Chapter 45: Difficult to Support (7)

Lan Xun Zhou now regards this army as his own, and Xue Ru, who came from later generations, has no idea of establishing his own army, so it is not necessarily that Lan Xun Zhou does not. He is a staff officer of the group army headquarters and a close confidant of Xue Yue. Knowing that the commander attaches great importance to this brigade, of course he wants to hold this unit in his hands.

Who is He Shaozhou? That's Chief He's nephew, even if it's He Yingqin's son. Behind the Tax Police Corps is the Minister of Finance, now the Executive Premier, Song Ziwen. He Shaozhou left a company for no reason, of course he understood what it meant.

He didn't want to organize this company into a squadron independently, but Xue Ru had already spoken, so he couldn't say anything. Hearing Zhang Tong say this, he immediately ordered Xiao Yong's first squadron to split half of the red silk scarf and hand it to Zhang Tong.

In this way, this tax police squadron is no longer the original unit, and the number of the Eighth Army has been canceled from the armband, and it has become the Snow Fox Brigade.

Looking at Xiang Wenbin, who was still building a position, Xue Ru said: "Commander Xiang, what is Commander Yang's order?" ”

Xiang Wenbin couldn't help it, he didn't even have a single company of the rest of his people, but he didn't know when the 133rd Division would arrive in the future. The devils on the opposite side have already begun to board the rubber boat, and the attack will begin soon.

Hearing Xue Ru's question, he was a little dissatisfied, because the Snow Fox Brigade did not participate in repairing the position, that is, he did not plan to stick here. Seeing that they are all military uniforms of the Central Army, *, machine guns, pistols, and formal rifles, the Sichuan Army is compared with others, and it is called Hanako.

This kind of task of holding on to the position is, of course, the motley army of theirs. Half of the casualties of the tax police regiment were withdrawn to replenish, and the Sichuan army had only one regiment of its own, with only more than 100 people left, and there was still no order to withdraw.

But he still had two eggs in his coat pocket, which were given to him by a Chengdu citizen when he boarded the train. The children of the Sichuan army went out of Sichuan to resist the war, fought the national war, and they couldn't die in the face of the Sichuan people.

So he didn't ask for a word, but instructed the soldiers to repair positions and dig trenches. It's not bad, the captured Japanese equipment, Xue Ru doesn't want it, He Shaozhou can't use it, it's all owned by the 802nd Regiment. This made the Sichuan army, which was made by Hanyang and the old sleeve, finally replaced with Japanese rifles, as well as a lot of grenadiers and 92 machine guns.

Xiang Wenbin said lightly: "The division commander didn't have any instructions, just ordered us to hold on to the last shot and wait for the 133rd Division to take over the position." ”

Xue Ru was just about to speak, when the roar of an airplane came from the sky, and her face changed: "Commander Xiang, quickly, order your soldiers to retreat to the cotton field to conceal air defense." ”

Xiang Wenbin was stunned: "What about the position?" ”

Xue Ru didn't have time to explain: "The plane bombs the devil and can't attack." Evacuate quickly, what's the use of just your more than 100 people? Blue Chief of Staff, hidden, hiding from shelling. ”

Xiang Wenbin was even more stunned, how could it be an artillery bombardment? At this moment, the screech of shells was heard in the distance. It was still Xiao Yong who had a lot of experience, and led people to lurk in the cotton field not far away. The small cotton seedlings hid the soldiers.

Tian Jiasheng followed Xue Ru and them, and took his own people to hide. Xiang Wenbin didn't know what to do, anyway, there were only more than 100 people on the battlefield, leading the soldiers to withdraw.

Before they could be hidden, the first shells landed on the position, kicking up a cloud of dirt and smoke. Last night there was a rain, the land was wet, there was no dust, it was all mud.

This is the signal, and the shells are falling all over the place. Planes in the sky also dived and bombed, machine-gun fire. The entire section of the Qiaoting Mansion to the Epiphany Temple was immediately filled with gunsmoke, and the world was turned upside down.

The soldiers lying on the ground could feel the earth trembling, and Xue Ru turned over to Xiang Wenbin's side: "Commander Xiang, don't move your soldiers for a while." Without an order not to enter the position. ”

Xiang Wenbin looked at the positions that had been turned over one by one, and somewhat understood, if he didn't withdraw and hide, it was estimated that he would have no one now. "Why?" he asked. ”

Xue Ru said: "I will explain again when I have time, my people will go first." Waving his hand, Lan Xunzhou, Xiao Yong, Qiao Han, and Liu Yuanshan called over, and whispered again, several people nodded again and again, and they all climbed back to their squadrons to arrange.

