Chapter 1252 The real battle begins (Part 2) (Please vote for me!
After all, Oshima Masayoshi underestimated the Chinese commander who faced him.
The Army Major with the most junior qualifications in the Si Xing Tuan may be the person closest to Tang Tuan Zuo in terms of courage.
Tang Dao was in the camp, and Leng Feng was the most interested among all the officers in the important topic taught in the tactical training class for company-level officers - the tactics of deep and roundabout penetration.
Among the four battalion commanders of the Si Xing Regiment, Lei Xiong was born in Yeluzi and fought his way to the top through his own tyranny, but he has also served in the regular army for many years. Guo Shouzhi and Shangguan Yun are both graduates of regular military academies and have studied in their
This tactical concept has never appeared in the tactical manuals of powerful countries such as the Mao Xiong and the United States.
In their understanding, penetration is equivalent to infiltration, and the so-called infiltration means entering the village quietly, without using a gun, cooperating with the frontal battlefield, and focusing on the reconnaissance and destruction of 'special forces', just like the reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment.
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But the biggest shortcoming of this kind of infiltration is that once discovered by the enemy, you are doomed!
But it was a small force after all, and if it had to be lost, it would be a loss. The saying that kindness does not command troops is definitely not a lie.
However, Tang Tuanzuo's deep and roundabout tactics were far beyond their understanding. When the tactics required it, the regiment at least dispatched company-level troops to carry out roundabout attacks on enemy positions.
For the current establishment of the Si Xing Regiment, it is the life and death of more than 300 people. Once the enemy makes dumplings, the firepower of the main force of the regiment cannot help them. The other three chief officers have to deal with this almost life-threatening tactic.
Be cautious.
As for Tang Tuanzuo’s key points on the penetration tactics: “Interception is divided into forced penetration, secret penetration and a combination of the two. The purpose is to break through the enemy’s weak gaps, seize deep key points, attack important targets, block enemy reinforcements, and cut off the enemy’s retreat!” Three
The chief official just listened to it temporarily.
In their view, at least for now, the Four Troops Regiment does not have such conditions. Unless one day the Four Troops Regiment has grown enough to confront a Japanese division, it will have the opportunity to use this new tactic.
The ideas of the three veteran soldiers are correct from the perspective that the entire North China battlefield is still in strategic defense. The current North China battlefield is mainly about defending, defending the existing chassis and defense lines, and fighting against the Japanese army, consuming Japanese soldiers and supplies.
He is accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
But Tang Dao knew that blind defense would only make the Japanese army more and more rampant. This is true for a regiment's defensive battlefield, a war zone and even a national battlefield. It is necessary to defend while attacking, forcing the Japanese army to put a large part of its strength in the rear.
Defensively, it can also reduce the pressure on the defender.
Now on the North China battlefield, the 80th Army did not hesitate to send its main force to the enemy's rear to vigorously develop guerrilla warfare, constantly destroying Japanese transportation lines, carrying out sneak attacks on small Japanese troops, etc. In the future, it will involve hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, which is the most successful group.
Case study of deep and roundabout tactics.
This is a big game involving the national battlefield. If you look at it on a smaller scale, there are many cases of successful tactical interleaving.
A few years ago, the 80th Army was surrounded and intercepted by hundreds of thousands of troops. An infantry regiment ran 240 miles day and night to seize the Luding Bridge;
Ten years later, 120,000 troops leaped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains and fought for half a year, violently interspersing between Jiangcheng and Jinling. More than half of them were damaged, but they attracted hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, laying the foundation for the encirclement and annihilation of a million enemy troops on the northern battlefield.
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Also during the Battle of the Icefield, the 113th Division of the 38th Army galloped 70 kilometers in 14 hours, forced its way into three positions, forcibly cut off the retreat of the 9th Army of the American Cowboys, and almost knocked the American Cowboys to their knees.
Tang Dao did not force his subordinates to understand and apply this tactic now, but they must know that after having practiced it once or twice on the battlefield, they will accept this kind of excellent Chinese soldiers who have summarized it on the battlefield for more than ten years.
Tactical.
However, even Tang Dao did not expect that Leng Feng would decisively implement this large-scale roundabout tactic that had never been used on a large scale in the history of four-line team battles on the battlefield of Shunwangping where he unexpectedly encountered the Japanese army.
Two infantry companies with a total of 626 people, led by local guides, took advantage of the cover of night and mountains and forests to move 4,000 meters away from the main force and arrived near the Japanese mountain artillery position.
