Chapter 395: Rushing and Fighting
Li Yongji also hated those cowards who had done a big thing, and if he had done what he had done, he would have killed all these people who had escaped immediately.
But no, because this is the battlefield, killing this group of people may be intimidating, but it may also be counterproductive, after all, there are many reasons for this, not formed by fear for a while, and Li Yongji's own responsibility will also take a lot of responsibility.
In addition, although these greedy and fearful of death guys are hateful, after all, they are people trained by Li Yongji, and their technical and tactical level is still very solid.
Moreover, according to the available intelligence, the reason why the first line of defense in the rear collapsed so quickly was that on the surface it was a large-scale laziness and greed for life and fear of death, but this was not the case.
You must know that although the soldiers of this motorized unit have advanced weapons, in essence, the suzhì is generally very low, and many of them are only roughly literate, and in most cases, they obey the orders of the officers.
Therefore, when it comes to responsibility, although the responsibility of ordinary soldiers is there, it is not the main thing, the key is that the officers who are on duty are unreliable, if it is not for the officers to give orders and do not take the lead themselves, how dare soldiers be lazy and slippery at such a juncture? Or even hiding in the barracks at the moment of the big war and sleeping soundly?
As the saying goes, if there is a soldier in a bear, there will be a nest of bears, and the officer has the greatest responsibility, so punish the officer, as for this army, give them a lesson, and then change a responsible officer, it is enough.
Of course, if it is a normal situation, these people can't let go, after all, they have all made big mistakes, but who made these soldiers hard-won, and it can be quite troublesome to train troops of the same standard, so it is better to give them a chance to mend their ways.
That's because of this. Li Yongji gathered those officers and soldiers who had escaped again and let them charge behind his Guards armored battalion, which could be regarded as giving them one last chance to wash away their shame, and it was much better to do so than killing them themselves.
What the? Where is the law of martial arts? Where is military discipline? It is true that there must be such a thing as military law, but it must not be rigid, especially for those soldiers who are generally not high, and they cannot stick to dogma, because then something will happen.
Don't say it's the sixties of the nineteenth century. Even in the 21st century, whether it is the PLA, which is known for its strict discipline, or the American GIs, who claim to be the number one in the world, they all have strict military laws and military discipline, but they have never strictly enforced these disciplines internally, or military law and military discipline These things seem to be strict on the surface, but there is actually another set of arguments inside, and if everything is strictly followed by the law, then it is a violation of dogmatism.
This is the case now. Li Yongji can indeed enforce battlefield discipline in accordance with the provisions of military law, and kill all those who have escaped, so as to deter people's hearts. But that doesn't necessarily work very well.
You know, now is the moment of fierce fighting with the Americans, and it is also the retreat of your own people who have been beaten, and judging by the reaction from the front. The decay of the entire expeditionary force is actually quite serious, and it is no longer the same force that swept through California at the beginning.
After this test of iron and blood, so to speak. Li Yongji found that the power of the Dream Division was still good, and the combat effectiveness was complete with the same number of soldiers, but relatively speaking, the toughness of this army was somewhat insufficient, and the habit of greed for life and fear of death was very strong.
After all, strictly speaking, this army went so far alone, suffered from severe cold and snowstorms, fought for so long, was trapped for so long, and fought with superior forces for nearly seven days in a row without motor vehicles, causing a lot of casualties to the enemy.
Although there was an element of negligence on the part of the officers in this defeat, it is undeniable that it was Li Yongji himself who chose to concentrate all the artillery positions in the port, and that it was also where the medical station was located, and all the wounded soldiers of the troops stayed there, but there were not many defensive troops left, and the attention was not enough.
In short, if you want to say that there is a mistake, Li Yongji's own mistake is also very big, first of all, he should not be big, thinking that he can rely on defensive warfare to kill them by getting a position, you must know that the defense without counterattack is the most passive, and the psychological pressure on people is very great, so from the beginning, Li Yongji made a lot of big mistakes, and it may be for this reason that he let go of those soldiers who escaped from the battle, and even planned to let go of those soldiers who surrendered to the Americans.
