Chapter 140: The eyebrows are all frost
Since we have decided to attack hard, we naturally have to make careful combat plans.
Although the four daytime battles have shown that fighting this kind of battle, the tactics he and several cobblers under him have racked their brains to think about are basically giving away heads.
But today is not as good as before.
There are less than one infantry company in the Sihang Warehouse.
Yes, although Hokkaido fishermen estimated that nearly 50 people died in the warehouse garrison, and Hachijiro wanted to spit out his saliva, Hachijiro calculated for half an hour based on the number of Chinese soldiers in the concession provided by intelligence personnel and the total strength of the Chinese army mentioned in previous intelligence.
Finally, we inferred an approximate number of people, and the current troops in the Sihang Warehouse will never exceed 120 people.
This was the number of deaths that he inferred from the number of Chinese wounded soldiers, which was heartbreaking about 20 people.
Determining this number means that the combat loss ratio between his 36th Infantry Regiment and the Chinese defenders will be really frozen at a 50:1 shame ratio.
But he had to swallow this shame, if he didn't want to be even more shameful.
The 120 people are the organization of a conventional infantry company in China. At least one-third of the people need to be assigned to operate machine guns, heavy machine guns and mortars. If there is no such heavy firepower, the 120 people will have more force than twice the force, and he will have nothing to hesitate to attack.
Assuming that these heavy firepowers are available, they can only have two infantry platoons at most, but they have to maintain defense on three sides, so their troops are naturally short of strength.
If the three sides attack together, the Chinese will definitely feel extremely distressed in the distribution of troops.
I have to say that Jiro Wakichi may often have brains, but as an old corpse, he is 100% accurate in the current state of the warehouse guards, and there are still 80% of them.
The only mistake is the estimate of the number of deaths in the warehouse defenders.
He thought too much.
The soldiers who died in the warehouse guards were eight people who made the Army Lieutenant Colonel heartbroken, but they were single-digit numbers that could make the Japanese Shuanghu dispatched troops lose all their faces.
Because, in the battle of the 36th Infantry Regiment four days before the Sihang Warehouse, there were more than 800 Japanese infantry soldiers who died on the spot, not even those seriously injured could basically announce that they would give up treatment.
The actual combat loss ratio actually reached an incredible 1 to 100.
Although such a war loss ratio has not reached the height of the ancients not seen before, it definitely exceeds the record set by the old madman Nogi Hidun.
In the warehouse, Tang Dao and Lei Xiong were also racking their brains to reasonably allocate their limited troops.
First, determine the highest command.
Originally, as a veteran company commander, Lei Xiong had a new military rank and major, one level higher than the captain Tang Dao and served as the supreme commander. No one had any objections.
But Lei Xiong refused and announced in front of his platoon leader and six squad leader, he announced that the current highest commander of the warehouse is Captain Tang Dao, the company commander of the first company.
Everyone, including him, must obey Tang Dao's command, and those who violate it shall be engaged in military law.
Although everyone pulled off the seal in front of the chief of staff of the division headquarters to say that they had become ordinary people, not to mention that they were still soldiers at heart, in fact, everyone did not feel that they had really left the army.
That is for Western people, and almost all officers and soldiers think so.
Naturally, everything is still the same.
Lei Xiong gave way to Tang Dao. Not to mention that the two platoons in the first company had no objection, even the machine gun company had no objection.
Because Tang Dao is a strong enough man, whether in terms of individual soldiers or command art.
The essence of human beings is still beasts.
If you want to survive in a cruel natural environment, you must rely on the strong, which is the law of nature.
After obtaining command, the next step is naturally to allocate troops.
Tang Dao's two infantry platoons, plus him and two guards, one communications soldier, had a total of 70 people. Lei Xiong's machine gun company left four heavy machine gun groups, one machine gun platoon and two mortar squads, plus a baggage squad, with a total of 60 troops, with a total of 130 troops.
There are 10 more people than the highest estimated by the Japanese colonel, but as the Japanese colonel imagined, if you want to defend a huge Sihang warehouse, the distribution of troops is a big problem.
In terms of heavy firepower, as the main force has withdrawn 4 heavy machine guns and 4 mortars, fortunately, the two mortar squads and the baggage squad were left to transport few shells. In this case, although there are only two mortars, the shells are enough.
The two Maxim heavy machine gun teams, except for one main shooter, one deputy shooter and one ammunition player, will be the other two additional people to enrich the infantry squad as light machine gun shooters. The other two ten machine gun teams without heavy machine guns will naturally all serve as light machine gun shooters and deputy shooters. In this way, all the troops in Tang Dao's infantry platoon can be drawn out to serve as front-line infantry.
