Seeing Brigadier Chen's sincere and sincere expression, Gao Hongming was quite moved, but he thought for a moment and shook his head: "Chief Chen, I appreciate your kindness, but this time the Japanese army is coming fiercely, and the troops in your hands are also
If you don’t have enough money, you will definitely be short of money if you really fight... You heard that I’m done..."
Seeing that Brigadier Chen still wanted to speak, Gao Hongming continued: "Besides, in my opinion, it is the Third Army that needs more attention. Although the Third Army has the largest number of people, their equipment is too poor, and they have just been deployed these days.
After going through a big war, the casualties must be huge and morale is not very good, so we need more support. Do you think this is true?"
Brigadier Chen thought for a while and nodded slowly: "I can't tell you, since you don't want to, forget it, but what you said is not unreasonable. The morale of the Third Army must be very low after the sudden defeat, but the terrain of Guojialing is dangerous, and the Japanese army
No matter how powerful it is, it won't be possible to capture it overnight, and it won't be too late for us to go over and provide support when the time comes."
"That's the truth." Li Yunlong on the side also said: "The Third Army still has about 20,000 people, so it shouldn't be a problem to hold it for ten days and a half."
"I hope so." Although he was still a little worried, Gao Hongming couldn't say anything else.
He then smiled and said: "Brigadier Chen, Lao Li, Commander Ding, what about you... is there anything you need help with?"
Brigadier Chen, Li Yunlong and others looked at each other without saying anything, while Li Yunlong laughed: "Brother Gao, our 386th brigade is no better than before. The two regiments of Lao Ding and I have almost all equipped themselves with Japanese weapons.
Although it is incomparable to a rich man like you, the firepower is not much worse than that of a regiment of the Japs, so I won’t use it for the time being. But I’m not afraid of anything else, except that the Japs’ planes are very annoying. If
If possible, it would be better if you could let your planes support us more."
"This is no problem." Gao Hongming readily agreed, "However, I have obtained a group of pilots from the Central Army of the Republic of China in the past two days. I have been busy getting familiar with the new aircraft models in the past two days. If I want air support, I am afraid it will take a few more.
sky.
But... there is no air support yet, but artillery support can still be achieved. I will ask the communications company to set up a few telephone lines specifically for you and the Third Army later, and we will just contact you by phone."
"Very good!"
Li Yunlong slapped his thigh, "As long as there is sufficient artillery support, I am not afraid of how many little devils come. This time I want to let the little devils know that our Eighth Route Army is not easy to mess with."
"Haha... I feel relieved with your words."
Peiping North China Front Army Headquarters
"What are you talking about... Gao Hongming didn't leave, but built fortifications on the spot to fight the imperial army?" Neji Okamura looked at Ichiro Miyamoto in front of him, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Yes, according to aerial reconnaissance, Gao Hongming and his troops have begun to build fortifications in a place called Yangping Town. Not only that, there are two troops on both sides of Gao Hongming who are also building fortifications. According to frontline reports,
These two armies are the Third Army and the Eighth Route Army of the Yunnan Army, but we don’t know which army they are yet.”
"Yoshi!"
Okamura Neji sneered.
"It seems that the victory over the past year has made Gao Hongming arrogant. He actually dared to play the little trick of central blooming with the imperial army, but he has forgotten the virtues of those central troops."
As a China expert, Okamura Neiji entered China as early as 1917. In 1925, he served as a military adviser to Sun Chuanfang's army and participated in the warlord melee.
Over the years in China, Neji Okamura has deeply understood how decadent and fragile this old empire has become. Warlords are fighting and the people are struggling to survive. This huge country does not have a strong central government to rule. This has also led to
The various warlords were suspicious of each other and fought against each other.
Especially after Chairman Chiang came to power, he spared no effort to rectify the miscellaneous troops.
It was when he heard that Gao Hongming and the other two troops began to build fortifications that he immediately realized that his opportunity had come.
"Immediately send a report to the 37th Division and the 4th Mixed Brigade, asking them to rush to Yangping Town as quickly as possible. They must hold Gao Hongming back for me, and then order 33, 36, the 9th Brigade to also rush
Go to Yangping Town.
