Chapter 270 Assault on Japanese Artillery Positions (Part 2)
Chapter 270: Raid on Japanese Artillery Positions (Part 2)
"Nani, cavalry, where did the cavalry come from..." The captain followed the direction of the deputy captain's finger and looked over with disbelief.
"Ah...Baga, cavalry, why is this happening? Quickly, order the soldiers to enter the position immediately, machine guns, quick, bring all the machine guns over...quickly..." Seeing the man who was quickly approaching him,
The squad leader of the cavalry battalion was immediately stunned and hesitantly gave orders.
However, he didn't know that the distance of 500 meters only took less than a minute for the cavalry to attack quickly. When he saw the Eighth Route Army cavalry rushing in front of him in an instant, the squad leader's order not only failed to
What an effective effect... it also caused the soldiers who had already entered the position to fall into chaos. They listened to the thundering sound of horse hooves and felt the constantly shaking earth. Looking at the sword formation composed of the cavalry battalion's sabers reflecting the cold light, the soldiers
Total chaos.
However, under the suppression of some sergeants, there was no retreat.
"Da da da... bang bang bang..." As the cavalry battalion entered the range of the Japanese machine guns, sporadic gunshots began to ring out from the defensive position of the Japanese infantry squad, and the only three light machine guns also fired at the small Japanese army.
Under the captain's order, a relatively intensive firepower began to be fired at the cavalry battalion.
However, after the soldiers had experienced the complete annihilation of the puppet troops and their first charge training, they had become extremely experienced and were no longer the new recruits who had just entered the battlefield. When they heard the gunshots of the Japanese returning fire, the soldiers immediately
He lowered his body and lay tightly on the horse's back. At the same time, the soldiers in front began to pick up the horse rifles on their backs, held the guns with one hand, and began to fire back with long-range fire.
In this way, under the skilled tactical movements of the soldiers and the long-range firepower of the soldiers, in less than a minute, the entire cavalry battalion rushed in front of the Japanese army, and the cavalry battalion only paid the casualty price of one squad.
"Comrades, kill all these little devils for me, kill..." Seeing the faces of dozens of little devils in front of him, the faces of the battalion commander Wang Kai seized the opportunity and shouted loudly, pulling out
He took out his saber. Suddenly, countless sword lights flashed through the fast-running cavalry battalion. Hundreds of cold-glow sabers were raised above their heads by the soldiers, and their sharp blades were all aimed at the little boy in front of them.
Devil.
"Ah..." A little devil's scream was extremely clear amidst the sound of horse hooves. It was also the battalion commander Wang Kai who made the first blow of the cavalry battalion. He was at the forefront of the Japanese team's defensive position.
The little devil screamed and fell into a pool of blood. His bloody head flew far away before landing on the ground.
"Bagya Road... Warriors of the Empire, the time has come to sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor. Kill them all..." Seeing the tragic scene in front of them, especially the round heads on the ground. Although the Japanese squad leader was also frightened
His face turned pale, but he still suppressed the fear in his heart, raised the command knife in his hand, and was the first to rush towards the rapidly approaching cavalry battalion.
"Kill..." Dozens of desperate soldiers, with bayonets drawn, followed closely behind the squad leader and launched a suicidal charge towards Xu Bing's cavalry battalion.
"Second company, outflank with the left wing, third company, outflank the right wing, first company, fourth company, charge with me..." Looking at the dozens of little Japs who wanted to rush over by himself, Wang Kai showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, and faced the flag soldiers beside him.
He ordered, turned around and rushed into the team of little devils.
"Kill...kill..." The battalion commander rode his war horse and kept scurrying among the little devils. At the same time, he kept shouting and waving his saber at the little devils who were speeding past in front of him.
Anyway, if a sword flashed past his eyes, a little devil would have his head chopped off by him.
At this time, Wang Kai and the soldiers behind him were completely stunned. Even he didn't know how many heads he had chopped off. Anyway, a bloody saber was very tight in his hands.
, as long as the little devils who came close to him were all divided into corpses. In the end, wherever Wang Kai went to kill, the little devils all gave way to him when they saw him.
