Battle of the River Crossing (3)
"Colonel! We received a map of the enemy's coordinates, but we can't guarantee that we will be able to destroy every bunker! "Colonel Hawke's Chief of Staff report." The bombing batch was divided into three waves, the first wave attacked with *, the second wave attacked with *, and the third wave used heavy aerial bombs to bomb a wide area. "Colonel Hawke has decided to use indiscriminate bombardment against the Japanese bunker group! According to the order of Colonel Hawke, the US bombers began to take off, and the first wave attacked with *, and in the absence of anti-aircraft weapons in the Japanese army, the US planes flew as low as possible to accurately bomb the target! The deviation of the bombing is still very large, but after all, it was precision bombing, and it still blew up part of the Japanese pillboxes! The second wave of US planes was naturally not fuel-efficient lamps, and a large number of * were thrown down, burning the Japanese bunker group and the vicinity into a sea of fire, which was not a precise bombing, but a wide range of flames still burned a lot of Japanese soldiers! The third wave carried 500 kilograms of aviation*, although it did not carry out precision bombing, because it was too heavy, so the American planes did not dare to dive too low, and even so, the powerful aerial bombs still destroyed a lot of Japanese bunkers!
"Hurry, hurry! The mortar flattened me and hit! "Liu Xiaoshan led his assault regiment to attack the Japanese army, because he was attacking from the side, the Japanese army's fortifications were either forward or backward, and there was no way for Liu Xiaoshan to kill on the side, because the attack on the front and back was still fierce!" The third battalion rushed me according to this tunnel, and brought me this bunker group! Liu Xiaoshan shouted at the command, and at the same time admired in his heart how strong the Japanese army's bunker was and how tenacious the soldiers were! Since the attack of the big one, interspersed, blasted, and burned to the extreme, and the stubbornness of the Japanese army is close to perversion. Liu Xiaoshan's men placed several wounded and sick Japanese soldiers in a ditch, and they didn't plan to kill them, but those Japanese soldiers committed suicide! "Men and women, leave no mouth alive!" Liu Xiaoshan shouted again, there is a reason for shouting like this, Liu Xiaoshan was careless for a while, leaving a few Japanese comfort women behind him, but he didn't expect these women to snatch the gun and burn, fortunately it was Thomson who robbed him, with a large caliber, sufficient firepower, and a lot of recoil, and those women shot the bullets into the sky as soon as they shot! The angry Liu Xiaoshan no longer kept his mouth alive at that time.
"Commander, it's a call to ask about the progress!" A staff officer ran over and asked. "Da Da Da!" After firing a few bullets, Liu Xiaoshan said, "I don't know, the Japanese army's defensive positions are very long, the fortifications are very strong, there are Japanese everywhere, the artillery fire is ineffective, and they can only gnaw one after another!" "Am I going to reply like that?" The staff officer asked. "That's it!" Liu Xiaoshan didn't have a choice, because he really didn't know where to fight, anyway, he was still by the river, according to the plan before the war, if he ran into his own people, it would be considered the end of the fight! "Commander, there's a big guy in front!" The commander of the first battalion ran over and said. "What guy?" Liu Xiaoshan asked as he changed the magazine. "A few brothers went in along a tunnel and killed a squad of devils, only to find out after the fight that there was an oil depot and ammunition depot for the Japanese army!" "Really? That's great! Liu Xiaoshan carried a gun and followed. When Liu Xiaoshan saw the mountains of gasoline barrels and ammunition boxes, he laughed happily! "Listen to my orders, open the gasoline cans, pour them all down the tunnel, and blow up the arsenal!" Liu Xiaoshan said excitedly. It took half an hour for the soldiers of a company to pour all the gasoline, and watching the gasoline flow into the tunnel like a river, Liu Xiaoshan ordered the troops to withdraw from the attack, and then detonated the ammunition depot! The roar of the ammunition depot ignited the gasoline, and the river-like gasoline was like a fire dragon, flowing wherever it burned there, and the ghosts and wolves that burned the Japanese soldiers who were still resisting in the tunnels were crying wolves, and the flames were raging in the tunnels for two miles, and the comedy of a roast pig was performed one after another! "It's so cool!" Liu Xiaoshan shouted happily.
"Report! The headquarters of the Japanese army was found ahead, a large area of strong bunkers, covered with steel plates, and the resistance was very strong, and our attack was blocked! A battalion commander reported to Huang Kesheng. Didn't you just capture a cannon? Pull it up! "When Huang Kesheng's troops were attacking a large bunker, there was a 150 cannon in it, which was the main firepower of a bunker group, and now it came in handy! When the cannon came over, Huang Kesheng did his old job, manipulating the cannon to collapse the entrance of the large bunker with one shot! "Find out if there are any other entrances and exits, blow them all up, they like to be rats in the tunnels, then lock them inside!" Huang Kesheng suddenly had an idea! After some searching, the soldiers found two more entrances, and after placing them*, they all blew them up! The entrance was blown up, and the large bunker was turned into a tomb, with nearly 300 Japanese troops trapped inside. "Okay, leave them alone, let them play slowly inside!" Huang Kesheng led his troops to continue the attack!
