Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 148

Neiji Okamura was right.

Just as there will always be some shortages when a new piece of equipment is produced, it needs to be put into use on the battlefield before it is discovered.Tactics are similar, a new tactic should have a process of growth, improvement and continuous improvement.

For example, tunnel warfare and anti-slope tactics should first be a very simple "cat ear hole" for the purpose of preventing artillery and bombing, and then these "cat ear holes" developed into primitive tunnels one by one, and then developed into The tunnels with both offense and defense were combined with surface fortifications and gradually improved into a complete defense system.

This process is simple to say, but in practice it takes several years and countless blood and lives to finally take shape through repeated attempts, failures and summaries.

However, at this time, the defense system appeared in front of Neiji Okamura as if it had popped out of a rock, and it was mature and perfect as soon as it appeared.

This surprised Ningji Okamura.

What is surprising is that there is likely to be an excellent tactician in the Eighth Route Army. He must have rich combat experience and tactical knowledge, and may have a super imagination, otherwise it would be impossible to come up with such a brilliant tactic.

It is conceivable that the appearance of this tactic will definitely bring great difficulties to him and even the entire war against China.

The good news is that the Japanese army can also learn and use this tactic.

But after thinking about it, Ningji Okamura frowned again. He found that this tactic might not help the Japanese army much.

The reason is that the core of this tactic is to sacrifice part of the geographical advantage to weaken the enemy's advantage in equipment.

The Japanese army is the one with the advantage in equipment, so using this tactic is superfluous, not only losing its geographical advantage but also weakening its own advantage in equipment.

So... this is a relationship between "attack" and "defense".

The Eighth Route Army had found a "defensive" tactic, and Neiji Okamura was about to find a "offensive" method.

After thinking about the map for a while, Neiji Okamura ordered: "Continue to implement the 'fatigue tactics', we should choose to attack at dawn!"

Anda 23 thinks it makes sense.

Because attacking at night not only has the problem that the equipment cannot function, but also has the problem of being unfamiliar with the terrain and being penetrated into the defense line by the enemy in the tunnel, causing confusion.

No army can sustain an attack and win in such a situation.

Therefore, the Japanese army never tried to enter the anti-slope position to occupy it that night, and the anti-slope position in the dark seemed to have become a restricted area for the Japanese army.

Early the next morning, it was just dawn.

Fighting on and off all night finally calmed down at this moment.

The rain also stopped, and the sun slowly rose from the east. The sun shone on the yellow land full of corpses, making the bloodstains even more bright red and dazzling.

The third battalion successfully switched defenses with the second battalion last night. Perhaps because they felt safe, or because they were too tired, it was rare for Wang Xuexin to sleep for a while before dawn.

Because he was used to the sound of guns and guns on the battlefield, Wang Xuexin was awakened from his sleep by the sudden silence.

"What's the situation?" Wang Xuexin opened his jerky eyes and asked, "Why don't the devils fight anymore?"

Zhang Qingcai yawned, and replied, "I don't know, maybe the devil is tired too!"

"If you ask me, the devil knows how powerful it is!" Huzi said proudly, "After fighting for a whole day and night, not only did he fail to make half a step forward, but he suffered heavy casualties. If he continues to fight, isn't he asking for trouble?"

The soldiers also agreed in one voice:
"That's right, what kind of regular army is the devil, that's all!"

"I heard that there are twice as many troops as ours, and there are planes and cannons. Why don't we beat us to the ground?"

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But Wang Xuexin doesn't think so.

Although the devils have not stopped attacking the Independence Regiment since yesterday, most of them are small-scale tentative and harassing attacks, and their purpose is more to fatigue the Eighth Route Army.

And the fatigue battle is the most taboo to stop halfway.

Because that means giving the enemy time to rest.

From this point of view...

The devils stopped attacking probably because they were preparing for a more violent attack.

Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin ordered: "Get ready for battle, the devils are about to launch a general attack!"

The soldiers immediately became nervous when they heard this. Until now, they all knew that Wang Xuexin was right, and this time was no exception.

So they responded and checked their equipment to prepare for battle.

Wang Xuexin reached out to open the back box and took out a pack of bullets from it.

The bullets in the back box are sealed with waterproof oil paper, [-] rounds per pack, a total of four packs.

Wang Xuexin tore open the package, skillfully put a group of five rounds of bullets into the clips to replenish them into the front box, and then checked the rifle before finishing.

I poked my head out and looked forward, and found that the soldiers of the second battalion on the No. [-] highland in front also felt that the atmosphere was not right, and they were ready to fight.

Suddenly, without any warning, several Japanese planes swooped down from the clouds, and with a whistling sound, they fired at the anti-slope position of the Second Battalion. The soil kicked up by the machine gun bullets was like spray It stretched toward the trenches of the soldiers, and when it met the trenches, it brought up a flower of blood and knocked down the soldiers in the pool of blood.

This time it turned out to be a ground attack aircraft!
Wang Xuexin was a little surprised, and at the same time realized that the devils dealt with the reverse slope fortifications in a targeted manner, that is, they used their brains to think rather than act recklessly.

This is indeed the case.

These ground attack aircraft were urgently transferred from Beiping by Okamura Ningji last night.

The North China Front Army originally had a 3rd Flying Division.

However, this flying division had been transferred to the front line to carry out the mission of bombing Chongqing not long ago, and only two squadrons of Type 97 light bombers remained in the North China Front Army, with a total of eighteen aircraft.

Okamura Ningji originally thought that these bombers were enough to deal with this battle. After all, the opponent was the Eighth Route Army, which had no heavy equipment and was only good at guerrilla warfare.

But he soon discovered that these [-] bombers were far from enough, and what the Japanese army seemed to need more was a ground attack aircraft.

"We need more precise and direct aircraft to suppress the enemy's firepower!" Neiji Okamura said to Anda 23: "Bombers obviously cannot meet the demand in this regard. Because the enemy can hide in the tunnel when our army bombs, at this time Our troops were also unable to get close, which made the bombers very ineffective."

Anda 23 agrees with this, as this was the case with previous bombings of enemy positions.

Okamura Ningji went on to say: "So we need ground attack aircraft. The Type 98 light explosive aircraft may be more suitable for attacking such positions. It has slow speed and stable performance. It can use machine guns to shoot at the enemy and bomb accurately with small bombs. , our ground troops launch an attack at the same time, and the enemy will not be able to hide in the tunnel!"

"Yes!" Anda 23 replied.

He fully agrees with Neiji Okamura's point of view.

If the Eighth Route Army hides in the tunnel to avoid the strafing and bombing of the Type 98 light explosion, it means that its surface position on the reverse slope will be quickly occupied by the Japanese army.

Otherwise, the Eighth Route Army would have to face the double attack from the air and the ground by the Japanese army.

(End of this chapter)