Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 908

Tang Dao and Lei Xiong's battalion reunited much sooner than he imagined.

Just less than 3 miles away from Licheng, I saw a motorcade that was stirring up smoke and dust.

If it weren't for the fact that through the telescope he could see a bunch of people standing, lying down, and hanging on top, all wearing blue military uniforms, Guo Shouzhi would have almost given the order to stop the enemy.

Yes, although the car is driven by a Japanese, the person in it is Chinese.

The battalion led by Lei Xiong has successfully completed the blocking mission!

It defeated the Japanese army even earlier than the Battle of Shentou Ridge!

The reason is that the Japanese troops from Shecheng are too "quick and expensive".

Shecheng is only more than 20 kilometers away from Licheng. The closer distance is only one aspect. The main reason is that the Japanese army located in Shecheng happens to have a cavalry regiment of the 108th Division and a baggage regiment.

The Japanese cavalry regiment was placed in the permanent division. It was a real cavalry, with horses and sabers! War horses have speed and endurance, and cavalry charges on them are also extremely impactful. Even in the war era dominated by thermal weapons, if there is not enough continuous firepower, the highly mobile cavalry is still very lethal. Especially on the Chinese battlefield, or to be more precise on the northern battlefield, the firepower intensity of the Chinese army is really hard to describe when compared to the Japanese cavalry!

But as we all know, war horses are precious things. If you want to maintain the power and speed of the horse, you must eat well and drink well. Just providing grass is not enough. The Japanese army's baggage warehouse in Licheng County stocked tens of thousands of kilograms of soybeans, corn and other concentrated feeds. It is prepared for war horses and pack horses.

For the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army deployed 21 of the 24 divisions nationwide in 1937. By 1938, 32 of the 34 divisions nationwide were deployed, accounting for 94% of the country's total army. , the consumption can be imagined.

The consumption is too great, so we have to find ways to cut expenses, especially at the imperial meeting, the "lifelong enemies" of the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy are constantly holding back. No one can touch the expenses of the seventeen permanent divisions. Those Each division commander has a big boss behind him, so he can only attack the second-line divisions, such as the 108th Division, a permanent division.

So, the so-called cavalry regiment of the 108th Division is actually a mixture of motorcycles and war horses.

To put it bluntly, the cavalry regiment of a permanent division like the 5th Division has four cavalry squadrons under its command. They are real cavalry with hundreds of strong horses. But like the 108th Division, two are real cavalry squadrons. The cavalry squadron, and the other two, make do by riding motorcycles.

In any case, in terms of mobility, everyone is almost the same. You don't need two legs to run. The only difference is that the motorcycle only drinks oil and does not consume feed, which saves a lot of money.

Let's talk about the Japanese army's baggage regiment. If compared with the current German, British and French in the Western world, the Japanese army's logistics equipped with a large number of packhorses and carts is like a country bumpkin meeting the future Jack Ma. One is in the sky and the other is on the ground. But If compared with the Chinese army, they would be upgraded to rich men in a blink of an eye. Each baggage regiment has more than 100 trucks, which is a configuration that even the direct troops under the principal's command would not dare to think of.

Therefore, when the Japanese troops in the direction of Shecheng received Licheng's request for help, they immediately organized two infantry squadrons and a 'cavalry squadron'. More than 20 three-wheeled motorcycles carried nearly a hundred Japanese troops, and 13 trucks carried 400 Japanese troops. A Japanese soldier, dragging two artillery pieces and carrying four heavy machine guns, a rescue force with a total strength of more than 500 people rushed towards Licheng.

Although the road between Shecheng and Licheng is full of potholes, as long as the truck does not race, it is enough to move forward at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

Originally, at the speed that this force can be called a 'mechanized' force on the Chinese battlefield, it could arrive at the battlefield within an hour and a half.

However, this group of Japanese troops was much more cautious than the 1,500 Japanese troops that set out from Lucheng. The distance between the leading motorcycles and trucks was more than 2,000 meters, and they would stop and search every time they reached dangerous areas. This was also the reason for the 921 attacks in the past few months. The division's harassing attack was frightening.

