As the confrontation between the two sides gradually became intense, the Japanese army increasingly felt the powerful artillery fire of the 385th Brigade Eighth Route Army troops.
It became more and more difficult to fight.
With the remaining elites of the three major mixed brigades of the Japanese army, they gradually concentrated their efforts to launch an attack on the 385th Brigade base area.
However, the 385th Brigade gradually emerged with more and more main troops.
The entire 385th Brigade base area is like an invisible abyss, a quagmire with no bottom.
No matter how many troops the Japanese army sends, it seems that they will be deeply involved.
This is also the most troublesome thing for the Japanese army.
Originally, according to the old Japanese Ishikawa's idea, the advantage now lies with me. The three major mixed brigades concentrated their forces to deal with the Tubal Road of the 385th Brigade.
Both in terms of troops and equipment, they have every advantage.
After all, even if the three major mixed brigades mobilized some elites to reinforce Huangyadong, they still had nearly 15,000 elites.
What they faced was just a brigade of the Eighth Route Army.
According to the division of the brigade-level establishment of the army, whether it is the Chiang Kai-shek Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, or the local National Army.
Or the brigade corresponding to the brigade-level establishment of the Japanese army and the Chinese army.
Although the comparison of military strength will not be exactly the same, it is generally not much different.
After the Japanese army passed the brigade, it was a two-two formation.
Generally speaking, an infantry brigade includes two infantry regiments. The strength of the entire brigade, plus the baggage troops, artillery troops, and some directly affiliated combat troops, ranges from 3,000 to 9,000 troops.
Of course, this change in military strength took into account the great changes that occurred in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War and until the later stages of the War of Resistance, when the Japanese army gradually became insufficient in strength and lacked follow-up.
At this time, a Japanese brigade usually has about 8,000 troops.
Most of the Chiang Kai-shek troops and the Shanxi-Sui army troops, which corresponded to the Japanese army, were organized in a three-three system.
A brigade consists of three infantry regiments.
A brigade has fewer troops than a brigade of the Japanese army.
Of course, based on a detailed analysis of the specific situation, after all, a combat regiment with more than 5,000 troops, like the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army, is always a minority.
As for the Eighth Route Army troops, the changes have been huge.
In the early days, a brigade in the national army's battle sequence only had two main regiments, with a strength of only three to five thousand people.
But with the development, this is also the establishment that has not changed.
The specific military strength is becoming more and more inconsistent.
What does it mean?
It is said that it is a brigade, but a brigade of the Eighth Route Army may appear to be a brigade, but in fact it may even have as many as a dozen main combat regiments under its jurisdiction.
It can even pull out ten or twenty thousand troops in one breath.
He's almost catching up with a Japanese division.
This is also a very important conclusion reached by the Japanese army after many years of fighting with the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines:
When fighting against the Eighth Route Army, one should never judge the strength of the troops based on the opponent's organization. The judgment should be made based on the specific strength obtained after actual investigation.
In fact, not only the brigade-level establishment, but also some regiment-level combat units of the Eighth Route Army. As the Anti-Japanese War continues, the forces under their jurisdiction will also undergo extremely exaggerated changes in strength.
Take a typical independent group as an example.
In the early days, there were only a few thousand people. Later, it quickly grew to two to three thousand people. Now it has become the first independent anti-Japanese detachment in northwestern Shanxi. In fact, it is still a regiment-level establishment, but the number of troops under its jurisdiction is probably close to ten thousand. .
How can there be any truth in this?
It's time to say it when the little devils are sweeping up.
We have to use almost one or two brigades to deal with the independent regiments of the Eighth Route Army.
I feel embarrassed even if I say it!
This is probably the situation now. With the Japanese Third, Ninth, and Sixteenth Mixed Brigades, plus the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the North China Security Army, nearly 20,000 Japanese and puppet troops are gradually moving deeper into the 385th Brigade base area.
At first, the 385th Brigade first came up with two or three main combat groups to block the attack along the way.
Although the firepower configuration has been enhanced, it is still within the acceptable range of the Japanese army.
However, as the Japanese and puppet troops continued to advance, the strength of the 386 Brigade seemed to be endless.
A main force group, a main force group, kept jumping out.
When the Japanese and puppet troops approached the hinterland of the 385th Brigade base area, according to Japanese statistics, there were at least a dozen main forces of the Eighth Route Army that jumped out to block the attack.
How many main regiments does this have?
Is this a brigade or a division?
In addition, the firepower configuration of each Eighth Route Army combat group is also rapidly increasing.
When it comes to the main combat units of the Eighth Route Army behind them, even the squad and platoon levels are equipped with various types of artillery, including some small-caliber mortars, and rifle grenades that provide close-range firepower advantages.
