Having said this, Guo Bingxun turned to Tao Jingfei and said: "Just do what you want. Don't panic just because the two of us are here. However, how did you conduct battlefield reconnaissance? A Japanese brigade is following you." There are five kilometers behind you, and you didn't even notice."
"When you were retreating, how did you arrange the covering force? It was only five kilometers behind you, maybe even less than five kilometers. A large group of Japanese troops were following behind you and they didn't notice it. I almost couldn't believe it. Ear, are you retreating or retreating?"
"It has been almost five hours since you moved to the line from Laoheibei to Jinsha River. If the confessions of the Japanese prisoners are true, it means that the Japanese army has been quietly lurking for at least four people under your nose. It's been more than an hour and you still haven't discovered it. How can this battlefield reconnaissance capability be so effective?"
"If we hadn't arranged the minefields first, I'm afraid that people would have gotten into your front-line positions. You might have just discovered that fire reconnaissance, people have lurked under your nose, what are you doing with fire reconnaissance? It's only five hundred meters away. , and in order to build fortifications here, the entire position is brightly lit inside and outside."
"People have clearly seen your front-line deployment. The positions of all the firepower points on the front line have probably been clearly marked on their maps. Is fire reconnaissance still necessary? Now you, You should be lucky that the Japanese came with two light-armored brigades, and they waited until they were all here before launching the attack. They didn’t have many heavy weapons, otherwise your front-line position would have collapsed by now."
Faced with Guo Bingxun's criticism, Tao Jingfei remained silent. He was indeed careless. He had several reconnaissance companies on hand. When he retreated, the commander of the rear-cutting unit left behind was also extremely experienced, but the Japanese army had not been discovered for a long time. Two light-armored brigades followed behind the evacuating team.
The most critical person has been lurking under his nose for such a long time. He didn't notice it at all. The chief of staff was right. If he hadn't prioritized the minefields while repairing the fortifications, he might have really waited. The Japanese troops were not discovered until they entered their front-line positions.
It is true that he was a little careless, but if his troops were successfully attacked by the Japanese army this time, it was all because of the carelessness of his own troops. Tao Jingfei also knew that carelessness was only part of the reason for this unexpected incident, but it was not the only reason.
Tao Jingfei was very clear about the current level of fatigue of his troops. Among all the troops in the army, as the first batch of troops that started almost at the same time as Du Kaishan, his subordinates who had been fighting for several days were probably extremely tired now.
In addition to the fact that they retreated all the way westward during the day and then took the time to build fortifications, almost no troops got any rest. The level of fatigue can be imagined. The success of the Japanese army's infiltration tactics this time was not only due to their own carelessness, but also because of their own carelessness. The excessive fatigue of the troops has a certain relationship.
It's just that Tao Jingfei had to explain too much to Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, the two top military commanders. Regardless of whether this was due to excessive fatigue of the troops, it was an indisputable fact that he was a little careless.
Seeing Tao Jingfei lowering his head and saying nothing, Guo Bingxun waved his hand and said: "Okay, that's the end of this matter. However, this matter must be used as a typical battle example to inform the entire army and your deputy staff officer. Commander, don't search blindly. Center your search around your headquarters. Since these devils cut off your phone line first, I guess they are still heading towards your headquarters."
Sure enough, as if confirming Guo Bingxun's guess, not five minutes after Guo Bingxun finished speaking, intensive gunshots rang out around Tao Jingfei's headquarters. The crisp gunfire of the Type 38 rifle was mixed with the special Taisho 11-year-old light machine gun. The sound of shooting was clearly transmitted to Tao Jingfei's command post.
The guard outside is a company of the 1st Battalion of the Military Region Security Battalion. They all use Czech-made rifles, Polish imitation Browning light machine guns and submachine guns made by the base itself. The 1st Division Guard Company brought by Du Kaishan uses all They are French-made light machine guns and American-made Soviet-style water rifles. There are no Japanese-style weapons. It is obvious that these Japanese-style firearms are used by the Japanese army.
This group of Japanese troops had already seen that this was a high-level headquarters. They were quite fierce. Under the stubborn resistance of the guard company, they refused to retreat. They put on a posture that they would not give up until Tao Jingfei's headquarters was destroyed, and concentrated their forces. Under the cover of three Taisho 11-year-old light machine guns, one Type 92 heavy machine gun and two grenade launchers, regardless of the risk of exposing the target, they fired flares and launched a desperate attack.
It's just that the attacks launched by the Japanese army were tenacious and their fighting spirit could not be said to be unresolute. However, in the face of the situation where there was only one guard company defending, they were always helpless. Not only were they unable to succeed in several strong attacks, but they themselves were surrounded by dense opponents. Under the fire attack, it suffered serious losses.
This part of the Japanese army that had taken so much pains to get in was beaten head-on with bruises and bruises as soon as the fight started and before the posture was fully opened. I don't know if this Japanese army was almost unprepared for the powerful firepower here, or they were too eager to fight in the enemy's hinterland. Seeking success, they adopted a dense formation as soon as they came up, trying to break through the opponent's defense in one fell swoop.
