Chapter 162 Shelling Longling
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Zhang Wei divided Longling City into four areas on the map, and concentrated all artillery fire to cover the four areas, which not only increased the density of artillery fire but also facilitated the coordination and command of all artillery.
Zhang Wei sat in the command center holding a dice with Lu Long, Fang Lin, deputy commander of the Second Motorized Division, Liang Chao, commander of the Third Infantry Division, Xi Yuxuan, chief of staff of the 54th Army, and others threw back and forth, because their respective troops had their own attack directions, and coordinating artillery fire was an offensive job, so Zhang Wei came up with a so-called good idea.
Each time, one person throws one person in the four families, and the one with a large number of points wins, you can get a round of artillery strike.
Each round of artillery fires above 75mm caliber cannons have three rapid fires. If someone throws a leopard, four areas will have five rapid fires at the same time.
Zhang Wei's bad idea was actually recognized by four companies. Lu Long was sent by the commander to take charge, so naturally he represented the First Mechanized Division, Fang Lin represented the Second Motorized Infantry Division, Liang Chao personally represented the Third Infantry Division, and Xi Yuxuan represented the 54th Army. The four of them were having fun, and the Japanese army in the city were in trouble! The lucky victory and experienced Liang Chao became a big winner from the beginning. The Japanese army in Xicheng District No. 3 suffered a lot of fire and was hit hard by five rounds of artillery fire. The Japanese army in Xicheng was bombed to the point of crying and calling for their parents. The Japanese army on the other three sides were also very strange. Why did the Chinese army only bomb Xicheng?
"Is the main attack direction of the Chinese army in Xicheng? Or is the Chinese army intending to confuse itself, Xicheng is just a feint attack?" The captain of Ichiro Izumi in the city was hesitating about whether to reinforce Xicheng, and suddenly two storms of artillery attacks in the east of the city were being attacked?
The Japanese army in the east of the castle were originally looking to the west of the castle. Jiro Noyazuka also contacted the wing headquarters by phone and asked if reinforcements were needed in the west of the castle. Unexpectedly, the artillery fire in the west of the castle instantly moved to their heads, and in the explosion flash of the 155mm high-explosive grenade, a Type 92 heavy machine gun and the broken body of the master and deputy shooter flew into the sky.
The Yejia squadron was blown up by sudden artillery fire. The irregular artillery fire of the Chinese army made the Japanese army unable to adapt, so they had to shrink all of them!
Fang Lin, who had always been very bad luck, unexpectedly won once. He jumped up in pleasure. After a round of artillery fire, a huge fire ball dozens of meters high suddenly broke out in the south of the city of the No. 2 area. Then the huge explosion made the ground tremble, like an earthquake.
Liang Chao, Fang Lin, Xi Yuxuan and others looked at Zhang Wei and Lu Long with incredible expressions?
Zhang Wei and Lu Long also walked out of the shelter with disbelief expressions. Liang Chao patted Zhang Wei's shoulder with a stern face and said, "Brother, are you too unkind? Why is the power of this shell so different? "
Zhang Wei shook his head and said, "It's not a shell. It may have hit the Japanese oil or explosives storage point!"
Soon, news came from the Frontier Artillery Observatory that the Japanese army was hit in a secret oil tank and explosives storage point in the south of the city.
This round of artillery bombardment was like a god-assisted bombardment, which greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese army in the besieged city. The officers and soldiers shouted excitedly even surpassed the deafening sound of artillery.
After learning that the oil and explosives storage points in the south of the Castle were hit, Imura Ichiro nodded expressionlessly to indicate that he knew. Oil was the lifeblood of Yokota Khan's chariot troops. Ichiro Ichiro didn't care at all. Moreover, he had quite a complaint about Yokota Khan's human nature. Yokota Khan's self-preservation of his strength and selfish behavior is a very rare exception in the Japanese army. So no matter how talented Yokota is, no matter where he is transferred, he is an unpopular person.
The oil trough was hit, which was just enough to save Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura Imura's fear was chilling, especially the extremely fierce artillery fire and individual firepower of the other party, which made the Japanese infantry forces dwarf it.
Just as the Japanese defenders of Longling were in despair, Kawabian Masato rescued Imura Imura and Yokota Kanichi in a timely manner. They were originally ready to make a fool of themselves. Imura Imura only carried out fierce shelling from the Chinese army, but the troops on the siege on the three sides were judged by the troops. The Chinese army was likely to be accumulating strength and preparing to strike Longling down in the early morning.
Imura Ichiro guessed very well. Song Yuhang did plan so, and he sieges the city on three sides, used fierce artillery fire to reduce the resistance will of the enemy in Longling, and then launched a total attack in the early morning to defeat him.
Song Yuhang's goal was to attack the 2nd Japanese Division, which was intended to divide the 11th Army. While Song Yuhang was shelling Longling, Chongqing transferred the 36th Division from the Fifth Army sequence to join the 11th Army battle. In order to stabilize the battle situation, Song Xilian was not allowed to send a telegram to He Shaozhou, the commander of the Eighth Army, to draw a strong support group before January 15.
In the early morning of October 15, the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army and the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment hurriedly withdrew from Longling City.
The Japanese army's actions according to their expected actions made Song Yuhang very excited. Occupying Longling would be equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the Second Division of the Japanese army. This alone would be enough for Song Yuhang to be excited. If the Japanese Second Division could be completely wiped out, then Song Yuhang and his First Mechanized Army would be the first contribution. The second division, which can be integrated into annihilated one of the six permanent A-type divisions of the Japanese army, will also set a precedent for China's combat against Japan.
