Chapter 12: Everyone's Troubles (Part I)
733 Separate Regiment.
This is one of the backbone regiments that was expanded two months ago in order to consolidate the base areas, and it was formed by merging a company of the local army with the main division, and was attached to six companies and two battalions, and at present there are only more than 1,300 men in the whole regiment, more than 400 guns, and four light machine guns.
The so-called backbone regiment generally has the basic framework of a regiment, but the number and equipment are far from sufficient, and there is no logistics and no supplies. Just like the independent regiment in the bright sword, the new regiment, everything can only rely on itself.
The 733rd Regiment was stationed.
Tutuo Village.
It's still in the dilapidated but not leaky mud house.
Several officers in khaki uniforms gathered around, looking at the battle plan in front of them.
"The regiment can actually participate in the battle of two battalions and six companies with a total of 1,200 people, of which the 1st and 2nd companies of the first battalion are responsible for blocking the reinforcements of Wanping City, and the remaining four companies are responsible for ambushing the transport team."
The newly promoted regiment commander Zhang Lianshun took a puff of cigarette, and in the smoke, he began to talk about the battle plan.
"The main purpose of this operation is to destroy the enemy's materiel as much as possible, and although we have an advantage in strength, in fact, many fighters have no more than three months of training, and their combat experience is very poor, and only the veterans of a company who have really fought hard are the veterans of a company who came all the way from the grassland, so after the first round of mine explosions, the four light machine guns of the whole regiment opened fire at full speed, and the four companies immediately launched an attack with all their members, destroying the enemy's materiel with grenades at close range"
"In order to avoid unnecessary losses, no love is allowed, and the attack must not exceed ten minutes from the beginning to the end, and after ten minutes, no matter what the result of the battle, you must immediately withdraw from the battle."
"This is close to Wanping City, and the devils are naturally very confident, so after we retreat, the devils will inevitably divide part of their forces to pursue, so according to the predetermined plan, after the 1st and 2nd companies of the second battalion retreat, ambush and attack the pursuing devils"
Speaking of this, the regiment commander knocked on the pipe in his hand, stuffed the cigarette leaves again, and then looked at the position of the commanders of the 1st and 2nd companies of the second battalion.
"You have the most veterans in your two companies, so you have to retreat to the ambush position in advance, I have concentrated the box artillery assault team in your company, and the fire of ten consecutive box guns is enough for the pursuing little devil to drink a pot under the sudden attack."
"As soon as the gunfire of the ambush rang out, the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion immediately turned back and launched an attack on the devils, and at the same time, the 1st and 2nd Companies of the 2nd Battalion also immediately launched a charge after all the bullets were fired, and started a white-knuckle battle to strive for the total annihilation of the pursuing devils."
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Zhang Lianshun arranged the specific matters in detail, and at this time, the company commanders in the house followed him all the way from the meadow, and they cooperated with each other tacitly, and they also understood that the more detailed the plan before the war, the more casualties could be reduced.
Looking at the various company commanders who were discussing the details with each other, Zhang Lianshun leaned against the wall alone, and while taking a puff of cigarette, he sighed fiercely in his heart.
War is always accompanied by casualties.
He expected that the casualties in the combat group would be as high as two to three percent.
After all, at this time, most of the regiments in the 733 Independent Regiment were recruits and had poor combat experience.
Moreover, there is a shortage of equipment and ammunition in the regiment, there are only four machine guns, more than 300 rifles, and more than 200 earthen guns and birds in the whole regiment, and the rest of the soldiers are only holding broadswords and spears, and all the rifle and machine gun bullets combined are only less than 4,000 rounds (rifles, machine gun bullets are the same), and this bullet will be consumed in a maximum of ten minutes of battle.
Therefore, he set the attack time at ten minutes, but fortunately, there were more than 1,000 grenades and a lot of explosives in the regiment, as long as they were used well, they could destroy a lot of enemy supplies, otherwise he would not have fought this battle at all.
And the strongest firepower in the regiment on which he had high hopes, the ten 20-round barge guns, each gun also had only two spare magazines, and supported two bursts of fire at most, otherwise he would not have ordered all the troops to fight with a hand-to-head battle and strive to quickly resolve the battle.
The devil has a lot of machine guns and fierce firepower, and he will definitely suffer heavy casualties if he rushes directly to start a white-knuckle battle, but he can't help it, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
But this ambush battle must be fought, and only by completely destroying the pursuing devils can they gain something, and the ammunition and equipment of that group of devils is the basis for them to continue fighting.
In his heart, he actually hoped that his regiment would train hard for a year and a half before going into battle, so that the casualties would be much less, but the enemy would not give you time, and the war would not wait for anyone.
After a few battles, the recruits will be able to grow. Zhang Lianshun comforted himself silently in his heart.
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Tutuo Village.
The 1st and 2nd Companies of the 2nd Battalion were stationed.
Zhou Yifan, the commander of the first company of the second battalion, and He Zheng, the commander of the second company of the second battalion.
The two of them were looking at the pistol commandos sent by the regiment commander in front of them, looking at the 20-round box cannon on their waists, and their eyes were staring.
The pistol commando team is all composed of veterans who came out of the grass, and the other box guns on their waists are the real baby bumps of the regiment commander, which was bought from Shanghai by Zhang Nuoyan, the deputy commander of the regiment a few months ago.
The leader of the commando team is their old comrade-in-arms Li Jingyuan, and the three of them are also very familiar, and they want to make an appointment to fight the day after tomorrow.
"We don't have much ammunition left, only sixty rounds of ammunition left for each gun, and we can only keep two salvos at most" Li Jingyuan, the leader of the commando team, got straight to the point, pointing to the improvised map road drawn on the ground.
"That's all that?!" Zhou Zhou Fan and He Zheng were also surprised when they heard the news, and the head of the regiment used to pick and choose the rope on weekdays, but they didn't expect that there was only so much left.
Sixty rounds per gun were only enough for two long strafing shots, which was somewhat insufficient.
"There is no new supplement, if it weren't for the regiment commander saving on weekdays, there would have been no bullets a long time ago" Li Jingyuan sighed when he heard it, with a helpless face, although when he bought the gun, each gun had 600 rounds of ammunition, but in the past two months of fighting, there was no supplement, and this was already the result of the regiment commander's death.
"Why don't we charge first, and then the little devils will definitely assemble, and then you will shoot?" After hesitating and thinking for a moment, the company commander Zhou Fan came up with an idea.
When they charge, the devils will inevitably stop and concentrate their troops to concentrate their firepower, which is more suitable for the commandos to use superior firepower to kill and injure the enemy.
"This is to maximize the fire of the pistol to kill the enemy, but will it be too dangerous? If you don't organize firepower, you will lose a lot of casualties if you charge directly" The second company commander frowned, looking at the self-made map in front of him, a little hesitant, but obviously he was also a little moved.
If you don't organize firepower to strafe and destroy the formation of the devils, you can directly charge, and the superior firepower of the devils will cause great damage to the charging soldiers. But in the same way, as long as the commando fire attack kills enough devils, it can reduce the next casualties.
"Why don't we go to the field again and report back to the regiment commander?" Li Jingyuan was a little moved.
"Let's go, let's go now" The three of them agreed and immediately took action.