PFC Chapter 175 Rescue Li Yunlong, Dimensionality Attack
Chapter 175 Rescue Li Yunlong, Dimensionality Attack
The Eight Passes of Taihang are all narrow and winding paths and river valleys. Su Fei's army attacked with a cavalry battalion of 200 people, and the rest of the troops rested in the west.
These 200 men, advancing eastward with overwhelming force, destroyed an entire Japanese infantry battalion in one day, annihilating over 900 men, capturing over 100, and seizing all weapons and ammunition, including over 150 war horses, one mountain cannon, two infantry cannons, and 12 mortars!
More than ten vanguards of Su Fei's troops served as the main force to attack the enemy's artillery!
The Japanese army was still preparing to set up artillery and looking into the distance. The Su Fei army's vanguard scouts approaching about one thousand meters or 500 meters were not within the Japanese army's consideration at all. However, these people took the initiative and launched a bombing with 35 grenades, focusing on bombing the Japanese artillery. A series of attacks, firing more than 20 or 30 shells in a few seconds, directly destroyed the Japanese artillery, stunned and threw the whole place into chaos!
The different tactics and weapons far exceeded the Japanese army's imagination!
Once the conceited Japanese army suffered a terrible blow, they were most likely to suffer a mental breakdown, feel inferior and despair, and even rush to commit suicide.
There was no other way. We had captured too much spoils, so we could only ask for help to collect the spoils.
At this time, Su Fei received an urgent telegram: Li Yunlong's independent regiment was surrounded and blocked by the Japanese army on the way to reinforce Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. The situation was very dangerous and he requested support.
Their position was more than 20 miles southeast of Dingxiang City, and the besieging Japanese troops numbered as many as thousands, or even more.
Su Fei immediately withdrew his troops from this place and mobilized the people to join the army on the way. After all, the treatment was generous and a large amount of enemy spoils were seized, including banknotes, silver dollars, some supplies looted by the Japanese army, as well as Japanese equipment, horse meat, etc.
The impoverished common people were deeply moved by the small gifts given, and coupled with their hatred for the Japanese, puppet troops and bandits, they joined in one after another. By the time Su Fei's army arrived at the southeast battlefield of Dingxiang, the follow-up infantry had increased to 2500 people and were organized into two infantry regiments.
All are Japanese-made equipment.
More than 300 veterans served as backbones and instructors, and some new recruits joined the cavalry division to fight.
In the area of Yanglou Village, Su Fei's leading cavalry division encountered the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was dazed by a barrage of artillery fire. A large troop station outside the encirclement was reduced to rubble. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers fled in a panic, covered in blood.
In front of the Su Fei unit's 35 grenade launcher, the Japanese infantry battalion-level artillery fire is not even worthy of carrying their shoes!
Often, before the Japanese artillery could prepare, the 35mm howitzers here had already smashed over their heads, and they would bomb directly at a distance of more than a thousand meters, hitting the heads of the Japanese artillery teams and blowing them to pieces.
It was a Japanese infantry group, more than a thousand meters away, still chatting leisurely, when they were killed instantly by artillery shells.
Many Japanese soldiers died inexplicably!
The cavalry troops pursued and fired at the Japanese with 81 rifles. The Japanese were completely wiped out after they escaped more than 500 meters.
Su Fei did not advance rashly, but instead quickly retreated after collecting the spoils.
Light cavalry.
After retreating, an ambush was set up. More than 80 soldiers, equipped with 20 machine guns, more than 50 Type 81 rifles, and 5 grenade launchers, hid in a village. They dug trenches and anti-artillery holes near the roads and houses. On the roads passing through the village, there were lost items captured from the Japanese army, as well as some Japanese corpses. The suspected captured Japanese prisoners were shot.
In fact, the bodies of Japanese soldiers were dragged here and deliberately discarded.
Two hours later, Japanese reinforcements arrived and rushed over here in a mighty force. The Japanese reconnaissance cavalry guarded the village but did not occupy it because the Chinese army continued to flee south.
Colonel Shihu Kawabe, commander of the first infantry regiment under the 41st Division of the Japanese Army, personally led his troops in pursuit and vowed to take revenge. Just now, the surprise attack by Su Fei's cavalry division killed his younger brother, a lieutenant officer.
However, the troops he led consisted of only one infantry battalion, a regimental artillery company, and a cavalry search company. The other troops were besieging the Eighth Route Army's independent regiment reinforcements led by Li Yunlong.
Almost a division of Japanese troops, three infantry regiments, surrounded Li Yunlong's troops tightly.
However, Li Yunlong's troops are not pushovers either!
With the large number of weapons and ammunition donated by Su Fei before, the independent regiment now has 150 light machine guns, 25 mortars, and other equipment. It is well-equipped and has super combat effectiveness.
