In fact, when the Japanese fired flares into the sky, the landing ship began to accelerate.
Before that, in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy as much as possible, the landing ship moved forward slowly at the slowest speed. However, after being discovered by the enemy, there was obviously no need to hide. The motor roared and rushed towards the other shore at the highest speed.
The second difficulty in landing operations is the moment the troops land.
The reason is that the troops are relatively concentrated when they go ashore...Both the personnel and the tanks are all concentrated on one ship. As soon as the landing board is lowered, bullets from all directions are concentrated and fired into the ship. Many landing personnel will be beaten into pieces before they get off the ship.
Flesh and blood.
The Eighth Route Army's landing force was even more dangerous.
The reason is that landing ships like the Eighth Route Army do not even have protection on both sides, and enemy firepower from the sides can easily knock down the soldiers in the salt lake.
Fortunately, the landing troops were not under such pressure.
The reason is that the area where the Eighth Route Army landed is a gap in the Japanese defense...
There are indeed many bunkers and gun towers near the Japanese, but they all face the passages on both sides. The landing craft inserts from the direction of the Salt Lake and goes directly to the side and behind them.
Bunkers and turrets have this characteristic. They have perforations in a fixed direction, and the rear is "own" by default. They are located at the door, used to transport ammunition.
Suddenly the enemy appeared in the rear. They could only stare at the lack of shooting holes. At most, one or two people stood in front of the door and shot.
At the same time, Li Yunlong led the independent regiment to launch a fierce attack on these bunkers and gun towers... At this time, just as Colonel Uetake wished, it was a feint attack that actually contained the Japanese troops.
At this time, the independent regiment was no longer the former independent regiment. The rifles had been fully replaced with Springfield-style rifles. Not only had their firepower been improved, they were also equipped with many rocket launchers.
Using a rocket launcher to hit a bunker at night is enough to make the Japanese feel scared, because they are not sure where a rocket launcher is aiming at them in the dark, and then with a "swish" sound, a bunker is destroyed.
If it were an armor-piercing bomb for tanks or a grenade for infantry, it would be fine. If it were an incendiary bomb, then the flaming liquid would be sprayed into the bunker to ignite the Japanese inside. Suddenly, there would be a sound like a slaughtering pig.
Howl.
In fact, rockets are not the most convenient for attacking bunkers. The reason is that they use incendiary bombs with less fuel and a short time. They burn out in a few seconds unless something else is ignited.
In addition, the rocket itself has a high wind deflection rate, so it is often inaccurate and only burns outside the bunker, which is to scare the Japanese.
If you really want to talk about the magic weapon for taking down bunkers, it should be the flamethrower.
When sprayed, it spreads in a large area, and the entire bunker becomes a sea of flames inside and outside. It would be unlucky to let it get close.
While Li Yunlong's troops were fighting happily on both wings, the landing force led by Wang Xuexin successfully landed ashore.
Most of the landing ships were stranded and landed... This was somewhat beyond the original plan.
Wang Xuexin's original consideration was to only choose to beach the landing when he had no choice but to do so.
The reason is that the iron plate used for landing is only more than three meters long... Any longer iron plate will exceed the weight that the landing ship can carry and will not be able to support the tank.
More than three meters long. What if the landing ship ran aground four meters or more away from the hard ground?
If the tank drives forward, won't it get stuck in the mud?
At this time, if the tank is stuck there and cannot move, it is almost the same as being destroyed.
But the actual battle was not as simple as imagined. With the Japanese artillery fire and the darkness, the searchlights on the city head shot down the beams one by one... Although the searchlights have no lethality, they can injure the soldiers.
We were in the light while the enemy was in the dark, and when illuminated by this strong light, and surrounded by white vapor blown up by artillery shells, we couldn't find the landing point at all.
So I had no choice but to rush forward until it ran aground, then put the landing board down and drove the tank up regardless.
Fortunately, there were only two tanks stuck in the mud, and these two continued to fight the enemy until the end, and one of them survived until the end of the battle.
This tank that survived was not because of anything else, but because the location where it ran aground was too far from the shore, more than 20 meters away... There are many places like this in the Salt Lake, a large shoal of mud.
If the Japanese had several rocket launchers, it would only take a matter of minutes to deal with this tank.
The problem is that the Japs do not have rocket launchers, and guns and mortars are not very effective against tanks. In addition, there is basically no anti-tank equipment, and the mud infantry separated by more than 20 meters cannot rush forward... There are really Japs holding explosives.
Bao rushed towards the tank, but after a few steps in the mud, he was knocked to the ground by the soldier lying next to the tank.
In the end, 24 tanks landed successfully, including Gangzi's armored vehicle.
Colonel Uetake, who was at the top of the city, saw the enemy tanks suddenly making a "clacking" sound below the city. He was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
Then he shouted: "Close the city gate and guard the city gate..."
Colonel Uetake was already a little incoherent. Should he close the city gate or hold it?
The south gate is usually not closed.
The reason is that it facilitates the entry and exit of Japanese troops and the transportation of ammunition.
This is also where the Japanese are arrogant. In their opinion, it is impossible for the enemy to hit the city gate. If they can hit the city gate, they will almost commit suicide by caesarean section!
After receiving the order, the Japanese guarding the city gate hurriedly pushed the heavy wooden board to close it.
But how could it be too late?
A T26 stopped and slightly rotated the turret to aim at the city gate. It even waited for a while...
The reason is that the city gate is not closed. If you fire at the wide open city gate, wouldn't the cannonballs pass through the middle and be ineffective?
Wait for a while, when the city gate is half open and half closed, then there is a "boom", the cannonball explodes at the city gate, the wooden planks are blown into pieces in an instant, and the door and bolts all fly towards the city.
As for those Japanese who were planning to close the door, if they had not been killed by the shells, they would have been turned into hedgehogs by the fragments of the wooden door!
Then the tanks stopped hesitating and drove in through the city gate one after another.
They happened to run into the Japanese reserve force, a squadron of infantry, who had arrived for reinforcements.
The reserve force is usually an elite force because they are responsible for putting out fires and will provide reinforcements wherever there is danger.
but……
In front of tanks, there is no difference between ordinary troops and elite troops.
The tanks rumbled forward, followed by the infantry who poked their heads out from both sides, either throwing grenades or firing submachine guns, knocking down a large number of Japanese soldiers in a few clicks.