Chapter 20: The Offensive Begins
The casualties caused by yesterday's shelling were not too great, and about 50 soldiers were lost in the shelling of the entire Fumohama defense line, but the psychological shadow caused by the shelling on all the officers and men was far greater than the losses of the troops.
Having seen the power of that kind of artillery, the soldiers are now afraid that if they hear the slightest movement, they will immediately find cover, and in any case, they will do everything they can to keep themselves alive.
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was bright, but all the soldiers could no longer continue to sleep, and the soldiers who were still asleep were shouted by their respective squad leaders, platoon commanders, and even company commanders. Yesterday's artillery fire had completely destroyed the defense line of Fumohama, and although they did not repair the fortifications immediately yesterday, this task was left this morning.
It is very likely that yesterday's artillery attack was launched by the Yueben Navy to cover the landing of the Yueben Army, and the purpose was to disrupt the defense of the Huaxia Army and make it unable to take care of the Yueben Army that was landing.
After more than two hours of busywork, all the defenses were finally renewed, this time the soldiers did not add stones or anything to the bunker, the bunker was made entirely of dirt, the only change was that the thickness of the bunker was slightly increased. Because yesterday's artillery attack made the soldiers realize that adding stones to the bunker can be very good at resisting the enemy's bullets entering the bunker, and avoid the enemy's bullets from penetrating the bunker and causing casualties to the soldiers.
But it has a fatal weakness, once the enemy's shells fall directly on the bunker, then this bunker is like a second bomb, and the rubble mixed in it will instantly take the lives of countless soldiers.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all the front-line troops who want to defend on the front today, the army is menacing this time, and seeing that peace is dead, politicians can take the ball to achieve their desired goals through negotiations and some other means, but now, we, the soldiers of the party-state, also need to use our own actions to make something to express." In the headquarters of the Fourth Regiment, all the officers above the battalion level of the Fourth Regiment and the 163rd Regiment were all called to the meeting, and the so-called meeting was nothing more than a pre-war mobilization meeting.
looked at the officers around him, there were those of the Fourth Regiment and those of the 163rd Regiment, but at this moment, whether it was the Central Army or the miscellaneous army, they were all soldiers of the party-state, and Sun Liren did not snub the officers and men of the 163rd Regiment because of his background.
"According to intelligence, yesterday the 3rd Division of the Army successfully landed at Wusong, and it is very likely that it will launch an attack on our defensive line today. You are all the elites of the party-state, and I think I don't need to say the important surname of Fumohama, you all understand it, right? Therefore, my grandson is here to put down a sentence, before receiving the order from the peak, even if there is only one person left in the army, I must be firmly nailed to the position, if my grandson dies in battle, there will be my battalion commanders to replace my position, if my battalion commanders are also killed, then there will be company commanders to replace, level after level, even if it is death, it will die on the position. The more Sun Liren spoke, the more excited he became, as if this was a natural soldier, and he was born with an irresistible temptation to war.
Everyone knows the important surname of Fumohama, and it is enough to say it all by looking at the map, and it is located on the northwest side of Fumohama that is where Luodian is located, where the main forces of the tax police regiment and other troops are gathered, trying to start a decisive battle with the Yue army there.
Under this premise, Fuzaobang is even more important, the army will be divided into two routes, one way straight to Luodian, and the main force there will be a decisive battle, and the other road will go straight to Fuzaobang, after solving the defenders of Fuzaobang, the retreat of Luodian's main Chinese army will be cut off, and at the same time, the Luodian defenders will be cut off from Shanghai.
And the Yue army can naturally go deep behind the Huaxia defenders along the Fuzaobang, form an encirclement with the other army, and completely trap the Luodian defenders. You must know that the defenders of Luodian are not one or two regiments of troops, the tax police corps is one of the most elite troops in China, except for a fourth regiment that was arranged in Fuzaobang, the rest of the troops are all in Luodian, plus most of the strength of the 32nd Division, so there are nearly 50,000 defenders in Luodian.
If the Yue army can eat some of the 50,000 elite troops of the Chinese defenders at the beginning of the war, this will undoubtedly bring great convenience to the subsequent battles, and at least it will make the Yue army stronger in confidence. As for Huaxia, it will cast a shadow on the psyche.
"Su Dao, most of your three battalions are recruits, and the training situation is not very good, this battle is also very important, can the three battalions hold their positions?" Sun Liren glanced at Su Dao, and still showed some distrust, although Su Dao was a German instructor, Sun Liren still believed in Su Dao's personal command level, but helplessly Su Dao's troops really couldn't enter Sun Liren's eyes, so he asked again, but the purpose was also very clear, can it be kept? If it doesn't work, I'll go up to another battalion.
