The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 247 The Bloody Battle in Teng County 2

In the Battle of Pingjin, General Toshida Terauchi and Lieutenant General Hisao Nishio, the former commander of the 2nd Army, paid the bill for the defeat. Fumisaburo Kawagishi was not removed from the position of division commander, which was already blessed by his ancestors.

On the evening of the 17th, Kenji Suzuki of the 20th Brigade of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army led the 80th Regiment of the Japanese Army to the outskirts of Teng County, and immediately mobilized the Artillery Brigade directly under the Regiment (12 75mm mountain artillery pieces, 12 70mm infantry artillery pieces. There is an artillery squadron, which will be expanded after the Pingjin Conference) to carry out fierce shelling on the defensive positions of the 122nd Division in Teng County!

A regiment of the Japanese army has more than 3800 men, while Wang Mingzhang has a division, but has only more than 9000 soldiers who can fight. Although the force is absolutely superior, he is at a complete disadvantage in other aspects.

Sure enough, the Japanese bombardment had an immediate effect. Most of the temporary trenches dug by the 122nd Division were destroyed by the Japanese 75mm mountain artillery in just 15 minutes. Dozens of soldiers were buried under the soil, and their lives were unknown; The devils were so frightened that they crawled out of the trenches during the bombardment, and directly became the targets of the shrapnel, and even soldiers who escaped from the battle were shot dead by the supervising team...

A company in the forward position basically lost the ability to fight again in this burst of shelling.

Wang Mingzhang's 122nd Division has a battle defense artillery battalion, and each regiment also has an 80 mortar company. The combined number of artillery is not small, but compared with the Japanese army, the caliber and power are not enough.Just now, the devil fired artillery, and the artillery observers of the 122nd Division had found the coordinates of the Japanese artillery, but they were unable to fight back, because the artillery positions of the Japanese army were purchased and set up outside the range of the artillery of the national army.

Even if the artillery position is moved forward so as to be able to hit the Japanese artillery position, it will take a great risk, because the artillery of the Japanese Field Artillery Wing and several other teams have not yet deployed, and the national army's Artillery is very likely to become the target of Japanese artillery.

"Hurry up, order the 4th company to replace the 2nd company, the devils are coming up!" Xie Hui, head of the 122st Brigade and 1st Regiment of the 1nd Division, roared at the observation post.The Japanese army came fiercely, and only one burst of shelling disabled one of their own companies.

"Regimental Commander, should we observe again? The Japanese army hasn't come up yet." Zeng Qishou, commander of the 1st Battalion, felt that the Japanese army was fighting a bit weirdly.

"Wait until the devil comes up, it will be too late!" Xie Hui insisted.

"Hey, 4th company? Immediately take over the 2nd company's position, yes, hurry up!" 2nd Battalion Commander Yang Ting immediately called to arrange. The 2nd Company belongs to the 1st Battalion, and the 4th Company happens to belong to the 2nd Battalion. When the national army is organized at the battalion and company levels, it is mostly a three-three system, plus directly subordinate troops, with five to 600 people in each battalion.

At the time of the national crisis, the two battalion commanders rushed to send their troops into battle without thinking about sacrifice.Of course, a battalion-level officer is not an official. When the last company in the battalion goes up, the battalion commander has to follow suit, and this is often the time when the army officer dies.

Just when the 4th company rushed to the position and was handing over to the 2nd company, the Japanese artillery bombarded again!The dog days of the Japanese have also become cunning. One shelling is divided into two periods, which caught the national army by surprise.

"Boom, boom, boom..." This time, the 70 infantry artillery of the Japanese army also joined the shelling team, and the battlefield was full of gunpowder.

"You bastard, we were fooled!" Xie Hui said regretfully.

"Regimental Commander, it's nothing. There's no such thing as an immortal in a war." Liao Pei, the deputy of the regiment, comforted him.

"Regimental Commander, we're going down to the troops!" The battalion commanders Zeng Qishou and Yang Ting both felt that today's battle was difficult to fight. It would be better to go down and control the troops as soon as possible than to do nothing in the observation post of the regiment headquarters.

The devil’s second bombardment took another 15 minutes. Needless to say, the new 4th company and the original 2nd company were hit hard by the Japanese fire again. Those who were shaken to death by the sound, and others who were buried by the mud.

Judging from the short half-hour artillery attack, the local troops of the national army were not ready to fight modern warfare.During World War II in history, although the Japanese army could not be compared with the German or Russian troops, nor could it be compared with the American soldiers in the late World War II, the Japanese army fought against countries such as Britain and France in Southeast Asia. The strength of the Japanese army.However, the Sichuan Army where Wang Mingzhang belongs has fought civil wars for decades, and its battlefield survivability has not been improved.

It is said that the Sichuan Army’s civil war was mostly thunderous and rainy. Two division-level troops fought against each other, and the fight was very lively. However, there may be fewer than 10 casualties on both sides, and one side began to retreat.According to data, the Tengxian defense battle lasted from March 3th to 14th. 17 officers and 122 soldiers were killed in the 6nd Division; 105 officers were injured and 10 soldiers were injured; division commander Wang Mingzhang died in battle!And there were 156 officers and 6 soldiers who were "missing" (see the entry "Taierzhuang Victory" on Baidu Encyclopedia for the figures in this paragraph).

