Qiu Qingquan's proposed counterattack first began with the Liaoning West Corridor

The 11th Division of the National Revolutionary Army with the 1st Brigade of Heavy Artillery will advance eastward from the Tashan defense line east of Huludao and attack the four Japanese divisions and regiments defending the Jinzhou line!

In the early morning of 19 December, at the advance headquarters located on the top of Baitai Mountain, about two kilometers northeast of Tashan Township. General An Sihua, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, put pen to paper, looked at the military map hanging on the wall with a strained face, and did not speak for a long time, everyone looked at him with bated breath. The night was dark, the wind was cold outside, and the atmosphere was solemn.

"Where is the Eleventh Division now?" An Sihua finally spoke.

His chief of staff, Yan Wu, did not hesitate to point to the blue mark on the map: "The 21st and 22nd Infantry Brigades of the 11th Division, under the command of Division Commander Luo Zhuoying, have spread out from south to north along the Tashan line, and the four regiments have formed a line, all of which have arrived at the designated positions for attack, and the infantry regiments have made all preparations for battle. In addition, the 1st Brigade of the Mountain Corps, under the command of brigade commander Huang Hui, has also controlled the mountains on the first line of Guanshan and Yishan Mountain, covering the flank of the attack corps. An Sihua didn't say anything about his fluent answer, he had long been familiar with the location of these troops, and at this time, it was just to verify it again. This battle was really a bit crazy, a Kuomintang division plus an artillery brigade and a mountain brigade were less than 40,000 people, and they actually had to attack four Japanese divisions and regiments with more than 110,000 Japanese troops! He continued to ask, "What about the heavy artillery cluster?"

Did you also enter the designated location? And can the Air Force completely paralyze the Japanese Jinzhou Airport before the army attacks? In this battle, we were outnumbered, and firepower and air superiority were the keys to victory. Yan Wu's expression is much more serious than An Sihua, he is Luo Yaoguo's descendant, and he has been following Luo Yaoguo since Huangpu graduated, but it is the first time to serve as the chief of staff of the group army. If this battle is fought, it will be prosperous in the future! He replied categorically: "The 102 large-caliber guns of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 11th Artillery Regiment have all been deployed in place. Among them, there are forty-eight 210-mm heavy howitzers, eighteen 150-mm heavy field howitzers, and thirty-six 105-mm light field howitzers. Each cannon has two base reserves. The commander-in-chief of the heavy artillery cluster was Major General He Shaozhou, commander of the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade. ”

“… The Air Force has mobilized the Second Bombing Aviation Regiment, which has a total of 124 A-1B light dive bombers and 41 F-1B fighters. Lieutenant General Liu Yongyao, commander of the Second Air Division, has also arrived at Huludao Airport, and he will personally direct the air raid. According to the plan..., the Air Force would first blow up the Japanese Jinzhou airfield, and then support the Jinzhou battlefield with one dive bomber group and two bomber groups to support the Chaoyang battlefield.

In addition, Vice Admiral Long Tenghui, commander of the Beiyang Fleet, will also command the navy to support our army's attack with naval guns! He was also a little excited in the end, after all, this was a joint attack operation of land, sea and air that China had never seen in history! Of course, Anshua, who had been a German Yankee, was unmoved by his knowledge, but only asked in detail about every detail of the operation. When all the questions were confirmed by Yan Wu with great certainty, he nodded, as if he sighed: "When the news of the air force bombing comes back, the order to attack will be issued." Now each is at his own post, waiting for the battle to begin! Everyone silently saluted him and took their positions, while the people guarding the telephone, radio, and plotting the map were also lying on the map table waiting to start their work.

At this moment, Luo Yaogu was also wearing a marshal uniform with a pen and sitting in a ruined temple located on the top of Xidabai Mountain. Holding a cup of coffee, he discussed with the militarists who voted for G what is the key to winning the battle. However, Zhang Xueliang, the boss of the Northeast Army, and Guo Songling, the second elder, just sat with their noses on their knees, listening attentively.

