Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 264: Conquer the famous city and beat the devils

Outside Jizhou City, Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao chatted and laughed while defeating the enemy. With abundant firepower support, the Japanese defense line was vulnerable.

Faced with the firepower network that Ren Zhong had spent more than four years to weave, whether it was the infantry's 56 and a half or 56 assault, it was a dimensionality reduction attack on the Japanese. The remaining Japanese in the trenches had almost no ability to fight back, and under the coordination of infantry and artillery, they were turned into fertilizer for the fields.

In Jizhou City, the Japanese division commanders and high-ranking officials gathered together, but none of them looked happy. After a long debate, no conclusion was reached.

Lieutenant General Tsukada Hiji, who temporarily commanded these division commanders, was the newly promoted Chief of Staff of the Ninth Area Army. He had no prestige in normal times. Now that his superiors' attitude towards Jizhou was unclear, he had no idea how to deal with it.

The three immediate superiors, the North China Front Army, the General Headquarters and the Ninth Front Army, have no clear attitude at this time.

After all, Jizhou is so important. It is one of the major pillars of North China's defense and also a key point of the north-south passage.

If you give up, you don’t know how much effort it will take to get it back.

Even at this point, the Japanese still have no awareness of defeat.

In their view, if the more than 300 artillery pieces of various types that Kurihara Nobuo desperately wanted were in place, they could at least fight back.

The big gap between us and the Eighth Route Army now is due to the lack of artillery fire. We are inferior to them in both quantity and quality. Therefore, the headquarters agreed to transfer another heavy artillery brigade from the Kwantung Army, and at the same time transport a batch of mountain artillery and 105 howitzers from the mainland to North China, and re-establish more than 10 artillery regiments!
In addition, nearly one hundred medium tanks were transported here. According to the new plan, each division will be strengthened with a tank battalion of 5 medium tanks and 10 light tanks, as well as 5 artillery vehicles equipped with 105mm howitzers to enhance the division-level mobile artillery.

This was used to counter the Eighth Route Army's elusive 107th Artillery Battalion.

As for infantry anti-tank weapons, the Type 500 rocket launcher that the Japanese urgently copied has finally come out, and advance Type rocket launchers will be equipped to the front line.

According to their tests, the Type 150 rocket launcher can penetrate the side armor of a medium tank at a distance of 34 meters, but the Japanese rocket launcher developers are not at all sure whether it can blow up the side of the Eighth Route Army's T heavy tank.

According to the description, these tanks have armor of dozens of millimeters. According to the power of the Type 40 rocket launcher's armor-piercing shells, it may be around millimeters within a hundred meters. Therefore, the Japanese military industry suggested that if facing heavy tanks, it would be more realistic to directly attack the tracks and paralyze them.

But these are still at sea, and it will take at least a week or so to be transported to the front line.

But can Jizhou’s city defense really hold out that long?
The old Japanese soldier Tsukada Aji, who ventured outside the city every day to observe the battle situation, expressed no confidence.

It's not that he didn't think of a way. For a similar counterattack, Tsukada Hiji sent out two waves of regiment-level counterattack teams. However, faced with such a situation, the Eighth Route Army brutally sent out more than a dozen jeeps equipped with heavy machine guns. Under the cover of the natural fortress formed by the tanks, the Japanese were not given any chance at all. Faced with the crossfire of more than a dozen heavy machine guns and the concentrated firepower of dozens of mortars, the fire fell on the charging Japanese troops like raindrops.

The two regiment-level counterattacks were almost crushed on the ground before they could even make a splash!
The enemy's firepower was so fierce that it was simply unimaginable for Hiji Tsukada. It was no less powerful than the steel torrent that they encountered when they first encountered Big Bear.

The biggest difference is that the Eighth Route Army's tanks are more sturdy and unstoppable than Daxiong's original tanks!
The current Eighth Route Army's attack has no moral principles at all. If the problem can be solved with firepower, they will never send people to charge. This is completely different from what Tsukada Hiji had encountered before.

In the past, whether it was the Eighth Route Army or the preserved fruits, if there was an opportunity for close combat, they would definitely try every means to get close to the Japanese positions for close combat.

But the Eighth Route Army now is completely different. They have kept a certain distance and are fully prepared to solve the problem with ammunition under the advantage of firepower!
This kind of prodigal son's fighting style was something that even the Locust Army wouldn't dare to imagine, but now they actually saw it on the Eighth Route Army.

The almost endless artillery fire on the battlefield was constantly squeezing the Japanese positions.

Although the intensity is no longer the same as at the beginning, as long as the front line calls, the artillery in the rear will respond. Using the advanced range-finding telescopes, after accurately testing the distance, they will report the precise artillery targets to the artillery resources in the rear, so that the Japanese positions can be accurately bombarded at any time!

The Japanese outer positions were completely unable to fight back.

What about infantry guns and 37mm anti-tank guns? Once they are discovered, we will call in mountain artillery for precise bombing!

Basically, it will turn into a pile of scrap metal in less than five minutes.

