Chapter 498: Coveted

Of course, Liu Lang can only use the word "climbing" to fool General He at this time, he is still three or four hundred miles away from the Great Wall, and he is almost seven hundred miles away from Beiping!

Fortunately, Liu Lang was very glad that he had a reason to be seriously injured and unconscious, otherwise he wouldn't know how to round this field now.

Liu Lang knew that what he had done could not hide from the old foxes of China and Japan.

But what if you can't hide it? As long as no one arrests him Liu Lang, the bigwigs on both sides have to pinch their noses and admit it.

It's easy to recognize it or not, come and arrest me! With the speed at which Liu Lang is still jumping in the mountain stream with a mortar on his back, it is probably still a 1 percent possibility to move the entire Kwantung Army to Rehe and blockade all the mountainous areas.

Obviously, that's not possible.

Therefore, no matter how much Muto Nobuyoshi likes to split his desk as firewood in the fireplace, he can only recognize this planting.

The 6th Division, which had cleaned up the mess of the 8th Division, left a mixed brigade of 6,000 men under the order of General Muto Nobuyoshi as the garrison of Rehe, and the rest of the troops did not stay in Rehe for long and continued to return to the three eastern provinces.

A mixed brigade is not as many as the remnants of the Eighth Division, but its combat effectiveness is not the same, and the combat effectiveness of a mixed brigade with artillery, infantry and cavalry is much higher than that of a pure infantry brigade, which is enough to deter the entire Chinese resistance army in Rehe.

All the Japanese troops knew that the reason why the Eighth Division was defeated was that the artillery made everyone lose their nests, and the remaining infantry was exhausted by the crazy Great Wall Regiment and ammunition reserves, until finally a group of peasants came to the heart and kicked them to death in the mountains of Rehe.

Since then, the combat example of the 8th Division has been written into the Japanese army's army code, and the protection of artillery has become the top priority of every combat unit.

Liu Lang didn't expect that the battle of the Great Wall made the Japanese much more cautious from then on, and the difficulty of his idea of fighting their artillery in the future inadvertently increased a lot.

But even if he knew, Liu Lang would still do it. You are improving, and the enemy is not stupid, and he will naturally improve, but it doesn't matter, as long as you progress more than him, he will still be a dish in your bowl.

No one is a fool, for example, the independent regiment fought on the Great Wall, whether it was from tactics or the quality of fighters to soldier equipment, whether it was light weapons or heavy weapons, the detailed report had long been put on the table of the top level of China and Japan.

Although Liu Lang's tactics are like a whimsical antelope, there is no trace of the antelope's horns, and he belongs to the genius class of military commanders, but his good use of scouts is still known to the high-level leaders of both sides.

The Kwantung Army, which was beaten out of Xiang by Liu Lang, took the lead in setting up an independent reconnaissance squadron, which was a branch of the army that had never appeared in the previous battle sequence of the Japanese army. In the past, their reconnaissance spearhead was often served by the most combat-ready infantry squadron.

But after the Battle of the Great Wall, the Kwantung Army discovered that the Chinese scouts did not only play the role of a sharp soldier to reconnoiter the battlefield, tracking, ambushing, and assassinating almost anything, and even only three single soldiers, harassing tens of thousands of people in a division and regiment day and night, and tens of thousands of behemoths with a few individual soldiers have no choice.

The professionals were left to the professionals, and the Japanese, who were very good at learning, also began their own military experiments.

It's just that one is a blind man crossing the river by feeling the stones, and the other is carrying the sharp blade of the Republic accumulated by the Red Republic after 80 years of experience in special operations.

The generals of the national army were not stupid, and they saw the huge role played by Liu Lang's special forces in this war, and they also learned to draw elite soldiers from their respective units to build reconnaissance platoons and reconnaissance companies to serve as various individual combat tasks that could not be completed by ordinary soldiers in wartime.

Of course, that's not the most critical thing.

The top brass on both sides took note of the Independence Regiment's most powerful light weapons in the battle.

It can be said that without this machine gun that makes people's scalps tingle and their will to fight is greatly reduced, no matter how high the quality of the personnel of the independent regiment is, no matter how talented Liu Lang's tactics are, at best it will be an undefeated ending, and it will never make the Eighth Division suffer such a big loss in Luo Wenyu, and finally the whole army only escaped from two brigades, and almost even the corps establishment was abolished.

As a matter of fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Eighth Division still had a few veteran commanders still in the high-ranking positions of the Ministry of the Army, the 8th Division, whose flag was burned and had a casualty rate of 90 percent, would probably have become the first divisional and regiment-level unit in the history of the Japanese army to be abolished.

Fortunately, Matsuda Kunizo went through a lot of hardships, and groped in the mountains for several days with the two infantry brigades that converged halfway, and finally found the organization ---- the 6th Division, which was heading north.

Nearly 2,000 Hanako soldiers almost didn't bite the iron lunch box at the moment they saw it, so that Sakamoto Masaemon lost the strength to scold his subordinate Matsuda Kunizo, even if he threw the entire 14th Brigade to the Great Wall and Rehe.

Of course, that's a later story, so let's not mention it for now.

Let's talk about Liu Lang still in the mountains all the way to Chengde, and the movement in Beiping City at this time.

Because of the movement caused by the MG42 machine gun.

According to the Japanese army's investigation after the fact, in the offensive and defensive battle of Luo Wenyu alone, the Japanese army who died directly or indirectly under the machine gun with an extremely high rate of fire that could not be counted was as high as 10,000.

Among them, the 4th Brigade, which died in World War I, contributed the most.

The 4th Brigade, which had never experienced such a high-rate machine gun, opted for one of the most stupid dense formations in the history of the Japanese army, resulting in the machine guns with an extremely high rate of fire to maximize their performance, and in the face of such machine guns, any dense charge was almost equivalent to being shot in line. Of course, such a stupid thing was also done by the Japanese army in the Battle of Qingdao in the Russo-Japanese War, and that time it paid the price of 15,000 Japanese soldiers, in front of the machine guns of the Russians.

The Japanese noticed, and of course the top brass of the government was not blind.

The Japanese were suffering from the fact that they had not captured this machine gun, so they could only sit at the conference table in a hurry, counting on the spies scattered in northern China to play their role and see if they could get a sample back for the military to study.

Compared to that machine gun, the Type 92 heavy machine gun's rate of fire at 500 rounds per minute was like a turtle crawling.

Including He Yizhi, all the Japanese spies received this secret order, and the Great Wall Regiment stationed in Beiping City was like a piece of fat meat targeted by sharks that smelled blood.

If the wounded and bloody Japanese can only hide in the dark and peep.

The generals of the national army, including the agents instructed by a certain bigwig, are much more ugly.

They almost made no secret of their coveting of the MG42 machine gun, and they were eager to come to the Great Wall Regiment to "work out" in a group-like manner. As soon as the chicken, duck and fish meat were put aside in the independent group, the bigwigs began to talk about their curiosity about a rumored weapon.

However, to the surprise of all of them, the Great Wall regiment, which was supposed to hide the machine gun as a treasure, was very generous.

They were all blushing slightly.

However, no one will stop blushing, and that hand will be stretched out to the handle of the machine gun, okay?

A mature man, especially a man with a "hat" on his head, will never voluntarily give up his goal because of some indescribable shame.

In this regard, the generals who came to the garrison of the Great Wall Regiment met this criterion.