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Chapter 280: By fighting, we become a powerful country?

Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye were planning.

The brigade commander, however, has no leisure time. Intelligence from the front line is pouring in like water, and his staff team has now expanded to more than 30 people, but it still feels not enough.

A row of radio stations continuously received information from various remote levels. Outside the radio stations, in another room, walkie-talkies kept ringing one after another without interruption. This was the dispatch situation near Jizhou.

Information is summarized in real time at the command center via walkie-talkie.

"The Eighth Division has appeared?" The brigade commander suddenly frowned when he heard the combat staff report on the progress in the direction of Shexian County.

But he knew that this was a division that was destined to be killed and sent over by the headquarters through secret transmission channels.

It was Brother Ren who personally appointed it.

Therefore, the brigade commander was very sensitive to information about the Eighth Division.

"Yes, Brigade Commander, the Eighth Division is divided into two routes. The vanguard has entered Longhu Township and Shidong area. According to the plan, we have no defenses in this area. We plan to wait for the main force of the Japanese to enter Yangyi before we start to resist step by step, and pull the Japanese into the valley of more than ten kilometers from Yangyi to Xishu to annihilate them!" the combat staff reported.

There are two roads from Wu'an to Shexian. One is a road along the valley, which is passable by cars and tanks. If the Japanese heavy weapons want to follow into the mountains, they must take this route. The other road is over the mountains and is not passable by cars. It is impossible to carry heavy weapons. At most, the 92 infantry gun can be dismantled and put on mules and horses for transportation.

The Japanese soldiers along this route were naturally mainly light infantry.

There are two Type B regiments lying in ambush in the mountains, so the brigade commander is not worried that this direction will be lost.

However, how to completely annihilate the Eighth Division was a big problem. Since we had to lure the enemy deep into our territory, it was not easy to send people to ambush and cover their retreat on both sides of the pass from Wu'an to Shilidian. The Japanese wanted to go into the mountains, so we had to dig three feet underground to scout these key places.

If we can't cover our retreat, it will be difficult to achieve our goal of total annihilation.

However, the brigade commander only hesitated for a while before giving up the idea. To him, the battlefield was changing rapidly and he could not consider everything carefully. He just had to do his best. Anyway, these Japanese devils had left their old nest in the Northeast, so there was no way they could go back now.

"What's the latest situation in Jizhou?" The brigade commander left Shexian and turned to the present.

"We have found the location of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade and confirmed that 48 150mm howitzers are following the st Division. The vanguard is near Qi County."

The 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade? The brigade commander looked at the enemy's key units marked on the map with a serious expression. The Taisho 150th-year type 150mm field howitzer was a powerful weapon. Only the most elite troops were qualified to be equipped with this mm caliber howitzer. Only in a real decisive battle would the Japanese pull out the field heavy artillery.

So, the Japanese were really pissed off by me?
There was a slight curve at the corners of the brigade commander's lips.

Two years ago, if the brigade commander encountered such troops, he would just run as far away as possible and there would be no room for resistance at all.

The range of artillery is the truth. Two years ago, the brigade commander did not have any hard goods. At the end of the year, he accumulated a batch of 107 rocket launchers! At the New Year, he fired hundreds of small rockets at the Japanese airport to cheer up the people of the country.

But today, the brigade commander has a lot of things at his disposal.

The once invincible monster of the Japanese army had become quite useless in the eyes of the brigade commander. Its range was not good, and it was several blocks behind the range of the 105mm howitzer in his hand! It was also not very mobile, and the gun was heavy, so it had to be towed by a car on the main road.

The power of a single bomb is sufficient, but the firing rate is not good enough. It can only fire 3-4 rounds per minute, which is quite rubbish compared with the 105mm howitzer in the hands of the brigade commander. The 105mm howitzer currently used by the brigade commander has a maximum range of 11 kilometers and a maximum firing rate of 16 rounds per minute.

It can completely crush the Japanese's heavy weapon.

When these things flashed in the mind of the brigade commander, a thought suddenly came to his mind. The little devils now seemed really old! In order to fight with him, he now took out his family's wealth, which was also an outdated product from more than ten years ago. For Guojian, who had no heavy artillery equipment, such equipment was naturally invincible, but for himself now, it was too far behind.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and the brigade commander returned to reality.

He turned to the chief of staff and said, "Can our vehicle-mounted rocket launcher battalion and heavy machine gun battalion launch a surprise attack on the Japanese?"

The chief of staff of the brigade was stunned for a moment, then shook his head slightly. "We can launch a sneak attack, but if the infantry can't keep up, the results will probably be poor. According to our plan, when the Japanese arrive at the front line and have not yet established a firm foothold, we will dispatch the vehicle-mounted rocket artillery battalion and the heavy machine gun battalion to break into the Japanese rear positions and launch a lightning attack, using fuel-air explosive bombs to eliminate this heavy artillery brigade in one fell swoop!"

"Next, our tank battalion will charge, and the mechanized infantry brigade will attack, and we will try to seize the Japanese heavy artillery. Although some of the heavy artillery may be directly burned by the high temperature, in places far away from the core area of ​​the fuel-air bomb, the Japanese soldiers will not be able to withstand the lack of oxygen and die, but the artillery will not have this problem."

