Chapter 56: Counterattack
"Lord Wang, what a victory! This was really a great victory, we annihilated about 1,200 Japanese troops, and more than one brigade of the third wing of the Japanese army was annihilated by us. Hu Wei said excitedly.
After the statistics of the results, and this Japanese attack can be said to be stealing chickens and rice, and they lost more than 1,000 people. And Wang Guorui's soldiers lost about 50 or so, which was very light compared to the Japanese army, and was not at the same level at all. This is because Wang Guorui is on the defensive, and the Japanese are on the offensive side. In this kind of trench warfare, the defender is destined to take a big advantage. Moreover, the disadvantage of the Japanese army is that there are no light machine guns and no mortars, so this also causes them to suffer a great loss of firepower when the infantry charges. The firepower is insufficient, so he can only let Wang Guorui press and fight. Of course, this time, the Japanese army will probably also learn from the trenches and grow wise, and after returning home, they will definitely step up the research and development of light machine guns and mortars, and even hand grenades will also return to the battlefield. This time the Japanese army did not have grenades, and it was also a place where the Japanese army suffered a lot. If these weapons were available, the losses of the Japanese army could be reduced by at least one-third, and Wang Guorui's losses would have risen in a straight line. This means that the tactics of the Japanese army are not more advanced than Wang Guorui, and Wang Guorui's tactics are much more advanced than them, which has caused such a crush.
"Since they are attacking, then we will not be rude, and we will also fight back. Taking out the rosters of all the troops, I picked out a group of people and formed a death squad to assault. I also want to see if we can break through the Japanese defenses! Wang Guorui said.
Soon, the group of death squads of about 1,000 people were selected, and they were probably all non-commissioned officers under Wang Guorui, all of whom were elites. And these soldiers will form death squads, counterattack the Japanese army, and then see if they can break through the Japanese position, and then kill a gap.
"Rush!"
As the captain of the death squad shouted, the next thousand death squads also began to charge. However, these soldiers did not shout, but also charged silently, without much expression. And the Japanese army obviously found these people, and they all knew that Wang Guorui had also sent troops to charge.
"Hmph, let the soldiers defend themselves in the trenches. We're going to learn their tactics this time, and we're going to do the same! Kita-Shirakawa Miyano said.
The current Japanese army actually dug trenches, and then they also used some methods to stop Wang Guorui's army. At first glance, they and Wang Guorui's tactics were almost identical: digging trenches and letting soldiers go down to defend, with artillery fire deployed in the rear of the troops, ready to bombard the charging enemy. Although the Japanese army did not prepare barbed wire for a while, they directly took local materials from Taiwan and collected some timber to build an ancient defense facility - Horse Rejection. Although the rejection of horses is not as good as the barbed wire, it is enough to have a good effect, so now Wang Guorui's soldiers will also face an important test.
"Artillery wing, bomb me with all your might!" Kita-Shirakawa said for a long time.
The Japanese artillery fire began to roar, and the soldiers in front of Wang Guorui began to prepare for battle.
"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"
Although the Japanese artillery fire was powerful, Wang Guorui's hand soldiers were not killed much, and many people were able to dodge the artillery fire at a critical time. These soldiers seemed to be very skilled, very familiar with evading artillery fire, and did not suffer too many casualties. This shocked the Japanese army a little, but they also knew that the enemy in front of them was not an ordinary person.
"Rifle shooting!" The Japanese soldiers shouted first.
"Shoot!" Wang Guorui's soldiers also shouted.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Just when Wang Guorui's soldiers were less than 200 meters away from the Japanese army's first-line position, it was already a dead end of Japanese artillery fire, and the Japanese army and Wang Guorui's soldiers also began to shoot each other with rifles. Wang Guorui's soldiers began to shoot with rifles, but the effect was not as good as expected.
"Wow-"
The soldiers in the Japanese trenches also began to fall to the ground, but the soldiers under Wang Guorui also began to suffer heavy casualties.
"Lord Wang, it doesn't seem to work!" Hu Wei said.
As people who looked at the battlefield in the distance with binoculars on the mountain in the rear, Wang Guorui and Hu Wei both saw that the combat effect of the soldiers on their side was not as good as they imagined.
"Husband, the exchange ratio between our soldiers and the Japanese army is about three to one. Every time we killed a Japanese soldier, we had to pay the price of three people. Could it be that our soldiers are inferior to the elite of the Japanese army? Zheng Hong asked.
