The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 355 Simple and Effective Tactics
Compared with the high morale of the national army officers and soldiers on Nanfeng Mountain, the morale of the national army officers and soldiers around Sanhezhuang seemed very low.

In the past few days, the national army launched many attacks on the besieged Japanese army, but failed to make any progress. Instead, it lost a large number of national army officers and soldiers.

The tenacity of the Japanese army is notorious. In the famous Battle of Iwo Jima, the Mi Army with 10 troops, supported by the powerful firepower of the navy and air force far surpassing the Japanese army, launched an attack on the 23 Japanese troops defending the island. From February 786, 1945 to March 2, 19, they fought for more than a month, consumed hundreds of thousands of shells and aerial bombs, and paid a total of 1945 casualties. In the end, the Japanese army ran out of ammunition and food. Only then did Iwo Jima be taken.

The national army lacked aviation support, and its own artillery was pitiful. Attacking the Japanese positions was basically filled with human lives, and it was very difficult to make progress.

At this moment, in front of the enemy's position in Sanhezhuang, the soldiers were lying at the starting point of the attack 200 meters away from the Japanese position, each with a heavy heart, full of grief, indignation and helplessness.

In the hidden department not far behind them, the mood of the battalion commander was the same as that of the soldiers who were about to charge, heavy and depressed.

These devils in front of them are really too difficult to fight. Usually they hide in the caves of the soldiers. The national army's artillery fire is not much, and they are not a threat to them at all.When the national army launched a charge, they drilled out of the cat's ear holes, hid in the trenches, and hit the national army soldiers with fierce firepower. Every time the national army charged, they suffered heavy losses, leaving corpses one after another at the front of the position.Blood everywhere soaked the short distance of 200 meters.

Regarding whether the enemy's position can be captured, from the chief to the soldiers, everyone has no confidence, and it is inevitable that there will be fear in their hearts.However, when the order to attack was issued, the officers and soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward.Those who are dead consider themselves unlucky, and those who are alive do not have the slightest joy of rejoicing, because maybe the next time they attack, they will also fall on the way to charge.

The battalion commander raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was already the stipulated attack time. He raised his hand, and was about to give the command to the bugler beside him to charge.

"Drip Lingling." At this moment, on the desk temporarily piled up with ammunition boxes, the phone rang suddenly.

Ordinarily, it was time for the attack. The battalion commander should have given the order to attack without paying attention to the phone. However, curiosity still drove him to stop giving the order.

Phone ringtones or mobile phone ringtones seem to have a mysterious power that can arouse people's great curiosity.There are quite a few suicides, they have decided to commit suicide by taking medicine or jumping off the building, but when the phone rings, they still can't help answering the call, even though the content of the call will disappoint him in most cases , but the ringtone of the mobile phone still represented a glimmer of hope, driving him to answer it involuntarily.

At this moment, the mood of the battalion commander is like this. In his subconscious mind, he hopes that the order to stop the attack will come from the phone, so that he will not see the bloody scene that follows.

This time the battalion commander was not disappointed. The voice of the battalion commander came from the phone: "Stop attacking! Wait for the order."

The battalion commander breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered the orderly to stop the attack. His tense nerves relaxed just now, his body was a little limp, and he sat down on the ammunition box.He lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and slowly exhaled the smoke in his mouth, squinting his eyes to enjoy a moment of leisure.

After a while, a company commander who had withdrawn from the front came in, saluted the battalion commander, and asked, "Bing Zuo, why did you stop attacking?"

The battalion commander glanced at him and said, "Isn't it good to stop the attack?"

The company commander said: "Okay! This devil is too difficult to fight. Brothers rushing forward will die in vain. My company has 123 people, and now there are only 68 people left. If this battle continues like this, sooner or later they will all have to fight." Finished."

The battalion commander pointed his mouth at the table and said, "There are the cigarettes, take them yourself." Then, he took out the lighter from his pocket and handed it over.

The company commander lit a cigarette, returned the lighter to the battalion commander, moved an ammunition box and sat next to him, and he said: "Bing Zuo, you have to suggest to the regiment commander that this battle cannot continue like this. You have to figure it out."

The battalion commander was very depressed and said: "What can we do? The devils are hiding in the fortifications. Our artillery can't deal with their fortifications. What can we do if we don't charge hard? Fortunately, the devils don't think there are many left. There are too many people, two of them fight against one, and sooner or later these devils will be killed."

