Chapter 41: The total annihilation of the Honda United in the defense of Xinghe County
A soldier is the courage of a general, and the soul of a soldier. Chen Feng personally went to the battlefield to fight bayonets with the little devils, and his guiding role in the entire army was beyond doubt. Even the commander is not afraid of death, what is so terrible about these little soldiers, grandma, fuck it.
Bayonet fighting was originally the strong point of the Japanese army, but the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers who lost their command was not as strong as their officers imagined, and their will to fight was not as tenacious as the Japanese army base camp advertised to the outside world. Under the powerful offensive of the security regiment, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated, and was driven from the outer position of Xinping to the command post of Shinichi Honda.
The battle in the south was even more unbearable, the Sasaki brigade was originally a remnant brigade, and the headquarters had been severely damaged by the security regiment yesterday, and there were only three or four hundred people left in the entire brigade that could fight, and this had to count the lightly wounded. Even with the addition of some of the troops directly under the wing, there are only six or seven hundred people, while Li Wensheng's unit has more than 2,000 people, and it is also equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower.
Therefore, the battle in the south was one-sided from the beginning, and Li Wensheng's tactical command ability was still very good; he did not disperse the use of machine guns, but concentrated all the light machine guns in the first security regiment, plus the machine gun battalion directly under the city defense headquarters, a total of 66 light machine guns formed a fire assault team, which was a sudden attack on the little devils who rushed up.
By one o'clock in the afternoon, the remnants of the Honda United, less than 600 men, were trapped on a hill and stubbornly resisted.
On the other hand, the second wing of the 15th Brigade Regiment was also caught in a bitter battle, unlike the Honda Wing, the second wing of the 15th Brigade was overwhelmed by the invisible enemy, and the troops were attacked before they reached the Stone Buddha Temple, this attack came very suddenly, there was no gunfire, there was no cannon, and the drivers of more than a dozen cars on the march suddenly let out a scream, and then they were blown off in the head. With the driver's death, the car began to lose control and rushed straight down the cliff before the soldiers could react.
Screams erupted, and nearly 100 people died in less than a minute. Unlike ordinary attacks, this attack was mysterious and strange, and all the drivers who were hit were hit by the vital point and killed on the spot, and the death was extremely tragic. There were also quite a few soldiers involved in the car, and nearly 200 people were killed and hundreds injured in the first wave of attacks.
Wing Commander of the 2nd Wing of the 15th Brigade, Yamaguchi Zhenxiong, is a veteran officer who has been in the army for more than 20 years and has very rich combat experience. ”
Yamaguchi Zhenxiong's order came out through the loudspeaker, the panicked Japanese army seemed to have found the backbone, one by one to Yamaguchi Zhenxiong's chariot around, at the same time shot back to counterattack, because it is not clear which direction the enemy is, so tens of thousands of puppet troops lying on the ground and shooting around, for a long time in the long march of the gunfire loud, the momentum is quite amazing.
Not far away, Xu Bao looked at the Japanese soldiers who were in chaos on the mountain road below, and quietly made a gesture, which meant to say: "Free fire, retreat to the next sniper position in one minute." ”
Soon, there was another scream in the large Japanese army, and dozens of hidden soldiers and officers who were not very good were shot in the head. All the sniper rifles of the special operations team were equipped with silencers, so the Japanese only heard their own people constantly screaming, and then they were constantly killed, but they did not know the enemy's position.
However, some experienced junior officers and veterans are still very powerful, and they can roughly determine the direction of the sniper's hiding according to the direction of the killed devil when he fell to the ground and the degree of wounding.
Under the command of these grassroots officers and veterans, the frightened Japanese troops frantically fired back at the gentle slopes and cliffs around them, which also exposed some of the sniper positions of the special combat team.
These little devils are still very powerful, once they found the Chinese snipers, they immediately ordered the mortars and grenadiers to launch a tracking artillery fire, and two snipers were killed by the Japanese mortars because they were not very experienced.
After half an hour of chaos, the Yamaguchi team finally calmed down, and after a little counting of casualties, Yamaguchi Zhenxiong almost vomited blood in anger, killing 351 people and wounding 611 people, with a total of 962 casualties, not counting the puppet army on the side.
It is no wonder that the Yamaguchi United suffered such heavy casualties, you must know that the Ludao special combat team is a big trump card for Mu Chenglin to gain a foothold in this era, and the effort and effort put into the special combat team is far more than that of the security team. The basic training syllabus of the special combat team was drawn up by Chen Feng himself, and most of the training in peacetime was led by Chen Feng himself.
More importantly, Chen Feng knows very well what kind of troops are the most important in the special combat team. If you want to talk about long-range strikes, the best in the special combat team is undoubtedly the sniper, so Chen Feng requires that the design level of every member of the special combat team must reach the score of more than 10 bullets and 90 rings.
