Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 848 Waiting for the move!

In the view of Matsumoto's right door, the rapid-fire artillery squadron has disappeared!

In fact, the artillerymen who survived this sudden heavy artillery washout accounted for about a quarter of his original rapid-fire artillery squadron, and it was not annihilated.

However, the huge explosions in the center of the shelling made these artillerymen who survived by chance, like their artillery squadron leaders, deaf.

A group of disabled Japanese artillery is nothing, and more importantly, the artillery can no longer be used.

Although not all of the six rapid-fire guns were blown to pieces by the precise hits of the Chinese shells, Matsumoto right door also knew that, without maintenance, these guns were all dead. Can no longer be used.

"It's over!" The artillery captain at the right gate of Matsumoto was blind-eyed, and was almost mechanically retreated towards the wing headquarters with the support of the signal soldier.

Perhaps, if he knew that not only the two infantry squadrons of the "Long Live Charge" of the third infantry brigade were lost, but even Major Shenmu was killed, his mood would be much better.

After all, he's still alive, isn't he?

In the end, there were less than 700 soldiers in the Japanese Third Infantry Battalion who were able to retreat 500 meters away from the blocking position of the Lengfeng Third Battalion and began to desperately dig field trenches.

The lieutenant and deputy captain of the 2nd Infantry Regiment watching all this with a binoculars almost didn't shed tears.

He was promoted from the former Major Commander of the Third Infantry Brigade. The Third Infantry Brigade is not only his soldier, but also the guarantee of his right to speak in the regiment. Not dissatisfied with the compilation, but there are more than 4 people in a mighty way.

This is great, after only two waves of attacks, only half of the people are left.

"Supplement the supply squadron directly under the regiment into the third infantry battalion, Tanaka-kun, since Shao Zuo Shenmu has devoted his allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor, and you have served as the captain of the third infantry battalion, now I will appoint you to concurrently serve as the captain of the third infantry battalion." The safety of the regiment headquarters is all up to you." Shi Hei Zhenzang didn't have any sadness on his face, but gave a decisive order.

"Hi!" The Japanese army lieutenant bowed his head heavily.

"Send power to the division headquarters again. Our regiment has been besieged by a large number of Chinese troops carrying automatic firearms. All subordinate units have suffered casualties. Request air support as soon as possible!" Ishiguro Sadazo watched his deputy go away, took a deep breath, and ordered again.

Only now did Ishiguro Sadazo reveal the anxiety in his eyes.

The Colonel of the Japanese Army has realized at this time that his 2nd Infantry Regiment is actually in a desperate situation, and he cannot abandon the two surrounded infantry brigades anyway, but his current regiment alone cannot rescue them. them.

If he insists on going hard, it may be exactly what the Chinese want. The Chinese army in charge of blocking them in front of them may turn from defense to offense at any time and attack the wing headquarters with huge loss of troops.

By then, the 2nd Infantry Regiment would be the laughing stock of the Imperial Army.

Originally, the Chinese only wanted to eat 2000 people. Who knew that Shi Heizhen, with his brains full of water, wasted the last of his mobile forces on the defense line carefully constructed by the Chinese, and eventually even himself got involved.

Not to mention that the various departments of the Imperial Army will regard the 14th Division as a joke, the Chinese will also take the opportunity to publicize his pig head hidden by Ishiguro Sada!
The only way now is to stick to it with the last force and take a gamble.

Bet that the Chinese can't kill his two infantry brigades in one day, and the reinforcements from the bet division can arrive within 10 hours.

If he loses the bet, his 2nd Infantry Regiment loses two infantry brigades, but if he wins the bet, he can make a complete comeback.

In the future, the division's battle report to the front army headquarters can be written: the 2nd infantry regiment used two infantry brigades as bait to lure the main force of the Chinese army to besiege, and then the division sent its main force to wipe them out!
Of course, Ishiguro Sadazo really abandoned the two infantry brigades without saying anything, and he also pinned his hopes on the air power of the Imperial Army.

The front army has land aviation stationed at two airports in Jin Province. Fighters can bomb or use machine guns to shoot. Even if it can't completely solve the danger of the two infantry brigades being surrounded, just give them enough support to keep them going until dusk.

It can only be said that the opponent Tang Dao encountered was clear-headed and tenacious. If ordinary troops encountered him, they would probably suffer a big loss.

However, what Ishiguro Sadazo learned from Kenji Doihara was Tang Dao, not the entire Four Elements Group. Tang Dao is the core of the Four Elements Group, but the combat effectiveness of the Four Elements Group does not only come from the commander alone.

It was derived from fighting again and again, from the will to fight through life and death. Even the more than a thousand Sichuan troops who joined later had experienced bitter and deadly battles in Guangde.

What's more, they also re-updated the equipment and ammunition replenishment.

