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Chapter 312 The Eighth Route Army has a deeper understanding of heavy fire support

"Tu tu tu tu tu tu tu tu~..."

After receiving the order to fire, the anti-aircraft company of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment immediately launched a violent strafing attack on the Japanese cavalry troops.

After the bullets fired from nine 9mm anti-aircraft machine guns hit the Japanese cavalry, the cavalry charged by the Japanese fell in pieces like harvested wheat.

The power of the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun was fully demonstrated at this moment.

127 is 127, and its lethality is far beyond that of medium-caliber ammunition such as 762.

The Japanese cavalry regiment, which had suffered heavy losses under the fire of the 122mm howitzer, encountered another metal storm from the anti-aircraft company on the way to the charge.

This made the Japanese cavalry feel panicked and at a loss.

After all, the firepower and lethality of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side are too great!
Not to mention humans, even the horses under the cavalry's crotches would be broken into pieces by the warheads after being hit by the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft machine gun bullets.

The powerful kinetic energy brought by the 54*12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun bullets used by the Type 108 anti-aircraft machine gun still has strong lethality after completely penetrating a horse.

How have these Japanese troops who have never encountered a red police force seen such a battle?
As a result, in this extremely bloody scene, the morale of the Japanese army suffered a huge blow.

Fortunately, the length of the bullet chain of the anti-aircraft machine gun was limited after all. The little Japs continued to charge, just waiting for the group of Tubal Roadmen to give the Eighth Route Army a fatal blow when there was a gap to change the bullet chain.

But the little devils didn't know that although the air defense company's ammunition belts had been exhausted, the heavy machine gun company of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment had not yet opened fire!

So when the anti-aircraft machine gun fire of the anti-aircraft company was about to stop, the heavy machine gun company immediately opened fire to connect the fire.

Nine Type 9 anti-aircraft machine guns have just ceased fire, and there are nine Type 54 heavy machine guns...

Japanese Cavalry Regiment:...

But this kind of fire suppression did not last long. Under this continuous fire attack, the little devil's damage became more and more serious, and the momentum of the charge became weaker and weaker.

The Eighth Route Army's firepower units immediately ceased fire.

The commander of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment drew out the saber from his waist and pointed it directly in the direction of the Japanese cavalry and shouted: "Cavalry Regiment, attack!"

"kill!"

The little devil's cavalry is getting closer and closer, and the more lethal power of the cavalry depends on charging up.

If the little devil's cavalry is allowed to be too close, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment will lose considerable acceleration distance. Therefore, when the Japanese army is being consumed in large quantities, the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment will attack decisively!

Of course, the cavalry charge must be accompanied by supporting forces.

Nine 9mm mortars from the artillery company also opened fire to support the cavalry charge.

The little devil looked at the Eighth Route Army cavalry rushing over from the opposite side, and at the mortar shells exploding around him, and couldn't help but curse Baga in his heart.

The current Japanese cavalry regiment has been reduced to tenth by the Eighth Route Army's superior firepower.

The remaining little devils actually didn't want to continue the charge. After all, the commander of their regiment was almost dead under the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

The less than 300 Japanese cavalrymen who remained wanted to escape, but their retreat had been blocked by artillery fire.

The reason why the Japanese army's charge slowed down at this time was mainly because the little devil wanted to run, but he didn't know where to run.

This situation is the saddest.

But the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment did not want to let these little Japs go. Now these remaining Japs cavalry were a piece of meat in the mouth of the Eighth Route Army. How could they be allowed to escape?
Moreover, the horses of the Little Devil Cavalry are all good horses, and the soldiers of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment are very covetous of these horses.

I even felt that it was a pity that the war horses were killed under firepower. If I had a head-on fight with the opponent, I could capture more war horses!
But these are the thoughts of some soldiers. In the eyes of the Eighth Route Army command, how could it be possible to exchange the lives of the cavalry for these horses?

Although horses are precious, they are not as valuable as their comrades.

Under a charge from the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, the remaining less than [-] Japanese cavalry were all wiped out by the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment.

At this time, Song Xianggui also led the 18th regiment that had cleaned the battlefield to the scheduled location for the round of battle.

The first step of the Jingxing Round Battle plan has been successfully completed. All the Eighth Route Army troops participating in the round battle have arrived at their scheduled positions, and have entered into a confrontation with the two incomplete C-type divisions of the Japanese army in the Changhuang Village area.

The 115th Division Artillery Regiment also moved its position after the infantry was in place, bringing the entire Changgang Village and nearby Yehe into the attack range.

