Chapter 63: The Purpose of the Japanese Ambush (3rd Watch)
When the "Javelin" anti-tank missile leaves the launch tube, its initial velocity is relatively low, giving people the feeling of slowly soaring. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The built-in automatic tracking program is also constantly being corrected, and the trajectory of the entire Javelin missile looks a bit shaky.
It's this kind of thing that was slow at first, and it was still a little shaky when it flew up, and it seemed to be cute, but it was actually a big bomb.
Unlike mortars, which fall from the sky without a trace, the Javelin's flight trajectory is clearly visible, and the enemy can follow its flight path to find the launch team.
Unlike Maozi's wire-guided "Cornet" series anti-tank missiles, the "Javelin" is fully self-guided, and after launching, it can be ignored, and it will correct its flight trajectory by itself according to the image locked at the time of aiming, until the target is destroyed.
The Japanese army had two mountain guns that had already appeared, and after the firing team aimed at one of them and fired missiles, they immediately concealed themselves and reloaded the missiles. Although it is said that the Japanese army's 70-mm mountain artillery is unreliable at an accuracy of more than 1,500 meters, no one dares to gamble with their own lives that it will not break out in character.
The "Javelin" missile, dragging its tail flame, plunged headlong into the Japanese artillery bunker. This hastily built bunker is completely ineffective against this kind of missile, which is specially designed to deal with armored targets and fortifications.
The tremendous force of the explosion of the warhead of the missile completely penetrated this bunker and caused the detonation of shells inside the bunker.
Boom, a loud bang. Parts of mountain artillery and fragments of flesh and blood of Japanese artillery flew everywhere. The commander of this ambush force secretly cursed, Nani, this first volunteer brigade has something new again. This thing, like the large fireworks and rockets set off at festivals, has so much power that it can penetrate the fortifications and kill the artillery inside.
Japanese soldiers followed the flight path of the anti-tank missile, looking for traces of the enemy. Unfortunately, after the launch team finished the operation, they hid in the bushes next to it. The Japanese army failed to detect them.
The firing team skillfully loaded the "Javelin" missiles in the bushes, and the Japanese still had a mountain gun that had not been destroyed, and they had to go out to get another shot. This time, they changed the firing position, aimed, pressed the button, turned and left. It's that simple, it's that confident.
"This is Vulture One, two Japanese mountain guns have been destroyed, and the Humvee convoy can continue to move forward." Li Sifeng, who served as the FAC in the air, evaluated the attack effect of the missile.
The Humvee convoy immediately drove into the battlefield and fired at the Japanese with .50 large-caliber machine guns on board. After the loss of the two mountain guns, the Japanese army no longer had the range of weapons to reach the Humvee, and the range of the Browning M2HB.50 machine gun was 1,800 meters, which was beyond the reach of the Murata Type 13 rifle. Regardless of the fact that the Murata rifle is within reach, what effect can the 11mm round-nosed rifle cartridge do against the Humvee's bulletproof armor?
When the Humvee convoy appeared on the flanks of the Japanese army, the commander of this Japanese army knew that their mission for the day was going to fail. He told the adjutant to tell the charging soldiers to retreat as planned.
Koike Toshimi glanced at the reinforcement convoy of Humvees, sighed unwillingly, turned around and ran towards the nearby woods.
The commander of the Japanese army that ambushed the patrol was Shunichi Koike, an old friend of the Crossing Group. On the day of D-day, he lost nearly half of his cavalry, and had already been ordered to return to Huayuankou to board the ship returning home.
As a result, the commander of the 1st Division, Motoharu Yamachi, himself led several thousand soldiers and horses in the division headquarters, were also routed from the front by the 1st Volunteer Brigade. The tragic loss is really one in the sky and one in the ground compared to the mistake that Shunichi Koike made on D-day.
At this time, Shunichi Koike, who was unwilling to return to China and was demoted to the reserve with dishonor, began to live his mind. Why should I be sent back to China if I lose so many people in the light of the enemy, but after my defeat, you Mountain Genji also lost thousands of troops, not to mention, I also lost almost all the artillery of the first regiment, and nearly half of the materials and horses.
The entire 1st Division was forced to switch from offensive to defensive, and the soldiers also had to suffer from hunger and cold because of the loss of a large amount of supplies. The staff officers of the mountain Genji and the division headquarters made many mistakes than me, and if they want to be sent back, then let's go back together.
The Koike family is Chinese, and they immediately used their connections in the base camp to carry out activities, and Oyama Iwa also adhered to the principle of not holding the public accountable, so Koike Shunichi was exempted from punishment. It's all a big defeat, so we can't all replace it.
