At 6:10 pm.      The sunshine in Nanchang in July is still very strong. The Nanfeng Mountains seem to be steaming with a heat wave, which is damp and stuffy, making the clothes stick to people, making people feel very uncomfortable.

The captain of the 21st Japanese Army Regiment, Nagawa Heito, held a telescope and looked up the mountain, feeling a little depressed.

He didn't feel at ease for a whole afternoon. There were only a few enemies. He also sent a capable army to deal with these enemies. Not only was he unable to destroy them, but he also lost a lot of officers and soldiers on his side.

Since the troops passed the big and small Chenzhuang, the sporadic battles encountered along the way seemed very small, but they actually caused more than 120 casualties to the 21st Regiment, which was no less than the casualties caused by launching a medium-sized offensive battle.

He has now begun to appreciate Gao Jiu's power and has a headache about the subsequent battle.

He looked at the enemy's positions on the mountain, and the enemies were exposed there without any concealment. They were in a group to the east and in the west, and they did not build any decent positions. They looked messy, but Nagawa Heidu felt a little worried.

The Japanese army's strong combat power is one of their main reliances on their powerful firepower, the most important of which is artillery. Artillery attacks fixed targets or cluster targets. If the enemy is guarding a fixed defensive position, it is very beneficial to use artillery fire to destroy the enemy's position.

However, the enemy was in groups of people from east to west, and each group was very small, and they were scattered on the mountain. They used artillery to deal with them, and they felt like they were hitting mosquitoes with cannons. This greatly restricted the firepower of the artillery, and this reduced the Japanese army's advantage by one third.

Moreover, the enemy is scattered within such a large range, and they fight with small units. Even if the Japanese army concentrates their forces to destroy part of the enemy, it will not cause the overall collapse of the enemy. This requires a lot of battles to solve the problem.

This takes a lot of time, and what the Japanese army lacks the most is time. The troops of the 106th Division have been trapped in a heavy siege and are waiting for Nagawa Heidu to rescue him.

In addition, what made Nagawa Heidu feel depressed was that if the enemy adopted such a tactic in normal times, he could ignore it. He could use small troops to entangle the enemy and use firepower to suppress the enemy. The large troops quickly passed through the enemy's blockade line, and it would be difficult for the enemy to block the Japanese advance.

Unfortunately, the terrain here is very annoying. The road is dug by the enemy, and it is difficult for the Japanese troops to pass quickly, but the enemies on the surrounding mountains can easily attack the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain.

If the Japanese army's vehicles, artillery and other important items want to pass, they must send engineers to repair the road. Under the enemy's rain of bullets, this is simply impossible. Only by destroying or driving away the enemy can the road construction task be completed.

However, if you set up a formation and attack these enemies on the hills, it is not known how long it will take to eliminate or drive away all of these hateful enemies within such a large range. If you delay this, you really don’t know when the reinforcement mission will be completed.

After all, Hirado Nagawa was an experienced commander. He quickly saw the enemy's weakness. He believed that if the enemy did not gather together, their troops would have weak firepower. As long as the Japanese army concentrated a certain scale of troops to attack the enemy, the enemy in any place would not be the opponent of the Japanese army, and should be able to eliminate or drive away the enemy very quickly.

Nagawa Heidu was a decisive person. After he made up his mind, he immediately ordered the two infantry brigades in front to launch two squadrons and attack the four hills on both sides.

The Japanese climbed up the hillside and were immediately attacked by at least three or more firepower from different directions. They had to divide their troops to attack the enemy's firepower points.

On a hillside, a Japanese squad leader directed the soldiers to attack one of the enemy's firepower points. After paying the price of killing and injuring five soldiers, he finally defeated the enemy at the firepower points. There were about seven or eight enemies, and they gave up their positions and fled backwards.

The Japanese squad leader was very happy and commanded his subordinates to rush up and occupy the position that the enemy had just given up. Unexpectedly, they had just rushed to the position and were immediately hit by enemies from different directions, and several soldiers were killed and injured on the spot.

The Japanese squad leader saw that several enemy firepower points appeared in front of him, so he had to divide his troops again to suppress the firepower of other enemy firepower points and attack the nearest enemy firepower points.

It was similar to what was just now. He commanded the soldiers and launched an attack on the enemy's firepower point. After about five minutes, he paid the price of three soldiers' casualties and killed the enemy. When the troops he commanded occupied the enemy's position just now, they were immediately hit by the enemy from different directions. He really couldn't figure out why the enemy had so many defensive positions.

In fact, the enemy did not have so many defensive positions. They just kept changing their defensive positions. Each defensive position only lasted for a short period of time and immediately retreated, then retreated to other defensive positions and reset the defensive positions. When the Japanese army rushed up, several other firepower points attacked the Japanese army.

