Rise From Eight Hundred

Gu Teng Changying, who had a stiff and iron-blooded face, soon changed his expression.

However, it became quite strange and complicated.

The guard troops stationed in the rear of his army sent news: an unknown number of Chinese troops appeared in the mountains behind him!

The Chinese actually played the trick of "encircling a point and attacking the reinforcements" again? Are they going to surround him?

Do they really think that the imperial soldiers are so stupid? Gu Teng Changying, who was furious, laughed instead of getting angry.

"Order the rear guard troops to quickly find out the approximate strength of the enemy troops invading from the rear!" Gu Teng Changying cast his eyes on the map. "At the same time, transfer two infantry artillery squads to the rear to stand by!"

"Hi!" A major staff officer took the order and turned to leave.

"Wait, tell the artillery battalion and the guard troops to shrink their positions to avoid being taken advantage of by the enemy from the rear!"

"Your Excellency, the brigade commander, but the artillery battalion is already very far forward. If we shrink our positions further, we will be retaliated by the Chinese artillery group." The Army Colonel Sasaki Xiaoyong on the side hesitated.

"The Chinese 82-caliber mortars are indeed a big trouble, but their effective range is up to 2,500 meters!" Gu Teng Changjin narrowed his eyes and looked at the mountains and forests where smoke was constantly rising, his face full of haze.

Just over ten minutes ago, the Chinese 82-caliber mortars launched retaliatory artillery attacks on various infantry artillery positions, resulting in one of the infantry guns being destroyed, more than a dozen artillerymen being injured, and the other 9 infantry guns had to be tactically transferred, making it difficult to maintain concentrated fire on the hidden artillery positions on the damn high ground of the Chinese.

Moreover, judging from the density of their artillery fire, the Chinese had no less than 12 82-caliber mortars hidden behind their positions.

It's OK that there are 12 mortars that can cause heavy damage to the infantry formation. The key is that this type of artillery is a large-angle curved fire artillery, hidden on the back of the mountain. Not to mention infantry artillery, even mountain artillery can hardly bypass the mountains to send shells to them.

If you want to attack these hateful small-caliber artillery, you can only rely on the fighter planes of the Army Aviation, but the damn aircraft group has not arrived yet, and I don't know if they got lost in the sky or something.

I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, but I'm afraid of pig-like teammates! The Japanese Army Major General has never been so disappointed with friendly forces.

"Our artillery position is nearly 2,800 meters away from here. Even if the position is shrunk, its 82-caliber mortar can do nothing to our artillery. Moreover, even if its range is enough, what can its artillery caliber do to our position?" Gu Teng Changying flashed a trace of disdain at the corner of his mouth.

The Japanese Army Major General's disdain for the mortar, the most widely equipped mortar of the Chinese army, is not without reason.

Mortars are artillery that can kill infantry and are flexible. Why are there so few mortars in the Imperial Army? The biggest reason is that their power is too small to be the key to victory on the battlefield.

The role played by mortars at the infantry squad level can be completed by 50%, and the 70-caliber infantry guns equipped at the battalion level have excellent ability to break through obstacles. Although the 75-caliber mountain guns are a bit bulky, they are far superior to mortars in terms of range and power. Naturally, the Imperial Army abandoned this type of artillery.

The Chinese were defeated on the battlefields of North China and East China, which fully proved the gap between the Chinese and Japanese in artillery selection and combat effectiveness.

"Your Excellency the brigade commander is right!" Sasaki Xiaoyong heard this explanation, but it made sense.

No matter how much the position is shrunk, the Imperial Artillery will adhere to the Army Manual's stipulation that each mountain artillery position must be more than 30 meters apart. With the power of the 82-caliber mortar, unless 20 or more are gathered at once, it is impossible to cause fatal damage to the artillery position.

Compared with the possibility of being attacked by the Chinese army from behind, this level of harm is completely an affordable price.

It must be said that Gu Teng Changying's computing brain is still quite powerful. His choice was proved to be an extremely wise decision 20 minutes later.

Gu Xishui led Heizi and Niu Er and other six special forces to ambush 3,000 meters away, staring at the Japanese artillery battalion for opportunities.

