"Mortar ready!"

Eight mortars lined up.

Although Xue Yue only promised to give him six, Wang Weiyi still got eight mortars by robbery and deception.

Matsue is already in sight! Across in front of him was the flank of the 42nd Wing of the enemy's 6th Division to cover the Japanese army.

The battle under Matsue Castle was fierce, and it was already clear to hear it here.

Now, it's your turn!

Glancing back, a battle flag fluttered in the wind, with two big characters written on it:

Tiger Ben!

It was written by Chiang Kai-shek himself!

This battle will live up to the life of the tiger!

Wang Weiyi raised the telescope in his hand, stared ahead for a while, and then shouted loudly; "Let's go!"

These mortars were carefully selected by Long Yin, all of whom had actual combat experience, and had already participated in countless vicious battles in the Battle of Shanghai!

In their hands, mortar shells whistled and rushed towards the opposite side!

"Boom-boom-boom-"

Explosions kept ringing out

Since the 6th Division was ordered to enter Shanghai, it has always used only artillery fire to suppress the Chinese army, but today, it has been covered by the artillery fire of the Chinese army!

The shells fell one by one, and exploded one after another in the Japanese formation!

The Japanese army was a little confused, and could not understand where these Chinese suddenly appeared.

"Remember what I said, once an attack is launched, the chariots and infantry must strictly cooperate!" Wang Weiyi said sharply to those officers: "It is still the eight words that I emphasized to you many times when I was resting on the road, 'unity, strictness, support, and cooperation'!" If you can't work together. If the infantry forces the chariot to rush first, then the chariot will be destroyed by the enemy first, and then the infantry will die. To survive. You have to do what I say! ”

"Yes! Unified, rigorous, supportive, cooperative! The officer shouted.

"Once the infantry and fighting vehicles attack, the artillery fire continues to suppress! Stop the movement of enemy forces and weapons, and support the impact of infantry and combat vehicles. When developing an offensive in the enemy's depth, the artillery moves forward one by one, and the firepower escorts the infantry and combat vehicles to develop the offensive, do you understand? ”

"Got it!"

"The artillery fire continues to suppress, advance!"

"Forward—forward!"

The shouts of the officers rang out. The Tiger Guard Battalion has finally started its first battle since its formation!

The chariot ran over the Japanese unhurriedly, while a large number of infantry cautiously followed the chariot's side. Keep moving forward.

The slightest movement of soldiers around Wang Weiyi who moved faster or slower would often be severely reprimanded by him.

The coordination is not yet skillful, the movements of the infantry are still relatively stiff, and even some people are not used to it.

But none of that matters. The important thing is that this is their first battle. Wang Weiyi must ask himself to teach them:

How to win the most with the least cost!

In fact, some officers are not very suitable for this type of attack. In the past, the combat effectiveness of the peak, the order of the peak, the trumpet blowing, everyone take turns to rush! Death is death, and survival is your own fate!

But in the Major's Tiger Guard Battalion, it was such a strange way of attacking!

The outside of the chariot is wrapped in iron armor, and what do you want to cover for these infantry who will die if they are shot?

Ouyang Yu, Long Yin, and Li Lu, the officers who had followed Wang Weiyi since Sanhuqiao, were convinced of him. It is also the most resolute in carrying out orders. They know one thing very well:

The Major would never allow his team to suffer heavy casualties in a single battle!

And they know better that the minimum cost. It means that more people will survive

Wang Weiyi and Guo Yunfeng, two officers with extremely rich combat experience, walked in front with a squad of scouts, although this may become a target for the enemy, but now there is no way.

It was the first time for the soldiers to engage in this method of warfare, and even though they had repeatedly stressed it on the road, it was still difficult for them to digest it in such a short period of time.

The combat vehicle needed infantry for it to spot the enemy, reconnoiter the road, clear obstacles. This is very important.

And what the infantry needs is the chariot to pull out the enemy's fire points for themselves!

"Tututu-" A string of machine-gun bullets swept over, and Wang Weiyi and Guo Yunfeng fell to the ground in unison. But one of the soldiers next to him was not so lucky, and he was killed by a bullet when he couldn't dodge. Another soldier wailed in pain as he clutched his broken leg

"Get down, get down!"

Under Wang Weiyi's sharp command, all the scouts fell to the ground

"Report the loss!" Wang Weiyi said loudly.

"One killed, one wounded"

"Four knives, did you find the enemy's firepower point?"

"Target confirmed!"

"Let Niu Zhenliang kill that firepower point immediately!"

"Yes!"

