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Chapter 348 Iron Line of Defense!

"Commander, Li Tianxi's company from the 531rd Battalion of the 3st Regiment has engaged in a firefight with the Rogue Eagles' vanguard troops in Mulichuan. Li Tianxi took the lead in occupying the 2317 high ground in Mulichuan and is currently blocking the Rogue Eagles' vanguard troops. He has destroyed 2 light tanks and 4 armored transport vehicles. However, the enemy's vanguard has not retreated and is in a standoff and mortar counterattack with Li Tianxi's company."

"The 112st Regiment of the 531th Division is accelerating its advance. They will reach Mulichuan in one hour."

The operations staff summarized the latest intelligence and reported.

"The 112th Division asks whether to launch a limited counterattack!"

Kong Jie listened to the intelligence while looking at the map.

At this moment, his forward command was more than 20 kilometers away from Mulichuan.

Li Tianxi's company did not receive the latest intelligence about the Kingston Task Force of the 7th Infantry Division of the Rogue Eagles, and did not even know who their opponents were, but judging from their faces, they were definitely foreigners.

"If we have a chance to wipe out a part of them, we can discuss it with the front line as appropriate. But we must be careful of the enemy's reinforcements. The troops in the mountainous areas cannot deploy fully. This is true for the enemy, and it is the same for us. We must be careful not to fall into their ambush." ​​Kong Jie looked at the map for a while and felt that there was little point in attacking. His troops could only meet the attack in a long snake formation along the mountain road.

In this situation, there is no advantage at all. When the equipment difference is not big, it is completely a one-for-one fight. From now on, this is totally not worth it.

Mulichuan is like a gourd that can be put in. After occupying the surrounding high ground, the enemy can only come out from the mountain road one after another like the gourd brothers. At least one regiment can be placed here to form a cross-fire position, and it is a mountain area that is difficult for the enemy's artillery to cover.

As the first line of defense, one regiment can effectively block the rogue eagles from passing through here.

But the situation now is a bit bad. The vanguard arrived there too hastily, and now there are basically no fortifications on the position.

If the enemy had more artillery fire, Li Tianxi and his men wouldn't have been able to hold out for long.

After all, Kong Jie was very clear about the power of artillery.

Li Tianxi only had a hundred-odd men. In such a large situation, if the opponent sent a battery of mountain artillery to attack, they would basically be suppressed.

"The 531st Regiment is moving too slowly. Order one of its units to march in a fully mechanized manner. It must reach Mulichuan to set up defenses within half an hour and consolidate our position." Kong Jie was somewhat dissatisfied with his subordinates' actions.

"Mulichuan is the best battlefield to block the enemy's advance. Once we lose it, we will have to retreat to Nanpingling line."

"The mission of the 531st Regiment is not only to block the enemy's vanguard, but also to find a way to strengthen the position and form an anti-artillery fortification that can prevent the enemy's mountain artillery bombardment in a short period of time. Our 107 guns are flexible and can be disassembled and taken to the top of the high ground to suppress the enemy's heavy artillery attack from the rear."

The enemy has a lot of artillery, not just mortars and mountain guns, but also 105mm howitzers and 155mm howitzers! These are extremely powerful, and are a nightmare for the defense of the position.

The current conditions are clearly not in place to address these threats.

At present, our military's artillery technology is still at the imitation stage and has not surpassed our opponents.

The 107 fire truck, which is truly highly maneuverable, loses its mobility advantage in such mountainous areas and can only rely on roads to move back and forth along the kilometers.

Although this can also avoid the accuracy of the opponent's counterattack, and change positions after a few hits, it is impossible to achieve the excellent traditional art of our army, which is detour. You must know that rocket launchers are our advantage. If we can strike in a large-scale mobile manner, the opponent will basically be useless.

The power of the 107 rocket launcher is quite impressive. Its only drawback is that it consumes too much energy and cannot be supported by ordinary logistics.

But fortunately, in this war, Ren Zhong revealed the importance of logistics from the very beginning, and the supply of weapons and ammunition was orders of magnitude better than that of the main world's historical time and space.

Now, the most common task for each army’s motor transport regiment is to transport ammunition, especially artillery shells!

Although artillery shells cost money, in the concept of mission responsibility, artillery shells are not as valuable as human lives. Although in the production of artillery shells, as long as we work at full capacity, we will definitely produce as many as needed, the current military-industrial system has no problems in this regard.

Now, the monthly production capacity of just a few artillery factories in the Northeast has reached hundreds of thousands of shells!
The shells were transported from the factory by rail to the front lines such as Andong and even Guoshan Guicheng, and then transferred to the troops by car.

Kong Jie now has a very deep understanding of the control of artillery and tanks over infantry.

West Line.

Dawn opens.

The 178st Cavalry Division ran headlong into the th Division's defense line.

A mixed heavy tank company of M46 and M26 recklessly crashed into the defense line that the 178th Division had just deployed.

Behind him was a whole infantry battalion, some of which were driving half-track armored vehicles equipped with Browning heavy machine guns and following the tanks. Facing the positions of the 178th Division, they began to follow the tanks and fired fiercely. The Rogue Eagle soldiers also jumped out of the cars one by one and began to line up and follow the armored vehicles to form a charging formation!
Behind them, the artillery supporting the infantry began to find positions and deploy.

It has only been a few years since the end of World War II, and those soldiers who fought against the Japanese have not yet retired. At the grassroots level, they are all veterans with rich combat experience!

This attitude of not panicking when encountering the enemy and directly facing the challenge made the commander of the 178th Regiment of the 375th Division on the opposite side feel a little bit difficult.

He commanded his troops to advance quickly here to establish the first line of defense. They had just dug a trench less than 50 centimeters shallow when they encountered the st Cavalry Division.

Looking at the size of the M26/M46 heavy tanks, you can tell that they are not easy opponents to deal with.

The tank battalion that arrived with them did not hesitate and went straight forward.

On the battlefield, the best weapon to deal with tanks is still tanks!
When the tanks of both sides entered 500 meters, the sound of tank firing began to be heard one after another!
This time, the caliber of the Rogue Eagle's tank gun was as high as 90mm! The armor-piercing bullet hit the modified version of the T34 tank composite armor, and immediately caused serious damage to the first layer of composite armor. Although the tank was not penetrated in one fell swoop, the tank driver had already sensed an ominous sign from the huge shock!
At the same time, after the 178mm main gun of the 76th Division Tank Battalion hit the enemy tank, it did not hit the target with one shot as it did in the past, and it did not penetrate the Rogue Eagle's tank in one fell swoop!
In the first round of attacks from both sides, the Rogue Eagle had a higher hit rate, but neither side could do anything to the other in the first round!
The only advantage for the 178th Division is that they have the advantage in numbers, and they still have more total hits than the enemy.

The tanks were close to each other and neither side had a way to retreat. In the second round of head-on confrontation that followed, neither side hesitated. This time, the tanks on the volunteer soldiers' side learned the method of concentrating fire on two tanks, and finally when two shells hit the same tank one after another, they destroyed seven or eight tanks of the Rogue Eagles, causing them to explode and emit black smoke!
But at the same time, five or six of our army's tanks were unfortunately killed after being hit by more than two shells in succession. The entire tank was pierced by the armor-piercing shells and exploded!

With the original armor thickness of the T-34 tank, after the composite armor was knocked off, it could not withstand the attack of 90mm armor-piercing projectiles!

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