Spanning 700 kilometers, not counting the supply troops, the average person carries a huge load of 30 kilograms, which has actually laid the most important foundation for this battle.

Today's Four Elements Regiment, whether in terms of personnel quality, equipment, or the execution ability of commanders at all levels, looks at the overall combat power of the whole of China, not to mention sitting firmly in the first place, it must also be in the top three.

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The poor are interspersed with tactics, and the rich are covered by firepower!
Lei Xiong's [-]st Battalion and Guo Shouzhi's [-]nd Battalion carried out the prodigal son's model to the end. After the first wave of Japanese troops in the encirclement was blinded and killed a quarter, in the vast wilderness grassland, the two sides entered into a confrontational battle. model.

It's just that the Japanese army that rolled down the roadbed basically could only use rifles and a few pitiful machine guns against the enemy.

It is not to say that the Japanese infantry squadron is equipped with too few light machine guns. An infantry squadron is equipped with 6 Taisho ten young machine guns, which is enough to rival an infantry battalion of an ordinary Chinese army, and there are as many as 8 Japanese infantry squadrons besieged on the battlefield. That means that even if the heavy machine gun squadron suffered heavy losses, they would still have nearly 50 light machine guns.

But the tragedy is that although the first battalion and the second battalion did not use mortars, there were quite a few grenadier soldiers left in the grass more than 100 meters away. Their goal was the continuous firepower of the Japanese army.

Once they found the Japanese light machine guns roaring in the grass, even if the grenadiers didn't have time to find out, the squad leaders in the trenches would scream desperately to remind their grenadiers to solve the immediate problem.

A grenadier can be called a crushing machine gun. If you can't kill it with one shot, then use two or three shots!
Of course, the Japanese army also had grenadier soldiers, but the target of the grenadiers was not as obvious as the continuous fire of light machine guns, and the positions of the two sides were also very different.

The hiding place for the Chinese grenadiers is not just to find a grass nest. The grenadiers who are some distance away from the infantry also dig trenches for individual soldiers, and they also use sandbags as bunkers, as long as it is not grenades. Falling in the trenches or just on the edge of the trenches, they will basically not be injured by shrapnel.

However, the Japanese grenadier soldiers just lay down in the grass casually, and were suppressed by firepower that was unknown or even untracked. Let alone searching for targets with binoculars as before, they could look up. , is already lucky.

What's more, every Chinese infantry squad has precision shooters, and they instinctively won't be like other infantry, just crouching on the edge of the trench and pouring firepower forward regardless.

Those who resist resolutely, those with the sun flag tied on the muzzle, those with high lethality, and those with stars on their shoulder straps are basically the targets they are looking for.

The grenadier soldiers were naturally their prey, so the number of Japanese grenadier soldiers who were shot was more than 20 in the stalemate that lasted more than 20 minutes.

To put it bluntly, the battlefield at this time is quite similar to the 14th Division fighting the First Army. As soon as the Chinese machine guns show their firepower, the grenadiers of the Japanese army standing 400 meters away will shoot at their heads and faces. Powerless, I could only watch helplessly as the Japanese army knocked out their suppressive firepower one by one.

Without the continuous fire suppression of machine guns, the bolt-action rifles in the hands of the infantry alone could not stop the Japanese army's final charge.

It's just that the battlefield at this time is just the opposite. The Japanese army can only watch in pain as the Chinese kill their own machine gun firepower, but there is nothing they can do.

At this moment, they finally understood the powerlessness of their former opponents. It wasn't that the soldiers had weak willpower, but that they couldn't help it.

They also have no choice now, not only watching their opponents kill the machine guns little by little, but also bearing the malice from the imperial military workers.

Yes, many Taisho ten young machine guns went on strike without waiting for the Chinese to kill them.

Because of the grenade explosion, some withered grass was ignited. Although it would soon be extinguished by the air waves formed by more grenade explosions, it did not become a large burning fire like the third battalion, but a large number of burning residues were swept into the air and fell one after another. , Chinese and Japanese soldiers are like groundhogs covered in mud.

These things falling on the human body are just a little dirty. Human beings who are struggling on the verge of life and death can certainly not take it seriously, but the machine gun stopped doing it in the tenth year of Taisho.

How can the sophisticated weapons developed by the Imperial Japanese Army work in such an environment?Stuck has almost become the most common operation.

The Japanese infantry, who used to have a good life, could only use the [-] rifles to confront the enemy, except for angrily shouting "Ba Ga".

That is to say, 30 minutes after the start of the battle, the surrounded Japanese army had no weapons other than the Sanba Dagai.

Guo Shouzhi, who arrived at the front-line command, noticed this keenly. He had already asked Tang Dao to charge by phone, and completely devoured the Japanese army in front of him.

