Chapter Twenty-Seven: New Weapons Appear
"Let's get started." Ignoring Chen Geng, who was coveting his outfit, Zhuo Fei just whispered a word to the soldier who followed him closely. Zhuo Fei's order was transmitted to the rocket artillery position located 5 kilometers away from the rear of the main position through the walkie-talkie, and the six rocket artillery vehicles were already in full array, according to Zhuo Fei's order, the small red and blue flags in the hands of the star officer immediately waved, and the rocket launcher also moved.
"Car No. 1, one test shot, put." With the shouts of the commander of the No. 1 car, the operator waiting in the cab pressed a button, only to see a puff of white smoke spewing from the launch rack of the No. 1 car, and a rocket with a long tail flame in the tail had been launched. This was the first appearance of the rocket artillery formation, and the officers and men of the 1st Independent Division, which was responsible for providing defense for the rocket artillery formation, looked up one after another and watched as the rockets that had already risen into the air disappeared into the sky.
Zhuo Fei used rocket artillery formations at the beginning, on the one hand, to cheer up the 1st Independent Division, and on the other hand, to prepare to use the large-scale coverage of rocket artillery to destroy the artillery positions deployed by the Japanese 55th Division headquarters in the rear of the position. The Independence Army was armed with a large number of semi-automatic weapons and a large number of modified vehicles, but they lacked artillery to support infantry attacks. Although the Japanese 55th Division, which was confronting the county town of the 1st Independent Division, had already destroyed an artillery wing, they had backup supplies from the Japanese mainland, and if they could not defeat the newly replenished 150-caliber artillery of the 55th Division before the start of the war, the 1st Independent Division would face a brutal and bitter battle.
A ball of flames rose from the side and rear of the 55th Division's position, and the first rocket fired by the rocket artillery formation had already landed and exploded, and the scouts who were disguised and hidden in the periphery of the Japanese artillery position transmitted the corrected data in time through walkie-talkies, and the rockets that came later completely covered the artillery position of the 55th Division in flames and smoke in an instant. The Japanese army had never touched such a weapon, but in an instant, the opponent fired such a dense number of shells, completely covering the entire artillery position, and in the eyes of the Japanese army, the number of artillery that the opponent could use was simply several times or even more than ten times that of their own side.
"Nani? All the jade of the artillery position is broken? "Takeuchi Kuan, who learned about this, almost vomited blood on the spot, his artillery wing had lost all its artillery when it was in Mandalay, and now these large-caliber artillery pieces were newly shipped from China, but I didn't expect that the other party would just fire a salvo, and his artillery wing would be finished again, what the hell is going on? The large-caliber artillery that was placed in the rear of the side of the position by Takeuchi could no longer be counted on, and the 55th Division could only count on a dozen or so 92 infantry guns and some light and heavy mortars.
Takeuchi's uncertainty was immediately answered, and through the scouts scattered behind the defense line of the 55th Division, Zhuo Fei had learned that the Japanese artillery positions had been hit by a salvo of rocket formations. There was no time for the Japanese troops on the opposite side to react, and under the command of Zhuo Fei, the rocket artillery formations carried out another firepower covering strike on the Japanese positions. A total of 72 rockets from six rocket artillery vehicles swarmed in, turning the Japanese positions into a sea of fire, and the Japanese positions 500 meters wide and hundreds of meters deep were filled with the terrified shouts of Japanese soldiers and the screams of the wounded soldiers before they died.
"Tank formation sortie." More than 30 modified combat vehicles crossed the positions of the 1st Independent Division and headed for the positions of the 55th Division on the opposite side, followed by hundreds of Jewish infantry defending them. The tank formations marched in unison over the positions of the 1st Independent Division, and some people in the Japanese positions on the opposite side also fired back in an attempt to block the approach of the tank formation, but the bullets they fired hit the modified tanks, only making a clanging sound, but they failed to penetrate the protective armor on the modified tanks.
The rumbling modified tank drove all the way, and when it was less than 500 meters away from the Japanese position, the tank formation suddenly split into two, and drove sideways from its own, showing its own side to face the Japanese position. "Nani? What's that? A Japanese second lieutenant who commanded a heavy machine gun to fire back suddenly widened his eyes, and in his binoculars, he could clearly see that a sideways modified Zhang Cheng had stopped, and there was suddenly an extra window on its carriage covered by thickened steel plates, and a black hole barrel was sticking out of it.
Before the Japanese lieutenant could react, the modified tank he was staring at shook and shook, and while the tank shook, a cloud of smoke erupted from the side window of the tank. "Boom" A heavy machine gun not far from his Japanese second lieutenant was concentrated by artillery, and broken human bodies and parts of heavy machine guns flew everywhere, "It's the 92 infantry gun, they installed the 92 infantry gun in the compartment of the chariot. The Japanese second lieutenant, who was no stranger to the 92 infantry gun, reacted at this time.
