Chapter 164: Exterminating the Heavy Weapon (2)
At the critical moment, Zhang Tiehu led the mobile firepower battalion of the Reading Force Division to the top. Zhang Tiehu shot out the hundreds of meteor flying thunderbolts from the flying thunder launcher on the jeep in one go, and the high-density bombardment blew the devil formation to pieces, and the infantry of the Wumu Army breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly built fortifications and adjusted their defensive deployment.
When the devils adjusted the formation and rushed up again, Zhang Tiehu's reserve ammunition was already in place, and the loading was completed, and it was again a salvo of three consecutive rounds of flying thunder, and thousands of meteor flying thunderbolts exploded in the group of devils within 3 or 4 minutes, and pieces of devils were blown up to pieces.
Wu Mujun once again regained its disadvantage, but the infantry units had received Dong Siqi's retreat order, and at this time they didn't know where to go, Zhang Tiehu gave an order: counterattack! Then the mobile fire battalion opened the way with heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on the jeeps, and immediately pounced on it, and the other troops also came to their senses and rushed up, and actually took Moling in one go.
The troops attacking Jiangning on the other side were relatively smooth. The armored brigade and cavalry brigade rushed into Jiangning unstoppably, and then the infantry solved the devils on the front line of Jiangning; The devil also sent additional troops to fight with the Wumu army on the Jiangning front.
Wu Mu's army gradually gained the upper hand on the front line of Jiangning and Moling on the periphery of Nanjing: Zhang Tiehu replaced the command of the wounded commander of the infantry regiment, and after capturing Moling, the front of the troops pointed directly at the commanding heights of the periphery of Nanjing, Purple Mountain, Wang Huankai with heavy losses of heavy artillery still insisted on fighting, and transferred infantry artillery battalions to close to shell the devil's fortifications in Purple Mountain.
In the chaos, only the armored brigade and cavalry brigade of the mobile corps broke through the devil's Jiangning defense line and reached the city of Nanjing, but the ammunition consumption of the armored brigade was almost exhausted, the joint logistics force was blocked on the Jiangning line, and the cavalry brigade had no heavy firepower, so it could only hold on outside Nanjing and wait for help, and was "closely watched" by the devil's planes and heavy artillery.
Zhao Dahu saw that the attack in the direction of Nanjing was not going well, and regretted letting Dong Siqi take the command of the direction of Nanjing, but he did not dare to change the general, so he had to order Li Jiakui, who was in Jintan to raise supplies for the Jiangbei guerrilla area, to go to the Dong Siqi headquarters to supervise the battle. At the same time, the joint logistics detachment transported a large number of Buddha light flying mines and a large number of launchers to various fronts.
Just as the battles in Nanjing and Jurong were heating up, Shunroku Hata, a veteran of the battlefield, also personally intervened in the command of the operation, and he ordered the Thirteenth Army of the Devils to launch an attack from the northern end of Taihu Lake and the Sixth Army from the southern end of Taihu Lake and the direction of Tianmu Mountain.
Since Wu Zishun became the head of the Shannan Detachment of the Garrison Corps, he has sent multiple reconnaissance units and intelligence networks to closely monitor the first-line devils in Jiaxing and Hangzhou, and has also drawn up a variety of operational plans. As soon as the devils in the direction of Hangzhou and Shanghai moved, Wu Zishun received the information and immediately made operational arrangements.
The devil launched an attack on Wuxing with 2 infantry brigades and 24 combat vehicles and a field artillery brigade of 54 guns.
Under the management of Wu Zishun, Wu Xing's defense system has been quite perfect. The devils were still 15 kilometers away from Wuxing City, and the peripheral troops of the Wuxing garrison brigade retreated without a fight, blocking rivers and streams along the way to flood the roads in low-lying places, and laying bamboo sticks and mine arrays in high places.
