Chapter 580: Heavy artillery enters the city

Looking at Wang Jun, who was a little expressionless, Lin Feng knew that although he didn't come out, he would definitely like this battalion commander quite a lot in his heart. This battalion commander Li has a strong ability to adapt and reacts quickly, which can be said to be beyond the expectations of the division. From his body, there is quite a shadow of Hai Jingqing as the battalion commander back then.

Wang Jun is Hai Jingqing's old superior, and he can be said to be quite important and dependent on Hai Jingqing's old subordinate. Hai Jingqing's sacrifice, although he didn't say anything, Lin Feng could see that he had been quite sad in his heart for the sacrifice of his beloved general. For this battalion commander, who has the shadow of his old subordinate and a favorite general, although he didn't say it on his lips, he must like it in his heart.

Even if you love the house and Wu, it's not impossible. Although Wang Jun had this idea, Lin Feng did not agree with it very much. He believes that Li He is indeed a good seedling, but it is best to go through the deputy regiment stage to train him, and then promote him to be better for his future. It would be more appropriate to lay a solid foundation first than to promote the growth of a cadre.

No. 1 has said on more than one occasion that cadres at the regimental level are in a rather crucial position of connecting the upper and lower levels, and are a starting point for mastering the experience of controlling the overall situation. The regiment commander can only be regarded as a middle-level commander in the army, but he is a key step in the growth of a grassroots commander.

In particular, under the current situation in which the composite units of the armed forces are getting higher and higher, as a regimental-level combat unit at the most basic level of the composite troops, the military level of cadres is very high. Not only infantry tactics, but also the tactical use of artillery, armored troops, and even aviation units must be mastered and understood to a certain extent.

The General Headquarters attaches great importance to the training of cadres at the regimental level, even above the cadres at the column and division levels, and it can be said that it attaches the most importance to the level. The assessment of military cadres at the regimental level has even reached the point of harshness. Li He did an excellent job in the position of battalion commander, even if he didn't have such an outstanding performance as today, his first battalion was also the sharp knife battalion of the entire 18th Division.

The howling of the soldiers has always been excellent in the assessment of the division. Tactical joint exercises at the battalion level are well-known throughout the military region. Even the three battalions of the first regiment of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the world were defeated by their subordinates in the battalion-level confrontation drill organized by the headquarters. But he can be a good battalion commander, but it is not certain whether he can do a good job in the position of regiment commander.

In particular, regimental-level commanders have very high requirements for synthetic command ability, and it is difficult to say whether Li He can bear this burden. Therefore, Lin Feng still thought in his heart that he should be put in the position of deputy regiment first, and it would be more appropriate to make a transition, which would also be beneficial to his future growth.

Moreover, the recommendation to the higher authorities needs to be studied and approved by the divisional party committee. However, the opinion of him, the military commander, will definitely be considered by his superiors. This guy's appearance is indeed quite prominent, and it can be said that it is even beyond imagination. If he really has this ability, this is also a rare opportunity.

Lin Feng knew that in fact, Wang Jun's movements were not slow, and he had already begun to adjust the deployment in advance before the superiors gave the order. But this guy moves faster than the division commander. The division has just given an order, and his side has already started. A division commander who is not eclectic and rigid naturally likes such a military cadre with a sense of initiative. Besides, not to mention the division commander, it is the same for such a cadre to change him as the chief of staff.

It's just that Wang Jun, who is not on the front line and has to consider the overall situation, is naturally a beat slower than Li He, who is on the front line. Because every decision he makes must be based on mastering the overall situation. Moreover, he also received a detailed report on the enemy situation from the troops below before he could begin to adjust his deployment.

He is the commander of a division, and he must not make any hasty decisions. Every determination must be considered from the overall situation. To deal with the threat of the Japanese paratroopers, he had to consider how to solve these emerging enemy situations in the shortest possible time with the current strength in the city. To say that his movements are slower than below, then it can only be said that the accusation is in the wrong direction.

In fact, Wang Jun's movements were already very fast, facing the new enemy situation before the reinforcements mobilized by Chen Hanzhang arrived. As the actual commander of the siege of Tongliao, Wang Jun, who had moved the command post into the city at this moment, did not simply wait for the arrival of reinforcements, but adjusted the deployment according to the actual situation.

In the face of the new Japanese reinforcements, Wang Jun ordered all the units that had already broken through into the city, in addition to leaving part of the troops to contain the enemy in front of them, so that they would definitely not be able to break through and move closer to each other, each department should at least draw out at least one reinforced platoon of troops to clear and encircle the surrounding Japanese paratroopers.

When deploying the task of clearing and suppressing, Wang Jun only had one sentence, that is, no matter what the situation was, the Japanese paratroopers must not be allowed to gather up. Except for the original Japanese paratroopers who had already joined the remnants of the enemy, the rest of the Japanese paratroopers must not be allowed to merge with the remnants of the enemy. It's just that Li He, who is on the front line, has to take a beat faster in this action.

After the reinforcements mobilized by Chen Hanzhang arrived, Wang Jun dispatched a company from each department to form a squad and platoon to cooperate with the troops who were already in the city to continue the clearance. In full dedication to front-line operations. Chen Hanzhang's order to him was very simple, that is, he did not need to care about the Japanese troops outside the city, and only needed to solve the enemy inside the city as quickly as possible. And prepare for the follow-up echelon of paratroopers that the Japanese army will most likely survive.

In order to grasp the situation first-hand, Wang Jun even broke the practice of not interfering with the command of the lower levels of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and directly mastered it to the company level through the guò walkie-talkie. However, although the walkie-talkie was directly linked to the company level, Wang Jun only grasped the situation, and he still handed over the task of adjusting tactics to the battalion-level commanders in the city.

