Chapter 360: The Source of Morale
Of course, the army is not a hodgepodge that can be called an army, and even people who do not have a fixed organizational relationship can simply be called an army if they are organized together.
With the motorcycles going out and returning with a large number of soldiers, it seems that the soldiers of these tank companies are not doing badly. The soldiers came with their weapons and plenty of ammunition.
Jinling City can store food ammunition that can last for three months, so there is always no shortage of ammunition.
And at this time, the two regiment commanders beside Zhang Sixing became a bunch of battalion commanders.
"You go down to find five company commanders, and then let the company commander find five platoon commanders, and let the platoon commander find the squad leader. Finally, find skirmishers to replenish the full number of personnel. Remember that you are the third regiment, and then which battalion commander first found all the officers, that is, the third regiment A battalion, we are almost less than four hours old. ”
A group of battalion commanders took the order and left, knowing that there were as many as forty-seven middle and senior officers killed in Jinling City, and as for the junior officers, that ......
"There is no station below the platoon on the left side of the street, and the station above the platoon is on the left and right ......"
As the loudspeakers above the city kept shouting, the stragglers who kept coming slowly dispersed. This also made the battalion-level officers who had just run down from the city quickly organize temporary teams.
Of course, such a force can't fight a tough battle, but as Zhang Sixing expected, the battalion commanders who ran down from the city gave priority to the troops with a certain organization.
With the advent of temporary troops, the originally chaotic situation gradually became more orderly.
However, to Zhang Sixing's disappointment, the gendarmes near Qingliangmen did not arrive, nor did the people who teach the troops.
Raising his wrist to look at the time, it was already twenty-one at night, and Zhang Sixing decided not to wait. Although it was said that the whole army was operating at 12 o'clock, he had to think about dealing with the enemy's 18th Division.
After all, when he appeared here at 18 o'clock and announced his location through a loudspeaker, the enemy's 18th Division was already building fortifications, and if they were allowed to continue repairing, the subsequent battle situation would be very unfavorable.
He asked someone to run and call, and the commander of the regiment who led five battalions in front for defense,
"You begin to test the attack of the enemy's 18th Division in front, one battalion opens a skirmish line, and when the enemy counterattacks it lies down and does not need to attack, hand over the enemy front to the rear tanks and vehicle-mounted artillery."
"Sir, just our regiment, so many people below ......"
For such an unconfident answer, Zhang Sixing patted him on the shoulder,
"Don't be so unconfident, the devils call me the Demon King of the Four Elements, don't worry, listen to Lao Tzu."
The regiment commander thought about it, and felt that he still didn't have the courage to disobey the order of the "Four Elements Demon King", after all, this thing was killed by a major general, so in his eyes, he was afraid that he was not even as good as a fart.
Thinking about it again, it is just a tentative attack of one battalion, and there should be no big problem, and it is remarkable that five battalions play wheel warfare.
At this moment, the sound of the engine came from the sky, and the regimental commander, who was going down from the city, raised his head in surprise. I guessed in my heart whether it was the "Kong Ming lantern" overhead here at Zhonghua Gate that attracted the bombing of the devil's fighters.
In fact, in the current war, the technology of night bombing is not yet possible for the Japanese. In addition, the "Kong Ming lantern" hangs a self-inflatable gas lamp, which is only done by the subordinates of the "Four Elements Demon King".
During the day, the fighters had a hard time dealing with the troops of the "Four Elements Demon King", let alone at night.
However, the delta wing is not afraid of the dark, or Zhang Sixing has long been among the German paratroopers and is accustomed to air action at night. And summed up the conditions for night air operations, which are needed in this era.
As the sound of engines passed through the air, the lights of the battlefield soon lit up.
The long string of lights seemed so bright in the sky that the entire Japanese defense line looked like a girl who had been stripped naked. Some of the embarrassed Japanese riflemen raised their rifles and fired them in the air.
However, their shots were useless against the flickering lights in the air, and while the soldiers were still pulling the bolts of their rifles, the angry roars of the officers suddenly came,
"Fools, you fools, the lights are out of range of your rifles, and you can't hit it."
Then the four anti-aircraft guns belonging to the artillery squadron of the 18th Division opened fire into the air.
Cannonballs whizzed, rushing through the air, and almost no obstruction appeared in the sky. But for those lights, the lights were too small, and the shells were too big.
In particular, the lights were so unstable in the air flow that they missed their position when the shells with the time-delay fuse exploded. Of course, shells hit this kind of thing, as long as it is dense enough, it will always work.
However, a power delta wing with a load of 300 kilograms can easily carry a lot of these things.
They hang under the small delta wings, and all they need to do is unfold the kite and release the kite string from the delta wings, and another string of gas lights will appear in the sky.
It's as simple as that, the person driving the delta wing can determine himself and the direction as long as he looks at the lights hanging on those anti-aircraft kites that appear in Guanyin Mountain in the distance.
At the same time as the infantry of the 18th Division opened fire and the anti-aircraft guns fired, they also spotted a battalion of fruit soldiers approaching.
Without warning, between the two warring sides, tracer eggs form a brilliant but deathly web.
"Ah......h
To the slight embarrassment of the commander of the infantry battalion who had carried out the tentative attack, one or two of his soldiers got up and ran back.
There is no way to form a straggler, and the cohesion is extremely poor. At the slightest obstacle, a soldier who has no confidence at all will immediately feel panic.
The battalion commander and the officers who were lying on the ground shouted desperately,
"Don't mess around, don't run, don't get up and shoot on the spot, those who run away will be punished on the spot......"
No matter how much they shouted, more soldiers stood up, threw down their weapons and fled.
At this moment, the armored vehicles that followed behind the infantry battalion, it should not be said that the armored battalion opened fire.
In the front were ten No. 1 tanks acting as shields, and in the back were more than thirty trucks armed with heavy machine guns, mortars, or gasoline cannons.
The firing of more than forty heavy machine guns immediately put a strong pressure on the 18th Division of the Japanese Army. In addition to this, there were even a couple of eighty-two-millimeter mortars, which fired a mess of shells right on the truck.
In addition to this, the soldiers who were not allowed to leave the car more than ten meters by the door of the car also showed their weapons.
Because he was just a person who protected tanks and cars, Zhang Sixing thought that the box gun was also successful.
However, the commander of the armored company believed that the machine gun was more reliable in this case. Therefore, the people who followed the tank simply became five two-man machine-gun teams.
This is another fifty Czechs, launching a dense burst of fire at the Japanese who are counterattacking.
However, before they could open fire on the enemy, they killed those who dared to flee.
As the firepower of the attack was terrifying, regardless of the reaction of the Japanese, cohesion and morale slowly developed in these stragglers.
Discipline and victory are the source of morale.