Rise from the sword

Chapter 602
south.

Kongjie Road.

After receiving the good news that they planned to deploy more than [-] aircraft from all over the country to form the Eighth Air Force to annihilate the independent regiment fleet in Song County and Wu County, and regain the air supremacy in the Changheng area.

Encouraged by Yokoyama, he launched wave after wave of alliance-level night attacks on Hengyang for a week. Even if the attacking troops suffered heavy casualties, they often reimbursed several brigades overnight and did not stop at all.

Even some enjoy it.

With such a crazy attack, the main purpose of Yokoyama Isamu is to consume the ammunition of Hengyang City.

Since the end of July, the Hengyang area has experienced continuous cloudy and rainy weather, with few clear skies. It seems that due to the weather, the scale of air transport from Song County and Wu County to Hengyang has been greatly reduced. The maximum number of transport planes landing at Hengyang Airport is no more than [-] per day. , at the lowest time there were only a dozen or so.

But every time he attacked at night, the Hengyang defenders remained the same.

Block with ultra-intensive firepower.

Flares covered the sky, illuminating almost the entire battlefield. The shells fired by nearly a hundred mortars rained down like rain, and the machine guns fired unscrupulously, and even used machine guns to straddle many times.

Because he improved his offensive tactics, using ultra-large spaced skirmish lines to attack, and the commander of the locust army gradually became familiar with the Hengyang position and night attack tactics, the Hengyang defenders could only choose to increase firepower, increase frontline mortars and The number of machine guns, thereby increasing the consumption of ammunition.

He estimated that a single position of the Hengyang garrison would consume more than one million rounds of bullets of various calibers and 1000 rounds of mortar shells of various calibers every night, and more than [-] heavy artillery shells from the rear heavy artillery positions would be needed to support the end. fighting.

The ammunition is estimated to have a total weight of around 150 tons.

Still a conservative estimate.

And he organizes two to three teams to attack every night. After calculation, the ammunition that the Hengyang defenders need to consume every day is between 450 tons and [-] tons.

this number.

During the Battle of Songhu that year, the full-staffed Type-A divisions were fought for more than a month, and the consumption was almost the same.

Although he was horrified by the wealth of the Hengyang defenders and envied and hated in his heart, Yokoyama was more secretly delighted.

Thirty transport planes a day can transport up to 150 tons of ammunition, including packaging. The Hengyang defenders consume at least [-] tons of ammunition every night, and at most [-] tons. These are all real ammunition without packaging kind of.

Make ends meet.

The Hengyang defenders can only make up for it by consuming ammunition stocks.

Even if the Eighth Air Force cannot completely destroy the independent regiment's flying unit and the two sides fall into a tug-of-war, more than 200 imperial fighters can still contain the independent regiment's flying unit, making it impossible to provide airlift support for the defenders in the Hengyang area.

At that time, the ammunition of the Hengyang defenders has been exhausted, and it is impossible to maintain such a dense firepower. Then, relying on the less than 20 troops around Hengyang City, how can he stop his army of more than [-]?

Victory is at hand.

Yokoyama Isamu swept away his usual depression, and he was full of energy, and his voice when giving orders was raised a few degrees.

at the same time.

It's just the beginning of August.

The No.20 triple unit sent by Kanda Masa, head of the Sixth Division, also arrived at the destination.

"Stay where you are and strengthen your vigilance."

"Pay attention to the distance between the camps!"

After arriving at the scheduled location, although the troops were exhausted along the way, when the commander of the regiment, Jin Ohno, ordered the troops to stay in place to rest, he still ordered the troops to pay attention to the distance between the teams and be more vigilant.

Like all the devil officers, Shin Ohno is not tall, but he is strong, short and fat, with some bow legs, and a long katana sword that is disproportionate to his body is slung around his waist, which looks a little funny.

People can't be seen.

Ohno Susumu looks funny, but this person is a full-fledged old devil. At the beginning of the war, he was the captain of the Dazuo United, with rich experience, and he was a classmate of Sakata Nobutetsu who died in Cangyun Forest.

Two years ago, he was transferred to be the captain of the 23rd Wing to prepare for promotion to general officer.

But at this time, the Pacific War broke out, and the Sixth Division was transferred from the Republic of China to participate in the Pacific War. Therefore, Ohno Jin led the No. 20 Triple Regiment to experience the complete Pacific War.

Because the Sixth Division had too many defeats in the Pacific Ocean, Shin Ohno failed to be promoted to major general, but it also allowed him to accumulate extremely rich command experience, especially when fighting against enemies with superior firepower.