The devil had to go far and far, planning to pass through the mountains south of Wuxing, but there were strong fortifications of the Wumu army everywhere in the mountains, 9 120mm mortars, more than 60 Browning light machine guns, more than 10 heavy machine guns, with a large number of javelin flying mines, gun grenades, so that the devils in several predetermined breakthroughs collapsed and sank in the sand, lost 2 infantry squadrons in vain, and the artillery brigade also lost 7 mountain artillery, the devils were in unfavorable terrain and could not be delayed for a long time, so they had to detour to the Nanxun line.
In fact, the strength of the mountains south of Wuxing is almost half of the Wuxing garrison brigade, and the devil's breakthrough through this mountain is almost equivalent to breaking Wuxing City, but the devil is too acquainted, and he has lost the fierceness and sharpness of the past, mainly because with the expansion of the war, the devil's soldiers are insufficient, and the troops are supplemented with a large number of old and weak soldiers, and the combat quality is greatly reduced.
Under the city of Wuxing, the devil chariot was afraid of the flying thunder of the Wumu army, and did not dare to approach the Wumu military fortifications within 150 meters, and only provided direct fire support for the infantry from a distance, and the infantry had to charge in the rain of bullets.
In Wuxing City, except for light and heavy machine guns and some scattered meteor flying thunders, there is not a single artillery, and most of the automatic weapons are distributed in the four corners of the city wall, and the devil formation naturally moves closer to the city gate, becoming more and more dense.
Suddenly, a group of meteor flying thunder flew out of Wuxing City, carrying a high-explosive warhead with a hollow charge and went straight to the Devil Chariot cluster, destroying nearly half of the Devil Chariot.
Seeing that there were chariots coming up to support, the devil infantry naturally moved closer to the chariot cluster and used the chariots as mobile cover.
A large number of meteors and thunderbolts flew out of the city this time, exploding in the devil's attack formation, this time it was all grenades, and it was a batch of bombing, and the devils lost thousands of people in a snap of their fingers, as well as 19 chariots. The devil suffered heavy losses and asked for reinforcements or retreat, but he had no choice but to order him to continue the confrontation with the Wumu army, which could reduce the engagement. These devils who attacked Wuxing were just feints to contain the Wumu army, but the real killing move was a surprise attack on Guangde.
Since the end of the Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi, most of the eastern part of Tianmu Mountain has been occupied by devils, so Guangde, as the southern gate of Xishan, has been exposed to the direct attack of devils, so it highlights an important surname, so Wu Zishun added material to the Guangde garrison camp, and personally sat in Guangde.
Guangde is responsible for most of the area south of Xishan, so the original strength is insufficient, so Wu Zishun applied for the Guangde garrison battalion to be upgraded to the Guangde garrison brigade, and the number was expanded to more than 1,000 people, but Wu Zishun felt that the troops were still insufficient, so Zeng Qi moved the Wumu Military Academy to Xinhang, and the teaching brigade was moved to the line of Liudong, Dushan, and Qiucun, as the reserve of the Guangde garrison brigade.
Even so, Wu Zishun still made arrangements according to the terrain, and the three garrison battalions were divided into one battalion to guard the intersections south of Guangde County, one battalion was stationed in Dafang, which was facing the main intersection leading to Anji County in the occupied area, and one battalion was deployed on both sides of the main road leading to Anji County in the occupied area.
The devil made a bloody capital and sneaked to Anji with a mixed brigade of reading power, and then 5 infantry brigades attacked the south of Xishan through intricate mountain roads in 5 ways.
The devil is stationed in Anji, and Wu Zishun has already received information. Therefore, as soon as the devil troops drove out of Anji County, they encountered 5 trucks rushed up by Wu Mujun, each truck was loaded with Foguang type flying thunder launchers, each launcher had 16 Buddha light flying thunders, and each Buddha light flying thunder grenade had a 50-meter killing radius, less than 2 minutes, 80 Buddha light flying thunders covered the activity areas of the various devil brigades outside Anji City, killing and injuring more than 1,000 devils, and the remaining devils were frightened, retracted into Anji County, and never came out again. Seeing this, Wu Zishun ordered 1 garrison battalion to distribute a batch of 9 meteor flying thunder launchers, and cooperate with 5 Foguang flying thunder launchers to trap the devils in Anji County.
