Although Yang Zhen's first wave of artillery fire caused heavy damage to the Japanese troops who were unable to defend themselves. [.Com text] But after all, these Japanese troops are veterans who have been trained for a long time, and their reaction speed is still first-rate. Compared with those who are still turning with their heads covered
Compared with the puppet Manchukuo army, after experiencing the initial panic, all Japanese troops, including Kitano Takatsu, have quickly stabilized.
When the artillery fire began to extend and Yang Zhen's charge bugle sounded, dense tongues of flames erupted from the Japanese and puppet positions. The Type 92 infantry cannon that survived Yang Zhen's first sneak attack also fired along the
The ballistics of the incoming artillery shells began to fight back. However, before they could even fire a few shells, the artillerymen and the artillerymen were killed.
Although Kitano Takatsu made a serious mistake at the beginning, mistaking the mortar shell that his opponent hit on his head as a friendly force approaching him. But after all, he was trained through the almost cruel training of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School.
Regular officers. In addition to slightly less actual combat experience, their military qualities are quite excellent.
Although its positions are huddled together, which is extremely inconsistent with the traditional combat style of the Japanese army. However, the construction of its ring defenses, firepower allocation, use of troops, including various emergency measures, are still in style, and can even be said to be textbooks.
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Although it was too cold to excavate earth and stone, it did not prevent him from using the trees all over the mountains to build various simple, but fairly satisfactory fortifications. After he woke up from the sudden artillery fire,
Both the reaction and the command are quite remarkable.
He was used to being despised by the Anti-Alliance and even the entire Chinese Army. When he heard the charge horn of Yang Zhen launching a feint attack at least five hundred meters away, his face, which had been shocked by the shelling just now, showed up again.
A hint of contemptuous smile.
"Bandits are bandits. With the snow up to their waists, the launch point of the attack was actually chosen five hundred meters away. With limited mobility, slow movement, and a relatively wide range of fire, the attack was launched
If you are so far away from your choice, isn't that just trying to be a target for yourself?"
"Such a unit, no matter how much artillery it gives it, how much threat can it bring to itself? If the bandits formed a dense, almost like a nest of wind, a shapeless attack formation, it is also called a skirmish line.
words."
Seeing the opponent in the telescope struggling to move to the skirmish line about 400 meters away from him in a straight line, Kitano Takatsu disdainfully gave the order to open fire to the troops. The Type 38 rifle in his hand far exceeded the old-fashioned rifles of the Chinese army.
The effective range made Kitano Takatsu very proud.
In his opinion, with his equipment and the quality of his troops, even if he suffered heavy losses in the sudden bombardment and lost a quarter of his troops, he could still defeat these damn anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements by relying on the remaining troops on hand.
It is not a problem to destroy it in front of yourself.
However, the opponent's subsequent actions could not keep the smile on Kitano Takatsu's face. On that day, the light and heavy machine guns on the puppet army's position rang out, and all the firepower points were exposed. The opponent's offensive force, which was still moving slowly in the snow just now,
There was a sudden interruption. Everyone lay down in the thick snow and stopped attacking.
And just when Major Kitano became more confident due to his opponent's clumsy and even cowardly performance, what happened next made him unable to laugh anymore and almost cried.
The enemy encountered his own fire blockage, and the artillery fire that had just been extended backwards and gradually silenced started again. When the opponent's already extended artillery fire turned back to his head again, Kitano already felt that he had been deceived.
This time, the opponent's mortars were so accurate, it was as if they had eyes. Almost every shell landed, except for a few machine gun bunkers built with wood, almost all of which were exposed in the bare wilderness.
Whenever the Japanese army entered the position, they would take the lives of one or several Japanese soldiers.
Especially when the mortar shells that fell on his position were also mixed with mountain shells that had never been seen by any anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed forces in Manchuria, he understood that it was not the opponent's poor performance, but that he had deliberately set a trap for himself.
Although the lethality of mortar shells is still limited, compared with wild mountain guns, it has a better killing effect on unprotected targets, and is more suitable for shooting at targets behind shelters and targets on reverse slopes. For those who build their own logs and use
The threat from the machine gun fire points with covers added to the whole wood is not great. However, the simple machine gun fortifications built with wood are no different from paper in front of the mountain cannons that shoot directly.
