Although Koji Ikeda changed his tactics, he did not change his cautious style. [.Com text] For him, whose promotion is already certain, what is more needed at this time is stability, rather than being like Kojiro who was dazzled by jealousy and ambition.
Yuan Er underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly.
For the sake of stability, Koji Ikeda unconventionally marched at night, but he also used a large number of flares to clear the way, illuminating the marching route brightly. Not only that, when pursuing, he only used pointed soldiers to bite the opponent to prevent the opponent from leaving his own.
Line of sight, and the main force will never leave the cover of artillery fire.
Not only that, he also changed the Japanese army's past stinginess in the use of firepower, and used artillery fire from time to time to cover all suspicious targets on both sides of the mountain road and all places where troops might be ambushed.
Anyway, before setting off, Major General Ishihara Kanji, who did not explain all the facts to him, had already said that as long as these rebels who dare to twist the Kwantung Army's beard can be eliminated, as many supplies as they consume will be replenished. That's exactly what happened.
Deputy Chief of Staff His Excellency Ishihara said that this future colonel was very lavish in the use of firepower.
It's just that when Koji Ikeda selected the dense birch forests that appeared from time to time on both sides of the mountain road for fire coverage, he chose the hillsides on both sides of the mountain road. However, he ignored the fact that he was closest to the mountain road, and could even be said to be under the nose of the Japanese army.
The dense bushes.
It’s not that Koji Ikeda intentionally ignored the bushes that grew extremely lush, but even for the Japanese who were generally not tall, they were less than half a person’s height. It was just that in his opinion, for those bandits based in the mountains and forests,
It is said that those birch forests that are connected to the mountains and it is difficult to see the situation clearly even under flares are more suitable for the Chinese who are good at sneak attacks to hide.
As for the bushes under the nose, which are clearly visible under the flares and are not even enough to hide a normal person squatting, for those despicable Chinese people who can only sneak attack and never dare to fight face-to-face with the Imperial Japanese Army
, too short.
Koji Ikeda was the first among his classmates at the non-commissioned officer school to achieve the position of captain, and was about to be the first to be promoted to captain of the Colonel's Wing. He was also the first to be admitted to the Army University, known as the cradle of Japanese generals, not just because of his father-in-law's relationship.
, on the contrary, he himself is also very shrewd.
Although he took advantage of the situation and changed his tactics, he did not underestimate the enemy and rush forward like his classmate who was overwhelmed by jealousy. In addition to using a small force to pursue parallel pursuits along the mountain, the main force always controlled the rhythm of the attack.
Good. And during pursuit, artillery can always provide powerful fire cover to the infantry.
But this time, his shrewdness was in the wrong place. His opponent changed his fighting method, but he still stuck to the old rules and looked at people with the same old eyes. He only stared at the birch trees connected to the hillside, but ignored those that could also hide people.
The bushes. Who said you can't hide people in low bushes? Who said that you must have a good hiding place in an ambush? Ikeda Koji thought when people and horses were blown into the sky by grenades flying everywhere.
When I understood this, I was already helpless.
However, Koji Ikeda, who was standing on the artillery position at this time, doing the same thing as Yang Zhen with the help of the flares fired, and using binoculars to observe the effects of the artillery shells that fell from time to time in the birch trees on both sides of the mountain road, did not expect it at all.
, the opponent who was about to give him a fatal blow was ambushing right under his nose.
Seeing the birch trees that appeared from time to time on both sides of the road being blown away and falling branches, Koji Ikeda proudly twirled his neatly shaved snotty beard under his nose. He had been frustrated earlier because the mountain road was relatively narrow and could not accommodate the entry of armored vehicles.
Already wiped out.
At this time, Ikeda Koji, who seemed a little complacent, ordered to shell those woods around him that might be deserted, and wasting the empire's precious artillery shells. This move was a little confusing. The brigade combat staff and several Puppet Manchukuo officers said
: "You don't understand your tactics."
"The opponents we face this time are very cunning, and their warriors are not very good. I observed several of their battle summaries and found that these Chinese have never had a face-to-face positional battle with the suppression force. They are very good at ambush warfare. And they are
Use all available terrain to conduct ambush warfare."
"The terrain here is two mountains sandwiched by a ditch, which is a good place to fight an ambush. However, the mountains here are somewhat special. The mountains are mostly dominated by low shrubs, but there are many white birch forests below the mountains. And
Most of these birch forests at the foot of the mountains are connected to the mountains. These birch forests connected to the mountains can not only provide these people with an excellent hiding place, but also provide them with a place where they can advance, retreat and defend."
"There is an idiom in China that calls for striking the grass to scare the snakes, and another saying that knocking the mountains to scare the tigers. When I bombard those birch forests, it can be said to strike the grass to scare the snakes, or knock the mountains to scare the tigers. It is to use artillery fire to make those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements who are trying to ambush us give up their cowardly attempts.