THE WICKERS MKE TANK ON THE 47MM GUN QUICKLY AIMED ITS MUZZLE AT THE ENEMY'S POINT OF FIRE

"Boom-"

Under the guidance of Guo Yunfeng, Vickers' first shot hit the target directly and cleanly killed the firepower of the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARD, THE 7.9MM MACHINE GUN ON THE VICKERS TANK ROARED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE 33MM MACHINE GUN ON THE ITALIAN CV-8

The Japanese army was completely suppressed at once!

Wang Weiyi and Guo Yunfeng quickly commanded the soldiers to get up, the submachine guns in their hands spewed tongues of fire, and with the roar of the machine guns, the forward was already close to the Japanese defense in an instant.

"The battalion commander is rushing up, rushing!"

I don't know who shouted loudly, and then countless cheers resounded through the battlefield, and the soldiers rushed forward with shouts.

"Stop! Stop! Ouyang Yu, the officers who had been fighting with Wang Weiyi since the beginning of Sanhe Bridge, were so anxious that they shouted loudly.

But their shouts were soon drowned out by the shouts of the soldiers

The Japanese here, under the strong onslaught of infantry and tanks of the Guards battalion, threw away more than 100 corpses and fled in a hurry. And the losses of the Guards battalion were forty-five killed and thirty-three wounded.

Not even a 1:1 casualty ratio!

Such a casualty ratio is unprecedented for the Chinese army since the start of the Sino-Japanese war! The soldiers who participated in the battle of Shanghai could not believe that they had achieved such a result, but when it was confirmed, cheers rang out again.

But Wang Weiyi's face was pale

Before the attack, it was repeatedly emphasized that it was necessary to strictly follow the tactical arrangements and to attack in strict accordance with the instructions, but there was still an incident in which the soldiers charged on their own.

The original casualties could have been reduced!

Most of the Japanese troops here use small arms, while the Guards battalion has mortars, combat vehicles, and various types of machine gun support, and has an absolute advantage in firepower.

In Wang Weiyi's previous assumption, no matter how poor the combat quality of the soldiers of the guard battalion was, with such fire support, as long as the tactical deployment was strictly implemented, the casualties could be completely reduced to a minimum.

And not seventy-eight dead and wounded!

Holding back the anger that he was about to explode, he gathered all the soldiers while transporting the wounded and inspecting the battlefield: "Who was the first to say that he was going to charge?" ”

"Report, it's me!" A sergeant walked out triumphantly.

"What's your name?"

"Singlet!"

"Why are you shouting for a charge?"

"Report sir, I saw that the striker had already rushed up, thinking that the little devil was about to collapse, so I shouted loudly, no, the little devil was crushed as soon as he rushed."

Wang Weiyi stared at him coldly: "What is my order before the war?" ”

Shan Feng was stunned: "Everything is ordered by the commanders at all levels"

"I am in charge of the company commander, and the company commander is in charge of the platoon commander" Wang Weiyi said coldly, and suddenly roared violently: "You bastard!" ”

Shan Feng was scolded for being stupid.

Wang Weiyi pointed to the corpses of the brothers on the ground: "Have you seen it?" See? They all died because of you! It happened once at the time of the Sanhe Bridge, and Li Lu has already learned a lesson about it, and now you are like this again? ”

When Li Lu heard this, he thought of those brothers who had died in battle, and his nose couldn't help but sour

"Achieve the greatest victory with the least cost, and achieve the greatest victory with the smallest price" Wang Weiyi repeated the words twice in succession: "There is a Japanese firepower point that has not been removed, so you recklessly lead the brothers to charge, rush fast, and throw the chariot behind, huh?" Do you know how many brothers were swept down by that heavy machine gun? You don't? I've done the math for you! Twenty-nine! Twenty-eight of them were killed! You bastard! Forty-five of us were killed, and twenty-eight of our brothers were gone! ”

Shan Feng listened in a daze, he had never thought of this before

Twenty-eight! Twenty-eight brethren died because of themselves!

"There are only eight hundred of us!" Wang Weiyi's voice sounded so cold: "But in the first battle, we lost forty-five people and wounded thirty-three, how could we hold on to Songjiang?" Do you know what awaits us in Songjiang? Aircraft artillery of the Japanese! If we don't strictly follow orders, we will all be killed in an hour! You can't even see what the Japanese look like! ”

"Battalion commander, I was wrong, please punish me!" Shan Feng is a person who dares to do things.

"Remove you from your sergeant position and assign you to the logistics support group."

"Battalion commander, let me charge!" When Shan Feng heard that he had been assigned to the logistics support group, he was in a hurry. There were only a few people there, mainly responsible for the maintenance of combat vehicles and trucks.

Go there, how can you fight with the devil yourself? He didn't care at all about the sergeant's officer.

"Military orders are like mountains." There is no room for negotiation in Wang Weiyi's words: "If you don't obey the order, you will be killed!" ”

He must unite the Tiger Guard Battalion into a highly obedient collective in the shortest possible time! (To be continued.) )