When the vanguard squad sent by the first battalion quietly approached the village of Zhaojiaqiao and was surrounded by 50 advanced-made Thompson assault rifles from the engineer platoon of the mercenary regiment on guard nearby, they thought they had fallen into the pocket of the Japanese army.
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It was not until Lin Ling, the platoon leader of the engineer platoon, notified Meng Yuting by phone that the top soldiers of the first battalion and the subordinates of Battalion Commander Zhao who arrived later were allowed to enter the main position of the river beach ambush.
You must know that the current mercenary group can be said to be very complete in terms of arms and equipment. When setting up the position, Zhang Xinhe's communication platoon quickly set up telephone lines from Miaohang to Zhaojiaqiao and between several positions, so Meng Yu
Ting had long known the contents of the telegram sent by the general headquarters to the temple bank, and also knew that a regiment of the 122nd Brigade was on its way to support.
It wasn't until he saw with his own eyes the hundreds of Japanese corpses on the river beach, and the river beach land that was completely soaked in blood, that Battalion Commander Zhao truly believed the news of victory reported by the engineer lieutenant just now.
But the bloody scene that came into view still deeply shocked him and the hundreds of officers and soldiers of the 19th Army behind him.
Even though they were veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles and were used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, they were still almost nauseous by the strong smell of blood blown by the wind.
By this time, the young officers and soldiers of the mercenary group had already vomited all their jaundice water.
After the battle was over and it was confirmed that no one was left alive, once the tense nerves of the recruits relaxed, the body's natural reaction began to occur. At first, a few people vomited, then a group of people vomited, and then everyone vomited.
Vomiting.
However, although these recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time were pale and exhausted from being tortured by vomiting, their faces and eyes showed the relief and pride after victory.
As soon as Battalion Commander Zhao saw the physiological reactions of these soldiers, he knew that this was a force that had never been on the battlefield. He simply couldn't believe that it was such a group of fledglings and recruits on the battlefield who were armed to the teeth and well-trained.
Hundreds of elite Japanese troops were wiped out on this land.
When he was led to the river bank by Meng Yuting, he finally understood why the smell of blood in the air was so strong.
The river water for a few hundred meters near the river beach was dyed red with blood. There were densely packed floating limbs and broken arms on the river, the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the broken fragments of boats...
Battalion Commander Zhao knew that his guess was wrong. These were not hundreds of Japanese soldiers. It looked like the corpses or mutilated limbs of nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers were here.
This damn thing basically wiped out an entire Japanese brigade. This was an unprecedented victory and victory.
After Meng Yuting walked through the entire position with the leader of the regiment who arrived later, the regiment leader went from disbelief at first, to doubtful belief, to complete belief and sincere admiration, in just a few minutes.
When he saw the dozens of machine guns set up by the mercenary group, the dozens of artillery pieces on the three artillery positions, and the piles of empty shell boxes, he was completely silent.
He would naturally compare his own troops in his heart. If his regiment had so many and such good equipment, could it achieve the same results as this army composed of new recruits?
After careful analysis, he came to the frustrating conclusion that his regiment did not have a sufficient number of excellent machine gunners, a sufficient number of excellent gunners, and a professional artillery commander.
The determination of the landing place and time so accurately and the courage to set up an ambush.
You must know that during the entire Anti-Japanese War, if a regiment of the Chinese army dared to encircle and ambush a brigade of the Japanese army, it would require taking a big risk. If the Japanese army breaks through on one wing, it will easily be counterattacked. There have been examples of this in history, but they have not been successful.
examples of battles.
The victory of this volunteer army cannot be replicated. There are too many factors involved. The first is accurate prediction. Not only the landing location of the Japanese army, but also the landing time was extremely accurate. This has shown that this team
The army's officer team is very professional and excellent.
Secondly, the tactics were properly deployed, and the role of machine guns and artillery was brought into full play, which fully demonstrated the extraordinary comprehensive tactical literacy of this unit.
The third is that the level of the commander is very high, not only the overall commander of the entire battle, but also the machine gun commander, artillery commander, and even subdivided into each artillery group. The commander of each machine gun group is very good.
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Finally, there is the level of coordination among various arms. This is what surprised the regiment leader.
Coordination of arms operations is currently the most difficult problem for any Chinese army to overcome, and it is also the biggest bottleneck restricting the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army.
Because coordinated operations involve too many factors and too many tactics, it not only requires a lot of time and money to conduct drills, but also requires that every grassroots unit and even every soldier must be fully prepared from theory to tactical actions.
Understand and master it.
This is impossible for the current Chinese army, where most soldiers are still illiterate, not to mention that it cannot have so much funding.
Based on the analysis of the results obtained, the unit's coordination ability has reached a very high level. Otherwise, it would be impossible to completely eliminate almost the entire strength of a Japanese brigade in half an hour.
The head of the first regiment believed that although the officers and soldiers of this unit looked like recruits entering the battlefield for the first time, they were by no means ordinary recruits. Instead, their equipment level, training level and tactical level far exceeded any in the country.
For new recruits in the army, the only thing they lack may be battlefield experience.
If this commander knew that the mercenary group of more than a thousand people wiped out nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers in one battle, but he only paid the price of one casualty, I wonder how he would feel.
However, Zhou Wen, who came back an hour later, still had a different idea. He was not arrogantly believing that his troops should win with zero casualties, but the reason for the casualties this time was not worth it, and now the mercenary group has medical skills.
A skilled doctor, with enough medicines, could save the injured person as long as it was not fatal on the spot. However, the only injured person died before he could even hold on for a few seconds, which made him very sad.
Another reason why he was sad was that before setting off from Shanxi, he had another wish: to bring back all the brothers he had brought out. Although he knew that this might be a luxury wish, it was his first battle.
This shattered his wish and gave him a new understanding of the cruelty of the battle in the next month.
At the same time, it gave him some ideas on how to help the brothers in the second squadron adapt to the war as quickly as possible and gain valuable battlefield experience as soon as possible.