Jagged Changjin Lake: Kill the enemy and become stronger

Before Ichiro Yamazaki could understand, a mortar shell exploded in the forward position of the Yamazaki Battalion.

"idiot!"

Yamazaki Ichiro shouted angrily.

There is no need for his subordinates to explain anymore, he understands that everything before is just an illusion, they were deceived by the Eighth Route Army.

The westward retreat is false, and the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army is to attack the Yamazaki Brigade.

"Damn the Eighth Route Army, you dared to lie to me, and immediately sent a power call to Captain Jiuben, asking for support."

The continuous sound of artillery fire made Yamazaki Ichiro realize that it is useless to be angry blindly. Facing the attack of the entire [-]th Brigade, he knew that only one brigade was not enough to resist.

After calming down for a while, he immediately made a decision and asked for help from Hatomoto United.

The soldiers of the Yamazaki Brigade were called up in the middle of the night to guard the fortifications. After eating extra meals in the kitchen, they were all tired and sleepy, and they all rested in the barracks.

The sudden attack by the Eighth Route Army caught them off guard, and hurried to the position with guns in hand.

Due to the lack of preparation in advance, after several rounds of shelling, more than one squadron of soldiers in the Yamazaki Brigade were killed.

The remaining little devils entered the fortifications again and began to counterattack the Eighth Route Army.

"Notify Hei Teng, let him kill all the villagers in Qiaozhuang, and use the blood of these people to sacrifice the war."

Yamazaki Ichiro continued to receive news of the death of soldiers, and in anger decided to kill the villagers of Qiaozhuang to vent their anger.

But he didn't know that the [-]th brigade would attack him precisely because the villagers in Qiaozhuang were safe.

Moreover, the black rattan whiteboard had turned into a dead person long before dawn.

After the initial panic, the Yamazaki Brigade began to counterattack in an organized manner.

At this time, the advantage of the little devil in equipment was highlighted.

Although the [-]th Brigade was the main force of the [-]th Division of the Eighth Route Army, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, due to the deliberate suppression and restrictions of some people with ulterior motives, only the [-]st Regiment and the [-]nd Regiment had official designations. troops.

In order to meet the needs of the battlefield and fight against the little devils, the Eighth Route Army was ingenious and adopted the method of expanding the army without establishment.

For example, the 4000th Brigade, although there are only two regular regiments under its name, with less than 1 registered troops, has successively formed new regiments, new regiments, independent regiments, teaching regiments and other non-staff regiment-level combat units. No., but its function is the same as that of a regular regiment, with a total strength of more than [-] troops.

Moreover, with the support of the people in the base areas, the subordinate regiments are also constantly expanding their strength.

Take the Li Independence Regiment as an example. Before, there were only three battalions with less than 2000 people, but after the conscription campaign, it has expanded to six battalions with 4000 people.

These are also combatants in the independent regiment.

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This number is already equivalent to the registered strength of the entire [-]th Brigade.

In addition to the county brigade, district squad, militia, martial arts team and other armed organizations that are not organized, the actual strength of the independent regiment is close to [-].

Although the other regiments of the [-]th Brigade were not as large as the independent regiments, their actual strength exceeded that of a regular regiment.

Based on this calculation, the actual strength of the 3th Brigade has reached nearly [-] people, far exceeding the number registered on the register.

In the battle between the enemy and the enemy, the advantage in numbers cannot be underestimated. The more people there are, the greater the chance of winning.

However, the rapid expansion of troops also has great disadvantages.

First, the lack of weapons and equipment.

The Eighth Route Army was not the only anti-Japanese army in China. It was nominally under the leadership of a certain government in the south. However, this government worried that the Eighth Route Army would threaten its own interests if it grew stronger, so it deliberately suppressed it, such as limiting its strength and equipment supplies.

Under this kind of suppression, the Eighth Route Army will have many troops that are not organized.

However, the equipment distributed to the Eighth Route Army is calculated according to the number of people in the ranks.

The actual number of the 3th Brigade was nearly 4000, and only 4000 were being organized, so only [-] were issued with weapons.

This kind of situation is common in the Eighth Route Army, just like the Independent Regiment, where the average person has less than half a gun, and there are even dozens of militia teams without even a gun.

How do you fight without weapons?

In addition to setting up a military factory for production, seizing enemy weapons has become an important source.

However, the production technology of the military industry is backward, and the capture alone cannot meet the needs of the entire army. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army has always lagged behind the little devils in terms of weapons and equipment.

Second, fighters have poor military skills.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who entered the army in a short period of time had no previous combat experience, nor had they received any systematic military training. After joining the army, they were led by veterans to conduct recruit training, usually between half a month and a month. .

Sometimes the battle situation was tight, and there were even cases where recruits entered the army in the morning and went to the battlefield in the afternoon.

Many recruits did not actually master any practical military skills after training. Due to the shortage of equipment, many soldiers could not even use guns.

As for shooting with live ammunition, you don't even have to think about it. There are not enough guns and ammunition is in short supply. The first shots fired by soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are basically on the battlefield.

In comparison, the little devil is much ahead of the Eighth Route Army in this respect.

Before entering the battlefield, the soldiers of the Little Devils must undergo a one-year pre-war training, which includes physical fitness, queue combat, individual combat, bayonet assassination, live ammunition shooting and many other aspects.

During this year's training, a little devil not only greatly improved his physical fitness and tactical skills, but even used at least [-] rounds of live ammunition for shooting training.

Many Eighth Route Army soldiers who died on the battlefield have never fired so many bullets in their lives.