After this series of offensive methods, the Japanese and puppet troops who originally divided their forces into multiple groups and advanced at the same time were completely beaten out of temper.
The old Japanese Ishikawa had no choice but to order the advancing troops from all walks of life to be merged into one.
Concentrate your forces on the attack.
Therefore, after the originally scattered Japanese troops were gathered together, a large number of Japanese and puppet troops would gather in an area.
Some of the mountainous roads in the hinterland of the 385th Brigade base area are difficult to navigate, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow. Once they enter a narrow area, the large number of Japanese and puppet troops even have to form a crowded queue to pass quickly.
The artillery units at the rear of the Japanese army followed closely the main force, in order to guard against the Eighth Route Army taking the opportunity to make sneak attacks on the artillery and baggage troops.
The little devil pays special attention to this.
This is also the biggest reliance of the three major mixed brigades of the Japanese army at this time.
The artillery units of the three major mixed brigades of the Little Japanese have a quite obvious advantage in concentrated artillery fire.
There are seventy or eighty artillery pieces of this caliber, including regiment artillery and infantry artillery.
That is to say, this time when we enter the Eighth Route Army base area to conduct raids, we need to ensure the mobility of the troops.
Otherwise, the Japanese's three major mixed brigades would even assign one or two of their assigned heavy artillery pieces to the battle.
The rear-mounted artillery unit serves as the strongest supporting artillery.
The Japanese army spread out a large number of scouts in advance and could guide rear artillery attacks at any time.
Nantian, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army, believed: “With the superior artillery fire of our army as a backing, during the advance at any time, whenever the Eighth Route Army’s artillery positions are exposed, our army can destroy them as soon as possible.
In this way, the artillery attack of the Eighth Route Army was completely suppressed. "
until……
The forces gathered by the Japanese and puppet troops were like rushing water converging as they passed through a narrow mountain road somewhere in the hinterland of the 385th Brigade.
The soldiers of the 385th Brigade, who had been lurking here for a long time, suddenly launched the most violent attack method:
That was the flying thunder artillery unit specially built by the 385th Brigade.
This time, in order to deal with the little devils, and with the strong support of a team's arsenal, the 385th Brigade was affiliated with the flying thunder artillery unit.
There are at least hundreds of them with a caliber greater than 200 mm!
But what kind of cannon is the flying thunder cannon?
To put it another way, it would have become famous immediately.
It was an alternative explosive projectile that was first invented and produced by a team of arsenals and was named the heartless cannon.
The specific production method is very simple, and the production cost is quite low based on the current military and industrial conditions of the Eighth Route Army.
An explosive pack launcher that uses gasoline barrels as barrels.
The main body is an empty gasoline barrel. After filling it with propellant, put the explosive package bundled into a disc shape into it, and then ignite the propellant. You can eject ten kilograms or even 20 kilograms of explosive package to 150-200 meters. distance.
The caliber of this weapon is absolutely astonishing - as big as the barrel is, so is the caliber.
The strong explosive impact caused by the huge explosive package is no joke.
This completely breaks through the traditional method of throwing explosive packs that can only rely on manpower to throw them to a distance of about ten meters at most, and even carry the explosive packs and die together with the little devil.
This is equivalent to ten kilograms or even twenty kilograms of explosives, greatly increasing the throwing distance.
From a distance of one to two hundred meters, it could even be thrown onto the little devil's head.
My old mother Diului...
At this moment, the soldiers of the 385th Brigade, who were hiding in the woods on the steep slopes of the mountain roads on both sides, suddenly launched an ambush and used flying thunder cannons to attack. This was probably what they meant.
I saw nearly a hundred explosive packets weighing at least ten kilograms rising into the sky from the steep hillsides on both sides.
Like an unusually fat sparrow that only eats, its size has been enlarged a hundred times, and it has densely covered the sky.
With the help of gravity, it smashed hard towards the Japanese and puppet troops on the lower mountain road.
Boom——
Nearly a hundred explosive packets weighing more than ten kilograms exploded simultaneously, resulting in an earth-shaking explosion that can only be described as "amazing".
The shock wave caused by the violent explosion immediately vented to the surroundings, within a few hundred meters of the concentrated explosion.
It's really a thrill.
The little devil who was in the center of the explosion had almost no bones left. A little further away, he was directly thrown away by the shock wave like a piece of paper.
There were also some Japanese and puppet troops who were obviously far away, but they were also killed instantly by this violent shock wave.
There were no wounds on his body, but he was bleeding to death from his seven orifices and was shocked to death.
What do you mean by not practicing martial ethics?
What does it mean to have no conscience?
What do you mean by slaughtering the Japanese invaders and the Japanese invaders? It's like slaughtering chickens and dogs?
