Chapter 359: Life-saving trick
Liao Gengsheng issued an order to attack, and the officers and soldiers of the 338th Regiment began to attack Dachenzhuang.
Gao Jiu stood in the temporary command center and observed the situation on the battlefield. He wanted to see how powerful the Gui army was.
Dachenzhuang is a larger village with no special walls. It is close to the back wall of the houses next to the village and becomes the border of nature, with seven or eight natural exits.
There is an open land outside the village, and the Gui army officers and soldiers have no hidden objects when attacking. When they are exposed, they can easily cause major casualties.
Liao Gengsheng is an experienced commander. His offensive tactics were recognized by Gao Jiu from the beginning.
After observation, Liao Gengsheng quickly discovered the weakness of the Japanese army. The Japanese army lacked enough troops, with only two small teams, Dachenzhuang Village was large, and the Japanese army's troops were not enough to use, and the troops in each direction were relatively thin.
Because the Japanese army has few troops, their only reliance now is the open land outside. Once the officers and soldiers of the 338th Regiment invade the village, the two sides will start street fighting under the same conditions, and the Japanese army will be consumed soon.
The Japanese army did not dare to let the Gui army enter the village to fight street battles. Their best strategy was to judge the enemy's main attack direction and concentrate their troops to stand firm.
According to the weaknesses of the Japanese army, Liao Gengsheng also launched four infantry companies on all sides of the village and launched an attack on Dachenzhuang.
The 338th Regiment attacked from all sides, with the main attack directions on all sides. The Japanese army had no choice but to divide the limited troops into guarding the troops. The troops on each side were relatively weak and the firepower was relatively weak.
The offensive tactics of the Gui army officers and soldiers were also remarkable. After the battle started, they did not rush up in a swarm. Each soldier had already understood his respective tasks before attacking.
They numbered the Japanese firepower points, and each firepower point was deployed with one squad or a platoon to attack.
Each infantry squad of the Gui Army is divided into three combat groups. One combat group is composed of machine gunners or soldiers with good shooting skills. It is responsible for suppressing the enemy's firepower, covering the other two combat groups, and launching an attack on the enemy.
Each infantry squad or infantry platoon attacks its own targets, which can effectively suppress the enemy's firepower and prevent damage from side-firing firepower. It is not easy to cause chaos on the battlefield.
Each infantry company has reserved two or three squads of reserves to attack the enemy's new firepower points, or support a certain infantry squad whose troops are insufficient due to excessive casualties.
The officers and soldiers of the Gui army were well-trained and had high individual quality. After launching an attack, they sometimes crawled forward and sometimes jumped forward. In these tactical actions, they were mixed with horizontal scrolling and dodging left and right, making it difficult for the enemy to aim.
After the battle started, the Gui army officers and soldiers attacked the village under the cover of machine gun fire.
Gao Jiu saw four infantry squads of Gui army rushed up directly in front of him. He could see that several of the Gui army officers and soldiers were shot and fell down. The other Gui army officers and soldiers quickly rushed to the vicinity of the village. Some shot guns and some threw grenades at the enemy.
Suddenly, a new fire point appeared on the left side of their attack direction, and the officers and soldiers suffered major casualties and eventually retreated.
The Japanese army is also very smart. When defending, they usually retain some hidden firepower points and will not be exposed until the critical moment.
The officers and soldiers of the Gui army all understood this. They launched four squads for the first time, and did not expect to break through the enemy's position in one fell swoop. Instead, they hoped that the enemy would expose hidden firepower points and then increase their forces to reorganize the attack.
After the Gui army retreated, the officers and soldiers reorganized their troops and prepared to launch another attack.
Gao Jiu decided to help the game. He sent Ning Wen, Ning Wu and Li Xiaoshan to the other three sides of the village to snipe the enemy's machine gunner and other targets, and he himself would also go into battle in person.
When Liao Gengsheng saw Gao Jiu going to fight in person, he hurriedly dissuaded: "Sir Gao, there are dangers ahead! With so many troops here, you should not go in person."
Gao Jiu smiled and said, "I feel itchy when I fight, so I'd better go up and help."
Liao Gengsheng heard that Gao Jiu's shooting skills were great, and he also wanted to see it as a truth, so he stopped dissuading him and simply followed Gao Jiu and moved forward together.
After telling the area 200 meters away from the periphery of Dachen Village, Liao Gengsheng once again dissuaded Gao Jiu, saying that he was the supreme commander and that if something happened, the battle would be difficult to fight later. Gao Jiu has always been kind and is willing to accept other people's kindness, so he stopped.
