Chapter 34: American Tactics
PS: In the book review area, I saw that some book friends thought that the description of the US military was a bit excessive, but in fact, these plots were not made up by soldiers, and the soldiers never denied the role of the United States in World War II and the Burma battlefield or even the Chinese battlefield, but these are facts, and even more than that, just because the US military was an ally of China at that time, so there was no propaganda or just a brush-off. Interested brothers can get over the "Battle of Myitkyina", which mentions two American commanders, one Merrill and the other Patno, both of whom blamed their mistakes on the Chinese army, causing an outcry from the Chinese army and almost causing a mutiny, and finally Stilwell had to hand over the actual command to a Chinese general whom he did not trust, because he found that the American officers were worse than the Chinese officers.
The formation of the Japanese Naga task force was spread along the battle line, and the advantage of this deployment was that it could rush into the Chinese defense line as much as possible at the first time and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
It is conceivable that if Zhang Chi had not placed explosives in front of the defense line in advance, and if the demon had not ordered the explosives to be detonated in time, then these Japanese soldiers would have rushed into the defense line and fought with the soldiers before they could react......
If this scene happens, I am afraid it will be a nightmare for Chinese soldiers: the characteristics of American tactics are to avoid hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat as much as possible, so the Chinese soldiers also did not conduct hand-to-hand combat related training when Sun Bubang trained, this aspect is still the shortcomings of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, but the Japanese army is very strong in this regard, and ordinary Japanese soldiers have no problem fighting several in hand-to-hand combat, not to mention that this is still the Naga Task Force of the Japanese Army. Therefore, if dozens of Japanese troops rushed into the defensive line, it would be enough to string all the soldiers on the 217 heights on bayonets.
But there are no ifs on the battlefield.
The Japanese did not expect the Chinese army to plant explosives in front of the defensive line, so they used this formation to spread along the defensive line to bring disaster to themselves...... As soon as the explosives exploded, the more than 60 Japanese soldiers who rushed to the position were blown to pieces, and some of them were directly blown up into the sky by the explosives, and some were knocked to the ground by the rubble lifted by the explosives (Note: when the expeditionary force arranged the explosives, they deliberately buried a pile of hard fist-sized stones with the explosives, so that when the explosives exploded, these stones would be blown everywhere), and even if some Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to avoid the explosives and gravel, they also temporarily lost their combat effectiveness in this sudden explosion...... The shock wave and loud sound of the explosion would knock the Japanese troops down, stun, and become deaf.
So when Zhang Chi grabbed the rifle and ran out. What I saw was the Japanese soldiers rolling and screaming all over the ground, and there were few who could stand soberly.
Zhang Chi didn't think much about it, and immediately shouted: "Grenade!" ”
The fighters reacted quickly, and without saying a word, threw grenades downward.
At this time, the fighters were equipped with the US Army Mark 2 grenade, although the direct kill radius of this oval grenade is only five to ten meters, but it has uneven notches on the surface, which will make it produce a large number of fragments when exploding, and the radius of this fragment can reach about fifty meters.
So with a "boom" explosion, the front of the position quickly fell silent...... The Japanese soldiers, who were still struggling and screaming just now, had almost become dead corpses at this time.
"Grenades!" Zhang Chi shouted again.
Anyway, the Yankees have ammunition, and if they can use ammunition to give the lives of the fighters an extra layer of protection, then they should not hesitate to use it.
And this can be called a luxury for the soldiers of the expeditionary force. So they were somewhat surprised when they heard the order, but a little later they threw out a volley of grenades again.
The volley of grenades also turned out to be meaningful, as a few more screams were heard in the darkness...... Obviously, this is the Japanese army's fish that slipped through the net and endured the pain and kept silent, hoping to save his life.
"Watch out for a platoon!" Zhang Chi ordered: "Wherever there is a sound, you will fight wherever you want, and you are not allowed to step out of the trenches, do you understand?" ”
"Yes!" Fellow villagers responded.
This is also the Yankees' way of playing...... If the Chinese style of play is followed, a counter-charge should be launched to completely wipe out the Japanese army in front of them. But Zhang Chi didn't think it was necessary to do this at this time, and there were few Japanese soldiers left in front of him under several rounds of explosions. Even if there were survivors, they were holding explosive packs or cluster grenades and waiting to die with the Chinese army, so it was exactly what the Japanese wanted to launch a counter-charge at this time.
Sure enough, seeing that the Chinese army had no intention of counter-charging, from time to time in the darkness, a devil threw a grenade here and rushed forward with an explosive bag...... The devil is injured, I can't wait. Wait a little longer, but I'm afraid that the blood will run out, and I won't even have the strength to rush forward.
But it was obvious that they did not have much effect in doing so, and they were wiped out by the prepared warriors in a few clicks.
After the whole battle, Heights 217 successfully blocked the Japanese charge at the cost of only one minor injury.
However, the 145 Heights were not so lucky, and the Japanese troops entered the 145 Heights with a single charge, followed by a flurry of indiscriminate killings. Fortunately, the commander of the second company stationed on the 145th Heights was quite clever...... In fact, it cannot be said that he is clever, he also implemented the idea of American tactics, and as soon as he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately ordered to abandon his position and retreat.
Let's be honest, though. At this time, retreat is actually not a very good choice, because the enemy and us are already close to the level of hand-to-hand combat, and at this time, the retreat is likely to be killed by the Japanese army all the way to Lingbang like a duck...... In fact, this is exactly what the devils planned, which is also the reason why the Japanese army wanted to send a team of "Chinese troops" to infiltrate Lingbang, and their plan was to kill Lingbang in one go after conquering two high grounds.
It should be said that the Japanese army's plan is very likely to succeed, and it will even chase down the Chinese army all the way, causing countless casualties to the Chinese army.
But I didn't expect an accident on the 217 heights...... Not only did the Japanese army fail to take the 217 heights, but were completely annihilated in a short period of time, so the tide of the battle reversed.
"Flares!" Zhang Chi shouted.
A few flares "suddenly" hit the 145 heights where the gunfire continued, and Zhang Chi and others could see clearly in the bright light of the flares, the Japanese army was chasing the soldiers of the second company all the way to Lingbang to kill, and even the Japanese army did not intend to shoot the soldiers of the second company retreating in front...... The Japanese army wanted to let the Chinese soldiers of the second company rush ahead, so that the Chinese troops in Lingbang would not dare to shoot, so that the Japanese army could follow the footsteps of the Chinese soldiers and rush into Lingbang.
What the Japanese army wants is hand-to-hand combat, and what they want is hand-to-hand combat!
But now their wishful thinking is not working.
"Hit!" With Zhang Chi's order, the soldiers raised all kinds of weapons and fired pieces of bullets at the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers who followed behind fell to the ground one by one like wooden stakes.
The elevation of Heights 217 is dozens of meters higher than that of Heights 145, and the straight-line distance between the two heights is only more than 200 meters, so the fighters can easily aim at the target.
The condescending fire of the 217 heights soon separated the enemy and us, so the Chinese artillery in the rear of Lingbang soon came into play, and they smashed shells into the heads of the Japanese troops in the rear, and the shells flew the mud on the high ground in all directions, and the Japanese troops were lifted into the air in pieces.
This temporarily blocked the Japanese offensive and covered the soldiers of the first company and successfully escaped back to Lingbang. (To be continued.) )