Looking at the extremely fast-firing artillery shells fired by the opponent, the machine gun position was almost completely exposed in the previous shooting. The light and heavy machine guns and the shooters were reduced to parts. Kitano Takatsu seemed to be pulled out.
Like a toothless tiger, he was dumbfounded.
Not long after the second gunshot sounded, Kitano Takatsu already knew that almost all of his light and heavy machine guns were gone. After losing almost all of his light and heavy machine guns, and before the mortar squadron had moved up, he had nothing but 38 rifles and
Almost all fire support was lost except for the few surviving grenade launchers.
Before Kitano Takatsu could wake up from the pain of losing all his machine guns, the change in the situation dealt him another heavy blow.
When a group of opponents appeared almost from under his nose, under the dense cover of a storm of firepower from dozens of light and heavy machine guns that also suddenly appeared, they approached at the fastest speed and would drop a large number of grenades at the same time.
As he built his fortifications, he almost couldn't believe his eyes.
"Baga, where did these Chinese people come from? Could it be that they came out of the ground? When did they come under my nose, why didn't I notice them at all?"
Just when Kitano Takatsu and his subordinates were in a hurry due to the large number of grenades thrown by the opponent, and had not yet woken up from the drastically changing situation, the opponent had already relied on cunning tactics and most of them rushed into their position.
Before the Japanese and puppet troops could be stabilized by the even dazzling blows in front of them, which caused heavy casualties and whose morale had begun to decline, a sudden burst of gunfire from behind completely disrupted the position of these Japanese troops.
The originally tenacious resistance began to collapse.
Seeing that the resistance of the Japanese army, which was being attacked from both sides, had wavered, Yang Zhen did not hesitate to issue a general attack order to the main force that had moved less than 200 meters away from the Japanese position. This time, Yang Zhen focused his attack on
On the flanks of the Japanese army's position, the puppet Manchukuo army had fallen into chaos during the recent shelling. As long as the resistance of the puppet Manchukuo army was eliminated, not only would the Japanese army's flank be exposed in front of them, but one of his arms would be cut off.
For the well-trained troops, the distance of 200 meters was reached in the blink of an eye. Along the passages cleared by the Puppet Manchukuo Army, the attacking troops rushed to the hastily constructed Puppet Manchukuo Army without much effort, which was even a simple company.
In front of a position with no fortifications.
The will to fight was far less firm than that of the Japanese army, and the puppet Manchukuo army, which had not yet recovered from the bombardment, was unable to hold on for too long after discovering that its opponent had concentrated all its firepower and shifted the focus of the attack from the Japanese army to itself.
.After the battalion commander who led the team was shot and killed, he only resisted briefly before collapsing.
They did not expect that the puppet Manchukuo army, which was not fighting at a low level, collapsed so quickly, and the attacking troops were somewhat caught off guard. Fortunately, Yang Zhen's reaction was not slow. After defeating the puppet Manchukuo army, in addition to leaving a platoon to guard the prisoners,
Yang Zhen immediately turned around and joined forces with Wang Guangyu to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army.
Although Major Kitano tried to stabilize the position that had been completely overrun, his subordinates performed very poorly. Before they could recover from the repeated artillery fire, grenades were thrown into the position one after another by the opponent.
The soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Eighth Regiment of the Japanese Army, who were stunned by the explosion and whose fighting will was not comparable to that of other Japanese troops, completely lost their determination to resist after seeing that their opponents were trying to encircle them.
Once the morale of the army is broken, one can sweep away ten, and ten can sweep away a hundred. When someone first dropped the rifle in his hand, turned around and started to escape, the entire Japanese position felt like a plague.
, the entire line collapsed.
His subordinates collapsed first, and Kitano Takatsu, who was still trying to resist, completely lost his determination to resist. Break out, break out immediately, get as far away from here as possible, this was the only thing that Major Kitano could think of.
As for how to explain to his superiors when he returns home, after this battle, he is likely to become the first Japanese regular infantry brigade in Manchuria to be defeated by those anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements. That is a matter of return.
