Chapter 223: Night Attack
Xu Dajun looked at the sky outside that was gradually darkening, and didn't know why the word night attack suddenly appeared in his mind, the tactical term night attack was as early as the beginning of the creation of the Fengtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall, Wang Bin mentioned this word in several classes of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, so Xu Dajun was no stranger to the tactics of night raids.
In general, the soldiers of this era had night blindness because of malnutrition.
Night blindness is mainly caused by a lack of vitamin A in the diet or due to certain digestive diseases that affect the absorption of vitamin A, resulting in retinal rod cells not having the raw material to synthesize rhodopsin.
However, this kind of night blindness is usually temporary, as long as you eat more pork liver, carrots, cod liver oil, etc., you can supplement the deficiency of vitamin A, and it will be cured soon.
In this era, nutritional deficiencies are a common thing, otherwise there would not be so many people who lose weight, even under Wang Bin's rule, malnutrition is still a serious problem.
Wang Bin is just able to make these people able to fill their stomachs and no longer be plagued by hunger, nutrition is simple to say, supplement vitamins and eat more vegetables and meat, but it is easier said than done.
Even the army under Wang Bin, in order to ensure the combat ability of the army and supplement the nutrition of the soldiers, called on a large number of people to plant vegetables, raise chickens, ducks, fish and pigs for the army, so that the army's food can be eaten, for this reason, there will be a lot of financial expenses every year.
So at present, the common people are still unable to meet such a standard of nutritional supplementation, otherwise how can there be so many young and middle-aged people who want to be soldiers under Wang Bin, and the picture is the treatment of the army!
Even if the treatment of the army is good, it is impossible to eat meat and vegetables every day, so in order to solve the most serious problem of night blindness in this era, Wang Bin called on the army and the common people to eat more carrots.
After all, the carotene contained in carrots will be converted into vitamin A after entering the human body, which can be used to treat night blindness, so Wang Bin's army has such a spectacle: every soldier has to gnaw carrots.
The spread of carrots made night blindness not a disease in Mukden, and over time, many soldiers noticed that they were no longer blind to their eyes at night, but could barely see a little clearly.
In this way, Wang Bin's army invisibly had one more advantage than the others: night fighting.
In this day and age, no one knows the concept of vitamin A, so there is no talk of treating night blindness, let alone the Japanese, who fight at night and are completely unable to see anything.
After deciding to attack at night, Xu Dajun immediately called Chen Dongsheng and Chen Bai, who were guarding the position.
"Your Excellency, are you looking for us?" Not long after, Chen Dongsheng and Chen Bai arrived in front of Xu Dajun.
"Well, I'm coming to you this time to ask you to do something." After seeing the two of them coming, Xu Dajun spoke
"My lord, what do you need the two of us to do?"
"We can't keep holding our positions and let the Japanese fight us, so I decided to send troops to attack the Japanese camp tonight."
As soon as Xu Dajun's words came out, Chen Dongsheng and Chen Bai were also quite moved, in the past few days, it was all the Japanese who came to beat themselves, and the beating was really aggrieved, and it was not until this afternoon that the Japanese were relieved after a good lesson.
Moreover, the soldiers under himself and others have also been trained in night battles several times, so the two of them are naturally confident in this night battle.
"My lord, what do you say, we will follow you!" Chen Bai and Chen Dongsheng spoke.
"Hey, let's wait until midnight at night to attack the camp, the Japanese at that time are basically asleep, and only a small number of people will be left to keep vigil."
"My lord, I'll go back and prepare first." Chen Dongsheng said to Xu Dajun.
"Well, you go and get ready first." After Xu Dajun finished speaking, Chen Dongsheng and Chen Bai left here and ordered to add dinner tonight.
On the evening of this day, the soldiers of Hushan found that today's food was much better than at noon, there was more meat and everyone was given a carrot, these soldiers thought that they had defeated the Japanese in the afternoon, but it was not until late at night that the officers of each battalion and each team received the order and publicized the order to these soldiers, and they had to fight with the Japanese in the evening.
At this time, these soldiers immediately knew that the reason for the extra meal was because they had to fight with the Japanese at night.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, the Hushan position and the Japanese barracks were extremely silent, but at this moment, if someone came to Hushan, they would find that although there was silence on the Hushan position, there were groups of soldiers lined up on the position at the foot of Hushan, and these soldiers walked silently into the distance after lining up.
The direction in which these soldiers were walking happened to be the Japanese barracks, and there was suddenly a killing force in the dark night.
There were 3,000 soldiers who went to attack the Japanese this time, and excluding the artillery on the top of Tiger Mountain, the soldiers who had to stay in the garrison position, and the soldiers who were wounded in the afternoon, all the soldiers who could be drawn from the Tiger Mountain position gathered around the Japanese position.
Not far from the Japanese camp, the soldiers of Hushan invariably stopped after arriving here.
"Chen Bai!" Xu Dajun suddenly whispered.
"My lord, what's wrong?" As soon as Chen Bai heard that Xu Dajun was looking for him, he immediately asked.
"You send someone first and quietly touch the current situation of the Japanese army's outpost!"
After Xu Dajun gave the order, more than a dozen people in this team secretly began to observe around the Japanese barracks.
In fact, because the people of this era generally did not understand the treatment of night blindness, and the two sides rarely used night combat methods in this era, the Japanese did not think that anyone would come to steal the camp.
Therefore, the Japanese army only symbolically sent dozens of soldiers to patrol the camp, and these soldiers in charge of patrolling did not carry out patrols because of the darkness of the night, and most of them were gathered around and did not know what to do.
After Chen Bai's soldiers who went to investigate came back, they reported the results of the investigation, and these soldiers who went to investigate only found that the soldiers in charge of the night vigil were only gathered together, and nothing else was found.
Under such circumstances, Xu Dajun gave the order for the whole army to attack, and after first dealing with the Japanese soldiers patrolling at night, a killing befell the sleeping Japanese soldiers. (To be continued.) )