Chapter 1179 Cruel Silhouette!(1/2)
"Blow me, beat me hard!" Wang Xiaoqiang held the telescope and looked at the surging fire in front of him, suppressing his excitement.
Commander Wang Da cannot help but be excited. The battle of siege is certainly not new to veterans who have been in the army for 9 years, but fighting such a wealthy battle must be the first time in his life.
The feeling of 8 75mm mountain cannons was really not too wonderful. The bullet flowers bloomed on the top of the city wall and on the Japanese defensive positions within the wall. The city walls as thick as four or five meters seemed to be trembling in the artillery fire.
There is also a Japanese 92 infantry cannon. The 70mm straight-sight cannon approaches less than 700 meters near the city wall. It aims at all visible fortifications on the wall and fires. If you can't handle it with one shot, then you will get a few more shots, and there are almost no fortifications to resist.
But these two excellent infantry support artillery are nothing in front of the 150th rush!
The power of the large-caliber mortar is fully demonstrated in such an extremely obvious offensive and defensive battle. If a shell goes down, everything will be destroyed!
The brick city tower at the south gate was shattered by a 150-heavy shell. If Wang Xiaoqiang hadn't reacted and almost threw himself to the ground, he would have been hit by the blown-off bricks and tiles!
Wang Datuan’s long distance from the front line is too close, less than 400 meters!
That was also the position where the officers and soldiers of his 772nd Regiment were ordered to lurk. When the artillery fire was sparse in 10 minutes, the infantry would approach the 200-meter area of the city wall until the artillery fire extended, and the infantry attack mode would be activated.
Behind the infantry are there organ artillery, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns, and they will provide the most fierce fire cover for the infantry in the charge.
But obviously, the Japanese army would never be exterminated because of the fierce artillery fire. They would definitely rush out of the smoke and launch a fatal blow to the Chinese soldiers who were about to rush over.
In offensive and defensive battles, the defenders who were beaten in artillery fire were cruel, but the sacrifices made by the attackers were destined to be much greater.
Otherwise, even Tang Dao decided to attack with more than five times the Japanese troops, which was ready to make a major sacrifice.
Therefore, Wang Xiaoqiang, the highest commander of the South Gate, took risks to reach the forefront less than 400 meters, but in this behavior, even if he wins this battle, he will be trained by Brigade Commander Cheng when he returns.
If the leader of his main force was killed by a Japanese cold gunman, the victory of this battle will not only be a major reduction in the 921st Division, but also the entire Jindong Army.
At least until now, the entire Battle of Jindong has been fought, and there are battalion commanders, company commanders, and even deputy regiment commanders in the Chinese army have died, but there is no precedent for colonel-level officers to die. If you compare with the Japanese, lieutenant generals, major generals, and colonels, this Battle of Jindong can be called a crushing victory.
But Wang Xiaoqiang still stubbornly believed that under his personal supervision, he could successfully blast the city wall to reduce the losses of his commanders and soldiers, and everything was worth it.
The regiment commander personally visited the front line to supervise the battle, which indeed inspired the front line soldiers greatly.
The regiment commander spared no effort. What are we big-headed soldiers afraid of? The soldiers who were about to launch a general attack were filled with unspeakable force, and they just hoped that the shelling would end soon!
Of course, there is also Wang Xiaoqiang's determination to win the bet with Tang Dao.
The artillery fire coverage on the three walls was basically set at 10 minutes. The first wave of attack was just a test to find the firepower points that the Japanese had not been completely destroyed. Then, the Type 92 infantry artillery deployed in front of each city wall was destroyed at a fixed point. This was the time for the infantry to truly enter the battlefield.
This process is very simple, but if it is executed, it will take at least 40 minutes to go up. When the infantry is carrying guns, bullets and climbing into the interior of the city walls by a wooden ladder, there will be more difficult positional offensive and defensive battles.
The Japanese commander was not a fool, he foolishly placed all his defenses on the city wall with obvious targets. Wouldn't he be taken away by artillery?
The real city offensive and defensive system is to adapt to local conditions and follow the streets and alleys to make layers of defense! That is another arduous battle that requires no life and time to be consumed.
These have long been calculated by Captain Wang Da, who is eager to win the bet.
The main attack battalion of the 772nd Regiment is the first battalion, but in the front row of the infantry, the blasting group 772nd Regiment has already prepared!
