Chapter 308 Key Counterattack

Chaoyang was besieged by heavy troops. Dai Peng, the commander of Chaoyang's garrison, repeatedly asked Zhang Xuewu to rest assured. The Chaoyang garrison should swear to coexist with the fortress with the strong fortress system. Dai Peng's oath made Zhang Xuewu even more at ease. What he wanted was Chaoyang Fortress, not the first garrison of the whole army, even in the imperial court. The experimental team that encountered a blizzard near Yang went into battle. Can Zhang Xuewu still sit firmly on the Diaoyutai?

Zhanyang, the new fourth division of the Youth Army attacked by Chengde, was trapped on the front line of Lingyuan. The new seventh division of the Chen Kebin Youth Army, which was reinforced from Chifeng, was also stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army. In the ice and snow, nearly 300,000 troops of the two armies launched a fierce battle around a small morning sun.

Zhang Xuewu has realized that the offensive and defensive battle of Chaoyang Fortress is like a gamble that can't be stopped at the beginning. It is said that both sides bet on the chips in the hands of both sides and who can hold on to the last five minutes.

It is urgent to reinforce the new fourth division of the Youth Army, and it is also imperative to strengthen the attack in the direction of Chifeng. However, as of today's war report, Zhangjiakou has also been attacked by the Japanese army on a large scale. About two divisions of the Japanese army attacked Chengde and Chifeng respectively. Now Zhang Xuewu is completely a little confused? What am I doing?

Since the main attack has been implemented in the direction of Chaoyang? If Zhangjiakou is the direction of secondary attack, then it can also be understood one or two! But why did I carry out a trick in Chengde and Chifeng for containment? Is this a little confusing?

The reason why the pstent attack is called a pstent is to cover the direction and strategic intention of the main force? Now that the direction and strategic intention of the Japanese army are clear, just like the lice on the top of the bald head? Does that still need to be covered up? If I were so stupid, the anti-Japanese war would not take three or five years for the [***] team to counterattack and recover North Korea!

Zhang Xuewu is puzzled when standing in front of the map? Is this a completely unfounded strategic deployment? The strategic intention of the Japanese army is to conquer the sun and open a breakthrough? Then take a detour to Chifeng? Take these two points and go deep into the army? If so, Zhang Xuewu dared to order to give up Chaoyang and Chifeng, and then assembled two armored divisions to teach him an unforgettable lesson on the vast Mongolian grassland.

However, Zhang Xuewu believes that he will not be so stupid. It is true that the final battle of the army is weapons and equipment, but more importantly, the overall strategy and the precise tactics of local fatal strikes.

What is the war? In fact, the most critical thing in the war is intelligence. If there is accurate and timely intelligence, even if the side with relatively weak weapons and equipment and troops can use the enemy's weaknesses to make a key attack, so as to win. Zhang Xuewu is facing the opaque surname of the battlefield, which is different from later sky satellites, ground reconnaissance aircraft, no Man-machine, 24-hour battlefield thermal infrared detection. Due to the blizzard in the previous period, all the reconnaissance information of Zhang Xuewu relies on Qin Buer's special operations forces and the reconnaissance units belonging to various armies and divisions. In this way, the reconnaissance effect is quite limited.

Zhang Xuewu is also well aware of the important surname of intelligence, but this blizzard has grounded the entire air force in the tenth war zone for five days. For the battlefield situation that is changing every hour or even every minute, five days is too long. As a senior commander who controls the overall situation, on the basis of lack of intelligence Even if the U.S. soldiers in the late stage of World War II were several times that of the Japanese army and dozens of times the firepower, they still made me feel exhausted, which shows the important surname of the information.

However, Zhang Xuewu was not idle. He ordered Baotou's aircraft manufacturing factory to cooperate fully with various flight troops and replace the landing gears of all active BF-109F and BF-109K fighters on a large scale again. During the Battle of Nanjing, Zhang Xue Wu found this very deceptive problem. The take-off and landing loss of BF-109F far exceeded the war damage, and although a large number of maintenance work trained the aircraft maintenance personnel, it was a fatal problem for the attendance guarantee rate of fighters.

To this end, Zhang Xuewu once instructed the landing gear of the BF-109F series fighters to be modified. In addition, Zhang Xuewu recalled the famous World War II fighter Mustang P-51, not to mention the WF-190 Falcon. In fact, the Mustang P-51 is very similar to the design of BF-109K. It can't be said that the BF-109K is the peak of the German fighter, but it is the most reasonable design and the highest-priced fighter. It can be said that the Mustang P-51 is almost an enlarged version of the BF-109K fighter?

For the Mustang P-51 fighter, the surname Neng and range have indeed reached the theoretical limit of the Piston fighter, but Zhang Xuewu's understanding is that the output of Mustang combat and the refined technology of U.S. Air Force pilots have created the Mustang myth!

So for Gao Zhihang's air force, Zhang Xuewu has always trained pilots and fighters with the requirements of 200 hours of flight training before launch combat! Pilot! Zhang Xuewu can't afford to lose either. The loss of fighters and pilots is a great blow to the morale of the whole army. Air sergeancy is crucial for Zhang Xuewu, who uses heavy artillery and tanks as the blade.

