Chapter 1148: Personally Out of the Horse
The leader of the team was Liu Lang.
As the commander of a regiment, Liu Lang would never have appeared on the front-line combat position, let alone this kind of special operation. This has been written into the combat regulations of the independent regiment, and all senior commanders of the independent regiment are not allowed to fight in person on the front line unless necessary.
This was before the oath of the division to go on the expedition, in order to prevent Liu Lang from being like the Battle of the Great Wall, in a fit of anger, he single-handedly led two special forces to chase the Sixth Division to play with his life, initiated by Ji Yanxue, seconded by Zhang Ruhao, signed by Chi Dakui, and decided by a regimental meeting held by all lieutenant colonel-level officers of the Independent Regiment, and even Liu Lang could not overturn the regulations.
However, this regulation is not a dead rule. It is not that the soldiers can die, the senior commanders cannot die, if the battle is the most dangerous, let alone the commander, even the stretcher soldiers and the cooks have to carry guns to the battlefield.
Now, this regulation is in force.
As the former chief instructor of the special forces, Liu Lang must come out this time. As long as the large army wants to quietly reach the area of Xuehua Mountain through the Donkey Ridge.
The expected attempt to use an infantry company to storm the Lack of Donkey Ridge in no more than 15 minutes to solve the problem of a Japanese infantry squad on the Lack of Donkey Ridge was frustrated twenty minutes ago.
The communications platoon that followed the forward death battalion unexpectedly detected a radio signal in the vicinity of Donkey Ridge, and in this area, apart from the independent regiment itself, there were only Japanese troops stationed at Donkey Ridge. Unexpectedly, the commander of the Japanese army in the county town was so cautious that he even equipped an infantry squad with a field radio. Once the strong attack, the Japanese troops stationed in the lack of donkey ridge will definitely ask for help from the county seat as soon as possible.
In that way, the surprise attack on Jingcheng County turned into a strong attack, although even if it was a strong attack on the independent regiment, there were not many doubts about the capture of Jingcheng County, whose defensive strength was only more than 1,000 people, but if you want to grab that batch of massive materials, it will be difficult to reach the sky.
No matter how stupid the Japanese army is, they will not say that they will give up their baggage, and they will definitely blow it up when their own momentum is gone. Once the battle-level artillery reserve that can support an artillery wing explodes, let alone capture, the resulting deaths and injuries of officers and soldiers and civilians in Jingcheng County will make Liu Lang's head hurt so much that it is about to explode.
The explosion of nearly 100 tons of shells could almost raze the small county town of Jingcheng to the ground. Liu Lang remembers that the arsenal explosion of the future republic in Nanhu Province was that nearly one square kilometer of the arsenal was blown into a blank field, not to mention that the glass of the houses two kilometers away from the arsenal was all shattered and the walls were cracked, and the villages six kilometers away could feel a strong earthquake, and the storage capacity of ammunition in that arsenal was only about the same as here.
In Jingcheng County, there are still more than 3,000 people, and this is the result of at least half of the people fleeing with their families to relatives' homes in the countryside before the arrival of the Japanese army.
Whether it is seized or not is secondary, and the most important thing is the consequences caused by it, which is Liu Lang's highest priority.
At that time, even if the independent regiment destroyed a large number of Japanese prisoners, once the casualties of the military and civilians were exposed by some well-intentioned people, it would definitely become a black material for the high-level of the national government to attack the red troops. A big hat that was cut down for the sake of fighting and disregarding the lives of the people was an unbearable burden for the Red Army, which had just sought political peace.
But this battle must be fought. And it has to be played tonight.
If we don't fight tonight, and wait for early tomorrow morning, the Japanese army will send a reconnaissance plane to see that there is no sign of fighting in the mountains, and its thousands of troops will disappear like this, will it not react? Once the North China Dispatch Army was allowed to send reinforcements to Shijiazhuang, the materials of Jingcheng County began to retreat through the Zhengtai Railway, so that the tens of thousands of troops gathered here could only watch drooling but helpless, and it was just a trivial matter, so that the Japanese troops of the 39th Infantry Brigade on the Niangziguan front line raised their vigilance and withdrew.
Although the 40th Infantry Brigade has been annihilated and a leg of the 20th Division has been broken, it is still not enough. The Japanese Army's Western Front Corps attacking the Jindong Front was a permanent division of the Japanese army, the 20th Division, and a semi-ad hoc division, the 108th Division and the 109th Division, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops.
If you want to solve the predicament of Jindong, you only annihilated an infantry brigade and some miscellaneous soldiers, but it is far from enough. In Liu Lang's battle plan half a month ago, he smashed both legs of the 20th Division, and since he chose to come to Niangzi Pass, he should not go back, and stay on the land of China to make fertilizer.
For thousands of years, there has never been a shortage of attacks from foreign races on the land of China, from the Donghu in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties to the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties and then to the Jurchens who entered the customs to unify the Central Plains. Either they left their bodies in the Central Plains, or they became part of the Chinese nation.
Of course, the little devil may be an exception, because, in Liu Lang's heart, they are still more suitable for fertilizer, and the Chinese nation, which is already as high as 56 nationalities in the future, already has 56 flowers, and if there is one more of them, it will not be so symmetrical.
Since it must be fought tonight, the Lack of Donkey Ridge must be passed quietly. In other words, you can't storm it, you have to conduct a special operation and quietly deal with the devil of that infantry squad.
