Chapter 519 The Long Night

"Yagayalu." Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, commander of the 5th Front Army of the Kwantung Army, gritted his teeth and said in a cruel voice, "Immediately call the South Manchurian Command and request the implementation of the second set of combat plans." ”

"Hello." The chief of staff of the First Front Army, Shiro Makino, suddenly bowed his head and immediately took the order.

There are a total of three sets of operational plans formulated by the South Manchurian Command of the Kwantung Army, and the first plan is a conventional combat plan, that is, to cover the anti-tank trenches of the squadron with absolute superior artillery firepower, and after the engineers open the gap, they will put in an absolutely superior armored cluster to crush the resistance of the squadron and seize the Jinzhou Bay landing field.

In addition to the No. 1 operational plan, the Kwantung Army also developed two other sets of reserve operational plans.

The No. 2 plan is actually a night battle plan, as for the No. 3 plan, it is even more cruel, the South Manchurian Command of the Kwantung Army also called it the "yù crushing plan", in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a suicide attack, ordering the puppet Manchurian ** officers and soldiers and Kwantung officers and soldiers to carry sandbags to charge to the death, and fill out a number of tank passages from the anti-tank trench with human lives.

Now that Plan 1 has been frustrated, Shizuo Yokoyama has decided to adopt Operation Plan 2.

Once night operations are carried out, the aviation and armored units of the Kwantung Army will be completely blinded, because the fighters and tanks of this era do not have night thermal imaging and sighting equipment, and they do not have the ability to fight at night at all, but in the same way, the air force and army aviation units of the squadron will no longer be able to carry out firepower countermeasures.

There are also heavy artillery groups on both sides, which also do not have observation and sighting equipment for thermal imaging at night.

After losing the ground reference, it is difficult for the heavy artillery group to carry out accurate fire coverage, at most, it is to cover a large area of the enemy's deep positions according to the pre-calibrated shè attack elements, but such artillery bombardment is basically of little significance, because the fortifications of the enemy's deep positions are not so easy to destroy.

To put it simply, once night operations are carried out, the heavy equipment of the Chinese and Japanese armies will basically become an ornament, and the two sides will return to relying solely on infantry to win a decisive victory, and at that time the two sides will not fight for heavy equipment firepower, combat capacity, and logistical support capabilities, but light firepower and the tactical literacy and will to fight of the infantry.

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Forward positions of the 8th Army.

As a veteran with great combat experience, Captain Liu deeply knew that the more quiet the battlefield, the more fierce the enemy's attack was, and it seemed that the Kwantung Army also knew very well that it was impossible to attack during the day, so it was decided to attack at night.

Suddenly, three red signal flares suddenly flew out under the night sky in front of me!

The officers and men of the 3rd platoon, who had just changed their guards, suddenly turned over and got up and entered the combat position as fast as they could, Captain Liu also entered the observation post at the first time, and the communications soldier with walkie-talkies on his back also quickly turned over and climbed up, and followed with a nervous expression.

"It's a feint." Captain Liu only glanced at it, and then said to the communications soldier who was following him, "Let's rest first, there is no need to call for artillery support for the time being." ”

The flare was quickly extinguished, but the ghost soldiers on the opposite side never moved.

The whole battlefield fell into a deathly silence again, and the soldiers also retreated to the trenches one after another, chōu smoke of chōu smoke, chatting and chatting, some of them sat on the ground in a daze with steel guns, and some of them looked at the photos of their lovers with flashlights and giggled smirk, but Captain Liu's nerves were unprecedentedly tense, and he always stayed in the observation post and did not leave.

Captain Liu, who has a wealth of experience in night battles, has realized that the little devil is afraid that he is really going to fight at night.

Sure enough, after about ten minutes, only to hear the tom tom three times, the opposite Japanese position on the three red sè flares rose again, the ** soldiers in the trench quickly reacted, and when they were about to enter the combat position, Captain Liu strode out of the observation post and coldly scolded: "Go back, what should you do." ”

The Japanese army really made another feint, only to see the signal flare rise into the air but never attacked.

The four flares that rose into the air in a row from the ** position were extinguished one after another, and the entire battlefield was once again plunged into darkness.

**The nerves that had just tensed up the soldiers relaxed again, but Captain Liu lit a cigarette and silently smoked while silently calculating the time, if nothing else, in another fifteen minutes, the little devils on the opposite side would launch a real attack silently, which was what they did in Mandalay.

Ten minutes passed, and Captain Liu snuffed out the cigarette butt, and immediately said to the guards beside him: "Pass the order and prepare for battle!" Captain Liu's order was quickly passed on verbally, and the officers and men of the 3rd platoon who received the order entered the combat positions one after another, and the bolts of heavy machine guns, light machine guns, submachine guns, and automatic rifles were also turned on.