So as soon as the weather turned around, Zhang Xuewu gave Gao Zhihang an order to carry out a comprehensive air raid and reconnaissance of the Japanese army at all costs. Zhang Xuewu has always called the Rehe Flying Tigers the Chinese Air Force, which is also very meaningful. What is the Air Force? National Air Force! Zhang Xuewu has his own ambition and vision for the future.

On January 25, 1938, the air force of the 10th Theater Command poured out and carried out a large-scale air raid on the Japanese army near Chaoyang, Lingyuan, Chifeng, Zhangjiakou and Chengde. In the air raid, 89 WF-190 Falcon fighters also poured out.

Zhang Xuewu's most urgent need now is intelligence, which is related to the military strength, movement, location, etc. of the Japanese army, and more than 70% of the sources of this information rely on air reconnaissance.

Before the enemy's situation was clear, Zhang Xuewu decided to use Tang Ziqiang of the first armored division and cooperate with the new first division of Wang Chuangzhi's youth army to carry out a counter-attack on the 38th Division of the Japanese Army attacking Chengde. After defeating the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, he carried out a assault on Lingyuan with the main force to reinforce Zhanyang of the new 4th Division of the Youth Army. The unit, with the headquarters of the 2nd Armored Division of Li Anguo and Zhao Xinyu of the new 2nd Division of the Youth Army, carried out a counter-assault on the 39th Division of the Japanese Army attacking Chifeng. After defeating the enemy in front of them, they used the main force to envelops the side of Chaoyang.

In addition, Zhang Xuewu transferred the supplementary regiment of the armored first division and the supplementary regiment of the armored second division, went to Baotou with the third armor training base as the backbone, and formed a reloaded third division. The 190 vehicles raised the car body, used special alloy armor, hung gap tortoise armor, and installed the latest boom range support suspension system. Wide tracks, iron-mounted medium-sized main battle tanks equipped with fully enclosed machine gun towers, and 75mm "pnot horses" and 105mm "strike" automatic guns using the chassis of jackal light tanks.

The jackal light tank with a full combat weight of 23.7 tons is actually no different from the perspective of the full combat weight alone. I'm afraid it's no different from a medium tank. The 39-ton iron-mounted medium-sized tank is not a light guy. According to the German 88mm gun and the Soviet-made 100 millimeters. The rice cannon is a 100mm caliber "heavy strike" smoothbore tank gun made by German technology. In the case of using tungsten gold shelled tail armor-piercing bullets, it can penetrate 35 degrees and 193 mm of Soviet-made Lotmochevsky armor within 15 meters. In the case of using armor-piercing bullets, 1,000 meters can It is a German standard homogeneous target with a thickness of 35 degrees and a thickness of 120 mm.

Zhang Xuewu is very satisfied with the data of the "heavy strike" tank gun. The only dissatisfaction is the expensive cost, but there is also a surprise, that is, Brown, a Jewish engineer at the Baotou Tank Armor Research Institute, actually developed a self-loading machine for Zhang Xuewu?

At the beginning, Zhang Xuewu only gave Bo Lang a so-called reward in accordance with the regulations to encourage him to continue his efforts. Zhang Xuewu was very skeptical about the practical surname of the self-loading machine, because the tanks suitable for self-loading are generally heavy tanks with a weight of more than 55 tons, and they are equipped with a size of 125 mm. If the caliber smoothbore gun is loaded manually, the rate of fire can be ignored, so the medium tank can only use a disk-type launch mechanism to complete the filling at a speed of every six seconds.

The premise of all this is a high-power motor, a powerful internal combustion ultra-compression diesel engine, and complex structures, circuits, closed circuits, etc. Before the integrated computer board appeared, these control systems alone weighed a few tons.

However, Zhang Xuewu accidentally saw a strange tank in Chengde? The chassis of the iron horse plus the long turret? Is the shape of the turret very similar to that of the American Pershing tank?

Under the inquiry, Zhang Xuewu learned that this was an experimental tank that had previously tested an automatic loader at the Chengde shooting range?

Zhang Xuewu was surprised. Did this thing really come out? How many surnames can and reliable surnames are there? Zhang Xuewu is a little angry about the incompetence of the Tank Armor Research Institute. Are these theoretical and academic guys too advanced? The practical surname that I have emphasized many times has been regarded as a deaf ear by them?

Dissatisfied, Zhang Xuewu asked people to send the drawings of the so-called automatic bomb filling machine. If you want to criticize people, at least you have to find faults first, right? At first glance, Zhang Xuewu was shocked? It turned out to be a fully mechanical semi-automatic bomb delivery machine? The principle is like an ammunition lifting mechanism like a revolver, and the theoretical data is fired every 5 minutes!

Zhang Xuewu suddenly remembered the automatic loader of the MA1A3 main battle tank of the U.S. military in later generations. This is the working principle. When the motor stops working and fails, it can be manually loaded by people.

Is this a surprise or an unexpected gain? But press such a large turret on the chassis of the iron tank? Why does it look a little awkward?

(to be continued)