Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 967 Tie!

"Yo Xi! The Chinese are actually here!"

This is the first sentence of Major General Gu Teng Nagagan, head of the 109st Infantry Brigade of the 31th Division in Shecheng, after receiving a distress telegram from the 14th Division's Supplies Wing.

"It's not in vain that I personally bring an infantry regiment here!" This was the second sentence after the excited expression on Guteng Naga's face.

The cruelty of Guteng Nagaku's heart can be seen. Not only is he ruthless and ruthless to kill the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, but he is even indifferent to the attacks on his own friendly troops, and even regards them as a means of gaining military exploits.

That's right, since the Command of the Front Army sent an order to the headquarters of the 109th Division, ordering them to place an infantry brigade headquarters in Shecheng and deploy two infantry brigades to station troops in Shecheng to deter the hidden Chinese troops in the mountains around the Hanchang Line. He made up his own plans.

As early as the Battle of Niangziguan, his 31st Infantry Brigade had met with the 921st Division, but both times the 921st Division had ambushed him by the 31st Infantry Brigade, leaving him, the major general, as the head of the brigade, ashamed and humiliated. The head of the brigade, a major general of the Japanese Army, vowed to get up from wherever he fell.

For this reason, he deliberately studied the tactics of his old opponents, and there was nothing new to say, it was just a sneak attack, and then a sneak attack, using the enemy's light and our shadows, and the dangerous mountainous roads to lay an ambush.

He even learned about the resumes, personality traits, and past achievements of several senior commanders of the 921 Division from the division commander, deputy division commander to the brigade commander.

In his words: "In Jin Province, there is no general who knows the 921 Division better than me!"

It is precisely because of this understanding of the 921 Division that Guteng Nagako made a firm judgment from the moment he received the transfer order. The 921 Division, which had just tasted the sweetness in the battle of Shentouling, would never let the 14th Division's logistics regiment go. This big piece of fat.

'The reason why people love to eat cabbage is that they have never tasted meat! 'This is also the 'famous saying' that Guto Nagakun often puts on his lips.

Don't tell me, although this man is cruel and cruel, he has a thorough psychological analysis of human beings.

The reason why the senior management of the 921st Division has a strong urge to fight this battle is to weaken the combat power of the 14th Division. The large amount of supplies loaded by the huge convoy is actually a huge driving force. The living supplies needed by the large army may not become the most troublesome problem for the heads of the ministries.

Therefore, with this judgment, Gu Tengchang did not bring two infantry brigades, but a whole infantry regiment, and specially dispatched a tank squadron and an artillery brigade to the division, which consisted of 15 tanks and 12 The heavy firepower composed of 75 mountain guns.

Gu Teng Naga firmly believed that with the support of such heavy firepower, the infantry wing under his command was enough to compete with an infantry division of the Chinese.

He even made a tactical deduction after arriving in Shecheng. If the Chinese want to ambush the convoy of the 14th Division's convoy, they will inevitably divide their troops to stop the imperial army coming to help, but this time they have to divide their troops into two. One direction is towards Shecheng, and the other is towards Licheng.

Such a result can only lead them to disperse a small number of troops. An infantry division has no more than 4000 people and is divided into three parts, with no more than [-] people in each direction at most.

There are only a few thousand people in the area, even if they occupy the high ground first, Gu Teng has enough confidence to believe that the flesh and blood of the Chinese cannot stop the bombardment of his tanks and artillery.

In his view, the Chinese people's adventure of picking millet from the fire can only end in burning themselves seriously.

As for the 'su', Gu Teng Nagao didn't take them to heart, that's a headache for that insidious villain Dohimoto.

"Where is the location where the 14th Division was ambushed?" Guteng Naga suppressed his heart and began to look for the location where the convoy was attacked on the map. This was also convenient for him to determine where the Chinese would place the blocking position.

The cavalry squadron he sent a day or two ago was not just for show, it was a detailed observation of the terrain on the road from Shecheng to Licheng, and all the observation reports had been printed in his mind.