Xue Ru called Tian Jiasheng and said, "You see the Epiphany Temple in the distance, right?" Take your squadron, where to ambush, as soon as the devil goes in, give me a hard beating, and the chief of staff of the ammunition blue will give it to you. “

Tian Jiasheng hesitated, this was a defensive operation, Xue Ru didn't let them stick to the front line, and the Epiphany Temple was a mile or two away from the bank of the river. Isn't that the same as giving up the riverbank position to the devils?

But now that he is a member of the Snow Fox Brigade, he hesitated a little and nodded in agreement. Xue Ru didn't say anything more, but gestured to Wen Bin to wait here. When these arrangements were made, the Japanese planes staggered away, and they * cast light, and the time was up, so they had no choice but to return.

Xue Ru waved his hand, Tian Jiasheng led his squadron, took some of the bullets in their hands during the Blue Flood Week, and quickly ran towards the Epiphany Temple. The Temple of Epiphany is a small temple that is surrounded by many temple properties, forming a small village. and the bridge pavilion house into a horn momentum, guarding this section of the riverbank, to prevent the devil from attacking in depth.

There are still monks in the temple, but the mountain gate has been opened, and the surrounding walls are still intact, much stronger than the bridge pavilion house on the side.

Since they were ambushed here, Tian Jiasheng and Zhang Tong were no strangers to this kind of battle, so they immediately dispersed the whole company, seized the commanding heights, arranged machine gun fire points and crossfire, and blocked the road on the flank, especially in the direction of the road to attack Qiaoting's house.

As soon as the shelling weakened, Lan Xun Zhou led three squadrons and pounced on the positions built by the 802nd Regiment. These soldiers who can ascend to the position cannot see the position at all. The trenches that had been painstakingly dug were razed to the ground by aircraft artillery, leaving only some huge craters and shallow trenches.

The three squadron leaders did not have time to build positions, and their individual men lay down and scattered in craters and trenches. There is no need for binoculars at all, the devil's infantry and artillery coordination is okay, and when the artillery fire is extended, the Japanese army has already taken a rubber boat to cross Yunzaobang and go ashore to attack.

The commander of the 18th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Nobutoki Ide, commanded the attack, and although the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties, the Japanese barely advanced. The 18th Brigade was replenished and put into operation again, with each wing consisting of three integrated brigades of more than 2,500 men.

After two or three months of continuous operations, the Japanese side has understood that in the Shanghai area, the squadron attack will not solve the problem, and every attack is based on the brigade, otherwise the attack will be a failure.

The Japanese General Staff Headquarters had already understood what was wrong, and that it should not increase its troops one by one, and if it had invested enough troops at one time, Shanghai might have been occupied long ago.

This idea was soon implemented in the grassroots wings, so that every commander no longer despised the Chinese defenders, and the attack was based on brigades.

It was a tentative attack, limited to the number of rubber boats, and only one squadron could come over the first time, followed by the 2nd squadron. A company of three squadrons crossed the river and attacked the positions of the Chinese troops under the command of Uaki Junan Nakasa.

The cohesion and coordination of military operations is crucial. Obviously, the Japanese army's infantry and artillery coordination is also average, and the ground-air coordination is even more inadequate, and there is some disconnection between offensive battles. But even so, the rigid command of the Chinese army is no match for others.

For Xue Ru, the national army is not a problem of backward tactical thinking at all, it is simply an act of not having a long brain. As long as the command is flexible, there is no worry about not being able to defeat the devil.

In later generations, there will be radar, radio communications, even remote sensing technology and satellite technology, and the global GPS positioning system. As far as Japan is concerned, the weapons and tactics of the First World War are simply a pile of rubbish.

If it weren't for his strong self-confidence, how could Xue Ru dare to attack with 500 people and attack more than 2,000 people in a wing of the Japanese army at night. The continuous victories not only skyrocketed the self-confidence of the Snow Fox Brigade, but even Xue Ru was full of confidence.

I constantly recalled what I knew about the summary of the tactics of the Japanese army by later generations, and at the same time adjusted it according to the changes in the battlefield. It can be said that Xue Ru even estimated the psychology of the Japanese army, how could he not win the battle.

Yuzhao Jun An Zhongzuo was not so worried, he was trying to attack, and he was also covering the follow-up brigade to cross the river. At the same time, it has also been proved countless times that under the bombardment of aircraft and artillery, there is not much left of the Chinese army, and the resistance will not be too strong.

In the past few months of fighting, the imperial army basically relied on aircraft, artillery and chariots to occupy important points during the day, and at night the Chinese army recaptured with several times the casualties, and the cycle continued until the Chinese army could not afford to retreat with casualties.

In this burst of artillery bombardment and bombardment, Yuzhao Jun An Zhongsa thought that there would not be many people on the defenders' positions. The attack was not too cautious, and the troops were scattered and attacked forward in an offensive formation tens of meters wide.

