After the end of World War II, the US military recently summed up the tactics of the Japanese army, especially attached great importance to night combat and close combat that the Japanese army was good at, and reported the results of its research to the upper echelons, but unfortunately did not pay enough attention to it, and as a result, on the Korean Peninsula the soldiers who were defeated by the volunteers in night battles and close combat, and only then did it suddenly dawn on me that this set of tactics that dared to love the Japanese devils was learned from the Chinese.

This is just a rumor, but according to the Japanese army from 31 years after the occupation of the northeast to 37 years, in the period of several regional frictions with the Chinese army, it is rare to see the Japanese army have night battles and large group close combat, on the contrary, whether it is in the 29th Route of the Great Wall or the 19th Route Army at the time of the Songhu 128 Incident, there are still quite a lot of examples of night battles and close combat.

After the 40-year Battle of the Hundred Regiments, it was found in the Japanese army's battle reports that there were more reports of roundabout attacks on enemy positions at night, and in battles with the Nationalist army, the close tactics of combining infantry and artillery were also used.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War and the Southeast Asian War, the Japanese army's use of night combat and close combat reached a climax, and this phenomenon is indeed inseparable from the experience on the Chinese battlefield.

Whether it is the Nationalist Army, the Eighth Route Army, or the New Fourth Army, our Chinese army cannot be compared with the Japanese army in terms of overall strength or weaponry, and night battles and close combat, in which the Japanese army is unable to give full play to its air superiority and artillery superiority, have become tactics that the Chinese army has no choice but to use.

The Japanese devils were very good at learning, and when they lost air superiority and firepower superiority in the Pacific and Southeast Asian theaters, they copied the night and close combat they learned from the Chinese army. It was also very effective against the U.S. military.

It's a pity that Americans don't have a long memory. The Japanese suffered a loss. If they do not pay attention to it, they will suffer the losses of the Chinese on the Korean Peninsula five years later, and again the losses of the Chinese students in Vietnam more than 20 years later.

Far away, the devils who have learned night combat and melee combat have met a more clever teacher than them this time, and after being choked by the wolf smoke, they can understand that night combat is not only a bit of a hidden and stealthy attack. There are more clever tricks, but unfortunately I can't use them even if I learn them!

The commandos of the third battalion are shirtless, smeared urine on their bodies, and camouflaged themselves with thin mud or something, which is not easy to distinguish at night, and the little devils, the military uniforms are straight, military uniforms, military hats, steel helmets and other things are a lot, and the color yellow is still very conspicuous on the battlefield where flashes from time to time!

In addition, because of the fear that the Eighth Route Army would release "poison gas", basically the devils on the highlands and terraces wore gas masks. This thing is so muffled that it restricts its vision. Especially if the mask window is scratched, the flash will blur the vision!

All kinds of accidents come together to become an inevitability, that is, the devil must be defeated in this raid! A kind of squadron devil, the squadron leader and a few personal retinues ran back to the base camp from the side of the mountain beam, and the rest were taken down by the commandos of the third battalion.

At this time, the back of the Kuroda Wing was exposed to the eyes of the Eighth Route Army, and on the mountain beam, you could clearly see piles of bonfires and patches of tents not far away, which was enough for a few mortar shells at random! In fact, Yang Bangzi really didn't delay his work, as soon as the third battalion took the devil's position on the west side, the artillery company directly under the regiment that had not been willing to use it was pulled up!

said that it was an artillery company, but it was embarrassing to report and expand, and it was enough to say that it was an artillery battalion! There were no 105-mm heavy guns, but four 75-mm mountain guns were captured! And the eight mortars that were already equipped with it, it's time to show their might!

The cannonballs are not so sufficient, but it is enough to deal with the devil's base camp in the valley, there is nothing to hinder it, the field of vision is so wide, and the devils' camp is so crowded together, I'm really sorry for them if they don't fire!

The 105 mm heavy guns of the Japanese army must be taken care of! The four Type 92 infantry guns were specially used to hit the Japanese artillery positions, and the other mortars were based on the bonfire as the target and the goal was to eliminate the vitality of the Japanese army in the valley. ”

After a few days of fighting, in the battle for the surrounding mountains, the Eighth Route rarely used artillery support, and basically used explosive packs and cluster grenades to deal with the Japanese army's fortified areas and machine-gun fire points.

The base camp of the Kuroda Wing in the valley on both sides of the road was blocked by defensive areas on all sides, and there was never a single shell or bullet dropped, so the Japanese soldiers who returned to the base camp in rotation to rest could not hear the bugle and grenade explosions and bullets of the Eighth Route here, and they could sleep more peacefully.