Half an hour ago, the regiment headquarters contacted the 967th Regiment, which had basically arrived.

So, under the arrangement of Captain Chen, the special forces group divided into three groups led the team, each with an infantry platoon, and lurked to the front of the Japanese artillery battalion position from three directions.

According to previous observations, the 12 artillery positions distributed in five valleys are wide, and the two infantry squadrons of 400 Japanese infantrymen cannot take care of them at all. Three infantry platoons can at least sneak attack one of them.

But unfortunately, when the three infantry platoons were already in place, they found that the Japanese artillery positions had already shrunk, and all 12 artillery pieces were placed in a large valley.

400 Japanese infantrymen were building barbed wire and digging trenches in front of the artillery positions. It was a thing of the past to unexpectedly strike them with a fatal blow.

"Deputy Captain Gu, the Japanese have learned to be smart, let's withdraw!" A second lieutenant platoon leader of the 967th Regiment looked helplessly at the Japanese infantrymen who were laying barbed wire in the distance and could only suggest.

Although the three infantry platoons that followed the scouts of the Fourth Line Regiment were all fully armed infantry platoons, they were also reinforced infantry platoons. Each infantry squad could have one light machine gun and grenade launchers, and each soldier was equipped with a Japanese rifle. Style steel helmet and issued with 60 rounds of ammunition, the firepower is not weak compared with the Japanese army, but with three infantry platoons to attack the defense line built by 400 Japanese troops, and there are 12 mountain cannons behind the infantry, even this man climbed the snow-capped mountains and walked across The veterans on the lawn thought it was an extremely crazy thing.

In his opinion, the best way now is for everyone to retreat temporarily and wait for the regiment headquarters to send out large troops before fighting this wave of Japanese invaders.

However, although this veteran is the platoon leader, he is not the highest commander here. Not only is his second lieutenant rank not as high as Gu Xishui's lieutenant rank, but before departure, the regiment headquarters has appointed this commander of the Four Lines Regiment. The deputy commander of the reconnaissance company served as the overall commander of the attack on the Japanese artillery position and required the three infantry platoons to follow the command of the young lieutenant.

"No, we finally walked over mountains and ridges and got here in mud and water. How can we not teach the little devil a lesson?" Gu Xishui, who kept looking at the Japanese position with a telescope, did not look back, but refused directly.

"Deputy Company Commander Gu, don't be too impetuous. You see, the Japanese infantry has gradually completed the fortifications, and there are more than a dozen mountain artillery behind them. Our officers and men of the Eightyth Group Army are not afraid of death, but we cannot touch eggs like this pointlessly. Stone! No, I can't let you do whatever you want." The second lieutenant platoon leader couldn't help but become a little anxious when he heard this, and his tone became a little more serious.

Even though his military rank was second lieutenant, this man had commanded an infantry battalion before and was a battalion commander-level officer. Naturally, he didn't have much respect for Gu Xishui, a young man who was only 20 years old.

"Platoon Leader Tu, you have misunderstood me. I am not trying to storm the Japanese positions! Nor will I take the lives of my brothers lightly." Gu Xishui put down his binoculars and looked at the twenty-five-year-old man behind him. The six-year-old brother smiled gently and explained.

"Look, Chief Tutu, this place is surrounded by mountains on three sides. The left and right sides are more than a thousand meters wide. The middle is slightly narrower, but it is still three to four hundred meters long. If we launch an attack from three sides at the same time, what do you think the Japanese army will do?" Gu Xishui said Zhu Junxi drew a simple map on the dirt.

"They will definitely defend according to the current fortifications, and will try their best to place artillery behind all infantry defense lines to avoid being attacked by us." The platoon leader Tu was not stubborn. Seeing that Gu Xishui wanted to discuss it with him, he frowned After looking at the simple map drawn by Gu Xishui, he expressed his judgment.

"That's it. When did I say that when we attack, we must capture their position and blow up all the artillery? We just need to mobilize the Japanese artillery and let them get closer. "Gu Xishui smiled even brighter.

