Volume 1: The Battle of Songhu Chapter 33 Secret Crossing

"Wing Commander, it's dangerous here, according to the order, you have to stay in the command, you can't go to the front."

Adjutant Hojo followed behind chattering, but Kenten Iino didn't pay attention to it at all, and insisted on going to the forefront with a saber, this is a forward observation post, less than four hundred meters away from the position of the national army, if you encounter a gunner of the national army with accurate marksmanship, Kenten Iino may really throw his life here.

"Captain, please get out of here at once."

Adjutant Hojo was unrelenting and blocked Kenten Iino with his body.

"Yaga Yaru, get out of the way" Kenten Iino was annoyed, and pushed Hojo to the side, then put his eyes behind the artillery mirror to observe the Nationalist position on the opposite side.

Although this high ground is not as high as the hill controlled by the national army on the opposite side, it is impossible to see the troop movement of the national army on the back of the opposite hill, but the firepower configuration, troop deployment and formation arrangement of the national army on the front of the mountain are unobstructed.

The fortifications of the Nationalist army mainly rely on three small hills, two of which are in front and the highest one in the back, which are distributed in a zigzag shape with the two mountains in front, and the only mountain road leading to Wanjialing passes through the middle of these three hills.

The reason why the Kijima United lost was because they suffered a large number of casualties from the side fire of the national army during the attack.

Unless the Japanese could find another way from the left and right and then attack from the outside of the two hills in front, there would be no way to avoid the damage of the Nationalist side-fire fire.

The problem is that this area is full of shrubs, shrubs are different from arbor forests, the trees are tall and straight, except for the dense canopy and dense shade under the vegetation, the vegetation is scarce, and the passage is easier, but the shrubs are not, the shrubs are mostly entangled, and the thorns are thick, not to mention the snakes and insects in the thorn bushes, it is not easy to open up a passage from the thorn bushes.

If it was so easy to open up a passage, there would be no need for the Songpu Division to entangle with the national army here, wouldn't it be better to directly bypass these hills and open another passage to retreat to Ruichang? But this is obviously impossible, and having detached themselves from the road in the mountains, the generals who await the Japanese army will surely end up with the annihilation of the entire army.

It is not easy to pass through the dense forest, at least the army is absolutely impassable, but small troops can still be interspersed with short distances, Iino Kenten observed for a moment, and an idea quickly took shape, and then called the deputy of the wing, the three captains and the squadron leader of the artillery squadron to him, and explained his thoughts and thoughts.

To put it bluntly, this idea of Kenten Iino is actually to repair the plank road and secretly cross the Chen Cang.

First, send a small elite force to penetrate through the dense forest, lurk on the outside of the hill on the left, continue the frontal attack, and increase the intensity of the attack, and wait for the reserves and attention of the national army to be attracted to the frontal position, and then launch a surprise attack on the hill to catch the national army by surprise.

If the hill on the left side is lost, the entire defensive chain of the national army will no longer be complete, and the loss of positions will be inevitable.

Kenten Iino's tactics are very old-fashioned, and they have almost been used in China's long history for thousands of years, but it must be admitted that this tactic is still very targeted, and the tactics do not matter whether they are old or new, as long as they are right and effective, they are appropriate, and they are the most haode.

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The 343rd Regiment had been holding out for more than ten hours at the top of the high mountain and on the two hills in front.

In the past ten hours, the 343rd Regiment has repelled the attacks of the little Japanese again and again, and the slopes of the two nameless hills in front of it are already full of the corpses of the little Japanese, and the 343rd Regiment itself has also suffered heavy casualties; the L Battalion, which has been holding the position since the early hours of this morning, has not been withdrawn, and the 3rd Battalion has also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the regimental guard company, communications platoon, men, grooms, health personnel, and staff officers have also been armed and enriched to the front line.

The only exception was the battalion, which was the reserve of the whole regiment and remained unscathed.

The national army generally does not like to keep reserves, but the 58th Division is an exception, most of the middle and senior officers can understand the benefits of reserves, but ordinary soldiers do not understand so much.

After delivering food to the battalion, the man in the cooking squad couldn't help but say a few strange words, saying, brother, after eating this meal, you can find your own way, brother, I may have already stacked up on the battlefield, and I can't cook for you anymore, heh, the officers and soldiers of the battalion were already quite unhappy in their hearts, and they naturally couldn't stand it even more when they heard this.

Several company commanders found the battalion commander Li Shijian, arguing and shouting to go to the front line, Li Shijian was noisy by several company commanders, so he came to the regiment headquarters and asked the regiment commander Qi Yongnian to fight.

It didn't take long for several company commanders to be annoyed, and the order from the regimental headquarters came down, and the battalion was about to go up

At this time, the battle situation on the front line has undergone unexpected changes, Qi Yongnian did not realize the trick of Iino Ken Shiming to repair the plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang, after the small Japan strengthened the frontal offensive, Qi Yongnian also put the main force on the front, and launched a fierce battle with the small Japan, at this time, the small Japanese army lurking on the side quietly touched the left hill under the cover of the dense forest, and the national army was caught off guard, and the hill was quickly lost.

Fortunately, Qi Yongnian was not slow to react, and quickly realized the severity of the situation, and immediately ordered the battalion to launch a counterattack and recapture the nameless mountain on the left at all costs.

After receiving the order, Li Shijian immediately mobilized the officers and men of the battalion before the battle.

"It is said that the independent battalion can fight, fight bayonets, and has never lost to Little Japan, but Lao Tzu doesn't believe in this evil, it is a two-legged aisle, how can our battalion be worse than them? Lao Tzu still said that what the independent battalion can do, our battalion can also do, and it can do better than them."

"That's right, it's all two shoulders and a head, who's afraid of whom?"

"That is, the independent battalion can fight, and our battalion is not vegetarian."

"Damn, let the independent battalion see what our battalion is capable of today."

The officers and soldiers of the battalion below suddenly shouted, Feng Shengfa values Xu 19, and the independent battalion is the 19th Brigade, which is not a secret in the 58th Division, whether it is personnel, equipment or economic maintenance, the 19th Independent Brigade is the most haode in the whole division, what is the good thing, Feng Shengfa always follows the 19th Brigade first.

It is impossible to say that other fraternal forces have no opinion on this.

Most of the soldiers are bloody men, and how many bloody men are willing to admit and surrender? There were more than a dozen battalions of the four regiments of the 58th Division, and almost every battalion of officers and soldiers was holding their breath in their hearts, and they all wanted to prove themselves on the battlefield, to prove that they were no worse than the 19th Independent Brigade, and to prove that Feng Shengfa's eccentricity was wrong.

Li Shijian suppressed the clamor of the officers and soldiers below, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers, cheer up Lao Tzu, rush up and take down the mountain in one breath, let the little Japan of the dog day see how powerful we are, and let the group of stunned people in the independent battalion show that the 58th Division is not only their independent battalion can fight, go."

After the training, Li Shijian took the box cannon and pushed forward, and the more than 500 officers and men of the battalion were suddenly like tigers descending from the mountain, roaring and rushing to the nameless hill on the left side of the high mountain peak.

There was about 70 people in the reinforcement squad of the little Japanese who came over, and more than a dozen of them died when they attacked the top of the mountain, and now there are more than 50 people left, because it was a lightly armed sneak attack, this group of little Japanese did not even carry mortars and Type 92 heavy machine guns, but only a dozen grenadiers and four or five crooked light machine guns.

However, even if there were only four or five crooked light machine guns and a dozen grenadier canisters, the firepower of the national army was strong enough, and at the beginning, Li Shijian's battalion's attack on the unnamed heights on the left did not go well.