268 Beat the 15th Division
Scout Xu Chi led one of the reconnaissance teams into the depths of the city of Monywa, leading the team directly into the western part of the city.
There, Xu Chi quickly made observations, corresponded to the location of a highway on the simple map in his hand, and confirmed his current location.
On both sides of the gravel road, in the faint starlight, Xu Chi could only distinguish the shadows of rows of low houses.
And on the highway, there are rows of trucks parked one after another!
Is this the 2nd artillery unit of the little devils? Xu Chi was surprised and delighted for a while.
However, he did not rush to report, but began to carefully observe the surroundings around the truck, and sure enough, there was a cannon in tow behind the truck.
"I found you," Xu Chi quietly retreated into the distance with the reconnaissance team. After confirming that he was not discovered by the Little Devil Artillery Wing, he began to turn on the walkie-talkie to call the headquarters and report his findings.
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Hearing that the enemy's second artillery wing was still in a state of maneuver on the highway at any time, Gao Jianwu knew that this was the artillery reinforced by the little devil, and sure enough, the little devil in Yamauchi kept the last hole card of the sneak attack.
It's just that now this hole card will soon be completely discarded.
According to the address reported by the reconnaissance team, a corresponding strike area was quickly formed on the map of Gao Jianwu's brain.
Gao Jianwu was provided with a range of corresponding coordinate values, and Gao Jianwu found that they were still within the strike range of the main artillery position.
It's just that it's already a little close to the limit, and I think the little devil has roughly locked the position of the main artillery position, so he can keep cutting in at any time on the edge of the strike.
Gao Jianwu hurriedly ordered the main artillery to immediately stop the transfer operation and began to aim at the area of this little devil artillery wing with all his might.
However, in order to be on the safe side, to prevent the little devil artillery from having a chance to escape after the shelling began, Gao Jianwu also mobilized the artillery battalions of the four major attack groups at the same time.
Those who can't reach the target now immediately start maneuvering towards the target area, and when they are all within reach, launch an artillery attack at the same time.
Gao Jianwu wants to use a one-time saturation artillery bombardment to kill the artillery wing hidden by the little devils in one fell swoop!
More than twenty minutes later, the various artillery groups were ready to be in place, and according to the shelling Zhuyuan settings provided by Gao Jianwu, they opened fire almost at the same time!
In an instant, more than a hundred shells screamed from different positions, flying towards the little devil's target with scorching heat.
The hidden little devil artillery wing, before they could figure out what was going on, watched in horror as more than a hundred shells fell from the sky, densely falling on the road, and even directly in the truck!
There were grenades from 75 mm to 155 mm, and after the truck that hit the shell directly caused the detonation, several nearby trucks and imps were reduced to pieces almost instantly!
Gao Jianwu used a round of concentrated fire, and in almost less than a minute, he directly destroyed the entire artillery wing of the little devil!
At the headquarters of the 15th Division in the city, Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi heard the earth-shattering sound of shelling.
He didn't need a report, he knew from the direction where the sound of shelling came from the direction that he knew that the artillery wing he had hidden was finished.
The hole cards that were originally hidden to give the opponent a fatal blow should now be completely scrapped.
"Gao Pinjun, Kudanzaka!" Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masafumi had a miserable face, he no longer had illusions, but the honor of a soldier did not allow him to retreat.
He could only rush forward with the last reserves and die on the battlefield.
Chief of Staff Gao Pin also gave up his illusions and followed Lieutenant General Masafumi Yamauchi to prepare for the last journey.
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Chu Yunfei's engineer unit that erected the pontoon bridge began to be attacked by the little devils at this moment.
This is a helpless thing, the little devil hides a lot of secret posts by the river, although the attack is not strong, but the movement on the river is still very close, when the rubber boat rows to the opposite bank, they find that the enemy is building a pontoon bridge.
The dark sentry of the little devil immediately called the troops through the field phone to strike.
The first to attack the pontoon bridge were 92 infantry guns and 90-mm mortars on the positions of the little devils.
It turned out that the machine gun fire point of the dark fort by the river had been destroyed by Gao Jianwu's heavy artillery before, and there was no reserve at the moment, so the captain of the little devil wing in charge of the river defense could only send artillery to attack first.
At the same time, he began to assemble a large group of little devils and rushed to the riverside, preparing to intercept Chu Yunfei's troops who crossed the river and attacked.
Soon, under the guidance of the dark whistle, the little devil's shells began to fall near the pontoon bridge, splashing wildly.
In the first round of exploratory shelling, the shells hit near the pontoon bridge, and the observation ability of the little devil's secret sentry is indeed very good, without Gao Jianwu's map, and it quickly provides shelling targets according to the relative location of the opponent in the river.
But with the revision of the target, the shells of the little devils hit more and more accurately.
Chu Yunfei at the front looked at the landing point of the opponent's artillery, and began to reverse calculate and find their location, as a high-level student of Huangpu, Chu Yunfei is also professional in artillery, and soon he basically locked on the target of the enemy's artillery, and began to command his mortar company to counterattack.
The engineering units are also desperately speeding up the progress and continue to build pontoon bridges under artillery fire.