When they were three or four hundred meters away from the position, the Chinese troops could be seen entering the position through the telescope, but there were not many of them. When entering the 200 meters, there was not a single shot fired from the position.

Yuzhao Jun An Zhongzuo is already relieved, I don't know if the Chinese army can resist, maybe it has been bombarded stupidly, right?

Yuzhao Junan thought this because the Chinese army began to shoot from a distance of 300 meters, thus exposing the point of fire and destroying the opponent's machine gun position with a few shots from the grenadier. With accurate shooting and good tactical skills, the soldiers basically worked.

But this time it was close to two hundred meters, and there was still not a single shot. It may be that the Chinese army is already frightened, or there are too few people. The Japanese could not stop and continue to advance.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred and twenty meters, there is still no movement, and Yuzhao Jun An Zhongzuo is a little unaccustomed to such a battle. Just as he was slowly attacking forward, he didn't know that there were more than 400 people scattered across the entire position, and each detachment leader was assigning targets.

Tell the soldiers not to shoot if they are not sure, to be sure of the distance, and to be sure whether the battle is won depends on the first shot.

This is not a random shooting, a detachment of ten people, the devil is a brigade of eight hundred people, and it is not a small area to spread out. The soldier is not nervous, steady and aiming like a sniper. For the bullets fired by the Japanese machine guns, they simply ignored it, this is Xue Ru's tactic, accurate sniper shooting.

Each soldier has his eyes on his target. According to the order, already optimistic about the place where they retreated. At a distance of eighty meters, he could already clearly see the face of the devil, Xue Ru raised the rifle in his hand, this was a Japanese 38 rifle. It can't be helped, its recoil is light, and although the pointed bullet is less lethal, it is very accurate.

The muzzle of her gun shook with Yu Zhao Jun'an, this guy has a command knife in his hand and a telescope around his neck, and at first glance he is the supreme commander, of course he is the first to eliminate him.

Xue Ru didn't know that Xiao Yong and Dai Zong's two guns were also aimed at Yu Zhaojun An Zhongzuo. The Grim Reaper has already labeled him, and Yuzhao Junan doesn't know anything about it. Fan Tiezhu moved his machete, and in his hand were two Czech light machine guns. Hercules is playing with two machine guns. He was a little nervous and gasped, and he looked at the devil with a crooked machine gun in the distance, which was Lao Tzu.

"Bah" A crisp gunshot, a ball of blood burst out on Yu Zhao Junan's head, but Xue Ru saw at the same time that two blood holes appeared on Yu Zhao Junan's body, which means that someone is just like himself, targeting the devil commander.

There was a burst of gunfire, like a gust of wind, and the devils fell in pieces. There were more than 400 people on the position, and although it was not used to reach 100 percent, it definitely exceeded the hit rate of 60 or 70 percent.

Like a hurricane sweeping through a sorghum field, the devil fell in pieces. The brigade commander Nobutoki Ide, who was holding a telescope in the back, and the wing commander Hitomi Hidemi, the three Sasa, trembled in their hearts.

But they were more than happy, which proves that the Imperial soldiers reacted quickly and almost all of them lay down. The trembling in their hearts was that they all saw Yu Zhao Jun Anzhong Zuoyu broken. It is not easy for the Japanese army to suffer casualties and lose a single Shaozuo, this is Zhongzuo.

What was even more strange was that there was no more gunfire from the position, just a round of shooting, and the entire defensive position became quiet again. What kind of tactic is this? In just a few tens of seconds, the attacking devils did not stand up, they were shooting back. But he didn't know where to fight, and only one shot was fired from the position. The soldiers, having finished shooting, immediately switched positions and left their original places. Even the Japanese soldiers, who reacted quickly, did not hit the Chinese troops who were blocking the attack.

The order to attack came from behind, and when the squadron leader who took over the command commanded the devil to attack forward, Hitomi Xiu Sanzuo almost didn't lie down. Because only half of the soldiers stood up. What is the reason for that? It's a round of shooting, and half of the casualties of a brigade.

People saw that Xiu Sanzuo went crazy: "Machine guns, machine guns, cover." ”

Dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese offensive positions emitted bursts of flames, and bullets poured down on the Chinese army's defensive positions like a torrential rain.

On the battlefield, Lan Xunzhou's face was proud. Xiao Yong put his finger to his mouth and let out a long whistle, and all the soldiers began to crawl backwards, not standing up, they were withdrawing from their positions.

Seeing that there were no people who fought back, the attacking devils became emboldened, and the squadron leader Ye Zhen Mishun, who commanded in front, wanted to speed up and not give the Shina army a chance to counterattack, shouting and leading the remaining soldiers to rush to the defenders' positions dozens of meters away.

When he rushed up, he saw an empty position, and in the distance were retreating Chinese soldiers. ”