Finally, in less than half a minute, almost an infantry squad of little Japs in front of them were all chopped down by the soldiers. Looking at the bloody battlefield behind him and the dozens of headless corpses lying on the ground, I looked at the time when I was a child.
The two cavalry companies outflanking the Japanese artillery position were already in place. As the battalion commander, Wang Kai did not hesitate.
"Comrades, the artillery position of the little Japs has been surrounded by our cavalry battalion. Kill them all, kill all the little Japs..." Wang Kai roared loudly, waving the bloody saber in his hand, and once again took the lead in charging.
Entering the Japanese artillery position, which was already in chaos.
Facing the cavalry swarming from all directions, and facing the sword formations with cold light approaching quickly one by one. The hundreds of artillerymen on the position were completely panicked, and they all showed a look of fear. You know, artillerymen
The several hundred artillery personnel in the brigade have always been pampered in peacetime and are superior to others in the army. Basically, these people have never really been on the battlefield, and they have only undergone the most basic training. Even the infantry light weapons are only equipped with a part of the personnel.
Facing the cavalry battalion with a murderous look on their faces, they saw sabers dripping with blood, and thought of the scene where a small team's defense force was shattered. At this time, the artilleryman's eyes showed fear, but he was still afraid.
"Ah... Baga..." Finally, some soldiers could not bear the pain of having their heads cut off and no longer ignored the shouts of the officers around them. They dropped the weapons they had just received and shouted to them.
Escape from the rear of the position. With the first, there is the second. In an instant, the already fragile defense line just established by artillery commanders at all levels collapsed completely due to the retreat of the soldiers. In the end, even those
The sergeants and lieutenants also joined in the escape.
However, at this time, the cavalry battalion had surrounded the entire artillery position on three sides. They had no way to escape and could only scurry around between the cannons.
"Kill..." Finally, the cavalry battalion surrounded from all sides rushed into the little devil's artillery position. Several hundred cavalrymen galloped back and forth on a position no more than 100 meters long and dozens of meters wide. One by one
The panicked little Japs were beheaded mercilessly by the soldiers. The Japs rifles that tried to stab their own horses were chopped off by the soldiers calmly. The sound of metal collisions and the screams of the Japs,
The neighing of war horses created a beautiful symphony on the Japanese artillery position.
At this time, the two infantry battalions that had been closely following the cavalry battalion rushed to the battlefield. Of course, they did not enter the artillery position that was locked in a fight, but quickly detoured back to the two wings of the artillery position.
, began to build strong fortifications, preparing to welcome the reinforcements of the Japs.
At the same time, some soldiers stood on the edge of the position, shooting and killing the little devils who were lucky enough to escape the cavalry battalion's saber.
Finally, a few minutes passed, and the battlefield slowly became quiet. Looking at the dozens of little Japanese artillerymen kneeling on the ground shivering in front of him, Wang Kai, the battalion commander, really couldn't take action. Because, from then on,
Their fear and fear can be seen in the eyes of these little devils.
In this way, under the deterrence of the strong combat effectiveness of the cavalry battalion soldiers, the Independent Division captured prisoners for the first time in history. However, these prisoners were all technical arms such as artillery, and they also made a great contribution to the future development of the Independent Division.
Of course, this is all something to talk about later.
"In the first company, escort all these little Japanese prisoners to the general headquarters and hand them over to the commander. The remaining people will immediately clean up the battlefield and prepare to withdraw from the position." Seeing the corpses on the ground and the land stained red with blood, Wang Kai
Knowing that he had successfully completed the task assigned to him by the headquarters, he immediately ordered.
"Yes, battalion commander..." Several company commanders took the order and once again dispersed with their respective troops to the Japanese artillery position with a radius of less than one square kilometer. They began to clean the battlefield, search for survivors on the battlefield, and collect fallen comrades.
The whole process was carried out in an orderly manner. Soon, the results of the battle were counted in Wang Kai's hands.