"I understand, brother Gu, you want to scare the little devil." Platoon leader Tu patted his thigh and understood what Gu Xishui meant.

But soon, the platoon leader frowned again, "But even if it is a feint attack, the Japanese artillery will definitely fire, and our losses will not be small. It feels a little bit to sacrifice the lives of our comrades in exchange for scaring the Japanese." It’s not worth it!”

"Platoon Leader Tu, first of all, this area is wide enough. Our army can completely distribute an infantry squad in an area of ​​nearly 200 meters to minimize the threat to our army from artillery.

Secondly, the Japanese mountain artillery shells were not blown by strong winds. They would certainly not conduct covering shelling on a small number of infantry at such a close range. If the artillery attack is carried out with all the strength, it is only considered that our small force is used for testing, and the main force is in the rear.

It's not like you haven't dealt with the little devil before. With their stingy nature, as long as the opponent doesn't use heavy firepower, they will definitely prefer grenade launchers in the hands of infantry.

In addition, the most important thing is that we are not just scaring the Japanese artillery. We have not only scouts here this time, but also two old artillery observers."

"You mean?" Platoon leader Tu was stunned for a moment and then suddenly realized what he was saying.

Although he expressed his objection just now because of different opinions on tactics, he still remained polite after all. It was not just for the sake of the friendly forces, because the young man in front of him was from the Four Elements Regiment.

If someone had told him half a month ago how elite the Four Elements Regiment was, this veteran who fought his way from Gan Province and fought hundreds of battles across thousands of mountains and rivers in more than a year would never have taken it too seriously. .

What elite? It's just that I fought a few battles and gained a bit of an upper hand. I fought through an army of millions and didn't even boast about this, okay?

The battle of Beiganling allowed him to see with his own eyes the real elite of the Four Elements Regiment. Not to mention their skilled tactics and excellent individual weapons, the most impressive thing was their heavy firepower.

Previously, there were only a hundred or so Japanese troops forming the final blocking position below the battlefield, and more than a thousand infantrymen in the entire army were in charge mode. According to this veteran's estimation, it would take at least a hundred troops from the entire army to defeat this blocking position. The above casualties.

But he was wrong. The infantry were still preparing to attack. Five consecutive rounds of shelling by six 150-weight mortars belonging to the artillery company of the Fourth Army Regiment had already reduced the Japanese army's last blocking position to rubble.

In the end, with less than ten casualties, the Japanese army captured the last desperate position. After the war, a count showed that no more than 20 Japanese soldiers died from bullets, which means that more than 80% of the Japanese infantry were killed by large-caliber mortars.

If the two regiments were to fight against each other that day, he would dare to pat his chest and say that his 769th Regiment's fighting will and tactics were not inferior to the Four-Line Regiment. However, facing this unmatched gap in equipment, he could only say that if a fight really came, his infantry regiment would have a chance of losing more than 99%.

The young lieutenant in front of him seemed to want to fight artillery with artillery.

"Hey, Platoon Leader Tu, don't think this is my tactic. This is one of the tactics that our regiment commander had formulated before the war. I am just an executor." Gu Xishui smiled.

At this moment, a buzzing sound came from the sky. As the Chinese soldiers in the mountains and forests looked up in horror, the roar became louder and louder, and more than a dozen black spots in the sky rushed towards this mountainous area.

Platoon Leader Tu's face was full of bitterness and helplessness, "The Japanese planes are coming!"

Fighter planes are the most important backhand for the Japanese army to decide the outcome of the battlefield. For the Chinese army that lacks sufficient air defense weapons, they are also the most powerless.

In addition to concealment, it is concealment, without any ability to fight back.

"Our regiment commander said that if Japanese fighter planes arrive, they must first rescue their baggage convoys and will never waste bombs on the battlefield." Gu Xishui looked up at the sky. "We should fight as we should!"

"Your commander Tang is really like this!" Platoon leader Tu gave a thumbs up sincerely.

Platoon leader Tu praised not only because the Four-line Regiment had enough artillery to compete with the Japanese army, but more because of the wisdom of Tang Dao and the courage to use artillery to the fullest in the face of Japanese fighter planes.

