readx;

Chapter 1933: The Touchstone (2)

Not only did Gu Changfeng take the battle that took place on Siping Street as a touchstone, but the Japanese emperor, the Japanese army base camp, and the Kwantung Army were also prepared to take the results of the Siping Battle as the key to judging whether their mainland strategy was continuing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Sanctuary

Vladivostok, the command of the Kwantung Army.

As soon as he received the warning signal from Siping Street, Umezu Mijiro urgently ordered to abandon the operation of the Songhua River defense line, and the Harbin defenders all retreated eastward to the Mudanjiang area, depending on the results of the Siping Battle before deciding whether to stick to the Mudanjiang defense line.

According to the intelligence department's investigation, the Anjia Army's North Road Cluster has already arrived in Hulan, Songpu, and other places, and Suihua, Zhaodong, and other towns on the north bank of the Songhua River have all been lost, and the reason why the other side did not immediately launch a forcible crossing operation was that, on the one hand, it was to clear the rout along the railways and highways and ensure the safety of the transportation and supply routes, and on the other hand, the army cooperated with its task force to restore its rule in various parts of North Manchuria in a timely manner, and set up military management committees in a timely manner to maintain social stability and reduce the damage to industry and agriculture caused by the war.

But the main thing is that the other side is waiting for fuel and ammunition supplies. The higher the degree of mechanization, the greater the dependence on logistics, and it is entirely conceivable how powerful the opponent's well-equipped troops would be after launching a forced crossing.

In addition, as the first part of the Anjia Army that occupied Changchun began to march from the Beijing-Tu Railway to Jilin City, the main railway lines such as the Labin Line and the Tujia Line were seriously threatened, and once the dust settled on the Siping Campaign, more troops were put into the northern front, and the troops in Harbin could not find a place to retreat if they wanted to.

At the same time, Umezu Yoshijiro ordered the defenders of Shenyang to speed up the withdrawal to southern Liaoning, and the Japanese army in Jinzhou retreated to Liaohe and Shenyang, depending on the results of the Battle of Siping, and decided on the next move.

......

On Siping Street, the sky has completely opened, the rising sun in the east is rising, and the battle has entered a white-hot stage.

Under the guidance of low-altitude helicopters, the heavy artillery cluster of the An Jiajun readjusted its firing elements and opened heavy fire on the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Japanese army.

The stormy shells instantly covered all the strategic points of the Japanese army, and as the dense shells smashed to the ground, the Japanese anti-aircraft guns burst into fierce flames together with the barricades that protected them.

Scrap copper and rotten iron flew everywhere with flesh and blood residues, and the ammunition trucks and anti-aircraft artillery tractors transporting shells were constantly hit by the falling shells, and turned into parts one by one in a dazzling firelight.

Although the firing points were gradually reduced under the coordinated blows of the Anjia Army's air-ground coordination, the remaining cannons and anti-aircraft guns were still firing tenaciously, and from time to time the charging Anjia Army tanks were hit, but this often became the last swan song of these anti-tank artillery fires -- a few shells were quickly smashed to pieces by the overwhelming shells that fell from the sky.

In this contest of blood and fire, the An Jiajun, who had an all-round advantage, withstood the pressure and difficulties, and finally ignited the flames of war to the edge of the Japanese position. "" net

One by one, the tanks stopped in front of the anti-tank trench, which was three meters deep and four or five meters wide, and served as temporary batteries, constantly spitting tongues of fire to hit the Japanese firing points.

The sappers sitting in the rear armored fighting vehicle rushed out of the back door of the armored car at high speed, jumped into the anti-tank trench with the sapper shovel and the **bag, quickly buried the **, and soon blew up one passage after another.

Soon, the tanks crossed the anti-tank trenches and approached the first line of Japanese positions.