After the first rubber boat rowed over and laid a stake to tie the rope, the subsequent rubber boats lined up one after another, and began to drive piles into the river to strengthen continuously.
And the rubber boats next to each other, the follow-up infantry began to lay frantically on the wooden planks, and on the river surface of several hundred meters, there were hundreds of rubber boats rowing desperately.
Occasionally, rubber boats were hit by enemy artillery, and the soldiers on the entire rubber boat died heroically.
But this did not prevent the followers from continuing their work.
After Chu Yunfei's troops were reorganized, they also underwent ideological transformation again and again.
At present, both discipline and will to fight have been greatly improved.
This is an activity that Chu Yunfei took the initiative to ask Gao Jianwu to carry out after seeing the huge difference between his troops and the old Eighth Road. Now it has the effect it should have.
Gao Jianwu was right, Chu Yunfei was just a pure soldier. In his creed, the interests of the country and the nation are paramount.
In the face of foreign enemies, he had no reason to refuse to advance the improvement of his combat effectiveness.
The artillery counterattack commanded by Chu Yunfei finally began to bear fruit, and the enemy's 92 infantry guns had been muted.
Now there are a few 90-mm mortars left in mobile positions, and from time to time they fire a few shells.
For the engineer units erecting pontoon bridges, this threat becomes small, and although moving the position can increase the survivability of the mortar, changing the position also greatly reduces its accuracy.
As the rubber boats were put in place one after another, the pontoon bridge continued to extend at a speed of several meters at a time, and on the river surface of several hundred meters, it seemed that it was about to be built.
The vanguard waiting for the attack was already waiting in line in Jiangxinzhou, and as soon as the pontoon bridge was opened, they couldn't wait to trot up.
One by one, they began to seize the target positions on the opposite bank, and when the advance assault company rushed over to establish a temporary position, they soon began to establish a control area with a range of four or five hundred meters with machine guns and mortars, as well as Bazooka rocket artillery, to suppress the counterattack of the little devils on the pontoon bridge.
This caused the follow-up troops to rush to the other side like a tidal wave.
After being bombarded by Gao Jianwu's heavy artillery and destroying the main permanent fortification bunker, under Chu Yunfei's attack, the little devil's riverside position defense line looked vulnerable.
Under the continuous fire of the main company that rushed over later, using mortars and Bazooka rocket artillery, the little devils who had just rushed over with light and heavy machine guns as the main attack firepower were defeated and retreated, and they could not form an effective counterattack at all, and they could not even resist the crazy attack of Chu Yunfei's second attack group, and the attempt to attack halfway was destroyed by Chu Yunfei's tidal attack.
The first line of defense deployed by the little devils along the river was torn open in this way.
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Almost at the same time, after receiving the news of the destruction of the artillery wing of the little devils. Ding Wei and Xu Shida's troops also launched an attack at the same time.
Without the mortal threat of enemy artillery, they can also go unpunished.
On the road leading to Mandalay in the east, Ding Wei set up two main companies to block the attack to ensure that the little devil could not escape east.
The north leads to the dense forest, and Ding Wei can't block it all, so he can only open the net.
And the rest of the troops, Ding Wei and Xu Shida joined forces to attack from three directions!
Except for the Chindun River, Monywa has no danger to defend. After the little devils were strongly deployed along the riverside, there were only some simple fortifications behind them, and two of the three wings were deployed to the riverside, and there was only one wing in the other directions.
How can this block Xu Shida and Ding Wei from attacking together.
Originally, the company-level attack power of the Ping'an cluster was considered the pinnacle infantry of Jindi, but now that it is equipped with Bazooka, the company's attack ability has been further improved, which is equivalent to mortars, and Bazooka, which is better aimed at the target, is simply a big killer weapon at the opponent's little devil machine gun fire point.
Seeing that the aiming is directly bombarded by a rocket, there is almost a seventy or eighty percent chance that it will not be there.
In contrast, the mortar can only be used for two or three artillery, so the high efficiency of destroying the fire point allows the company to advance faster.
The backbone forces of Ding Wei and Xu Shida's attack clusters are all from the elite after successive wars, and in this regard, Gao Jianwu did not mix water at all to fill the number of newly recruited soldiers, although there are some newly supplemented backbone regiment soldiers, but the core forces are all veterans who have survived a hundred battles.
Only then did the expeditionary force attack group arrive in Imphal and quickly reorganize and form a combat effectiveness!
These veteran backbones basically play the roles of gunners, machine gunners and squad platoon leaders, and determine the lower limit of combat effectiveness in the company.
The combat effectiveness of such a company has naturally risen and it has reached a new height.
Seeing that the various troops under his command were in a state of strength, and even calling for artillery support was reduced, Gao Jianwu also relaxed and began to have time to brag with Colonel Smith......
Then there was a pleasant "ding" prompt sound, and sure enough, the addition of Smith increased the explosive commission by 150% again!
This greatly made up for Gao Jianwu's regret that he did not capture Lieutenant General Yamauchi Masamumi and Chief of Staff Gao Pin alive, these two little devils actually launched a board charge at the last moment!
So the front-line troops shot them directly indiscriminately!