Chapter 261 Attack 2

Li Zhuang, Hua Zhenji put down the emergency information just sent by the messenger, and then turned around and said, "Just now, the military sent the latest information. The 11th Division of the enemy in the direction of Baodi is about to arrive at our headquarters. The military ordered our headquarters to stop the 11th Division!"

"It seems that the enemy's reaction is faster than we thought. It's only been two days, and the enemy has already pumped reinforcements to reinforce Huanxizhuang in Yutian, Baodi and other directions!" A lieutenant colonel next to him frowned and said, "In this way, there is not much time for us to conquer Huanxi Village!"

Hua Zhenji: "From now on, we can leave the war in Huanxizhuang alone and stop this 11th Division first!"

Since the Feng army gathered a large number of troops to make a breakthrough from Fengdengwu, and then went south to attack Huanxizhuang, the direct army on the opposite side's response was quite rapid. Not only did the first mixed brigade quickly shrink the defense line and try to defend Huanxizhuang, but also the direct army in Yutian, Baodi, Yinfeng and other directions also quickly reinforced in the direction of Huanxizhuang. If it continues, it will not be the Feng army to besiege the first mixed brigade of Huanxizhuang Zhifeng, but the direct army in multiple directions to besiege the first army of the Feng army.

When Hua Zhenji turned west and was preparing to intercept the 11th Division, Zhao Dongyun was already leading a group of senior generals to the front line on a small hillside on the eastern front line of Huanxizhuang.

Zhao Dongyun, who put down the telescope, said, "The attack strength of the front-line troops is still not strong enough. If you give me an order, you can transfer the second independent mortar battalion to reinforce."

In order to conquer Huanxizhuang, Zhao Dongyun not only invested in the Third Division, the Fifth Mixed Brigade and the Second Cavalry Brigade of the First Army, but also had the 10th Division and the First Independent Heavy Artillery Battalion on the front front. However, even if he invested so many troops, in fact, the task of the First Army was relatively heavy, and they still needed to separate troops to intercept the direct The army's reinforcements need to leave troops in the direction of Fengdengwu to intercept the direct army going south of Yutian, and Lizhuang need to leave troops to intercept the direct army advancing east of Baodi, resulting in a third division that actually launched an attack on Huanxizhuang from the north side.

Therefore, only the 3rd Division and the 10th Division really launched an attack on the Huanxizhuang defense line!

Although the strength of the first mixed brigade on the opposite side is far less than that of the attacking Feng army, and the battle has become extremely difficult from the beginning, the first mixed brigade is based on civil works, and it is impossible for the Feng army to launch a frontal charge regardless of casualties, because although many Feng army generals believe that it is inevitable to capture the front line of Huanxizhuang. But how long will it take to overcome it?

Two days? Three or five days?

The time spent directly affects the follow-up war. Once the Feng army can't drag down for a long time, wait for Lu Yongxiang's first division to reinforce, and then wait for the direct troops in the direction of Yutian and Baodi to arrive one after another, then not to mention that the First Army will fall into a dangerous state of multi-line operations, and the battle of Huanxizhuang will not only be delayed for a long time. The strategic intention to annihilate the first division and the first mixed brigade of the direct army is likely to form a stalemate on the front line of Huanxizhuang, which is difficult to accept for the time-sensitive Feng army.

Now that the situation is so tense that he has not left too much time for Zhao Dongyun. He must invest more strength to win Huanxizhuang as soon as possible.

"Isn't it that Lu Yongxiang has transferred most of his troops to the north by ordering the Ninth Division to strengthen their offensive against the 1st Division? Why hasn't the attack of the Ninth Division not had any effect!" Zhao Dongyun was quite dissatisfied with the action of Yinfeng's Ninth Division.

The Ninth Division was supposed to contain Lu Yongxiang's first division, but according to front-line intelligence, Lu Yongxiang has at least deployed a brigade to go north to reinforce, that is to say, the 9th Division's offensive is not fierce enough, causing Lu Yongxiang to have more troops to draw troops north to reinforce. In this way, the 9th Division's containment task is already It was a complete failure.

You should know that in order to contain the first division, Zhao Dongyun was quite dissatisfied with the independent heavy artillery battalion, that is, the 100mm cannon battalion, to the Yinfeng line.

When Xu Bangjie received Zhao Dongyun's order to strengthen the offensive, he also frowned. He worked with Zhao Dongyun for many years and was a senior general in the Soviet Feng army. Over the years, he also knew Zhao Dongyun's character, and he did not express any dissatisfaction with this order. Meaning, but Xu Bangjie knew that the reason why Zhao Dongyun specially sent him such an order to strengthen his offensive was already quite dissatisfied with his actions.

