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Chapter 449: Storming the Town of Yabai

After the Battle of Fumei began, the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army as the main attack hit a nail in Yabai Town, in order to make a rapid breakthrough of the troops, the Party Committee of the Second Army made up its mind, took the ace reserve independent brigade in its hand, and planned to use the method of breaking through in the middle and pinning the two wings to break out a bloody road and open the deadlock in one fell swoop. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

In order to create conditions for the independent brigade of the main attack, several leaders of the Second Army decided to hand over the artillery fire of the whole army to them, hoping to use powerful artillery fire to solve as many fortifications of the Kuomintang defenders as possible before the troops attacked, and to kill and wound as many enemy infantry as possible, so as to reduce the pressure and casualties of the infantry who were about to attack.

What the Kuomintang defenders did not expect was that after the first round of artillery preparation of the PLA, the troops did not launch a charge, but came a second artillery attack a few minutes later, and the fierce artillery attack caused heavy casualties to the Kuomintang defenders who were not prepared.

After the second artillery strike, the charge horn sounded again, but this time Li Yong's order was to blow the charge horn violently, and the troops did not attack, and the artillery fire was carried out at an interval of five minutes.

In other words, the attacking troops of the PLA prepared three times in a row with artillery fire, which made the defending Kuomintang defenders feel very uncomfortable, what to do? After the communist artillery was prepared, did it attack or not? Let's attack, I'm afraid that what I'm waiting for is still the artillery fire like a storm, let's not attack, I'm afraid that the communist troops will really attack, and then it will be too late.

Several rounds of artillery fire by the Independent Brigade put the front-line commanders of the Kuomintang in a dilemma, this is where the disadvantage of not having the initiative on the battlefield lies, and the defensive war cannot be simply passively beaten, the reason is easy to understand, but to jump out of the trenches to launch an active attack on the PLA, the demoralized Kuomintang defenders have completely lost such courage.

Five minutes was a very good calculation for the Kuomintang defenders to jump out of the trenches and prepare to attack, and when they got out of the fortifications and reached the position, it was the time for the shells to hit their heads, and it was too late to drill back again.

The three successive artillery strikes made the defending Kuomintang soldiers cry and cry for their mothers, wailing, and not even a single corpse could be seen on the entire battlefield, and the artillery fire that was completely covered was shattered.

Nearly an hour passed, and the artillery fire of the entire Second Army was under the command of Gao Xiang, the artillery commander of the Independent Brigade, to fire on the Kuomintang defenders in an orderly manner.

The Northwest Field Army has developed in the second half of '49, and the PLA's artillery is no longer a force that can only use artillery to directly aim and shoot at the Tuba Road, which is not even able to calculate the trajectory of the curved shot, and the troops tempered in the course of actual combat have grown into a powerful main branch of the army.

Under these circumstances, Gao Xiang was also very handy in commanding, and the timing and direction of several artillery strikes were accurate to an unprecedented distance, and Jing's artillery strikes also brought unprecedented disasters to the defending Kuomintang 24th and 53rd Divisions, and a large number of personnel and fortifications were killed and damaged.

Just as the Kuomintang soldiers were in shock, the fourth artillery attack of the PLA began again, the shells exploded one after another, and the platoon guns covered the front and depth of the Kuomintang defenders back and forth, detonating mines, blowing up barbed wire, flattening trenches, shattering pillboxes, and blowing up all obstacles in the line of attack into powder.

The Kuomintang soldiers hiding in the fortifications to defend the artillery cursed each other: "***, why is it all the artillery fire of the communist army, where is the artillery of our **?" “

Some people told him: "Our cannons? Our artillery has become the trophies of the communist army, and even if there is, we will not dare to confront the communist army. “

It really made these Kuomintang soldiers right, in the face of the powerful artillery of the PLA, the artillery of the Kuomintang defenders did not have the courage to resist at all, and they were afraid that they would be blown up by the PLA shells as soon as they opened fire.

If the soldier does not have the heart to fight, what confrontation can he talk about? Without the mutual containment of artillery fire, the artillery of the People's Liberation Army fought happily, and many soldiers stripped off their shirts and carried shells bare-chested, shouting while firing the artillery: "Smash it, beat these gray grandsons of the Kuomintang with Kuomintang shells." ”

In this case, the Kuomintang defenders could only be bombed, and at the moment when the artillery fire extended, the brigade commander Li Yong ordered loudly: "Tank battalion, attack, rush forward." ”

After four artillery strikes, the independent brigade is finally going to move in earnest, and the tank battalion at this time has long been ready, and the soldiers who leap and try are staring at each other, just waiting for the order of their superiors, Li Yong's shout on the phone has not ended, and the troops rushed out with a guy, and more than a hundred tanks and armored vehicles were emitting black smoke behind their buttocks, roaring and charging.

