Chapter 64: Some People Are Just Lucky (Four Watches)
When Shunichi Koike received this task, his face was even more ugly than eating excrement. The so-called best record against the First Volunteer Brigade www.biquge.info what is actually going on, can he not know it himself?
He still remembers the situation of that day, and at the beginning of the battle, both sides did not behave so professionally. Koike Shunichi arrogantly believed that the Chinese soldiers were all vulnerable East Asian sick men, so they did not send a guard sentry to the front when they drank horses in the brook in the woods. And the people on the other side seemed to be resting on the side of the road at that time, and they did not send a guard post in the direction of the Japanese army.
When Koike Shunichi came out of the woods with a cavalry unit, he met this unit of the 1st Volunteer Brigade head-on. As soon as the fire was fired, this unit completely changed, and it was not at all the amateur grade just now.
Encountering a cavalry charge at such a close distance of three hundred meters, they quickly organized the fire of the counterattack and retreated in an orderly manner into the woods that were not conducive to the cavalry charge.
After both sides retreated into the woods to form a confrontation, this unit of dozens of people of the First Volunteer Brigade used all kinds of advanced weapons in their hands to bloodied Koike Shunichi and them. When their reinforcements arrived, they also launched an attack on the Japanese troops hiding in the pine forest, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the offensive was devastating.
I don't know why they didn't pursue Koike Shunichi, otherwise he wouldn't have the so-called best record against the 1st Volunteer Brigade now.
Although Koike Shunichi is a gentleman, he has the gambling genes of the Yamato nation in his blood. The difficulty of this task to snatch the weapons of the First Volunteer Brigade was conceivable, but he finally chose to accept it.
Although the Japanese troops on the Pulandian front provided detailed reports on the patrol's movements in recent days, including the number of patrols, the general equipment, the route of movement, and the specific time of the activity. However, Shunichi Koike, who had fought against the 1st Volunteer Brigade, knew the speed of the opponent's reinforcements arriving. As long as the ambush is dragged into the rhythm of a stalemate by the patrol, the operation is basically a failure.
However, if he can lead the troops to achieve the success of this operation, it will be of great help to Koike Shunichi in his future career in the army. The captured advanced weapons will be delivered to the base camp along with the report of the battle, and will even be presented to the Emperor's Imperial Inspection. Then his name will be remembered by those bigwigs in the base camp, and he can even reach the heavens. And he will continue to maintain his reputation for the best record against the 1st Volunteer Brigade. No matter what kind of blood the Japanese army was inflicted on this 1st Volunteer Brigade in the future, he will always be the first person to seize advanced weapons from the enemy.
The gambling gene is at work, and Koike Shunichi feels the blood rushing to his brain, as if he saw that he was awarded a medal by the emperor and given a war horse and a sword. However, after the blood had subsided, he began to carefully and seriously look through the several combat plans provided by the staff officers of the division headquarters.
The children of the gentlemen are life-saving, they just don't learn and don't know how to do it, it's not that they have a problem with their intelligence. Koike Toshichi looked at the plan provided by the staff officer, and the plan that could quickly escape after succeeding was definitely his first choice.
This plan is negative! You have a hole in your head, you used 2,000 troops to participate in the ambush, and you wanted to grab the other party's cars, but you told me, where am I hiding these 2,000 people? Also, in the unlikely event that the 1st Volunteer Brigade mistook such a large number of troops for the main force attacking them and threw a large number of troops and combat vehicles into the ambush battlefield, who would guarantee my safety?
This plan is also negative! Attacking the forward posts of the 1st Volunteer Brigade at night, how can you give me a few hundred soldiers in the army who are not night blind. Also, we haven't crossed the Saddle River for almost a month, so why do you tell me where the forward post of the 1st Volunteer Brigade is?
Or is this plan reliable, camouflage, wait for the patrol to approach, launch a surprise attack, and retreat when you grab something. Take two doors to run, and in case you enter a stalemate battle, you can also seize the time to gamble. I like this, so let's choose this plan.
