Chapter 453: Counting is Counting
After being blocked by the Second Regiment of the Guards Division, several thousand Japanese troops who were ordered to reinforce the Avant-garde Wing were blocked by the Second Regiment of the Guards Division, no matter how desperately they attacked, they were never able to move forward, and in the end they could only watch the Avant-garde Wing being eaten up little by little from a few hundred meters away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
After the battle, the Liaodong Army did not like to fight, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield after a counterattack by the Japanese army.
The whole battle Cong began to raid to the end, and it didn't take half an hour to get full.
The infantry and cavalry offensive ended, the offensive of the heavy artillery division did not end. Heavy artillery shells continued to smash on the official road and explode.
With no advantage in firepower, Matsumoto and Yoshizawa decided to give up cleaning up the battlefield after only a short discussion, and advanced lightly with the remaining infantry, quickly stepping out of the range of heavy artillery to reinforce the chief of staff, who was already in danger.
As soon as the Japanese army moved, Yang Xingguo, who had been staring at the battlefield, also followed the order: "Inform the cavalry division commander Wu to set off immediately and rush to the front of the Japanese army, slow down the Japanese army's marching speed, and buy time for other troops!" ā
After the operational staff officer went to give the order, Yuan Lei, the commander of the Fifth Division next to him, said helplessly: "The Japanese army is advancing lightly, and it is still a rapid march, so the cavalry division can rush to front them!" ā
Yang Xingguo first nodded, then shook his head and said: "The speed of the cavalry is fast, but if you really want to hold back the Japanese army, you still have to rely on the infantry!" ā
"I'm sure the cavalry can only slow them down a little. Therefore, several infantry regiments must not be idle, and must seize the opportunity that the cavalry has won for us, rush ahead of them, and beat them. ā
"If it's possible, after fighting, build a line of defense directly in front of them and block them on the road."
"Now that the Japanese army has no heavy artillery, whether it is time or consumption, he can't fight us!"
At the beginning, when facing the cavalry sneak attack, Lieutenant General Matsumoto directly ordered the troops to use light and heavy machine guns to beat back the cavalry that attacked him, not only did not fight back, but also ordered the troops to speed up the march and continue to rush in the direction of Liaoyang.
After four or five sneak attacks in a row without any effect, Wu Xin was also furious.
Directly ordered a cavalry regiment to rush to the front and use the terrain to build a defensive line to block the Japanese army head-on.
Blocking is blocking, and Wu Xin did not ask a regiment to fight hard with the Japanese army.
Wu Xin was very aware of the huge gap between the cavalry regiment and the Japanese army after it became infantry, so Wu Xin only asked the regiment to use the terrain to hold for ten minutes before retreating.
Because, when the first regiment was ordered to build a trench in front, the second regiment rushed to the front of the first regiment to build a second trench.
According to Wu Xin's idea, one position can block the Japanese army for ten minutes, and three positions can block the Japanese army for half an hour.
For such a long time, it was enough for the commander to rush to the Japanese army with the main force and teach the Japanese army another lesson.
In the face of Wu Xin's helpless style of play, although Lieutenant General Matsumoto was angry, he could only be a ninja and order the troops to attack one line at a time.
When the cavalry division that had become infantry was about to lose more than 2,000 men, Yang Xingguo finally came, and asked a non-corps to secretly replace the cavalry regiment on the defensive line.
As in the previous attack, in order to immediately open a breakthrough in the defensive line, the Japanese army came up with an infantry wing.
"Commander, the Japanese attack is the same as just now, there is no change! It seems that they did not notice that there were changes in our defensive line! Seeing that the Japanese attack had begun, Wu Xin, who had a trace of fatigue on his face, hurriedly said.
"Then we'll give the Japanese army a big surprise!" Yang Xingguo's eyes lit up and he decisively decided.
Without thinking about it, he ordered Yuan Lei beside him: "After the Japanese army rushed up, there was no order, and all the heavy machine guns were hidden!" Two hundred meters, half of the light machine guns fired, a hundred meters, half of the riflemen fired. Seventy meters away, light and heavy machine guns and rifles were all fired. ā
"Three divisions and three regiments, prepare for a counterattack! As soon as the Japanese army retreated, they rushed out for me and chased the Japanese army and beat me in the ass! ā
"Artillery, I've been to the Japanese artillery to open fire, immediately counterattack and destroy them!"
"If their artillery does not open fire, then wait for the Japanese attacking forces to begin to retreat, and then shell the main forces behind them!"
Under Yang Xingguo's arrangement, the Japanese army rushed to the front of the battle 80 meters without realizing that their opponent had been replaced.
Looking at the close defense line, everyone thought that the Liaodong Army on the position would quickly abandon its position and retreat to the next line of defense to continue the defense, just like the battle just now.
The fifth division, which concentrated all the heavy machine guns of one division, opened fire.
Nearly 60 heavy machine guns, nearly 100 light machine guns, and more than 2,000 rifles immediately formed an impermeable network of fire in front of the Japanese army.
In front of this firepower net, the Japanese army, which was still unstoppable just now, seemed to have hit an iron wall, and there was no way to push forward.
Not only that, but the Japanese troops who rushed forward were like ripe wheat that was swept to the ground in pieces under the harvest of the death sickle.
The Japanese army, which lost hundreds of men in an instant, was stunned all of a sudden.
When they reacted from the shock, they immediately realized that they had been fooled!
The enemy in front of him was not the cavalry encountered in front of him at all, but a well-equipped elite of the Liaodong Army. Otherwise, the opponent would never have been able to shoot such a fierce firepower.
"Yaga, we've been fooled! And what about the heavy machine-gun units? Why don't you shoot us and give us fire cover, eight-grid tooth road! The wing captain, who attacked with the team, asked loudly in pain as he watched his subordinates being killed continuously.
The chief of staff of the wing next to him hurriedly reminded: "We are too close to the enemy's position, and it is not the Liaodong Army that hits after the heavy machine gun fires, it is us!" ā
"Then retreat! With such a strong firepower, we simply can't rush through. Warriors can't die here in vain! The Wing Commander, who reacted suddenly, ordered decisively.
The Japanese turned around and retreated, and the Fifth Division did not intend to let them go.
Dense light and heavy machine gun bullets, chasing them behind the butt and hitting. The Japanese soldiers, who were the last to flee, kept rushing forward and falling to the ground under the attack of these bullets.
More importantly, as soon as the Japanese army retreated, the three divisions and three regiments, which could not wait for a long time, rushed out.
Nearly 2,000 men from the 3rd Division and 3rd Regiment with light machine guns and rifles rushed out, and they kept following the Japanese army for 50 or 60 meters, no more, no less.
The Japanese heavy machine-gun position, which was more than 300 meters away from the defensive line, saw the attacking troops retreating, and they did not shoot because they had been injured by mistake just now, so they immediately prepared to shoot and opened fire as soon as the attacking troops withdrew.
But before they could shoot, the Liaodong Army launched a counterattack.
The counterattacking force chased after the butt of their own retreating troops. Because the retreating troops have become the best human shields, even if they have dozens of heavy machine guns in their hands, they can't shoot, and they can only watch the enemy and our armies rush towards them. (To be continued.) )