Rise from the sword

Chapter 610
The day before the Sixth Division's farewell telegram was sent.

It's business as usual in Hengyang.

Under the order of Isamu Yokoyama, the devils continued to attack the Hengyang position crazily at night. The regiment-level charges were wave after wave, giving full play to the spirit of the Showa men who are not afraid of death.

The Hengyang defenders continued to block the devils with a storm of artillery fire. There were hundreds of mortars in every position, and machine guns weaved a dense steel storm to strangle all devils who dared to approach.

In this battle, both sides played very happily.

Devils are happy.

In their view, the enemy consumes a huge amount of ammunition to stop each attack. Although the casualties are heavy, they are just some recruits, and by the way, they have honed the troops in actual combat and refined the elite. During the day, only a dozen or so planes flew to Hengyang Transporting materials, if the fight continues like this, sooner or later Hengyang will run out of ammunition and fall.

The only trouble is that the morale of the attacking troops has been severely hit. Fortunately, General Yamamoto's Bushido training method can restore morale.

The Hengyang defenders were happy.

In each battle, while destroying a large number of devils, the losses of one's own side are also very small, and the troops have also experienced training. During the battle, the gunners also improved their artillery skills, and the machine gunners improved their shooting skills.

A perfect actual combat.

The training method from the Independent Regiment allows the troops to grow rapidly with the help of huge ammunition supplies without relying too much on firepower.

The corpses all over the ground, in the eyes of several logistics center officers who came from Ping'an County and were in charge of warehouse management, they were all bags of grain, tanks, tons of fuel and other materials.

Although the tank business is tightly controlled and few people know about it, this does not include the logistics center officer who was adapted from the independent regiment's guard company.

They are in charge of material dispatch, and have secondary iron communicators.

The tank business, which originally ended in July, has been postponed and will end in two months, that is, it will end in October, and now individual devils continue to increase their prices, but the specific figures are confidential, and even the logistics center officer who manages the materials does not know. clear.

However, at the time of settlement in early June, the tonnage of tanks in the warehouse was close to 100 million tons, and each Panzer IV with spare parts was 1 tons, that is, [-] Panzer IV tanks.

The day.

On the position of the Thirty Regiment of the Tenth Army.

Commander Xu's plan was the same as usual. In the morning, he organized a meeting of the battalion and company commanders to summarize the battle last night, and then inspected the positions guarded by the [-]th regiment.

Thanks to sufficient logistics, they are well fed every day, have sufficient ammunition and shells in their hands, and the wounded can be quickly transported by plane to the hospital in Song County for treatment.

Although the devils attacked crazily, the casualties of the troops were actually very small. Even if the regiments were used as a unit, they would need to be rotated every three days, but all the troops had high morale and were actively seeking battle, so they were not affected at all.

In the afternoon, Commander Fang's liaison officer took a company of the Artillery Regiment directly under the Tenth Army to the position where the Thirty Regiment was located.

"Give me a company of new infantry support artillery?"

Head Xu of the Thirty Regiment was a little surprised when he heard the intention.

Relying on sufficient firepower, his [-] regiments are more than enough to hold the position, and they have never even used the reserve team.

Recently, many of the former Guoguo artillerymen living in the Songxian area, who wanted to fight devils, all flew to Hengyang to participate in the war, so the artillery regiment expanded its recruitment frantically. Although it was only a regiment in name, its scale was five times larger than that of ordinary artillery regiments. more than.

In addition, the artillery supported by the independent regiment is a bit too much. The current artillery company actually has far more artillery than the original artillery regiment.

At this time, if he was given an artillery company, then it must have something to do with the particularity of the new artillery. It is estimated that it is an artillery specially designed to deal with the devil's large-spaced skirmishers.

"The new artillery is called a rocket launcher, which is very suitable for dealing with the devil's attack."

The liaison officer smiled and said:

"I'm giving you the third battery of artillery pieces, a total of fifty new artillery pieces."

"Bazooka?."

Head Xu frowned.

Although he is a regiment leader, he has never stopped the name of this artillery.

But he is not in a hurry, it is still early, and he has plenty of time to learn about this kind of artillery.

Before the liaison officer left, Head Xu asked a question:
"We fight like this every day, consuming bullets and shells crazily, is the ammunition in the warehouse enough?"

This was also what Captain Xu was most worried about.

Regarding logistical supply issues, first-line troops and grassroots officers generally don’t worry about it, they just follow the orders of their superiors, but he still can’t let it go as a regimental commander. Commander Fang’s order is to stop the devils with maximum firepower, and recently he has hardly seen the planes of the independent regiment To transport planes to Hengyang, the dozens of planes that land every day are transporting personnel, and then transporting the wounded back.

It has been more than ten days.

How long can it last with the ammunition in the warehouse?What if the independent regiment runs out of ammunition and it is too late?
"Ammunition! You don't have to worry about this at all."

The liaison officer smiled and said:

"Our ammunition depots are still full! The logistics department still thinks that we use too little ammunition!"

"what?"

Head Xu was taken aback.

This answer was so true that he didn't expect it, and it's okay if he thinks it's too little.

