The men sent by Liu Yangyang to report the news to Beishan heard the gunfire from Beishan before they arrived on horseback. In fact, the Beishan stationed in Tangcheng discovered the Japanese army earlier than the county town. The Japanese troops appeared in Beishan.
The Japanese army came from Bengbu, and it was through the fork in the road that Liu Yangyang discovered. About a squadron of Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared at the Beishan checkpoint. They probably did not expect that the Chinese defenders would set up a checkpoint here. This Japanese squadron even
The leading soldiers didn't make any arrangements, so they just swaggered out along the fork in the road.
Tangcheng's 1st company is about the same size as the Japanese squadron, but Tangcheng doesn't think that the 1st company with a slight numerical advantage can defeat this Japanese army, so the most advantageous tactics are sneak attacks and ambushes. Veterans are best at it.
With this tactical approach, the Japanese soldiers were the first to report the news to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who had no time to think about it, directly ordered an ambush for the Japanese soldiers. After causing a certain number of casualties to the opponent, they would then occupy the previously dug areas.
The trenches formed a confrontation with the Japanese army, fighting for attrition. They had the advantage of the terrain and could not let the Japanese army rush from Beishan to the county town.
The swaggering khaki military uniforms appeared in Tang Cheng's telescope, giving Tang Cheng's eyes a stinging feeling. Those once-familiar faces disappeared from this world precisely because of these colors. Tang Cheng's teeth were itching to hate them.
"Don't shoot without my order. Keep them close before shooting." Tangcheng's orders were passed on one by one. Everything in the level has been moved away. People who are not familiar with this place can't see it at all.
There has been a level here before.
The Japanese army that appeared in Tangcheng's telescope had moved from 300 meters away to only 150 meters away from him. As the Japanese army got closer and closer, Tangcheng in the trench clenched the rifle in his hand. 150 meters, 130 meters, 110
Meters, the Japanese army finally reached a distance of 100 meters, but Tangcheng in the trench still did not give the order to fire. The distance of 100 meters was enough for those with good eyesight to see the faces of the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side. The bayonets of the Japanese army glowed under the light.
The cold light and the heavy and orderly footsteps brought unprecedented pressure to the soldiers of the 1st Company in the trench.
"Pa" A recruit a few meters away from Tangcheng finally couldn't bear the pressure in his heart and pulled the trigger of his rifle. Although the 1st company's live ammunition training uses a 100-meter gun target, this will be different from the usual training.
Faced with huge fear and pressure, the novices failed to hit the target, and the bullets fired from the gun barrel flew to nowhere. "Pa", "pa", "pa" someone could not withstand the pressure and fired first, then hid.
The other soldiers of the 1st Company in the trench also pulled the trigger. It was not that they deliberately wanted to disobey Tang Cheng's orders. This was just human nature and their subconscious reaction.
The trench where the 1st Company was hiding was filled with the smell of gunfire. Under the restraints of officers and veterans, the dozens of novices who disobeyed orders and fired first finally stopped shooting wildly. Tangcheng could no longer care about following these disobediences.
The guys who ordered the theory reasoned, because the Japanese soldiers who came along the fork in the road had disappeared. There were several corpses of Japanese soldiers lying in sight, and the living Japanese soldiers had all fallen to the ground, and some had even turned over.
Throwing himself into the weeds and bushes.
The panic of the novices of the 1st Company only hit no more than 10 Japanese soldiers. This result greatly deviated from Tang Cheng's plan to kill a quarter or even a third of the opponent in the first round. The 1st Company was now in an extremely difficult situation.
An embarrassing situation. "Da da da da da da" The Japanese machine guns responded quickly. As soon as Tangcheng restrained the novices, the two Japanese light machine guns opened fire. Under the cover of the two machine guns,
Some Japanese soldiers crawled forward and tried to drag their injured companions back to safety.
"Uncle An, lead your men to seal their machine guns. Others cannot fire without my order. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed." Tangcheng, which had already lost an excellent ambush opportunity, had no better solution for the time being.
Adjust your plan according to the changes in the battlefield. Uncle An is the captain of Tang Cheng's independent team. He was the bandit captured by Tang Cheng when he led the 1st company to eliminate the bandits. Tang Cheng took a fancy to his marksmanship and asked Liu Yangyang for help.
Organized Uncle An and a dozen of his men into his own 1st company.
Tang Cheng, who has experienced the battlefields of Shanghai and Nanjing, is as obsessed with sharpshooters as Jiu Jin is with grenades. Uncle An's gang's marksmanship is already good, and after Tang Cheng's month-long live ammunition training, their
His marksmanship is much better than when he was a bandit. The machine gun firepower cannot be exposed, and the nine-pound bombardment team is temporarily useless. The only people in Tangcheng that can be used now are Uncle An and his gang.
Uncle An's independent team is equipped with Yishui Mauser rifles. This is the best rifle selected by Tangcheng from the entire garrison. Each person is equipped with 100 rounds of ammunition and is better than other soldiers in the garrison. Now it's time to test it.