And different from the arrogance and arrogance of ordinary devil officers, Shin Ohno is suspicious by nature and acts cautiously. He follows the motto that a lion fights a rabbit with all his strength, and his command style is mainly cautious and rarely aggressive.

It is precisely because of his prudence that the 23rd Regiment under his command suffered little losses in repeated failures in the Pacific Ocean, and the backbone of the team is basically complete.

Before returning to the battlefield of the Republic of China, the 23rd Regiment went through more than a month of supplementary repairs. At present, the total strength is 900 people, and the weapons and equipment are well equipped.

The cautious Ono Jin carefully researched the current situation of the Republic of China during the period of reorganization of the army, and read the detailed battle reports of the Republic of China of each division, which made him know one thing clearly.

It’s different in the past.

Don't treat each other with admiration for three days.

The battlefield of the Republic of China today is no longer the racetrack where the empire galloped.

Although the Guofu army declined all the way and became weaker and weaker, the Eighth Route Army suddenly emerged and abruptly took over the battlefield. Relying on superior equipment, the empire's first-class divisions were crying for their fathers and mothers, and large areas of the empire's occupied areas were lost.

A few months ago, the Eighth Route, represented by Li Yunlong, would wipe out the First Army with six full divisions. Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the army, committed suicide, and not a single unit of the nearly [-] troops came out.

Careful and cautious, he also found that in all the battle reports, it was mentioned that the firepower of Li Yunlong and other Eight Routes was extremely fierce, the artillery fire was more than ten times that of the imperial army, and the light firepower far surpassed that of the empire.

The guerrillas cooperate with large firepower, it is simply hopeless.

Knowing the horror of guerrilla warfare, Ono Jin not only kept concealed during the march, but also quietly arrived near Nan County. Along the way, the old devil ordered the troops to keep a large distance, and even ordered the troops to disperse during camping to avoid sudden artillery fire. The blow resulted in heavy loss of troops.

"United Captain."

While the troops were camping, a reconnaissance team reported to Shin Ohno:

"The enemy guerrillas are currently in Lianhua Town, [-] kilometers away, and they don't seem to have found us. They are still marching northward, but they are very cautious during the march, and there are a large number of frontal guard posts."

As he said that, the leader of the devil's investigation team took out a map and marked the location of the guerrillas on the map.

"How is the strength? How is the weapon configuration?"

Ono asked.

The reconnaissance team was sent out by him very early, with the purpose of spying on the enemy's intelligence.

Today's big picture is very clear.

The empire is in decline, and the imperial locust army fighting from all directions is rolling and crawling, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. A small-scale victory of the locust army is publicized by the whole army, which is enough to show the severity of the current situation.

Shin Ohno treated this group of guerrillas with the same caution he used to fight against the US military.

Even though his wing has nearly 4000 people, the enemy only has 300 people, and has an absolute advantage in strength, but this group of guerrillas also has the advantage of light weapons and light artillery, and according to the Hengyang Battle Report, there are enemy airports in Song County and Wu County, There are hundreds of bombers and attack aircraft stationed, and the enemy can call for air support at any time.

In addition, there is also a mechanized army marching along the road to Changchang.

The situation is not optimistic.

Just 300 or [-] people dared to march swaggeringly between the highways, which speaks for itself.

"The total strength of this group of guerrillas is about 370 people."

The elite devils are in charge of the investigation, and they have perfected the information:

"They are generally equipped with semi-automatic rifles, machine guns spread to the squad, and are also equipped with a large number of large-caliber heavy machine guns, recoilless guns, and small and medium-caliber mortars, which are no different from the regular troops of the Eight Route Army."

"But in the ranks, no heavy artillery was found."

"but."

Having said that, the devil captain frowned:
"There are twenty square carts drawn by mules and horses between them."

"The tires of these small cars are wide and large tread tires, which are suspected to be artillery, but they are very short and covered with raincloth as a whole. Because the distance is too far, I can't observe them carefully."

"There are also 63 horse-drawn carts, which use the large mules and horses unique to the guerrillas. The carts are also tire carts with steel plate shock absorbers and canopies. It is impossible to observe carefully, but it can be judged from the tire marks. , these carriages are fully loaded."

As he said that, the leader of the ghost team drew a sketch of a suspected ammunition vehicle.

"Square car?"

Looking at the sketch in his hand, Shin Ohno fell into deep thought.

From the simple diagram alone, he couldn't tell what it was.

