It was the 25th Division of the Central Army that suddenly fired shells at the positions of the Northeast Army outside the south gate of Jincheng. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

An artillery regiment directly under the headquarters of the 17th Army plus an artillery battalion of the 25th Division, and nearly thirty or forty pieces of large and small artillery pieces, all of which were assigned to the 25th Division.

With so many artillery, it was not weak in the firepower of the national army at that time, but this was only relative.

Because the largest caliber of these guns is the 75mm Krupp German gun and some large-caliber mortars.

It is far from the 105mm caliber howitzer equipped with the ordinary artillery regiment of the Northeast Army, and it cannot be compared with the 132mm caliber Katyusha novel rocket launcher newly equipped by the Northeast Army.

Even the artillery battalions and companies directly under the command of some regimental units of the Northeast Frontier Army are insufficient.

Therefore, when the artillery of about two battalions or so of the artillery regiment directly under the 1st Division of the Northeast Frontier Army launched a counterattack.

The artillery of the Central Army, which was weak, was quickly suppressed and had no power to fight back.

The power of a howitzer battalion and a Katyusha rocket artillery battalion is incomparable with that of six artillery regiments of such a scale of the Central Army.

Du Yuming, the deputy division commander who was in charge of personally directing the attack, spit out two thick phlegm mixed with mud, looked at his own position with some helplessness, and said: "The artillery fire of the Northeast Army is so powerful, I am afraid this battle is not as easy as imagined." ”

Suddenly, a major of the Central Army ran over with a panicked face and said to Du Yuming: "Deputy division commander, the artillery regiment has been suppressed by the artillery fire of the Northeast Army, and the losses are very heavy, and it is impossible to continue shelling the enemy. ”

Du Yuming nodded silently, the scale of the artillery is not as good as that of people, what can he say, he just instructed: "Let the artillery regiment transfer its position, and try to withdraw beyond the range of the artillery of the Northeast Army to rebuild the defensive position." ”

The major officer nodded and asked, "The deputy division commander." Should the offensive continue? ”

Du Yuming had Hu Zongnan's strict order in his mind, saying that Chairman Chiang asked the front-line troops to storm Jincheng at all costs and capture Zhang Xinghan alive.

Thinking of this, Du Yuming gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the troops to attack as usual, whoever attacks Jincheng first, captures Zhang Xinghan alive, and rewards the ocean with 10,000!" ”

"Yes." The major officer replied loudly, and immediately turned and walked away quickly.

The artillery fire of the Northeast Frontier Army was still raging, and about a battalion of the Central Army launched the first wave of attacks on the Northeast Army's field defensive position south of the city in a chaotic line.

In the command post of the former enemy of the Northeast Army, Zhang Xinghan put down his binoculars and turned his head when he saw this, and shouted: "Order the Katyusha rocket artillery battalion." Immediately adjust the firing angle and cover the area within 2,000 meters of our forward position 500 meters away. ”

Zhang Xinghan's order was quickly conveyed, and the Katyusha rocket artillery battalion, which was extremely mobile and easy to operate, quickly adjusted the firing angle.

Poured out a large dense stream of rockets.

"I ...... In the dense and piercing screams, hundreds of large-caliber rockets roared like locusts in the sky, drawing a graceful arc from the sky.......

With the scorching heat, it smashed down fiercely in front of the Northeast Frontier Army's position from 1,000 to 1,500 meters.

The huge explosion of "boom boom boom boom ......" occurred in an area of several hundred meters, producing a monstrous amount of flames and smoke that almost obscured the entire sky.

The hundreds of soldiers of the Central Army who were charging rapidly were enveloped in an instant, like the wind and sand in a sandstorm, flying all over the sky with the blast wave of the explosion.

The violent explosion completely drowned out their screams, visible from the positions of both sides. They could only be seen engulfed in the fire and smoke that had risen from the ground.

On the position of the 25th Division, Du Yuming witnessed all this, was dumbfounded, and smashed his fist on the wooden pillar next to him. Gritted his teeth and said: "Bastard, these bastards of the Northeast Army, the firepower is really powerful." ”

"Order the second regiment to give me!" Du Yuming was so angry that he turned his head and shouted.

More than 1,000 Central Army troops were under the leadership of their commanders. The shouts of killing shook the earth and launched a charge towards the Northeast Frontier Army.

This time, they learned the lessons of the previous and spread the charge as much as they could. Scattered their skirmishers.

However, when they paid a lot of casualties, they finally rushed into a distance of more than 500 meters in front of the positions of the Northeast Border Guards.

Some of the soldiers who rushed to the front accidentally stepped on a mine, and a series of violent explosions occurred in vain, and more than a dozen Central Army soldiers were blurred by the explosion and fell down.

To make matters worse, at this moment, with Zhang Xinghan's order, dozens of general-purpose machine guns on the forward position suddenly opened fire.

A rain of bullets poured down on the crossings.

The Central Army, which was unable to advance or retreat, was suddenly hit by such firepower, caught off guard, and suddenly fell in large pieces.