However, Tanya said: "This is normal, the exchange ratio of three to one is actually good." Our soldiers are actually much more elite than the Japanese army, but the main reason why the exchange ratio is greater than that of the other party is that our soldiers are exposed to the guns of the Japanese army. The Japanese fought in the trenches, so what they exposed was a small piece of their head. And our soldiers are to be completely exposed to the enemy, so our soldiers are exposed to a larger area. So this also caused our soldiers to look more elite, but the fortifications of others are better, and we are just crying out in vain! ”
Wang Guorui also understands the cruelty of trench warfare, which is just a war of attrition. Although the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties in the trench warfare on their side just now, but this time it was their turn to attack, and the Japanese army also used the same method to defend, so that they could all have an advantage. After these battles, the Japanese army has actually "learned" a lot of things from Wang Guorui, such as digging trenches. Originally, the Japanese army would not have done this, but they learned this from Wang Guorui. Wang Guorui also had to be helpless, the enemy's learning was also very fast, and his own tactics had been learned by the enemy.
"Damn, learn Lao Tzu's method, and you won't give us 'tuition'!" Wang Guorui complained.
"Lord Wang, I'm afraid we won't be able to attack! Our artillery fire can't reach them, so we're afraid we're going to suffer heavy losses. Without artillery cover, we could not effectively get the infantry to attack. And heavy machine guns and grenadiers, we can't keep soldiers charged at all times. The current situation is different from when we eliminated the 1st Wing, which was the first to be wiped out by us, so that we were able to carry the heavy machine gun Chongfeng. But now that the Japanese artillery is abundant, we can't suppress the other side. Without the right to suppress firepower, we simply can't make our soldiers charge under enemy fire! Hu Wei said.
"Tell the soldiers on the front line, retreat!" Wang Guorui said.
Wang Guorui knew that he had lost a bit of an attack this time, because now Wang Guorui's artillery fire had not been able to achieve an overwhelming advantage. The number of artillery of the Japanese army was probably equal to that of Wang Guorui, and Wang Guorui's artillery could not suppress the opponent. As a result, the soldiers on Wang Guorui's side could not charge under the cover of artillery fire, and if they insisted on charging, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.
When the 1,000 death squad soldiers withdrew, these death squads had already lost more than 300 people, and only more than 600 people were able to come back. Seeing this scene, Hu Wei was heartbroken.
"These people are the elite of our army, and each of them is a storage unit capable of serving as a squad and platoon leader, but they just died?" Hu Wei said with some heartache.
But Wang Guorui was not so heartbroken, because these soldiers were specially selected by him, and these soldiers were actually clones of the Red Police. The clones of the Red Alert have limited development potential, and in fact, they are used as cannon fodder in more cases. Except for a few heroes with high commands, the others are like cannon fodder. Therefore, Wang Guorui did not have much heartache for the loss of those Red Police soldiers with very low ordinary intelligence. And although they can clearly see that they can serve as squad platoon leaders, this is how they have achieved in their lives. There is no future for development.
And if it is a natural person, it is different, in addition to being a soldier, a natural person can also be an officer. Even if they are discharged from the army, they can work as farmers to produce food, they can also become workers, and even if they are poor, they can leave their seeds to their descendants and have more people. But the Red Guard soldiers can only fight, can only do those things related to the war, expect them to be able to farm or become workers, that is simply impossible. As for procreation, it is also impossible, because cloned human beings are infertile. Therefore, on the whole, the life of a natural person is much more precious, and Wang Guorui is more often willing to sacrifice the Red Police soldiers to protect the natural person. And most of these death squads are actually Red Police soldiers. It is precisely because they are almost all Red Police soldiers that they do not shout to cheer themselves up when they charge.
"Okay, I'll take care of them, they're all our warriors!" Wang Guorui left a few crocodile tears and said, but in his heart, he didn't plan to spend much money on pensions, because where did these Red Police soldiers have any relatives to care for! As for the pensions of those Red Police soldiers, they are just reversed from the left hand to the right hand, which is actually not interesting at all.
"However, we can also see that the enemy's artillery fire is very fierce, and without special means, we will not be able to break through the Japanese defense. The Japanese artillery used trench warfare in the same way as the Japanese army, so it was very difficult for us to break through. The only means is to use artillery cover, but our artillery does not have an advantage. Therefore, if we want to win this war, we still have to find a way to strike at the enemy's artillery! Wang Guorui said.