Although the atmosphere in the base camp was very tense, many soldiers were very tired because of the day's fighting, and after taking turns to enter the camp and fell asleep, they didn't care about the fierce gunfire in the south, and the artillery position was still supporting the battle in the south with artillery fire just now, and it was said that they repelled the attack on the high ground on the east side, and this will not make a clear picture of what is going on on the high ground on the west side, and the shells are flying over!

The artillery positions of the Japanese army were all half-buried gun emplacements, which were fixed targets for the gunners of the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beams and on the terraces! It's not easy to fight in the dark, but the little devil lights up the bonfire, and the gun is the same as the target used in the usual training!

Dozens of shells followed one after another with whistles, and under the collective attention of the devils, the entire devil artillery position was covered in an instant! The 105-mm heavy artillery is a big head, and it can't carry the 75-mm grenade made by the little devil himself, and the gun position was blown up, and the captain of the artillery brigade and several senior officers were killed in this round of artillery raids, and more than half of the devil gunners were also blown to pieces!

And the mortars that were divided into pieces were aimed at the tents and piles of people next to the piles of bonfires, and every shell was not missing, this valley was not spacious, more than 4,000 Japanese troops camped here, and if a shell fell, there must be dozens of Japanese troops within the killing radius.

Dodging the first shell, jumping up to find the hidden devils, before they could see any place that was safe, there was no exploding smoke and splashing shrapnel, the second and third shells followed and fell, and in less than three minutes, the entire base camp of the Kuroda Wing was plunged into a sea of fire!

When Wing Captain Kuroda was bombarded by the Eighth Route at the base camp, he was at the wing headquarters in the mountain valley on the east side of the road, because of the antenna, his headquarters was not in the base camp at the bottom of the valley, but in the mountain valley halfway up the east highland.

At this moment, Kuroda stood at the mouth of the stone nest, staring blankly at the valley shrouded in smoke and explosions, his lips were white, he didn't understand what had happened in the safe base camp for a few days! He thought it was the gun that had gone off and detonated the ammunition, but on second thought, it wasn't right! Even if the ammunition is detonated or something, the base camp cannot be from south to north, and from east to west everywhere there are explosions.

The chief of staff reacted quickly, pointing to the southern mountain beams and terraces in the distance, Kuroda quickly raised the binoculars, and sure enough, he saw the flames of elongated shells flying out of the muzzle! He didn't know that the southern platform of the road had been lost, so he turned his head and asked the chief of staff, which unit was on the defensive position in the south? Go and call and ask, why did you still fire at the base camp?

If this phone call can get through, it will be a god! The Japanese army's communication telephone on the southern platform and high ground was blown up in the melee just now, and the telephone could not be connected, but the phone in the base camp could be called! It was all reported that they had been attacked by the Eighth Route artillery fire, and only the infantry squadron stationed at the southern end of the valley called to say that it had received a few officers and men who had been withdrawn from the southern terrace, and according to them, the southern heights and terraces had been lost!

What the! As soon as Kuroda heard this report, he came down in a cold sweat! He knew very well what it meant that the two positions that were connected together were lost! It's no wonder that the Eighth Route hasn't fired much artillery in the past few days, and they are all waiting to take the position in the south so that they can bombard the base camp!

The people who sent Lu to reconnoiter the breakthrough route have not yet returned, and the Eighth Route has actually hit their own gate, and they are bombarded with artillery, under the mouth of the Eighth Route Cannon on the high ground, this valley is simply a slaughterhouse! The soldiers ran to the high ground on either side during the intervals of artillery fire, and many of them ran to the position of the adjutant to the north, which was blocked by a mountain beam.

Groups of ownerless horses ran around in fright under the artillery fire, and the corpses of mutilated Japanese soldiers, piles in the east and west, tents that had not yet burned out, were torn apart and fell in the sky with flames when they were hit by shells again.

Ten minutes ago, the cannon group with the muzzle held high, this gun bore was stuck diagonally into the dirt, twisted and deformed, the gun body was torn apart, almost all the parts were blown apart, there was still a decent gun position during the day, and now it was a big garbage dump in disarray!

The thing that worried Kuroda the most finally came with the rumbling of artillery, and the forward positions reported that the troops of the Eighth Route had rushed down from the high ground on the west side of the south, and there had been an exchange of fire! The forward positions reported that their positions had also been destroyed in many places during the rapid artillery attack just now, with heavy casualties and urgent need for reinforcements!

Kuroda is still relatively calm, and the most important thing in this meeting is to plug this opening! If the base camp in the valley is occupied by the Eighth Road, it means that the entire wing will be divided and fight separately, and there is only one result in this situation, and the entire wing will be finished! (To be continued......)