HLnovel Chapter 443: Yuan Shuai's Guerrilla Warfare
Chapter 443: Yuan Shuai's Guerrilla Warfare
When Kota Taya learned that there was no air support, he was so angry that he complained for a long time.
But he had no other choice but to continue to act according to his battle plan.
The staff officer made tentative suggestions.
"General, can our army encircle the enemy from both sides?"
"Humph! Outflanking from both sides?! Don't you think the Nationalist Army's tactics this time are very similar to those of the guerrillas? Moreover, the enemy army actually has so many anti-aircraft Maxims. The Nationalist Army has at least two combat brigades and even an artillery brigade!"
"We can indeed encircle them from both wings, but if the enemy puts up a strong resistance, our army will surely suffer greater casualties! Don't forget, the Yamazaki Brigade besieged them for such a long time and failed to take them down. This unit is extremely tenacious!"
"Sun Tzu's Art of War says to avoid the strong and attack the weak. We must avoid direct confrontation with them and take the county town by surprise. As long as we take the county town, they will definitely send troops to support us. By then, their forces will be dispersed, and we can attack them from both sides, or even from all sides! Notice and order the Valley Brigade to only make a feint attack and not to attack with all their might!"
"Your Majesty the General is wise!"
The staff officer could only nod obediently.
But what they didn't expect was that
General Yuan has quickly redeployed his troops here.
A regiment of the New Sixth Army sent out a reinforced company, which moved in platoons through the woods on both sides of the road and reached a place more than 2,000 meters ahead.
There are two rows on each side, more than two meters apart.
But the Japanese had a large group of more than a thousand people walking slowly on the road, with long distances between them.
The road, which was more than 300 meters long, was filled with Japanese soldiers.
After seeing the Japanese, the team followed General Yuan's order. The first and second rows were responsible for the back of the Japanese, and the third and fourth rows were responsible for the front of the Japanese.
Wait until the Japs pass by.
The third and fourth platoons opened fire first, and the cross-fire from the hills on both sides was crazy.
In order to intercept these devils, General Yuan specially strengthened the weapons configuration of the brothers in this company.
Although these people were not equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns, each squad was equipped with three Czech machine guns, three Type 99 light machine guns, and two grenade launchers.
The two platoons formed a crossfire against the Japanese, which was six Czech machine guns, six Type 99 light machine guns, four bullet-propelled guns, and many grenades.
After opening fire, the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground on the road one after another.
The dead were all dead, and the living were lying on the ground, covering their bleeding wounds and wailing in pain.
Before the Japanese could react, the machine gunner used up a magazine and threw a grenade, and everyone quickly retreated to both sides.
When the Japs fired at the hillsides on both sides, their bullets did not hit a single Chinese soldier.
The angry Japanese soldiers, big, medium and small, cursed angrily.
The captain of the Valley Team was especially angry, his face turned pale and his eyes were blazing with fire.
Because they had just been ambushed by the Nationalist Army, although the attack was very short.
But the firepower of the national army was too strong.
The total number of casualties was more than 200.
There was no need to worry about the dead, just leave them on the roadside for now, but there were over a hundred injured people who were not yet dead.
He had to spend more than a hundred people to treat the wounded.
"Major, do you want to chase them down?"
One of the subordinates also made a suggestion with gritted teeth.
"idiot!"
Captain Valley was eager to send people to chase after them immediately.
But he knew that this was a guerrilla tactic. If he went in pursuit, his men would probably be killed off in pieces by guerrilla warfare.
Helplessly, they could only leave more than a hundred people to treat the wounded, and then continue to lead the men forward, occasionally firing tentative shots at the hillsides on both sides to prevent anyone from ambushing on the hillsides.
The four retreating platoons had not retreated far on both sides when they heard gunshots advancing forward and immediately stopped.
The two rows on the left and right gathered together.
The two platoon leaders and their company commander and deputy platoon leader gathered together and laughed happily.
"I never expected that General Yuan's guerrilla tactics would be so effective! Our platoon has taken down at least fifty or sixty of them!"
"That's right! The firepower is too strong. It's a pity that the Type 99 rifle is not powerful enough, otherwise, I would definitely be able to knock down more than a hundred of them!"
"Even so, our two platoons outnumbered them by more than a hundred!"
"The two opposing platoons must be the same as ours, so we've reached over 200 people in this operation!"
"The Japs will definitely continue to advance! Continue to act according to General Yuan's plan!"
Yuan Shuai had given them a battle plan long ago, and now everything was going according to plan. They just had to execute it.
The first and third platoons quickly caught up with the Japanese, climbed up the hillside, and opened fire again at the rearmost team of the Japanese.
At the same time, the second and third platoons quickly rushed to the place where they had fought before.
In these two places, many Japanese soldiers were treating the wounded.
But they never expected that the national army would actually strike back to deal with their wounded.
As a result, the Japanese soldiers who were treating the wounded and the wounded were attacked again.
The wounded were shot again, and those who were not injured were either killed or injured.
However, the second and fourth platoons did not go down to clean up these Japs, but opened fire and continued to retreat.
In a short period of time, more than one hundred Japanese soldiers who were treating the wounded, as well as more than one hundred Japanese soldiers at the rear of the Japanese army, were killed or wounded.
The Valley Brigade suffered more than 200 casualties again.
Only about 800 people in the entire team were able to move forward.
Captain Shan Gu couldn't stand it any longer and quickly contacted Captain Tian Gu via the radio phone.
"What? More than 400 casualties!?"
"How many enemy casualties?... What? You didn't hit a single one!? Bakayalu, Bakayalu, stop advancing, send artillery observers to scout ahead... What? All the artillery observers were killed? Bakayalu, how are you still alive!"
Captain Tian Gu was so angry that his lungs were about to explode.
It was less than an hour, and one of his battalions suffered more than 400 casualties, and his men didn't even hit a single enemy soldier!
This is the first time in his combat history.
He wanted to rush over and chop off the Valley Captain's head.
But he seemed to have realized more clearly that this army was not simple at all.
If the Valley Brigade moved forward any further, the entire brigade would probably be wiped out by this guerrilla tactic.
He could only let the Valley Brigade rest and have lunch, and at the same time sent two squads of scouts to the front to scout the enemy situation.
But who would have thought that Yuan Shuai had already made arrangements.
Two platoons of National Army brothers were hiding in the big trees and weeds on the hillsides on both sides.
These are the brothers of the New Sixth Army.
After the New Sixth Army absorbed some personnel from the county, they became quite familiar with the terrain here.
When the Japanese scouts were scouting forward along the hillsides on both sides of the road, the people in the trees jumped down directly.
The brother in the weeds stabbed directly with a sharp bayonet.