Seeing that the devil could not stop the advance of the tanks of the An Jia army, he immediately sent a "death squad", and a large number of devil soldiers were strapped with **, and rushed to the tanks and armored vehicles without fear of death. Their only thought is to pounce on the surface of tanks and armored vehicles, and then pull the fuse on their body, exploding with the target.

But after dealing with the Japanese army for so many years, the devil's routines have been repeated over and over again, how can the officers and soldiers of the An family be defenseless?

The machine guns of armored combat vehicles and tanks were side-by-side machine guns, and the course machine guns were fired wildly, and the devils fell to the ground in batches, and the ** bags on their bodies ignited a violent explosion, affecting the surrounding companions, and all kinds of martyrdom were staged at the front of the Japanese position, almost instantly, the flesh and blood spread a layer of flesh and paste on the land in front of the trench, which made people shocking and moving.

However, for these brutes, the officers and men of the An family were not soft-handed, they rushed out from behind the tank, blocked in front of the tank, the automatic rifles in their hands continued to shoot, the general-purpose machine gunners have found a favorable terrain, shooting on the ground, and many snipers are hiding behind the tank or in the crater, the bullets are not missing, specifically looking for important targets of the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops who launched a counter-assault behind the human bomb have not yet reacted, as if the crossfire was swept down piece by piece like cutting wheat.

Just when Gu Changfeng and Yang Guan, who were in the rear, breathed a sigh of relief, saying in their hearts that the most difficult moment had passed, the situation on the battlefield had undergone new changes.

The Type 97 105-mm and 120-mm self-propelled heavy cannons and Type 4 75-mm artillery combat vehicles of the newly equipped units of the Japanese army suddenly rushed out of the hills and dense forests around Qinjiayao, and about forty or fifty anti-tank sharp weapons opened heavy fire on the tanks of the Anjia Army.

The power of these self-propelled artillery trucks was not small, and the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun trucks of the Japanese Army's Type 98, A, B, and C, which were also used as air defense immediately behind the artillery trucks, were even more frantically spitting tongues of fire, and the dense machine artillery shells, if one after another fire whips swept towards the front of the position, the officers and men of Anjia who had just rushed to the position were overturned by the machine guns.

The Anjia Army's Tiger I, Leopard II and a small number of Leopard I tanks, as well as the No. I assault gun, the Type I tank destroyer, and the Type I, Type II and Type III armored fighting vehicles were constantly shot, and the front of the position was full of violent explosions, but in such a dense rain of bullets, the tanks and various armored combat vehicles of the An Jia Army did not show weakness, withstood the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army, and frantically returned fire.

Fighters, attack planes, and bombers in the sky fired rockets at this rare wave of Japanese mechanized troops, and dived to drop bombs and strafe them, and the fiery red bullet marks were like cutting tofu with a quick knife, and these self-propelled artillery trucks with only a thin layer of armor were smashed into fire coffins. "" net

The entire front and rear of the Japanese position was shrouded in flames and smoke.

At this time, the huge roar of the train sounded, seeing that the battle situation ahead was unfavorable, the Japanese armored train finally took the initiative, rushed along the high-speed railway around the city in the west of the city, and turned south at the Xiaohongzui River, the long train carriage was aimed at the position in the west, and all kinds of large artillery and small artillery stretched out from the train carriage, not caring about the life or death of their own people, aiming at the forward position is a fierce bombardment.

In the sky of Siping Street, at least four bomber squadrons were guaranteed to stay in the air to attack the Japanese army's firepower points, and after seeing the threat of the Japanese armored train, one of the B2 bomber squadrons broke away from the battle, and after rapidly raising the altitude, it quickly flew in the direction of the armored train, and arrived at the sky above the railway, and one after another B2 bombers began to make a loud whistling sound, diving towards the armored train that was moving at high speed.

When they reached the height of forty or fifty meters above the train, the B2 bombers dropped their bombs, and one after another, the fighters like vultures almost grazed the top of the train.