The Japanese army attacked any firepower point. This firepower point retreated again after only five minutes of defense. In this way, the officers and soldiers who replenished the regiment kept shifting their positions, but always maintained a sufficient number of defensive positions to attack the enemy.

Not only the senior officials of the theater command were worried about blocking the enemy in Nanfeng Mountain, but even Qin Feng, Guan Lie and others were not confident enough.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment were all rookies. They were allowed to block the enemy head-on and be bombarded by the enemy's cannon, and it was very likely that they would collapse again. It was not easy to make them dare to block the enemy.

As the saying goes, recruits are afraid of artillery and veterans are afraid of machine guns. If you want to prevent the recruits from collapsing, you cannot let them gather together to avoid chain reactions because a few people are afraid and escape.

Gao Jiu proposed the solution: scatter the entire supplementary regiment's troops in companies and scatter on the mountains around the road, as long as they are within the range where the rifle can threaten the Japanese army on the road. Each company is in squads, with a distance of about 50 meters between each other, and relies on natural conditions as cover to set up blocking positions.

The purpose of this is to prevent the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment from gathering together and being killed by the enemy's artillery fire. At the same time, this scattered blocking position can cover each other to prevent the enemy from surrounding them, and bring a sense of security to the soldiers.

Gao Jiu set a task for them that whenever each blocking position encounters an enemy's attack, as long as it can last for five minutes, it can evacuate the position, and then change the place to set up an ambush position.

At the same time, Gao Jiu stipulates that every blocking position must be held for five minutes. If the position is abandoned within five minutes, it will be regarded as a deserter. The battlefield discipline must be implemented and the law must be rectified on the spot. If it persists for more than five minutes, there will be corresponding rewards after the war.

This is also due to psychological considerations. The soldiers will think that if I persist for five minutes, I will be able to withdraw from the position, so they will not be desperate and have a collapsed mentality, so they will be able to hold on to the position seriously.

Don’t underestimate this method. It is difficult for the Japanese army to break through the positions of the supplementary regiment. They will feel that the enemy’s positions cannot be broken, but they are just retreating, but they will always stand in front. The Japanese army will continue to be blocked by the supplementary regiment.

The troops that were not attacked by the enemy used firepower to attack the enemies on the road. Similarly, once the attacked troops retreated, they returned to their original blocking positions and continued to attack the enemies on the road.

Before the battle started, Qin Feng controlled Han Changgeng's guard company and the machine gun platoon of the 62nd Division as mobile units and reserve units.

Since there was no need to work hard to build fortifications, the supplementary regiment quickly completed the arrangement of the ambush positions and waited for the Japanese reinforcements to pass by.

After the battle started, this seemingly simple tactic quickly came into effect.

When the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment saw the Japanese army rushing up, they were also very scared, but they dared not run away because Gao Jiu had already issued a death order: after fighting fire with the enemy, if they retreat within five minutes, the other officers and soldiers around them have the right to treat them as deserters and shoot them on the spot. If they were shot as deserters, their families would not receive a penny of pension, and their family's honor would also be affected.

In this way, the officers and soldiers supervised each other, and no one dared to retreat easily. Even if the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment were panicked, they could figure out the accounts clearly. Instead of being shot as deserters, it would be better to grit their teeth and persevere for five minutes. Most of the officers and soldiers persevered.

The first time they felt nervous, they chose their positions again after they retreated, and when they met the Japanese army, they felt much better. In this way, people gradually became no longer afraid and became more and more experienced.

Nagawa Heidu observed the battle situation on the mountain with a telescope at the foot of the mountain. He saw the Japanese offensive fiercely and the enemy kept running away. He was very happy and thought that he would be able to completely eliminate or drive away the enemy soon.

But what he didn't know was that the Japanese officers and soldiers on the mountain were actually laughing and crying. They worked hard to occupy an enemy's position, but found that there were as many enemy positions in front of them. They had to attack the enemy's positions everywhere, and what was waiting for them was a new enemy's position.

As we all know, without heavy firearms, the party defending the position was less casualties than the party attacking. In this way, the Japanese army suffered a lot of consumption.

At the beginning, the Japanese army was very enthusiastic, and they started to be discouraged as they fought. It would be impossible not to be discouraged, because every time they conquered an enemy position, there would be many casualties. The Japanese squadron leader who was commanding in front found that his soldiers were gradually decreasing and gradually he no longer had the ability to continue to launch an attack.

The officers and soldiers of the Supplementary Regiment also saw this. Their confidence increased. Seeing that the enemy was unable to attack, they relied on alternate covers of positions and began to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army also launched a counterattack, the officers and soldiers of the Supplementary Regiment still had the advantage of cross-firing.

