Chapter 230 Fight each other

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North of Nanyang ().

In front of the mouth of the Yahe River on the north bank of the White River, several wild ducks were frolicking in the water, and suddenly the sound of squirting from the woods next to them alarmed them, and they quickly flapped their wings and swam towards the south bank.

Three soldiers in steel helmets bent down and went out of the woods to check the surroundings to make sure they were safe, and more sounds came from behind, and a few moments later a dozen soldiers rushed to the river, filled the kettle that was about to dry, and then washed their faces with clean water. The river water, which still has the smell of winter, shocked their spirits, took out dry food and walked towards Funiu Mountain in the distance while eating.

This is a standard Wehrmacht 16-man reconnaissance squad belonging to the reconnaissance company of the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division. During the Republic of China, there were basically no special reconnaissance units in the domestic troops, and they often relied on cavalry to scatter reconnaissance situations, but because of Yang Qiu's own relationship, the National Defense Army began to form reconnaissance infantry from a very early stage, and opened a reconnaissance training course at the largest Xiangtan training base of the National Defense Army, and the teaching materials were also compiled by Yang Qiu himself, of course, this is just an ordinary reconnaissance unit, and it is different from the hunter unit in terms of purpose and method.

A standard reconnaissance squad had thirteen Type 12 rifles, two submachine guns, a grenadier canister, a light machine gun and 48 grenades, and the squad leader was given an additional Minyuan pistol and a Zeiss 2.5x binoculars, in addition to which each person was given a backpack.

Since this has crossed Nanyang, the command suspects that the Beiyang Eighth Division may have retreated recently, so it sent more than a dozen reconnaissance squads, including them, to grasp the enemy's movements, but because it has not yet been able to produce individual radios, and the current radios are relatively large, the method of sending a telegraph cavalry squad to each area is adopted, and the reconnaissance troops scatter reconnaissance around the location of the telegraph, so that the intelligence can be sent back as soon as possible.

The Wehrmacht attaches great importance to communications and liaison, and has successively imported more than 100 radios from Germany and the United States; recently, after the Marconi Company of the United States manufactured a smaller radio station, the General Staff of the General Staff gritted its teeth and placed an order for 200 radio units. However, because the equipment has not yet arrived, and the domestic raw materials cannot be satisfied, it will take at least 15 years before there is any hope of manufacturing the radio station by itself, but in the past year, the National Defense University has trained nearly 100 telegraph operators, and communications and telegraphs are also second only to artillery.

Not far after they had walked out, the sound of horses' hooves caught the attention of the scouts, who quickly hid in the grass and woods. The squad leader was a veteran of Ozurayama, and when he raised his binoculars, two carriages with dart flags appeared in the distance. However, he didn't dare to take it too lightly, his own cavalry regiment could camouflage the dart game, and so could the enemy, so he carefully observed the movement of the target.

Driving the carriage were several weather-covered executioners, with short guns stuck in their waists, and it did not look like there were heavy objects in the speed of the carriage, and when the curtain was lifted to reveal the faces of women and children, the squad leader breathed a sigh of relief.

After the carriage left, the reconnaissance squad re-embarked on the dirt road, but as soon as he stepped on it, the deputy squad leader noticed the difference and shouted: "Squad leader, look!" ”

Everyone followed his gaze and saw a few deep marks, judging from the carriage that passed just now, there should not be such deep marks, experience and school training allowed the squad leader to quickly distinguish that this should be a mark pressed by a 75mm field wheel!

The squad leader and everyone immediately became alert, and immediately took out the map to check.

