In order to achieve follow-up combat effectiveness, the Chinese side did not hesitate to spend a lot of bullets and manpower to train new recruits. Faced with this annoying harassment, the Japanese army naturally responded frequently.
East of the city, by the Xiangjiang River!
Hengyang City, like most cities in China, used to be surrounded by city walls. However, since the Republic of China, many cities including Hengyang have been gradually demolished due to the need for urban construction and expansion. The old city walls are regarded as symbols of feudal remnants.
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The supreme commander was one of the important promoters. Back then, the Whampoa Military Academy was about to be demolished because of the influence of the ancient city wall of Jinling. However, the public opposition was too loud and the matter was abandoned.
However, as a small border town, Hengyang's city walls were not completely demolished. The walls in the south and west of the city were very dilapidated. Before the Battle of Hengyang, there were basically only a few piles of loess similar to Tuweizi, which cost nearly 10,000 people.
Within a week, these earth fences were reconnected with wood and loess to form a simple defense line 3 meters high. On the east side of the city, in order to prevent floods from the intersection of the Xiangjiang River and Zhanshui River from pouring back into the city, in the northeast corner of Hengyang City,
It has a very complete city wall.
Soldiers of the 10th Army often went to the Xiang River to fetch water, so they used these city walls as shelter to avoid being shot by Japanese snipers hiding in the reeds on the other side.
However, the Japanese snipers' marksmanship is very powerful. Even if they are at a distance of more than 450 meters, they will observe the gaps between the crenellations of the city walls. Once they find a figure passing through, they will immediately aim and snipe at the next crenel. They can often hit them across a river.
Soldiers of the 10th Army.
On the first and second days, we might only hit two or three soldiers. The number was not large, and the losses were only reported to the company and battalion levels. But as time went by, especially on the fourth day, the casualties increased sharply.
With the increase, the number of killed and seriously injured soldiers exceeded 60, including several precision shooters who were trying to kill the Japanese army.
At this time, the battalion and the regiment could not hold back anymore. The news finally reached Zhao Zili, the chief of staff of the Hengyang headquarters. When he heard this, Chief of Staff Zhao became very angry. In a big battle, both sides would suffer losses. It depends on the capabilities of both the enemy and ourselves.
, but how could the Japanese army silently endure such a piecemeal attack?
Immediately called the commander of the infantry regiment under the 3rd Division and severely criticized him. He scolded him for not caring about the life or death of the soldiers, which was a typical old warlord style. If he didn't have this ability, he would get out and make room for other troops who could come.
Naturally, a colonel commander would not dare to argue with a lieutenant general-level chief of staff, and could only bow his head and be scolded. However, his boss, Lieutenant General Zhou, commander of the 3rd Division, felt deeply shameful and immediately transferred the division headquarters.
Three combat artillery pieces from the directly affiliated artillery company arrived directly in Jiangdong.
Although the lieutenant general commander was a little angry, he still understood in his heart that the 3rd Division was not without accurate shooters, but the Japanese troops were hiding in the reeds that could not be seen clearly, and they were more than 400 meters away.
The field of vision is not as clear as my own. If I rely solely on archers to shoot at each other, I may lose both my wife and my troops.
Then come to the simplest and most direct method. The Japanese snipers just don't show their heads. Once they show their heads, they use anti-tank guns to greet them. This is called the precision of rifles when they are poor, and the firepower when they are rich!
"Commander Zhou, how about I go for a walk and help your division save some artillery shells?" Tang Dao, who happened to be inspecting the defense line of the 3rd Division, suddenly interrupted.
Since the war started in Hengyang, Tang Dao, the director of the operations department, has been extremely busy. There are 48 large and medium-sized positions and 138 small positions in the entire periphery of Hengyang, and 138 small positions in the inner periphery. All kinds of information on nearly 200 positions are under his leadership.
The division chief is in charge, and he is also responsible for coordinating the artillery support of each division, each regiment, and even each battalion.
After issuing a sufficient number of individual infantry telephones and battalion- and regiment-level radio voice communication equipment to various ministries, the work efficiency of the combat department has improved a lot, but the workload is also two or three times what it used to be. Under the busy schedule, the four-line regiment
He handed over the command to Ye Chenghuan.
As the strongest individual soldier in the entire Hengyang City, it has been a month since the war began. Director Tang Da has not even had a chance to pull out the Black Star pistol inserted in the right side of his thigh, let alone carrying a gun to fight on the front line.
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To put it bluntly, Tang Dao's gun has long been thirsty and thirsty, but it has no eggs and no target!