That is the situation before us.
The soldiers' hidden thunder cannons were deliberately extended in depth, and the ambush circle they laid out was also a pocket-type ambush circle.
Under this unscrupulous artillery bombardment, at least more than 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops must have been enveloped within the scope of the explosion of the explosive package.
After the horrific explosion, shock waves were released everywhere.
It was like a poison gas bomb dropped by a little devil on the spot, spreading around like a stormy wave. After the spread, only a mess of corpses was seen, lying forever on this cold land that did not belong to them.
Almost at the same time.
On a high slope somewhere behind the 385th Brigade base area.
Commander Wang of the 769th Regiment was holding a telescope and looking at the magnificent scene of nearly a hundred explosive packets exploding simultaneously not far away.
Brigadier Chen also stood beside him, with a solemn expression mixed with inexplicable excitement and shock.
"The cannons are rising and the clouds are flying!"
Captain Wang, who had started to study culture since he learned that Li had a big head, also started studying culture. At this moment, Wen Zou Zou said something.
Then, there is no more!
"What's the next sentence?" Brigadier Chen asked with a smile.
Captain Wang was stunned and said: "Next sentence? Liu Bang didn't teach you the next sentence!"
Brigadier Chen: “…………”
Seeing the brigade commander's dark face, Commander Wang quickly smiled and said: "Yes, yes, yes, brigade commander, I have one more thing to say here!"
Cough cough cough——
After speaking, Captain Wang coughed twice and cleared his throat. While stroking the stubble that he had not taken care of for a long time, he said loudly:
"Feather fan and silk towel, while talking and laughing, forcefully wiped it away and disappeared into smoke, hahaha——, Brigadier, I have a feeling, yes, yes, this is the feeling. This poem written by Zhou Gongjin is so wonderful!"
Brigadier Chen said happily: "You good-for-nothing, that was written by Su Shi!"
Captain Wang waved his hand and laughed.
“It doesn’t matter who wrote it, that’s what it means anyway!”
…
How heavy can an oil barrel be?
In order to make it easier to take action, these heartless cannons should be transferred in time.
When the soldiers at the arsenal were producing this kind of oil barrel that fired explosive packages, they specially welded some handles on both sides of the oil barrel.
The two soldiers lifted him from left to right, and immediately ran away carrying Wu Guang.
The large number of infantry artillery and mountain artillery placed at the rear of the Japanese army were keeping an eye on them. The soldiers knew very well that there was only one chance to carry out the current sneak attack, so no one hesitated.
It was just a wave of surprise attacks. After hundreds of explosive packages weighing more than 10 kilograms were dropped at the same time, without waiting for the Japanese army to react, the soldiers worked in groups of two, holding on to the oil barrels and carrying the explosive packages, and immediately evacuated along the established route.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army's attack using heartless artillery was like spring flowers blooming all over the mountains and plains. There were figures of the Eighth Route Army taking action on both sides of the high slopes three to four hundred meters deep.
When the Japanese army recovered from the devastating shock caused by the collective firing of hundreds of heartless cannons.
The Japanese's rear-mounted infantry artillery and mountain artillery began to launch counterattack bombardments on the high slopes on both sides.
The soldiers who used unscrupulous cannons to sneak attack the Japanese army have basically evacuated.
The Japanese artillery fire backfire caused very limited losses to the soldiers.
In particular, the oil barrels used in this heartless cannon are very cheap considering the current military industrial conditions of the Eighth Route Army.
If the Japanese artillery strike comes too fast, it will follow the orders issued by the commanders of the Eighth Route Army early in the morning.
The soldiers simply threw the heartless cannon down the hillside, rolled down towards the little devil, and then ran away.
People live, this is the most important thing.
The soldiers of the 385th Brigade have already gone through the tragic period when they had to trade their lives for weapons.
There were not many soldiers responsible for using the heartless artillery to attack the Japs. In addition, they immediately dispersed and fled, using the dense forest as a cover. No matter how powerful the Japs' rear artillery fire was, it was impossible to wipe them all out.
When the Japs' scouts in front received news that all the cunning Tuballu had escaped.
The bombardment of Japanese artillery fire gradually stopped.
As a result of this sudden ambush by the Eighth Route Army, the specific number of casualties was transmitted to the brigade headquarters in the rear.
"Sir, after preliminary statistics, in the sneak attack carried out by the Eighth Route Army just now using explosive packs, there were 541 imperial warriors of our army and 245 of the Imperial Alliance Army. In addition, 731 people were injured..."
Such casualties only occurred within a few minutes.
"asshole!"
After hearing the report, Ishikawa could no longer bear it and became furious, losing all his grace as a Japanese general...
