered those naval seeds to be refined. And if you don't go out to get acquainted with the seas of various places, the tools you get from books are all empty.

If you are not familiar with the sea conditions and sea conditions, and do not understand the temper of the sea, even if the Arma arrives at sea, you will be played by the sea.

In order to learn about the maritime data of all parts of the world, especially the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Meng Xiang sent a whole 10 spies scattered in the naval archives and intelligence rooms of the British, Americans, and even the Japanese, and copied the materials they had accumulated for hundreds of years one by one. Although some of the information has not yet been obtained due to the short period of time and other reasons, the comprehensive data of the three countries has been sorted out, and a huge marine information database has immediately been built in the navy of the vanguard army. There is so much information that it has not yet been sorted out.

Mainly because there is too much information about the ocean, as long as it is involved, those spies start to plagiarize. Some of the premises were not kept secret, and the spies were able to capture them using a Merlot portable camera built by Lapu in Latvia in 37. But some of the premises were extremely tight, and Meng Xiang did not hesitate to create all kinds of bizarre and advanced espionage tools after World War II, so that the whole process went smoothly.

Even if the cost of these advanced tools is twice as high, because the number is small, it doesn't cost much, but the microfilm used by those spies is not cheaply provided by the base, and the film that just fills the room will make Meng Xiang feel pain. But these films brought a huge fortune to Huaxia, and it was worth the extra cost.

However, when humans marched into the sea, they grew up in conquest. Closely following the written records of others, some tools are not comprehended. There are also many tools that cannot be learned from books through years of experience. In many places, veteran sailors can casually go out of some of the underwater reefs of the premises, and see the change of wind and clouds to know what the weather is like. These need to be accumulated in practice.

The more Meng Xiang learned from it, the more he felt the gap between the Chinese Navy and the Japanese Navy. At this time, it may be more than enough to defend the territory with the support of shore artillery, but it is far from enough to play a leading role in the outward expansion.

So Meng Xiang was not in a hurry to stimulate the Japanese Navy, but instead sowed those seeds and honed and grew them all over the world.

Although the army is not a pirate, its discipline determines that it is more powerful than a pirate. The naval seeds that were scattered were not honed by individuals alone, but formed into teams to carry out unified operations. even drove his own ship to break through, which not only tempered the cooperation of the group, but also ensured that discipline was not lacking. The clones in each infantry also ensured Meng Xiang's control over these armies.

In addition to these, there are also a number of practical training in the German Navy, plus some cultivated by the domestic native department, so that there are more than 6,000 officer seeds in the hands of Meng Xiang. Coupled with the training of Clone Navy officers, in the coming years, it is already possible to see the fleet that has always been huge. It's just that at this time, the training of training, the internship of internships, and the sharpening of sharpening, the naval strength of the vanguard army in China is actually not strong. I can't afford to fight to the death with the Japanese mermaids.

Because of this, this time the navy attack only reached the vicinity of Maozhusha, and there was no plan to go south. In this way, the part of the marines that lacked naval fire support was more dangerous to attack the two divisions of the devils, as well as the flanking attacks of the Nanjing and Shanghai devils. Therefore, the initial battle plan was only to let the paratroopers suddenly descend to Xinghua, connect Dongtai, control the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and first eat the devils in Yancheng and Huai'an, where there are 20 divisions, 32 divisions and 14th self-reliant mixed brigades. Enough for the 12th Army and the Marines to gnaw for a while.

"Heng Jing They can detect the emptiness of Hai'an and seize the opportunity, which is also meritorious." Meng Xiang said with a smile. Due to the fact that there is not much military strength to transport by sea, only one brigade has landed after a toss. Zhao Junmai left Long Liu to command two regiments against the main force of the 12th Self-Reinforced Mixed Brigade stationed in Yancheng, but he was unbearable in his heart, and led the military strength of an armored regiment to continue to assault forward.

Will be outside, the monarch's order will not be affected! The various battle plans of the Advisory Department are only a reference. The battle plan is dead, and the man is alive. At the beginning, it was mainly because they were afraid that they would not be able to deal with the counties along the way, so they had such a plan. At this time, northern Jiangsu has not been ravaged by the Yellow River recently, and there are many devils in these rich counties. But the situation has changed, and it is only right that it is natural that an immediate change in the battle plan is required. In the end, the goal of the vanguard army this time was not to stop at Hai'an, but to rush to the Yangtze River in one go.

When the original plan was compared to the main forces of the 12th Army and the main forces of the Marine Corps, the previous attack was gradually carried out. The devils around Nantong did not adopt the fortress tactics, even if they added some more military strength, they would still be gnawed down by the vanguard army.

In this way, from Anqing to Nantong, the vanguard army initiated a front-line charge, closing the door everywhere, and completely sealing the Yangtze River waterway. Even if the devils are not eliminated, the devils in the inland of China will not be able to transport out a large number of resources. If you lack resources, you can't help but think about other examples. After the Bohai Sea and the Yangtze River were sealed by the vanguard army, they forced the devil's wolf's green eyes of wealth to turn to the south.

At this time, although the marines attacked Hai'an, although there was only one armored regiment, but the strength of the devil was weaker, and it was rushed all the way to Hai'an, and the pace of their attack did not stop.

Although the land advance speed of the LV amphibious combat vehicle is a little worse, it still makes the devils with weak military strength helpless. The 75-mm howitzer of the lv4 tank is also enough to break through the fortifications of the devils, so more than 100 amphibious combat vehicles are invincible all the way. However, the devils in Gaoyou, Taizhou, Tongzhou and other places are all heavily defended, and with a marine brigade lacking the support of heavy firepower from the sea and air, it is no longer able to attack.

