Hiratani Hachiro was in a hurry, and everything he had arranged with his subordinates came to naught.The sudden appearance of the main forces of the People's Liberation Army was really too unexpected for him and broke all his preparations."
Your Excellency Commander, the People's Liberation Army has surrounded our fortress from three sides, we can't get out, and all the gates are heavily guarded by their troops" "Your Excellency Commander, the People's Liberation Army uses trucks as temporary positions.Light and heavy machine guns were mounted on the trucks, and mortar units were present in the intervals of the trucks.If we want to attack, we will definitely suffer heavy losses" One report after another reached Hachiro Hirata's ears, like thunderbolts bombarding his mind.He was confident that he could defeat the People's Liberation Army, but now he was suddenly surrounded by others.And judging by the superficial firepower from above, he is not an opponent of the PLA at all.Most of the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia were mainly infantry, accompanied by more than 30,000 cavalry troops.Because it was mainly fought in the steppes, it was equipped with a rather small number of heavy firepower weapons.Even heavy artillery was scarce, and most of them were field mountain guns and mortars used by infantry that were conducive to transportation in the steppe.This kind of firepower is obviously not enough for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that comes prepared, and it is like a game between children and adults, and there is no comparison at all.In particular, when Hiratani Hachiro saw the forty wolf tanks at the front of the PLA team, the corners of his mouth twitched even more.Not to mention the orderly formation of trucks of the PLA, these forty tanks alone were enough to sweep his infantry on the steppe."
Order the cavalry division of Komura Xingnan to attack immediately, and the PLA must not be allowed to gain a firm foothold, quickly" Hachiro Hiratani realized the seriousness of the problem, turned his head and yelled angrily."
But the formation of the People's Liberation Army has been set up, can the cavalry really rush over?"
the staff officer of the report asked hesitantly."
Attack their two wings, their two wings are not covered by tanks, it is better to impact a little so that the small village of Xingnan must break up these two places and open two gaps.If we let the People's Liberation Army surround us, then our fortress will be completely finished," Hachiro Hiratani almost hissed.The "Hai" staff officer turned and left."
Order the 162nd Division, the 163rd Division to all prepare for battle.Wait for the cavalry to break out of the gap on the left and right flanks, immediately support the cavalry, and consolidate the battlefield" Hiratani Hachiro continued to yell.One urgent order after another was quickly given, and Hachiro Hiratani raised his wisdom to the highest point, burning tens of thousands of brain cells every second.He must not let the PLA gain a firm foothold, otherwise, with the strength of the PLA, his 100,000 troops will probably be completely trapped here.The equipment of the Mongol troops was probably the worst of all the troops, not that they were of poor quality.On the contrary, the basic quality of all the units of the Mongol Dispatch Army was comparable to that of the First Division, and the rigorous training in peacetime made them a first-class Japanese combat unit.It's just that Mongolia's special environment determines that they will inevitably use the worst weapons and equipment, and the Japanese are not stupid, so they will naturally put their best weapons into the Chinese battlefield and the South Asian battlefield.And against the Mongol cavalry, which used scimitar bows and arrows, the equipment of the average second-rate troops was enough to deal with it, or even more than enough.But the Japanese would never have imagined that their careful arrangement would turn out to be the most fatal mistake.Encountering the People's Liberation Army, which was also well-trained and out-equipped in the steppe, all Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia were in danger of being completely annihilated."
How did these People's Liberation Army get here, did they fall from the sky, even if they fly, it can't be so fast" Hachiro Hiratani finished arranging everything, but was still in shock.Even though he urgently assigned combat missions, he was not sure that he would be able to break the encirclement of the PLA.Judging only by his observation of the PLA's firepower at the moment, it is at least three grades higher than his troops.At this moment, the People's Liberation Army's temporary position suddenly burst into fire, and thousands of shells bombarded from three sides at the same time, all of which fell around the Japanese fortress, blowing up dust and gunpowder smoke all over the sky.The whistling cannonballs tore the air apart and the earth burned.The Japanese troops who were about to break out of the fortress had to evade the bombardment, and the emergency combat mission assigned by Hiratani Hachiro was completely destroyed by the fierce artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army before it began.Hachiro Hiratani was dragged down the walls of the fortress by his men, shuttled through the artillery bombardment, and soon took refuge in an underground bunker.The ground shook, the dirt above my head kept falling, and the entire underground bunker seemed to be shrouded in a yellow mist.Hachiro Hiratani clenched his fists, his eyes extremely vicious.He counted everything, but forgot that the PLA also has heavy artillery fire."
What a terrifying firepower this is, I've never seen such fierce firepower in the grassland," a staff officer said with a shocked look on his face."