However, the 115th Division Artillery Regiment did not launch a full range of artillery attacks on the Japanese troops.

After all, the purpose of round battles is to increase the combat experience of various units of the Eighth Route Army. Naturally, such a good combat target must be completely destroyed after extracting their remaining value.

In the battle headquarters, Li Ty, who was the commander-in-chief of the enemy before the battle, was waiting for the staff to summarize today's battle results.

This time the Eighth Route Army used two infantry regiments, an artillery regiment and a cavalry regiment to annihilate one Japanese infantry regiment, two infantry brigades, and a cavalry regiment.

It can be said to be a huge gain!
And this battle basically did not rely on Zhang Shijie's Red Police Force. It was completed independently by their Eighth Route Army.

This is very exciting news for the Eighth Route Army, which means that the combat effectiveness of their troops has been greatly improved, and they have the ability to independently complete the annihilation of Japanese brigade and regiment-level units.

After the statistics were completed, Li Ty immediately sent the battle report to the Eighth Route Army headquarters and YA.

After receiving the telegram, Ya, while rejoicing, also discovered the key reason for the success of this operation.

115th Division Artillery Regiment!

The key factor in the victory of these three battles lies in the 115th Division Artillery Regiment, which was established not long ago.

The Eighth Route Army, which had never had heavy artillery support before, knew that this kind of heavy support firepower was important, but after actual combat, it was discovered that heavy artillery was actually so important in frontal combat!
So YA set its sights on the Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, which had just completed its change of equipment and was intensifying its training.

The original Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters was established not long ago, and the entire artillery regiment only had the combat strength of 6 artillery companies.

However, with the establishment of the 386th Brigade Artillery Regiment (now the 129th Division Artillery Regiment), the Eighth Route Army Headquarters also got an opportunity to develop the artillery force.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army, which had achieved rapid economic development, spent huge sums of money to purchase equipment from four artillery regiments from the Red Police Force. In addition to the artillery regiments directly under the three divisions, it was the headquarters artillery regiment.

Moreover, compared with the artillery regiments directly under each division, the establishment of this headquarters artillery regiment has been greatly strengthened in terms of equipment and organization.

The headquarters artillery regiment has four artillery battalions (122 mm), an air defense battalion, a logistics support battalion, and a teaching battalion. In addition, it also has a guard company, an engineer company, a communications company, a radar guidance company, and an artillery observation company. and other directly affiliated units.

This organization was specially strengthened by Zhang Shijie to the headquarters artillery regiment.

After all, Zhang Shijie traveled back in time. In 1944, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters opened the Yan'an Artillery Academy based on the headquarters artillery regiment.

With these targeted establishment units, the Eighth Route Army will be able to make the learning content more comprehensive when it establishes its own artillery academy in the future.

But after this battle, the Eighth Route Army, which originally regarded the headquarters artillery regiment as their treasure, became a little dissatisfied with this artillery regiment.

Is the artillery regiment a bit small?

Anyway, we have this condition. Isn’t it time to completely strengthen the artillery strength of the Eighth Route Army? So the Eighth Route Army began planning to strengthen its artillery units at all levels.

According to the plan, the Eighth Route Army plans to set up Type C artillery regiments in various large military divisions/base areas (Jizhong Military Division, Taiyue Military Division, Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base areas, etc.), and set up 2-3 artillery regiments equipped with 100mm mortars or 85mm cannons. artillery battalion.

Each brigade is equipped with a Class B artillery regiment equipped with three battalions of 3mm howitzers (each division is now an artillery regiment).

Each division will set up a Category A artillery regiment based on the current artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

The Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters was expanded into an Artillery Brigade.

Artillery battalions are set up in each regional column.

The Eighth Route Army's plan was very grand, but after the plan was completed, they discovered a very real problem.

Not enough money!

Now that the Eighth Route Army has increased in number, its daily personnel and food expenses are very large, and the previous procurement of technical equipment and training of technical arms are also very expensive.

In fact, relatively speaking, these are all small heads.

The bulk of the money spent was on the batch of new recruits that the Eighth Route Army commissioned the Red Police Force to train and equip after the first phase of the Hundred Regiment War!

The cost of equipment and training for a recruit is not that much. After all, Zhang Shijie gives friendly prices, but after all, it can't handle the large number of people!

Those who ride horses are 10 people!
Even now that the Eighth Route Army has made considerable economic progress, Zhang Shijie has given great discounts. The training and equipment of these [-] recruits have left nothing in the wallet of the Eighth Route Army's Ministry of Finance.