Although the walls of big cities like Shimen are old, they do not mean that they can easily collapse with cannons.
All kinds of artillery fires were put into battle, and then the machine guns and light and heavy machine guns were greeted. The soldiers also carried the wooden ladders that had been tied up in the mountains, and they looked like a model that would take advantage of their lives to attack. In fact, they were just an illusion.
Wang Xiaoqiang looked like hello, and he was a rough man again. In fact, only those who knew him knew how terrible this guy was!
He was reluctant to let the elite troops under his command die in vain in this siege battle that was already destined to be victorious.
His killer weapon was the blasting group composed of 20 people. For this reason, he prepared 10 large explosives packs of 100 kilograms of explosives, and blasted a large gap to the city wall. The Japanese army in the city was like a turtle without a shell, so he could only control it.
Moreover, the three-hour conquering Tang Dao to conquer the Nanmen position would be shortened by at least one hour.
The artillery fire gradually became sparse and began to extend to the Japanese defensive positions displayed on the city's information!
"The 1st Company, prepare for a tentative attack, blasting team, prepare for it!" Wang Xiaoqiang looked at his pocket watch, squinted his eyes and ordered.
With a "boom!", the earth shook!
This is not just at the South Gate, to be precise, the entire city!
Even Wang Xiaoqiang, who had been through many battles, couldn't help but open his mouth at this moment and looked at the huge fireball rising from the dark sky in the west.
"I'm a very good person, is there an explosion?"
"The regiment commander, it seems to be on the west side!" The first battalion commander who had just received his order was about to leave replied.
"Damn it! It's Tang Dao, a prodigal son! This special person has used at least two or three hundred kilograms of explosives! The Japanese are probably fainted by the bomb now!" Wang Xiaoqiang grinned and cursed.
"Then, regiment commander, do we have to add some more?" asked the first battalion commander weakly.
"What are you adding? I'm still cursing to get this little explosive from the Sihang Group. I've given it to your baby's first battalion. I'll add it. Can I fill my baby with these 180 kilograms?" Wang Xiaoqiang rolled his eyes and refused decisively.
The first battalion commander opened his mouth and swallowed the words back. He clearly remembered that the regiment headquarters' military command department received 200 kilograms of explosives from the Four Army Regiment! At that time, his old comrade in the military command department was so beautiful that he could hardly see clearly.
"Oh! If you don't say it, I almost forgot. Tang Dao has learned all my tricks. Hurry up and exploded it for me. You must let the Japanese in the South Gate taste the power of our explosives!" Wang Xiaoqiang woke up at this moment, slapped his thighs, and ordered them quickly.
The officers and soldiers of the 772nd Regiment at the South Gate here began to attack in an orderly manner, while the Japanese army at the West Gate there was a miserable bird!
Because that is not the two or three hundred kilograms of explosives that Wang Xiaoqiang estimated, it is a full 400 kilograms of explosives!
As an important town in the north, its city wall is not a city wall of Licheng County. Not only is it four meters thick, it is five or six meters high. Many Japanese fortifications were built on the city wall. Moreover, there are also tunnel caves under the city walls. Even if the enemy has cannons, they can resist for a while.
If you want to deal with such fortifications, you just rely on artillery bombardment, but you don’t know that the best way to hit the ground until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month is to first wash the ground with artillery fire, then continue to feint attacks, cover the engineers to dig tunnels, then bury explosives, and bombard the city walls into the sky, but that also takes time.
The four Japanese defenders received orders from the command center and held on until 9 a.m. When the Imperial Army Air bombers arrived, all the crises were lifted.
Although they didn't know that Imperial Airlines was beaten by the Chinese Air Force yesterday and had a peach blossoming face. I didn't dare to come too much.
But the Japanese army never dreamed that the Chinese actually omitted the process of digging tunnels, and explosives exploded underground.
The explosion of 400 kilograms of explosives directly exploded a ten-meter-wide city wall. The thirty or forty meters collapsed directly due to violent vibrations. The explosion-fighted wall and the machine gun castle made of steel and concrete on the wall flew into the sky, and like the wall bricks, they were all broken.
The Japanese army, who had been lucky enough to survive in artillery fire, were not much better, and they were directly buried with the collapsed bricks and stones.
The most tragic thing is that there is at least one infantry squad hidden in a hidden military cave inside the city wall, and it is all buried by a large number of bricks and stones. Even the Chinese people on the opposite side are so frustrated that they are suffocated to death before they even see them.