Sure enough, just like the news from the Central Plains, the heavy firepower weapons of the PLA troops are already on par with our Imperial Japanese Army, and even surpass us.Now it seems that it must have surpassed us," another staff officer immediately chimed in.Hiratani Hachiro listened to the whispers of his subordinates around him, and simply closed his eyes.The fierce artillery fire blew up the entire fortress, and the devils in the fortress fled in all directions to avoid the explosion.However, there were not many underground bunkers in the fortress, because when they first built this fortress, they never expected that it would be bombed.The Mongols fought on horseback and wielding sabers, and their guns and ammunition were all provided by the Japanese, and there was no artillery at all.In this steppe, the Japanese have almost no opponents, so of course they should not bother digging bulletproof bunkers.But now the devils even regret their intestines, and they scold the people who built this place as bastards, and if they dig out one more bunker, they will die, and the devils who are now stationed here can only run around to avoid being bombarded into pieces by artillery fire.The Japanese troops in the fortress were in a mess, while the PLA outside the fortress calmly arranged their positions under the cover of artillery fire.They quickly dug trenches on the grassland, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army was bombed and could not break out of the fortress for the time being, including the migrant workers who accompanied them this time, they also joined the excavation field fortifications.The PLA's artillery is all pulled by military trucks, so it has been closely following the main forces.By the time the first troops formed a formation outside the Devil's Fortress, the artillery units behind them had already been spread out.More than 800 artillery pieces of the two divisions of the Fourth Army and the First Army opened fire in an all-round way, intensively shelling the Japanese fortresses from three different directions.However, the fortress was so strong that the perimeter was made of reinforced concrete and made of special materials.Therefore, even if the heavy artillery bombarded it, it would only collapse and break the stones very quickly, and it would not be able to blast out a gap in the Japanese fortress in a short time.The fortress was originally built to protect against the Mongol cavalry, as there was no cover in the steppe.In order to stop the charge of the Mongol cavalry, which excelled at speed, it was necessary to have a strong defensive fortress.Otherwise, even if the Japanese army was many times more powerful than the Mongols, it would not be able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Mongol cavalry, and even if it was consumed, they would be consumed to death.Gao Dong was standing in the team at the moment, looking at the devil fortress that was burning with artillery fire, and a hearty smile appeared on the corner of his mouth."
After an hour of bombardment, our shells are almost gone."
Gao Dong said to several herald officers on the side: "Let's hurry up and dig trenches, hurry up for these two hours."
Round after round of rapid fire bombarded out of the artillery positions in the rear of the People's Liberation Army, and the Japanese fortress was completely turned into a sea of fire.The violent explosion made it impossible to see a single devil in the open area of the fortress, and a large number of buildings and facilities were reduced to rubble under the bombardment.Hiratani Hachiro's whole person had become a native at this time, and his body was covered with yellow mud.His whole body trembled, and all his ambitions were crushed by the artillery fire of the People's Liberation Army.Even if he has a thousand tactics, he can't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of others.A round of rapid artillery fire blew up all his plans in an instant."
Damn, it's been three hours of bombing, isn't their artillery at its limit," Chief of Staff Ikeda was already the first to lose his breath and roared out of cover.It may have been that his roar had played a role, and suddenly all the explosions stopped, and all that reverberated in everyone's ears was the roar of the explosion.Hiratani Hachiro rushed out of cover suddenly, and a look of ecstasy appeared on his face: "The cavalry attack immediately, quickly, quickly" Hiratani Hachiro roared and ran to the wall, but as soon as he looked at him, he was immediately stupid.In just three hours, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had already dug a long field position along three sides of the fortress, and the naked eye could see that the long position was full of light and heavy machine guns arranged as firing points."
Is this what people did" Hiratani Hachiro shook his head in disbelief: "How could it be possible to dig such a tight field fortification in such a short period of time, this is impossible" Hiratani Hachiro didn't believe it, and neither did the officers around him.The PLA positions in front of us are densely packed with machine guns, and the structure is tightly organized, so there is hardly any chance to take advantage of it.Even if Hachiro Hiratani were to send troops to open a gap now, it would be too late, and he had already lost his best opportunity."
Eight grid tooth road, eight ga" Hiratani Hachiro roared angrily."
Your Excellency Commander, now we can only hold on and wait for reinforcements" Chief of Staff Ikeda said calmly: "Fortunately, our fortifications are very strong, even if the PLA wants to bomb, it is impossible to bomb them in a short period of time, and their supplies must be very limited, I believe that it will not be long before they will automatically retreat" Hiratani Hachiro sighed helplessly: "This is the only way, order the whole army to be on alert to prevent the PLA from attacking" aa2705221: