Chapter 348: New Tactics of the Eighth Division

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After nearly ten hours of anxious waiting. 【. com text] finally received a call back from Yi Liangpin's arrival on time, Wang Guangyu and Chen Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately reported to Yang Zhen, who had rushed back to Yilan Zhu Mountain, that Yi Liangpin had successfully detoured to his position.

After receiving Wang Guangyu's telegram, Yang Zhen, who seemed calm on the surface, but in fact had a heart hanging all the time, was completely relieved. The retreat of the Sixth Division was cut off, and the next step was to see the swing of Wang Guangyu and Chen Hanzhang on the front line. Although the plan has gone smoothly so far, for Yang Zhen, this is only the first step in a long march.

Just because we won in the past doesn't mean we can continue to do so in the future. Before the outbreak of the Pacific War, no one could share the pressure on themselves. No one was even able to cooperate with him, and although the containment of the Japanese army, especially the Kwantung Army, on the Kannai battlefield was not small, this containment was limited. North Manchu is too far away from Kannai.

And in Yang Zhen's heart, there is now another thought that makes him a little uneasy, but he can't say it. His own arrival has changed the course of too much history and the fate of too many characters. Will the Pacific War break out as scheduled as the history I know well? Yang Zhen had no bottom in his heart.

If the Americans did not enter the war, once the Soviet-German war broke out, all channels for foreign purchases would be cut off. Without the sustained large-scale and sustained military production capacity, how long can it hold out? Without steel, gasoline, and all kinds of military raw materials, is there really any hope of completely defeating the Japanese army?

He changed the situation of the Sino-Japanese war, but he could not change the situation on the European battlefield. The German army, which had won a great victory in the war in Western Europe, must have begun to move eastward by now.

Although he has now laid a large base area, his troops have also increased from two or three hundred when he broke through from Harbin the year before last to nearly 100,000 field troops now. Artillery, armor, aviation are complete. Although both armored and aviation are still training, it is only a matter of time before they enter the war. But these are still far from completely defeating the Japanese army.

The Japanese army has no weak brigades, this is Yang Zhen's first impression of fighting the Japanese army since he returned to this era. The fact that I have been able to get to this day, from a few hundred people at the beginning to more than 100,000 well-equipped troops, is not so much that the real combat effectiveness of the troops surpasses that of the Japanese army, but rather that it is my own five points of hard work, plus three points of luck and two points of foresight.

Although the Kwantung Army just started because of the incident of Unit 731, it attached great importance to itself. But he didn't fundamentally change his impression of himself. The initial underestimation of the enemy, coupled with a series of tactical mistakes that were accurately grasped by himself, brought about today's situation. But this absolutely cannot be said that the Japanese army had poor combat effectiveness and was vulnerable.

Regardless of any unit of the Japanese army encountered, its fighting spirit was tenacious, its technical and tactical toughness, its tactical command ability was strong, and its individual soldier was so high, which was rare for him in his two lifetimes. At least those I encountered in later generations, whether it was the special forces of foreign armies or some so-called hegemonic countries, Yelang was arrogant and thought that there was no army that could be compared with the world.

Even the Fourth Division, known as the Soft Persimmon, was incomparable to other armies in terms of the height of its individual soldiers and junior officers. The reason why they are called soft-footed crabs is not because of their military literacy, but because of their own weak will to fight.

The reason why he can get to where he is today is not because the military quality of his own troops has really surpassed that of his opponents. In many cases, there are many reasons that determine victory or defeat on the battlefield, just as a few years later, even after the end of World War II, the Soviet army still won the Soviet-German war even though it could not compare with the German army.

No matter when, although there is a certain inevitable factor in despising this defeat, the accidental factor also accounts for a large part of the opponent with strong combat power, and he will pay an unimaginable price. In every battle, even a small negligence on your part may ruin the current hard-won situation.

A lot of the time stress is motivation, but more often than not, it's still pressure. When later generations read the biographies of the Liberation War, they always disagreed with the descriptions of the commanders of the major field armies during the war, who were highly nervous at that time and often lost sleep. At that time, the four major field armies were not full of talents, and with capable subordinates, did the commander still use it so hard?

But when he was really immersed, Yang Zhen realized that this was not a matter of his subordinates. A big war down, from planning to implementation. Think about the position of every column, division, and even the route of the march. After every big battle, Yang Zhen felt exhausted.

Standing on the top of Zhushan Mountain, looking at the raging fire and the faint sound of dense artillery on the southern horizon, Yang Zhen knew that it was a brigade attacking the Japanese Sixth Division. Tonight is the most critical night in the entire Western Front, and whether his follow-up plan can be achieved depends on tonight's occupation.

After pondering for a long time, Yang Zhen finally decided not to interfere, and let Wang Guangyu and them fight tonight. What I should learn now is the ability to control the situation of battle, not to replace those front-line column commanders and brigade commanders to command a tactical-level battle.

After making up his mind, Yang Zhen turned around and took a cigarette from Xiaohuzi behind him and lit it, but he didn't smoke a mouthful. Just looking at the smoke rising and listening to the faint sound of artillery coming from the south, I was constantly thinking about the next move of the Japanese army. Especially Wang Guangyu's next specific actions after completing the southern battle of Yilan. Will it go east to the depth of the Japanese army in Muling, or will it go west to participate in the battle against the 14th Division?

