As for why it is a triangle, it is clear that there are far fewer people.
The platoon is based on a squad, and the squad is based on a group. In terms of platooning and formation, the 51st Division is much better than other divisions. General Wang Yao deploys soldiers in combat groups in each area.
On the forward position, firepower points should be set up reasonably.
Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the 51st Division are among the best among the Central Army. The soldiers are all tigers and wolves, and they are quite fierce in fighting. Such improvements have allowed the 51st Division to form a partial firepower against the Japanese army in terms of unit firepower.
Advantages.
Xia Yuanneng didn't teach much. He told the other party his accustomed combat experience. In positional warfare, he could find some veterans with high shooting skills to form a shooting team, hide in the rear, and specialize in hunting down the Japanese scouts, team leaders, and commanders.
Officer, grenade hand.
These units are very important among the Japanese army. Defeating them will give them a huge advantage in the subsequent battle.
After listening to Xia Yuan's words, Captain Huang put his fist on his palm, "This is a good idea. The shooting team can indeed be established. The Japanese are attacking and we are defending. As long as their commander can be killed, they will have no command. They will definitely
There will be confusion to a certain extent.”
This is actually the prototype of the sniper.
Some soldiers in the army have the concept of defeating the enemy's special units, but this concept is very small on the commander's side. The victory of a battle is not achieved by defeating the opponent's commander, but by defeating the enemy's commander.
You have to win on all fronts.
But this concept is quite suitable for small unit operations.
Xia Yuan said: "But we must ensure one thing, that is, we must not expose ourselves. We must learn to hide ourselves, move around the position, and take advantage of the trenches to shoot at the enemy."
Company Commander Huang thought about it and nodded. If such a shooting team can perform miraculous effects, it will inevitably be attacked by the Japanese army, so it must hide itself well.
But, can such a shooting team really work?
Can you always give it a try? The shooting team Xia Yuan mentioned is indeed capable of attacking. Think about it, if you put together several experienced veterans in the company, the lineup formed is indeed strong enough. The only drawback is that each team has
Without veterans, the squad's combat capabilities will be much worse.
The two chatted for a while, and then they talked about fighting the Japanese. Captain Huang said, "I know that you are very good at fighting the Japanese. I have never seen how good you are. I must see you if you have the chance."
Xia Yuan smiled and said nothing. He always felt that beating him up was like a show.
When I first led this company, I was pestered every day to see how well I could do.
But he was very worried.
At this moment, the atmosphere had just faded away a bit, but Captain Huang came here again with his people. Xia Yuan was quite helpless, and the other party didn't bother him. They had a date, but when he saw other Xia Yuan, he couldn't say anything.
Two, just leave.
It felt a lot cleaner after leaving. Xia Yuan took his people to inspect the situation on the battlefield again.
The layout of the machine gun firepower points has not yet met his expectations. The dug machine gun bunker is too shallow, and half of the body is easily exposed. It is very unsatisfactory for shooting.
Xia Yuan put a lot of effort into the machine gun fire point, especially the pile of soil around the machine gun fire point. He adopted an outward sloping mound so that when the enemy's shells fell around, the splashing shrapnel would be reduced by the sloping soil.
of kinetic energy.
Then, Xia Yuan called several machine gunners over and taught them how to observe, how to move around, and what to do if they were targeted by Japanese artillery.
After teaching for more than half an hour, I finally imparted to the other party some of my experience of being bombed in the Korean battlefield.
The sky in the distance was getting dark, the sound of the cooks starting dinner was heard, and the soldiers began to line up to receive their dinner.
"The little Japs didn't come today. It would be nice if every day was the same as today."
"How is it possible? The little Japanese devil might be tinkering with something again."
"Maybe the Japanese will come tomorrow. Let's eat quickly."
Listening to the conversation of the soldiers who were cooking, Xia Yuan ate his meal and looked at the gloomy sky with a slight glimmer of light. The Japanese positions were indeed a little quiet today, not only in the west, but also in the east. The Japanese
It's like falling asleep, the silence is eerie, and the atmosphere is a little weird.
However, the west and east sides were relatively calm, but Yu Jishi's 58th Division on the north side was violently attacked by the Japanese. After attacking the Chongteng detachment of the 58th Division, they fought for a day, and Yu Jishi's 58th Division lost part of it.
positions, but the core position was still firmly in their own hands, and the Japanese only occupied the peripheral positions.
