Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 670

Chapter 670: Cowardly!

Takeuchi Yunshan was actually quite excited the moment he received the telegram from Kunisaki.

At least, he can finally get rid of this arduous trek in the Chinese mountains.

Because they were worried about being attacked by the Chinese lurking in the mountains, the Japanese army officers who owned horses voluntarily gave up riding without Kunisaki issuing military orders. Most of them chose to wear ordinary Japanese infantry uniforms, and even the command swords were thrown away to the orderlies, not to mention the handsome ones. Long leather boots and white gloves, which made the Japanese army colonel who always pretended to be 13 online felt extremely uncomfortable from a psychological level.

Of course, like most ordinary humans, physical fatigue is the real source of pain compared to psychological suffering.

The most difficult thing for Takeuchi Yunshan to accept is to use his legs like the infantrymen to measure the vastness of China's mountains.

So, most of the time, Takeuchi Yunshan was squeezed into the cockpit of the small Type 94 tank with the tank crews, enduring the maddening engine roar and the unpleasant smell of diesel.

So much so that the regiment communications staff officer who came to inform the detachment headquarters of the military order took several glances before he recognized that the man with a dark face who had struggled to get out of the 94 tank was the everyday elegant regimental commander.

The experience of capturing Guangde County in southern Anhui, China, was really terrible. Takeuchi Yunshan is in such a mental state at the moment.

Kunizaki stipulated that he must reach the mountainous area near Cross Pu on the right side of the highway within four hours, about 12 kilometers away from his location.

This distance would only take up to 2 hours of rapid marching in plain areas, but in mountainous areas, the time would be doubled.

Because there are almost no roads in the mountains of the Chinese. Even their main roads connecting towns that can carry large vehicles can only be used to carry small Type 94 tanks. Otherwise, the excellent combat power of the 89 main battle tank will not be possible. It will be lost to the army occupying the middle route of the simple road.

In order to ensure the passage of Type 94 tanks, Takeuchi Yunshan could only choose a marching route with a main road.

This is also what Tang Dao needs. Laojinkeng is the only way for the Japanese army to reach the Shizipu area, unless they abandon their baggage and cross the mountains with light equipment. .

But obviously, the Japanese army, which relied heavily on artillery and heavy weapons, would not make mistakes. The American cowboys did the same thing when facing the mountains on the ice sheet more than ten years later.

The outcome of the war finally proved the correctness of the great man's statement that "talents are the factor that determines the victory of war, not weapons."

All the Japanese army's troop movements were completely consistent with Tang Dao's pre-war war chess deduction. However, Tang Dao was not a god. After all, he still made two mistakes.

First, due to an accident, the Leng Feng Infantry Company was forced to take the initiative to engage in firefights with the Japanese army. It was unable to reach the scheduled battlefield and had to abandon the high ground where manpower had been spent on building fortifications. As a result, the entire army entered a desperate situation to compete with the main force of the Japanese army. I had to reluctantly abandon most of the pack horses and supplies.

More than 700 people entered the battlefield without any strategic room for maneuver, relying only on the advantageous terrain to confront the main force of the Japanese army. This was the second time since Tang Dao came to this era. The first time was the death tomb in Sihang Warehouse.

However, there is still a Western Concession as a shield, and the Japanese heavy artillery and aircraft have become decorations. There is nothing in Qinglongling Village except mountains.

What's even more terrible is that if the Japanese aircraft fleet arrives to cooperate with the Japanese army to launch an attack immediately, Leng Feng will not have any support within a few hours. Can they hold on?

After receiving Leng Feng's report, Tang Dao stared at the map surrounding Qinglongling Village and was silent for three minutes before calling back to Leng Feng, 'That's right! ', which is enough to reflect the depression in his heart.

Second, Tang Dao underestimated the caution of Takeuchi Yunshan, the Japanese army commander.

He did not know how much psychological shadow the Battle of Mouse Mountain had on this man. Takeuchi Yunshan repeatedly reviewed the Battle of Mouse Mountain in the past few days and came to the conclusion that the Chinese commander was particularly fond of such unexpected attacks.

Originally, the head-to-head blocking battle on the first day basically ended with the victory of the Chinese. The Chinese commander could have used this battle to add a significant mark to his military exploits, but he did not. Instead, he used this battle at night. The surprise attack, which was almost like a moth flying into a flame, severely damaged the artillery position of the detachment behind nearly 10,000 troops, turning the victory into a glorious one.

