The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 166 Du Shizhong's classic case of annihilating the enemy

(This story is purely fictitious, please do not imitate!)

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..." The national army's heavy machine gun company was quickly counterattacked by the Japanese 37 rapid-fire guns, which had the dual effects of direct-fire guns and rapid-fire guns, and the Japanese guns were really accurate. Soon, the heavy machine gun company was severely damaged, and half of the machine guns were completely destroyed.

"Hurry up, call for artillery support!" Xiang Huiwu felt that if the Japanese army's short-range direct-firing artillery was not completely destroyed, the 568th regiment would have no time to succeed on the city wall.

"Boom boom boom..." The artillerymen of the national army began to show their power!The Japanese rapid-fire artillery position was immediately shrouded in a cloud of gunpowder.

However, Xiang Huiwu seems to have forgotten, and the artillery of the national army also seems to have forgotten that before the enemy's heavy artillery is completely destroyed, it is really inappropriate to use the 75 artillery to deal with the small-caliber 37 artillery.No, the mountain artillery regiment of the national army just fired a round of 5 shells, and the 12 120 howitzers of the Japanese army came down hard!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The artillery position of the national army suddenly became a sea of ​​flames!Only 36 mountain guns lost one-third in the first round of Japanese shooting.

This also shows that the Japanese army has much more attack methods than the national army, and the overall quality of the Japanese soldiers is much higher than that of the national army. This has led to the fact that although the national army is defending the city, it has been in a passive state. .

The battle continued like this, and no one could do anything about it. The national army suffered heavy losses. On the first day of the battle, two regiments were replaced. The Japanese army also suffered a lot, and one of the brigades was also disabled.However, with the passage of time, the Japanese army is still aggressive, while the national army is gradually weakening.

If the battle at Chongwenmen was fierce and fierce, then the battle between Tang Enbo's 13th Army and Tojo Hideki's Kwantung Army Chahar Dispatched Corps in Huailai can be described as tragic.

The Japanese Forward Independent 15th Mixed Brigade was originally composed of some troops drawn from the 2nd Sendai Division of the Japanese Army.Among the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army, except for the 4th Division, which belongs to the so-called small merchant division, whose combat power is weaker, none of the other divisions is a fuel-efficient lamp.

The 15th Wing and the 16th Wing were under the jurisdiction of the 30th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the attack on Huailai was carried out by the 30th Wing led by Inokura Toruro.

Zhu Dazuo's 30th regiment came by train, so the battle started directly at Huailai Railway Station.

The Japanese army used armored vehicles, steam locomotives, and train carriages as "shields" to attack the railway station frantically against the artillery fire and bullets of the 13th Army.The defenders used the buildings, fortifications, and bunkers of the station to shoot fiercely at the enemy.For just one platform of the station, the two sides fought over and over again more than ten times. On the platform and between the railway tracks, the corpses of the national army and the Japanese army were piled up everywhere.

Adjacent to the platform of the railway station, there is a row of freight warehouses.In the layout of the entire Huailai station, this warehouse is of special significance. If the Japanese army captured the warehouse, it would be equivalent to breaking into Huailai city and the direction of the station entrance. As long as the Japanese army attacked from left to right, the defenders would soon be defeated.

The defenders also realized the importance of this warehouse in the entire Huailai defense battle, so they sent a battalion to be responsible for the defense of the warehouse. The 13th Army belongs to the new Central Army, that is, the Central Army that has been reorganized by the German Military Advisory Group. The battalion guarding the warehouse has 1 machine gun company (6 heavy machine guns, 2 82mm mortars) and an infantry company. Jurisdiction over 3 infantry platoons, platoon jurisdiction over 3 squads (each row has 3 light machine guns and 30 rifles), plus some supplies and communication personnel, the whole battalion is full of 650 people.

Battalion Commander Du Shizhong was originally a student of Nanjing University. When he graduated, it was during the 29 Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai. Seeing that the national army was in danger, he resolutely applied for the Central Military Academy. Only [-] years old, he is one of the youngest battalion commanders in the national army system.

Du Shizhong usually likes to study tactics. Since he is an officer of the national army, it is easy to obtain some examples of battles of the National Defense Forces in recent years and the latest equipment status of various countries in the world.During the research, he quickly discovered the problem: Why is the artillery fire of the Wehrmacht always so fierce, is it just because the Wehrmacht is well equipped?

When in doubt, we must figure it out.But there are almost no people in the national army who have studied this, even if there is more abundant material.Du Shizhong was not reconciled, so through his classmates and seniors, he finally contacted several battalion and company-level officers who had directly fought against the National Defense Forces. Du Shizhong kept writing to them, asking questions, and asking these officers to answer.Because the questions Du Shizhong asked were very specific, and they were also questions that these officers wanted to understand but failed to understand, so this kind of communication became an opportunity for mutual inspiration and discussion.

Communications in this era are slow, even in the military.Du Shizhong couldn't wait for the final result, so he recruited several company commanders to conduct war games.

In the end, Du Shizhong was actually allowed to figure out an important tactical principle, that is: the deployment of troops is light before the rear, and the firepower is deployed before the heavy and the rear is light.