Therefore, these weapons, which barely have some power against tanks, do not have time to cause much damage to the tanks after they appear. They are either killed by the tank guns or destroyed by the called-in artillery fire.

The Japanese' disadvantage in artillery fire has become more prominent with the emergence and application of the Eighth Route Army heavy tanks.

Seeing that the position was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye every hour, Tsukada Feiji was extremely anxious, but there was nothing he could do. The current situation had actually reached a dead end.

Although there are still a large number of troops in the city used in street fighting.

According to the current deployment, the Locust Army still has a chance to turn the tables when reinforcements arrive after a battle to defend Jizhou Gele. However, the current speed of the Eighth Route Army's progress has infinitely reduced the probability of this opportunity.

"These Jizhou Japs are quite patient," the brigade commander said after observing the situation of the Japs at the front line. He was quite puzzled that there was no movement from the north gate direction.

"Jizhou's strategic location is too strong, the Japanese are reluctant to give it up," the chief of staff said with a smile, "Once Jizhou is lost, the Japanese will be like missing a leg in North China. Now the Japanese have not realized that this is not the place they should come to. Sooner or later, they will lose their hands and feet!"

"It's just that we attacked ahead of schedule today. Now it seems that we seized the opportunity well. The Japanese's third-line division really doesn't have the capital to compete with our main force. If we miss this opportunity now and wait for the Japanese to replenish new equipment and new field divisions, our attack will probably be very costly."

"Yes, that's why I decided to counterattack in advance. The Japanese underestimated our strength this time. They wanted to suppress us with their superior force, but they didn't realize that we are no longer the same as we were yesterday.

The times have changed. Brother Ren is really good at military industry. Now our weapons and equipment are so sophisticated that they have completely overwhelmed the Japanese. Our thinking must also change, otherwise we will not be able to keep up with the development of our military industry. "The brigade commander sighed. If Ren Zhong had not obtained a lot of strategic and tactical information on infantry-artillery coordination, infantry-tank coordination, and mechanized large-scale combat, the brigade commander would have no idea about these.

After all, life before was too poor.

If a sniper battle could yield several hundred Type 38 rifles and dozens of Type 99 rifles, we would be happy for several days.

Nowadays, only the guerrillas still use these things.

The main group now produces all 56 series products in-house.

Not only are they sophisticated and reliable, but the bullets are also quite standardized, completely standardizing the weapons of the seven countries and eight systems in the previous logistics.

Coupled with mechanized transport equipment, the current troop advancement speed is unprecedentedly fast!

Traveling a thousand miles a day is really possible in the plains.

This kind of progress was unimaginable before.

The brigade commander was excited, but his eyes were fixed on the battle situation in front of him. He found that the Japanese defense line was melting rapidly like ice meeting hot water under the coordinated attack of tanks and infantry.

The original plan was to fight on the outer positions for five or six days, but now it seems that we can defeat them in three days at most!

Big guys like tanks are really advantageous in clearing positions. Their huge and sturdy bodies are a natural cover for the accompanying infantry. There is no need to worry about the Japanese machine gun fire. In the battlefield charge formation, the lethality of machine guns is terrifying, but when encountering tanks, this kind of machine gun firepower point is just a piece of cake.

The tank's 76mm cannon can completely destroy the target as soon as it is discovered!

Taiyuan.

The successful development of the fuel-air explosive bomb made Ren Zhong perk up a little and start thinking about its use. In terms of individual soldier application, the RPG-80 disposable rocket launcher is naturally the first choice, which can destroy a bunker with one shot.

It greatly improves the killing power of RPG-80, making it more powerful than the 105mm howitzer shell!
In addition, there is massive damage.

The most typical one is the BLU-82 fuel-air explosive bomb used in Rogue Eagle bombing airdrops!
The bomb is about 3.4 meters long and 1.7 meters in diameter, similar in size to a Beetle sedan, but obviously much heavier than the latter, weighing 6 tons. The BLU-82 bomb is made by a liquid mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum nitrate reacting with air. It is said that when this bomb explodes, it can turn an area of ​​more than 500 meters into charcoal, which is terrifying, and the shock wave generated by the explosion can be felt several kilometers away.

It is simply the most powerful weapon after the nuclear egg.

Of course, Ren Zhong had no way of making such a large bomb now, nor did he have the ability to find a transport plane to transport it and drop it on the heads of the Japanese.

But he now has the Dongfeng Express IA model, which is already in the practical stage. If he makes a 1-ton fuel-air bomb, the power will be quite considerable.

This weapon is too powerful in terms of area damage, and it is easy to cause accidental casualties on one's own soil, so Ren Zhong does not plan to use this weapon in the country. Even if it is used to attack an airport, this weapon is too powerful, and any mistake will result in large-scale accidental casualties.

So in Ren Zhong's mind, he had already started planning the first Dongfeng Express delivery.

However, to realize this plan, improving weapons alone is not enough. We have to hope that the brigade commander will be more powerful!
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