Chapter 312 Wu Chenzhuang's fierce battle 1

Wu Chenzhuang on the front line of Xuzhou, Zhao Dongzhi looked at the Anhui army position in the distance, and the fire tongue spewed out from time to time in the Anhui army position in his sight, which was a heavy machine gun shooting!

"What's going on? Why haven't you taken down the opposite Anhui machine gun position for hours?" Zhao Dongzhi reprimanded his subordinates rudely:

"Just a machine gun position blocked the pace of my regiment for three hours, and will your three battalions watch us unable to enter?"

A young major next to him blushed, but still straightened his waist and said, "Tell the officer that it's not our sergeant to care, but the enemy's machine gun fortress opposite is made of cement masonry. Our battalion has tried to attack with multiple rounds of mortars, but it didn't work!"

"Nonsense, don't I know?" Zhao Dongzhi still rudely scolded: "Are we going to fight if there is an enemy's cement fortress in front of us?" I will assign your battalion to a mortar team and be sure to conquer the place within four hours!"

Zhao Dongzhi did not try to defend himself by several officers under his command. He also knew what difficulties the front-line troops encountered, but the division had given him a strict order that he must conquer Wu Chenzhuang before dawn tomorrow and obtain a front shelling position for the military's independent heavy artillery battalion in order to approach the deployment of the Anhui army. The artillery unit launched an anti- artillery battle.

Since the Feng army launched a general attack on the whole line, although the Feng army gathered a large number of artillery troops to shell and occupy the advantage of artillery, the attacking Feng army infantry troops were still intercepted by the dense artillery of the Anhui army, making it difficult for the front-line troops to advance. In this way, the Feng army's offensive naturally slowed down. Naturally, such a result is unacceptable to the senior generals, so many tactical adjustments have been made in time, and one of the most important parts is to defeat the enemy's artillery.

The Feng army has two independent 100mm cannon battalions, and there are also a large number of 75mm field artillery battalions. If these artillery units have enough firing positions, they can completely destroy the opposite Anhui artillery units in the artillery battle, thus clearing the obstacles for the attacking infantry.

The task of capturing the front shelling position for the heavy artillery battalion fell on the 11th Regiment of the 6th Brigade of the 3rd Division!

In the face of Gu Lanyu's personal order from the division, although Zhao Dongzhi knew that the task was difficult, he still set up a military order for Gu Lanyu in the division!

Although Zhao Dongzhi also had some concerns at that time, neither reality nor ideal gave him a chance to refuse.

In reality, he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin. Of course, this status can allow him to go on a longer career. As long as he accumulate enough merit and qualifications, he can be promoted naturally. For example, he performed quite well in the battle of Jinan, so he was transferred to the head of the 11th Regiment of the former Third Division. When he served as the brigade commander of the 13th Division, he naturally took over as the regimental commander, and his military rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

This promotion can be said that his identity has played a considerable role. Why? Because even if he made great contributions in the battle of Jinan, he was only promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. Lieutenant Colonel, um, there are about several channels for Lieutenant Colonel officers from the infantry department to serve in the Fengjun system. One is to be transferred to the Chief of Staff of the Infantry Brigade, the other is to be transferred to the Deputy Commander of the Infantry Regiment, or to be transferred to the Military Department as a combat staff officer and adjutant, or to be transferred to the staff to serve as a combat staff officer and various departments. Section chief, section officer and other positions, and the above positions are either deputy or civilian, but a small number of them will be transferred to the infantry regiment as head.

However, this situation is actually very rare in the Feng army. The ranks of infantry regiments in the Feng army, especially the infantry regiments of several main divisions, are basically colonels, and most of them have rich resumes, either transferred from the division brigade chief of staff, or the staff. The colonel section chief, combat staff officer, etc. of each section were transferred. Even if there is a lieutenant colonel as the head of the regiment, it is the kind of senior lieutenant colonel who can only be promoted to colonel with one foot. These senior lieutenant colonels are often promoted to colonels on the spot after a few months of transition as regimental. It is rare to say that a junior lieutenant colonel is the head of the regiment, especially the head of the infantry regiment of the main division such as the Third Division.

And Zhao Dongzhi can directly serve as the head of the 11th Regiment of the Third Division with the rank of lieutenant colonel. There is no doubt that his identity has played a considerable role. Otherwise, even if a lieutenant colonel can be promoted to the regimental commander, he can only be transferred to several other non-main divisions, that is, the 11th Division. , serving as the commander of the 13th Division.

But when his identity brought Zhao Dongzhi the convenience of promotion, it also brought him great pressure!