The two machine guns were the only killing weapons in the warehouse that could compete with Japanese tanks. After discussing with Tang Dao and Lei Xiong, they decided to place one on the front of the building to deal with the tanks attacking from the front of the Japanese army. The other was mainly placed on the left wing. The right wing would not draw machine guns to support unless the Japanese tanks were close to each other.
The reason is very simple. There are large natural gas tanks in the concession on the right wing. If the Japanese army deploys a large amount of armor here, the defenders will inevitably fight back with mortars and machine guns. If there is a slight deviation, they will turn the natural gas tanks into fireworks.
At that time, would Westerners take this charge on their heads? By this time, there is nothing that cannot be lost in China. It is completely impossible to die without fear of boiling water, but the Japanese may not be able to do it! Who would be willing to win the fight by themselves, and even a pot of shit is thrown on the face, right?
The Japanese, unless they had no choice, would not deploy particularly strong armored forces on this side.
Two heavy machine guns, one is divided into two wings of the warehouse for defense; six light machine guns, two on three sides; two mortars can only be flexibly maneuvered, and the mortar squad will carry the positions inside or on the roof to strike the Japanese army.
It can be said that in terms of heavy firepower, although Tang Dao has racked his brains, it is still at least half weaker than before.
Fortunately, there were two "little cuties" who contributed by the mysterious boss, who was the "little cutie" who was the leader of Qunlun on the Chinese and Japanese battlefields.
This thing made by the Germans is too leading in the East. Many soldiers have never heard of it, let alone used it. Naturally, they can only be the current commanders of the two warehouses, Tang Dao and Lei Xiong, as the main shooter.
Faced with the Japanese army's upcoming large-scale attack during the day, Tang Dao also gave up his rifle. No matter how awesome the sniper is, can he shoot 15 bullets in one second?
Of course not.
But MG34 can.
Theoretically, as long as the MG34 with a bullet-feeding chain has enough gun barrels to replace, it can shoot 10,000 empty bullets in half an hour.
An ordinary soldier with an MG34 weighing only ten kilograms can be carried away, not to mention a fierce man like Tang Dao and Lei Xiong.
MG34 has good mobility, so the two commander-level main shooters can only work harder, so there is a "firehead" to go there and act as a firefighter.
At this time, no one suggested that the commander could not go to the front line and what if he died.
This is a death battle, a decisive battle. Not to mention the major captain, even Chief of Staff Zhang is here, I am afraid that he will have to go to the battlefield with his pistol in person.
The two infantry platoons were originally fighting to defend the front, but the veteran Youzi, who had always been cautious, was abnormal this time, and he was blushing and his neck was thick and he refused to give in. He said that the first floor was originally his position in the third platoon, and Leng Feng's second floor platoon would be better for defending the two wings.
Leng Feng was almost angry that he wanted to fight the veteran Youzi one-on-one.
In the end, Tang Dao slapped the simple conference table with a slap, which suppressed the two infantry platoon leaders' voluntarily 'seeking death' quarrel.
There are six infantry squads in two infantry platoons, and the two platoons place an infantry squad on both wings. They basically use submachine guns and mausoleum guns, and are mainly used for close-range fire shooting.
The machine gun company's baggage squad was divided into half each, responsible for helping the two wings to throw grenades down from the rooftop. When the Japanese army arrived at a distance of 50 meters, Lao Hei brought several powerful soldiers to support him if necessary.
On the front of the warehouse, there are still the main battlefield of defense. There are three floors, and there are a total of four infantry squads, two on the first floor and one on the second floor and one on the third floor.
Although there is no heavy machine gun to suppress the formation, there are four light machine guns, ten submachine guns and eight mausoleum guns, and the light firepower is not much different.
What's more, there are two MG34s and one Sulutong machine gun to suppress the formation!
The night turned from thick to light, but the commanders of China and Japan couldn't sleep all night, planning how to make their opponents shed blood after dawn.
The Army Lieutenant Colonel and Army Major General in the Concession were also not sleepy at all. They were invited to watch the daytime battle situation in the old man's observation bunker.
Without entering the bunker, the Army Lieutenant Colonel who stopped and stared at his former position had been standing motionless in the cold autumn night for an hour.
The sky is getting brighter.
The eyebrows are all frost!
PS: Today, a book friend said that the 140 chapters I once said can end the battle of Sihang Warehouse, but Feng Yue has to say sorry, Feng Yue overestimates himself. Because the final climax of the battle of Sihang Warehouse has only begun, and it is estimated that more than ten chapters will end. Feng Yue accepts criticism, you can kill me with the monthly ticket! Woo woo! Feng Yue has shouldered it.
Also, yesterday, May 12th anniversary, that year, Feng Yue, who had been a father for only two years, was in front of the computer and was crying as she looked at the photos of several rows of children's schoolbags in the news.
Chapter completed!