Chapter 166 Du Shizhong's classic case of annihilating the enemy
Chapter 166 Du Shizhong’s classic case of annihilating enemies
(This story is purely fictitious, please do not imitate it!)
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..." The national army's heavy machine gun company was quickly counterattacked by the Japanese 37 rapid-fire artillery. As a direct-fire artillery and rapid-fire artillery, the dual effects, coupled with the Japanese army's artillery fire, were really accurate.
Soon, the heavy machine gun company suffered heavy losses, and half of the machine guns were completely destroyed.
"Quick, call for artillery support!" Xiang Huiwu felt that if the Japanese army's close-range direct-fire artillery was not completely destroyed, the 568th Regiment would not have any chance to stand out on the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The Chinese artillery began to show its power! The Japanese rapid-fire artillery position was immediately shrouded in smoke.
However, Xiang Huiwu seems to have forgotten, and the artillery of the National Army also seems to have forgotten that before the enemy's heavy artillery is completely destroyed, it is really not appropriate to use 75 guns to deal with the small-caliber 37 guns. No, the mountain artillery regiment of the National Army has just fired a
After five rounds of artillery shells, the Japanese army's 12 120mm howitzers hit them hard!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Chinese artillery position suddenly became a sea of fire! One-third of the only 36 mountain artillery pieces were lost in the first round of shooting by the Japanese army.
This also shows that the Japanese army has many more attack methods than the Chinese army. In addition, the overall quality of Japanese soldiers is much higher than that of the Chinese army. This has resulted in the fact that although the Chinese army is defending the city, it has always been in a passive state.
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The battle continued like this, and no one could do anything. The Chinese army suffered heavy losses. On the day of the war, two regiments were replaced. The Japanese army also suffered heavy losses. One of the brigade was also disabled. However, as time went by,
As time went by, the Japanese army was still as powerful as a dragon and a tiger, and its offensive was fierce; while the Chinese army was gradually weakening.
If the battle at Chongwenmen was tough and fierce, then the battle between Tang Enbo's 13th Army and Tojo Hideki's Kwantung Army Chahar Dispatch Corps in Huailai can be described as tragic.
The 15th Independent Forward Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army was originally composed of some troops transferred from the Japanese Sendai 2nd Division. Among the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, except for the 4th Division, which belongs to the so-called small businessman division, its combat strength is weaker.
Except, no other division is a fuel-efficient lamp.
The independent 15th Mixed Brigade has the 16th Regiment and the 30th Regiment. The attack on Huailai was carried out by the 30th Regiment led by Colonel Tetsuro Inokura.
Colonel Zhu's 30th Regiment came by train, so the battle started directly at Huailai Railway Station.
The Japanese army used armored vehicles, steam locomotives, train carriages, etc. as "shields" to withstand the artillery fire and bullets of the 13th Army, and frantically attacked the train station. The defenders used the buildings, fortifications, and bunkers of the station to fire fiercely at the enemy.
.Only one platform at the station was fought over by the two sides more than ten times. The platform and the tracks were filled with corpses of national and Japanese soldiers.
Adjacent to the platform of the train station, there is a row of freight warehouses. In the layout of the entire Huailai Station, this warehouse is of particularly important significance. If the Japanese army takes the warehouse, it will be equivalent to breaking into Huailai City and the direction of the station entrance. The Japanese army only needs to left and right
In a flanking attack, the defenders will soon be defeated.
The defenders also realized the importance of this warehouse in the entire Huailai defense battle, so they sent a battalion to defend the warehouse. The 13th Army belonged to the new Central Army, which was the Central Army reorganized by the German Military Advisory Group.
The battalion in the warehouse has 1 machine gun company (6 heavy machine guns, 2 82mm mortars) and 1 infantry company. The company has 3 infantry platoons, and the platoon has 3 squads (each platoon has 3 light machine guns, 30
rifles), plus some baggage and communication personnel, the entire battalion is full of 650 people.
Battalion Commander Du Shizhong was originally a student of Nanjing University. When he graduated, it was during the 128th Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai. Seeing that the national army was in danger, he resolutely applied for the Central Military Academy. After graduating from the military academy, he was assigned to Tang Enbo, and gradually became the battalion commander.
At only 29 years old, he is one of the youngest battalion commanders in the national army.
Du Shizhong likes to delve into tactics. Since he is an officer of the National Army, he can easily obtain some combat examples of the National Defense Forces in recent years and the latest equipment conditions in various countries around the world. During the research, he quickly discovered the problem: why is the artillery fire of the National Defense Forces always so fierce?
Is it just because the National Defense Forces are well equipped?
If you have questions, you need to find out. But there are few people in the national army who have studied this, and there are even more abundant materials. Du Shizhong was not willing to give in, so he finally contacted a few people through his classmates and seniors.
There were battalions and company-level officers who had directly fought with the National Defense Forces. Du Shizhong kept writing to them, asking questions and asking these officers to answer. Because the questions Du Shizhong asked were very targeted, and at the same time, these officers wanted to understand but could not.
We understand the problem, so this kind of communication becomes an opportunity to inspire each other and discuss with each other.
The communication speed in this era was very slow, even in the military. Du Shizhong could not wait for the final result, so he found several company commanders to conduct war games.
In the end, Du Shizhong actually figured out an important tactical principle, which is: deploy troops with light weight in the front and light in the back, and deploy firepower with light weight in the front and light in the back.
