The Japanese army also has a paratrooper unit, and has conducted parachute operations many times, but the results were so bad that the Japanese were ashamed to talk about it, which resulted in the obscurity of the Japanese paratroopers. However, this also made the vast majority of the Japanese army officers have no regard for the paratroopers. He has a certain understanding, so after verifying that the enemy only has more than 10,000 people, Hyakutake Harukichi will confidently and boldly decide to fight. Paratroopers have the advantage of high mobility, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the lack of heavy weapons. Although Hyakutake Seiyoshi was not the main force of the Far East Army and had just been ravaged by the Chinese Air Force, he still retained a lot of tanks and artillery. Therefore, without the Chinese Air Force participating in the war, he repeatedly calculated that he thought I can definitely defeat the enemy in person,
Oyama detachment, the forward of Hyakutake Haruyoshi's unit, has a total strength of about 5,000 people, including a three-thirds regiment of infantry and two brigade-sized tank units, because it once suffered the attack of the first paratrooper brigade under Ding Yi Xiaotian's troops ambush and annihilated more than 500 people in less than ten minutes. This made Major General Oyama Nagao unsure of the true strength of Xiaotian's troops. At the same time, in order to shirk responsibility, he exaggerated The strength of Xiang Xiaotian's army originally only had less than 3,000 people, but after he exaggerated it, it became more than 10,000 people.
Xiang Xiaotian is twenty-eight years old this year and is a rising star in Langya. At this moment, he is riding on a horse and talking to Zhang Baoge, the commander of the reconnaissance company, using a walkie-talkie. According to Ding Yi's instructions, he will be responsible for luring the enemy. The mission is to lure the Japanese troops into the ambush site while ensuring that they cannot be bitten by the Japanese. The high mobility of the paratroopers relies on transport aircraft. After a successful parachute, because they carry more equipment, Therefore, its mobility is not as good as that of ordinary infantry units. Therefore, to Xiang Xiaotian, Ding Yi's order actually seems to be difficult to impose. However, Langya pays the most attention to obedience, so even though he has doubts in his heart, Xiang Xiaotian still Execute it to the letter,
After Xiang Xiaotian and Zhang Baoge finished talking to each other, they realized that if they simply "retreat", sooner or later they would be overtaken by the Japs' tank troops. By then, even using rocket launchers might not be able to avoid being bitten by the Japs. Although he had just "retreated" today. Airborne here, but because Hu Li and others have done a lot of work before, with the detailed regional identification provided by them as a reference, they do not know anything about the terrain of this area, "Go to area 5 and fight another Japanese." Ambush." He ordered,
Half an hour later, the tank troops of the Xiaoshan detachment, unleashing their full power, plunged into the ambush circle carefully laid out by Xiang Xiaotian's headquarters. The one at the forefront was the Komatsu tank group, which was originally equipped with nearly One hundred new Type 99 tanks and about fifty Type 95 medium armored vehicles. However, due to the continuous bombing of the Chinese Air Force, there are now a total of about 100 tanks and armored vehicles left. "The Chinese do not have heavy weapons." The brigade captain, Komatsu Jiro, kept this in mind, and coupled with his understanding of the terrain, he believed that the China Army could not take advantage of the terrain, so he charged a bit unscrupulously, determined to seize "some merit" in this battle.
The last group of Chinese soldiers disappeared behind a mound a thousand meters ahead. Xiaosong chuckled twice, pressed the send button and shouted: "Gentlemen, the Chinese army is in front, rush up and wipe them out completely."
"Hai." "Kill." "Let the Chinese pigs see the bravery of the imperial army."...
Chariot troops are naturally the nemesis of pure infantry, and the Chinese army on the opposite side obviously lacks heavy weapons. So, our side only has to rush forward in a swarm. Even if the Chinese have anti-tank weapons, they will not be able to effectively curb their own steel torrent. , almost all the Japanese chariot soldiers thought so. They shouted with their mouths wide open, and their morale was temporarily inflated to the extreme.
Behind the Komatsu Battalion is the Ikeda Battalion of the same specifications. Compared with the Komatsu Battalion, although the Ikeda Battalion also participated in the battle with the Chinese Air Force, its commander Ikeda Shinobu was more cautious, so its combat power was maintained even more intact. Some of the Komatsu Battalion rushed forward boldly. Several squadron leaders of the Ikeda Battalion could not hold their breath. In their view, as long as the Komatsu Battalion could overtake the Chinese Army, there was no doubt that they would win. In this way, they watched helplessly. It is a bit difficult for them to accept the success of the Komatsu Brigade.
Ikeda was unmoved, and there were more calls for a charge. He explained: "Gentlemen, don't forget that the Chinese army opposite is an elite student army from Guangzhou. The opponent is a student army. You understand. " The implication is, is the Xuebing Army so easy to defeat? When the Imperial Army is at its strongest, it will often lose a battle that must be won against the Xuebing Army. Moreover, the Imperial Army is now in decline. Ikeda's idea seems to be destroying his own family. Awesomeness may arouse the ambition of others, but it is also an indisputable fact. Looking at the contest between the Japanese army and the cadet army, although the Japanese army sometimes won victories, they were mostly insignificant and small victories. Once defeated, then It is bound to endanger the fundamentals. There have been many such battles. Gradually, the three words "Xue Bingjun" have become magical to the Japanese today. As long as they appear, they can add three points of pressure to the Japanese soldiers out of thin air. ,
Ikeda's battalion's call for battle was suppressed by Ikeda. Ikeda was slowly and steadily following up. In front of him, a continuous deafening explosion suddenly came from behind the mountain. A Type 95 armored vehicle was approaching Ikeda. The Japs in the brigade were looking up at a ball of fire that was lifted up into the air. The Japs suddenly turned pale. Many of them couldn't help but say "Ah", and their feet on the accelerator pedal couldn't help but relax.
The trap Xiang Xiaotian prepared for Xiaosong's brigade was actually very easy to see through. They were just some radio-detonated bombs scattered in the grass. If Xiaosong had sent people to conduct reconnaissance first instead of launching an attack immediately after rushing to the soil bag, he would have There was a chance to avoid this trap, but Komatsu, who had never experienced this before, had no such concept in his mind, so he became the first batch of experiments with this tactic of the Chinese paratroopers.
Ouyang Yun is not a reckless person. When he first started in Xuebingjun, he often did things that looked at the beginning rather than the end. But now, as the overall situation of China's war has been decided, he is more cautious than ever. How could he make such a mistake? Underestimating the enemy's rash advance, the paratroopers lack heavy weapons. This is due to technical limitations, and there is currently no solution. Therefore, Ouyang Yun uses other ways to improve this situation, and rocket launchers and radio-detonated bombs are in this context. It has become the main equipment of the paratroopers. In fact, it has become one of the few "heavy weapons" of the paratroopers that can provide regiment-level fire support.
When Xiang Xiaotian first ambushed the Xiaoshan detachment, he mainly relied on mines and local firepower advantages. Now, it is the turn of radio-detonated bombs and anti-material sniper rifles to appear.
(Old Poison: There’s still one more chapter on Night Shift tonight)