Chapter 38 Where Are There Any Civilians in This Village?
Time went back half an hour, and when Li Banzhu had just taken the stage, Huang Yourong had quietly taken his second battalion to ambush in the cornfield outside Wang Village.
Summer corn basically began to reach the peak of growth after entering July. This green gauze tent provided a natural cover for the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment.
The present era is not like the later generations, where there are no conditions for indecision and artillery fire. For an enemy village like Wangcun that is in an important strategic position, the Eighth Route Army needs to send infantry deep into it to clean up.
This is a tricky process, and commanders need to master the appropriate infantry tactics to make village clearing operations safer and more efficient.
And Cheng Blind, as the head of the main regiment with excellent character and learning, is professionally trained in this regard. Before the operation began, he drew up a detailed operational plan for the 2nd Battalion in accordance with the actual operational environment in Wangcun.
The village was built along a dirt road, with a main road running through the center of the village, flanked by a complex of buildings.
Due to Wang Taizhong's old and immortal dog's popularity, the area of the village has expanded rapidly in recent years. It was made easier for the villagers to travel, and an auxiliary road was built, which made the clean-up task more difficult.
According to Cheng Blind's arrangement, this operation needs to divide the force into four parts. Considering the width of the battlefield, the number of soldiers who can attack and clear the village at the same time is only one company.
The first part is the ambush group, which is mainly responsible for cutting off the retreat route of the devils by fire, while preventing the enemy from establishing a fire point on favorable terrain outside the village.
Originally, the size of the ambush group should not be excessive, as a rule, a platoon of fighters is enough.
However, considering that when the battle began, the strongholds and artillery towers near Wangcun might send additional troops, so Cheng Blind simply let the second company of the second battalion ambush there.
The second part is the fireteam, which is the tactical core of the implementation of the fire blockade.
These warriors were meant to make it difficult for each house to support each other in a state of isolation, and to make it difficult for the devils to maneuver quickly through the village.
Once the fireteam is in control, the infantry is dispatched to clear the buildings one by one.
Due to the heavy tasks of this group, Cheng Blind arranged a platoon of soldiers. In addition to the base MAS-36, ten light machine guns and fifteen accurate shooters were allocated to ensure fire.
The third part is the assault team, which needs to take on the dangerous work of entering the building to clean up the devils.
Originally, in this melee situation, the most suitable equipment was a submachine gun. It's a pity that the 772nd Regiment does not have this kind of equipment, so it can only be replaced by a barge gun.
Because the area of Wang Village is relatively large, this group is assigned two platoons of fighters.
The fourth part is the command headquarters, and before the battle began, the blind man told Huang Yourong that he must leave a company of soldiers by his side as a reserve, ready to enter the battle if necessary.
"General Reserve! Don't move!"
According to the plan, the command during the operation should follow the actions of the fire team and cover the flanks and rear of the fire group.
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When Huang Yourong saw the devils who had been patrolling outside the village retreat to the temporary sentry post, he knew that Li Ban was going to start his final performance.
The battalion commander first gathered a group of company and platoon commanders around him, and he repeated the battle plan for tonight, and then the units began to move.
First of all, the ambush group led by the commander of the second company advanced in a concealed manner, occupying a favorable terrain opposite the direction of the attack and waiting in concealment.
Because the devils came in a hurry, and they didn't expect anyone to attack Wang Village on the first day, there were not even searchlights on the randomly built sentry posts.
Under the cover of the cornfield, the soldiers of the second company came to the pre-selected ambush site very safely.
Once at the location, they even built some improvised bunkers. Having made sure that the firing positions were sufficiently concealed and could cover the enemy's retreat routes, the comrades also cleared the firing boundary.
The next thing is to wait, when Huang Yourong hears the explosion in Wang Village, it means that tonight's operation has officially begun.
After a round of rapid mortar fire, Guan Weimin rushed towards the outer position of the devil with a fire team.
I have to say that this group of devils does have some skills, and the unit that was originally responsible for maintaining law and order should be the subordinate unit of the D Division. But under the training of Katsuhisa Muramoto, these small days have erupted into Class C combat effectiveness.