"Don't worry, sir, the people are in the position." Su Daoli replied, this is not the time to pretend to be a soft egg, if you want to say something in the future with an authoritative surname, you have to play it out little by little, if you don't have a record, who will listen to you? It's just that Su Dao vaguely seems to remember that the war didn't seem to start so early on the Fuzaohama side, and the most intense battle should be a month or two later, right?
"Well, but the loss of positions is also a common thing in soldiers, keeping the main force and consuming the enemy as much as possible is the most important thing, our task is to defend until the Luodian defenders win, or retreat, so don't fight the troops so quickly." Sun Liren nodded lightly.
Originally, after Wu Chengsong said that, Sun Liren really felt that Su Dao should go to the front line, but now when he thought of the important matter, Sun Liren was a little uneasy about Su Dao, after all, it was not his own troops, and it was impossible to use it so easily.
"Report, traces of the Japanese army have been found ahead." A soldier ran into the regimental headquarters and reported loudly.
"Let the troops get into position." Sun Liren said softly, then looked at the officers and nodded at them.
After leaving the regiment headquarters, Su Dao quickly ran to the position where the third battalion was located, and the third battalion had just built fortifications in the morning, and Su Dao, who had not had time to take a look, was directly pulled to the regiment headquarters, but before the meeting was over, the army came. So far, Su Dao has not had time to take a look at whether the position meets his requirements.
However, when he had just entered the position, Su Dao still took a big look at the situation of the entire position, and the fortifications were so-so, but they were still alive.
"Three artillery, how is the tactical practice I taught you yesterday?" Su Dao came directly to Liu Sanpao's side, yesterday Su Dao also came up with a tactic on a whim, although he didn't know whether it was practical or not, but Su Dao felt that it was practical, so he taught Liu Sanpao and asked him to make all preparations.
"Don't worry, battalion commander, it's all done, but is this okay?" Liu Sanpao asked suspiciously, Su Dao's new tactics are really beyond the scope of Liu Sanpao's understanding, watching the world army, whether it is a field battle or other wars, but there has never been a precedent for the use of this tactic, at least not in China, although Liu Sanpao carried out Su Dao's orders well, but his heart was constantly beating drums.
"Lao Tzu's tactics have never said that they can't be done, so I'll let you see what a god is." Su Dao said triumphantly, looking like a typical pretend, but Su Dao was also helpless, there was no way, now he could only pray that this new set of tactics was feasible. Only by adopting this tactic can it be possible to inflict maximum casualties on the army.
Of course, if Su Dao was given a regiment of troops, maybe Su Dao would not have used this tactic, because Su Dao really didn't believe in the second and third battalions of the Fourth Regiment, and was afraid that the devils would break through from them.
"Battalion commander, the devil is here." One of the warriors spoke suddenly.
Su Dao stood up abruptly and looked at the distance, the troops of the Yue Army were assembled about three kilometers outside the position, and at this time, the attacking troops of the Yue Army had broken through to a distance of one thousand meters, and there were no trees here to block the view, so this was a relatively clear sight.
"Damn, the little devil doesn't take Lao Tzu's three battalions too seriously, and he doesn't shoot artillery when he attacks? Looking for death, isn't it? Saying that, Su Dao pulled off his cuffs, walked directly in front of an MG34, pulled away the machine gunner who was on guard, and went straight to it.
The Heavy originally wanted to say something, but when he saw that the person who pulled him down was the camp, he swallowed back the words that had already come to his lips.
"Tell me that the ordinary soldiers of the machine gun squad will stop fighting, and all of them will crouch behind and give the machine gunners a bullet, and the attacking squad will wait for the enemy to reach 400 meters before shooting. Also, tell the Heavy to listen to my orders and start fighting, and let them shoot at the devil with the command knife. Su Dao immediately commanded, but his eyes kept staring at the devil in front of him.
'Tong, Tong, Tong! ’
As soon as the devil entered the distance of eight hundred meters, the machine gun in Su Dao's hand spit out flames, but the frequency of shooting was very regular, Su Dao only fired three bullets each time, and after Su Dao stabilized the machine gun in his hand, he would shoot a second time.
ps: As soon as I opened the page just now, I suddenly found that I actually had a cover, but this cover doesn't seem to be a good match with this book, okay, thank you to the American editor at the starting point, so that the ranger no longer runs naked.
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