From this tactical principle, other additional principles are deduced: such as the principle of offensive and defensive conversion, that is, partial attack can also be carried out in the overall defense. There are many such combat examples in history; such as the principle of concentrated use of firepower, which concentrates assault firepower on one point.
, to achieve specific tactical purposes; such as the principle of suddenness in launching a battle, the principle of tactical camouflage, etc.
In the history of human wars, there are always some geniuses who achieve their glory in wars. Du Shizhong is only a small battalion commander now, but through thinking, research, reference, etc., he has found a method that is particularly valuable in this era.
tactical experience.
After receiving the order to defend the freight warehouse of the station, Du Shizhong immediately led the deputy battalion commander and several company commanders to conduct an on-the-spot inspection of the warehouse, and conducted map work on the station platform adjacent to the warehouse, nearby terrain, trees, etc. Finally, a formation was formed.
It was an alternative combat plan at the time.
In front of the warehouse, Du Shizhong set up a blocking position, but he used thousands of sacks in the warehouse, filled the sacks with soil, and built them into three layers inside and outside to form a fortification. Du Shizhong specifically requested that the soil must be poured before being put into the sacks.
Some water was added to make it more solid. The most classic one is not this fortification. Instead, he used some road maintenance vehicles in the warehouse (which can be driven on the railway by 1-2 people by hand) and designed and produced four of them by himself.
There are two mobile armored vehicles, two of which are equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns each, and the other two mobile armored vehicles are equipped with two 20mm machine guns. This is Du Shizhong's consideration of the ratio of direct-fire rapid-fire cannons against moving targets.
The mortars were more useful, so the battalion's two 82nd mortars were used to temporarily replace them with the regiment headquarters.
In other words, what Du Shizhong invented was a mobile machine gun position or mobile artillery position with armor protection.
To this end, Du Shizhong specially laid eight 120-meter-long rails from the depth of the warehouse to the front of the warehouse to make it easier to move.
If the Japanese army makes a breakthrough from the front, they will enter an open-air freight yard in the warehouse. Du Shizhong moved all the flammable and explosive items in the freight yard. At the same time, he placed two layers of sacks on three corners of the freight yard and dug one meter underground.
How deep it was, forming a simple fortification. As for the middle of the cargo yard, it was empty. As long as the Japanese troops rushed in, they would be hit by machine guns and rifles on three corners.
This was not Du Shizhong's intentional invention. He just felt that in case the Japanese army suddenly broke in, this open-air cargo yard must play a role, so he came up with this arrangement. What Du Shizhong did not expect was that this arrangement would be the famous special operations of later generations.
As long as the enemy enters the "triangular" firepower point, no matter how many troops there are, he will suffer an unprecedented blow.
On the four sides of the open-air freight yard, there are some small or medium-sized warehouses. Some of these warehouses have very strong buildings, while others are relatively simple. Du Shizhong adapted to local conditions and made all of these single-room warehouses into firepower points, and then all the warehouses were connected to each other.
Support can be provided.
One of the warehouses had half a basement, which Du Shizhong used to provide fire support for the open-air cargo yard.
In terms of troop and firepower configuration, Du Shizhong arranged a platoon of troops for the blocking position in front of the warehouse, but this platoon was not just a random platoon, but a powerful force composed of 6 light machine guns and 12 sharpshooters.
Sniper platoon. At the same time, there is support from mobile machine gun positions and artillery positions.
There are usually no soldiers arranged in the open-air cargo yard. Only when the frontal battlefield is almost unbearable will soldiers be stationed and firepower deployed. As for the firepower points in each single-room warehouse, since they are indoors and can be rested, there are two soldiers in each firepower point.
On duty.
There were four mobile machine gun positions and artillery positions. As soon as a battle started, there would be 20 people surrounding the machine guns, ready to move out at any time to give the Japanese a head-on attack.
With this arrangement, Du Shizhong's 650-man battalion only deployed most of the company on the position, while the others were ready to replace and reinforce at any time.
At 1:00 pm on August 16, the Japanese Army Colonel Tetsuro Inokura commanded the 30th Regiment to arrive at Huailai Station with murderous intent. Immediately, Colonel Ino asked Colonel Takahashi Coro of the Second Field Artillery Regiment to inspect the station and its buildings.
Carry out shelling.
The freight warehouse was naturally under Japanese artillery fire. However, the statistics of the battle results half an hour later showed that the brother battalion guarding the station and platform suffered nearly a hundred casualties under the Japanese artillery fire, while Du Shizhong's battalion only suffered one serious injury and minor injuries.
2 people.
"Kill me--" The Japanese army sent two teams to conduct exploratory attacks on the platform and warehouse respectively.
"Get closer and fight! The Japanese machine guns and grenade launchers did not fire, and our machine guns did not move!" During the first wave of enemy attacks, Du Shizhong led his guard squad to observe the enemy's situation at the first sniper position.
This order was also improvised by Du Shizhong, because he felt that there were such well-defended fortifications on his side, and the Japanese troops were running back and forth between the empty railway tracks, so there was no reason to be afraid of the other side.
"Dong dong dong..." The brother battalion defending the platform opened fire as soon as the Japanese entered the heavy machine gun range. However, the well-trained Japanese soldiers quickly lay down and set up machine guns and grenade launchers to fight back. At this point, the platform
The battle was at a stalemate. It looked lively, but in fact the effect of annihilating the enemy was not good. If it were Wu Aihua's subordinates, Wu Aihua would definitely curse him as "a bastard prodigal!"