Chapter 296: Jianchuan Ersan's Intuition

Jianchuan No. 23 was not a graduate of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and was one of the few officers in the 14th Division who was born by Cao Chang. Compared with the officers from the army non-commissioned officer school around him, he is a little different.

The reason is simple, he is neither an officer candidate selected by the Japanese army from middle school graduates, nor a graduate of a local junior military academy, two officers who have been educated in the non-commissioned officer school system. It is not an officer who is promoted after training at a non-commissioned officer school by an outstanding non-commissioned officer selected from the army.

Rather, after the Japanese army provoked a full-scale war of aggression against China, in order to make up for the losses of grassroots officers, the Japanese army set up infantry school graduates in the North China Front. However, without a diploma from the non-commissioned officer school and only a certificate of completion of the infantry school of the North China Front, he has always been very excluded in the 14th Division.

Because of his exclusion, the squadron he led won a resounding title in the 14th Division as a "hard-headed unit". It's not that he's so good at fighting, his squadron is better at fighting than the others. It's because when fighting, good things never come to him, and they are specially used to gnaw hard bones.

In non-combat hours, the position where his squadron is stationed, among the squadrons of the 14th Division, has always been the poorest and most dangerous, and it can be used as a bullet for other Lu Shi graduate units with seniors and classmates around them to rely on.

With the increasing investment of the Japanese army invading China, the number of divisions and regiments formed became more and more. In addition, in order to garrison the occupied area, a large number of independent mixed brigades were added, and the casualties of front-line combat officers became increasingly severe. As a result, there is a clear shortage of graduates from regular military schools, and even reserve officers are under-employed.

In order to make up for the loss of officers in front-line combat units, as well as the lack of grassroots officers after the expansion. Under the situation that the gap between the number of graduates of military academies and the demand for military academies is getting wider and wider, the Japanese army has long changed the rather rigid rule that non-graduates of the army non-commissioned officer school are not allowed to serve as officers without being trained by the non-commissioned officer school. A number of infantry schools were set up in various armies of the Japanese invasion of China to train officers selected from among veterans.

It's just that these veterans are generally issued to various garrison units, and are rarely issued to front-line combat divisions. In particular, in an old standing division like the 14th Division, even the selected non-commissioned officers have undergone strict training at the non-commissioned officer school. Jianchuan 23 is an exception.

The reason is very simple, before he was sent to the North China Front Infantry School, he served as an orderly soldier for the current division commander of the 14th Division, Iseki Takaji, and he was very much liked by Iseki Takaji. After being transferred to the post of commander of the 14th Division, Takaharu Iseki asked him from the list that had been assigned to the independent mixed brigade of the North China Front.

But his life in the 14th Division was not very good, and he was not in the army non-commissioned officer school, and he was ostracized by those colleagues. Despite his bravery in battle, it seems that the upgrade will never have his share. Even the deserved medals are often given to others because of the private operation of those colleagues in the army non-commissioned officer school at the division and regiment headquarters.

He knew that Lieutenant General Iseki could not always give a squadron leader special care. It is already a special care to be able to bring him to the veteran standing army, which has always been used as a key point, so that he can have a step up the ladder in the future. Moreover, as a graduate of the infantry school of the North China Front, he had little hope of rising in such a veteran standing division regiment full of talents.

Because he didn't have a diploma from the non-commissioned officer school, even if he was able, he couldn't apply for the Army University. And without a diploma from the Army University, even those officers who graduated from the regular Army Non-commissioned Officer School can only do it at best. He, a graduate of the Pheasant Military Academy, is unlikely to even be a Shaozuo.

That is to say, before he dies in battle or retires at the age of age, at most he will be the squadron leader. Whether he can be promoted to the position of captain or not, I'm afraid it depends on his luck.

The Pheasant Military Academy is the contemptuous name given to the infantry school of the North China Front Army by his colleagues who graduated from Lu Shi. In the army, he was squeezed out by his arrogant colleagues and knew that his future would not be too bright, and after he was transferred to Manchuria with the army, he put his main mind on how to make more money.

This is also the reason why he was bewitched by Liu Zishan and Matsuharahara Jiro, and ran to the other party's control area to touch it in spite of the strict prohibition of crossing the line without authorization by his superiors. His squadron was stationed on the Jiangwan line opposite Yang Zhen's headquarters at the Daotai Bridge, and he knew Yang Zhen's deployment at the Daotai Bridge very well, and the distance was still very close.

