The next week or so was probably the ten most difficult days for Susumu Fujita since he became the commander of the Third Division Lieutenant General.
The Chinese who had not yet been wiped out found a place to hide, and actually attacked the third division like maggots on the tarsus.
At first, they only used black guns to shoot at some field camps in the mountains at night. No matter how accurate the marksmanship was, they could only kill a few people. Later, the Japanese commanders at all levels, who could not bear the harassment, simply ordered a ban at night.
Light a bonfire.
Although they were not allowed to light fires in such a cold winter and could only rely on cotton-padded clothes and quilts to resist the cold wind, compared with their own precious lives, the Japanese infantry could accept it.
Because the Chinese super sharpshooter hiding in the darkness of the mountains has no fixed target. Today the infantry regiment, tomorrow the artillery regiment, and the next day the cavalry regiment. The behemoth of the Third Division may be his target everywhere.
Susumu Fujita had not paid much attention to such a level of harassment at first, and it could not hinder his plan to silently gather strength to prepare for a second forcible crossing of Tongguan.
After Fujita Susumu's efforts, Itagaki Shiro agreed to the plan to transport two gunboats from central China to the Tongguan theater.
Gunboats are not comparable to small boats such as motorboats. Gunboats weighing tens or even hundreds of tons not only have steel plate armor, but also a main gun and several 25mm machine guns, such as the Chinese 82mm.
Unless the small-caliber mortar hits the hull of the ship with a high-density concentrated fire of more than ten rounds, no one can do anything against this steel behemoth.
With this kind of gunboat as fire cover, the success rate of forced crossing will be increased to 80%. The transportation department has specially built a special train to transport this kind of gunboat, and is working hard at night to transport the gunboat requested by the Third Division and the newly mobilized motorboat.
Ship it here.
The Engineer Regiment is also rushing to build a new means of transport under the starry night, a wooden platoon specially used to transport infantry across the river!
This kind of wooden raft adds a defensive roof. Four thick logs support a sufficiently solid wooden roof, and then two layers of sandbags are laid on it. At the same time, sandbags about half a meter high are piled around the raft.
Regardless of the huge increase in the load-bearing capacity of the wooden platoon, which could originally transport 20 fully armed soldiers, it was reduced to an infantry squad, but the protection was greatly increased. As long as it was not hit head-on by mortar shells, the Chinese relied on deploying a large number of heavy machine guns.
The move 'Beyond Shot' will be completely useless.
Such wooden rafts are simple in structure and easy to obtain materials. The Zhongtiao Mountain Remaining Range next to them is in short supply of these. With the efficiency of manufacturing 15 wooden rafts a day, it will take less than 20 days to transport a fully armed raft.
Infantry regiment.
January is the coldest time in winter, but according to Susumu Fujita, it is the best time to attack Tongguan. The cold weather is not only a huge test for the imperial infantry on the wooden rafts, but also a huge test for the Chinese who are staying in the cold trenches on the shore.
The same goes for people.
The sub-zero weather made the soldiers' limbs stiff, and their thinking seemed to be frozen and sluggish. Susumu Fujita not only believed that the various thermal equipment of the officers and soldiers of the Third Division under his command were far better than those of his opponents, but more importantly, his will was far superior to his opponents.
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The worse the weather, the greater his chances of winning.
This was Susumu Fujita's plan in the past few days, but what Susumu Fujita didn't expect was that before the planned feast even started, a 'blowfly' came into the hall. If it doesn't bite you, it just makes you sick.
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For five consecutive days, there have been constant attacks, most of which occurred at night.
And it's basically the same. A Chinese super sharpshooter is wandering outside each camp, looking for various valuable and worthless targets.
To put it bluntly, no matter you are a private, a second lieutenant, a lieutenant, or a captain, as long as you dare to expose your target in the dark, the Chinese sharpshooters will shoot you from a long distance.
The key is that his marksmanship is ridiculously accurate, and almost no one survives his shots.
It would be easy to say that it was dead, but it would just cost some firewood and burn it to ashes. The most terrifying thing is the kind that is temporarily injured but does not die.
However, the caliber 92 rifle bullet should have been specially modified to create an empty wound the size of a tea cup in the human body. The blood loss caused by the huge wound can kill a person to death.