Kitano Takatsu didn't know how to explain the results when he went back. But he knew that if he didn't leave, he would really not be able to leave given the current situation of being attacked from both sides. If he died in the barren mountains of Northern Manchuria, the old man had worked hard and saved up for most of his life.
Where can I find heirs for my billions in wealth?
Thinking of this, Kitano Takatsu didn't say a word, and didn't even give an order to turn in. His subordinates, who were already entangled with the opponent, were among the few who were still holding on. He bypassed the opponent's blocking position that was stuck behind him.
He chased his subordinates, who had already run far away, towards the east mountainous area, the only place where no shots were fired, and then turned around and fled. As for whether that was an uninhabited deep mountain forest, he didn't care.
Even though Major Kitano was not in front of the entire second group that was escaping when he started escaping, his speed in escaping was absolutely top-notch. He didn't run very far before he arrived from the end.
He was at the front, far behind his subordinates who had run earlier than him.
The escape of Kitano Takatsu and his comrades caused the still stubborn Japanese army to completely lose their determination to resist. They also relied on the skilled tactics they had trained for many years to struggle to get rid of their opponents and followed them.
He drove eastward behind Kitano. Even the dense rain of bullets from the opponent's two heavy machine guns stuck on his back path was ignored.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese army could not help but fight. Before they could use all their strength, Wang Guangyu's resistance collapsed. Wang Guangyu felt as if his fist had hit the cotton cover. The troops who were in a panic by the Japanese army were even more confused.
Only a small tail of the Japanese army was captured. The rest of the Japanese soldiers who could still move almost all ran away as long as they did not fall under the intensive firepower of Liu Changshun's two machine guns.
The Japanese army's resistance collapsed so quickly. Not only did the troops below not expect it, but Yang Zhen, who was already mentally prepared, did not expect it. Yang Zhen's tactical arrangement was to attack from both front and rear. Since the troops at hand were limited, General Yang Zhen might choose
The breakout route was set in the direction in which the Japanese troops came from the south, and in the direction in which the Japanese troops in the west and south were likely to approach.
As for the deep mountains and old forests to the east, he also thought about it. But when the troops on hand faced the Japanese and puppet troops whose number was equal to his own, except for the three companies that were on lurking missions and the one company that blocked the Japanese army's retreat, the remaining
The troops were still insufficient to attack the puppet Manchukuo army. Therefore, Yang Zhen could only deploy a small number of troops to the east as suspects.
Of course, the lack of troops is only part of the reason. The more reason is that Yang Zhen does not believe that the Japanese army will break out to the east. There are deep mountains and old forests, and even the nearest station to the Japanese and puppet troops has to pass through 180 miles of primeval forest. Then
There were neither their supporting troops nor supply points on the side. Breaking out there would be tantamount to choosing the most unsuitable route for the Japanese army.
Yang Zhen always emphasized breaking conventions when formulating his own combat plans, but he did not expect that he was not the only one who always liked to do the opposite. Kitano Takatsu and his men also copied it for him in a decent way. Earn
After getting rid of the entanglement of the attacking troops, he chose a direction that Yang Zhen thought was the least likely to be his breakout direction. After leaving corpses and seriously injured people who could not move on the ground, he ran away cleanly.
However, under Yang Zhen's flanking attack and intensive artillery fire, less than 40-50% of a large group of Japanese troops could escape. Most of them were either killed by artillery fire or fell to the rain of grenades from the attacking troops.
and Liu Changshun's machine gun.
This battle lasted less than an hour from the launch of the attack to the sound of gunfire. It was so fast that all the officers and soldiers participating in the battle could not believe that they were facing an army that was always known for its tenacity and ferocity.
Japanese troops, and these Japanese troops were a regular integrated infantry brigade.
Not to mention the officers and soldiers of the army, even Wang Guangyu, who was commanding the front-line battle, and the commander-in-chief Li Yanping who was watching the battle from behind, could not believe their eyes. With equal strength and even some advantage, a whole Japanese army
The resistance of the brigade collapsed after such a short period of time. Especially after the results of the battle were tallied, almost everyone could not believe their eyes.
You must know that even the armed peasants of the Japanese Pioneer Corps, when facing the resistance, would be difficult to defeat them in such a short period of time if their forces were equal. Not to mention that their own casualties were so small.
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