Chapter 41 Learning and Understanding
Tang Cheng, who saw through the tricks of the Japanese army, was not valued by Xie Chengrui, for no other reason, Tang Cheng's age was too young, he was now a corporal, even if Liu Shanyang mentioned it repeatedly, Xie Chengrui could not promote Tang Cheng's military rank to sergeant. "Forget Uncle Liu, I don't care about any military rank or anything like that, if Commander Xie doesn't care, just send me more pistol bullets, it's best to give a few more grenades from Japanese soldiers, that thing is good to use." Tang Cheng's arm strength was not enough, and throwing a wooden-handled grenade was purely Lang Fei, but it was the Japanese army's oval grenade that made him happy.
Tang Cheng's ability allowed Xie Chengrui's position to avoid the possibility of being attacked by the Japanese army, for Tang Cheng's small request, Xie Chengrui naturally agreed to all of them, and after a while, Xie Chengrui's herald sent 200 shell gun bullets and 5 Japanese egg grenades to Tang Cheng. "You kid is a fool, if you change me, you will directly ask the person surnamed Xie to ask for the ocean, after the war, go home to buy land and build a house, what is the use of those bullets and grenades." Zhou Fu showed Tang Cheng his sundries bag, which contained two watches alone, counting miscellaneous other items, enough for Zhou Fu to go home and buy land and build a house.
"Get out of the way, you should be the same as you, Tang Cheng is going to take over my squad as a company commander, how can you be a picker like you." This encounter with the Japanese army made Liu Goat realize the role of Tan Chenggang again, among the remaining people in the second company, there is absolutely no one whose ability can compare to Tang Cheng, although Tang Cheng's brain is sometimes not very bright, but it will definitely not affect Tang Cheng to become a qualified commander in the future, Liu Goat is convinced of this.
Tang Cheng, who was sandwiched between Liu Goat and Zhou Fu, was a little embarrassed, when did he become a sweetheart, and Liu Goat's affection made Tang Cheng difficult to accept for a while. The soldiers of the second battalion have been chasing the people of the river village squadron for three or four miles, and the officers who led the team were afraid of falling into the trap of the Japanese army, so they led the team back, and the Japanese soldiers who could really escape back alive were less than 30 people, and after a few days of defeat, Xie Chengrui's troops finally won a big victory.
The second company that made great contributions was canceled by Xie Chengrui to ambush the Japanese scouts, and even with the heartbroken Guo Tianbao, they were also canceled from the mission, and after Xie Chengrui's soft grinding, Guo Tianbao and his 7 people temporarily joined the second company, under the command of Liu Goat, and the second company of 15 people was restored to the establishment of 23 people. "Your 51st Division has withdrawn from Chunhua Town after speaking, and if you go over at this time, wouldn't it be in vain to send you to the Japanese army to stab, or stay here with us, maybe you can still see people from your old army."
Liu Goat's dissuasion did not sound like a good thing to Guo Tianbao, saying that the 51st Division would soon withdraw from Chunhua Town, wouldn't that mean that the 51st Division would not be able to withstand the Japanese offensive. However, Guo Tianbao and they can't stay, when the second company cleaned up the battlefield, there were already two groups of wounded soldiers of the really 51st Division who crossed here and retreated to the city, although the scale of those two groups of wounded soldiers was not very large, but Guo Tianbao knew that the war in Chunhua Town was definitely not optimistic. Guo Tianbao is also a human being, he is also afraid of death, since he already knows that the situation in Chunhua Town is not good, a fool will be stupid and have to run back to die.
Three hours later, the position that had been rested for a while was shelled by the Japanese army, and Liu Goat was also accused by the people of the second company of being a disaster, if he hadn't said that Chunhua Town would soon be defeated, the Japanese artillery fire would not have come at this time. The 51st Division was really unable to withstand Chunhua Town, after several strong attacks by the planes, artillery and tanks of the Japanese 114th Division, the 51st Division, which suffered heavy casualties, withdrew to the area around Zhonghua Gate in accordance with the requirements of the 74th Army Military Headquarters, Guo Tianbao only saw the wounded who retreated first, the main force of the 51st Division had already suffered casualties, and the rest of the people also withdrew from Chunhua Town in batches a few hours later.
After the discussion between Xie Chengrui and his officers, Xie Chengrui decided to use a company of the second battalion as a frontal defensive force to attract Japanese firepower, and the remaining two companies of the second battalion were stationed on the left flank of the position, while Liu Shanyang led the second company of 23 men plus a platoon of the 51st Division to escort the wounded to the right flank of the position.
There was not much waiting, the Japanese soldiers who appeared in everyone's sight rushed to the position of the second battalion like a wild boar that was full of strength, and it should have been the Japanese soldiers who fled back to report the situation, otherwise this group of Japanese soldiers would not have killed them directly without stopping. Xie Chengrui immediately ordered the frontal defense troops to contain the Japanese army as much as possible, and strive not to let the Japanese army have the strength to reinforce the roundabout troops, and Liu Goat, who had several excellent performances, made Xie Chengrui very satisfied with the second company, and Xie Chengrui believed that the second company on the right flank position would be a strange soldier when the battle was stalemate.