Their [-] regiments, every time they fight, regardless of whether there are enemies or not, the flares in the sky will not stop, as long as they see the movement of the devils on the ground, the whole regiment will directly bombard them with artillery and machine guns, and they will not hold back at all.

In the communication with other regiment leaders, other regiments also fight in this way.

There is also the heavy artillery regiment in Hengyang. That night, tens of thousands of shells were flying all over the sky.

Even so, it was still rarely disliked.

According to the legend, how terrifying is the firepower of the Independence Regiment?
"If you don't believe me, you can take it back and have a look."

The liaison officer didn't bother to explain and said directly.

He didn't believe this at the beginning. The place where the elite troops of the Independent Regiment were stationed and the warehouse of the Independent Regiment prohibited other people from entering, but all he knew was that after so many days of fighting, the warehouse of the Tenth Army in Hengyang was the only damn thing. Empty a little bit.

It was full at night, but it was full again at noon.

"It seems."

Head Xu touched his chin and said to himself:

"Our firepower still has room for improvement."

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An hour before the Sixth Division's farewell telegram was sent.

It was the morning of the third day when Kong Jie attacked Chachang.

At this time, Kanda was waiting for the top leaders of the Sixth Division to be wiped out by Duan Peng and others, and the remaining troops of the Sixth Division completely lost command. However, because the radio station was damaged and the telephone line was destroyed, the remaining devils in Changchang still didn't know about their division. Long has been taken over by someone.

This group of remnants of devils, while sending people to contact the division commander, organized a desperate resistance at the same time.

at the same time.

Isamu Yokoyama also received daily night battle reports.

"Nani?"

"So much loss?"

The siege of Hengyang has been going on for nearly two months. During this period, there have been many incidents, large and small. The night raid on the Hengyang position also lasted for about ten days. After entering August, Yokoyama always felt that the war had stabilized.

This can be seen from the casualties in the past week.

In the large skirmish line, after the multi-level offensive tactics are mature, intensive training will be carried out for the new troops, and in conjunction with General Yamamoto's method of boosting morale, each regiment attacking the Hengyang position will suffer at most one brigade.

It's casualties, not broken pieces of jade.

Because there are many seriously wounded soldiers who cannot retreat in time, the rate of offensive battles is very high. However, after the tactics are mature, the number of locust warriors lost every night, that is, missing, seriously injured and disabled, is between [-] and [-]. That is, one Half a brigade to two brigades.

This is an easily affordable price for the Hengyang Outer Locust Army with a total strength of 20 and a total of four newly formed supplementary divisions (divisions without officers).

Today, however, things have changed a bit.

"Jade Broken, nearly four thousand missing!"

Yokoyama read out the data in his hand in disbelief, and it was hard to understand for a while.

It was still one thousand and three yesterday, why is it more than doubled today?

"what happened?"

"what happened?"

Yokoyama asked in disbelief.

"During the battle last night, the enemy used rocket artillery on a large scale."

Although the little devil's family background is not good and he doesn't have large-scale rocket launchers, he has technical reserves. He also saw Yankee cluster rocket launchers in the Pacific War, so the staff of Devil No. 11 Army outside Hengyang immediately recognized the rocket launchers.

"According to the situation on the battlefield, the enemy's rocket launcher is actually not very powerful. The explosive power is slightly lower than that of the 105mm howitzer, but the scale is very large. A single position dropped 30 rockets in less than [-] seconds."

Because of the existence of the engine and propellant, as well as the short shell design, the power of the 107 rocket launcher is actually not as good as the devil's 105 artillery, even with the addition of the system's RDX gold charge.

But when he heard the number of [-] pieces in half a minute, Yokoyama was still taken aback:
"so much."

The power is slightly lower than the 105 howitzer, so it can be directly classified as the position being bombarded by the 105 artillery, and [-] shells fell in less than half a minute, which is equivalent to [-] barrels firing at the same time.

Such a bombardment scale almost completely covered the entire wing attack formation.

No wonder there were so many casualties!

"Your Excellency, shall we continue to attack?"

At this time, a lieutenant general and head of the division asked Xiang Hengshan.

According to the plan, it was his division that was in charge of attacking tonight.

Yokoyama immediately fell silent.

Recently, he also discovered that something was wrong.

The ammunition of the Hengyang defenders seems to be endless. It is roughly estimated that after the independent regiment stopped large-scale airlifts, the Hengyang defenders had consumed nearly 2000 tons of ammunition and needed more than [-] sorties of transport aircraft.

This number is half of the airlift sorties of the previous independent regiment.

As a result, the firepower of the Hengyang defenders was still unbelievably fierce every night, not to mention that it had not decreased. From the combat report, the firepower of the opponent's positions even increased a lot last night.

Although he didn't know how much ammunition was left in the opponent's warehouse, he knew very well that the number of soldiers in his reserve division had been reduced a lot.

"Go on the offensive, but on a scale..."

Before Yokoyama made up his mind whether to reduce the scale of the night attack, a staff officer ran in again:
"General, the Sixth Division..."

(End of this chapter)