The modified combat vehicles that were driving sideways stopped one after another, and the artillerymen hidden in the carriages also successively destroyed many firing points on the Japanese positions with their own 92 infantry guns. Tracked tractors could not be converted into tanks that could be roamed at will, and even if they were converted into tanks, they could only be ultra-slow and unprotected defects, and after many tests, Jewish engineers had to convert a large number of tracked tractors into mobile batteries or machine-gun emplacements like they are now.
"Boom" "Boom" The mortar shells from the Japanese army swallowed up several of the modified combat vehicles in the smoke, but it is a pity that the protective steel plates installed on the modified combat vehicles are all from the decks of military ships in the shipyards on the West Coast of the United States, and the light mortars of the Japanese army cannot pose a threat to these steel plates at all. Relying on the protection of armor, the artillerymen hiding in the carriage of the chariot became more and more courageous, and the 92 infantry guns had been completely beaten by them to the rhythm of the French 75 mountain guns.
One after another, the forts and firing points of the Japanese positions were destroyed by the 92 infantry guns, and some frenzied Japanese soldiers, under the command of the officers, rushed out of the positions with explosives packs, trying to attack with meat bullets and modify the tanks, but they completely forgot about the hundreds of Jewish infantry who followed closely behind the tank formation. Modified combat vehicles with lateral stops provided not only the necessary cover for the artillery in the compartments, but also the protection of the Jewish infantry who followed them closely.
The Jewish infantrymen, who were responsible for providing close fire support to the tank formations, finally had their chance to show their abilities. The tripod of the heavy machine gun kept shaking, and the machine gunner's body also shook rhythmically with the roar of the heavy machine gun, and the jetted metal torrent swept through the open ground in front of the tank formation like a whip, sweeping the Japanese soldiers holding explosive bags one after another or directly detonating.
With the cover of a large number of infantry, the Japanese meat eggs who rushed out of the position were lost before they could get close to the chariots, and the Japanese officers who did not believe in evil organized a batch of meat eggs again, but the result was still the same as just now, in the face of the strong firepower output of the infantry of the independent army, the Japanese meat eggs had no possibility and chance to succeed at all. Explosions rang out one after another, and the gunners, who were already somewhat physically exhausted, finally slowed down the pace of the shelling, but the accuracy of their shelling continued to improve.
Half an hour later, the 55th Division had to voluntarily abandon the first line of positions, and the 1st Independent Division entered the enemy's battlefield with almost zero casualties, and the battle had only passed half an hour. "Ha, my business is done, and now the command should be returned to you." After the 1st Independent Division took over the first line of positions of the 55th Division, he took the initiative to return the command to Chen Geng, but he took Zhuo Yan to the flank of the position.
Zhuo Fei Yue commanded the first phase of the battle on behalf of Chen Geng, and his original intention was only to witness the actual combat of rocket artillery and modified combat vehicles, and after seeing the actual combat power and performance of these two weapons, Zhuo Fei's heart that had been hanging was finally able to settle down. The umbrella company has modified a total of more than 1,000 modified combat vehicles, and if the modified combat vehicles cannot meet the needs of the battlefield, then it means that the business of the umbrella company is considered a loss.
The appearance of rocket artillery and modified combat vehicles heralded the beginning of the independent army's counteroffensive, and Takeuchi Kuan, who was originally full of confidence, did not expect that the opponent would be so strong, and in just one day, the 55th Division lost three positions one after another. At sunset, the anxious 55th Division had already contacted the 33rd Division in the north several times, and Takeuchi believed that it would be difficult for the 55th Division alone to resist the opponent's attack, not to mention that there were still sporadic enemy troops in the rear of the 55th Division.
"Surrounded by them? Impossible, this is a division-level Japanese army after all, and the 1st Independent Division does not yet have the ability to surround a Japanese corpse, but it is possible to defeat them. Knowing that the 1st Independent Division was planning to encircle and annihilate the 55th Division, Zhuo Fei expressed his opinion on this. The 1st Independent Division captured the opponent's three positions in one day, but it actually relied on heavy weapons to suppress it, and in terms of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers alone, the 1st Independent Division could not compare with the 55th Division.
"Don't think about encircling the 55th Division, our soldiers have not experienced the tempering of actual combat, what you should do now is how to launch the troops and the Japanese army for a round battle, only after experiencing the real battlefield fighting, the independent division can become a real elite. If you only rely on heavy weapons to suppress, your soldiers may be raised into old soldiers, and once the war changes, the soldiers may be depressed, and there is a possibility of fear of war or collapse. Zhuo Fei's warning made the officers of the 1st Independent Division suddenly realize, and they immediately began to arrange their troops to prepare for real contact and battle with the 55th Division.