The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 350

6:10 in the evening. The sunshine in Nanchang area in July is still very strong. There seems to be a heat wave in the Nanfeng mountain area. It is humid and hot, making clothes stick to people's bodies, making people feel very uncomfortable.

The captain of the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Army Nagawa Hirato looked up the mountain with a telescope, feeling a little depressed.

For the whole afternoon, he didn't feel at ease. There were only a few enemies, and he even sent a capable army to deal with these enemies. Not only was he unable to eliminate them, but he also lost a lot of officers and soldiers on his side. .

Since the troops passed through the big and small Chenzhuang, the sporadic battles encountered along the way seemed to be small in scale, but they actually caused more than 21 casualties to the 120st Regiment, which was nothing compared to launching a medium-scale offensive Casualties were less.

Now he began to appreciate the power of Gao Jiu, and he began to feel a little headache about the upcoming battle.

He looked at the enemy's positions on the mountain, and those enemies were exposed there without covering up at all.They were in a group on the east side and a group on the west side, and they didn't build any decent positions. They looked chaotic, but Nagawa Hirato felt a little worried.

The Japanese army's combat effectiveness is strong, and one of the main reliance is their powerful firepower, the most important of which is artillery.Artillery is to hit fixed targets or cluster targets.If the enemy is in a fixed defensive position, it is very beneficial to destroy the enemy's position with artillery fire.

However, the enemy is in groups here and there, each group has a small number of people, and they are scattered on the mountain. Using artillery to deal with them has a feeling of using cannons to attack mosquitoes.This greatly limited the display of artillery firepower, which immediately reduced the advantage of the Japanese army by one-third.

Moreover, the enemy is scattered in such a large range, fighting each other in small units.Even if the Japanese army concentrates its forces to destroy a part of the enemy, it will not cause the overall collapse of the enemy, which requires many battles to solve the problem.

It takes a lot of time, and what the Japanese army lacks most is time. The troops of the 106th Division are already in a tight siege, and they are anxiously waiting for Nagawa Hirato to rescue them.

In addition, what makes Nagawa flato feel depressed is that if the enemy adopts such tactics in normal times, he can completely ignore them. He can use small troops to entangle the enemy, suppress the enemy with firepower, and large troops quickly pass through the enemy's blockade. It is difficult to stop the advance of the Japanese army.

It is a pity that the terrain here is very annoying. The road was cut off by the enemy, and it was difficult for the large Japanese troops to pass through quickly. However, the enemies on the surrounding hills could condescend and attack the Japanese troops at the bottom of the mountain easily.

If the Japanese vehicles, artillery, and other supplies wanted to pass through, engineers had to be sent to repair the road. Under the rain of enemy bullets, this was simply impossible. Only by eliminating or driving away the enemy could the road repairing task be completed.

However, if we set up a formation to attack the enemies on these hilltops, within such a large range, we don't know how long it will take to wipe out or drive away all these hateful enemies. If we continue to delay like this, I don't know why Only then can the task of reinforcement be completed.

After all, Nagawa Hirato is an experienced commander. He quickly saw the enemy's weakness. He believed that if the enemy did not gather together, their troops and firepower would be weak.As long as the Japanese army concentrates a certain amount of troops to attack the enemy, the enemy anywhere is no match for the Japanese army, and the enemy should be quickly eliminated or driven away.

Nagawa Hirato is a decisive person. After he made up his mind, he immediately ordered the two infantry brigades in front to deploy two squadrons each to attack the four hills on both sides.

The devils climbed up the hillside and were immediately attacked by at least three firepower from different directions. They had no choice but to divide their troops to attack the enemy's firepower point.

On a hillside, a devil squad leader commanded the soldiers to attack an enemy's firepower point. After paying the price of killing and wounding five soldiers, he finally defeated the enemy at that firepower point.There were about seven or eight enemies. They abandoned their positions and fled to the rear.

The devil's team leader was very happy, and commanded his subordinates to rush up and occupy the position that the enemy had just abandoned. Unexpectedly, just as they rushed to the position, they were immediately attacked by enemies from different directions, and several soldiers were killed or injured on the spot.

The devil's squad leader saw several enemy firepower points appearing in front of him, so he had to divide his troops again, suppress the firepower of other enemy firepower points, and attack the nearest enemy firepower point.

Similar to the situation just now, he directed the soldiers and launched an attack towards the enemy's firepower point. After fighting for about 5 minutes, he paid the price of three soldiers' casualties and beat the enemy away.When the troops under his command occupied the enemy's position just now, they were immediately attacked by the enemy from different directions. He really couldn't figure out why the enemy had so many defensive positions.

In fact, the enemy does not have so many defensive positions, they are just constantly switching defensive positions, and each defensive position only lasts for a short time, then retreats immediately, and then retreats to other defensive positions, and resets the defensive positions.When the Japanese army rushed up, several other firepower points attacked the Japanese army.