Suddenly I heard that there were Japanese sniper soldiers provoking people on the other side of the Xiangjiang River. They had been provoking for a week and killed more than 20 colleagues. How could Tang Dao endure it?
"Director Tang, you can't do that. Where are you going? If you get hurt a little, the army will not swallow me." General Zhou shook his head repeatedly.
He is old, not stupid!
Let’s not talk about how much Fang Xian attaches great importance to Tang Dao. He directly puts Tang Dao, an army colonel, in the position of director of the operations department that almost leads the entire army. If we just talk about the performance of the Four Elements Regiment in this month, it really makes the rumors
The reputation of "the best group in the world" is fully reflected.
Earlier in Huangchaling, a battalion of the Fourth Army Regiment carried out an attack by a Japanese infantry regiment and directly disabled an infantry regiment. The piles of corpses in the killing trenches were chilling. The corpses growing out of the deep trenches were terrifying.
The blowflies were as fat as scarab beetles, and they all flew into Hengyang City, ten miles away.
As a result, the soldiers and civilians in the city knew where the big blowfly was from as soon as they saw it.
As soon as the air defense battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment showed up, it directly killed more than a dozen Japanese fighters and bombers, which put the Japanese Army Air Force into despair. In the next few days, not a single bomber appeared at all.
According to his private exchanges with Ge Youcai, the commander of the 10th Preliminary Division, with the current combat effectiveness of the Four Lines Group, it may be a bit exaggerated to defeat the 10th Army, but surpassing their two divisions is a certainty.
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the two lieutenant generals and division commanders who held the most military power in Hengyang City, Tang Dao was actually a figure who could rival them both.
Because the Four Elements Group under his command has this strength.
In a battlefield where only the weak can survive, identity and background are not important. Everything depends on the strength in hand.
As a result, Tang Dao, a commander who was ranked among the top five in Hengyang City in Zhou Qingxiang's mind, actually said that he was going to fight Japanese snipers. Who would have agreed?
"Haha! Who said I was going to go? Commander Zhou, you know that our Four Elements Regiment has good equipment, but you probably don't know that we also have some very good snipers!" Tang Dao smiled. "Do you still remember?
After I was assassinated that year, was our regiment's revenge against the Japanese? In Jiangxia City, the old Japanese soldier Tanabe Moritake was shot to death from hundreds of meters away. It was a joint attack by two superb snipers from our regiment."
Erya, who was following Tang Dao, blinked, but pursed his lips and chuckled.
How should I put it? The regimental commander looks so serious and talks nonsense, he is so handsome.
Captain Erya, who has been promoted to deputy company commander of the Signal Company of the Si Xing Regiment and chief of Tang Dao's secretary section, has now resumed wearing women's clothing.
Her identity was not revealed by Tantai Mingyue, who had long guessed it, but by a battle. Erya, who was still the deputy captain of the medical team, was injured, and there was a gunshot wound to the ribs. Erya's bust was in a coma.
After being unlocked, the story that Hua Mulan joined the army in place of her father in ancient times, and now the captain of the second maidservant is a woman who cannot be inferior to men, quickly spread within the Four Elements Group.
There are many female soldiers in the Four Lines Regiment, but Erya is the only female officer who has been disguising herself as a man for several years and has been killing enemies on the front lines. Everyone is surprised and admired more.
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Erya may have gotten used to it. The bust that was tight enough to make her breathless was no longer needed, but her hair style was still the same as that of male soldiers.
With healthy wheat-colored skin, short hair, and a military uniform, his heroic appearance has attracted the pursuit of a large number of young officers.
However, Captain Erya is no longer the soldier who almost made him cry when he shot his enemies. During the seven years he followed Tang Tuanzuo, he learned many close combat skills and marksmanship from Tang Dao, including his skillful decapitation skills.
Lock, it only takes three seconds to make a strong man as strong as an ox lose the ability to resist.
If you want to chase her, you must first defeat her. However, her condition is prohibitive to countless young heroes in the Four Elements Group.
"Hiss~~~ Are you serious?" Zhou Qingxiang was stunned.
With his level, he only knew that Jiang Xiaxia, a major general in the army, was shot and killed due to revenge by the Four Lines Regiment, but he did not know the inside story. Most of them were more likely to be assassinated by intelligence personnel. Now I heard Tang Dao personally admit that he was an active elite member of the Four Lines Regiment.
The shooter's hand was naturally shocked.
"How can you deceive Commander Zhou?" Tang Dao waved his hand. "Go and inform Instructor Niu Er and Pang Zilong. Tell them that there is good prey today."
