Chapter 373: The Massacre of the Battle of Libei
Li Yong, who tried his best to capture the fighter plane, used the walkie-talkie to make a pre-war mobilization, and after speaking, Li Yong turned around and shouted loudly: "Li Yuming, aren't you always shouting that you want to fight?" Didn't you always shout that your superiors didn't give you tasks? Now the time has come, drive all your precious tanks to the front, and open the way for the whole army. The full-text and ad-free novels are all on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info"
The brigade commander's order made Li Yuming jump high, okay, great, the soldiers who went to perform the guard duty were bombarded back by the head of the headquarters and didn't even let go of their guns.
But this guy has not forgotten his duty, the guard company has five platoons, two tank platoons, two guard platoons and one communication platoon, it is a pleasure to lead the troops up by himself, but what about the safety of the brigade headquarters? It is good to fight, but the chief's guard work is more important.
Li Yong knew his mood, and also wanted Li Yuming to have more experience in commanding tank operations, a good commander must be tempered on the battlefield before he can be tempered into steel, Li Yuming is a good seedling, smart and clever, it is a pity to always let him work as a guard, and if he has the opportunity, he should go to the battlefield to exercise more: "Go ahead, you don't have to worry about the safety of me and the brigade headquarters, the enemy has not yet been able to knock out a few of us." ”
Li Yuming thought about it, he just took two tank platoons, the guard platoon did not move, the safety of the chiefs was no problem, and after thinking about this, this guy jumped into the turret of a tank after explaining the guard task, and drove away with two platoons of eight tanks.
The use of tanks to fight is what Li Yong has always thought after the independent brigade became an army, or a dream, these captured iron guys are used in war, not there for people to admire, but how to use these treasures is very troublesome.
Li Yong's idea is not only to let them exert their due power, but also not to cause major damage themselves, but to let them grow and develop little by little on the battlefield, just like the original artillery unit grows up in battle, and the commander must not use it indiscriminately in the growth stage, otherwise the armored unit of the People's Liberation Army, which has just been born, is very likely to be strangled in the cradle.
Judging from the current situation, there are three main points that pose a threat to our tanks:
First, the tank units equipped in the Kuomintang army are not only large in number but also complete in variety, of course, this is for the comparison between the poor Eighth Route and the PLA, and the Northwest Field Army did not have any armored troops before this, let alone command troops to conduct tank battles.
The second is artillery, for the tanks at that stage, small mortars may not be a threat, but heavy howitzers and some large-caliber artillery are different, a shell with a caliber of more than 100 mm caliber, let alone hit the tank, even if it hits the tank's side, these tank-less armored vehicles will not be able to stand it.
The third is the large number of anti-tank trenches dug in front of the defensive position, and the speed of many tanks in the anti-tank trench will be limited, and the tanks with limited speed will be easily destroyed by the infantry.
The terrible thing about this weapon is that when it goes crazy, that is, when it rushes up, the explosive bag cannot be hung up after the speed of the tank increases, and it is not possible to use a wooden pole instead of an arm.
The caliber of Stuart's main gun is only 37 mm, and the armor-piercing ability is limited, and it is obviously unwise to use tank guns of this caliber to engage in tank battles with the armored forces of the Kuomintang, plus the number is very small, Li Yong is certainly not stupid enough to engage in tank battles with the enemy, and he can't afford to fight that attrition.
But now it is different, the battlefield situation is changing at any time, the tanks of the Kuomintang attack force were killed by the infantry with bazookas, the artillery was crippled by Gao Xiang and them, and the entire 65th Division was in an offensive situation, this state is impossible to carry out defensive deployment, and there is no need to carry out defensive deployment, and the lack of defensive deployment means that the 160th Brigade and the 65th Division cannot dig any anti-tank trenches, and it is estimated that these Kuomintang officers did not expect that the PLA troops could still have tanks, combining the above factors, Li Yongcai boldly ordered Li Yuming to drive up the only eight tanks in the whole brigade to open the way for the whole army.
"Gao Xiang, give your battalion five minutes to prepare, five minutes later, the artillery fire will extend back, and the whole brigade will start to assault, do you understand?"
"Five minutes to prepare, five minutes later the whole brigade will start a assault, understood." Gao Xiang repeated Li Yong's order on the phone.
A few minutes were coming, and the artillery of various calibers of the howitzer group of the Independent Brigade began to extend its firing backwards, using platoon guns to advance into the depth of the 160th Brigade of the Kuomintang, first using artillery shells to clear the area where the troops were about to launch an assault, so as to reduce as much resistance as possible for the attacking troops.
The point of the shell gradually extended backwards, crater after crater, and cars, roadblocks, mines, and all the qiē that they could reach were blown to pieces.