He observed for a moment, then raised his sniper rifle and fired a shot in front.
During the attack, the officers and soldiers of the Gui army were crushed to death by an enemy machine gun. The Japanese machine gunner hid behind the narrow window of a house. The officers and soldiers of the Gui army tried to suppress his firepower many times, but they did not play any role.
A platoon leader had already gone back to ask the company commander for instructions, hoping to transfer two more machine guns to suppress the enemy's machine gun fire. At this moment, the enemy's machine gun suddenly fell silent and the machine gun was tilted to the side. It was obvious that someone hit the Japanese machine gunner.
The Japanese soldiers were also very brave. The machine gunner in front died, and the one behind pushed up again. As soon as he picked up the machine gun, another bullet flew towards him, hitting the bone of his nose. The bullet shattered the bone of his nose and drilled into his brain. His face was full of blossoms and fell backwards.
The third Japanese machine gunner rushed up again, picked up the machine gun and was about to fire, when a bullet flew over and hit his forehead.
In this way, the Japanese machine gun became the god of death, and whoever touched him died.
"Good shooting skills." The platoon leader couldn't help but praise.
"Good shooting skills." Liao Gengsheng, who was standing next to Gao Jiu, couldn't help but clap his hands and applaud.
Gao Jiu stood two hundred meters away, and each shot was shot, one enemy was killed. There were less than 30 Japanese soldiers in this direction. In the previous battle, seven or eight of them had been killed by the Gui army. Gao Jiu took action and killed more than a dozen more.
The remaining Japanese did not dare to show their heads, so they simply gave up their positions and fled to the village. The Japanese positions opposite were soon empty.
The officers and soldiers of the Gui army were all very impressed. I don’t know who was so good at shooting skills, so I took care of the Japanese on the other side.
When the officers and soldiers saw that no one fired the gun on the other side, they all jumped up and rushed up shouting, and soon entered the village.
Liao Gengsheng was very impressed and couldn't help but say, "Sir Gao, your marksmanship is really amazing. One person can beat one of our companies."
On the other three sides, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and Jia Liu also played a major role, covering the Gui army's officers and soldiers occupied the periphery of the village. The Gui army's officers and soldiers were numerous and powerful. After entering the village, they fought with the Japanese army in streets and ended the battle in less than half an hour.
After capturing the big and small Chenzhuang, Gao Jiu, Liao Gengsheng and others went to check the trenches dug by the 62nd Division.
These trenches were dug on both sides of the highway, cutting off the connection between the two sides of Chenzhuang.
After checking the trenches left by the 62nd Division, Gao Jiu drew a picture on this basis and explained the officers above the regiment battalion of the 338th Regiment and the 62nd Division.
The drawings of the defensive positions drawn by Gao Jiu look very complicated, including core positions and peripheral positions, trenches and traffic trenches, with hidden troops, hidden departments, command centers, material storage holes, and even kitchens, toilets and drainage ditches.
This map draws on the experience of Japanese and Italian troops in digging trenches, as well as Gao Jiu's original techniques.
In order to allow each unit to understand the purpose of this trench, Gao Jiu personally guided the engineers of the 338th Regiment and dug a section of the trench.
This trench was dug deeper, and Wang Jindong's method of dealing with the Japanese was absorbed. Each soldier prepared a small stool to prevent the Japanese from using the trench.
In addition to cat ear piercings and other facilities for anti-cannons, a soil pit with a bowl thickness and a depth of more than two feet were dug on the ground every two meters away.
Everyone can understand other facilities, but this small earth pit is used for.
Gao Jiu didn't explain and said to a soldier: "Take a grenade and throw it into this trench!"
The soldier took out a grenade, and threw it down without unscrewing the back cover on the grenade's wooden handle.
When the grenade landed, Gao Jiu kicked the grenade into the soil pit with one kick.
"So that's how it is!" Everyone suddenly realized.
As we all know, the most feared thing about throwing grenades or grenades in trenches is that in a small space, the power of the explosion will increase a lot, causing huge casualties to the officers and soldiers guarding the trenches.
This earth pit is guarding against the enemy for throwing grenades and grenades. When the grenades and grenades fall into this earth pit, it is difficult to injure nearby soldiers if they explode inside.
Don’t underestimate such a small trick, but a life-saving trick, which can greatly improve the survival ability of officers and soldiers.
