The Japanese troops were beaten into a panic, but Chen Wanli wanted to serve another dessert to the already defeated Japanese troops.
The artillerymen of the mercenary regiment, who had been shelling the depressions, began to cover the Japanese charging troops whose formation was more sparse than before and were scurrying around.
Dozens of artillery shells fell almost at the same time, splashing countless human sandbags and mud mixed with flesh and blood. The tree under the mountain was hit by the aftermath of the explosion of a not far away artillery shell and rolled twice on the ground. Before he could stabilize himself,
In his mind, all kinds of sand, lime, soil and blood and minced meat flew into the sky at the center of the explosion point, raining down from his head, covering him from head to toe.
However, this explosion also eliminated any sense of luck he had held before. He instantly realized that he and his beast brigade were probably doomed this time.
The overall combat effectiveness and tactical awareness displayed by the opponent are definitely not the ordinary Chinese army, and are even comparable to the elite troops in the imperial army, not to mention there are so many artillery and automatic firearms.
With this kind of fighting power, not to mention that they still set up ambushes at every step and carefully laid out their plans. Even if the two sides formed formations and faced each other head-on, their own beast brigade might not be able to get away with it.
However, Mishanshita Shu also discovered a weakness of this Chinese army that could barely be considered a weakness, that is, there were not enough troops.
According to Mi Shanxia's high military literacy, he could clearly see that the purpose of this Chinese army was to completely eat up his own beast brigade, so he calculated every step he took so carefully, first using explosives to guard the surrounding highlands.
The troops were wiped out, and then they used artillery bombardment to disrupt their own troops. Finally, they ambush almost all the automatic firepower at the only battlefield support point, in order to consume a lot of their own manpower.
That's why they initially used relatively weak firepower to lure them into continuously committing troops to attack, but this also exposed the weakness of the opponent's insufficient strength to completely surround them.
If the Chinese army had doubled or even ten times its own number, there would be no need to set up an ambush in the grove. They would just launch attacks from several directions at the same time after several rounds of shelling.
The chaos caused at that time completely disrupted our own effective resistance and dealt a fatal blow to the Beast Brigade.
You must know that the area of Wazikou is not large. The Chinese army really has a few thousand troops. According to the combat effectiveness and automatic firepower configuration they have shown, they can deliver violent blows and launch assault charges from all sides at the same time. Maybe the Beast Brigade will be gone by now.
If it exists, it can even completely eat up your troops by setting up an ambush on the way.
Judging from the opponent's exquisite layout, the quality of the opponent's commander is not low, and it is impossible not to see such a rare opportunity for a decisive victory. If he does not do this, it is simply because he does not have enough troops and wants to avoid his own casualties.
Yoshiyama Shimo also observed that the opponent's firepower exposed in and around the woods was dense and ferocious, but the width of the attack was not enough. This is enough to show that the opponent's number is not large, at most, it is as strong as the Beast Brigade.
quite.
While Mishan Xia Shu judged the number of the mercenary group, he couldn't help but secretly admire the commander of the Chinese army on the opposite side. You Baga is so courageous. You dare to come and eat my whole group with a thousand people, and you have such precise calculations.
, you guessed every step of my beast team’s response. Are you talking about the roundworms in my belly?
It's easy to guess the opponent's plan, but it's not easy to break the situation.
Now, on the short 500-meter field from Wazikou to the grove, it is already densely covered with corpses or wounded soldiers in shit-yellow military uniforms. Mi Shanxiashu finally organized an offensive formation of more than 600 people.
, had been completely maimed and scattered by the opponent's swift firestorm, and the number of those killed alone at a casual glance was over 300.
Most of the remaining Japanese troops were pinned to the ground by the bullets that never stopped and could not even raise their heads, let alone any precise shooting. Only sporadic 38 rifle gunfire clearly showed that the imperial warriors were still fighting back tenaciously.
Several light and heavy machine guns that were hastily set up in the rear were sent into the sky by the opponent's precise artillery before they could fire a single shot. This was originally the Japanese army's best tactic, but now it was used by the opponent on their own heads.
In this case, any tactical adjustment is no longer possible. The only way is to disperse and break out before the opponent kills all these imperial warriors. How many can escape? Anyway, you don’t have enough troops.
, it is impossible to guard the surrounding area as if it were iron-clad.
However, Mishanxiashu, whose mind had completely sobered up, had one more thing to do before issuing the order to disperse and break out.
He turned his attention to the hillside he had escaped from before. There was the only radio station of the Beast Brigade, as well as the precious code book. Before breaking out, he must take away the code book in the backpack of the radio operator who had turned into a corpse.
burn.
When the troops are facing a desperate situation, burning the military flag and code book is the basic common sense of every Japanese commander, and the code book must not be left to the enemy.
Although Yoneyamashita Shu does not think that the Chinese army's seizure of the code book will lead to the code being deciphered, this kind of highly technical and difficult work is not something that the Chinese, who have always been weak, can do, but the seizure of the code book is a big sign
The disgrace of Imperial Japanese officers.
So he immediately ordered some of the Japanese troops in the rear to move toward the hillside where the radio station was installed.
What he didn't know was that most of the firepower of the most powerful unit of the mercenary group was monitoring the hillside at this time.
How could Zhou Wen, who had cleared all the Japanese troops around the radio station, let the fat fly from his mouth?
Today, he has completely handed over the command of the entire battlefield to Chen Wanli, and he is focusing entirely on how to seize the Japanese army's complete code book.
After leading Zhang Xiaoping and several snipers to kill the enemy radio operator, of course they would not just stare at the radio station like dogs, but also joined in the sniper killing of the Japanese army.
After the explosives planted on the high ground exploded, Zhou Wen had no doubt that he could kill the Japanese advance team today. His only worry was that the heavy firepower of the Japanese army would cause damage to the mercenary group.
Under Chen Wanli's careful deployment, the key targets of the artillery were the Japanese artillery squad and heavy machine gun squadron in the middle of the depression. Therefore, most of the Japanese artillery and most of the heavy machine guns were blown up after the first few rounds of shelling, leaving the rest
It is basically impossible to organize any effective counterattack.
The biggest threat to the ambush troops was the Japanese grenade launchers, so he ordered all the precision shooters and snipers of a detachment to attack the Japanese grenade launchers as their first target.