Well, I don't want to think so much, the seventh company is now carrying some rifles and light machine guns and trophies, and has successively submerged into the mountains of Daise by the night, and the three dogs also followed into the mountains, like a fish entering the sea, and disappeared in an instant.

Therefore, as an infantry company that often has to assault and gallop, those heavy machine guns really can't be equipped, and in this big mountain, an infantry company equipped with heavy machine guns will be dragged down.

The Ministry of Military Affairs also took these things into consideration early on and explicitly stipulated that units at the company level are not allowed to be routinely equipped with heavy weapons unless there are special circumstances.

Strictly speaking, light machine guns do not belong to heavy weapons, but mortars definitely belong to heavy weapons, but the Seventh Company insists on equipping, and there is also a reason for the three dogs.

Mortars are just shells that are not easy to transport, and the warhead fuse and shells are packaged and transported separately, and the fuse is loaded before the battle, which is actually the trouble.

But this little trouble is well worth it, this kind of small cannon is easy to carry, easy to transfer, you can change places with a single shot, but there is no better small cannon to hit the enemy's fire points, especially light and heavy machine gun positions.

The trajectory of the mortar parabola can be attacked at will at the enemy's position, and even the position of the anticline is likely to hit. Of course, the premise is to have a good gunner.

The Seventh Company had bamboo poles and radishes, Wu Dingli and other good gunners, which further strengthened the view that Sangou insisted on equipping mortars, which had no such conditions and no way before.

Now that there are conditions, two mortars of the smallest caliber are routinely equipped, and the three dogs have to consider whether to form a mortar squad, in fact, the current personnel are configured in this way.

When everyone was cleaning the battlefield tonight, they found a few boxes of mortar shells, but they all knew that they did not hand them in, and it is estimated that Liu Guangyu, the deputy regiment, also knew, but pretended not to know, this little meaning, there is no need to bring it up.

Ordinary bosses will take more or less care of their capable subordinates and troops within the military law, after all, the charging trap at a critical time has to rely on these troops to fight hard.

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The 106th Division of the Japanese Army was entangled and fought viciously for more than 10 days by several armies, beating each other during the day, and then being beaten at night, and was blocked in front of the Jinguanqiao position on the Nanxun Line, suffering heavy losses, and was no longer able to organize an attack.

The commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, had no choice but to order the 106th Division to suspend the offensive and withdraw to Maling to turn to defense, and the two sides temporarily formed a standoff situation.

In the battle of Jinguanqiao, more than half of the 106th Division was killed or wounded. According to the materials released by the Japanese side after the war, the 106th Division had a total of 5 wings, and about 16,000 people from 3 wings and 9 brigades participated in the operation this time. The casualties in this battle amounted to 8,000 people.

Among them, 1 wing leader, 3 group leaders, 1 seriously injured wing leader, 1 wing adjutant, and more than half of the squadron leaders and squad leaders were killed or wounded.

Li Jue of the 70th Army, with the help of his brother troops, held the Jinguan Bridge, and the troops were also disabled, and when the 19th Division of the 70th Army was ordered to withdraw from the battlefield for rest, there were only 780 people left in the division.

The Japanese 106th Division stalled in front of the Jinguan Bridge, while another unit, the Potian Detachment of the Taiwan Brigade, began a ferocious attack on Ruichang, northwest of the Jinguan Bridge.

The Taiwan Brigade Botian Detachment was a unit formed in Taiwan, and most of the lower-level soldiers were Taiwanese, and the Taiwanese at that time belonged to Japan.

As early as 1895, after the results of the Sino-Japanese War, Taiwan was ceded to Japan, and until this stage, it was still part of Japanese territory, and the Taiwanese had to work for Japan.

However, after decades of colonial rule, most Taiwanese people can speak Japanese, but the Japanese army still can't trust Taiwanese soldiers, and the officers of the Taiwanese brigade are basically Japanese.

Although it is only a brigade, the Potian detachment has the 1st and 2nd Infantry Wings of Taiwan under its jurisdiction, and has its own independent artillery wing, which is the Taiwan Mountain Artillery Wing, and its strength should not be underestimated.

Its brigade commander, Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hada, openly declared to the public that the strength of the Taiwan brigade was about the same as that of a division. Moreover, this Hauda Shigeichi belonged to the barbarian type of commander, and his troops often did not bring food and solved on the spot.

In fact, it is to plunder the grain of the local people to serve as military rations, and wherever the army fights, it will grab it.

However, such barbarian troops also had hard times, such as when they fought Jiujiang some time ago, they were resisted for three days, and the soldiers of the Potian detachment had no place to grab something to eat, so they soaked leaves in salt water to satisfy their hunger.

Beginning on August 10, the Hatian detachment, with the support of aircraft artillery, began a frantic attack on Ruichang, but it was not completely defeated until the 15th.

On August 16, the Japanese 9th Division came to Jiujiang from Jiangsu to support the Botian detachment and attack Ruichang together, disregarding international law and poison gassing.

General Zhang Fakui, the commander of the Second Corps, who was reinstated, was also helpless to be poisoned and attacked by the Japanese army, and had to command the troops to retreat from Ruichang.

Once Ruichang was lost, the Fuchikou and Tianjiazhen Yangtze River fortresses behind him would be exposed to the enemy's warships, and at the same time, De'an on the Nanxun line would also lose its northwest support and be exposed to the Japanese artillery and tanks.

Previously, the Japanese army relied on a Botian detachment and the 106th Division, and even the important towns of the Yangtze River such as Anqing, Hukou, and Jiujiang, and the soldiers were invincible, which made the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ningji, high-spirited, and felt that the middle ** was simply vulnerable.

But when he hit the second line position in Lushan, he found that Zhong**'s strength and will to resist were beyond his imagination, and he constantly used the advantages of terrain and numbers to carry out active offensive defense, which once caused heavy losses to the 106th Division.

Now the 11th Army had to transfer the 9th Division, solved the numerical disadvantage in one fell swoop, knocked Ruichang down at once, and prepared to advance hand in hand with the 6th Division across the Jiangbei River to take Fuchikou and Tianjia Town, and Wuhan would be just around the corner.

However, on the Nanxun line, there are still a large number of squadrons, which is a very dangerous existence in the rear, and it is necessary to solve the worries in order to make great strides.

Besides, if the Nanxun line is laid down and fought all the way to Nanchang, it will not only consolidate the rear of the troops that will attack Wuhan, but also take a key place in the south of the Yangtze River, operate northern Jiangxi, and threaten the danger of several theaters of war on the left and right.

Therefore, it is still necessary to send troops to attack the south at the same time, open up the Nanxun line, and even if it can't be broken through all of a sudden, it is necessary to contain the middle ** here.

The troops of the First Corps of the Ninth Theater on the Nanxun Line can be described as the elite of the middle **, and they cannot be allowed to move freely, once they attack the rear of the Potian Detachment and the 9th Division to the north, it will be very dangerous.

However, at present, there is only one 106th Division fighting on the Nanxun Line, and this division has just been beaten miserably by the First Corps of the Central **, losing most of the army.

However, the 11th Army then mobilized its troops and transferred the 101st Division, which was also a special division formed in Tokyo in September 1937, and all the soldiers were retired veterans from Tokyo.

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