Even if there are those who are lucky enough to survive, the wound infection rate is 100%. Today, when there is no specific drug for bacterial infection, military doctors can only watch in despair as the wounded who were finally rescued die in painful wails.
In five days, as many as 242 officers and soldiers of the Third Division died in this secret attack, an average of nearly 50 per day.
This means that while Susumu Fujita is still silently preparing for his ultimate move, the Third Division is losing an infantry squad every day.
If we continue at this rate, we won't need three months. Good guy, the Third Division can be renamed the Third Brigade.
Faced with this devastating harassment, the Japanese army did not respond. They either dispatched military dogs and a search team of more than a hundred people to track them down, or they also quietly ambush sharpshooters around the camp, intending to use accurate targets to forcefully attack them.
powerful.
However, the opponent's cunning and ferocity far exceeded the Japanese army's imagination!
The 242 casualties were mainly caused by this. Only about one-fifth of those who actually died in the camp were killed by Chinese snipers.
It seems that there is a situation where you lie down and let me kill you. I can't kill a few, but if you resist, then I will be really excited.
The sharpshooters who ambush around in advance were either quietly killed by the Chinese who were lurking here, or were killed with one shot during the exchange of fire, which shows the fact that there is also a huge gap in strength among the sharpshooters.
The search team composed of military dogs and soldiers was even more miserable!
Even if a military dog is guided in the wrong direction by a special drug and leads a search team into a minefield, it will still be fine. As long as it remains hidden and allows the sharpshooters hiding in the dark to shoot and kill those who dare to show their heads, this kind of shrinking flow will survive.
If daybreak or reinforcements arrive, at least 70% of the 100 people will be alive.
This was the real experience of two consecutive search teams, and their losses were still within acceptable limits.
But the military dog acted like it was going crazy and led the search team into the enemy's well-arranged encirclement. Then it was really doomed.
There is not just one Chinese hiding in this mountain, there are at least nearly a hundred, and they are well-equipped.
What's even worse is that their ammunition seems to be inexhaustible!
No less than 4,000 submachine gun and rifle shell casings were recovered from just one battlefield where the search team was attacked.
In less than 10 minutes of fighting, no more than two infantry squads could fire more than 4,000 rounds of bullets and over a hundred grenades. That was a firepower output capability that the Imperial Japanese Army could never dream of.
But the poor Chinese people miraculously did it.
Of course the Japanese army would not know that for this operation, Tang Dao had transferred 30 submachine guns and 50 shell guns from the equipment of the new Sichuan Army Corps to supplement the guard platoon and engineer squad. In addition to the original equipment of the guard platoon, each person was equipped with
The two guns and bullets were prepared according to the standard of 800 rounds per person, and they brought 1,000 grenades, an average of 15 per person!
Just transporting and storing this batch of ammunition took a lot of effort from the 60 people crossing the river!
Fortunately, the two middle-aged fishermen who came with the soldiers were so familiar with the local terrain that they could walk with their eyes closed. They had their own place to hide the supplies. It was like a secret arsenal. They used the night to get more supplies.
Because the ammunition was provided by Tang Dao from the Sichuan Army's new regiments, the Major General Brigadier did not know, otherwise he would have guessed that Tang Dao had already been formed with a single blow and stayed on the other side of the river to hide and seek the Japanese army.
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It is this batch of ammunition stored in advance that gives Tang Dao enough confidence. As long as you dare to chase me alone, I will dare to give you a hard blow.
Two hundred-man search teams suffered disaster just like this. They were attacked by a large number of continuous firepower in a very short period of time. In the darkness, the precise shooting skills of the Japanese veterans could not be used at all. They could only
He tried his best to hide it.
But in addition to submachine guns, the Chinese also have a large number of grenades. In each round, more than a dozen grenades are thrown from high places. At least ten rounds of throwing total more than a hundred grenades, which is like being fired by a small-caliber mortar salvo.
Tree trunks and rocks can stop bullets, but they can't stop this kind of flying shrapnel!
In comparison, the 4 light machine guns and 4 grenade launchers carried by the infantry squad-level search team were as powerless as a little baby waving a plastic sword at a big man with a grin on his face!
If the Chinese had not known that the battle should not last too long and each wave of attacks would only last for about 10 minutes at most before evacuating, the battle damage rate of the two search teams would never have been less than 70%.
