ALL NOVEL Chapter 29
The semi-mechanized infantry division has similar units to the motorized infantry division in the planning.
Two semi-mechanized infantry brigades, one armored brigade, one self-propelled artillery brigade, one anti-aircraft artillery brigade, one logistics support brigade, and one combat support brigade.
The semi-mechanized infantry brigade mainly uses half-track armored vehicles as its main vehicle.
Half-track armored vehicles can be said to be a special product of World War II.
Although this special vehicle has been completely eliminated after the end of World War II.
But in this period when there is no concept of infantry fighting vehicles.
This vehicle is still the best choice.
Jiang Fan finally chose the German SD.KFZ.251 series of half-track armored vehicles as the main vehicle for the semi-mechanized troops. There are many variants of its models, with a total of 22 models.
For example, armored transport vehicles, rocket launchers, wireless communication vehicles, command vehicles, combat engineering vehicles, anti-tank artillery vehicles, artillery reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery vehicles, etc.
The series is fully functional and can meet the combat needs of the troops.
The entire division is equipped with more than a thousand vehicles.
The combat weight of the Type 251 armored vehicle is 8.5 tons, it is open-top, with two MG42 general-purpose machine guns as standard weapons, a speed of 55 kilometers per hour, and a range of 320 kilometers.
In terms of performance, it is still very good.
Dezi produced a full 16,000 vehicles during World War II. The armored brigade is under the jurisdiction of four tank battalions, each equipped with 58 tanks.
Two of the tank battalions are equipped with Type IV G tanks, and two tank battalions are equipped with Leopard G tanks. The brigade is equipped with a total of 232 tanks.
Including the tanks equipped by the divisional guard battalion and other troops, the division is equipped with a total of about 280 tanks. The self-propelled artillery brigade is under the jurisdiction of four artillery battalions.
They are all equipped with self-propelled artillery.
Two of the battalions are equipped with 150mm caliber wild bee self-propelled artillery.
The total weight is 24 tons, the speed is 42 kilometers per hour, and the range is 15 kilometers.
There is also a battalion equipped with M40 155mm self-propelled artillery.
The gun uses a 155mm field cannon, which is the current M1 155mm cannon.
The maximum range can reach 23.5 kilometers, far exceeding the same caliber artillery, and has a terrifying long-range suppression capability.
Another is the self-propelled rocket artillery battalion, 24 Katyusha rocket launchers.
The anti-aircraft artillery brigade also adopts a four-battalion system. It is mainly based on 20mm and 40mm calibers.
All are German self-propelled anti-aircraft guns developed on the chassis of the 251 armored vehicle.
It is fully capable of providing the troops with medium and low altitude air defense capabilities.
The combat effectiveness that the entire semi-mechanized armored division can burst out is incomparable to the motorized infantry division.
Of course, it is limited to plains.
If it is a mountainous terrain like Rehe.
Even the armored division can hardly move.
It will cost about 1.8 million yuan to form this semi-mechanized division.
This 1.8 million has almost consumed 5 million yuan of funds, which is more than half of the 10 million yuan.
Chaoyang is just a small city in the east of Rehe.
Because there is a railway station here and it is the main channel connecting the three northeastern provinces to Rehe, the city is still prosperous.
But now the city is shrouded in the shadow of war.
A large number of people have fled to the countryside for refuge.
An infantry battalion of the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army is stationed here.
At this moment, the 3rd Infantry Battalion has imposed martial law throughout the city and built a large number of fortifications in the city.
The 8th Division and the 33rd Mixed Brigade in the direction of Pingquan were defeated too quickly.
The Japanese army could not react at all.
Otherwise, there would be more than one infantry battalion in Chaoyang at this moment.
Although there is a railway connection between Jinzhou and Chaoyang.
But the railway along the way has long been bombed and cannot be repaired in a short time.
The 4th Mixed Brigade can only be reinforced by road.
The vanguard troops finally arrived in Chaoyang one step behind the Japanese army.
They did not rush to launch an attack, but waited for the subsequent main force to arrive.
But they did not do nothing.
A troop was sent westward and directly occupied Taomiao Town west of Chaoyang.
This is also the only way for Chifeng to Chaoyang.
The Sixth Division must pass through here to go to Chaoyang. Only by blocking them here can we easily take Chaoyang.
More than a day later, the main forces of the Red Alert 1st and 2nd Divisions arrived.
Although Chaoyang is larger than Pingquan, it is just a small city after all.
""Commander, the intelligence department has spread the news in the city a few days ago, and most of the people have evacuated."
Xie Ning nodded and said,"Then launch an artillery attack and prepare for the attack."
As for the remaining people, they can only leave it to fate. They have done what they should do.
It is impossible to give up the attack on Chaoyang just because of these people who have not left.
This is a war.
This battle must be fought quickly and decisively, and it cannot be steadily advanced like Pingquan.
At the beginning, nearly 200 guns and dozens of rocket launchers fired at the same time. Chaoyang City was instantly caught in a violent explosion.
Buildings collapsed in the violent explosion and turned into ruins.
The whole city was like falling into doomsday hell.
When Chaoyang was attacked.
The Kwantung Army was really anxious.
Chaoyang is only more than 70 kilometers away from Jinzhou.
Jiang Fan's purpose is obvious.
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