Chapter 968 Playing house-style battle!(1/2)
The strategy of growing hard in ancient vines is very simple, but it is extremely practical.
Use infantry to attack tentatively, constantly draw out the firepower points of the Chinese position, and then use artillery clusters to launch artillery bombardment on the Chinese defensive areas.
Four infantry cannons deployed less than 1,000 meters on the infantry line and three 57mm tank cannons may only be considered desserts before meals. The main course is 12 75mm mountain cannons placed in the valley behind the main infantry force.
Even on the No. 1 and No. 2 high ground, after two consecutive rounds of artillery attacks by the Japanese army, the heavy machine gun firepower points should never be easily used unless absolutely necessary. However, the Japanese infantry's offensive under the cover of their own light and heavy machine guns looked very fierce, and the Japanese army closest to the front-line trenches had already arrived within 50 meters of advance.
Even though the two chief officials Zhao Daqiang and Cai Yongguan knew it was dangerous, they had to use heavy machine gun fire to suppress the Japanese infantry.
When the Japanese army retreated like a tide, the previously exposed light and heavy machine gun fire points had to be quickly transferred. Otherwise, what awaited them would be a round of artillery fire to wash the floor.
Sure enough, in less than 2 minutes, Japanese artillery fire came overwhelmed, blowing the heavy machine gun fortifications built with sandbags from two companies of soldiers before it worked hard to make them into ruins.
If this continues, it will not take long. Even if the heavy machine guns are not destroyed, there will be no fortifications hidden. They are almost exposed to the threat of the Japanese grenade launcher. No infantry cannons or mountain cannons, and only Japanese grenade launchers are more than 300 meters away, and they can be blown up in battle.
The Japanese army completely took advantage of the artillery fire and eroded the advantages of the original fortifications on the defense line of the Four Route Regiment little by little.
It’s like a person eating crabs, using tongs to peel off the hard shell of the crab bit by bit, and only then will he enjoy it until he sees the fresh and plump crab paste.
Perhaps it was not just the fortifications that were damaged, but the overwhelming artillery fire, more than a dozen trenches that had been dug were collapsed, and more than a dozen soldiers were sacrificed on the two high grounds, and more than twenty were injured.
And there will never be more than 30 Japanese corpses left in front of the formation.
In less than half an hour of offensive and defensive battle, the two sides suffered almost the same damage.
This is probably the first time since the Sixing Regiment had been in such a dilemma since he had been dealing with the Japanese army.
"Company Commander, what should we do? The Japanese are so thief. I think they keep luring us into fire and then using cannons to blow it up! If we continue like this, it won't take long to even get our trenches flattened by them." The first platoon leader of the 524th Regiment was a squad leader of the former 524th Regiment. Through the performance of the Japanese army, he still reacted and asked Cai Yongguan anxiously.
"What should I do? Sweet! I don't believe it anymore. Dog Rich can only use cannons to blow up my trenches." Cai Yongguan is a brave general player. He has such a stubborn spirit. He can still care about so much. "Tell my brothers that the Japanese want to blow up my trenches with cannons, so I will dig deeper for him.
When the Japanese come up, each platoon uses a squad as a combat alert. Everyone else continues to dig trenches for me, and wait for the Japanese to retreat before retreating."
Destruction is of course easier than construction, but Cai Yongguan's iron-headed move is not without effect.
The Japanese army continued to attack, but because they were all tentative and were not so determined, the three infantry squads could basically stop them. The other six infantry squads put their guns aside, bent over and digged trenches desperately, and then put the excavated soil into cloth bags and turned into sandbags to pile them on the edge of the trenches.
When the Japanese artillery fire attacked again, most of the sandbags were blown away, but on the battlefield that was opened again, most of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Company picked up single-soldier shovels again, and the trench, which was originally only 80 cm, was deepening little by little.
In principle, unless the shells fall into the trench, it will be a life of hardship, otherwise the deeper the trench, the more it can defend against artillery.
The other company chief officers looked in the telescope and said that Cai Yongguan is like this!
So, all the five highlands took the opportunity to devote themselves to the earthwork of digging trenches in the vigorous battle.
For nearly half an hour, this strange scene appeared on the battlefield between the Four Lines Regiment and the 31st Infantry Brigade.
One side attacks, the other side defends!
But the attackers did not work hard, and the defenders did not put all their strength. Instead, they placed most of their strength on digging the soil.
The sound of excavation even overshadowed the shooting of machine guns and rifles, just like playing house, if there was no blood on the position.
What I know is that the brigade commander of the Gu Teng Changhard Major General was using powerful firepower to slowly break the hard shell of the Chinese, making the most complete preparations for the severe damage to the Chinese; if I don’t know, I thought that this person had any prejudice against the 14th Division, so he used this almost lazy tactic to watch them die.