The so-called disappearance on the battlefield, most of them should be "deserters". "dead", not "missing". The so-called missing means that you are not alive, there is no body, and no one can prove that you were bombed to pieces.In this case, most of them escaped.Especially officers, it is even more impossible to be bombarded with a single shot.

Then, why not treat these people as "deserters"? This, deserters on the battlefield, the serious ones must enforce battlefield discipline, and the light ones must also go to prison; and only when they are caught on the spot can they be convicted; The relationship is very serious, the management is chaotic, and it is quite difficult to pursue this "deserter" behavior after the war.

"Quick, the devils are here, ready to fight!" Through the gunpowder smoke, Xie Bochang, the commander of the 2nd company, ordered.

The soldiers of the national army found that there were about four or five hundred devils with guns in their hands, hunched over their waists, and came towards Teng County.

"Old Xie, do you think this will work?" Li Xiangyun, the commander of the 4th company, watched the Japanese troops rushing up, and discussed tactics with Xie Bochang.

"Okay. Brother, I'll listen to you." Xie Bochang immediately agreed upon hearing this.

The tactics discussed by the two were not surprising. They used two heavy machine guns and six light machine guns of the two companies together. Create a surprise effect.

"I estimate that the Japanese army should charge for the last time today, and it is a tentative charge." Li Xiangyun explained.

At a time when the Japanese army has not yet figured out the national army, it is a good time for the soldiers of the national army to annihilate the enemy and make meritorious deeds.Once both sides have figured out their opponents and started fighting, then the battle will be much more difficult.

"Order: The heavy machine guns and light machine guns of the 2nd company are on the left, and the heavy machine guns and light machine guns of the 4th company are on the right. Quickly establish positions to form crossfire!"

"Old Li, do you want artillery support from the regiment headquarters?" Xie Bochang was a little uncertain.

"It won't be needed for the time being, old Xie, don't worry, this little Japan won't be able to return with a burst of artillery." Li Xiangyun seemed very confident.

The same company commander, why is Li Xiangyun better at fighting?This matter also has something to do with the National Defense Forces. At the turn of the spring and summer of 1936, Li Xiangbing, Li Xiangyun’s cousin, joined the National Defense Forces. This was one of the business plans of Liu Xiang and others to exchange equipment with the National Defense Forces. I can read 500 characters in the book for a year and a half, and I got 50 oceans as a settling allowance at that time.You know, these 50 oceans can already buy 3 mu of high-quality paddy fields in Sichuan. For a while, everyone in the village envied the good luck of Li Xiangbing's family.

A year later, Li Xiangbing, who had become a platoon deputy, went home to visit his relatives. He accidentally ran into Li Xiangyun who was going home to do some errands. The two brothers fell in love with their respective troops.Obviously, Li Xiangbing was disdainful of the training and equipment of his cousin's troops, while Li Xiangyun lamented that his cousin was so lucky to have such a good army.I am a company commander, but my salary is not as high as that of others.

During this talk, Li Xiangyun heard his cousin talk about the training and tactics of the national defense force, so he decided to use it in the national army. However, how could a small company commander like him be able to change the training of the national army at will? of.

As for the "close combat" and "crossfire", these are the most effective means that Li Xiangyun can use at this time.

In fact, this "close combat" national army may not be easy to use.The National Defense Forces were able to fight closer because the National Defense Forces had a lot of automatic firepower, and machine guns and submachine guns accounted for almost one-third, not to mention the semi-automatic rifles that were later equipped by the main force.As for the automatic firepower of the national army, in addition to a few machine guns, the company commander, company deputy, and each platoon leader even have a submachine gun, but it is difficult to play a big role in the face of the Japanese grenadier's precise shooting.

Originally, Li Xiangyun could have driven half of the soldiers in the frontal position to rest as a new force for the two companies, but Li Xiangyun was worried that if the position was lost, he would not be able to bear this responsibility, so he had to give up.

If a company of the Wehrmacht came to guard this position, the style of play would be much simpler and clearer: in front of the position, before the enemy bombarded, there would be at most one squad of guard posts, and the Japanese artillery would bombard casually, causing very limited casualties to our army. ; and when the Japanese army dispatched to a distance of 600-400 meters, the 60 mortar platoons of the company headquarters should go into battle to attack the Japanese army. If 8 60 mortars fired 5 rounds of rapid fire, the Japanese army would surely fall down a large area; after that, the Japanese army When moving forward, snipers or sharpshooters should find Japanese officers, grenadiers, and machine gunners to roll their names one by one. Most soldiers, including the 12 squad machine guns of the Wehrmacht, will hide and wait for the devils to enter. Within 100 meters or even closer, a company of 60 submachine guns and 12 machine guns will form a rain of deadly bullets. If the Japanese army does not find a hiding place within three seconds, they will probably be wiped out.

Artillery and machine guns are responsible for destroying groups of enemies on the surface, while semi-automatic rifles or the original 98k are used to name scattered Japanese troops.In this way, it is difficult for the Japanese army to form a group charge advantage when facing the National Defense Forces.