Compared with the Soviet Union's Katyusha rocket artillery during World War II, the 40-tube 122mm vehicle-mounted rocket launcher produced by the Central Plains Border Region Arsenal, which was completely designed and produced as a template for the same type of rocket artillery in the future, not only has the range, power, and accuracy far exceeded several times, but the biggest weakness of the rocket artillery -- the reloading speed of the dragged shells has also been accelerated several times, and even if it is inconvenient to load at night, the rocket artillery regiment directly under the 15 th Group Army still shortens the shelling interval to less than five minutes. Almost as soon as the devil relieved his breath, he was immediately beaten again, and it was repeated many times, making the devil want to die

When the rocket artillery regiment rained down five consecutive rounds of artillery bombardment, the Japanese suffered more than 30,000 casualties (Note 1) and almost completely collapsed their morale. During the continuous raging of rocket artillery, the Japanese longitudinal who was stubbornly defending Bengbu accepted the latest task issued by Hu Weidong through telegrams, and they successively sent three death squads of 100 people to secretly cross the bridge and launch an attack by taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese troops on the other side of the river to take care of themselves, and achieved unexpected miraculous results.

Since the officers and men of the Japanese column spoke Japanese, wore Japanese uniforms, used Japanese weapons, and had night cover, the devils could not easily distinguish between friend and foe, and where did they have time to check the passwords in the unprecedented chaos caused by the rocket artillery rage? As a result, the devils suffered a big loss when they landed, and in the extreme chaos and panic, soon some devils began to injure their comrades by mistake because of nervous tension, and this fight could not be stopped, and the three Japanese death squads took the opportunity to fan the flames everywhere, and as a result, more devils died of cannibalism than by enemy rockets, and even Ishihara Waner died in the chaos, which made Hu Weidong, who originally wanted to capture him, regretful

At this time, the Japanese army could be said to have lost the game, but in order to prevent accidents, Hu Weidong still waited until dawn the next day. During this period, the desperate devils spontaneously broke through the siege many times, but they were all repelled by the commanders and fighters of the 15th Army, who had been prepared for a long time, and thousands of Japanese soldiers died under the machine guns alone. And Hu Weidong made the flares specially brought by the troops even more indispensable.

The next day, as soon as the eastern sky shone a little brighter, Hu Weidong gave the order for an all-out attack, and with the cooperation of a large number of tanks and armored vehicles of the 15 th Army and the New 38 Division, which had rested relatively well at night, more than 100,000 elite soldiers rushed into the Japanese position, which had already been bombarded to pieces. At this time, the Japanese troops still did not recover from last night's blow, and they did not even return to their original positions, and they were generally very tired from sleepless nights. Moreover, he lost Ishihara Wan'er, the main general and spiritual pillar, and the discouraged devils were simply unable to resist the all-out attack of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops. As a result, when the battle was completely over, the commanders and fighters of the 15 th Army and the new 51st and 38th Divisions still had time to enjoy lunch that day.

The 18th Division of the Japanese Army, which was still storming Bengbu the day before, fled after hearing the news, and even had no time to destroy some baggage, but unfortunately the Japanese suffered too many casualties to pursue it. In addition to the commendations and commendations that conformed to the usual practice, Hu Weidong did not forget to fulfill his promise to expand the Japanese column into permanent divisions and regiments, or to organize the troops according to the permanent divisions and regiments with a relatively large number of pack horses. After the completion of the Japanese column, even the strength of the basic establishment increased to 28,500 people, and Hu Weidong also agreed to organize a reserve force of about 30,000 people (garrison or independent garrison formation) for him, so that even if the Japanese column was seriously reduced, it could quickly restore its combat effectiveness, so that the Japanese prisoners of war who had completed the ideological transformation were fully utilized, and Hu Weidong believed that with the ability and experience of those political workers under his command. The conversion of those recruits captured since the beginning of the Battle of the Central Plains would have been much more rapid and thorough than before.

The main reason why Hu Weidong dared to boldly let the Japanese Vertical accelerate its expansion was mainly because the victory of the Central Plains Conference had already been decided, and the Japanese had always judged their heroes by success or failure, and the possibility of chaos in the Japanese Vertical was much smaller than that in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Besides, the 15 th Group Army will certainly be expanded after the end of the Central Plains Battle, and according to Hu Weidong's Jihua, the field troops alone will be expanded to more than 500,000 people

In these two consecutive beautiful battles, Hu Weidong only relied on the 15th Army, the New 51st Division, and the New 38th Division, which rushed south to help during the campaign, the 167,000 field troops, and almost annihilated the entire 400,000 Japanese troops in just a few days (some of the 400,000 devils still escaped, but some of the results of the Japanese in Bengbu were outside the 400,000, and the total was very close to the integer of 400,000. In total, more than 170,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and more than 220,000 prisoners were captured, but only more than 30,000 casualties were paid (if you count the casualties of the Japanese column and the Japanese "liberation fighters" who were incorporated into the army during the war, it is about 50,000). A small price. Although the consumption of ammunition was really large, so that the 15th Group Army temporarily lost the ability to storm Xuzhou, but after eliminating 400,000 devils, the Japanese troops in Kaifeng and Xuzhou, which were surrounded by the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and the 15th Group Army, had become lone troops, and it was only a matter of time before they were annihilated. But the butterfly effect brought about by his crossing has become more and more intense

The Battle of Huaibei seemed to be an unbelievably brilliant victory, which greatly shocked the entire Shijie, including the Western powers, and even a very small number of Westerners shouted the "Red China Threat Theory" for the first time, believing that once the Red Party ruled the whole of China, China would likely become the second Red Empire after the Soviet Union, and the West would be "free shijie" (in fact, "democracy" had always been synonymous with the Red camp until the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, when the West could only advertise "freedomPoses a huge threat

Note 1: However, due to the fact that the lethality of submunitions and air-burst bombs is too dependent on shrapnel, and the area of the Japanese army's position is not small, there are very few shells that repeatedly fall in the same place, so the devils are injured more and less dead, and only more than 5,000 people are killed. In fact, rocket artillery is only terrifying, and it is a great blow to the morale of the enemy, and the absolute lethality is actually not very strong, unless the enemy has no position cover and is densely packed when attacked, it is almost impossible to wipe out most of the enemy army of the same size by rocket artillery alone, not to mention that the number of rocket artillery equipment of the 15 th Group Army is still relatively small. (To be continued.) )

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