Chapter 37 The Follow-up of the Shelling with Fate
Early in the morning, foggy. Xiao Fei, who had been tossing all night www.biquge.info asked everyone to hide in a temporary shelter made of camouflage oilcloth to rest. The Japanese soldiers, who were tortured to death, also took advantage of the cover of the fog and began to run out of their bunkers to help the wounded.
This fog, so thick that it was impossible to see objects ten meters away, was considered by the Japanese to be an effective way to block the other side's view. In fact, the shelling stopped because the traversers slept except for the sentries. The fog can't block the infrared lens of the FS3 target sight, it just blocks its laser designation.
In fact, there were not many wounded that the Japanese army could get back, and the temperature on the Liaodong Peninsula was below zero at night at this time, and those Japanese soldiers who were injured and could not move on their own had already hung up because of low body temperature.
Several officers of the Japanese army hid in bunkers and discussed how to deal with such a situation that had never been encountered before. This kind of artillery bombardment at night with outrageous precision is really so strange that it is completely beyond their understanding. Some of these officers had studied at the top military academies in Europe, but the attacks on this method were unheard of.
The large curved trajectory of this shell falling from the sky is easy to understand, and it is nothing more than shelling with the improved artillery of the Navy's mortars. But how does the enemy manage to find a target at night? And how to correct the landing point of the shell at night?
The officers' discussions were inconclusive, and the traversers on this side found that the Japanese troops had come out of their bunkers again, and the shelling had begun again. As long as you dare to get more than five people together, you risk being shelled.
What? The foggy weather is also not mischievous, and it is still as accurate as last night? The Japanese officers were completely blindsided this time. I thought the other party was just a vampire and could see at night. I didn't expect people to still see through the eyes, and they could see it like a foggy day.
An officer, who had not experienced the last battle, proposed to send cavalry units to search and raid the opposing artillery positions when the fog cleared.
The other officers looked at him with stupid eyes, if we dare to cross the Saddle River, why are we digging trenches here with so much effort? Sending cavalry across the river to search, without the enemy sending out those chariots, can just set up the kind of machine gun that the base camp thinks is sold by Maxim, and the cavalry can be completely sudden.
The officers came to the conclusion that the best thing to do at the moment was to blow up the bridge, then abandon the fortifications and retreat back out of the range of the enemy's artillery. But if you retreat, you will have to return to Fuzhou City, and the landing site of Huayuankou will be completely exposed.
If they did not retreat, the officers really did not know if the other side would immediately retreat when the morale of the soldiers was extremely low now.
After all, the power of 81-mm mortar shells is limited, and the number of people killed in one night is also limited, and if it were in a normal battle, such a casualty rate Japanese soldiers could bear. However, the mental pressure on the soldiers caused by this random shelling was too great.
The situation was not estimated in advance by both the side that shelled and the side that was shelled. After this round of shelling through the fog, the Japanese soldiers no longer believed the officers' arguments that the enemy could not see them, and began to refuse to carry out their missions outside the bunker.
In the mountainous area of Fuzhou City, Genji received urgent information from the cavalry three times in one night. The first was to report that the positions along the Anzi River were being shelled by the enemy's high-powered mortars, and the suspicion that the enemy would launch a night offensive called for reinforcements.
After receiving this information, Genji Yamachi immediately sent reinforcements, the fortifications along the Saddle River have not yet been completed, and the artillery sent by the Japanese mainland is still on the way, so at this time, it is necessary to rely on the terrain to withstand this enemy of unknown origin.
In the second half of the night, the cavalry sent a second intelligence, and the enemy was only shelling and did not launch an attack on all fronts. Only then did Genji Yamagi remember that during the day, a freed soldier brought back a message saying that the unit calling itself the First Volunteer Brigade had asked the Japanese army to send the rations needed by the prisoners of war. If a retaliatory strike is carried out if it is not given, it seems that this shelling is the so-called retaliatory strike.
After hearing this message, he didn't take it seriously at all, and ordered the soldier to be imprisoned and not to bother with the matter. What a retaliatory strike, hmph, as long as the fortifications and trenches of the Saddle River defense line are dug, they will be able to hold back those strange chariots. Then attack Jinzhou City from Jinzhou Avenue to cut off their retreat.
Is the so-called retaliation only shelling? It would be too arrogant to want to bring the Imperial Japanese Army to its knees with artillery bombardment.
When it was almost dawn, the cavalry sent the latest information, because the opponent's artillery landing point was very accurate, there were a large number of casualties, and the morale was very low. The soldiers could only hide in bunkers, not daring to go out to ask for help from the wounded.
At this time, the mountain Motoji found out that this first volunteer brigade was not a joke. However, since they have opened their mouths to blackmail, there is hope for negotiations. He immediately sent someone to report the situation to the commander of the Second Army, Oyama Yan, who was at the entrance of the garden.
It was morning, and when the sun came out, the fog had cleared. But the Japanese troops hid in bunkers and did not dare to come out to continue digging trenches and repairing fortifications.
The traversers did not wait for the Japanese army's reply on the matter of grain and grass, and Zhao Yi was also very surprised when he heard Xiao Fei's report on last night's shelling.
