Chapter 182: Sea of Fire Tactics

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Although it was now divided into a lone army by the enemy from the penetration of the two flanks, it was much better than the situation encountered by the two brigades to the west of him. At least a considerable part of the army is still complete, has not been completely disrupted, and still maintains part of its combat effectiveness. In addition, one infantry gun and one archery gun were preserved, and two heavy machine guns remained in the heavy machine gun squadron.

Given that the brigade is the entire 134th Wing, it is the only brigade that has not yet fallen into complete chaos. The commander of the 134th Wing, Seiichi Suzuki, ordered the four squadrons of the brigade not to assemble. Immediately with their own first configuration area, they launched a counter-charge to the west, trying to rescue the first brigade that was already in trouble on the front line of Encha.

It's not that Seiichi Suzuki doesn't want this brigade to assemble, but although the Anti-Union did not take this brigade as a key target in the first round of counterattacks, it has been blockading this brigade with artillery fire. Every attempt to rally was dispersed by the artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese Union.

The ability to assemble many times was in vain. Suzuki Seiichi didn't care if it was right or not, and if it didn't violate what he had learned at the military academy, he ordered the brigade to attack westward in a scattered manner. It's not that Seiichi Suzuki has any ambitions at this time.

The reason why he was so tough was that he demanded that the 3rd Brigade converge with the 1st Brigade. Because he knew that in this area of the Zaonan Plain, if the three infantry brigades to which he belonged were scattered and passively beaten, they could only be eaten by the enemy in one bite. Only by being back to back and close together can we get through the most difficult time.

In addition, Seiichi Suzuki believed that the key attack direction of the enemy army was the 155th Wing on the right flank of the 3rd Brigade and the Encha line on the left flank. But between the 3rd and 1st Brigades, the enemy did not have a lot of troops to intercept. If the 3rd Brigade assaults with all its might, there is still a great hope of success.

It's just that for Seiichi Suzuki and his subordinates, the ideal is very full, but the reality is cruel. He didn't expect that on the left flank of the Third Brigade, the anti-coalition forces that divided the Third Brigade and the First Brigade did not have a lot of troops, only two infantry companies, but the firepower equipped and the support firepower that could be obtained were far greater than that of an infantry regiment.

Under the situation of insufficient frontal input troops, the front-line commanders of the Anti-Japanese Union chose to attack the Japanese troops on both flanks first. For the possible follow-up reaction of this third brigade, corresponding preparations have been made, and a feast of firepower has already been prepared for him on the battlefield east of Encha.

On his left flank he was dedicated to intercepting his anti-Union forces in close proximity to the 1st Brigade, albeit with only two infantry companies and a makeshift machine-gun company. However, not only were the two infantry companies equipped with 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, but the machine gun company to which they belonged was not an ordinary machine gun company.

This company is an anti-aircraft battalion of a division and is equipped with four anti-aircraft machine gun batteries of four-in-one 14-mm anti-aircraft machine guns. This anti-aircraft machine gun company did not undertake air defense tasks in the battlefield east of Encha, and its only task was to fire all machine guns horizontally to support the infantry in combat.

Behind the unit, there was a 76-mm cannon battery, as well as an 82-mm mortar company and two 120-mm heavy mortars, which were specially designed to provide fire support. At the same time, it was constantly intercepted by fire, disrupting its attempts to reunite several squadrons.

After receiving the order of the wing commander, although the group leader believed that it was scattered on the spot, that it was not possible to communicate with itself, and that only two and a half of the four squadrons under his command were now relatively complete, it was quite inappropriate to use the formation of a squadron or even a squadron to meet the deployment of the first brigade to the west. But under strict military orders, the captain of the group could only act hard.

As soon as the 3rd Brigade, which was attacking westward, emerged, the squadron that was the first to attack, and the squadron that had been following the brigade headquarters all along, had just opened up the skirmish line with the first wave of attacking forces, and as soon as it entered a distance of 400 meters from the defenders' position, it was intercepted by extremely heavy fire.

The dense crossfire of two flat quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns deployed in the front depth and on the flanks swept through the entire line of attack of the Japanese army and the entire battlefield within a thousand meters of depth, like sixteen iron brooms. Coupled with the automatic fire of all fronts, a dense fire network is formed.

Although the squadron used typical Japanese offensive tactics, attacking quickly and frontally, it also tried to find the weak points of the defenders on both flanks. However, the four anti-aircraft machine guns with a firing range of more than 2,000 meters and almost no dead ends on the battlefield of Pingchuan were inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army.

This infantry squadron, which was carried out in strict accordance with the typical offensive tactics of the Japanese army, could not even stand up machine guns and grenadiers under the blows of the quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns equivalent to 16 large-caliber machine guns and the 60 mortars that swept across the entire battlefield. Not to mention entering the 200-meter fire suppression distance, even if you want to break through the distance of 300 meters, you can't do anything.