At one point, Captain Liu turned his head and shouted, "Flares! ”

The artillerymen, who had been ready for a long time, hurriedly stuffed the flares into the chamber of the mortar, and only heard two toms, and the two flares were already roaring into the air, and then they descended with a parachute, and in an instant, the dazzling bright light had illuminated the entire battlefield as if it were day.

With the strong light of the flares, the soldiers were surprised to find that a large group of devil soldiers had actually taken advantage of the night to silently touch the northern edge of the anti-tank trench.

"Devil, the little devil is up!"

"Hit, kill these *** little devils!"

** The soldiers roared in anger and opened fire at the same time.

In an instant, the bullets from the Browning heavy machine gun, Czech light machine gun, Thomson submachine gun and Garand rifle had already formed a dense jiāo fork fire net, and the ghost soldiers who were advancing at full speed were stacked on the ground, and the remaining ghost soldiers quickly lay down on the ground, set up machine guns, submachine guns and rifles and fought against each other.

In less than ten seconds, rows of mortar shells roared from the opposite side, and then exploded on the ** position, for a while, the ** position was full of flames, shrapnel four shè, despite the cover of the trenches, ** officers and soldiers still fell in a pool of blood, playing with small artillery, really no one can play little devil!

Today's Kwantung Army, light firepower is really not an ordinary perversion, each infantry squad is equipped with two mortar groups, each group is equipped with 2mén 60mm caliber light mortars, and each infantry squadron is equipped with a special mén fire support squad, not only equipped with 4 Type 92 heavy machine guns, but also equipped with 4mén 90mm caliber light mortars.

There were only two squadrons of Japanese troops on the opposite side, but they had 8 heavy machine guns and 32mén mortars!

Similar to the situation during the day, the two sides were suppressed by absolute fire soon after the two sides faced each other.

However, the infantry firepower configuration style of the Kwantung Army is obviously deformed, and it is a typical nouveau riche firepower configuration after being poor, because no matter how powerful the light firepower is, it is vulnerable in the face of heavy firepower, and the light firepower configuration of the first is far inferior to the Kwantung Army, but it is not because it is not equipped to afford, but because it is not necessary.

As soon as the communications corps called, an entire battalion of 18 vehicle-borne rocket artillery quickly ascended to the position.

Compared with the individual shoulder portable rocket launcher, the caliber of the vehicle-mounted multiple rocket launcher is slightly larger, reaching 120mm, and the barrel is also longer, so the shè range is much farther, and the farthest can already hit 2000 meters away, although it cannot be compared with the shè of the battle defense artillery and other artillery, but the light firepower used to suppress the enemy infantry is more than enough.

Suddenly, rows of rockets had been poured into the opposite Japanese position, and in an instant, the opposite Japanese position became a sea of fire, covered by such dense firepower, the devil soldiers on the opposite side could not find any hiding place at all, and were either killed by the fragments of grenades or burned alive by napalm.

By the time the heavy artillery group of the Kwantung Army retaliated against the shelling according to the daytime calibration, the vehicle-mounted multiple rocket launchers had already withdrawn to the deep position and hid in the underground bunkers reinforced with reinforced concrete, and the underground bunkers built in the deep positions may not be able to destroy even the heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 200mm.

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Jinzhou, the South Manchurian Command of the Kwantung Army.

The long dark night finally passed, and Umezu Mijiro did not sleep all night, always sticking to the battle hall, but from the front came back one bad news after another, dozens of wings of the 5th Front Army took turns to fight, and the cumulative number of troops invested had exceeded 100,000 people, but all of them returned with feathers, and they failed to destroy even a small section of anti-tank trenches!

The rocket artillery of the squadron is too fast, and the lethality is too great!

At this point, the No. 1 and No. 2 operational plans formulated by the Kwantung Army have in fact failed!

Although the decisive battle has just begun, and there is still plenty of time left for the Kwantung Army, whether it is Umezu Mijiro or the commanders of all armies and infantry divisions, they all know very well that if they do not decisively change their tactics and continue to fight with the squadron with the same tactics, the final result can still only be defeat.

Is it really only possible to adopt the No. 3 operation plan? Umezu Mijiro couldn't help but feel miserable.

If you really use the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Army and Manchuria ** to fill the anti-tank trenches, how many people do you have to fill in it to be able to fill in a passage for the tanks to advance? 10,000 people? 100,000 people? Or millions? Or even if all the more than 2 million officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Army are filled in, they still can't fill in a way out?

Beyond that, isn't there really a better way to do it with less cost?

At this moment, Umezu Mijiro misses Okamura Ninji so much, it would be nice if Okamura-kun was there, with his wisdom and superb tactical command ability, he must be able to easily deal with the current crisis, right?