The Japanese anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the railway opened fire in unison, and two B2 bombers on the climb could not dodge and turned into fireballs in the air.

The armored train was too large and the rails were fixed, so it was impossible to make evasive actions in time, and soon under the attack of dense aerial bombs falling like fish spawning in water, there was a violent explosion sound, and then one carriage was blown apart, which in turn caused the ammunition to be detonated, and even the rails below were blown into twisted flowers.

With the gradual elimination of the Japanese army's anti-tank fire points and mobile forces, the battle line was finally broken through by the Anjia Army's attacking troops.

A large number of sappers became firefighters on the battlefield, rushing there when needed to clear the way for the advance of tank units.

By 10 o'clock in the morning, the attacking troops of the Anjia Army had successfully broken through the Japanese front line to a depth of three kilometers and successfully spread the flames of war to the edge of Xicheng District of Siping Street.

Gu Changfeng personally called the front-line commanders and asked them if they needed to withdraw and rest, and the three division commanders insisted in unison that they didn't need it at all, and that they could just push all the way down Siping Street, and just ask their commanders to listen to the news of their victory.

At this time, Yang Guan organized the rush to transport the wounded and sent troops to deliver ammunition to the front line, and Chief of Staff Gao Guodong constantly reported the latest situation on the battlefield to Gu Changfeng, and conveyed Gu Changfeng's latest instructions.

In order to contain the actions of the Japanese army in Siping, Gu Changfeng mobilized three more divisions to attack and advance eastward from the periphery of Siping along the "dustpan" walls on both flanks, focusing on the line of Shuangmiaozi in the south of Siping Street, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army, to cut off the retreat and supply routes of the Japanese army.

The siege was very cruel, you must know that Siping Street was a key defense city of the Japanese army, and a large number of permanent fortifications were built from the edge of the city to the central area.

In these fortifications and bunkers, the Japanese army is equipped with many heavy ** and 98 water-cooled heavy machine guns, which have a fast rate of fire, great power and fierce firepower, and are the trump card weapons of the Japanese army to hold the fortress and permanent fortifications.

It's a pity that this kind of weapon has a sharp lethality for the tactics of the sea of people, but it has to be deflated against the tank army of the Shang'an Army. These machine-gun fortifications and bunkers, as soon as the targets were exposed, immediately attracted the blows of tank guns, coupled with the fact that the infantry took out recoilless guns, rocket launchers and other sharp weapons, the Japanese bunker fire points did not play their due role at all, and they were wiped out under the continuous blows.

In general, the urban area of Siping Street, which is located between the north and south hills, is still relatively flat, and this terrain is very conducive to a breakthrough for the tank cluster of the Anjia Army.

Because of this, the Japanese army sent its killer weapon -- more than 100 tanks from two ** tank brigades belonging to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to participate in the battle.

When Gu Changfeng heard that the Japanese army dispatched the tank, he did not show nervousness, but smiled and said: "It seems that the Japanese commander is much more nervous than we imagined!" The previous wave of self-propelled guns, as well as this wave of tanks, if they were placed in urban warfare, using their mobility and the cover of urban buildings, would definitely be much more useful than taking them out like this and charging into battle and doing it openly!

"The essence of defensive warfare is to fight for attrition, where is the reason to take out your hole cards so quickly? If I was worried before, now I can let it go, as long as we destroy their old-fashioned tanks, the next step should be to test the results of our daily practice of urban warfare! ”

Gao Guodong said cautiously:

"The tanks dispatched by the Japanese army are mainly old Type 94 cavalry tanks, Type 95 light tanks and Type ** medium tanks, mixed with a small number of Type 97 medium tanks, and a small number of Type 91 and Type 95 heavy tanks, but except for a few heavy tanks equipped with 70 mm tank guns, the maximum caliber of the main guns of the rest of the tanks is only 57 mm, which poses little threat to our tanks, and it is a matter of time before they are annihilated! However, the fortification of Siping Street is much stronger than any city we have encountered before, so we still have to be cautious! ”

Gu Changfeng nodded: "The battle of Siping Street is related to the Northeast war situation, and there is no room for the slightest mistake, after the officers and soldiers in front of them pack up the tank troops of the little devils, we will send our special forces out, I don't believe that the sky and the earth will work together, and there will be no way to take Little Japan!" ”

......