In fact, even if the Gu Teng Changhard Major General came up, he used the toughest means to attack, and did not seek much use to Major Morimu and others in the encirclement.
Because, just here, the two armies of Lao Yashan test the depth and the stage when I dig trenches and continue to deepen, the 771st Regiment of the 683rd Brigade has gradually evolved from occupying the high ground to continuously attacking the Japanese army in the encirclement to interspersed and divided the Japanese army into more than a dozen strands, and their living space is getting smaller and smaller.
This is also the lesson of Brigade Commander Cheng's parallel battle at the 511th Division and was not in a hurry to launch a charge of the entire army, which led to many backbones in the army's death during the charge and hand-to-hand combat.
The 683 Brigade, which had sufficient ammunition, used a simple version of Gu Teng Changhard, and used bullets to kill the Japanese troops who were fighting stubbornly until they were weak enough.
If the rocks hidden in the Japanese army were hard enough, the 683rd Brigade did not rush over with explosives and explosives in the past with explosives and cluster grenades, but instead transferred infantry artillery and aimed at bombing.
In addition to losing more than 100 soldiers in the initial ambush battle, the remaining more than 600 soldiers were lost in this grinding-type battle.
At this time, it is no longer a question of whether the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of the 683rd Brigade, but it depends on how much cost the brigade commander Cheng can accept to annihilate the Japanese army. Major Morimu and his group are already done.
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Tu Feiyuan, who was commanding the battle on the front line, was almost out of anger. At this level, he could afford to lose 400 baggage soldiers and two infantry squadrons, and he could not care about 181 cars. The thing was gone. I would like to find the Front Command to ask for it, but he could not bear the risk of the nearly month's baggage unavailable to arrive on time.
How important is this baggage? Even ancient Chinese military books say that before the army moves, food and grass will go first. At that time, they are always holding swords and swords. They can go to the battlefield after sharpening them on the stones, at least they don’t need bullets, let alone combat in the thermal weapons era.
It’s fine if you have ammunition, after all, this wave of transportation is not much ammunition, and the 14th Division has already made plans and has sufficient reserves, but people always have to have a meal!
Not to mention that in order to boost morale, the Japanese Army Department made extremely detailed requests for the supply of Japanese individual soldiers entering the Chinese battlefield.
Compared with the standard of a single soldier of the Chinese army with half a kilogram of rice and two taels of cabbage and potatoes per day, the standard of a Japanese infantry food is luxurious.
According to the "Revised Rules for Wartime Supply of Military Personnel" issued by Japan in November 1937, the basic quantities of army soldiers for a day include: 660 grams of refined rice, 210 grams of refined wheat, 210 grams of fresh meat (or 150 grams of canned meat), 600 grams of vegetables (or 120 grams of dried vegetables), 60 grams of Ze'an-like stains (i.e. pickled vegetables), 20 grams of soy sauce, 75 grams of miso (seasoning), 5 grams of salt, 20 grams of sugar, 3 grams of tea, 400 grams of sake, 120 grams of sweets, and 20 cigarettes.
A single soldier needs so many categories and quantities. It is conceivable how much more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers need. No more than 100 cars can be transported?
Do you think Tu Feiyuan has to be one big after knowing the bad news?
The furious Doiyuan directly forwarded the farewell message of the deputy captain of his baggage corps, Major Moriki, to the Japanese North China Front Command, which was a pure expression of the dissatisfaction of a general commander of his front command.
Of course, this has something to do with the defeat of Taierzhuang a few days ago. Everyone knows that the Indoor Shield General is about to step down. The earth and fat and round who have worked in the Imperial Intelligence Department for a long time is actually a disguised threat. If your Indoor Shield cannot respond effectively, don’t blame me for turning against you and sprinkling salt on your wounds.
When the investigators from the Army Headquarters arrive, I will tell you all the wrong commands.
After all, the news released by the Army Headquarters at this time was still considered as having no contribution to the indoor mourning clothes and hard work. After resigning as commander of the North China Front Army, he will serve as a senior member of the Army Headquarters to go to Europe to negotiate with the Germans to gain more support for the empire to launch the Chinese battlefield.
I don’t ask the Germans to sell how many weapons they can give to themselves, I just ask the Germans not to buy weapons for China. German weapons on the battlefield of China are the ones that cause the greatest damage to the Imperial Army.
If Tu Feiyuan, who has great influence in the intelligence department, stepped on him, he might not even be able to get this job and retire on the spot.
The indoor shroud may be the most tragic army general in the history of the Japanese army. He was not secretly trapped by his chief of staff, but even the division commander under his command dared to threaten him with this.
But he knew that he could not blame others for this. If he was in a fertile position, he knew that more than 20,000 people in his division lacked various supplies for at least half a month, so he would also turn his anger towards his commander, especially a commander who was about to leave.
It’s up to the Chinese to blame for being too crazy. Under the heavy garrison of two infantry regiments, they still dared to take millet from the fire to attack the convoy.
