Chapter 319: Protest!

The Wehrmacht, a group of people from the teaching team, has a stinky problem. But there is one thing that is very particular, and that is the use of ammunition. The offensive tactics of the Wehrmacht pay attention to the concentrated use of artillery fire, the integration of ground and air, and the integration of infantry and artillery. Speaking of which, they were all born in poverty, and every time they saw the war reports in Europe, they felt shabby. But there is no way, the country is still a little poor, and the military salary expenses of so many people in the national defense force are not a small amount. Thirty percent of the fiscal revenue of the Republic of China is invested in the army, and thirty percent is invested in education, which has the combat effectiveness of today's army.

Whoever does not take the expensive shells inappropriately is a loser in the Wehrmacht, and everyone shouts and beats them.

After half an hour of artillery preparation, the extension began. Daiwa Jiro had already retreated with his headquarters, and he didn't stop until he was ten kilometers away, so he couldn't retreat any further, and he could see Vladivostok with a telescope.

Da Ting Jiro still had to retreat, and with such heavy artillery fire and aircraft bombing, he could not handle the command headquarters. Coupled with Miyazu and Tamen's kneeling and begging, they retreated after pretending to be fake.

The Wehrmacht's artillery fire gradually thinned out, but there was no intention of stopping, and the artillery was constantly firing. But this cannon doesn't seem to be the same.

That's right, this is a Russian-made 122 howitzer captured from Harbin and Shuangchengzi, this thing is only installed by the Russian army, stupid and black, and the generals of the Wehrmacht don't look down on it, but the power of this howitzer is not small at all. Anyway, these cannons can't be used as equipment, so they simply shoot all the captured shells.

So other guns stopped firing, and 12 122 howitzers were still firing. And concentrated in the front range of a thousand meters, the same as plowing repeatedly. Japanese divisions of this period. There is no formation of heavy artillery brigades yet. The Third Division has only one artillery brigade and 12 75 mountain guns, and it can't compete with the firepower, so it's very simple to pretend to be a grandson.

The Japanese divisions and regiments before and after World War I did belong to the turtle in terms of equipment. Marshal Fang, who has always paid attention to the intelligence of the Japanese army, when the main division of the Japanese army was still using 75 mountain artillery as the suppressive firepower, the top 30 elite divisions of the Wehrmacht, as long as they were in China, were all equipped with 105 howitzers.

To say that the power of the 105 gun is not small. Again, the key is how to solve the problem of logistics. Fang Jianxiong, who has been saying that fighting a war is logistics, has repeatedly emphasized in the deployment of this Far East intervention that it is to rely on the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Middle East Road to fight.

That is, the elite of the 22nd Division is equipped with a large number of cars, and the other divisions still use pack horses and bicycles as the main means of transportation. And one more is. In Siberia, a place of bird eggs, there is not much room for the car to play. In the long run, the main means of transport in Russia is trains. Cars don't have much of a role in the sparsely populated eastern part of Russia, and they are not as good as a combination of pack horses and bicycles. This point was deeply experienced by the 22nd Division during its trip to the Far East.

The 122 howitzer bombarded intermittently for more than two hours before stopping. The infantry of the 22nd Division had no intention of initiating a charge, but instead flew a reconnaissance plane, dropped a bunch of leaflets, and then shook their butts and flew away.

Ninji Okamura catches a flyer. I took a look at the Chinese and Japanese characters on it. The content is very simple, the Republic of China National Defense Force is here to protect overseas Chinese, and it is an ally with the Japanese army, and I hope that the Japanese army will not stop it. The last paragraph is more annoying. The deadline was tomorrow morning, and the Japanese army had to withdraw from Razdolinoye. In the future, it is not allowed to leave 20 kilometers north of Vladivostok, otherwise it will be considered a war against the squadron.

The flyers are simple, they are the kind that are mimeographed on wax paper, and they look rough. There is also a strong smell of ink on it, which makes people irritated when they smell it. Since the squadron did not launch an infantry attack, but only showed off its artillery fire, Okamura Ninji felt much more relaxed, and ran to the brigade headquarters outside the town with a leaflet.

The headquarters is more than 2,000 meters away from the town, which is not considered a line, but it is not safe from a distance, and it is within the range of the heavy artillery of the Chinese army. All the way back, I kept seeing a huge crater, the kind of 155 howitzer shells down, theoretically within 40 meters, no matter people or animals, either dead or wounded. The Japanese did not expect that the Wehrmacht would have so many heavy artillery, and suffered a big loss after a single artillery bombardment.

Gangmura Ninji rushed to the headquarters, which was not shelled, and Major General Miyazu was not there, and Tamen Daisa was presiding here. Upon inquiry, I learned that Miyazu had gone to a field hospital in the train carriage five kilometers behind.

In the morning's bombardment and shelling, the Fifth Brigade suffered more than 1,000 casualties, which is still incomplete. Okamura Ninji's expression was gloomy, he had been in the town all along, and naturally knew that the entire town had been reduced to ruins. If he hadn't been lucky, the latest shell had exploded a hundred meters away, and he might not have come back.

