Chapter 8: Chaotic D-DAY (6)
The encounter lasted just over ten minutes, from start to finish. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info ended with Lü Xiangyang's mountain troops retreating safely to the grove to the west.
After the two 60 mortars of the mountain infantry stopped firing, the Japanese cavalry retreated to the woods behind the place where the charge was launched.
In the open space between the two woods, the wounded cavalrymen were screaming loudly, some were crying for help, some were praying in despair. The wounded horses tried to get up, but the high-powered rifle rounds from the M240 machine gun caused them fatal wounds, and they could only try in vain. Snorting helplessly, or screaming in grief, when the blood drains from the wound, they will come to the end of their lives.
Soon the scavenging birds will follow the smell of blood, and the clearing between the two woods will be a terrible scene of the hell of the earth.
And on the positions from which the mountain infantry had withdrawn, there was nothing left except for the bullet casings that were sprinkled on the ground and still had residual warmth.
At this time, Koike Shunichi, supported by his adjutant, sat down against a pine tree. He was not injured, but he was frightened by the terrifying picture of the massacre just now, and the whole person was in a trance.
The shocking scene of machine-gun crossfire on the cavalry charging team gave Koike Shunichi and his men a huge impact. Everywhere the Iron Storm went, blood splattered, and there were severed arms and stumps everywhere. A few unlucky cavalrymen, who had received more than one bullet, were cut in two as if they had been cut in half. The picture was so cruel that people didn't dare to look at it directly.
Koike Shunichi had long since lost his pre-war spirits, leaning against the pine trees, his eyes closed, his brows furrowed, and a look of pain.
The adjutant despised him for his death-defying appearance, and walked over with a kettle.
"Your Excellency, please drink water." The adjutant handed the unscrewed water bottle to Koike Shunichi's hand.
The adjutant's attitude towards Shunichi Koike is understandable. In his opinion, this Chinese-born Zhongzuo is a complete gentleman, a straw bale with no real materials. This cavalry attack to aid the operation against Jinzhou should have been led by the captain of the cavalry brigade, Akiyama Yoshiko.
Koike Shunichi relied on his Chinese origin to repeatedly ask the commander Yasumi Oji to fight. Fools can see that in the past ten days since the Imperial Army landed at Huayuankou in Liaodong, the Qing army has not organized resistance at all, and his actions are completely for the purpose of grabbing credit.
Oji Yasujun hindered Koike Shunichi's Chinese identity, so he led three squadrons of cavalry to march to Jinshu first, and cooperated with Nogi Noshinori Osa to capture Jinshu Castle.
After encountering the enemy, Koike Shunichi carelessly underestimated the enemy, and without conducting fire reconnaissance, he let the two squadrons launch a charge on horseback. After the attack was frustrated, he did not know how to be flexible, and even pressed all the reserves to attack the enemy's fire network with continuous fire weapons.
In the eyes of the adjutant, Shunichi Koike was the culprit of the fiasco in this battle. His stupid orders for quick success resulted in nearly half of the casualties of this vanguard force. However, as an adjutant, he had to bring the bale commander back to his senses and continue to exercise command.
Koike Shunichi took the kettle, took a sip of it, and opened his eyes in pain, looking like a patient suffering from hemorrhoids and constipation.
"Immediately report to Oji Yasumun, we were ambushed by the main force of the Qing army, the enemy carried a large number of burst weapons, our army suffered heavy losses, and asked for reinforcements." Shunichi Koike gave the order to the adjutant.
Sure enough, he is from a Chinese family, although his ability to command combat is very mediocre, but his ability to whitewash guilt is very good. Only then did he come back to his senses from the trance of being annihilated by nearly half of the troops, and the war report of this shirking of responsibility came to his mouth, and the adjutant complained in his heart. It's just that the main force of the Qing army, what the hell is the ambush? Who has ever seen a main force of sixty or seventy men? You can't bear not to give him full marks for this pot-throwing skill.
"In addition, after the bloody battles of our loyal warriors, the Qing army has been surrounded in the woods, and I implore that artillery units be sent as soon as possible to encircle and annihilate them." Koike's addition surprised his lieutenant even more.
The adjutant felt that his three views were completely ruined, and at this time he just wanted to shout, I have never seen such a brazen person.
At this time, the Japanese troops, due to the cold guns of the enemy on the opposite side, did not dare to emerge from the woods, and could only let the wounded wail in the open field, but did not dare to come forward to help. Where did this come from to contain the enemy?
In another wooded area 600 meters away from the Japanese army, Lu Xiangyang was not optimistic about the situation of his troops.
With reasonable tactics and absolute superiority in firepower compared to the opponent, the mountain troops were able to retreat into the woods and avoid being slashed by the Japanese cavalry at close range.
But the ammunition consumption of the troops is very large, especially the machine-gun bullets, after the frenzied strafing fire, there is not much left. The mortar shells were all fired, and the two artillery squads could only be used as infantry until they were replenished with shells.
The M249 light machine gun is a 5.56mm NATO rifle cartridge, which is common to the ammunition of the M16 assault rifle and M4 carbine used by the infantry. If you get together, you can still squeeze out a little ammunition for the M249. The M240 machine gun uses a 7.62 mm full-power rifle round, which is the caliber of bullets used by no one in this mountain unit except for a few precision shooters who use the M25 sniper rifle. How much extra medicine can you expect a precision shooter to carry?
