The position of the 604th Regiment of the 201st Division of the 10th Group Army of the Fourth Field Army.
The 604th Regiment of the 201st Division is a typical old Eighth Route Army. There are more than 3,000 people in the regiment. More than half of them are veterans with more than 3 years of military service. Of course, they are veterans and have basically never participated in any major battles. For the Eighth Route Army in North China,
To put it bluntly, a battle in which the Japanese army deployed more than a thousand troops was considered a huge battle.
However, even if they have never participated in a major war, it does not mean that the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army are not powerful.
The Eighth Route Army's field fortifications are particularly well built. This can be seen from the field fortifications of the 604th Regiment, whether it is the connection between foxholes and traffic trenches, the setting up of main trenches and early warning positions, or the layout of minefields in front of the positions.
, can be said to be impeccable. You can hardly imagine that this is the masterpiece of a mud-legged person who has never been to a military academy.
Looking at the completely constructed fortifications in front of him, Colonel Wang Yiqun, the leader of the 604th Regiment, felt a little proud.
The combat effectiveness of the four fields is unparalleled, and the theoretical level of the officers is also second to none. But when it comes to practical experience, Li Yiqun is really not convinced. In his opinion, war experience can only be summarized on the battlefield and learned in the classroom.
Yes, that's all bullshit. When you get to the battlefield, you will completely forget about the ball. Just talking about the fortifications in front of you, which commander in the field understands the power of it?
The field fortifications built by Colonel Wang Yiqun are indeed special. The superficial fortifications are second to none. The key is that this guy dug more than a dozen criss-crossing tunnels underground, giving the company more than a dozen main trenches.
Once you get up, even if the frontline position is lost, you can still regain it with the help of tunnels. If you don't know the details, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
Just when Colonel Wang Yiqun was feeling proud, the cavalry correspondent suddenly galloped towards him from the front.
"Commander, plane!" the cavalry correspondent shouted loudly while galloping on his horse, "Japanese plane!"
"Mengzi, sound the air raid siren, the whole regiment enter the air-raid shelter!" Colonel Wang Yiqun rolled down his military cap and dusted off his shoulders, turned around and walked into the underground bunker of the regiment headquarters calmly.
In less than a moment, the roar of airplanes was heard in the sky.
Colonel Wang Yiqun looked up at the sky through the lookout hole and saw dozens of Japanese bombers emerging from the clouds. They immediately dropped a stream of aerial bombs on the field fortifications of the 604th Regiment.
There were continuous explosions, and from time to time, air raid shelters were hit directly and collapsed.
However, Colonel Wang Yiqun didn't care about this. It would be too arrogant for these dozens of bombers to destroy the fully formed field fortifications of the 604th Regiment. The main fortifications of the 604th Regiment are hidden several meters underground. Unless
It is a heavy aerial bomb weighing more than a thousand pounds, otherwise it would not pose a threat at all.
As for surface fortifications, they can be easily repaired.
But soon, Colonel Wang Yiqun's expression began to become serious.
Because right behind the bombers, the Japs' artillery group also started shelling.
As soon as the Japanese artillery group opened fire, Colonel Li Yiqun knew that something was wrong. He only heard the faint scream of artillery shells coming from the surface and the sound and shock waves caused by the explosion. He knew that this was not the 75 Mountain Cannon or the 75 Field Cannon, or even the 75 Field Cannon.
Not a 105 caliber or 120 caliber field howitzer, but a 150 caliber heavy howitzer!
Listening to the momentum of the artillery bombardment, at least it was a heavy artillery group with more than 100 heavy artillery pieces!
Colonel Li Yiqun's face suddenly became more and more embarrassed. The heavy artillery group was not like the bomber group. The bombers could carry a limited number of bombs and would return after throwing them away. However, the heavy artillery group could continuously carry out shelling, damaging the civil structures.
Field fortifications are particularly threatening. After the first few shots, all the tunnel fortifications will basically loosen, and after a few more shots, they will all collapse.
Now, Colonel Li Yiqun's only hope is that the Japs' artillery group doesn't have many shells, so they can just fire a few rounds and be done.
This was also a common phenomenon in the early years of the Anti-Japanese War. Before the Japanese launched an infantry attack, the artillery could only attack half a base or even a quarter of a base.
However, Colonel Li Yiqun's dream soon came to nothing.
Fully half an hour later, the Japanese shelling continued, and there seemed to be no sign of stopping.
