I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 645: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (8) The Despised Supplementary Brigade

The men of the 80th Army had no chance to see the bravery of the Supplementary Brigade.

Hearing the sudden sound of intensive gunfire coming from behind them, on the position that originally belonged to them, they ran even faster.

In their view, the combat effectiveness of a local force supplementary brigade is not worth mentioning at all.

Think about the boot camp at home, it’s hard to describe.

They just didn't believe that the Gansu Army's supplementary brigade could be any better.

In addition, the rifles in the hands of the supplementary brigade were much shorter than the Type 38 rifles of the Japanese.

We can't defeat them in a fight, and we can't win in a bayonet fight.

Perhaps one charge by the Japanese would lead to the defeat of this reinforcement brigade.

If I don't run away quickly now, I might be left here like the supply brigade today.

In fact, now if they just look back, they can discover a new world.

The Japanese soldiers who had been unable to be killed for months were now defeated by the reinforcement brigade, and more than 500 of them were lying down neatly.

When Fang Zhixiao saw that the Japanese were beaten back, he quickly ordered everyone to retreat to the second trench.

Among the people in the 80th Army, there are also those who like to watch the fun.

They heard that there was no gunfire coming from the direction of the position behind them in less than ten minutes, so they couldn't help but look back.

"Commander, the damned supplementary brigade really failed. They were driven into the second trench by the Japanese."

Well, I’ll add that I got the nickname “Damn It”.

Many people from the 80th Army looked back, but there were still more honest people.

Everyone just took a look, without saying anything sarcastic, and just continued to run with their heads down.

Fang Zhixiao realized that he had no choice but to retreat, because the broken trenches and fortifications were no place to hide anyone.

If the Japanese on the opposite side get ruthless and fire heavy artillery at us again, at least half of our soldiers will be sacrificed.

The guerrilla divisions do not like to fight this kind of defensive battle, but that does not mean they do not know how to fight this kind of battle.

Because the gap between China and Japan was quite large at that time, and the Kuomintang's fighting style was too rigid and conservative.

Therefore, defending the position became the common fighting style of the national army at that time.

Song Wenwan was also afraid that in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, his own troops would be sent out by the temporary capital to defend a place to the death.

So when he was still in Longshui, he asked people to study this tactic carefully.

It is about how to gain more advantages and suffer less losses when conducting trench defense battles and town defense battles.

In the end, they never figured out a good way to fight trench warfare.

That is to say, dig deep trenches, not in a straight line, and dig more solid anti-artillery holes.

Prepare a few more trenches to increase the defensive depth of the position.

Judging from the current situation of the trenches, they cannot use the first trench for defense no matter what.

So when he just took over the position, he realized that there was only one battalion in the first trench.

Even the heavy weapons were not moved forward and were all left in the second line of defense.

Now the remaining troops of the replenishment brigade are repairing trenches in the second line of defense so that the first battalion can retreat without worry.

The Japanese were caught off guard by the sudden appearance of the First Battalion.

After another artillery preparation, the Japanese brought up another battalion and began the main assault.

This time the Japanese did not encounter any obstacles and they gained control of the first trench.

But this trench was really terrible. Even the short-statured Japanese soldiers felt short when standing inside it.

When Division Commander Yoshitani heard that his regiment commander had occupied the first trench, he was naturally very satisfied.

The commander of the regiment said over the phone: "Report to His Excellency, Commander Ji Gu, we have just occupied the first trench of the 80th Army of the National Army.

But I felt that the other party's reaction was very strange.

Although they did not use light or heavy machine guns, their firepower was very strong.

The rifle in his hand seems to be able to fire continuously, so it should be a semi-automatic rifle."

The face of the division commander Ji Gu suddenly changed. He shouted, "Not good. Order your troops to withdraw from that trench immediately."

He has already analyzed it and realized that the opponent must have changed its defensive forces.

According to the report just given by his regiment commander, and judging from the guns used by the opposing nationalist army, they should undoubtedly be the guerrilla division.

Unfortunately, I went to bed too late, and something happened just after Commander Yoshitani finished speaking.

A shocking explosion occurred in the trench that the National Army had just lost.

After a loud "boom", a huge mushroom cloud rose into the air from the trench.

The commander of the Yoshitani Division was engulfed in the huge cloud of explosion before he could even put down the phone.

Looking at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance and the disconnected telephone handle, he almost vomited blood.

The First Regiment of his Yoshitani Division had been completely wiped out in the bombing at a position that the Nationalist Army had just lost.

Division Commander Yoshitani was feeling very miserable. Other divisions were making great progress, so why was his experience so miserable?

First we lost a battalion in Dayu Valley, and today we lost a regiment here.

Even if he could achieve a great victory in the end, his Yoshitani Division would not gain any benefits.

This made him a little cautious and he dared not to attack the position of the replenishment brigade again.

However, Commander Ji Gu's hesitation gave Fang Zhixiao some time.

Let the Third Division replenish the brigade so that we can calmly prepare the second and third lines of defense.

By the time Division Commander Yoshitani reacted, the Supplementary Brigade had already built standard defensive fortifications.

Thanks to Fang Zhixiao's clever arrangement, a supplementary brigade of troops was used.

They blocked the Yoshitani Division on the road of pursuing the defeated Kuomintang troops, preventing the Japanese from advancing an inch.

The people from the 80th and 98th Armies met halfway.

Seeing that there were no Japanese soldiers catching up with them, the retreat speed of the two armies slowed down.

After a while, the two army commanders came together.

Both of them knew that they had caused great trouble to the troops of the guerrilla division's supplementary brigade.

Although they were far away from the position, the two of them had just seen the huge mushroom cloud.

Although I don't know what's going on, just by looking at the noise, I know that the people in the reinforcement brigade are in danger.

“Brother Liang, I heard that this supplementary brigade is composed of Song Wenwan’s old subordinates in Gannan.

Although it is now under the jurisdiction of Suo Wuxing, we all know that they are actually the same thing.

I heard that the militia division in charge of the war in Jiangnan already has more than 200,000 soldiers.

As a newly-promoted military leader, his attitude was rather ambiguous.

But as old brothers of Gannan Longshui, Song Wenwan, Suo Wuxing and Qin Haichuan are different.

They definitely have a relationship that is as deep as a bone.

Today we have tricked Song Wenwan's people, will Suo Wuxing let us go?"

"Brother Bi, we are all the central army, why should we be afraid of those local warlords?

But we have to give Suo Wuxing some face. If it really doesn't work, just give him ten thousand dollars.

Just think of it as a pension to them. Which leader nowadays doesn't love money?

As long as they get the money, they don't care about the lives of their subordinates.

After we pass this hurdle today, we will immediately leave Shanxi and go to the first war zone in Henan.

At that time, we two brothers were like fish leaping in the vast sea and birds flying in the sky!"