There is no doubt that under the double damage of minefields and machine-gun fire, this wave of offensive of the Central Army failed again.

What made Du Yuming almost furious was that his attacking troops could not even see the shadow of the Northeast Frontier Army, so they suffered heavy casualties and had to flee back in a hurry.

In other words, he lost nearly a thousand people, and he didn't even hurt a single military hair in the Northeast.

Helpless, Du Yuming had no choice but to stop this senseless assault and return to the division headquarters with his retinue adjutant.

As soon as he arrived at the division headquarters, the division commander Guan Linzheng greeted him and asked with concern: "Guangting, how is it?" ”

Du Yuming told the battle again, Guan Linzheng couldn't help frowning, and said worriedly: "In this way, if we continue to fight like this, our entire division will be exhausted, and it will be difficult to break through the defensive positions of the Northeast Frontier Army outside the city, let alone enter Jincheng and capture Zhang Xinghan alive." ”

"The Northeast Frontier Army is well-equipped, artillery, and air force are invincible, and even the Japanese are not its opponents, and now they are extremely cunning to deploy minefields in their front lines.

Not to mention the lack of professional mine-sweeping sappers in our army, even if there were, at such a close distance, they would be used as live targets for the enemy's machine gunners, and even this minefield has almost become an insurmountable moat for us! Du Yuming also said a little dejectedly.

"Then what should I do, both the commission and Hu Zongnan called to urge us to attack as soon as possible, to break through Jincheng at all costs, and to capture Zhang Xinghan alive, who knows that this is a hard bone to gnaw on, an iron plate." Guan Lin was sweating profusely.

"Zhang Xinghan is a famous general in the world, his soldiers are well-equipped, well-trained, experienced in a hundred battles, all tiger and wolf divisions, although he is under siege, but Zhang Xinghan does not break through, which shows that he completely despises my hundreds of thousands of troops as if there is nothing, and he is not afraid, so he dares to lead his troops to defend in Jincheng!" Du Yuming also complained with more than enough strength to complain.

Fighting against such a tough opponent made him feel helpless when he had always been wise and brave.

At this moment, the guard outside suddenly said: "Mr. Bai has arrived!" ”

Guan Linzheng and the two glanced at each other when they heard this, and they both saw a trace of surprise in their eyes, and then walked out together.

didn't wait for them to go out, only to see Bai Chongxi already walking in with his head held high surrounded by Zhang Lingfu and others.

Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "General Bai is good, I don't know that the General Staff is on the front line in person, and I am not welcomed, please don't blame!" ”

Bai Chongxi saluted back, waved his hand casually, and said, "I came this time to supervise the battle on the order of the commission, two brothers, how is the progress?" ”

Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming's faces sank, and the latter said with some shame: "Back to the General Staff, the enemy is well-equipped and has strong firepower, and he organized two attacks in vain, and he also suffered many casualties. ”

At that moment, Du Yuming recounted the battle in detail.

After listening, Bai Chongxi's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and he seemed to say to himself: "The Northeast Army has the absolute superiority of artillery and air force, and it is really helpless to attack head-on, so I don't know how many loyal and brave soldiers will be sacrificed." ”

Just when everyone was at a loss, Zhang Lingfu, who was standing behind Bai Chongxi, suddenly said: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is true that the Northeast Army has the advantage of artillery and air force, but it is not omnipotent. ”

"Oh? Lingfu, what do you have to do? "Zhang Lingfu was specially invited to bring him with him before he came from the 51st Division, but I didn't expect him to really have a way at this time.

Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming and others also looked at him with a look of hope, in front of him, the fourth phase of Huangpu junior, Puyang battle, famous all over the world, for his ability, they all admired him from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhang Lingfu met everyone's eyes without humility or arrogance: "It's very simple, as long as we choose to attack at night, we can avoid the direct air attack of the Northeast Army Air Force, and at night, it is difficult for its artillery to be as flexible as it is during the day."

Without the superiority of artillery and air force, then the absolute superiority of our troops can be reflected, and no matter how good the individual weapons of the Northeast Army are, it will be difficult to stop our army's continuous tidal attack.

There will always be a time when their ammunition will run out, and I believe that the final victory must belong to us, and it is not empty talk to break through Jincheng and capture Zhang Xinghan alive, and there is every hope that it will be realized. ”

"This method can offset the superiority of the Northeast Army's air force and artillery to a certain extent, but what about the minefield in front of their position? We do not know the size of the minefield, nor do we have professional sappers or demining tools. Du Yuming raised concerns.

Zhang Lingfu said awe-inspiringly: "Judging from the time we besieged the city, even if the Northeast Army does its best, it is impossible to bury all the outside of Jincheng into a minefield.

The area of the minefield is limited, as for the way of demining, you can use artillery to directly bombard the minefield, or organize a death squad to charge, the life and death of the party-state soldiers should have been put aside a long time ago, and for fear of sacrifice, how can they break through Jincheng, capture Zhang Xinghan alive, and eliminate such a big trouble for the party and the state? (To be continued......)