Chapter Seventy-Four: Night Attack
Long before the charge, His Excellency, the squadron leader, who was anxious to perform, suggested to the group leader that Yamashita Yoshio stop the shelling. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAfter such a powerful artillery strike, they will become a corpse collection team when they go up again, how can this show their superb command skills.
It's a pity that the captain just smiled after hearing this, and then continued to go his own way. Well, the squadron leader can only blame himself for being a good leader and very sympathetic to the lives of his subordinates.
"Yaga! The people of China are so cunning! ā
Comrade Squadron Commander was still experienced enough, and his eyes immediately noticed that there were more than ten deep and long communication trenches remaining on our army's position, and the squadron leader, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew that the Chinese Army must have run silently through these communication trenches.
I thought that after this shelling, even if the Chinese army did not collapse, it should have suffered heavy casualties! Unexpectedly, the Zhina army slipped away quietly.
You must know that this shelling consumed half of the 23rd Wing's artillery reserves, and nearly 1,000 shells were fired alone, and the shells that withdrew from the artillery positions were piled up into a hill.
The squadron leader felt that in any other case, this artillery bombardment alone would be enough to crush a brigade of the Chinese army.
Such a large-scale artillery bombardment turned out to be useless, and when I thought of this, the squadron leader was heartbroken, it was a thousand shells, not cheap bullets!
Regardless of what he thought at the beginning, it is a fact that the Chinese army escaped the shelling. As a result, the squadron leader had to again order the troops to continue the offensive along the communication trenches.
Almost at the same time, dozens of shells and grenades fell on them together, and the squadron leader only had time to cry out and lie down before he was overturned by the grenade that fell beside him.
In fact, there is no need for the reminder of His Excellency the squadron leader, dozens of shells are smashed at the same time, can the devil soldiers on such a big movement position not be able to see, even if they can't see it, they can still hear the huge, piercing scream!
Originally, when Li Han was building a front-line position, he put a lot of effort into it, the purpose was to be able to block the artillery bombardment of the devils, of course, the shelling here refers to the attack of infantry artillery or mountain artillery and field artillery.
If it is used to defend against 80-caliber mortars and less powerful grenadiers, there is no problem, but the problem is that because the artillery of the devils has also put a lot of effort into the front-line positions of our army, not only have the anti-artillery holes been almost blown up, but even the trenches have basically been blown to the ground.
It was their turn to be bombed, and the devil soldiers were in a hurry to turn around the position, but the trenches had been almost destroyed by their artillery, and in desperation, the devils could only lie on the spot.
But can you hide from shelling while lying on the ground? If this is effective, then the casualties between our army and the Japanese army will not be so large, and the Japanese army will not be able to win a series of major battles so easily.
The Japanese soldiers on the battlefield were crying and howling, it is estimated that they have never hated the artillery so much as they do now, and if it weren't for the good deeds done by the artillery, they would not have ended up like this.
Some of the more fortunate devil soldiers can still hide in the trenches next to them that have not been completely destroyed, and those who are unlucky can only meet Amagasu with their squadron leader.
However, Li Han's shelling lasted only a few minutes, and he was forced to move, because the devil's artillery fire quickly covered their artillery positions.
In order to save the already small number of infantry, Yamashita Yoshio once again ordered the artillery to open fire, and as soon as the devil's artillery was launched, the artillery of our army had to stop and go back to their respective homes, and then find an opportunity to secretly fire a few cannons.
In addition, the smoke from the devil's shells also cut off the line of sight between the first-line position and the second-line position. The remnants of the devils on the battlefield also took advantage of this opportunity to quickly repair the trenches.
During this period, Li Han also carried out several small-scale attacks, but they were all beaten back by the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army.
That night, Li Han called a meeting of the main officers of the unit and announced the battle plan for the night attack. After a whole day of fierce fighting, although the Japanese army suffered great casualties, the casualties of the troops themselves were not small.
When it set out from the paddock, the anti-Japanese brigade still had nearly 2,500 people, and after repeated fierce battles, only about 1,080 troops could continue to fight.
Li Han didn't want to hold on with the devil anymore, although the Yamashita United Army needed to suppress the whole province of Rehe, but if the war here couldn't drag on for a long time, no one could guarantee that Seiichi Yamashita would not have a convulsion and suddenly appear on the battlefield with troops.
After all, there are really not many people who dare to make trouble in Rehe, as long as Seiichi Yamashita doesn't mind letting the anti-Japanese forces take advantage of a little bit and generate a small fortune.
Besides, on the Great Wall not far from Chengde, there are still tens of thousands of Japanese troops fighting bloody battles with the Chinese army, in case any Japanese high-ranking officer is not used to Li Han's behavior of doing evil in Rehe, and casually transferring a troop from the battlefield of the Great Wall will be enough for him to drink a pot.
Although the battlefield of the Great Wall was a bit difficult for the Japanese army, everything was still under control, but Li Han was messing around in Rehe, which had a very bad impact on the invincible Imperial Japanese army.
"Captain, how can I beat you and say a word!"
