Chapter 603: A Sixth Heights
Daheng wants to develop civilian industry, don't count on foreign markets for the time being, but Daheng has a population of 200 million, and the internal market alone can catalyze a civil industry with strong competitiveness.
But in order to truly develop civilian industry, the premise is the complete unification of Daheng!
As far as the current situation of the Daheng Unification War is concerned, the key point lies in the battle of Zhenbei City, as long as Zhenbei City can be taken and a large number of living forces in Pingnan Prefecture can be annihilated here, then the follow-up march into Pingnan Prefecture will be smooth.
At that time, it will not only be able to take and control Pingnan Prefecture, which is an important land of agriculture and mineral resources, but also be able to further oppress Ningwu Prefecture and Gaoqing Prefecture in the northeast and Bei'an Prefecture in the north, so that the unification war will further advance in the direction favorable to the Lin Dynasty.
At that time, Ningwu Prefecture, Gaoqing Prefecture, and Bei'an Prefecture will be within reach for the Lin Dynasty.
Once the above three states are also taken, then the thirteen states of Daheng will only be left with Nanhu Prefecture and Northwest Prefecture, and it is impossible to resist the unified action of the Lin Dynasty by relying on these two states alone.
Combined with many situations, we can know the importance of the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, and we can understand why the navy took a huge risk to send the cruiser Luohai to provide fire support, and we can also understand that Liang Chenglei took a large number of senior generals to inspect the front line during the battle.
In this battle, there is no room for loss!
Outside the north of the town, Dr. Wen Zuoxin had just led his troops to seize a defensive line of the enemy, and the troops under his command had not had time to rest for long, when an order came from above, asking him to continue the attack and seize a small high ground.
"Heights No. 6, although the terrain is not high, the space on the top of the mountain is relatively large, and it is relatively easy to go up the mountain, so that the artillery units can transport the artillery up, and then condescendingly shell the enemy's position!"
"When the time comes, the deployment of a battalion of artillery here will be enough to threaten most of the enemy forces on the battlefield!"
"I chose to break through here, but also because the enemy's defensive strength is not too strong, and it is estimated that the opponent has only deployed about 1,000 troops to deploy defense, compared to several other highlands that are more suitable for deploying artillery, the defense of troops here is the weakest!"
"Our time is pressing, and the battle plan must be formulated in detail and completely, and strive to solve the battle at one time and avoid a long battle."
After Wen Zuoxin received the order, he quickly held a meeting and conveyed the requirements of his superiors.
The time given to him was relatively urgent, and he was asked to capture this place within three hours as much as possible, and then he needed to hold this place and help the artillery unit transport the artillery!
Efforts were made to deploy the artillery within six hours and then to launch the artillery bombardment.
Friendly troops on other fronts are now fighting harder and are in dire need of more direct and favorable artillery support.
Otherwise, Wen Zuoxin's main infantry regiment would not have been directly dispatched to attack at this time, and even before the hill was taken, an artillery battalion in the rear had already begun to maneuver towards here.
This shows how fierce the battle is!
And the battle is fierce, so the Fourth Division, as the army here, naturally needs to take on greater responsibility, and it has become their task to seize the Jialiu Heights.
The headquarters of the 4th Division again directly handed over this task to the nearest 15th Regiment.
After the order, the 15th Regiment began to make various preparations, and at the same time began to draw up a battle plan, and contacted the artillery units in the rear to arrange infantry and artillery coordination.
When everything was ready, it was about an hour later.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, Wen Zuoxin officially led the 15th Regiment to launch an attack on the No. 6 Heights of Jia6!
At the same time, in order to support the attack of the 15th Regiment, the rear also mobilized two artillery regiments, with a total of 100 artillery pieces to launch a sudden and fierce shelling of the place!
Even in order to conceal and prevent the enemy from reinforcing the No. 6 Heights in advance, the artillery units did not launch a large-scale artillery bombardment before the infantry officially attacked, but provided sufficient artillery support by concentrating more artillery and projecting more shells at the moment when the battle broke out.
Hundreds of artillery pieces, including more than 20 or 150 mm howitzers, burst out under rapid fire, and the density of firepower that erupted was very strong.
The shells continued to fly into the sky from multiple artillery positions, turning into black shadows and smashing towards the No. 6 Heights!
The sound of explosions continued to sound on the No. 6 Heights!
At this time, Wen Zuoxin's troops had already launched attacks from multiple directions at the same time, in order to quickly take the place of No. 6, Wen Zuoxin put two infantry battalions in the first wave of offensive troops, leaving only one infantry battalion as a reserve.
In addition to their own armament, the two infantry battalions of the first wave of the attacking force were temporarily supported by fire from the 14th Regiment next door, multiple rapid-fire mortars and four heavy machine guns, which further strengthened their firepower.
As for the ammunition, it is well prepared in advance!
Although in the Battle of Zhenbeicheng, the Imperial Army as a whole was still relatively lacking in weapons and ammunition, so that the battle was shy and did not have the heroic spirit of the previous Battle of Jingshi.
But the ammunition hoarded in advance was no problem in maintaining the high-intensity offensive of the attacking forces in the previous days.
Moreover, because of the special task, the 15th Regiment still received priority in ammunition replenishment, and now it has enough ammunition!
After this intensive artillery bombardment, the two infantry battalions attacked in a skirmish formation on the low hill of the No. 6 Heights.
In order to avoid too many casualties in the assault battle, in addition to using the terrain to conceal their bodies, some soldiers also carried steel shields to force a breakthrough in a specific area.
Therefore, Wen Zuoxin, who was in the back, saw in the telescope, and some of his own soldiers were carrying shields on the mountainside to protect themselves, and at the same time covering their comrades in advance, and destroying obstacles such as wooden stakes.
But even so, this kind of assault still caused a lot of casualties to the attacking troops!
This casualty was even greater than the previous morning's assault on the enemy's first line of fortress defense, and it was much greater.
The enemy must have built a well-fortified position on the hill, and the intensive artillery bombardment of our own side did not completely crush the enemy's resistance, otherwise our infantry would not have been met with such heavy fire when they attacked the hill.
Seeing his own soldiers fall one after another on the way to charge, Wen Zuoxin began to frown!
He frowned not because of the casualties of the soldiers!
He frowned, because if the casualties were too great, I was afraid that the two battalions on the front line would not be able to hold on, and once they could not hold on, the attack might fail, and the consequences of the failure of the attack would be very serious, and it might even affect the battle situation in the entire Zhenbei City.