At this time, the guard standing outside the shelter shouted: "Bing Zuo, the regiment Zuo is here."

The battalion commander and company commander hurriedly stood up and walked out.

When they left the concealment department, they saw the regiment commander approaching. Behind him, followed by the engineer staff officer of the regiment headquarters, and then the guard platoon of the regiment headquarters.None of the guards had guns, and they carried a lot of shovels and pickaxes on their shoulders. They didn't understand what they were going to do.

The battalion commander stepped forward to salute and asked, "Tuan Zuo, it's dangerous here! Why are you here?"

The head of the group returned the salute, walked straight forward, and said as he walked, "Let's talk inside."

After everyone entered the hidden department and sat together, the head of the regiment said excitedly: "I just went to the division headquarters to hold a combat meeting, and the commander's department has issued an order to temporarily stop the attack and let the devils in front of us live for a few more days. God. But soon they'll be over."

The battalion commander asked with some doubts: "The Japanese army is also very tired these days. If we don't continue to attack and give them time to breathe, won't the future battles be more difficult to fight? Is there any way to deal with them?"

The head of the regiment said to the engineering staff officer who followed him: "You tell me."

The engineering staff officer took out a blueprint and spread it out on an ammunition box.Everyone saw the criss-cross above, it should be trenches and traffic trenches.

The battalion commander and the company commander looked at each other, not understanding what they were doing.

The engineer staff officer said: "The reason why the devils are difficult to fight is because they dug cat's ear holes in the trenches. Our artillery basically didn't work in the past. Therefore, when we attacked, the devils hid as soon as we fired the artillery." , When our people launch a charge, they get out of the trenches, and our people are exposed to the open space at the front of the position. Of course, there will be heavy casualties.

The only way to overcome them is to dig trenches.Let's dig the trenches from the starting point of the attack to the front of the devil's trench, which is the distance where we can throw grenades into the devil's trench.

The devil's trenches have no advantage.We have a lot of people, and we can beat them by throwing grenades at each other.

When it got dark, tens of thousands of people launched a general attack in all directions at the same time. With such a short distance, they could quickly rush into the enemy's trenches, and the casualties would be much smaller.

We have many more people than the devils, and if we fight them in the trenches, are we afraid that we won't be able to deal with them? "

The company commander's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands and said, "What a great idea!"

The battalion commander also nodded and said: "This idea is good, I think it will work."

Then he asked with some doubts: "Tuan Zuo, but it takes a long time to dig a trench. What should I do if the devil's reinforcements come?"

The engineer staff officer said: "There is only a distance of 200 meters. We have a large number of people. It will not take long. It will take at most three days to dig the trenches to the enemy's position."

The head of the regiment said with a smile: "Don't worry, this time the officer gave you five days, and you don't have to do anything, just dig the trenches."

Speaking of this, he said mysteriously: "The teacher told me that the legendary Gao Jiu is in Nanfeng Mountain, and he brought a supplementary regiment with only a thousand people, so he just took a member of the Devil's third division." The strengthened wing blocked there, I really don’t know how the battle is fought.”

Gao Jiu's reputation is too loud. Everyone is familiar with the wonderful battles he fought in the past.In the past two days, there was a news that the supplementary regiment of the 62nd Division had been beaten to pieces by the devils, and the entire army was about to be wiped out. Gao Jiu went to rescue the supplementary regiment, and immediately brought Following the supplementary regiment, they set up an ambush of the devils, defeated a brigade of the devils, and wiped out more than 500 devils.

What's even more outrageous is that the Xinfenghe Bridge, which was guarded by hundreds of devils day and night, was blown up by Gao Jiu alone, and he directly killed thousands of devils. people.

The battalion commander and the company commander heard that Gao Jiu was stopping the Japanese reinforcements not far away, and they both wanted to meet this legendary hero.

The team leader continued: "This hero Gao is really capable, do you know that? This method of digging trenches to fight devils was told by this hero Gao to the chief department."

The battalion commander said with some surprise: "No wonder Gao Yingxiong is able to win the battle, he is really capable."

The engineer staff officer said: "Yes. The method of digging the trench was provided by Gao Yingxiong. According to this method, the devils have nothing to do with us. We can only watch the trench approaching them."

