Chapter 495 Marines' Assault
Chapter 495 Marine Corps Assault
The sound of the stg44 assault rifle pierced the tranquility of the Hai'an night sky, and then the roar of the lvt amphibious chariot. The Japanese guarding a squadron here did not expect the vanguard to arrive as quickly as the vanguard army.
Although the superiors reminded them that the vanguard army had descended from Xinghua parachutes and that the vanguard army also appeared near Yancheng, even if the Huai River did not suffer the 38-year flood of the Yellow River, it had encountered many difficulties in its history in its history. This also caused the Huai River basin to crisscross the valley, not to mention that Yancheng is nearly 100 kilometers away from Hai'an. It is also separated from Dongtai in the middle, and it cannot reach Hai'an for a while.
So even Shinji Hata did not expect their attack to be so fast. The defense around Hai'an was not tight, and the Marines rushed in directly touching the night.
Meng Xiang and Fan Zhong did not expect their assault to be so fast. The initial plan was to make them rush to Dongtai and Xinghua to connect. Who knew that the Marine Corps armed with the LVT amphibious chariot was like taking strong medicine and rushing all the way to Hai'an.
When we were formulating the plan, we considered that there were two Japanese divisions stationed in Nantong and Yangzhou, but the sudden paratroopers and the strength of the Marine Corps were a bit too weak.
The largest unit under the Marine Corps is the brigade, which has been equipped with six brigades. However, because the main force of the Japanese Chinese fleet was stationed in Shanghai, it was impossible for the vanguard's navy to get too close to Nantong and other places.
At this time, the Japanese fleet in China was not the same as in the original history.
Qingdao and even the ports in North China were occupied by the Pioneer Army. At this time, their fleets in China were not only Shanghai and Xiamen, except for the fleets in Manchukuo and Taiwan. Faced with the powerful enemy of the Pioneer Army, it was no longer just a light patrol in history, but the size of three destroyers was moved. Instead, nearly half of the combined fleet's troops were moved over.
At this time, there was still a Nagamon-class battleship docked in Shanghai, and there were two of the highest-level heavy patrols. The Akagi aircraft carrier stationed here temporarily accompanied a Nagamon-class battleship to Guangxi, which shocked Vietnam.
Because Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Koga Fengichi, Toyota Masato Takeshi and others were defeated at the hands of the vanguard army, the commander-in-chief of Takasu Shiro, who was transferred from the position of commander of the puppet Manchukuo Fleet.
As Mine Mitsumasa and Yamamoto Iroruo went to the left of the navy, he has been dragged to the position of commander-in-chief of the Chinese fleet since the second half of 2019 because of opposing the war against the United States. During this period, because the Pioneer Army did not have any major conflicts with the Japanese Navy, he sat more steadily.
The Pioneer Navy's continuous training also made some people a little dissatisfied. Even Chiang Kai-shek urged Meng Xiang to find an opportunity to fight the Japanese again.
Meng Xiang didn't mind this, but just formulated some standards for qualified naval officers and soldiers. Those who reached the standard line could participate in the war and continued training if they could not meet. As a result, according to some standards comprehensive by Britain, Germany, Japan and other countries, there were not many qualified ones who could only practice hard. Those qualified officers and soldiers could not form fleets, and there were only a few small-scale conflicts between torpedo boats and gunboats to practice and maintain morale.
Over the past year, there were more than a dozen small-scale conflicts with the Japanese on the Yellow Sea, with mixed victory and defeat, which also made the naval recruits put aside their contempt for the Japanese. You should know that in the conflict, the vanguard army generally had an advantage with the help of advanced fast torpedo boats and even destroyers, but they were still a little worse than the Japanese in terms of operation and tactics. Then they fought a draw.
Even Meng Xiang put away his contempt and seized the navy's connection even more. The ships and fuel were open to supply, and practice made perfect and adapted to the navy.
Of course, the ducks in the pond cannot withstand the waves, so those qualified sailors began their internships in the ocean. So in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and other places, there were more Eastern pirates in the past or two years. They generally did not hurt people when robbing, but what they were best at was black eating and black, and they often used ruthlessness in fighting pirates.
Sometimes, they even robbed some goods escorted by armed forces.
After a year, Meng Xiang discovered that the more than 3,000 naval seeds scattered were robbed, and the goods robbed were worth the consumption of the Shanghai army, and there was a surplus. No wonder the pirates' treasures were very eye-catching, and the profession of robbery was indeed promising.
The modern navy was born from the pirate's nest back then. Without that ruthlessness or an offensive, we can only build some yacht teams in the end. This is also one of the reasons why Meng Xiang scattered those naval seeds for training. Moreover, if he didn't go out to be familiar with the oceans everywhere, the things he got from books were all empty.
If you are not familiar with the sea situation and do not understand the temper of the ocean, even if the invincible fleet arrives at the sea, you will be fooled by the ocean.
In order to learn about marine information from all over the world, especially the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Meng Xiang sent out a total of 10 spies to spread them in the naval data archives and intelligence rooms of the British, American and even the Japanese, and copied the information they had accumulated for hundreds of years. Although some of the information had not been obtained due to short time and other reasons, the data compiled by the Three Kingdoms was sorted out, and a huge marine information database was immediately built in the navy of the Pioneer Army. The amount of information has not been sorted out yet.
