If you want to deal with the Japanese fleet in Qinzhou Bay, more than 20 heavy artillery pieces are enough, but Wang Haitao's target is not only this small fleet, he has spent a lot of effort to bring a heavy artillery regiment over, and the target is naturally Qinzhou City. From this position, you can directly observe the movement of the Japanese troops in the city, and can provide the most direct artillery support for the troops when they attack the city.

Therefore, Wang Haitao first took out 25 heavy artillery pieces here, and as for how to determine the gun position and observe the coordinates of the target position, these matters were solved by the people of the heavy artillery regiment. Under Wang Haitao's inquiry, the soldiers of the original observation group led Wang Haitao to find several places suitable for setting up artillery positions. Wang Haitao selected two of them, took out the other 25 heavy guns, and placed them on the two positions.

The position of the 546th Regiment on the mountainside was still being repaired, and Wang Haitao was not in a hurry to open fire. The artillery bombardment of the Japanese fleet now can hit or even sink the Japanese fleet, but it also allows the Japanese troops in Qinzhou City to be prepared, and now Qinzhou City has not been attacked, and the city can also send heavy troops to attack itself. The Japanese commander must have been very aware that his heavy artillery position was a heavy hammer that could fall at any time and kill the city of Qinzhou, which was enough to threaten the survival of the Japanese army in Qinzhou City.

After capturing the Japanese airfield, Wang Haitao called Tang Longzai, signaling that his attack on Qinzhou City could begin. At the same time that Wang Haitao arrived at Matouling, the 210th Division and the 211th Division also launched operations at the same time. The 210th Division was a frontal attack by Daming Dabai, and this time it was the 461st Brigade that was placed in front, and the brigade commander Liu Mingde did not lose his words, and the task of taking the lead fell to the head of the 875th Regiment.

Wang Haitao invested heavily in this attack on Qinzhou City, and the 461 trip was accompanied by four Cheetah tanks of the heavy tank company, as well as 36 heavy artillery pieces of two battalions of the 152nd Heavy Howitzer and Artillery Regiment. The heavy tank regiment is Wang Haitao's killer weapon, and it is generally not easy to use. The officers and men of the heavy tank regiment are indeed rather depressed, they eat and drink well every day, and many of them are trained, but they do not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield.

Being able to participate in the attack at the first time also made the officers and men of the Heavy Artillery Regiment very excited, and even more so the first battalion and one company that followed the 875th Regiment to act together. The 875th Regiment and the tank company rushed to the outside of Datong Town, the first line of defense on the outskirts of Qinzhou, at noon. According to the information provided by the reconnaissance brigade, there were 360 people from two squadrons of the Japanese army and more than 800 people from one regiment of the puppet army stationed in Datong Town.

In the eyes of the 875th Regiment, the combat effectiveness of the puppet army of this regiment is negligible, and it is the Japanese army of these two squadrons that has to be dealt with. The two squadrons of 360 men were really vulnerable in front of the 875th Regiment, which had 2,700 men, and the real battle also showed this. The Japanese army also repaired positions and fortifications outside Datong Town, and there was an infantry squadron and a battalion of puppet troops stationed there.

When the 875th Regiment bombarded with more than a dozen artillery pieces and dozens of mortars from the regiment's artillery battalion, a battalion of puppet troops was in chaos first, they were originally a group of mountain bandits, and they became puppet soldiers after being absorbed by the Japanese army. The Japanese squadron that was pressing in the back originally wanted to let the puppet army block the front, but the puppet army fled and was disrupted instead.

Annoyed by the Japanese army, they finally stabilized the situation after killing the fleeing puppet army, but by this time four heavy tanks and the first battalion of the 875th Regiment had already launched a charge. When the Japanese army saw four steel monsters rushing over, they were frightened and greeted with light and heavy weapons, but heavy tanks were the main ones that 75-caliber mountain guns could not withstand, and how could the grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions move them in the slightest?

Seeing that the four heavy tanks were about to rush to the front of the position, how could the remaining puppet troops on the position dare to shoot? They all lay down in the trenches, praying that the tanks would not deal with them. On the rear position, those firing points were destroyed by the tank's vehicle-mounted artillery and heavy machine guns, and when they were almost wiped out, the Japanese troops on the wall could not hold their breath, and the only four Type 92 infantry guns opened fire directly at the approaching tanks.

The shell hit the front armor of the tank, and before the Japanese could open fire, they were stunned. The tank that had been hit only paused, and continued to move forward as if nothing had happened, and as it was driving, the muzzle of the vehicle-mounted gun was raised, and it was aimed directly at several Type 92 infantry guns on the wall.

As soon as the Japanese artillerymen shouted, "Not good!" they saw the tank truck at the head, the muzzle of the gun burst into flames, and a shell screamed at him. In an instant, the shells fell on the wall, and in the sound of explosions and fire, a Type 92 infantry gun, along with the surrounding artillery, flew in all directions, and even the wall was blown out of a gap.

You must know that heavy tanks are equipped with 100 mm rifled guns, and their power is by no means comparable to those 20 mm smoothbore guns on Japanese tanks. Soon the four Type 92 infantry guns on the city wall were destroyed, and the first battalion of the 875th Regiment also rushed to the Japanese position. The soldiers of the first battalion with many rushing and sharp guns were very strong, and it didn't take long for a Japanese squadron outside the town to be wiped out, and many puppet soldiers were taken prisoner.

