Zhao Jiayu.
The fighting at the south entrance of the village was extremely fierce.
The third battalion and the firepower battalion of the independent regiment were at a disadvantage in terms of weapons, equipment and soldier skills.
Although now they have withstood the attacks of the little devils one after another.
However, the Second Company on the village entrance position suffered heavy casualties, with battle losses as high as two-thirds, and has now basically withdrawn from three trenches.
Four 90mm mortar positions were exposed. In the exchange of artillery fire, they were defeated by the agility of the 92 Infantry Artillery of the Little Japanese and the sophistication of the Little Japanese artillery.
Although their rate of fire was superior, their performance was not as good as their opponents. All artillery in four positions was lost, while the Little Devils only lost one 92 infantry cannon.
Mortar artillerymen who have lost their flexible combat capabilities cannot defeat cunning and cruel opponents simply by relying on bravery. They also need more refined technology. After all, this is currently the most technologically advanced branch of the military.
Although the rate of fire of the Little Devil's 92 Infantry Cannon is not good, its accuracy when hitting fixed targets is frightening. The position data of the 90mm mortar position of the Independent Regiment was captured by the Little Devil's artillery observers within a few rounds. , often it only takes one or two rounds to hit!
Zhao Gang, who was commanding from a high position, was heartbroken when he saw the artillery losses and couldn't breathe, but he had no other way. If the Japs' artillery was not restrained by his own artillery, the frontier would suffer heavy losses.
Now relying on 4 mortars, the Japs' artillery force was consumed for more than half an hour, but the defense of the forward position was still very difficult under the bombardment of the Japs' grenades.
In terms of firepower equipment at the grassroots level, the gap between the Third Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the Little Devils is still very large, which clearly shows their disadvantage in the battle.
The Japs' grenade now changed their tactics and moved together with the infantry. The mortars were completely powerless against them.
They can only rely on machine gun fire or grenade launchers from the front lines of the independent regiments.
However, in these two items, the Independent Regiment was more than just one or two points behind the Japs in terms of both quantity and quality. On the battlefield, the cumulative consequence of these two gaps was that the positions were constantly breached by the Japs.
Between offense and defense, the battle loss ratio between the two sides gradually reached the level of one for one.
The Third Battalion of the Independent Regiment, relying on its positional advantage, did not have the defensive advantage to play positional warfare.
To be fair, if the other fronts failed to achieve results, Zhao Jiayu defended by Zhao Gang would not be able to withstand the two-way flanking attack of the two brigades of little devils.
Falling is just a matter of time.
Whether it is the quality of artillery fire, the adequacy of ammunition, or the proficiency of technical arms, the independent regiment is at a disadvantage.
This is also the main reason why the independent regiments did not use positional warfare scripts at all in the previous battles, but chose to ambush and directly fight with bayonets at hand-to-hand combat.
If the cost of the equipment is not enough, the only option is to go all out. The maximum limit under the bayonet is exchanged for one. In addition, it is generally necessary to have an advantage of more than three times in strength before starting a war. This can gain some advantages.
However, this kind of battle is destined to only use guerrilla warfare methods such as night attacks, sneak attacks, and ambushes.
The scale cannot be large and the time cannot be long.
This time, Gao Jianwu had all the equipment and ammunition. Li Yunlong and Zhao had just dared to let go and engage in a wave of positional battles. However, the current battle situation showed that the independent regiment's strengthened foundation was still far from enough than that of the little devils.
What is lacking cannot be made up in a day or two.
Zhao Gang stared at the battlefield, but his mind drifted to Gao Jianwu and Li Yunlong in the distance.
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"Sure enough, Gao Xiaozi has taken action again!" Li Yunlong, who was outflanking from the south, was still more than a mile away from the battlefield when he heard that Gao Jianwu had already started to take action, and the sound of artillery fire came one after another.
This was followed by the sound of intensive heavy machine guns.
By the time Li Yunlong's troops arrived, the little Japanese had already been knocked down and his tactics had been diverted.
The scene was in a mess, and Shen Quan was directing a simple cleanup of the battlefield, mainly checking the little devils who had replenished their guns, and collecting discarded heavy weapons.