Unexpectedly, the opponent actually deployed twelve light machine guns on this small position, which formed a crossfire immediately. Moreover, among the individual equipment, automatic firearms accounted for at least half, and they were also equipped with a killing range. Hand grenades and a large number of flares that reached tens of meters, and for a moment, the Japanese troops who launched the charge were beaten and turned upside down.
The guard company that Yang Zhen brought here was carefully selected to serve as the personal guard of the commanders of Military Region No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and the original Japanese Type 96 light machine guns have now been replaced with Polish ones to prevent Belgian FN The W 1928 light machine gun.
What's more, after Yang Zhen was almost killed by a 50-gun grenade in the previous attack, this company specially carried a 60-gun platoon, equipped with special equipment to suppress Japanese grenades. Three 60mm mortars.
After Yang Zhen was injured in an attack, although the cause of the attack had a lot to do with Yang Zhen himself, in order to strengthen the security forces of Yang Zhen and Li Yanping and prevent the attack from happening again, Guo Bingxun was directly subordinate to the Military Region. Several veterans from the reconnaissance battalion were selected and transferred to this guard company as squad leaders.
Li Yanping went to Yan'an and has not returned. After Gao Yumin learned that Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun were going to take command, he insisted that Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun take the entire company with them. After Yang Zhen was attacked, some were even killed. Gao Yumin, who was afraid of snake bites and had been afraid of well ropes for ten years, also forced the two of them to take them with him. Except for one battalion of the General District Guard Corps that was responsible for guarding several secret material warehouses, the other two battalions were also forced to take them.
It's just that Yang Zhen left the two companies of the battalion following him to Wang Guangyu, and the remaining company was sent by him to escort the batch of secret artillery shells. This time, only his own personal guard platoon was brought to Tao Jingfei. Well, The remaining three platoons that he forcibly left with Guo Bingxun were all brought over by Guo Bingxun.
The Japanese army, still immersed in the joy brought by the success of their plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, but unexpectedly they touched a fire hedgehog that breathed fire. Not only did they fail to achieve the goal of annihilating the opponent's headquarters, Instead, he included himself in it.
This guard company, which has been training with the military region's reconnaissance battalion, is top-notch in the entire military region in both shooting and combat. Although the incident was a bit hasty, this company with extremely excellent military quality relied on the large number of automatic firearms in its hands to fight with the Japanese army. In a battle involving multiple squadrons, they actually had the upper hand.
If he hadn't been concerned about the safety of Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, the two top military chiefs of the military region, who were just behind him in the headquarters, the company commander would have rushed out and fought with this guy. In his opinion, he simply didn't know how to live or die. The little Japs had already fought. In his opinion, the Japs were not more than a squadron, and they were not afraid even if they came to join a large group.
The guard company commander was helpless, but Major Tezuka Nakaichi, the third captain of the 63rd Regiment of the 10th Division, who was commanding the Japanese infiltration force, became more frightened and depressed as he fought. Haven't they all been sent out to search for themselves?
Where did the current troops come from? How could they be better equipped than their front-line troops? With great difficulty, he used the tail-cutting tactic of a gecko to get rid of the opponent's pursuit. He also used half of the squadron to pretend to be the main force to lure away the opponent's search troops. Finally, I followed the phone line to the location of the other party's headquarters, only to find that it was really a tough place.
This was the first time he had seen the opponent's fierce firepower and clever tactics. As soon as they fought, the Type 92 heavy machine gun that he had brought in after all the hard work was hit by the opponent's gun before even one volley of bombs had been fired. The light mortar was overturned, including the man and the cannon, but he didn't even see clearly where the opponent's mortar came from.
Two of the three light machine guns also suffered the same fate. Before the bullets in one bucket were exhausted, two of them were blown up by the opponent's mortars. The grenades competed with the opponent's light mortars. At that time, I was completely at a disadvantage, and I didn't even know what taking advantage meant. I would often fire a grenade when the opponent had already blasted three or four shells.
The opponent is obviously a veteran. The machine gun positions are moved very frequently. They often move positions quickly without waiting for a magazine to be finished. They do not give the grenade a chance at all, and they never fire bursts. They only use burst fire, which makes you basically unable to fire. You don't know if the bullets in the opponent's magazine have been fired. Instead of suppressing your own grenade, you will attract extremely violent counterattack fire from the opponent.
He fired one flare himself, and others fired three, illuminating the entire attack line. When all the attacking troops launched the attack, they were completely blinded by the opponent's illumination. Under the crossfire of mortars and a large number of automatic firearms, there were many casualties.
We organized several strong attacks and filled in two entire squads, but they were beaten back without even touching the front edge of the opponent's position. The last attack was simply blown up by swarms of grenades. I don't know yet. He hit a hard rock, which would not only shatter his teeth, but also crush his Major Tezuka Nakaichi to death. He only knew that if he continued to hit him like this, he would die in an ugly way.