Susumu Fujita had to issue an order requiring all ministries not to send less than one infantry squadron when pursuing the Chinese.
But how easy is this?
The Third Division stationed in the Fenglingdu area has three infantry regiments, a reinforced artillery regiment, as well as cavalry, baggage troops, engineers, field hospitals and other units, with a total strength of more than 20,000 people.
The Third Division is like a giant beast. No matter how powerful the enemy is, it can poke out its huge mouth and devour it. However, the Chinese are like mosquitoes and flies that can penetrate every hole. They will jump up and take a sip when they see the opportunity.
Blood, escape before the giant beast's tail swings up.
It does not mean that every unit has as many infantry units as infantry regiments. For example, each artillery squadron has only one infantry squadron to protect it. If this only infantry squadron is sent out, the technical soldiers who do not have many guns will be afraid.
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The engineers and soldiers were even more helpless. They were currently working hard to cut down wood and build large platoons. Their combat effectiveness was average. When encountering such "rascally" Chinese, not to mention 200 or 400 people, they felt that they were in danger.
No, on the sixth day, the Chinese really began to target these auxiliary troops who were already less capable.
First of all, the unlucky ones were the engineer brigade who were afraid of what they could do. Their large "wood factory" located in the valley beside the river was so conspicuous that they felt that something would be wrong if the Chinese didn't come and mess with them.
After six days of ‘anticipation’, the Chinese finally arrived.
Two consecutive large 'incendiary bombs' flew over from a position of about 150 meters and exploded in the area of the rafts placed in the open space. The fierce fire burned rapidly, even the engineers who were sleeping in the trenches had already reacted.
Soon, the fire caused by the incendiary bombs with unknown incendiary agent still burned six or seven rafts.
But this is only half a day's workload of the engineering unit. Compared with the loss of personnel, these are acceptable.
The happiest thing is an infantry brigade stationed around the Engineer Regiment. They were ordered to station themselves at three camps 500 meters away from the Engineer Regiment three days ago. On the surface, it appears to be strengthening the defense of the Engineer Regiment. In fact, it is.
I just held back my energy and hit the flies.
The three capable infantry squadrons had become familiar with the terrain of this area more than a dozen times a few days ago, and each had its own division of labor. Once there was a situation with the infantry wing, each infantry squadron knew exactly where to rush immediately.
To put it bluntly, the "timber raft factory" that the Engineer Regiment is running in full swing is just a bait. The three infantry squadrons are fishermen waiting for the fish to take the bait. There will also be three hidden searchlights and a large number of flares to guide them.
It can be said that "everything is ready, all we need is the east wind", and then the Chinese really appeared.
The Japanese army responded quickly. Almost 30 seconds after the explosion, three large hidden searchlights and nearly 10 flares were fired at the mountains hundreds of meters away, illuminating the dark night.
However, the mountains are still quiet, as if the two incendiary bombs appeared automatically!
The three infantry squadrons who arrived on the run quickly completed the siege of this area. It took nearly two hours to search the mountains and forests in this area. Even the mouse holes were poked with bayonets. Pheasants and rabbits were not visible.
Very few, but no one was seen.
Their only achievement was to find the Chinese ‘committing tool’!
It was something similar to a catapult or a slingshot, and a piece of thread that was almost completely burned was found next to the 'committing tool'.
The infantry captain thought hard and finally figured out the Chinese tactics.
He used the darkness of night to lurk into the mountain forest, then installed the launching device, ignited the fuse made of unknown bark, and burned it long enough for the perpetrator to escape safely. Then he burned out the switch that locked the firing device, and then burned the
The bomb was thrown into the position more than 100 meters away like a stone.
This is simply taking the attack out of hand!
"Baga! The Chinese are cunning and cunning!" The Japanese major, who wanted to understand, besides angrily shouting this curse from his own country, was actually more powerless.
The mountains and forests are so vast. Unless he leaves his three infantry squadrons squatting sleeplessly in the mountains and forests, how can he prevent the cunning Chinese from doing this?
Of course, what is fortunate for the Japanese major is that this 'launching' device is very crude. At most, it can throw an incendiary bomb of less than two kilograms a hundred meters away. This will cause loss of items at most and will not cause much damage.
