Chapter 178 Fireline Rescue (4)
As the main force of the Central Army of the National Army and Song Yuhang, who is good at defending, was in front of the front line. After more than a week of intense and busy fortification construction, Longling's defense system seemed to have become like an iron barrel by the First Mechanized Army. In this regard, the Japanese army had already experienced the power of the Chinese army.
The US transport plane shot down today caused the Chinese defenders to make a big fight. Not only did they dispatch infantry to venture deep into the middle line of the battle between the two sides, but they also used heavy artillery to suppress fire!
Kawabian Masahiro regarded this opportunity as an opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time. He used the mobilization of the Chinese defenders' troops in the south of the city to find a breakthrough in the complex terrain. Once the attacking troops broke into the central and inner circle of Longling City defense, the Chinese defenders were not allowed to give up their firepower advantages and involved in hand-to-hand combat.
The wishful thinking of Zheng San from the riverside seemed a bit ridiculous to Song Yuhang! War is undoubtedly an art. The generals of the enemy and us fought wits and courage, while soldiers fought bloody battles, avoiding the strong and vainly concealing their own strategies and tactical intentions, and giving the enemy a fatal blow to the enemy in a weak position, with more attacks less and few attacks against the masses. The war for thousands of years has brought human wisdom to the extreme.
However, with the increasing development of technology, tactical deception is far less effective than epoch-making advanced weapons. Therefore, the Japanese army's attempt to encircle and annihilate the First Mechanized Army, whose firepower is several times higher than that of Song Yuhang, made Song Yuhang feel very ridiculous. This is also the main reason why Song Yuhang dared to lead his troops to defend the Lonely City of Longling.
The infantry detachment of the Japanese Ishihara corps attacked was engaged in the battle on a squad. The Japanese army dressed in dead grass camouflage and left the emergency landing location of US transport planes in all directions without any scruples. Song Yuhang, who was standing in the command of the Third Infantry Division, snorted coldly at Liang Chao: "Commander Liang, the Japanese seem to be about to surround the troops you sent to respond. Do you have any emergency plans?"
After hearing the military captain's personal inquiry, Liang Chao was immediately excited and hurriedly said: "Our army was ordered to defend the defense line in the southern suburbs of the city. This order did not explain our army's specific mission. Please also ask the military captain to make it clear!"
Liang Chao was pretending to be stupid, so Song Yuhang naturally understood. So Song Yuhang's face slightly sank and said, "Do your best to rescue the US military's emergency landing crew, and be sure to keep our first front safe and in-depth."
As generals, you can plan your own strategy, but as frontline officers and soldiers, there is not as much choice as the superiors.
The war is undoubtedly very cruel. Although most of the Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers who were in the war were forced to do so, this is their destiny and mission.
From a noble perspective, they must go all out to fight for the nation and the country, and from a personal perspective, they must fight for their families. How much helplessness? How much sorrow? How much blood and tears?
Wow, wow! Bullets flew over the head with high temperature and heat to cut through the air. The god of death seemed to be with the Chinese soldiers who were bravely advancing. The god of death calmly reached out and pulled down the people who were selected.
The Chinese soldiers shouted and charged quickly with rifles. The Chinese soldiers were shot and fell to the ground while their blood was boiling. Blood mist sprayed from their bodies and showed a strange color in the sunlight.
Life is gradually passing away. But the pace of impact never stops. The first mechanized military and local officers and soldiers have long been deeply imprinted by Song Yuhang. For tomorrow, parents, wife and children are no longer living under the Japanese subway hooves. Today they must fight bloody.
"I can sacrifice! Because I am Chinese! Chinese people can only live standing up! They can lose their lives. But they must not lose their freedom and dignity!" The First Mechanized Army has deeply implemented the extreme nationalism into the consciousness of officers and soldiers. Once Chinese soldiers understand who they are fighting for? Their amazing combat effectiveness even shocked Song Yuhang.
Although the reinforcements of the Fifth Infantry Regiment of the Third Infantry Division suffered nearly 100 casualties, the main force still arrived around the transport planes of the emergency landing site incredibly smoothly. A camp reinforcement of the Chinese defenders caused the pressure on the Japanese Ishihara corps to increase the pressure on the ground. The two brigades of Toshigakuen were at a disadvantage in firepower and troop strength.
Saburo Takehara looked at the wreckage of the Chinese military medical team hurriedly entering the transport plane. A cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
For this reason, Masazo Hebian gathered the remnants of the field artillery corps of the 49th Division. He independently formed a field artillery group of the 24th, 51, and 72nd Brigades, and secretly entered the second-line position to deploy defense. He attempted to launch artillery fire on the Chinese defenders' foreshadowing troops.
The Japanese field artillery was not the opponent of the heavy artillery brigade of the First Mechanized Army, in terms of range to firepower. The American 105mm caliber howitzers seized by the Japanese army could not compete with the American 155mm 43 times the caliber. In terms of artillery firepower projection between the Chinese and Japanese armies, the Japanese army suffered a huge loss since the war of aggression against China. The Japanese army could only lament that they had no choice but to lament.
