The arrogant Japanese made a fatal mistake.
Until this moment when they encountered a strong attack from the 358th Regiment, the Japanese command headquarters believed that the Sakata Regiment had only one strong enemy, and that was the 358th Regiment in front of them.
The Japanese were so arrogant that the Eighth Route Army they were chasing looked like rabbits being hunted.
In a duel between two wolves, do we still care about the rabbit that was hunted before?
It wasn't until nearly a brigade (a standard brigade has about 1,100 people, and there are eight or nine hundred people here) that the Japanese troops braved the shelling of the 358th Regiment and passed through the second node. The rabbit suddenly transformed into a wolf.
The hungry wolf looked back, swept by the madness of revenge!
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment were all old comrades in the Red Army.
The three main regiments fight together, and there is still a tacit understanding of working together for many years.
When leading the main force to counterattack, the three formed the temporary headquarters of the three regiments. According to Kong Jie's suggestion, they concentrated all the machine gun firepower of the three regiments and formed a fire blockade towards the escaping Japanese soldiers. Hit head on.
The main force of Dan Kongjie's independent regiment consisted of nineteen light machine guns.
Li Yunlong's new regiment only has a lot more light machine guns, but the entire regiment's ammunition reserves are slightly lacking. Otherwise, the new regiment's equipment attributes are definitely much higher than those of the independent regiment.
As for the 771st Regiment, the main force, not to mention, there were nearly thirty light machine guns when they were pulled out. (This is also how the Eighth Route Army gradually developed in nearly three years since the Anti-Japanese War. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, some regiments or even the entire regiment could not see a single machine gun.)
The heavy machine guns were also quickly brought over by the soldiers and scattered on both sides of the offensive formation, responsible for the fire attack on the flanks.
The 771st Regiment has three heavy machine guns.
Li Yunlong's new regiment also has two teams.
Kong Jie's independent regiment was relatively pitiful, with only one Type 92 heavy machine gun captured from the Changpo stronghold, but it had abundant ammunition, which the New Regiment and even the 771 Regiment could not compare with.
The main forces of the three regiments, including Li Yunlong and Kong Jie, arrived in advance and arranged their attack deployment behind a gentle slope to form a ring-shaped defense.
The firepower of the three regiments gathered suddenly broke out from behind the gentle slope.
One side was waiting for work and gathering momentum, while the other side was retreating in embarrassment. Most of the Japanese who rushed out in advance were light infantry, and their strength was less than a full brigade. They were also chaotically organized from various brigade of the Japanese Sakata Regiment. , the firepower configuration at this moment is even less than a quarter of the daily average standard brigade.
What is the firepower configuration of the Japanese standard brigade?
Four infantry squadrons and one machine gun squadron can be equipped with twelve 920 heavy machine guns alone, as well as a considerable number of crooked light machine guns, grenades, mortars and infantry guns.
The equipment was so sophisticated that it was in sharp contrast to the fact that Kong Jie and the other three regiments in front of them had nearly 5,000 troops and could only muster six heavy machine guns.
The situation on both sides was completely reversed.
The counterfeit Japanese brigade, which had an unstable foothold, was unable to gain any favor for a while under the strong attack of Kong Jie and other three regiments.
The gentle slope where Kong Jie and the others chose to ambush was also an excellent offensive zone. The Eighth Route Army had a gentle slope as a temporary defense. On the other hand, the Japanese army had a flat road and could not even find a bunker.
The battle broke out suddenly, and the Japanese suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of people fell in front of them.
The well-trained Japanese soldiers reacted very quickly. They couldn't find a bunker, so they crawled on the ground and fired from the ground.
What is even more shocking is that after the Japanese in the front row fell, the Japanese in the back quickly piled up the corpses of their companions and formed a line of defense as a temporary defense.
With such an adaptable ability, I don't know if I should say that these little devils are crazy and do anything they can.
During the fierce battle between the two sides, the combat effectiveness of the three regiments can also be seen from the side.
The first is the 771st Regiment, which is indeed one of the main regiments of the 386th Brigade. Whether it is in terms of strength or equipment, it can be seen that it is better than the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
Most of the team were veterans, and they fired at the Japanese troops from a distance of nearly a hundred meters. The two sides fought back and forth.
The 771st Regiment even has an artillery platoon. Of course, their artillery platoon is much more legitimate than Kong Jie's artillery platoon. There are only three or four mortars. At this moment, they are playing a big role, constantly Many Japanese were killed during the bombardment.
And as the new group brought out by the old wolf Li Yunlong, howling.
The soldiers' fighting will is very high. In addition, Lao Li seems to have followed Kong Jie's example and divided the fighting groups into the regiment.
In addition, the veterans of the new regiment had good marksmanship and killed many Japanese in a short period of time.
It's just that the marksmanship of the Japanese soldiers who often practiced target shooting was better after all.
This is a helpless fact. The training of both sides is not at the same level at all.
To compare from another perspective, the shooting level of the shooting team composed of brothers with excellent marksmanship selected by Li Yunlong from the entire regiment was only the average shooting level of the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side.
In other words, if the enemy soldiers on the opposite side join Li Yunlong's team, they will all be eligible to join the shooting team.
You may not see much in a short-term battle, but as the fighting time between the two sides prolongs, you will find that the Eighth Route Army's casualties, which originally had the advantage in battle losses, were gradually equalized by the Japanese army.
In the infantry shooting battle, the Japanese soldiers relied on their superior marksmanship to gradually level their own disadvantages.
On the Independent Regiment side, after Kong Jie appeared, he continued to boost the morale of the entire regiment, and led the entire regiment to conduct military training. He successively attacked the Japanese transport team and captured the Changpo stronghold, which strengthened the equipment and logistics attributes of the entire regiment. value.
However, judging from the current combat performance, the independent regiment's combat effectiveness is only barely equal to Li Yunlong's troops.
Independent group combat effectiveness attribute points: 79
It's one or two points lower than Li Yunlong's new group.
If it hadn't been for the vigorous strengthening and rectification after the appearance of Kong Jie, the combat effectiveness of the Independent Regiment would have been much worse than that of the New Regiment and the 771st Regiment.
After withdrawing his thoughts and seeing the troops gradually falling into a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Japanese army, Kong Jie knew that the situation in front of him could not continue.
He raised his eyes and looked at Li Yunlong and Commander Xu beside him. The eyes of the two old comrades were also slightly anxious. It was obvious that their worries were the same as Kong Jie's.
"Old Li, Old Xu, something is wrong. The Japs' marksmanship is too powerful. If we continue like this, we will not be able to eliminate the Japs in front of us, and we will be entangled. When the main force of the Japanese army breaks through Chu Yunfei's defense area, we will fight with the forward troops. If the Japs gather together, it will be difficult for us to leave," Kong Jie said.
"Damn it!" Li Yunlong was a little unwilling, but helpless. Kong Jie was telling the truth.
"Lao Kong, in this way, before the main follow-up force of the Japs arrives, the strength of our three regiments has an absolute advantage. You and Lao Xu will lead the troops to support the front, and I will lead my new regiment to detour from the flanks and eat them. Get rid of this devil."
Kong Jie nodded and said: "This is the last resort. If it still doesn't work, we have no choice but to withdraw. Lao Li, you and I will attack from the flanks at the same time, one from the left and one from the right. Lao Xu, I'll leave it to you to block the frontal attack." .”
"Okay!" Commander Xu responded.
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