At the same time, he divided the command in the city into two, and the task of encircling and destroying the remnants of the enemy was handed over to Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment, who had entered the city at this moment, and he personally commanded the elimination of the Japanese paratroopers scattered throughout the city. For Wang Jun, skipping the command to the company level is not what he, as a division commander, should do.

Rather than encircling and annihilating the remnants of the enemy, he paid more attention to the elimination of the Japanese paratroopers. According to Tongguò's collection of the situation of the former troops, there were only more than 150 Japanese paratroopers who joined up with the remnants of the enemy in the city. Most of the rest of the paratroopers were scattered in various parts of the city because of the airborne reasons.

At this time, it is the best time to carry out the clean-up. If this opportunity is missed, once the Japanese paratroopers enter the area controlled by the remnants of the enemy, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of these paratroopers is, they will delay their own time to solve the battle. Therefore, before the Japanese paratroopers are assembled, they must take advantage of the opportunity to disperse in front of them as quickly as possible and destroy them as soon as possible.

In fact, Wang Jun hoped that these paratroopers parachuted in would join the Japanese garrison troops who were recalcitrant and resistant. Centralized annihilation and decentralized purging, for Wang Jun, it is obvious that the former choice is easier. But he also knows that this is basically unlikely.

The airborne surface of the Japanese paratroopers was almost all over the city, and no matter how fast the Japanese troops moved, it was impossible to join up with the remnants of the enemy before their own troops could react. In that case, his troops in the city can be directly withdrawn and disbanded. What is the use of allowing the enemy army to calmly assemble under his nose and join the defenders?

It's just that for the operation of clearing out the Japanese paratroopers in the city, the most difficult thing is not the resistance of the Japanese paratroopers, but the gathering of these Japanese paratroopers scattered all over the city with the common people. During the clearance, there were often cases where ordinary people were taken hostage by Japanese paratroopers who were trapped and fighting.

In order to minimize the casualties of the civilian population in the battle, we tried our best to solve the scattered Japanese paratroopers. Wang Jun could only risk the danger of being taken advantage of by the Japanese army to adjust his deployment, and transferred some troops from the reinforcements to replace the first company of the division's reconnaissance battalion and the reconnaissance company of the 54th regiment that had already entered the city.

At the same time, the division's sniper platoon will be disrupted, and each clearance squad will be equipped with a sniper as much as possible. At the same time, all units were required to dispatch a group of sharpshooters to shoot and kill the Japanese paratroopers who used the common people as shields. In addition, the areas already under the control of urban areas were divided into their respective combat areas by company formation, compressed on all sides, dispersed to dispersed, and the troops involved in the clean-up were cleared one by one in squads and even combat groups.

If a resident is taken hostage, the sniper squad of the reconnaissance company and the sharpshooter of the combat company should be used as the backbone to carry out the tactics of precision strikes, so as to avoid casualties among the civilians as much as possible. The area of Tongliao City is not large, and Wang Jun believes that as long as the tactics are used properly, it is still possible to deal with the Japanese paratroopers who entered the city in a short time.

As for the battle to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the enemy, since the Japanese army has been besieged in several disconnected strongholds. Moreover, it has now been ascertained that the remnants of these strongholds, with the exception of the one to the north-east, are too close to the residential areas. The remaining remaining strongholds are separated from the residential areas by major roads.

In view of the current situation, Wang Jun did not hesitate to mobilize several mountain artillery pieces into the city to participate in the battle. Even two 155-mm howitzers were transferred into the city by him. In the two strongholds of the puppet Manchurian county government and the Dongtailong burning pot, there was not a single ordinary person except for the officials of the puppet Manchurian county government and the county police station who fled into the Japanese military camp.

In particular, the Japanese stronghold of Dongtailong Yakuza is the only stronghold of the Japanese army in the entire west of the city. The fierce fighting in the second half of last night, combined with the fierce fighting this morning, almost all the Japanese troops in the west of the city were compressed here. Now, in addition to the original more than 200 Japanese troops, there are now 50 or 60 Japanese paratroopers mixed in, and the strength of the army has almost reached more than 300 people.

Although the Japanese army here not only converted the Dongtailong pot into a fortification, but also renovated the surrounding houses. However, the Dongtailong Yakula, which has a brewing workshop, is the main position of the remnants of the Japanese army in the west of the city, and it contains the last artillery position of the Japanese army. As long as the Japanese troops here are dealt with first, the small Japanese forces on the periphery as flank cover will not be afraid.

There is also the puppet Manchurian county government and the puppet Manchurian county police station across the street from it, and the Japanese troops in the two places combined, together with the puppet Manchurian Japanese policemen who retreated here, are also about 200 people. In addition to the more than 50 paratroopers who converged, without the use of artillery, the troops taking here would suffer huge casualties.

In particular, the so-called puppet Manchurian county government, which was built after the founding of the People's Republic of China and was a two-story reinforced concrete structure, was built extremely strong, not to mention that a large number of machine guns and peace-firing guns were deployed. At least about 20 light and heavy machine guns have been identified so far.

In addition, the Puppet Manchurian County Police Department and the Public Prosecutor's Office across the road formed a crossfire, controlling and blocking the surrounding main streets. If you storm it, it will not only cause considerable casualties, but also delay a lot of time. The Japanese army, which is the most in charge, does not care about the life or death of the people around you, their machine guns and peaceful artillery fire are too threatening to the surrounding people's houses.

Such a stronghold, without heavy artillery, directly connect to the devils inside and wipe it out together, so when will it be? There are also some Japanese soldiers who underestimate the face of them. Deal with these two Japanese troops first, and you can free up your hands to quickly deal with the remaining small groups of Japanese troops in the city, as well as those damned, Japanese paratroopers who should not show up when they should not be.