The longer Liao Gengsheng and Gao Jiu were in contact, the more he found that his tricks were emerging one after another. I really don’t know how others’ brains grew. He said admiringly: “No wonder everyone calls you Master Jiu. You are so amazing. It’s really a big problem for the Japanese to meet you.”
With the complete defense system provided by Gao Jiu, the officers and soldiers of the 338th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment have increased their confidence in sticking to their positions.
Seeing that there was no big problem here, Gao Jiu left Dachenzhuang and walked south along the highway to meet Wu Tianming and others.
Wuhan, the Fifth War Zone Command.
The fifth battle area was vast, with hundreds of thousands of troops. A large number of telegrams were sent to the war room every day, which was basically bad news: where did the Japanese army capture, which unit of our army suffers heavy casualties and is forced to retreat. Otherwise, there would be news that a city was bombed by Japanese planes, and the people were killed and injured, and homeless.
These telegrams were sent by the headquarters confidential department, and some important telegrams were sent by Guo Xuejia, the director of the confidential room. Since she brought all the bad news, everyone was in a bad mood. Therefore, even the beautiful Guo Xuejia seemed not so pleasing to the eyes of people.
In the past few days, the most popular one is Lin Yanni. The MIIS has an independent telegram communication system. Lin Yanni’s main task now is to contact Gao Jiu. Every telegram she sends is good news.
At this time, Lin Yanni came to the war room again. After reading the telegram, the deputy chief of staff said happily: "Nanfengshan has repelled the Japanese attack again. The 338th Regiment has begun to build fortifications in Dongping Town, and has re-occupied Da Xiao Chenzhuang, annihilated a squadron of the Japanese army. In fact, it has formed an encirclement of the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Third Division and other units. The 62nd Division has reached its designated position and is about to ambush the Japanese 145th Regiment and other units. The annihilation battle in the Nanchang area is about to begin in full."
The Operations Director is now completely convinced by Gao Jiu. There was a chaos in Nanchang, and only Gao Jiu was alone, and the whole situation changed completely. Now he is looking forward to Gao Jiu who will be able to fight a beautiful battle tomorrow with the 62nd Division and reverse the crisis in the southeast front of the Nanchang region and even the entire Fifth War Zone.
He said with emotion: "Mr. Gao is really a talented person." In fact, he thought to himself that Gao Jiu was a handsome talent, but in front of the deputy chief of staff, he could only say that.
The deputy chief of staff didn't mind. He said: "Mr. Gao is good at leading troops. He was led by him into a powerful brigade in such a short time, and he was able to block the attack of the 3rd Division, the first-class Japanese army. Not only that, he had a strategic vision and could see favorable fighter opportunities to turn the situation around in a crisis. He was also good at uniting people, and could unite the 62nd Division of the Central Army, the Nanchang Station of the Military Command, and the 338th Regiment of our Gui Army, and fight side by side.
From this point of view, Mr. Gao is handsome. I really don’t know how he trained at his young age? I think only Huo Qubing from ancient times can match him."
Lin Yanni was waiting for instructions aside. When she heard the superiors praise her sweetheart, she was overjoyed and smiled like a flower.
The deputy chief of staff said to her: "Chief Lin, you must keep in touch with Mr. Gao closely. If you cannot be on duty in person, you must arrange the on-duty staff and be sure to not miss any of Mr. Gao's telegrams."
"Yes." Lin Yanni gave a military salute pretty. When she saluted, her fair wrists were naturally bent. The military salute seemed a little unstandard, but it looked very beautiful.
Lin Yanni returned to the telecommunications room and picked up the stub of the telegram sent by Gao Jiu. She felt a little unhappy and said to herself: "Brother Jiu is really, he knows that only I can translate his telegrams, and he is all in the telegrams. He doesn't even say a word to me in private. It's true."
She complained that Gao Jiu was not understanding the charm and felt a little unhappy. However, when she thought that Gao Jiu was fighting bloody battles with the Japanese invaders there, she automatically forgave him.
Nanchang area.
It is about 70 kilometers from the Xinfeng River Highway Bridge to the villages of all sizes. The terrain is complex and there are many places to ambush.
Wu Tianming led his troops to the south. He encountered many good terrain on the road and suggested ambushing here, but they were all rejected by Gao Jiu.
The 62nd Division's troops continued to move south and stopped until about 25 kilometers away from the Xinfeng River Highway Bridge. Gao Jiu said, "The ambush position is chosen here."
Wu Tianming and Wang Wenxue were puzzled when they saw that the terrain here was far inferior to those passing on the road. Even Chu Tianxiong felt that the terrain here was not as good as those passing on the road.
Chapter completed!