The Japanese army, who were lucky enough to be within the explosion range and collapse range, were also stunned by the sudden loud noise.
The city wall, which is 300 meters long, is covered with smoke and dust.
"First Company, upper, second Company, fire platoon, fire cover, all mortars cover the two wings, machine guns, and heavy machine guns fire cover." Lei Xiong, as the highest commander on the front line, took out the cotton in his ears and issued an assault order as soon as possible.
There was no charge, no signal flare, and with the wave of commanders at all levels.
"Kill" hid four hundred meters away and hugged her waist and rushed towards the gap in the city wall with her usual 33 formation.
The pouring rain of bullets covered by the two wings fell on the battlements of the city walls, leaving almost no gaps.
The sudden blazing fire of Kawada Kazuta's face was already ugly. All his dreams were lost, and the Chinese actually started to attack the city overnight.
But he is a veteran who has been through the battlefield for a long time and has calmed down in a short period of time. No matter when the battle starts, he is commanding more than 7,000 troops, and soldiers come to block the water and soil.
The Japanese command center located in Shimen was still brightly lit, and it maintained telephone contact with Simen and the railway station logistics warehouse.
But the huge fireball rising from the direction of Ximen made Kawada Kazuta's face look ugly as if he was swallowing a lump of flies, and he ordered without hesitation: "Order the temporary 3rd squadron to reinforce Xicheng with all his strength."
Kawada Kazuto knew very well what this explosion represented, and it represented the explosion of a large amount of explosives. The target of the explosion could naturally be the city wall.
As for how the Chinese could successfully blast in such a short time, that was no longer what Kana Kawada could consider now. He must now mobilize enough personnel to block the Chinese who were about to attack the city from the breakthrough point in the shortest time.
If he could not resist the Chinese attack for a night, then his gambling heroism in the baggage area would be a foolish joke.
Chinese people can joke, but his boss scolded him while throwing him ruthlessly onto the list of fools.
But if you want him to order the blow up the baggage area now, the Japanese Army Major doesn't have the courage.
Think about it, there were fierce battles in three areas of defense, but suddenly a big explosion occurred in the rear. It clearly told the soldiers in the fierce battle that it was over, and the Chinese had entered the city from all directions.
And there is still a bird's fighting spirit?
It's definitely a way to die.
To put it bluntly, either the baggage was blown up before the war started, or the war was finally found to be completely hopeless, and there was no chance!
Of course, the Japanese army, which claimed to be the number one in Asia, was not as awesome as their future opponents. The command headquarters issued military orders and could inform the grassroots combat units within half a minute.
In fact, in this regard, the Japanese army is not much stronger than the poor Chinese army. They rely on communication soldiers to inform them on both legs and mouth.
When the Japanese correspondent soldiers ran to the military camp to inform the military camp, sporadic gunfire sounded.
The Four-Road Group is not only available outside the city, but also inside the city.
If the Japanese want to go for reinforcements, they have to see if they want to.
Those who have had experience in the battle of Licheng are not the only uncle and nephew who are now. One of them is now the second lieutenant deputy platoon leader and the other is the squad leader, and the other is the squad leader, and the other is the twelve-man-level reconnaissance squad leader.
It is hidden in Shimen City through the "Boom" Wang family's relationship network in the form of three or five people.
A Mosinggana rifle, an MP28 submachine gun, a grenade and 3 Black Star pistols are the standard firepower configuration of a three-person firepower team!
If a light machine gun and a submachine gun are added, it will be the firepower configuration of a five-person-level firepower team.
In the city, they either wanted to try to play a decisive battle with the Japanese army, or delayed the reinforcements of Japanese infantry and caused chaos in the Japanese army's communication command!
Killing the Japanese communications soldiers is one of the scouts’ missions!
At least five Japanese communication soldiers fell into the city streets, causing Kawada Kawada to take the military order to be seven or eight minutes late before the reserve team he held was received.
In a rapidly changing battlefield, not to mention delaying for seven or eight minutes because of the inconvenience of instructions, unexpected changes may occur in one minute.
Located on the position where the Ximen was blasted, the first battalion of the Four Army Regiment had no feint attack at all and entered the charge stage directly.
In order to meet the firepower support needed by Tang Dao, the air defense company has supported 6 machine gun squads and 6 heavy machine gun squads.
To be continued...