After thinking about it for a while, Yang Zhen realized that he was used to thinking about problems on the map, and he was really uncomfortable leaving the map. Although he took Du Kaishan to almost all the areas in the south that confronted the Japanese army last winter, all the terrain was basically in Yang Zhen's head. But leaving the map, Yang Zhen is still a little unaccustomed.

After snuffing out a puff of cigarette that he hadn't smoked, Yang Zhen turned around and went down the mountain back to his headquarters. As soon as he entered the headquarters, he saw a staff officer come over and hand a telegram to Yang Zhen and said, "No. 1, No. 3 are calling. There have been new changes in the western line, and there have been new movements in the Japanese army. ”

When Yang Zhen heard Guo Bingxun's telegram, he hurriedly took it and read it carefully, then walked to the map and looked at the new movements of the Japanese army that the staff officer had shown according to the map. The Japanese troops on the Western Front actually transferred six infantry squadrons and two squadrons each of artillery and combat vehicles from the 11th Division in Mishan within six hours, and attacked Tao Jingfei's headquarters from the southern flank.

Although with the assistance of his old partner Du Kaishan, Tao Jingfei now has four and a half regiments under his command, but in the face of three wings of the Japanese army plus six infantry squadrons, as well as superior ground-to-air firepower, he is under unimaginable pressure. After nightfall, although the Japanese air force retreated, the Japanese army increased the heavy artillery equipment on the front line. Even two 240-mm heavy guns were brought in.

Although the firing range of this heavy artillery is not as good as that of the Japanese army's ** 150mm howitzer, not to mention the slow shooting, the volume is even more cumbersome. But this lethality is extremely great, and a single shell can raze the entire hill to the ground. The Japanese army used this kind of heavy artillery with long-range 105 cannons and 150 howitzers to specifically suppress Tao Jingfei's depth.

While using artillery fire to block the reinforcement of the follow-up troops, relying on superior strength and firepower, combat vehicles were used to cover the infantry on the positions of the defenders on the front line, and the whole line was repeatedly and continuously attacked regardless of priority. Its attack is not weakened even at night. After trying to break through from point to point, causing the defenders to collapse on all fronts, they used long-range artillery fire to wipe out the defenders on the way back.

The Eighth Division was very vicious. They knew that the reason why the opponent in front of them was stubbornly resisting was to ensure the safety of their main forces fighting in the south of Baoqing and the east of Boli. As long as the superiors do not give orders, or even fight to the end of the mountain, they will never dare to retreat. And no matter how the opponent fights, its main combat purpose is only one, that is, to ensure the safety of the flank of the Baoqing battlefield.

After sensing this line of thought of the opponent, the Japanese army diverted the main heavy artillery firepower from another line, mainly suppressing the depth of the opponent. Inflict a large amount of damage on the enemy in depth with long-range firepower. The task of supporting infantry operations was entrusted to the mountain artillery of the division and regiment, and the three field artillery squadrons and two mountain artillery squadrons that were newly transferred.

From the junction area of Baoqing and Mishan, where the Eighth Division attacked, to the main battlefield southwest of Baoqing County, there were only a few roads. These two Type 96 240-mm heavy howitzers with a firing range of more than 16,000 meters coordinated with the Muling Heavy Artillery Wing of the Type 150 Cannon, which was dispatched with a range of more than 18,000 meters. A firepower network was built between Tao Jingfei's front-line position and depth. From time to time, it will also carry out precision strikes on the in-depth deployment of troops that have been identified.

At the beginning, Tao Jingfei, who had no precautions and had never even seen this kind of heavy artillery, suffered great losses under the bombardment of this kind of heavy artillery. Tao Jingfei, who formed a trapezoidal configuration and blocked along the mountain layer by layer, and the two companies that undertook the defense in depth were razed to the ground by the Japanese 240 mm heavy artillery together with the entrenched mountain bags without firing a single shot. The two companies suffered casualties under the tremendous lethality of the 240-mm heavy artillery shells.

After nightfall, Tao Jingfei's pressure did not relieve, but with the arrival of these two 240mm heavy guns, it became more and more intense. The connection between the front-line positions and the depth was almost completely cut off, and all wired telephones were paralyzed. If it weren't for the front-line, each company was equipped with walkie-talkies. I am afraid that by this time, Tao Jingfei has lost contact with and even controlled the companies on the front line.

Under the repeated onslaught of the Japanese infantry and artillery tanks, the casualties of the front-line troops were even heavier than during the day. In order to reinforce the front-line positions, Tao Jingfei was under the long-range fire blockade of the Japanese army, and Tao Jingfei could only adopt the method of reinforcement in small batches and multiple batches, and reinforce the first-line positions with companies or even platoons as units. Even then there were heavy losses, often going up to a company, and by the time they arrived at the designated place, there was not a single platoon left. The rest were knocked out on the way.

In desperation, Tao Jingfei, who was already a little injured and unable to hold on, could only send a telegram to Guo Bingxun, requesting that at least one regiment of reinforcements be transferred within ten hours, or that the whole army should retreat three to five kilometers between Japanese artillery fire.

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