Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

The Soviet army had more than two hundred large-caliber heavy artillery pieces, occupying a full square kilometer of battlefield.Nuo Da's artillery positions, even if the officers and soldiers of the National Defense Army's heavy artillery brigade fired with their eyes closed, the roaring shells could easily hit the Soviet artillery positions.

In the first round of firing, the two heavy artillery companies with eight heavy artillery shells roared down and smashed behind the Japanese heavy artillery positions.At least six heavy artillery on the Japanese heavy artillery position were shrouded in gunpowder smoke from the shell explosion in a blink of an eye.Of course, together with the six heavy cannons, there were dozens of old-fashioned artillerymen scattered around the six heavy cannons, which were shrouded in gunpowder smoke and flames.

The artillery position was attacked, and Major General Herter, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army artillery, who was standing at the artillery headquarters, enjoying the fiery scene of the artillery group with a relaxed face, was suddenly taken aback.Of course, while being frightened, Major General Hert was also shrouded in a burst of intense anger.

In his eyes, the Chinese squadron launched shelling at itself with less than half of its own artillery without air support, which was simply challenging its own majesty and the majesty of the entire Soviet artillery force.This is absolutely impossible for the Soviet Red Army, which has always advocated heavy firepower.

As soon as the first round of artillery shells exploded, the voice of command filled with anger came from Major General Herter: "First Heavy Artillery Regiment, immediately find the Chinese artillery position and destroy it. I will use artillery shells to destroy the Chinese squadron." The artillery position was torn to pieces, let them taste the power of our Soviet Red Army heavy artillery unit...."

The order was issued, and several artillery staff officers quickly began to get busy on the position of the First Heavy Artillery Regiment.According to the trajectory of the artillery shells fired by the Wehrmacht, the specific positions of the two artillery batteries began to be calculated.Just as the calculation data was sent to each gun position in the position one by one. More than 30 large-caliber artillery pieces were quickly divided into two, and when they began to adjust their muzzles to prepare for a counterattack.

Eight heavy cannons fired quickly.Has been dragged by eight military trucks, quickly left the battlefield for transfer.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...."When they landed firmly on the two heavy artillery positions and set off huge fireballs, the eight heavy artillery had already withdrawn from the positions a hundred meters away.

Lao Maozi, a heavy artillery regiment with 36 heavy artillery pieces, poured shells into two artillery positions round after round.Another eight large-caliber heavy artillery shells flew towards the Soviet artillery group from the other two artillery positions with a rapid and sharp whistling sound.

"Boom..." A series of violent explosions sounded in the Soviet position, and the two large-caliber heavy guns of the Soviet army, which were constantly roaring, were blown into parts in an instant like toys...

"What's going on, who can tell me. What's going on here... What does the First Heavy Artillery Regiment do? Why hasn't it destroyed the artillery positions of the National Defense Army... Counterattack, counterattack immediately, destroy the artillery positions of the Chinese National Defense Army for me ..." After being attacked by the squadron again, Major General Hert, with a livid face, roared loudly at his subordinates.

The Lao Maozi No. [-] Heavy Artillery Regiment, which fired five rounds of shells in a row, could only adjust the muzzle in a panic in the face of Major General Herter's anger, and fired at the artillery position that the squadron had just exposed.

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Round after round, except for a small number of heavy artillery units because the transfer speed was too slow.It was devastated by the Soviet artillery group.The remaining heavy artillery companies escaped the first round of Soviet artillery counterattacks, and moved to new artillery positions, continuing to fight guerrillas with the Soviet heavy artillery units...

Under the endless attack of thirty heavy artillery companies of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Soviet Army's heavy artillery units with more than two hundred heavy artillery pieces.It can be called exhausting.....often losing two or even three heavy artillery, the Soviet Army's heavy artillery troops can successfully destroy one heavy artillery of the Wehrmacht.

The entire artillery battle lasted just half an hour.Major General Hert, who owns more than [-] large-caliber heavy artillery pieces, has lost more than [-] heavy artillery pieces.Looking at the artillery positions that are already full of bomb craters, especially the artillery shells that are still being fired continuously by the artillery units of the National Defense Army.The deputy who has been standing next to Major General Hert.Finally couldn't help but speak.