The morale of the Japanese army after being shelled was so low that it completely exceeded his estimates. It seems that the last time they suffered a loss from mortars, the Japanese army has not yet figured out a way to deal with it. Except for a few bunkers with sandbags on tops, none of the fortifications were up to anti-artillery standards, and the trenches that were built straight were a joke.
In view of the fact that the Japanese had not yet compromised and that the 81mm mortars were running out of ammunition after a night of shelling, Zhao Yi and Lu Xiangyang discussed and decided to send 120mm mortars to replace the 81mm mortars.
An hour later, the 120-mm heavy mortar was deployed. The frontal bombardment of bunkers with sandbags from 81-mm mortars was not particularly effective. When the 120 mortars were in place, Xiao Fei asked the observers to guide the M120 120mm mortars to try to bombard the bunkers that were filled with Japanese troops.
The 120-mm mortar shells were larger and heavier, and the primer charge was larger than that of the 81-mm shell, so the kinetic energy of the shell when it fell was greater, and with more warhead charge, those Japanese bunkers that were hit collapsed.
Then the Japanese soldiers in the bunkers who were not hit also collapsed, and no matter how the Japanese officers tried to stop them, they just ran to the back line.
However, those bunkers in the rear lines that were not shelled last night are not safe today. Last night, the traverser used an 81-mm mortar with a range of only 4,200 meters, while the 120-mm mortar used today has a range of 7,200 meters. The bunker in depth, which was not able to be reached last night, can be obtained today.
Oyama Rock is typically short and tight, and has lost vision in one eye due to cataracts. He was a little surprised when he received the report from Motoji Mountain, who had already received a message from the released soldier yesterday, and only sent it to him today. It seems that yesterday Motoharu Yayama didn't take the warning issued by the First Volunteer Brigade seriously at all. This is also normal, the Imperial Army still has more than 10,000 troops on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the strength is still increasing. Although it was defeated by this unit of unknown origin the day before yesterday, the 1st Division had stepped up its fortifications, and the mainland was also stepping up the delivery of artillery. It is only a matter of time before this force of unknown origin is encircled and annihilated, and its blackmail can be completely ignored.
But today Genji Yamagi reported the matter again, and it seems that the situation is not as literal as it seems that "the position was shelled by the enemy, and there were casualties." "It's so simple with just a few numbers.
The Japanese army is also an army that likes to play games, such as the famous "tactical guidance" and "tactical transfer" during World War II, and it is the only one that talks so tactfully about asking for help and retreating.
Dashan Yan remembered the description of this force by Krilman and Koeman, short hair, strange coats, soldiers who knew English, strange chariots. Corman even highlighted their English accents in country Texas. This pot can only be carried by the "props group", all the templates of the US military clone soldiers are Texans, who is to blame for the accent of the traverser?
1st Volunteer Brigade of Royal Marines? Where's the royal? Emperor of the Qing Dynasty? Or are they the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? How many of them are there? Is it really the Marines? And where is their fleet? Can the fleet of the Imperial Navy in the waters of the Liaodong Peninsula defend against their fleet?
There are a lot of problems in Dashanyan's brain. But since they are asking for food, it must be that they are running out of supplies, so it is better to spend it with them. However, the tone of this report seems to be difficult to parry just because of the shelling of the other side, how can it be consumed with them?
If Zhao Yi knew that Da Shanyan also had the idea of spending time with him, it was estimated that he would wake up laughing in the middle of the night. The traverser with a hard population base is now most afraid of the Japanese army playing a deadly pig spurt, although the Japanese have a more important strategic purpose, and the possibility of doing so is very small.
Speaking of consumption, the ammo of the traverser is not bought with money, unless the "director team" wants to show this GG, otherwise the replenishment of ammo will be replenished in D+15. The supplies of the Japanese had to be transported from the mainland, and now the Japanese army did not occupy Dalian Bay, and there was no trestle bridge at Huayuankou. It was only possible to row six kilometers by manpower on sampans to transport supplies from the transport ship to the shore.
If after D+15, the "director team" increases the reserve of traverser aerial bombs, then the supply line of the Japanese army is even more tragic. The entire campaign took place in a circle with a radius of 80 kilometers, and at a speed of about 450 kilometers per hour at the speed of the North American Mustang OV-10D, the transport ships close to the supply had only the fate of sinking to the bottom of the sea.
It is also difficult for Dashan Yan to choose, and concentrating all his forces to besiege this force is not in line with the established strategic goals and interests. Even if he relied on crowd tactics to make up for the lack of equipment and defeat the other side, judging from the previous battle loss ratio, his second army would really be completely abandoned. This kind of pyrrhic victory is unacceptable to the base camp.
But accept their blackmail, and those young Zhuang officers who have been brainwashed by the spirit of bushido will rebel. And the No. 1 Volunteer Brigade didn't say that it would end the hostilities if it gave grain and grass, and it just stopped the so-called retaliatory strike.
Dashanyan also hurts when you think about it, you want to capture our soldiers as prisoners, and we didn't ask you to catch them, why do you want us to give food. It's a classic ass to decide the brain.
If Zhao Yi hears the idea of Dashanyan, he will definitely spray back like this, this is the land of Dahuaxia, and we didn't invite you to come, why can't we arrest your soldiers.