The blueprint for digging the trench was provided by Gao Jiu, which not only ensured the safety of the people who dug the trench, but also prevented the Japanese army from sending people out to destroy the trench. The design of the trench was very reasonable, and even professionals like the engineering staff were amazed.

This simple and effective tactical method can make up for the gap in the quality and weapons of the national army to a large extent, and give full play to the advantages of the national army in terms of strength.

The company commander said excitedly: "It's all right now, we don't need to charge under the enemy's artillery fire anymore, I'll go back and take my brothers to dig trenches."

Not long after, under the guidance of the engineer staff officer, a group of national army soldiers began to dig a two-meter-deep pit 200 meters away from the Japanese army, and then they began to dig trenches.The trenches are not facing the enemy's position straight, which can effectively prevent the attack of the enemy's guns on the opposite side.

On the Japanese army's position in Sanhezhuang, the devil's joint captain heard the sound of guns and artillery from the front, and knew that the Guo army was about to launch an attack again.

This was already commonplace for him, and he didn't care, letting an orderly hold up a mirror and shave there.

Soon, he received a report that after the enemy prepared for artillery fire, the infantry did not launch an attack, but retreated directly, which aroused his curiosity instead.

The devil's regiment leader personally came to the front of the position. He saw through the binoculars that there was no national army soldier on the surface in front of him, but dust kept flying up from the ground. It could be seen that they were digging trenches.

At first, he thought that the enemy was going to station troops there, or set up mortar positions.He is not worried about this, even if the enemy's mortars are set at a distance of 200 meters, as long as the Japanese officers and soldiers hide in the cat's ear holes, the enemy's mortars are still for display.

He called the artillery commander and prepared to let them destroy the enemy artillery that came to the door.

After arranging this matter, he went around the trench to see the Japanese soldiers standing on the front line.

The regimental captain saw the soldiers, talked to them cordially, and encouraged them to continue fighting bravely.

The ranks of the Japanese army were strict, and the ordinary soldiers would not usually see the face of such a high-ranking official as the captain of the regiment. Seeing the captain of the regiment visiting them in person, they were all terrified and their morale increased greatly.

Seeing that the soldiers were in good spirits, the regimental captain was very satisfied and went back to the regiment headquarters.

In the afternoon, he received a report from the forward position that the enemy had not launched an attack and continued to dig trenches there. It seemed that the trenches had already been dug towards the Japanese positions.

Then, he received reports from the Japanese army in various forward positions, saying that the enemies in all directions were digging trenches, and they were digging towards the Japanese army's position little by little.

"No, the situation is not good." The captain of the Japanese army realized the danger, and immediately summoned the officers to discuss countermeasures. At the same time, he sent a telegram to the division headquarters again, urging the reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

Nanfeng Mountain.

After dawn, Gao Jiu went to look at the weapons and equipment sent over. He was most interested in two French Hotchkiss 1930-style 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

This anti-aircraft machine gun was developed on the basis of the Hotchkiss 1914 heavy machine gun. It uses 30 rounds of double-row magazines for ammunition. On the tripod, the quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun is installed on the R3 gun rack. The gun has a fast rate of fire, high precision, and high reliability. It is widely carried around important facilities such as vehicles and ships, providing short-range anti-aircraft firepower for the ground. .

After the founding of the Republic of China, the country was in a period of long-term war. European and American countries, including the Soviet Union, all went to China to sell weapons. When the French sold weapons, they brought some samples, including these two French Hotchkiss in 1930. Type 13.2 mm anti-aircraft machine guns. Later, the national army adopted a large number of German-made weapons. The French did not negotiate a business. These two anti-aircraft machine guns stayed. Because the number was too small, they were not equipped with troops and were stored in the military command. This time, Gao Jiu asked him to come here, and Gao Jiu was going to take it back and use it as an air defense weapon for Taohuashan.

Qin Feng, Guan Lie and others saw Gao Jiu's proficiency in manipulating this kind of anti-aircraft machine gun that they had never seen before, and they all admired Gao Jiu. They felt that there seemed to be nothing that Gao Jiu did not understand, and they were really puzzled. How did people learn it.

Gao Jiu explained the performance of this anti-aircraft machine gun to everyone, and said with some expectation: "I don't know if the devil will send bombers over for this battle? My hands are really itchy."

This morning, Nagawa Pingdu commanded the Japanese army to enter the Nanfeng mountain area again and launched an attack on the Guo army.

(End of this chapter)