Chapter 421: The Battle of Tangshan
The artillery of the Han Feng army could not shoot at the enemy.
The Japanese army had baggage, backup, and artillery shell production plants, and the only industrialized country in Asia that could transport them in a steady stream.
The Hanfeng army did not have any factories and backups.
As for the national government, it is already a mess, and it is fleeing in embarrassment, so don't count on it.
The equipment of the Jinling Arsenal was dismantled and transported to the mountain city, Jinling, which was already in ruins, and the military industrial base was cleared.
If it weren't for the weapons and ammunition given by the system, how could we have fought the current situation?
Quite a few artillery fires were captured, and there were too few shells.
It's easy not to dare to fight against the devil.
Han Feng planned to concentrate all the artillery fire on the enemy at night, and then charge with infantry and attack with tanks, and cut the enemy and break each one.
Ye Zheng's army responded in the north.
Finally, evening came.
The Japanese artillery fire has been fired many times, causing some casualties in the Hanfeng army.
The Japanese also tried to break through and were repulsed by the Hanfeng army.
As night falls, the colors dim and the stars gradually shine brightly.
The Hanfeng troops ate and recuperated.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the troops launched a surprise attack.
Hanfeng's troops fired all the previously captured shells and unceremoniously bombarded the stronghold of the village occupied by the enemy.
After half an hour of bombardment, the shells ran out, and the infantry attacked.
The Chinese officers and men fought valiantly, fearless of death, and went forward one after another.
They took advantage of the enemy's collapse of trenches and forward positions, leaping into them, clinging to the columns.
Under the cover of night, the Han Feng Army attacked from the east and Ye Zheng's Army from the west.
The battle was fierce.
After the Japanese fixed fortress was attacked, a considerable part of it was retained, and the Japanese army's skills and consciousness in building fortifications were very formal and mature.
Artillery fire could not destroy most of it.
The Japanese army is good at digging tunnels, trenches, wall holes, anticline positions, and so on.
The tactics of the Japanese squad were quite exquisite.
Cooperate with each other, use a variety of weapons and equipment to match, and support each other.
The grenadiers of the Japanese army hit very accurately.
The light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army also opened fire on the Chinese troops.
White, scouting the columns, knew that the enemy had a large number of trenches and anti-tank trenches, and Han Feng was at night and did not send many tanks into battle.
Only the Type 99 tank, with special observation capabilities, participated in battles and acted as the eyes and ears of strategic reconnaissance.
The shells of the self-propelled guns have been depleted, and now, it is an ornament.
In order to achieve victory as soon as possible, Hanfeng's troops besieged it in an all-out way, and they had a choice and a clear focus.
In the eastern part of the Tang Mountain, the Japanese army had a total of four strongholds, which were the most critical.
There was also an artillery position, three heavy machine-gun positions.
The four strongholds of the devil were named No. 1 and No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 by Yang Chaoran, and they were compiled.
A stronghold is a village.
Unlike the previous roundabout breakthrough in the south, this time, the enemy must have heavy artillery to cooperate, so in the chaotic trench area, the tank charge loss is too great to be used.
Position No. 1, a village of more than 500 people, was occupied by the Japanese army and completely transformed into a castle with a lot of reinforced concrete.
A squadron of Japanese troops held out, and behind it, there were three mountain guns and one field gun ready to respond.
The Japanese garrison has absolutely sufficient munitions.
Three mortars, one of which was medium, three heavy machine guns, two machine guns, the rest of the light machine guns rifle grenadiers were not.
The Japanese troops hid in the trenches, and the Chinese troops were fiercely strafed and sniped with precision.
An infantry company, under the cover of machine guns and mortars, charged at the enemy, and after three charges, there were only a dozen or so of more than 100 troops.
The battle was extremely fierce.
Position No. 1 was the focus of the offensive on the Eastern Front, and before the offensive, guidance and exercises were conducted on how to charge and how to organize fire coordination.
Still failed.
The Japanese army had more fortifications and were stronger than the Hanfeng army imagined.
The Japanese army is an elite veteran who has been trained for many years, and their fighting quality is far from being comparable to that of Chinese officers and soldiers.
However, the Chinese officers and men, brave and tenacious, fought to the death and did not retreat, and would rather die on the way to the charge and fall like wheat than retreat.
The second company was mobilized and went on the offensive.
When Han Feng heard the report, he also saw the fierceness of the battle with his own eyes.
The ground is full of corpses, and it is heartbreaking.
The Japanese army was good at concealing on the anti-slope, and also good at flexibly switching between the tunnels and the outside positions, and the previous Chinese artillery fire was so fierce that it did not hurt several enemies.
Han Feng also admitted that he was careless.
The tanks were all ready to the east, waiting for the fighters.
Only by taking a few key village and town fortresses of the enemy could a large number of trenches be filled, allowing the tanks to cross and rush into the enemy positions to the west
Moreover, the reconnaissance cavalry and reconnaissance tanks had already sent back the news that the Japanese reinforcements, which had set off in a steady stream, had reached two kilometers east of here.
The Japanese army had dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, ready to take advantage of the siege of Tangshan by the Chinese army and attack from behind.
The Jinling Army surrounded the Erdama Brigade in the Tangshan position, and the Hanfeng troops were also surrounded and attacked by the enemy, and the situation was grim.
Japanese artillery, also approaching from the east, and a new battle was imminent.
Han Feng asked the brigade commander and regiment commander to hold the east and surprise the enemy at all times, leading two regiments of infantry to attack the enemy, and about fifteen tanks as assault fire to reinforce the front line at any time.
The two sides were evenly matched, and the Japanese army's heavy artillery cluster was the biggest threat to Hanfeng's troops.
The fourth charge also failed.
The Chinese army lost one platoon in this company, and the rest were suppressed in positions, and the Japanese machine guns kept strafing.
The situation is very dangerous, if you don't think of a way, this will be swept away by the devil after a while.
However, the machine gunners of the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties and were constantly sniped by Japanese riflemen.
In the dark, because of the fierce fire between the two sides, the machine gun is easily recognized by the other side in order to identify the projectiles at the firing point.
The Japanese infantry was very experienced, there were many special marksmen, fast and accurate.
In such a tough encounter, the Chinese army is not an opponent, and the casualties are so difficult to estimate.
Han Feng decided to go into battle in person.
However, the enemy's firepower was extremely tight, and not only machine guns, rifles, grenadiers and mortars also had absolute technical superiority.
After several charges, our fire also killed and wounded a number of enemies, but it is estimated that the total number did not exceed thirty.
The Japanese also had their firepower contained and their personnel were killed, but reinforcements were quickly transferred from the communication trenches.
Han Feng observed for a moment and gave up his plan to rush directly.
The enemy's fire is so fierce that he rushes forward by himself, no matter how fast he is, he can't be faster than a bullet.
Fortunately, he can snipe.
The two sides fought tangled, the enemy's firepower was mainly on the position, shooting the Chinese infantry, and Han Feng hid in a trench alone, so he was much more hidden.
Rifles snipe Japanese machine gunners and light artillerymen.
With perspective and the ability to see at night, Han Feng suppressed all the machine gunners, grenadiers, mortars, and machine gunners on the Japanese No. 1 position in three minutes.