Chapter 17: Honjo Shu's Depression
is also an outstanding graduate of the Imperial Military Academy, although Honjo Shu took advantage of Nakagawa Jiro's deflated to show off his might in front of him, and even stepped on Nakagawa directly in face a few times, but he is not an idiot, so he naturally will not underestimate the remnants of the army in front of him who made Nakagawa suffer a big loss.
He has been competing with Nakagawa for several years, and he knows very well how Nakagawa's ability is, his connections are superior, and his qualifications are superior, but even this can only barely suppress Nakagawa, and he can't fundamentally solve him, Nakagawa's ability can be imagined.
Moreover, is the captain of a front-line division incompetent?
And a small group of remnants can make a brigade of a front-line division and regiment helpless in a short period of time, then this remnant army must be unusual.
But Honjo Shu also has his own ideas.
After several waves of attacks by Nakagawa, this remnant army must now be exhausted and consumed.
Moreover, the army of the Republic of China has always been short of ammunition, no matter how much strength they hide, according to their high-density firepower method not long ago, then it must be exhausted now, so now is the best time to pick up the results.
The casualties belong to the opponent, the results belong to oneself, is there anything better than this?
Honjo Shu glanced at Nakagawa, who was about to gloat and watch the play, and smiled yin.
You want to see me make a fool of myself, but I'm not an idiot either.
He had already obtained information about the remnants of the soldiers through the order of the wing commander, and he also knew that there was still a major firepower point in this group that had not been exposed, and most of the casualties in the Zhongchuan brigade were caused by this firepower point.
Therefore, he naturally will not rush up directly.
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"Why did the devil cannon stop, did the shells run out?"
In the three-story cement house, Wang Gen, who was pressing the magazine, was a little puzzled.
"Hey, the devil seems to have pushed the cannon away?"
"Are you planning to attack during the day?"
"No, there are new devils coming, it looks like there are quite a lot, it is estimated that there is at least one squadron" Although the night is dark, there is still a little fire on the devil's side, and with these lights, everyone can also see the devil's movement clearly, after all, the two sides are not far apart.
In everyone's field of vision, a new group of devils stepped out of the rear bunker.
This group of devils is very sophisticated, as soon as they come out of the trench bunker, they are all in a state of stragglers, and the distance between each devil is extremely large, and they are all bent over, almost crawling on the ground to advance.
The fire in the original blank area has long been burned out, and there is no devil's fire to illuminate, so it is difficult for Lin Dawen and the others to see the specific whereabouts of the devil crawling forward.
"Zheng Shan, you go to the top of the building to see the whereabouts of the devil, and pay attention to the houses on the right" Lin Dawen gave an order with a serious expression.
The high-rise building of this house is not suitable for building bunkers, so they are all hiding on the first floor, after all, the upper floors are more likely to be hit by shells, and just now, there were already people who died because they were directly hit by shells, and at this time there were only six people left.
"Yes, company commander" Hearing the order, Zheng Shan got out of his bunker and walked towards the stairs.
"Company commander, the devil is coming up from all directions" After a while, Zheng Shan walked down from the upper floor, and he even had a new gunshot wound on his hand.
"The roof of the building over there is also occupied by devils, and as soon as I went up, the devils were shot at them."
"What's next? Looks like the devils are going to launch a general attack."
"Bandage the wound, enter the bunker, hide well, and don't stop the gun, the longer we live, the more devils we will attract" Lin Dawen was still very calm.
"In the end, there will be more devils to bury us"
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Five minutes later.
Honjo Shu's troops have completed the encirclement deployment.
The four houses on the right have been occupied by several of his detachments, and grenadiers and machine guns have been erected on the roof, as long as the opponent shows up on the roof, no matter how strong the opponent's firepower is, at such a close range, a few grenades will be annihilated in an instant.
Moreover, his troops have already entered the bunker all around, which is completely effective in preventing the opponent's fire.
Then, as soon as the opponent's aimless fire stopped, his infantry could eat away within twenty meters step by step.
At a distance of 20 meters, grenades can be thrown directly into the house where the opponent is hiding.
When the time comes, he will take out the killer weapon he specially prepared for this operation, the gasoline flamethrower, this distance flamethrower can directly spray flames into the opponent's bunker, and then the opponent will be a braised pig to be slaughtered.
However...
Fifteen minutes later,
Honjo Shu was a little depressed to find,
This remnant seems to have a bit of a lot of bullets.
Twenty minutes have passed since he began to take over the attack, and the opponent's aimless shooting has continued for twenty minutes without stopping.
Six points of fire, constantly firing at them, six Mauser pistols, he calculated, by now at least a thousand rounds had been fired from each point of fire.
Although his troops were hidden in foxholes, several unlucky men were wounded by stray bullets, and even one soldier died from blood loss.
Moreover, the more dense rooftop fire points mentioned in the intelligence have not yet appeared, and although the infantry can be used to solve the enemy in front of them, there will inevitably be huge casualties.
This is unacceptable to him.
Moreover, what scared him the most was that this enemy was so calm and stubborn that in such a situation a large-scale infantry attack, he was sure that once the infantry approached, a soldier covered in grenades would suddenly rush out and die with the Imperial soldiers.
He fought on the Songhu battlefield for several months, and he saw a lot of this kind of scene, although the soldiers of the Republic of China were poorly equipped and poorly trained, resulting in low combat effectiveness, but there was no shortage of bloody people among them.
"It's really troublesome" frowned, Honjo Shu suddenly regretted a little, he regretted that he took the initiative to find the wing captain to come to this mission.
Originally, he thought it was a good thing to pick fruit and eat meat, but he actually gnawed a hard bone.
At this time, he finally understood why Nakagawa wanted to use infantry artillery, because he also wanted to push the two infantry guns in the brigade over and bombard the whole thing, and it was better to consume a little ammunition than to suffer serious casualties.
It's okay to sleep well, you have to get up in the middle of the night to find something to do!
Moreover, where did the troops run out, the ammunition was so abundant, he had fought with the troops of the Republic of China many times, and it was the first time he had seen such a situation of not saving ammunition.
Honjo Shu thought with a toothache.
However, it seems that it is too late to quit now.
He could imagine that at this moment, Jiro Nakagawa must be snickering behind his back.
"Continue to wait, wait for the other party's shooting to stop, and arrange for a few soldiers with good marksmanship to start fighting back" Snapping the saber in his hand, he decided to continue waiting.