It can be said that Guteng Nagakura has already made sufficient preparations for this attack that he judged to have a probability of [-]% to [-]%.

"Yangjiashan, Zhanghe." As the combat staff reported the telegrams from Shao Zuo Mori one by one, Gu Teng's long and hard eyes wandered around the map, and finally locked on a place.

"Laoyashan!" Guteng pointed his finger at a certain place on the map confidently. If the Chinese want to block our brigade's rescue, they must choose the blocking position here.

There is nothing special about the terrain of Laoya Mountain, and it is not even the best blocking position in the eyes of many people.

Along the road, there are cliffs on one side and undulating slopes on the other. The vertical height of the highest hillside relative to the road on the flat road is only about 160 meters. It also gave the attacker a great deal of leeway.

The combat staff officer looked surprised, but Guteng Nagako didn't waste much time explaining to him, and ordered directly: "Order the Toyama Regiment, and send out troops according to the original reinforcement plan!"

It took only 5 minutes for the Japanese army, which had already been prepared, to line up out of the city. The huge roar of 15 tanks in the leading tank squadron made the mountains seem to tremble.

Including Tang Dao, no one expected that this man would be so decisive that he would turn Shecheng into an empty city without leaving a single soldier in the city.

The 769th Regiment, which was deployed a few kilometers outside of Shecheng, was on standby for the first time. Faced with this sudden situation, it was like punching a cotton pile with a punch, and it must have been at a loss.

"The Chinese know that our army has heavy firepower, so naturally they will not deploy their troops on steep mountains in a narrow area for our army to consume shells. Moreover, because they are concerned about our empire's air support, they must set up a military force in a wide area. Defensive line, in order to delay time and prevent our troops from supporting the 14th Division that is surrounded by them." This is what Koto Sasaki, the captain of the 69th Infantry Regiment, who was sitting in the jeep, said to his heavy general. of.

"The Chinese's tactical thinking is actually very correct. They spend the smallest casualties, try their best to delay time, and give them the greatest support on the main battlefield.

But their commanders may never have imagined that the 14th Division's logistics wing is very important to the 14th Division, but to us, it is not as important as they imagined.

The reason why my brigade came here was not to help the 14th Division, but to eat up the Chinese who dared to block our way forward.

When the battle is over, I will hang all the dead Chinese bodies on the cliffs on both sides of this road, and let the Chinese know the price of attacking our imperial army. "

At that moment, Sasaki Xiaoyong couldn't help but feel a shudder in the back of Gu Teng's long hard eyes.

His boss actually used a huge convoy of the 14th Division as a bait. Only in this way can he be allowed to hunt thousands of Chinese.

"It's just that there's one thing I don't know about my job?" Sasaki Xiaoyong put away the fear in his heart and asked cautiously.

"Sasaki-kun, you want to ask, why did I completely abandon Shexian County and attack with all my strength?" Gu Tengchang answered his confidant subordinate with a stiff mouth.

"Hey! Please forgive my stupidity!" Sasaki Xiaoyong bowed his head respectfully.

"Then I would like to ask Mr. Sasaki, if the Chinese attack Shecheng, what are they planning?" Gu Teng Nagao did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

"Based on my understanding of the Chinese army, they should want to kill and injure our imperial soldiers and wait for the opportunity to snatch all kinds of supplies from our army!" Sasaki Xiaoyong replied after thinking for a while.

"That's it. My department came to Shecheng this time, just to protect the passage of the 14th Division's heavy-duty regiment. The materials they carried were not much, and they all went with the army. Apart from the Chinese, there were no imperial officers and soldiers in the city. What's the use of the Chinese taking it?" Gu Teng grows hard and slightly basks in the sun.

"If the Chinese really dare to come, then I can only wish for it, that small town will become a nightmare for all Chinese, and I will use artillery to turn that small town and all Chinese into ashes!

It's a pity, I'm afraid the Chinese aren't that stupid!
Believe it or not, in the mountains not far from Shecheng, there may be a part of the 921st Division lurking. They waited for my part of the army, and then bluffed to attack the city. I was in a dilemma and even exhausted on this mountain road.