However, although this person is greedy for money, he is not the Osaka soldiers of the Fourth Division who regard money as an emperor and value life more than anything else. The previous setbacks did not make him timid. On the contrary, it aroused the fierceness of his bones. This is why we are determined not to retreat.

In addition to his ferocity, he knew that he had violated orders and attacked without permission. If there is nothing to do, once something happens, the superiors will never spare themselves. Those colleagues who are extremely excluded from themselves on weekdays are absolutely none, I am afraid that there will be more people who fall into the well, and a seppuku suicide may be the best result for themselves. Except for what you can make a name for, otherwise there is no life or death. Even if it was to save his life, he could only fight.

To be honest, Jianchuan Ersan, who was born as a veteran and has rich military experience, still used soldiers in a modest manner in this small-scale encounter, and there was no deviation. But the gap in equipment and training cannot be bridged. Although his subordinates have been strictly trained, their skills and tactics can be said to be very good. But in front of Yang Zhen, who has undergone special training, is still too bad.

The opponent's two cross-fired, machine guns covering the entire open area in front of the mountain, fired at rifles that could almost reach the level of a sniper with accurate three bursts, making the assaults launched by Jianchuan futile again and again.

Finally, when the opponent's machine gun changed its magazine, the attacking troops rushed to a distance of 50 meters from the opponent, but they were swept back by a large number of submachine guns on the opponent's hand, fast and slow machines, and grenades. More soldiers were killed or wounded under these automatic firearms than they fell under the pistols.

Having fought with the Chinese army many times on the battlefield in North China, it was the first time he had seen the Chinese army in front of him with such well-equipped and accurate marksmanship. Although there are not many of them, almost all of them are sharpshooters. The accuracy of its rifle machine guns is even higher than that of its own subordinates. At a distance of two or three hundred meters, as long as they are targeted, they will basically be killed with one shot.

As soon as the two crooked machine guns and two grenadiers he was carrying were set up, they were killed and wounded by the opponent's sharpshooters. Even to the point where one dies one by one, no one dares to approach these two crooked tricks in the end. And the grenadier is no longer used by anyone for the same reason.

I didn't know that there were professional sniper rifles on the opponent's position, snipers who had received strict professional training, and were specially equipped with all-white snow camouflage suits. Jianchuan Ersan, who thought that he was just a veteran with accurate marksmanship, tried several times to find these sharpshooters and knock them out, but in vain.

On the contrary, if he hadn't relied on the keen intuition he had cultivated on the battlefield to hide quickly, he let a soldier behind him be a substitute for himself, and he almost didn't end up with his own machine gunners. Who let him, as a commanding officer, hang a conspicuous combat knife and raise a telescope to look around.

The other party told him with accurate marksmanship that it was a very dangerous thing to raise a telescope to look around on the battlefield. Especially in the case where the commanding heights are in the hands of others. This shot made Jianchuan, who knew that he was being targeted, a lot more careful, and the first thing he did was to take off his saber. And he couldn't care about whether the cold air in Beiman would frostbite himself, so he quickly took off his cotton military hat and put on a steel helmet.

Although there were heavy casualties and even he almost died, after more than half an hour of fierce fighting, Jianchuan 23 made two new discoveries.

First, it can be seen from the course of the battle that the opponent does not want to leave the high ground in front of him, but has the intention of sticking to the treatment. The puppet Manchu army that launched the attack was repeatedly repulsed, but they never saw the other side pursue. With this discovery, he doesn't have to worry about counterattacking opponents who are small in number but have strong combat effectiveness from the moment they fight.

And the second point is that he also found that his opponents had an extremely large number of pistols, and almost every one of them was armed with a pistol. In addition to a considerable number of people who were equipped with the kind of German-made fast and slow machines that only the senior officers' guards were equipped with on the battlefield of China, there were also a large number of people who wore self-defense pistols that only officers carried.

Although opponents wear pistols in different positions, many have their pistols strapped to their legs. However, there are also some people who are equipped with combat pistols that are worn on the waist in a regular manner.

With the intuition that had saved his life on the battlefield in Kannai, Jianchuan Ersan keenly felt that his opponent was definitely not an ordinary vigilant combat unit.