Looking at the map is a means that scouts must learn, and after using a compass to locate the direction, the deputy squad leader said: "Something is wrong, if the enemy in Nanyang City slips away, it should go to the south bank in the direction of Yanshi, how can you go here?" In front of Funiu Mountain, after Funiu Mountain is Luoshui and the Yellow River, is it possible that they want to cross the Yellow River directly? ”

The squad leader also nodded, this analysis is very correct, if it is a few hundred remnants of the army retreating into the mountainous area, it is forgivable, but if a force of nearly 10,000 people enters the mountainous area, it is child's play, not to mention how difficult it is to enter the mountainous area, just eating and drinking will make people sad to death (). But it is impossible for the remnants of the hundreds of fleeing soldiers to carry dead cannons and shells, and the only explanation is that a force with heavy artillery entered the mountains and tried to cross Funiu Mountain and then Tongguan from here!

"Go." The squad leader quickly sent someone to report a few words, and before he could finish a few words, the soldier on the left shouted: "Cavalry! ”

A kilometer away, more than thirty cavalry began to accelerate towards here, obviously spotting the reconnaissance squad, and the squad leader knew that this must be a cavalry squad that had been deliberately left behind. The infantry couldn't fight the cavalry in an open area, so it didn't take a thought that everyone was like a forest a hundred meters away.

The two grenadiers who were the first to rush into the woods took action, and the grenadiers quickly stepped on the footboard of the grenadier barrel and pulled the firing rod away, while the loader also pulled out the high-explosive fragmentation grenade from the ammunition bag.

The grenadier that is being negotiated with Germany for technology transfer is an early model of the Taisho decade, with a range of only 170 meters. However, the Wehrmacht's own model was copied and modified by the later Japanese ** type, with a diameter of 50 mm and a total length of 413 mm, and the tile-like foot plate was changed to a simple and easy-to-build triangular type. Due to the fact that the tens of thousands of old-fashioned black powder propellant cartridges purchased by the army after the mortar equipment have not been used up, in line with the principle of economy, the nitrocellulose propellant kits that have just been made from imported raw materials have recently been distributed to key troops, so that the grenadier canister has become the first batch of equipment to use the new propellant, so that there is no need to change the length of the barrel, and continue to maintain 260 mm, plus four rifling lines are engraved in the barrel, so as to ensure that the maximum firing range of the self-produced high-explosive fragmentation grenade reaches 700 meters, and the actual firing range is 500 meters.

Each ammo pack carries 4 grenades, and in order to carry more ammo, the loader and grenadier do not have grenades, so that they can carry eight grenades per person, and the other soldiers in the squad will also help to carry a few more ammo packs to spare.

The scouts were saved by the simple, lightweight, and quick-deployable grenadiers, and after the grenade was loaded, the grenadier quickly shook the handle to adjust the length, and roughly aimed through the line of sight before pulling down the belt of the launcher.

The high-explosive grenade landed in front of the cavalry, and before the cavalry could figure out how the other side could bring a cannon, the second grenade had already fallen. The killing radius of the grenade loaded TNT reached five meters, and the whistling fragments soon knocked down the war horse running in front, because they didn't expect more than a dozen people to go out and bring artillery support, the Beiyang cavalry was obviously a little confused, and it was this delay that made the reconnaissance squad retreat into the woods ().

After the machine gunner set up the light machine gun, the cavalry began to be unlucky, the light machine gun could not block the cavalry alone because of the speed and ammunition problems, but with a grenadier of 25 rounds per minute is completely different things, in just a few minutes there have been seven or eight cavalry corpses on the opposite side, seeing that the other party is hiding in the woods and has "artillery" support, the Beiyang cavalry squad can only leave the corpse and quickly evacuate.

While the squad leader asked people to clean up the battlefield, he immediately sent someone to the telegraph squad to contact the command headquarters to inform him of the situation here.

The infantry ran back, the cavalry passed and then the telegram was connected, and it took an hour before the news was transmitted to the front-line command post.

Go north to Luoshui and go straight to Tongguan!

