1051. Firefighting Units
Although the 75 mountain artillery bombed the city walls, it mainly destroyed a large number of Japanese firepower and fortress bunkers on the city walls, covering and clearing obstacles in the way of the infantry regiment's demolition crews.
When the mountain artillery fire extended into the city wall, the 15th Regiment of Demomen, divided into more than a dozen groups, pounced on the bottom of the city wall in the thick smoke.
The heavy machine guns of the third battalion also began to shoot blindly at the tower in the thick smoke at this time, suppressing the possible firing points of the Japanese army, and the mortars also fired a few shots sporadically.
For the first time in such a smooth blasting operation, the Demomen easily blew a hole in the wall with a grenade, and then stuffed explosives into it to detonate it.
The city wall of Gao'an West Gate was once again blown open several large gaps, and the soldiers swarmed into the city in the sand and gravel dust.
Once the city walls were breached, the rest of the matter was much easier, this time there were more people pouring into the city than the last time, the 3rd Army and the 51st Division, tens of thousands of people attacked Gao'an and blocked reinforcements.
Tens of thousands of people broke into Gao'an City, thousands of Japanese infantry could no longer hold on, the 3rd Army was originally stationed in Gao'an City, and the 51st Division entered and exited Gao'an.
Everyone is very familiar with it, and after entering the street battle, he is actually more familiar with the devils than the defenders.
It was difficult for the Japanese army to organize an effective defense in the street fighting, let alone the strong counter-charge that it used to be.
After the three battalions broke through to the west gate, the squad cooperated and blasted each house one by one, not hesitating to blow up one house after another with grenades.
This battle was worth it, and the recruits got a great training, whether it was positional warfare, siege warfare, street warfare, or even white-knuckle combat, it was all smooth sailing.
In addition, the veterans of the third battalion were very familiar with Gao'an City, and almost touched a few very hidden roads, all the way to the enemy's core position.
This time the Japanese army was not as stubborn as last time, mainly because there were not many Japanese troops, and in the face of the already famous 74th Army, the will to defend was even weaker.
In addition, he was rushed by the 51st Division, and he even wanted to flee for his life.
I don't know if the combat strength of the 74th Army has come up now, or the Japanese army has passed its peak, Sangou feels that the Japanese army is not as difficult to fight as before.
The Japanese army fought and retreated, at this time it was already fighting until evening, and the Japanese planes did not dare to drop bombs during the day, and the artillery could only extend its fire and hit the rear position.
This time, the infantry wing of the Japanese army was not equipped with tanks, and it is estimated that all the mechanized units such as tanks were transferred to Fengxin, which was the direction of the main attack of the Japanese army.
Without these heavy firepower, the strength of the Japanese army was greatly reduced, although the quality of individual soldiers was high, but in the face of the 74th Army, it was not much higher.
There is also not only the advantage of numbers, but also the will and determination to fight far better than the Japanese army, after all, China is a patriotic holy war, and no matter how the Japanese army itself whitewashes, it is also a war of aggression.
In addition, this time the main force of the Japanese army is no longer Gao'an, and this side is the main defender, and it was guessed by the central **, so the most effective theater reserve 74th Army was used to hit an empty spot of the enemy.
This tactic similar to Tian Ji horse racing, with the strongest attacking opponent and the weakest, the winner will naturally be divided immediately.
In fact, as long as there is no gap in heavy weapons, light weapons can still have a small upper hand, and the performance of the formal rifle is good in the entire World War II.
Whether it is the previous German-style weapons, Czech-style, water machine guns, or the current Soviet-style DP turntable light machine guns, Maxim heavy machine guns with wheels and baffles, etc., they are all a little better than the Japanese army's crooked light machine guns and 92 heavy machines.
The three battalions of the three dogs also pay great attention to throwing bombs, whether it is mortars, grenadiers, or even grenades, and other units are only equipped with two per person, while the minimum configuration of the three battalions is four per person.
The powerful or explosive group, each has six grenades, and sometimes there are Japanese-style weapons, melon-style grenades, which everyone finds on the battlefield and will not hand them in, leaving them for their own use.
This kind of disposable weapon does not need to be equipped with a compatible weapon to fire, as long as you have an arm, a fool will, pull the iron ring, knock it, and throw it.
Although the power of this thing is not as great as that of a grenade, it is easy to carry, and our arsenal sometimes imitates a little, but the quality of the iron shell assembled by itself is average, gunpowder is even black powder, and smokeless gunpowder is relatively small, so the effect is average.
However, the grenade has a large charge, and in order to increase its power, some of them also wrap a prefabricated shell on the outside and blow it up to increase the number of fragments.
As now, several infantry companies of the third battalion, not far from each other, tightly maintained a certain distance that echoed each other, and bombed along several streets, all the way.
Those who were far away were fired by mortar and grenadiers into the houses held by the Japanese troops, and those who were close were bombed with grenades to blow up the walls of a house, and the machine guns were strafed, following up with the front of the barge guns and broadsword equipment.
All the way to the core position in Gao'an City, Gao'an City was not big in the Anti-Japanese War, and it continued to fight and fight, and the destruction of the city was particularly bad, and many houses were not repaired in time, and they were broken again.
In such a bad environment, a large number of citizens can't live anymore, those who move out, those who leave, anyway, a large number of houses are now empty and uninhabited.
In the end, the Japanese army finally couldn't resist the impact of a large number of elite people, and once again escaped from Gao'an City, which was only occupied by the Japanese army for four or five days, and it was not covered with heat, and it was snatched back.
After recovering Gao'an, the former enemy command of the Ninth Theater immediately came with an order, leaving the original guard unit 3rd Army to hold Gao'an.
The 51st Division of the 74th Army immediately waved its division north non-stop, attacking the southern flank of the Japanese army on the northern front, the goal was Lion Rock, it was best to take the port, and join the 57th Division and the 60th Army, flanking and outflanking the main force of the Japanese army.
Now the Japanese army on the northern front is the 106th Division, the division commander has finally changed, and Junrokuro Matsuura finally returned to the Japanese reserve in disgrace after surviving the difficult period of public opinion.
Now the new division commander is Lieutenant General Nakai Ryotaro, and the new officer took office with three fires, the first fire burned in northern Jiangxi, and Nakai concentrated the main force of the 106th Division, set off from the west of Nanchang, and captured Fengxin in one fell swoop.
After the 106th Division captured Fengxin, it did not wait for the echo and parallel advance of the 101st Division on the southern front, but marched alone, along the Fengxin Highway, all the way west, and conquered important towns such as Huibu and Shangfu.
Now the soldiers of the 106th Division have arrived in Jiuxiantang, putting on a posture of repairing water in the north and beating copper drums in the west, aggressive, feeling that they are about to fight all the way to Liuyang in eastern Hunan Province, and the troops of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army from Wuhan to the south will encircle Changsha together.
This made the Ninth Theater like a man's back, and the defense of Changsha North was now tight, and if the Japanese army's Nanchang westward corps attacked it, it would be a dream to defend Changsha.