Hu Zhi, the deputy squadron leader of the first squadron, couldn't wait, saying that in the past year, he had fought more than a dozen battles with devils, but he still felt that today's battle was the most enjoyable.
In the past battles, I was either pressed and beaten by devils, and I didn't even have the time to catch my breath. Or follow the captain to sneak attack, although this is the easiest to succeed, but Hu Zhi always feels that he lacks the momentum that makes people's blood boil.
As today, a field battle in which the two sides opened up their positions and clashed the positions was rare in Li Han's current military career.
"Captain, I think that as long as we kill the devil's artillery, we will have a chance to annihilate Yoshio Yamashita's thirteenth brigade."
Wang Dazhu is worthy of being the squadron leader, and what he says is more suggestive than Hu Zhi.
It seems that we have to put some burden on this kid Hu Zhi, how can I not grow up like this, Li Han silently compared in his heart.
"Dazhu is right, and I am planning to do so. In this night attack, the 2nd and 3rd Middle Schools were responsible for the Japanese positions in front of the attacking team, and the troops were under the unified command of Wang Dazhu. While speaking, Li Han's gaze turned to Wang Dazhu and Lin Youzhi.
"Yes!"
The two of them immediately got up and replied.
"The first squadron and the units directly under the brigade are responsible for attacking the artillery units of the Japanese army, striving to solve all problems in World War I, do you have any problems?"
Speaking of this, Li Han's tone inadvertently aggravated a lot.
"Nope!"
The crowd replied loudly in unison.
"Excellent! Let's do it! Li Han waved his hand, and the officers went back to prepare.
Soon, under the leadership of Li Han and Wang Dazhu, the anti-Japanese brigade divided into two long dragons and killed their respective enemies.
Li Han had just set off for less than ten minutes, and the second and third squadrons led by the first Wang Dazhu fought with the devils, and the devils' vigilance was very strong, and the enemy was not far from him, so the devil soldiers in charge of patrolling all brought up the spirit of twelve.
Although today is not the fifteenth, the moon in the sky is brighter, and Wang Dazhu and his troops were discovered by the devil's sentinel not long after they set off.
Wang Dazhu had to admit that he underestimated Yamashita Yoshio's vigilance. Although when the army first started to act, Wang Dazhu knew that it would be difficult to quietly approach the position of the devil, after all, the devil suffered several big losses during the day, and the vigilance at night would definitely be strong.
But he didn't expect that Yamashita Yoshio even added a secret whistle, no wonder everyone likes to call the Japanese devils, there are quite a lot of ghost ideas.
Fortunately, Wang Dazhu's mentality is good, and if he finds out, he will find out, it's nothing, I have long been prepared in my heart, let's not engage in sneak attacks, and order the troops to attack directly.
Although the casualties of the troops in this way will be relatively large, it is necessary not to fight, otherwise it will be more difficult to fight until dawn, at least at night, the marksmanship of the devils is not much better than that of our soldiers, and the outside is very blind, and you can't see your five fingers when you stretch out your hand.
Hearing the sound of gunfire outside, a smile appeared on the corner of Yamashita Yoshio's mouth, who had been frowning. He had long expected that the enemy might come to attack him, so when arranging the sentry today, he deliberately arranged a secret sentry that had not been set up before.
No, the Chinese army was still a few miles away, and they were discovered by his secret outpost. Now they are tasting the steel broth that the shells have cooked for them.
But that glimmer of smile soon flashed across Yoshio Yamashita's face, and when he thought of his current situation, his mood was extremely low.
Thinking that he was full of ambition at the beginning, and was ready to use the head of the Chinese army to write his military exploits, how could he have ended up like this, and even the initiative on the battlefield was snatched away by the Chinese army.
Just after Wang Dazhu's side fell into a fierce battle with the devil, Li Han took a squadron and a total of more than 700 troops directly under the brigade to quietly go to the devil's artillery position.
Although Wang Dazhu's sneak attack was discovered by the Japanese army, Yamashita Yoshio was prepared in advance. But his infantry suffered too many losses during the day.
Knowing that a large number of enemies had already killed his position, Yamashita Yoshio was embarrassed to find that he seemed to have no troops to adjust.
In addition, the sight was not good at night, and the soldiers of the imperial army could not fully exert their advantages in shooting, and in the face of the strong attack of the Chinese army at all costs, all fronts of the imperial army were in an emergency for a while.
In a hurry, Yamashita Yoshio finally remembered his artillery, so Shaozo ordered the artillery to carry out continuous and uninterrupted shelling of the Chinese army on the spot.
In the end, with the assistance of artillery, the devil's infantry not only blocked Wang Dazhu's attack, but also used the cover of artillery fire to drive the soldiers who were about to rush into the position back hundreds of miles away from the position.
Although the Japanese artillery bombardment made Wang Dazhu's attack come to naught, the shells that continued to shoot flashed red light on the horizon, like a signal light, pointing out the direction of the artillery position for Li Han in the dark night.
Although the road at night is difficult to walk, it can't stop the flames in the hearts of the soldiers, and seeing that their comrades are suffering from the merciless blows of the devil's shells, each soldier can't wait to step into the devil's position in one step.