There was only one wounded fighter, but the situation was bad. The artery in the right thigh was hit, and there was massive blood loss. The combat medics put a tourniquet on him to slow down the rate of blood loss. However, the tourniquet must be untied every short period of time to allow the body tissue under the tourniquet to restore blood circulation, otherwise the lower limbs of the injured person will die due to ischemia. In such a situation, the wounded man's leg has no choice but to amputate it. However, when the tourniquet is untied, blood gushes out of the wound and the casualty dies from massive blood loss.
If the operation could not be performed as soon as possible, the paramedics had to give up the wounded man's right leg to save his life. The paramedics gave the wounded intravenous drips and fluids to maintain his blood volume and cause his vital organs to fail due to ischemia.
After entering the woods, Lu Xiangyang reported the battle situation here in detail through the radio to the commander of the green paint area, and the fierce battle just now made him unable to interrupt the conversation with the green paint area.
During the call, he was told that GPS positioning was not possible due to the lack of satellite signals. Communications technicians can only roughly mark their direction by radio signals, and their approximate location is fifteen kilometers northwest of the green paint zone.
The good news was that before the battle began, the base had sent a "Stryker" wheeled reconnaissance armored vehicle and a squad of infantry in their direction. And the base will send air support, and with their close proximity to the base, it is expected to arrive in ten minutes.
After the call, Lu Xiangyang informed his subordinates that the Green Paint District would send air support. In fact, there was no need for him to report it, when he was still talking to Zhao Yi on the radio, the soldiers around him passed the news to his nearby comrades-in-arms mouth-to-mouth.
Hearing that air support and armored vehicles were about to arrive, the soldiers cheered. They have always had strong air support from their training to fighting in the mountains of Afghanistan. Even if the complex mountainous terrain seriously weakens the power of air strikes, it will not be difficult to drop supplies by air.
Now facing a shortage of ammunition and medicine, he is still hiding in the woods and confronting the opposing cavalry. It's something they've never encountered before, but it's not a problem anymore. After the arrival of air support and armored vehicles, they left the grove without fear of lack of ammunition, and the Japanese cavalry hung their tails in pursuit.
Green paint area, in the command center. After making contact with the mountain troops for the first time, Zhao Yi was told that the troops had exchanged fire with the Japanese cavalry. Although the commander of the mountain troops rushed to command the defense and interrupted his conversation, the communications corps maintained communication with the command center.
Through the communication soldier's description of the battle situation, Zhao Yi learned that the exchange of fire with the mountain troops was a cavalry wearing black uniforms and waving the Japanese chapter flag.
Black uniforms? Japanese Army? Zhao Yi was a little puzzled, didn't the Japanese Army all wear khaki uniforms? How did someone wearing a black military uniform come out of nowhere? The anti-Japanese drama has tricked me again?
Zhao Yi issued an order for personnel who were familiar with the history of the Japanese army's operations in northern China to report to the command center.
A soldier who was a freshman before the crossing came to the command center to report. Soon, Zhao Yi found that the only one in the whole base came to his life, and it was only because it was not a long time before he went through the college entrance examination, he still remembered the content of his high school history textbook, and he had read a few posts about the Japanese invasion of China in his spare time.
Zhao Yi scolded Huaxia for not shouting patriotic education every day, how can there be a huge base, and none of the nearly 300 people is familiar with the history of their motherland being invaded by this small country. He seems to have completely ignored the fact that he was not very aware of this history.
However, this young man named Li Bin, although he has not reached the level of familiarity with this history. However, it gave Zhao Yi full confidence to give the order for the plane to take off and provide air support.
According to Li Bin's description, the Japanese Army wore black uniforms to fight in northern China for about a few periods of time.
First, during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army that fought against the Qing army wore black uniforms.
Second, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded, the Japanese Army also wore black uniforms.
Third, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army fought with the Russian army in northeast China, and it also wore black military uniforms.
Fourth, during World War I, in order to fish in troubled waters, Japan suddenly declared war on Germany and sent troops to the Jiaozhou Peninsula in Shandong, the Japanese Army also wore black uniforms.
Although the black uniforms of the Japanese army alone cannot tell the exact era in which they appeared, for Zhao Yi, this is enough.
Even the last conjecture was met by the Japanese army during World War I. The North American Mustang OV-10D at the base was also safe to take off to provide air support.
The OV-10D is not the kind of monkey version of the castration that was exported to the Filipino monkeys. The North American Mustang OV-10D used by the U.S. Marine Corps is equipped with AN/AAS-39 forward-looking infrared detection and laser indication system, while the OV-10D in the green paint area is even more frustrated with a high-definition camera system for drones under the intimate care of the "props group".
During World War I, the great powers generally did not have powerful ground-based air defense weapons, let alone Japan, which was a quasi-great power. As for those biplane fighters during World War I, don't be funny, just their speed and armament, the four M60C 7.62mm machine guns of the 0V-10D can turn them into scum in seconds.
After receiving Zhao Yiyi's explanation and order, pilots Hao Dajian and Li Sifeng confidently took off and rushed to Lu Xiangyang's location.