The 105 howitzers of the Kunizaki detachment are very scary, but because of the distance, when the coordinates are blurred and the distance between China and Japan is relatively close, the 105 howitzer group will generally not fire easily.
However, because its mountain artillery brigade is closer to the front line and has telephone lines to communicate with it, it can obtain accurate bombardment coordinates, which in turn poses a greater threat to the Four Lines Regiment.
For example, the Tang Li tribe, which was fighting a fierce battle with an infantry brigade, was shelled by a Japanese mountain artillery brigade in the 15th minute after the war started.
Although the mountain artillery is still calibrating the artillery points and has not caused too many casualties for the time being, as the Japanese frontline artillery continues to feed back data, the 12 mountain artillery has found the accurate coordinates, and the two infantry companies can still defend it, which must be a heavy loss.
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Therefore, when Leng Feng made the tactical choice of using two infantry companies to attack the Japanese troops in the direction of Hexi Village to attract Japanese reinforcements, so that the two infantry companies and two artillery companies could successfully annihilate the Japanese troops entering Heilonggou, the Japanese army with 12
The mountain artillery brigade of the Men 41-type mountain artillery is a thorn in the side that must be removed.
Leng Feng remembered the tactical concept of deep and roundabout penetration that he and Tang Dao had talked about all night. Didn't it have the purpose of attacking important targets?
Therefore, under the guidance of this tactical concept, the two leading infantry companies miraculously bypassed the Japanese defense line and reached the rear of the large Japanese army.
The reason why the Japanese artillery position was found in the vast mountains was firstly due to the simple mountain village youth's familiarity with the boundaries of Shunwangping;
Secondly, the Japanese artillerymen worked too hard. They used all their strength when shelling the Heilongtan area in the early morning. The thick smoke rising from the artillery position was as if they were being shelled. This was very difficult for Shen who was struggling to find them in the mountains.
For the scouts led by Lao Liu, they simply put the label "I am an artilleryman, come and do it quickly!" on their foreheads.
Of course, finding the Japanese artillery positions does not mean that you can kill them.
Kunizaki Zheng was a man who had suffered losses and was cheated before. He would never be easily flooded twice in the same river. A full infantry brigade was stationed around the artillery brigade, occupying tens of thousands of square meters of the artillery brigade's position.
Surrounded like a bucket.
Not to mention Li Jijin and his two companies, even if the entire third battalion came, it would be impossible to rush into the artillery position within half an hour.
Li Jijin could only wait patiently, waiting for the Japanese army to make mistakes while they were busy.
This time, the young man from the mountain village saw two infantry companies lurking in the mountain forest less than 600 meters away from the Japanese artillery position, but he would never say that the company commander was timid.
No matter how stupid he was, he knew that not everyone would dare to hide under the nose of the Japanese army.
Finally, Kunizaki Sei, who was stunned by the stupidity of his subordinates, made another mistake and sent the reserve teams of his last two infantry brigades to the main battlefield in one go.
The infantry brigade guarding this artillery position has left!
How angry was Kunizaki Zheng? Even 20 minutes after the infantry brigade left, not even a single infantry squad came to defend the poor mountain artillery brigade.
I can't blame Kunizaki Zheng for being out of his mind, but no one would have thought that the Four Troops Regiment, which had far fewer troops than Kunizaki's detachment, would use its troops to engage in such long-distance roundabout tactics during a decisive battle.
If the two infantry brigades do not move, with the help of the mountain artillery brigade, not to mention 600 people, even 1,600 people will come, which is also a meat bun-like killing tactic.
However, in order to make up for the mistake, Major General Kunizaki Sei, who was buzzing, was forced to call up his last reserve team.
Of course, one thing he is quite wise is to reserve a 300-man reinforced infantry squadron for his brigade headquarters. Following the brigade headquarters are field hospitals, engineers, baggage troops and other units. Otherwise, he would be in the jungle 800 meters away.
A reconnaissance squad led by Shen Laoliu himself who was staring at him might not dare to complete a perfectly perfect beheading tactic.
That could be regarded as a sharp blow to the head of His Excellency Lieutenant General Itagaki Shiro who was sitting on the front line of Mount Nakajo.
The leading major general brigade commander of the Fifth Division has served His Majesty the Emperor under his wise command. What qualifications do he have to command so many lieutenant generals, major generals, and faces?
To a certain extent, Kunizaki Zheng, who was already suffering from an acute illness and sought medical treatment indiscriminately, still kept a pair of fancy pants for his immediate boss!
