Chapter 3075: Artillery Fire

The Japanese army no longer carried out useless pig-like attacks, but changed its tactics and ran around in the earthwork tunnels and bunkers on the positions like a headless rat.

This tactic of avoiding direct fire as much as possible and limiting the Red Army's superior firepower did cause some trouble to the attacking forces of the leading army.

It was not enough to send tanks directly to charge into the depth of the position. Considering the crazy combat style of the Japanese army, pushing tanks into the faces of the Japanese infantry would inevitably suffer several times or even dozens of times the current tank losses.

The Japanese army, which did not care about the lives of the big-headed soldiers, only cared about whether the tanks could be destroyed. Once there was an opportunity to destroy the tanks in front of the Japanese army, all kinds of desperate suicide attacks were inevitable.

But if there was no tank charge, the infantry continued to clear the trenches and earthwork bunkers.

The infantry units, whose heavy firepower support was weakened and restricted, had to face the continuous and small-scale attacks and ambushes of the Japanese infantry, which were everywhere and had been broken up into pieces, regardless of casualties.

The infantry casualties of the leader's attacking force will increase sharply, which is also predictable.

As long as the leader's attacking force continues to attack with the same tactics and methods, it will inevitably face such a situation. This is the effective tactical adjustment made by the Japanese army based on its existing combat experience.

Therefore, the opponent should never be underestimated at any time. Even if the overall combat quality and equipment level of the Kwantung Army Division, which is almost a whole Mariana Trench behind the leader's army, will continue to sum up experience and lessons and learn and improve in battle.

Without sufficient and effective high-quality technical equipment, the Japanese army, which has no other way, can only make articles and work hard at the tactical level.

To be honest, it is quite rare for the Japanese army to come up with such a response in this situation. In the absence of enhanced material conditions, the casualties of the leader's attacking force can be increased by tactical adjustments alone.

It's just that it's rare, and it's a good idea.

What the Japanese army has to face is not just the equipment system of the leader's attacking force in front of them.

In addition to the mature tactics of "infantry in front, armored troops in the front", the leader's attacking forces have other means of strengthening. The TOS-1A rocket assault tank that has arrived at the front line is the solution.

The biggest role played by TOS-1A in the entire equipment system of the leader's army is to convert the long-range indirect firepower covered by the army-level artillery into a medium- and short-range strike with relatively reliable accuracy within the visual range.

Not only has it greatly shortened the OODA cycle of artillery operations, but it has also made artillery strikes more sensitive.

At the same time, in this era when artillery accuracy is not very good, large-scale heavy artillery fire is very likely to accidentally injure friendly forces. Through the method of striking within visual range, the accuracy of artillery strikes is relatively improved, the error range is reduced, and the probability of large-scale firepower covering accidentally injuring friendly forces is greatly reduced.

To put it simply, what is a cannon with a bayonet? Driving TOS-1A to the face of the Japanese army is called.

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He had just broken contact with the Japanese army and retreated with his combat engineers, and had not yet had time to turn and enter the defense Alsim, who was in the gun hole, felt as if his back was kicked by a donkey.

The strong push from his back almost made Alsim, who was strong and sturdy, lose his balance. He almost fell to the ground. He grabbed the trench wall beside him and managed to stabilize his body and enter the gun hole left by the Japanese army.

Sulovchenko, who saw this, hurried up to support Alsim and asked. .

"Hey, are you okay?"

"Fortunately, the artillery fire came really fast, and those Japanese devils are definitely finished. "

The primary purpose of such a quick reaction and short OODA cycle is of course to prevent the Japanese who may notice something wrong from escaping.

For the Japanese army at the moment, the flexible position defense operation, such as estimating the enemy's artillery attack, quickly retreating to temporarily avoid the artillery fire, and then rushing up to continue fighting after the artillery fire is over, is out of the question.

In front of the TOS-1A, whose OODA cycle is so fast that it is comparable to the bayonet on the army-level field artillery cluster.

The Japanese army, which has no chance to retreat, is left on the battlefield where they just fought with the leader's infantry. This is the ending.

Any battlefield comparison is relative and in constant dynamic change.

If we look at the current situation where the Japanese army is bombed to the point where the corpses are flying all over the sky, it is not impossible to say that this is the forward infantry of the leader's attacking force, luring the Japanese infantry out of their holes so that they can be attacked with devastating artillery fire.

The entire battlefield situation was once again reversed in an instant by the ruthless destructive attack.

At this moment, there is no tactical adjustment of the Japanese army that forces the leader to pay a greater price to attack. The absolutely overwhelming firepower makes any tactical adjustment pale and powerless, at least for the current Japanese army.

"It's over. Kondo Corps can't retreat. Prepare to reorganize defense behind the artillery fire coverage area."

The Japanese lieutenant general division commander, who looked as pale as death, no longer had any hope for the position that was currently under destructive artillery fire and had not yet been substantially occupied by the leader's army.

There was no order to continue to garrison after the artillery fire ended. He directly chose to abandon the position in this area and retreat to reorganize defense.

"Your Excellency the division commander, this..."

The chief of staff, who heard the words like thunder, widened his eyes and almost couldn't believe it. The low voice of the division commander continued to speak.

"I know you want to send reinforcements immediately after the artillery fire ends to compete with the Russians for control of the position, but that will not do anything except increase casualties."

"The reason why we were able to delay the Russian offensive just now and cause the Russians to suffer greater casualties is that our troop deployment was carefully prepared. The squads and teams involved in the battle were all in their positions and could attack as advantageously as possible."

"But now, look at what the situation is now."

"The reinforcements can only enter from one main direction. The position covered by such fierce artillery fire has been destroyed. There will be no favorable terrain, and the Russians will focus on one direction. You know the consequences of assembling a large-scale force in front of the Russians, don't you?"

"Let the soldiers' sacrifice be more meaningful! We can no longer afford such huge and useless casualties."

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The chief of staff, who was speechless by the division commander, was full of resentment and indignation, but he also understood the truth and was even more helpless.

This feeling of powerlessness that penetrated the soul was far more deadly than the Russian artillery fire, and it almost broke the will of the whole person.

Feeling that his whole body was shaking, the chief of staff could not help but let out a wail.

"Why? Why is the gap between us and the Russians so big? Why is this?!"

Let me make a little popular science to help you understand and read.

The artillery OODA loop is a military term, which refers to the entire artillery combat strike process from reconnaissance to artillery firing, to target destruction and then to confirmation of damage effects.

Generally speaking, the shorter the OODA loop is in most cases, the better. The shorter it is, the higher the efficiency of artillery combat. This chapter is a specific battlefield example.