Warlord: Red Alert Base, I challenge the whole world alone

Chapter 122: Violently Breaking Through the Liuhe Defense Line and Destroying the 8th Division

The assault troops have captured Andong County, and the 1st Airborne Division's airborne operation was naturally very smooth.

When the main force of the 1st Airborne Division landed, they quickly occupied the entire railway bridge and firmly controlled it.

Andong County also has an airport, which was also built by the Japanese.

The airport also helped a lot at this time.

A battalion of fighter jets from the Renaissance Army began to move in here.

At the same time, the supplies needed for combat will also be replenished through the airport.

During this period, the Fuso people also hurriedly withdrew troops from the Korean Peninsula in an attempt to retake the railway bridge and Andong County.

But now all their forces are concentrated in Shenzhou and Zhili.

There was even only one regiment of troops on the Korean Peninsula.

If they wanted to withdraw heavy troops, they could only do so from their homeland.

By the time reinforcements arrived from their homeland, the opportunity was already lost.

Therefore, the fate of the 21th Division and the st Division was already determined.

Liuhe Defense Line.

The 1st Heavy Artillery Division has deployed all artillery positions.

This time, the heavy artillery division concentrated an M59 155mm cannon regiment, totaling 64 guns.

A B-4 203mm howitzer regiment, also with 64 guns.

An Andlyusha heavy rocket artillery regiment, with 96 vehicles.

This is the artillery assembled by the 1st Heavy Artillery Division.

And this is not the complete form of the 1st Artillery Division.

There are also two artillery regiments with 128 guns on the second column side.

As for the Second Heavy Artillery Division, it has already begun to assemble towards Yuguan.

Although the First Artillery Division has only three artillery regiments, this number is still very terrifying.

There are not only 128 155mm and 203mm large-caliber heavy guns.

There are also nearly one hundred 300mm caliber heavy rocket launchers.

This is not all the artillery targeting the Fuso 8th Division.

He also concentrated dozens of artillery pieces and rocket launchers from the 11th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of the th Armored Division.

There are more than 200 barreled artillery pieces and more than 100 rocket launchers.

This time, the battle of Liuhe is destined to be very fierce.

"put!"

As time passed, the guns on all the artillery positions began to roar deafeningly.

One after another, 105mm, 155mm, and 203mm caliber high-explosive grenades rained down on the Liuhe position of the Fuso Army's th Division.

In an instant, a devastating explosion occurred along the more than 20-kilometer-long river defense line.

"Bombard, bombard!"

This time, the Fuso army learned its lesson and dug many anti-artillery holes with a depth of more than 3 meters on the position, and also specially reinforced them.

Because they knew that the Renaissance Army had a large number of heavy artillery.

But I didn't expect the number to be so large.

Lieutenant General Hase Yusuke, commander of the 8th Division, is currently in the command post behind the Liuhe defense line.

He came here to inspect the position.

Unexpectedly, we encountered a full-scale attack from the Fuxing Army.

When he saw the continuous explosions through the telescope, he couldn't help but gasp.

"Damn it, did the Restoration Army bring all their artillery up here?"

It is not difficult to judge from the noise of the explosion that these artillery pieces are all large-caliber heavy artillery.

Although they also had heavy artillery, they had never used it in such a concentrated manner.

Under normal circumstances, only a heavy artillery brigade is used.

One reason is that they have a limited number of heavy artillery.

The second reason is that the logistics support capabilities are not good enough to supply large-scale artillery bombardments.

But all this does not seem to be any problem for the Renaissance Army.

On the battlefield, a large number of Fuso army positions were destroyed in a series of explosions.

In particular, the several river crossing points chosen by the Fuxing Army were the focus of artillery bombardment.

Although they built a large number of anti-artillery holes, these holes seemed inadequate in the face of the 203mm caliber heavy artillery.

Under the powerful power of the 203mm cannon, many Fuso troops were directly buried.

As the cannons and howitzers opened fire, the rocket artillery positions erupted like a fire dragon. One after another, 132mm and 300mm caliber rockets roared into the air and smashed towards the Fuso Army's Liuhe defense line positions.

Especially the 300mm caliber Andryusha heavy rocket launcher.

Although the range is a little shorter, its caliber is large enough and its power is almost equivalent to that of a 350mm caliber heavy artillery.

Artillery of this level is either railway gun, fortress gun or naval gun.

As the 300mm caliber rockets fell, the battlefield was like a meteorite hitting the earth, with a series of earth-shaking and continuous explosions.

The Andlyusha heavy rocket launcher has an extraordinary destructive capability against fortifications and positions.

The power was completely beyond the ability of the Fuso Army's 8th Division to withstand destruction.

All the Fuso troops could only hide in the fortifications of the position and tremble in fear.

In great agony, we waited for the bombardment to pass.

However, the artillery has already begun to act, and the air force is unwilling to lag behind.

In order to break through the Fuso Army's Liuhe defense line in one wave, the Air Force also dispatched a large-scale bomber group to carry out a carpet bombing on the Liuhe defense line.

At an altitude of 5000 meters, a dense formation of B-17G heavy bombers flew over the battlefield.

The first batch of formations consisted of three squadrons, which is the strength of a heavy bomber aviation brigade, with 93 aircraft.

Half of the bombs they carried were 2000-pound AN-M66 heavy bombs that had sufficient destructive power to the positions.