The Japanese squadron leader saw that more than half of his troops had suffered casualties, and he felt that if he continued to fight like this, the entire army would be destroyed. So he decisively led the troops to retreat.

The officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment regained all their positions and their morale was greatly boosted. According to Gao Jiu's prior arrangement, they did not pursue them, but just stood on the mountain, waiting for the Japanese to attack again.

It doesn't matter if the Japanese don't attack. Anyway, they are condescending and can hit the road. If the Japanese want to pass by, they have to taste the bullets.

Nagawa Heidu saw the devils on the hillside retreating, and he was very angry and didn't understand what was going on. Then, what made him even more depressed was that not only the devils on this hillside retreated, but the devils on several other hillside retreated.

A Japanese brigade commander in front sent a combat staff officer to report what had happened on the hill just now to Heidu Nagawa.

Nagawa Heidu was so amused that he realized Gao Jiu's power. He looked at the vast mountains and then looked at the messy road ahead. He really didn't know how to lead the troops through this mountainous area.

At this time, the sun was about to set. Heido Nagawa was not sure about fighting night battles in unfamiliar terrain, and it was very dangerous to keep the troops on the road. In order to avoid greater casualties, he led his troops out of the Nanfeng Mountains and then let the troops camp on the road and wait until dawn tomorrow.

After the Japanese troops counted the number of people, Nagawa Heidu was very surprised. In the attack just now, 242 soldiers were killed and killed. In addition, the number of people who were attacked and injured along the way, the Japanese army's losses were close to 400. Nagawa Heidu brought a total of 5,000 people, and such losses have already made Nagawa Heidu very distressed.

The last afterglow in the horizon reflected a dark red around him, and Nagawa Hirado was also very dark. Based on his past experience, he instinctively felt that he had encountered big trouble. The shadow of the famous tree of a man, and the famous tree of Gao Jiu, were so famous that he might have some unknown means waiting for him. He even wanted to avoid this hateful enemy.

Unfortunately, he had no choice.

If Nagawa Hyidu wanted to reinforce the Japanese army surrounded in Sanhezhuang, he could only take this road. Because from here is the Xinfeng River Valley, it would take more than 100 kilometers to the west, and it would have to pass through the defense zone of the 62nd Division of the Guo Army. It was a central army of more than 10,000 people. Even if Nagawa Hyidu could defeat them, it would be impossible to complete the reinforcement mission in a short time.

It is not possible to cross mountains and ridges, because they carried a large amount of weapons, ammunition and materials. The Japanese army surrounded by Sanhezhuang area not only needed the support of personnel, but also the weapons, ammunition and materials. Therefore, Nagawa Hirado must open the road ahead.

Nagawa Heito could not think of a countermeasure for the moment, so he decided to have supper first and then summon the officers to discuss countermeasures together.

At the beginning of the battle, Qin Feng, Guan Lie and Han Changgeng stood beside Gao Jiu and observed the situation on the battlefield. They were always worried that they did not know whether this tactic could stop the Japanese army, nor whether the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment would collapse again like last time. When they saw the Japanese army retreat, they were all relieved.

Qin Feng said excitedly: "Justice Jiu, this method is really effective. A group of new recruits actually repelled the powerful Japanese. It seems that the Japanese have suffered a lot of casualties."

This defense battle was mainly based on the supplementary regiment. Of course, Guan Lie was the most nervous. When he saw the Japanese attacking the mountains, he was so nervous that his palms were sweating. Seeing that his officers and soldiers actually blocked the Japanese attack, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He knew in his heart that after this battle, the supplementary regiment had truly grown up and would never have the situation of collapse at once. After some combat training, he would definitely become a very combat-capable force.

Guan Lie was so excited that he didn't know how to express his emotions, so he kept applauding while standing there.

At this moment, when he saw that all the Japanese retreated, he said sincerely: "Thank you, Master Jiu, you have trained the supplementary team."

Since Han Changgeng met Gao Jiu, he has experienced several battles together and witnessed Gao Jiu's magic with his own eyes. He only said to Gao Jiu in his heart: "Perspect."

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield stabilized, Gao Jiu said, "Just fight like this, you just need to remember one thing: Don't be greedy for merit. No matter what tricks the Japanese do, don't take the initiative to attack. The Japanese will have no choice. As long as you block this road and prevent the Japanese from passing, even if you complete the task, it will be a great achievement. I will ask for me from your peak for you."

Guan Lie said worriedly: "After this battle just now, there is not much ammunition left. If the ammunition cannot arrive in time, it will be difficult to fight tomorrow."

At this time, Jia Liu had received a telegram from Director Li of the Military Intelligence Department, and Gao Jiu had a clear idea.

Gao smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry! Ammunition will definitely be shipped by 12 o'clock tonight."
Chapter completed!