In the past, the Japanese army used to use various tactics in the form of effective attacks, but it became a conscious death. After the first round of offensive, the squadron, as the leading bird, threw down two-thirds of its troops. Behind them, the mobile artillery group that provided fire support from the Anti-Japanese Union concentrated all its firepower and, under the guidance of the forward artillery observers, used artillery shells to form a fire network that was repeatedly pulled back and forth between the first and second lines of the Japanese army.

The remnants of the vanguard squadron could not be withdrawn, and the two squadrons that arrived in the 6th successive after also rushed forward under the interception of the fire network composed of artillery shells. Moreover, the artillery fire of the Anti-Japanese Union was repeatedly pulled back and forth on their heads, so that these two squadrons, which were only exposed to artillery fire on the unobstructed Zaonan Plain, were covered under the fire net composed of artillery shells as soon as they approached the battlefield.

Although he knew the Wing Commander's orders, he was a little too rigid. However, the captain who still attacked hard-headed tried his best, but he still couldn't change the tide of the battle. The two squadrons that arrived later even touched the edge of the battlefield when they were bombed by artillery shells and suffered heavy casualties.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the 3rd Brigade of the 134th Wing, which was ordered to rescue the 1st Brigade, not only failed to get closer to the 1st Brigade with a distance of only five kilometers in a straight line, but also lost embers in the bitter battle, exhausting the last trace of vitality. The infantry brigade, which had completely lost its ability to attack, was really unable to move closer in either direction.

Faced with a situation where he barely attacked for nearly five hours, but failed to move forward. and the huge casualties paid in the attack, there is really nothing that can be done, knowing that if he continues to fight like this, he will have to throw a large number of people from his own brigade here.

In the end, he gave up any attempt to get closer to the 1st Brigade, and after trying his best to collect the remnants of the defeated army, he forcibly broke through in the southeast direction. As for the wing commander's order, let's throw it aside. This somewhat tenacious captain of the Japanese army, even if he has the heart to complete the order of the wing commander, he can no longer do anything.

Their retreat is equivalent to completely ruining the last remaining hope of the Japanese army on the line from Encha to Zhangxiutun. The two infantry brigades, which had organized many forced breakouts but failed in failure, lost the last of their strength in the process of breaking out.

In the face of the anti-coalition forces rushing up, the remaining Japanese troops resisted desperately. But it was only the last act of resistance that was spurred to the death, and like a weed thrown into a whirlpool, it quickly disappeared into the water without making any waves. By the evening of the same day, the 1st Brigade of the 134th Wing, which was the key target of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, became the first Japanese army to be completely annihilated.

While the 134th Wing was struggling, the 155th Wing, which was attacking between Zaonan and Jingxian, was also moaning in pain. Compared to the 134th Wing, the 155th Wing fell more shells in this direction than the 134th Wing. The most important thing is that they faced not only the counterattack of the infantry, but also the attack of the only anti-United tank group on the battlefield of Zaonan.

Although the number of tanks that Chen Hanzhang invested in the Zaonan battlefield was not much, it also made the 155th Wing feel pain and helplessness. It can be said that the captain of the 155th Wing, Nishioka Takaiichisa, is suffering much more than his fellow Suzuki Seiichi Saku.

Facing the enemy attack aircraft group on his head, napalm and high-explosive aerial bombs were constantly dropped, as well as dense artillery fire from the enemy's depth. Although the commander of the 155th Wing, Nishioka Takaiichisa, commanded the troops to constantly try to shrink and move closer in accordance with the plan of the division and regiment headquarters before the war, and wanted to close together the two infantry brigades to which he belonged and the two squadrons of the 152nd Wing.

However, his troops were still in chaos under the intensive artillery fire interception of the anti-coalition in front of the face and the repeated onslaught of tank clusters. After exhausting all the strength to feed, he was unable to gather the two infantry brigades he belonged to. The casualties suffered in the process of retraction only made the already deteriorating situation of the 155th Wing even worse.

As the most important direction of the counterattack on the entire Zaonan battlefield, the location of the 155th Wing was taken special care by Chen Hanzhang in terms of firepower. Sixty percent of the rocket artillery groups that Chen Hanzhang transferred to the Zaonan battlefield were deployed in this direction. The firepower of the 122 rocket artillery group, which is deployed at a depth of 5 kilometers, is sufficient to cover the entire battlefield within 10 kilometers of the front line.

On the front of the 155th Wing, it is equivalent to three 122 rocket artillery battalions, four 107 rocket artillery companies, plus five 150 howitzer companies, four 105 howitzer companies, plus two 122 howitzer battalions, and a large number of 76-mm cannons and 120-mm mortars.

The fire network formed by the anti-United Nations artillery group repeatedly pulled back and forth on the various positions of the 155th Wing. The anti-union artillery group deployed around the 155th Wing had a fairly clear goal. After the first round of rocket artillery fire was extended, before the units of the 155th Wing could wake up from the first round of artillery fire, the second round of strike fire, which consisted of barreled artillery, fell again.

After two rounds of artillery fire, the group of attack planes of the Anti-United Nations roared again. One napalm after another, falling vertically from the bomber group composed of the B25 bombers and the Blenheim bombers of the Anti-Japanese Union, completely ignited the entire deployment area of the 155th Wing and all the places where the Japanese troops were stored.