The extremely frustrated indoor shroud sent all the fire to the two division commanders of 108 and 109, and ordered them to fire their respective commanders to attack with all their might. Even if they could not save people, they could not let the Chinese take the lead or destroy all the supplies.
The last call was to the headquarters of the China Airlines, far away in Baoding, Shimen, and asked why their bomber formation had not arrived at the battlefield to provide assistance to friendly forces.
Perhaps, the generals at the division commander level may not care much about the commander of the general who has lost power, but it does not mean that the rank of the brigade-level mainland aviation can ignore the anger of the indoor shroud.
The lieutenant general had no choice but to give a military order before leaving the post and remove a major general and a few colonel-level officers.
However, the Japanese North China Front Army also had its own difficulties. The Battle of Xuzhou was not the end of a Taierzhuang defeat. The Japanese North China Front Army lost 20,000 people, but the two major fronts of the North China Front Army and the East China Front Army invested more than 200,000 troops and are still fighting fiercely with 600,000 Chinese troops.
Does China Airlines need support? That is necessary, 70% of China Airlines' fighter jets are supporting the battlefield there.
On the Jin Province, the front army also invested more than 100,000 troops including the 5th Division, the 16th Division, the 20th Division, the 108th Division, the 109th Division, and the 109th Division. They faced more than 400,000 troops including the Chinese Jinsui Army, the Central Army, the 22nd Army, and the 80th Army. Do you want to support it? Also.
What? When the plane is folded on paper, you can bring bombs and fly into the sky with a breath? Japan's China Airlines has racked its brains to collect 6 96 attacks and 96 bombers.
The 12 fighter jet formations did not meet the 24 squadrons required by the Indoor Shield, and it was enough to deal with a group of Tuba.
The reason why it has been more than two hours since the 14th Division's baggage regiment has not arrived at the battlefield yet is also related to one person.
Captain Sasaki, who had been intact after heavy losses in a friendly plane, has now been promoted again, and has changed from lieutenant to deputy squadron captain.
However, that is not the one that the Land Airlines wants to be promoted to him, and even he himself does not have the intention to do so. However, the Front Army, which has suffered continuous losses, needs to have this "hero".
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Lieutenant Sasaki inexplicably became the position of Lu Hang, and it can also be called a "mascot", the kind that does not go to war.
Because, those who fought with him basically didn't come back alive, who dared to be with him?
‘Sasaki went on the expedition, and the Army Aviation Squadron did not grow any grass!’ This is the consensus that Japan’s Army Aviation does not put it on the table.
When the major airports such as Baoding and Yuancheng were busy, Captain Sasaki was sitting on the grass and drinking wine, looking at Xiaodai in the distance for a while, or going to attend a military meeting and relaying the big guys' speeches to everyone.
Not only Captain Sasaki is satisfied with this kind of life, but other Japanese pilots also think it is very good.
But this calmness is about to be broken again.
Before leaving, the three pilots had some troubles with some diarrhea, and they were so sad that they almost put the bedding in the toilet.
If there are fighter jets, wouldn't it be okay if there are not enough pilots? Shi Zhongjing, the largest man from the China Airlines, said, and ordered the pilots in the base who had more than 800 hours of flight experience to take the lead.
Captain Sasaki, who had already drunk half a pound of sake, was very unfortunate and met this standard again. And it was just that coincidentally, there were only three people in total.
He doesn't care. Anyway, he still understands that he has a strong life and is capable of defeating his colleagues. If he has military orders, he will fly up.
But other Japanese pilots refused to agree. Baga's guy is even more poisonous than the Chinese anti-aircraft guns. He is trying to force us all to death!
So, after all the troubles you petitioned me to write, the military order for takeoff was issued for more than half an hour. These unwilling people to die were still arguing with their bosses. It was not until Shi Zhongjing got angry and issued the military order that he took off slowly.
Therefore, Master Morimu's farewell message was transferred to the North China Front Army Headquarters, and 12 fighter jets had just left Baoding.
Captain Sasaki, as the second commander of this fighter formation, flew alone in front, like a lonely goose.
However, this tried and tested Japanese Air Force Captain was not panicked at all. He had told him on several consecutive battlefields that as long as he did not die, the one who died would be someone else.
It’s said that it’s a good time to hold a group, but it’s not so good to go to Amaterasu to drink tea with him.
"Sasaki-kun, can you reveal the way to survive on the battlefield?" Finally, someone could not help but be cursed and asked on the radio.
"Don't lower the flight altitude easily!" Sasaki pondered for a while and gave the answer he thought was the most sincere.
In all the battles, some people did not believe in evil and lowered their flight altitude, and were eventually hit by Chinese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.
"But, the above commanded us to destroy all the Chinese people we saw!" a pilot asked carefully.
There was silence in the radio station.
This is a core issue.
To be continued...