The Japanese army did not take any action. Of course, they would not give up because their faces were splashed with dust by their own drones.
Under Kunisaki's telegram, Li Shoushan, as the top commander of the Japanese front line, made what he thought was the correct deployment.
Before the main force of the Kunisaki detachment arrived, he needed to find the breakthrough point of the triangular defensive position deployed by Tang Dao through battlefield reconnaissance.
From the geographical point of view, among the three highlands, two hills tightly clamp the simple road from Guangde to Wuhu, and there is another hilltop on the side and rear of these two hills, which firmly protects their sides and rear.
That means that just conquering a high ground will not provide enough protection for the highway.
Heavy machine gun bullets and mortar shells fired from any mountain top will have enough destructive power on people and vehicles walking on the road.
All three highlands must be conquered.
The farthest straight-line distance between these three highlands is 600 meters, and the nearest is only more than 200 meters.
According to the most commonly used tactics of the Japanese army, Li Shoushan could send out a group of infantry to attract the attention of the defenders on the high ground, and then send a large number of infantry to use the cover of dense forests and shrubs to penetrate through the gap between the two mountains, and then use a roundabout tactic to move forward and backward.
Outflank and annihilate the few Chinese defenders occupying the hills.
Two days ago, Li Shoushan would definitely have chosen to do this.
But at this time, he didn't have the courage.
In the battle of Jiepai Village, the two infantry companies he sent did a trick of bypassing the flanks. Not only did they not attract the Chinese to mobilize their troops, they were also beaten by the Chinese defenders who were defending against the mountain.
His face was covered in blood.
The terrible battle damage rate was almost higher than when facing the enemy head-on. If he hadn't considered that it was the right time to hire people, Li Shoushan would definitely have shot the captain and infantry company commander who fled back with a look of death on his face.
He even suspected that it was a trap specially left for him by the Chinese commander, just waiting for him to take the bait and kill him.
Pain makes people grow. Don't tell me, Li Shoushan is actually smarter.
Of course, several highlands cannot be a closed circle. Where there are peaks, there will naturally be valleys. Tang Dao has more than 2,000 men. In addition to this, auxiliary units such as artillery and baggage troops are also needed. There are a total of 13 infantry companies and one
The fire support company also needs to set aside enough reserves. Of course, there is no way to spread the troops over a battlefield with a radius of more than one square kilometer.
Therefore, he did not send infantry for protection in some locations with rugged mountain roads and deep forests, even around Highlands No. 2 and No. 3 on both wings.
However, in order to prevent the Japanese army from being timid and not afraid of the dense forests and dangerous roads, they sent small groups of troops to reconnoiter the terrain or carry out sneak attacks, so he still kept enough eyes in the mountains and forests.
The two special operations teams under Gu Xishui and Lao Hei's guard platoon were his eyes.
The special team is not a real special force at present, but it has the prototype of special operations. Especially after entering the mountain in the future, mountain special operations will become the norm, so this time the anti-reconnaissance and anti-infiltration in the mountains and forests
Combat will become their new classroom.
Tang Dao can teach them how to shoot and use the terrain, but the battlefield intuition developed in life and death cannot be taught by Tang Dao. They can only rely on themselves to understand it again and again in complex battlefield environments.
There is no passing or failing, there is only life or death.
If you want to become a powerful special warrior, this is the only way for them.
It is extremely cruel, but it is a natural choice.
As for their commander Tang Dao, the special team only has seven people, and there will inevitably be battle losses. He must have enough reserves to ensure the combat effectiveness of this elite team.
The guard platoon is the reserve team members he reserves for the special squad. If they are good enough on the battlefield, he can expand the special squad in the future and turn it into a special squadron.
Tang Dao will equip this group of elite warriors with the best equipment he can collect, so that they can maximize their effectiveness in the mountains and become the sharp knives that the Japanese invaders will fear.
But the premise is that they must come back alive from the battlefield.
Gu Xishui, Lao Hei, Niu Er and others were lurking in the mountains and forests on both sides of Highland 2 and Highland 3, waiting for the Japanese army to take the unusual path.
In order to satisfy Major General Kunizaki, Li Shoushan spent a lot of effort this time, not only sending hundreds of his men into the dense forest to conduct long-distance observations of the three highlands of the Chinese defenders and hand-drawn topographic maps.
He himself, escorted by an infantry platoon, climbed to the top of a hill less than 500 meters away from Highland No. 3, and observed with a telescope for a long time.
His military uniform was scratched by thorns, his hair was hung with thorns, and his face was scratched with blood. That was how Kunizaki looked when he arrived at the front line and saw Li Shoushan.
If he hadn't heard from the staff at the frontline headquarters that Major General Li had personally gone to conduct battlefield reconnaissance, Kunizaki would have thought that Li Shoushan had gone to steal someone else's daughter-in-law and was beaten up!
From the owner's perspective, the fighting ability of a 'dog' may not be good, but loyalty is a must.
A dog that tries hard to shake its head and tail will end up being patted on the head.:.
