Chapter 449 Mobile Artillery Fire
At the moment when the attack on Wuhu entered the street battle, Changzhou, Sun Tao personally led the army to arrive at the predetermined attack position, and the artillery, at the moment they just arrived, included Changzhou into the firing range.
The twenty amphibious self-propelled guns were not tanks, but mobile artillery. Adopting the manufacturing concept of amphibious tanks, equipped with 150 cannons, the new concept gun with adjustable firing angle is far longer than the range of the tank, the power is great, and it is absolutely powerful for suppression.
The artillery left by the Japanese army in Changzhou was all 75 mountain artillery and Heye artillery, and the heavy artillery was sent to the front. They believe that the water is everywhere here, and it is difficult for cannons to be transported from other places to the vicinity of Changzhou.
However, in order to complete the cutting and encirclement, Dong Ku ordered the island to manufacture this kind of self-propelled artillery that is convenient for rapid movement in the water town a month ago. The protection of this amphibious self-propelled artillery is a little worse, but the firing range can be guaranteed to be more than five kilometers and reach a distance of eight kilometers. For fire suppression in areas where there is no heavy artillery, that is definitely king.
In order to deal with the Japanese army, which had weak tank strength but not too weak firepower advantage, Dong Ku selected this amphibious self-propelled gun from the self-propelled artillery in the late stage of World War II, and changed the 200-caliber gun to 150, so that it could be matched with the ammunition type of the artillery and facilitate supply.
Where did Sun Tao carry out street battles in Wuhu, the surrounding troops pressed on the whole line, and Liu Zhong's army in Jiaxing chased and killed the fleeing Japanese army like sheep, and when cleaning the battlefield, he ordered the artillery to start bombarding the outer positions of Changzhou.
The defenders of Changzhou were holding there for a long time, they had just arrived from Korea and had taken over the defense of the reinforced brigade here, with 60 75 guns, 100 mortars, and 50 heavy machine guns. With more than 200 light machine guns, they have reason to believe that they will be able to hold Changzhou and ensure the smooth flow of land supplies.
Mobile outposts had already spotted the approaching army, but the Japanese did not care. It's still two kilometers away, so there's no need to panic at all, once it's within the range of the mortar. He was cutting off the enemy's retreat with seven or five cannons, and at that time, as soon as the cannons rang out, the battle was over.
Just as the commander of the Tashiro Kanta Brigade was waiting for further enemy movements, a rumbling whistling sound caught his attention.
This is large-caliber artillery?
He raised his binoculars suspiciously and looked at the outer positions, wondering how the other party could quickly transport large-caliber artillery in the area crisscrossing the ditch.
At the moment when he raised the telescope, a dazzling fire suddenly flashed in the outer position, followed by a loud bang, and the enemy shook. He almost fell.
"How did they build artillery positions so quickly? What artillery is this?! ”
Tashiro was so shocked that he didn't care about researching, turned his head and roared: "Order the mountain artillery to destroy the enemy's artillery positions and cover the firing within four kilometers!" ”
With his order, forty 75 guns roared, leaving twenty to deal with enemy artillery positions that could be pinpointed.
He sold himself by giving this order. Seven kilometers away, Sun Tao looked at the smoke in the distance and listened to the rumbling cannonballs. Turning his head and asking: "Are the enemy artillery positions within range?" ”
"Commander-in-Chief, Forward Observer reports. This is 75 mountain artillery and field artillery, eighteen times the caliber, with a range of 6,000 meters, which is still within the range of our artillery, and can be killed in one round. ”
The battalion commander of the self-propelled artillery said confidently.
"Good! Kill it and flatten the forward positions. Let's move forward! ”
Sun Tao stood on a dirt bag and shouted without looking back.
"Yes!"
In response to the order, twenty guns quickly moved their muzzles, and in a loud roar, five guns in groups. Shells were discharged one after another and pounced on four artillery positions.
Kanta Tashiro was holding a telescope and looking at the smoke and fire in the distance, thinking that the opponent's artillery was not sounding, it must have been destroyed, suddenly, in the roaring explosion, a scream came, and then, the earth shook violently, and in the loud noise, he was knocked to the ground, and then three loud noises came, one stronger than the other, which shook Tashiro Kanta's ears and made his head dizzy.
Before he could get up from the ground, the generals around him were still rolling into a ball, and a gray-headed and dusty man rushed into the command headquarters, shouting in horror: "All the artillery positions have been destroyed!" ”
"Destroyed?"
Kanta Tashiro understood, and he shook his drowsy head and asked again with confirmation.
"Your Excellency, our ...... Our artillery positions...... All destroyed!! ”
Nakasa gasped and said urgently.
"What?!"
Tashiro was so startled that he got up with a grunt, and before he could ask again, a loud bang sounded on the position five or six hundred meters away, followed by a continuous boom.
In the earthquake, his head suddenly became bigger. The power of the cannonball is more than 12 hundred, and it is an absolute heavy artillery. And the range aside, his artillery positions were destroyed, and he had to be beaten.
"Order the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 76th Wing to attack enemy artillery positions!!"
Tashiro was too unwilling to be tortured by artillery fire, and brazenly gave the order to charge.
