Chapter 680 Armed and Night Attack (Chapter Two in One)
In the flash of "click, click, click~", it was the war reporter Mr. Ross who kept pressing the shutter of the camera in his hand.
On the position on the north side of Songzi Mountain, one scene after another was recorded.
For example: General Shi from the army and General Wei from the expeditionary army.
Shake hands and talk cordially with Hu Biao, Yang Dongli, Jason and other major officers of the supplementary regiment.
As well as Major Hu Biao, he personally introduced the current defensive situation to General Shi and others, and had been continuously digging the tunnels in the middle of the mountain, a tactic to prepare for bombing the mountain.
In the following time, General Shi expressed his cordial condolences to the child soldiers with a pleasant look on his face.
He even personally gave a gift to Zhang Quansheng and other young child soldiers, which contained a small amount of chocolates, candies and other food.
During the inspection of the position, General Shi said in public:
The battlefield of China now involves most of the energy and troops of the Japanese. It is a very important and key area and battlefield in the current war against Guo Jia, the axis of evil.
In the past few years, China's ability to use its fragile industrial capabilities and backward equipment to achieve the results of involving the main force of the Japanese is very worthy of respect.
Therefore, Uncle Sam's family is willing to provide China with more and more powerful support to achieve the goal of winning this just war.
Okay! The above are just the Southeast Asia Allied Forces Command.
In the next two or three days, some of the press releases issued were just official statements.
After General Shi and other crowds of people appeared, Ross found an opportunity to secretly approach Hu Biao during a gap...
In short words, he made it clear the real purpose of General Shi, this little old man:
First, he had already posted news and pictures about child soldiers some time ago to Uncle Sam's most influential media.
In the New York Times, it was heavily reported on the front page and headlines.
As a result, in a very short period of time, this piece of news aroused huge public opinion and influence in Uncle Sam's society.
In addition to a large number of ordinary people now advocating to the government to increase support for China and kill those little dwarfs from the island country.
There are even a small number of members who are currently preparing to launch relevant proposals based on the needs of the votes.
General Shi may not care much about the wishes of ordinary people, but in order to change his military rank from lieutenant general to several-star general as soon as possible.
Suddenly, this little old man from Florida obviously had some different ideas.
Second, the current combat plan of the expeditionary force to open the Yunnan-Burma Highway has been carried out for a long time, but the progress is not good.
Especially the troops of the expeditionary force in western Yunnan were in a very embarrassing state as a result of the battle.
The key reason is that not only is western Yunnan located in a mountainous area, and materials need to be transported over mountains and ridges, but at this point in time, many places are still in the rainy season.
In the end, the above reasons made the expeditionary army very difficult in terms of logistics and transportation.
With limited transportation capacity, if they choose to transport weapons and ammunition, then there will not be enough food for the 200,000 combat troops.
If you choose to transport food, you won't even have enough weapons and ammunition necessary for combat, so you'll have to pay for it.
Therefore, the battle here in Songshan suddenly became particularly critical, because as long as this place was captured, the entire war situation in western Yunnan could be completely revitalized.
This allowed the expeditionary army to achieve the final victory.
On the other hand, if the battle continues for a long time, the expeditionary army in the western Yunnan region will suffer a huge defeat.
After experiencing such a disastrous defeat, China is afraid that it will not have enough mobile troops for a considerable period of time to launch another combat operation to open the Yunnan-Burma Highway.
If the Yunnan-Burma Highway can no longer be opened, the situation on the entire Chinese battlefield will be even worse if only the limited quantity of supplies transported by the Camelback Route is relied upon.
You know, the Japanese are now carrying out the "Henan, Hunan and Guangxi Operation" with all their strength.
In order to fight the Japanese to the death, Guo Jun spent all his last bit of wealth, and it was being consumed rapidly.
Therefore, the above two reasons were combined to prevent the situation on the battlefield in China from being completely corrupted, and at the same time, it was also to put on a show in front of the congressmen and the people at Uncle Sam's house.
General Shi came to the Songshan battlefield for inspection, and the position of the supplementary regiment was considered a must-see place...
In the end, it took about half an hour and a lot of film.
After General Shi and his team had enough reporting material, their showmanship on the flank battlefield of Songzi Mountain was almost coming to an end.
It was also when he was about to leave that General Shi spoke to Hu Biao:
"Hello, Major Hu, I basically understand the situation here now. It's really touching. I wonder if our Uncle Sam's house and the Southeast Asia Allied Forces Command can do anything for you.
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Good guy! As soon as he heard this, Hu Biao certainly knew that it was time to show off.
Immediately, he took out his 40-meter machete, which was sharply polished, and began to swing it at these international friends, General Shi.
Using a standard London accent, he asked:
"Respect General Shi, we have about a month to complete our excavation plan at the heart of the mountain. However, without enough TNT high explosives, it is impossible to achieve the expected blasting effect. I wonder if you can help coordinate.
We have made detailed calculations and found that at least 6 tons of TNT high explosives are needed to achieve sufficient explosive power."
