Chapter 124: Operation Autumn Harvest (13)
This time to attack Taishan Dazhai, Luo Yue was also dispatched, all three combat battalions participated in this battle, even Luo Yue also came to the front line to command, responsible for attacking from the side of Jinan Mansion head-on, and the two battalions of the Qingdao garrison were arranged on the side of Tai'an Mansion, responsible for cutting off the bandits' retreat, not letting the bandits retreat to the side of Tai'an Mansion when they were defeated.
After these arrangements were made, the People's Army launched an attack on Taishan Dazhai. The battle on the first day was mainly to clear the strongholds, sentinels, ambushes, etc. outside the village, and relieve the worries of entering the village.
Because the People's Army conducted a detailed reconnaissance of the terrain of Mount Tai before the war, the bandits mastered 7 or 8 percent of the strongholds and sentinels outside Dazhai, and the attacks were also very targeted, and in terms of tactics, they still used mortars and grenadiers to open the way, and the infantry followed up, and the result was naturally invincible, invincible, and the strongholds and sentinels outside the bandit Dazhai could not resist at all, and could only be easily uprooted by the People's Army one by one.
Although the bandits have also temporarily set up some ambush strongholds outside the wall, some of them have already been detected by the KPA, and although a few strongholds have escaped the KPA's reconnaissance, first, the number is too small to affect the overall situation; second, the KPA has extremely strong tactical discipline, and during the offensive, it has also done a good job of being fully vigilant and preventing the army, so even if a small number of bandits ambush the army are killed, they will soon be stopped by the vigilant army, and in fact they will not pose much threat to the KPA.
In the end, it took only one day for the People's Army to clear 6 strongholds, 3 ambushes, and defeat 2 ambushes, only 1 ambush fled back to the cottage, killing a total of 112 bandits, capturing 91 people, and less than 50 bandits fled back to the cottage, while the KPA only wounded 15 people, and none of them were killed. It can be said that it was a complete victory.
And Luo Yue also moved his headquarters to a small fort with a stronghold, less than 5 kilometers away from the bandits' Dazhai.
Although on the first day, the People's Army did not launch an attack on the cottage, but the bandits who stayed in the cottage were shocked, after all, the battlefield was not far from the bandits' village, and they could see more clearly when they stood on the wall, only to see the outside of the village filled with gunsmoke, covering the sky and the ground, and the fire was endless; even if some details could not be seen clearly, the artillery fire of the People's Army was roaring and deafening, and the gunfire was incessant, and the bandits in the village could hear it clearly, and such a battlefield was something that the bandits had never experienced before.
At this time, the bandits fully believed that Lin Weizheng was not wrong, the overseas Chinese army was really strong, and they had no confidence in whether they could hold Dazhai. Fortunately, Lin Shenwang and others have secretly sent their families away, so they have no worries.
However, that night, Lin Shenwang discussed with Wang Kefu again, and Wang Kefu suggested to Lin Shenwang to withdraw from the cottage overnight, so as to preserve his strength more. And this time Lin Shenwang directly rejected Wang Kefu's suggestion, thinking that at this point, he had to fight with overseas Chinese to evacuate from the cottage.
In fact, this is the difference between the positions held by Lin Shenwang and Wang Kefu, Wang Kefu is only purely from the perspective of preserving strength, while Lin Shenwang must consider it comprehensively. Because there are still many bandits who are unwilling to evacuate from the cottage, and there are still a large number of bandit families in the cottage, it is impossible to withdraw all of them overnight, so that the bandits whose families have not withdrawn will inevitably be dissatisfied with Lin Shenwang, in addition, although Lin Shenwang has prepared three backup hiding bases, but it can not accommodate all the people in the cottage now, and their families have occupied one of the strongholds, so they only have to fight with overseas Chinese, and they are forced to evacuate from the cottage when they can't fight, so that other bandits have nothing to say, and they can get rid of most of their family members, and they can support it for a long time in the new stronghold。 And these factors determined that tomorrow we must fight a battle with the overseas Chinese to retreat.
Wang Kefu couldn't understand Lin Shenwang's thoughts, but Lin Shenwang insisted on fighting with overseas Chinese, and he could only listen to him. And he must also stay in the cottage and accompany Lin Shenwang to fight this battle, after all, at this point, Wang Kefu is already difficult to ride a tiger, because if he evacuates first at this time, then all the hard work he has done before will be in vain, so he can only risk staying. Of course, at the moment when the battle reached Guan Jian, he still had to flee immediately, and he must not wait for death in the cottage. In addition, we can also take this opportunity to observe the combat effectiveness of overseas Chinese at close range. And this information is also very important to the Japanese intelligence agencies. It has also been the focus of Japanese intelligence agencies' collection, but it is difficult to find opportunities.