At the same time, they were waiting for Lu Fan's heavy machine gun detachment on the top of the hill to catch up. Although the Japs had retreated, they were still not weak. The heavy machine guns had to keep up, otherwise the Japs would be overrun by a counterattack.
Here at the artillery base, the corpses left behind by the little devils amounted to nearly 400.
The main force of the Machine Gun Squadron and the Second Squadron ran away for almost two-thirds despite the gunfire. What was even more surprising was that Taro Kawamoto also ran away with nearly half of the remaining Japs. This Japs can be called a clever little devil.
"Captain, you are here, and this place is just for you. Cleaning the battlefield is really taking up time." Shen Quan said happily when he saw Li Yunlong, not noticing that Li Yunlong's face was dark at all.
"Chen Quan, you're a little too lazy," Li Yunlong said with a dark face, "You have to eat all this meat, and let the labor and management chew the bones."
"Captain, you have misunderstood me. I haven't touched much of the equipment here. You know that we are not short of equipment here in Dagushan."
Listen, is this human talk?
There is not much shortage of equipment.
Yes, we, Lao Li, are short of equipment, but is it ridiculous to ask you to come to Dagushan to help us again and again?
I, Li Yunlong, don’t want to lose face? !
Li Yunlong's face turned darker.
"What a fool, labor and management are the main force," Li Yunlong turned to Zhang Dabiao and shouted, "Dabiao, what are you doing for this battalion to eat? Come on, labor and management, hurry up and see if they have to finish all the work, every one of them Don’t look like you’re eating. Shame on you!”
If it were any other time, Li Yunlong would definitely be willing to do things like cleaning the battlefield, but if he eats the leftovers of his own men, Li Yunlong would be ashamed.
However, it was embarrassing, and the battle commanded by Gao Jianwu and Shen Quan was so beautiful, Li Yunlong was still very happy in his heart.
In this way, he felt that he had a greater chance of eating the Watanabe task force.
Now, the large force of the Watanabe task force is not blocked in the valley on Zhao Jiayu's side.
"Chen Quan, after replenishing the little Japs, just leave a small team to watch. There are two brigades of young Japs in front of you, so don't worry." After Li Yunlong yelled at Zhang Dabiao, Shen Quan also yelled. .
After all, he is the leader, he has the final say!
Gao Jianwu was on the top of the mountain, watching Li Yunlong arrive with his team. He seemed to say something to Shen Quan and then hurriedly continued to approach the little Japanese.
Although he couldn't guess what Li Yunlong said, Li Yunlong in the telescope obviously didn't have a good face. He couldn't help but smile, turned around and began to observe the escaped Japs again, and continued to direct the artillery operations.
On the other side, Han Gang heard that the little devil's mountain cannon was captured, and it jumped three feet high. He immediately asked him on the phone to bring some artillery soldiers out to play with the mountain cannon.
All the remaining mortars were handed over to Liu Shiqiang's command. Now he could basically make small adjustments to the angles to catch the Japs. The first and second artillery detachments quickly gathered five groups of artillerymen and followed Han Gang out.
Chen Quan left more than 40 people to guard the position, and followed Li Yunlong with a large team. The two sides totaled 3,000 people, and the team directly dragged out the older ones.
Although Li Yunlong was a little unhappy at being beaten ahead of him, he looked back while riding his horse and saw that his team was now so strong. He couldn't help but put away his little resentment and grinned as happily as if he had picked up a gold ingot.
But as soon as he turned his head and stared at the back of the little Japanese running away in the distance, his eyes immediately became very sharp.
If you don't take the road to heaven, there will be no way to hell to break in!
"Zhang Dabiao, move forward with the machine guns and grenade launchers. When you get close to the Japs, use the machine guns and grenade launchers to greet them first. Don't save ammunition for labor and management. This time labor and management are going to fight a war of wealth!" Li Yunlong licked his dry lips.
"Labour and management must let the little devils know that our independent regiment can not only fight with bayonets, but also cover it with firepower! This battle must be fought so that the little devils' feet will tremble when they hear about our independent regiment!"
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