Two Si Xing Tuan Shen snipers who happened to be resting in Hengyang City were ordered to arrive. In order to open Master Zhou's eyes, Pang Zilong shot a human-shaped wooden target hidden in the grass 400 meters away.
"Let's go!" Seeing Tang Dao personally carrying a long and large rifle into the jeep, Lieutenant General Zhou, who was sitting in the jeep behind him, always felt that something was wrong.
His premonition unfortunately came true.
Just after making arrangements and instructions with his regiment commander and battalion commander in the fortification bunker 100 meters away from that section of the city wall, the two snipers of the Four Lines Regiment disappeared, and even the director of Tang Da also escaped.
The only thing that appeared in the field of vision of the Chinese Army Lieutenant General was the figure from behind who was bending over and moving forward extremely quickly while carrying a nearly 15 kilogram gun.
"Good!" the Chinese Army Lieutenant General couldn't help but cursed.
He now finally knew the reason why this heroic leader was collectively called a thorny head by the theater commanders he had served with.
This person is simply a typical example of rebelling against Tiangang.
What? For cross-shooting, the gun is long, big, and thick?
But it turns out that it might actually work!
In order to allow the Army Lieutenant General to see more clearly, the artillery platoon moved all the artillery observation scopes to this fortification less than 100 meters away from the Xiangjiang River line.
The scene in the reed marsh opposite was very clear, but with the eyesight of the Lieutenant General, he could not see any trace of the Japanese.
Just because the Army Lieutenant General couldn't see it, it didn't mean that the three super snipers headed by Tang Dao couldn't see it.
Tang Dao knew that the Japanese who had tasted the sweetness must be hiding in the reeds, but they were disguised very well.
On the battlefield of World War II, many people left their names in history with their super shooting skills and terrifying number of individual enemy kills. There was Vasily Zaitsev, the furry bear who sniped at least 242 enemy soldiers.
, the number one ace of the German Empire, Mahaus Heiznaua, who killed 345 people, and so on. Even the Chinese "Tuba", which is extremely short of weapons and equipment, has a gun master who can kill dozens of Japanese troops from a long range.
But no Japanese gunner has ever achieved such an achievement. Could it be that the Japanese gunmanship was not good enough?
On the contrary, the Japanese army's marksmanship was not very good but quite good.
The Japanese army has almost abnormal requirements for accuracy in shooting training. Taking the Kwantung Army as an example, they required that not only all five bullets must hit an ambush target (only a human head and shoulders) 300 meters away, but at least three of them must be
Concentrate on an area the size of a fist.
After reaching this level, it is time to shoot within seconds. First, it is limited to hitting a target that appears from nowhere 300 meters away within 4 seconds, and then it is limited to 2 seconds. After this is achieved, put on a gas mask and run for 30 seconds.
meters, and then enter the limited-second shooting. If you fail to complete it, you will be beaten and reprimanded by the veterans, and you will not be allowed to eat if you fail to hit!
After the recruit training, they will be transferred to the squad and squadron-level collaborative tactics training. At this stage, the recruits will be trained by the veterans in a devilish way, such as standing with a weighted object and holding a gun with a long aim; shooting incense heads from a hundred meters away at night; and running to avoid bullets.
and shooting methods for avoiding bullets and running, etc. These devilish trainings have indeed greatly improved the individual combat capabilities of Japanese soldiers. This is also one of the reasons why China almost continued to lose in the early three years of the war and there was very little news of victory.
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In terms of training quality, if the Japanese army is a college student, the Chinese army is an elementary school dropout at best.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then why can’t the Japanese army produce ace-level snipers? This is largely related to their devilish training methods. In the Japanese army, although there are
The so-called "Five Basic Combat Ethics" - loyalty, humility, courage, honesty, and frugality - were formulated. However, the way the junior officers of the Japanese Army treat their subordinates is completely opposite to this.
In the Japanese Army, lower-level soldiers will be severely punished if they make any mistakes, negligence, neglect, or carelessness. Corporal punishment of soldiers is commonplace, not only in recruit training, but also in combat units.
Japanese soldiers' fear of being punished for making mistakes and their trepidation when facing the authority of their superiors have largely stifled their initiative. For this reason, Japanese soldiers are often too disciplined to seize fleeting opportunities.
They are all trained to be cogs in Japan's war machine. Under military orders, they do their best to complete the combat tasks assigned to them by their superiors, but rarely take the initiative to think about how to fight this battle.