Although this would delay the reinforcement of Li City, from the perspective of the Japanese army, no one could have imagined that the 6th Infantry Brigade with solid city walls and 1,000 troops would fall in less than an hour.

What's more, if you want to love others, you must first love yourself. If you are done playing, who will reinforce Li City?

The commander of this Japanese army had enough life experience to fundamentally avoid the fate of being ambushed.

Lei Xiong had dispatched the special forces of the special operations squadron before entering the battlefield. After observing the Japanese army's marching method, he immediately adjusted his tactics. Since the Japanese were cautious, he changed the ambush to a blockade.

A battalion with two 150-pound mortars, eight 82-pound mortars, and two 92-pound infantry guns completely crushed the Japanese army in terms of heavy firepower. This was the reason why he dared to take a stand and fight the Japanese army hard.

The location where Lei Xiong chose to block the Japanese army is called Yubeiyu, which is between Licheng and Dongyang Pass, which was just occupied by the Japanese army. It is about 6 kilometers away from Dongyang Pass and 7 kilometers away from Licheng.

Just by hearing the name Yubeiyu, you can tell what kind of terrain it is here. Standing on the highest peak a few kilometers away from here, you can see that this terrain is like a fish, narrow and slender.

Looks like a suitable ambush battlefield.

However, forget about attacking from both sides of the road. There are smooth stone mountains on both sides of the road. It is difficult for even good climbers to climb up in a short time. The two warring parties have given up on fighting for the commanding heights just by looking up. Well, on this mountain, without any bullets, more than half of them can be killed just by climbing.

However, the originally quite curved road had to make an almost 90-degree turn here, because there is a hill here. The same basalt material is placed in the future. Maybe a tunnel will pass through it, or it may simply be blasted away. It's done, but in this era, we can only surrender before the miraculous work of nature, and the road curves around the mountainside.

And this mountain is Lei Xiong's chosen main blocking position!

Zhao Daqiang's 1st company is the main company stationed on this position. Cooperating with them is the 1st battalion fire support company, which has 6 heavy machine guns and 10 light machine guns!

This is just the light and heavy firepower on the surface. 400 meters behind the hill, there are 8 Type 82 mortars and 2 150-heavy mortars! That is Lei Xiong's final killer weapon!

Nearly a hundred cavalry were responsible for guarding the safety of the artillery, while the other two infantry companies, the 3rd company, were left as reserves. Wei Donglai's 2nd company had been under the leadership of the guide in the high mountains as early as when the 1st company was frantically building fortifications. Traveling through the small roads in between, they will launch another ruthless attack on the remaining enemies at a location more than 3,000 meters away from the battlefield.

Lei Xiong's idea is that even if he fights hard, he must fight to the death of the Japanese, letting them know that without their firepower advantage, they are nothing.

At six o'clock in the morning, it was just dawn, when the first wave of Japanese troops consisting of 8 motorcycles had just rounded the hilltop, and with the sound of Zhao Daqiang's gunshot, the battle began.

The only shortcoming of the four-line regiment fighting this kind of mountain warfare is that there are no mines.

According to Tang Dao's tactical vision, the battle should not be started by gunshots, but by detonated landmines on the roadside. The violent explosions can not only stun the opponent in the first wave, but also completely destroy the highway. , blocking the opponent's way.

It is much easier to move forward and out of the range of fire than to think in one place and work hard in one place.

Unfortunately, although equipment like land mines is not a high-tech gadget, with the current industrial level of the Four Lines Group, it is really impossible to make it. Teacher Xiao He's team can now make simple things with limited mechanical processing level. Equipment modification.

If you want to really start manufacturing, you need various finishing lathes!

However, for Japanese motorcycles without the protection of armored vehicles, bullets are enough!

The hail of bullets composed of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns at a range of 50 meters made the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard want to die!

Just the first wave of attacks made more than 20 Japanese soldiers hate the mountain road. 7 of the 8 motorcycles were stopped. Another one panicked and fell into a deep ditch more than three meters high on the side of the road. Not dead but also crippled!