Wu Zishun personally drove a jeep to Wuxing after dealing with the Guangde war, and saw that Wu Xingzheng was in a stalemate with the devils, so he ordered five fast gunboats of the sailor brigade to attack.
The fast gunboat carrying the Buddha's light and flying thunder quickly docked on the south bank of Taihu Lake, and the artillery brigade of the devil was destroyed by a burst of fire, and the infantry and chariot troops of the devil were also affected, and the results of this battle were even richer, killing and injuring the little 2,000 devils. The devils don't even have the manpower to collect the corpses and carry the wounded.
Wu Zishun reported the battle situation, and Zhao Dahu replied, informing the devil to come out to collect the corpses and dispose of the wounded, but he must not collect materials and equipment, otherwise his entire army will be annihilated!
Just when Wu Zishun was making contributions with great interest, Li Jiakui also quickly reversed the situation.
Li Jiakui instructed Dong Siqi to withdraw Jiangning's troops. Dong Si couldn't ask for it, and hurriedly ordered the infantry to withdraw from Jiangning.
The devils in Jiangning lost the pressure, and they were ordered by the upper peak to flank the chariot troops and cavalry troops of the Wumu Army under the city of Nanjing! Although the devils of Jiangning were unwilling to use the flesh and blood of the infantry to deal with the steel machines of the Wumu army, the military orders were like a mountain, so they had to attack with fear. When he saw Wu Mujun's chariots, all of them were blindly circulating, and he knew that Wu Mujun was also running out of ammunition and food, so he rushed towards Wu Mujun with enthusiasm.
Han Jinkui and Duan Jinshi led the troops to turn in the direction of Purple Mountain, and they had received an order from the headquarters: the fuel, ammunition, and supplies had been sent to Zhang Tiehu, and after replenishing the ammunition supply, they would assist the infantry of the Reading Division to attack the Purple Mountain on the spot!
Jiangning's devil infantry naturally couldn't catch up with Wu Mujun's tracks and four-legged war horses, and received information that Wu Mu's army was attacking Jiangning again, and they insisted on returning to Jiangning exhausted.
The devil returned to Jiangning but found that Wu Mujun's so-called attack was just a flag and shouting, but he did not attack with all his strength, but the devil did not dare to take it lightly, for fear that Wu Mujun would come to a false and real thing, and suddenly launched a fierce attack, but he didn't know that the undercurrent was surging, and he was about to die.
The three fast gunboats of the sailor brigade were transported to Shijiu Lake by steam tractors overnight, and at the same time there were 28 motorized speedboats of the motorized speedboat company, and the meteor flying thunder launcher equipped with the motorized speedboat and the Foguang flying thunder launcher equipped with the fast gunboat were transported to Jiangning along the Qinhuai River after receiving Li Jiakui's order.
As soon as the devil heard the sound of the motor, he saw countless fire dragons flying over, followed by the explosion of a landslide, and the Jiangning defense line completely collapsed.
Zhong Limin commanded the sailor brigade to continue to advance, approaching Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate, and Li Jiakui also commanded the infantry to advance towards Yuhuatai and Zhonghua Gate.
Hata Shunroku received a report that the Wu Mu army had used extremely powerful bombshells on the front line of Wuxing, Tianmu Mountain, and Jiangning, with huge lethality, and the imperial army suffered heavy losses! Shunroku Hata gasped, and then decisively ordered the troops to gather and assemble in Nanjing for the safety of Nanjing.
Zhao Dahu got his revenge, and the devil began to shrink his forces! Zhao Dahu smiled and ordered Wang Huankai's artillery brigade to put the newly formed Flying Thunder Battalion into battle! The goal is to call all the plain field troops at the brigade level!
A large number of devils around Jurong are naturally the preferred targets! This is the reason why Wang Huankai has always insisted on commanding the battle on the front line of Moling, 15 trucks rushed to Jurong from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, followed by the joint logistics detachment, the Buddha light flying thunder consumption is too fast, and the logistics support requirements are very high.