More than 40 tanks and more than 50 armored vehicles, which are all the belongings of the original Kuomintang Second Tank Regiment, plus the original eight Stuarts of the Independent Brigade, and hundreds of armored troops have formed a torrent of steel, and the scene is extremely spectacular.

More than 100 tanks and armored vehicles, not to mention the use of them in the past, they didn't even dare to think about it, and the Northwest Field Army, which took a few bullets and a few grenades as treasures, never dreamed that there would be today, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even the political commissar Wang Chengde was shocked by the armored troops that attacked, this soldier from the old Eighth Road kept watching the troops rushing forward with a telescope in the command post, and inadvertently, a tear slipped from the corner of his eye.

Li Yong knew Wang Chengde's mood very well at this time, this veteran soldier who joined the army very early was very urgent about the update of the army's equipment, so urgent that he was more anxious than Li Yong, because he saw too many losses to the soldiers because of the failure of weapons and equipment, some of which were completely avoidable, and this was also a major reason why he did not stop or support Li Yong's unscrupulous snatching of weapons and equipment, and it was not easy for Wang Chengde, who had a very strict sense of discipline, to do this.

This is also the first large-scale use of armored forces after the formation of the Northwest Field Army, the first field army, which has gradually become stronger, also has its own tanks, also has its own armored assault troops, and the independent brigade has inadvertently created a first, of course, the first in the Northwest Field Army.

At the same time as the Independent Brigade launched an assault, other units of the Second Army of the People's Liberation Army also began to attack from both sides of the Independent Brigade under the command of Commander Guo Peng and Political Commissar Wang Enmao, but most of what they did was to cooperate with the actions of the Independent Brigade, and did not really put the main force into it.

Commander Guo Peng's intention was very clear: to use the independent brigade to attack the main attack area, and use other troops to contain the strength of the Kuomintang defenders in the feint attack area, so as to prevent them from concentrating their forces on the independent brigade of the main attack.

It was already time for six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, and it should be time for dinner, but the soldiers of the Independent Brigade, whose confidence had soared, said, "If there is no dinner, let's rush up first, and then start the meal on the enemy's position, and eat big steamed buns.

This is confidence and morale, and the troops with confidence and morale are of course very powerful when they fight, and the infantry of the separate brigade is followed by the tanks and armored vehicles, and the fighters are running behind the armored troops, trying to shorten the distance between them and the tank assault troops as much as possible.

There is the problem of the mutual cooperation between the infantry tank and the infantry artillery, the time for the tank commando to rush up is very particular, to minimize the waiting time after the artillery bombardment, and not to let the shells blow up their own troops, so they must go up immediately after the artillery fire is extended, and the infantry must also follow behind the tanks and armored vehicles, protect the tanks when the armored troops are assaulting, knock out the enemy's anti-tank equipment and soldiers, and reduce the threat of the enemy's individual anti-tank weapons to tanks and armored vehicles.

In order to improve the assault speed of the tank troops, Li Yong did not let the tanks adapt to the speed of the infantry, but used armored vehicles to replace the infantry to cover the troops.

As long as the tank battalion can hold out in the enemy's forward position for a while, the large forces behind can catch up, and as long as the brigade of the independent brigade arrives, the victory in this battle is basically in hand.

The artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army once again extended to depth, and the smoke of gunpowder on the forward positions of the Kuomintang defenders was gradually blown away by the wind.

Many of the grassroots commanders of the Kuomintang were from military academies, and these people were very familiar with this kind of voice, and the Kuomintang officers who reacted in the middle of the year shouted loudly: "***, hurry up, the communist tanks are rushing up, hurry up, kill the communist tanks." “

It's easy to say, how to kill the tanks of the communist army? How many people can have the courage to rush up and fight the tank head-to-face? The answer is – basically not.

The use of infantry to deal with the tanks rushing to the front can only be done with great courage and the spirit of Jing who is not afraid of sacrifice, and the PLA soldiers with a tenacious will to fight can do this, but the Kuomintang troops will not do it, and the soldiers are crawling out under the shouts of the officers, and they are coming out, but in the face of the machine guns and artillery on the tanks, their courage is about to be frightened.

The first to rush up was the M4 tank platoon of the tank battalion, and the first one was the car of instructor Li Yuming.

Li Yuming, this guy is a cow, with four tanks like sharp knives chā in, in the roar of the engine that shook the earth, the tank encountered a trench over the trench, met the ditch and crossed the ditch, encountered a fire point and shot down, the machine gun on the car roared, the stragglers running around fell one by one, and the machine gun bunker that was close at hand was directly crushed over, no matter what you are, whether it is a person or a weapon, you will smash it first.

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