LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 51
The Left Route Army was commanded by Ling Liang himself.
It was responsible for attacking Xinmin and opening up the western passage to attack Shenyang.
The Left Route Army was composed of the First Mechanized Infantry Division, the Second Mechanized Infantry Division and the Train Artillery Regiment.
The total force was about 50,000.
Although the First and Second Mechanized Infantry Divisions did not have as many tanks as the Armored Division, each division was also equipped with about 200 Guardian main battle tanks.
The total number of tanks exceeded 400.
The artillery was equipped with self-propelled artillery.
There were 105mm, 155mm and 210mm calibers. There were also a large number of V1 self-propelled rocket launchers.
In addition, there was a train artillery regiment equipped with 12 450mm Red Alert cannons.
Therefore, the First Independent Heavy Artillery Division was assigned to the Right Route Army.
The Right Route Army was commanded by Xie Ning.
Jiang Fan planned to establish a mechanized armored group army after the war.
As the size of the troops increased, the number of division-level troops increased.
It was indeed necessary to have a higher-level military and political institution to facilitate coordination and jurisdiction.
And Xie Ning would serve as the commander of this group army.
Unfortunately, there are too few talents under his command.
To be honest, he still envies Chiang Kai-shek, who has many talented generals under his command.
Let's see if he can poach some of them.
Now he is poaching everywhere.
I just don't know how the plan to poach people in Nanjing is progressing.
The right-wing army has a total of three divisions.
They are the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division.
The biggest difference between the mechanized infantry division and the armored division is that the armored division has more tanks. They are generally used as forwards.
The tank units of the mechanized infantry division are scattered in various brigades, and their main purpose is to cover the troops' attack.
Instead of using tanks as the main weapon for breakthroughs like the armored division.
These two divisions plus an independent heavy artillery division will be responsible for the right-wing attack.
Due to funding issues, the independent heavy artillery division is still equipped with the previous towed artillery.
Later, Jiang Fan plans to give this heavy artillery division a major replacement.
All of them are replaced with self-propelled artillery.
Although self-propelled artillery and towed artillery have their own advantages and disadvantages.
But the biggest advantage of towed artillery is that it is cheap.
He, who owns the Red Alert Base, doesn't have to worry about this at all.
Besides, the army is not large now, and it's OK to stuff in luxurious equipment without worrying too much.
The relatively developed railway system in the Northeast can also temporarily meet the logistical needs.
The Japanese army's layout has been almost sorted out after the intelligence collection in these days.
According to intelligence, the Japanese defense force has three divisions, two brigades and some independent garrison troops, and the total force is less than theirs.
However, the second division in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces can go south to reinforce at any time.
At present, these three divisions are distributed in many places.
They use Shenyang as the core defense area.
Xinmin, Yingkou, Anshan, Benxi and other important places are used as the core nodes of the outer defense line.
The entire southern and western areas of Shenyang are connected.
After a round of artillery bombardment in Yingkou.
The Kwantung Army also found that the situation was not right.
Before these heavy artillery were destroyed, they would be sending themselves to death if they launched an attack.
So they also changed their strategy, that is, switching from offense to defense.
Domestic reinforcements are still gathering.
There are four divisions of troops about to set off.
The purpose is to strengthen the Kwantung Army and eliminate the Northeast resistance armed forces headed by Jiang Fan.
Although Yingkou was bombarded, the entire port became a ruin.
For the Japanese army, this port has lost its value.
Because it is too close to Jinzhou, it is easy to be bombarded and bombed.
Although they gave up the port, they did not give up Yingkou.
Because this is the transportation node connecting Shenyang to Lushun.
The South Manchuria Railway passes through here.
At present, the supplies, ammunition, and troops for domestic support are all transported from Dalian.
And the wealth and resources they plundered from the Northeast are also sent to the country through Lushun.
So they deployed a brigade and two pseudo-army divisions here.
In addition, some marines are stationed here.
Once Yingkou is attacked.
Reinforcements from Dalian can quickly go north.
And the defenders in Anshan can also quickly go south to support.
So it is not easy to take down Yingkou.
Faced with the situation here.
Xie Ning decided to adopt the strategy of besieging points and attacking reinforcements.
It is not very difficult to take down Yingkou.
Using Yingkou, a strategic location, to eliminate the Japanese army's manpower as much as possible, the subsequent offensive will be easier.
So he directly let the independent heavy artillery division set up its posture.
The independent first heavy artillery division has a total of three artillery brigades, a logistics support brigade, and a combat support brigade.
The total force is just over 10,000.
The first heavy artillery brigade has four 155mm field cannon battalions, a total of 48 artillery pieces.
The second heavy artillery brigade has three 203mm heavy howitzer battalions, a total of 36 B-4 howitzers.
The third heavy artillery brigade has two heavy mortar battalions and two self-propelled rocket launcher battalions.
Among them, the heavy mortar battalion is equipped with a 120mm caliber heavy mortar, a total of 32 pieces.
The two self-propelled rocket launcher battalions are equipped with a total of 48 V1 self-propelled rocket launchers.
This firepower configuration can be said to be extremely luxurious.
The artillery of a heavy artillery division is almost equivalent to the number of large-caliber heavy artillery of half of the Japanese army.
May 6, 1933.
The first round of salvos was fired by the heavy artillery division.
The Battle of Shenyang officially begins.
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