The power of 15 Foguang type flying thunder launchers is equivalent to 240 150mm caliber heavy guns, and the devils of more than 10,000 people were blown up all over the field by sudden heavy artillery just after they left the battle outside Jurong, mainly because there was nowhere to hide during the march. This is exactly where Wu Mujun calculates, and he really doesn't dare to use this kind of bombshell in the melee.
The remnants of the devils had to retreat to Nanjing, and found that there were also a large number of Wumu troops in front, so they had to lose their wounded and heavy equipment and flee into Baohua Mountain.
Jin Manlou is waiting for this moment, his subordinate Baohua Mountain Garrison Brigade, Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade, Changzhou Garrison Brigade, and Danyang Garrison Battalion have been in name for too long, and they are going to come today to deserve their name! So he ordered the Baohua Mountain Garrison Brigade, the Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade, and the Changzhou Garrison Brigade to attack Baohua Mountain together.
Zhao Dahu had already thought of the next step for Jin Manlou, and Li Haiyang led an elite unit of the training brigade equipped with American-made bazookas and flamethrowers to open the way for the Shanbei detachment.
The advantages of the bazooka in the densely wooded environment are highlighted, and the direct aiming fire is more accurate, lightweight, flexible and easy to operate, and most of the devil's fortifications are quickly cleared; The flamethrower mainly had a huge psychological deterrent to the devils, and Wu Mujun only used the flamethrower for a few tricky fortifications at angles, but the blazing and fierce flames made the devils frightened, so the news that the people were going to set fire to the mountain spread all over Baohua Mountain, and the devils were also afraid of death, like a rat with a burning tail to escape from Baohua Mountain.
Just when Jin Manlou swept Baohua Mountain, Zhang Tiehu, who was besieging Purple Mountain, turned to cut off the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway on the periphery of Nanjing, and the devils on Purple Mountain could only ask for more blessings under the threat of Wang Huankai's heavy artillery, and did not dare to make any action at all.
The Danyang garrison battalion was greedy for other participating troops, and finally sent troops to attack Danyang privately under the leadership of a stunned green platoon commander, but unexpectedly, the frightened devil gave up Danyang easily and did not fight with the Wu Mu army at all. In this way, Wu Mujun took control of the Danyang-Nanjing section of the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway, and also seized the materials of 2 trains, 4 locomotives, and more than 100 train wagons.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Hata Junroku decisively came to a strong man with a broken arm, and ordered the troops north of Baohua Mountain to assemble in Zhenjiang, and then bypassed Danyang, Changzhou withdrew to Wuxi and Suzhou, and finally abandoned Changzhou.
As soon as the devils assembled in the direction of Zhenjiang, Zhao Dahu ordered the training brigade in the area of Zhuhu Lake and Changdang Lake to go to Changzhou to intercept the devils, and strive to wipe out all the devils in Baohua Mountain.
Li Haiyang has already led the elite troops to Baohua Mountain with bazookas and flamethrowers, and at this time the whole training brigade has no leader, but these veterans have their own methods, they invited Wu Yuwen, the head of the Taihu Lake Defense Detachment, and asked him to take the lead in commanding, Wu Yuwen is also the master who went crazy when he heard the gunshot, and naturally agreed, of course, he had to report to Zhao Dahu according to the procedure.
There are 6 or 7,000 people in the whole training brigade, and the equipment has not been replaced, only some of the new equipment such as Qiguang submachine guns, Qiguang rifles, and gun grenades used in training and demonstration, as well as some light machine guns, grenadiers, 92-type infantry guns, and mortars.
The whole training brigade surrounded Changzhou. The devils in Changzhou were ordered to hold on, and they did not dare to evacuate without authorization, and they were afraid that Wu Mujun would use a bombshell, so they asked Shangfeng for instructions on how to deal with it. Hata Shunroku received instructions and ordered the Changzhou troops not to hold out, and to break through or negotiate; The troops at the northern foot of Baohua Mountain were transported from the Yangtze River to Nanjing with the assistance of the navy.