"Comrade Commander, I think something is wrong with the artillery battle... Calculated according to the number of artillery equipped by the National Defense Forces. The entire artillery battle has continued until now, and the limited artillery of the National Defense Forces should have been eliminated by us. However, judging from the frequency of the artillery shells that the opponent bombarded us Look, the opponent's artillery unit doesn't seem to have lost much..."

Major General Hert, with a livid face, gradually calmed down. After a brief moment of contemplation, he asked his deputy in a deep voice, "Comrade Chief of Staff, what are your thoughts..."

The deputy replied without the slightest hesitation: "Reporting division commander, I thought the artillery units of the Wehrmacht were playing hide-and-seek with us... Judging from the half-hour-long shelling, the number of artillery pieces that the Wehrmacht attacked us each time was at most two companies. .And the heavy artillery of these two companies will stop shelling after firing five rounds of shells at us at most, and quickly transfer..."

"It's very likely..." Major General Hert, who also found some clues, nodded noncommittally after only a few small hints.Then, he continued to speak to his deputy.

"Only in this way can the Chinese National Defense Forces rely on the limited number of artillery in their hands to give us maximum damage and persist for a longer period of time... No, we must not let the opponent's artillery continue to be so arrogant. Otherwise, no matter how many artillery pieces we have, It can't afford such consumption, and we must find a way to break the guerrilla tactics of the Chinese artillery force...."

Under the gaze of Major General Herter, all the staff officers of the Artillery Command frowned and fell into deep thought.

The chief of staff of the artillery division who raised this question went directly to a desk, picked up a pen, and began to calculate and draw on a piece of white paper.

While everyone was still frowning, the colonel's chief of staff had already stood up.Facing Major General Hert, he said with surprise on his face: "Master, I have figured out a way, we can do this..."

Seeing that Major General Herter's eyes quickly shifted to himself, the colonel chief of staff pointed to the white paper in front of him that he had marked a lot with a pencil, and introduced: "Master, the transfer speed of the Chinese artillery unit is so fast. Facing the heavy Artillery also takes time. Of course. Even if this artillery unit is successfully transferred, it will not be too far away from their original artillery position."

"Under such circumstances, we can completely change the method of artillery warfare, concentrate all the artillery, and cover the area of ​​[-] meters around the local artillery positions with saturated artillery fire. I believe that with our advantage in the number of artillery, we can completely Within five rounds of artillery shells, all the hundreds of meters around the opponent's artillery position were razed to the ground."

"At that time, even if the Chinese artillery units are successfully transferred, they will not be able to escape our artillery counterattack, and will eventually be wiped out by us on the way to retreat..."

Hear here.Major General He Ran's frown was finally relaxed.Facing the Colonel Chief of Staff, he said excitedly: "Good way... Chief of Staff, now I order that all the remaining artillery of the artillery division will be handed over to you for command. We must, in the shortest possible time, suppress the arrogance of the Chinese artillery positions. Hit me down with the flames..."

The tactics of the Colonel Chief of Staff were quickly implemented in the entire artillery position. Under the attack of the guerrilla tactics of the artillery units of the National Defense Army, although the loss situation of the troops did not improve at all.However, the loss of the Artillery Unit of the National Defense Forces has risen in a straight line invisibly.

After the previous round of artillery strikes ended.Two heavy artillery companies that lost at most one or two heavy artillery.Facing the saturated artillery coverage of more than [-] artillery pieces of the Soviet army, more than half of them were often lost, or even completely lost.

But even so.Guo Zhengtao still relied on the artillery of a heavy artillery brigade to resist the attack of the Soviet army's two heavy artillery brigades, and finally persisted until dawn...

The shells of both the enemy and the enemy are still coming and going.When killing the opponent's gunner's life continuously.Over the northeast direction of the battlefield, there was a faint roar of an engine suddenly.

When the deafening roar of fighter jet engines finally overwhelmed the sound of battlefield guns.Passed behind the ears of Major General Hert.Because the counterattack firepower of the Chinese artillery was getting weaker and weaker, Major General Hert finally showed a relaxed smile on his dignified face.He suddenly turned pale, and exclaimed in shock.

