However, Su Kangyun said, "The two enemy troops in the direction of Qingjiang Puhe Taoyuan County are local provincial troops in Zhejiang Province. Through a series of wars in front, we can all find that their fighting capacity is limited. A few days ago, the 37th Regiment of the 19th Brigade Lei Anlin School commanded an offensive against the first Hunchenglv in Taoyuan County, Zhejiang Province.
The Anhui army officers across the combat effectiveness gap between the two sides must also know this situation. Do they have enough courage to take the initiative to attack? "
"Furthermore, if they take the initiative to attack, it will not be a bad thing for us. On the contrary, it will be a good thing for them to leave the original defense line without a large number of fortifications to rely on. It is not difficult to defeat them. If they dare to take the initiative, then we will suspend the attack on Suqian and deploy the main force to eat them first. Once these two places are annihilated, we will be able to capture Taoyuan County and Qingjiangpu, and then deploy the main force to North Suqian. How can the enemy resist the attack of our division with only one Suqian?"
Su Kangyun is a senior senior staff officer, and his vision is still very great.
Although the northern Jiangsu now occupies an area where the two armies of Fengwan are evenly matched, it has always been Fengjun who takes the initiative to attack again, and the Anhui army can rely on the fortifications built in advance to defend passively. If the Anhui army gives up these fortifications and comes out to play field battles with Fengjun, then Fengjun senior generals are naturally very welcome.
What is so difficult to conquer in northern Jiangsu now is that the Anhui army occupied the absolute strength and firepower advantage when it was hiding in the fortifications. Before that, it was impossible for the Anhui army to give up these fortifications on its own initiative and then take the initiative to attack and serve the army in the field.
Su Kangyun said, "It’s also a bit hesitant to be high!
Today, Gao is a relatively low-key senior general in Fengjun, but his fame is far less than Gu Lanyu’s and unlike Cao Kun’s, they have rich qualifications that ordinary people can’t surpass, but he can win the title of the main division commander of the tenth division with one vote less, which naturally has his own advantages.
Gao, like Wu Peifu, is a senior general with artillery background, but he can stand out from so many artillery officers and become the three main divisions of Fengjun. Apart from the factors of Fengjun’s great expansion, the first division commander is also inseparable from his own ability. Although he is an artillery background, others have a deep research on the logistics of Buke, especially good at frontal attack.
After he came out from the position of head of the artillery regiment, he successively held important positions in the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Military Supplies. After that, the director of the training department of the Ministry of Education was responsible for the training of new recruits, and then the director of the railway transportation department of the Ministry of Military Supplies was responsible for railway transportation, and then the brigade commander of the 19th brigade was transferred. Finally, Xu Bangjie was promoted to the position of commander of the second army, and then he took over the position of commander of the 10th division.
At the beginning, Zhao Dongyun personally chose him as the commander of the Tenth Division. In addition to his rich experience, he also shared the command quality shown in the Battle of Bazhou in Tangshan. The Tenth Division was famous for being good at frontal attack, just as Gu Lanyu led the army to be very good at circuitous attack. In the first few months, Gao was famous for being good at frontal attack. It was he who led the troops to break through the direction of Tangshan Direct Army and break through the first brigade of the First Division of Direct Army, thus laying the foundation for the victory of Tangshan Campaign.
In the follow-up battle of Bazhou and Jinan, this man also showed extraordinary ability to fight a tough battle, and broke through the enemy’s defense line several times in a row to lay the foundation for victory.
Of course, some people may say that this is all due to the teacher Xu Bangjie, but Gao, the brigade commander of the 19 th brigade, was the frontline commander of this battle
With all this credit, he was able to surpass the military service. The generals and Gu Lanyu were promoted to teachers at the same time, one for the third division and the other for the tenth division.
In the early stage of the campaign in northern Jiangsu, the 10th Division successfully took a list of important strategic points, such as Pizhou, Haizhou and Muyang. After that, Zhao Dong praised him for his special promotion in the army, and awarded him four honors, which was regarded as taking the title of the middle commander and not staring at the title of the middle commander like several other teachers.
It is also the second senior general to be promoted to the army after entering the war this year.
Looking at several teachers in Fengjun, Lu Yongxiang, Lin Yong, Gu Lanyu, and Gao, the first division commander, the third division commander, are all generals in the army, and a few of them, including Zong Lian, the eleventh division commander, and Liu Tinggui, the thirteenth division commander of Cao Kun, are all army generals. These two divisions have not officially formed the army yet.
In his HunChengLv brigade major, some are army generals, while a few are well-qualified or have other special factors, such as the first HunChengLv brigade major Bao Guiqing, who came to be army generals, but after voluntarily surrendering to Zhao Dongyun, he was awarded the title of army generals. In addition, there is the seventh HunChengLv Chun Li, who gave birth to the first-class award of army generals, because he resisted the attack of more than 20,000 direct troops in the early stage of Tangshan Campaign.
