The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 359
Liao Gengsheng issued an attack order, and the officers and soldiers of the 338 regiment began to attack Dachenzhuang.

Gao Jiu stood in the temporary headquarters and observed the situation on the battlefield. He wanted to see how the Gui army's combat effectiveness was.

Dachenzhuang is a relatively large village without a special wall. The back walls of the houses close to the village have become a natural boundary, with seven or eight natural exits.

The outside of the village is an open land, and the officers and soldiers of the Guangxi army have no concealment when attacking. When they attack, their bodies are exposed to the outside, which can easily cause large casualties.

Liao Gengsheng is an experienced commander, and the offensive tactics he adopted were recognized by Gao Jiu right away.

After observation, Liao Gengsheng soon discovered the weakness of the Japanese army.The Japanese army's strength is insufficient, there are only two small teams, and the village of Dachenzhuang is large, so the Japanese army's strength is not enough, and the strength of the Japanese army is relatively weak in each direction.

Due to the small number of Japanese troops, the only thing they can rely on now is the open land outside. Once the officers and soldiers of the 338th regiment invaded the village, and both sides started street fighting under the same conditions, it would not take long for the Japanese army to be exhausted.

The Japanese army did not dare to let the Guangxi army enter the village to fight in the streets. Their best strategy was to judge the main direction of the enemy's attack and concentrate their forces to stick to one side.

According to the weakness of the Japanese army, Liao Gengsheng deployed four infantry companies around the village at the same time, and launched an attack on Dachenzhuang at the same time.

The 338th Regiment attacked from all sides, and the main attack directions were all on all sides. The Japanese army had no choice but to divide their limited troops into guards. The troops on each side were relatively weak, and their firepower was relatively weak.

The offensive tactics of the officers and soldiers of the Guangxi army are also remarkable. After the battle started, they did not rush upwards in a swarm. Each soldier had already understood their respective tasks before attacking.

They numbered the firepower points of the Japanese army, and each firepower point launched a squad or a platoon to attack.

Each squad of the Gui Army's infantry squad is divided into three combat teams. One combat team is composed of machine gunners or soldiers with good marksmanship. It is responsible for suppressing the enemy's firepower, covering the other two combat teams, and launching an attack on the enemy.

Each infantry squad or infantry platoon attacks its own target, which can effectively suppress the enemy's firepower and prevent damage from side fire, and it is not easy to cause confusion on the battlefield.

Each infantry company has reserves of two or three squads, ready to attack the enemy's newly added firepower points, or to support a certain infantry squad that is understrength due to excessive casualties.

The officers and soldiers of the Gui Army are well-trained, and the quality of individual soldiers is also high. After launching an attack, they sometimes crawl forward and sometimes leap forward. These tactical actions are mixed with horizontal rolling and left and right dodging actions, making it difficult for the enemy to attack. aim.

After the battle started, the officers and soldiers of the Guangxi army attacked the village under the cover of machine gun fire.

Gao Jiu saw that there were four officers and soldiers of the Gui Army from the infantry squad rushing forward. He could see that several officers and soldiers of the Gui Army were shot and fell down. The other officers and soldiers of the Gui Army quickly rushed to the vicinity of the village. Some shot, and some threw grenades at the enemy.

Suddenly, a new firepower point appeared on the left side of their attack direction. The officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties and finally retreated.

The Japanese army is also very smart. When defending, they usually keep some hidden firepower points, which will not be exposed until a critical moment.

The officers and soldiers of the Guangxi Army knew this. They launched four squads in their first attack. They did not expect to break through the enemy's position in one fell swoop, but hoped that the enemy would expose hidden firepower points, and then increase their forces to reorganize the attack.

After the Gui army officers and soldiers retreated, they reorganized their forces and prepared to attack again.

Gao Jiu decided to help the field. He sent Ning Wen, Ning Wu and Li Xiaoshan to the other three sides of the village to snipe the enemy's machine gunners and other targets. He himself would go into battle himself.

When Liao Gengsheng saw that Gao Jiu was about to go to battle in person, he hurriedly dissuaded him, "Sir Gao, it's dangerous ahead! There are so many troops here, so don't go in person."

Gao Jiu laughed and said, "My hands itch when I'm in a war, so I'd better go up and help."

Liao Gengsheng heard that Gao Jiu was good at marksmanship, and he also hoped that seeing is believing, so he stopped dissuading him and simply followed Gao Jiu to move forward.

After talking about 200 meters away from Dachenzhuang, Liao Gengsheng dissuaded Gao Jiu again, saying that he was the supreme commander, and if something happened, the subsequent battle would be difficult.Gao Jiu has always been kind and willing to accept other people's kindness, so he stopped.