At this time, after two rounds of artillery bombardment, the troops had slowly moved forward, preparing to enter the second artillery attack point to destroy the forward positions of the Japanese army and avoid possible artillery attacks.
At the moment when the sports car moved, news suddenly came from the front that the Japanese army had attacked.
"It's good to come!"
Sun Tao shouted.
He did not rush to attack, in order to reduce the casualties, and to buy no time for the encircled troops, he would not let go of a single Japanese soldier. Hearing that the Japanese troops had left their positions and launched a counter-charge, he was of course happy, and the annihilation of the enemy during the movement was their forte.
"Order the Sixth Brigade to annihilate all the incoming enemies, and don't let any of them back!"
After Sun Tao gave the order, he followed the team that moved forward to the headquarters.
After receiving the order to attack, the team, which was still four kilometers away from the Japanese position, rushed forward quickly, and when the artillery had just arrived at the second shelling position, the sniper rifle popped out.
Two Japanese brigades, armed with guns and mortars, rushed in the direction of the shelling, intending to get closer, destroying the enemy's artillery positions with mortars and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. But as they were marching, the abrupt heads of the soldiers exploded, and blood splashed and fell to the ground.
"Charge!!"
For the first time, the Japanese troops, who had just arrived from Korea and had taken over the defense of Changzhou, shouted and launched a suicidal charge to the front.
Of course, the soldiers of the advance army lying in the grass would not be polite, and in the poof, a puff of blood mist flew, and rows of Japanese soldiers fell on the way to charge, and in just a few seconds, the ground was full of corpses, and there were not even many wounded.
The abrupt and strange blow made the Japanese soldiers who were still alive stunned and hesitated, not knowing what was going on in Lu Dao.
But this hesitation decided their fate, and in the continuous flow of blood, in just a dozen seconds, there were not a few hundred of the more than 2,000 Japanese troops still alive.
Those don't see the opportunity well
The Japanese soldiers who lay down temporarily escaped the catastrophe. Seeing that there were headshot corpses all around, and the brains like white flowers and tofu brains flowing, at this time, where did they still have the arrogance they had before? It didn't collapse right away, it was tough enough.
For the first time, these half-new soldiers of the advance army saw the Japanese army rushing forward regardless of it, quickly pulling the trigger, and they had not forgotten to shoot their heads, and when they couldn't see a standing figure, they all muttered in their hearts, these stupid birds, won't they lie down?
Thinking about it, but the hands were not idle, those heads faintly in the grass, flashing helmets, did not delay shooting.
The Japanese soldiers who were lying down had not yet turned a corner in their minds, and they wanted to understand what was going on, and in the thumping sound, they just lay on the ground one by one, and there was no sound.
"Ahh
Finally, some Japanese soldiers could not stand the silent devastation of death, screamed, stood up and ran backwards.
But he forgot that the bullet behind him had long eyes, and before he could take the second step, his skull exploded, and a cloud of blood sprayed out of his chest, and the person also grabbed it, lying there convulsing.
At the moment when the Japanese were abused, the artillery was already in place, moving two kilometers forward, and at the moment when the battle was about to end here, the shells flew again.
Sun Tao listened to the position of the movement of the various departments, and knew that the encirclement of the Dao was about to be completed, and the 50,000 army did not have to bother at all to deal with the more than 10,000 Japanese troops, so he did not wait for the complete encirclement and ordered an attack.
Tashiro Kanta had been clean for less than half an hour at this time, and he had not been shelled, and the losses had already been reported. One of the four 75-gun positions was left, two were killed, most of the two cannons were pushed down by the shock wave, and most of the personnel were killed and had lost their effectiveness. As for the other twenty field cannons, he didn't dare to use them casually, this was the only long-range suppression force he could rely on.
But at the moment when the casualties were counted and the news was sent back by the troops waiting for the assault, the sporadic gunfire made him wonder why the Ludao team did not encounter a large force, but only sporadically when the guns rang out, the enemy's shelling began again.
There was a loud bang, the ground shook, and the Japanese troops who attacked were all lying on the ground, and none of them were alive.
And the warriors who attacked them had swept away the remnants of the enemy, and after confirming that they were all dead, they had already rushed forward.
As soon as the shelling began, the forward positions were overturned in an instant, and a group of five artillery pieces, a group of several tens of meters in diameter, destroyed the positions in two rounds, and then the artillery fire extended and began to bombard in depth.
When Kanta Tashiro saw the flames on the battlefield in the distance, he felt that something was wrong, and he felt that the enemy on the opposite side had a terrifying combat power that he could not resist, unlike the mud of North Korea. But it was too late to have a sense of crisis, his only artillery position had not yet found the position of the enemy's artillery, a dense explosion sounded, and then his telescope saw the figures running on the forward position in fancy clothes, with grimaces painted on their faces, holding spears with scopes.
What kind of team is this......
The thought crossed his mind in despair.
But he didn't need an answer, the moment the thought came to him, there was a sudden light in front of him, and then the violent shockwave tore through his body, so that he who left the underground headquarters and was about to retreat instantly vaporized and turned into a molecule...... (To be continued......)