The three of them are all veterans who have experienced battles for a long time, and they have a clear understanding of the battle situation. As long as Liu Tuanzuo can lead his troops to occupy the Japanese artillery positions or even just defeat them, then the two Japanese infantry regiments in Jiuguan and Niangziguan will be strong on the outside and capable on the inside.
Vulnerable.
But being vulnerable doesn't mean they won't run away, and if you want to block them, you have to pay a high price. Without the cannon, they are not weak.
On the other side of Niangziguan is the Third Army of the Central Army. The nearly 20,000 troops of the two divisions are not their turn to worry about. But the 77th Infantry Regiment on the other side of Jiuguan has to look to them.
In the past few days of offensive and defensive battles at Jiuguan, the Japanese army suffered considerable losses. The statistics of casualties in front of the two armies' positions alone were over a thousand people. If you include those who were killed by artillery and those who were destroyed by bombs, it would probably be no less.
There are only 1,500 people, but an infantry regiment has 3,800 people, and the Japanese army still has a strength of just over 2,000.
The Centipede Insect is still dead, not to mention the elite Japanese infantry with many people and still equipped equipment? The 772 Regiment still has less than 1,800 people in the battle. The 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment suffered slightly smaller casualties but the number is not large.
There are only 700 combatable troops. Including the less than 5,000 troops that the 17th Division can mobilize, the total is only 7,000. It is not difficult to defeat this large Japanese army in a field battle, but if you want to annihilate them all,
The Japanese army was not an easy job.
Instead of howitzers, they still have infantry artillery, heavy machine guns, and even airplanes. If they do the opposite and stick to the mountains and switch positions offensively and defensively, they will want to kill them without paying huge casualties.
,Disaster.
In the end, the advice put forward by Deputy Commander Wang was adopted by the other two men named Ye. Although it was a bit bold and radical, as long as it really worked, these 2,000 Japanese troops would never be able to escape.
This tactic proposed by Deputy Commander Wang is actually somewhat similar to the most commonly used tactics by the Japanese army, which is to send small groups of troops to bypass the enemy's rear to harass and ambush them.
I say radical because before the entire battle situation was completely clear and the Japanese invaders had not yet captured the 26th artillery position, they had to send an infantry battalion to detour from the right to the mountainous area on the rear flank of the Japanese army. But it was not an encirclement, but a siege.
Companies and platoons form a unit, occupying the commanding heights.
If the Japanese army doesn't want to run away and just stays in the position or flees along the road, this infantry battalion will naturally not play any role. But if the Japanese army discovers something is wrong and flees lightly along the mountain road into the mountains, then the distance between both sides
The infantry battalions whose positions are seven or eight miles away will be useful. Use bullets to tell them that this road is impassable.
At the very least, they were to block them and wait for the main force to pursue them and encircle them in the mountains.
It is said to be bold because, after all, an infantry battalion only has 500 or 600 people. They must at least support the main force until the arrival of the main force under the counterattack of No. 2000 Japs. Moreover, because the mountain road is rugged and difficult, they must all be lightly equipped.
Without heavy firepower, can they still reap the lives of the Japanese as easily as they did on the Jiuguan position?
If you can't, then you have to pay with your own life.
It was like a double-edged sword. Blocking the retreat of the Japanese troops caused them great pain, and at the same time, they could cut themselves if they were not careful.
However, apart from this, there is no other way to prevent the Japanese invaders from escaping into the mountains. Once they are allowed to escape into the mountains like wild dogs, not to mention the 7,000 people here, even the 100,000 troops from the eastern Shanxi front line will not know what to do.
How much effort will it take to clear out this Japanese army?
Apart from the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment, there is no other suitable unit that can undertake this task.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, under the cover of darkness, the main position on the Jiuguan front line quietly completed the defense change. The 3rd Battalion of the 772 Regiment entered the main position at Jiuguan. The 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment gathered three infantry companies and divided them into three batches.
Make a detour from the right wing to the mountainous area behind the Japanese position.
Making a detour in mountainous areas is not like making a detour in the plains. It only suffices to detour seven or eight miles. According to pre-war reconnaissance, if you want to go from Jiuguan to the rear of the Japanese army, it will take at least 20 miles, and it is also a small path. If you are not careful, you will be
Will get lost.
It is not an easy task to arrive fully armed within 4 hours.
This time, they did not bring heavy machine guns, nor 82- or even 60-pound artillery shells. Each gun only had ten rounds. Because the road was far away, the mountains were rugged and steep, and they were marching at night. In order to ensure that there were enough
In order to maintain physical strength and rush to the designated location before the battle begins, each person is only allowed to carry 100 rounds of ammunition and 4 grenades, and the light and heavy machine gun team is only allowed to carry half of the usual bullet base.
But this time, they brought Xiong Er and Xiong Si with them. With these two guys who originally belonged to the mountains and forests escorting them along the way, they might be able to relax a lot. God knows how many miles the Japanese army expanded the warning range of their top soldiers.
The battalion attacks lightly, but don't let the Japanese make dumplings, which will embarrass all the officers and soldiers on the Jiuguan front line!
Not to mention, the green wolf and the giant panda really belong to the elves of the mountains. Ye Zifei really did not transfer them from the field hospital for nothing. They were wandering a mile or two away from the main army and did not need to walk on the mountain road. They just wandered leisurely in the mountain forest.