He observed for a while, then raised his sniper rifle and fired a shot forward.

The officers and soldiers of the Gui army were crushed to death by an enemy machine gun during the attack. The devil's machine gunner hid behind a narrow window of a house. The officers and soldiers of the Gui army tried many times to suppress his firepower , have no effect.

A platoon leader has already gone back to ask the company commander for instructions, hoping to transfer two more machine guns to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire.At this moment, the enemy's machine gun suddenly misfired, and the machine gun also tilted to one side. It was obvious that someone had shot the devil's machine gunner.

The ghost soldiers were also very brave. The machine gunner in front died, and the one behind him came up again. Just as he picked up the machine gun, another bullet flew head-on, hitting the bridge of his nose, and the bullet shattered the bridge of his nose. , got into his brain, his face was blooming, and he fell backwards.

The machine gunner of the third devil rushed forward again, picked up the machine gun and was about to fire, when a bullet flew over and hit him between the eyebrows.

In this way, the devil's machine gun became the god of death, whoever touches it will die.

"Good marksmanship." The platoon leader couldn't help but praise.

"Good marksmanship." Liao Gengsheng, who was standing next to Gao Jiu, couldn't help applauding.

Gao Jiu was standing 200 meters away, and one enemy soldier was killed for every shot. The Japanese army had less than 30 devils in this direction, and seven or eight of them had been killed by the Gui army in the previous battle. , Gao Jiu's attack directly killed more than a dozen more.

The few remaining devils didn't dare to show their faces at all, so they simply gave up their position and fled to the village. The devil's position on the opposite side was soon empty.

The officers and soldiers of the Gui army were all in admiration. They didn't know who was so good at marksmanship, and they took care of the devils on the opposite side by themselves.

When the officers and soldiers saw that no one was shooting on the opposite side, they all jumped up, shouted and rushed up, and soon entered the village.

Liao Gengsheng admired him so much that he couldn't help but said, "Mr. Gao, your marksmanship is really amazing. One person is as good as one of our companies."

On the other three sides, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and Jia Liu also played a major role, covering the officers and soldiers of the Gui Army and occupying the outskirts of the village. The battle was over in half an hour.

After taking down the big and small Chenzhuang, Gao Jiu, Liao Gengsheng and others went to check the trenches dug by the 62nd Division.

These trenches were dug on both sides of the road, cutting off the connection between the big and small Chenzhuang.

After checking the trenches left by the 62nd Division, Gao Jiu drew a new picture on this basis and explained it to the officers above the 338th Regiment and the 62nd Division Supplementary Regiment.

The blueprint of the defensive position drawn by Gao Jiu looks very complicated, including core positions and peripheral positions, trenches and traffic trenches criss-cross, inside there are caves for hiding soldiers, hiding places, headquarters, material storage holes, and even kitchens and toilets and gutters.

This map draws on the experience of the Japanese army and the Italian army in digging trenches, as well as Gao Jiu's original technique.

In order to allow each unit to understand the purpose of this set of trenches, Gao Jiu personally guided the engineers of the 338th Regiment and dug a section of trenches.

This section of trenches was dug deep, which absorbed Wang Jindong's method of dealing with devils. Each soldier prepared a small bench to prevent devils from using the trenches.

In addition to the cat's ear holes and other facilities for anti-cannon, a pit with a bowl mouth and a depth of more than two feet was excavated on the ground every two meters.

Everyone can understand the other facilities, but this small pit is the only one that no one knows what it is for.

Gao Jiu didn't explain, and said to a soldier, "Take a grenade and throw it into the trench!"

The soldier took out a grenade and threw it down without unscrewing the back cover on the wooden handle of the grenade.

When the grenade fell to the ground, Gao Jiu kicked the grenade into the pit with the thick mouth of the bowl.

"So it is like this!" Everyone suddenly realized.

As we all know, throwing grenades or grenades is the most feared thing in the trenches. In a small space, the power of the explosion will increase a lot, which will cause huge casualties to the officers and soldiers guarding the trenches.

This pit is to prevent the enemy from throwing grenades and grenades. If the grenades and grenades fall into this pit, it will be difficult to injure nearby soldiers when they explode inside.

Don't underestimate such a small trick, but it is a life-saving trick that can greatly improve the survivability of officers and soldiers.

The longer Liao Gengsheng has been in contact with Gao Jiu, the more he finds that he has endless tricks. I really don't know how his brain grows?He said with admiration: "No wonder everyone calls you Ninth Master. You are so amazing. It's really bad luck for the little devil to meet you."

