Chapter 337: Guarding Huaining
readx;? The position outside Huaining City, a company was bombarded by Japanese artillery fire for several days, and the fortifications on several positions were damaged, because it was the obstacles and iron wires arranged in front of the first position, and the fortifications on the first position were basically not much good, Sun Yuanwu and the soldiers on the first position were also accustomed to this situation, and they were using all the terrain to block. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Nature's Novel
Sun Yuanwu gave an order, and the four bazooka teams and the two 82 recoilless gun teams each found a good firing position. Because the ammunition arsenal cannot imitate the bazooka, each rocket launcher can only be equipped with six rockets, and the soldiers cherish it very much, and they will not use it easily. And the shells of the 82 recoilless guns have been successfully copied by the Longzhou Arsenal, so the shells are not nervous.
When the 82 recoilless gun used armor-piercing shells for direct attack, although the range was only 300 meters. But the accuracy and power are pretty good. With its ability to penetrate armor 120 mm thick at an angle of 60 degrees, it would be too easy against a Japanese tank with only 30 mm thick front armor.
The Japanese tanks did not know that death was waiting for them in front of them, and they still marched forward with great force. When they were only 200 meters away from the position, there were several soft noises on the position, and four black shadows swooped down on the four Japanese tanks like lightning. These are armor-piercing shells from two 82 recoilless guns and two high-explosive anti-tank grenades fired from two 40 rocket launchers.
In just an instant, four shells accurately hit four Japanese tanks, and the ensuing four explosions made the four tanks that had been proud of their prowess all blown up into fireballs, and two of them were so martyred that even the turrets flew into the air. The explosion of the tank was the signal, and the various weapons on the position spat out tongues of fire, and the bullets rained down on the attacking Japanese army.
Yuichiro Nagano, who supervised the battle, never imagined that the four medium tanks that were relying on the barrier would be destroyed so easily by the Shina army, and these tanks did not even get close to the position. By the time Yuichiro Nagano came to his senses from the shock, a large group of soldiers who had gone up had already suffered heavy casualties and were pressed to death more than a hundred meters in front of the position, unable to advance an inch.
The shelling, which had been used to cover the infantry attack at this time, was stopped in order to prevent accidental injury. Yuichiro Nagano gritted his teeth and ordered the artillery to open fire, so eight 75 field guns and 16 mortars on the position again shelled the defenders' positions. At this time, the Japanese artillery bombardment, regardless of accidental injuries, really brought casualties to the defenders on the position.
After all, six of the more than 20 artillery shells were 150 heavy mortars, and under the flying shrapnel, there were always fighters who were hit. Sun Yuanwu, who was manipulating a light machine gun to shoot, saw that the Japanese army was shelling again, and hurriedly ordered the mortars behind him to return fire. The artillery on the two positions began to confront.
The confrontation between the two sides should have been a loss for the defenders' artillery, but the defenders' 16 mortars took the lead, and after firing a three-way shot, the Japanese artillery began to counterattack, and the three-shot had already destroyed part of the Japanese artillery, so the 10-minute artillery battle was defeated, but the defenders had the advantage.
Yuichiro Nagano saw that the form was wrong, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, but as a result, a large group of infantry lost half of its men and horses before withdrawing in embarrassment, and there were only a few artillery pieces left in the wing. At this time, Yuichiro Nagano didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly ran to Jingong Town to ask the brigade commander, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, for help.
When Major General Kunizaki Noboru heard that the attack covered by an infantry brigade and four tank vehicles did not attack the defenders' position, all four tank vehicles on the opposite side were destroyed, and half of the infantry brigade was killed or wounded, and in addition, there were only a few artillery pieces left in the wing, so angry that he scolded Yuichiro Nagano, and scolded Yuichiro Nagano so much that he didn't dare to come out.
After scolding, Noboru Kunisaki's anger also disappeared a lot, and he couldn't help but be surprised by the tenacity of the defenders. Finally, Noboru Kunisaki took out the most powerful weapon he could come up with, an incendiary bomb. After an order, the 5th Artillery Wing was replaced with incendiary bombs, and then fired incendiary bombs at the positions of the defenders.
The Japanese attack just now, due to the artillery bombardment from behind, caused the defenders to sacrifice eleven people and seriously wound eight people, but fortunately, the medical staff are experienced and the medicine is sufficient, and the eight seriously wounded are not in danger of life. Sun Yuanwu stood at the entrance of the anti-artillery hole, waiting for the Japanese to shell again, but this time he was waiting for the attack of incendiary bombs.
Unlike bombs, incendiary bombs can burn on the soil for half a day, and the position is in flames for a while. The high temperature and lack of oxygen caused by the combustion made it quite uncomfortable for the soldiers to hide in the artillery holes. The shelling lasted twenty minutes, and the fire on the positions began to subside after half an hour.
Seeing that the fire was a little weaker, the soldiers in the anti-artillery hole couldn't help but rush out of the anti-artillery hole, everything that could be burned on the position was burned, and there were still many places still burning. Even so, two incendiary bombs fell from the mouth of an anti-artillery hole, and when the incendiary bombs were about to be extinguished, only more than 20 soldiers from a platoon of soldiers in the cave rushed out, and the rest of the soldiers died of suffocation.