If we go by the original historical standards, 3 tons of explosives would actually be enough.
However, considering that the grandson of the system was not a human being and had dug so many rocks into the mountain, Hu Biao instinctively doubled the number.
He didn't believe it anymore, it wouldn't kill those turtles.
Of course, for a weapon like 6 tons of TNT, Hu Biao could still barely redeem it if he completely emptied his team's system points.
It's just that Uncle Sam's house is delivered to your door, so why spend these unjust system points?
Sure enough, it is indeed the home of Uncle Sam, who is affectionately called the "big dog family" by everyone.
After hearing Hu Biao's request, General Shi agreed without even a hint of hesitation on his face:
"No problem, although if we use sea transportation, a month is a bit too late; but it doesn't matter, I will arrange a transport plane to transport it to you from Canada at that time.
By the way! Major Hu, do you have any other requirements here?"
Just kidding, of course Hu Biao had other demands, so where did he end up?
Hu Biao immediately took the N-hand Hanyang-made rifle from the hand of a child soldier named Hou San who was holding it in his hand like a treasure.
Pointing to the gun bolt, which was tied with a thin hemp rope to prevent it from being accidentally thrown out and lost.
After Hu Biao opened his mouth, he said without any politeness:
"Of course there are other requirements. Our supplementary regiment now has a total of 1,325 people, but the weapons equipped are basically antique rifles.
Therefore, we hope to get some of your advanced weapons from Uncle Sam's house.
It is best to use various submachine guns, M1 carbines and other equipment; after all, you know, many of our soldiers are minors, and even the recoil of the Garand semi-automatic is too much for them.
As well as some flamethrowers, shotguns, and bazookas as offensive weapons.
Of course, other light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and enough ammunition for training and combat are also needed; in short, we need almost everything."
In the above statement, it is not surprising that a lion like Hu Biao opened his mouth.
He didn't say anything and was picky; he didn't even look down on the "big eight grains" that the soldiers of the Fruit Army were very satisfied with, that is, the Garand semi-automatic rifle.
The main reason is that he knows that Uncle Sam's family had a lot of support and equipment before and after World War II.
But if compared with the Europa battlefield, let alone the quantity, it is far behind in terms of quality.
For example, the precious art masters under the bald hands are far behind the actual equipment of the serious soldiers.
Not only in terms of the specific number and type of tanks but also cannons, there is no comparison at all.
Even the most common rifle among them is the "M1903 Springfield bolt-action rifle" that has long been eliminated by the soldiers.
This thing is that the bald head is regarded as a treasure. Hu Biao, who has already had a high level of vision, can't see it.
Facing Hu Biao's somewhat picky demands, Stilwell, who was in charge of the distribution of all aid materials to China, would not care at all.
For him, these supplies cannot be put into his pocket.
As long as it is distributed on the Chinese battlefield, it will not be given to whoever it is given to in the end.
"Okay, I remember that Chuncheng recently airlifted a batch of military supplies. I will arrange for someone to transport them to you as soon as possible."
From Stilwell's mouth, he agreed so easily.
The whole process is as simple as deciding whether to add sugar or not to coffee for breakfast.
He even asked: "By the way! Regarding the use of these American equipment, do you need to send some instructors over to train you on the specific use?"
In response to General Shi's kindness, Hu Biao simply refused: "Thank you, no need; we still have some experience in the use of the soldiers' equipment."
Just kidding! You little old man from Florida, who are you looking down on?
Isn’t it just some American equipment? Which kind of equipment can’t the veterans of the Central Continent team use? Even based on some combat concepts of the modern plane, Hu Biao and the others can use it better.
Of course, the more important reason is that it is a bit inconvenient.
Some of the operations of the supplementary regiment will be inconvenient if the instructors of the soldiers come.
The main reason is that Hu Biao and the others have already made up their mind. Before leaving the world of this mission, they will tell these child soldiers not to follow the bald path into darkness in the future.
After defeating the Japanese, you must look for opportunities as soon as possible on the battlefield. Anyway, follow the PLA, the sooner the better.
Therefore, Hu Biao and the others are now focused on the great battle in Goryeo after the founding of the country.
In this way, according to Hu Biao's training plan, they will start training the child soldiers in the fighting methods of the soldiers in one week at most.
And how to deal with the fighting methods of the soldiers, the tunnel operations adopted, and the settings of anti-slope positions.
I believe that if these volunteers had gone through a painful price and summed up the experience of blood and tears, even if they could have appeared one day earlier, many people would have died less.
In this way, General Shi, who was like Santa Claus, left after meeting a series of Hu Biao's demands.
In the next trip, he will fly to Shuangqing to meet with the bald head to discuss the current fierce battle in Hengyang.
In Hengyang City, the other Hu Biao and Hu Tuanzuo are still fighting to the death.
Therefore, Hu Biao and Hu Tuanzuo, whose news was almost completely cut off, had no idea what was happening in western Yunnan.
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The time is July 26, 1944.
On this day, the Battle of Songshan, known as the Ten Battles of Songshan, has actually reached its sixth battle.