Everyone knows that he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin. Almost everyone stares at him with their eyes wide open, and many people, even senior generals such as Gu Lanyu, are also full of expectations for him. They think that since he is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, he should also have Zhao Dongyun's military talent. Gu Lanyu and others do not ask Zhao Dongzhi Can you write a shocking military theory at home and abroad like the commander Zhao Dongyun, but it is better than others to lead troops to fight?

In this case, even if Zhao Dongzhi plays normally, he can't satisfy others, let alone make mistakes!

Such a huge pressure is almost accompanied by his entire military career. You can see that since Zhao Dong was implanted in the battle, every battle he led the troops has been extremely difficult and bitter, especially now that Gu Lanyu asked him to lead his troops to seize the front positions for the heavy artillery troops. Come on.

In addition to realistic pressure, there is also ideal pressure. Today's Fengjun is like a sunrise, which is on the rise, which also represents a broader space for development. Zhao Dongzhi is also an ambitious person. He also wants to become a famous general in Fengjun with Gu Lanyu. I hope to become the leading military boss in the Feng army like Meng Enyuan.

And these extravagant expectations can't bring to him. His identity can't bring him at most. His status is to make his promotion smoother, but if there is no famous and outstanding achievements of the whole Feng army, don't expect to become the lieutenant general of the No. 1 trump card of the Third Division, and don't expect to be like Meng Enyuan. He became the commander-in-chief of the army.

The double pressure of ideal and reality made him have no room for refusal in the face of Gu Lanyu's trust. What he can do is to make himself full of confidence and then set up a military order in front of many officers and colleagues of the division: tomorrow morning, be sure to obtain a front-line shelling position for the heavy artillery battalion.

He is facing such a huge pressure, so naturally put great pressure on the officers of the 11th Regiment!

When Zhao Dongzhi and the officers of the regiment continued to patrol the front line, Major Yulong of the 3rd Battalion also called several of his company commanders.

"The regiment commander has given me a deadline. Be sure to take down the opposite Anhui machine gun position within four hours. Do you have any suggestions for this!"

After An Yulong said that, several low lieutenants looked bitter. Four hours sounded good, but in fact, taking down the heavy machine gun position on the opposite side is not a matter of an hour or two. The key is that the machine gun fortress on the opposite side is a cement building, and the mortar can't break the machine gun fortress at all. Gun suppression can't be suppressed, and the machine gun fortress can't be defeated. Taking down the opposite position is tantamount to a fool's dream.

"Wu Chenzhuang is a key node in the Xuzhou defense line of the Anhui army. The Anhui army has been operating here for more than half a year since the beginning of the year, and has also used a lot of cement to build a lot of machine gun fortresses. According to the experience of the Russo-Japanese War, this cement-built machine gun fortress is extremely difficult to overcome, even if it is filled with human life. !" A subordinate captain frowned and said, "Now the only way is to ask for the firepower support of the artillery regiment of the division to try to let the artillery troops directly destroy these machine gun fortresses!"

But this word just attracted opposition from others: "Let's not talk about whether we can ask for the support of the division artillery regiment now. Even if they can, it will be difficult for them to accurately hit the enemy's machine gun fortress from several kilometers away!"

Although the accuracy of contemporary shelling is not bad, if you want a field gun to accurately hit the enemy's machine gun fortress from five or six kilometers away, to be honest, the accuracy of the hit can be basically ignored. Even if dozens or hundreds of shells are fired, it may not be able to hit it.

In the history of the war, this kind of development and the cement-built machine gun fortress of the Russo-Japanese War have always been a nightmare for infantry. There are three ways to conquer these fortresses in later generations. The first is to bombard them with heavy artillery. As the saying goes, no matter how awesome the fortress is, it can't withstand the super-large-caliber heavy artillery bombing, even if it is dozens of meters deep in later generations. Strong bunkers can be dealt with with drills. The problem is that the Feng army doesn't have so many heavy artillery. The second is to use direct-fire guns, including rocket launchers, anti-tank guns, etc. The problem is that the Feng army does not have these now. If you want to get direct firepower, you can only reduce the elevation angle of the existing artillery and then bombard it directly. However, with the same problem as the first one, there are more Feng army guns in China, but it is flat. All allocations are still extremely rare. The third division has only dozens of guns, which is responsible for the artillery support of the whole third division. At this moment, there are more places to use artillery, and these guns are now shouldering a more important task, that is, suppressing the enemy's artillery and enemy infantry. It is impossible to Field artillery was specially pumped for this small machine gun position.

And the third is simple and traditional, that is, to rush up and blow up with explosive bags, cluster grenades and so on.

In fact, there is only one way in front of the third battalion, which is to rush and blow it up with explosive bags!