Chapter 454: Pretty and Loser
The same scene is being played out at the same time in the entire triangle from Sumuyintara, Sarulatala to the stone table. The various artillery groups participating in the battle used shells to form walls of fire, like a large net, sweeping back and forth in this small triangle. As long as the Japanese army touched this fire net, they would all be crushed.
Originally thinking that he could show his strength, he mobilized a large number of troops to break into the depth along the direction of the stone table. Trying to use the absolute superiority in troops, try to break through the anti-union defense of Sumuyintara as much as possible, so as to make a breakthrough. Strive to completely defeat the resistance of the United Nations in one go.
The Japanese Seventh Division, which was preparing to either outflank Balakirude and Ao Han's camps, or go south to penetrate the Bahrain Right Banner to cooperate with the frontal battle, suffered heavy losses in the sudden artillery fire. Before, they thought that a breakthrough on the whole front was in sight, and the morale of the Japanese army, which was extremely high, was bombed and turned around. Hordes of Japanese troops were reduced to parts piece by piece.
On their heads, the 122 rocket launchers dragged a long tail flame across the triangle that had become a purgatory on earth, and smashed between the front of Balachrude and the Hunte Ottel, and were trying to take advantage of the breakthrough in the direction of the stone table to desperately attack Balachrude, intending to completely crush the rest of the Japanese troops defending in front of them.
Yang Jicai's deployment was actually very simple, he divided all the artillery under his command into three echelons that Qiu Jintang had allocated to him. Four field artillery companies and four 100-millimeter howitzer batteries with relatively close range but relatively high accuracy, plus one each for the 155th howitzer company and one for the 122nd rocket artillery company. and the two 107 rocket artillery batteries, which have a large density of firepower but are not as long as those of the 122 rocket artillery, cover the artillery group for firepower.
According to the different firing ranges of various artillery, a certain area of firepower coverage was divided with Sumuyintara as the southern edge and the stone table as the boundary. The only thing they need to do is to smash as many shells in their hands as possible into their own combat area.
At the same time, a 75-mm field artillery battalion, a 107-mm rocket artillery battalion, and a reinforced 155th howitzer company were used to form a blocking fire, specifically blocking the direction of the stone table, cutting off the route of the Japanese troops in this triangle and the communication with the Japanese troops north of the stone table.
Two 122 rocket artillery companies, one 155 howitzer company, and the only independent field artillery company equipped with Type 91 105 cannon on the entire Alukorqin Banner battlefield formed the blocking firepower. With the cooperation of the artillery fire of the defenders of Balachrud, the Japanese forces between Balachrud and Hunter Otel were suppressed.
As for the Japanese army on his front, for Yang Jicai, it was enough to dispatch a 107 rocket launcher and even a salvo by the way. A salvo fire of a 107 rocket artillery company covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters. It's just a reinforced squadron of Japanese troops, and a company is enough.
At the same time as the start of the fire here, Qiu Jintang deployed a 75 field artillery battalion, a 105 independent heavy mountain artillery company, and a 155 howitzer company, with the cooperation of a 122 rocket artillery company, also suppressed the fire in the direction of Zhangjiayingzi.
Fifteen minutes after the artillery groups bombarded and bombed indiscriminately towards their intended targets, they followed the battle plan issued by Yang Jicai. The various artillery groups together formed a wall of fire, from Sumuyintara and Sarulatara, to the north, rows of cannonballs measured the land. This triangle was blown up like honeycomb coal. Rows and rows of craters, as if they had been measured in advance.
After the fire of the main artillery group left the triangle of death constructed by Yang Jicai with cannonballs, it extended to the north of the stone table. Yang Jicai concentrated all the 122 rocket artillery companies, and fired all the special air fuel shells in his hands towards the Triangle of Death and the front north of Balakirude.
The Japanese soldiers, who had narrowly escaped the shelling before, stopped when they heard the sound of the artillery and thought they had escaped, and now they are indeed lying on the ground and not daring to get up. In the large vacuum created by the more than 100 air-fuel bombs, a large number of people died of suffocation caused by the vacuum.
A reinforced company that was temporarily formed by Yang Jicai from the artillery guard unit was also under the command of the deputy commander of the second regiment, who was specially transferred by Yang Jicai, launched a reconquest operation against Zhangjiayingzi, striving to regain this commanding height. Then the artillery was pulled up and the Japanese army was attacked in great depth.
This plan was a revised battle plan after Yang Jicai received the artillery allocated to him by Qiu Jintang. He used all the resources he could muster. Even overstepped his authority, and the relationship between his old classmate and fellow countryman who was sent by Qiu Jintang was involved, and even some of the artillery deployed in Bayanbaut that Qiu Jintang did not hand over to him for command were involved.
At this time, under his planning, the land of dozens of square kilometers from Balakirude in the east, Bayanbaot in the west, Sumuyintara in the south, and Hun Te Otel in the north was full of gunpowder smoke from artillery shells. The violent explosions of various shells can be heard clearly from more than ten kilometers away.
In the first five minutes of all the artillery fire, the Japanese artillery still had the courage to return fire. Although the shells hit very rarely, after all, they still have the ability to fight back. Ten minutes after the shelling, the Japanese artillery was silent.