The battle lasted for more than two days. The independent regiment's on-the-spot defensive position was not only rock solid, but also caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army.
The independent regiment also dug a large number of trenches, anti-artillery holes and air-raid shelters, which were fully capable of withstanding the attacks of the Japanese army's eight 75mm field guns and the bombing of 12 mountain guns!
The independent regiment had a total of more than 2500 troops. They took advantage of the local hilly areas to build sophisticated fortifications, made proper tactical arrangements, and held their ground tenaciously.
The Eighth Route Army and guerrillas also came nearby to flank the enemy, thus tying down the Japanese offensive.
Su Fei found it funny.
It was clearly his own cavalry division that was galloping across the land, killing the devils and puppet troops, leaving corpses all over the ground. However, Li Yunlong's troops arrived and were surrounded by the Japanese army, becoming the target of revenge.
Haha, this old leader Li Yunlong has been badly betrayed.
While Su Fei's troops were moving quickly, they were also constantly observing and summarizing the enemy situation.
After confirming that the enemy had an infantry battalion, a cavalry squadron, and a regimental artillery squadron, Su Fei used a cavalry battalion of 200 people to hold the enemy back from continuing to move south. The other cavalry had bypassed the enemy and returned to the original battlefield.
The Japanese army was not stupid. Seeing the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army cavalry moving in the distance on the flank, they understood the situation and immediately dispatched a cavalry squadron, a machine gun squad, and an infantry squadron to attack Su Fei's cavalry unit in the east.
A regiment of 500 cavalrymen, led by Su Fei, retreated rapidly to the north and was flanked and intercepted by the Japanese army.
Seeing the Japanese troops fighting in dispersed positions and being easily tricked, Su Fei sneered: "Are the Japanese so stupid?"
Immediately surrounded the Japanese troops.
More than 500 meters away, the artillery behind Su Fei had begun bombing more than a thousand meters away to interfere with the enemy artillery. The 35 grenadiers who were galloping on horseback stopped advancing and carried out direct bombing on the enemy machine gunners, mortars and grenade launchers.
More than 30 grenades were fired directly at the enemy, and all the Japanese firepower points were destroyed.
The bodies of the machine gunners and artillerymen flew far away.
Starting from 400 meters, the Su Fei cavalry, charging rapidly, covered the Japanese army with firepower, and the 81 riflemen fired crazily at the Japanese army.
The Japanese troops were quickly suppressed and had no power to raise their heads. Anyone who dared to show his head to shoot was instantly penetrated by bullets.
Dadadada, thump thump.
The Japanese infantry in the south were the first to be crushed, and the cavalry rushed over and trampled and killed the Japanese soldiers who dared not raise their heads!
The Japanese troops were quickly wiped out.
The Japanese cavalry in the north intercepted a group of Su Fei cavalry. As a result, although the 170 Japanese cavalry started shooting with rifles very early, they were eventually devastated. The Su Fei cavalry used 5 light machine guns and 35 81 rifles to strafing. After only one round of shooting, they killed more than 120 Japanese cavalry. Seeing the cavalry in front fall off their horses and roll like fallen leaves, the following Japanese cavalry were shocked and turned around and ran.
They thought they were dazzled and didn't know what weapons the Chinese army was using. They were clearly rifles, but they were more powerful than machine guns!
Bullets rained down!
Su Fei's cavalry quickly reloaded their bullets and chased the Japanese soldiers, firing at them and completely wiping out the entire Japanese cavalry squadron.
No one ran away.
Except that most of the war horses were looking around stupidly, or simply lowered their heads to eat grass.
At least six war horses surrounded the corpses of the Japanese cavalry and wailed.
The Japanese army of more than 400 people was easily wiped out.
Some soldiers guarded and seized the spoils, while the remaining 400 main forces replenished their ammunition from the abandoned items of the devils and continued to advance quickly to the north.
The situation is similar to the west.
Two Japanese infantry squads of 100 people were easily wiped out by long-range attacks from a small number of Su Fei cavalrymen over there.
On the southern front, Japanese Colonel Kawabe stopped the pursuit because he saw the danger. The eastern and western divisions were completely wiped out.
"What kind of weapons does the Chinese army have that are so powerful?" Just by listening, he could tell that the 81 rifle and 35 grenade launcher were absolutely brand new weapons.
He immediately ordered a retreat.
The remaining three infantry companies, a regimental artillery company, two machine gun squads, and a supply company immediately retreated to the north, arranged in echelons, and rolled up curtains to cover each other.
The four mountain guns and two infantry guns were relatively heavy and required soldiers and horses to drag them forward.
The Type 41 mountain gun weighs 540 kilograms and requires two horses to pull it, or six horses to carry it separately!
No matter how light an infantry gun is, it still weighs more than 200 kilograms and requires animal power to transport.