This is still under the condition that Zhang Shijie agrees to pay in installments.

"No! Our finances are completely empty now and we simply cannot afford to buy so many artillery pieces!"

"How many more artillery pieces can I buy with the remaining money?"

"Hmm... 5 doors?"

"..."

What a waste to buy 5 artillery pieces!

According to this plan, the current gap is more than 50!

Facing practical difficulties, the Eighth Route Army's plans for artillery development can only be temporarily slowed down, but the Eighth Route Army's senior officials still want to strengthen the headquarters artillery regiment.

So after a round of discussions, the Eighth Route Army decided to give Zhang Shijie credit and build the headquarters artillery brigade first.

Although I'm a little embarrassed, this little bit of shame is nothing compared to the development of the army.

As for why not all the artillery needed for the Eighth Route Army's artillery development plan were loaned out...

Do you really think Zhang Shijie was taken advantage of? !
So this arduous and glorious task naturally fell on the head of Zhang Shijie's good brother, the person who proposed the title of "Shanxi Shit Trouble" and the commander of the 386th Brigade, Chen G.

Chen G:……

What a long prefix...

After receiving the telegram from the headquarters, Brigadier Chen was also confused.

It's easy to talk about other things, but it's really hard to talk about the credit issue. After all, the 386th Brigade hasn't given Li Yunlong's new regiment the money for training yet.

Brigadier Chen would be a little embarrassed if he was asked to lend more than half of the brigade's heavy artillery on credit.

It's okay if Zhang Shijie is one of the bald gang of profiteers. At worst, we can find a few bastards like Li Yunlong to make them understand what "Why should I give you money on credit based on my ability?!"

But facing Zhang Shijie and the Eighth Route Army, they couldn't do this. Zhang Shijie really helped them.

"Brigadier, what's wrong? What are the instructions from the headquarters?"

Brigadier Chen sighed after hearing this and said: "It's nothing, I just have to sell my old face! I hope I don't be so petty!"

There was no way, the mission was personally given by YA, and Brigadier Chen had no choice but to carry it out even if he couldn't save face.

"Inform the logistics department to prepare a car for me, decorated with game, calligraphy and painting, etc., and follow me to Dagushan." The brigade commander said to the guard beside him.

"Brigadier, why are we going to Dagushan this time?"

"What for? Giving gifts!"

Two hours later, the brigade commander boarded a truck filled with game, while the guards beside him had their arms filled with calligraphy and paintings.

Of course, these calligraphy and paintings are not antiques. They are calligraphy and paintings by senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army.

The brigade commander also knew that Zhang Shijie was very obsessed with these calligraphy and paintings and had a great demand for them.

Since you want to borrow money, you must be courteous and at the same time do what you like.

"I really didn't expect that I, Chen G, would also go to give gifts one day. Fortunately, the gifts were not gold, silver and jewelry, but game and the like. Otherwise, my reputation in this life would not be guaranteed!"

Looking at the rapidly retreating scenery outside the window, Brigadier Chen couldn't help but complain.

Dagushan base area, core area.

Zhang Shijie, Chen Xi and others are analyzing the next stage of Japanese military operations in the headquarters.

It's almost 1941, and the plot of the entire world of Bright Sword has been thrown into chaos due to the intervention of the Red Police Force.

In the original plot, after the Hundred Regiments War of the Eighth Route Army ended, the Little Japanese backhandedly carried out a large-scale sweep, which caused the Eighth Route Army to have a very difficult life in 41-42.

But the situation is different now. Because Zhang Shijie provided a large amount of weapons, equipment and personnel training to the Eighth Route Army, the overall strength of the Eighth Route Army has been greatly improved.

And coupled with the early massacre of the Japs by the Red Police troops, the Japanese army currently does not have enough troops and combat capabilities to launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army.

Otherwise, the little devil's plan to attack Niangziguan would not have only sent two C-type divisions, and finally turned into a living battle to defend Jingxing County.

In this situation, the third brother said that he was an expert.

But Japan is an industrial country after all. Even if the Japanese do not have the power to fight back at this stage, they will definitely counterattack after the Japanese army's "strengthening the army" plan achieves certain results.

However, these all take time. According to Chen Xi's analysis, from now until the autumn of 1941, the Chinese battlefield will be in a relatively stable state.

Zhang Shijie will also use this war gap to strengthen the red police force, and at the same time complete various construction work in the base area as much as possible.

While the two were discussing, Song Yunfei ran over to report: "Chief, Brigadier Chen is here!"

(End of this chapter)