But this is also a double-edged sword. If it fails, a major defeat with hundreds of casualties will be swallowed up by the victory in the daytime battle. Anyway, Takeuchi Yunshan would never make such a dangerous move.

But the Chinese commander did just that, and he succeeded.

So, although Takeuchi Yunshan, who received the military order, moved closer to the main force, he was extremely cautious in order to prevent himself from being attacked by surprise. From the very beginning, Takeuchi Yunshan sent a full infantry squadron as the vanguard, at least six miles ahead of the main force, which was enough to ensure that the Chinese mortars could not hit the main force.

Not to mention the 200-man infantry squadron as the vanguard, and once encountering a dangerous terrain, this person will send a second infantry squadron to climb the mountain ridge to see if there is no danger before ordering the troops to move forward.

That doesn't mean just sending a few soldiers with bayonets to poke a few times in the bushes on the hillside and shoot a few times without finding anything unusual.

One or two hundred Japanese soldiers could not wait to line up and walk around in the grass several times.

His caution made the Gu Xishui special team who had been accompanying them about 500 meters away from them in the mountain forest smack their lips. It was not easy to defeat the ambush of these cautious little devils.

Being cautious can avoid being ambushed and sneak attack, but the corresponding marching speed will be slower.

In the first two hours, more than 2,000 Japanese troops only walked 8 miles. The marching speed of 2 kilometers in an hour was like a snail.

The location reported to the detachment headquarters every hour made Kunizaki look at the map and almost his eyes popped open. If he hadn't been holding a magnifying glass, he wouldn't have been able to find out where the reinforcements he sent were.

Kunizaki has been doing nothing in the past two hours. He has organized infantry and artillery to launch a test attack on Qinglongling Village. The result is as he expected.

The small mountain village with cliffs and steep slopes is not very high, but the terrain is extremely unfavorable for attack. The Chinese have a large number of continuous-fire firearms and are extremely resolute in their counterattacks. They have basically been identified as their elite troops.

This judgment left Kunizaki with mixed emotions, including the joy of blocking the Chinese elite and the sorrow of insufficient troops.

Although he has two infantry brigades under his command, the hill in front of him is 1,000 meters long and more than 300 meters wide. The front line surrounded from three sides is nearly 1,600 meters long. If he launches a general attack, he will have to invest 3 soldiers at once. Infantry squadrons, based on the three-wave attack principle, require 9 infantry squadrons.

Furthermore, Kunizaki couldn't even have any reserves, which would put both the artillery and the headquarters in danger. The Chinese army's rear attacks in the past few days had always made Kunizaki wary of this.

As a result, Takeuchi Yunshan, the bastard, only walked a third of the distance two hours after the military order was issued. Kunizaki's stunned anger was obvious.

The wording of Kunisaki's reply became more and more intense, especially 10 minutes ago. The message clearly told Colonel Takeuchi Unzan that if the forward speed was not improved, he, the commander of the regiment, could resign.

For a commander to speak like this to his No. 3 or even No. 2 man, one can imagine Kunisaki's eagerness to wipe out this Chinese army before dark.

In fact, when it gets dark, who knows what else the Chinese will do. Kunizaki really doesn't want to be fired from out of nowhere again.

There was no other way. Takeuchi Yunshan had no choice but to issue a military order to speed up the march. In addition to the vanguard squadron continuing to maintain search alert along the way, the large army did not have time to check two steps and take one step as before.

Even so, Tang Dao and his men had to wait an hour longer than expected when the main force of the Japanese army finally arrived at the forward observation post after letting go of an infantry squadron that was advancing ahead of the main force of the Japanese army.

If Gu Xishui hadn't sent a secret message an hour ago, saying with certainty that the Japanese army would arrive, even Tang Dao couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

In fact, the Laojinkeng ambush battle has now become a must-fight. If these Japanese troops are not dealt with quickly, the more than 700 people in Qinglongling Village will really become turtles in the urn and will never be able to escape. .

Wearing camouflage clothes, Tang Dao's telescope field of view already showed a large group of shit-yellow men.

The queue is like a long queue, stretching for miles.

Then, the long dragon stopped. In front of the river valley, the trap dug by Tang Dao was on the edge.

(End of this chapter)

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