Chapter 568: Dismounting?
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Walking out of Hebei is also out of the vast mountains along the Great Wall.
However, to say that it is out of the mountains is actually just walking from one kind of mountain to another, the mountains in Hebei are taller and more dense, while the mountains in Shanxi are more barren and there are far more shrubs than trees.
To put it bluntly, Hebei is short of water, and Shanxi is even more lacking, especially Datong, which is adjacent to Hebei. As the border of ancient China, Datong, which is more than 500 miles away from Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, has always been a battleground for soldiers.
However, with its solid stone and shrub cover, the mountains here are clearly more suitable for defensive positions.
As soon as they entered the territory of Shanxi, Liu Lang and his independent regiment were treated with a special courtesy.
They were greeted by a detachment of nearly 5,000 men from an independent brigade, heavily armed and armed. Even on the top of the hill a few miles away, Liu Lang could still see the upturned cannon muzzle from the telescope.
This is not an attitude towards friendly forces.
After the special forces in charge of reconnaissance sent a warning, Yu Xiancheng's first battalion, as the vanguard, had already made a combat posture when encountering the enemy, all rifle bullets were loaded, and the machine guns were chained, and once they encountered an attack, they would counterattack as soon as possible.
Post-war syndrome is not only found in soldiers who have been fighting the Japanese for more than a month, but also in officers, who are extremely sensitive to external stimuli.
But any gesture that might pose a threat to oneself will be met with an overreaction that they can even call excessive.
Just imagine, for more than 40 days, these soldiers were on the verge of life and death, and saw that their comrades-in-arms who were still snuggling up to each other and sleeping last night might not even be able to find their bodies in the early morning of the next day. In the hospital, there have been two incidents in which the sleeping wounded soldier almost strangled to death the doctor who patrolled the night to check on the wounded.
Yu Xiancheng did not immediately give the order to launch an attack on the troops who occupied the high ground 500 meters away and set up machine guns to pose a huge threat to their troops, and that was the result of extreme restraint.
Compared with the adrenaline rush of the soldiers of the first battalion and the instant entry into the combat state, the Jin Sui army on the opposite side was obviously confused.
They didn't expect that it was just a small demonstration, or it could be said to give the other party a small dismount, and the other party was like a frightened hedgehog, opening their thorns all over their bodies with a "swish".
More than 600 men and horses reacted quickly as soon as they entered the range where they could attack, the infantry quickly occupied favorable terrain, the machine gunners were building fire points, and what were those guys with black short barrels doing?
The stunned commanders at all levels of the Jin Suijun picked up the binoculars they hung around their necks, and collectively gasped, more than thirty groups of soldiers were holding in their hands, what else could it be besides a grenadier?
The Japanese-style grenadier with a range of up to 700 meters can blow up the fire point on the mountain into a sea of fire at that distance, and it is only a battalion of the independent regiment, and the short-range suppressive firepower of the grenadier is comparable to that of a Japanese brigade.
Of course, this is still what the Jin Suijun did not see Two kilometers away, Zhao Ergou's artillery company was happily assembling the two Bofors mountain guns that had been disassembled and placed on the carriage as if it were a holiday.
Like the infantrymen, the artillery soldiers who had been sleeping with the cannons for more than 40 days also had a very strong post-war syndrome, and during the one-month repair in Beiping, let alone firing the artillery, even the artillery was almost finished, and they didn't even touch it, but they almost didn't suffocate anyone.
This time I received an order to assemble the cannon, so I was not excited about the New Year?
As for whether the battle can be won or not, who is the independent regiment that has even fought against the Japanese army and a division?
If the independent regiment before the Battle of the Great Wall was a well-equipped, well-trained, and full of morale, then the independent regiment after the Battle of the Great Wall was an iron-blooded army with excellent equipment, tenacious fighting will, and full of self-confidence, and the two are completely incomparable.
The Battle of the Great Wall was like a hammer, gradually hammering the rough embryo of the Independent Regiment into a piece of fine iron. The most important of these is to create the arrogance of belonging to the independent regiment. Lao Tzu is so strong, he doesn't accept it.
Replaced by the former independent regiment, I'm afraid the soldiers are thinking more: whether it will work or not, they will only know when they fight.