From this tactical principle, some other additional principles are deduced: for example, the principle of conversion of offense and defense, that is, a local attack can also be used in the overall defense, and there are many examples of such battles in history; , in order to achieve a specific tactical purpose; such as the principle of suddenness of combat initiation, the principle of tactical camouflage, etc.

In the history of human wars, there are always some geniuses who achieved their brilliance in wars.Du Shizhong is just a small battalion commander now, but he has actually found a piece of tactical experience that is extremely valuable in this era through thinking, research, and reference.

After receiving the order to defend the station's freight warehouse, Du Shizhong immediately led the deputy battalion commander and several company commanders to conduct field inspections in the warehouse, and carried out map work on the station platform adjacent to the warehouse, nearby terrain, and forests.In the end, a set of combat plans that could be called an alternative at the time was formed.

On the front of the warehouse, Du Shizhong arranged a blocking position, but he used thousands of sacks in the warehouse, filled the sacks with soil, and built three layers inside and outside to form a fortification. Du Shizhong specifically requested that the soil must be poured before being put into the sacks. Some water to make it more firm.The most classic is not this fortification, but he used some inspection vehicles in the warehouse (1-2 people can drive on the railway by hand), designed and manufactured four mobile armored vehicles, two of which are equipped with Two Maxim heavy machine guns each, and two 2mm cannons on the other two mobile armored vehicles. This is because Du Shizhong considered that the direct-firing guns and rapid-fire guns are more useful than mortars for attacking moving targets. The battalion's 2 2 mortars were temporarily replaced with the regiment headquarters.

In other words, what Du Shizhong invented was a mobile machine gun position or a mobile artillery position with armor protection.

To this end, Du Shizhong specially laid eight 120-meter-long rails from the depth of the warehouse to the front of the warehouse to make it easier to move.

If the Japanese army makes a breakthrough head-on, it will enter an open-air cargo yard in the warehouse.Du Shizhong transferred all the flammable and explosive items in the freight yard. At the same time, he built two layers of sacks on three corners of the freight yard, and dug more than one meter deep underground to form a simple fortification. As for the middle of the freight yard, it was It was empty, and as long as the Japanese army rushed in, they would be hit by machine guns and rifles on three corners.

This was not Du Shizhong's intentional invention. He just thought that if the Japanese army broke in, this open-air freight yard must play a role, so this arrangement was made.What Du Shizhong didn't expect was that this arrangement was the famous "triangle" firepower point of special operations in later generations. As long as the enemy entered it, no matter how many troops there were, they would be hit like never before.

On the four sides of the open-air freight yard, there are some small or medium-sized warehouses.Some of these warehouses are very strong, while others are relatively simple.Du Shizhong adapted measures to local conditions and made all these single-room warehouses into firepower points, and then all the warehouses were connected to provide support at any time.

One of the warehouses has half a basement, and Du Shizhong used it to form fire support for the open-air cargo yard.

In terms of troop strength and firepower configuration, Du Shizhong arranged a platoon of troops for the blocking position in front of the warehouse. Sniper platoon.At the same time, there is support from mobile machine gun positions and artillery positions.

Usually, no soldiers are deployed in the open-air cargo yard. Only when the frontal battlefield is almost unbearable, soldiers will be stationed and firepower will be stationed. As for the firepower points of each single warehouse, since they are indoors and can rest, each firepower point has two soldiers. On duty.

When it comes to the 4 mobile machine gun positions and the artillery position, as long as the battle starts, 20 people will surround the machine guns, ready to move out at any time to deal a head-on blow to the devils.

Arranged in this way, Du Shizhong's 650-man battalion only deployed more than half of the company on the position, and the others could do the task of replacing and reinforcing at any time.

At 8:16 p.m. on August 1, the 30th Regiment commanded by Toruro Inokakura of the Japanese army arrived at Huailai Station in a murderous manner.Immediately, Colonel Zhu asked Colonel Takahashi Choro of the Second Field Artillery Regiment to bombard the station and its buildings.

The freight warehouse was naturally under the attack of Japanese artillery fire.However, half an hour later, according to the results of the battle, the Brothers Battalion guarding the station and the platform had nearly 1 casualties under the Japanese artillery fire, while the Du Shizhong Battalion only seriously injured 2 person and [-] people were slightly injured.

"Kill to give—" the Japanese army sent two teams to conduct tentative attacks on the platform and warehouse respectively.

"Come closer and shoot! The devil's machine guns and grenades didn't fire, and our machine guns were also lurking!" In the first wave of enemy attacks, Du Shizhong led his guard squad to observe the enemy's situation on the first sniper position.

This order was also improvised by Du Shizhong, because he felt that his side had such a well-defended fortification, and the Japanese army was scurrying back and forth between the empty railroad tracks, so there was no reason to be afraid of the other party's muttering.

"Dong dong dong..." The brother battalion defending the platform opened fire as soon as the devil entered the range of the heavy machine gun. However, the well-trained Japanese army quickly fell down and set up machine guns and grenades to fight back.As a result, the platform side was in a glued state, which seemed to be lively, but in fact the effect of annihilating the enemy was not good.If it was Wu Aihua's subordinate, Wu Aihua would definitely scold him, "You prodigal son!"

On the freight warehouse side, there was silence.

ps: The second update arrives.