The main reason is that there is too much information about the ocean, and as long as it is involved, the spies will start to plagiarize. The confidentiality in some places is not tight, and those spies can take pictures using the Mela portable camera built by Latvia in 37. However, some places are particularly tight, Meng Xiang did not hesitate to create various strange and advanced spy tools after World War II, so that the whole process went smoothly.
Even if these advanced things are twice as expensive, they are not expensive because they are small in quantity. Instead, the microfilm used by spies is not provided cheaply by the base, and just the film piled up with the house will make Meng Xiang feel pain. But these films bring a huge amount of wealth to China, and no matter how much they spend, it is worth it.
However, when humans march towards the ocean, they grow up in conquest. Closely with other people's written records, some things cannot be understood. There are also many things that are years of experience and cannot be learned in books. In many places, old sailors can casually tell the underwater reefs in some places, and they can know the weather when they see the changes in the wind and clouds. These all need to be accumulated in practice.
The more Meng Xiang understood it, the more he felt the gap between the Chinese Navy and the Japanese Navy. At this time, perhaps with the support of shore artillery, he had more than enough defense, but it was far from enough to play the leading role in expanding outward.
So Meng Xiang was not in a hurry to stimulate the Japanese Navy, but instead sowed out the seeds and honed them all over the world.
Of course, the army is not pirates, its discipline determines that it is more powerful than pirates. The naval seeds scattered are not individual fights and grinding, but form teams to carry out unified actions. They even drive their own ships to surf, which not only trains the cooperation of the group, but also ensures that discipline is not lacking. The clones in each team also ensures Meng Xiang's control over these armies.
In addition to these, there were also a group of internships and training in the German navy, and some of them were trained by the domestic local departments. There were more than 6,000 officer seeds in Meng Xiang's hands. In addition, the cloned naval officers trained, the fleet has been a huge fleet in the next few years. However, at this time, the training and internships, the training of the domestic vanguard army was not strong in the naval strength of the domestic mermaids. There is no need to fight the Japanese mermaids to fight to the death.
Because of this, the navy attacked this time only to the vicinity of Maozhusha and had no intention of going south. This lacked some Marines supporting the naval firepower, and attacked the two divisions of the Japanese, as well as the attacks of the Japanese, Nanjing and Shanghai, were more dangerous. Therefore, the initial combat plan was to allow the paratroopers to suddenly descend to Xinghua, connect to Dongtai, control the Jinghang Canal, and first eat the Japanese in Yancheng, Huaian and other places. There were 20th Division, 32nd Division and the 14th** mixed brigade, which was enough for the 12th Army and the Marine Corps to chew for a while.
"Hengjing and the others can detect the emptiness of Hai'an and seize the opportunity, which is also a meritorious." Meng Xiang smiled. Since there were not many troops transported on the sea, after a trip, they only landed in one brigade. Zhao Junmai left Long Liu to command two regiments to deal with the main force of the 12th** mixed brigade stationed in Yancheng, but he was unbearable and led the troops of an armored regiment to continue attacking forward.
The general is outside, and the king is not willing to accept it! The various combat plans of the General Staff are just a reference. The combat plans are dead, and people live. At the beginning, it was mainly because they were afraid that they would not be able to deal with the county towns along the way, so they had such plans. At this time, northern Jiangsu has not been ravaged by the Yellow River recently, and there were many Japanese in these prosperous county towns. However, the situation has changed, so it is natural that the combat plan needs to be changed immediately. After all, the goal of the Pioneer Army is not to stop in Hai'an, but to rush to the Yangtze River in one breath.
The original plan was to wait until the main force of the 12th Army and the main force of the Marine Corps came up before gradually attacking. The Japanese around Nantong did not adopt the fortress tactics. Even if they added more troops, they would still be gnawed down by the vanguard army.
In this way, from Anqing to Nantong, the Pioneer Army launched a front-line charge, closing the door everywhere, and completely blocking the Yangtze River channel. Even if the Japanese were not eliminated, the Japanese inland China could not transport out a large amount of resources. The Japanese who lacked resources had to think of other methods. After both the Bohai Sea and the Yangtze River were blocked by the Pioneer Army, the Japanese were forced to turn to the south with their green eyes looking at wealth.
Although the Marine Corps attacked Hai'an only one armored regiment, the Japanese were even weaker and they advanced all the way to Hai'an. Moreover, their attacking pace had not stopped. In the second half of the night, they conquered Rugao County in one fell swoop, and then stopped and began to consolidate their position.
Although the land advancement speed of the lvt amphibious chariot was a little worse, it still left the weak Japanese helpless. The 75mm howitzer of the lvt(a)4 tank was also enough to break the fortifications of the Japanese, so more than 100 amphibious chariots were invincible all the way. However, the Japanese in Gaoyou, Taizhou, Tongzhou and other places were all guarded by heavy troops. With the lack of support of heavy sea and air firepower, they could no longer attack.
