LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 63
Shenyang is one of the largest cities in the Northeast and one of the most densely populated places.
Although Jinzhou is an important town in the Northeast, it is only the southern gate of Shenyang.
The city population is less than 100,000.
The population of Shenyang City is as high as more than 600,000, and the scale is not comparable to Jinzhou City.
The terrain here is more complicated than Jinzhou.
Moreover, the strength of the Japanese army exceeds 50,000.
This is also the confidence of the Kwantung Army in defending Shenyang.
Fifty thousand people defending a city of Shenyang can last for a year or two.
Moreover, domestic reinforcements will arrive continuously.
Honjo Shigeru wants to use Shenyang City to delay the main force of the Red Alert Corps and let them fall into the quagmire.
He = Jiang Fan knows very well how complicated street fighting is.
Moreover, there are so many civilians in the city.
They will be restrained in fighting and cannot use heavy weapons.
If this is a city of the Japanese.
Just use heavy artillery, rocket launchers and bombers to flatten the city first and then fight.
Moreover, he does not want this heavy industrial city to become a ruin.
So we have to think of other ways.
The main factor in street fighting is actually the problem of firepower.
Street fighting usually takes place at close range, and the intensity of the exchange of fire is very high.
It seems that it is necessary to update individual weapons.
Although the semi-automatic rifle is very good, it is only a transitional weapon for the automatic rifle after all.
As for the Suomi submachine gun, it is far from the automatic rifle.
After all, the submachine gun is just a submachine gun.
Jiang Fan also plans to replace the automatic rifles for the troops in batches.
And the model of this automatic rifle is the STG-44 assault rifle.
In World War II, this was already a very good automatic rifle.
The only drawback is that the rate of fire is a bit slower.
Of course, this rate of fire is compared with the submachine gun.
Its combat rate of fire is also 550 rounds per minute.
However, because it uses medium-sized bullets, the recoil is still much greater than that of submachine guns.
Long-term continuous shooting causes serious jumping.
This is also its only drawback.
Another drawback is that this thing consumes a lot of bullets.
But it is not a problem for Jiang Fan.
His current funds can easily exchange billions of bullets.
Besides, the transportation in Northeast China is also okay.
Tens of thousands of people have been equipped with automatic rifles. The logistics are just a little more stressful, but they can still be supplied.
Originally, he was going to wait until the Northeast was taken over and the roads and railways were repaired, so that the logistics pressure would be much less.
But now there is no way, so he can only do it in advance.
In addition, more anti-tank guns and rocket launchers should be equipped.
Especially rocket launchers.
They can play a very good effect in street fighting.
There is another weapon and equipment that can play an extremely important role in street fighting.
That is the helicopter.
At present, a helicopter has been unlocked in the air force base.
Because there is not much demand at present, there is no equipment.
But now there is such a demand.
The Nighthawk transport helicopter is a general-purpose helicopter. The appearance is somewhat similar to the UH-1 helicopter, and it adopts a single-engine single-rotor layout with a tail rotor.
There is a side sliding door on each side to facilitate the loading and unloading of personnel and cargo.
The engine is equipped with a 1,800-horsepower piston engine.
The maximum take-off weight is 7 tons, the maximum speed is 195 kilometers per hour, the maximum range is 500 kilometers, and the maximum load is 2 tons.
Although it uses a piston engine, the performance is still quite good.
After all, turboshaft engines are a technology after the 1950s.
Unless the base is upgraded to level 4, it may be fully equipped with jet fighters and turboshaft versions of various helicopters.
In street fighting, helicopters can still be very useful.
It can directly carry 12 soldiers and quickly maneuver to a certain commanding height.
The role of seizing commanding heights in street fighting is unquestionable.
The helicopter's ability to take off and land vertically and hover can catch the Japanese off guard.
And the Japanese lack anti-aircraft firepower.
Unless they are strafed by machine guns at close range, it is not a big problem.
Jiang Fan simply formed an air assault brigade.
It has three air assault infantry battalions, two air transport battalions, and one logistics support battalion, with a total force of more than 3,000 people.
Outside the city of Shenyang, the left and right armies successfully met outside the city.
After the two armies joined forces, Jiang Fan also established a temporary command organization-the Shenyang Campaign Front Command.
Ling Liang served as the commander-in-chief.
Jiang Fan also gave her full authority to command this battle.
The five divisions of the two armies surrounded Shenyang.
The Fourth Armored Division directly raided Tieling and cut off the railway line from Changchun to Shenyang.
The Second Division could not support Shenyang from here at all.
Faced with the siege on all sides, the Japanese troops in the city began to step up the construction of city defense fortifications.
Ling Liang also directly presented a greeting gift to the little devils.
The artillery of four infantry divisions plus an independent heavy artillery division was concentrated to launch a demolition operation on the four walls of Shenyang.
This time, there were more than 200 artillery pieces with a caliber of 155 mm or more.
The street fighting in Shenyang also officially began.
At this time, there were also changes in Lushun.
A large fleet arrived in Lushun.
It was the Fourth Division, a force coming from domestic support.
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