But now, if they have the ability, they come to copy our department's rear, and I will let them know what it means to "steal a chicken without losing money"! "

"Your Excellency, brigade commander, is wise!" Sasaki Xiaoyong expressed admiration.

The so-called one word wakes up the dreamer, Sasaki Xiaoyong instantly understood his infantry regiment, thus avoiding the dilemma of scattered troops and fighting on two fronts. Guteng Nagakaki's all-out move is simply wonderful.

He even used himself as a bait to lure the Chinese army ambushing around Shecheng to attack.

However, the 15th Infantry Regiment with 12 tanks and 69 artillery pieces will let any enemy know what toughness is, and a bad mouth will really break a mouthful of teeth.

Of course, Sasaki Xiaoyong also knew that the head of his brigade relied on more than 3600 imperial infantry and 12 artillery pieces. The front army aviation far away in Yuancheng had prepared at least 12 bombers under the coordination of the front army headquarters.

Those aerial threats that the Chinese can't resist can bury the Chinese in their mountains with 500-pound aerial bombs.

It is probably the only time Tang Dao has ever seen such a cruel Japanese commander who used friendly troops as bait, even himself.

Tang Dao never underestimated his opponent, but after the battle he still admitted that he underestimated Gu Teng's toughness.

Compared with this guy, the few Japanese army commanders he encountered and killed were simply obedient babies.

However, Gu Teng Nagako probably didn't expect that the opponent he was going to face was not the senior commanders of the 921 Division that he thought he had studied thoroughly, but an iron-blooded man from the future who fought all the way from Songhu soldier.

The two commanders, both confident and ignorant of their opponents, met on the battlefield an hour and a half later.

Because of Guteng's hard judgment, the Japanese army maintained a high speed during the march before Laoyashan. After arriving near Laoyashan, they used one 89 tank and three 94 tanks to clear the way, and an infantry squad Follow the way of being a pioneer, and launch fire reconnaissance on the mountains and forests along the way.

This made Tang Dao's previous ambition to let the engineering company plant landmines on the main road to give the Japanese vanguard a head-on blow.

The infantry mines planted by the engineer company without anti-tank mines could not hurt the 89 tanks at all. Except for adding a limited number of holes to the road surface, the rough-skinned 89 tanks even had the most fragile tracks intact.

The Japanese engineers who followed up repaired the road at an extremely fast speed, allowing the cars carrying the Japanese infantry to pass smoothly.

"How? The Chinese are at the end of their rope." Gu Teng Nagako received the report that the road ahead had been successfully repaired and the large army could move on, his face brightened.

The Chinese army's tactics of using landmines to destroy roads has long been expected by him. In order to prevent the Chinese from using a large number of explosives to attack, the vanguard squad he sent carefully observed the grass on both sides of the road, and almost never left such a situation for the Chinese army. Chance.

The first contact battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies did not take place at Laoya Mountain, but at Zhaojiaguai before Laoya Mountain. It was a rather difficult and dangerous road, sandwiched between the two mountains, but the length 300 meters.

Wei Donglai's Seventh Steel Company was ordered to respond to the engineering platoon that was going to deploy landmines here, and looked for an opportunity to attack the vanguard of the Japanese army.

Tang Dao's original plan was to attack layer by layer, constantly delaying the marching speed of the Japanese army. The tactical purpose of the Four Elements Group this time is not to fight head-on with the Japanese army, but to buy time for the main battlefield as much as possible, so that after they wipe out the Japanese army convoy, there will be Enough time to transport that batch of precious baggage to the mountains.

Because the vanguard squad of the Japanese army was so arrogant, after successive encounters with landmine explosions, they did not retreat but advanced, and even expanded the range of infantry searching for grass on both sides to more than 30 meters from the roadside.

Basically, he completely exposed his figure to the guns of the Seventh Steel Company lurking on the hillside a hundred meters away.