This raid completely removed the Japanese artillery brigade from the Sakata Regiment. All 493 artillerymen and a squad of 54 infantrymen were killed by the cavalry battalion's sabers, and 35 Japanese artillerymen were captured.
. Among them, all the equipment and countless ammunition of a Japanese brigade and two squadrons were captured, which can be said to have achieved rich results. Of course, the cavalry battalion, which was the main attacking force in this battle, also paid a heavy price.
During the raid on the Little Japanese infantry squad, the Little Japanese launched a suicidal counterattack. Countless soldiers fell into the bombs of the Little Japanese suicide attack. According to statistics, more than one company of the cavalry battalion was lost in this battle.
130 soldiers in the total attack, along with their horses, died on the battlefield, and 24 soldiers were seriously injured and could never return to the cavalry unit. Wang Kai rode on his own horse, stepping on the horse that had been stained red with blood.
On the ground, watching the corpses of the soldiers being collected one after another, the order to withdraw was finally given.
The cavalry battalion took the remains of their fallen comrades, and the injured comrades left the Xiaojiazi artillery position and ended their mission. However, this does not mean that there will no longer be fighting on the Xiaojiazi artillery position. You must know that at this time, in the artillery
On both wings of the position, the first thing that reacted was the Japanese wing headquarters.
When he heard the sound of horse hooves, Japanese commander Colonel Sakata began to pay attention to his artillery position. When he saw the cavalry of the brigade rushing into his artillery position like a whirlwind, he wanted to sweep away half of the fallen leaves in the autumn wind and quickly eliminate himself.
When he joined the artillery brigade, Colonel Sakata, who was the commander of the regiment, immediately realized the dangers of losing the artillery brigade.
Therefore, regardless of the objections of the third battalion captain around him, he removed a squadron of troops from the few troops around the wing headquarters, strengthened a large number of automatic firepower, light and heavy machine guns, and reinforced the artillery positions where the fierce battle was taking place.
When the Japanese army assembled and set off, more than ten minutes had passed. In these ten minutes, it was enough for the cavalry battalion to eliminate hundreds of artillerymen on the artillery position with almost no one and no fighting capacity. As a little devil,
When the reinforcements of the squadron came out of the wing headquarters, the artillery position had already changed hands. When the reinforcements of a squadron of Little Devils arrived carrying a large number of heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons, the cavalry battalion that had just been showing off on the artillery position was
They had quietly retreated, but they left behind two infantry battalions and an artillery company that made the little devils scared.
When the Saponin Cavalry Battalion made a sneak attack on the artillery position, the captain of the Second Battalion, who was commanding the reunion of his brigade below the high ground, was the first to notice the situation due to the advantage of the terrain. However, seeing the artillery position being attacked, he could only act anxiously.
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Because at this time, the two squadrons in his hands were fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain, and there were only two machine gun squadrons of more than 200 imperial troops beside him. It was simply a delusion to let them deal with the elite cavalry troops of the Eighth Route Army. However, the captain
He also knew that if the artillery position was lost, he and his regiment would completely lose fire support and eventually become a lamb to be slaughtered by the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing the Eighth Route Army cavalry troops rushing into the artillery positions, the captain did not dare to neglect. He immediately ordered several squadrons of cavalry comrades who were fighting fiercely on the front line to retreat and prepare to reinforce the artillery positions. However, the situation was not as simple as he imagined.
Before the cavalry battalion launched a surprise attack, in order to ensure the success of the cavalry battalion's surprise attack, Liu Hua specifically issued an order in the name of the headquarters to the first battalion standing on the high ground. During the next attack of the little Japanese, he did not seek to quickly defeat the Japanese army.
, but to stick to him as much as possible and put them in a dilemma.
Of course, the first battalion that stayed on the position resolutely obeyed the command of the headquarters. After putting the little devil in front of him, he concentrated all the firepower and opened fire at once. He pressed the little devil 50 to 200 meters in front of his position.
At the same time, in order to prevent the Japs from retreating, the battalion headquarters concentrated all the grenades and mortars and fired violently at 150 meters in front of the position. With artillery fire, an isolation zone was built behind the Japanese army.