In the face of the overwhelming shells of the Anti-United Nations, the artillery lost in the air raids and artillery bombardments on the previous day was thrown out at this moment. At this moment, even the infantry artillery and the attached mortar squadron, all the artillery pieces combined, all the artillery were less than fifty, and the number of shells was even more lacking, and the artillery of the 7th Division still dared to have the courage to return fire in reciprocal fire.
I fired one shot myself, and five fired back over there. Ten shells have not been fired here, and hundreds of shells have already been fired over there. In particular, in the direction of Zhangjiayingzi, where the main artillery of the Japanese army was deployed, after the counterattack operation began, under the full suppression of the artillery in the Bayanbat direction, it was either blown up or busily moved its position, let alone bothered to return fire.
After nearly an hour of shelling, almost none of the Japanese troops who broke into what became known as the Triangle of Death survived. Even the Japanese troops in front of Balakirude suffered heavy casualties, and their flesh and blood flew under the dense rain of bullets.
Not only the Japanese troops who participated in the war suffered heavy casualties. Even the 26th Wing Commander Tatsuo Uchida and the 27th Wing Commander Atsujiro Yasunaga, who were on the front line to command the operation, were all killed. As for officers below the wing commander, the casualties were even more severe. Among them, none of the officers of the 26th Wing, which broke into the direction of the stone table, from the wing commander down to the wing commander, survived.
For the Seventh Division, it can basically be said that this division has been completely crippled. The 7th Division, after opening the direction of the stone table, not only did not take advantage of it in the end, but was also blown off its own full mouth, and with a whole body except for the brain.
In addition to the Japanese troops in front of the Ao Han camp, there were two squadrons that survived part of their combat effectiveness, and the rest of the Japanese troops were all crippled by bombing except for those who were defeated in the night battle. Even the twenty-seventh wing of it can already be said to be completely annihilated.
And Zhangjiayingzi, the commanding heights of the entire Balaqirude to Aohan Yingzi, was also recaptured at a certain price under the command of the deputy commander of the Second Regiment. At present, the Seventh Division has not only lost its wife and soldiers, but also its family.
While listening to Balaqirude's Gou Zaihe constantly reporting the results of the shelling, Yang Jicai, who was observing the battle situation in front, although he did not show it on his face, was still quite satisfied with this result in his heart. Because the result you want the most means that your hard work has not been in vain.
Judging from the results of this battle, after luring the Seventh Division to take the bait yesterday, Yang Jicai only used the artillery and artillery attached to the team that were first assigned by his superiors, and consciously asked Qiu Jintang to weaken the intensity of the artillery bombardment. As long as the forward positions were not in danger of being broken through by the Japanese on all fronts, or if the Japanese did not continue to advance westward, the decision of the heavy artillery units to fire as little artillery as possible was still very prescient.
As for why he made this request in the first place, it is not that he Yang Jicai really has the ability to predict the future, and he knows that the Japanese army will come to such a hand. But Yang Jicai had a plan at that time, but before he could think about it, he was completely destroyed by the Japanese army.
Although the original plan was not used, but now that such a situation has been created, it can be regarded as a crooked fight, another kind of success. If you change to anyone else, you can't do better in this situation. Of course, in Yang Jicai's view, if Political Commissar Yi Jianping handed over the aviation to himself, the results might be even greater.
Yang Jicai was having a good time here, and Qiu Jintang, who finally figured out what this guy meant, couldn't help but applaud him secretly. Thinking of the scenes from yesterday's Wang Deyao's insistence on attacking to the present, Qiu Jintang applauded loudly for Yang Jicai's performance and ability.
Qiu Jintang knew that this night's battle of wits had come to an end now. And this night's battle of wit, Yang Jicai not only won, but also won quite exciting. not only gave the old devil Kunizaki Noboru a serial set, but also completely broke the backbone of the Seventh Division. Until now, the 7th Division no longer has the possibility of turning over.
These hands played by this kid are really beautiful. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would have been hard to believe that the scene in front of you was just the work of a young man who had been in the military for less than three years and was almost ten years younger than himself. After this battle, Qiu Jintang knew that the Seventh Division was no longer a threat.
Today's scene, coupled with the results of Wang Deyao's attack last night, has broken the backbone of the entire Seventh Division. No matter what tricks they play, they can't afford to set off the wind. It's just that for Qiu Jintang, the only dissatisfaction is that this kid's hand is really beautiful, but the consumption of this cannonball is too amazing.
Not counting yesterday's consumption during the day and night, from the first shell to the current full-scale shelling stoppage, it was only an hour, and according to Qiu Jintang's estimate, tens of thousands of shells could be fired. And the consumption of ammunition in this short hour of shelling is almost equivalent to the consumption of shells in one day during the day yesterday.
This is not counting the wear and tear on the life of the second-hand guns under his command with such a large intensity of shooting. According to his style of play, the life of his artillery will probably be reduced by half. In just 30 minutes, so many artillery groups fired tens of thousands of shells, and this loser Cheng Dù was even more than himself.
According to Qiu Jintang's estimate, after this battle, his artillery reserves may be bottomed out. If the superiors don't give the best of the kuài's own supplements, then if the Japanese army has any follow-up movements, their own artillery will at least be unable to give that little guy enough fire support.