After withstanding a long period of shelling, the 604th Regiment's civil tunnel fortifications finally failed. More and more tunnels collapsed because they could not withstand the continuous shelling. Even the field hospital at the regiment headquarters collapsed.
When the ten doctors and nurses were dug out, nine had already passed away.
After a full two hours, the Japanese shelling finally stopped.
When Colonel Li Yiqun emerged from the underground bunker in a daze, hundreds of Japanese tanks had appeared on the distant horizon. The squeaking sound of the friction between the mechanical tracks and the transmission wheels was so harsh that the chief of staff hurriedly took stock.
It turned out that the entire regiment's tunnel fortifications and surface fortifications had been basically destroyed.
The casualties of the entire regiment were not large, but without fortifications, how could we fight this battle?
"Where's the rocket launcher!?" Colonel Li Yiqun's eyes turned red and he roared at the top of his lungs, "Let me take the lead!"
After saying that, Colonel Li Yiqun took the lead and rushed to the forefront with a rocket launcher. The only dozen rocket launchers in the whole regiment also moved forward one after another. The rocket launcher is produced in Taihang Mountain. It is very powerful, but the range is too long.
Close, you have to get close and shoot to ensure the destruction of the little devil's iron bastard.
However, this time the 604th Regiment faced no longer a small number of Japanese tanks in North China, but an armored cluster of more than 100 Type 3 tanks from the Kwantung Army! Before Colonel Li Yiqun and a dozen rocket launchers could approach,
The main guns and forward-firing machine guns of the Japanese tanks opened fire one after another. There was no suspense about the result. More than a dozen soldiers, including Colonel Li, all died heroically!
The Japanese tank cluster took advantage of the situation and crushed it. The 604th Regiment could no longer organize organized resistance. The more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the entire regiment could only use machine guns, rifles or pistols to shoot helplessly at the Japanese steel tanks, or use cluster grenades to attack the Japanese tanks.
Launching suicide attacks, with few successes.
In less than fifteen minutes, the position of the 604th Regiment was completely broken through by the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army. Most of the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the regiment were killed in the battle. Only 200 people evacuated the position under the cover of night. When the Japanese troops followed up,
When the infantry arrived, the entire position was already littered with corpses and rivers of blood.
Tangshan, headquarters of the 10th Army.
A combat staff officer walked into the war room hurriedly.
The 10th Group Army was reorganized from the troops of the Jidong Military Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Its jurisdiction includes Liaoxi, Rehe and more than a dozen counties in eastern Hebei. The commander Lu Bojun and the political commissar Li Chuli have more than 200,000 soldiers in the army.
, but the equipment is relatively poor, basically no different from the Eighth Route Army in history.
This is normal. Before the second reorganization, the Eighth Route Army in North China had more than 2 million troops. Such a large number of troops could never be supplied by the Taihang Arsenal alone. Therefore, except for the 1st, 2nd, and 8th
Except for a few elite group armies, the equipment of most other troops is still the same as before.
Although the scale of Myanmar's arsenal is much larger, in addition to giving priority to protecting the fourth field, it also needs to protect the second and third fields nearby. There is very little equipment that can be supplied to the first field. Moreover, the first field is too close to Myanmar. Just transportation
It's a big problem. Therefore, among the four major field armies, the First Field Army has the largest number of troops but the worst equipment.
Lu Bojun's 10th Group Army was the worst equipped among the First Field Army.
However, although the equipment of the 10th Group Army is poor, its combat effectiveness is not weak. Otherwise, it would be impossible to occupy major cities in eastern Hebei such as Tangshan and still stand firm in the attack of the Japanese troops in North China. However, at the moment, the 10th Group Army is
Facing a severe test, the Kwantung Army came to attack!
The combat staff entered the combat hall and immediately saluted Lu Bojun: "Commander, the 183rd Division, 187th Division, 190th Division and 201st Division have been defeated one after another. Now the Kwantung Army has broken through the fourth line of defense of our army, and its forward armored forces have already
After crossing Xidianzi, we are already less than 20 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan!"
"The little devil's offensive is so sharp!" Li Chuli said sternly.
"What do Zhao Fuxing and Liu Xinglong do for food?" Lu Bojun said angrily, "Four Class A divisions and more than 60,000 troops were allowed to break through in less than 24 hours!? This battle is
How did you fight? His grandma is such a bear, our 10th Army has been completely disgraced by these bastards!"
