Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

Hu Weidong also told Yang Wenhan and others who stayed behind to establish a base area that before the Japanese army fully invaded China, the Jidong Independent Regiment should focus on developing organizations and mobilizing the masses. The troops temporarily adopted the strategy of "embedding troops among the people" to seek refuge.

The Japanese landowners' armed forces are the first choice for combat, followed by the organized "regular" puppet troops. Do not attack the Japanese army easily if you are not absolutely sure, and try not to capture towns, especially county towns. The regime in the base area is temporarily regarded as "white-skinned"

The image of the two-faced regime of "Red Heart" is shown to people. After the Japanese invaded China in an all-out way and occupied more territory, the troops were dispersed, and after the anti-Japanese base areas in Pingxi and Jizhong were also established, and then Jidong launched a large-scale attack, it would be called a fatal blow.

If the flag is raised too early, the Japanese army in North China will be targeted before they disperse their forces. Not to mention Yang Wenhan's current number of more than a thousand people, even tens of thousands of troops will be in vain...

After capturing Jidong, the Eighth Red Army Corps naturally had to inspect the Japanese and puppet assets as usual, which was another ill-gotten gain. In addition, what Hu Weidong paid more attention to was that Tangshan Jiaotong University was famous throughout the country for its civil engineering major. Mao Yisheng,

Famous experts such as Lin Tongyan all came from the school. In order to protect important facilities such as arsenals in the Western Henan Soviet Area, a large number of fortifications must be built, and road and bridge construction also urgently needed a large number of talents. Naturally, Hu Weidong would not let them go.

However, although Hu Weidong gained a lot in Jidong, it was really a helpless move for Hu Weidong to advance into Jidong first without caring about the more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Tanggu. After all, Tanggu was protected by Japanese naval guns, and the Eighth Red Army was definitely not able to do so.

It can be chewed off. Although in theory, if there are more army artillery, it can be fired against the naval gun, but it also depends on what kind of warship it is. There are three battleships in the Japanese fleet outside Tanggu Port, and more than a dozen huge cannons with a diameter of more than 300mm are terrifyingly powerful.

Not to mention, what's even more terrible is that the Eighth Red Army now has no artillery that can penetrate their thick armor (Note 1). It can only be beaten but cannot effectively fight back. This blow to morale is absolutely devastating.

In this sense, Hu Weidong is not as helpless with aircraft carriers as he is with battleships. After all, destroying a few carrier-based aircraft is still an effective counterattack, and will not cause that kind of despair. Fortunately, no matter how far the naval gun range is, it is only

As long as the naval guns are not too close to Tanggu, the Japanese fleet lingering outside the harbor will also have no way to defeat the Eighth Red Army...

Although there was nothing he could do about the Japanese troops in Tanggu for the time being, Hu Weidong still sent a scout force of dozens of people to Tanggu as usual to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops. But even Hu Weidong himself did not expect that soon after the advancing division entered Jidong, the reconnaissance force

The team sent back an important piece of information. The Japanese fleet outside the harbor actually left...

It turned out that Japan's army and navy were at odds again. Due to the previous intensification of conflicts, and the fact that the originally planned escort mission had been completed and the bombing mission could not continue, the Japanese Navy felt that leaving the huge fleet off the coast of Tianjin would not only be a waste of fuel.

, and it would give people the illusion that "the navy is trying to please the army", so it recalled the task force without an aircraft carrier to the mainland. For the sake of face, the army also relied on the fact that the fifth division still had more than 10,000 remaining soldiers, plus the division

Most of the heavy weapons belonging to the regiment were still there (priority was given to bombing the troop carriers with more troops), so naturally they would not lower themselves and ask the navy to stay. Therefore, the Japanese army's powerful task force left the Army's fifth battalion full of wounded soldiers.

The division, Shi Shiran, returned home...

Hu Weidong was already very aware of the contradiction between the Japanese army and navy, so he naturally thought of this possibility. He immediately came up with the idea of ​​taking the opportunity to regain Tanggu and eliminate the remaining Japanese soldiers. However, he was also worried that the withdrawal of the Japanese fleet was just a trap. After thinking about it, Hu Weidong decided

Let's try to "snatch the snake". Although the longest range of the Japanese naval guns can reach forty or fifty kilometers, after all, Tanggu City is separated from them when they provide fire support. The Eighth Red Army captured the 8-gun 89 in Fengtai.

The range of the Type 150mm field cannon and the 24 Type 92 105mm field cannons exceeds 18 kilometers. As long as the bombardment of Tanggu is maintained from a relatively long distance and aircraft are sent for high-altitude reconnaissance, even if the Japanese fleet really comes back with a "return", it should be too late.

Retreat to a safe distance, and if there is no sign of the Japanese fleet at sea after bombarding Tanggu for a whole day, then Hu Weidong's guess will be confirmed, and he will naturally not let go of this great opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army in Tanggu...

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In addition, Hu Weidong also had the idea of ​​luring the Japanese out of the city to fight back. Unfortunately, because there were too many wounded soldiers and low morale, the Japanese focused on holding the city and defending it, which made Hu Weidong's intention of annihilating the enemy in the field come to nothing. But with the current strength of the 15th Red Army

Even if the Japanese can't retreat due to artillery fire, they are just waiting to die...

Although the Japanese army knew the indirect artillery technique, they did not expect that the Red Army had mastered it. (Although Japanese spies obtained some information about the Eighth Red Army from the National Army, the intelligence was far from detailed enough because the National Army's battle reports were never detailed enough.)

came to deal with them, and actually smashed the artillery shells like garbage. Even the artillery of their fifth division, a permanent division, had not had such luxury, and they were somewhat unprepared. What's more terrible is that these more than 10,000 Japanese troops

A considerable number of them were injured and had difficulty moving. As a result, more than 3,000 of them were buried alive by the collapsed houses because they did not have time to run out...

The bombardment continued until the next day, killing more than 5,000 enemy troops, and the blow to the morale of the Japanese army was even more fatal. Although the artillery wing of the Fifth Division survived the air attack, they were equipped with field equipment.

The artillery can only hit a little over 10 kilometers at its furthest, and it is impossible to counterattack the Red Army's long-range cannons. The dilemma of being constantly beaten but unable to fight back has caused the morale of the Japanese army to continue to decline. The Army Headquarters, which is unwilling to bow to the navy anymore, received the call in Tanggu

After the Japanese army sent a telegram asking for help, they were ordered to wait for reinforcements from the Kwantung Army for a week. The atmosphere of despair quickly spread among the army, especially when the Fifth Division lost their division commander in the air raid at sea.

Along with all the generals, the only two remaining captains of the Colonel Corps were also killed and injured in this fierce bombardment...

Note 1: Type 93’s heavy one-ton aerial bombs have to hit vital parts, but as a horizontal bomber with poor bombing accuracy, this is simply an impossible task unless hundreds of bombs are used like the old Americans in the late World War II.

Surround one ship. Before the breakthrough of anti-armor technology, the only effective methods to deal with battleships (especially the new battleships built after World War I) were giant guns with calibers above 305mm or heavy torpedoes...

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