The Japanese army suffered too many losses in several battles with the crossers. It's completely powerless. After reading the detailed reports of the previous battles, the commander of the Second Army, General Dashanyan, was also able to make an operational plan to bypass the Fuzhou Avenue, attack Jinzhou City, and then cut off the connection between Sanshilipu and Dalian Bay and Lushun, and then trap the First Volunteer Brigade.
However, some of his restless generals felt that this would damage the honor of the empire. Not long ago, Nogi Noshinori, who had won the emperor's favor, ignored repeated strict orders and launched an attack on the patrol of the First Volunteer Brigade on the pretext of testing the number of troops of the First Volunteer Brigade. As a result, it was immediately met with a frantic counterattack by the 1st Volunteer Brigade, and the enemy burned the military stations arranged along the way, all the way to the vicinity of Piziwo.
Nogi Noshinori's reckless move made the Japanese army, which had been transporting supplies for half a month, useless, and the Japanese soldiers once again faced the dilemma of halving their rations. The plan to attack the city of Golden State was delayed again.
According to the plan, Port Arthur should be full of Imperial warships by now, but now the Empire has not even occupied a decent wharf on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the transfer of materials has to be transported to the landing site through sampans and manpower paddling.
It is a problem to maintain the livelihood of the soldiers ashore with such a capacity, and it is a matter of attacking the enemy. The attack plan, which was delayed again and again, caused dissatisfaction in the base camp. An envoy came to the headquarters of the Second Army to inquire about the progress of the Japanese military operation on the Liaodong Peninsula.
The commander of the Second Army, Dashan Yan, reported the battle situation to the envoy, and explained the mysterious troops stationed in Thirty Mile Fort. The aim, of course, is to excuse its recent ineffectiveness in warfare and to casually ask for more assistance.
The Japanese army was not fighting the Qing army alone. The First Army entered northeast China from Korea in two directions, and one way had already captured Lianshan Pass, forming a confrontation with the Qing army occupying Motianling. The other way captured Haicheng, but was surrounded by the Qing army that rushed there.
The First Army penetrated deep into the interior of China, and the supplies were all transported by horses, and the two battlefields were hundreds of miles away from the coast, during which the transportation lines had to be strictly guarded against the attacks of the Qing army. The consumption of supplies in transit is also significant.
At present, the First Army and the Second Army are like two hungry children, whoever cries loudly will get more supplies. Dashanyan has repeatedly stressed that this First Volunteer Brigade is very advanced in weaponry and equipment, and its strength is more than 2,000, which poses a great threat to the Japanese army's military operations on the Liaodong Peninsula.
The envoy sent is not an idiot, how can Dashanyan's mentality of crying and eating candy not be seen. However, he was fascinated by the advanced weapons described in Oyama Iguchi.
Repeating weapons are not a new thing now, and Maxim has been promoting his machine guns in Europe for a long time. However, the high-powered "mortar cannons" mentioned by Oyama Yan, the cars equipped with artillery, and the small repeating weapons held by individual soldiers were all unheard of by him.
If the envoy can capture some of the weapons and equipment described by these mountains and rocks and bring them back to China, it will be a good achievement. The results of the Second Army's current battle are really lackluster.
The kind of chariots equipped with artillery could not be captured for a while, and they could only be trapped in the Thirty Mile Fort by leaning on the river and the wide trench. As for the high-powered "mortar cannons", the Japanese army has never seen them at all, and the strange trajectory is so strange that even if you are bombed for a day, it is difficult for you to determine its position. Let's find a way to capture some of those single-handed repeating weapons, Oyama Iwa told the envoy.
Therefore, the cunning Japanese chose to ambush the patrol of the 1st Volunteer Brigade on Fuzhou Avenue, where there had been no exchange of fire for many days, hoping to seize the weapons in their hands.
And Shunichi Koike, who had the best record with the 1st Volunteer Brigade, became the commander of this operation. Speaking of the best combat record, he is really a general among the dwarves, because the casualties and casualties in the combat operations he commanded are the smallest, and he has become the person with the best record against the crossers. Of course, Koike Shunichi's beautiful pot has also achieved his reputation for good results.
In his war report, he retreated the two sides to the woods to confront each other, shamelessly saying that he had surrounded the enemy in the woods. This kind of word trick was not enough to clear his name at the beginning of the month, but at the end of the month, he became the most dazzling person in the disastrous report card against the 1st Volunteer Brigade.