The battle at Lengkou has been going on for three days. At this time, Fenghuang Mountain has been blown up beyond recognition by Japanese artillery and aircraft. The city gate of Lengkou and the surrounding crenellations are no longer in shape. Only the thick wall foundation is still firmly rooted. Even if this land is covered with rocks and soil, it is just like the defensive position of the Model Brigade. No matter how wind blows or rains, I will remain unmoved.
Major General Yamada Guiura, the commander of the Japanese 12th Brigade, was frowning and thinking hard on the map, eager to find a way to break through the current predicament.
Since launching a large-scale attack on Lengkou Pass on April 1, the progress of the war has been quite unsatisfactory for the Japanese army.
Especially in terms of artillery support, the Japanese army had always used heavy artillery firepower to bully the Chinese army, which lacked artillery, but now it had fallen flat and was in turn suppressed by the artillery of the Chinese defenders.
The key reason is not only that the Chinese defenders have surprisingly many artillery, but also that China also has two well-hidden 105mm howitzers with a range of 12 kilometers. As long as one's own artillery fires for more than 5 minutes, it will inevitably be counterattacked by Chinese artillery.
Those 75mm caliber mountain cannons are just fine, but these two 105mm howitzers will fire a 5-round salvo from time to time, and they are all very targeted against the Japanese artillery positions.
So far, the Japanese 12th Brigade has lost 5 75mm field guns and 2 92 infantry guns in the artillery battle, almost all of which were blown up in the counterattack of two Chinese howitzers.
The current Japanese artillery has also begun to learn from the Chinese army. They fire a few shots and then quickly move their positions, which greatly reduces the continuity of artillery support. Several attacking infantry brigades have repeatedly protested, saying that the artillery force does not use infantry warriors at all. life seriously.
But what the situation is, only brigade commander Yamada Guiura himself understands that it is not that my artillery is incompetent, but that the Chinese artillery is very cunning.
The lack of artillery severely restricted the infantry's offensive operations.
As for the Air Force aircraft, Major General Yamada Guiura even scorned them.
The few bombers and a dozen fighter jets temporarily equipped with bombs sent by the Army Air Force are not bombing accurately at all. Moreover, after losing several aircraft in a row before, the current Army aviation pilots almost always dropped bombs at an altitude of more than 500 meters, not knowing whether they had received instructions from their superiors.
Even professional bombers may not be able to drop bombs at such a high altitude, let alone a few of your fighter jets that temporarily attached bombs. You even almost dropped bombs on the heads of your own infantry once. The help of airplanes in the war can only be said to be better than nothing.
Originally, he had pinned his hopes on these powerful infantry brigades of the 6th Division to be able to display the tenacity and perseverance that the imperial warriors should have, and to display the bravery and experience of professional grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers that far exceeded those of the Chinese army. Wave after wave of turbulent attacks destroyed the will of the defenders.
However, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that the fighting will of his subordinates will be destroyed first.
This is because the Chinese force called the Model Brigade opposite is not only not weaker than the Japanese army in terms of fighting will, but its automatic weapons configuration also exceeds that of the Japanese army.
The only thing that gave Major General Yamada Guiura a little comfort was that he found that the military quality of the officers and soldiers of the Model Brigade was still quite different from that of his own men.
In terms of grasping fighter opportunities and applying tactics on local battlefields, it still has not broken away from the rigid and conservative thinking of the Chinese military. On several occasions, when the Japanese attacking troops advanced too aggressively and the supporting troops in the rear were cut off by Chinese artillery, the defenders responded with some hesitation and lack of confidence, and missed several opportunities to expand their results.
However, the biggest difference between this army and the Chinese troops they encountered in the past is that there are so many bullets and shells that it is almost as if they are free of charge.
If their marksmanship was not good, these damn Chinese farmers made up for it with dense bullets (Japanese devils in this period all knew that Chinese soldiers were almost all illiterate farmers and had always been looked down upon by these devils.).
Isn’t the Chinese military always poor? Isn’t the logistics of the Chinese army always very bad? Doesn’t the Chinese military always require saving bullets?
In this model brigade, Yamada Guiura's inherent concept was completely subverted.
There are many machine guns, many submachine guns, and even the rifles are Baga's semi-automatic rifles. These Chinese farmers, whether visible or invisible, just kept holding the trigger. There are also seemingly free grenades and mortar shells being thrown all over the mountains and plains, simply not using bean bags as dry food!
In fact, Yamada Guiura's concept is correct. The logistics of the Chinese army during this period was indeed relatively weak. Even the Central Army was required to save bullets as much as possible, and a soldier only carried dozens of bullets. Cannonballs are even more precious and are not allowed to be fired until critical moments.
However, the model brigade now does not rely on supplies from the Nanjing government, but direct supplies from Marshal Yan, who is starting to get excited as if he has been given a shot of chicken blood.
After the failure of the Central Plains War, the Shanxi king, who had been suppressed by the principal in all aspects of the political arena of the Republic of China and had to lie dormant for several years, finally felt proud and proud, and finally scorned in front of the principal.
Look at you, you are quite good at fighting civil wars, but I admit that I am not as good as you.
But what about foreign wars?
From Northeast China to Rehe, and now from Rehe to the Great Wall, what victories have you fought? How many little Japanese were killed?
Look at me again, old man. If I don’t make a sound, I will become a blockbuster.
The old man was just trying his best, and only sent out a brigade of troops... Hehe!
The old man was embarrassed to say it. Is the Mishan Brigade gone? That's more than a thousand little devils.
What? Are you still not convinced?
The old man killed a small Japanese mixed brigade for you to take a look at. There were more than 4,000 people, and the corpses were piled up into several mountains. Now you have nothing to say, right?
Let the people of the country see who is the true hero of the Republic of China? Who is the backbone of this country?
Therefore, now the commander is really beaten, and the logistics supply is open to transport to Lengkou.
Moreover, with this commander's stingy behavior over the past decade or so, the ammunition consumption of the tens of thousands of people in the Model Brigade is only a drop in the bucket of his several secret arsenals in Shanxi, and it is not considered a waste.
But how could Yamada Guiura know that the ammunition supply of the Model Brigade was supplied by the Shanxi King who opened his family? So after three consecutive days of failed attacks, he paid nearly 400 lives and carried twice as many from the battlefield. After a large number of wounded soldiers, he began to feel pain in his body and wanted to find another way.