"Commander, I'm afraid Shanhaiguan cannot be defended anymore." Li Chuli said, "Hurry up and organize a second line of defense inside the pass."
"Hey, what a fucking loser." Lu Bojun resented the attack, and he suddenly woke up. Even though the 10th Army had more than 200,000 troops, it was still a guerrilla at heart, and its equipment was also backward.
The Japanese army in North China could still fight decently in the field, but when they encountered the highly mechanized Kwantung Army, they would only be beaten.
Speaking of which, Lu Bojun was also stimulated by the Four Wilds. He saw that they were attacking Singapore, Taiwan, and then Shanghai and Qingdao. Wherever the steel torrent of the Four Wilds went, the little Japanese were invincible.
In half a year, they actually reached Northeast Asia from Nanyang, and the military front was really prosperous.
Siye's sharp performance created an illusion for Lu Bojun.
Lu Bojun believed that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army had plummeted compared to a few years ago, so when he heard that the Kwantung Army was heading south along the western Liaoning route, he did not hesitate to spread his troops along the road and try to have an upright fight with the Kwantung Army.
In the field battle, Lu Bojun wanted to prove that the fighting power of the first field was no worse than that of the fourth field!
However, in the face of the steel torrent of the Kwantung Army, the four first-class main divisions of the 10th Army only lasted less than 24 hours before they collapsed. The cruel reality dealt a heavy blow to Lu Bojun, who was born in the old Red Army.
Only then did the senior generals of the national army finally believe that modern warfare no longer focused on military strength.
Gritting his teeth, Lu Bojun shouted in a deep voice: "Give me an order. All divisions will be deployed along Panzhuang, Taiying, and Beidaihe. Tell the commanders of each division that even if all the troops are exhausted, the Kwantung Army must not be allowed to pass!" Lu Bojun said
We know that Tianjin is at a critical juncture when the Four Fields attack Beiping. If we let the Kwantung Army go south at this time, the consequences will be disastrous.
Qingdao, Cangkou Airport.
As the sun sets, Cangkou Airport is busy.
In addition to the P-51 Mustang fighter jets taking off and landing on several runways in the center, there are dozens of straight runways on the periphery of the airport that are under intense construction. In order to provide take-off and landing bases for the huge aviation forces in the field, the first
Dozens of engineering regiments from the Fourth Field Army have been fighting here day and night for more than half a month.
With the help of large construction machinery, an engineering corps can build a small airport in a few days.
However, what the Shine Air Force needs is not a small airport, but a super-large airport that can provide thousands of fighter planes to take off and land. Of course, in the Shine's combat plan, Qingdao Cangkou Airport is not the only aviation base of the Shine, Peking, Tianjin
After liberation, the airports in the two places can become one of the aviation bases with minor repairs.
Under the guidance of the command signal, a DC-3 transport aircraft landed slowly.
Before the transport plane had stopped, a dozen military jeeps had already driven into the airport and lined up along the tarmac. With the doors open, a dozen major officers hurriedly got out of the passenger seat and immediately ran to the jeeps.
The door was opened on the other side, and a dozen senior national army generals carrying golden generals got out of the jeep.
The engineers and soldiers who were constructing in the distance stopped one after another. Looking at their posture, they were probably some big shots coming, right?
With much anticipation, the ramp truck was slowly attached to the transport plane. When the hatch opened, a group of dozens of national military officers and soldiers armed with submachine guns rushed down like wolves, and immediately blocked off the area of several hundred meters near the transport plane.
, until it was confirmed that there was no danger nearby, a slender figure finally emerged from the hatch.
Thousands of meters away, an engineer company commander who was observing from a distance with a telescope suddenly shouted: "Four stars! Four-star general, God, it's the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief has come to Qingdao!" Because he was too excited, the engineer soldier
The company commander's voice was out of tune. After so many years as a soldier, this was the first time he had seen President Yue's seat with his own eyes.
As soon as the engineer company commander finished speaking, the engineers around him suddenly cheered like a roaring tsunami.
For ordinary officers and soldiers in the four fields, Yue Weihan is no longer a simple military commander, but a symbol of the entire army, a totem-like existence. In fact, not only the Fourth Field Army, but also the four major field armies in the country
In the eyes of more than 5 million officers and soldiers, and in the eyes of 40 million compatriots across China, Yue Weihan is already a god of war.
Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of engineers and soldiers, dozens of senior generals from the 3rd Army led by Liu Yi filed in front of Yue Weihan, and immediately stood at attention and saluted.