Next, the tanks bombarded the city gate with the support of vehicle-mounted artillery, and the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 875th Regiment also rushed into the city with the 1st battalion. An hour later, the 875th Regiment cleared the defenders of Datong Town and completely captured Datong Town. Regarding the performance of the 875th Regiment, Liu Mingde only felt that it was normal, and if the 875th Regiment, with the cooperation of heavy tanks, had to work hard to take Datong Town, which was only defended by more than 300 Japanese troops, it would be abnormal.

The 461st Brigade did not stay in Datong Town for long at all, and went directly to the Shamaoling position, the second line of defense of the Japanese army. Shamaoling is located on the side of the highway from Qinzhou to Nanning, with a height of about 500 meters, and a two-kilometer-long section of the road is blocked from a high position. Here is a defensive line of heavy defense of the Japanese army, where an infantry brigade and a mortar squadron of the Japanese army are stationed, and the fortifications are built along the mountain and are relatively strong.

It was the 875th Regiment that arrived first, and the regiment commander Zhang Sanli couldn't help but be a little light on the enemy because he easily captured Datong Town, and after a heavy bombardment of various artillery in the regiment, he let a battalion cover the tank company to launch a charge against the Japanese position. After all, the artillery of the 875th Regiment must still be small in caliber and insufficient in power, and the heavy bombardment did not bring much damage to the Japanese fortifications, and the Japanese soldiers hid in the fortifications, and the losses were not large.

Now as soon as the troops charged, the Japanese immediately held back, first the mortars of the mortar squadron fired several rounds at the tanks, and seeing that the results were not great, they turned their guns to the infantry. At the same time, the heavy machine guns in several bunkers on the position at the foot of the hill also roared, and bullets rained down on the officers and men of the first battalion. As soon as Zhang Sanli saw the Japanese army's formation, he secretly shouted: "It's not good!" Sure enough, the officers and men of the first battalion continued to fall under such blows.

Zhang Sanli hurriedly ordered to retreat, but fortunately, there were tanks as cover to block most of the machine gun bullets, and the first battalion suffered more than 60 casualties, of which the second company commander Chen Penghui died. Zhang Sanli also regretted his rash attack on the enemy, and now he could only order someone to report to the brigade commander Liu Minghui, and asked for heavy artillery to strike at the Japanese fortifications.

Liu Minghui was not angry when he received the report, and immediately found Wei Zhiyuan, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment, who told Wei Zhiyuan about the situation and asked if he had blown up the Japanese fortifications. Wei Zhiyuan replied: "Brigade Commander Liu, although I don't know how strong the Japanese fortifications are now, I have confidence in these heavy artillery. Liu Minghui said happily: "Then there are the brothers of the head of the Lao Wei and the heavy artillery regiment." ”

In order to ensure the success of the bombing, Wei Zhiyuan set up the artillery position only eight kilometers away from Shamaoling, and with an order, 36 heavy artillery pieces spat out tongues of fire at the Japanese position at Shamaoling. The power of the heavy artillery shells and the power of the artillery shells of the 875th Regiment were naturally incomparable, and the shells bombarded the fortifications with an astonishing momentum, and the rubble flew in all directions in the smoke of gunpowder.

After only five minutes of shelling, several slightly worse fortifications were blown up. The heavy artillery regiment's shelling stopped for half an hour, and by this time the Japanese positions were already in shambles, and the fortifications were basically intact, with rubble everywhere and the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed in the middle of the bombing. With this artillery bombardment as the foundation, Liu Minghui once again ordered Zhang Sanli to launch another attack on the Japanese position.

Zhang Sanli sent the 2nd Battalion up this time, but the tank company was still in front of the cover, and the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion attacked forward with him. However, this time the second battalion attacked with much more caution. The whole battalion opened up the skirmish, maintained the attack formation, and moved forward with the four tanks, exactly as it had been during training. The German instructors were all people with very rich combat experience, and the methods they taught were also summed up by the German army from countless battles, and there is no doubt about their practicality.

After the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion became serious, their combat effectiveness was fully brought into play, and in addition, the Japanese troops had not yet recovered from the bombardment that had just ended, and the tanks and the 2nd Battalion quickly approached the Japanese positions at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, several rocks on the mountainside were suddenly pushed away, revealing the muzzles of several heavy machine guns with black holes, and then the roar of heavy machine guns came out from these heavy machine gun firing points.

Caught off guard, the officers and men of the second battalion who were attacking fell one after another, and other soldiers were also busy looking for cover. On the Japanese position at the foot of the mountain, the remnants of the Japanese army also began to open fire to block the attack. Fortunately, there were still four heavy tanks, ignoring the presence of these heavy machine guns, raising their muzzles and firing continuously at these hidden firing points on the mountainside with their vehicle-mounted guns.

Although the power of the vehicle-mounted artillery on the tank is not as good as that of the heavy artillery, it is still stronger than the artillery of the 875th Regiment at close range. After the vehicle-mounted artillery fired several shots, and after not causing a sensation at these hidden firing points, the commander of the tank company decisively ordered a change*. * It is used to deal with tanks of the same level, even 100 mm thick armor steel plates can easily penetrate, and the stone wall of the fortifications is dozens of centimeters thick and cannot withstand its several cannons.