The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 272 Steel Collision 8

The arrival of the 063 Division, although not up to the level of "Ten Encirclement" mentioned in the Art of War, has doubled the offensive force of the National Defense Forces. No matter which town is in the three towns, the National Defense Forces are strong enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot up.

"Fire!" Huang Tingzhen picked up the microphone, shook the phone directly under the Rocket Artillery Brigade, and ordered directly.

As the most avant-garde and cutting-edge weapon of this era, the "Dragon Flame 2" rocket launcher is definitely a "nightmare" for any enemy. It may not have enough attacking capabilities, but it can drop hundreds or even thousands of shells at the same time. The oxygen in an area is completely sucked up, and its flames will cover the ground with a thick layer. Even if the Japanese army drills into the underground fortifications, they still cannot escape the rocket fire.

The history of rocket launchers in various countries in the world also proves that the caliber of rocket launchers is generally relatively small, so they are not strictly offensive weapons, but are used as lethal weapons.The earliest Soviet "Katyusha" rocket launcher, the threat to German tanks is not its armor-piercing ability, but its dense shells and the flames caused by the explosion of the shells.

Huang Tingzhen did not use the rocket brigade before. The reason is that what if the Japanese army gave up their position and fled immediately after seeing the rocket?

Although the "Dragon Flame Type 2" was used once by Shen Ren and Kong Wu in Nantong, and it also showed its peerless style, but that mission was to destroy ordinary buildings on the ground and some fortifications of the Japanese army. However, Kenji Doihara did not consider that the "robbing trio" possessed "weapons of mass destruction", so he transferred all the elite soldiers of the Japanese 4th Army to guard its baggage and artillery units. Stealing chickens is not enough to lose rice.

This battle with the Japanese army, "Dragon Flame 2" is the first official public appearance!

After receiving orders from the East China Field Division and the Sixth Army, Huang Tingzhen moved the rocket artillery brigade directly under the army, which had been hiding in the snow, to Hongxi, where the Japanese army was most powerful.Because the Hedgehogs gathered in the Hongxi area was the 6th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the brigade commander was Major General Yamawaki Masataka. If nothing else happened, Yamawaki Masataka would take over as the commander of the 3rd Division in two years.

Since the early hours of the morning, Masataka Yamawaki, as brigade commander, has been aware of the progress of various divisions of the National Defense Forces attacking several divisions of the Japanese Army. In Yamawaki Masataka's view, although the National Defense Army's artillery fire is fierce, it is not enough to shake the defense line of the Imperial Army.Although there are reports from time to time that the 117th and 107th divisions have lost certain outlying positions, most of them are the losses of the Japanese troops at the squadron and squad level.The relatively serious loss was Yaozhuang, where the 5th regiment of the 9th brigade of the division was stationed. From early morning to morning, a brigade of Japanese troops was destroyed by the war.

Yamawaki Masataka was a full-fledged warmonger. When the reconnaissance unit of the 6th Brigade discovered that the attacking Chinese Army had only one regiment in strength, they immediately requested the Division Headquarters to take the initiative to attack and inflict heavy damage on the Chinese Army.

However, the head of the Fujita Division did not approve Masataka Yamawaki's plan on the grounds that the deployment of the Chinese army was still unclear, and if they broke away from the fortifications to attack, they might be ambushed by the Chinese army.

Susumu Fujita's idea was right, because he really didn't know the deployment of the National Defense Forces.If he agrees to Masataka Yamawaki's request to take the initiative to attack, he may be able to disrupt the deployment of the National Defense Forces.

It was indeed difficult for a regiment of the National Defense Forces to pose a substantial threat to the Japanese 6th Brigade. After Fujita rejected the meaning of Yamawaki Masataka, he directly handed over the command of the battlefield to the two regiment leaders.

Near noon, Masataka Yamawaki received two messages from the Division Headquarters, both of which were not very good. One was that the 107th Tank Regiment of the 57th Division was protecting the Emperor, and the other was that the Third Flying Group He suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Chinese Air Force.These two news made Yamawaki Masataka immediately admire Fujita Susumu.

Yes, it's still the division commander's opinion!A chariot regiment went out of Jiaxing to pursue the Chinese army, and was actually ambushed. What if the 6th Brigade was also ambushed like this?

Therefore, after Yamawaki Masataka got the news, he immediately ordered the whole brigade to guard their positions, and not to pursue the Chinese troops without his order.

In the afternoon, Masataka Yamawaki took a nap, got up from the camp bed and played a game of Go with a Go expert in the brigade's staff team. At this time, Masataka Yamawaki thought that it was getting dark, so he decided to take Hei went to the frontier village to inspect it.So Masataka Yamawaki left Hongxi's permanent fortification under the escort of a squadron of Japanese soldiers.

The rocket artillery brigade directly under the National Defense Forces is organized into 3 regiments and 9 battalions, each battalion has 8 24-tube "Dragon Flame 2" rocket launchers, and the brigade has a total of 72 rocket launchers with a staff of 6000. Technological arms with fewer numbers.

The "Dragon Flame 2" rocket launcher has a caliber of 100mm, a range of 10 kilometers, and an optimal strike distance of 3-8 kilometers. In terms of its range, it is comparable to the 75mm mountain cannon, but its power is far from what the 75mm mountain cannon can match. The difference lies in the words "24 tubes". One gun is 24 tubes. In fact, it is equivalent to 24 artillery shelling a target at the same time.

