Chapter 789: A New Mission
"I have already reported this problem to the division headquarters, and the division headquarters said that after dark tonight, there will be a battalion of recruits to replenish us, and then we will replenish the troops, but in the past three days, if any of you drop the chain, I Hu Lian will be the first to kill him, and now assign combat tasks!"
When Yu Yang walked out of the headquarters, many colleagues looked at him with pity in their eyes, and some of them who had said a few words came up and patted Yu Yang's shoulder, signaling Yu Yang not to be pressured.
Yu Yang's Seventh Company is the most complete and the most important of all the assigned tasks, and it is a prominent part of the entire 66th Regiment, which serves as the defense task on the periphery of Luodian, that is, near the landing position of the Japanese army at Chuanshakou.
Yu Yang took a brief look at his defense area on the map, it was about a kilometer long, but the focus of defense was a bridge, the Panjing River circled around Luodian, and finally there was a corner in the east of Luodian that flowed to the north, and the location of Yu Yang's defense was the location of the Panjing River, about 500 meters away from Luodian.
Yu Yang smiled and didn't speak, now his defense area seems to be the most prominent part of the entire 66th Regiment, and he needs to face the Japanese soldiers head-on, but Yu Yang knows that compared to staying inside Luodian and enduring Japanese artillery fire, the position outside Luodian is much better, at least the Japanese soldiers are a little easier to deal with than artillery shells.
The third battalion commander walked to Yu Yang's side and handed over a pack of cigarettes: "Xiao Yu, this time I will transfer a squad from the Eighth Company and the Ninth Company to you, you must guard the gate of Luodian, otherwise I will definitely kill you before the regiment commander kills me!" ”
The commander of the third battalion may feel that Yu Yang's task is a bit heavy, in his opinion, let alone the strength of a company, even if the three battalions are on top, they may not be able to hold it, so he gritted his teeth and gave priority to supplementing the strength of Yu Yang's seventh company!
"Thank you, battalion commander, but battalion commander, I have a small request, I don't know if I can divide two machine guns to me, we only have a total of four machine guns even now and have captured, compared with the little devil, the firepower is much weaker, and there are no shells, and we can't be sure if the devil's grenadier can't hit it!"
"Well, in this case, I'll transfer another 2,000 rounds, a heavy machine gun for you, and two mortars, but how about you send me all your grenadiers!"
"No problem!"
When Yu Yang read the topographic map, he already had a general defense method in his heart, if he wanted to hold the west bank of the Panjing River, he must have a machine gun to maintain the suppression of the Japanese firepower, and at the same time he must have a certain artillery support ability, otherwise the small Japanese grenadiers will continue to explode in the back, although the power is not great, but the hit is accurate, and the hard defense cannot be held at all.
Ten minutes later, Yu Yang returned to the position of the ancestral shrine, the third battalion commander from the eighth and ninth companies had arrived, and was directly disrupted by Yu Yang into several squads, Lao Zhao was promoted by Yu Yang to a platoon leader, and the previous Wang Hainiu is the current squad leader, Wang Hao is in charge of three mortars, who let him know how to shoot?
The 66th Regiment was the main force after all, and when the battle was over, the Logistics Department began to transport supplies and count casualties, and Yu Yang's 7th Company received 5,000 rounds of rifle ammunition to replenish, as for the machine gun bullets, they could only be captured on the battlefield by themselves, and the regimental headquarters did not have this thing, let alone artillery shells.
Fortunately, the two mortars sent by the third battalion commander came with eighty shells, otherwise Yu Yang really didn't know where to find mortar shells, plus a mortar brought by Yu Yang, now the seventh company has a total of three mortars, five heavy machine guns, and three Czech light machine guns, and the firepower is relatively strong, and there should be no problem with the whole regiment.
There is no need to mobilize, Yu Yang's performance in this morning's battle can be regarded as conquering all the soldiers of the Seventh Company, there is no harm if there is no comparison, the commander of the Sixth Company was domineering and leaked, and in the end, none of the survivors of the Sixth Company made the soldiers of the Seventh Company obey Yu Yang's words.
The noon sun was vicious, Yu Yang looked up and felt a burst of dazzling, the company headquarters had been set up, and a hidden part was dug at the edge of the bridge to connect the traffic trench, and after making a simple camouflage net, it was Yu Yang's command post.
Outside the headquarters, the soldiers of the seventh company were digging fortifications in full swing, and Yu Yang put a total of two heavy machine guns on both sides of the bridge, aiming not at the bridge, but on both sides of the bridge, if the Japanese wanted to go to the bridge, they had to break through the blockade of these two machine guns.
The remaining three machine guns were placed on the side by Yu Yang a hundred meters away to prevent Xiao Nippon from secretly crossing the river before learning from himself, and Yu Yang ordered all the reeds on both sides of the river to be burned.
"Yu, I think you still have to establish observation points here, here and here, to understand the movements of the Japanese, although our defense line is not long, but if the Japanese go around in a big circle, it is easy to penetrate into our rear, our rear and Luodian friendly forces still have a vacuum area of nearly five hundred meters, once surrounded by the Japanese, we have no way to escape!"
John and the others were inspecting Yu Yang's deployment, and from time to time put forward some valuable suggestions, commanding a company, John was more experienced than Yu Yang, and when Yu Yang saw him for the second time, this guy was already the regiment commander, and later mentioned the deputy division commander.
"These three points can observe the movement of the Japanese army across the river, you send two people to hide in each position, if the Japanese have action, come back and report immediately, you should be prepared!"
"Okay, I'll do it, Lao Zhao, you let the third class draw a few people to hide in the location John said, and if there is a little devil who touches it, report it immediately!"
"No problem!"
Lao Zhao, who was standing on the side, touched his chin and looked at the map, and pointed to the location of the machine gun position on the map: "Well, I think it's better to spread out the machine gun position here, the firing range of the Type 92 heavy machine gun is 800 meters, and the interval between 100 meters is too dense, I think it is better to have a distance of 200 meters on both sides, and at the same time, if the Japanese army gathers at a long distance, it can also shoot across the line, raise the firing point to attack the Japanese soldiers in the distance, and block the Japanese wave charge formation!" ”
"Huh?" Yu Yang touched his chin and looked at it, and nodded: "Just do as you say, let people widen the distance between the machine gun positions a little!" ”
Every word you say to me, including deputy company commander Liu Youcai, has participated in the designation of the battle plan, and Liu Youcai's main role is to serve tea, pour water, mix cigarettes, and smoke.
More than ten minutes later, the company meeting ended, and the next three days of operations were almost formulated by Yu Yang, Wang Hao and others, in fact, it was not complicated, and the core idea was to defend the Panjing River.
At the same time, a squad is also reserved, as an assault squad, Lao Zhao leads the team, if the soldiers are anxious, they can let Lao Zhao lead this assault squad around the back of the Japanese buttocks and poke their chrysanthemums fiercely.