The battle at Lengkou has been going on for three days. At this time, Fenghuang Mountain has been blown up beyond recognition by Japanese artillery and aircraft. The city gates of Lengkou and the surrounding crenellations are no longer in shape. Only the thick wall foundation is still firmly rooted.
Even if this land is covered with rocks and soil, it is just like the defensive position of the Model Brigade. No matter how wind blows or rains, I will remain unmoved.
Major General Yamada Guiura, the commander of the Japanese 12th Brigade, was frowning and thinking hard on the map, eager to find a way to break through the current predicament.
Since launching a large-scale attack on Lengkou Pass on April 1, the progress of the war has been quite unsatisfactory for the Japanese army.
Especially in terms of artillery support, the Japanese army had always used heavy artillery firepower to bully the Chinese army, which lacked artillery, but now it had lost ground and was in turn suppressed by the artillery of the Chinese defenders.
The key reason is not only that the Chinese defenders have surprisingly many artillery pieces, but also that China also has two well-hidden 105mm howitzers with a range of 12 kilometers. As long as one's own artillery fires for more than 5 minutes, it will inevitably
was counterattacked by Chinese artillery.
Those 75mm caliber mountain cannons were just fine, but these two 105mm howitzers would fire a 5-round salvo from time to time, and they were all very targeted against the Japanese artillery positions.
So far, the Japanese 12th Brigade has lost 5 75mm field guns and 2 92 infantry guns in the artillery battle, almost all of which were blown up in the counterattack of two Chinese howitzers.
The current Japanese artillery has also begun to learn from the Chinese army. They fire a few shots and then quickly move their positions, which greatly reduces the continuity of artillery support. Several attacking infantry brigades have repeatedly protested, saying that the artillery force does not use infantry warriors at all.
Take your life seriously.
But what the situation is, only brigade commander Yamada Guiura himself understands that it is not that my artillery is incompetent, but that the Chinese artillery is very cunning.
The lack of artillery severely restricted the infantry's offensive operations.
As for the Air Force aircraft, Major General Yamada Guiura even scorned them.
The few bombers and more than a dozen fighter jets temporarily equipped with bombs sent by the Army Airlines are not accurate at all. And after losing several aircraft in a row before, the current Army Air Force pilots do not know whether they have obtained
Under the instruction of their superiors, bombs were almost always dropped at altitudes above 500 meters.
Even professional bombers may not be able to accurately drop bombs at such a height, let alone a few of your fighter jets with temporary bombs. You even almost dropped bombs on the heads of your own infantry once. Aircrafts are very helpful to the war.
, can only be said to be better than nothing.
Originally, he had pinned his hopes on these powerful infantry brigades of the 6th Division to be able to display the tenacity and perseverance that the imperial warriors should have, and to display the bravery and experience of professional grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers that far exceeded those of the Chinese army.
Wave after wave of turbulent attacks destroyed the will of the defenders.
However, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that the fighting will of his subordinates will be destroyed first.
This is because the Chinese force called the Model Brigade opposite is not only no weaker than the Japanese army in terms of fighting will, but its automatic weapons configuration also exceeds that of the Japanese army.
The only thing that gave Major General Yamada Kiura some comfort was that he found that the military quality of the officers and soldiers of the Model Brigade was still far behind his own subordinates.
In terms of grasping fighter opportunities and applying tactics on local battlefields, the Chinese army still has not broken away from the rigid and conservative thinking of the Chinese army. On several occasions, when the Japanese attack troops advanced too aggressively and the rear support troops were cut off by Chinese artillery, those
The defenders' reaction was somewhat hesitant and unconfident, and they missed several opportunities to expand their victory.
However, the biggest difference between this unit and the Chinese troops it encountered in the past is that there are so many bullets and artillery shells that it is almost as if they are free of charge.
If their marksmanship was not good, these damn Chinese peasants would make up for it with dense bullets (Japanese devils of this period all knew that Chinese soldiers were almost all illiterate peasants and had always been looked down upon by these devils).
Isn’t the Chinese army always poor? Isn’t the logistics of the Chinese army always very bad? Isn’t the Chinese army always required to save bullets?
In this model brigade, Yamada Guiura's inherent concept was completely subverted.
There are many machine guns, many submachine guns, and even the rifles are Baga semi-automatic rifles. The farmers, no matter whether they see people or not, just hold the trigger and keep holding them. Some of them seem to be free of charge.
Hand grenades and mortar bombs were thrown out all over the mountains and plains, simply not using bean bags as dry food!
In fact, Yamada Guiura's concept is correct. The logistics of the Chinese army during this period was indeed relatively weak. Even the Central Army was required to save bullets as much as possible. A soldier could only carry dozens of bullets. Artillery shells were even more precious.
, you are not allowed to fire until the critical moment.
However, the Model Brigade now does not rely on supplies from the Nanjing government, but direct supplies from Marshal Yan, who is starting to get excited as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood.
After the defeat in the Central Plains War, the Shanxi king, who had been suppressed by the principal in all aspects of the political arena of the Republic of China and had to lie dormant for several years, finally felt proud and proud, and finally scorned in front of the principal.
Look at you, you are quite good at fighting civil wars, but I admit that I am not as good as you.
But what about foreign wars?
From the Northeast to Rehe, and now from Rehe to the Great Wall, what victories have you fought? How many little Japanese have you killed?
Look at me again, old man. If I don’t make a sound, I will become a blockbuster.
The old man was just trying his best, and only sent out a brigade of troops... Hehe!
The old man was embarrassed to say it, but the Mishan Brigade was gone, right? There were more than a thousand little Japs.
What? Are you still not convinced?
Then the old man killed a small Japanese mixed brigade for you to take a look at. There were more than 4,000 people, and the corpses were piled up into several mountains. Now you have nothing to say, right?
Let the people across the country see who is the real hero of the Republic of China? Who is the mainstay of this country?
Therefore, now the commander is really beaten, and the logistics supply is opened to transport to Lengkou.
Moreover, given that the commander-in-chief has been stingy and stingy for more than ten years, the ammunition consumption of the tens of thousands of people in the Model Brigade is only a drop in the bucket of his several secret arsenals in Shanxi, and it is not a waste of money.
But how did Yamada Guiura know that the ammunition supply of the Model Brigade was supplied by the Shanxi King who opened his family? So after three consecutive days of failed attacks, he paid nearly 400 lives and carried twice as many from the battlefield.
After a large number of wounded soldiers, he began to feel pain in his body and wanted to find another way.