This tactical transfer could not help but make the entire northern front command post secretly admire the poisonous vision of the Beiyang Eighth Division, Tongguan is bordered by the Yellow River in the north, located on the mountainside in the south, the terrain is not worse than Wusheng Pass, and the surrounding resources are abundant and have the convenience of long-term stationing, before Beiyang only retained three battalions of Yi Army in Tongguan, with the combat capability of the 12 Brigade and the 18 Mountain Brigade that are advancing there, it is easy to deal with less than 3,000 Yi Army, but after this move of the Beiyang Eighth Division, the situation suddenly became delicate.

Qin Zhangshu fought smoothly against the Beiyang Eighth Division during this time, eating up a full two regiments, but even then he still retained the strength of nearly 8,000 men and 7 75 mm Japanese mountain artillery, and with the Yi Army, he could gather more than 10,000 guns in Tongguan in a short period of time.

On the other hand, the 12th and 18th Brigades, because of the dangerous road from Guangyuan to the Shaanxi Mountains, so the Fourth Division only brought 12 horse-mounted 70mm infantry guns, and the Mountain Division was simply lightly armed, only mortars and grenadiers were issued, even if they were the first batch of troops to get the new propellant, but the mortars still could not be bombarded with the field artillery, so there must be a life-and-death battle in Tongguan.

"The commander of the Beiyang Eighth Division is Wu Peifu." Wu Zhaolin lit a cigarette and frowned: "Xiucai is not a soldier, he is a soldier and kills a thousand people ()!" This Wu Xiucai really saw through our weakest point at a glance, but his move was too dangerous! After the Eighth Division went north, the Yanshi Division and Luoyang had a 29th mixed brigade, so he was not afraid that we would eat the 29th mixed brigade and cut off the rear road of the First Army regardless of eating it? ”

Yue Peng shook his head: "He is really not afraid, yesterday I got the news that the Sixth Division of Beiyang came out, and it is expected to arrive north of the Yellow River in Zhengzhou in three days, Qin Zhangshu's 4th Brigade can not fight a division, not to mention that there are still about 20 battalions of Yijun and Xiangyong gathered in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng." ”

"If you don't let Qin Zhangshu catch up, anyway, the 12th and 18th Brigades should get out of the Qinling Mountains and reach Tongguan in the next two days, and Wu Xiucai can't hold out for half a month if he can fight him back and forth!"

He Xi's suggestion made Yue Peng a little moved, but he quickly vetoed it. Since Wu Peifu chose to avoid aircraft reconnaissance at night, it shows that he has already made an overall plan, the terrain around Funiu Mountain is complicated, and the 4th Brigade is a heavily armed field unit, so if he rashly pursues it, he will definitely encounter an ambush. If there is a guard division brigade in hand, even the guard division can chase it, because the guard division is equipped with trucks, and it can rush to the front by bypassing the mountains, but the 500 American-made trucks promised to be assigned to the 1st and 2nd divisions are still floating on the sea, and their own tractor factory is still learning to assemble with parts, and the car will not come out in the year of the monkey.

Wu Zhaolin saw Yue Peng's thoughts and said, "Do you want to inform the cavalry regiment?" ”

"Nope." He Xi vetoed: "The main force of the cavalry regiment has crossed the Yellow River from the downstream, and only a small number of them are camouflaged here, not to mention that their task is to protect the Yellow River Bridge. ”

In the words of the two, Yue Peng's eyes slowly brightened, Wu Peifu did have a problem for the northern front, but it was not to the extent that it could not be solved, and his fingers swept Luoyang and Yanshi: "He beats him, we beat ours, we can't be led by the nose!" Ordered Qin Zhangshu to leave Wu Peifu alone, give him five days to give me all his strength to defeat the 29th Mixed Brigade to seize Luoyang and Yanshi, and then cross the periphery of Zhengzhou along the Yellow River to the south. The 13th Regiment of the 1st Brigade was equipped with bicycles and let them pursue northward, and then a regiment from the 6th Brigade was transferred to cooperate in blocking Hangu Pass. ”

"Since he wants to go in, don't come out for the rest of his life!"

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