Rebirth of the National Marshal

"This is a very serious problem. These Russians must have known about our robbery of Ulan-Ude last time. You see, the defense positions they have arranged this time are all close to the city, especially in some factory areas, where they have already arranged their machine gun positions. In the past, their defense positions were all arranged in the suburbs and would not extend to the city at all. They also don't want to involve this war in the city, which would be very beneficial to us. We can also use our air force to bomb them hard. Now these guys are probably afraid that the air force will bomb them, so they made such a deployment." Liu Dazhi is definitely a talented guy.

After taking a quick look at the Soviet deployment map, I know what the Soviets are planning. I have to say that their plan is very good. They have identified your weaknesses. Without the air force, you will have to waste more manpower if you want to fight. In the past, you Chinese people did not care about the lives of your soldiers. Now it is different from before. It depends on whether you have the courage.

"If it were a week ago, we probably wouldn't be able to do anything to him. But now it's different. The military has got us some recoilless guns. I didn't know how to use these things at the beginning, but now I see that they are familiar with them at the training ground. This type of artillery has no recoil and is all mounted on jeeps." After taking Ulan-Ude, Mao Yuanshan also got some new weapons.

One of the most useful is the US military's 106mm recoilless gun, which is an anti-tank, bunker-killing gun that is mainly used in infantry battalions and armored infantry battalions. Along with the infantry's charge, they can provide some assistance to the infantry.

Mao Yuanshan simply installed them on the jeep. The Chinese Army often used such equipment in the 1960s.

To put it simply, this thing is a flat-fire cannon. Since it has a high hit rate on the target, it is very good for attacking fortresses or moving armored units.

However, the rate of fire is relatively slow, only about six rounds per minute.

The power of the artillery shells has also been tested. Generally speaking, within a range of 105 to meters, it is basically the same as a mm howitzer.

They were sent to the front line to attack the fortresses built by the Soviets. Because their attacks were more accurate, there was not much damage to the machines in the factories. If they were to use howitzers for a covering bombing, they would certainly destroy all the fortresses, but they might also blow up some of the machines in the factories. At that time, taking Irkutsk would not be of much use. What's the point of having an empty city if you don't get anything back?

"If you hadn't mentioned this, I would have forgotten about it. Just now, we had an encounter with the Soviets. About ten jeeps rushed up from behind, and I asked them to get off first. I thought they were equipped with machine guns or something like that, but I didn't expect a broken tube to extend directly in front of their drivers. It must be a recoilless gun." Liu Dazhi had just seen the first show of this kind of artillery.

It was quite good. The machine gun positions were named one by one by them. Although the grenade launchers carried by the soldiers could achieve similar effects, the explosive power of the grenade launchers was very small after all. The caliber of this artillery was more than 100 mm, so it was of course very powerful to hit these things.

"Don't underestimate these recoilless guns. In short-range situations, their hit rate is higher than that of our howitzers, and they are more maneuverable. Some places take us five minutes to get there, but two minutes is enough for them. Of course, they can only cooperate with us. In front of some trenches and barbed wire, they have no way to rush through. Jeeps are good in everything except this point. With their cooperation, I think our battle should be easy." The two people felt more relaxed when talking about this. There was no way to use the air force and large-caliber heavy artillery, so having these things was not bad.

"Then I will go down and tell the troops to start preparing. The infantry regiment has only one regiment of soldiers, about 1 people, and there are two regiments of soldiers behind them rushing towards us. It will take them about an hour to get here, and then we will give them the task of cleaning up the battlefield." Liu Dazhi said as he hurried out to gather the troops.

The rest time cannot be too long at this time. If it is too long, the soldiers' fighting spirit may disappear. What we should do now is to strike while the iron is hot. We must let them resume the attack. The task of the armored regiment is to attack continuously and break through the enemy's defense line continuously. This is what they should do.

Advancing eighty kilometers in one day is already very remarkable, but it is only about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. If they can continue the attack, they can break the record set by General Sun Liren. General Sun Liren's armored regiment once advanced 190 kilometers in one day. Of course, that was calculated in 24 hours.

"Brothers, although our Second Armored Regiment was established later than their First Regiment, we are definitely not cowards. The record of the First Regiment is 190 kilometers, and our Second Regiment is about to break this record. Ahead is the city we want to attack, Irkutsk. Don't be fooled by the fact that they have built a large number of fortifications. However, in front of us, any fortifications are useless. We can tear them apart as long as we want. We have been supported by a large number of recoilless guns, and there is a brother from an infantry regiment following us. Now let us rush up to tear apart their defenses and kill our way into Irkutsk. There are the industrial equipment and the labor force we need, so we must take this place and send the industrial equipment data to our rear and the people who need to work. This is what we have to do now. Sooner or later, your names will be in the motherland's book of merit." Liu Dazhi is a good fighter and he is also good at motivating soldiers.

Inspired by his few words, the soldiers were so excited that they immediately turned the tanks around and prepared to charge. Recoilless guns were also deployed around the tanks. Their mission was to destroy the enemy's bunkers in the gaps between tank attacks and provide support to the infantry brothers so that they could quickly penetrate and tear open the enemy's defenses.