However, the Japanese's tendency to be clever and clever made them quickly find a way to deal with the heavy artillery brigade of the First Mechanized Army. In fact, the Japanese army's method was very simple. They just turned the original artillery group into single-aircraft or double-aircraft rows, and unified command with wired telephones and multiple such artillery positions. They were as if ants were gnawing elephants, so that the Chinese defender artillery group that had the advantage of firepower could not exert their firepower advantages. This deployment could minimize the losses even if it was counterattacked by Chinese defender artillery fire.
After Hou Bing followed the military doctor into the transport plane, the experienced military doctor hesitated for a moment after examination and said: "Battleman Commander Hou, the injured must undergo surgery immediately, otherwise the injured will be in danger of life!"
"Surgery here?" Hou Bing was stunned. He performed the operation under the rain of artillery fire in front of the two armies. After Hou Binghua confirmed that the military doctor was not a joke, he fell into a short silence. Although the operation could have the opportunity to save the female pilot of the US military, for this life-saving operation, the time his troops needed to persevere would inevitably be extended. Undoubtedly, this would require the exchange of blood and life as a major price.
The life of American pilots is life. Is the life of Chinese soldiers not life? Is the life of Chinese soldiers cheaper than the life of American soldiers?
Hou Bing thought a lot, and faced this problem, Hou Bing felt very helpless. He, an international student majoring in industrial heat engine, refused the high salary of American business owners and promised to help his family settle in the United States, and still returned to China to join the army. As a young man in the great era, Hou Bing's thoughts were affected by the freedom and opening up of the United States. However, for China's mainstream thinking in this era, Hou Bing's thinking of respecting human rights, democracy and freedom seems to be unacceptable to most people.
As a soldier, Hou Bing naturally understood what the duty of a soldier was. The Chinese soldiers squatting in the field individual defense of temporary excavation and the Japanese Ishihara Regiment rushed up desperately. During the fierce firefight, both sides used all the firepower they could use to project on the other side. The explosion of the US-made mortar was mixed with the dull sound of the Japanese grenade launcher.
The so-called infantry squadron firepower support weapon of the Japanese infantry, the most equipped Type 92 heavy machine gun, was defeated in a miserable defeat in the competition with the American 0.50-inch caliber m1 heavy machine gun. The two opponents of the same level in terms of firepower, caliber, range, and rate of fire were not on the same level. The battle between the Japanese army caused heavy losses!
Under the operation of experienced Chinese shooters, m1 heavy machine guns often shoot a few short shots, which can overturn the Japanese machine gun positions. The huge power and accuracy of the 12.7mm all-metal armored ammunition shocked the Japanese army? Especially when the 12.7mm caliber ammunition with huge destructive power hits the human body directly, the explosion effect of the flesh and blood flying and the body torso is split into pieces, which deeply shocked the Japanese soldiers' nerves that have begun to become fragile.
However, the Japanese army still stubbornly surrounded the Chinese army gathered near the wreckage of the transport plane in small teams. While the Japanese army ignored their own casualties, they continued to gather small troops within fifty meters of the transport plane, because within this distance, the Japanese heavy grenade can play the greatest role.
The Japanese troops within 100 meters of the transport plane were increasing, and most of these Japanese troops were waiting for battle in seclusion or restrained with firepower. When Hou Bing realized this unusual situation, nearly a thousand Japanese troops gathered near the transport plane suddenly used very precise grenade launchers as suppression firepower, and first concentrated their firepower to bombard the company outside the Hou Camp's defense circle.
The Japanese army used fierce and rapid grenade launchers to shoot in a close-range shot, destroying two fire support points and more than a dozen foxholes in a row, and opening a breakthrough of nearly a hundred meters on the position of the first company.
"Kill the earth!" A Japanese lieutenant waved a military flag with one hand, and waved his command knife with the other hand forward!
It seemed as if the Japanese soldiers emerging from the ground were carrying bayonet-38 rifles, shouting "Onboard" at the top of their lungs! The Chinese defenders rushed towards the Hou Camp like a group of wild animals.
Hou Bing had realized that his battalion had been surrounded by the Japanese army, but he did not show any tension or concern.
The Third Infantry Division is the so-called weak existence in the First Mechanized Army in the eyes of outsiders. Its division commander Liang Chao joined Song Yuhang's camp after the Kunming Battle. However, under Song Yuhang's command, he always fulfilled his duties and used his belongings. He always treated the same in terms of ordnance supply. Although the Third Infantry Division only equipped a small number of 105mm American howitzers and 75mm field guns, as an infantry division formed to deal with the jungle and mountain combat in the tropical region, the automatic weapons, mortars and other infantry support firepower of the Third Infantry Division is super-organized and allocated.
The first, second, third and fourth infantry companies commanded by Hou Bing are all of the A-type reinforcement companies, and each company is also equipped with a fire support platoon. The entire battalion is deployed according to the "arc" defensive formation guided by US military instructors. The first, second and fourth companies are arc-shaped cross-deployed to form a semicircular line with a diameter of 300 meters. The third company, the battalion headquarters and each company's fire support platoon are located in the center of the front and serve as the central reserve team.
This configuration was summarized by the US military's several battles with the Japanese army on the Pacific battlefield. The semi-arc defensive position is more suitable for the US military to exert the firepower advantages of its automatic weapons, which facilitates complementary and mutual support of firepower.
Chapter completed!