After confirming that the Japanese army retreated, Song Yuhang first reported the situation to the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Army, and informed the Commander-in-Chief Wei Lihuang that Wei Lihuang was surprised that the First Mechanized Army and the 54th Army could quickly recover Longling. He originally thought that there would be a bloody battle to recover Longling, but when it came to the First Mechanized Army's powerful firepower and excellent weapons and equipment, it was certain that the Japanese army would lose.
Longling's attack made Wei Lihuang see a once-in-a-lifetime fighter. The 2nd Japanese Division, which had been stunningly hitting the dog in the water, was now isolated between Songshan and Longling.
Wei Lihuang immediately decided to report to Chongqing to defend the Longling line by First Mechanization, block the Japanese reinforcements, cut off the retreat route of the Japanese Second Division, and draw a tank battalion from the First Mechanized Army, totaling four tank companies, and cooperate with the 54th Military Tiante to attack the 29th Infantry Regiment and the Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment that escaped from Longling.
At the same time, the 36th Division was ordered to quickly cross the river and join the 11th Army's sequence. The main force of the Eighth Army attacked the Japanese Second Division. The headquarters of the 20th Army immediately moved from Tengchong to Longling and cooperated with the 11th Army to complete the encirclement of the Japanese Second Division.
When the combat order was issued to the 20th Army Headquarters, Huo Kuizhang was having dinner. He was a little annoyed by the combat order issued by Wei Lihuang. Before, Wei Lihuang temporarily transferred the First Mechanized Army and the 54th Army from his subordinates to reinforce the 11th Group and conquered Longling.
Both are Central Army units, but Song Xilian is the old man's confidant general, just like Song Yuhang. The 11th Army is stronger than the 20th Army from the troops to the personnel organization of weapons and equipment. When assigning combat tasks, his 20th Army played the role of main attack. The 11th Army, which has a strong army, acted as an assist.
If Song Yuhang, who had not been the First Mechanized Army, volunteered to join the 20th Army, his 20th Group would probably still be in Tengchong to catch Fengshan!
Tengchong took it, but the 11th Army not only did not take Songshan as planned, but also made a huge mistake in attacking Longling. Huo Kuizhang originally disagreed with Wei Lihuang's plan to rescue the 11th Army by attacking Longling. The First Mechanized Army was Chongqing's heart-to-heart treasure, and Huo Kuizhang could not control it, but the 54th Army was his unit. Going to fight Longling was to cut off the retreat of the Japanese Second Division, and a bloody battle was inevitable.
Longling was defeated again, surrounded and annihilated the Second Japanese Division and then dropped himself over to block the Japanese army's sharpness for Song Xilian. The second Japanese Division, whose way back was broken, was like being driven into a mad dog in a poor alley. This was not just eating meat and picking fruits, it was simply trying hard.
The 54th Army was ordered to pursue the 29th Japanese Regiment, while the First Mechanized Army defended around Longling. Song Yuhang knew that once the Japanese Second Division found that its retreat was cut off, it would launch a crazy attack on Longling in order to seize the retreat. Longling may even be attacked by both sides by Japanese reinforcements and the Second Division.
Song Yuhang, who had never fought without a certainty, sent the army's logistics director Xiao Guodong and the army's chief staff Lu Long to return to Kunming to urge various materials and ammunition, and transferred the three heavy tank companies and two tank battalions left behind by the First Mechanized Division.
Under Longling City, Song Yuxing, who was replacing offensive and defensive positions, divided the three divisions on the spot into defense areas. Since the city defense facilities in Longling City had long been destroyed, the First Mechanized Division, the Second Motorized Infantry Division, and the Third Infantry Division were respectively set up defenses in the north, west and south of the city. The east faced Tengchong to the military headquarters, the field hospital and the mountain infantry brigade, and the heavy artillery brigade were stationed in the city to provide artillery fire support to the entire army.
This is the first time that the subordinates of the First Mechanized Army gathered together to fight together, especially the three main division commanders were secretly holding back their energy. Chang Tianfang, Qi Baiming, and Liang Chao were all kinds of tricks in the construction of fortifications.
Fang Lin, the deputy commander of the Second MoF Division, also ran to the military headquarters to raise relations. The general's direct engineering regiment took the Second MoF Division to help. With the precedent of asking for foreign aid, Liang Chao, who had always liked to camp, directly promised and took the Zhang Tianshengdi Mountain Infantry Brigade to the south of the city for help.
Chang Tianfang began to maintain his position as the first mechanized teacher, and he was disdainful of making tricks, but he soon couldn't bear it anymore. So Chang Tianfang had to lower his face and find Zhang Wei, deputy commander of the heavy artillery brigade directly under the army.
Song Yuhang has never interfered too much with the open and secret competition between the three subordinates, because the soldiers are a group of people living for honor and mission.
The Second Mofang Division, located in the north of the city, received support from the Military Engineer Corps, Qi Baiming and Fang Lin arrived in the front line in person. Using the geographical environment of the three earthen hills outside the city, they first cleared the boundary within 1,500 meters, and used manpower to dig the earth. They cut the straight slopes of about eight meters each on the front slopes, and dug trenches with a width of five meters and a depth of three meters in front of the slope.
The three slopes were set up one by one, and landmines were buried in their respective trenches. Wang Chongxian, who was sent to the Second Mobu Division as acting chief of staff, gave Fang Lin a serious note. In the three trenches, a bucket of gasoline was buried every fifty meters, and dozens of kilograms of explosives were installed around the gasoline barrels, and multiple layers were covered with smashed stones outside the explosive pile. All gasoline barrels had groups or single detonation devices.
Chapter completed!