There are still ten minutes left before the battle, and each tank is hiding in the bunker. The crews are getting ready in the tanks, and the soldiers are lying behind the tanks, ready to go.
Wang Xuexin hid behind a mound, popped his head up and looked at Yuncheng through the vague smoke with a telescope.
The Japs in Yuncheng seemed to have sensed the approaching danger and had entered the final stage of preparation.
Outside the city wall, there were Japs everywhere who were busy carrying ammunition or lying on the ground to lay mines. They wanted to store as much ammunition as possible to create obstacles before the battle started. Some Japs even started to pull the barbed wire until then...
This shows that the Japanese were not fully prepared. After all, no one expected that the Eighth Route Army would suddenly have the strength to attack Yuncheng.
Hundreds of meters away, at the top of the city, there were Japs running back and forth everywhere. From time to time, there were loud orders from Japanese officers. They seemed to be deploying machine guns and artillery at the top of the city... If the artillery wanted to destroy the tanks, it was better to set up at the top of the city.
It is more convenient to be able to see the target with your own eyes from a high position.
Wang Xuexin looked around the fortifications in Xiayuncheng again.
Although before this, he had already memorized the Yuncheng fortifications by heart, and even built similar anti-tank trenches for tanks to run several times... After all, anti-tank trenches are concealed anti-tank trenches, and Wang Xuexin requires every tank crew to
Everyone knows the location of the anti-tank trenches in the direction of attack they are responsible for, so that they can effectively avoid them.
This was the first time that Wang Xuexin faced the real Yuncheng.
Despite the poor performance of the Jinsui Army in fighting, the fortifications built were quite good.
Wherever he looked, barbed wire fences, trenches, anti-tank trenches, communication trenches and other fortifications connected the gun towers and bunkers into one, and spread out five to six hundred meters around Yuncheng, like a whole-body-long army.
A hedgehog full of spikes makes it hard to get started.
This method of defense is correct, that is, building a large number of fortifications outside the city instead of relying on the city wall.
Many people think that the city wall is a shield against foreign enemies, but in Wang Xuexin's eyes, the city wall is more likely to be a cage that traps himself.
Whether it is a shield or a cage requires detailed analysis of specific issues.
If the defenders in the nearby area have an advantage in strength and situation, then the city wall will serve as a shield, because at this time they only need to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
On the other hand, if the defenders are obviously weak in terms of strength and situation, that would be another matter.
At this time, the enemy only needs to use firepower to block the city gate and prevent the defenders from leaving the city... Anyway, there will be no reinforcements, and even if there are reinforcements, they will be easily defeated, so victory will be a matter of time.
The Jinsui Army belongs to the latter.
The Japanese have an obvious advantage in fighting in Shanxi. Once Yuncheng is besieged by the Japanese, it will become a dead city. If we only rely on the city wall for defense, once the Japanese use firepower to block the city gate, the Jinsui Army will be dead.
Therefore, the Jinsui Army built a large number of fortifications outside the city. Only in this way could the Jinsui Army have the possibility of breaking through.
This is a bit like playing Go. A lone army surrounded by strong external forces has nothing to worry about, otherwise it will just work.
As for guarding a city and "doing work", it might have been possible in ancient cold-weapon warfare. In modern times, any cannon can blast a bunch of shells into the city, and there are also bombers... so there is almost no possibility of "doing work".
The Japs are the party with external advantages.
Therefore, in Yuncheng occupied by the Japanese, the bunkers and gun towers outside the city were just the icing on the cake. They could defend the city wall and wait for reinforcements.
For the Eighth Route Army, if they use conventional methods to pull out these bunkers and gun towers one by one, and then attack the city wall in a regular manner...how long will it take to defeat it?
one day?
I'm afraid it won't be enough to clear the bunkers and gun towers outside the city, even if the Eighth Route Army has tanks.
When the Japanese reinforcements arrived, would it mean that the Eighth Route Army would be surrounded by internal and external forces?
Therefore, Wang Xuexin had no intention of using conventional methods to attack from the beginning.
Zhao Gang trotted all the way to Wang Xuexin from behind, took out his Roman watch, looked at it, and asked: "It's almost time. There's still no reply from the monk. Is there any problem?"
"Probably not!" Wang Xuexin replied: "I guess there may be something wrong with the radio station!"
The reason why Wang Xuexin made such a guess was that if something went wrong, the Japanese should react at this time.
Zhao Gang nodded solemnly and said, "Then proceed as planned!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin responded.
Zhao Gang stared at the dial closely, watching the second hand jump and point to ten o'clock, and said: "It's begun!"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a whistling sound of "swish, swish, swish".
The first to start the fight was the rocket launcher unit.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher unit had expanded to two battalions and 26 rocket launchers.
In fact, the rocket launcher still has the ability to expand. Although the Eighth Route Army has not captured many cars so far, it is not a problem to expand the rocket launcher to 40 or 50 units.
The problem is that it is not easy to produce rockets. There are too many rocket launchers and the shells cannot keep up, so the rocket launchers can only be limited to two battalions.
At this time, the two battalions were all used. One rocket launcher had 12 tubes and 26 rockets equaled 312 rounds of rockets. They bombed the bunkers and gun towers outside the Japanese city in one breath, and seas of fire and fire exploded outside the city.
Smoke and dust.
This is actually for the sake of the tank troops.
The Japanese arranged many grenades and mortars in bunkers and trenches, waiting for the tanks to come up and bomb the infantry behind the tanks...
This is a commonly used method for anti-tank.
The most important thing in anti-tank warfare is to separate enemy infantry from tanks, and then send out blasters to blow up the tanks after they are alone.
The sharp weapons that can separate infantry and tanks are grenade launchers and mortars with curved trajectories.
Because the Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army did not have much artillery fire, the gunners were very arrogant and set up mortar positions behind the bunkers. They believed that this would be more convenient for observation and thus they could strike at the enemy more accurately and in a more timely manner.
But I didn't expect...
The Eighth Route Army rockets immediately taught them how to behave, or to be precise, how to behave. The mortar positions deployed at ground level had almost no chance of survival under the instantaneous and intensive attack of rockets, especially some of them were incendiary bombs.
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As a result, howling firemen quickly appeared on the battlefield. Not to mention the mortar positions, some bunkers turned into fireballs after being hit by incendiary bombs, and then exploded because the ammunition was ignited.
Ikegami Kenji, who was standing at the top of the city, was shocked when he saw this scene.
He couldn't believe how the Eighth Route Army, which had no artillery fire, suddenly had such strong firepower. Could it be the Jinsui Army?
But it doesn’t look like it!
This is not artillery fire but a spray-injection bomb, which is the spray-injection bomb used to attack train stations...
In other words, these are all the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, whether he believes it or not.
Kenji Ikegami, who was originally confident in defending Yuncheng, lost his confidence at this moment.
He understood that if the Eighth Route Army had such powerful artillery fire, Yuncheng would be in serious danger.