The independent regiment, which has the confidence of victory and the 3,000 veterans who have survived the war, is so confident.
When Liu Lang heard that Ling Hong had sent someone to report that the Jin Sui Army had stationed a large army, at least two regiments, and it was still loaded with ammunition, a sneer flashed at the corner of Liu Lang's mouth.
Isn't this Yan Laoxi's style? It's just that he wants to give himself a dismount. And the purpose of getting off the horse is also very simple, that is, to let yourself be honest in Shanxi, don't make any moths, here, is Lao Yan's territory, not the world of the bald principal.
What is the use of having a military order from the Northern Military Council? In Shanxi, it's a tiger, you have to lie down, it's a dragon, you have to coil, it's that simple.
Liu Lang has studied the history of the Republic of China, so it is naturally impossible not to know that after ruling in Shanxi for 38 years, he can definitely apply for the Guinness World Records for the famous "King of Shanxi".
Yan Laoxi is really a capable person. Although it is not weak militarily, compared with the warlike generals of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it is simply a scumbag.
So where can he be? can be average in ability, just like a general in the game, there is no special ability, but the ability value is not weak.
If he was just a general of the first army, then Comrade Yan might be a tricky general, belonging to the kind of petty goods that were cut down by the enemy's main general as soon as he came out of the horse to increase his experience points.
But if it's the leader of one side, it's amazing.
You must know that later generations of scholars have commented on him: If he lived in the ancient era of peace, I am afraid that he would be an excellent civil servant and an expert in governing the country. If it is in troubled times, it is the princes of the feudal towns who divide one side, and maybe they can eventually become the leader of the country like Zhu Yuanzhang.
This evaluation is quite high, and in the Republic of China, few people can reach this height.
Together with Comrade Lao Yan, the other few who are known as the four major warlords of the Republic of China are also well-known.
Lao Li and Xiaobai of the Gui Army, they are both good at fighting, and the Gui Army under them is also a bull, even the Japanese dare not slack off when they see it. It's a means of playing politics, and he's also a first-class master, but he hasn't played with a bald headmaster.
However, what hinders their development is their worst economy, Guangxi's economy, which can only be described in one word by these two masters, "poor".
Lao Feng in the northwest is also very good in military talent, and the Northwest Army is also a strong army, but the northwest is 。。。。。。 is three points poorer than Guangxi. So, the end is also doomed.
Lao Zhang in the northeast has a strong economy and army, much stronger than Shanxi. However, this political trick is almost.
As a result, the powerful Northeast Army fell apart.
And what about Comrade Yan? From 1911 to 1949, for 38 years, Shanxi's economy has always been among the best in the country. If it weren't for the Red Army, he wouldn't have been able to rule in Shanxi until the day he died.
Such a Shanxi soil overlord, his mind naturally twists and turns a little more, it is nothing more than using this trick to show Liu Lang that this is my old Yan's territory, and it is not easy for the bald principal's military order to come to me.
Of course, this is not only a small warning to Liu Lang, but also to General He, who has three central divisions in Hebei.
Chen Bing's tens of thousands of central troops on the edge of Shanxi made Comrade Yan feel a huge threat, and God knows if the bald man who completely controlled Hebei through the Great Wall Battle would attack his idea of the Shanxi base camp? Comrade Yan has always been vigilant enough against the wrists of bald bosses.
In the past time and space, in order to refuse 300,000 national troops to enter Shanxi to fight against the Japanese invaders, Comrade Lao Yan did not hesitate to fabricate the fake military deployment of the so-called "Datong Campaign" to fool the bald bosses. There are even surprising remarks that if 300,000 national troops are allowed to enter Shanxi, it is better to take refuge in the Japanese.
Comrade Yan's calculations are very good, but unfortunately he doesn't know Liu Lang, Liu Lang will never be the chicken that was "killed and hacked".
In fact, can Liu Lang say that he also has post-war syndrome? The moment he saw the other party's cannon muzzle erected, Liu Lang immediately exploded.
Not to mention seeing that the artillery of the independent regiment was erected, just the reaction of the battalion at the forefront had already made the officers of the Jin Sui Army in front a little tired.