Silently handing the leaflet to Tamen Daisa, Okamura Ninji said: "Sir, withdraw it, this battle can't be fought like this." The gap in equipment is too large, and the Chinese army is obviously premeditated. ”

Duomen Dazuo nodded heavily and said: "What Gangmura-kun said is right, especially the heavy artillery independent regiment, although there are not many cannons, but the power is too great. The Toyohashi Wing (18th Wing) in the front-line position was directly killed by more than 500 people. More than half of the artillery fire of the Chinese army was aimed at the front-line positions. It is really unimaginable that after such a fierce artillery fire, the Chinese army launched an infantry attack, and the first-line position could not be defended. ”

"Report it to Your Excellency." As soon as Okamura Ninji's words fell, there was a sharp whistling sound in the sky, and his face suddenly changed.

The shelling continued to be carried out by the 122 howitzer, which belonged to the storage zài that did not feel distressed when the barrel was scrapped. It's useless to keep it for the future, just a little bit and shoot all the shells out.

When the news reached Vladivostok, Ohtani was furious. After reading the telegram, he could no longer care about getting angry, and immediately said to the chief of staff: "Inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lodge a protest with the Chinese government." ”

This made Oi Naritato very puzzled, wasn't the Great Japanese Imperial Army invincible? How do you think of protesting?

Picking up the telegram and looking at it, Oi understood that this battle could not be fought. At present, the total strength of the Vladivostok intervention army is more than two and a half divisions, and it is divided into two lines. Now Vladivostok has only one brigade of troops, which looks like a lot of troops, but in fact there are really not many. A 22nd Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht was at full strength of more than 15,000 people, which looked a little less than the Japanese army, but the problem was that there were far more than these forces.

The first is aviation, which the Japanese army has only a handful of aircraft, which are used for reconnaissance. This was followed by artillery, the telegram said that there were more than a hundred heavy guns, and one of the separate heavy artillery regiments was armed with several cannons of more than 200 calibers. Such large-caliber guns are coming, which clearly shows the rhythm of a decisive battle with the Japanese army. Finally, the 22nd Division did not launch an infantry assault, which left room for improvement.

According to the habit of the Japanese army, artillery was fired on the opposite side, and of course they had to return fire. The problem is that the entire Far Eastern Intervention Army, just one field heavy artillery brigade, is still used to guard Vladivostok. Previously, Lao Maozi's artillery in the fortress of Vladivostok, the big guys were blown up by the red army. Compared with artillery, the Japanese army cannot be compared.

Don't look at the fact that the Japanese army still talks about "the Great Japanese Imperial Army is invincible in the world" at every turn, in fact, the entire army has a very clear understanding. Not to mention that the world is invincible, the Republic of China Army can defeat the Japanese army with backward equipment. The Chinese government invested relatively little in the navy, and the main financial resources were invested in the army, so the Japanese army was tragic. Who makes the family a big country, the Continental Army is normal. Japan is an island country, and seventy percent of its military spending is spent on the navy, and the army is divided into three melons and two dates. That's it, the Navy is still not happy.

Oi Chengyuan put down the telegram's hand, as if he was holding a thousand pounds of weight, and let go of his hand The moment he let go, he sighed and said, "Let's inform Britain, the United States, France and other countries." Ohtani nodded, and after ordering the copy, he said, "Reply to the Great Court Army, retreat." ”

Daiwa Jiro heard the cannon in front of him go off again, and he was really angry, but there was nothing he could do. The Japanese army can attack, the problem is that Jiro Oniwa is not stupid, even if he is stupid, his men are not stupid. I won't allow him to launch a suicide attack. What are you kidding, almost a hundred heavy artillery pieces on the opposite side, mortars or anything are not counted. According to intelligence, there are more Wehrmacht mortars, what 120, 82, 60, the root is armed to the rhythm of the teeth. With the strength of one division and two wings, attacking the opponent's strong defensive positions is no different from sending him to the death. The point is that the Japanese artillery is too small, and the root will not play any role, and they will not even dare to open fire.

Fortunately, Vladivostok was calmer and immediately made a decision to protest. Going back, anyway, it was guarding Vladivostok, and the Chinese army did not dare to fight, otherwise they would have to face the Japanese naval guns. Thinking of this, Otani and the others were even more ashamed, those bastards in the navy had another reason to laugh at the army.

At the same time as ordering the retreat, Otani had people write a report describing the equipment of the 22nd Division of the Republic of China National Defense Force in an extremely exaggerated tone. And came to a conclusion that the imperial expenditure must be tilted towards the army, otherwise the Japanese Empire would really be an island country.

In the past, the Japanese Army still felt that a division could fight an elite infantry division of the Shangmin Army. Now when I look at the 22nd Division, which is armed to the teeth, I suddenly feel that in the past four years, the gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies has widened even more. In the past, the Japanese army lacked light machine guns and mortars, but now even heavy artillery is equipped on the opposite side. In fact, the 22nd Division only has 12 105 guns, but Otani doesn't care, let's exaggerate it first, let's talk about a heavy artillery regiment. 12 doors 105, 12 doors 155