NOVEL NEXT Chapter 22
If you want to form another infantry division, the funds and time required are too much.
According to the current recruitment speed, it will take at least 20 days.
The Japanese devils will not give him so much time.
So after thinking about it, he decided to form an infantry brigade first, and then two heavy artillery brigades.
Use the advantage of artillery fire to block the Japanese army in Chifeng.
Among them, the heavy artillery brigade he is now forming is different from the heavy artillery brigade under the first division.
The new heavy artillery brigade has five artillery battalions, a transport battalion, a command company, a reconnaissance company and a combat support battalion.
Two of the artillery battalions are equipped with a total of 24 M1 155mm heavy cannons.
The two artillery battalions are equipped with a total of 12 B4 203mm heavy howitzers.
This howitzer is very strange and is known as a monster mounted on a tractor.
The total weight of the gun is as high as 15.8 tons, the towing speed is 15 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range can reach 17.5 kilometers.
And it adopts a double retreat and return system, which is not only powerful, but also very stable in shooting.
Its only shortcoming is probably that it is too heavy.
But because it is equipped with tracks, its mobility is pretty good.
This real large-caliber heavy artillery is already very good for the domestic battlefield.
There is also an artillery battalion equipped with Katyusha rocket launchers.
In this way, two heavy artillery brigades are equipped with 48 155mm cannons, 24 203mm howitzers, and 48 Katyusha rocket launchers.
This level of firepower can fight a large-scale battle.
There is absolutely no problem in blocking the attack of a division of the Japanese.
In addition to the infantry, the air force must also be strengthened.
Expand another fighter squadron.
The amount of funds for ten days was arranged in this way.
If these three brigades are included.
The total amount of funds consumed is about three million.
It is only seven million away from the 10 million required for the base upgrade.
The base after level three will be completely different.
After a day, under the full-load recruitment of 20 barracks, two infantry battalions were completed.
A large number of heavy artillery were also produced.
While Jiang Fan was constantly recruiting soldiers, the battle in Pingquan was also getting intense.
Xi Yiyi was very clear about the importance of Beishan.
So even though he was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of artillery fire, he still tried to send a regiment of troops to attack Beishan.
However, the regiment encountered a wave of fierce artillery fire as soon as it emerged.
The 155mm caliber shells are extremely powerful.
A regiment was blown to pieces and could not move forward at all.
So they could only continue to shrink in Pingquan City.
This also made Xi Yiyi feel very aggrieved.
When was their division blocked in the city?
But the opponent's firepower was too fierce.
After taking Beishan, Xie Ning was not in a hurry to attack.
Instead, he chose to be steady and build the Beishan position first.
Because at night, he might face a fierce counterattack from the Japanese army.
Sure enough, after nightfall, the Japanese army organized a large number of troops to launch a retaliatory counterattack.
Artillery did not play a big role at this time.
However, the position of the Red Alert 1st Division was like a solid wall, making it difficult for them to advance.
At this time, a tank battalion rushed out from the side of the Japanese army.
The Type 4 tanks were like mobile bunkers.
They slaughtered the Japanese soldiers exposed in front of them.
Soon, the Japanese army retreated in a hurry after leaving behind more than 2,000 corpses.
""Bakayaloo!"
Division Commander Xi Yi cursed angrily.
This made him feel helpless.
He couldn't win head-on, and sneak attacks were not enough.
A feeling of powerlessness emerged in his heart.
"Has Chifeng not taken any action yet?"
"Division Commander, the 4th Cavalry Brigade has rushed to Chengde at the fastest speed.
The 6th Division has also sent a brigade plus two puppet army divisions to Chengde."
After hearing this, Xi Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief.
But he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Could it be that the other commander could not think of such an obvious truth?
He always felt that this attack on Chengde would not be so simple.
The next morning.
A large-scale artillery bombardment was launched.
Thousands of artillery positions roared, and the momentum was deafening.
A large number of artillery shells hit Pingquan.
Although the troops have been dispersed now.
But under the guidance of the artillery reconnaissance aircraft, they still caused considerable casualties to them.
And their 75mm field artillery also began to fight back in the dark.
They could only fire one shot and move.
Otherwise, what awaits them will be a covering bombardment.
This bombardment lasted for about three hours.
The Japanese camps and positions were all destructive.
""Attack!"
With one order, the attacking force had three tank battalions with more than 100 Type 4 tanks as the vanguard.
They formed a steel torrent in front of Pingquan and rolled directly towards the outer positions of the Japanese army.
At this time, rocket launchers also joined the bombardment.
The target was the first line of defense of the Japanese army.
"whoosh whoosh whoosh......"
Rockets whizzed out one after another like machine gun bullets.
The rain of rockets whizzed through the sky, leaving a sunset glow.
The 17th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army defended the outer positions.
When they saw the dense rain of rockets coming, they all looked at this scene in shock.
Then fear enveloped everyone's heart.
Although they didn't know what this thing was, it was definitely not a good thing.
The rain of rockets continued to expand in their pupils until it fell....
PS: After the base is upgraded, Red Alert units will begin to join. Level 3 is the real start of the Red Alert base, and there will be no false pretenses.
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