Chapter 33
"The wing captain, here is dangerous, according to the regulations, you must stay in the command center, you cannot go to the front line."
Adjutant Hojo followed behind and chattered endlessly, but Kento Iino was ignored at all. He held a saber and insisted on getting to the forefront. This was the front-line observation post, and the straight-line distance from the Kuomintang position was less than 400 meters. If he encountered a national gunman with accurate marksmanship, Kento Iino might have lost his life here.
"President, please leave here immediately."
Adjutant Hojo was unyielding, while using his body to block Kento Iino.
"Bagayaru, get out of here." Kento Iiono was annoyed and pushed Hojo to the side, then put his eyes behind the artillery mirror to observe the opposite national army position.
The observation post of the Iino corps is located on a hidden high ground. Although this high ground is not as high as the mountain controlled by the opposite national army, the power mobilization of the national army on the back of the opposite mountain is not visible, but the firepower configuration, deployment and formation arrangement of the national army on the front of the mountain are fully visible.
The defense fortifications of the National Army were mainly built on three small hills, with two hills in front and the highest hill in the back, distributed in a font shape with the two hills in front. The only mountain road leading to Wanjialing passed through the middle of these three hills. If the Japanese army attacked this mountain road, no matter which hill it attacked, it would be shot from the side by side by the fire of the National Army machine guns on the other two hills.
The reason why the Mujima United lost was because it was damaged by the national side firepower during the attack.
The Iino Regiment's previous dozen attacks ended in failure, because of side firepower. Unless the Japanese army can find another way from the left and right sides and then launch an attack from the outside of the two mountains in front, there will be no way to avoid the damage of the side firepower of the National Army.
The problem is that this area is full of shrub forests. Shrub forests are different from trees. The trees are tall and straight. Except for the thick shade of the crown, there is sparse vegetation under the bottom, which is easier to pass through. However, the shrub forests are not the case. Most of the shrubs are entangled and thorns are full. Not to mention that snakes and insects are rampant in the thorn bushes, it is not easy to open a passage from the thorn bushes.
If it was so easy to open a passage, the Matsuura Division had no need to entangle with the Kuomintang army here. Wouldn't it be better to just bypass these hills and open another passage to retreat to Ruichang? But this is obviously impossible. If you leave the road in the mountains, the generals waiting for the Japanese army will definitely be the end of the destruction of the entire army.
It is not easy to pass through the dense forest, at least the army cannot pass, but the small troops can still intersperse for a short distance. Kento Iiye observed for a moment, and a thought quickly took shape. Then he called the deputy of the corps, the three brigade commanders and the squadron leader of the artillery squadron to the front and revealed his thoughts.
To put it bluntly, Kento Iino was actually building a plank road openly and crossing Chencang secretly.
First, send an elite small force to penetrate the dense forest, lurk on the outside of the mountain on the left, and continue the frontal attack, and increase the attack strength. When the reserve and attention of the national army are all attracted to the frontal position, the lurking elite small force will launch a sudden attack on the mountain, and catch the national army off guard as much as possible.
If the mountain on the left is lost, the entire defense chain of the national army will no longer be complete, and the loss of position will inevitably be inevitable.
Kento Iino's tactics are very old-fashioned. This tactic has almost been used up in China's long thousands of years of history. But it must be admitted that this tactic is still very targeted, and the tactics are not so old or novel. As long as it is right and effective, it is appropriate and the best.
(Split Line)
The 343rd regiment has been standing on the top of the mountain and on the two small hills in front for more than ten hours.
In the past ten hours, the 343rd Regiment repelled the attacks of the Japanese again and again. The hillsides of the two nameless hills in front were covered with Japanese corpses. The 343rd Regiment itself suffered heavy casualties. The 1st Battalion, which has been guarding the position since the early morning of this morning and has not been withdrawn, were basically completely wiped out, and more than half of the 3rd Battalion was killed or injured. The regiment headquarters’ guard company, communication platoon, kids, grooms, health officers and staff members were also armed and enriched to the forefront.