Although Wang Kefu has been enemies with overseas Chinese for 2 or 3 years, in fact, he has never fought a real battle with overseas Chinese, which is of course because Wang Kefu's own strength is too weak and has no strength to confront overseas Chinese head-on. Now it's time to borrow the power of bandits to test the combat effectiveness of overseas Chinese.
Early the next morning, the People's Army launched an attack on the bandit Dazhai. After the previous battles, the People's Army became quite proficient in the use of mortars, and first of all, it still arranged artillery positions to bombard Dazhai.
However, the scale of Dazhai is far greater than that of the cottages of Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain, and it is difficult for the People's Army to carry out a covering artillery strike as it did in attacking Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain, after all, the various mortar and grenadier groups of the People's Army only bring a base number of ammunition, and this number is far from enough to carry out a covering artillery strike. Therefore, the main area of the KPA was in the vicinity of the wall, hoping to deal a devastating blow to the bandits guarding the wall, and to blow up several gaps in the wall to open the way for the infantry to break through.
For a while, the cannon roared, and it fell near the wall. In the blink of an eye, the wall was enveloped in explosions and gunsmoke. The wall of the bandits is built with a mixed structure of earth, wood and stone, although it is mainly rammed earth, but the inside is made of logs as piles, and mixed with large stones, about 5 meters high, about 4 meters wide at the bottom, about 2 meters wide at the top, and built with wall stacks and perforations. However, there are not many shells that can fall on the wall, even if the shells after hitting the wall are added, it is less than one-third, and most of the rest fall outside the wall, but a small part falls inside the wall.
However, the KPA mortar teams carried out two rounds of shelling, and although they caused huge casualties to the bandits guarding the wall, the damage to the wall was not large, and although several gaps were blown up, they were not large, and the largest gap was more than 3 meters above the ground. As a result, first, the mortar shells are indeed not very powerful, and they use high-explosive shells instead of *, and their lethality to fixed bunker targets is very limited; second, the Taishan Dazhai wall is indeed stronger than that of Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain, so the people's army's artillery targets have not been fully achieved.
However, such a result was also expected by Luo Yue, because when he received the report from the scouts, Luo Yue estimated that it would be difficult to blast through the wall of Taishan Dazhai with mortars, unless it was possible to use official artillery.
Luo Yue's regiment also had a battalion of 75mm field guns, equipped with 18 75mm field guns, although only half of them were now equipped, but it was enough to deal with the wall. However, Luo Yue finally decided not to use 75 mm field guns in this battle, first, because although the weight of 75 mm field guns is relatively light, it still needs to be disassembled and transported to carry out long-distance movement, and it is necessary to reassemble and reassemble it on the battlefield before it can be used, which is too troublesome; second, in these battles, we have been practicing the coordination and coordination between mortars and infantry, and this battle is just to further strengthen the ability to use this aspect; if 75 mm field guns are used, not only will the coordination of mortars and infantry not be trained well, but the coordination between infantry and formal artillery will be changed, which is obviously not conducive to the progress of infantry。
In addition, although mortars cannot blast through the wall, it is not without other methods. Between sending troops, Luo Yue had prepared 50 long ladders, just to capture the furniture of the wall.
Seeing that the mortars could not blast through the city wall, Luo Yue immediately ordered the range of the mortars to be extended by 200-300 meters to intercept the fire and block the bandits from reinforcing the wall, while the infantry stepped forward and broke through to the range within 300 meters of the wall, and suppressed the fire on the wall.
After Luo Yue gave the order, each mortar group immediately adjusted its firing units and extended the firing range forward by 200-300 meters, so that all the shells fell into the village, and an explosion interception zone was formed behind the wall, not to mention that at this time, the cottage did not plan to send people to reinforce the guards of the wall, even if there were, under the blow of such a fire interception, it would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
The infantry also immediately sorted, and the troops of the two companies immediately broke through to a distance of less than 300 meters from the wall, and opened fire on the wall, while the grenadiers were also firing at full power, frequently firing at the wall*. Originally, after the last round of mortar strikes, most of the bandits guarding the walled wall had suffered casualties, but at this time, they were hit by such fierce fire, and suddenly suffered a lot of casualties, and the rest also bent down and hid below the battlements, where they dared to show their heads again.
At this time, the assault team composed of a company immediately carried a long ladder, and under the cover of artillery fire and rifle fire, rushed to the side of the wall, set up a long ladder, and climbed to the wall. Therefore, the first batch of KPA soldiers who stormed the city climbed the wall very smoothly and quickly set up positions on the wall, and in the whole process, the KPA soldiers were almost not hindered in any way, and not even a soldier fell in the process of climbing the city.