newbobooks Chapter 216: Strange Preparations Before the War
Chapter 216: Strange Preparations Before the War
After hearing this, Li Yunlong calmed down.
Although Lao Li gets emotional easily, he has a natural sense for military matters and can calm down quickly.
"Old Yu, you are right. The two comrades came here to ask for reinforcements mainly to see what new weapons the Liaoyuan Arsenal has, not because they want our independent regiment to fight this battle.
If we just talk about fighting, even if their current team's firepower is weaker than ours, they have the advantage in numbers. Logically speaking, we should be able to defeat this group of Japanese soldiers who are less than a battalion."
Li Yunlong began to calmly analyze the current situation.
Yu Ye thought for a while, and said to Li Zhengang and Zhao Xikui: "Well, the two of you should analyze the fortifications of the siderite mine where the devils are located from your own perspectives, and I will make some targeted adjustments to the weapons.
Lao Li, you should contact the brigade commander right now to see what the key points are from a military perspective."
"it is good!"
"it is good!"
Li Yunlong hurried to contact the brigade commander, and Yu Ye asked the two men, "Zhengang, you go first."
"Director, we have carefully examined it. This siderite mine is of the best quality in the area. According to the data obtained from the Japanese, this mine has a very high reserve.
According to the Japanese plan, they should build a small steel plant here."
Hearing this, Yu Ye's eyes lit up instantly: "They want to build a steel mill? Have they brought their equipment here?"
"I heard from the rescued miners that the little devil just brought over a batch of steelmaking equipment and planned to build a steel plant directly around the siderite mine.
However, we haven’t had a chance to go in and see whether construction has started or what equipment has been brought in. ” Li Zhengang explained.
"Okay, let's go on."
"Director, the Japanese obviously put a lot of effort into building this steel plant, and they considered that this iron mine is on the edge of our base and we might attack it, so they built all kinds of facilities and fortifications very solidly.
I heard from the miners that the foundation of the steel plant has been under construction for more than half a year, and a lot of cement and steel bars have been brought in.”
Zhao Xikui then added.
Ok?
Or reinforced concrete structure?
This thing, which looks like a turtle shell, is not easy to handle.
"Director, I saw with my own eyes how the brigade commander led the 772nd Regiment to attack the Japanese steel plant. The outer wall was more than one meter high, and when the bullets hit it, only a little dust came out.
I see that the mortar bombardment left many white marks. "
After all, Zhao Xikui had participated in many battles, and he had an almost intuitive interest in this aspect.
"By the way, Director, I also heard from the miners who were rescued that when this factory was built, it was directly connected to the siderite mine. It was originally planned to directly enter the steel plant for ore dressing and washing after digging it out."
Li Zhengang continued to add.
Yu Ye quickly extracted the key words from the two people's words. The reinforced concrete structure and the complex underground passages were definitely an unimaginable nightmare for the attacking party.
Especially this time, the attacker is the 386th Brigade, which currently does not have effective heavy weapons for attacking.
After summarizing this information, Yu Ye's first reaction was that it would be great if there were tactical nuclear weapons. Even if the fortifications were very strong, a single tactical nuclear weapon would almost certainly solve the problem.
Even if we take a step back, we should get a few Russian 240mm caliber demolition guns and use several tons of shells to raze the Japanese fortifications to the ground.
However, when Yu Ye noticed what Li Zhengang had said at the beginning: the Japanese were planning to build a small steel plant here and might even bring the equipment over, he changed his mind.
What if heavy artillery is used to destroy the equipment at my Liaoyuan Arsenal?
If we follow this line of thought, then thermite bullets seem to be useless.
According to Yu Ye's memory, when the Russians were fighting against the Soviets, they used a large number of thermite bombs when attacking the Azov Steel Plant in Mariupol, and even created a scattering flower effect.
If the thermite melts the converter, we will be in trouble.
Big loss.
While Yu Ye was still thinking about what weapon to use, Li Yunlong came back and said, "Old Yu, what the two comrades just said is right. The fortifications built by the Japanese near the iron mine are not easy to deal with.
The brigade commander gathered twenty mortars and took eight rocket launchers from us. They fought for two hours and spent a lot of shells, but they still failed to break into the fortifications.
Moreover, the brigade commander also said that according to intelligence, the Japanese reinforcements have begun to assemble and are expected to be deployed to the battlefield in about ten hours at the latest.
This situation is very unfavorable.
If we can’t defeat this group of devils within ten hours, then our plan to control the iron and coal mines in Changzhi will be completely scrapped.”
After listening to the latest battlefield situation, Yu Ye also found it a bit difficult. Controlling the ground buildings should not be too difficult, but the difficulty lies in the fact that there are still many underground fortifications. This is not something that can be solved by mobilizing more rocket launchers and mortars. Yu Ye is also worried that the noise will be too loud and may damage the equipment.
After thinking for a while, Yu Ye asked Zhao Gang, "Old Zhao, I remember I gave you the 50 barrels of gasoline and 20 barrels of diesel that the brigade commander brought over recently. Are they still there?"
"Yes, during this period, the soldiers are still using the fuel that Old Yan sent over for driving training. We haven't touched the fuel that the brigade commander sent over yet."
"Okay! I've been waiting for you to say that. Arrange for the soldiers to move all of them out for me. Send 20 barrels of gasoline to the Liaoyuan Arsenal, and load the rest onto the cars. They will be of great use to me."
Yu Ye already had a plan in mind at this time.
"Old Yu, what are you doing?"
Zhao Gang felt that this situation was very familiar. Old Yu had also been in this state before.
"I will use the things the brigade commander sent me to solve his urgent needs."
Yu Ye's mouth curled up.
"Old Zhao, go get Old Fang from the Quartermaster Department."
"it is good."
"Lao Fang, are those broken tires we seized from the Japanese still there?"
"Yes, Minister, you have explained before that we are weak now and any industrial product must be recycled, just in case it can be used someday.
We in the entire Quartermaster Department have been keeping this in mind.”
Lao Fang said seriously.
"That's great, Lao Fang. It's a blessing for our independent regiment to have a quartermaster like you!" Yu Ye clapped his hands with joy.
"Lao Fang, you should arrange for someone to remove the tying wires from these waste tires, and then chop them all into fine powder. The finer the better."
"Yes!"
Lao Fang did not ask any more questions. The various methods that Yu Ye had demonstrated during this period had already made everyone in the Independent Regiment have a mysterious trust in him. Even if Yu Ye said today that his father could blow up the Japanese to death, the Independent Regiment would believe it without a doubt.
"Lao Fang, go get me another 100 kilograms of the sugar that Lao Yan sent to our independent regiment."
"Yes!"
"By the way, Lao Zhao, go get me some eggs from the nearest villagers' homes."
"Huh? Eggs?"
Zhao Gang almost thought he had heard it wrong.
"Yes, eggs, you heard it right."
"Old Yu, how much do you want?"
"Give me as many as you have!"