This may have become the only bright spot for the Japanese Army Major General in this humiliating defeat on the battlefield.
Itagaki Shiro: Go and eat shit!
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Since there was no infantry to help, the mountain artillery brigade had to mobilize hundreds of people, carrying only a few dozen 38 rifles and Southern 14 pistols, to act as a defensive force.
Based on the marksmanship of the Japanese artillery, the defensive power of these hundreds of people is estimated to be not much different from that of the large number of armed workers armed with broadswords, blunderbuss, and homemade muskets that will be active on the Jizhong Plain in the future.
But what they have to face is an elite army of 600 equipped with light machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns.
The ending is also conceivable.
"That's it." A Japanese artillery lieutenant holding a command knife and directing artillery deployment in the trench pointed into the distance, his eyes full of confusion.
Hundreds of figures suddenly flashed in the forest!
The imperial infantry should not reach the artillery position this way!
Soon, the Japanese artillery second lieutenant, whose brain was obviously short-circuited, no longer had to worry about the real answer.
"Da da da!" A total of 18 light machine guns started roaring from all over the mountain forest.
A hail of bullets poured down from two directions on the Japanese artillery defensive position that had not yet reacted. Three consecutive bullets hit the Japanese artillery second lieutenant standing at the edge of the trench.
The eyes of the Japanese artillery lieutenant, who was staggered by the kinetic energy of the bullet, were filled with disbelief. He fell to the ground and began to convulse physiologically. Without first aid measures, the massive blood loss caused by the warhead that penetrated the heart artery would have taken away his life in two minutes.
his life.
It's a pity that in such a panic moment, not to mention the artillery that lacks sufficient training and preparation for field battles, even the well-trained infantry, no one has time to take care of a little second lieutenant.
Military ranks and official positions are nothing in the face of the power of death.
In fact, when the Japanese artillery lieutenant breathed out his last breath with difficulty, the young man from the mountain village carrying Tu Yunsheng on his back happened to step over his body.
"The little devil's knife is quite good. Adong, go pick it up and consider it a gift from me to the 7th Company for you!" Tu Yunsheng glanced at the body of the Japanese artillery lieutenant and said casually.
Although the young A Dong is straightforward and almost stupid, the existence of this young man is one of the factors that led to the victory of this battle.
Adong was so familiar with the topography of this generation that even the company commander Li Jiujin praised him in public. Under the leadership of this young man, he was able to circumnavigate a ravine of more than ten meters wide and dozens of meters deep, which was obviously impossible to cross, in less than 2 miles.
On the mountain road, just find the small road, and I don’t know how much time the infantry company was saved.
It’s no wonder that when the village elders recommended guides, the others were all middle-aged in their 40s, except A Dong, a young man under 20.
When I asked on the way, I found out that Adong was a child who grew up in Hexi Village eating hundreds of meals. A migrant who lost his parents at a young age, in addition to relying on the villagers' aid, he spent the rest of his time looking for all the edible wild fruits and vegetables in the mountains.
, sometimes when it gets late, I just stay in the mountains.
This lush mountain is like his home.
Moreover, Adong is very strong. Tu Yunsheng's own weight plus the guns and ammunition he carries weighs more than 150 kilograms. Usually, the two stretcher bearers specially equipped for Tu Yunsheng are tired and panting when carrying the stretcher, but Adong, who volunteered, carried Tu Yunsheng on his back.
Running very fast in the mountains, those strong and thick legs seemed to be equipped with engines.
Even in this charge led by Li Jijin himself, the small humanoid tank A Dong carrying Tu Yunsheng on his back did not fall behind. Squad 4, with the squad leader of "Tian Can Di Que", was still able to stay ahead of the two infantrymen.
The company's mid-level level.
All of this was due to Adong's outstanding performance. Tu Yunsheng had to show his respect to both the public and the private. Giving him a Japanese lieutenant's sword as a souvenir was the greatest authority Tu Yunsheng could have.
"No, Brother Tu, I want to join the Four Elements Group!" A Dong shook his head firmly.
Tu Yunsheng looked ahead and saw countless comrades rushing towards the chaotic Japanese artillery position with determination, feeling a little headache.
It is not up to him, the squad leader, to decide whether to withdraw his troops. This naive young man had called Captain Jiujin a coward several times before. It is unknown what Captain Jiujin had in mind. How dare he do it for the company commander?
this decision?
"Brother Tu, don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you. I will definitely let Captain Li accept me!" A Dong was full of confidence.
