Rise From Eight Hundred

Oshima Masayoshi still underestimated the Chinese commander who faced him.

The most junior army major in the Four-line Regiment was perhaps the one closest to Tang Tuanzuo in terms of courage.

Leng Feng was the most interested in the important topic that Tang Dao taught in the tactical training class for battalion and company-level chief officers - the tactics of large-depth roundabout penetration.

Among the four battalion commanders of the Four-line Regiment, Lei Xiong was born in a wild way and relied on his own strength to fight his way to the top, but he also served in the regular army for many years. Guo Shouzhi and Shangguan Yun were both graduates of regular military academies. This tactical concept has never appeared in the tactical manuals of powerful countries such as the Russian Bear and the United States that they have studied.

In their cognition, penetration is about the same as infiltration, and the so-called infiltration is to sneak into the village without shooting, cooperate with the front battlefield, and mainly rely on the reconnaissance and raiding of "special forces", just like the reconnaissance company of the Four-line Regiment.

But the biggest shortcoming of this kind of infiltration is that once discovered by the enemy, it's a complete failure!

But it was a small unit after all. If it had to be lost, it would have to be lost. The saying that a merciful army cannot be commanded is definitely not an empty statement.

However, Tang Tuanzuo's deep and roundabout tactics far exceeded their cognition. When the tactics required, the regiment would at least send company-level troops to attack the enemy positions.

For the current organization of the Four-Line Regiment, it was a matter of life and death for more than 300 people. Once they were surrounded by the enemy, the firepower of the main force of the regiment would not help them no matter how strong it was. The other three chief officers had to be very cautious about this almost life-threatening tactic.

And Tang Tuanzuo's key points on the interspersed tactics: "Interspersed can be divided into forced interspersed, secret interspersed and a combination of the two. The purpose is to break through the enemy's weak gaps, seize key points in depth, attack important targets, block enemy reinforcements, and cut off the enemy's retreat!" The three chief officers just listened to it for the time being.

In their opinion, at least at present, the Four-Line Regiment does not have this condition. Unless one day the Four-Line Regiment has grown enough to confront a Japanese division, there will be a chance to use this new tactic.

The idea of ​​the three veteran soldiers is not wrong if it is considered from the perspective that the entire North China battlefield is still in strategic defense. The current North China battlefield is mainly for defense, to defend the existing chassis and defense lines, to fight with the Japanese army, to consume the Japanese army's troops and materials, and to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

But Tang Dao knows that blind defense will only make the Japanese army more and more rampant. This is the case for a regiment's defense battlefield, a war zone, and even the national battlefield. It is necessary to defend and attack, forcing the Japanese army to put a large part of its strength on rear defense, which can also reduce the pressure on the defender.

Now on the North China battlefield, the 80th Army Group has sent its main force to the enemy's rear to vigorously develop guerrilla warfare, constantly destroy the Japanese army's transportation lines, and launch sneak attacks on small Japanese troops. In the future, it will involve hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, which is the most successful case of large-depth detours and interspersed tactics.

This involves the national battlefield, which is a big chess game. Looking at it from a smaller perspective, this kind of successful tactical interspersed cases are also everywhere.

A few years ago, the 80th Army was surrounded and blocked by hundreds of thousands of troops, and an infantry regiment rushed 240 miles in one day and night and captured Luding Bridge;

Ten years later, 120,000 troops leaped thousands of miles into the Dabie Mountains, fought hard all the way for half a year, and violently penetrated between Jiangcheng and Jinling. More than half of them were injured, but they attracted hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, creating basic conditions for encircling and annihilating the enemy's million-strong army on the northern battlefield.

In the Battle of the Icefield, the 113th Division of the 38th Army rushed 70 kilometers in 14 hours, inserted into Sansoli, and forcibly cut off the retreat of the 9th Army of the American Cowboys, almost beating the American Cowboys to their knees.

Tang Dao did not force his subordinates to understand and apply this tactic now, but he must know that after one or two battlefield practices, they will accept this excellent tactic summed up by Chinese soldiers on the battlefield for more than ten years.

But even Tang Dao did not expect that Leng Feng would decisively use this large-scale roundabout and interspersed tactic that had never been used on a large scale in the history of the Four-Line Regiment in Shunwangping, a battlefield where he unexpectedly encountered the Japanese army.

Two infantry companies totaling 626 people, led by local guides, took advantage of the cover of night and mountains and forests, and actually went 4,000 meters away from the main force and arrived near the Japanese mountain artillery position.