In his several HunChengBrigades, they are all army generals, just like the directors of the high command of his infantry brigade brigade and the chiefs of staff of various armies.
After careful analysis, it will be found that the scope of the system of increasing the rank in the army is somewhat fixed, that is, it is limited to the three positions of brigade commander of Huncheng brigade and commander of infantry division, and there are few cases of increasing the rank in other bases. In addition, there is a special case that many field-level officers have been posthumously awarded the rank of general in the army after being killed.
Interestingly, except for posthumous conferment, the rank of lieutenant colonel and lieutenant colonel has not been awarded to active-duty officers. At present, this rank is posthumously awarded after being killed, and this rank is also the lowest rank. Because the military does not give titles to active-duty school officers, lieutenant colonel and major-level officers are generally directly posthumously awarded to the school and lieutenant colonel after being killed, and there will be no such situation.
Generally speaking, the current military rank system is still a special western rank tone, but it also integrates the China unified title system, but it has various restrictions, which are quite different from those of western countries, Japan and the historical Beiyang Republic of China.
Being the commander of the three main divisions in the army, a few of the most practical generals in the army enjoy a detached position and bear great pressure unknown to outsiders.
Suqian has been attacking for a long time, not only Xu Bangjie, the military department, but also the high command department. Even the secret office of the presidential palace sent Zhao Dongyun a condolence report.
On the surface, these are all inquiries or condolences, but they are very white. This is Feng’s dissatisfaction with the tenth division’s long-term attack on Suqian, urging him to take Suqian as soon as possible!
Facing the peak, especially Zhao Dongyun’s high personal pressure, it is impossible to be indifferent. He must take Suqian as soon as possible and then continue to advance westward with the first Hunchenglv to completely cut off the enemy alliance in Xuzhou and the south.
Otherwise, if a war is unfavorable, you will have to turn your back on yourself. Once you give Zhao Dongyun an impression of being ineffective in the war, then don’t expect to be able to make achievements as a commander-in-chief like Xu Bangjie and Meng Enyuan.
But the question now is how should he take Suqian?
With less than 15,000 troops in his hands alone, if the total number of enemy troops has exceeded 30,000, how can we take Suqian?
Chapter three hundred and thirty-four Charge
In order to get rid of the current strategic deadlock, Suqian-Qingjiangpu first line was blocked for ten days, and the 10th Division changed its former tactics. Su Kangyun, chief of staff of this division, suggested that the 10th Division commander should transfer the main force of the 19th Brigade, which was originally in Qingjiangpu and Taoyuan counties, and leave one battalion in each place to monitor and guard against the movements of the Anhui army in the two places. Then the main force of the 19th Brigade, including four infantry battalions and an artillery battalion, quickly moved to Suqian.
By October 24th, the 10th Division had already made foreign exchange in Suqian City. Most of the infantry and artillery units had a total strength of more than 12,000 people.
After winning the troops, Gao didn’t wait long. Soon, the 20th brigade leader launched the latest round of attack on Suqian. This time, Gao’s support troops not only won all the artillery of the 10th division artillery regiment, but also risked putting the 120mm mortar in front of the front line less than two kilometers away.
There’s nothing he can do about it. The power of this 120 mm mortar is great, but the tragedy of its range is just over 3,000 meters. Besides, it is said that it is still the maximum range. If it is really more than 3,000 meters away, God knows where the shells will fly.
If it’s an ordinary attack, it’s a cover shelling anyway, so I have to endure the poor accuracy, but now the high pressure is very great. Xu Bangjie, the commander of the second army of Xuzhou, the former enemy deputy commander of his immediate division, has come to reprimand him many times, which is very blunt. If the tenth division makes progress, then he Xu Bangjie will personally come to Suqian to command the tenth division to stay in his high place.
There has never been a situation in which a high-ranking command body is closely guarded in the army. If it does happen, Xu Bangjie will personally command the tenth division regardless of the unwritten rules of the army, saying that the situation has reached the point where Gao Fa can bear it. By then, his high military career will be a bench even if it is not completely over.
This huge pressure is also forced to give up the former slow and steady tactics and take risks to transfer the main force of the 19 th brigade to Suqian in an attempt to win Suqian in one fell swoop and then make peace with the first Hunchenglv in the north and go west together to completely cut off the southern passage of Xuzhou
It’s such a big risk to transfer the 19th Brigade. Now it’s to move the division’s 120mm mortar forward. Although it’s very dangerous for the mortar team, this risk is nothing for Gao.
