Chapter 231: Critical
When Hao Daodao was on guard, the main force of Xu Zilong's guard battalion escorted Huang Haoran into the ambush circle of the Japanese army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
From beginning to end, the enemies in the military commander's and Xu Xinghua's illusion were all assassins and small groups of sneak attacks, and the operation of large forces airborne was too advanced for them, completely beyond their expectations.
The backwardness of tactical thinking leads to wrong predictions, and wrong predictions lead to wrong response plans. The three-layer defensive formation now set up by the guard battalion has caused the forces guarding Huang Haoran not only not to be correctly concentrated, but to be further dispersed.
From the beginning of Bluestone Town to the present, in addition to sending people to stare at the suspicious characters inside, this move has been the right move. At other times, the military commander and Huang Haoran's guard troops were constantly making mistakes.
As the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is about to enter the stage of stalemate, the chaotic fighting situation of the large corps in the early stage will gradually decrease, and the battle will become more and more elaborate. As a result, the weakness of the general low quality of officers in the Huang Haoran group was gradually exposed.
Before the full-scale war began in '37, Huang Haoran focused his main energy on the arms race. In terms of personnel training, it is basically based on digging into the wall and short-term training courses organized by the German advisory group.
From Songhu to Nanjing to Xuzhou and Wuhan, Huang Haoran Group is constantly losing blood and expanding its organization.
The loss of elite soldiers, through the large investment of new recruits, non-stop rotation training, can barely cope with the past. Although the quality of the soldiers has been diluted by water, the rate of decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops is acceptable for the time being.
The quality of individual soldiers and weapons and equipment can be improved in a short period of time through procurement and training, but elite officers cannot be cultivated in a short period of intensive training.
Grass-roots officers can be selected from among soldiers with outstanding performance, and they can be trained in combat instead of fighting, which is basically sufficient.
However, although the number of mid- and high-ranking officers, especially the military commanders at the staff and battalion and company levels, is not large, the number of troops required is also increasing.
Since the main groups of the Central Army were fighting one after another, the casualties among the middle-level officers were relatively large, and Wuhan was unable to provide enough reserve officers to supplement the units.
Therefore, the Huang Haoran group can only draw nutrients from the merged miscellaneous army. However, the command level of these officers from the miscellaneous army is not high, and they are basically from local martial arts halls. Not to mention the Whampoa Military Academy, even the graduates of the Baoding Military Academy, Huang Haoran does not have many subordinates.
and the period when he only had the 99th Division, the elite level of Huang Haoran under his command has decreased a lot.
Ever since he entered the Wuhan battlefield, Huang Haoran has always wanted to reorganize the troops and hold several short-term training classes to improve the quality of officers and make up for the shortcomings of the 25th Group Army, but neither the highest authorities nor the Japanese would give him time.
If problems are not rectified for a long time, there will be a price.
War is a game of comparison, and you not only need to keep improving, but you also need to progress faster than the other side!
Like Xu Xinghua and Xu Zilong, who followed Huang Haoran very early, they are Huang Haoran's most effective subordinates now, but even they can't see through the intentions of the Japanese army due to their limited vision, so they can only be passive.
The current Huang Haoran group is weak, although their commander still bears the name of the god of war, but in fact it is no longer invulnerable. On the contrary, the flaws of the Wong Ho Yin Group are becoming more and more numerous......
The kamikaze commandos of the Japanese, this time they caught one of them......
Wang Jingwei's intelligence was very accurate, and the Japanese knew that the number of cavalry led by Huang Haoran was about 500, and no matter how the division of labor was allocated, the troops guarding Huang Haoran would inevitably account for more than half.
So when it was discovered that there were nearly 300 cavalry in the ambush circle, the Japanese army had already determined that Huang Haoran must be among them.
It's just that under the advice of Cao Jiangcheng and Wang Jiawen, Huang Haoran, Xu Xinghua and others all changed into ordinary soldiers' clothes, and the Japanese army has not been able to confirm which horse in this cavalry is Huang Haoran.
After the Chinese cavalry passed, the Japanese infantry squadron in charge of blocking the tail moved quickly, and their mission was to block Huang Haoran's retreat.
The Japanese were not worried that they would miss Huang Haoran, because there were two other Japanese brigades outside this ambush circle set up by the Xiaoshanuchi brigade, which was a ring and ring formation, and Huang Haoran would be trapped in the outer ring even if he was not trapped in the inner ring.
Of course, if Huang Haoran can enter the inner ring, it will be the most certain. So, until the Japanese troops at the head of the small stone bridge were otherwise blocked, the squadron that blocked the tail would only remain silent.
In order to ensure the successful completion of the airborne attack and killing mission, the strength of the 3rd Infantry Wing of the Kwantung Army was strengthened.
Take the Xiaoshanuchi Brigade as an example, each infantry squadron has three infantry squadrons, in addition to the machine gun group and grenadier group that each squad is equipped with as standard, there is also a submachine gun group, equipped with a total of six light machine guns, six grenadiers, 12 submachine guns and two Type 92 heavy machine guns, not only the firepower is much stronger than the ordinary Japanese infantry squadron, the strength has also reached 200 people.
Looking at the Chinese cavalry in the sights, the Japanese commanders of the infantry squadron were inexplicably excited, feeling that the great battle feats were already within reach. They felt that this kamikaze commando would definitely go down in the military history of the Japanese Army because it killed the Chinese god of war.
"Boss, do you think we can win the battle of Wuhan?"
Xu Zilong asked for no reason, but Huang Haoran didn't want to answer it positively. This is because he knows that the Japanese have not done their best, and the Wuhan government has already bet the last hole cards on the table. Although he and Xue Yue won several battles and changed the course of the battle, the overall trend of China being weak and Japan strong remained unchanged. Once the Japanese army was replenished with forces and launched another strong attack, the defeat of the Chinese army at the Battle of Wuhan would follow.
So Huang Haoran had no choice but to ask: "What?" Don't you have faith? ”
Xu Zilong stretched out his hand and touched his head, and said with a smile: "If it is commanded by the head office, and there are all strong forces like our 25th Group Army, the battle of Wuhan should be undefeated...... It's just that in this world, how many elites like us are there? ”
A large list of prerequisites, just the result of undefeated, coupled with the last exclamation, shows that Xu Zilong's heart does not believe that the Chinese army can hold Wuhan and defeat the Japanese army.
This represents the prevailing sentiment in the Chinese army at the moment, and the morale of the Chinese army is about to fall to the bottom after more than a year of continuous retreat, and if it were not for the support of several victories in the battles of Xuzhou and Wuhan, I am afraid that it would have been a situation of total collapse.
What is ridiculous is that the high-ranking officials of the Wuhan Military Commission are not as sober as Xu Zilong, the head of the guard regiment, and shout all day long that Wuhan will win.
In fact, China is in the same crisis as Huang Haoran at this moment...... (To be continued.) )