"No, it's the Chinese Air Force. How could I have forgotten the Chinese Air Force... Quickly, order the heavy artillery group to transfer immediately and prepare for air defense. The Chinese Air Force is here..."

The remaining hundreds of artillery pieces in the Soviet artillery positions were transferred in chaos under the control of thousands of gunners.Over the northeast direction of the battlefield, a group of black aircraft finally appeared, mighty and mighty, overwhelming the old Maozi's artillery position.

"Da da da..." Dozens of bombers have not yet come to the sky above the battlefield, and dozens of anti-aircraft machine guns with limited Soviet artillery positions have already begun to shoot into the air.

However, on Nuo Da's artillery position, dozens of anti-aircraft flames obviously did not play much role.

A sharp and hasty whistling sound resounded across the battlefield, and the three bombers arranged in the shape of a 'product', seemed to lose power in an instant, and dived down directly on the ground at a [-]-degree direction.

Major General Hert, who had witnessed the powerful combat effectiveness of this bomber, had to close his eyes in pain when he saw the three dive bombers approaching the ground at high speed.

He knew that even if he immediately sent a covert order to the artillery position, facing the bombers whizzing down from high altitude, there would be no time to transfer or even cover up.

Sure enough, the moment Major General Hert closed his eyes in pain, the three bombers had swooped down to the best altitude for bombing.Accompanied by a deafening roar, the three bombers descended in a straight line, as if they were suddenly caught by something, quickly pulled up the fuselage and began to ascend.

The moment the bomber just started to climb, sixty black bombs weighing [-] kilograms, like rain, continued to follow the bomber's dive track and roared down to the Soviet artillery positions on the ground.

Intensive explosions sounded from the artillery position not far away, and groups of orange-red fireballs quickly rose from the ground and appeared on the artillery position.Of course, the Soviet artillery position, which was successfully hit by [-] bombs, was immediately enveloped by the smoke and flames produced by the bomb explosion...

Seeing that the Chinese Air Force's bombing had covered one of his heavy artillery battalion positions, Major General Herter, who was heartbroken and desperate, seemed to have been exhausted suddenly, and sat on the stool weakly, without saying a word.

The first round of bombing had just ended, and the roar of the second round of three bombers diving to the ground resounded over the battlefield again. In less than 10 minutes, the Soviet Nuoda artillery positions, without exception, were all shrouded in gunpowder smoke and artillery fire.

Wehrmacht Front Enemy Command.Although Zhang Huxiao, the commander of the guard division, failed to see the real battle situation of the air force bombing the Soviet artillery positions with his own eyes.However, after learning that the air reinforcements had successfully arrived over the Soviet artillery positions.Zhang Huxiao, who had been nervous for several hours, subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing Xiong Shaowen who was also nervous beside him.He said with a happy face: "Fucking hell, finally hold the position... Master Xiong, hold the position, hold back the tens of thousands of old men's troops in front of us, our battle of encirclement and annihilation is considered to be half successful..."

Xiong Shaowen nodded with a face of approval, and responded: "Mr. Zhang, you are wrong, it is not half. It is far more than half-... two bomber brigades, plus our army's heavy artillery brigade to the Lao Maozi's heavy artillery unit I can be sure that after this battle, the old men who were blocked by us in Yilan will no longer have any artillery units to use..."

"Without the artillery unit, the tens of thousands of old men in front of us are like wild boars that have lost their tusks. Except for their brute force, they have no attack ability. However, no matter how strong their brute force is, they can't stop us from using bullets and shells The steel storm prepared for them. So I think we are only one step away from success..."

Seeing the confident smile slowly showing on Xiong Shaowen's face, Zhang Huxiao nodded noncommittally.

However, less than five seconds passed.A serious expression appeared on Zhang Huxiao's face again.Facing Xiong Shaowen, he was also facing all the subordinates in the headquarters.He ordered with a dignified face: "Despise the enemy strategically, and pay attention to the enemy tactically... This is what the chief executive often tells us. Although the Soviet army is already at the end of its strength, their tens of thousands of troops are still there. They are still in their hands. We have mastered more than 100 medium and even heavy tanks. Therefore, we still cannot underestimate the enemy..."