When a battalion of 120 mm mortars ventured forward, the shelling distance was shortened, which made this heavy mortar with poor accuracy have better hit accuracy for the first time. Those huge 120 mm shells filled with picric acid continued to fall into the opposite position of the Fifth Division of the Liangjiang Army of Anhui Army. The huge explosion power was far from that of those 10 mm mortars or 75 mm barrel guns. Often, a 120 mm mortar shell exploded enough to cover a radius of 15 meters.
Simply speaking, the explosion power of the flat land means the explosion coverage radius. The 120 mm mortar equipped by Fengjun is the most explosive gun, and the explosion power of the 100 mm cannon purchased from Germany by Fengjun is far less than that of this gun.
"The power of this battalion’s 120 mm mortar is more powerful than that of two artillery battalions during the Seventh Five-Year Plan!" Su Kangyun, the chief of staff holding a telescope in the rear, sighed.
Although it is not the first time to see this 120 mm mortar fire, it is the first time for him to see the opposite Anhui Army Front in less than three minutes, which is almost covered by a yellow smoke left after the bitter acid explosion.
Gao also nodded. "The gun is powerful, but the range is too short and the accuracy is too poor. If the accuracy of the range of 6 kilometers can be slightly better, it can effectively offset the shortcomings of our army!"
The range of mountain guns equipped in Fengjun is generally short, with a range of six kilometers. Some old mountain guns have a range of four or five kilometers, but people are better than mortars no matter how short the range is, and the accuracy is not the same.
There have been many military cases in Fengjun where field guns were fired thousands of meters away to destroy Anhui’s military industry, but if you let a 120 mm mortar fire thousands of meters away, God knows where the shells will fly.
However, the accuracy of the same mortar is much better than that of the big 120 mm mortar, especially the 60 mm mortar. Although the mortar is generally powerful and has a short range, the trained mortar is especially close to the enemy’s 500 meters. Even if it is not 100%, the 10% hit rate can still be maintained.
You know, when we entered the war, Fengjun destroyed many enemy heavy machine guns, and ten of these achievements were 60 mm mortars.
The enemy machine gun position has no strong fortress fortifications, but an exposed top surrounding the machine gun position. If a well-trained 60 mm mortar team reaches 500 meters, it can be declared that the machine gun position has been destroyed.
Speaking of this mortar, it is very similar to the 50 mm Grenade launcher in the military on the historical day. However, the 60 mm mortar in the military has much lower requirements for gunners. After two or three months of basic training, recruits can skillfully operate, and the shooting rate of those who have trained for one year is already considerable.
There is no doubt that the 60 mm mortar has already possessed irreplaceable importance in the sequence of military service, and it has become an indispensable weapon in military service. To some extent, it is more important than light machine guns and heavy machine guns.
Su Kangyun and Gao said that when they were talking about the 120 mm mortar, their artillery was also fired at the same time, and when the artillery fire was suppressed for nearly twenty minutes, the artillery fire of the rear field artillery was extended to stop the reinforcements in front of the follow-up troops of the Anhui Army.
But those mortars and seventy-five mm mountain guns are still suppressing the shelling of the Anhui army positions.
The shelling in front has not stopped yet, but the officers in the infantry trench in front of the army have already taken action. They have been senior officers who have been in the army for many years. These people often look calm and arrange for the non-commissioned officers to make final preparations before charging.
There are also rookie officers who have just graduated from military schools. Although they are forced to calm down, they can still let others see that they are nervous, which makes many veteran noncommissioned officers who have been in the army for many years despise these rookie officers.
These senior noncommissioned officers who have been in the army for many years are not afraid of machine guns and artillery, but they are afraid of spreading a rookie officer who has just graduated from the military academy. Because of the fighting, these rookie officers are either fanatical and militant or pee their pants like ordinary recruits. Few rookie officers will remain calm and deploy various tactics.
However, Haofengjun has been an adult for many years, especially the ninth division, which has a large number of senior noncommissioned officers who have been in the army for four or five years. Although these noncommissioned officers are not officers, they generally hold the positions of squad leader and deputy platoon leader, but they have always been the real backbone of the army.
When all the rookie officers are scared and panicked, senior noncommissioned officers often take on the responsibility of grass-roots officers to make soldiers prepare for the charge.
However, both senior officers and rookie officers got the order to launch a charge, and then they all pulled out their waist command knives and blew the sharp copper whistle in their mouths. This battle line of more than 2,000 meters sounded, and a few soldiers dressed in blue-gray army climbed out of the trench and rushed towards the Anhui army position more than 400 meters away.
At that moment, it seemed that the guns stopped and the machine guns stopped. You could hear the shouts from all over the mountains. There was panic and excitement in those shouts. They tried their best to shout as if this would increase their courage. After the comrades fell, they continued to charge forward.
There was a lot of dust around the explosion, and the dust didn’t fall for a long time, making the whole day blue-gray.
Looking at this small battlefield from a distance seems like a still oil painting, a suffocating oil painting!