This time, with Hai'an and Rugao in hand, the next step is also much more proactive. The Marine Corps troops in the rear continued to move forward, landing directly from the vicinity of Yokokou and Mi Harbor and coming up to support them. It was difficult to land at night, but fortunately led by local fishermen, and the weather was beautiful, and there were no big winds and waves at sea, so the landing was successful at a relatively low price.

The 12th Army will not be able to solve the devils in Huai'an, Sheyang and other places for a while, and tomorrow the military strength of a regiment of the Marine Corps will not be able to stop the counterattack of the two divisions of the devils.

"Hurry up, clean up the airstrip!" Chen Jiahui commanded loudly. Of the three regiments sent by the Marine Corps, he and Zhao Junmai and Long Liuyi were lost in one regiment. However, because he had to respond to the parachute army in Xinghua, he brought a battalion to contact. After the daytime vanguard army parachuted in Xinghua, at noon, it encountered a counterattack from the surrounding devils.

The main force of the paratroopers was transferred to Pukou, and the military strength of a battalion in Xinghua was slightly weak, and Chen Jiahui brought a marine battalion to support. At this time, he was leading the soldiers to clean up the airstrip that had been prepared long ago.

When I first considered parachuting in Xinghua, it was because the strength of the devils here was slightly weaker. Because of this, a simple airstrip was built behind it. During the day, he was busy fighting, and he didn't have time to clean up, so he worked overnight to clean up. Tomorrow, there will be a lot of airborne support.

The 12th Army was not without achievements, and the one-day offensive made Huai'an frequently anxious, and the 2nd Regiment of the Amphibious Armored Division stabbed it in the back, causing heavy casualties to the 20th Division.

However, the 20th Division is also an old permanent division, although it suffered a big loss from the vanguard army on the Yellow River front, and the head of the division commander was cut off by the vanguard army. But the re-equipped 20th Division is still a formidable infantry team. Although more than half of the casualties were killed, they still relied on the fortifications of the fortress and the support of the 32nd Division.

This made Sun Tongxuan also annoyed. He, like Zhang Lingfu, is also troublesome with these two difficult bones. The devil is cramped in a city, and the army can't be used.

"Order, the 81st Division immediately interspersed with breakthroughs in the Japanese defenses and rush to Hai'an before 18 o'clock tomorrow." Soon a new order from the command came down.

Sun Tongxuan also understood that this was to support the Marine Corps. If it were not for the fact that the 81st Division had already completed the motorized transformation, it would have been difficult to complete. You must know that it will take some effort to break through the Huai'an area where the 20th and 32nd Divisions are stationed.

With the order of the headquarters, there was also an order that the focus of the 12th Army's offensive would be on Huai'an, and the attacks in Sheyang and other places would be taken over by the new 10th Army that was coming.

Hu Minghe's new 10th Army was only a second-line army at the beginning of the operation because it had a large number of new recruits and was an ordinary infantry army, and only one new 41st division of motorized infantry had been reorganized. But because with the change of situation, they were transferred from Lianyungang.

"Listen, listen, if we lose the face of our new 10th Army in this battle, we won't have many opportunities to fight in the future." Hu Minghe sat crookedly on the barrel cart, and his military boots were on the target plate.

This was the time to rest for the rapid march, otherwise, the military judge of the clones would have appeared in front of him with a straight face.

Tian Zhongguang approached him, handed a victory brand cigarette and said, "Commander, we still need to worry about our level, which training is not like peeling a layer of skin?" Such a battle, peace of mind! ”

Hu Minghe tilted his head and lit a cigarette on the silver free fire lighter that Tian Zhongguang stretched out, and after taking a deep puff, he spit out a large smoke ring, and said thoughtfully: "The first battle of the New 10th Army, whether it is a tiger or a bear depends on this time." ”

It turned out that when he was in the 54th Army, he basically intervened in the big battles. Later, during the reorganization, because he chose to be promoted in the army training, he was transferred to form the new 10th Army. Although he wore the hat of a military commander, there were too many recruits, and everything had to be started all over again. Every day, there is only military training and military training. It's been almost a year, and there is no battle to fight.

And Li Tiexia chose to stay and continue to be the commander of the 50th Division. However, the 50th Division became one of the few mechanized divisions in the vanguard army, and the 50th Division, which was freed from the task of guarding the premises, fought again and again. Seeing Li Tiexia's inexhaustible achievements, Hu Minghe regretted it. It can't be a question of combat exploits, training recruits all day long, where can it compare to the invincible killing of the enemy by the ironclad army of the 50th Division on the battlefield?

At this time, it was not easy to get a chance to fight, and Hu Minghe naturally wanted to express it. You must know that the upgrading of the army in the vanguard army comes from the test of military merit. At the beginning, in order to live a modern addiction, he begged Meng Xiang. Relying on the merits of the past two years and the military merits accumulated by one of the second titles in the exercise half a year ago, the establishment of a motorized division was exchanged. Just Meng Xiang's water release is not enough.

"Tomorrow, we must play with momentum!" Hu Minghe thought silently in his heart.

"Untie the cable!" He bounced up, threw the cigarette butt, and stomped it out before he commanded loudly.

"Yes!" The crowd, who looked a little lazy around them, immediately stepped forward, and it was not long before the army continued to meander its way through the night under the light of the headlights.

Under the cover of night ahead, a glimmer of light was already revealed.