The Third Flying Group will hit and bomb him with all its strength, and Gao Hongming must be eliminated in Zhongtiao Mountain!"
"Hi!"
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"boom……"
A 75mm artillery shell landed on the position of the 35th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Third Army, blowing a hole in the recently dug position. The powerful shock wave even pushed Niu Ben, the regiment commander who was observing the enemy's situation more than ten meters away, to the ground.
.
"Tuanzu... Tuanzu, are you okay?" The guard on the side quickly helped Niu Ben up.
"It's okay...cough cough cough..."
Niu Ben pushed the guard away and struggled to get up. Then he was choked by gunpowder smoke and coughed several times in succession.
After getting up, he didn't have time to check whether his body was injured. Instead, he wiped the telescope hanging on his chest with his clothes a few times, and then quickly observed the movement ahead.
Seeing that it didn't matter, he couldn't help but curse out: "Grandma, these little devils are crazy. They put in so many troops at once. Don't you want to let it go?"
At this moment, what appeared in front of him was a large densely packed Japanese army in a skirmishing formation, with figures in tea-green clothes everywhere. He made a rough estimate and found that it was at least the size of a brigade.
The Japanese attack was divided into four waves, each wave being a squadron. Each wave was accompanied by two heavy machine gun teams to suppress them with fire. In addition, there were two Taisho Ten guns not far away.
The one-year-old 37mm flat-fire cannon was used to clear the exposed machine gun fire points of the 35th Regiment.
Although in later generations the Japanese army was often ridiculed for its rigid tactics, most of the light weapons it equipped were very strange, such as the Type 11 machine gun that was required to fire while filling oil, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun that weighed 63 kilograms, and was even used to commit suicide.
The difficult southern pistols, etc., were so beaten by the US army that they could not find the north.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But it depends on who you compare with. Compared with military powers such as Britain, Germany, or the Soviet Union, Japan can naturally only be regarded as a younger brother, but if it is weaker than Jiji
After hundreds of years of Chinese competition, this situation will be reversed.
Moreover, although the Japanese army conducts operations in a strict manner and strictly follows military regulations, this also makes the Japanese army very organized during operations and rarely makes major mistakes.
Taking the current offensive as an example, the Japanese army's very typical wave-like attack overwhelmed the 35th Regiment, especially the Taisho 11-year-old 37mm flat-firing cannon hidden five to six hundred meters away, which was like a poisonous snake.
generally.
Once a machine gun fire point dares to show its head, they will blast away the exposed fire point in a short time like a poisonous snake. Therefore, the national army has another name for this kind of artillery... jammed cannon.
In another time and space, the 14th Division also participated in the 1937 Songhu Battle. Guo Rugui acted as the brigade commander of the 42nd Brigade of the division at that time. According to Guo Rugui's recollection, the entire brigade had 36 heavy machine guns at that time, all of which were destroyed by the Japanese army.
, and finally pieced together the parts to get 4 pieces.
Guo Rugui said this in his memoirs: When the enemy charged, we immediately used light and heavy machine guns to hit hard, and the enemy's 37-level artillery was specially designed to deal with machine guns. It could be aimed quickly, and only "stuck... hole" was heard.
With one blast, the machine gun was finished, and the soldiers called it a "jamming gun."
Throughout the Anti-Japanese War, Chinese soldiers hated and feared this kind of artillery. The reason was that the firing range of this kind of artillery was very low, almost as high as a person lying on the ground, making it difficult to detect.
Compared with the grenadiers equipped by the Japanese army, this flat-fire cannon has a longer range, better ballistic performance, and can conduct point-drawing operations more accurately. Therefore, this artillery is also called the machine gun nemesis.
Of course, during the Pacific War, this tactic became useless against the rich and inhumane American soldiers.
Facing the American soldiers who equipped their mortars with combo units, whenever the Japanese artillery dared to show their faces, they would immediately be bombarded like raindrops. Faced with this unruly fighting style, the Japanese army could only have one division.
The jade pieces of a division.
So in the final analysis, China's foundation is too weak.