Chapter 081 Battle Overture 2 (Please subscribe to collect the red flowers!)
(This story is purely fictitious, please do not imitate it!)
In Wu Aihua's view, although the task is relatively heavy and even a little risky, it is still worth a try. The independent detachment's Marine Battalion has a total of 1,078 people, 48 60 mortars, 48 squad machine guns, and 52 light machine guns.
Well. The battalion headquarters reconnaissance platoon, guard platoon, squad leader, and deputy squad leader are all equipped with submachine guns. Each battalion has more than 100 submachine guns. The heavy firepower and automatic firepower of the three battalions combined are far more than the Guangdong army alone.
The heavy equipment of the division will even exceed that of the Guangdong Army!
Although the 1st Marine Regiment was equipped with 18 75mm mountain guns, they were too heavy and not suitable for mobile warfare. Wu Aihua deployed them outside Meizhou, ready to bombard Meizhou at any time.
Historically, the Guangdong Army was in a "peaceful era" from 1935 to the first half of 1936, and there were no battles to fight. Before the army went to eastern Guangdong to suppress bandits, many senior officers, including many senior officers, had almost the same view as Chen Jitang.
That is, the attack direction of the Red Bandits should be southwestern Fujian, not eastern Guangdong; moreover, the Red Bandits are now almost exhausted in dealing with the encirclement and suppression of the three-pronged army, so how can they send troops out of Eastern Guangdong? Even if the Red Bandits'
The commander is really a lunatic. Does he really dare to directly face his 5 divisions of almost 80,000 troops?
Because of these factors, the enemy's alertness was not high. In Changtan Town, the reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment discovered that the enemy had built a heavy machine gun fortification at the head of the town, but there was only one enemy on duty in the heavy machine gun fortification.
, but this enemy was not lying next to the heavy machine gun, but sleeping on the sandbags of the heavy machine gun fortification with a rifle in hand.
About 10 meters away from the heavy machine gun position, there was a bungalow. There were lights and the sound of stacking Pai Gow in the bungalow. Needless to say, the Cantonese soldiers were gambling.
"Go!" Luo Shengquan, the reconnaissance platoon leader of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Marine Regiment, made a signal and asked the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron to deal with the guards at the head of the town.
Luo Shengquan participated in the one-month training of the special operations brigade and learned many unheard of skills. However, because the special operations brigade finally fixed its organization, Luo Shengquan and hundreds of others were assigned to the reconnaissance troops of each regiment and battalion.
The special operations brigade has a fixed establishment, which is also Wu Aihua's choice after careful consideration. Special operations have never been won by numbers. They are mostly small units and squads for raids. Even in later generations, when there are so many training methods, there are not many special operations units.
, its organization is at the military region level, and it only uses the title of special operations brigade (regiment level).
Of course, this era belongs to the war era, and more special operations forces can be deployed, but the special operations brigade of the headquarters cannot be expanded without limit. Wu Aihua’s idea is that when the size of the force expands in the future, division-level personnel will be needed.
After the establishment, special operations brigade establishments can also be established in the units directly under the division level or group army level. People like Luo Shengquan happen to be the backbone of the special operations units of each division and group army.
The squad structure of the independent detachment is the same regardless of any unit, with 12 people, three three-person combat teams plus a three-person machine gun team. However, the machine gun team of the field unit is equipped with a Czech light machine gun, while
Guard, reconnaissance, special operations and other units are equipped with only one mg42 squad machine gun.
In Wu Aihua's concept, a squad is a miniature war machine. The quality of this machine is directly related to the outcome of the entire war.
With a wave of Luo Shengquan's hand, three combat teams from the Reconnaissance Squadron 1 were seen, forming three formations, crouching down and quickly moving along the edge of the plants towards the town gate a hundred meters away. The machine gun team followed suit.
Leap forward and be ready to provide fire support to your comrades at any time!
"Huh!" The Cantonese soldier holding the rifle in the heavy machine gun fortification was probably too tired. The people from the 1st reconnaissance squad had not yet woken up when they came in front of him. Therefore, a soldier from the reconnaissance squad had to hit him with one palm.
Cut off, haha, keep sleeping!
The other two groups of men and horses immediately rushed into the bungalow. After hearing a faint splashing sound in the bungalow, it became quiet. Then, a soldier walked out of the door and waved an OK gesture towards the distance.
"All units attack according to this mission and kill the enemy who is stubbornly resisting!" Wang Weiqing saw that the reconnaissance platoon succeeded and immediately commanded the 1st and 2nd companies to advance into the town.
"Bang!" Although the soldiers of the 1st Battalion were careful and careful, the footsteps of hundreds of people in the town inevitably did not alert the Cantonese army's sentries. Only a gunshot was heard, and the Cantonese army was aware of it!
"Bang bang bang..." The sound of gunshots alerted more enemy sentries, and Changtan became lively for a while.
However, the gunfire from the enemy sentry had little impact on the independent detachment. If only a few dozen people from the independent detachment entered the town, maybe the national army could still resist for a while. However, the independent detachment had more than 450 people entering the town, and
One light machine gun per squad was enough to deal with a battalion of the Cantonese Army. In fact, even if the two sides defended hard, the battalion of the Cantonese Army was no match for Wang Weiqing's two companies.
"Da da, da da..." After the independent detachment entered the town, they all turned into a platoon-sized attack group. As soon as they saw the enemy rushing out of the barracks, the seven machine guns at the front immediately swept over them.
