Chapter 251: The Offensive Begins
"Land reinforcements are also to be sent, and as far as I know from the commander of the second battalion, the position he chooses must be the bedrock coast, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, even small boats are difficult to dock, so the fleet can only protect the safety of the second battalion with artillery fire, but cannot provide supplies to it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info And the second battalion did not carry much food and water before the war, and if there were no ground troops to meet them, in such hot weather, they would have died of thirst and starvation in a few days. After the political commissar said a few words, he probably saw the regiment commander's thoughts, and immediately said to him, "Actually, this matter is easy to do, hand over the base to them to take over, and our regiment will go out to rescue the second battalion!" Although the number of troops is a little less, as long as 12 75 field guns are brought, the 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese troops are not so terrible. ā
"That's right, if they hold their positions to the death, we have few soldiers after all, and we don't have much of a good way to deal with them, but if it's an encounter, Miss 75's advantage is too great." The head of the regiment immediately nodded, but he was still a little worried, "But will they agree?" That's a great achievement! ā
"It's okay, the people who just left Xia Ke Island are honest people, and since the mission they received is only to capture the Yokosuka base, they should stay here until the new order is issued." When the political commissar heard this, he smiled and said, "And I think that as long as the party leader still does not intend to destroy Japan, he will not easily send troops to attack Tokyo, so as not to defeat the Japanese government and find no one to negotiate." In this case, it would be too much to send a brigade to attack, and it would not show the strength of the Chinese army......"
After listening to the last few words of the political commissar, the regiment commander couldn't help but complain, "This little devil is really stubborn, obviously his strength is so far behind, but he has been resisting and refusing to accept our conditions, really want to force us to destroy them?" ā
"Maybe they don't fully realize it themselves?" The political commissar's words were not only his own thoughts, but also Li Hui's summary of his own mistakes, he had ordered the third division to be killed to the ground, and it was a pleasure, but it led to the fact that there was not even a single witness to the Japanese side, and the Japanese would not easily believe the words of the enemy, and the saying that "one regiment completely annihilated one super-formed division" was too unreasonable, and as a result, everyone in Japan thought that the Chinese government was lying, resulting in the brilliant victory that was enough to shock the world and failed to produce enough deterrence......
"But I think that now that this war is over, Japan should be honest no matter what." When the political commissar said this, his tone suddenly became cold, "If they still don't know how to advance or retreat, then completely destroy this country!" Although the cost will not be small, we are not absolutely unaffordable......"
The regimental commander went to gather the troops and prepare for departure, while the political commissar went to receive the incoming fleet, negotiated with the brigade commander about the transfer of the defense area, and at the same time asked the fleet to send several warships by sea to find and rescue the second battalion.
Due to the urgency of time, the political commissar could only give a brief explanation, and the detailed work was taken care of by the fortress artillery company that was left behind, and after the basic arrangements were made, he immediately ran with his guards to keep up with the regimental headquarters that had already set off, but fortunately, the marines could not march in a hurry with the artillery, otherwise he was afraid that he would miss the operation.
At this time, the Guards Division had already launched an attack on the position of the Second Battalion, and because he had suffered numerous losses before, Prince Nohisa of Kita-Shirakawa Palace did not dare to underestimate the enemy, so he deliberately borrowed the artillery of the Fourth Division, and concentrated 48 field guns and 12 mountain guns to bombard the position of the Second Battalion indiscriminately for a quarter of an hour, firing nearly 2,000 shells. After that, the infantry was sent to attack, and three infantry brigades filled with personnel were piled up at once, apparently planning to finish their work in one battle and eat the second battalion in one breath with the strength of a lion fighting a rabbit!
But at this time, the position of the second battalion laughed out loud because of Huang Haitao's words, "Aren't these devils dead in the family?" Otherwise, why do you put so many artillery battles in the summer? ā
"Isn't it just some cannon fight! At most, the power is about the same as our grenades, and the devil is really embarrassed to take it out......", a young soldier nearby suddenly answered with a smile, and complained to express his dissatisfaction, "You can't even blow up a big pit that can hide, how much water does this cannonball have?" ā
Although under the leadership of Huang Haitao, the officers and backbones stabilized the positions of those soldiers who were covered by the fire of the artillery group for the first time through unscrupulous complaints, but after all, it was nearly 2,000 shells, even if the power was a little smaller, and the second battalion had many reefs as natural cover, it was impossible to have no losses.
Three people were killed and 11 were injured, two of them serious injuries that could be life-threatening. What made Huang Haitao most depressed was that the water-cooled jacket of a heavy machine gun was broken, and the hole was still very low, in the current environment, it must not be repaired, and the water-cooled machine gun could not be loaded with cooling water, so it basically could not be used anymore, which was undoubtedly a big loss for the second battalion, which relied heavily on machine gun firepower.
It is not that Huang Haitao regards the machine gun as more important than human life, but in such a battle, the machine gun itself represents the hope of survival, and no one can say how many lives a heavy machine gun can play a role, but it is certainly more casualties than the second battalion suffered in this shelling.
Not only Huang Haitao thinks so, but so does the devils, while the infantry attacked, their field artillery mountain guns, which only had a small number of shells left, were also pushed up and acted together, with the purpose of destroying the second battalion's firepower point, that is, the dozen or so heavy machine guns that posed the greatest threat to the Japanese army through close-range direct artillery fire!
Seeing the devil pushing the cannon up, Huang Haitao couldn't calm down, the heavy machine gun was inconvenient to transfer, once it was targeted by the artillery, it was a dead word. For the second battalion without artillery, this is almost an unsolvable problem, even Huang Haitao, who has made great progress, can only think of a way that is not a way, wait for the enemy to get close before fighting, so that the position of the machine gun will be exposed later.
And those machine guns have also become a one-time weapon that is cool to die in Huang Haitao's eyes, since this is the case, then there is no need to save ammunition, and the task of strafing and charging the enemy does not need the help of a scope, so Huang Haitao ordered them to be dismantled and handed over to the eighteen people in the battalion with the best marksmanship, so that they could change their rifles into sniper rifles.
Speaking of which, I have to thank Li Hui, if it weren't for the universal slots he reserved for rifles to add scopes when he designed the Jiawu rifle and heavy machine gun, Huang Haitao would have been able to sit back and watch those eighteen expensive scopes go to waste. (To be continued.) )