At 6:50 in the morning, when the sky was already slightly dark, Wolf and Bear discovered their prey in the forest four or five miles away from the Japanese position.
Two sleeping Japanese soldiers lying in the grass were awakened from their sleep by a strange gasp. When they suddenly opened their eyes, in the thin morning light, a bloody mouth spewing a fishy smell almost missed them.
The stimulation causes the bladder to contract wildly.
A wolf, a big wolf, was looking at them coldly with his head lowered.
That wolf was really big, much bigger than people could imagine, and it was also wearing a small vest. But that didn't detract from its fearfulness at all.
Anyway, the screams of the Japanese soldiers out of fear were like Xiong Er trying to pop his anus, it was very shrill and shrill. In the silent mountains, it could be heard far away.
Of course, in the mountains, no matter how loud you scream, the mountain peaks will block and absorb the sound waves, and the distance is only three to four hundred meters.
The first reaction of the two Japanese soldiers was to get their guns, which they kept beside them when they slept. However, they were in tragedy.
The gun is gone.
Was stolen.
To be precise, it was stolen by a bear, a large spotted bear.
Under Xiong Si's butt, sat two rifles, which he stole quietly from the two earth-colored humans with his huge bear paws. Although the giant panda hated this shit-colored human being, because he did not receive an attack order, he
He didn't immediately slap the shit-yellow man's neck with his clawed bear paws.
In addition to wolves, are there bears? The two over-fertilized Japanese soldiers had no guns and could only reach for the bayonets hanging on their waists.
This time, the big green wolf was offended. According to its experience, once a hostile human touches its waist, it will be threatened.
The body is slightly bent, the lips are turned up, and the three-centimeter-long fangs are exposed. This is a sign that the wolf is about to attack.
But the Japanese army knew this. They only knew that without guns, only bayonets were their most solid support.
Therefore, the one with the quickest hands and feet was the first to suffer the unlucky fate. Before his hand even touched the bayonet scabbard, the green wolf that had been staring suddenly jumped up, and a sharp pain began to spread.
The green wolf bit the Japanese soldier's neck with great accuracy, and the four sharp canine teeth were firmly embedded in his soft neck. Any prey whose neck was bitten by the wolf, let alone a human, was a bison.
He will eventually die of suffocation.
Of course, the Japanese army is not a bison. He still has hands. He is still struggling desperately, and his hands are still groping desperately in an attempt to pull out the bayonet and deliver a fatal blow to the terrifying beast in front of him. If there was only Xiong Er,
Maybe he will succeed.
However, wolves have always been creatures that help teams hunt. Xiong Er also has helpers.
As a result, the struggling Japanese soldier sadly suffered another blow.
A huge bear's paw suddenly hit his forearm. After a muffled "bang" sound, the Japanese soldier's right arm turned out strangely. It was definitely a fracture. If anyone who knows martial arts could see it,
By this scene, your teeth are probably hurting. This move is not the collapse fist in Bajiquan!
However, appearing on a panda seems a bit too abrupt.
However, Liu Tuanzuo used the same move to beat him at least hundreds of times. Not to mention the clever giant panda, even a pig might have learned it. What's more, Xiong Si relies not on moves, but on
, the power of the bear.
Xiong Si, who can lift more than 200 kilograms of weight and walk in a large circle, is the strongest man in the independent group second only to Liu Tuanzuo. Breaking an ordinary person's arm bone with one palm is not a joke.
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This is not the first time that a wolf and a bear have cooperated in hunting. Even the 200 kilogram wild boar is no match for them. The ending of this tragic Japanese army can be imagined. The only remaining Japanese army has lost its last resistance.
No matter how hard he tried, he could only wave his arm in vain a few times before hanging down weakly, and his eyes turned completely white.
But another Japanese soldier survived by luck. It was not that he was scared out of his mind and wanted to surrender to the two beasts, but he was really powerless! Before he could even touch the bayonet, a huge bear's butt came from nearly one meter away.
He suddenly sat down with a weight of 110 kilograms at a high altitude, and almost squeezed out all his feces.
The most terrifying thing is that as long as he moves his hand, the giant panda sitting on him will open its mouth and come close to his head. The cute-looking flower bear wearing a pair of big sunglasses still looks very cute even with its mouth open.
.But this person knows that this ferocious guy is actually very scary. He doesn't even need to open his big mouth, just the two big bear paws "stroking" him can smash his head, even if it's on his head
He was also wearing a 90-type steel helmet.
This can be proven by the fact that his dead companion still slightly tilted his stiffened arms.
But, why didn’t the terrifying wolf and bear kill him immediately? Could it be that they were waiting for other wild animals to join them for dinner? They also have the habit of eating while it’s hot?
When there was clearly a creature approaching not far away, and the sound of "rustling" came, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that my miserable Japanese army had released a large pool of hot fluids.
The smell was so irritating that Xiong Si's eyes drew circles, and he almost beat this unhygienic guy to a pulp with just one palm.
This may also be the first time that the old monkey saw the little Japanese who was a little excited to meet the Chinese who wanted to kill him. At that moment, he even felt that he was meeting a friendly soldier disguised as a Japanese, if he didn't speak standard Japanese words
if.
When they saw that they were a group of Chinese, the Japanese soldiers, who were gushing out their urine and feces, wept with joy. They took the initiative to explain themselves without even having to be pressed by the old monkey who was hanging on his shoulders.
After all, people may kill people, but they can't eat people! Especially when he is so cooperative.