The tank duel took place in the wilderness west of Haifeng Village, where the Japanese defensive positions had been destroyed and were littered with collapsed trenches and fortifications.

The Japanese tanks in formation fired frequently, but unfortunately, whether it was a 57 mm tank gun or a 37 mm tank gun, it was only lethal to armored combat vehicles, and for Leopard I and Leopard II tanks, it only left white marks on the armor of the tank, not to mention the thicker armored Tiger I tank.

The ensuing battle was more like a one-sided massacre, as the Anjia Army's tank group fired a deafening shelling, the Japanese tanks were shot one after another, exploded and caught fire.

A 26-ton Type 95 heavy tank rushed in front, turning the turret with a pair of two guns, and before it could lock on to the target, it was hit by a 105 mm shell fired by the Leopard II tank, the front armor of the Type 95 heavy tank was 35 mm of forged alloy armor, and it was torn apart in an instant, and with a boom, the Type 95 heavy tank burst into flames, and the burst fireball shook the tank to pieces, instantly turning into a burning fire cabinet, and the five tankers of the devil were shocked to death without even having time to react, It was then burned to charcoal.

In the sound of explosions one after another, the murderous tanks of the devils who came to meet the battle were successively beaten into bonfires, and the thin-skinned tanks of the Japanese army were completely vulnerable in the face of the tank army of the An Jiajun, and some were even crushed by the Tiger and Leopard II tanks in close collisions, and were flattened together with the tankers inside.

This tank battle, which was larger in scale than the Wanbaoshan encounter but of different quality, ended in the complete defeat of the Japanese army, in just one hour, more than 130 devil tanks were destroyed, and the loss of the tank armored cluster of the Anjia Army was extremely slight, the largest loss was the armored combat vehicles, 19 were destroyed, 12 Type I tank destroyers and No. I assault guns were damaged, and 8 Leopard II and 3 Tiger I tanks withdrew from the battle due to track or engine problems. However, most of them could be returned to the battlefield after repairs, and the Japanese army stole chickens and rice, giving such a big gift in vain.

It was incomprehensible to the Japanese that the Japanese had repeatedly made such low-level mistakes, but they did not know that Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, commander of the Japanese Third Front, was also bitter.

Okabe Naosaburo served as the first chief of staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army after the 77 Incident in 37 years, and then followed General Terauchi Shouichi to serve in the Kwantung Army, after the Japanese army expanded vigorously, Okabe Naosaburo was appointed as the commander of the Third Front Army.

For example, the self-propelled artillery and this wave of tank groups in front, according to Okabe Naosaburo's plan, were all reserved for use in the city as strategic mobile forces, but the commanders of the two armies were instigated by the staff officers to "fight like a real man", and the result was that they became meat buns and dogs.

After Okabe Naosaburo knew that the tank force was completely annihilated, he was stunned for a while, and immediately issued an order that the Japanese army on the edge of the city must not take the initiative to attack, and strive to give the Anjia army a dismount.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PS: Ask for a subscription and a monthly pass for the new book!

Here's an explanation, why ask for a monthly pass for a new book instead of "Iron Bone"? Because the ranking position of the new book under the strong promotion position on the homepage is very important, it can increase the influence of the works of the Son of Heaven, which is a great stimulus and promotion for the popularity of "Proud and Awe-inspiring" and "Iron Bone"!

After this month, I won't force it, everyone can vote over there if they like!

Therefore, the Son of Heaven implores everyone to understand, and cheekily beg for tickets and subscriptions for the new book! Cry for support!