Kuichi Tanaka didn't take this line of defense in front of him seriously. He knew that the Tanggang Naval Resistance Army was heavily guarded and had shore artillery fortifications. In his mind, it was impossible to create many obstacles for the Japanese army here, and only Tanggang was the last challenge that the Japanese army would face next.

The defense line built by the Naval Resistance Army in three or four lakes was extremely rudimentary.

There are four lakes of varying sizes, connected by small streams. But these creeks were not deep, and the infantry could easily wade through them.

There are three passages between the lakes. However, the main road has a stone bridge that crosses the creek, but it is on the far right. The other two roads are not really roads, just two country roads.

Looking at the fortifications built by the Naval Resistance Army, it is really extremely simple, that is, just one or two trenches. Moreover, the three passages that the Japanese army could cross were quite wide, and the plain where the main passage was located was three or four kilometers wide. The front was so wide that it was not at all easy to defend and difficult to attack for the Japanese army, which had the support of tank units and artillery fire.

Tanaka Kuichi judged that the Naval Resistance Army intended to delay time here and give Tang Port time to build fortifications.

This is not that Tanaka Kuichi despises the Maritime Resistance Army, but attaches importance to it. Because of the naval resistance army's resistance to the battle in Katar Mountain, it showed quite high military attainments.

The common sense of war told Tanaka Kuichi: Blocking in the mountains will be defeated, and blocking in the plains is even more impossible.

Therefore, in Tanaka Kuichi's view, the naval resistance army, which has a fairly good tactical level, should not make such a big mistake and fight a war of attrition with the Japanese army on the plains.

Tanaka has been on the battlefield for a long time, but his battlefield experience has shackled his thinking, and he has not really understood what kind of army the Naval Resistance Army is until now. The Naval Resistance Force is a powerful field force built entirely on the basis of Li Guang's modernization thinking. Although the Naval Resistance Force has mountain troops and jungle troops, its core combat strength is still a field unit with superior firepower.

The little devils took advantage of the firepower and equipment on the Chinese battlefield, but in Nanyang, they won victory again and again because the geographical environment was not suitable for the firepower of the British and American forces.

And in Ceylon, it is also because of geography and weather. It limited the exertion of the strength of the Naval Resistance Army. But when it came to the plain battlefield preset by the Naval Resistance Army, the pitiful equipment of the Japanese army was not enough at all. It is a pity that Tanaka Kuichi still thinks that he is well equipped, and he looks at the Naval Resistance Army with the Chinese army on the battlefield, and this kind of thinking is not able to win.

The means of the Naval Resistance Army were all out, and Tanaka Kuichi was not only fooled at this time, but also made a mistake that the Naval Resistance Army did not anticipate in advance.

Tanaka's military and firepower deployment on this plain barely considered defense, but was all deployed according to the offensive.

At the sound of an order, Hisashi Tanaka, who thought he was thoughtful, began to mobilize his troops.

Tanaka Kuichi did not pay attention to the battle to break the improvised line of defense of the Naval Resistance Army. In his opinion, the plains fought. The Naval Resistance Army could not stop the blow of the Imperial Japanese Army at all, and the focus should be on the battle to attack Tang Port.

On the other hand, the Naval Resistance Army is already going all out and actively preparing for a decisive battle.

Different attitudes cannot determine the victory or defeat of the war.

The defense line of the Naval Resistance Army in the Lake District. It is about 18 kilometers away from Cutler Hill and about 17 kilometers away from Tang Port.

The choice of this battlefield. For the heavy artillery units of both sides. Fair enough, because it's almost all plains in this range.

Although the Japanese 150-mm cannon had a firing range of up to 19 kilometers, it could not reach the positions of the Naval Resistance Army north of Katler Mountain. It is difficult to do even the most basic fire extension shooting. Therefore, the Japanese heavy artillery positions must be deployed north of Katler Mountain. And the Naval Resistance Army is almost the same thing, the heavy artillery positions must also be deployed south of Tang Port.

In short, the artillery positions of both sides must also be on this plain. Can heavy artillery suppress the opponent. It depends on the level of training of the two armies.

If Tanaka Kuichi thinks deeply, he should be able to find the unfairness in this seemingly fair, you must know that the number of heavy artillery of the Naval Resistance Army far exceeds that of the Japanese army. In addition, the Naval Resistance Army still has a home advantage, and Tanaka Jiuichi should be vigilant.

