Sakamoto said: "Katano-kun, your opinion is to abandon the usual infantry tactics of the Imperial Japanese Army?" ”

"Hello!" Katano was stunned suddenly, "Detachment Leader Mingjian, in this world, there is no infantry tactic that fights everything, the enemy has changed, and the tactics must also be changed accordingly, otherwise you will definitely suffer a big loss!" ”

After a pause, he continued: "For example, this time, when the enemy changed from the Jinsui Army and the Central Army to the Coastal Defense Corps, but the tactics of the Imperial Army remained unchanged, the result was a big loss in the actual battle!" ”

"Soga." Shun Sakamoto nodded, and asked again, "So what kind of tactics do you say?" ”

Katano said, "I think that the scale of the infantry charge should be reduced, but the use of artillery firepower should be strengthened. ”

Speaking of this, Katano Tasumi continued: "I don't know if the detachment commander and the gentlemen have found out, although the infantry light weapons firepower of the China Coastal Defense Corps is stronger than that of the imperial army, its artillery support firepower is still very weak, and in the daytime battle, the China Army only has a few or six small-caliber mortars. ”

Sakamoto Shun said thoughtfully: "It seems to be true." ”

Katano then said: "On the other hand, in our detachment, in addition to the independent field artillery brigade under the command of the detachment headquarters, each infantry wing is also equipped with a mountain artillery squadron, an infantry artillery squadron and a battle defense artillery squadron, and each infantry brigade is also equipped with an independent infantry artillery squad, and each infantry squadron is also equipped with at least six grenadiers!" ”

After a pause, Katano said again: "So, in terms of artillery support firepower, the imperial army is far superior to the Chinese army!" ”

"Not bad!" Sakamoto nodded and said, "In addition to the artillery firepower mentioned by Katanomi, the Imperial Army even has attack aircraft and fighters from the 3rd Flying Regiment of the Air Force to fight together. ”

Katano said: "Therefore, the imperial army can completely use the superior artillery firepower to comprehensively suppress the superior infantry light firepower of the China Coastal Defense Corps, and specifically in actual combat, that is, through a small-scale infantry assault, pilot the coastal defense corps to open fire, expose its infantry light firepower, and then use artillery firepower to eliminate them one by one." ”

Speaking of this, Katano Seimi continued in an accentuated tone: "Detachment leader, gentlemen, wait until the infantry light firepower of the coastal defense corps is almost destroyed, and then invest heavy troops and launch a general attack, this time, you will definitely be able to break through Jiulong Lake in one fell swoop and easily attack Yinjiang City!" ”

……

Another night passed.

The next day, just after dawn, the Japanese began to prepare for artillery fire again.

More than 100 artillery pieces of various calibres of various calibres launched wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Jiulong Mountain position, which was guarded by the 2nd Battalion and 1st Company of the 5th Regiment of the Coastal Defense Corps.

A quarter of an hour later, with a buzzing roar, more than a dozen devil bombers flew over Jiulong Mountain.

Immediately afterwards, these dozen devil bombers also carried out dive-dropping bombs and strafing at the Jiulongshan position.

The indiscriminate bombardment lasted for almost 40 minutes before it finally stopped, and finally the two Type 96 attack planes disappeared into the clouds in the northeast.

Qin Jiu followed Yu Qi to climb out of the anti-artillery hole.

Because of the tight time, there was no anti-artillery hole.

But last night, after a busy night, they finally dug out a barely shelterable bomb hole.

When the probe looked down, he saw that the defensive position at the foot of the mountain at the western foot of Jiulong Mountain had been blown to pieces, as if it had just been ploughed and watered.

But fortunately, an anti-artillery hole was also dug at the foot of the mountain last night.

Therefore, the casualties of the 2nd platoon of the change of defense should not be large.

Sure enough, as the devils stopped shelling, the officers and soldiers of the 2nd platoon crawled out of the anti-artillery holes one by one and returned to the firing position, Qin Jiu roughly counted, there were more than a hundred.

At this moment, Yu Qi suddenly said in a deep voice: "The devil is here!" ”

Qin Jiu's heart suddenly sank when he heard this, and when he looked up hurriedly, a team of devil soldiers really appeared in the distance.

However, what puzzled Qin Jiu was that the number of devil soldiers was not large, and there were only thirty of them who died.

"Platoon commander, what's going on?" Qin Jiu said in a daze, "Why are these devils?" ”

"No, Ah Jiu, look at the back." Yu Qi said in a deep voice, "Behind this group of devils, there are devils. ”

Qin Jiu's gaze passed over the nearly thirty devil infantry, looked further back, and sure enough, he saw that there was a large group of devils behind him, and these devils also brought a piece of artillery.

Yu Qi's eyes were cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Seven-five mountain cannons, four!" ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly said: "No, there are also 92 infantry guns, six, and there are doors in the back, this is a 37mm caliber battle defense gun, which is very easy to use for part-time work!" ”

Qin Jiu was stunned and said, "What do you want to do?" How did the artillery come to such a front? ”

Yu Qi said in a deep voice: "The devil artillery wants to carry out close artillery support to the infantry!" ”

"Close artillery support?" Qin Jiu was stunned and said, "Devils aren't afraid of hitting their own people?" ”

Yu Qi said: "Curve shooting, the impact point is indeed difficult to control, but if it is a close range of flat and direct fire, the shooting accuracy of the gun is not much worse than that of the machine gun." ”

Qin Jiudao: "I know that the battle defense artillery can shoot directly, and the mountain artillery and infantry artillery can also shoot directly?" ”

"Yes." Yu Qi nodded and said, "Not only infantry artillery, mountain artillery, but also mortars can shoot directly!" ”

While talking, another group of devils appeared in the field of vision of the two, and these devils also carried mortars or grenadiers, and the direction of these devil artillery was closer to them!

Seeing this, Yu Qi's face immediately darkened, and said, "There's trouble!" ”

Qin Jiu was a little unimpressed, feeling that the situation was not so grim.

At this time, the devil infantry at the foot of Jiulong Mountain had already launched a charge.

Nearly thirty devil infantry actually opened a width of more than 300 meters, which looked sparse, not to mention using machine gun fire, it was a waste to use Garland's continuous fire.

The officers and men of the 2nd platoon guarding the foot of the hill switched their rifles to single shots.

Heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and mortars were completely silent.

Qin Jiu originally thought that with less than thirty devil soldiers, the 2nd platoon would be able to fight back easily, but when he really handed over the fire, he found that it was not the case at all.

Because although there are not many devil infantry who launched the assault, the infantry behind them has very strong support firepower.

More than 10 crooked light machine guns and at least six Type 92 heavy machine guns fired fiercely at the position of the 2nd platoon, so that the officers and men of the 2nd platoon could not even lift their heads.

The 2nd platoon was forced to use machine guns or mortars to counteract, and immediately attracted direct fire from devil grenadiers, mortars, and even 92 infantry guns and mountain artillery, and after a few rounds, the light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the 2nd platoon were lost, while the casualties of the devil infantry were negligible.

(End of chapter)