eurekapd Chapter 144: Cannibalizing 1800 People
Chapter 144: Cannibalizing 1800 People
At night, Su Fei's army dispatched reconnaissance teams, artillery teams, and machine gun teams, deploying the largest number of personnel in the direction where the enemy was the most numerous.
At the same time, we required that all defense lines of our positions must be tightly sealed to prevent the Japanese army from counter-infiltration and counter-surprise attacks on us.
There are 12 groups, 2 groups in each direction, and the east is the focus, with 6 groups.
Each group has a mortar, three grenade launchers, five light machine guns, and more than 20 infantrymen, with a total number of more than 40 people, forming a combined platoon.
The mission of these teams is to sneak up on the enemy's front line, dig individual pits and trenches, and approach the enemy!
An hour later, there was no movement, indicating that they had not been discovered by the Japanese army.
They dug trenches, individual pits and tunnels 500 meters away from the Japanese front line, 5,000 meters away.
In the early hours of the morning, Su Fei was awakened by bursts of gunfire. Sure enough, the Japanese army had infiltrated and raided his garrison.
After many battles, the Japanese army was repelled.
At dawn, the Japanese army launched another surprise attack, and another fierce battle ensued.
Su Fei's troops' strict precautions played a key role.
It's dawn.
The Japanese army left more than 150 corpses on the Su Feijun position.
The Japanese long-range artillery fired again, blowing Su Fei's troops' positions into pieces, venting their anger.
However, there was a sudden roar of gunfire on the Japanese front line.
Those lurking groups began to fight.
They bombarded the Japanese front-line trench defenses with grenade launchers and mortars.
At this time, Su Feijun's mountain artillery also began bombarding the rear positions. The Japanese trench defense line was blown to pieces, and the buried mats in front of the front-line positions exploded one after another.
Under the cover of artillery fire, the infantry group moved out and charged towards the enemy.
Just a dozen or so infantrymen dare to charge?
Yes, the fewer troops there are, the safer the artillery bombardment will be.
Under the cover of firepower, these infantrymen rushed through the enemy's front line and entered the enemy's trenches in one breath.
After they occupied and consolidated the enemy trenches, they expanded to the surrounding areas and used walkie-talkies to contact the artillery of Su Fei's troops, reporting the position of the Japanese infantry and guiding the artillery to bomb the enemy.
The Japanese army bombarded these forward artillery pieces, but these artillery pieces had tunnels built underground and were difficult to destroy.
After more than an hour of fighting, Su Fei's army tore through many of the Japanese army's front-line defenses.
The Japanese army immediately counterattacked. At this time, Su Fei's army's rear artillery intercepted the attack, and the mortars and grenade launchers in the front also fired. The Japanese army launched three charges to regain the position, but they were all repelled, with more than 100 people killed or wounded.
The Japanese army's front-line forces were quite weak, which was a deliberate arrangement by the Japanese army to induce Su Fei's army to break out and leave the tunnel system positions that they had painstakingly built.
Su Fei saw the enemy's intention and decided not to leave. Instead, he used a small force and artillery fire to engage in a war of attrition with the enemy.
Apart from long-range field artillery, the density of other equipment of the Japanese army is far inferior to that of Su Fei's army!
At twelve o'clock noon, Su Fei's army, after several small-scale reinforcements, tore a one-kilometer-wide hole in the Japanese stronghold in the east. The Japanese defenders were annihilated and forced to retreat.
To the east, where the enemy's artillery was strongest, Su Fei sent a battalion of troops to engage in a long and loose battle with the enemy.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy's defense line was pushed outward more than 1500 meters.
The Japanese artillery fire also retreated and changed urgently.
Several officers suggested that they should immediately launch a long-distance raid tactic to attack the enemy's artillery units, blow up the enemy's long-range field artillery bases, and eliminate the enemy's direct threat.
Su Fei refused.
The Japanese army certainly has enough troops to protect them and can maneuver at any time. Our attack may result in the loss of a lot of manpower, which will not be worth the cost.
At night, Su Fei's troops once again launched a small-scale assault, sending troops to lurk in the enemy's front-line positions, this time at a distance of 300 meters. They hid on the spot and dug individual pits, strengthening them into a trench system, which was then transformed into a tunnel system, anti-artillery holes, and air-raid shelters.
After dawn, with the support of artillery fire, the advantages of light artillery suppressed the Japanese front-line defenders. After many battles, the Japanese encirclement collapsed completely.
The Japanese army launched several counterattacks, and each time they were attacked by the Su Fei army with superior firepower, making it an unforgettable act of giving away lives.
The Japanese defense lines were completely destroyed!
Su Fei set up a force of a thousand men in the rear for defense, and the rest of the troops attacked separately.
If the enemy has fewer troops, destroy them.
Three days later, at the cost of 600 people, they wiped out 1800 remaining Japanese infantrymen and expelled the remaining hundreds of Japanese troops.
The Japanese army's long-range artillery was forced to retreat and could no longer directly bomb the original main position.
Su Fei also contacted the surrounding National Army and the Eighth Route Army, and learned that they had been repeatedly raided and surrounded by the Japanese army. He then became more aware of the Japanese army's plans.
Surround the point and attack the reinforcements.
I implore the Eighth Route Army and other national troops not to come to reinforce us. It is important to save ourselves.
Soon, news came that General Zu, now Commander Zu, died of illness after being imprisoned by an insider. The main force of that National Army unit was taken away by traitors and surrendered to the Japanese army. However, the Eighth Route Army and a small number of National Army troops were still trying their best to flank the Japanese army in the surrounding areas to support Su Fei's troops.
It is said that Li Yunlong's independent regiment was dispatched from northwest Shanxi, Chu Yunfei's troops were dispatched from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and a series of troops from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army also launched an attack on the Japanese army in the Suiyuan area.
Breaking out is impossible.
Su Fei's troops captured dozens of Japanese soldiers. After interrogation, they learned the Japanese army's strategic intention, which was to lure Su Fei's troops out of their strong positions and be surrounded and destroyed by the Japanese army in a field battle.
After further study, Su Fei gave the order and the troops suddenly retreated.
All retreat to the main position.
That's on the surface.
He began to use his usual tactics again.
After the troops retreated, more than 300 officers and soldiers were left behind and hid in trenches, air-raid shelters and tunnels. When their comrades retreated, they closed their trenches, so they could not be seen from the outside.
Each of their groups had a captured enemy pocket watch and wristwatch, and they agreed on a time to come out of the tunnel at exactly 12 o'clock at night and attack the enemy.
When the Japanese army discovered that Su Fei's army was retreating, they immediately tracked and pursued them and entangled them again.
Lieutenant General Nagatsu Saki still holds command.
He could not let Su Fei's troops idle away, he had to put pressure on them to force them to flee.
During the night the troops he had sent had returned to their original positions.
This time, with the approval of General Okamura Yasuji, because when Okamura learned that Su Fei's troops would not break out, he knew that the plan had been discovered and he could only strengthen the siege. At the same time, he ordered the mobilization of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade to transport the 203 and 155 heavy field artillery units over long distances to the Baishishan battlefield.
"Not a single Chinese soldier can be allowed to escape!"