As a result, there is a serious imbalance in the proportion of snipers in the special combat team and the proportion of other arms of the armed forces, and there are more than 90 snipers among the more than 200 special combat personnel. Of course, the special combat team members trained by Chen Feng are all all-rounders, although some team members hold sniper rifles, but they are not necessarily snipers, they may also be other arms, in a word, they can do the work of snipers, and they can also do the work of other arms.
This time to snipe the Yamaguchi United, the special combat team sent out all the gunners who could make a sniper rifle, and more than 90 snipers worked together, and its power was not a simple one plus one.
In a minute, in order to ensure the hit rate of shooting, the snipers can shoot at least ten bullets each, more than ninety snipers, and ninety snipers are nine hundred bullets, so in just a few minutes, the Yamaguchi United was beaten into that dog virtue.
Observing that the snipers had not moved against China for some time, Yamaguchi hurriedly sent an infantry squad to the gentle slopes and ridges on the east and west sides to conduct fire reconnaissance, but the result of the reconnaissance was, of course, fruitless, and the China army had withdrawn.
However, before Yamaguchi could recover his strength, there was another terrible scream in front of him, and the infantry squad that had been sent to serve as the spearhead was all killed in just half a minute, and no one survived.
This time, the Japanese troops who were hiding in the distance finally saw the appearance of the enemy clearly, and it turned out to be dozens of extremely scattered Chinese soldiers, and the number was not large, only a few dozen people.
Yamaguchi Zheno was furious, and it was a great shame that the elite army of the Japanese Empire was blocked by dozens of Shina soldiers.
Under the command of Yamaguchi Daisa, the soldiers of an infantry squadron launched a group charge. It's a pity that as soon as they rushed halfway, they were blown back by a dense minefield, and with the blows of the snipers in China, an infantry squadron only came back with less than a hundred people, and more than 110 people fell on the road.
In desperation, Yamaguchi Osa could only order the chariot to fire immediately, using the vehicle's long-range strike to expel the Shina sniper, he knew very well that only artillery and the same sniper were the most suitable to deal with the mysterious and powerful sniper.
Sure enough, with the cooperation of more than thirty combat vehicles, the Shina snipers were quickly dispersed. The troops continued to move forward, but the huge minefields laid by the special operations team were enough for the Yamaguchi Wing to suffer.
After two personnel carriers and dozens of Japanese soldiers were bombed, Yamaguchi had no choice but to send sappers to clear the mines, followed by infantry and cavalry.
However, less than two minutes after the implementation of this strategy, Yamaguchi Zheno decisively shouted that it was stopped, for no other reason, that is, the cunning Shina sniper actually hid in the shadows to fight the sappers of the Imperial Army, and a squad of sappers was exhausted in less than half an hour.
Moreover, the speed of demining by the sappers is relatively slow, and Honda Jinichi is about to be unable to hold on. His Excellency Tojo had sent him three harshly worded telegrams in succession, ordering the Yamaguchi Wing to speed up its march and be sure to arrive at the battlefield within an hour, otherwise the Honda Wing would become the first complete infantry wing of the Empire of Japan to be completely annihilated in China.
These are not the most important things, the most important thing is that His Excellency Commander Tojo added a sentence at the end of the telegram that if the Honda Wing was completely wiped out because of the lack of rescue, he, the captain of the Osaku Wing, would have to apologize.
Forced to a dead end, Yamaguchi Daisa looked coldly at the mountain road in front of him like a tiger's mouth, and then ordered the Ninth Cavalry Division of the Imperial Alliance Army to draw out two hundred war horses and a cavalry company to carry out manual minebreaking.
What is artificial mine-waving, that is, the cavalry drives the war horses to run back and forth in front of them, and detonates all the mines in the minefield to achieve the effect of demining. Anyway, the ones running at the front were just a group of war horses, and even if a few occasionally slipped through the net, they wouldn't cause much damage to the soldiers of the cavalry division.
Moreover, in the eyes of Yamaguchi Zhenxiong, whether it is a soldier or an officer, the Imperial Allied Army is not a dog raised by the Imperial Japanese Army, since it is a dog, it has to do things for the master, and if necessary, he can even sacrifice his life to cover the master.
Although this method was insidious, the effect was very good, and in just half an hour, the Japanese army advanced more than 10 kilometers, and it was only less than 20 kilometers away from the main battlefield.
Looking at the Japanese army who were determined to pass at all costs, Xu Bao coldly ordered: "Blow up the bridge!" ”
"Yes"
The bridge Xu Bao said refers to more than ten small stone bridges on the road from Xuanjia Tower to Xinpingbao, each of these stone bridges is not too big, and it is worthless to defend according to the danger.
Following Xu Bao's order, four stone arch bridges with two to ten holes became a pile of ruins in the sound of bombs and explosions, blocking the Japanese tanks and personnel carriers on the other side of the bridge.