"Now I order: all combat staff officers, immediately contact the troops that participated in the battle last night, and quickly report the losses of the troops. At the same time, quickly make a statistics of the remaining combat forces and specific locations of the two main divisions of our army. If you want to To defeat an opponent on the battlefield, understanding the opponent is one aspect, and understanding yourself is also a very important aspect..."

Zhang Guoqiang, Chief of Staff of the Nineteenth Division of the National Defense Army, had just left for less than 10 minutes, and walked up to Zhang Huxiao again with a piece of data.Reporting to Zhang Huxiao: "Report to Commander Zhang, after statistics, the 55th regiment of my 328th Division, which was in charge of blocking last night, still has 539 combatable soldiers left, less than two companies... the first guard under the guard division There are still 28 people left in the regiment, which is less than a battalion's strength... The heavy artillery brigade that participated in the battle later had a total of 659 heavy artillery pieces left that could continue to be put into use. During the entire artillery battle, the heavy artillery brigade lost a total of [-] artillerymen... "

The commander-in-chief Zhang Huxiao asked in a deep voice: "That is to say, in one night's battle, we lost all the equipment and personnel of two infantry regiments and two heavy artillery regiments..."

"Yes, Master Zhang..." Zhang Guoqiang replied in a low tone.

Afterwards, the conversation changed, and he said immediately afterward: "However, Master Zhang, although our National Defense Forces suffered heavy losses, the Soviet Red Army who wanted to break through also suffered huge losses... According to the reports of the two regiments, they were blocked in one night and were killed by the two regiments. An infantry regiment directly destroyed more than 110 Soviet tanks on the battlefield, half of which were heavy tanks that we did not have equipment for.”

"As for the infantry, during the night's attack, the Soviet army left [-] corpses on the battlefield. Including some wounded and those who lost their combat effectiveness. According to preliminary statistics, the Soviet army lost at least [-] infantry in the breakout battle last night alone. . . . "

"In terms of artillery, according to the air reinforcement report, the Soviet artillery group has been completely lost under the double blow of our artillery and air force. It is certain that in the next battle, the Soviet army will no longer have any artillery units that can be used... .”

Speaking of this, Zhang Guoqiang rarely showed a smile on his solemn face.Facing Zhang Huxiao, he continued to report: "Integrating the results of our army's three-day battle against the Soviet army, we made a preliminary judgment: the Soviet Red Army trapped by us in Yilan has less than 4 people left. Heavy weapons only There are more than a hundred heavy and medium tanks left, and no large-caliber heavy artillery...."

Hearing this, Zhang Huxiao couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.Facing Zhang Guoqiang, he continued to ask: "Where are the remaining regiments of ours? If we use this fighter, we will definitely achieve some unexpected results.”

Under the suppression of the Soviet army's superior artillery fire and without air support, Zhang Huxiao, who fought a suffocating battle all night, really wanted to boost the morale of the troops through an unprecedented victory at this time.And Xiong Shaowen, who was standing next to Zhang Huxiao, also held back a breath of anger when he thought of the almost lost 55th regiment, and wanted to vent his anger on the Soviet army.

Therefore, upon hearing the thoughts in Zhang Huxiao's mind, the eyes of the two of them flashed a bright light almost at the same time.Zhang Huxiao, who was standing in front of him, reported with a hot face: "Master Zhang... The remaining four infantry regiments and one tank regiment of our army have all moved in place according to the order... In addition, after a few hours of rest, the soldiers Our morale is very high. As long as you issue an attack order, I guarantee that the brothers will rush into the Soviet army's position as soon as possible, inflict maximum damage on the Soviet army, and avenge the soldiers who died last night..."

Zhang Huxiao nodded noncommittally, his face was immediately covered by color, and he said to Xiong Shaowen and Zhang Guoqiang with pride: "Mr. It's simple. It's about 'killing him while he's sick' and advancing the timing of the general attack. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he took down [-] old men in one fell swoop..." (To be continued..)