Chapter 149: Beacon Nanxun (34)
The Japanese army did not build a trench war, but only used the trench as a cover position for attack.
Xu Ming discussed with his generals and came up with a set of tactics.
"Select brave soldiers, 10-15 people in a group, each group carries a cluster grenade light machine gun and flower mechanism, with three groups as a small team, as a shock group; 2-3 heavy machine guns, 2 mortars, 1 sniper, as a fire support group; Before the attack of the shock group, the mountain artillery unit secretly arrived at the front line of the mountain artillery and carried out close-range direct fire cover as a fire suppression group. The attacking units in each direction are assigned a radio communication group to coordinate the attacks of the various groups.
At the heart of this tactic is a greatly enhanced fire covering unit, with less than 50 soldiers in the assault, but at least 500 in machine gunners and artillery in coordination!
Before the attack, Xu Ming first conducted several exercises on different terrains, and seeing that the fire had arrived, Xu Ming snapped his fingers, "Mess with the team, let's go!" ”
The trench construction of the Japanese army was still proceeding according to the predetermined plan, almost all the Japanese troops and even the baggage troops were engaged in the intense excavation process, and the trenches were constantly deepened, from the 40 cm horizontal firing foxhole, to the 120 cm double vertical firing straggler, and then to the communication trenches that were connected together, the Japanese army also imitated the trench construction of the 26th Army, digging lateral caves on one side of the communication trench to achieve the maximum anti-artillery effect.
It has to be said that the Japanese devils' ability to dig holes is quite outstanding, and each engineer skillfully shovels the soil, and after the soil rolls in the sky, it falls on the edge of the trench intact and forms a chest wall.
"Enemy attack!" I don't know who shouted, a devil's sapper looked at it, took a breath of cold air, and at a distance of about 600 meters, a group of Chinese soldiers appeared, advancing in a creeping way.
The digging devils immediately stopped, threw away the sapper shovels in their hands, and lay down on the edge of the trench, ready to shoot, and at the same time, the Japanese signal flares also began to shoot to inform the news of the attack.
At the same time as the signal flare was lifted into the air, the mountain artillery unit of the squadron began to bombard, at a distance of more than 1,000 meters, the mountain artillery used a direct aiming method to accurately hit a shell to the predetermined target, if you look from the sky, you will find that the impact point of these shells is not located in a certain section of trenches, but cut up this section of trenches.
Then the heavy machine guns and snipers of the squadron opened fire one after another, and all the Japanese soldiers who showed their heads were mercilessly strafed and sniped, and a devil pretended to be clever, and slowly lifted a steel helmet to the ground with a stick.
A mortar shell was fired into the trench accurately, and before the old man could shout, he was divided into several parts, and the steel helmet flew into the air, "plopped", and smashed down.
Relying on the response of the fire cover group, the three charging groups followed the predetermined route and slaughtered this section of the trench, a distance of several hundred meters, and in an instant, the Chinese soldiers who rushed to the front of the Japanese trench first threw a grenade, and then entered the trench one after another.
"Company commander, found a cat ear piercing," a soldier reported aloud.
The company commander was amused when he saw it, this group of devils can really imitate, and the cat's ear holes dug up, even the appearance, are the same as those of the 26th Army.
"Throw a grenade in every hole!"
From time to time, there were screams from inside the cat's ear holes, these caves had just been dug up, and they were not yet deep, and they were thrown into grenades, and the people inside were only waiting for death.
Suddenly, the Japanese language came from a hole, and the soldier next to him, who was about to throw a grenade, stopped.
"What do you mean, what are the devils shouting?"
"It's like surrender." A Chinese soldier who knew a few words of Japanese said.
The group leader gestured, and the Chinese soldier shouted in broken Japanese.
"Surrender or die!"
Trembling and crawling out of the cave was a devil, about 30 years old, with a scruffy beard, a frightened face, and a trembling whole body looking at the victor in front of him.
The Japanese army does have a bushido tradition, but this is too difficult for an active soldier, for a trader in his 30s who has been in the society for more than 10 years, to ask them to have the spirit of bushido.
The company commander simply shouted with this devil, this person's Japanese pronunciation is much more standard than the Chinese one, and after a while, two more people crawled out of the hole.
"Call it a day!" The company commander snapped his fingers triumphantly, following the example of their commander-in-chief.
"The soldiers of China, about 100 people, formed a commando team, accompanied by a large number of infantry heavy weapons and artillery units, and attacked at a fast pace in the form of surprise attacks..."A young staff officer was reporting to Okamura Ninji.
Gangcun frowned, and the squadron used this short attack to harass the Japanese trench troops, causing considerable losses to the Japanese army.
Due to the suddenness of the attack and the strong firepower of the accompanying firepower, the Japanese army's defense line of tens of kilometers could not be effectively defended at all, and the battle often ended before the Japanese reinforcements arrived. The raid of the squadron was accurate one by one, and at the end of the day, more than 500 Japanese soldiers died, which does not seem to be much, but the trench had to be built for at least 10 days, and the number of 500 times 10 and 5,000 killed was not a joke.
