Chapter 1520 Imminent Homework
Although the Tiger King tank is very powerful and has strong breakthrough capabilities, the minefields, anti-tank cones and anti-tank trenches built by the Japanese are not pure decorations. What's more, the current number of Tiger King tanks is extremely limited, and the number of each division is only more than ten.
And although the Japanese are being suppressed and beaten now, they seem to have no combat power, but if they rush forward rashly, they will inevitably be furiously counterattacked by the Japanese army, and casualties will definitely increase exponentially.
Therefore, I am anxious and cannot eat hot tofu. Faced with this fortress system that is difficult to overcome, I can only work slowly. Anyway, the Hu Ben Army does not lack time now, so there is no need to be tough and reckless.
The best way is to dig the traffic trenches close to the enemy's frontier positions, shorten the attack distance, oppose the trenches according to the trenches, seize the trenches according to the trenches, advance according to the trenches, and develop attacks along the trenches.
The artillery was ordered to organize firepower and cover the infantry to carry out serial blasting to destroy enemy anti-tank trenches, mine formations, Luzhai, barbed wire and bunkers and other defensive fortifications.
Implementing close-in operations under the enemy's dense firepower is not only quite physically exhausting, but also inevitably leads to casualties.
However, the commanders of the Hu Ben Army are well aware of the principle of "sweating more and bleeding less. If the fortifications are done well, the enemy will be killed and injured less casualties." "Digging fortifications is like digging the enemy's life roots", and "the faster the digging, the faster the enemy collapses."
I have to say that mechanized operations are fast, and after most of the day, I pushed the attack position 200 meters in front of Gaojiabao.
In the following time, the officers and soldiers of the 19th Division continued to dig deep into fortifications crazily, first digging horizontal bunkers, then digging down into kneeling bunkers, and finally digging into chest-length vertical bunkers.
The fortifications were connected to each other, and a "spider web" was dug out on the open ground in front of Gaojiabao.
When the Japanese army found that the Hu Ben Army was not directly reckless, but chose to carry out time-consuming and laborious operations, they frantically carried out destruction.
During the day, airplanes and cannons carried out fire strikes at the Hu Ben Army's positions, and small troops attacked the frontiers of our army under the cover of artillery fire and tanks.
At night, the Japanese army frantically fired flares, burned firewood and illuminated, and used firepower or sent troops to attack our army's operating areas. They even dispatched bombers to bomb, attempting to destroy the preparations for the attack of the Hu Ben Army on the Gaojiabao Fortress.
But it is obvious that all this is in vain. The Hu Ben Army was so careful to dig the trench not because it did not have the ability to make a frontal breakthrough, but because it wanted to win the greatest victory at the lowest cost of casualties.
The Japanese army's crazy sabotage operation could only achieve some blocking and harassment, and there was no way to stop the 19th Division's near-force operations. Instead, it paid a series of casualties.
After several days of intense and arduous work, each regiment dug out two trenches. The trenches were deep and wide, and they could pass through stretchers, which were connected vertically and horizontally between the trenches.
There are attack outlets, command posts, hidden parts, and bandage stations in the trenches. The most cutting-edge trenches extend directly from below the horizon to 30 meters in front of the Japanese position in Gaojiabao.
In the early morning of March 11, the attack on Gaojiabao was ready, but today the weather was not good. Sparse drizzle fell in the sky, and the soil became muddy, which made people extremely uncomfortable.
However, the arrow has to be fired on the string, and it is impossible to delay the attack time just because it rains a little.
At five o'clock in the morning, the artillery fire of the Hu Ben Army was about to begin. Hundreds of heavy artillery and rocket launchers roared, like a thunderous thunder in the sea and the sea, and the earth trembled constantly.
Groups of shells smashed into Gaojia Fort, causing the Japanese bunker and fortifications to the sky. The entire village was filled with flames, and then everything was swallowed by thick smoke.
After the shelling was over, the attacking troops launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese positions under the cover of tanks. The first to bear the brunt were naturally the two small highlands of the Japanese army.
On these two small highlands, the Japanese army spent all their efforts to build a large number of solid bunkers, shams, and even hollowed out the mountains, building well-connected tunnels inside.
When the attacking troops of the Hu Ben Army officially launched an attack on these two small highlands, the condescending Japanese defenders launched a crazy blocking, and the dark firepower points also exposed their fangs one after another, forming a powerful and dense cross-fire network.
Although the Japanese were all desperate and their fortifications were strong enough, unfortunately, this passive defense could not be stopped at all when facing the Tiger Army armed to the teeth.
Rifles, machine guns, grenades, grenades, explosive packs, blasting barrels, bazooka, flamethrower, tank main gun, "Stalin's Hammer"...
What, the Japanese are going to rush down and fight for their lives? Sorry, in the face of the metal storm, the flesh and blood can only be a pile of tofu shit!
What, the Japanese cave is too deep? The flamethrower is specially designed for this!
What? The angle is too tricky and the shooting angle cannot reach the dead corners? It doesn’t matter, why not change the posture!
What, the bunker skin is too thick? Stalin's Hammer is not solved, so let's have two more shots!
Anyway, there is always a weapon, and there is always an angle that suits them!
The attacking troops of the Hu Ben Army, who were fully prepared for combat, soon shattered one bunker after another on the road ahead with a destruction and destroyed one firepower point after another.
In just half a day, the two battalions of the 19th Division conquered two small highlands of the Japanese, and the other attack directions also crushed them all the way, and they rushed into Gaojiabao Village.
The Japanese defenders who were fighting stubbornly tried to fight with the Hu Ben Army for house-to-house battles with hundreds of fortresses and traffic secret passages in the village.
However, the Hu Ben Army is not a fool, how could it be that it could rush in and bump into it in one go, and then suffer serious casualties under the crisscrossing firepower net?
Obviously, in the face of this kind of urban street fighting terrain, the simplest and most brutal way is to penetrate the walls and break the house, push and crush them all the way.
At this time, Stalin's Hammer, which can directly penetrate a 4-meter-thick concrete layer, is just showing its power. No matter how thick the bunker is, it will have to be peeled off even if it is under each cannon.
In fact, most of the bunkers in the village do not need Stalin's hammer to serve it specifically, or even the Tiger King tank personally operated. Even the most ordinary No. 4 tank main gun can cause extremely considerable damage, and it is not surprising that it can penetrate directly.
Because the Japanese army did not have the financial and material resources to convert every house into a high-standard steel and concrete bunker, many of which were simple fortifications of brick and tile structures.
In addition to the ground offensive troops, the helicopter brigade soon joined in the fun. Their main task was to suppress the firepower of the commanding heights and provide fire cover and God's perspective for the ground troops.
This battle of tough battle was even smoother and there was no chance for the Japanese to fight desperately!
"Baga! What should I do!"
"Can we just wait for death passively?"
"Baga, the road! Death, the ground!"
Although the Japanese army made up their minds to fight to the end, at this time, they realized that they had no capital to trade their lives for life. This was completely the rhythm of being rubbed on the ground!
Chapter completed!