However, one infantry squad of the Japanese army was as high as fifty people. Even if Niu Er and the five special forces under his command had at least fifteen devils on their hands, they were not sure that they could kill all fifty devils in fifteen minutes and prevent them from transmitting information through the radio.
Like Niu Er, the second lieutenant squad leader, he is proficient in long-range sniping and battlefield observation, but for hand-to-hand combat, he does not say that he can reach the point of being ten with one. In fact, if he was left alone and faced five Japanese soldiers at close range, he was afraid that he could only turn around and flee. Only by pulling enough distance can he be sure to snipe his opponents one by one.
Everyone in the special squad has their own areas of expertise, not everyone is ten thousand enemies, and when they are put together, the combat effectiveness is undoubtedly terrifying, even if it takes a certain amount of time to get these fifty people, but to leave them only fifteen minutes and let the Japanese army not even have time to send a message, that is really thinking too high of them.
If there are more than three special squads here, it may still be possible, especially if there are super masters like Chen Yunfa and Mo Xiaomei or Shi Datou cooperating.
But not now, although the special team from Yu Xiancheng down, 7 special teams plus Mo Kitten and Shi Datou a total of 45 people have all been dispatched three days ago, but there are only 6 people in the special team here.
So, it only took a second, and Liu Tuanzuo decided to go out in person.
The four words of military urgency alone made Zhang Ruhao, the deputy of the regiment, who had not yet had time to rush over, unable to say anything against it.
As early as daytime, Niu Er observed through a telescope 600 meters away, and felt the defensive point of the Japanese infantry squad stationed on the Donkey Ridge very clearly.
Because of the lack of troops, the Japanese infantry squad leader completely abandoned the positions on the east and west sides, and instead placed his position on the main peak of the Donkey Ridge, blocking the mountain road that had to pass under the main peak with a small detachment and two light machine guns on the front, and an infantry squad on the left and right sides to hold the flank.
As for the rear wing, because it was a cliff, there were no troops stationed there.
The Japanese were not wrong in choosing the location of their garrisons, especially in relation to their strength. A few days ago, they paid more than 200 casualties in order to conquer this position. That was the result of their bombardment of the position with more than four mountain guns.
Even if they don't have many troops, if the Chinese with insufficient artillery fire want to attack here, not a single infantry battalion will not think about it.
But they were still wrong, and the mistake lay in the original garrison position of the 17th Division where they were stationed.
This position was originally a position dug by an infantry battalion of the 17th Division and piled up by sandbags, and the left and right flanks plus the frontal position were as wide as 800 meters, plus two trenches on the top and bottom, and the troops that could enter could reach more than 400 troops of two infantry companies.
This also created a possible opportunity for Liu Lang to lead the special forces to take advantage of the darkness to sneak attack.
Otherwise, let an infantry squad of fifty people nest together, even if Liu Tuanzuo has three heads and six arms plus stepping on the invincible Hot Wheels, he can't chop up the No. 50 people like chopping watermelons and shouting numbness.
That's not realistic.
A burst of random guns swept over regardless of it, and the wave group, which is also a mortal in the flesh, is estimated to have to hang.
This is not the most fatal, the most fatal thing is that although the rear flank of this main peak position is a cliff, it is still eighty or ninety degrees, but it is not a Jedi.
You must know that Zhao Shoushan dared to put one of his infantry battalions there, not that he hoped that one of his main infantry battalions would fight with the Japanese army like this. When it's time to retreat, the big guys have to retreat.
But if the left, center, and right sides are surrounded by Japanese troops, where to retreat? The big guy tightened his trouser cuffs and blew up, jumping down from the top of Mount Huashan like Ouyang Feng, and still as light as a big bird? That's martial arts, right? Fairy tales for adults.
At the end of the main peak position, there is a stone cave for only one person to drill under a mountain rock, which seems to be not big, in fact, there is no cave, it is a natural karst cave, which can go straight to the middle section of the cliff more than 100 meters away, and the middle section of the cliff has a path hidden by mountain rocks and shrubs, which goes directly to the bottom of the mountain, which is the information provided by an old medicine picker in the village of Donkey Ridge, even the ordinary mountain people do not know. On the cliff, there are a lot of precious medicinal herbs. It's like a chef's recipe, a doctor's prescription, a secret that is passed on to men but not women.
Information that the vast majority of mountain people living here do not know, how can the Japanese know? They probably never dreamed that someone would enter from behind the position! And it's not like a martial arts master to climb up and drill out like that.
Liu Tuanzuo, who was wearing a well-fitting Japanese military uniform, just got out of the crack in the stone and climbed less than 30 meters away from the Japanese position, and the sound of the Japanese army's conversation and singing could be heard clearly.
The military uniform must fit, which is sewn by Lieutenant Colonel Ji for Liu Tuanzuo, and the style and material are made with reference to the Japanese military uniform, which is a miserable military rank and a proper Japanese private.
In fact, on the battlefield of Songhu a few years ago, Liu Fatzi's ill-fitting appearance of changing his military uniform with his bare ass was too stimulating for Lieutenant Colonel Ji.
It is estimated that it is also to avoid this product from changing military uniforms without shame in front of other women! Who knows? Anyway, don't give a certain wave this chance.
Especially, when a beautiful reporter may appear.