The Japanese army attacked any firepower point, and the firepower point was only defended for 5 minutes before retreating again. In this way, the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment kept shifting positions, but they always maintained a sufficient number of defensive positions to attack the enemy.

In blocking the enemy at Nanfeng Mountain, not only the senior officers of the theater headquarters were worried, but even Qin Feng, Guan Lie and others were also lacking in confidence.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment are all rookies. If they are asked to block the enemy head-on, they are likely to collapse again when they are bombarded by the enemy's cannon. It is not an easy task for them to dare to block the enemy.

As the saying goes, recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns.If you want to prevent the recruits from collapsing, you must not let them get together to avoid a chain reaction caused by a few people being afraid and fleeing.

The solution proposed by Gao Jiu was to scatter the troops of the entire supplementary regiment in company units on the hills around the road, as long as the rifles could threaten the Japanese troops on the road.Each company is based on a squad, with a distance of about 50 meters between each other, relying on natural conditions as a cover to set up blocking positions.

The purpose of this is to prevent the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment from gathering together and being massacred by the enemy's artillery fire. At the same time, this scattered blocking position can cover each other to prevent the enemy from outflanking and give the soldiers a sense of psychological security.

The task Gao Jiu set for them was that when each blocking position encounters an enemy attack, as long as they can persist for 5 minutes, they can evacuate the position, and then continue to set up an ambush position in another place.

At the same time, Gao Jiu stipulated that every blocking position must be held for 5 minutes. If you abandon the position within 5 minutes, you will be regarded as a deserter, and you must enforce battlefield discipline and execute the law on the spot.If you persist for more than 5 minutes, there will be corresponding rewards after the battle.

This is also done out of psychological considerations. The soldiers will think that I can withdraw from the position as long as I persist for 5 minutes.

Don't underestimate such a method. It is very difficult for the Japanese army to break through the positions of the supplementary regiment. They will feel that the enemy's positions cannot be breached, and they are just constantly retreating, but they will always be in the front. The Japanese army will continue to attack Blocked by the replenishment group.

Those troops that were not attacked by the enemy used fire to attack the enemy on the road.Similarly, once the enemy retreats, those troops under attack will return to their original blocking position and continue to attack the enemy on the road.

Before the battle started, Qin Feng was in charge of Han Changgeng's guard company and the machine gun platoon of the 62nd Division as mobile troops and reserves.

Since there was no need to work hard to build fortifications, the supplementary regiment quickly completed the layout of the ambush position and waited for the Japanese reinforcements to pass by.

After the battle started, this seemingly simple tactic quickly became effective.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment saw the Japanese army rushing up, and they were also very scared in their hearts, but they dared not run, because Gao Jiu had already issued a death order: after the exchange of fire with the enemy, if they retreat within less than 5 minutes, they will be killed in the battle. Other officers and soldiers around them have the right to regard them as deserters and shoot them dead on the spot.If someone was shot as a deserter, their family would not receive a penny of pension, and the family's honor would also be affected.

In this way, the officers and soldiers supervised each other, and no one dared to retreat easily. Even if the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment panicked, they could still settle the account. Instead of being shot as deserters, they might as well grit their teeth and persist for 5 minutes.Most of the officers and soldiers persisted.

They felt nervous for the first time, but after withdrawing, they chose a new position, and when they encountered the Japanese army again, they felt much better.In this way, gradually everyone is no longer afraid, and more and more experienced.

Nagawa Hirato observed the battle on the mountain with a telescope at the foot of the mountain. He was very happy to see that the Japanese army was attacking fiercely and the enemy kept fleeing. He thought that the enemy would be completely wiped out or driven away soon.

But what he didn't know was that the Japanese officers and soldiers on the mountain were actually dumbfounded.They worked hard to occupy an enemy position, but found that there were as many enemy positions in front of them, so they had to attack the enemy positions one by one, and what awaited them was a new enemy position.

As we all know, in the absence of heavy firearms, the side relying on positional defense has fewer casualties than the offensive side.In this way, the Japanese army suffered a lot.

At the beginning, the morale of the Japanese army was high, and they started to get discouraged when they fought. It was impossible not to be discouraged, because every time an enemy position was conquered, there would be many casualties. His own soldiers are gradually decreasing, and they are gradually unable to continue to attack.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment also saw this. Their confidence doubled. Seeing that the enemy was powerless to attack, they relied on alternate positions to cover and began to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army also launched a counterattack, the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment were condescending, Cross shooting still has the advantage.