The 105 howitzers of the Kunisaki Detachment are terrible, but because of the long distance, the coordinates are blurred and the distance between the Chinese and Japanese sides is close, the 105 howitzer group will generally not fire easily.

However, because its mountain artillery battalion is close to the front line and has telephone lines, it can obtain accurate artillery coordinates, which can pose a greater threat to the Four-Line Regiment.

For example, the Tang Li unit, which was fighting with an infantry battalion, was bombarded by the Japanese mountain artillery battalion in the 15th minute after the start of the war.

Although the mountain artillery was still calibrating the gun point and had not caused too many casualties for the time being, with the continuous feedback from the Japanese front-line artillery, the 12 mountain artillery found the accurate coordinates. Even if the two infantry companies could still hold on, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, when Leng Feng made the tactical choice of using two infantry companies to attack the Japanese troops in the direction of Hexi Village to attract Japanese reinforcements, so that the two infantry companies and two artillery companies could successfully wipe out the Japanese troops entering Heilonggou, the Japanese mountain artillery battalion with 12 Type 41 mountain artillery was a thorn in the eye that had to be removed.

Leng Feng remembered the tactical concept of deep and roundabout penetration that he had talked about with Tang Dao all night, and it was for the purpose of attacking important targets!

So, under the guidance of this tactical concept, the two leading infantry companies magically bypassed the Japanese defense line and reached the rear of the Japanese army.

The reason why the Japanese artillery position was found in the vast mountains was that the simple mountain village youth was familiar with the territory of Shunwangping;

The second reason was that the Japanese artillerymen worked too hard. When they bombarded the Heilongtan area in the early morning, they used all their strength. The thick smoke rising from the artillery position made it seem like they were bombarded. For the scouts led by Shen Laoliu who were struggling to find them in the mountains, it was simply a label of "I am an artilleryman, come and do it quickly!" on their foreheads.

Of course, finding the Japanese artillery position does not mean that they can kill them.

Kunisaki Zheng was a person who had suffered losses and would never be easily drowned twice in the same river. A fully staffed infantry battalion was firmly guarded around the artillery battalion, surrounding the artillery battalion's position of tens of thousands of square meters like a bucket.

Let alone Li Jiujin's two companies, even if the entire third battalion came, it would be a fantasy to rush into the artillery position within half an hour.

Li Jiujin could only wait patiently, waiting for the Japanese army to make mistakes in a hurry.

This time, the mountain village youth saw two infantry companies lurking in the forest less than 600 meters away from the Japanese artillery position, and he would never say that the company commander was timid.

No matter how stupid he was, he knew that not everyone dared to hide quietly under the noses of the Japanese army.

Finally, Kunisaki Zheng, who was fainted by the stupidity of his subordinates, made another mistake and sent the reserve troops of the last two infantry battalions in his hands to the main battlefield in one breath.

The infantry battalion guarding this artillery position left!

How angry was Kunisaki Zheng? Even 20 minutes after the infantry battalion left, there was not even a single infantry squad to serve as a defensive force for this poor mountain artillery battalion.

It's not that Kunisaki Masayuki is really out of his mind, but no one would have thought that the Sihang Regiment, which has far fewer troops than the Kunisaki Detachment, would use this kind of long-range roundabout tactics at the moment of the decisive battle.

If the two infantry battalions did not move, with the help of the mountain artillery battalion, let alone 600 people, even if they came with 1,600 people, it would be a meat bun beating a dog type of sending heads.

But Major General Kunisaki Masayuki, whose head was buzzing, was forced to call up his last reserve to make up for the mistake.

Of course, he was wise in one thing, retaining a 300-man reinforced infantry squadron for his brigade headquarters, and the brigade headquarters also had field hospitals, engineers, and baggage soldiers. Otherwise, a reconnaissance squad led by Shen Laoliu, who was watching him in the jungle 800 meters away, might dare to complete a perfect decapitation tactic.

That was a whip kick that hit Lieutenant General Itagaki Shiro, who was stationed on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The fifth division's leading major general brigade commander has all served the emperor under his wise command. What qualifications does he have to command so many lieutenant generals and major generals? Where is his face?

To some extent, Kunisaki Masaru, who has been desperate to seek medical treatment, has kept a flowered shorts for his immediate boss!

This may also be the only bright spot for this Japanese Army major general in this battlefield of great defeat.