The brigade commander of the Rocket Artillery Brigade of the Sixth Army was named Tang Baishe, and he was the grown-up commander of the artillery system of the National Defense Army.When Tang Baishe moved to the designated position under the order of the wild division and the group army, Huang Tingzhen, the commander of the 061 division, seemed to have forgotten their brigade.It wasn't until 1 p.m. that Tang Baishe received Huang Tingzhen's order to move the Rocket Artillery Brigade to the Tianyi Village area south of Hongxi, and be ready to fire at any time against the enemies of Hongxi.

With the cooperation of the 061rd Regiment of the 3 Division, after the Rocket Artillery Brigade moved to Tianyi Village, it quickly set up more than a dozen positions, large and small, in several dense forests outside the village.

The artillery of this era, because of the command system, is mostly arranged in a centralized manner for easy command; but the National Defense Forces have developed an instant command system on the battlefield. Therefore, as long as the commander gives an order within the range of the "walkie-talkie" radio wave, each gun will specific instructions can be obtained.

The biggest advantage of this arrangement is that it can prevent the opponent's air strikes and shelling; but the weakness is also obvious, that is, it is not conducive to guards.However, the rocket artillery brigade is special, because other artillery regiments or artillery divisions have light infantry battalions or light infantry regiments as guards; but the rocket artillery brigade just doesn't have one.

Because the principle of the rocket launcher is equivalent to that of the cannon, it can shoot both directly and curvedly.In front of a rocket battery (1 gun), if the enemy is lower than a squadron, they may not be able to please, and their squadrons are equipped with machine guns; but the attack higher than a squadron is very likely to be a rocket attack. Even if the enemy rushes to a distance of 50 meters, it may become the target of the rocket launcher.

In a sense, a rocket launcher is a cannon with a bayonet attached.

At 4:50 p.m., the bored Tang Baishe received a call from the forward observation post, saying that several Japanese trucks and a car were heading towards the opposite Japanese position.

car?Tang Baishe jumped up like a spring.The Japanese army who can sit in a car is at least at the level of the captain of the regiment, right?According to Commander-in-Chief Wu Aihua, people at the level of Japanese army captains and joint commanders like to ride horses; then, the Japanese officers in the car may be higher than this level, and then think of how many trucks are escorting, my God, it can’t be Masataka Yamawaki, commander of the 6th Brigade of the Japanese Army, inspect the forward position!

Thinking of this, Tang Baishe immediately ordered the forward observation post to continue to observe the movement of several vehicles, and at the same time ordered the mobile 3rd Regiment and 3rd Battalion to follow several trucks and cars with the rocket guns, waiting for further orders.

When Tang Baishe received Huang Tingzhen's request for the Rocket Artillery Brigade to move its position, it was very clear: it must arrive at the designated location before 5 o'clock in the afternoon and be ready to attack; at 5 o'clock, there will be a more specific order.

So, a few minutes before 5 o'clock, Tang Baishe sat by the phone and waited. When the phone rang, he picked it up, and when he heard the word "fire" from "Hong Yao" commander Huang Tingzhen, the phone flicked. He shouted to the staff officer: "The attack begins, order to fire!"

After saying this, he picked up the phone again and said into the microphone, "Commander, I have ordered the firing!"

At this time, Masataka Yamawaki had arrived at a forward command post of the Japanese army. Accompanied by the captain of the guard, he watched in the direction of the National Defense Forces. The soldiers he brought were scattered around hundreds of meters to guard him.

"Has there been any reconnaissance in the dense forest in the front left?" Yamawaki Masataka asked the reconnaissance staff next to him.

"I checked, and there is only a dense forest. There is a small natural village behind the dense forest. The 107th Division had stationed an Imperial Army squad there before. Later, because the small village was meaningless to station, they withdrew the squad. Our brigade After the regiment took over, they did not send troops there. However, because the small village is very close to the starting point of the Chinese army, it is estimated that it has been controlled by the Chinese army." The report of the reconnaissance staff was very detailed and professional.

"So, what if the Chinese Army set up an artillery position there?" Yamawaki Masataka asked.

"Of course it is possible. However, there are too many places where artillery positions can be set up in the China-controlled area!" the staff officer explained.What the staff officer said was correct, because within their eyesight, there were at least four or five dense forests of that kind, and the Chinese army's artillery positions in any of these places would pose a serious threat to the imperial army.

Masataka Yamawaki was about to say, "Then, maybe I'm suspicious." Suddenly, he saw through the binoculars that a series of orange flames suddenly appeared in the direction of the dense forest, and the flames were heading towards Masataka Yamawaki's position. Come on.

"Enemy attack——" As the commander, Yamawaki Masataka's reaction was swift.

However, no matter how fast he yelled, the reaction of the surrounding people was not as fast as the flying rockets. Just when Yamawaki Masataka lay down, 8 "Dragon Flame 2" rocket launchers with a total of 192 shells covered his surroundings. Areas up to 100 meters in diameter.

"Boom boom boom..." The shells exploded upon touching the ground, forming a sea of ​​flames around Masataka Yamawaki.

"It's over, I'm really troublesome!" At the moment when the exploding shrapnel and flames engulfed his body, Yamawaki Masataka understood that the group of shells was aimed at him.

ps: Hehe, it's a little late, but it doesn't affect reading.