To the condescending company, the counterattack organized in a hurry is like a child's desperate little fist!

More than 50 melon-style grenades thrown from the mountain gave the remaining 10 or so Japanese soldiers a good experience of what Imperial Japan's military manufacturing is!

To be honest, although the melon grenade, which is designed as a shrapnel-killing type, has a small charge and cannot blow people away like the German long-handled grenade, the cliff of shrapnel flying everywhere can make the unprotected infantry desperate.

Especially when there are so many.

By the time the Japanese troops behind them reacted with gritted teeth, the company on the hill had already used a hail of bullets and a storm of grenades to eliminate the front group of Japanese troops. Chinese, set up a defense line here!

The purpose is nothing more than to prevent reinforcements from the Imperial Army! The Japanese commander in the rear easily got the answer!

What should you do if you encounter this situation?

It must be fought! For the Japanese army who advocated martial arts, there was no such thing as a southern wall in the world. Even if there was one, it should not belong to the Chinese.

Yes, you can say that the Japanese army is brutal, or you can say that the Japanese army is inhumane, but in terms of their ability to execute military orders from their superiors, the Japanese army during this period was definitely at the forefront of the world's military.

Of course, being too arrogant is also the main factor that gives rise to this mentality!

Furthermore, this kind of almost iron-headed execution is from top to bottom, even if you are a lieutenant general or a general.

The Battle of Hengyang, which will be known as the "Moscow Defense Battle in the East" in the future, will be the most stubborn battle of the Japanese army under the influence of this mentality!

In this battle, the Chinese army participated in the battle with an infantry corps with a total strength of 17,000 people, while the Japanese army besieging the city had more than 100,000 troops in five divisions.

In terms of the strength comparison between the two sides, this battle even exceeded the strength ratio of the 67th Army that held off the Japanese Tenth Army for four days and nights in the small town of Songjiang half a year ago.

China will definitely lose! This was the prediction of all military strategists in the East and West who were paying attention to this war before the war began.

However, they predicted the ending correctly, but no one expected that the process would be so bloody!

This battle lasted 47 days and nights! The Chinese defenders increased from 17,000 to 1,200, but what about the Japanese troops? 20,000 people died in the battle and nearly 60,000 were injured. Even Zuo Jiujian, the commander of the 68th Division, was killed in the battle. The battle losses on both sides were jaw-dropping!

At the end of the battle, the Japanese army, known for its iron-headedness, gave in and publicly promised that as long as the remaining troops in the city surrendered, they would not do any harm to the wounded soldiers or civilians who were still alive in the city!

This is probably the first battle in the history of the Sino-Japanese war in which Japan seemed to have won but was far away from victory.

But in any case, the iron-headed temperament of the Japanese was fully exposed in this meat grinder-style city defense battle. They could not have attacked so hard, but in order to show the imperial bravery, they fought hard.

So, a **** head!

Such a battle can be fought, but just a hill in front of them and some Chinese people can block their determination to reinforce friendly forces? How can it be?

Parked the car on a mountain road 1,500 meters away from the battlefield, and two infantry squadrons dragged two infantry cannons and four heavy machine guns toward the battlefield!

The momentum is so powerful.

So, they encountered a head-on attack from Zhao Daqiang's company. The firepower network composed of 6 heavy machine guns and 10 light machine guns confused the Japanese infantry.

Are these Baga people fighting a Chinese infantry regiment?

Fortunately, they still have two infantry guns!

As soon as the artillery fires out, the Chinese will be finished. This is the battle mode that the Japanese army is accustomed to!

Several clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up on the hilltops covered with bushes. The Japanese infantrymen, who were so pressed by the light and heavy machine guns that they could not even lift their heads, were almost wet with excitement at that time. I mean, their eyes were wet!

Looking at the onboard cheers, they were about to linger in the mountains of China, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" A cloud of shells rose in the area where the two Japanese infantry guns were located.

