Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Chapter 217: When it comes to fighting the Japanese, our independent regiment soldiers have never be

"Captain, there is no need to let the monk lead the suicide squad to blow up the Japanese tanks. The college students brought two experimental rockets. They can be launched just by igniting the fuse. Aiming is also very simple. Just aim at the target. These are specially brought by the college students for actual combat testing on the battlefield!" Duan Peng hurriedly persuaded.

Li Yunlong glared at Duan Peng fiercely and angrily cursed: "Damn Duan Peng, why didn't you tell me earlier? Hurry up and set up those two rockets for me, aim at the enemy tanks, and shoot them hard. The college student has been bragging about his rockets before, I want to see if they are as good as he boasted!"

Monk Wei immediately helped Duan Peng to set up two rockets on the position, with the warheads aimed at the position of Tank No. 1. At Li Yunlong's order, the two of them immediately lit the fuses of the rockets. Eight seconds later, the two rockets made two chirps and flew out from the position, heading towards the Japanese tanks below.

Dozens of seconds later, two loud explosions were heard. A rocket directly hit the Japanese tank, blowing a big hole in the engine position at the rear of the tank. The Japanese tank was completely destroyed. The Japanese inside the tank were killed or injured by the shock wave and fragments generated by the explosion. Unfortunately, it did not cause the ammunition in the tank to detonate.

In fact, the rocket's hit point was very strange. Duan Peng was clearly aiming at the front of the enemy tank, but in the end, it hit the engine at the rear of the enemy tank. This was completely confusing. The rocket fired by Wei Dayong deviated seriously and fell into the enemy infantry who were attacking the position. The rocket explosion caused casualties among seven or eight enemy soldiers. In short, both rockets achieved results, and Li Yunlong was so happy that his teeth were exposed.

"Damn, I didn't expect that the improvement made by college students this time would be so good. This rocket is so easy to use, right? It doesn't even need to be loaded, it can be ignited and launched directly. It's equivalent to a flying artillery shell. It doesn't matter if the accuracy is a little poor. When the time comes, we can directly focus fire on the Japanese. Even if there are more Japanese, they will not be enough. We have to produce more of these rockets when we go back. They are more useful than damn artillery on the battlefield. They are specially used to deal with Japanese infantry. The effect is absolutely great!" Li Yunlong exclaimed with a smile.

The destruction of Oshima's tank squadron caused the Japanese infantry's offensive to begin to show signs of decline. Some puppet troops had already begun to slack off. Sanwazi's anti-aircraft artillery company had joined the battlefield, and 88mm anti-aircraft artillery shells were pouring into the Japanese attacking forces in large quantities, causing huge casualties to them.

"Sanwazi, this kid really did a great job today. The anti-aircraft gun was very effective against the Japanese tanks, and it was even more effective against the Japanese infantry!"

"Monk, Duan Peng, hurry down and tell me to increase the firepower output of all fire points. We must fight back this wave of attacks by the Japanese before noon!"

Under Li Yunlong's command, the front-line positions increased their firepower output and firmly defended their positions. The Japanese were unable to break through the 300-meter death zone, which prevented the grenade launchers in their hands from exerting their true strength.

"Damn it! It's almost noon now, why hasn't a single poison gas bomb hit the defensive position of the Chinese Independence Regiment?" Lieutenant Colonel Murata asked angrily.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel, the brigade commander requires us to retreat immediately and suspend the attack on the Chinese positions. The time will be changed to night!" Major Okada said anxiously.

"Order each squadron to take turns to provide cover and start retreating immediately. We must evacuate the battlefield in 20 minutes! Notify the artillery regiment to provide us with artillery cover, otherwise it will be difficult for us to withdraw from the battlefield!"

As Ichiro Katayama's order to retreat was conveyed, the remaining two Japanese infantry battalions and two regiments of puppet troops began to gradually withdraw. Colonel Miyata also mobilized the artillery regiment to provide artillery cover for the retreating Japanese in accordance with the order of the brigade commander. During the evacuation, the Japanese casualties were much less, while the casualties of the puppet troops increased sharply. Only more than 900 Japanese actually withdrew to the rear camp, and only less than 3000 puppet troops were left.

Ichiro Katayama looked at the casualty figures reported from below with a terribly gloomy face. He did not expect to lose more than 3000 people and 22 artillery pieces in the first attack. This made him take the independent regiment as his opponent more seriously.

"Brigade Commander, the reason why we suffered such heavy losses this time is mainly because the previous strategy did not work. We originally planned to use fake civilians to sneak into the independent regiment's position, but we didn't expect that the independent regiment did not fall for it at all and directly launched a covering artillery bombardment on the Imperial Warriors. In fact, the casualties in the subsequent offensive were not large. The real casualties were the puppet army. Their casualties were close to 2000, and our offensive operations lost only more than 600 troops!" Junichiro Hatoyama analyzed with a relaxed look on his face.