Itagaki Shiro: You go eat shit!

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Since there was no infantry to help, the mountain artillery battalion had to draw a hundred people on its own, carrying only a few dozen Type 38 rifles and Type 14 pistols in the south, and acted as a defensive force.

With the marksmanship of the Japanese artillery, the defensive power of these hundred people is estimated to be not much different from the armed work teams equipped with broadswords, earthen guns, and homemade pistols that will be active in large numbers on the Jizhong Plain in the future.

But they had to face 600 elite troops equipped with light machine guns, semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns.

The ending was predictable.

"That is" a Japanese artillery lieutenant holding a command knife and directing the artillery to deploy in the trenches pointed to the distance, his eyes full of confusion.

Hundreds of constantly jumping figures suddenly flashed in the forest!

The imperial infantry should not reach the artillery position in this way!

Soon, the Japanese artillery lieutenant, whose brain was obviously short-circuited, no longer had to worry about the real answer.

"Da da da!" A total of 18 light machine guns began to roar from all over the forest.

The pouring rain of bullets splashed from two directions on the Japanese artillery defense positions that had not yet reacted, and three consecutive bullets hit the Japanese artillery lieutenant standing on the edge of the trench.

The Japanese artillery lieutenant staggered by the kinetic energy of the bullet, his eyes full of disbelief, fell to the ground and began to twitch physiologically. If there were no emergency measures, the massive blood loss caused by the bullet penetrating the heart's aorta would take his life in two minutes.

Unfortunately, in such a panic, not to mention the artillery that lacked sufficient training and preparation for field battles, even the well-trained infantry, no one would have time to care about a small lieutenant.

Military rank and official position, in the face of the tyranny of the god of death, are nothing.

In fact, when the Japanese artillery lieutenant breathed out his last breath with difficulty, the mountain village youth carrying Tu Yunsheng just stepped over his body.

"The little devil's knife is pretty good, Adong, go pick it up, and consider it a gift from my 7th Company!" Tu Yunsheng glanced at the body of the Japanese artillery lieutenant and said casually.

Although the young man Adong was straightforward and almost stupid, the existence of this young man was one of the factors for winning this battle.

Adong was so familiar with the topography of this generation that even the company commander Li Jijin praised him in public. Under the leadership of this young man, he was able to circumnavigate a ravine that was more than ten meters wide and tens of meters deep. On the mountain road, just find the small road, and I don’t know how much time the infantry company was saved.

It’s no wonder that when the village elders recommended guides, the others were all middle-aged in their late 40s, except A Dong, a young man under 20.

When I asked on the way, I found out that Adong was a child who grew up eating hundreds of meals in Hexi Village. A migrant who lost his parents at a young age, in addition to relying on the villagers' help, he spent the rest of his time looking for all the edible wild fruits and vegetables in the mountains. , sometimes when it gets late, we just stay in the mountains.

This lush mountain is like his home.

Moreover, Adong is very strong. Tu Yunsheng's own weight plus the guns and ammunition he carries weighs more than 150 kilograms. Usually, the two stretcher soldiers specially equipped for Tu Yunsheng are tired and panting when carrying the stretcher, but Adong, who volunteered, carried Tu Yunsheng on his back. Running very fast in the mountains, those strong and thick legs seemed to be equipped with engines.

Even in this charge led by Li Jijin himself, the small humanoid tank A Dong carrying Tu Yunsheng on his back did not lag behind. Squad 4, with the squad leader of "Tian Can Di Que", was still able to stay ahead of the two infantrymen. The company's mid-level level.

All of this was due to Adong's outstanding performance. Tu Yunsheng had to show his respect to both the public and the private. Giving him a Japanese lieutenant's sword as a souvenir was the greatest authority Tu Yunsheng could have.

"No, Brother Tu, I want to join the Four Elements Group!" A Dong shook his head firmly.

Tu Yunsheng looked ahead and saw countless comrades rushing towards the chaotic Japanese artillery position with determination, feeling a little headache.

It is not up to him, the squad leader, to decide to withdraw his troops. This naive young man had previously called Commander Jiujin a coward several times. It is unknown what Captain Jiujin had in mind. How dare he do it for the company commander? this decision?

"Brother Tu, don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you. I will definitely let Captain Li accept me!" A Dong was full of confidence.