"President Mao, our army must not be brave in combat, training must not be strict, and political and ideological work must not be in place? ，… Luo Yaoguo put down the coffee cup in his hand, looked at Mao ZD with a smile, saw him nodding frequently, and sighed: "But it is an indisputable fact that the battle of Liaoxi has been fought until now, and the army of Zhongg has been defeated repeatedly. Why is that the starter? Luo Yaoguo asked himself, glanced around at the people in the room, sighed and replied, "Weapons!" It's still not as good as Japan's weapons! Therefore, weapons are the key factor in winning a war, and what kind of training, political and ideological work, intelligence, command, and so on, it is easy to use against a weak enemy, but it is not easy to use against a strong enemy at all! The key is to have good weapons, and there must be enough good weapons! ”

Mao ZD didn't say anything, he picked up a cigarette from the table and smoked silently.

He had always been very disgusted with this weaponistic view in the past, but this time, he had fought a few tough battles with the Japanese, but he had changed his opinion to a certain extent. The four route armies of the Central G have achieved the ultimate in both party building and the education and training of cadres and soldiers, and if they are used to deal with weak brigades such as the Northeast Army and the Jin Army, they can win even if their weapons are inferior to others. But this time in Liaoxi, it was pressed and beaten by the Japanese army, and in just three months, more than 100,000 people were lost before and after!

But where do good weapons come from? Mao ZD glanced at Luo Yaoguo, who was there gushing about weapons, and let out a long sigh.

"If we want to have a good weapon, we still have to rely on construction, and only when we really build up heavy industry can this weapon really go up, and with good weapons, imperialism will not dare to bully us." Luo Yaoguo turned his head and looked at Mao Zd with a smile: "When the northeast is recovered this time, we Chinese can learn a lesson, and we can no longer kill each other, but really focus on construction." Otherwise, we will destroy the country ourselves, and in the end we will cheapen outsiders. ”

As soon as these words of goodwill came out, the room full of people nodded yes. In the seemingly harmonious atmosphere, Mao Zd waved his hand angrily and said with a smile: "Chinese can't fight Chinese anymore!" The September 18 incident this time is indeed a profound lesson. But after we invite the Japanese away, what will happen to the three eastern provinces? Is it to its original owner, to the way it was? ”

The room was suddenly quiet, and everyone held their breath, their eyes focused on Luo Yaoguo and Mao Zd.

"Good news! Good news! Good news from the air force is that the Jinzhou airfield of the Japanese invaders has been destroyed by our Second Air Division! ”

At this moment, a slightly excited female voice suddenly came from outside the door, and it was Luo Yaoguo's secretary Nata Li who walked in next.

Private Junichiro Aso, who had just been handed over, leaned tiredly against the trench, staring blankly at the opposite position. The second division to which he belonged was the vanguard of this old incident, and had also fought hard with the Northeast Army and the GCD Army on the front line of Jinzhou for many days. However, since the enemy switched to the terrible Chinese Kuomintang army, there has not been a single battle, and the two sides have only dug trenches outside the range of rifle fire and confronted each other.

Not even a jamming shelling was born! It doesn't look like it's a battlefield at all, it's like a peacetime border. It would be nice if this continued, listening to the Kuomintang army on the other side is very powerful, it seems that they have defeated their own second division in the third year of Showa! Although there has never been a newspaper in China that has reported this incident, the officers and soldiers in the Second Division seem to know about it......

The invincible Second Division of the Imperial Army was actually defeated! And it seems that the opponent who defeated it was still a crushing defeat was about three thousand meters on the opposite side of his own trench! It's horrible.

Junichiro Aso widened his eyes a little more, trying to watch every move on the opposite position, there has been a big battle on the northern front in the past two days, and it is a big victory for the imperial army, but the opponent is the Chinese GC army. The above instructed them to raise their vigilance and strictly guard against the trick of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" played by the Kuomintang army on the opposite side.

