Chapter 424: Complete Destruction
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Although the largest capital for the construction of fortresses is human capital, it can be said that it is almost free of charge under the premise that the Japanese army plundered labor and brutally enslaved prisoners of war from Chinese mainland on a large scale. 【. But steel and concrete still need money to produce, and additional weapons and equipment also need money to buy.
Japanese capitalists are not philanthropists, and they support you to start the war for war money, not to give you the most unjust for free. After several quarrels, it was only under the impatient emperor's so-called holy judgment that the two sides finally came up with a nondescript result.
Whether the function of the fortress is increased or changed, the Kwantung Army can be carried out according to the actual situation. However, the appropriation of the 6th Military Province for the fortification project remained unchanged. Moreover, the second phase of the original plan cannot be stopped, and must be completed according to the plan four or three years ago.
The number of laborers required could be coordinated between the North China Front and the Kwantung Army, and raw materials could also be allocated by the steel mills in Manchuria as needed according to the original plan. However, there is one article, all the expenses of the expenses will be borne by the Kwantung Army itself, and not a single sub of the 6 military provinces will be increased. Moreover, there is a clause that Manchukuo exports at a low price every year, which is almost equivalent to nothing, and at present the amount of coal and grain urgently needed by Japan for war must not be reduced in any way, but must be increased according to the situation.
The financial situation was stuck, and the largest group of fortresses in the entire territory of Manchukuo was precisely in the East Manchurian region, where the so-called banditry was the most severe. The Kwantung Army made careful calculations before it appeared, and if it wanted to make some adjustments in the functions of these fortress groups, from the offensive to both offensive and defensive, the amount of work was not small there, and the cost would also rise significantly. And if the construction starts at the same time, and all the additional funds are borne by the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army will go bankrupt directly.
Although the Kwantung Army forcibly allocated some funds from the so-called Manchurian treasury, which was in fact equivalent to the small treasury of the Kwantung Army, and reduced the amount of construction of several other fortress groups in order to save money, this fund could only maintain the Hulin Fortress and the Dongning Fortress, the two most important fortress groups in Northeast Manchuria.
According to the current budget, under the condition that the 6th Army does not increase the allocation of funds, it is necessary to complete the modification of these fortress groups that have already completed the main project. Under the circumstance that a large number of Japanese immigrants had to be resettled, the deformed puppet Manchurian economy could not afford it in any case. In the absence of unaffordability, the Kwantung Army Command had to start with key fortresses first.
As for other projects, they can only stay in accordance with the original planning and construction, and even the second phase of the construction of some minor positions such as the Honey Mountain Fortress Group and the Banjiehe Fortress Group can only be temporarily suspended. As a result, the other fortifications that the Honey Mountain Fortress Group had originally planned to build in the spring of this year were stopped because only laborers had arrived, and the raw materials were still far away.
The change in shape has brought to a halt the second phase of the construction of the Honey Mountain Fortress Group. When Wu Ruofu advanced along the 458 Heights to attack the first line of Camel Peak, except for some anticline positions on the 458 Heights, the Japanese fortifications along the ridge had not yet started.
But after all, the Japanese are not stupid, let alone blind. When Wu Ruofu touched the foot of Camel Peak, his good luck came to an end. The Japanese army had not yet had time to build protective fortifications on the ridge from the 458 Heights to the Camel Peak, but this did not mean that there were no fortifications on the Camel Peak.
The camel peak and the fortifications on the 458 heights are actually a whole, not only are there ridges connecting the two mountains, but there are also secret underground passages built in the ridges to communicate the connection between the two mountains. Although no fortifications were built on the ridge, the fortifications on the front of the camel were completed. These fortifications and the 458 highland anticline positions can form a relatively meticulous defensive network between the two mountains.
When Wu Ruofu led two companies to touch the leg of the camel peak, they were exposed to a Japanese warning position on the camel peak. The Japanese troops on the camel peak were also unambiguous, and now there were people on the ridge rushing towards their positions, and they did not care about exposing their defensive posture, and all the fire points on the camel peak opened fire at the first time, intending to block the ridge passage between the two mountains.
He also sent part of his troops to counterattack the roundabout troops led by Wu Ruofu along the ridge, trying to eliminate these enemy forces that had penetrated into his defense in one fell swoop, so as to prevent the 458 Heights, which were already tight in front of them, from being attacked from the front and rear and finally defeating.
Although they knew that if they could not eliminate the strict force of the enemy forces that had infiltrated their interior as quickly as possible, the Japanese army was already clearly under-armed at this time. Even against an adversary who penetrates into the depth of his defenses, the forces sent out are nothing more than a makeshift squadron of infantry and engineers.
Seeing that the Japanese army sent a counterattack force, Wu Ruofu immediately left behind heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and divided a company led by a deputy battalion commander under his command to block the Japanese counterattack force and cover the attack on the camel peak. He commanded another company of reinforced mortars, ignoring the Japanese fire on the hump, and under the cover of the mortars, forcibly attacked the mountain.
