"Mr. Gu, you see, if the Chinese want to fight at night, the best choice would be to wait until the early morning when people are most tired. Or even if they want to fight now, they should wait until my fortifications are not completely completed. But they just happened to be there.
At this time, they chose to confront the two infantry brigades on our side, which happened to be a place where artillery could not hit them. What do you think they had in mind?" Suzuki Mitsuchi is the brigade commander after all, and his analysis is well-founded and very convincing.
It's in place.
That Chinese army smelled of conspiracy to its core, especially after being severely deceived by the other party's commander.
In the three positions, the imagined dozen or so small machine guns turned into dozens of heavy machine guns with an exaggerated rate of fire of unknown models, as well as a bunch of mortars. The firepower was stronger than that of my own brigade, or so.
Hiding in a turtle shell and shooting his own soldiers, Suzuki Mitsuchi felt heartbroken every time he thought of this scene.
In fact, although almost all the heavy machine guns and nearly 5,000 soldiers were lost, the 4th Brigade, which had two artillery brigades with 24 cannons, a fully formed infantry brigade and more than 1,000 defeated soldiers, still had the strength to fight Liu Lang.
, especially when they have already built basic field fortifications.
But the so-called frightened bird is like this. Any move made by Liu Lang's army now will make Major General Suzuki think twice.
Although he is looking forward to the early arrival of the reinforcements from tomorrow's division commander, he may be able to take over quickly, but Gu Yiyi also understands that he has to wait until he can survive the night safely. If the other party's commander is bold enough, with their equipment, tonight
A sneak attack is inevitable, and the artillery brigade with the weakest protection and the strongest attack power must be their first choice.
If there is no artillery brigade, it will really be the end. Not to mention the brigade commander, it is one thing whether he can live to see the sun tomorrow.
The reason is very simple. The previous attacking Imperial Army used their own lives to detect clearly. The opponent also has artillery, and there are quite a lot of them. There are not only mortars but also mountain artillery. Now the entire brigade only has 4 guns in addition to the two artillery brigades.
Infantry artillery. Even Gu Yiyi had to sadly admit that after the imperial army was defeated in the first battle, not only its morale, but also its equipment was far inferior to its opponents.
"Surround the area to call for reinforcements?" Gu Yi thought for a while and gave this answer.
"Yoshi, the Chief of Staff and I thought of going together." Suzuki Mitsuchi nodded and said: "The cunning Chinese people do not dare to attack our position, trying to use this method to move our troops out of the position, and then use an ambush to attack them.
Our troops are killing and killing, and we cannot be fooled by them."
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, what should we do?"
"Instruct Kihara Shinichi and others to shrink the defense line and concentrate the cannons. All personnel will take up arms to participate in the defense. As long as they can defend until dawn tomorrow, the Chinese will have to retreat. At the same time, they are ordered to place explosives around all the cannons. If the situation is critical, they can be blown up.
Artillery, we must not let the Chinese threaten the main position of our brigade." Suzuki Mitsuchi said fiercely with a trace of evil in his eyes.
"Hi." Gu Yi solemnly accepted the order.
Although Suzuki Mitsuchi has the intention of losing his vehicle to save his commander, from the current situation analysis, this is the most reasonable. As long as the headquarters of the brigade is still there, the 4th Brigade will still have a chance to make a comeback. If it is to rescue the artillery
If the brigade is attacked by the Chinese army again and loses valuable infantry, causing the main position to be breached, the two of them will not be the defeated generals, but a shame for the entire Kwantung Army.
Since the First Sino-Japanese War with China, the Imperial Japanese Army has not had a record of a brigade being wiped out, and they cannot take this risk.
But neither Suzuki Mitichi nor Gu Yi knew that the military order they jointly issued, which seemed to be the most correct military order to cut off the tail of a gecko, would be hailed as another stupid order in the history of the Japanese military.
It was so stupid that it couldn't be compared to General Muto's military order that only ordered the 4th Brigade to attack the independent regiment alone.
Because he obviously forgot that he was the general officer of the 4th Brigade, not the two chief officers of the artillery brigade responsible for assisting the 4th Brigade. If he had telegraphed the commander of the 8th Artillery Regiment as soon as possible, informing him of the current situation
In this situation, please ask him to order to allow the artillery brigade to explode the artillery at the most critical moment. Perhaps the effect will be much better.
You know, the Japanese military regulations are extremely strict, and anyone who loses his weapon can be shot, let alone heavy weapons such as cannons.
Such an incident happened during the Anti-Japanese War. The Red Army cleverly set up an ambush and took away an infantry gun from the Japanese invaders. The Red Army who had captured such a powerful weapon were naturally overjoyed, but the one who luckily escaped with his life
The artillery squad was in dire straits. In order to get this infantry cannon back, these guys just collected 1,000 silver and used their connections to go to the red army to buy it back. However, it didn't work out. Although the red army was poor, it had such an infantry cannon.
There were even fewer gadgets, so of course they wouldn't be sold, so the twelve people in the Japanese artillery squad who lost their cannon were shot to death.
Now you, a commander of another unit, let a friendly force blow up a cannon that is crucial to his life. Do you think it is possible? Especially when I heard that without reinforcements, he will obviously destroy himself. Two artillery majors
If the captain didn't fire a few shots at your so-called main position on the spot, it would be a shame.
Obviously, even if Suzuki Mitsuru thought about it, he would not do it. It is already very embarrassing to be beaten until he loses his armor and is in a state of embarrassment. To ask himself to tell a commander about his embarrassment is not to beat himself up.
face?
Of course, this is just fine. The two artillery brigades have two infantry squadrons with complete equipment and personnel. Their combat effectiveness is comparable to or even greater than that of a regiment of the general national army. Together with the other thousands of soldiers in the artillery brigades, even if they are shot,
It's not accurate, but it's still okay to have a strong momentum. The Chinese army can't even hope to attack without two regiments.
But the Chinese army still needs to defend its positions. Even if there are two regiments, it is already the limit to dedicate one regiment to fight. If you stretch your imagination a little further, the commander of the Chinese army is a madman. If you dedicate one and a half regiments, it will be in vain, right?
Unfortunately, Suzuki Mitsuchi was said to be stupid because he still believed in his own judgment despite the failure and seriously underestimated the Chinese military strength.
The Chinese army does not have two regiments, but three regiments.
Moreover, Liu Lang's courage was far greater than Suzuki Mitsuchi imagined.
Just when Suzuki Mitsuchi ordered his two positions to stand firm, all the soldiers of Luo Wenyu's three independent regiments in the defense zone had withdrawn from the position, and the defense of the position was handed over to the supply company and 500 strong men. Only Zhou Shiyu dared to
The dead company was still on the ancient mountain four miles away from the main Japanese position.
A total of 1,300 people from the two infantry battalions of the independent regiment and the guard platoon directly under the regiment headquarters were dispatched.
If Suzuki Mitsuchi ordered another attack on Luo Wenyu, he would be surprised to find that this time the defenders' marksmanship was far worse than before. Although the terrifying machine guns would fire again, their lethality would be far less than before.
MG42 machine gun shooters need professional training, and it cannot be operated by strong men who have shot rifles.
In other words, Luo Wenyu's defensive positions are actually just embroidered pillows, useless. If Suzuki Mitsuchi attacks again, the situation of the battle may change.
Unfortunately, Suzuki Mitsuchi and his Imperial Japanese Army were frightened by the battle in the afternoon, and the only thing they could do was to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
Suzuki Mitsuchi's stupid military order threw the two artillery brigades into hell, and also wiped out the last hope of the 4th Brigade.