"Yo Xi! Li Jun, this is great! The empire needs talents like you." Listening to Li Shoushan's personal report and the hand-drawn map placed on the simple combat table, Kunizaki did not hesitate to praise him.
"This is what Shoushan should do. Your Majesty the General, you are so complimentary!" Li Shoushan's face was full of excitement, with tears in his eyes, and he just barely moved his hips a few times.
If he wasn't afraid that Major General Kunizaki would spit out "Wow"!
However, if you rub a dog's head, it's a dog's head. Kunizaki is not a fool.
As the commander of the Major General Brigade of the Fifth Division, he has conquered the vast land of Pingjin and defeated the seemingly extremely powerful 29th Army with more than 100,000 troops. He has rich battlefield combat experience.
Valley/span> The three highlands in front of him, which had been dug almost overnight to form intricate trenches, made him instinctively feel the danger.
If he wants to conquer these three highlands that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, he needs to pay the blood of the imperial infantry. As a general, his duty is to shed as little as possible.
The identity of the enemy army on the opposite side has been figured out. It is the 145th Division under the Chinese 23rd Group Army. It is a miscellaneous army called the "Beggars" Army by their own people. It has average equipment and extremely poor quality of soldiers, but its fighting will is extremely high.
Strong, as proven in the battle at Jiepai Village.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength!
Therefore, as the army of the Kunisaki detachment suddenly arrived, Kunizaki, who had more than 10,000 troops under his command, did not rush to attack.
Instead, under the afternoon sun, in front of the Chinese soldiers on the position, they began to allocate troops and build field camps.
The Kunisaki Detachment has 6 infantry brigades under its command. In the Battle of Songjiang, more than a thousand people were lost. In the end, they were basically replenished by soldiers from the baggage troops.
Therefore, among the three highlands, Guozaki sent four infantry brigades under his command to serve as the main offensive force on Highlands 1 and 2. Highland 3 still chose to trust Li Shoushan, with the 1st Brigade of the Jingan Army as the main attack force.
After Li Shoushan's painstaking reconnaissance, this area, in addition to the three highlands occupied by the Chinese, actually also has hills. Therefore, the Japanese army chose to build their own heavy machine gun and infantry artillery positions on the nearby hills, so that they could attack the infantry.
While providing cover fire, you can also shoot upwards without any hard work.
It's just that it's not that convenient for them to dig trenches or build heavy machine gun fortifications on the mountain top.
The several company commanders on the Chinese side who were stationed on the mountain were watching every move of the Japanese army with telescopes. When they saw that they wanted to establish a position of the same height in the forest hundreds of meters away, they certainly would not remain indifferent.
Because of the cover of the woods, the result of a heavy machine gun attack will not be very good, so use mortars!
There is no need to cover it with artillery fire. As long as you observe movement in that forest, shoot a few rounds at it. If it doesn't kill you, it will scare you to death.
To use Leng Feng's words, just by being disgusting, it will disgust you to death.
For the Japanese army, this is what it felt like.
It is difficult to walk in the forest. If you are not careful, the thorns of thorns will be pierced into your flesh. You still have to dig with an engineering shovel. You are sweating in the middle of winter. When the mountain wind blows again, the taste is so sour.
So cool.
Forgetting this level of dissatisfaction, they are just soldiers!
But the Chinese still come to join in the fun, throwing a few cannonballs at them from time to time. Those things are really deadly! If you hit them, you will die!
As soon as they heard the scream of "Boom!", the instinctive reaction of the Japanese soldiers working there was to immediately fall to the ground, even if there was shit in front of them.
After all, the distance between the two sides will not exceed 1,000 meters. Even if the mortar shells fly slower, they will arrive in a few seconds.
Eating shit can't kill people, but cannonballs definitely can.
When the Chinese opened fire, the Japanese troops, who had infantry artillery, mountain artillery and even 105 howitzers, would of course fight back.
But that was obviously useless. The Chinese mortars were all hidden behind the mountains, and what they were playing was hanging.
Despite the Japanese retaliatory artillery bombardments that exploded on the hilltops, the Chinese defenders' mortars still jumped out from time to time to show off the hard-working Japanese infantry.
That's really colorful.
red!
The Japanese infantrymen who were unfortunately caught by the artillery shells were all bleeding, and they were either dead or disabled.
It was basically this pattern throughout the afternoon.
The Japanese artillery fired hard, and the Chinese artillery showed its presence from time to time.
The Japanese infantrymen who were responsible for building fortifications played the game of "kissing" the earth in the mountains and fields according to the rhythm of Chinese artillery fire.
The progress of the project is unprecedentedly slow.
So late at night, many Japanese infantrymen did not get a chance to rest and recuperate, and were still fighting hard against the ground.
Tired as a dog!
The Chinese dog ‘Hammer’ fell asleep early!
Anyone who doesn’t sleep at night after being tired during the day is a stupid dog! Hammer, who is accustomed to the battlefield, must think so...
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