The little devils continue to send troops to our country every year to start aggression. It can be said that they are well-prepared, especially this one-year pre-war training, which exposes the wolfish ambitions of these bastards who have been coveting our country for a long time.

What I have to admit is that the military skills and combat literacy of the little devil are much higher than that of our army. Coupled with sophisticated weapons and equipment and no bottom line style of work, our army has always been at a disadvantage on the battlefield.

The Eighth Route Army, in particular, lacks all the equipment and low combat effectiveness of its soldiers, and is ridiculed by the little devils as "Eight Route Army".

With such a disparity in strength, the casualty ratio of the Eighth Route Army has always been high in the battle against the little devils. One to seven, one to eight are normal, and there have even been cases of one to ten.

It is also this kind of fearless spirit, even if I get ten soldiers, I will kill one of you, so that the little devils will be terrified of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield.

The battle after battle made these little devils understand one thing. The equipment of the Eighth Route Army is the most backward, but its tactics are the most advanced. The individual combat quality of the Eighth Route Army is not the highest, but the soldiers are the most fearless.

According to the little devil's troop establishment, the number of a full brigade is around 100, which is almost equivalent to the strength of a regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

The Yamazaki Brigade is a strengthened brigade with a total strength of around 400 troops.

During the raid the day before yesterday, some were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and Qiaozhuang’s Hei Teng Squadron was not rebuilt. The total number of Yamazaki Brigade currently stationed at the station is only 1000.

Although there are only 1000 people, the advantages of terrain and equipment, coupled with solid fortifications, stopped the Eighth Route Army from attacking soon after the battle began.

Out of various considerations, Brigadier Chen did not dispatch the entire [-]th Brigade in this pretend westward retreat to confuse the enemy.

Among them, recruits and militias that do not have combat capabilities did not participate in this operation.

One is to avoid exposing the true strength of the [-]th Brigade, and the other is to ensure the safety of the rear and prevent the little devils from taking advantage of the situation.

Therefore, in this operation, Brigadier Chen only dispatched the 7000st Regiment, the [-]nd Regiment, and the New First Regiment, which were under the control of the little devil, plus the two battalions that caught up this morning. The total strength is about [-] people.

Other troops hid on the spot in the base area to deal with emergencies.

The 7000 men of the Eighth Route Army besieged the 1000 men of the Yamazaki Brigade, which indeed had an absolute advantage in numbers.

But this is not an encounter, hand-to-hand combat, as long as there are enough people, soldiers can win without fear of death.

It is not difficult to wipe out a thousand little devils, but the difficulty is how to break through the fortifications of the little devils and break into the base camp of the Yamazaki Battalion.

In this kind of tough battle, the weapon that can play the greatest role is the weapon.

In this siege of the Yamazaki Brigade, Brigadier Chen brought almost all the heavy weapons that the [-]th Brigade could use, but the number was still pitifully small.

There are six mountain cannons and fifty shells.

There are 32 mortars and 110 shells.

There are four heavy machine guns, twenty light machine guns, fifteen crooked and Czech-style ones, and the rest are all rifles.

On average, all light and heavy machine guns are rationed with 120 rounds each, and each soldier has eighteen rounds of rifle bullets.

These weapons accounted for more than [-]% of the existing weapons of the entire [-]th Brigade. It can be said that Brigadier Chen spent all the wealth of the entire brigade for this operation.

This is the strongest firepower configuration that the [-]th Brigade can currently concentrate on.

But look at the Yamazaki brigade.

Although there are only a thousand soldiers in the area, the equipment standard is far from what the [-]th Brigade can match.

There are eighteen mountain cannons and six hundred shells.

Ninety mortars and eighteen hundred shells.

There were also six infantry guns, and a grenadier detachment.

There are 36 heavy machine guns, 180 light machine guns, and [-] other machine guns of various types. The rest of the infantry are all equipped with [-]-type rifles, and each soldier is equipped with an average of [-] rounds of bullets.

The difference in strength is seven times, but the weaponry is several times or even ten times higher than that of the [-]th Brigade.

What is a tough battle?

Breaking through the enemy's solid defensive positions and then engaging the enemy head-on at close range is called a tough battle.

In the case of completely unequal firepower, it is not just something that soldiers who are not afraid of death can do to break through the enemy's defensive positions.

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Those little devils hiding in the trenches cannot be hit by bullets.

Those shells with huge lethality cannot be intercepted by soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

After the Yamazaki Battalion launched a full-scale counterattack, the soldiers of the [-]th Brigade were not only blocked from attacking, but also under the strong firepower of the enemy for a time, they could only hide behind temporary bunkers without showing their faces.

The advantages of hardware are often more direct, more obvious, and easier to reflect.

For a moment, the sky was full of lines of fire brought out by bullets, and all that could be heard in both ears was the explosion of shells.

It was supposed to be a quiet and peaceful morning, but it was shaken by this battle.

The [-]th Brigade attacked the Yamazaki Brigade, and both sides invested a total of more than [-] troops in this battle.

Qiao Lin had experienced battles of this scale before on the peninsula battlefield, but this was the first time he had encountered them during the War of Resistance.

The battle of 8000 people, in any period, even in modern society, is definitely a big event rather than a small conflict.

Qiao Lin observed the surrounding situation vigilantly, and had to keep an eye on Brigadier Chen's safety at all times.

In this environment full of artillery fire, Brigadier Chen did not show the slightest abnormality, even though the bullet passed by his ear, his expression remained unchanged.

Qiao Lin really admired this determination.