Chapter 729: Defense in Depth
readx; readx; As soon as the thunderous attack of the Japanese army ended, the commander of the first regiment withdrew from the position in disarray with less than 1,000 remnants of the whole regiment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, when retreating, I didn't forget to prepare dozens of mines for the devils.
Because the artillery retreated one step ahead, and the division headquarters prepared a large number of horses for the regiment to transfer the wounded. In less than an hour, the regiment commander with a face full of gunpowder retreated to the second line of defense of the 10th Division, and then reported the battle process to the division commander Gao Jun with a look of regret.
"Commander, I was too careless. If it weren't for my insistence, the casualties of a group would not be so great, and I ask for punishment! ”
Throughout the process, Gao Jun's brows were sometimes furrowed, sometimes relaxed. In the end, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "You are indeed responsible, but to be able to fight like this, and to destroy so many devils, it can be regarded as a victory." ”
"Go down and rest first, and talk about your questions later. In addition, the army commander sent two garrison regiments to our division, and I will give you a supplementary one regiment, at most one day, one regiment must be restored to combat effectiveness! ”
"Also, your mountain artillery battalion and mortar company are all left behind, report to the artillery positions in the back, and participate in the next battle."
It was impossible to hide the ghost scouts from such a big movement of a regiment's retreat, and as soon as Oyama Yan received the news, he ordered a brigade to kill the regiment's abandoned position.
After easily occupying the devastated position, before Dashan Yan had time to rejoice, a series of explosions rang out in the position.
Fortunately, the explosion did not last long before it stopped, and within two minutes, a staff officer of a young man reported the news that the Liaodong Army had planted mines in the position before retreating.
Dashan Yan was angry, but there was nothing he could do but hold back his anger in his stomach, and then ordered the troops to move on.
More than an hour later, the second line of defense, which Gao Jun personally defended, appeared in front of the devil.
With the experience of the last attack, Dashan Yan, who was holding back his anger and had nowhere to vent, immediately drew a brigade to continue the attack. dudu1;
In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, Dashanyan drew more than 100 mortars at a time, and when he came up, he covered the position of the Second Regiment with artillery fire, and suppressed the soldiers of the Second Regiment on the position in the trenches and anti-artillery holes, unable to move.
"Division commander, the devils have a big appetite, they want to break through our defense line in one attack?" The second head of the regiment frowned and sighed.
"Then it depends on whether the devil has an appetite or not! However, as soon as it came up, there were more than a hundred mortars, which was obviously a disadvantage given to us by the devils. If it is as hard as the first regiment, even if it wins, the second regiment will suffer heavy losses. Gao Jun replied with a sneer, and then analyzed the second regiment commander next to him with a serious face.
Seeing that the second regiment commander frowned, he didn't say a word for a long time.
Gao Jun no longer hesitated, and replied directly: "The devils can shell our positions, then we can also shell their attacking troops." ”
"For a one-kilometer offensive distance, the devil will have to walk for at least ten minutes. We had 60 guns of various kinds, and there was no problem at all with firing 6 or 700 shells in 10 minutes. ”
"In addition, the devils are so densely formed, and they are completely exposed to artillery fire, so they don't even have a place to hide. Even if we kill three devils with one shell, so many shells can kill more than 2,000 people. ”
The second regiment commander's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood, and ordered to the chief of staff beside him: "What are you still doing in a daze, order the artillery, and give me a hard blow to the devil attacking troops, and the more devils you bomb, the better!" ”
As soon as dozens of shells exploded among the devils with a screaming sound, Dashan Yan's brows furrowed.
Especially when he saw the hundreds of corpses left behind at the explosion point and the wounded who could no longer attack, Dashan Yan's frown became deeper.
I immediately realized that this attack must be more difficult to fight than the attack just now.