With the complete defense system provided by Gao Jiu, the officers and soldiers of the 338th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment have increased their confidence in holding their positions.

Gao Jiu saw that the problem was not serious here, so he left Dachen Village and headed south along the highway to meet Wu Tianming and the others.

Wuhan, Fifth Theater Command.

The area of ​​the fifth battle was vast, with hundreds of thousands of national army troops. Every day, a large number of telegrams were sent to the war room, which were basically bad news: Where did the Japanese army capture again? Which troops of our army suffered heavy casualties and were forced to Where to retreat.Otherwise, it was the news that a city was bombed by Japanese planes, and the people suffered heavy casualties and were left homeless.

These telegrams were all sent by the Confidential Office of the Headquarters, and some important telegrams were personally sent by Guo Xuejia, the director of the Confidential Office.Since all the news she brought was bad, everyone was in a bad mood, so even the beautiful Guo Xuejia didn't seem so pleasing to the eye in people's eyes.

These days, Lin Yanni is the most popular. The Military Intelligence Department has an independent telegram communication system. Lin Yanni's main task now is to get in touch with Gao Jiu. Every telegram she brings is good news.

At this time, Lin Yanni came to the war room again. After reading the telegram, the deputy chief of staff said happily: "Nanfeng Mountain repelled the Japanese attack again. The 338th Regiment has already started to build fortifications in Dongping Town, and has reoccupied large and small towns." Chenzhuang wiped out a squadron of the Japanese army, and in fact surrounded the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Third Division. The 62nd Division has arrived at the designated position and is about to ambush the 145th Regiment of the Japanese Army. The war of annihilation is about to begin in full swing."

The Chief of Operations is completely convinced of Gao Jiu now. Nanchang was in a mess before, but only Gao Jiu went there, and the whole situation changed completely.Now he is looking forward to it. Tomorrow, Gao Jiu will be able to lead the 62nd Division to fight a beautiful battle, reversing the crisis in the southeast front of the Nanchang area and even the entire fifth theater.

He said with emotion: "This Mr. Gao is really a general." In fact, he wanted to say that Gao Jiu was a handsome talent, but in front of the deputy chief of staff, he could only say so.

The deputy chief of staff didn't mind, he said: "Mr. Gao is good at leading troops. A unit like the supplementary regiment has been turned into a powerful unit by him in such a short period of time. Not only that, he has a strategic vision and can see favorable opportunities to turn the tide of the war in a crisis. He is also good at uniting people, and he is able to unite the 62nd Division of the Central Army, the Nanchang Station of the Army Command, and the 338th Unit of our Guangxi Army. Regiment and other departments, unite together and fight side by side.

From this point of view, Mr. Gao can be called a handsome talent.I really don't know how he was trained at such a young age?In my opinion, only the ancient Huo Qubing can compare with it. "

Lin Yanni was waiting for instructions, and when the officers praised her sweetheart, she was overjoyed and smiled like a flower.

The deputy chief of staff said to her: "Chief Lin, you must keep in close contact with Mr. Gao. If you can't be on duty in person, you must arrange someone on duty, and you must not miss any telegrams from Mr. Gao."

"Yes." Lin Yanni gave a military salute smartly.When she saluted, her white wrists were naturally bent. The military salute was a little out of standard, but it looked very good-looking.

Lin Yanni returned to the telecommunications room, picked up the stub of the telegram sent by Gao Jiu, feeling a little unhappy, and thought: "Brother Jiu is really, he knows that only I can translate his telegram, and everything on the telegram is official. , Don’t even tell me a private word, really.”

She complained a little bit about Gao Jiu's incomprehension of style, and felt somewhat unhappy.However, when she thought that Gao Jiu was fighting the Japanese invaders there, she automatically forgave him.

Nanchang area.

It is about 70 kilometers from the Xinfenghe Highway Bridge to the big and small villages. The terrain on the way is complex, and there are many places where ambushes can be made.

Wu Tianming led the troops all the way south, encountered many good terrains on the way, and suggested an ambush here, but was rejected by Gao Jiu.

The troops of the 62nd Division continued to move south, and did not stop until they were about 25 kilometers away from the Xinfenghe Highway Bridge. Gao Jiu said, "The ambush position is here."

Wu Tianming and Wang Xuexue felt a little puzzled when they saw that the terrain here was far inferior to those places they passed by on the road.Even Chu Tianxiong felt that the terrain here was not as good as those places on the road.

He asked, "Brother Gao, why did you choose to be here?"

(End of this chapter)