This added a lot of trouble to the Japanese army's retreat. In Xu Bin's words, you can retreat, but you must pay a sufficient price. Therefore, there was an airtight rain of bullets above your head, and raindrops behind you.
Even though the Japanese frontline commander received the order from the battalion commander to retreat, there was nothing he could do.
In the end, under the forced order of the captain, the Japanese army left behind a large number of corpses. More importantly, it took more than ten minutes to withdraw from the high ground less than 500 meters away. Only what was left in front of them was
With more than 300 troops, the captain was in tears. He joined forces with the third battalion that arrived, plus two machine gun squadrons, and gathered 800 troops. He voluntarily gave up the high ground in front of him and killed
Toward the artillery position, which gradually became quiet.
As for the Third Division Regiment that protects the artillery position, it is seizing the time to build defensive fortifications. Trench bunkers have slowly taken shape. Light and heavy machine guns have been set up on the predetermined positions. The soldiers are also gearing up, preparing to attack the front.
The little devils who came for reinforcements gave him a head-on attack.
And when the cavalry battalion just retreated, the artillery company commander who rushed to the artillery position was really ecstatic. Because in front of him were neatly placed two rows of 18 various mountain cannons. You know, this kind of cannon
But it's what he dreamed of.
What made him even more happy to arrive was the countless artillery shells on the position. It turned out that when the Sakata Regiment sent troops, Major General Kitamura Katsuzo, the commander of the Major General Brigade, believed that this battle to encircle and annihilate the Eighth Route Army would be a protracted one.
The battle will take a long time. Therefore, in order to prevent the Bantian regiment from worrying about ammunition, and Baoding County has stored countless supplies and ammunition. The entire regiment carries sufficient ammunition, and the artillery brigade is more
In this way, the entire artillery brigade carried a total of more than 10 base shells.
Although the battle has continued until now, the Japanese army has fired a lot of artillery shells. However, in the ammunition area of the artillery position, the artillery company commander still saw no less than several thousand rounds of various artillery shells.
"Comrades, the little devil has sent us so many artillery shells this time, so don't be polite. Listen to me, and immediately re-build the artillery position and assign nine cannons to me. When the battle starts,
, as long as the little devils show their heads, we will greet them with the cannonballs they made themselves, and prepare a good steel lunch for them. Do you hear that? Whoever fires fewer cannonballs will be the best at that time.
I will remove whoever is from his position and make him a logistics soldier." The artillery company commander shouted at the more than a hundred soldiers behind him.
"Yes, company commander..." Immediately, the soldiers began to take action.
However, because the artillery position at this time was completely dyed red with the blood of the Japanese, it had become muddy during the continuous stampede of the cavalry battalion. Finally, with the help of soldiers from two infantry companies transferred by the regiment commander, the artillery company
Only the muzzles of 10 cannons were turned, but these were enough for the little devil to drink a pot.
Just as the soldiers were making pre-war preparations, the reinforcements from the Japanese wing headquarters that were first felt on the battlefield had appeared in the soldiers' sight. A reinforced squadron was 400 meters away from the soldiers' position.
It stopped at that place, and a dozen reinforced heavy machine guns began to build a position, while a squadron of infantry also began to form an attack formation under the command of the squadron leader.
"Report to Captain Wang, the regiment commander ordered the artillery to open fire immediately and conduct indiscriminate bombardment on the Japanese army's assembly area..." Just when the artillery company commander began to adjust the matters involving Zhu Yuan, the correspondent next to the regiment commander ran to him and ordered
road.
"Okay, go back and tell the regiment commander that the artillery company will let the little Japanese have a taste of its own shells to reassure him..." After the commander of the artillery company finished speaking, he began to order the five cannons behind him to start adjusting and fire at Zhu Yuan. In less than a minute
Within minutes, the soldiers who were very familiar with the mountain cannon in front of them adjusted their various elements. The black muzzles of the cannons slowly rose up and were aimed at the Japanese army assembly area about 800 meters away from them.