On the east side, the 177th Brigade of the 59th Division also felt the front line, taking over the positions of the 31st Brigade of the 11th Division at the Jinjiazhai, Zhoujiazhai, and Ximazhai lines. The 31st Brigade of the 11th Division
Retreating to Taojiazhai and Guanyindou on the west side of the highway, they took over part of the 67th Division's positions.
The Sixty-seventh Division extended its position to the west.
An interesting thing happened. In the morning, the Nationalist troops were basically in full swing. The Japanese air force reconnaissance noticed the changes and mistakenly thought that the Nationalist troops were retreating. The dispatched troops in Shanghai followed the instructions.
The intelligence from the Air Force's reconnaissance issued an order to the 11th Division to pursue the national army. After receiving the order, the 11th Division asked the frontline units to conduct reconnaissance.
It was found that the national troops around Luodian not only showed no signs of retreat, but were constantly reinforcing their positions.
Until the afternoon of that day, the 11th Division still did not see the retreat of the National Army, but instead came under heavy fire from the National Army artillery.
Therefore, the 11th Division did not implement the pursuit order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces, and still decided to launch a full-line offensive the next day in accordance with the original plan.
In addition, the Chinese army built strong defenses at Baibizhijia, changed its offensive strategy, and decided to dig an underground tunnel from Luodian Town to Baibizhijia and blast it from the tunnel. On the 20th, the Japanese engineers
The Eleventh Regiment began to dig towards the White Wall House.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The sky gradually dimmed, the drizzle was hazy, and the ice was cold. Just when Xia Yuan and the others were about to take a rest, the Japanese 11th Division finally brought all the division's troops to rest.
Four infantry regiments, as well as artillery and tank units were mobilized to the east side of Luodian.
The Japanese army divided the troops into two wings: the 43rd Regiment and the 44th Regiment on the right wing. They were equipped with the 2nd Tank Squadron, a mortar squadron and a machine gun squadron.
On the left are the 12th Regiment and the 22nd Regiment, equipped with artillery squadrons, mortar squadrons and machine gun squadrons.
In the rear are the artillery regiments and field heavy artillery battalions directly under the division. In addition to retaining the third reserve infantry battalion as the division reserve, the Japanese Eleventh Division can be said to have invested the Eleventh Infantry Regiment on the east side of Luodian.
The entire strength of the division.
In addition, in addition to the 11th Division preparing to launch a general offensive on the east side of Luodian on the 21st, the Japanese 3rd Division located near Yanghang will join the 68th Regiment as a reserve force to coordinate with the 18th Regiment.
, the Thirty-fourth Regiment attacked Liu Xing again to assist the Eleventh Division in this attack.
It's late at night.
The Japanese 11th Division has concentrated its four infantry regiments, as well as artillery, engineers, and tanks to the southeast of Luodian, and coordinated the army aviation, waiting for the moment of the general offensive to bomb the national army positions.
Its operational goal was to repel the Chinese army from the south of Luodian, cross Dijing, and completely control the road between Luodian and Liuhang.
The key target of the Japanese attack is in the southeast of Luodian. As for the Chongteng detachment on the west side of Luodian and the 11th Japanese Cavalry Regiment, they will also conduct certain diversionary attacks on the national army in front, containing the 51st Division and the 50th Division of the National Army.
Eighth Division, which would make it impossible for these two divisions to support southward.
As for the Third Division near Liu Hang, due to the heavy losses of the 18th Regiment and the 34th Regiment on the east side of Liu Hang, the combat effectiveness of the Third Division dropped rapidly, and the focus of the Third Division's attack began to shift towards the 68th Regiment.
The area around Taiping Bridge on the north side of Liuhang was relocated.
The Third Division planned to use these three regiments to cross Dijing, occupy Liujiahang, cross Dijing to the west, and control the road between Luodian and Liuhang, which became the combat target of the two Japanese divisions.
Dijing winds from Luodian to near Liuhang and intersects with Zhongzaobang. It is one of the most important rivers blocking the front of the Japanese army. Therefore, the national army also concentrated its main defense forces on building fortifications along the Dijing coast.
It was hoped that the rivers in the Dijing area could be used as a natural barrier to stop the Japanese army.
For this reason, this battle was also called the Dijing Battle.
The Japanese army planned to attack at seven o'clock in the morning.