"Continue to maintain the battlefield situation and kill as many Japanese troops as possible. Now is not the time for a decisive battle. Without my order, the battalions are not allowed to charge without authorization! Violators of military orders will do so." Tang Dao refused on the other end of the phone.

Tang Dao's face was serious, but his eyes were relaxed. The Japanese soldiers in the encirclement had lost all their heavy weapons, and they were almost doomed. If they wanted to eat them, they could do so at any time.

Looking back at the spy company commander Yang Xiaoshan who was with him thoughtfully, Tang Dao smiled, "Xiaoshan, let me tell you why I don't let Battalion Commander Guo and the others kill the devils in one go?"

For Yang Xiaoshan, Tang Dao has always had an inexplicable love for him. Although he has never created such a brilliant record, as a representative of the group of young officers who were quickly promoted along with Gu Xishui and Qian Dazhu, he actually The reputation in the army is far inferior to those two, and even when the gang of bigwigs in Zhengzhou city came to marry, few people mentioned this honest-looking lieutenant company commander.

But Tang Dao just liked him, and after training in Li Jiujin's infantry company for more than a month, he was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant and became the commander of the spy company.

The secret service company is not a combat force. It has communications, medical care, engineering, and service under its jurisdiction. It can be regarded as a special service company. It will never be sent to the battlefield unless it is absolutely necessary.

It seems that the first-line combat troops have been transferred to the second-line service troops, but almost anyone who is not blind will know that the secret service company is the most personal unit under the commander of the regiment, and the importance of its company commander is naturally needless to say.

Perhaps, only Tang Dao knew why he liked Yang Xiaoshan. It was not only that Yang Xiaoshan was the first to express his kindness to him when he first came to this world, but that Yang Xiaoshan resembled him very much when he first entered the barracks.

Kind, warm and have a firm heart.

Tang Dao firmly believes that Yang Xiaoshan will become an excellent commander, so he will spare no effort to train him.

Seeing Tang Dao's question, Yang Xiaoshan quickly replied, "Sir, you may be worried about the artillery of the Japanese army. If we decide the winner too early, the artillery of the Japanese army over there will definitely be able to open fire recklessly, and our army will suffer a lot. .”

"Hehe, this can be regarded as part of the reason, and there are other things!" Tang Dao smiled slightly.

"If there's anything else, it's because the Japanese air support will definitely arrive, sir. The two armies are intertwined. On the contrary, the Japanese bombers can't attack, so as to avoid the possible casualties of our army!" Yang Xiaoshan pointed to the sky. .

Tang Dao shook his head this time and said: "The two points you considered, Xiaoshan, are actually correct. The Japanese artillery still exists, and its air support will arrive sooner or later. They are enough threats to our department, but these two points are plain In fact, it is just a little bit.

The reason why Battalion Commander Guo doesn't care about these things at all is not that he can't think so much, he just doesn't want to waste the hard-earned bullets, and he is also confident that the battle will be resolved before the Japanese planes arrive. As for the Japanese infantry Cannons and mountain cannons, although they can cause certain casualties, are within the range he can bear.

Moreover, he is only a member of the encirclement within the battlefield. He only needs to consider what his second battalion has to do, but what you are in is the command center of my entire four-element regiment. What you need to consider is the entire battlefield. "

"Sir, what you mean is that the group of Japanese troops outside the encirclement should not scare them away, and use the stalemate to attract them firmly to the battlefield." Yang Xiaoshan was reminded by Tang Dao, and suddenly came to his senses.

"Ishiguro Sadazo is very clever. This alone is not enough. I guess he has already made preparations for the retreat of all members of the regiment. It is not only my Chinese army that has done it, but the Japanese. Not soft.

In this Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese infantry brigade was wiped out not once or twice, but an infantry regiment was extremely rare, and Ishiguro Sadazo did not want to become the second Takeuchi Yunzan. Seeing that Yang Xiaoshan reacted quickly enough and his face softened, Tang Dao nodded.

"It's just that, let him lose the two infantry brigades without hesitation, but he can't do it easily. Let's hang him up like this first, let him go or not go, and his head hurts for a while.

What this person is most afraid of is that his thoughts are confused, and if he is not careful, he will think too much!At that time, it was my team's chance to fight. "Tang Dao cast his gaze into the distance.

This is not only a tactic, a game of life, but also a game of psychology.

The main force of the 14th Division is still dozens of kilometers away, enough time for Tang Dao to dare to let go and eat nearly a thousand Japanese troops in the encirclement for the time being.

He was not in a hurry to make moves, but let Ishiguro Sadazo think and make a decision by himself.

Tang Dao has already done the thing of preemptively attacking and punching the head and covering the face once.

Now, it is not impossible to wait for the Japanese to make a move and find a good opportunity to strike later.

What's more, Tang Dao has already prepared his backhand in advance, and it depends on whether the Japanese will make some mistakes in a panic.

(End of this chapter)