, fight a formal decisive battle with us."
Just as Koji Ikeda finished speaking, several Puppet Manchukuo officers next to him, although they disagreed with his views, still flattered him and said: "High, really high. Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel is indeed worthy of the title of Imperial Japanese Army University."
He is a top student, and we are really impressed by his insights.”
Hearing the flattery of the Puppet Manchukuo officer around him, even though he had heard these compliments too many times on weekdays, Koji Ikeda looked a little unconcerned on his face, but it was really helpful in his heart.
Ikeda Koji waved his hand to stop the puppet Manchukuo officers from continuing to shoot. He waved his hand and said: "Order the artillery to move forward and the infantry to seize the time. These Chinese people must not be allowed to escape. Although Kojiro-kun is incompetent in commanding operations,
, but the battle plan this time is still well formulated. Since Mr. Kojiro is no longer able to command the battle, it is better for us to complete his battle plan for him. The command troops must seize the opportunity before those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements
Live in the breach that has been opened.”
Koji Ikeda gave the order, and naturally none of the surrounding Japanese officers dared to disobey it. They quickly followed Koji Ikeda's request and gave the order to their own troops.
Seeing that although the Japanese and puppet troops seemed a little cautious, they resolutely walked towards the ambush circle that he had carefully constructed, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. Now, what he is most worried about is where the ambush is.
The few engineers preparing to detonate near the weathered stone should not be discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops marching on the mountainside on both sides of the mountain road.
But so far, good luck seems to continue to be on Yang Zhen's side. Although there is the help of flares, the brightness emitted by the flares is still different from that in the daytime. In addition, Yang Zhen is in the secret camp of Laoheidingzi Mountain.
At that time, we had carefully trained the concealment of our troops. The people in the engineer platoon were all veterans from the secret camp in Lao Heidingzi Mountain, and they knew how to conceal themselves in such a situation as the safest way.
However, good luck will not always come to one of the two sides on the battlefield. Fate is fair to everyone. Half of the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops walking on the mountain road had already passed the weathered stone and entered the ambush circle.
At that time, the Japanese and puppet troops marching on the mountainside were the first to encounter Yang Zhen's heavy machine gun position on the mountainside.
When the heavy machine gunfire rang out in front, Yang Zhen's heart suddenly jumped: "It's not on the mountain. Are the Japanese and puppet troops at the bottom of the mountain advancing in parallel? How come the Japanese on the mountain arrived first?"
Now for Koji Ikeda, although his tactic of catching grass and alerting the enemy was not successful in the place he thought, it could still be considered a partial success after all. At least he found traces of his opponent, and he could definitely be the opponent's main force. The reason
It's very simple. Judging from the gunshots coming from the mountainsides on both sides, the opponent has at least six heavy machine guns deployed on the mountainsides on both sides.
This number of heavy machine guns is not something that the small force that blocked them before could have. If it is based on the configuration of the China Army in Guannei, the one with such a number of heavy machine guns is at least an elite regiment of its Central Army. If it is left to their so-called miscellaneous brands
In the army, it is possible that even one division cannot be prepared.
As the commander-in-chief of this encirclement and suppression campaign, before Koji Ikeda left, His Excellency the Chief of Staff, who was the temporary acting commander of the garrison, repeatedly told him that this group of anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements captured an imperial arms train at Weihe Station. Although
The train was blown up after the incident. It is still unclear how many weapons these Chinese people seized. But one thing is undoubtedly that for the Chinese people who have no arsenal and no logistical supplies, they will try their best to use the weapons on the train.
Take the equipment away.
As an Imperial Army officer, Koji Ikeda could easily tell from the sound of gunshots that the machine guns his opponents were deploying on the mountainside and firing intensively at his troops were the Imperial Army's standard Type 92 heavy machine guns. Koji Ikeda could even tell very quickly
It is easy to conclude that these heavy machine guns were part of the large number of weapons carried on the arms train captured at Weihe Station.
Listening to the intensive sound of machine gunfire coming from the mountains on both sides, Ikeda Koji finally managed not to frown. He cursed those railway guards in his heart for being useless for allowing so many weapons and ammunition to fall into those areas.
In the hands of the anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements, they were used by those damn anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements to deal with the Imperial Japanese Army. These trashes should all commit seppuku and apologize to His Majesty the Emperor.
The troops on the mountainside were the first to make contact with the enemy, but they did not change Koji Ikeda's mountain road and the three parallel battle plans on the mountainside. In his opinion, although the main force of the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements was captured by him, their main force was not deployed.
On the mountainside.
Maybe, those heavy machine guns were the golden silkworms used by those hateful anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements to get rid of themselves. They might even be used to set up an ambush circle to block their pursuit, but they just happened to be discovered first.
