Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1252

Oshima Masayoshi finally 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.

Leng Feng was the most interested among all the officers in the important topic taught by Tang Dao in the tactics training class for battalion and 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 at their This tactical concept has never appeared in the tactical manuals of powerful countries such as China and the United States.

In their understanding, penetration is roughly equal to infiltration, and the so-called infiltration means sneaking into the village, shooting, and cooperating with the frontal battlefield, focusing on the reconnaissance and destruction of the 'special forces', just like the reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment. .

But the biggest shortcoming of this kind of infiltration is that once discovered by the enemy, it is 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.

But Tang Tuanzuo's deep and roundabout tactics were far beyond their understanding. When tactics required, 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 a matter of life and death for 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 can be 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 if considered from the perspective that the entire North China battlefield is still in strategic defense. The current North China battlefield is mainly about defense, holding on to the existing chassis and defense lines, fighting against the Japanese army, and consuming Japanese soldiers and materials. He is accumulating strength and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

But Tang Dao knows that blind defense will only make the Japanese army more and more aggressive. This is true for a regiment's defensive battlefield, a war zone and even the national battlefield. It must be defensive 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. A case of deep and roundabout tactics.

This is a big game involving the national battlefield. Looking at the 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. Violence interspersed 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. condition.

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 one or two battlefield practices, they will accept this kind of excellent Chinese soldiers who have summarized it on the battlefield for more than ten years. Tactical.

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, under the leadership of local guides, took advantage of the cover of night and mountains and forests to stay 4,000 meters away from the main force and arrived near the Japanese mountain artillery position.

The 105 howitzers of the Kunisaki 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 easily 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 the 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. .

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 Men 41-type mountain artillery is a thorn in the side that must be removed.

Leng Feng remembered the strategic concept of deep and roundabout penetration that he had discussed with Tang Dao 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 we were able to find the Japanese artillery position in the vast mountains was that the young man from the simple mountain village was familiar with the boundary 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 said, 'I am an artilleryman, come and do it quickly! ' label on his forehead.

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 flooded twice in the same river easily. A full infantry brigade stood guard around the artillery brigade, occupying tens of thousands of square meters of the artillery brigade's position. Surrounded like a bucket.

Let alone 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 is, he knows that not everyone dares to hide quietly under the nose of the Japanese army.

Finally, Kunizaki Zheng, who was stunned by the stupidity of his subordinates, made another mistake and sent the reserve teams of the last two infantry brigades in his hands to the main battlefield in one go.

The infantry brigade guarding this artillery position has left!

How angry is Kunizaki Zheng? Even 20 minutes after the infantry brigade left, not even a single infantry squad came to defend the poor mountain artillery brigade.

It's not that we can blame Kunizaki Zheng for being out of his mind, but no one would have thought that the Four Lines Regiment, which had far fewer troops than the Kunizaki detachment, would use its troops to engage in such long-range roundabout tactics during the decisive battle.

If the two infantry brigades are immobile, with the help of the mountain artillery brigades, not to mention 600 people, even 1,600 people will come, which is also a meat bun-type dog-killing tactic.

But Major General Kunisaki Sei, who was buzzing, was forced to call up his last reserve team in order to make up for his mistake.

Of course, he is quite wise in one thing. He has reserved 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 is in the jungle 800 meters away. A reconnaissance squad led by Shen Laoliu who was staring at him might not dare to complete the perfect beheading tactic in one blow.

That can be regarded as a whip whip on the head of His Excellency Lieutenant General Itagaki Shiro who was sitting on the front line of Nakajo Mountain.

The leading major general brigade commander of the Fifth Division has served His Majesty the Emperor under his wise command. How can he be qualified to command so many lieutenant generals and major generals?

To a certain extent, Kunizaki Zheng, who was already suffering from an acute illness and sought medical treatment indiscriminately, still managed to keep a pair of fancy pants for his immediate boss!

This may also be the only bright spot for this Japanese army major general in this humiliating defeat on the battlefield.

Itagaki Shiro: Go eat shit!

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 similar to that of the large number of armed engineering teams equipped with broadswords, muskets, and homemade muskets that will be active on the Jizhong Plain in the future.

But they had to face an elite army of 600 soldiers equipped with light machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns.

The outcome is also conceivable.

“That is.” 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 in 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 from two directions toward the Japanese artillery defense 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 main artery of the heart would be taken away in two minutes. his life.

It is 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 pretty good, Adong, go pick it up and consider it a gift from my 7th company to 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 Jijin praised him in public. Under the leadership of this young man, he was able to circumnavigate a ravine that was more than ten meters wide and tens of meters deep. On the mountain road, just find the small road, and I don't know how much time the infantry company was saved.

No wonder when the old man in the village recommended a guide, 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 when he was young, 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, we 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 soldiers 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 is due to Adong's outstanding performance. Tu Yunsheng has to show his respect to both the public and the private. Giving him a Japanese lieutenant's sword as a souvenir is the greatest authority Tu Yunsheng can 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.

Withdrawing troops is not something he, the squad leader, can decide. This naive young man has scolded Company Commander Jiujin for being a coward several times before. It is unknown what Company Commander Jiujin has 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, not only picked up the shining samurai sword, but 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, 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 mountains and forests 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.

But at some point, Adong, who quietly got around, relied on a Southern Type 14 pistol that 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 hit all of them.

"You did it by smashing it? Have you ever fired 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've 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 had killed a Japanese soldier 40 meters away.

"Bird gun." Squad leader Tu was speechless. Is that 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 a bird 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 Lieutenant Tang Tuanzuo and 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 the loss of only 13 people.

As the supreme commander of the Si Xing Regiment, Leng Feng silenced all those who still doubted him with this "crazy" tactic alone. Many company and platoon-level officers in the Si Xing Regiment were

In his eyes, he may be an excellent 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 distant town.

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 like this.

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 formal prisoners of war, and he also 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 was lucky. Not only did he defeat the thorn in the side of the Fourth Line Regiment, but he also captured the tactical map of the Guozaki Detachment at the artillery brigade headquarters. The position and coordinates of the 105 howitzer were clearly marked on it.

Sometimes, hard work really doesn't work!

Kunisaki 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's even more shocking is that the six mountain guns actually fired back at the 105 howitzer position 5 kilometers away.

The land is flat, and the artillery defense capability of the carefully selected mountain artillery positions is far inferior.

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.

Ten minutes are enough for six 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 have nothing but steel! (End of chapter)

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