NCCnovel Chapter 603 Why not be on guard? Because we came here today
Chapter 603 Why not be on guard? Because we came here today
Yamaguchi admitted that Zhou Weiguo was very powerful.
But he would never admit that Zhou Weiguo was powerful alone. The commander of an army does play a certain role, but more importantly, it is the soldiers under him who play the role.
If a soldier is afraid of death, he will not be able to achieve anything even if he is a god.
Take the Empire's Fourth Division for example. Isn't the division commander assigned to them incompetent? It can be said that anyone who serves as a division commander there is a well-known figure in the Empire.
But the result was, nothing changed at all, and instead the division commander was seduced into the smell of money.
He admitted that the independent regiment had strong combat capabilities, but then again.
Even a soldier who can fight is made of flesh and blood, and he will also get tired and exhausted.
The independent regiment has just arrived here, how could he possibly come here to fight.
Come here to die.
"What are you going to do?" Zhou Weiguo had already assembled the troops. Dozens of trucks were filled with people, and even the horses in the army were involved in transporting soldiers.
Zhou Weiguo was about to get on the bus when he heard shouting behind him.
He turned his head and saw that it was Ono.
"Robbery, is there anyone more familiar with this than me?"
Ono shamelessly chuckled twice and shook the iron hammer in his hand.
"There's no extra room for you. This time I'm bringing combat soldiers." Zhou Weiguo pointed inside the car.
All the people sitting inside were soldiers holding their weapons, and there were even two of them crammed in the front row, leaving room in his cab.
In order to carry out this surprise attack successfully, except for a part of the medical company who were going with the independent regiment, the rest of the people had to stay behind, even Xiao Ya and a few others would not go.
"I'll go on the roof and definitely not take up your space." Xiao Ye climbed onto the roof without waiting for Zhou Weiguo's consent.
Faced with such a shameless man, Zhou Weiguo glanced at him, sighed, and got into the car.
The convoy ahead had already set off. To avoid being discovered, they had to drive forward without turning on lights, using the moonlight to illuminate the way. Most of the vehicles were motorcycles, which used to only hold three people, but now could squeeze in four people. Trucks were squeezed in as much as possible.
The only easy thing was the truck assigned to Fan Xiaoyu. Those people were female soldiers, and in order to prevent some people from taking advantage of them, they were given a separate vehicle. However, some machine gun ammunition was still thrown to them and they were asked to help load it.
The tanks were also filled with soldiers.
It was about 60 kilometers. If it was daytime, it would take about an hour and a half to get there, but it was night and we couldn't use lights, so it took nearly three hours to reach a place six kilometers away from the Yamaguchi Regiment.
The car cannot continue to move forward, otherwise it will be easily exposed.
Zhou Weiguo got off the car and went to the front with Zhao Shoutian and others.
Five Type 92 infantry guns had been removed from the truck and were being dragged forward with the assistance of soldiers.
Originally, field artillery was more powerful, but it was too heavy. Zhou Weiguo directly used the infantry artillery mentioned. It was light and easy to carry, and a few people could drag it along. As for the artillery shells, horses could pull them, and if that didn't work, soldiers could help.
"Have Xu Hu's scouts gone up?" Zhou Weiguo lit a cigarette and asked Fang Shengli who was holding the line in the front.
Fang Shengli nodded. "Xu Hu is leading two platoons and has already approached us. I told him to stop after three kilometers and wait for our follow-up troops to arrive before continuing. This will prevent them from running into patrols and being killed, which would alert them."
Zhou Weiguo nodded and looked at Gao Yun beside him. "Send part of your anti-aircraft machine gun team out as reinforcements. The rest will wait here. Once the battle begins, attack with all your might."
"I understand, Captain." Gao Yun responded from the side.
The other battalion commanders also had corresponding tasks.
The Sixth Battalion did not come this time, but Sun Xinpu did.
"Old Sun," Zhou Weiguo said with a sidelong glance at Sun Xinpu beside him. "Mechanized infantry and artillery coordinated combat is something you learned in Germany, but it's actually not suitable for our mountain city because we don't have a strong industrial base to support it. However, it's not impossible to use it, it's just a different approach."
Sun Xinpu smiled bitterly. "On the battlefield in Henan, I realized that the system we learned from Germany is really not suitable for us."
This has left a shadow on him, but it doesn't matter, they are all minor problems. When the independent regiment arrives, he will be informed.
There are many ways to mechanize warfare.
Xu Hu was the company commander of the special forces company and also the head of the scouts. After waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive, he moved forward again, moving forward until he was less than one kilometer away from the combat position. He did not encounter a Japanese patrol. Unsure of the situation, he did not dare to move forward and went to Zhou Weiguo in person.
"Captain, this is strange. We didn't encounter a single patrol, not even a single sentry."
"Old Zhou, could there be a conspiracy? They want to lure the enemy deeper into our territory."
"Luring the enemy deep into our territory is bullshit."
Zhou Weiguo turned his head and said something.
The prerequisite for luring the enemy deep into your territory is the strength of the attacking side, not the strength of the counterattacking side.
How can the counterattacking party be called luring the enemy deep into their territory?
"Then what's going on? Have they let it go so far as to not even send out sentries or patrols?"
Ono popped his head out from the side. "What's there to discuss? The nearest force is thirty kilometers away, and in a different direction. We're nearly sixty kilometers away, and we arrived today. They probably didn't expect us to come running over here."
Makes sense.
That makes sense. Fang Shengli nodded and looked at Zhou Weiguo. "Old Zhou, should we have the first and second battalions move toward their evacuation route?"
Zhou Weiguo lowered his head and thought for a moment. "The first battalion will join the attack, and the third battalion and the special forces regiment will conduct harassment from the flanks."
After delivering the order, Zhou Weiguo set out with the artillery, and finally stopped 800 meters away from the enemy.
Five infantry guns were lined up in a row, and the mortars were moved forward to a position where they could fire.
Zhou Weiguo used a telescope to take a look at the outskirts of the town. There was a machine gun position there, but now, except for a few soldiers chatting there boredly, the rest of the people seemed to have found a good place to sleep.
"You are careless. Why do they think that 60 kilometers can stop our independent regiment?" Zhou Weiguo sneered.
Not to mention sixty kilometers, as long as I want, I will come to deal with them even if it is more than a hundred kilometers.
"Isn't that simple?" The man squatting nearby tapped the ground with a hammer, pointing to the soldiers around him who were already ready for battle. "Because we just arrived here today."