Smoke filled the air.
Xinzhuang, which was relatively intact yesterday, was already in ruins.
Thick black smoke rose in the sky above Xinzhuang.
It was a fire caused by shells igniting living supplies.
Ruins were everywhere in the village.
Most of the houses were smashed and damaged.
The battle had just ended.
Zhang Wei walked through the ruins and watched the soldiers from the preparation camp cleaning the battlefield.
The battle in Xinzhuang was really a tough one.
The preparation camp had no experience in such large-scale village attack battles before and suffered a lot.
However, it finally captured Xinzhuang and is now cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses of both sides. .
The general battle damage situation has been reported by the company commanders.
The entire battalion participating in the battle suffered more than 130 casualties.
After the preparation battalion was replenished with broken troops, there were less than 400 people.
In the battle of Xinzhuang, I was reimbursed more than 130 times in one go.
It was a really hard month and I went back to the time before replenishment.
Fighting for each house in the village, and even face-to-face fierce battles with the Japanese army, a large number of casualties were inevitable.
The Japanese troops are of high quality and have fierce firepower.
The closer they get to them, the greater the casualties will be.
Casualties are not useless, blood and casualties are exchanged for valuable combat experience.
After this battle, Zhang Wei believed that in this kind of battle, it is best to use artillery fire to blast the target first, destroying the buildings in the village as big as possible.
The buildings inside are the enemy's fortifications, and the more fierce the bombing, the better.
The more severely the enemy's defenses are destroyed, the easier it will be for the infantry to attack later.
His own firepower is too weak, or the firepower is too weak, Zhang Wei can only use the tank gun to prepare firepower.
The tank gun is a direct-fire gun, which has a good direct-fire effect on the target.
For the invisible buildings in the village, the damage is basically equivalent to nothing.
If Zhang Wei If Wei had a company of mountain artillery in his hands, the effect of the previous battle would be greatly different.
In the final analysis, there was still a lack of firepower.
The lack of firepower is not only reflected in the supporting artillery, but also the firepower of his battalion.
Regardless of the fact that there is no direct-fire artillery in the battalion, after all, the troops do not have one, but it is unreasonable to not even have a mortar.
If the mortar platoon in the battalion can be equipped, when attacking the courtyard wall, it can be blasted directly with mortars, so why call in combat artillery.
Tactically, Zhang Wei found that the buildings and houses in the village were the most annoying.
They were messy and disorderly.
You had no idea where the Japanese troops were and where they were not.
If there is another village attack battle in the future, we must prepare a strong firepower and attack quickly.
Firepower at the infantry unit level is also lacking.
The Japanese infantry squadrons are equipped with light machine guns and grenade launchers.
Heavy grenade launchers and light mortars are of the same level of equipment.
Only one company of the preparation battalion has grenade launchers, and the other two and three companies are equipped with rifle machine guns.
It is very difficult to fight in difficult places.
For example, when solving the last two private houses, the Japanese relied on solid fortifications and light machine guns and heavy machine guns to withstand the final assault of the preparation battalion.
Again, there’s a lack of firepower.
Zhang Wei thought to himself that if he settled down and had more supplies, he would bring more equipment to the camp to strengthen its firepower.
When Zhang Wei asked each company to clean up the battlefield, the tank company and platoon sent people to report that the tank platoon had intercepted and shot at the Japanese troops who had rushed to the outskirts of Xinzhuang, killing most of them.
Zhang Wei was not surprised when he got the news.
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With the appetite of the preparation battalion, it was impossible to completely eat the Japanese troops in Xinzhuang.
If he had a platoon of tanks, he could just hand them over to tanks to deal with them.
The Japanese troops who fled and broke through were easily Infantry, against the T26 tank with a 45mm tank gun and a coaxial machine gun, the result is obvious.
The preparation battalion cleaned the battlefield and collected all the equipment left by the Japanese army.
After completing the team, it left Xinzhuang.
The task of retaking Xinzhuang was completed.
Xinzhuang was handed over to the 78th Division and Allied Forces who took over the defense, and the preparation battalion quickly left the battlefield.
Back at the rear, Zhang Wei first received a call from Madman Qiu, and the order given to Zhang Wei was to retreat.
"Zhang Wei, I have recaptured Longshan.
The situation is very bad now.
The Japanese army and our army are attacking each other.
Although our army has regained the lost ground, the Japanese army is already outflanking us."
"After discussing with Commander Du and the friendly forces, except for the tank battalion, the main force of the column must be returned to construction and cannot continue fighting in eastern Henan.
I order your preparation battalion, with its combat defense artillery battalion and anti-aircraft machine gun platoon, to Evacuate along the Ping-Han Railway to Xiangtan and return to the ship."
Zhang Wei answered the phone and within a minute of reporting the battle situation, Crazy Qiu gave the above order.
The order came suddenly, and Zhang Wei had no other choice but to carry it out.
The order to retreat was urgent, and Madman Qiu urged him even more urgently.
Also retreating with the preparation battalion were the combat artillery battalion and anti-aircraft machine gun platoon of the assault column.
Madman Qiu stayed behind to command the chariot because it was inconvenient for the chariot to retreat.
The First Army and other units also need tanks to assist in the battle.
The battle situation on the front line of Luoshan in Xinyang was not optimistic.
The preparation battalion returned to Xinzhuang.
With the reinforcement of tanks, the First Army also fought back to the commanding heights of Luoshan and achieved partial tactical victories at several points.
But going up a level, the main force of the Japanese army has already raided southern Henan.
The main force has been deployed one after another.
Yesterday and today were small-scale raid battles.
If the Japanese army deployed heavily, the battle will develop into a real attack by large groups and large units.
Crazy Qiu said that he had contacted Commander Du who was far away in Hunan and asked the assault column to withdraw part of it first.
Zhang Wei thought that Commander Du must have wanted to ask the assault column to withdraw part of it in such a hurry.
He probably wanted to preserve more strength for the troops of the 200th Division.
Zhang Wei informed the three company commanders of the retreat, and the entire battalion officers and soldiers took the time to rest and eat.
During this retreat, there was also an entire combat defense artillery battalion and anti-aircraft machine gun platoon.
These two troops marched directly from near Longshan and joined the preparation battalion.
The combat defense artillery battalion and anti-aircraft machine gun platoon are both technical equipment units with insufficient combat capabilities.
Madman Qiu wants to prepare the battalion to take them with him, hoping to better protect them.
Combat defense artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns are treasures. .
Along with the accompanying troops, there was also a batch of ammunition and supplies, which was enough to replenish a base of rifle ammunition and grenades.
All the ammunition was distributed by Zhang Wei.
The troops need to walk from Xinyang to Zhengzhou.
When they arrive in Zhengzhou, they take a military train along the Pinghan-Han Line back to Hunan.
It is about three hundred kilometers from Xinyang to Zhengzhou.
The normal marching speed of the preparation camp is more than four kilometers per hour.
In one day, it can cover more than forty to fifty kilometers.
If it is forced to march according to the battle, it can cover fifty kilometers in one day.
It's more than 100 kilometers, but the combat march consumes a lot of physical strength of the troops.
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If it's not an emergency, they won't use the emergency march.
In a normal march, the preparation battalion can cover more than 40 kilometers a day, but when heading towards Zhengzhou, Zhang Wei not only has his own preparation battalion, but also a combat defense artillery battalion and an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon.
Their march is no better than that of an infantry unit.
The cannons must be mounted on horses, the anti-aircraft machine guns must be carried by horses, and the horses must rest.
Taking them with him, Zhang Wei estimated that he would have walked more than 30 kilometers in one day
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