Towneberg's Determination (1)
"Report! Our army has reached the periphery of Jiaxing, the artillery regiment has been deployed, and my troops are ready, please give the division commander an order! Liu Xiaoshan is reporting. Did you reconnoiter the enemy's forward positions? What are the results? Bangs said, staring at the map. The division commander, having already investigated and understood, upheld Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, Tang Enbo decided to build a solid and modern fortification in the Songhu area, and ordered his subordinate engineer headquarters to carry out the plan, and the engineer headquarters, together with the Shanghai Municipal Government and the Songhu Garrison Command, and other organs set up the "Shanghai Fortification Construction Committee" to be responsible for the implementation of the construction. The fortifications were not based on the fortifications built by Yan Xishan in Taiyuan, and he had sent his engineer commander to fly to Taiyuan to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and the construction began in the second half of the year, and the construction was carried out day and night, and the steel and cement projects were contracted by the Lu Genji Construction Company, and the rest of the projects were undertaken by military and civilian workers, and were basically completed before the battle in the first half of the year. At that time, Tang Enbo boasted in Shanghai that the fortifications he had built in Shanghai were steel positions that could not be attacked or destroyed, and that he wanted to make Shanghai the second in Stalingrad. Not only that, but during the construction period, the people suffered a lot, and the losses were incalculable in the requisition of labor, materials, cutting down trees, and destroying the land, especially in the end, when the shooting boundary was cleared, and within three miles of the first three miles of the position, the crops were shoveled, the graves were razed, and the houses were demolished and burned. Some were drafted to work in the morning and were homeless in the evening. An elderly woman near Shanghai Middle School died in agony when her house was burned. In his speech at the combat training class, Tang Enbo openly instructed his subordinates: For the needs of the country, everything is legal, for war purposes, and everything is reasonable. How can the people not be harmed by such arson and destruction of the people? Let's participate in the war is right, Tang Enbo, a bastard, really has a hand in bringing disaster to the country and the people! Liu Xiaoshan told him about the situation he inquired about.
"We have just arrived here, the battlefield needs to dig trenches, artillery needs to build positions, logistics need to be settled, in short, it is impossible to launch a large-scale attack before tomorrow!" Bangs said. "yes!" Liu Xiaoshan didn't know what Liu Hai meant, so he had to say. "If we start attacking right away, it's not just that we're not well prepared, but the other side must think so!" Bangs continued. "What do you mean, Commander?" Liu Xiaoshan said. "That is to say, we are going to attack today, without any artillery support, quietly lean up at night, according to the method of attacking Songshan in the past, open a section of fortifications, attack along their trenches, and strive to end their outer defense line! Taking advantage of the darkness of the night and the enemy's lack of defense, strive to take down the outer defense line before dawn, and put the muzzle of the gun on the head of the defenders of Jiaxing! Bangs said. Hahaha, it's still the division commander's brain, if you do it well, it can be completely realized, go along the trenches, kill all the way in, no problem! Liu Xiaoshan said excitedly.
At night, Liu Xiaoshan transferred out the first battalion of the three regiments of his brigade, arranged sharp soldiers to open the way, and infiltrated the outer defense line of Jiaxing. The spearhead group was very powerful, and soon opened the passage, and Liu Xiaoshan began to assault with the battalion as a unit. The battalion commanders of the three battalions, with their own troops, opened three gaps before the reaction of the national army in front of them, and it was easy to do with the gaps, and the troops of the three battalions began to assault along the concrete fortifications that the national army had painstakingly built! Liu Xiaoshan, who broke through in the middle, personally led, and under the opening of * and *, he quickly advanced two kilometers, cut off the defense line of the national army, and then carried out a roundabout encirclement! The other two battalions cut a perimeter defense line horizontally and vertically, cut the entire perimeter defense line into several pieces, and then took advantage of the enemy's confusion to carry out various breakthroughs, and the gunfire on the perimeter defense line continued overnight, and when dawn rose in the morning, a PLA flag fluttered on the perimeter position! Liu Xiaoshan lived up to expectations, and with less than two hundred casualties, he defeated one and a half divisions on the outer defense line, and the national army was beaten and retreated in a hurry!
"Report to the front committee, the Eighth Division attacked at night and used the method of sneak attack to capture the outlying positions of Jiaxing, the enemy's strong positions and firepower did not play a role, the enemy's one and a half divisions broke and fled, wiped out more than 900 people, wounded more than 1,600 people, captured 400 enemy soldiers, captured countless guns and ammunition, 22 artillery pieces, and several grenadier mortars!" Liu Hai said to Sima Hong. "Yes! Teachers! After Sima Hong finished speaking, he turned around and ran to report the news! The news quickly spread to the former enemy committee, and Mr. Chen, who was brushing his teeth in the former enemy committee, after listening to the report of the chief of staff, a mouthful of toothpaste foam sprayed out, spraying the chief of staff on his face. "How is this possible, didn't they concentrate their firepower on the offensive this morning? Why did you take off the periphery in the morning, this bangs are really a god! "Mr. Chen hurriedly wiped his mouth clean!" Inform Song Shilun and let him launch an offensive to ensure a decisive breakthrough from the flank of Liu Hai, encircle and eliminate the two divisions entrenched between Jiaxing and Wusongkou, completely open the road to Wusongkou, and completely cut off the retreat of the enemy defending in Shanghai! Mr. Chen said.
"What? How is this possible, has the outer defense line in Jiaxing's front been broken? Song Shilun was shocked when he heard it, "The enemy army on the periphery of Jiaxing has so many bunkers, trenches, forts, and mother forts, and he took them down with one charge, are the Kuomintang asleep?" "It's true, the outer defense line has fallen into my hands, and Division Commander Liu is planning to attack the Jiaxing defense line!" The staff officer said. "Damn, call the division commanders over to me, we can't take the periphery of the two wings in a day, so don't fucking mess around!" Song Shilun said angrily. Song Shilun did not delay any longer, and quickly commanded his subordinates to start attacking, and hundreds of cannons began to dump shells earth-shatteringly, with hundreds of commandos in front and regiments and battalions in the back. However, after a full day of attack, the troops suffered heavy casualties, but most of the defensive lines on both flanks were breached. "This bangs are really double!" Song Shilun looked at the casualty figures of his troops and couldn't help but sigh.
"Report! The front-line enemy began to counterattack, Brigade Commander Liu was blocking with the help of the enemy's fortifications, the enemy was moving very much, aircraft, tanks, and artillery were all dispatched, three-dimensional offensive, the movement was very large, Brigade Commander Liu asked for artillery support! "A staff officer came to report." Heavy artillery fire! Support Liu Xiaoshan's defense! The ghost artillery dispatched an artillery battalion to support Liu Xiaoshan! Bangs said. The other party thought that Liu Xiaoshan's foothold was not stable, so he invested the strength of a reinforced regiment, and with the help of tanks, he counterattacked the peripheral positions, and the artillery power was also very fierce, all of them were large-caliber heavy artillery, and even the planes were dispatched! For a while, wolf smoke billowed out, and the entire peripheral position was filled with smoke and dust! "Fuck! This is to fight with Lao Tzu! Liu Xiaoshan picked it up and rushed up. Scold! Tanks, planes, and artillery are all here, really give me Liu Xiaoshan's face! Tell the brethren, don't go out of the trenches, give me light and heavy machine guns, I have asked for artillery support, there will be an artillery battalion to support us in a moment, just hand over the tanks to them! After Liu Xiaoshan finished speaking, he jumped into the trench! Fuck, I'm just in time, I'll put the cannon on my mount and shoot at the enemy's tank, I can't let a tank rush to the position! "The ghost cannon who rushed to support started firing, and a 105 shell shot out, directly hitting a tank, and the huge shell hit directly, directly blowing the tank apart!
"Great, the supporting artillery battalion has come up, and the light and heavy machine gun mortars are firing at me!" Liu Xiaoshan looked at the exploding tank and immediately gave the order to fire! "Boom!" An earth-shattering explosion shook Liu Xiaoshan's head with a buzzing sound! A piercing roar in the sky reminded Liu Xiaoshan that there was another weapon in the sky called an airplane! "! Organize a few machine guns, even if they can't be hit, you can't let them fly too low! Liu Xiaoshan rubbed his ears and said. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the position suddenly opened fire to the sky! After forty minutes of fighting, four tanks were destroyed by ghost shelling, hundreds of soldiers were killed, and planes were forced to drop bombs at low altitudes. "Damn! It's wicked! Order the second regiment to prepare with bayonets*, if you dare to attack, you will give me a counter-charge, I am really a bully! Liu Xiaoshan roared!
"What? Failed to fight back? "Townenberg was shocked" What's the situation? "The firepower of the other side is very fierce, it is not the firepower of a regiment at all, it is like an army, a 155 mm * gun This is not something that a regiment of the communist army can equip, at least it is also a corps-level unit!" Staff report! "The peripheral positions of Jiaxing were lost in one night, and an additional division was sent to counterattack, and it must be recaptured, and the 40 brigades in the south were increased, and the 2nd division and 5th brigade were strengthened to the Jiaxing side, and the front line of Jiaxing and Songhu must not be lost!" Towneburg is on fire! Tang Enbo knew that once it was lost in this direction, Shanghai would become a turtle in an urn, and his 200,000 troops would all have to die! Soon the troops of a brigade arrived at the front line of Jiaxing by car, and under the cover of heavy artillery, the offensive began, and Liu Xiaoshan was facing huge defensive pressure!
"This can't be done, the enemy has added two brigades on the side of Liuhai, and the pressure is very great, I'm afraid that a simple artillery division will be upset in the face of the enemy's three-dimensional offensive, after all, there is only one brigade in the combat unit!" The staff officer said to Mr. Chen. "Hehe, if the elite ace division of the Kuomintang can't even deal with two brigades, is it still called an ace division? Breaking through the defense of Jiaxing Songhu in four days, I don't think Liu Hai is necessarily bragging, Tang Enbo is afraid that he is going to meet here and break the blood! Mr. Chen said unhurriedly. If you really want to occupy Songhukou in four days and four days, then Tang Enbo will have to consider becoming a beneficiary! The staff officer said. Didn't he Tang Enbo brag that Shanghai could hold for a year? I've seen enough for a week! Mr. Chen said confidently.