This is also the problem that Li Guang is worried about, but in fact, Tanaka Jiuichi really didn't think about this problem, he never imagined that the Naval Resistance Army would fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army under such circumstances. In a conventional battle, the casualties of the defending side are definitely much smaller. The defender chooses the plain defense, which is definitely not a wise choice. In Tanaka's heart, he always believed that the next big battle should be in the siege of Tang Port. Therefore, Tanaka Hisaichi's deployment of artillery was simply a big gift to the Naval Resistance Army.

There is a more important point, didn't Tanaka Kuichi consider the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army? In fact, Koichi Tanaka thought about it. However, he believes that it is impossible for the Naval Resistance Army to withstand such a weak defense for much time, that is to say, the Japanese army will not be able to leak under the threat of the Naval Resistance Army's fighters for too long.

Saying 1,000 to 10,000, Tanaka Kuichi's biggest mistake was that he did not expect that the Naval Resistance Army would fight back on such a "fair" battlefield.

Of course, if it weren't for the battlefield environment here being too "fair", it would be very difficult to let an old fox like Kuichi Tanaka be fooled.

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The fighting on the night of the 10th was not fierce. The Japanese army was exhausted after a long period of fierce fighting, and Tanaka Kuichi only sent a small number of troops to harass and attack with cold guns and artillery. The Navy, on the other hand, had already been prepared, firing a few flares from time to time, and machine guns or rifles roared from time to time. In short, neither side had any real intention of attacking, and the battle was tepid.

In the early morning of the 11th.

The Japanese artillery was the first to appear, and the decisive battle that decided the fate of Ceylon began.

Tanaka Kuichi's headquarters was not far from the Naval Resistance Army's defensive line, behind a hill about three or four kilometers from the front line.

Tanaka, an old devil, held a telescope and watched the roar of Japanese artillery.

The Japanese did not use all their artillery strength, and thirty or forty guns sprayed dense projectiles, and shells continued to smash into the positions of the naval resistance army. The weak defense line of the Maritime Resistance Army was like spider silk in the wind, fluttering in the smoke of gunpowder.

The Naval Resistance Army only had a few small-caliber artillery pieces to counterattack sporadically. The momentum of the two armies is not at the same level at all.

Tanaka Kuichi nodded with satisfaction, "I want the west". Wave your hand and order.

With the roar of machinery, the only forty or so tanks of the Japanese army appeared on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke.

These more than forty chariots are already all the strength for Kuichi Tanaka. Among the additional forces of the Japanese Southern Army for Tanaka Kuichi this time, the only thing that satisfied Tanaka Kuichi was this tank brigade. In fact, a tank brigade of the Japanese army had only about 30 tanks, and it was able to gather more than 40 tanks, which was a force that was made up by looting all the tanks of the various units of the Japanese army in Ceylon.

Kuichi Tanaka has a plan.

In today's battle, he took out this tank unit, and the purpose was very clear, and he was full of energy. With the chariot as the vanguard, he rushed directly into the port of Tang. The distance of more than ten kilometers is nothing at all for the tank troops. Maybe we can take Tang Harbor today.

As for the defense line of the Naval Resistance Army in front of him, Tanaka Kuichi said that he really didn't pay attention to it at all.

Fighting on the plains, the chariot cluster is a symbol of invincibility. It has been three years since the outbreak of the war in Europe. The Japanese still learned some skills from the German blitzkrieg, but it is difficult to say whether they are home or not.

Both on the battlefield in China. Or on the battlefield in the South Seas. In one battle, the Japanese army invested so many tanks, it can be regarded as a large spending.

In Tanaka's decades of military career, with his experience, even ten or eight divisions of the Chinese Army could hardly stop the attack of the Imperial Japanese Army. Not to mention the weak defense line of the Naval Resistance Army. There are only one or two trenches, and I am afraid that they will not be able to support it for ten minutes. Until this time, Kuichi Tanaka was still dreaming.

In the rear of the Japanese tank group, there were several brigades of Japanese infantry. The little devil looked at his own majestic chariot troops. Excited, as if eating the "invincible pill", he charged forward with a rifle and a scream.