Obviously, the right flank of the position where the second company was stationed was leaning on the avenue, and Tang Cheng, who was crouching in the trenches, couldn't figure out why the Japanese army did not attack here first, but had to compete with the middle position with a humming anger, and the flank detour troops arranged by the Japanese army were also running towards the left flank position, and it seemed that the right flank of the position where the second company was located had been forgotten by this group of Japanese troops. "You're stupid, it's not good if the little devil doesn't come to fight us, and you're still in a hurry to send us over to be shot?" Zhou Fu was not satisfied with Tang Cheng's disappointed expression, and smashed small stones at Tang Cheng again and again.
Tang Cheng, who came to his senses, quietly moved his position so that he could stay away from Zhou Fu, and just as the two of them were talking in a low voice, the battle started unexpectedly. The position of the teaching team had already been shelled by the Japanese army beforehand, and Xie Chengrui strictly ordered the soldiers in the trenches not to expose the target at will, so the Japanese troops who came with the momentum did not expect that they would encounter such a fierce resistance. When the two heavy machine guns of the second battalion were fired in the main position, most of the Japanese soldiers actually panicked, which was something that the proud Japanese army absolutely could not tolerate.
After the initial panic, the Japanese began to calm down and start a counterattack, and the exchange of fire between the two sides only lasted two or three minutes, and the gap between the national army and the Japanese soldiers was already visible. "Take a good look, this is the real elite army of little devils, this is not the second-rate troops of those little devils we encountered." Liu Shanyang handed his telescope to Tang Cheng, who was eager to test the frequent probe out of the sky to look, the ultra-long vision of the telescope satisfied Tang Cheng's desire to observe the battle, and at the same time gave Tang Cheng a real understanding of the Japanese army.
The Japanese soldiers who appeared in the telescope were not as helpless as Tang Cheng imagined, those earthy yellow figures with a cat waist and a rifle were actively organizing an attack, and the combat effectiveness of those Japanese soldiers made Tang Cheng even more dumbfounded, he couldn't imagine how a small Japanese soldier could run so fast with a backpack and a rifle, and they had to shoot and throw grenades while running, if they were to carry a big backpack and run at that speed, they might not be able to run 200 meters, I'm already gasping for breath.
Tang Cheng, who had combat experience with the Japanese army, was no longer a new recruit on the battlefield, but it was the first time that Tang Cheng had observed the Japanese army up close. Liu Goat didn't have a telescope, but this did not delay him from carefully explaining the Japanese army's attack formation and so-called tactical arrangement to Tang Cheng, flipping through the battlefield notes left by Xie Bo, combined with Liu Goat's explanation at this time, Tang Cheng had a new understanding of the Japanese army, it turned out that the Japanese army was not as easy to fight as he imagined, at least the same number of national troops was definitely not the opponent of the Japanese army.
There are many factors that cause the low combat effectiveness of the national army, Xie Bo only wrote about weapons and equipment and soldier quality in his notes, but from the perspective of Tangcheng scene, the most important thing is the on-site command of the officers. Tang Cheng's telescope has been aiming at a Japanese soldier for a long time, and judging from the size of this group of Japanese soldiers, this should be the size of the Japanese army at the level of a squadron or above. A small soldier Cao can be a small squad leader at most, but in the telescope of Tang Cheng, the Japanese soldier Cao commanded dozens of Japanese soldiers to rush left and right in front of the position of the second battalion.
If this is in the troops of the national army, it is impossible to see it at all, all the officers of the national army that Tang Cheng has seen are people with great power desires, and they will definitely not let their subordinates who are not officers command the troops so freely. Tang Cheng didn't know that there was a rule that a superior commander in the Japanese army died in battle, and a lower-level officer automatically took over the command of the troops, and the Japanese soldier Cao Cao, who was stared at by him for a while, should have taken over the authority of the squad leader to direct the attack.
More than 500 Japanese troops were directly divided into two groups under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, and a wave of more than 100 people mainly attacked the center of the second battalion's position, while other Japanese troops directly used mortars and grenadiers to attack the left flank position of the second battalion in the rumbling explosion.
Xie Chengrui saw the Japanese army's arrangement in the telescope, and couldn't help but show a sneer at the corner of his mouth, even Liu Goat didn't know what to say, behind the left flank position of the second battalion of Jiuzi, Xie Chengrui also arranged a reserve. The reserve is an infantry company of the third battalion of the second regiment, and the fully equipped reserve was originally used by Xie Chengrui to fight the counter-charge, but he didn't expect to judge the Japanese army's idea correctly, and it seems that the reserve team will participate in the battle in advance.
Under the cover of the Japanese army's roundabout troops' artillery fire, they finally began to charge, and after Xie Chengrui saw this situation, although he had some doubts in his heart, he despised the Japanese army even more in his heart. Everything was going according to the original plan, and as soon as the two infantry companies on the left flank blocked the offensive momentum of the Japanese flanks, he would order the reserves to take the opportunity to kill, and then concentrate the superior forces to take the Japanese by surprise.