In any case, although the Americans were still attacking and had captured a lot of Chinese weapons, the artillery positions they captured had been destroyed by the task force and could not carry out heavy fire strikes on the Chinese defense line, and the third line of defense had already been stabilized by Li Fei's personal presence...... Seriously, even if Li Yongji doesn't come, Li Fei will definitely be able to hold this line of defense, and even Li Fei has already organized a counterattack force to regain the lost position.
Now that Commander-in-Chief Li Yongji has personally come, everyone is even more combative, and they are more afraid, and their desire to recover lost territory is even more urgent; on the contrary, the Americans have been unable to attack for a long time, their morale has been frustrated, and although they have captured a lot of weapons, they are not as familiar with the use as the Chinese after all, and they cannot exert much power.
Under these circumstances, Li Yongji organized a little and soon created a counterattack corps with a total of more than 4,000 people.
This counterattack corps was led by Li Yongji's Guards Armored Battalion, followed by all the pure infantry who had escaped, and the battle plan was also very simple, that is, the Guards Armored Battalion continued to attack forward, responsible for clearing a single obstacle along the way, rushing to the coast, and then turning back to outflank the Americans who had come ashore.
As for the more than 3,000 infantry in the back, they followed the armored battalion to attack with the situation, not hoping that they could keep up with the speed of the armored battalion and play any coordination, but only that they could fight steadily and steadily, and strive to make a head-to-head attack with the armored battalion that had penetrated the enemy's line and turned back to attack, so as to completely annihilate the sneak attack force of the US troops that had come ashore.
Soon. The battle began, Li Yongji personally led the Guards armored battalion, successively lined up in three horizontal formations, led by the tracked armored company, all turned on the headlights, and the commander also poked out the front of the car to command the vehicle more conveniently, and then fiercely rushed out from the third line of defense.
While rushing, these armored units poured a ferocious rain of bullets around, and all the Americans were completely stunned. There was no way to deal with these iron-armored beasts at all, so they could only fire blindly, and then watch as these invulnerable iron-armored beasts tore themselves apart with ferocious firepower.
In addition to strafing with light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles, they also went on a rampage, rushing wherever they saw a large number of people, rushing to the front, not dodging people, and directly crushing the screaming Americans. Leaving behind a ground of minced flesh and bones.
Such a ferocious armored assault completely disrupted the attack line of the American ski troops, directly punching a bloody passage in the front of the Americans.
And just as these armored assault vehicles rushed over, a large number of Chinese soldiers rushed out from behind. They did not have a formation, and many of them even threw away their steel helmets, so they wore white snow camouflage uniforms and carried a 56-punch with a three-edged bayonet. Then he shouted to kill and lunged forward.
When they rushed to the Americans, they didn't need to be greeted by others. Automatically or while running and standing to fire, or simply half-kneeling down for a burst of fire before moving on.
This infantry did not completely follow the armored forces, but took advantage of the heavy blows inflicted by the armored forces on the Americans, quickly advanced on both sides, and quickly rushed to the Americans with ferocious fire and resolute charges.
Immediately afterwards, they either fired with 56 charges, or shot with pistols, and some even stabbed with bayonets, anyway, all of them seemed to be crazy, and they rushed while fighting like that, and even two or three people dared to rush towards the opposing party's large army.
Being beaten by such a wild thrust, the Americans soon could not hold on, although they are all selected elites, but the weapons are too poor, most of them only have sabers and revolvers, although many Chinese weapons have been captured before, but it is unrealistic to fully master them in a short time.
Therefore, after being thrust by the armored troops, and frantically attacked by a group of troops who all used 56 charges, they were quickly defeated.
This is especially the close-range strafing of the 56 punches, after all, those infantry are well-trained and know the shortcomings of the 56 punches continuous shooting, so when they strafe, they sweep the guns sideways, so that when the gun head jumps, the bullet can be hit into a horizontal fan, which is especially terrifying for the Americans.
Moreover, these infantry also strictly followed the original teaching, and the 56 Rush would only sweep with continuous fire within a range of 50 meters, and if it exceeded 50 meters, it would use point fire, causing even more damage to the Americans.