"Shelling! "I don't know who roared. Before he could finish speaking, a sound that seemed to be the arrival of a train had already crossed out. Immediately the whole earth began to shake violently, and there was the loud sound of the explosion of cannonballs that pierced people's hearts! Aso had never heard such a violent explosion, this should not be the sound of a 150-mm howitzer, could it be that the Kuomintang army was bombarding this place with a heavy artillery of a millimeter?

In fact, it was 210-mm heavy howitzers that bombarded the positions of the Japanese army, and there were as many as forty-eight of them! The artillery fire of these heavy howitzers was almost always concentrated on the infantry forts and trench lines around the town of Takahashi in the center of the Japanese line. Huge shells blew up terrible gaps in the position. Every time a super-heavy shell fell, I saw that the ground was like a volcanic explosion, the earth was blown up half a day high, and the layers of deer in front of the position were easily lifted into the sky. All the civil fortifications, anti-artillery bunkers were like papier-mâché under such shells, and all traces of their existence in this world were erased at once. Throughout the trench, everyone was shaken by the sudden explosion, and everyone had a panicked look on their faces. The artillery power of the Kuomintang army turned out to be unexpectedly powerful!

At the same time, on the battlefield of the northern front, behind a forest about five kilometers southwest of Chaoyang County. A large number of tanks were neatly lined up, and Xu Yunfei, the commander of the armored group, was on the command vehicle, holding a loudspeaker and shouting: "I repeat, our task is to break through the Japanese defense line and then go straight into Chaoyang County!" The Air Force will blow up the western city wall of Chaoyang County in advance. After occupying Chaoyang County, it will defend there, and the GCD and the Northeast Army cannot be allowed to enter, do you understand? ”

"Understood!" The surrounding officers replied in unison.

"Alright, the shelling is about to begin, go back to your car, prepare to attack, and crush the Japanese to a fucking pulp!" Xu Yunfei threw the horn to the adjutant, and glanced at the officers with blazing eyes, all of whom saluted and ran back to their tanks quickly.

A thunderous roar was heard in the sky, and eighty-two A-1B light dive bombers flew in a neat formation over the Japanese positions opposite. Then they dispersed into several squadrons, one of which swooped over the low city walls of Chaoyang County, lined up, and one after another began to dive, dropping strings of bombs on top of the city walls that had fallen into disrepair. The rest of the squadrons hovered over the heads of the Japanese with bad intentions, looking around for targets that were suspected to be headquarters and artillery positions.

After the air force suppressed the Japanese artillery group, more than three artillery pieces of various calibers deployed behind the squadron began to roar. The earth was shaking, the air was burning, shells rained down on the Japanese positions, and at first the explosions could be heard, but then they could no longer be heard clearly, only a "boom... The ringing sound.

After firing tens of thousands of shells, the squadron's artillery group extended its fire to the rear, but it was not indiscriminate. Several hot air balloons for artillery observers had already risen high at this time, and everything behind the Japanese front was in full view of these artillery observers. The shells exploded like eyes in all the places where the suspected artillery was relieved, ammunition depots, the positions of the reserve units were assembled. A chaotic situation suddenly appeared in the entire rear assembly area of the Japanese army, and how to move troops and deliver ammunition had to be carried out in the face of overwhelming artillery fire.

After surviving the bombardment, the soldiers in the forward positions of the Japanese army crawled out from all corners, their expressions were a little sluggish, and they rushed to the firing position completely by instinct formed by long-term and strict training, and carried all kinds of weapons out of the concealed parts. Unexpectedly, there was no movement on the opposite side, and there was no figure in the open area in front of the position, and then a piercing scream suddenly sounded, and dozens of A-11B swooped down from the sky and dropped a string of bombs on the Japanese position.

This blow was completely unexpected by the Japanese army, in fact, even if it was expected, there was nothing to do, the Japanese soldiers who had not had time to hide in the shelter suffered heavy casualties, the machine gun was overturned, and the stumps and broken arms flew in all directions.