Wu Yuwen received a request from the devils for negotiation, and replied very happily, as long as the devils did not destroy the materials and did not harm the people before evacuating, they could be released, and they could take away the official equipment of the troops.
Wu Yuwen's soldiers took Changzhou bloodlessly, which made the whole training brigade very disappointed, but they didn't expect it to be so simple to take Changzhou, and the training techniques and tactics were useless.
Zhao Dahu turned around and found that there were still a large number of devil corpses and wounded on the battlefield, so he sent a telegram to Shunroku Hata, asking him to send people to the battlefield as soon as possible to receive the wounded and corpses.
The release of the clear code telegram was tantamount to announcing the defeat of the battle in southern Jiangsu of the six of Hatata, which made the six of the six of them lose face and was reprimanded by the base camp.
In this battle, Wu Mujun killed more than 10,500 devils, killed and wounded more than 26,000 devils, seized a large number of materials in Jurong, Baohuashan, Zhenjiang, Danyang, Changzhou and other places, recovered and expanded a large area of lost land, and once again cut off the Nanjing-Shanghai railway and Nanjing-Shanghai highway.
At the battle summary meeting, many of the participating troops of the Wumu Army accused Dong Siqi of cowering in battle and trapping friendly troops in danger, and finally Zeng Qi came out to play a round and transferred Dong Siqi to the garrison corps as deputy chief of staff, and Li Jiakui replaced Dong Siqi. In view of the changes in the pattern of the base areas in southern Jiangsu and the Wumu Army, the Wumu Army once again adjusted its establishment and equipment:
1. The structure of the original headquarters and the directly subordinate corps remains unchanged;
2. Garrison Corps: Dong Siqi served as the deputy chief of staff, and set up the Jiangnan Detachment, with Jin Manlou as the detachment leader, under the jurisdiction of the Jurong Garrison Battalion, the Danyang Garrison Battalion, the Baohua Mountain Garrison Brigade, the Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade, and the Baohua Mountain River Defense Brigade (under which there is 1 Flying Mine Battalion, the Flying Mine Battalion is equipped with 2 whale flying mine companies, 1 Foguang Flying Mine Air Defense Company, each company is equipped with 9 Flying Mine Launchers, and 1 Mine Battalion is equipped with 18 motorized and blay speedboats, 3 fast gunboats, and a joint logistics battalion, which is mainly responsible for controlling the Yangtze River waterway); The Shanbei detachment was headed by Wei Wenyang, and the Maoshan Garrison Brigade, Changzhou Garrison Brigade, Jintan Garrison Battalion, Liyang Garrison Battalion, Lishui Garrison Battalion, and Dangtu Garrison Battalion were under the jurisdiction of the Maoshan Garrison Brigade, Changzhou Garrison Battalion, and the Dangtu Garrison Battalion. The Wuhang guerrilla area was assigned to the Shannan detachment, and part of the guerrilla area was ceded to the Tan Zhenlin Department of the New Fourth Army;
3. Mobile Corps: Set up a Spitfire battalion and incorporate it into a special operations brigade; The training brigade was officially appointed as an infantry mobile detachment, with Liu Zhenjiang as the detachment leader; Due to the heavy artillery losses, Wang Huankai's artillery brigade transferred 105mm and 75mm mountain artillery and infantry artillery to the garrison corps, and changed it into 3 heavy flying mine battalions, 3 light flying mine battalions, and 2 joint logistics battalions;
4. Guerrilla Corps: The original Jiangnan detachment was cancelled and replaced with a garrison battalion; Zhang Tielong's division was assigned to Liu Chenghai's guerrilla corps, and the new name was the Jiangnan Guerrilla Detachment; Lu Yaohan's department was assigned to Liu Chenghai's guerrilla corps, and the new name was the Hubei-Henan-Anhui guerrilla detachment; Feng Jiuzhong was appointed separately, and Zhao Da'er was appointed as the head of the Jiangbei guerrilla detachment. (To be continued.) )