After the Japanese incendiary bombs were fired, they were followed by ordinary shells, and in this case, the soldiers did not have time to dodge and fell down one after another by shrapnel. Yuichiro Nagano took the opportunity to send an infantry brigade to attack. Sun Yuanwu was also anxious, ignoring the burning of the soil on the side of the trench, shouting: "Enter the position! Enter the position!" and then took the lead and threw himself on the edge of the trench.
With Sun Yuanwu taking the lead, the soldiers also rushed to the position one after another in the face of artillery fire, and the Japanese infantry brigade had just entered the front 200 meters of the position, and the position was full of firepower, and the Japanese soldiers who fought for a time turned on their backs. Even if the Fifth Division was an elite division in the Japanese army, it was difficult to advance in the face of such dense firepower. Half an hour later, the Japanese withdrew.
Seeing that the Japanese army had withdrawn, Sun Yuanwu began to count the number of people, and the original two and a half companies with full staff, 340 soldiers, now only more than 200 people can continue to fight, and nearly half of them have been lost. But the main thing is that there is no longer a single decent fortification on the position, there is only a scorched earth and large and small craters.
Sun Yuanwu was about to take the remaining soldiers back to the defensive artillery hole to avoid the upcoming Japanese bombardment, when the call of the battalion commander Zhou Yuchun came from the walkie-talkie. Sun Yuanwu connected the walkie-talkie, the second battalion commander Zhou Yuchun anxiously asked about the situation on the position, Sun Yuanwu reported the situation to the battalion commander in the walkie-talkie, the battalion commander Zhou Yuchun conveyed the order of the deputy regiment commander Feng Lisan, let the first-line position hold until dark, and then withdraw to the second-line position.
Sun Yuanwu looked at the sky, the sun had already turned west, and it was estimated that the Japanese army would have at most a second attack before dark. After Sun Yuanwu returned to the anti-artillery hole, he conveyed the battalion commander's order. The Japanese army only made one attack before dark and stopped, and this attack was also not fierce, and after being suppressed, they held on a little and then retreated.
After dark, Sun Yuanwu and the soldiers on the position cleaned up the position, brought all the useful things, and then carried the remains of the sacrificed soldiers, supported the seriously wounded, and withdrew from the front-line position. On the second line, the battalion commander Zhou Yuchun was waiting for the withdrawn soldiers, while the third company was repairing the fortifications that had been damaged during the day overnight.
Sun Yuanwu and the others came to the second line of defense, and the soldiers of the baggage company had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly took the bodies of the martyrs and the seriously wounded and sent them to the city. Zhou Yuchun merged the remaining 1st and 2nd companies into a reinforced company, and asked them to rest first and prepare to continue to face Little Japan tomorrow.
The next morning, the Japanese army first bombarded the front-line positions for a long time, and the bombing was filled with gunsmoke and flames. Then the infantry carefully occupied the empty position. The officers and men guarding the second-line positions quietly watched the Japanese army's performance, and they were very unhappy. In the hearts of the soldiers, Little Japan is a little more powerful in artillery, and everything else is scum.
The Japanese attacking troops were changed from the 11th Wing to the 41st Wing, and the Wing Commander Tetsujiro Yamada picked up a big bargain as soon as he came up, and took the first line of defense of the Shina Army without any casualties, and he was also a little proud in his heart. After taking the first line of defense, Yamada Tetsujiro immediately sent his troops to attack the second line of defense.
The distance between the first line of defense and the second line of defense is 500 meters, and like the first line of defense, the second line of defense has a system of fortifications such as trenches, anti-artillery holes, sandbag bunkers, and light and dark bunkers. Although the fortifications on the second line of defense were also affected and damaged during the bombardment of the past few days, the damage was not serious, and there were soldiers who repaired it at night.
At present, as long as all the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the 568th Regiment on the second-line position can continue to fight, not only are there a considerable number of light and heavy machine guns, but also 28 mortars, including 10 100 heavy mortars. There is an open area of 300 meters between the second-line position and the first-line position, and the officers and men of the first battalion, which has a large number of automatic weapons, can use this 300-meter open space to effectively kill and injure the attacking Japanese troops.
The 41st Wing was no worse equipped than the 11th Wing and also had its own artillery squadron. The whole regiment also has 24 artillery pieces, including 8 75 mountain guns, 4 Type 92 infantry guns, and 6 150 heavy mortars. Tetsujiro Yamada knew that the 11th Wing had suffered a loss in the artillery battle with the defenders of China, so he scattered the gun emplacements so that the artillery squadron would not suffer too much in the artillery battle behind.
The artillery position and the wing command post did not move forward, but remained in place, and rushing to the front-line position was a brigade under Yamada Tetsujiro Daisa, the captain of this brigade, after receiving the order to continue the attack, had an infantry squadron prepare for the attack, and then asked the wing commander Yamada Tetsujiro Osaa for artillery support.