Chapter 1004: Targeted Killing
The Second Division of the Dutch East Indies Army is a traditional army division in Europe, with 2 infantry brigades and 1 artillery regiment directly under the division headquarters, with nearly 12,000 combatants.
Last night's negligence made the second Major General Fandesa angry at this moment, and the kind of screaming in the sky that made people's scalps tingle was still continuous, and from the first explosion, he realized that such a night attack was definitely not something that ordinary rebels could do...... And he is obviously too underestimated.
If it weren't for his first moment of vigilance, I am afraid that the entire army would have completely collapsed at this moment, but this situation has made him embarrassed enough, when he ran out of the headquarters, the combat map and some important information were lost, and what is even worse is that the group of fools in the communication battalion directly under him only ran out of the third and fifth did not sleep last night, which greatly reduced the efficiency of his orders to the peripheral troops.
Standing in this position, he clearly saw that the enemy's artillery fire was still intensively shelling several positions that he had deployed, and the two field artillery battalions he had arranged on the small high ground outside the village were completely unable to complete the enemy's artillery coverage...... It was very embarrassing for him.
However, the terrain of the entire outskirts of the village. Yesterday, of course, he had checked it, and as soon as the battle began, he immediately sent two more battalions to the position blocking the road outside the village, and he would make full use of the time he had gained to complete the adjustment of his troops, at least ...... Major General Van der Sar believes that he can give full play to the combat power of the second division after dawn!
"Has the 2nd Brigade completed the arming of the perimeter of the artillery positions on the western side? Why hasn't the battle of the 4th Regiment attacked the enemy's artillery positions yet begun? Major General Van der Sar was clearly more anxious about the present situation, and although he was not afraid of the night battle, the Dutch army had in fact never included this tactic in its core content, relying on the defense of the position at night. In their opinion. Apparently far more meaningful than a blind charge.
Rumble...... Boom......
A few shells flew to a Habekis machine gun position on the right side of the division headquarters, and the violent explosion caused a group of shooters to scatter with their machine guns, which made the staff and adjutant around Major General Van der Sar tremble...... If the front is really the army of the Chinese. This level of artillery fire. It's far more fierce than your own artillery regiment!
In the smoke of gunpowder. Two heralds stumbled in, one after the other, "Report...... General, the position held by the second company has been broken through by the Chinese. The 3rd and 4th Battalions, which rushed to reinforce the 3rd Battalion, suffered heavy casualties during the attack due to the lack of fortified bunkers, Captain Tyre of the 3rd Battalion was killed, and Captain Thor of the 4th Battalion asked for reinforcements! ”
"General, there is an enemy breakthrough on the hills of the right flank, the camp of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade on the right flank has been assaulted, and the commander of the regiment of Sers has been seriously wounded! The regimental headquarters has been unable to contact the units that are fighting separately, and for the time being they will not be able to rush to the predetermined positions......"
"Bastard...... Immediately let the head of the Pat regiment personally go to retake the position, and never allow a step back! Major General Van der Sar was utterly incredulous at the cruel reality that the frontal fortifications had been lost in ten minutes, and the enemy had appeared on the flanks, and he shouted loudly for the heralds to get out of the city and give orders.
As a result, the herald, who had just walked out of the bunker herald a few steps, suddenly found some vague figures in the darkness, and the soldier escorting behind him was just about to raise his gun, when a sharp and piercing whistle suddenly came from the opposite side, and then, seven or eight brilliant spear sparks immediately burst out in the darkness...... The order of Major General Van der Sar was put down less than twenty meters from his temporary headquarters.
The sound of the exchange of fire immediately attracted the guards on the periphery of the headquarters, and dozens of people under the leadership of the officers opened fire fiercely at the position where the guns had just been fired, and the specific situation could not be seen in the darkness at all, but the dense firepower just now, as well as the extremely uncomfortable sharp whistles around them at this moment, made them completely lose the confidence to attack.
The Dutch camp was full of burning fires in the shelling just now, but Pan Dongsheng and his company were obviously very accustomed to this kind of interspersed in the dark night, and the fierce exchange of fire on the frontal battlefield completely attracted the enemy who was originally stationed under the No. 1 high ground, and the fierce 80mm heavy mortar fire on the high ground made the enemy under the mountain completely frightened.
And Pan Dongsheng obviously enjoyed the pleasure of breaking into the chaotic enemy army, the bright and dark firelight, the Dutchman's rough defense, and the short black curtain before dawn, made them like a fish in water, and they actually went straight to the back of the village very smoothly, and just now he observed at a glance in the darkness that the temporarily dug bunker not far away was a little strange, that was because there were still a few war horses tied to the earthen wall outside.