Seeing that more than half of his troops had been casualties, the leader of the devil squadron felt that if he continued to fight like this, the whole army would be wiped out, so he decisively led the troops to retreat.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment regained all the positions, and their morale was greatly boosted. According to Gao Jiu's prior arrangement, they did not chase forward, but stayed on the mountain, waiting for the devils to attack again.

It doesn't matter if the devils don't attack, anyway, they are condescending, and the bullets can hit the road. If the devils want to pass by, they have to taste the taste of the bullets.

When Nagawa Pingdu saw the devils on the hillside withdrawing, he was very angry and didn't understand what was going on.Then, what made him even more depressed was that not only the devils on this hillside withdrew, but also the devils on several other hillsides.

A devil captain who was commanding in the front sent a combat staff officer to report to Nagawa Pingdu what happened on the hill just now.

Nachuan Pingdu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and only then did he appreciate the power of Gao Jiu.He looked at the vast mountains, and then at the road that had been dug in a mess in front of him. He really didn't know how to lead the troops through this mountainous area.

At this time, the sun was about to set, and Nagawa Hirato was not sure about night battles in unfamiliar terrain, and it was very dangerous to leave the troops on the road.In order to avoid more casualties, he led his troops out of the Nanfeng mountain area, and then let the troops camp on the road until dawn tomorrow.

After counting the number of Japanese soldiers, Hirato Nagawa was very surprised. In the attack just now, 242 soldiers were killed or injured. Adding in the number of casualties that were harassed along the way, the loss of the Japanese army was close to 400.Nagawa Pingdu brought a total of 5000 people, and such a loss has already made Nagawa Pingdu very distressed.

The last afterglow of the sky reflected a dark red around him, and Nagawa Pingdu's mood was also very gloomy.Based on his previous experience, he instinctively felt that he was in big trouble. With the shadow of a famous tree and Gao Jiu's fame, there might be some means waiting for him. He even wanted to avoid this Hateful enemy.

Unfortunately, he couldn't avoid it.

If Nagawa Pingdu wanted to reinforce the Japanese army surrounded in Sanhezhuang, he had to go this way.Because from here to the east is the Xinfeng River Valley, and it takes more than 100 kilometers to the west to pass through the defense area of ​​the 62nd Division of the National Army. That is a central army force of more than 1 people. Even Nagawa Hirato can defeat them , but it is impossible to complete the reinforcement task in a short time.

It is not enough to go over the mountains, because they are carrying a lot of weapons, ammunition and supplies. The Japanese army surrounded by the Sanhezhuang area not only needs the support of personnel, but also needs weapons, ammunition and supplies. Therefore, Nagawa Hirado must Get through the road ahead.

Nagawa Pingdu couldn't think of a countermeasure for a while, he decided to have dinner first, and then called the officers to discuss countermeasures.

At the beginning of the battle, Qin Feng, Guan Lie and Han Changgeng stood beside Gao Jiu, observing the situation on the battlefield.They have been worried all the time, wondering whether this tactic can stop the Japanese army, and whether the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment will collapse again like last time.When they saw the Japanese troops retreating, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Feng said excitedly: "Jiuye, this method really works. A group of recruits actually repulsed the tough devils. It seems that the devils suffered a lot of casualties."

This time the defensive operations were mainly based on the supplementary regiment, and of course Guan Lie was the most nervous. When he saw the devils attacking the mountain, he was so nervous that his palms were sweating.Seeing that the officers and soldiers under him actually blocked the devil's attack, he couldn't help being overjoyed.He knew in his heart that after this battle, the supplementary regiment had really grown up, and there would never be such a situation where it collapsed at the first touch.After some combat training, it will definitely become a very effective force.

Guan Lie was so excited that he didn't know how to express his emotions, so he stood there and kept applauding.

At this moment, when he saw that the devils had all retreated, he said sincerely, "Thank you Jiu Ye, you have tempered the supplementary group."

Since Han Changgeng got acquainted with Gao Jiu, they have experienced several battles together, witnessed Gao Jiu's miracle with his own eyes, and had only one word for Gao Jiu in his heart: "Submit."

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield had stabilized, Gao Jiu said: "Just fight like this, you just need to remember one thing: don't be greedy for merit, no matter what tricks the devils play, don't take the initiative to attack, the devils will have nothing to do with you. As long as this road is blocked and the Japanese army is not allowed to pass through, the task will be considered a great achievement, and I will ask your Shangfeng for your credit."

Guan Lie said worriedly: "After the battle just now, there is not much ammunition left. If the ammunition cannot arrive in time, tomorrow's battle will be difficult."

At this time, Jia Liu had already received a telegram from Director Li of the Military Intelligence Department, and Gao Jiu already had a bottom line in his mind.

Gao smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry! The ammunition will definitely be delivered before 12 o'clock tonight."

After explaining to Qin Feng and others, Gao Jiu took Jia Liu to Yudong County.

(End of this chapter)