Chapter 404: The First Brigade with Heavy Losses (Page 1/1)

At the same time as the teaching brigade shifted positions, the 1st Brigade of the 21st Wing

It took more than ten minutes for Takeda to organize the follow-up troops, assemble an infantry squadron and a heavy machine gun squadron of the brigade to prepare for battle.

But he would not attack rashly, being ambushed was already a great lesson, and Takeda gradually gave up the idea of leading the team to clear the siege immediately.

He was on the road, observing the situation of the road ahead with the squadron leader and squad leader, and then deciding on the attack plan, Takeda could see from the battle in front that this group of Chinese troops was not ordinary, and he had to deal with it carefully.

However, the first thing he waited for was the defeated army that retreated from the front.

In the surprised eyes of the Japanese soldiers preparing for the battle, nearly 30 wounded Japanese soldiers retreated from the front line one after another.

"Captain, it's a soldier from the front team!"

Takeda didn't need to be reminded by the adjutant of the brigade around him, but also saw the retreating soldiers, dozens of people, most of them were wounded, and ran over with each other's support, some with guns, and some simply threw away the weapons in their hands, and the image was extremely embarrassed.

The gunfire in the distance had stopped, and looking at these routs, Takeda had already guessed the situation at the front.

In the short time that he was preparing to counterattack, the gunfire of the battle in front of him was close to nothing, that is, except for these routs, the other soldiers who were walking in the front line were ......

"Come on, bring them here!"

Takeda held back the shock in his heart and ordered someone to bring the rout, the current situation did not allow him to launch an attack immediately and hastily, Takeda must understand the situation first, and then give a new battle order.

"What the hell is going on up ahead?"

The brigade adjutant brought in a few routs and asked.

Takeda looked at the rout in front of him, with wounds on his body, and his military uniform and Type 90 steel helmet were also dyed red, which showed the fierceness of the battle ahead.

"Sir, the front is the Chinese army, all of them are Chinese troops!" A private said with a frightened expression.

"After walking through that village, all of a sudden, enemy troops appeared, as if they were coming out of the ground, with a lot of machine guns and artillery."

The rout was first attacked by firepower, and then ran wildly and fled, their emotions had not yet recovered, and their speech was a little incoherent, and the tragic scene of the surprise attack just now was still vivid.

Takeda looked at his soldiers, angry and a little distressed at the same time: "I'm asking about the attack!"

"Sir, let me tell you." One of the sergeants in the rout, Chief Cao, said.

The one who just answered was a private, a soldier with the lowest rank, and it just so happened that this person was a newly added private, and he was not very experienced in combat.

And Cao Chang is a non-commissioned officer and sergeant, all of whom are veterans.

Takeda nodded and calmed down: "Let's talk about it, be more detailed." ”

Sergeant Cao Chang sighed and said: "Our unit was attacked in the middle of the advance, when the car in front of us had just passed through the village in front, and after a simple search, no situation was found, and the village was also explored, so our unit continued to advance. ”

Then, Cao Chang's tone suddenly became urgent: "But when the vanguard troops just walked outside the village, the enemy suddenly opened fire, and the front car was blown up, and they hid in the fields on both sides, in the straw piles, the fire was very fierce, and our army suffered heavy casualties as soon as they opened fire." ”

"What's the firepower going on?"

Cao Chang paused for a moment, and after thinking about it, he gave Takeda's answer: "There are many light and heavy machine guns, as well as grenadiers, and there is also the sound of the 82 mortars of the Chinese army, in short, the fire is very fierce. ”

Takeda nodded, according to the current situation, judging from the mortars, he can be sure that the ambushed Chinese army has more than two companies of troops, and the 82-caliber mortars are the regimental equipment directly under the majority of the Chinese army, and those who can be assigned mortars will definitely not have too few troops.

Takeda was still glad that he didn't attack rashly just now, otherwise he might not be able to take advantage of the strong firepower, and now the infantry artillery under his command is ready to attack, and if he simply attacks with a squadron of infantry that has been prepared, it is very likely to suffer.

"Order the troops, continue to organize their combat readiness, all prepare for battle, and the infantry artillery squad is ready for battle." Takeda said to the brigade adjutant.

"Captain, are you going to get all the remaining infantry to attack?"

"Well, the enemy is very likely to be two companies, or an infantry battalion or even a stronger unit, and now only one squadron is ready, and it is inevitably a little inappropriate to use one squadron to storm their positions, it will not be able to attack, and it will be a waste of time, so it is still necessary to increase the firepower of the troops and attack again."

"In addition, you go and count the battle damage again, and the attack plan is temporarily stopped."

"Yes!"

Because the ambushed Chinese army had strong firepower, Takeda abandoned his attack plan, and the march of the 1st Brigade dragged on for a long time, and he assembled only one squadron and a heavy machine gun squadron, and the infantry artillery squad directly under the brigade was not ready for battle.

It was also a squadron that was ambushed, which was temporarily unable to continue the fight.

Let him command a well-assembled squadron to attack the enemy's position with strong fire without the cover of direct infantry artillery fire, Takeda is really not 100% sure.

The ultimate task of the Takeda Brigade is to reinforce Kunlun Pass, if you rashly launch an attack, it will be a waste of time on the way to reinforcements after being repulsed, rather than this, it is better to wait until the troops are deployed and take it in one fell swoop.

As an experienced commander, Takeda had this judgment, and the decision itself was quite correct.

Takeda had the number of battle losses counted by the adjutant of the brigade finally come to fruition, and by investigating the scattered troops and defeated troops, Takeda obtained the number of officers and soldiers lost due to the ambush.

The ambush of the teaching brigade was a marching column of a squadron, and an infantry squad with four trucks at the head was almost completely wiped out.

Excluding the routed soldiers who ran down en masse, and the stragglers and lightly wounded soldiers who were later gathered, the loss of more than 70 Japanese troops in the ambush area was more than 70 people.

More than 70 people were killed in battle, and more than 60 of the more than 60 routs were collected before and after, and more than a dozen were wounded, and there were 90 people wounded, and the squadron leader of the vanguard squadron was hit by a 79 machine gun bullet and was seriously wounded, and one of the three squad leaders was killed and one was wounded.

The infantry squadron that was ambushed was now capable of fighting only in its early fifties.

Almost half of the infantry squadron was reimbursed!

When the casualty figures were presented in Takeda, he was shocked and angry, and there had never been such tragic casualty figures in previous battles.

No matter how fierce it is, such as the Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Xinkou, there has never been a situation where a squadron has lost most of its half in a short period of time.

The time of the entire ambush battle added up to less than half an hour, and in just half an hour, an infantry squadron under his command lost most of it, and only a small squad of combat soldiers remained.

Masayuki Takeda reluctantly put aside the fury of the huge casualty figures and began to plan a new offensive.

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