From the perspective of modern warfare, this ancient device with no accuracy at all has no tactical effect and can only be regarded as a scaring toy at best.
If the Chinese were really crazy enough to create a device that could throw objects weighing more than ten kilograms, such as explosive packets, into the station from hundreds of meters away, that would be terrible. Fortunately, the Chinese machine manufacturing
The industry does not support it.
It can only be said that this Japanese army major has never experienced the Internet era and does not know the sequelae of planting flags. Those who plant flags often end up being riddled with holes by their own flags.
Mingxin, who had just escaped from this area to a safe area, looked into the distance, looking forward to what kind of big work Tang Tuanzuo could do with the wooden 'cannon barrel'.
The two small slingshots he shot out were just a grenade and a Molotov cocktail made by Tang Tuanzuo himself. Their biggest function was to tease the Japanese who had been waiting for them for a long time. Weren't they already prepared? Then
As long as you get what you want by struggling in the mountains, how many rafts can be burned is the second priority.
Of course, the more important purpose is to attract the attention of the Japanese army and reduce the vigilance of the Japanese army in other areas.
Making false claims in the east and attacking in the west was Mingxin's main purpose when he appeared at the Japanese Engineer Regiment's station.
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When they heard that the Engineer Regiment had been attacked, all the units of the Third Division secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Based on the characteristics of the Chinese attacks in the past few days, they usually only launch attacks on a selected target.
After all, the visibility is not good at night, the mountain roads are difficult to walk, and the Chinese are not small planes, so they can go wherever they want.
If the Engineer Regiment has become a target, will other stations be safe?
The mentality of "a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist" is perfectly normal on the battlefield.
For example, Major Takeo Yonekura of the 1st Squadron of the Baggage Regiment, after receiving the notification call, he smoked a cigarette very excitedly, then lay down happily on the camp bed and prepared to have a peaceful sleep.
Opposite, there are many officers of the 28th Division who are still awake like the Japanese Army Major, such as Brigadier Hu. In the past few days, he was able to sleep peacefully only when he heard reports from observation posts about faint explosions on the other side.
It's not that he is happy because the Japanese army was attacked, but it means that Tang Dao, a worrying guy, is still alive and well.
It's not that Tang Dao is so cute, but that Tang Dao's life and death have been bound to his military exploits. If Tang Dao is alive, it is already a certainty that he will be a first-class treasure tripod. Tang Dao will be a calf, let alone a treasure tripod. His loyalty and bravery are enough. Then
Who can bear it?
"Is there nothing happening on the other side today?" Brigadier Hu Da asked his orderly a little anxiously.
The orderlies outside the field headquarters could only report in a low voice with a speechless face.
He didn't know what his commander was like. He had already asked the same question for the fifth time in an hour. Maybe Captain Tang wanted to give himself a holiday today and not play with the Japanese?
There are no more than one person in the entire 28th Division who knows that Tang Dao is leading his troops to the other side of the river. However, as a personal servant of the brigade commander, he and the boss have already experienced mutual prosperity and loss. This kind of top secret is naturally not allowed.
I'll hide it from him.
These days, the servicemen have already regarded Tang Dao as a god-like figure. Not only did they cross the river alone and blow up the Japanese forts, but they didn't even leave. They used the mountainous terrain to start a guerrilla war with 20,000 Japanese troops. How awesome is this?
Psychological quality and tactical literacy.
Therefore, Brigadier Hu Da was so worried that he could not sleep, but the young orderly thought that Tang Tuanzuo just wanted to take a rest, but he did not dare to share this kind of psychological activity with his parents.
Then, there was a flash of light in the darkness on the other side, and after a few seconds, a loud "boom" sound came.
"Damn it! Don't you idiot Tang Dao kill another Japanese fort?" Alarmed by the noise, Brigadier Hu Da got out of the headquarters bunker at the front and opened his mouth so wide that he could swallow a hippopotamus.
Tang Tuanzuo is really an iron man, and he doesn’t even take a rest all night. If he keeps doing this, will the little devil not be able to bear it? I really want to go fuck the Japanese with Tang Tuanzuo!
The little fan of Tang Dao in the trench sighed with a matter-of-fact expression.
This chapter has been completed!