Chapter 401: Enemies Meet
The preparation for the ambush of the teaching brigade was completed within an hour, and the whole brigade built trenches on both sides of the two roads, reinforced the villages, opened firing ports, etc., which was prepared for the upcoming positions and tug-of-war.
After the construction was completed, the officers and men of the brigade went into the fields and straw piles on both sides of the road to hide, waiting for the approaching Japanese army.
Zhang Wei distributed the heavy firearms on his hands, and the nine heavy machine guns of the heavy fire squadron were assigned to three infantry squadrons, three in each squadron, and two 82-caliber mortars followed Zhang Wei's brigade headquarters and the first squadron to hide on the left side of the road, in the fields and grass beside the village, and the firing distance and firing range were marked.
The engineer platoon and the baggage platoon followed Zhang Wei's brigade headquarters to cooperate with the 1st squadron in combat, and under He Jinhai's repeated requests and strong requests, Zhang Wei allowed them to participate in the ambush and combat preparations.
The anti-personnel weapons equipped by the engineer platoon are nothing more than engineer explosives and blasting canisters, and He Jinhai led people to plant some explosives on both sides of the road, which were connected by wires and detonated by the engineer platoon.
Although these crops, vegetation and haystacks could give the soldiers good concealment, Zhang Wei still ordered the troops to deploy in battle formation to avoid unnecessary casualties.
After the troops were concealed, Zhang Wei sent an additional squad of soldiers to go out two miles away, and once these soldiers found the Japanese soldiers, they would be able to run back and give the brigade the last warning before the battle.
More than 800 people, each hiding in the natural vegetation on both sides of the road, covered themselves with as low movements as possible.
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Takeda's 21st Wing 1st Brigade is still an expedited march, and the team is still very long, but compared to before, it has shrunk a lot, after all, it has gradually approached Kunlun Pass, and Takeda also has to gather his troops a little in order to fight the next battle to break the siege.
The reinforcements of the 1st Brigade this time were all dispatched, three infantry squadrons, one heavy machine gun squadron and one infantry artillery squadron, baggage squadron.
Takeda made some adjustments to the marching column, starting with a small group of search infantry composed of military caoshi and veterans and a small squad of infantry loaded by four Type 94 automatic vehicles, which could greatly increase the speed of travel and greatly improve the mobility, so Takeda put them in front.
The rest of the cars and the main force of the brigade followed behind, and there were also mules and horses, 93-style baggage vehicles, and other standard brigade marching equipment.
The captain of the 1st Brigade, Masayuki Takeda, took the brigade headquarters and rode in a 94-style six-wheeled car, with an extremely conspicuous spare tire hanging outside the co-pilot door, and the simple cockpit was very crowded.
Takeda Masayuki Shaozo sat in the back compartment, and through the No. 5 radio station, which was also a type of 94 type, he contacted the wing headquarters and brigade headquarters in the rear, and completed the reception of battlefield information amid the noise of the inferior engine of the 94 type automatic train.
The urging of the brigade headquarters and the wing headquarters made him upset and anxious, he had already learned the specific battle situation in the direction of Kunlun Pass, and the Chinese army had captured several high grounds!
Takeda's mood also became worse and worse in the midst of the turbulence.
He was riding in a Japanese army's Type 94 six-wheeled automatic vehicle, which was at the bottom of the military car, and this thing lacked horsepower to drive, and it was very easy to lie on its stomach, and compared with the trucks imported from Germany and the United States in the hands of the Fifth Army, it was in tatters.
However, the Japanese army did not have enough of this kind of car, and Takeda Masayuki's brigade was only reinforced by ten trucks in the task of rushing to the aid of Kunlun Pass.
The trucks equipped by the Japanese army can only compete with the Chinese army, which has not yet reached the standard of mule and horse.
On the first four trucks, there was a squad of Japanese infantry, six-wheeled trucks driving on the road, rolling up bursts of loess dust, and accompanied by the noise of equal treatment with the captain Takeda, the Japanese soldiers on the car scolded from time to time, compared with those infantry who could not sit in the car, they were already very lucky.
This infantry squad equipped with four trucks was the vanguard of the entire first brigade, they set up light machine guns on the cab of the truck, and the Japanese soldiers on the car observed both sides of the road through the holes in the carriages, and they also knew their responsibilities very well.
The search troops sent by Zhang Wei discovered the Japanese army's marching column through dust and noise two miles away, quickly returned to the hidden place of the brigade, reported the situation to Zhang Wei, and then taught the whole brigade to prepare for battle.
When they found the village in front of them, the four cars that took the lead did not drive directly over, but slowly stopped, and sent a car to explore the road quite cunningly.
The speed of the car was extremely slow, and the Japanese soldiers in the car stood up, stepped on the bed of the Type 94 truck, and looked around the vicinity of the village, and the 11-year-old light machine gunner on the car also adjusted the position of the machine gun and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the village.
The village was already dilapidated, and the teaching brigade deliberately covered it up when it was renovating the village, deliberately tearing down some unsturdy earthen walls and useless thatched huts to make it look even more dilapidated and desolate.
The main focus of the Japanese army was on the villages on the left side of the road, or the first squadron and the third squadron, as well as Zhang Wei's brigade headquarters, and the Mu Chao third squadron arranged on the right side of the road was ignored by the Japanese because there was no conspicuous hiding place.
The main force of the teaching brigade was all hidden in the field and behind the straw pile, and the Japanese troops who reinforced Kunlun only observed for a while in the car, and then gave a signal to the three trucks behind to continue to advance, the extremely dangerous battle situation in the direction of Kunlun Pass made it impossible for these Japanese soldiers to cover all aspects, and in the case of Kunlun Pass being besieged by the Fifth Army, the Japanese army would certainly not spend time getting off the car and searching carefully.
The marching column of the 1st Brigade again resumed its rapid mobile march. After waiting for a long time, they finally waited for the old enemy, taught the brigade, and finally ushered in their combat goals.
Zhang Wei lay in the field, without binoculars, he could clearly see the Japanese soldiers with the naked eye, and in the vast fields and straw piles around him, there were scattered soldiers of a squadron, a baggage platoon, and an engineer platoon.
There were many recruits in the team, and it was inevitable to be nervous when they saw the living Japanese soldiers for the first time, but fortunately, there were veterans to control them, and no accidents occurred.
With the roar of the engine, the Japanese advance truck passed through the ambush section of the teaching brigade and drove to the fire division area.
"Captain, do you want to fight?"
Qiu Wei asked with an eager gaze, he saw that the vanguard of the Japanese army was almost beyond the range of the ambush, and he was a little anxious.
"No hurry, wait, wait another half minute."
Zhang Wei stared at the Japanese army intently, counting every second in his heart, what he wanted to attack was not the head of the Japanese army, but the middle and front of the Japanese army.
The first four vehicles of the Japanese army gradually passed through the main ambush fire zone, followed by a long procession, followed by infantry, mules and horses, baggage, and the remaining cars.
"Three, two, one, hit!"
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