Koji Ikeda stubbornly believed that what was resisting on the mountain was not the opponent's main force. Because he judged from the sound of gunfire that although the opponent had a large number of heavy machine guns, the sound of rifle shooting was very few.
Moreover, when he fought against the Anti-Japanese Alliance or various other anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed forces in the past, his opponents used a large number of various machines made in Germany or imitated by the Chinese, which they called speed machines or boxes.
I have never heard the unique gunfire of automatic pistols such as cannons.
Taking several aspects into account, in Koji Ikeda's opinion, the resistance firepower on the mountainside is just a chess piece used by these rebels to prepare and design a small ambush to slow down their own steps. Their real main force should still be preparing to attack a certain person.
direction to flee.
Because no army can defeat the enemy's attack solely by relying on a few heavy machine guns. Without infantry, it would be extremely foolish to rely solely on machine guns to resolve the battle.
Therefore, although there was intensive gunfire on the mountainside, Koji Ikeda did not order the people marching up and down the mountain to support the people on the mountain, but ordered the main force to speed up.
In Koji Ikeda's view, since the opponent's equipment itself is very insufficient, since he took out six heavy machine guns at once to block him, he was so generous and fired them all, and there was no place to replenish the bullets so big.
cost, it proves that the opponent's main force must be nearby. The six heavy machine guns on the mountain are just buying time for their main force.
In fact, countless practices have proved that good luck on the battlefield only lasts for a moment. Since you are not sure, you will never come again. Ikeda Koji almost without any hesitation rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to reinforce the mountain, but stubbornly
Order the troops to quickly continue the pursuit along the original route.
Just as the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops, which suddenly accelerated, rushed past the mountain leg where explosives were planted and covered with weathered stones, a violent explosion, together with the flying rocks thrown up by the explosion, smashed the back half of the Japanese marching column into a mess.
These weathered stones that were set off by a violent explosion and a shower of stones could not be used for any construction, but there was basically no problem in using them to hit people. The hundreds of Japanese puppet troops in the second half of the Japanese army's march were overwhelmingly
The smashed rocks hit their heads with blood. Many unlucky people were even hit in the head directly by larger flying rocks and went to the west. A steel helmet that can only be used to protect against these large
Even stones as big as millstones have no resistance whatsoever.
Before Koji Ikeda, who was walking in the middle of the team and had escaped unharmed, could react to the sudden rain of stones, a series of violent explosions rang out on the mountain road ahead. The shock wave set off by the explosion shook the man who was a little arrogant just now.
Your Excellency, Captain, was thrown off his horse.
"Baga, what's going on?" Ikeda Koji, who was almost dragged to death by his own horse, stood up from the ground in embarrassment if the guards hadn't been able to control his frightened mount as quickly as possible.
He got up and looked at his subordinates who were killed and wounded by the bombing. He almost broke his teeth in his mouth.
Before he could recover from the shock of the explosion, there was another sound of shells breaking through the air. Along with the sound of shells breaking through the air, like Koji Ikeda, he had not yet recovered from the violent explosion.
The Japanese and puppet troops, who had regained their composure, were once again hit by a heavy rain of mortar shells.
"Your Excellency, mortar." It was the same guard with quick hands and quick eyes who pushed down Koji Ikeda who was in a daze looking at his subordinates who were dead and wounded on the ground. He ignored the strict hierarchy in the Japanese army and quickly laid down on him.
On the commander's back.
After finally waiting for the explosion of the artillery shells to subside, he pushed away the guard who was lying on his back and had been blown into a hedgehog by the shrapnel flying in all directions. He saw that his subordinates had experienced this rain of mortar shells again.
The tragic situation made Koji Ikeda almost cry.
Under the attack of a large number of explosives and mortar shells, Koji Ikeda removed the thousands of remaining subordinates who had detoured from the mountains on both sides. At this time, less than 30% of his men escaped and could still stand up. Only these 30%.
Among them, at least half of the people were injured in some way.
After continuous attacks, Ikeda Koji, who suffered heavy casualties, had long lost his original arrogance.
When Koji Ikeda looked at his dead and injured subordinates in a daze, he had not yet figured out a way to deal with the situation at hand. Suddenly, dense grenades flew out of the bushes on both sides of the mountain road that he had ignored before. These grenades were different from artillery shells, and he had never thought of a way to deal with the situation.
There was almost no sound from the time it was thrown until it hit the ground and exploded. Especially in the dark night, without the flare, the beaten Japanese and puppet troops had no idea that the god of death that had just left had returned to their heads again.
Without the cover of the guards this time, Ikeda Koji could not escape the threat of death again. After being blasted into four or five pieces by four or five grenades at the same time, Ikeda Koji no longer had to defeat these despicable bandits.
distressed by the situation.
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