With Hai'an and Rugao in hand, the next move was also taken a lot. The Marine Corps troops continued to transport troops forward, landed directly from Yangkou and Mi Port, and supported it. It was difficult to land at night, but fortunately, with local fishermen and the weather was beautiful, and there were no big storms on the sea, so they successfully landed at a smaller price.
The 12th Army could not solve the Japanese in Huai'an and Sheyang for a while. Tomorrow, the strength of a regiment of the Marine Corps could not stop the counterattack of the Japanese divisions.
"Hurry up, clean up the simple airport!" Chen Jiahui commanded loudly. He and Zhao Junmai and Long Liuyi were separated from the three regiments sent by the Marine Corps. However, because they wanted to pick up the parachute troops in Xinghua, he brought a battalion to contact him. After the parachute troops in Xinghua, during the day, the vanguard army encountered a counterattack from the surrounding Japanese at noon.
The main forces of the paratroopers were all transferred to Pukou. The troops of a battalion in Xinghua were a little weak. Chen Jiahui brought a marine battalion to support him. At this time, he was leading the soldiers to clear the simple airport that had been prepared long ago.
When I first considered parachute landing in Xinghua, it was because the Japanese were slightly weaker. Because of this, a very simple airport was built secretly here. I was busy fighting during the day and didn’t have time to clean it up, so I worked overnight to clean it up. I waited until tomorrow, and there would be a lot of landing support.
The 12th Army was not without military record. The one-day offensive caused frequent emergency in Huai'an. In addition, the Second Amphibious Armored Division 2 inserted a knife from behind, causing heavy casualties to the 20th Division.
However, the 20th Division is also an old permanent division. Although it suffered a great loss to the Pioneer Army on the Yellow River Front, the Pioneer Army cut off the head of the division commander. However, the re-equipped 20th Division is still a powerful team. Although more than half of the casualties, it still with the support of the fortifications and the 32nd Division.
This made Sun Tongxuan very angry. Like Zhang Lingfu, he was also troublesome to face these two difficult bones. The Japanese were in a city and the army could not be used.
"Order, the 81st Division immediately interspersed and broke through the Japanese defense line and arrived in Hai'an before 18 o'clock tomorrow." Soon the new order from the headquarters came down.
Sun Tongxuan also understood that this was to support the Marine Corps. Nearly 200 kilometers of intersecting forward, if the 81st Division had not completed the motorized transformation, it would have been difficult to complete. You should know that it would take some effort to break through the Huaian area guarded by the 20th Division and the 32nd Division.
With the command of the headquarters, there is another order. The focus of the 12th Army's offensive will be on Huai'an, while the attacks in Sheyang and other places will be taken over by the New 10th Army, which is rushing to the scene.
Hu Minghe's New 10th Army had only completed the motorized infantry rectification of a new 41st Division, so the battle was only a second-line force at the beginning. However, as the situation changed, they were transferred from Lianyungang.
"Listen to you guys, if we lose face in this battle this time, we will not have much opportunity to fight in the future." Hu Minghe sat in a bucket car with his military boots on the steering wheel.
This is the time to rest for a marching rush, otherwise the cloned military judge would have appeared in front of him with a stern face.
Tian Zhongguang came to him and handed a Victory cigarette and said, "Captain, you still have to worry about our level. When did you train, you didn't like peeling a layer of skin? Don't worry about such a battle!"
Hu Minghe tilted his head and lit a cigarette on the silver fire of freedom that Tian Zhongguang stretched over. After taking a deep breath, he vomited out a big smoke ring and said thoughtfully: "The first battle of the New 10th Army is whether it is a tiger or a bear, it depends on this time."
It turned out that during the 54th Army, he basically participated in all major and large battles. Later, during the reorganization, he chose to be promoted during the military training and transferred to form the new 10th Army. Although he was labeled as a commander, there were too many new recruits and everything needed to be started over. There was only training and training every day. It took almost a year, and there was no battle to fight.
Li Tiexia chose to stay and continue to become the commander of the 50th Division. However, the 50th Division became one of the few mechanized divisions in the vanguard army, and the 50th Division, which was freed from the local alert mission, fought one after another. Seeing Li Tiexia's military achievements continue to rise, Hu Minghe regretted it. It was not only a matter of military achievements, but also training new recruits all day long, how could the iron armored troops of the 50th Division be more invincible and enjoyable killing the enemy on the battlefield?
At this time, after finally getting an opportunity to fight, Hu Minghe naturally had to perform well. You should know that the upgrade of the troops in the vanguard army was a test of military merit. In order to have a modernization, he sought to Meng Xiang. With the achievements of the past two years and the military merits accumulated in the exercise half a year ago, he received the establishment of a motorized division. Meng Xiang's release of water alone was not enough.
"Tomorrow, you must show off your momentum!" Hu Minghe thought silently in his heart.
"Set out!" He rose up, threw the cigarette butt, and stomped it hard before he ordered loudly.
"Yes!" Everyone around who looked a little lazy immediately stood up. Not long after, the army continued to walk forward in the dark under the lights of the headlights.
A trace of light was already revealed under the night sky ahead.
Chapter completed!