"Report! The commander of the Honma Division sent a telegram, and the Shina soldiers also left their positions and began to build trenches. ”
"Is it a longitudinal trench?"
"Yes!"
Okamura Ninji nodded, he knew the opponent's intentions, for the trench method of close pressing, there is a countermeasure, in the area that may suffer from the key attack, digging the vertical opponent's trench, when the trenches of the two want to meet, it will form a very brutal close combat, and even there will be grenades thrown at each other, this kind of battle is extremely bloody, but it is indeed an effective response.
"Your Excellency Commander, our army can also carry out a surprise attack in the way of the Zhina." Miyazaki suggested on Monday.
Okamura Ninji sighed, "It won't work, the longitudinal trenches of the Shina people are different from ours, they are only built in a few key areas, and there will definitely be a large number of troops and fire protection next to them." ”
Okamura feels like a clumsy chess player, his opponent can see every move he makes and counterattack with the most appropriate move, while every move his opponent uses, it is difficult for him to deal with it.
"Pass my order, the troops at the front, stop building trenches and move to the defense."
With Okamura Ninji's telegram, the Japanese attacking forces turned to rest, and from September 30 to October 6, the first general attack ended hastily after paying a huge price of 11,000 killed and 16,000 wounded.
The battle on the ground is over, and the battle for propaganda continues.
"The Imperial Japanese Alliance Telegraph said that the Great Japanese Empire, after annihilating a large number of Chinese troops, had turned to a temporary recuperation, and it must be pointed out that this kind of recuperation was achieved after the enemy army had been severely damaged, and it was by no means a failure of the attack! In the battles of the past week, the imperial army has demonstrated strong determination to fight and mighty combat achievements, and its dazzling light is enough to make such stubborn anti-Japanese reactionaries like Xu Ming fearful...... By October 7, the empire had killed more than 17,000 Chinese soldiers, and the imperial army had lost 1,152 killed and 2,368 wounded, a total of 3,520. ”
"Ta Kung Pao" front-line reporter Wu Xingyu Fang Dazeng's latest report: "On October 6, the invaders once again suffered a shameful defeat in Jiujiang, under the fierce counterattack of my loyal and brave **, the remnants of the Japanese army all threw away their guns and abandoned their weapons, with the posture of holding their heads and running away, showing a trend of fleeing in the wilderness, the corpses of the enemy were all over the field, some were seriously injured and difficult to return, and the hanging beam was self-exterminated, and some Japanese invaders saw that there was no hope of escape, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.
According to conservative estimates, the Japanese army lost at least 50,000 troops in the Battle of Jiujiang, and killed the Japanese wing commander Tanaka Seichi Harada Yoshio Tsuda Tatsuhiko and about 200 colonel-level officers, and wounded the commander of the enemy division, Matsuura Junrokuro Brigade, and captured about 5,000 people (the picture below is the photo of the killed Tanaka St. Michi Tatsuda and some of the captured Japanese soldiers, taken by Fang Dazeng). More than 21,000 rifles, more than 700 light and heavy machine guns, nearly 1,000 grenadiers, and 31 combat vehicles were seized..."
"Fierce battles, brilliant victories! The Central News Agency editorial, re-evaluating the great victory of the Second Battle of Jiujiang, on the occasion of the Double Tenth Festival, under the wise leadership of the Supreme Leader..."
"Changsha Daily" exclusively reported: "The road to the rebirth of the god of war Bai Qi - Xu Ming, commander-in-chief of the First Corps and commander of the 26th Army."
The vast wilderness is vast, and the general is brilliant in a hundred battles.
The national disaster will come out, and the sword will slash the enemy.
Great! In the past 5,000 years of our Chinese nation, there have been many famous generals, the god of war, Sun Wu and Sun Bin, Bai Qi Li Mu, Xiang Yu Weiqing, Yue Fei Xu Ming, and now, the Japanese invaders are rampant, wanting to destroy our Chinese culture and enslave our Chinese people, at a critical juncture, the god of war of our Republic of China has been reborn.
Chapter 1: Xu Ming's Childhood..."
Before the end of the war, China's propaganda offensive was vigorously launched, and not only China, but also Britain, the United States, and even Germany and Italy reported the defeat of the Japanese army under the city of Jiujiang.
It is difficult to confirm how many enemies have been destroyed, and everyone knows that the war reports of China and Japan cannot be believed, but the gains and losses of the territory can be seen at a glance, and in the last battle of De'an, the national government also boasted of a great victory, but everyone knew that it was quibbling. In this battle of Jiujiang, the Japanese army was indeed frustrated in its attack, and the piles of captures, dejected prisoners, and dead bodies all over the mountains were taken into photographs and transmitted to the world through domestic and foreign reporters in Jiujiang.
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