The only exception is the battalion, which is still unscathed as the reserve team of the entire regiment.
The national army generally does not like to keep reserves, but the 58th Division is an exception. Most middle and senior officers can understand the benefits of reserves, but ordinary soldiers do not understand so much.
After delivering food to the camp, the chef in the cooking squad couldn't help but say a few strange words, saying, "Brother, after this meal, you can find a way for yourself. Brother, I may have already put on the position and can't cook for you anymore. Haha, the officers and soldiers of the camp felt very uncomfortable, and naturally they couldn't stand it after hearing this."
Several company commanders found battalion commander Li Shijian, and clamored and wanted to go to the front line. Li Shijian was quarreled by several company commanders, so he came to the regiment headquarters with a tough bullet and asked the regiment commander Qi Yongnian to fight. Of course, Qi Yongnian would not let go. He caught Li Shijian and kicked him out of the regiment headquarters. Li Shijian came back in shame and scolded several company commanders.
The company commanders were upset for a while, and the regiment headquarters ordered them to come down and the battalion was about to go.
It turns out that the situation on the front line had unexpected changes at this time. Qi Yongnian did not realize the trick of Ken Iono to build a plank road and secretly crossing Chen Cang. After the Japanese strengthened their frontal offensive, Qi Yongnian also put the main force on the front and launched a fierce battle with the Japanese. At this time, the Japanese troops lurking on the side quietly touched the mountain on the left with the cover of the dense forest. As a result, the Kuomintang army was caught off guard and the mountain was quickly lost.
Fortunately, Qi Yongnian did not react slowly, and soon realized the seriousness of the situation. He immediately ordered the battalion to launch a counterattack and regain the nameless hill on the left at all costs.
After receiving the order, Li Shijian immediately mobilized the battalion officers and soldiers before the war.
"It is said that independent battalions can fight and fight bayonets, and have never lost to Japanese people. But I don't believe in this evil. They are all on two legs. How can our camp be worse than them? I still said that what independent battalions can do, our camp can do it, and it can do it better than them."
"Well, you have to carry your head on both shoulders. Who is afraid of whom?"
"That's right, the independent camp can be fought, and our camp is not a vegetarian."
"Damn it, let the independent camp see what our camp is capable of today."
The officers and soldiers of the battalions below suddenly started to scream. Feng Shengfa valued Xu Shijiu and the Independent Battalion, that is, the 19th Brigade. This is not a secret in the 58th Division. Whether it is personnel, equipment or economics, the Independent 19th Brigade is the best in the entire division. If there is anything good, Feng Shengfa always keeps close to the 19th Brigade first.
It is impossible to say that other brothers have no objection to this.
Most of the soldiers are bloody men. How many of the men are willing to admit defeat or surrender? There are more than a dozen battalions of the 58th Division, and almost every officer and soldier in each battalion are holding his anger in his heart, wanting to prove himself on the battlefield, proving that he is not worse than the independent 19th Brigade, and proving that Feng Shengfa's partiality is wrong.
Li Shijian suppressed the clamor of the officers and soldiers below, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers, all cheer me up and rushed up to take the mountain in one breath, let the little Japanese see how powerful we are, and let the group of fools in the independent camp show you, the 58th Division is not the only one who can fight the independent camp, go."
After the training, Li Shijian took the box cannon and flirted forward. More than 500 soldiers in the camp were like tigers falling down the mountain, screaming and rushing towards the unknown hill on the left side of the high mountain.
There was about 70 reinforcement teams in the Japanese that were interspersed. More than a dozen people died when they attacked the top of the mountain. Now there are more than fifty people left. Because it was a light-mounted sneak attack, this group of Japanese did not even carry mortars and Type 92 heavy machine guns, so they only brought more than a dozen grenade launchers and four or five crooked light machine guns.
Chapter completed!