It rained all night, and the whole Songhu became extremely humid. Raindrops hung on the grass and trees. The veterans got up very early and ran to the eaves of the village to collect rainwater and put it in kettles.
The soldiers also lit the fire and raised the smoke. After collecting the rainwater, the veteran ran to the yard of the cooking squad, sat by the fire and rubbed his hands.
"It's been raining for so many days and it hasn't stopped yet."
"If it rains more, it will affect the visibility of the Japanese planes, and their bombers will not be able to bomb accurately."
"The main reason is that it's too cold."
"The temperature has cooled down, just wear more clothes."
"It's better to sit in front of the fire to keep warm."
There were veterans in the cooking squad, knocking on the soldiers under their hands, chatting and cooking steaming noodle soup.
The food of the 51st Division is quite good, and the officers are also very good to the soldiers. It is precisely because of this atmosphere in the 51st Division that the soldiers of the 51st Division dare to fight hard.
I saw the veteran sitting in front of the fire, chatting, and then turned the conversation to Xia Yuan.
They knew that the veteran had fought with Xia Yuan from Luodian, and they must know Xia Yuan very well, especially when they mentioned Xia Yuan's killing of Japanese soldiers, everyone put aside what they were doing and kept their ears open.
The veteran smiled and did not mince words with them. He told them clearly what he had seen and heard with Xia Yuan, especially the first time they met, in a shallow river in Luodian, when they talked about seeing Xia Yuan.
When shooting in the water, the veteran said: "At that time, I was reprimanding the company commander. The little Japanese's cannons were blowing up the water so much that he couldn't stand still, but he stood in the water and aimed at a few hundred meters.
The Japanese machine gun firepower was out of range."
"I thought to myself, isn't this a joke? Not to mention fighting in the water where the standing position is unstable, even standing on the ground, it is so dark, you can see the muzzle of the Japanese machine gun flashing, how can you hit it?
.”
"The result really shocked me. I really hit the target. The Japanese machine gun stopped. The company commander put away his gun and rushed towards the Japanese position. I followed him at a distance behind my butt."
Looking at the surprised faces of the soldiers in the cooking class, the veteran smiled and thought to himself, when he saw this scene, he was so shocked that his mouth opened wide. A Japanese artillery shell fell next to him.
I accidentally fell into the water and choked several times.
"Good boy! After firing from a few hundred meters away, the Japanese machine gun firepower was knocked out!?"
"It was still in the water, it was still night, or it was daytime. If I were to hit a target of 100 meters, I couldn't hit it."
"Our company commander also said that there is a powerful company commander coming from above. How powerful is this?"
The soldiers in the cooking class gasped in shock and gritted their teeth. It was quite incredible. Although they were cooking soldiers, they had also been on the battlefield and knew how powerful the Japanese were, especially how difficult it was to deal with machine gun fire points.
Those killed by guns are all gods.
Before the veteran said anything, Xia Yuan used his very powerful ability to throw grenades to attack the Japanese position. He was the only one who assisted in the attack, and he did not put in much effort.
The humanoid mortar is used to describe Xia Yuan.
"What kind of food did you cook today?" Skipping the topic, the veteran looked at the gurgling noodle soup in the pot with white smoke coming out.
"Noodles, served with pickles," said the cooking team leader.
"Aren't there any white-flour steamed buns?"
"Wherever there are white flour steamed buns, they have been eaten a long time ago. The supplies from above have not been shipped yet. It will probably take a while." The leader of the cooking team said: "There is not much white flour left. The more we drink, the less it will be."
The logistics supply of the national army has always been a very serious problem. There are too many moths and they are transported layer by layer. If there are any, no one will notice them.
At any time, borers are unavoidable.
At least the situation of the 51st Division is pretty good. The local army probably doesn't even have the logistics.
Rumble, rumble!
Suddenly, there was a slight rumble from far away in the sky. The sound floated here, and it was no longer very clear. But if you listen carefully, you can still hear it. It was the shelling of the Japanese.
They were stunned when Japanese planes appeared above them and dropped bombs one after another. The bombs fell freely, rubbing the air and making a sharp roar.
In an instant, artillery shells hit the village one after another. The ground was in position, and the village devastated by the shells screamed continuously.
"Quick, hide in the tunnel!"
"Two dogs, two dogs, come here, where are you running? Get into the corner, hurry up."
“I don’t need food, my life is important!”
"It's just as important. Soldiers don't have food to eat, so how can they fight the Japanese? Put the pot in."