When he first arrived in Yilan, he knew very well that although the other party was well equipped, it was impossible for him to be generous enough to equip each combat unit with two guns, one long and one short, and in addition to the Mauser pistol often seen on the battlefield of China, and a large combat pistol with a strange appearance, there were even a few people wearing the kind of self-defense pistol used by officers. As a veteran, the difference between a combat pistol and a self-defense pistol is still clear to him.

These people in front of them are the guards of the other party's senior officers, and there are definitely other party's senior officers inside. Jianchuan Ersan made this judgment without hesitation. Even if you attack without permission, as long as you get rid of these people and find out the other party's high-ranking generals to capture or kill, you will be a great achievement. Maybe you can break the convention at the next level.

With this discovery, Jianchuan Ersan, who was already exposed to his fierce spirit, was even more like a chicken blood. Immediately put his own team, which had been reluctant to use before, changed the previous practice of only supervising the battle in the back, and threw all of them into the attack. He wants to make a final decision and make a quick decision.

Because he knew that he was alone in the area controlled by the other party, and the other party could easily mobilize reinforcements. And the battle has been going on for almost an hour, and it is even very likely that the opponent's reinforcements are already on the way.

Therefore, he must fight quickly and destroy the people in front of him as quickly as possible. Otherwise, once the other party's reinforcements arrive, it will be difficult for you to get out. If you die in battle, even if you kill the other party's bandit leader, it will be useless. Life is gone, what is the use of establishing a great feat.

Jianchuan 23 concentrated all his forces and launched a pig-like attack in the face of the opponent's dense firepower. He even did not hesitate to pick up the knives he had already lost and put them on the necks of his soldiers, forcing them to take over the two crooked machine guns that no one dared to take over after the machine gunners were dead, so as to provide fire cover for the attacking troops, and specifically attract the opposing sharpshooters to cover their next moves.

He himself picked up the grenadier that had been dropped by the soldiers, and shrewdly found a small ridge as cover. He gave up suppressing the fire on the mobile gun, and instead hid to the side to calm down, raising his binoculars and carefully looking for the place where the other party was concentrated. Because he knew that if the other party really had high-ranking officers, then there must be many guards around.

This guy has battle-tested eyes that are extremely poisonous, and it didn't take long to find a target. The reason for this is simple: although the man who came into his sight was holding an ordinary Czech-made rifle in his hand, he was the only one on the other side who wore such a high-end German-made pistol.

In addition to the special gun, there were two people beside him who were holding a guard with a curved magazine inserted in the lower body, and the barrel was full of holes in the submachine gun, and they were specially blocking bullets for him in a crisis.

It should be him, this person's marksmanship is really accurate, and he almost doesn't aim when he shoots, but he bites the flesh with a gun. Every time you fire, one of your own men falls. At this moment, Jianchuan Ersan saw at least three of his subordinates fall under this gun. Moreover, he specializes in fighting the Japanese army, and even if the puppet Manchu army rushes to a place very close to him, he should not be able to see it, and the two guards around him will solve it for him.

After discovering the target, Jianchuan 23 did not rush to shoot. Although the main attention of the opponent is drawn to the attack launched head-on. But now he only has a grenade in his hand, and the special grenade, which has a range and power much greater than the grenade, is still on the shooter who fell thirty meters in front of him.

He has to make sure that the first blow is successful, because the opponent will never give himself another chance. The terrain here is empty, and most of his subordinates who tried to cover the attack with grenadiers without cover were killed with a single shot. The two grenadiers they were carrying did not even have time to fire a grenade.

Jianchuan Ersan carefully took off the pistol and military rank on his body, because he knew that these two things could kill him at any time. grabbed a corpse next to him as a cover, and moved little by little in the direction of the corpse of his subordinate with a grenade on his body.

Due to his excessive caution and the fact that the main attention of his opponent was attracted by the Japanese puppet army that launched a frontal attack like a fateful attack, he also achieved his goal without danger. After moving to the position, he immediately got the grenade in his hand as fast as he could, stacked the two corpses together, and got himself a flesh bunker.

After completing these actions, he carefully made the final determination of the position of his target, and at the same time quickly calculated the shooting distance in his mind. Born as a soldier, he is no stranger to grenadiers, a weapon used by the Japanese army to kill and kill mobile phone gun firepower, and can even be described as extremely proficient.

Locking, firing, and shooting out the two Type 89 grenades in hand as fast as possible, he didn't care to check the results. After crawling back to the ridge at the fastest speed under the fire pursuit of the opponent's rapid response, he raised his telescope and carefully poked his head out to observe his results.