Even if they are precious snipers, their marksmanship is precise and their perseverance is extraordinary, but they don’t know how to adapt and often stick to one spot and shoot until they die. Don’t they turn themselves into disposable consumables?
The ace sniper who can leave his name in the sky of history didn't run away immediately after killing the enemy, waiting for the next opportunity to continue hunting prey. Otherwise, where did the terrifying number of more than 300 come from?
Even if he was as strong as Tang Tuanzuo, he would repeatedly jump between the several sniper positions he selected. Once he found that the Japanese artillery was targeting him, he would immediately turn around and run away. Even a dog could not catch up with that speed.
The Japanese army's "not afraid of death" strategy is the real reason why they don't have an ace sniper.
The Japanese army does not have an ace sniper, but it does not mean that their marksmanship is not good. Tang Dao, Niu Er, and Pang Zilong all know this.
Therefore, they are located in three places and are very careful.
"What is Tang Dao doing?" The Chinese Army Lieutenant General, who had been looking at the reed field opposite for a long time, could only turn his attention to the three Tang Dao people who had already hid behind the broken city wall.
But he was surprised to find that Tang Dao was leaning against the city wall, the big black gun was also on the ground, and he was stabbing something with a few wooden sticks and ropes.
Tang Dao's craftsmanship is good. He built a frame with three strokes, five divided by two, and when he took off his military uniform and put it on this frame, he also put his helmet on this simple wooden frame. The Chinese soldiers behind him
Only then did I understand.
Tang Tuanzuo's craft is called making scarecrows, and it seems to come from the countryside. From a distance, it looks a bit like that.
"Is this called luring a snake out of its hole?" the Army Lieutenant General raised his eyebrows slightly.
But, so what if we bring it out?
The other two officers, who were called sharpshooters by Tang Dao, did not look out. They sat quietly behind the city wall and checked their guns. They did not say at all that the chief had worked hard to stab the wooden man to conduct reconnaissance for them. They wanted to
The intention to jump into battle immediately.
In the reeds!
Second Lieutenant Kotohara Zou was searching the river bank through the 4x scope of his Type 99 sniper rifle. More than 2 meters beside him, there was his assistant Konishi Hayami Sergeant.
This was already the fourth day that the duo had been in this area to set up an ambush for the Chinese water-receiving soldiers. With their precise shooting skills and the tacit cooperation of the duo, they had achieved fruitful results in the past few days, and were highly praised by Colonel Yoshimasa Matsuyama.
It is believed that the duo's continuous successful sniper kills are gradually restoring the declining morale of the 6th Infantry Regiment.
This is also one of the reasons why the division headquarters arranged the 9th group of the escort squadron to the 6th Infantry Regiment. They killed Chinese soldiers to save the morale of the 6th Infantry Regiment that was about to collapse. In addition, they had to reconnoitre the battlefield because the main force of the 3rd Division
We are about to arrive at the Hengyang battlefield.
The duo are not soldiers of the 6th Infantry Regiment, but are directly under the division headquarters. They are a special infantry squadron built by the 3rd Division in the past two years to imitate the reconnaissance company of a Chinese unit. The superficial designation is
The division is directly under the escort squadron. In fact, the 120 officers and soldiers in the squadron are all elite soldiers selected from the division's 25,000 soldiers.
To enter the squadron, the starting point of military service is 4 years, and the minimum military rank must be sergeant. Usually, they do not participate in battles as a squad or squad, but enter the battlefield as a group of 2 or 6.
In the past year and a half since the formation of the escort squadron with the tactical purpose of reconnaissance, secret attacks, and long-range sniping, the results have been extremely fruitful. The highest-level target killed by Second Lieutenant Ogasawara Zou, an outstanding leader, was even a Chinese army colonel.
That was a commander at the level of a regiment leader. Even now, Ogasawara Zou still remembers the moment when he killed the Chinese commander who was surrounded by many soldiers in a bush 480 meters away from the Chinese position.
, the Chinese soldiers had dumbfounded expressions.
At that moment, Lieutenant Ogasa felt that he was the sharpest sword in the Emperor's hand.
Now, this sharp sword struck again, and Second Lieutenant Ogasa had an intuition that soon, the Chinese would either use cannons or send archery experts to fight him.
All I can say is that men’s intuition is too keen, which is really not a good thing.
The Japanese duo provoked the top three super snipers in the entire Hengyang City and even the entire Central China.
Their only advantage is that it is too easy to hide in the reeds. Unless you have a pair of eagle eyes, it is difficult to find their specific location.