Perhaps it was because of General Shi and General Wei that they first came here to conduct an inspection; in the following time, Bald Head sent several stern urgent telegrams.
In short, it put greater pressure on the attacking troops in the Songshan area, so they fought more resolutely in the attack.
Unfortunately, the progress of the war situation is similar to that in history.
The main reason was that two days ago, the 113th Regiment of the Japanese Songshan garrison, which included about 800 people, secretly came back under the cover of night.
Not only did they destroy an artillery position of the expeditionary force, but they also blew up three 105 howitzers.
There were almost 750 people who fought back to Songshan Fortress, which not only increased the Japanese's defensive strength, but also made the attack more difficult.
As a result, the battle damage rate of the attacking troops became even more astonishing.
In other words, at that time Hu Biao really wanted to agree to what Lao Fang and others said and transfer more than a thousand veterans from the neighboring armies. Now they really want to fill the battlefield with their baby soldiers without any choice.
At the same time, on this day, the batch of equipment that General Shi promised to Hu Biao and others was finally delivered.
In the specific list, the total is:
600 M1 carbines, 50 Thompson submachine guns, 200 M3 submachine guns, 5 M2 Browning heavy machine guns, 24 M1917 water-cooled heavy machine guns, and 60 M1918A2 light machine guns.
50 M1911 pistols and 20 M1912 shotguns.
There are also 10 M2 flamethrowers, 15 bazooka rocket launchers, a total of 12 60 mm caliber M19 mortars, and 6 81.4 mm caliber M1 mortars.
There are a total of 12 Motorola walkie-talkies, which can be regarded as being deployed at the level of a company.
In addition, there are a large number of artillery shells, bullets, MK2 grenades, etc.
In short, when Hu Biao took people to pick up the goods, he saw a large truck fleet.
At the same time, such a batch of equipment that looked like the same thing to the soldiers made the surrounding friendly troops' eyes turn red.
If Hu Biao hadn't already known about the tradition of plucking geese's feathers in the Guojun logistics system.
I had already asked Lao Fang and others to help me move around with 50,000 yuan. Believe it or not, these were the equipment and supplies assigned to Hu Biao by General Shi to replenish the regiment.
When they actually arrive at Hu Biao's place, they will lose half of their money due to various reasonable and unreasonable methods.
Even larger quantities are not impossible.
Moreover, even if we contact General Shi and order an investigation into this kind of matter, it will take a long time, and in the end there will be no other result except for one or two small fish being pushed out.
After receiving the equipment, Hu Biao distributed them immediately.
I started to become familiar with the use of American equipment and related tactics.
Because Hu Biao knew that there would probably be no third or fourth phase of system tasks this time; the second phase of the task, which was unknown when it would start, would be the last phase.
Therefore, they need to give the supplementary group combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.
Just like this, amid the fiery training of Hu Biao and the others, another week passed in the blink of an eye...
It was night, around 3 o'clock in the morning.
It was Hu Biao who had slept for almost three and a half hours. While yawning heavily, he still rubbed his eyes and got up from a hard bed board.
Hu Biao certainly didn't feel uneasy when he got up at this time. He got up in the middle of the night to check the situation at the sentry post.
He didn't need to worry about this aspect of vigilance at night.
Because in the recent period, while the child soldiers have been training hard, everyone in the team has not been idle either.
It's all going on, and training is being strengthened in a variety of targeted ways.
For example: at this time of night, the night owl warehouse manager, Ye Yu and others are still busy with night confrontation matters.
To be more specific, the warehouse manager who suffered a gunshot wound to his shoulder chose to hide, while Ye Yu began to use his night vision ability to find a way to pull the warehouse manager out.
Once found, Ye Yu would notify King Kong at the mortar position behind through the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder.
King Kong quickly adjusted the muzzle position of an 81.4 mm caliber M1 mortar based on the coordinates reported by Ye Yu.
Conduct a virtual three-shot rapid bombardment at the location of the warehouse manager.
It can be regarded as training the Central Continent team's ability as a sniper on the opposing side.
Therefore, with the existence of these night owls, Hu Biao does not have to worry about the possibility of the Zhongzhou team encountering a sneak attack by the Japanese at night.
Coupled with other arrangements, if the island team really fails to think of a sneak attack, it will only end up stealing a chicken but losing a lot of rice.
Hu Biao got up now, just to visit the simple dormitories of the child soldiers and help them cover themselves with quilts. Who told them to think of him not only as a commander, but also as Uncle Hu.
Damn it! I am still a child, but I am called uncle by thousands of people. Isn’t this a sin?
The problem is that Hu Biao, wearing a coat, walked out of the door.
At that time, a big yawn in his mouth had not completely subsided. Ye Yu said a high-pitched sentence: "Enemy attack~"
Then, the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle in Ye Yu's hand rang out in the quiet night.
After two or three seconds at most, the Ye Yu husband and wife team, who was now forced to stay up late every day, had already fired a flare into the sky.
Hu Biao saw hundreds of Japanese soldiers charging towards the position from several directions outside the position at the same time.