At the same time that the Chinese Air Force was bombarding the Japanese positions indiscriminately, a group of steel behemoths also roared out of the horizon, and the black smoke from its tail formed a huge black dragon in mid-air.

As soon as the bombardment stopped, a number of dusty tanks rushed in front of the Japanese position, and before the opponent could drag the 3-mm rapid-fire gun out of the bunker, it rumbled over. As soon as several Japanese soldiers climbed out of the position with grenades, they were beaten into blood gourds by a violent rain of bullets, and they could not survive when they saw it. The 20-millimeter cannon of Tank No. 1 fired even more frantically, destroying all the remaining Japanese firepower points one by one.

Along with the tanks, groups of soldiers with submachine guns fired heavily from the smoke-filled positions, driving the Japanese devils out of the shattered trenches.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! Leave the hidden devils alone and leave them to the infantry behind! Forward, keep going! Seeing his tank break through the Japanese position, Zhang Zhonglin shouted excitedly, shouting with simple tactical sign language.

At present, military shortwave radio stations have not yet become popular, and the communication between tanks can only rely on sign language, and the communication between tanks and infantry depends on the infantry smashing the steel plate of the tank with their fists.

However, even with such backward means of communication, the entire tank battalion was quickly reorganized and roared through the first line of defense of the Japanese army, and those stumps and severed arms turned into a bloody pulp of flesh under the crush of the tracks!

Behind the armored forces were the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Kuomintang Army, and more than 10,000 infantry followed the armored troops to assault, by the way, to eliminate the Japanese soldiers who had leaked and consolidate the positions occupied by the armored troops. On their flanks were the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Jin Army, which were tasked with making a feint attack and pinning down the two flanks of the Japanese army. Farther north and south, there were still 100,000 Zhongg and Northeast Army troops carrying out senseless outflanking, which was a specially arranged armed march to prevent them from having the opportunity to seize the county seat of Chaoyang.

In the forward headquarters of the squadron, Mao Zd, Luo Yaoguo, and Zhang Xueliang all held binoculars and looked at the scene on the front line. Seeing the tremendous power of the air force, artillery, infantry, and armored troops working together, the Northeast Army and the GCD Army sacrificed tens of thousands of people without shaking half a point of solid defense line, and they were actually like a thin layer of paper, which was lightly stabbed by the first division, which is the weakest in the Kuomintang army! The number of Japanese soldiers killed on the battlefield one by one is incalculable.

But the Japanese devils who still don't give up are still trying to stop the torrent of tanks rolling in by various means, but they only get more casualties!

Luo Yaoguo put down the binoculars and smiled slightly: "Breakthrough." "Really, today's breakthrough was a bit too smooth! Probably really because the weapon is easier to use? It seems that weaponism is still right!

The combat effectiveness of these No. 1 tanks is indeed not comparable to that of the previous Renault FT-17, and the A1B dive bomber equipped with the 660 hp Bmw-129 engine has also significantly improved the air time and bomb load, and the effect of suppressing the Japanese artillery group and reserves has also been greatly improved. If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, Luo Yaoguo himself would never have imagined that an infantry division equipped with 124 tanks and 90 heavy guns, as well as more than 80 dive bombers, could really defeat three permanent divisions of the Japanese army!

Zhang Xueliang also put down the binoculars and shook his head slightly: "I didn't expect these Japanese soldiers to be nothing more than this in front of the National Revolutionary Army with sophisticated weapons, it seems that the spirit of bushido is no match for the power of steel after all!" ”

Luo Yaoguo smiled slightly: "Of course." He pointed to the tanks rumbling in front of him: "The weapons and equipment of the Japanese are specially designed to restrain opponents such as the Northeast Army and the GCD Army, who only have light weapons and a small number of heavy weapons, but when they encounter our Guobi Revolutionary Army, which has more heavy weapons, stronger firepower, and better organization, their defeat is only expected." President Mao, are you? ”！