The rest are 1000-pound ANM-65 heavy bombs.

Among them, the ANM66 bomb weighs about 900 kilograms, and the amount of explosives alone is more than 500 kilograms.

You can get a feel for how powerful this thing is from the amount of explosives it contains.

Unless it is a fortress deep underground, ordinary anti-artillery holes are basically useless.

With the assistance of the Norton sight and the Hawkeye bomber radar, the error of each bomb will not exceed 120 meters.

Basically, most of the bombs fell within the area of the defense line.

Under the carpet bombing of these heavy bombers, the artillery division seemed a little overshadowed.

Even the 300mm caliber Andryusha heavy rocket launcher.

When faced with heavy bombs of 1000 pounds and 200 pounds, they seem dwarfed.

A 2000-pound bomb dropped, covering an area of 300 meters.

Almost at the moment of the explosion, a huge crater with a diameter of more than 10 meters and a depth of more than 5 meters was formed on the ground.

At this time, anti-gun holes and the like are of no use at all.

And these are not just one or two, but hundreds of them.

Although the 1000-pound bomb has less power, its killing range is more than 100 meters, which cannot be defended by ordinary anti-artillery holes.

At this moment, the commander of the 8th Division, Hase Yusuke, and everyone in the command center felt as if they were falling into an ice cellar.

The chill in my heart went straight to my forehead.

At this moment, they deeply realized how big the gap was between them and the Renaissance Army.

Hase Yusuke, who was originally confident in defending Shinmei, also completely lost confidence.

Unless the Gaulish defense line is moved here, how can it be defended?

"Retreat. Order the 17th and 31st Regiments on the Liuhe River defense line to retreat to the Liaohe River defense line."

Judging from the current situation, this Liuhe defense line is definitely no longer tenable.

However, the current situation does not allow them to withdraw just because they want to.

After the artillery and air strikes began, among the four river crossing points, the First Corps' Pontoon Regiment built a steel pontoon bridge on the surface of the Liu River at the fastest speed.

At the same time, assault boats loaded with soldiers rushed towards the other side of the river.

At this time, the minefields and anti-tank fortifications set up by the Fuso Army's 8th Division were basically destroyed.

So the 11th Armored Division launched an attack decisively.

Under such fierce artillery attack, the Fuxing Army fighter planes were watching closely in the sky.

The Eighth Division was simply unable to organize an effective counterattack.

When the pontoon bridge was built, more than a thousand Renaissance Army soldiers were already scattered on the riverbank on the other side of the river.

One after another, Panther medium tanks and Type 4H tanks drove onto the pontoon bridge and rushed towards the other side of the river.

The steel torrent is unstoppable.

The Fuso Army's Eighth Division could only watch helplessly as the Fusion Army rushed over.

When the artillery fire and air strikes stopped, the tank troops of the Renaissance Army had already accelerated and rushed into the position.

One by one, the soldiers of the Renaissance Army also rushed into the position.

A close-range hand-to-hand combat broke out on the battlefield.

However, this hand-to-hand combat is relative to the Fuso army.

All members of the 44th Armored Division were equipped with SGT- assault rifles and PPSh submachine guns. They didn't even have semi-automatic rifles. How could they engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Fuso army? Basically, all the talk was done by bullets.

When he saw this scene, Hase Yusuke knew that the Liuhe defense line was over.

The 17th and 31st Regiments were also finished.

However, at this time another piece of bad news came.

Andong County was occupied by the Fuxing Army!

This also means that they will have no reinforcements and no way to retreat.

It can be said that Shen Zhou is their last resort.

This made it impossible for the 8th Division to retreat.

If we talk about the past, if we can't defend Shenzhou, we can retreat to the Korean Peninsula.

Now that the retreat is cut off, Shen Zhou must hold on.

So now they are forced to fight to the death with the Fusion Army.

The 17th and 31st Fuso Regiments on the Liuhe defense line had already suffered heavy losses in artillery and carpet bombing.

The 17th Regiment alone lost more than 1400 people, and the 31st Regiment fared better, but still lost more than 1200 people.

Many troops were basically disbanded.

As the soldiers of the 11th Armored Division's Mechanized Infantry Regiment poured into the position, their manpower was quickly eroded.

It was not until six hours later that the fierce gunfire on Liuhe River stopped.

This also means that the 17th and 31st Regiments of the th Division have been completely wiped out.

The reason why it was determined that the entire army was annihilated was because the Fuxing Army never took prisoners from the Fuso Army.

The 33rd Mechanized Infantry Regiment of the Renaissance Army suffered more than 300 casualties.

Many of the casualties were caused by Fuso Laoliu who was hiding in the position.

After losing two infantry regiments, the Eighth Division now has only six regiments left.

Among them, there were two infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry regiment, one engineer regiment, and one logistics regiment. Only more than 17,000 people were left in the entire division.

The 11th Armored Division of the Fusion Army did not rest after destroying two regiments of the Fuso Army on the Liuhe defense line.

Once again launched an attack on the Liaohe River defense line of the Eighth Division.

This time Liao Jie planned to replicate the tactics of the Liuhe defense line, using great force to create miracles and using artillery shells in exchange for casualties that would reduce morale.

Faced with this simple and unpretentious tactic, the Fuso Army's 8th Division had no way to deal with it.