Although the scale on the camel peak is not as large as that of the 458 highlands, there are also a large number of dark forts and permanent fortifications mainly located on the mountainside. Wu Ruofu divided the company in his hand into several combat groups. Each group was reinforced with a bazooka and a light machine gun.
Adopting the tactic of frontal attack, the infantry used bazookas to knock out the poorly protected Japanese fortifications and bunkers, and then the infantry took advantage of the resulting shooting dead spots to attack. Mortars, on the other hand, concentrated their fire and blockaded the Japanese permanent fortifications. Even if you can't blow it up, you have to block its firing hole with shells.
It's just different from the frontal offensive, which is mainly aimed at the Japanese bunker groups and permanent fortifications. Before rushing up the mountain, Wu Ruofu confessed that if he rushed up the mountain, he would look for the ventilation hole of the Japanese army's underground fortifications. Once found, use grenades, Molotov cocktails, and ** packs to destroy as many vents as possible.
In Wu Ruofu's view, as long as the vents that vent the vents in these mountains can be destroyed to ventilate to the outside, the source of air in the mountains can be cut off. Even if you can't force out those shrunken turtles in the mountain, it will weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness the most. After graduating from the puppet Manchukuo High School, he is naturally no stranger to the importance of air. As for the artillery permanent fortification groups on the top of the mountain, Wu Ruofu never thought of fighting to the death to capture them.
The reinforced concrete outside the artillery permanent fortification group is thicker than the one on the front of the 458 heights, and even if all the ** on hand is piled up, it may not be able to destroy it. Rather than wasting your efforts, it is better to focus on the Japanese infantry. As long as the infantry is defeated, how long will the artillery without cover hold out?
Despite the hard fight, it was not easier to get there than a frontal offensive. However, since the main firepower of the Japanese army was still concentrated along the 458 Heights, the pressure on the Camel Peak line was much less, and the counterattack was far less powerful than that of the 458 Heights. The company commanded by Wu Ruofu took advantage of the cover of the terrain to attack the mountainside of the camel peak little by little.
According to Wu Ruofu's order, after the attacking troops rushed up the mountainside, they put their main forces on the vents of the Japanese mountain fortifications. Find one, and after blowing up the fence with a grenade, it will be a bundle or bundles of cluster grenades plus a few Molotov cocktails, no matter how big or small.
Because it is in a relatively hidden second-line position, the ventilation holes of the first-line mountain fortifications of Camel Peak are not built on the anticline like the 458 highlands, but are built in the front shelter of the peak. And because of the prevention of rain and the entry of snakes and insects, the height of these vents is generally higher than the ground, so it is not difficult to find these vents.
It didn't take long, except for a few ventilation holes around the permanent fortifications on the mountainside of the Japanese army, most of the ventilation holes of the Japanese underground fortifications on the front of the entire camel peak had been destroyed, and there was not much left.
Seeing that the battle was progressing smoothly, his head naturally breathed a sigh of relief, and Wu Ruofu, who was about to order the messenger to turn on the walkie-talkie to report to Commander Du, did not expect that at this time, something unexpected happened to him and his subordinates who were in the fierce battle, and even the Japanese troops in the underground fortifications of Camel Peak.
Sometimes, luck always befalls a certain person or group of people suddenly. Just two minutes after a soldier dropped two bundles of cluster grenades into a newly ventilated air approaching the top of the mountain, a violent and dull explosion suddenly sounded from inside the Camel Peak mountain in the midst of fierce fighting.
With this violent explosion, the entire camel peak seemed to have suffered a high-intensity earthquake, and the entire mountain shook violently. The Japanese army's permanent fortifications, which were still frantically resisting just now, and the remaining bunker groups that had not yet been destroyed, were all silent in a short period of time, and they did not fire a single shot again.
Compared with the Japanese bunkers, which were mostly collapsing, the heavy artillery fortifications on the top of Camel Peak presented another shocking scene in the violent explosion like an earthquake. The bunker, which originally required hundreds of kilograms** to blast, was directly opened to the skylight. Several heavy guns in the bunker were also lifted into the sky in this violent explosion.
And the artillery in the bunker, which was desperately firing at the 458 heights, was reduced to parts in the same way as their equipment in the explosion. Stumps, severed arms and artillery parts were blown all over the mountain, and even after being blown up from the bunker, a thigh that fell back to the ground fell in front of Wu Ruofu's eyes.
In contrast to the destruction of the Japanese fortifications, the mountain where tens of thousands of tons of various munitions exploded directly formed a large crater with a depth of nearly 100 meters and a depth of 30 or 40 meters in the violent explosion. Wherever the Japanese army built underground fortifications, a large area of collapse was formed.
On the other side of the mountain, a large landslide has simply formed. The half-pulled mountain collapsed in the explosion. The entire landscape of Camel Mountain has been fundamentally changed by this man-made earthquake. If it weren't for the familiar people, I'm afraid no one would have thought of the half-collapsed mountain in front of them.
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