Chapter 81: Sneak Attack on Japanese Artillery Brigade
The day after the artillery positions were all ready, the 1st Army of the Japanese Army officially launched an attack on the Russian East Manchurian detachment, which was on a wide frontal defense.
Under the cover of artillery fire, a small number of soldiers of the Japanese First Army quickly attacked the positions of the Russian army.
Without the cover of the trenches, the Russian soldiers, under the cover of artillery, immediately carried out a counter-charge, and under the cover of machine-gun fire and artillery fire on the position, the first round of tentative attacks of the Japanese First Army was repulsed.
easily repelled the first wave of attacks of the Japanese army, and the Russian GIs returned to the trench with a smile, but Xu Yanwu, who was in the distance, shook his head helplessly when he saw this.
It was only the first round of testing by the Japanese, only one or two hundred people attacked, and the Russian army exposed all the machine-gun fire, as well as artillery fire.
Seeing this, Xu Yanwu no longer had any hope for the Russian Army, and directly evacuated the position where he could see the battlefield, went to the rear of the Japanese First Army, and joined the Red Alert soldiers waiting there.
In the rear of the First Japanese Army, almost a battalion of Red Guard soldiers were assembled, each wearing the uniform of the Joseon Dynasty, with a similar hairstyle, and each of them was fluent Smecta, no one could doubt their identity.
When Xu Yan came over at noon, the soldiers of this battalion were ready to go into battle at any time.
Disguised as the army of the Joseon Dynasty, they launched a surprise attack on the Japanese artillery, and ran away after the battle.
It's a very simple conspiracy, based on the fact that each of the Red Police soldiers has rich language skills, otherwise there will be some flaws in so many people.
After all, the Joseon Dynasty of this era did not have the courage to launch an attack on the Japanese army at all.
The Japanese First Army defended the artillery positions very tightly, although there were no balloons, but there were many defensive trenches built around it, and a large number of Japanese soldiers patrolled nearby, and ordinary people could not approach it at all.
Moreover, in order to conceal the artillery position, the Japanese also specially carried out meticulous camouflage in and around the artillery position, and it was difficult to find the traces of the artillery from a distance.
When the Japanese First Army officially launched an attack on the East Manchurian detachment, Xu Yanwu also led people to approach the periphery of the Japanese artillery position less than 1,000 meters.
Getting any closer, you will encounter a Japanese patrol, a squadron of Japanese Army responsible for the outer defense of the artillery brigade, and another squadron around the position to build a defensive offensive.
Xu Yanwu, who was lurking outside, waited patiently for the reconnaissance team to return.
At this moment, the Japanese First Army had launched an attack on all fronts, and the two main brigades and regiments attacked the East Manchurian detachment from the left and right flanks.
The artillery brigade of the First Army also completely suppressed the Russian artillery, and the artillery positions built more than a month ago are now in disarray, with few forty guns left.
On the long front, there were gunshots everywhere, the smoke of the battle quickly filled, and the sky became gloomy.
In the rear, the reconnaissance squad returned, also bringing with them the detailed defensive deployment of the Japanese artillery positions.
"A patrolling squadron, not equipped with machine guns, and a garrison squadron with four machine guns, four corners in front and behind the artillery position. There was no barbed wire fence in the defense, only shallow trenches. ”
After listening to the investigation report, Xu Yanwu said: "It is very in line with the character of Kuroki Weizhen, the attack will do his best, if there is no us, Kuroki Weizhen will win easily, but unfortunately, Xu someone can not be idle." ”
As soon as the words fell, Xu Yanwu waved his hand and gave an order: "We only have half an hour, whether we can destroy the Japanese artillery positions or not, we must retreat immediately." ”
There was only half an hour of chance, and whether it succeeded or not, the troops of the front line of the Japanese First Army would surround them.
Xu Yanwu didn't want his soldiers to make senseless sacrifices.
Five hundred Red Guard soldiers quietly walked through the woods, and in less than two minutes, they encountered the Japanese patrol.
The gunshots rang out, and soon it calmed down again.
A patrol squad of ten Japanese soldiers, without even a chance to shoot, fell under the guns of the snipers.
Not a very professional sniper, but at a distance of a few hundred meters, he can completely point where to shoot.
The troops advanced, the snipers accompanied the cover, and the other patrol squads that rushed to hear the gunshots also fell under the guns.
By the time the garrison squadron in the artillery position of the First Army became aware of it, the sound of gunfire was already ringing in the artillery position.
The Japanese soldiers, who practiced close quarters combat similar to the Russian Army, had never experienced a war of one shot at a time, and today, they saw it.
The four machine-gun positions on the defensive position, before a few shots were fired, had already fallen four or five Japanese soldiers, so frightened that the other Japanese soldiers on the side did not dare to touch the heavy machine guns that seemed to lead to the gates of hell.
The mute fire of four machine guns instantly lowered the defense of the Japanese artillery positions by several levels.
Many artillerymen in the artillery positions also hurriedly took up arms to support, and immediately sent cavalry communication troops to the front line for help.
At this moment, the garrison squadron of the artillery position is about to go crazy, and the enemy in front of him can clearly see that he is wearing the military uniform of the Joseon Dynasty, and the shouts are all in authentic Korean, but the opponent's marksmanship is completely unreasonable.
In less than three minutes, the garrison squadron had already paid two-thirds of the casualties, and if it weren't for the many artillery guns that took up arms to support, the defense line would have been broken through by the opponent.
The commander of the artillery brigade, Yamada Man, also brought all the soldiers in the brigade who could fight, to support, but the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground on their backs and died one by one made the morale of the other soldiers on the defense line drop to freezing point.
For all the Japanese soldiers, the opponent's marksmanship was so terrible that the moment the trench showed its head to fight back, it was often before it had time to retract, and the exposed head had already been pierced by bullets.
frightened many Japanese soldiers, they simply raised their weapons blindly and fired, not daring to look at the situation on the other side, and the gunfire and resistance quickly subsided.
On the other hand, on the side of the Red Police Force, there are only a dozen wounded, and there are no casualties.
And the defensive line of the Japanese artillery positions has been quickly broken through, and the defensive line that has lost the courage to resist is not much better than tofu.
Ten minutes later, the Japanese artillery position was completely destroyed by the superior Red Police, and hundreds of artillery pieces followed by all the shells, already buried in the violent explosion.
The support units that were hurriedly withdrawn from the front did not even see the shadow of the enemy.
At the scene, only one place was blown away by the explosion and the corpses were burned, and even the commander of the artillery brigade of the First Army, Mitsuru Yamada, became a corpse.