The Japanese advance was less than a kilometer away from the defense line of the Naval Resistance Army, and the Japanese support artillery stopped roaring. In this brief moment, the momentum of the Japanese army on the battlefield reached its peak, and everywhere was filled with the noise of the Japanese army, the chariots roared, the artillery rumbled, and the guns continued to fire. And the Navy's resistance forces were only a few heavy machine guns screaming, and even the few resisting small-caliber guns died down.

Tanaka Kuichi was very satisfied, the naval resistance army only had a few heavy machine guns, which was not enough for the Japanese tanks to fire a salvo.

"To the west", Tanaka Jiuchi didn't have time to nod his head to express his satisfaction. I heard the sound of cannonballs in the air, which was like popping beans.

Mortars, field artillery, cannons, small-caliber, large-caliber, all kinds of shells streaked through the sky. The sound of these cannons and shells is not the same. But there is one thing in common, and that is that it is terrifying.

Kuichi Tanaka had never played a 21st century video game and didn't know what a map cannon was. But the power of artillery fire displayed by the Naval Resistance Army today is beyond Tanaka Kuichi's understanding of artillery, and he has never seen such dense artillery fire.

Kuichi Tanaka saw the magnificence covered by the shells in front of the defense line of the Naval Resistance Army, but he did not see the whole picture of the battlefield.

The shells fell overwhelmingly, and it was too late in the blink of an eye to cover the Japanese tank cluster. At least two square kilometers of the forward position have been completely filled with rising gunsmoke.

In this battle, the Naval Resistance Army used almost all the artillery stored in Tanggang, and the number of barreled artillery and mortars was nearly 1,500. The radius of destruction of all artillery guns is converted, and a single salvo can completely cover two square kilometers. Under such intensive artillery fire, it is almost impossible to live in these two square kilometers, and even tanks are difficult to survive in such dense artillery fire.

What's more, the Naval Resistance Army did not skimp on artillery fire at all, and all 1,500 cannons fired three rounds rapidly. It is equivalent to this piece of land being covered and struck three times.

Three times. It's so brutal.

There was a staff officer of the Japanese army, who directly ran down his legs with a stream of heat and was scared to pee.

The super-dense artillery fire shocked everyone on the battlefield beyond words. By the time all the artillery of the Naval Resistance Army began to extend, the Japanese army was no longer shocked, but had fallen into despair. All the Japanese troops, infantry artillery, and baggage troops, all of them were bare on the surface, and there were no fortifications at all. Under such dense artillery fire, it is amazing to be alive.

Ploughing.

The little devil also farms. Quite a few people have come up with this term. But the scene of the cannon plowing the ground is too terrifying. The naval resistance artillery fired three shells, and then extended, with an interval of just over a minute.

More than a minute is almost enough for the devil infantry to run a few hundred meters. However, artillery coverage is directly extended by more than a kilometer. By the time the loess smoke rises in the clearing, all life has been lost.

And these suffocating scenes are only part of the battlefield. farther away. All large-caliber cannon groups of the Naval Resistance Army are also erupting. The artillery used by the Naval Resistance Army is not only the artillery of the army, but also more than a dozen Soviet-made 152 cannons that are used as shore artillery. These more than a dozen cannons, which had an ultra-long range, were firing almost along the road. Stuck in the Japanese army's retreat into Katar Hill.

This is the embodiment of Li Guang's concept in the use of artillery in the Naval Resistance Army. It is said that it is Li Guang's concept of artillery use, but he really thinks highly of Li Guang. This thing is completely copied from the Soviet army's large-depth tactics - super-dense artillery group to break the defense.

However, the use of such a large-scale artillery group, the level of the naval resistance army is much higher than that of the Soviet army, this is certain. You must know that the Soviet army was in this period, which was the stage of the defense of Stalingrad, and the so-called tactics of great depth had not yet taken shape. And the Soviets even began to use the tactics of great depth. It's also quite rough. The Soviet army was captured too heavily due to the early artillery casualties, and there were simply not enough skilled artillery. Often, a complete artillery group has to command more than 10 artillery pieces in an artillery battalion. The quality is low, and it is impossible for the natural cannon to hit accurately, so it has to win by quantity.