After choosing a combat plan, Shunichi Koike led people to stagger the patrol schedule of the 1st Volunteer Brigade and went to the scene to investigate the location of the ambush. In fact, there are not many places to choose from for ambushes, otherwise the staff officers of the division headquarters would not have made such a strange plan as a night attack on the forward outpost.
After crossing the Anzi River, the Japanese army did not know the situation there at all, and did not dare to send people to investigate. And without the obstruction of the Anzi River, the heavy chariots of the First Volunteer Brigade can come to support at any time.
The distance from the north bank of the Anzi River to the Japanese front line is only a few kilometers, and the closer you get to the Japanese front line, the higher the alertness of the patrol will be, and the success rate of the ambush will be lower. Therefore, Koike Shunichi had to choose the ambush site on a section of the road with trees on both sides, although the ambush force did not have any good terrain to use, but after the attacked patrol retreated, they could use an abandoned small village not far away to hold on.
However, the woods on the side of the road were the only place where hundreds of Japanese soldiers could hide, and no other place could provide space for so many soldiers to camouflage and hide. What? You say that you will reduce the number of people involved in the ambush, are you stupid, there are so many opponents in weapons and equipment, you don't take people to fill them, and you still want to grab other people's weapons?
On the eve of the ambush, Koike Shunichi went to the ambush site with more than 400 Japanese soldiers. The Japanese army has already noticed that every time the 1st Volunteer Brigade has a large military operation, the "big kite" that will appear in the sky is a flying object like a hot air balloon, and it is very likely that there are enemy scouts on it. They chose to carry out the ambush at night in order to avoid the detection of the "big kite". In fact, the OV-10D is a night model of this series of attack aircraft, but it just so happens that the North American Mustang that has recently crossed the crowd has not taken off to carry out reconnaissance missions, otherwise it would be impossible for such a large number of Japanese troops to gather together without being detected by the infrared detection system.
Traveling through the time and space from which everyone comes from, it is often said that the details determine success or failure. The woods where Koike chose to hide did not have enough fallen leaves to camouflage more than 400 Japanese soldiers, so the Japanese chose to find enough fallen leaves from other places.
However, many of the improvised leaves are not of the same species as the trees in the woods. This small detail, discovered by the sharp-eyed vanguard, led to the Japanese having to rush to charge when the patrol did not enter the best position.
What Koike Shunichi didn't know was that his opponents had each experienced double-digit ambushes before coming to the Liaodong Peninsula. Those who do not observe the nuances have long since been dismantled into parts by the IED, or have been shot in the head by a sniper rifle.
For a long time, they had to look at some seemingly innocuous household garbage to see a thread used to guide the bomb. Or find a small barrel sticking out from a distance of 100 meters. When patrolling, it seems to be casual and relaxed, and his mouth is chatting non-stop, but in fact, his heart is trembling, and his eyes are closely watching everything around him and everything under his feet.
Those who can't do this have already died in the light curtain of the dome.
When Koike Shunichi thought that the fire had hit three patrolmen, and all the Japanese troops would charge, the other side would abandon his wounded comrades and quickly retreat to a covered place, and he would be about to get their weapons.
But he miscalculated, and the patrol didn't have the overwhelmed look that Koike Shunichi expected. They had a clear division of labor, some opened fire for cover, and some retreated with the wounded. The Japanese army rushed up and could only pick up bullet casings, so how could any advanced weapons be left?
The patrol retreated to an abandoned village behind them, and the ambush developed into a stalemate that Koike Shunichi last wanted to see.
The two mountain guns brought with them, after test firing correction, only hit a few shells. It was blown up by a big fireworks rocket that flew out of nowhere. The unwilling Koike Shunichi planned to fight again, but the other party's reinforcement convoy came. There is also a kind of large-caliber machine gun on the car, which is very powerful, not to mention, the range can be compared with the mountain artillery. Enemy reinforcements appeared on the flanks, and he also had to order the soldiers to disperse and retreat in all directions, from the woods, from the piles of rocks, from everything that could hinder the movement of the enemy's chariots.
Just when Koike Shunichi thought that the ambush had been fruitless, a Japanese soldier Cao handed over a black pistol.
Some people are just lucky, they don't learn and have no skills, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, but they can always get some unexpected benefits.