But marching with troops, the number is as high as [-], covered with raincloth to hide the appearance, it must be a weapon, judging from the size, it should be a heavy weapon such as a cannon.

Judging from the shape, it seems to be a new type of weapon.

In his mind, he recalled all kinds of information from Eight Roads, and various battle reports from Ping'an County. Ohno Shin had never seen similar weapons.

but.

This kind of weapon appeared for the first time, it was this kind of small-scale guerrilla, and it was definitely not a powerful weapon.

Thinking of this, Ohno Shin felt a little relieved.

"Continue to monitor and report to me immediately if there is any movement."

After ordering the reconnaissance unit to continue to monitor the guerrillas, Ohno called in the chief of staff of the regiment, spread out the map, laid out the enemy intelligence obtained by the reconnaissance unit, and perfected the planned combat plan.

The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength.

This time in the name of the head of the division to annihilate this group of guerrillas, he is going to go all out and concentrate all his forces to attack the guerrillas when the terrain is suitable and the independent regiment's planes cannot support them at night.

Although light weapons are slightly inferior, with the elite warriors trained in the rainforest and islands, the excellent command ability of grassroots officers, and the absolute superiority of troops, under a sudden attack, they can definitely be wiped out in one battle.

In fact, he wanted to ambush.

Just like at the beginning of the Eighth Route Army's war, at Pingxingguan, at Shentouling.

Taking advantage of the terrain to exploit the suddenness of the attack and weaken the enemy's superior firepower, but with the guerrilla's familiarity with the terrain and the vigilance of the march, the possibility of success is very small, so he gave up this plan.

As for the new weapons.

No matter what the new weapon is, as long as he maintains a large distance skirmish line, he can effectively weaken the guerrilla's artillery advantage, and then make a quick decision to deal with the enemy as quickly as possible.

This is the experience summed up by Shin Ohno after many fights with the US military.

Although the artillery is powerful, it has a slow rate of fire and slow response. Even a small-caliber mortar can shoot up to 1 rounds per minute, which cannot quickly cover the entire battlefield.

As long as the speed is fast enough, after the two sides get close, the artillery is useless, and the battle will be won in a short time.

"Night vision device."

Looking at the determined attack location on the map, Ohno Shin rubbed his forehead.

It's not that he has a headache how to deal with the night vision device.

Although he doesn't know what the night vision device is and how it works, according to the known information so far, the night vision device equipped by the eighth channel is similar to a searchlight, but the light emitted cannot be seen by the naked eye and requires special equipment to observe.

Since it is light, it can be concealed with the help of terrain.

Avoiding invisible light is difficult for inexperienced soldiers on the flat terrain in the north, but it is very easy for the elite Sixth Division soldiers in the dense vegetation in the south.

It is not a problem to approach this group of guerrillas at night and then launch an attack.

The permanent division and the Type A division are not called for nothing. Even if the equipment is the same, the experience is different, the training is different, and the personnel are different, there will be a huge gap between the two troops.

What made Ono Jin a headache was.

He left the Republic of China two years ago. At that time, a large-scale mopping up was carried out in North China. The [-] imperial troops, most of whom were B- and C-level divisions, fled in all directions.

At that time, the empire relied on radio detection equipment, locked on the Eighth Route Radio Station, chased the Eighth Route Command Organ, and relied on superior firepower to severely damage the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

And in just two years, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Now, on the contrary, Eight Routes is chasing and killing the imperial army with various superior equipment.

In the north, Chengde was repeatedly attacked by the armored forces of the Independent Regiment, and could only hold the line of defense with difficulty. In North China, the locust army threw away their helmets and armor all the way, abandoning a large number of occupied areas.In the south, tens of thousands of troops in Hengyang, with the air support of the independent regiment, forcibly defended the attack of nearly 20 locust troops.

Even the guerrillas can march on the road swaggeringly, their weapons and equipment are more advanced than the locust army, and their firepower is stronger than that of the locust army.

This situation is really hard for Shin Ohno to accept.

Four hours later, the sky was getting dark and night was falling.

During this period, the devil scouts reported the movement of the guerrillas to Ono many times. He learned that the guerrillas had already stationed in one place. Around Nan County, no other large-scale Eighth Route troops were found.

Moon and night.

"Order."

Under the night, Shin Ohno held a samurai sword, gathered the staff of the regiment and the three captains, and issued a combat order:

"The first and second battalions attacked from the left."

"Third Battalion, attack to the right."

"The attack launch time is set at two o'clock at night."

(End of this chapter)