A corps commander next to him also saw the problem, and immediately suggested to Dashanyan: "Commander-in-chief, if the bombing continues, one of our brigades will be blown up and lose more than half of it before it rushes to the position of the Liaodong Army, and we must find a way to counterattack!" ”dudu2;
"How to fight back?" Facing the Liaodong Army, which never played cards according to common sense, Dashanyan was also distressed, frowning and asking rhetorically.
"This? Can we order the mortars to try a counterattack? The commander, who also had no other way, replied with a bitter face.
Da Shanyan didn't answer, and quickly shifted his gaze to an artillery staff officer beside him.
The other party was stunned for a moment, and then replied helplessly: "Commander-in-chief, the Liaodong Army must have taken into account our counterattack, and knew that we did not carry mountain artillery. Their artillery positions are all out of range of our mortars! ”
"Then watch the attacking troops go to the front and be bombed?" The commander said with an unwilling face. After all, the troops that are now attacking belong to themselves, and they lose more than half of them without even seeing the enemy, which will be unwilling to be put on which commander.
Dashan Yan was still frowning at first, but now his face had become gloomy.
"Order the attacking troops to disperse as far as possible, and rush forward as quickly as possible, regardless of the artillery fire!" After thinking about it for half a minute, Dashan Yan finally thought of this way to reduce the casualties of the attacking troops.
After it was over, Dashan Yan stared at the battlefield with a pair of eyes.
As soon as the formation of the little devils dispersed, the division commander Gao Jun's brows furrowed.
From the moment the devils dispersed, the results that could be achieved by artillery coverage were immediately reduced by half. At this killing speed, when the devils rush in front of him, he can only destroy more than 1,000 devils at most.
At that time, the second regiment will need to face at least 4,000 devils, plus so many devils, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and grenadiers staring at the position of the second regiment. The more than 2,000 people of the 2nd Regiment were not to mention that they had to repel the Japanese army, but it was very difficult to retreat with their whole body.
"You must think of a way to break the situation immediately, otherwise the second regiment will have to explain here." Gao Jun thought secretly in his heart. dudu3;
At this time, behind the blocking position completely covered by artillery fire, because of an accident, the devils were blocked for more than an hour, and in order to avoid accidents, a trench dug out temporarily suddenly entered Gao Jun's field of vision.
"There is, order two or three battalions, as soon as the shelling of the devils stops, immediately retreat to the second line of defense along the communication trenches. The first battalion held out on the spot for ten minutes, then covered each other and retreated to the second line of defense. ”
"The engineer platoon, the engineer company of the division headquarters immediately set off and buried all the remaining mines between the chat lines."
After the offensive formation was dispersed, the Japanese army really lost only more than 1,000 men and rushed to 200 meters in front of the formation.
At this time, the heavy machine guns and grenadiers that the devils attacked with the team joined the battle one after another, and began to fire bullets and grenades at the positions of the second regiment.
The first battalion was equipped with three heavy machine guns and nine light machine guns, which were first set up and shot at the devils.
But it didn't last long, and three heavy heavy machine guns were blown into scrap metal one after another. Even four light machine guns were blown up, and people were killed.
The remaining five machine guns can only shoot a shuttle of bullets and quickly shift positions, consuming the devils little by little.
As for the riflemen of five or six hundred, they all lay in the trenches and shot desperately in the direction of the devils.
But under the suppression of the counterattack of the devil's heavy machine guns and artillery, the casualties continued to increase, and almost every two devils killed, a battalion would fall a soldier.
What's more, there are too many devils. Under the desperate counterattack of a battalion, although constantly people fell on the offensive road. But the sparse bullets fired by the battalion could not stop the devil's offensive pace at all.
The devil attack force two hundred meters away advanced seventy or eighty meters in front of the formation in the blink of an eye.
The devil artillerymen, who had learned the lessons of the last attack, continued to shoot with a smile on their accidental injuries, and did not stop until the troops advanced to forty meters and could attack the Liaodong Army with grenades. (To be continued.) )