The mountain village boy squatted down, not only picked up the shining samurai sword, but also picked up the Nanbu Fourteen pistol in the gun case hanging on the waist of the Japanese artillery lieutenant and inserted it into his waist.

"Your kid can't shoot, so what's the use of this thing?" Tu Yunsheng smiled and patted the honest young man on the shoulder. "Let's go! If we don't leave, Class 4 won't even be able to drink soup."

Soon, Tu Yunsheng felt like he was going blind.

A young man who had never been exposed to a gun boldly started shooting for the first time in his life after being given random instructions on how to pull the bolt and open the safety.

What's even more awesome is that he hit it.

It was a Japanese artilleryman hiding in the mountains and forests who was fighting back desperately with a 38-meter cover. The straight-line distance between the two sides was more than 50 meters. Several soldiers from the 4th Squadron fired wildly with semi-automatics but could not kill the guy who was huddled behind the big rock.

But at some point, Adong, who quietly got around, relied on a Southern Type 14 pistol that the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment looked down upon. He fired three shots from a distance of more than 40 meters and hit all of them.

"You did it by smashing it? Have you ever shot a gun before?" Not to mention Tu Yunsheng was very frightened, Boss Cao and the other officers and soldiers of Squad 4 were also confused.

"I have played with Uncle Gu's blunderbuss before. They said I was a born hunter." A Dong replied with a grin, as if he was not at all happy or surprised that he killed a Japanese soldier 40 meters away.

"Bird gun" Tu Da squad leader was quite speechless. Is that thing a gun?

It was not until a long time later that the soldiers of Class 4 learned that the young man from the mountain village who was finally assigned to Class 4 by Li Jijin dared to brag that the villagers praised him as a natural hunter because he could hit a bird with a blunderbuss. Birds flying 100 meters away.

For a cannon with a range of less than 50 meters, it is definitely a miracle.

Perhaps, this is the legendary talent, like Tang Tuanzuo and Lieutenant Niu Er, which ordinary people cannot envy.

Not to mention the big treasure that Li Jijin unexpectedly picked up on the battlefield, this deep and roundabout battle was already a complete victory when the two infantry companies rushed into the defensive position of the Japanese artillery brigade with only 13 losses.

As the supreme commander of the Si Xing Regiment, Leng Feng silenced all those who still doubted him with this "crazy" tactic. Many company and platoon-level officers in the Si Xing Regiment

In his eyes, he may be an excellent infantry commander second only to Tang Dao and Lei Xiong.

And this was not over yet. Li Jijin did not order all the mountain cannons to be blown up immediately. Instead, he ordered the captured Japanese gunners to control 6 mountain cannons and fire at the Japanese 105 howitzer position on the edge of the town in the distance.

For those who did not accept it, the soldiers of the 7th Company almost did not hesitate to shoot, and rows of freshly baked corpses appeared like this.

Under the threat of death, there will always be someone who abandons the so-called honor, no matter who it is.

The supreme commander Li Jijin made an unprecedented promise that all of them could enjoy prisoner of war treatment as official prisoners of war, and he also fulfilled his promise.

This is also the reason why more than 200 people were captured, but in the end less than 50 prisoners chose to obey.

Li Jijin got lucky. Not only did he defeat the thorn in the side of the Fourth Army Regiment, but he also captured the tactical map of the Guoqi detachment at the artillery brigade headquarters. The position and coordinates of the 105 howitzer were clearly marked on it.

Sometimes, hard work really has no chance of working!

Kunizaki Masayuki had calculated everything, but he didn't expect the Chinese to be so bold. Not only did they send people to lurk on the side and stare at his mountain artillery battalion position, but they also took advantage of his mistakes to complete a surprise attack.

The whole process didn't even take more than 20 minutes, and an artillery battalion with more than 900 soldiers was finished.

What's even worse is that 6 mountain artillery actually turned back and fired at the 105 howitzer position 5 kilometers away.

It was a flat land, and the anti-artillery ability of the carefully selected mountain artillery position was far less strong.

It was almost 10 minutes later when the Japanese troops on the 105 howitzer position realized that they were attacked by their own artillery position.

10 minutes was enough for 6 mountain artillery to fire more than 200 shells.

Regardless of the losses, the Japanese 105 howitzer position was completely pinned down, and it was difficult to provide fire support to the front-line infantry of the Kunisaki detachment.

That really cost the lives of the infantrymen.

Without the cannons, the Imperial Japanese Army would only have the strength of their heads! ()