"Surf your gun and don't kill! The Red Army gives preferential treatment to prisoners -" As soon as the machine gun swept over, the other red army soldiers who were fine started shouting slogans.
"Dong dong dong..." Suddenly, the enemy's heavy machine gun position fired at the charging 3rd platoon soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 1st Company!
"Get down!" Platoon leader Xin Zhiyang shouted immediately when he saw a tongue of flame flashing a hundred meters ahead. However, the speed of the machine gun bullets was too fast. At this moment, several people were walking in the middle of the street.
The soldiers were swept to the ground!
"Da da da……"
"Da da da……"
"Da da da……"
"Da da da……"
The Cantonese army's machine gun only had time to fire a handful of bullets before the platoon's four MG42 squad machine guns roared!
Seeing that the firepower of the Cantonese army was suppressed by several machine guns of our army, Xin Zhiyang immediately waved his submachine gun and said, "Comrades, charge!" and rushed towards the enemy's machine gun position first.
Behind Xin Zhiyang, four combat groups followed.
With the help of the cover of a meat case (for selling pork) on the street, Xin Zhiyang took off two grenades from his waist, pulled the fire ring on one of them, and pointed it towards the Cantonese machine gun position made of sandbags 50 meters away.
Throw it away!
As soon as the first grenade left his hand, Xin Zhiyang picked up the second grenade, pulled the fire ring again, and threw it out again!
"boom……"
"boom……"
In the circle surrounded by sandbags, two groups of fire burst out in succession. Even if the Cantonese army inside the sandbags were made of steel, they should have deformed.
"Platoon leader, your bomb-dropping skills are getting better and better!" The soldier lying under the case began to flatter the platoon leader!
"How can I be a platoon leader if I'm not that good?" Xin Zhiyang said. Seeing that the enemy's machine gun position was completely destroyed, he immediately waved his hand. Except for a few left to take care of the wounded, the others moved forward to attack!
The heavy machine gun fire of the Cantonese army caused "heavy casualties" to the 3rd platoon of the 1st company. What Xin Zhiyang was thinking about now was to kill more enemies in order to "make up for his mistakes."
However, there were only so many enemies in Changtan Town. Xin Zhiyang's platoon was blocked by two machine guns and delayed for a few minutes. The entire Cantonese army in the town had been wiped out.
The Battle of Changtan, in the Battle of Eastern Guangdong, was only the prelude to an attack! Wu Aihua, more than ten kilometers away, had been observing every aspect of the battle through the "live broadcast" of the holographic map, even the encounter of Xin Zhiyang's platoon.
Wu Aihua also had a panoramic view of the obstacles and sacrifices.
In Wu Aihua's opinion, Xin Zhiyang, Wang Weiqing, or Yang Guiqing did not make any mistakes in command during the Battle of Changtan. The enemy's heavy machine gun suddenly appeared and caused 2 deaths and 1 serious injury to the 3rd Platoon of the 1st Company.
3 The "significant losses" of minor injuries, including other sacrifices, are caused by insufficient training, insufficient tactical awareness, and deformed tactical movements after the expansion of the army; or it can also be regarded as the first battle after the expansion.
The soldiers are still a little uncomfortable with it.
Of course, this battalion-level battle in Changtan will definitely quickly become a training material for independent detachments: after a surprise attack, how do troops reduce losses and how do soldiers maintain battlefield vigilance?
Although the battle in Changtan broke out suddenly and the fighting time was short! Even the enemy battalion commander had not had time to report to the division headquarters in Jiaoling City, but it did not prevent the Cantonese army in Jiaoling City from learning that there was a problem in Changtan!
In the dead of night, gunshots can be heard far away. When the gunshots in Changtan were the most intensive, the 9th Division of the Guangdong Army happened to have a patrol team patrolling the city wall. When the division commander Miao Peinan left, he could pass by the 17th Brigade Commander Cheng Yu.
Le said hello, and after he left, he had to be careful and don't let anyone with ulterior motives catch the braided bird.
"Squad leader, listen, it sounds like gunshots from Changtan!" A soldier from the Guangdong Army with sharp ears was the first to notice the abnormality!
"Da da da..." The squad leader listened carefully and happened to hear the sound of the machine gun fired by the mg42 squad! "Changtan is under enemy attack. Go and report to the company commander on duty!"
Because this gunshot was definitely not the sound of the heavy machine gun or light machine gun owned by the Cantonese army.
By the way, China's old army, due to habits or outdated consciousness, after the light machine gun came out, a considerable part of the army did not promptly equip the squad and platoon support firepower of the light machine gun. They believed that with this, it would be better to have more
Buy a heavy machine gun. The heavy machine gun has a long range and strong firepower. Its role in defense is definitely worth a cannon!
If the squads and platoons were all armed with light machine guns, it would be financially unaffordable.
After the company commander on duty received the information, 10 minutes had passed. When the company commander on duty reported to the commander of the city defense, Cheng Yule, commander of the 17th Brigade, 20 minutes had passed. The battle of Changtan was actually over!
"Quickly, call Changtan and ask what's going on?" Cheng Yule was not panicked because he didn't think anything would happen near Jiaoling.
The call went through, but no one answered. Changtan suddenly became a dangerous signal!
"Order: The 1st Regiment sends a battalion to Changtan to check and report the situation quickly!" Cheng Yule did not dare to neglect. The division commander had just left and he had only been the commander of the city defense for two days. No matter how big or small, he had to treat it as one
thing.
(ps: The second update is here; the third update is at 5 p.m.)