Huang Kesheng and Liu Xiaoshan's attack brought great difficulties to the Japanese army, especially the headquarters was buried, the ammunition depot was destroyed, so that the Japanese army was almost in a desperate situation, the Chinese troops on the periphery were not idle, and kept attacking, the artillery of the ghost artillery and Wu Fatzi's heavy artillery kept bombarding the Japanese army, the Nujiang defense line had been broken through at this time, and the two divisions stationed on the river defense had been surrounded in the tunnel, and the troops suffered great casualties, but the Japanese bunker was very difficult to gnaw, the firing range was low, the firepower was fierce, all kinds of bunkers, partial forts, The sub-forts covered each other, which made the Chinese army pay a great price! Wei Lihuang couldn't wait, because the goal of the battle to cross the river was not these two divisions, at least not the main goal, the most important thing was Gaoligong Mountain and Songshan, only by occupying the two commanding heights could he be regarded as gaining a firm foothold on the other side of the Nu River!
"Report to the commander, according to the information sent to us by the Allies, the Japanese army has sent two reinforcements from Mangshi to Songshan and Gaoligong Mountain!" Staff report! "Tell Division Commander Liu to have his artillery block the roads of Gaoligong Mountain and Songshan!" Wei Lihuang thought for a moment, "The troops will immediately advance in the direction of Gaoligong Mountain and Songshan, be sure to rush there tonight, and build an offensive position!" "What about the Japanese troops on the river defense? You can't put nails behind us! The staff officer reminded. It would be enough to leave one division on each side of the north and south roads to monitor the attack, and as for the bunker, I have already thought of a way! Wei Lihuang said. In fact, Wei Lihuang's method is very simple, it is a word burning! "Tell the troops, don't force the attack from the front, advance from the tunnels that have been captured, make full use of flamethrowers, gasoline and *, the tunnels block people, but they can't stop the fire. The commanders of the Chinese troops obeyed Wei Lihuang's guidance, and the various units began to assault, taking companies and battalions as units, attacking in all directions, carrying out explosions everywhere, pouring gasoline, and spitting fire, no longer for the purpose of occupation, but with burning as the main mode of attack! Although the Japanese bunker group is very strong, but it extends in all directions, it is easy to penetrate from the tunnel that has been broken, so that in the entire Japanese tunnel, the flames are blazing, and some company commanders and battalion commanders are still covering the fire with wet grass, producing a lot of smoke, when the smoke drifts into the tunnel, the Japanese army inside is called a life is worse than death, and the attack speed is greatly increased!
"Colonel Gillies, when can you build the pontoon!" Liu Hai saw that the speed of the attack in front had increased greatly, and the Japanese troops in Jiangfang were already struggling to catch their breath, and the attack on Songshan and Gaoligong Mountain was about to begin, and the artillery fire was about to need to cross the river to fight, so he came to inquire about the situation of the pontoon bridge! "We have already selected the site for erection, but the hydrological environment of the Nu River is a little worse than I thought of the worst-case scenario, and the pontoon bridge is a little difficult, but please rest assured, it is already being erected, and it is estimated that it will be erected in another four hours!" Colonel Gillis somewhat regretted his boasting! "No! It's too slow, my artillery needs to cross the river immediately and launch an attack on Songshan and Gaoligong Mountain! Bangs said. But the bridge hasn't been erected yet, and your heavy equipment won't be able to get through! Colonel Gillis said. It seems like that, but it's not like that either! After saying that, the bangs left!
"Ghost cannon, disassemble your cannon, divide it into a field marching state, use a bamboo raft to transport the cannon over in sections, and then assemble it on the opposite bank!" Bangs said. "Huh?" The ghost cannon said, "That's a waste of time, I'm afraid I can't do it without a day!" "No, I have arranged for a regiment of brothers to help you carry it, and I have also found a large bamboo raft, which should be able to transport all of them across the river within two hours!" Bangs said. "Good! You ask the brothers of that regiment to come over, and I promise to bring the cannon over in an hour! ”
In another direction, Wu Fatzi was also using this method to disassemble the heavy artillery into a marching state, and with the help of the national army of another regiment, the cannon was transported across the Nu River in pieces! At this time, the attack of the national army on Gaoligong Mountain and Songshan had already begun, adhering to the Japanese army's theory of bunker holding, there were only a lot of bunker groups on Gaoligong Mountain and Songshan, and the consequence of the tentative attack was the casualties of a company, but it only advanced less than ten meters! Hearing this, Liu Hai understood that if there was no full support from artillery, the two group armies would all be dead, and they might not be able to take it! "Inform Colonel Hawke of the Allied forces to let him carry out an aerial bomb attack on Songshan and Gaoligong Mountain, and wait for my artillery to be in place, and then launch a three-dimensional attack, if you can't capture these two mountains, this crossing of the river will be abandoned halfway!" Bangs said.