For the 80th Army, where he was, the biggest disadvantage in fighting against the Japanese army was not the lack of ammunition or the lack of supplies.

If there was little ammunition, then hand-to-hand combat, if one could not win, then two or three would go, the 80th Army was never afraid of this;

If there was insufficient supplies, then cornmeal with wild vegetables, as long as it could stop the stomach from growling all the time.

However, facing the various types of artillery of the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the 80th Army, who had no more than 6 mountain artillery guns in the entire 80th Army, could only be described as powerless. Often, after a battle, the officers and soldiers who died under artillery shells far outnumbered those who died under bullets.

Moreover, the heavy machine guns that were usually reluctant to use must have suffered the greatest losses. If things went wrong, the heavy weapons of an infantry regiment might have been blown up by artillery.

Otherwise, the strategy formulated by the leaders of the 921st Division now was to avoid the main force of the Japanese army and focus on the Japanese baggage train and small units. To put it nicely, it was to avoid the real and attack the virtual, with tactics and strategy. In fact, to put it bluntly, it was just that they could not beat the main force of the Japanese army!

Otherwise, with the 80th Army's always tough nature, if they could beat it, they would have opened up the battle with the Japanese infantry divisions long ago.

However, if we only talk about heavy firepower, the Chinese army is not as poor as the 80th Army. For example, the Shanxi Suiyuan Army, although they did not have many heavy artillery, had no fewer 75-caliber mountain artillery than the Japanese army.

But except for the battle of Xinkou that decided the life and death of Shanxi Province, they pulled out ten artillery regiments to fight against the Japanese in a formal manner. The rest of the time, they were worried about the Japanese planes and never fought a decent battle.

It can be seen that it is not easy to have heavy weapons, but it is even more difficult to have the courage to use them and challenge the Japanese army with air superiority.

Tang Dao has both. How can this veteran not admire him?

Sure enough, Tang Dao's judgment was correct.

The Japanese aircraft group in the sky did not stay on the battlefield of the two armies at all, and still maintained a high speed to fly to the ambush battlefield of the 771st Regiment several kilometers away.

However, the Japanese aircraft group did not intend to lower the altitude to enter the battlefield.

Gu Teng Changying, who looked up at the sky with a telescope, flashed confusion in his eyes!

What do these stupid Imperial Army Air Forces want to do?

He could understand that they should go to support the 14th Division's baggage convoy first, but a distance of several kilometers is just a matter of minutes for fighter planes. If they don't lower their altitude to enter the battlefield now, are they going to drop bombs in the sky?

Do you really think you all have clairvoyance?

Don't let the baggage convoy not be killed by the Chinese, but you kill it.

Major General Gu Teng Changying's worries are not without factual basis. The fleet flying over his head is at least 2,000 meters high.

However, perhaps this is a tactic that the Army Aviation has already formulated, and Gu Teng Changying didn't take it too seriously.

His thoughts were attracted by the battle report from the rear.

Three small Chinese troops launched an attack on the artillery position!

Although the current strength revealed is not much, no one can guarantee whether there will be more Chinese hiding behind.

"Then order the artillery battalion to cover the rear area where the Chinese appear, and tell them with blood that this is the price of playing hide-and-seek with the empire." Gu Teng Changying's mouth was cold.

The Chinese like to play tricks, so this time he will use toughness to fight back against them, so that they will understand that all calculations are futile in the face of real strength.

The Japanese Army Major General, who always believed that the mind is more important than anything else, learned to change after being hit by a club and was exhausted, and stopped playing tricks to compare hard power.

Men, in terms of fickleness, seem to be no worse than women.

"Brother, you are really amazing!" Platoon leader Tu, who was hiding behind a big rock, stared at the smoke rising five or six hundred meters behind him in amazement, and praised Gu Xishui sincerely.

He finally understood why the regiment appointed this young lieutenant of the friendly army as the commander-in-chief, instead of him, a veteran who had been in the army for 8 years.

That's because he has a level. The reaction of the Japanese army actually fell into the calculation of this young lieutenant.