Su Fei's cavalry on the southern front did not counterattack directly, but followed slowly from a distance, about 800 meters away, allowing the Japanese army to leave.
When the Japanese army arrived at the village where Su Fei's army was hiding, Su Fei's cavalry on the north line and the troops on the south line launched bombing on the Japanese army respectively.
A mortar with a range of 3800 meters or 1700 meters can come in handy.
The 35 grenade launcher has a maximum range of 3000 meters and can be used to shoot and bomb Japanese troops.
The Japanese army was extremely embarrassed by the bombing.
They set up mountain artillery and infantry artillery to fight back, but Su Fei's cavalry was extremely scattered and basically worthless to bomb. The mortars in the distance were also hidden, making it difficult to judge in a hurry.
Before the Japanese army could be fully prepared, artillery shells, especially 35mm howitzers, flew straight at them, exploding like machine guns, blowing them to pieces.
The Japanese regimental artillery squadron, consisting of nearly 200 people, was paralyzed within ten seconds!
Although mountain artillery is powerful and has a long range, its rate of fire is only 10 rounds per minute. The latest type of integrated artillery shells has a rate of fire that is barely on par with mortars. The problem is that it takes too long to go from towing state to shooting.
The Japanese army's four mountain guns and two infantry guns were destroyed before they could even fire.
Then the Japanese mortars, machine guns, light and heavy machine gunners will be shot down one after another!
Anyway, in the eyes of the Japanese army, the artillery confrontation and suppression battle was over before they even took action.
They fell in a pool of blood, groaning in pain and pondering bitterly: "Why is this happening? What on earth happened? What kind of artillery did the Chinese use?"
Japanese infantryman, Colonel Kawabe, has lost his composure.
"The Chinese used special artillery fire, and our troops were unable to resist and retreated to the village."
As the Japanese army retreated, Su Fei's cavalry launched a charge, shooting as they charged. The Japanese army was like a group of ants, either killed or wounded, and was forced to flee and hide in the village.
The original intention was to rely on the obstacles in the village to resist, but unexpectedly, dense bullets were suddenly fired from the village.
Those were the people lurking in Su Fei's army, whose purpose was to cut off the enemy's retreat.
After a close fight, the colonel at Hebian drew his sword and committed suicide.
Nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers were killed.
The battle time does not exceed 20 minutes.
In fact, the real main battle does not last more than ten minutes, or even five minutes.
There were only a few dozen ambushes in the village, but a single surprise attack resulted in the deaths of more than 300 Japanese soldiers.
The 81 rifles they had were so powerful that they could sweep across a large area. The Japanese soldiers could not withstand it at all and their bodies were shattered like glass and porcelain.
The troops rested briefly and changed into Japanese military uniforms.
Why is it so obscene?
Isn't it because there are no air defense weapons? No individual air defense missiles?
Su Fei led a cavalry regiment of 500 people to attack the Japanese army. This time, they added the mountain artillery and infantry artillery captured from the Japanese army. However, these artillery, the so-called mountain combat and light artillery, were still too heavy.
Su Fei's Cavalry Regiment encountered an obstruction from the Japanese army, this time it was the troops of the Riverside Regiment, and was easily defeated.
35mm howitzers and numerous mortars, including the mortars captured from Colonel Kawabe's troops, bombarded the Japanese army. There were indirect mortar shells overhead and a barrage of 35mm howitzers around them. No matter how brave the Japanese army was, they could not withstand it.
Strategy involves many factors, but tactics and battlefield are much simpler.
Weapon performance comes first, human factors, geographical conditions, etc.
The 81 rifle and 35 grenade had an overwhelming and dimensionality-reducing effect. The Japanese army was defeated.
After continuous fighting for more than two hours, the stubbornly resisting Japanese regiment led by Colonel Kawabe was almost wiped out. An infantry regiment of 3800, an arrogant Japanese force that vowed to wipe out the independent regiment, was now annihilated first.
Su Fei's troops lost only more than 180 people.
In front of Sai Sufei's troops, the Japanese army seemed as pitiful as a fire poker.
Since the effect is so good, Su Fei will not be polite.
The cavalry unit was divided into two groups and attacked the Japanese army separately. Their crazy artillery fire first stunned the Japanese, and then the cavalry charged and strafed the Japanese.
The Japanese army's Type 99 light machine guns, chicken neck heavy machine guns, infantry guns, mortars, etc. collapsed under the fierce attack of Su Fei's army.
"How is that possible?" Colonel Honda Mingge, the commander of the Japanese army on the western front, was stunned. He rubbed his eyes repeatedly, thinking he was seeing things. "Destroying with overwhelming force! Where did these Shanxi-Suiyuan cavalry come from? How come I've never seen them before?"