The trumpeters covered their chests with their left hands, held the trumpets with their right hands, and mustered up the strength of their whole bodies, and the trumpets made of brass flashed brightly in the flash of artillery fire, and the red tassels tied to the trumpets were blown up by the wind, and slapped on the necks of the trumpeters in the dark night.
The position of the independent brigade was boiling, and under the encouragement of the trumpet, the eight tanks under the command of Li Yuming rushed out at full speed and roared, and the tracks lifted the earth and sand and gravel several meters high.
The tank was followed by dozens of large trucks with outer armor, which had been modified during the Battle of Xifu to deal with the cavalry of the Ma Jiajun army, and now came into play again.
The anti-aircraft machine guns were naturally used to fight planes, but Wei Gang's machine gun battalion had not fired a single bullet, and this was just after the battle began.
Compared with the troops of the People's Liberation Army, the Kuomintang army has a greater advantage, and this advantage is the Kuomintang air force, but the air force also has its own limitations, and it is impossible to dispatch as soon as it gets dark, and it is precisely because of this opportunity that Li Yong wants to seize the opportunity to eat the Kuomintang 160 Brigade in one fell swoop.
At the front are tanks, and behind the tanks are dozens of cars with steel plates, and anti-aircraft machine guns are fixed on the cars that specialize in fighting aircraft, but now they are not used to fight planes, but to deal with infantry, and behind these cars are the brigades of the independent brigade.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions attacked from the left, the 3rd and 4th Battalions attacked from the right, and the brigade commander Li Yong and Political Commissar Wang Chengde led the 5th Battalion, the reconnaissance battalion, the baggage battalion, and the team directly under the brigade headquarters to attack from the middle.
The attack method of the independent brigade is to deploy heavy firepower in the front and light in the rear, and the personnel in the front is light and heavy, and use ferocious firepower to first stun the enemy, and then surround it and eat it one bite at a time, no matter how many are in the encirclement, eat them all, so that the situation can be quickly opened up and large casualties can be avoided.
The sudden action of the independent brigade knocked the 160 brigade back at once, and the two armies were defeated as soon as they came into contact with the soldiers of the 160 brigade, and the communist army was too fierce, and it stands to reason that they didn't have many people, so how could they dare to charge against the ** troops of the brigade.
The soldier retreated like a tide, running like a life, and he couldn't take care of the supervising team behind him, the eighth road was more terrible than the supervising team, and it was important to save his life first.
The tank with billowing smoke and dust approached quickly, chasing after it, and the Kuomintang soldiers also knew what it meant to be mechanized on two legs, and they were rushed into the retreating group of soldiers by the tank in a small effort, and what did it mean to be swept into the rout of the chaotic soldiers by the tank? It means that the slaughter has begun, and it is a one-sided slaughter.
Li Yuming sat in the tank and was excited, damn, this is enjoyable, I let you be rampant, this time I also let you taste the power of our PLA tank troops, Li Yuming, who was holding a radio intercom, shouted: "All of them, rush up and crush them." ”
There were people all around, all of them were chaotic soldiers who were running and retreating indiscriminately, the eight tanks were like crazy and they collided with people when they saw them, they pressed things when they saw them, those near were crushed with tracks, those from afar were strafed with machine guns, the turrets rotated and strafed, and within the range of the tank's firepower, the soldiers fell in groups, and the tracks and bodies were also covered with blood and shredded flesh, and the scene was tragic and abnormal.
The soldiers who had no power to fight back at all cried and shouted, the brigade commander of the 160th Brigade, Huang Zhiyu, gasped for breath, and an officer ran over with a rolling belt: "Brigade seat, quickly withdraw, the communist army is rushing up, it is the communist tank rushing up." ”
Is this such a defeat? Huang Zhiyu's head was beating with green tendons, and he couldn't figure it out, how could the communist army dare to launch a counter-charge against us, are they all crazy?
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is not crazy, it dares to do so because of an instinct honed in years of battlefield tearing and killing, and it is a kind of invincible courage that only heroic troops dare to launch a counter-charge against the enemy in defensive operations and dare to say no to any enemy.
Behind the tank are dozens of large trucks, the anti-aircraft machine guns on the roof have long been changed to flat-fire, it is dozens of large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns flat-fire, this long-range weapon is now only 100 meters and tens of meters away from the enemy, such a close distance by the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets basically has no way to live, every point of fire harvests a bunch of lives.
Wei Gang, the battalion commander of the machine-gun battalion, sat in a truck, holding a walkie-talkie and kept shouting: "Disperse, disperse, spread to both sides, widen the distance, each car is twenty meters apart, rush up." ”
Thank you for your concern and support, thank you for the comments at the beginning of the moonlit night, what Lao Ba wants to say is that the novel is just a novel, and the establishment of the army can only be said to have a little bit of exploration meaning. ~~~~! ~!
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