Since heavy weapons are still insufficient, Ren Zhong mentioned to Staff Officer Ye that if the Japanese heavy artillery could be seized, then they should be seized. Producing artillery shells would not be a problem. The Japanese had built many fortresses along the way in the Northeast. After years of construction, the Northeast had become a defensive monster like an iron hedgehog, which could not be tackled without heavy artillery.

Especially some reinforced concrete fortifications, which are hard objects that even 75mm mountain cannons and field artillery cannot penetrate. If there are no 150mm howitzers and 105mm howitzers to suppress them, and the 107mm rocket launchers are not very accurate, it will be very difficult to fight them.

It's not that it's impossible to take it down, but it takes a lot of time, which delays Ren Zhong's plan to quickly seize the Northeast and build a large industrial base.

Moreover, the protracted street fighting is not conducive to future construction and may very likely turn the entire Northeast into ruins. Therefore, it must be pacified quickly and with great force, just like the original historical time and space, so as to minimize the damage to industrial infrastructure!
This requires the attacking team to have overwhelming firepower!
The strength in the brigade commander's hands is not afraid of the positions at all. He has more than 10 mechanized infantry brigades that are gradually being equipped. The three mechanized infantry brigades led by Li Yunlong are fully equipped with fuel-air explosive bombs.

Like several vehicle-mounted 107mm artillery battalions in Shexian County, they have powerful area-killing capabilities. The Japanese's numerical advantage in troops is completely meaningless in the face of this kind of equal weapon.

There are mainly two types of fuel-air explosive bombs in the hands of the Eighth Route Infantry. One is the Dongfeng Express loaded with fuel-air explosive bombs, one of which has a killing power comparable to 44 tons of TNT; the other is the RPG-80 rocket launcher fuel-air explosive bomb, a single-soldier weapon. After being fired, it will scatter the fuel-air explosive agent to about 20 meters around, and then detonate, causing a violent explosion, which will produce a strong shock wave and high temperature, and can effectively kill people within the range. The killing range is about 50 meters!
The maximum range is 850 meters, and the direct-aiming, precision-strike target range is 200 meters.

This portable fuel-air explosive bomb, which can be thrown by a single soldier or after two rounds, has completely changed the definition of infantry frontline firepower. Under special terrain conditions, it has the lethality of heavy artillery! If a few bombs are sent out to the front line, it can cause fatal damage to a battalion of Japanese soldiers!
As for the 107mm rocket launcher's fuel-air explosive bomb, its lethality is even more powerful.

With such a powerful weapon in hand, the brigade commander really has the right to remain calm when facing 300,000 elite troops of the Kwantung Army!
"Then let's fight them right in front of us. How about the air force?" asked the brigade commander.

"Very good. At present, our radar covers the entire North China, from the border to the Yellow River, and from the border area to the area outside the Great Wall for more than 3 kilometers. Our easternmost radar is deployed in the Jin-Cha-Ji-Pingbei base area, which can cover the reconnaissance of fighter jets taking off from Pingjin to Yingkou. Through the current complete professional air defense radio notification system, we are fully capable of warning the entire North China sky within minutes."

said the brigade chief of staff.

After the hard work of the Radar Research Center and with the indoctrination of Ren Zhongzhu's world radar technology development direction and process, we have finally made a breakthrough in the independence of radar technology and started to produce two new types of secret weapons: field radar and airborne radar.

Based on the scaled-down and optimized version of the AN/FPS-8 two-coordinate warning radar, the warning distance has reached an unprecedented range of 400 kilometers.

Of course, in order to drive this radar, Ren Zhong had to match it with a 500KW hydropower station to match the huge energy consumption at its strongest detection distance.

Therefore, the deployment of this new type of radar is also quite location-sensitive. The local area must have developed small hydropower to provide electricity supply. If it is a small thermal power plant, it will be discovered from a long distance, and the meaning of concealment will be lost.

After further expansion, the number of fighter planes of the Divine Eagle Squadron increased to about 150. Of course, not that many were produced domestically, but with the hotline relationship between Staff Officer Ye and General Shi, and the fact that the Allied forces believed that the decisive battle in North China was enough to change the situation in Northeast Asia, the Allied forces sent more than 50 P51Ds to help, allowing the Eighth Route Army Air Force to fill the seven field airports in Shanxi and Henan for the first time!
"Then what are we still missing?" the brigade commander asked in a relaxed manner.

"Old Chen, we really don't lack anything. Now we are fighting such a lavish war. I'm afraid it will be difficult to go from extravagant to frugal in the future," said the brigade chief of staff with a wry smile.

Unprecedentedly powerful infantry, unprecedentedly powerful heavy firepower, and an air force powerful enough to cover the blue sky. This battle made the brigade chief of staff wonder what other skills he needed.
Tactical penetration, movement and pulling? It seems that they are no longer necessary now. Direct fire coverage can clearly send the Japanese away!

As the fighting went on, how come we became like the great powers and started using firepower to bully the Japanese?
The brigade chief of staff was a little confused, but he didn't worry about it. After all, this battle was the most important one in his career. But when he thought about it, it seemed to be the one that wasted the least brain cells in his career.

This is so unscientific.

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