Chapter 80: The Devil Brigade
The battalion commander of the 29th Army was worried that he would not be able to confess in person when he went back, and was bewitched by Hu Lian again, so he immediately joined the Red Army with a hot brain, and because the 65th Regiment of the Red Army eliminated the devils in Fengtai and won the support of the residents of Fengtai who had suffered greatly before, the local hot-blooded young people asked to join the army, and Hu Lian was naturally happy to accept it, and as a result, the strength of the 65th Regiment increased by more than 700 people after a battle.
The equipment of the 65th Regiment is relatively good in the Red 15th Army, but there is no extra weapons and equipment so many new soldiers, Hu Lian naturally started the idea of the arsenal outside the city, but the special combat team members who stayed to guard the warehouse on the spot are all, and they don't buy Hu Lian's account as a former prisoner of war at all, and sternly refuse to say that unless there is the consent of the above, not a single bullet is allowed! Hu Lian was so angry that he was about to have an attack, but suddenly received an urgent report from the company in charge of guarding in the north, saying that a group of eight or nine hundred Japanese troops was heading towards Fengtai, and it was now less than ten miles away from Fengtai Station.
"Tell Yang Botao to get out of the way and let the devil come over, you can attack and disturb from the side, and you don't have to be a strong enemy. But if you can't block the devil's retreat and let the enemy run away, he will cook for me in the cooking class! Hu Lian said with a sly smile on the corner of his mouth, this is his first battle with the Japanese, how can he not fight beautifully? At the same time as the telegram was sent, Hu Lian also issued orders to the various battalions and companies at his side, and the two main battalions that were basically full were sent out by him to outflank the two wings, while he himself only took the troops of the special service company and the troops of the 29th Army to meet the Japanese army head-on, and he was full of confidence and left a company to stabilize order in Fengtai City.
After learning of the loss of Fengtai, Tashiro Wanichiro, the commander of the Japanese "Shina Garrison Army" who had just taken office, hurriedly ordered the commander of the 1st Infantry Wing stationed in Beiping City, Mutaguchi Ryoya Daisa, to personally lead the team to Fengtai, and the strength of one brigade was already all the troops that could be assembled in one day. Despite this, based on the contempt for the Chinese army all along, Mu Taguchi Lian did not take the enemy this time seriously, and Yang Botao's "self-collapse without a fight" made it even more arrogant, and actually sent a squad of fifty or sixty people to pursue the main force company with more than twice the strength of Yang Botao, and then continued to pounce on Fengtai with a large force regardless of it. It didn't take long for Mutaguchi to lead the army to the east of Fengtai City, but he found that the enemy had already built a simple position to meet him, and the team he sent before was gone, and he felt bad in his heart, but the poor performance of the Chinese army still made him full of confidence, "The people of China just like to be clever, but they don't know that our Imperial Japanese Army can be one enemy and ten, if they concentrate their forces to stop us, they may have to spend some effort, but now, they are humiliating themselves!" ”
With the order of the wing commander, the Japanese army launched an attack according to the usual practice, and the first step was naturally to carry out artillery bombardment, but the Japanese army only had 4 Type 92 infantry guns (a Japanese brigade is equipped with 2 as standard, and 2 more will generally be strengthened before the war. Before advancing to the attacking position, a volley of shells had already been fired from the enemy's position
Although the Japanese army's Type 92 infantry artillery is the most suitable infantry support artillery for the Chinese battlefield before and after World War II because of its unusually light weight, it has a great weakness, that is, the firing range, this 70mm caliber artillery, the maximum firing range is only more than 2700 meters, which means that in the terrain with a wide field of vision, any kind of artillery on Shijie that is not inferior to it, including mortars, can easily suppress it.
And now although the Red Eighth Army is expanding too fast, the average firepower is not as good as before, but the 65th Regiment, as the top five main regiments of the Legion, will never be too shabby, although the establishment of the artillery company is a bit chaotic, but whether it is a 75mm mountain gun or an 82mm mortar, the range is above the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun, and what is more terrible is that its number is far more than the Japanese army, even if only the 65th Regiment headquarters on Hu Lian's side has an overwhelming advantage, And the distance of less than three kilometers greatly increased the accuracy of the Red Army artillery. After a deafening noise, almost all 62 officers and men of the two infantry artillery squads of the Japanese army were blown to pieces, and many Japanese infantry infantry soldiers were killed and wounded, and even the Japanese infantry who were closer to them were killed and wounded, which inevitably dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese army. If Mutaguchi Lian was also a person of normal thinking, he should have withdrawn immediately in this case, but Mutaguchi Lian, who was almost crazy, stupidly ordered the infantry to charge...,
"Kill, give!" With the order of the wing commander, a squadron of Japanese infantry rushed to the front of the Red Army position with difficulty under the powerful artillery fire of the artillery company of the 65th regiment, but at this moment, 9 heavy machine guns and 18 light machine guns that had been hiding without shooting suddenly removed the camouflage net and opened fire at the same time, and an impermeable fire net suddenly covered the charging Japanese troops in it. Seeing this, Hu Lian shouted, "Spy Company, follow me!" He took the lead and rushed out of the trenches. The sharpshooters of the Japanese army reacted and just wanted to shoot Hu Lian's cold gun, and the 82 submachine guns of the special service company had already taken the lead in firing
With the rate of fire of the Type 24 submachine gun of 550 rounds per minute, in this not too large area, 82 guns were fired together, as long as none of the Japanese troops who were still standing could be spared, and those devils who urgently lay down to avoid it were no better, after a round of strafing from the submachine guns, hundreds of grenades fell like a torrential rain, and a large part of them exploded in the air, and lying down increased the area of shrapnel killing, you must know that the current Red Army is not equipped with the kind of "border area construction" in history that can only explode two pieces
In less than three minutes, the Japanese troops who shouted "onboard" and launched a charge were crushed, and less than 100 Zuihou escaped by chance, and almost all of them were wounded. In just such a short time, the troops suffered more than one-third of the casualties, and Mu Taguchi Lian finally realized the horror of the enemy, and was about to order a retreat, but found that there were enemy troops on both wings, and when he turned his head, the Chinese troops that had previously "collapsed without a fight" had appeared in their rear at some point, and Mu Taguchi Lian couldn't help but feel a tense in his heart, "The jade of the ninth squad is broken?" How is this possible? When did the Shina army become so strong? Are they the Central Army, or are they the troops of some warlord? Damn the bastards of the intelligence services, such important intelligence has not been collected"