"Hatoyama, you idiot, do you know the difference in strength between us and the Independent Regiment? According to my observation of the battlefield just now, the Independent Regiment only dispatched about a thousand troops this time, but we suffered nearly 3000 casualties. Even if some of them can continue to fight after recuperation, our losses this time will definitely not be less than 2000. What a terrible number! I didn't expect you, an idiot, to look so relaxed. Put away your arrogance and immediately make a night raid plan. We must take down the first line of defense of the Independent Regiment within two days, otherwise we will not be able to complete the task assigned by the headquarters within the scheduled time!"

"Send a telegram to General Tada Shun immediately and ask him to find a way to send fighter planes to reinforce us tomorrow. The Chinese army has too many heavy artillery pieces, which makes our heavy artillery completely unusable and unable to play its advantages. Let the aviation force deal with the heavy artillery of the independent regiment, so that our artillery regiment can provide real support for the infantry's attack. Don't do it like this morning, in order to allow the artillery regiment to fire poison gas bombs, we even used a tank squadron as bait, but the bait was eaten by the independent regiment, and the attack ended in failure!"

Just as Ichiro Katayama began to adjust his combat strategy, Li Yunlong finally breathed a sigh of relief as he watched all the Japanese troops evacuate. This morning's defensive battle really made him realize a lot. He never expected that the rapid expansion of the independent regiment would cause the combat effectiveness of the troops to drop so quickly. If it weren't for the artillery battalion and the anti-aircraft artillery company, even if they could hold the position today, the casualties would be very heavy!

Lin Zhenhua wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and sat down on the ground. The battle this morning was very fierce. Fortunately, the Japanese did not use poison gas bombs, otherwise the independent regiment would have to sacrifice a large number of lives to hold the position. Fortunately, their artillery battalion targeted the Japanese heavy artillery this time, making it impossible for the Japanese to fire poison gas bombs at the defensive positions. He was now exhausted and sweating all over. His clothes had already been soaked with sweat.

At this time, Zhao Gang brought the kitchen team to bring up the mung bean soup. He scooped a bowl of mung bean soup with a ladle and handed it to Lin Zhenhua. After Lin Zhenhua took it, he gulped it down and felt a little better all over.

"Old Zhao, have you cooked enough mung bean soup? Every soldier should have two bowls. Due to the high-intensity bombardment just now, some soldiers fell down on their gun positions due to exhaustion. It really distressed me!" Lin Zhenhua slowly stood up from the ground and said with a worried look on his face.

Zhao Gang patted Lin Zhenhua on the shoulder and replied in a serious tone: "College student, boil a lot of mung bean soup, which can definitely be drunk by the soldiers. We repelled the Japanese attack this morning. It is estimated that the next attack of the Japanese will be in the evening. Tonight is likely to be a sleepless night!"

Li Yunlong drank a bowl of mung bean soup, and the worries on his face disappeared. He said with full energy: "Old Zhao, college student, there is nothing to be afraid of in our independent regiment. It's just a fight with the devils. Our independent regiment has never been vague in fighting the devils!"

"However, many problems were exposed this morning. We must pay attention to them, otherwise the Independent Regiment will suffer a great loss!"

Li Yunlong scolded Zhao Gang mercilessly, "Lao Gang, I entrusted the logistics work of the independent regiment to you before. That was my trust in you. But during the battle today, many weapons were not distributed in place, and some soldiers were even using the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked handle rifles. You are completely derelict in your duty. I want to ask you how you manage it?"

Zhao Gang was also very troubled when talking about this matter. He replied with some melancholy: "Old Li, I do have a great responsibility for this matter. I, Zhao Gang, will never escape! But our independent regiment must pay attention to the literacy issue. Most of the soldiers can't even write their own names. When they received the things, they went to the wrong place. The people who distributed the things were also illiterate. Due to a combination of reasons, this is the problem!"

"I have just learned about this matter in detail, but it is not easy to solve this problem. There are no more than 30 people in our independent regiment who have an education level above elementary school, and that includes the 22 people who came out of our study class. The situation is very bad!"

When this matter was mentioned, Li Yunlong felt very troubled. He could only look at Lin Zhenhua to see if he had any good ideas!

Lin Zhenhua thought about it and actually came up with an idea, which was to use pictures instead, so that it would be less likely to make mistakes.

"Lao Li, Lao Zhao, the chaotic management of our independent regiment must be resolved as soon as possible. In order to facilitate management, we can adopt the method of reading pictures to solve the problem of soldiers' illiteracy. When receiving equipment, tell the soldiers in advance not to go to the wrong place. I guess some soldiers got the place mixed up, and the soldiers who issued weapons mistook them for the militia of the county brigade, which caused the misunderstanding!"

"No one has ever used the anti-tank gun on weekdays. I guess they forgot about it when distributing the equipment. Generally speaking, the mistakes that occurred this morning could have been avoided if we had been more careful! As long as there are no problems with the transportation of the ammunition, the impact is within the controllable range!"