After receiving the baptism of the first wave of shells, the still alive devils immediately fired flares. In the light of white light, the Type 92 on the machine-gun position emitted a woodpecker-like firing sound.
Coupled with two crooked handles and a small number of 38 big covers, such an offensive temporarily delayed Guan Weimin's attack.
But the number of devils who could fight was too small, and Katsuhisa Muramoto took most of his small days to listen to the play, resulting in only more than twenty people scattered on the battlefield.
There were not many defenders, and there were less than ten people left in the mortar blast. At the very first moment when the devil opened fire, the accurate shooters of the fireteam set their sights on the enemy.
The outer defensive position, which took an afternoon to build, only stopped the Eighth Route Army outside the village for five minutes, but these devils bought precious time for their comrades in the village with their lives.
Although the little days who were far away were not seriously injured, they were still shocked by the detonator. They took a brief breath and, when they heard the sound of mortars and guns, immediately ran to the barracks to get their weapons.
Now the devils have hated their Zhongzuo in their hearts, if the Eighth Route Army hadn't started to attack, they would definitely put the corpses together first and then whip the corpses, so what kind of drama to listen to!
With the current state of these people, they must be more than lucky against the Eighth Route Army, which has been planning for a long time. But it's not their character to sit back and wait, and everyone is ready to fight to the death.
"Get down!"
The devils who got their weapons were ready to attack under the leadership of a squadron leader. Although the situation is very unfavorable for them, these small days are confident in their combat effectiveness.
But reality slapped them hard, and the fireteam had already taken a favorable position. As soon as the devils emerged, they were pressed back by the fire network of FM-24/29 and MAS-36, and they were forced to burrow into the rooms next to them.
At this time, the assault team will start to clean up the building, and with the cover of the fire team, the devils are now no different from lambs to the slaughter.
The haste to meet the battle resulted in the vast majority of men carrying only rifles, lacking grenades and light machine guns, and their resistance was weak.
When the fighters of the assault group were clearing the buildings, they were divided into two groups: the support team and the assault team.
The fighters of the assault team worked in groups of four, and after the first soldier kicked the door open, the second soldier immediately threw an offensive grenade into it.
The reason for the force is to allow the grenade to bounce back and forth in the house, so that it is not easily thrown back by the enemy.
If the grenade explodes, you can enter the door, and the indoor battle determines the time when the fighters do not discuss tactics after entering the door, and this is the time to test everyone's tacit understanding.
Thankfully, though, basically a single grenade solves everything.
The support team remained outside the building, providing the necessary fire support to the assault group while further blocking the building. If there is a small day that can't think of jumping over the wall in a hurry, then these people will inevitably die under the shell gun.
The main road in the center of Wangcun is not a straight avenue, and due to the mutual blocking of building positions, the fire team can often only cover a limited area in one position.
Cheng Blind had already considered this point, after all, Huang Yourong and Guan Weimin had come here to inspect it personally. When discussing tactics, the far-sighted regimental commander arranged multiple firing points.
Therefore, in the process of clearing Wang Village, the fire team continued to advance to the new favorable terrain to set up guns. The two groups cooperated with each other to continue to advance in this way, steadily eliminating room after room of devils.
At this time, the little days have almost collapsed, and the enemies of outsiders are not only numerous, but also very clear in tactics. They are like turtles in an urn, they have long been doomed.
They can't fight and fight, they can't run and run, and it's even more impossible to surrender, so they can only stay in the room and wait for death. Only a few lucky people were able to escape to another exit of the village in the rain of bullets before the assault team arrived.
Naturally, there was only one dead word waiting for them, and there was a whole company of fresh troops in ambush.
Half an hour later, the battle was over. The 2nd Battalion of the 772nd Regiment completely annihilated all the devils in Wang Village at the cost of 27 soldiers being slightly wounded and two soldiers dying.
As for civilians? No kidding, there are no civilians in this village. What's more, those who do not evacuate honestly before the battle can be regarded as enemies, and traitors will have the fate of traitors.
It's been a long time since I posted it in the morning
(End of chapter)