918. Climb along the cliffs

It's a pity that it is impossible to transport some machine guns and mortars and other heavy guys up, these are good things for holding positions, as the main weapon of fire support and suppression, with rifle assistance and protection, there is no problem in holding it for a day or two.

Submachine guns can be used in position defense battles, but the range is not far, which determines that the lethality is not enough, and the repeating guns, in terms of accuracy, are far inferior to single-shot rifles.

Or perhaps, after the position is laid, they can immediately expand the defense area with points and areas, or even squeeze the Japanese army back, then Zhang Gushan will be very safe, and the task of their death squad can be completed.

I hope so.

Time is pressing, and the top is in a hurry, eager to take Zhang Gushan immediately, for fear that the Japanese army will slip away from this opening.

Brigade Commander Zhang handed over the command back to Division Commander Wang, and asked him to command the frontal attack of the two regiments, and he personally took the 500 strong men selected by the 305th Regiment, ate and drank to their heart's content, and went to the back mountain of Zhang Gushan after nightfall.

Everyone unified the code and gestures, and the three dogs were not worried about the dog's legs and long flowers, and also told them to use the two sets of codes together, and the old seven companies often had one set in the past.

Most of the two sets of code words are the same, but there are still some characteristics of the Seven Companies, mainly the old family dialect and some peculiar calls and gestures.

It was not far from the division headquarters to Zhanggushan, only a few miles away, after everyone touched the predetermined position, they waited for a while, and waited until the front of Zhanggushan started for a while, and when it became intense, they began to grope for climbing the mountain.

The three dogs tied the rifles upright to their backs so as not to be inconvenient to dangle around, and added sapper shovels, broadswords, bullet bags, etc. on their backs.

These things can also be regarded as a protection for the back, falling from a low place, can block the damage of stones and hard objects to the back.

According to the reconnaissance and report of the 306th Regiment in advance, everyone knew that the back mountain was very steep, but when they looked at it, they found that it was not steep, but close to the cliff.

Fortunately, there weren't many bombs blown up here, and there were still a lot of small trees, shrubs, and vines that grew out of the cliffs, and you could grab them and climb up.

Everyone brought several pairs of leggings, and some people wrapped their hands with rags and tied them in, similar to gloves, to increase grip strength and friction, and also slightly prevent the palms from being injured by thorns.

The first battalion went first, and Brigade Commander Zhang sent it, the general troops, the higher the number, the better the strength, and at that time, the divisions, brigades, and regiments all had fixed numbers.

The setting of the number is generally the three-three system, such as the Third Army, the number of the division below is generally the 9th, 10th, and 11th divisions, the brigade is 27 to 33 brigades, and the regiment is 81 to 99 regiments.

Of course, this is also after the reorganization, or the military system in an ideal state, when the country was nominally reunified, and the local troops in various places had their own numbers, as well as those left over from history, and the numbers of the entire national army were very messy.

There are also temporary expansions, such as the 74th Army, which was temporarily expanded on the Songhu battlefield, and the 51st and 58th divisions below.

Because before the Battle of Songhu, the whole army hoped to focus on divisional units and first reorganize 60 German armament divisions, but Japan naturally did not want to see the Chinese army gradually become stronger.

Under the pressure of the Japanese army step by step, the Chinese army had to reorganize several German armament divisions, and then pulled up the battle of Songhu, which was almost exhausted.

To add insult to injury, Germany lost confidence in China's resistance to Japan this year and chose to support Japan instead, hoping that Japan would contain the Soviet Union after the war against China ended.

In April of this year, Germany banned the delivery of war materials to China, and then ordered the recall of all military advisers in China.

Germany has only one ally to choose between China and Japan, and there is no doubt that Japan, with its powerful navy, is Germany's best ally in the Far East, so it can only abandon the weak China.

In this way, it makes the weak China even weaker, and the dream of the German mechanic has been shattered at this time, and the German weapons of the three dogs and their troops are getting fewer and fewer, which is also the reason.

However, the Soviet Union began to provide military assistance to China, and the Soviet Union was in consideration of its own security, fearing that after Japan quickly defeated China, it would attack the back of the Soviet Union, resulting in an unfavorable situation in which the Soviet Union and Germany and Japan went to war.

The Soviet Union began to aid China, hoping that China could try its best to hold back the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from freeing up its hands to attack the Soviet Union's rear road.

For this reason, the Soviet Union's assistance to China began in 1937, but at that time it was not very active, and it was generally low-interest loans, the sale of fighter planes, and the assistance of pilots to China.

This year, with the rapid advance of the Japanese army in China, the Soviet Union sponsored a large number of weapons to China, including new fighter jets, anti-tank guns, howitzers, Soviet-style rifles and machine guns.

Of course, at this time, the 74th Army and the 51st Division had not yet enjoyed the equipment of Soviet weapons, and at present, they were mainly given to the 4th and 80th Divisions of the Tang Enbo Corps.

Speaking of the number, the brigade of the 51st Division is still arranged according to the three-three system, and the brigade, the regiment below, and the three regiments are also distributed in two brigades.

At that time, when the troops reached the battalion level and below, there was no fixed number, and it was generally the number of the battalions and companies of a certain regiment, and it rarely exceeded the number of the ninth battalion or the ninth company.

Generally speaking, a regiment with three battalions is organized into one, two, and three battalions, with one to three companies under the first battalion, four to six companies under the second battalion, and seven to nine companies under the third battalion.

The 305th regiment of the Three Dogs was basically organized according to this law.

In fact, the Japanese army is similar, there are fixed numbers for armies, divisions, brigades, and wings, and there are no fixed numbers for squadrons and squads at the brigade level and below, which is generally the first and second brigades of a certain wing.

Under normal circumstances, the first battalion of a regiment is the most powerful main battalion, the second battalion is secondary, and the third battalion is the last.

The original three battalions of the 305th Regiment were not bad in themselves, but they were still inferior to the first and second battalions in terms of strength, but the seventh company of the third battalion was too showy and won back a lot of face for the third battalion.

So this time, Brigade Commander Zhang asked the first battalion to go to Zhang Gushan first, followed by Brigade Commander Zhang, who is a person who can know a few intestines with his eyes closed, must be very clear about the strength of that battalion.

In addition, the battalion of their hundreds of elite death squads, most of them carried submachine guns, shell guns and other repeating weapons, and they used the right ones to take the lead.

In this case, Sangou didn't fight for anything first, and now the commander of the third battalion, Liu Guangyu, came back, and returned to the third battalion with three companies of the death squad, and Sangou was automatically demoted to the leader of the seventh company.

As a company commander, the battalion commander above did not speak, and the regiment commander also agreed with the brigade commander's arrangement, as a small company commander, how could he compete for the first place? Even the power and opportunity to speak are scarce.

It's better to honestly follow the third battalion commander Liu Guangyu behind, first bring the dozens of daredevils in the Seventh Company, and then consider the rest, the role change of the three dogs quickly adapted.