And once they rushed into the crowd of Americans, they were not afraid, they either continued to sweep with 56 Chong, or shot with pistols, anyway, the footsteps did not stop, the gunfire did not stop, that is, they wanted to use the attitude of rushing and beating violently, completely crushing all these sneak attacking Americans!
While the more than 3,000 infantry were rushing like a tide, the Guards Panzer Battalion had already cut through several lines of the Americans in succession, rushed through the second line of defense, and continued to rush towards the first line of defense.
In front of the armored battalion, the Americans could not have the slightest obstruction, except for the beginning of the unbelieving shooting of the enemy, in the back, no one dared to hang around these armored vehicles, usually when they saw these monsters with their headlights rushing over, they immediately dispersed, and did not dare to block in front of these armored vehicles at all.
The Guards Panzer Battalion did not stop, and continued to rush forward at full speed, while raining bullets with various weapons, as long as it saw that it could move, it would fight for a while.
In addition to the main and secondary weapons of the armored car, the infantry on the armored car also began to use the firing port to sweep outward with their submachine guns, and in the end, they even thought that the firing port was in the way, so they directly opened the back door of the car, and then sat on the seat and swept outward, in order to obtain greater damage.
Anyway, no one dared to be near the armored convoy at this time, and the infantry of these special forces also wore body armor and bulletproof helmets, and ordinary muskets did no harm to them at all, so there was no problem in opening the door to shoot.
Soon, the Guards Panzer Battalion rushed through the first line of defense and went directly to the berths in the harbor, where quite a few Americans were still stopping, and it seemed that many of them were wounded soldiers and seemed to have retreated from the front line.
As for the warships, most of them had already left their berths and went deep into the river.
This is not difficult to understand, after all, although the river is frozen, after all, the time is still short, no matter how thick the ice is, it cannot withstand the artillery bombardment of the battleship, but it is too wasteful to break the ice in this way.
But at this time, he didn't care about wasting or not wasting it, so when he found out that he was under attack, Mo Haiwen ordered to attack the ice, break the ice, open a temporary river channel, and then rekindle the fire, start the engine, and keep the battleship away from the berth to avoid further impact from the Americans.
Now these battleships are surrounded by floating broken ice, and it is wishful thinking for the Americans to storm the battleships from the ice.
However, although the battleship moved away from the berth and broke the ice in the nearby river, they did not continue to shoot at the port.
Because there were still many goods in the port, and there were also many Chinese prisoners, these Chinese prisoners could be seen clearly under the lights, so Mo Haiwen had some scruples, so he did not dare to fire this side.
This also shows the cunning of the Americans, who deliberately put the Chinese prisoners as shields and put them on the harbor in order to organize the shelling of the Chinese, otherwise, the fleet has no scruples and bombards them with naval guns, and these Americans who come ashore will be completely out of play.
But now, as soon as the Guards Armored Battalion arrived, it immediately rushed to the place where the Chinese prisoners were captured, in order to rescue these prisoners, as for whether the Americans would be angry and angry and shoot the prisoners, that was not Li Yongji's place to consider, anyway, as long as they rushed fast enough, so fast that the Americans could not react, they could still save most of the people.
Sure enough, when the armored battalion rushed over, except for a very small number of Americans who fired frantically at the Chinese prisoners, most of the Americans either threw away or were killed, and when the special forces accompanying the car got out of the car one after another and began to sweep away the surroundings with accurate shooting, these Chinese prisoners were saved.
Next, Li Yongji left half of the special forces and some weapons in the port to protect the prisoners, and the other part of the people got back into the car and turned back to charge again, wanting to give the Americans an interspersed attack.
In this way, on one side, the rampage of the Guards armored battalion, interspersed back and forth in the US sneak attack troops, cutting off the organization of the Americans, and on the other side, there was the fierce attack of more than 3,000 counterattacking troops.
Finally, when the sun began to emerge, this sneak attack force was completely annihilated by the Chinese counterattack force, of which less than 2,000 escaped by night, the others were either captured or killed, and the elite sneak attack force of the US army totaling 40,000 people won first and then lost, and finally ended completely. (To be continued......)