And the Naval Resistance Army. Li Guang has always advocated that the training of technical arms should be at the forefront. Now there are more than 300 complete artillery groups in Tanggang, commanding 1,500 artillery shots. It's really not difficult. And. In order to fight this battle well, the Maritime Resistance Army accurately compiled the numbers of more than 10 kilometers from Katar Mountain to the Lake Area. Specifically, the firing elements of each gun have been set. Quasi-digital artillery tactics have taken their power to the next level.

The artillery level of the Naval Resistance Army was more than one grade higher than that of the Soviet Army. If a covering strike is carried out on the same area, the naval resistance army can complete it with a maximum of one-third of the Soviet army's artillery shells.

And the Japanese artillery. There is no such notion at all. In the course of artillery education in Japan, teachers constantly instilled that "a cannon with 100 shots is worth 100 cannons." "Over the years, even the artillery commanders of the Japanese army have this concept. So. The extravagant use of artillery fire like the Naval Resistance Army, or the Soviet Army, the little devils don't dare to imagine it.

The scene is too shocking, and it is simply not like the power that the world should have. During the half-hour bombardment by the Naval Resistance Army, almost all the Japanese commanders lost their voices, not to mention those who were killed, and even if they were alive, they were fighting in two groups, and they didn't know what to do. Everyone was so shocked by the furious artillery fire that they lost the ability to think. In just half an hour, the artillery of the Maritime Resistance Army ploughed out a death zone two kilometers wide and more than 10 kilometers long.

And this forbidden area was to advance in the direction of the road, and in an area two kilometers wide, eighty percent of the Japanese attacking forces were assembled. More than 10,000 Japanese troops were destroyed in this super-massive artillery bombardment.

As for the strategy and tactics of great depth, the officers of the Naval Resistance Army have now studied quite a lot. At the beginning, Li Guang gave the topic to the Germans in the form of military research, and later the Germans gave some principles for the deployment of this kind of tactics and also gave a plan for dealing with this kind of tactics. However, on the Soviet-German battlefield, it seems that the Germans did not use this tactic, perhaps they did not pay attention to it. At the request of Li Guang, the Naval Resistance Army studied this issue quite thoroughly, and even made a lot of improvements in the Germans' plan. This battle is a small test of the naval resistance army's large-depth tactics.

After the war, the Naval Resistance Army made a statistic that the battle consumed more than 900 tons of artillery shells, which is actually not much for a major war of this scale. This tactic itself is not difficult, but it is the logistical forces that are difficult. It is indeed extremely difficult to organize so many artillery pieces without home advantage. Just to move the ammunition of these cannons, at least a thousand trucks and a few hundred large trailers are needed.

After the war, not a single person from the Japanese headquarters survived, and the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Kuichi Tanaka were unknown.

The Navy speculated that it was killed, but the report said that his whereabouts were indeed unknown. Because the Japanese headquarters was so small, it was really hit by dozens of shells. Except for the stump and severed arm, there was no sign left at all. The only thing marked on it was a command knife that had been blown off by a shell. The handle of the knife is inlaid with gold and jade, but it is very luxurious. Kuichi Tanaka, the first lieutenant general of the Japanese army to be held the rank of lieutenant general in the hands of the Naval Resistance Army. Historically, this person served as the commander of the 23rd Army of the Japanese Army, stationed in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and was prosecuted as a war criminal after the war and executed in Guangzhou.

In one shelling, the 21st Division of the Japanese Army, the 21st Independent Mixed Brigade, a total of five infantry wings, were completely annihilated in this artillery bombardment.

The proud infantry wing flag of the Japanese army is said to have been awarded by the Japanese emperor himself, and even if the devil is defeated, the devil will burn the plaster flag first to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy. However, in this large-scale artillery bombardment, the little devil didn't care about burning the flag at all, and had already gone to see Aunt Amaterasu. It's just that the artillery attack was too intensive, and in the end, the Naval Resistance Army only captured one wing flag.

The crazy shelling made the little devil even too late to break the jade, and became a miscellaneous piece. After the war, in order to avoid the plague, the work of collecting the corpses of the Japanese soldiers was carried out with great difficulty, and the battlefield was full of fragments of rotten meat and stumps and broken arms, and countless devils became fertilizer on the land of Ceylon.

(The monthly ticket is so pitiful, a big chapter of 5,000 words, it's not easy, I begged, I begged.) (To be continued......)

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