The mountain village boy squatted down and not only picked up the shining samurai sword, he also picked up the Nanbu Fourteen pistol in the gun case hanging on the waist of the Japanese artillery lieutenant and inserted it into his waist.
"Your kid can't shoot, so what's the use of this thing?" Tu Yunsheng smiled and patted the honest young man on the shoulder. "Let's go! If we don't leave, our Class 4 won't even be able to drink soup."
Soon, Tu Yunsheng felt like he was going blind.
A young man who had never been exposed to a gun boldly started shooting for the first time in his life after being given random instructions on how to pull the bolt and open the safety.
What's even more awesome is that he also hit it.
It was a Japanese artilleryman hiding in the forest who was fighting back desperately with a 38-meter cover. The straight-line distance between the two sides was more than 50 meters. Several soldiers from the 4th Squadron fired wildly with semi-automatic guns but could not kill the guy who was huddled behind the big rock.
However, Adong, who quietly got around at some point, actually relied on a Southern Type 14 pistol in his hand, which the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment looked down upon. He fired three shots from a distance of more than 40 meters, and all of them hit the target.
"You did it by smashing it? Have you ever shot a gun before?" Not to mention Tu Yunsheng was very frightened, Boss Cao and the other officers and soldiers of Squad 4 were also confused.
"I have played with Uncle Gu's blunderbuss before, and they said I was a born hunter." A Dong replied with a grin, as if he was not at all happy or surprised that he killed a Japanese soldier 40 meters away.
"Bird Gun" Tu Tu was quite speechless. Is that thing a gun?
It was not until a long time later that the soldiers of Class 4 learned that the young man from the mountain village who was finally assigned to Class 4 by Li Jijin dared to brag that the villagers praised him as a natural hunter because he could hit with a blunderbuss.
A flying bird 100 meters away.
That is definitely a miracle for a bird cannon with a range of less than 50 meters.
Perhaps, this is the legendary talent, just like Tang Tuanzuo and Lieutenant Niu Er, which ordinary people cannot envy.
Not to mention the big treasure that Li Jijin unexpectedly picked up on the battlefield, this deep and roundabout battle was already a complete victory when the two infantry companies rushed into the defensive position of the Japanese artillery brigade with only 13 losses.
As the supreme commander of the Si Xing Regiment, Leng Feng silenced all those who still doubted him with this "crazy" tactic. Many company and platoon-level officers in the Si Xing Regiment
In his eyes, he may be an outstanding infantry commander second only to Tang Dao and Lei Xiong.
And this was not over yet. Li Jijin did not order all the mountain cannons to be blown up immediately. Instead, he ordered the captured Japanese gunners to control 6 mountain cannons and fire at the Japanese 105 howitzer position on the edge of the town in the distance.
For those who did not accept it, the soldiers of the 7th Company almost did not hesitate to shoot, and rows of freshly baked corpses appeared.
Under the threat of death, there will always be someone who abandons the so-called honor, no matter who it is.
The supreme commander Li Jijin made an unprecedented promise that all of them could enjoy prisoner of war treatment as official prisoners of war, and he fulfilled his promise.
This is also the reason why more than 200 people were captured, but in the end less than 50 prisoners chose to obey.
Li Jijin got lucky. Not only did he defeat the thorn in the side of the Fourth Army Regiment, but he also captured the tactical map of the Guoqi detachment at the artillery brigade headquarters. The position and coordinates of the 105 howitzer were clearly marked on it.
Sometimes, hard work really has no chance of working!
Kunizaki had planned everything, but he did not expect that the Chinese would be so bold. Not only did they send people to lurk on one side to keep an eye on his mountain artillery brigade position, but they also took advantage of his mistakes to complete a surprise attack.
The whole process didn't even take more than 20 minutes, and an artillery brigade with more than 900 troops was finished.
What was even more shocking was that the six mountain cannons actually fired back at the 105 howitzer position 5 kilometers away.
This is flat land, and it is far less capable of protecting against artillery fire than the carefully selected mountain artillery positions.
By the time the Japanese troops on the 105 howitzer position realized that they had been attacked by their own artillery position, it was almost 10 minutes later.
10 minutes is enough for 6 mountain cannons to fire out more than 200 shells.
Regardless of the losses, the Japanese 105 howitzer position was completely contained, making it difficult to provide fire support to the front-line infantry of the Kunisaki detachment.
That would really kill the infantrymen.
Without the cannons, the Imperial Japanese Steel Army would be left with nothing but steel! ()