"When will the heavy artillery battalion be ready? It's been a day. Isn't it ready yet?" Xu Bangjie frowned and asked.

"Zhong Wei of the heavy artillery battalion said that it may take the evening to complete the establishment of the position!" The combat staff around him also said cautiously when he saw Xu Bangjie, who didn't look well.

"Captain Qin, go and tell Wei Anpo in person that they must be ready to launch an anti-gun battle at five o'clock this afternoon to cooperate with our counterattack!" After saying that, Xu Bangjie went out directly. He had to personally arrange the waiting counterattack. Now that his ninth division has not made progress, he must take out a past result, otherwise Zhao Dongyun will be very angry.

Not long, Captain Qin, the combat staff, rode the fast horse of the messengers directly to the heavy artillery battalion. At this time, the heavy artillery battalion was busy and green, and a large number of civilian men were driving the huge 100mm cannons that dragged the horse to the door.

These 100mm cannons are extremely heavy. In this era when there is no motor vehicle tow, in order to pull these heavy guns to the battlefield, each heavy gun itself, plus ammunition trucks, is equipped with many horses towing, otherwise they can't maneuver on the battlefield at all.

This is still in the case of the North China Plain. If these heavy guns run to the water network, mountains and hilly areas in the south, the power of this heavy gun is not desired.

Captain Qin came to Wei Anpo and then took out a warrant: "Lieutenant Colonel Wei, this is General Xu's warrant. He asked your battalion to be ready at 5 p.m. today, and then launch a shelling to cooperate with our attack!"

Wei Anpo took the order and then looked at the twelve heavy guns that were still marching: "Our department just arrived in Tangshan yesterday, and it's good to be able to launch a battle tomorrow. If it's this afternoon, I'm afraid it will be very difficult!"

His heavy artillery battalion was the last unit to arrive in Tangshan by railway due to its low mobility and the shortage of railway capacity some time ago, and it arrived directly from Fengtian to Tangshan. After arriving in Tangshan, a large number of trains came with artillery. The horse was injured.

In the end, the headquarters had to only mobilized a large number of horses from various troops to replace them, which delayed a lot of time.

Wei Anpo did not refute or complain about anything. Although he had just arrived at the Tangshan front line yesterday, he also knew that he had launched a large-scale counterattack against the direct army. Although he was not a senior general and did not know the highest strategic intention, he also knew that the current war situation was tense, and Xu Bangjie, who was above, used this Serious demands on yourself must be a bad situation, and you can't stay out of it in this situation.

Immediately he said, "Please return to General Xu, that my department will definitely support your battle on time!"

Then he said to the staff around him, "Let the brothers work harder, and there is not much time left for us!"

It is known that in order to speed up the speed of artillery, not only Mara, but also the soldiers of the artillery battalion and many hired civilian husbands served as humanoid animal forces. Ramala pulled those heavy artillery and ammunition vehicles to the front line, and then hundreds of people continued to move and quickly built artillery positions.

This artillery array is said to be on the front line, but in fact it is still in the rear. Therefore, in order to speed up, Wei Anpo gave up many defensive fortifications and did not build artillery positions in strict accordance with the regulations. In this way, it hurriedly completed the preparations at 4 p.m.

At this time, some of the artillerymen like Wei Anpo took a temporary rest, while others continued to work. They also had to test the shelling of Zhuyuan.

Near 5 p.m., another combat staff officer of the 9th Division rushed to the position of the heavy artillery battalion. This time, in addition to Xu Bangjie's order, he also sent to shoot Zhuyuan, which is the artillery position of the first division of the direct army.

Because the main purpose of this operation is to destroy the artillery positions of the direct army, and the two sides are too far apart to proofread visually. However, at this time, a large number of imported artillery balloons in the Feng army played an extremely important role.

As the three huge artillery launched one after another, these two artillery balloons are larger than the balloons equipped by the Feng army and the direct army, rising higher and looking farther. Of course, the price is also more expensive. These three large artillery balloons were imported from Germany to provide proofreading for this heavy artillery battalion.

Wei Anpo put down his pocket watch: "It's almost time. Let's start. First, proofread the No. 1 position!"

With his order, soon two 100-millimeter cannons raised their muzzle flames, and then two 100-millimeter shells rushed to the sky and then went straight to the direct artillery positions in the distance.

In a short time, the observers on the balloon were able to see two fireworks near the distant artillery positions in the distance, and then urgently notified the artillery officers below the landing point of the shells in order to correct the shooting.

A few seconds later, another three more fired shells rushed to the sky. When the three shells fell near the artillery position of the direct army, the mountain artillery camp of the direct army was already in chaos.