The reason why the eight 82mm mortars and two 150mm heavy mortars remained silent for more than ten minutes before the battle started was to wait for the Japanese infantry artillery.

Because of the twists and turns of the mountain road, the Japanese infantry artillery would never stay too far. The fact is that in order to maintain the hit rate, the two infantry artillery were actually pushed to 500 meters away from the first company position. Artillery observers at high altitudes could use telescopes to The area where the Japanese artillery was located was clearly discovered.

The intensity of the concentrated fire attack by 8 mortars did not give the two 92-inch infantry guns a chance to move. In just 5 minutes, this infantry artillery team was already a thing of the past.

If the stunned Japanese commander had a clearer mind at this time and led the infantry to turn around and run away, with more than 400 troops, Wei Donglai's 2nd company would probably be helpless, and at most it would just rub salt in its wounds.

Unfortunately, not!

"Don't worry, the Chinese won't have too many artillery shells!" Seeing that his most important heavy firepower, the infantry artillery, was destroyed, Captain Takahashi Saikora, then the 1st Infantry Squadron of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 108th Infantry Regiment, actually gave him The subordinates were served a bowl of poisonous chicken soup.

Without Ikkyu's mind and suffering from Ikkyu's brother's illness, Takahashi Saikū perfectly performed the consequences of walking on stilts in the air.

Let's name it! It's also a technical job, so I really can't do it.

The 8 Type 82 mortars that have been exposed have given the Japanese army a good experience of what it means that their artillery shells will not be too many.

In the offensive and defensive battle for more than half an hour, eight 82-guns fired a full 300 rounds of artillery shells, taking away the lives of at least 150 Japanese soldiers and four heavy machine guns.

At this time, Takahashi Saisora considered whether he should love himself or his loved ones. Then, the 2nd door finally received the 150 heavy guns from the Japanese truck position and opened fire.

With only 5 rounds of artillery shells, four Japanese trucks were blown into pieces flying in the sky, blocking all the Japanese truck queues on the mountain road.

'idiot! Leave the first team to stop the enemy, and the rest will retreat! ' When Takahashi Saikong issued the military order with a dejected face, he painfully discovered that there were only 200 people under his command, and he barely had an infantry squadron.

Then, the remnants of the Japanese army, which had a "mechanized" temperament, completely returned to their two legs and could run fast.

It was impossible not to run, and the remaining infantry squad was completely defeated in only 3 minutes.

Because Lei Xiong even "crazy" ordered 10 artillery pieces to clear the infantry team's defense line. It was so profligate that it even made the Japanese heartache. The Chinese were crazy!

Of course the Japanese didn't know that Lei Xiong had an idea about the truck that was parked on the mountain road and had not been bombed. In order to prevent the Japanese army from having time to cause damage to the truck, he had to end the battle as soon as possible.

When the charge horn sounded and the rumble of horse hooves sounded on the mountain road, Takahashi Caikong almost peeed in shock. The Chinese even had cavalry. What kind of magical army did he encounter?

The Japanese troops, who did not care about blowing up the trucks that were still on the mountain road, made the decisive decision to leave the road and drill into the mountains. They saved their lives, but left behind 8 trucks and 13 motorcycles that could still be driven.

Motorcycles are actually very easy to control. Most of the veterans of the 88th Division in the first battalion have played with them. Trucks are a little more difficult to control. However, the special forces from the special squadron have all received driving training during the thousands-mile march of the Four Troops. It's still no problem when the driver pulls the big guy back.

There are just a lot of people to pull. There are more than 40 people standing in the compartment of a car, and there are more than a dozen 'hanging up' outside. Plus the dozen three-wheeled motorcycles, it is hard to pull two infantry companies and a firepower The support company was all pulled up.

The artillerymen have their own pack horses, and the cavalry who do not continue to pursue the Japanese army will protect them as they move towards Li City!

Wei Donglai's 2nd company has its own mission, and they also need to be on guard facing Dongyangguan, and they need to stay in the mountainous area for the time being.

The first battalion that was ordered to return to Licheng turned into a motorized battalion, at least on this early morning.

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