When they are capable of actual combat, they have no advantage in shooting with rifles and machine guns, but Uncle An's people have the advantage in numbers. With seven or eight rifles shooting at the same machine gun at the same time, Tangcheng's chances of winning are not small.
The machine guns were stopped firing twice in a row, which made the Japanese troops on the opposite side very angry. The intelligence they obtained showed that there was only one garrison regiment adapted from the militia in Mengcheng. The entire garrison regiment was formed from deserters, farmers and bandits.
.Although the Japanese army obtained this information half a month ago, the arrogant Japanese army did not think that the farmers in Mengcheng had learned to fight in just half a month. "Baga, those in the special high school class
Bastard, is this what they call a Chinese farmer?" The machine gun was stopped firing for the third time, and Kenichi Okamoto, who commanded the Japanese squadron, cursed the special high school's intelligence errors.
"Mortars, concealed, concealed, Japanese mortars." The Okamoto Squadron, which was blocked here at the fork in the road, finally used long-range firepower. The two light mortars began to spit out projectiles thrown into the sky. The Okamoto Squadron
There were also grenade launchers, but Okamoto Kenichi, who was directing the battle, believed that the grenade launchers were too lethal. He was eager to resolve the battle and directly used mortars. The difference between mortars and grenade launchers is not just the killing power.
Its power and range were greater than those of a grenade. What Okamoto Kenichi wanted was to defeat the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side, and he did not intend to eat them in one bite.
Use strong firepower to defeat the opponent, and then command the troops to follow and pursue, using the defeated troops on the opposite side to break down the possible second line of defense or even more enemy lines of defense. The Okamoto Squadron has used this tactic countless times since landing in China.
They once chased a regiment of Chinese soldiers on the battlefield in Shanghai until the Chinese soldiers of that regiment broke through a division-level defense line of the Chinese army. Okamoto Kenichi's goal today was Mengcheng County. He tried to force this group to
The Chinese soldiers fled towards the county seat so that his squadron could follow and capture the county seat directly.
"Boom", "boom", "boom", the mortar shells falling with a scream exploded on the trench position of the 1st Company. The trench dug by the garrison here in Beishan was completely based on the German-style trenches of the 88th Division.
The winding trenches are winding like snakes. Even if explosives such as artillery shells and grenades fall into the trenches, the splashing shrapnel cannot create more lethality. These are all things Tang Cheng has experienced personally on the battlefield, so
When digging trenches, Tangcheng paid special attention.
The smoke rising from the position dispersed, affecting Uncle An and his gunners' sight and accuracy of shooting. The Okamoto Squadron's machine gun fired again. This time they had a clear target. "Boom" "
Boom "Boom" The mortars of the Okamoto Squadron continued to spit out projectiles, and the 1st Company position, which had not received the order to fire, could only bear the Japanese shelling silently. Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, could not figure out why the Japanese army
Without the use of grenades, in Tang Cheng's mind, the flexible and maneuverable grenades operated by one person were far more terrifying than mortars.
The soldiers of the 1st Company hugged their heads and huddled in the shell-proof hole, not daring to show their heads. In fact, there was no need for Tang Cheng to give orders, and they, the new recruits who had only fought against bandits, did not dare to open fire rashly. The veterans of the 1st Company were obviously enjoying this moment.
In their free time, some people even squatted in the shell-proof hole holding their rifles while smoking cigarettes. These veterans who have experienced the baptism of the battlefield know that fear is useless, fear of death will only make them die.
Faster, all they need to do is to knock the bullet out of the gun chamber before they die.
The sound of guns and artillery was heard here. Under the intermittent firing of Uncle An and others, it was the Okamoto Squadron that dominated the battlefield. "No way, half of my men have been killed or injured. If we continue to fight like this, I will
All the people will die." Uncle An kept mumbling while squatting down to load the rifle with bullets. Tang Cheng was lying very close to Uncle An, so he could naturally hear Uncle An mumbling.
What is it, but he is not worried. As long as these stubborn guys want to disobey orders and withdraw from the battle, the shell gun on his waist will definitely be able to keep them all in this trench.
Three rounds of mortar fire had been fired. Okamoto Kenichi found that the gunfire on the opposite side had stopped. Suspecting fraud, Okamoto Kenichi carefully observed the Chinese position on the opposite side with his binoculars. What he saw were more than a dozen people facing forward.
A staggering figure ran away in the distance. "Hey, these Chinese farmers are starting to flee." "Da da da da da da". Under the command of Okamoto Kenichi, the two light machine guns continued to shoot at each other until he
Seeing through the telescope another wave of a dozen Chinese soldiers fleeing, Okamoto Kenichi ordered his troops to pursue them.
He doesn't care how many people the other party has escaped, what he wants is to pursue and follow the fleeing Chinese farmers into Mengcheng County, because only in this way can his rank of Major be promoted, and the declining Okamoto family will