Such a good opportunity, how could Wei Donglai let it go?
Although the Japanese army has one Type 89 tank and two Type 2 tanks waiting in battle, the Seventh Steel Company has just been awarded the military flag, and its morale is at a high stage, so there will be fear of this.

"Fight!" Wei Donglai, who was in a simple trench, pulled the trigger first.

Although the German-made [-]-shot gun that is standard for company-level cadres has a large muzzle jump, it has a fast enough rate of fire. The flat muzzle beats and sweeps out nearly ten bullets within two seconds, forming a fan.

A Japanese infantryman fell in response!
Then there was a lot of gunfire. Steel Seventh Company is now the main company. The squad leader, deputy squad leader, and precision shooters are basically drawn from the veterans of the rest of the infantry company. Half of the new recruits have also experienced the last Dongyangguan battle. The will is on a higher level than half a month ago.

The continuous firepower composed of 15 semi-automatic rifles, 10 submachine guns, 20 shell guns, and 10 light machine guns formed a terrifying rain of bullets [-] meters away.

At least 20 Japanese infantrymen were hit in this round of bullets, and the remaining 20 Japanese soldiers were also beaten and lying in the grass, hardly forming a decent resistance.

However, the two Type 94 tanks reacted quickly, relying on their rough skin and thick flesh to carry bullets, the equipped 7.7mm heavy machine gun roared desperately, shooting towards the [-] meters away that was already filled with gunpowder.

Two 7.7mm heavy machine guns are nothing to the Seventh Steel Company with a simple bunker, but when the 89mm guns of the Type 57 tank are also aimed at the position, it is a bit overwhelming.

Although the Japanese tank crews couldn't see the specific target clearly because of the gunpowder, but it also caused a headache for the officers and soldiers of the Seventh Steel Company to make them so aggressive.

With just three shots, several people were injured by the shrapnel flying around.

If the three tanks dared to get off the embankment and attack the hillside, Steel Seventh Company would not be afraid of them. Before leaving, each company made more than a dozen Molotov cocktails, just for individual soldiers to deal with these big iron blocks.

But the three tanks may all have orders, and they have no intention of attacking upwards at all, so they stay in place and use tank guns and machine guns to cover their infantry.

One side has strong light firepower and has the advantages of terrain, while the other has heavy firepower that can destroy everything. There was a stalemate for a while, and no one could do anything to the other.

The Japanese infantry who were suppressed in the grass also found cover under the cover of their own tanks, or retreated behind the tanks and shot at the mountainside.

The number of casualties of the No. 3 Steel Company also increased. In less than 5 minutes of shooting, 1 people were injured and [-] person was killed.

"Cancel the original plan and order the No. [-] Steel Company to withdraw to the main position! Since the Japanese want to fight head-on, let's go head-to-head." Tang Dao, who received Lei Xiong's call, frowned and ordered decisively.

In this era, the light infantry is not equipped with any RPG, and it is okay to surprise the opponent with a sap, but if it is in a positional battle against a steel behemoth like a tank, it is like hitting the head on the mountain, Tang Dao will not do this silly thing.

"Nani! The vanguard team killed 13 people on the spot and injured 11 people? The attackers were no more than a hundred people?" Guteng Nagao, who was full of ambition, couldn't help but gasped after receiving the report from the front.

He specially assigned a medium tank and two light tanks to the vanguard team, and with such a guardian god following him, but the Chinese army of only a hundred people caused such heavy casualties to the vanguard team within a few minutes of fighting, they How strong is the light firepower?
The brigade commander of the Japanese army major general looked solemn, and he seemed to have to re-examine the opponent who was about to go to war.

This was not the opponent's style he was familiar with.

Perhaps, he can get a glimpse of the weapons and ammunition calibers used by the opponent.

Regardless of what Guteng Nagana thought, the first contact between China and Japan, Tang Dao's landmine warfare did not play any role, wasting a small number of landmine stocks, and Guteng Nagakura's vanguard team suffered heavy casualties.

It was a tie, and no one took too much advantage.

(End of this chapter)