And the herald who suddenly rushed in, a few Dutchmen who had quickly come out of it, made him realize that this could be the command of the Dutch at a certain level, and the fierce fire of the Dutch guards who rushed out of it later confirmed this.
"Shh......h At this time, there was a sharp and rapid whistle on the right, followed by the short point fire of the AK02 submachine gun, which immediately made Pan Dongsheng immediately realize that the exchange of fire had attracted the Dutch to his position.
"Holy shit, finally let me catch a big fish!" Pan Donghua shouted a copper whistle in his mouth, muttered a little indistinctly, and whistled violently, "......Shhhh Shhh......h ......Shhhh Shhhhh......h
The use of whistles instead of simple orders in field battles has long been a compulsory course in the Chinese Army's operations, and this method is far more efficient than any communication in this era, and the platoon of the exchange of fire will be ready to move closer to the pre-planned 2 good assembly positions after receiving the order, which is a dark shallow ditch where it is convenient to continue to penetrate or evacuate.
He pressed his hat, took out an arm-thick, short-barreled thing from the rucksack on his body, and thrust it into the ground. Then I pulled off the zipper at the back, and a puff of green smoke immediately came out...... "Shhhh......hh Shh......h
Ten seconds later, the Dutchman who was fighting back violently on the opposite side also realized that something was abnormal, because the opposite side was still counterattacking the enemy in the darkness before, and it seemed to have completely stopped at this moment, and Major General Van der Sar had also come to a bunker at this moment, he was obviously very surprised by the opponent's bold infiltration tactics, and through an observation hole on the bunker, he cautiously looked at the darkness on the opposite side.
That's when it happened. In the darkness. A very dazzling ball of white light rose into the air, and the almost dazzling light made all the Dutch feel a little dizzy for a moment, and the next moment, everyone suddenly noticed. The vision that was originally blurred by each other. All of a sudden, it was as clear as day.
And what surprised Major General Van der Sar even more. This incomparably bright fireball rose high into the sky, and looking at the trajectory, it was slowly drifting towards him. Everyone was stunned, and they couldn't help but immediately think that this might be another high-end bomb or something like the Chinese, and almost everyone's first thought was to immediately find it on the ground, and God knows what kind of terrifying weapon this thing will eventually become!
On the No. 1 high ground more than 2,000 meters away, Major Li Mingwei of the heavy mortar battalion directly under the 1st Division of Nanhua apparently saw the flare that rose into the air for the first time, and the flare pointed at the low wall that was like daytime, so that he immediately pounced in front of the mortar sight that had already been set up.
"Ranging, 2517, ruler 1.3, elevation angle 47'11, direction 85'77, 1 incendiary bomb, 5 high-explosive shells fired rapidly!"
The flare that fell from Ran Ran did not hit the ground, lasted less than 15 seconds, and disappeared completely in the sky more than 20 meters above Major General Van der Sar's head.
Just when someone realized that this thing was not a terrifying bomb in the first place, they suddenly discovered that this thing was far more dangerous than a terrifying bomb, and this was definitely a death notice!
Suddenly there was a series of sharp whistling sounds in the sky, and without warning they rushed straight from a distance, the first round was 8 terrifying incendiary bombs, although the mortar type of incendiary bombs compared to the shells used in naval guns and field artillery, the charge is relatively small, but the body of the 80mm heavy mortar is 32 centimeters long, which is definitely a big guy.
In this round of explosions, although the hit point was not concentrated, only one incendiary bomb directly hit the low bunker of the guard battalion of the temporary headquarters of the Dutch Second Division.
Li Mingwei naturally would not miss this good opportunity to eliminate the enemy's important targets at a fixed point, and the eight heavy mortars immediately launched a rapid fire on the target that lasted for 2 minutes, and the mortar shells swarmed with a scream, and a large cloud of black fog immediately rose on the ground......
Although the two Dutch battalions that hurried to the front fought desperately to delay the fall of the entire battlefield, after the flank was broken through, the battle situation was already a piece of erosion, and what was even worse was that the division headquarters was inexplicably attacked by the other side in turn, resulting in the almost collapse of the entire command system.
According to the original plan, the Dutch 2nd Brigade, which rushed to the flank artillery position to deploy defense, was shelled, and only one regiment of troops was drawn out in the dark night, but after rushing to the artillery position, it unexpectedly encountered a sudden attack by the 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st South China Division outflanked from the right flank.
And the brass whistles around the Dutch camp made the entire battlefield feel like a sea of Chinese troops, and the rout was almost driven by the whistles...... They are always greeted by more and sharper whistles.
After an hour of fierce fighting, when the dawn finally tore away the dark curtain of black smoke, the Chinese army in the middle had broken through the most rear-end defense line of the Dutch, and the arrows of the attack directly entered the originally not very tight camp of the Dutch. (To be continued......)