Chapter 19: The Beginning of the War (2)

After eliminating the 77th Wing, Zeng Anli ordered the troops to immediately clean up the battlefield and gather the corpses of the devils in the compound and burn them, so that the devils must not find out the secret of the Black Tiger Army's use of poison gas bombs. When Su Tong assigned poison gas bombs to the Fourth Regiment, he strictly pointed out that no one or unit was allowed to use poison gas bombs without Su Tong's autographed documents or telegrams, and those who violated the order would be shot.

Su Tong was afraid that once he opened this Pandora's box, it would cause unpredictable results to the history he was familiar with. This is extremely detrimental to the development of the Black Tiger Army, and it will also disrupt the history that Su Tong is familiar with, and the fear of the unknown is the natural surname of human beings.

July 14 at 9 a.m

When the regimental headquarters of the 79th Brigade and the 78th Infantry Wing and the Artillery Wing rushed to the Longmen Station, all they saw were rows of corpses of the Yue Army that had been neatly arranged, with their heads cut off and their whole bodies stripped like a pig with their heads peeled off (this is an old tradition of the Black Tiger Army), and a pile of remains that had been burned to ashes.

"Bagaya Road"

Major General Saburo Endo's command knife slashed into a nearby tree.

Shame, this is a great shame for the Imperial Army. An entire wing of the Imperial Army was annihilated, and it was annihilated by an obscure local militia. For the Black Tiger Army, the most important impression of the army is that it is bold and does not know whether it is alive or dead, and a local militia group dares to announce that it will take over the defense of Chahar. The reason why Umezu Mijiro, the commander of the North China Garrison Army, sent the 79th Brigade to Zhangjiakou was not because he attached much importance to the Black Tiger Army, but because he wanted to use this as an excuse to take the opportunity to send troops to occupy the capital of Chahar, and then take this opportunity to occupy the entire territory of Chahar.

Originally, in Saburo Endo's opinion, the battle that could be solved by sending only one brigade was completely annihilated. Its absurd surname is no less absurd than a big man being raped by a weak and slender girl.

Saburo Endo took a breath and ordered the artillery to immediately build a position, and the 78th Wing immediately formed a formation and prepared to attack.

On the position of the Black Tiger Army of Longmen Station, the fifth regiment is still responsible for the defensive task. Since the 4th Regiment completely annihilated the 77th Wing last night, Zeng Anli, who was already satisfied with the capture of the wing's flag, became a reserve in the back.

10 a.m

The 78th Wing of the Army launched an attack on the position of the 5th Regiment, and with the experience of the 77th Wing, the 78th Wing fought very cautiously, and the Wing Commander Inoue Yamato Osa first sent a squadron to launch a tentative attack, and the squadron advanced cautiously in a straggler formation. When it was three hundred meters away from the position, the Black Tiger Army began to fight back, to the surprise of Inoue Yamato Osa was that the firepower of the Black Tiger Army was quite fierce, as long as the Imperial Army fired a shot, it would immediately attract intensive retaliatory fire, and in less than 20 minutes, the Imperial Army in front suffered one-third casualties, and the Black Tiger Army on the opposite side was condescending and the dense bullet rain pressed the Imperial Army to raise its head.

"Nani? The military in China turned out to be a semi-automatic rifle? At this time, Major General Saburo Endo, who was watching the battle from behind, was taken aback, and the firepower of the Shina Army on the opposite side was so ferocious that he greatly surprised him.

"Order the artillery to immediately shell the positions in China." Major General Saburo Endo ordered.

The artillery wing, which had just set up its position, immediately launched an artillery bombardment on the position of the Black Tiger Army, and for a while, sand and stones flew on the position of the Fifth Regiment, and the sound of explosions became one.

The Fifth Regiment is not showing weakness, the artillery battalion is waiting for you just now. The regimental artillery battalion also immediately launched a counterattack. The regimental artillery battalion of the Black Tiger Army has been reorganized and now has two artillery companies: the first company is equipped with 12 105-caliber howitzers, the second company is equipped with 16 75-caliber infantry guns, and the artillery battalions of the fourth and fifth regiments are now equipped with four artillery companies with a total of 56 artillery pieces. Compared with the 54 75-caliber mountain guns of the artillery wing of the Chinese army, they are not inferior, and even surpass.

"Woo" shells streaked across the sky to let the experienced Major General Saburo Endo know that this was at least a hundred mm caliber heavy artillery. (Due to the small size of the country and the lack of resources, they generally call artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm as heavy artillery.)

The defenders of Shina were actually armed with heavy artillery, which made Major General Endo's mood even heavier. In just a few hours, Major General Saburo Endo looked much older.

"Send a report to the headquarters of the North China Garrison Army, saying that the attack on Longmensuo by the 79th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade has been blocked, and all the 77th Wing is broken, and now I am requesting tactical guidance." After saying this, Major General Saburo Endo collapsed on the stone next to him as if all the strength of his body had been drained. He knew exactly what fate awaited him after sending this telegram, and the best outcome was to return to his home country to be investigated or transferred to the reserves.

In a short time, the results of the artillery battle between the two sides were divided, the Black Tiger Army lost eight 75-caliber infantry guns, and the devils lost 33 mountain field guns, and most of the artillery lost by the devils was the credit of the 105 howitzers of the Black Tiger Army, which took advantage of the firing range, and the two 105 howitzer companies fought happily.

In all fairness, the quality of the artillery of the two armies is indeed not on the same level. The artillery of the Black Tiger Army has an advantage in both quantity and quality, but even so, in the artillery battle just now, eight pieces of artillery were lost, which made Wang Li, who was used to being poor from the Jin Sui Army to the Black Tiger Army, feel heartbroken.

Seeing that the artillery fire of the Yue army was beaten to the point that he did not dare to show his head, Wang Li immediately ordered the artillery to divert fire and fire at the infantry company of the devil. The artillery fire of the two artillery battalions instantly fell on the head of the 3rd Brigade of the 78th Wing, which was preparing to launch another attack, and the 3rd Brigade suffered heavy losses under surprise, and Inoue Yamato Osa quickly ordered the 3rd Brigade to retreat. After the number of people was counted, the result made Inoue Yamato Osa want to cry without tears, and the third brigade of 1,100 people lost more than 300 people under the cover of artillery fire of the Black Tiger Army in less than five minutes. Together with the losses of the squadrons in front, almost a tenth of the entire wing has already lost its combat effectiveness.

Major General Saburo Endo hurriedly ordered Inoue Yamato Osa to withdraw his troops, otherwise the losses would be even greater when the Black Tiger Army on the opposite side came to counterattack.

In the headquarters of the Longmen Institute, Wang Li saw that the Yue army on the opposite side retreated to a safe place in an orderly manner, and he also admired the speed of the Yue army's offensive and defensive transformation. So Wang Li stopped the three battalions that were preparing to carry out a counter-charge.

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