War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 264: Chess Game! (Thanks to 'Myopia 30000 Degrees' for the 888 reward!)
boom! boom! boom!
When explosions occurred again and again on the road that the Japanese army had to pass, the corpses hanging on the trees on the roadside and the towers of human heads piled on the ground completely enraged Sasaki.

Xu Chaoyang was standing at the edge of the village, watching as the entire Japanese army, after a brief stop, completely abandoned the path that the Chinese had trodden for thousands of years, and instead stretched the entire battle line horizontally at the far end, posing a posture of fighting to the death...

He immediately became more careful.

This is war, this is a battlefield. Xu Chaoyang had experienced it many times on the battlefield and had seen with his own eyes that the Japanese were not actually clumsy when fighting. On the contrary, they were very cunning and gave people a headache.

"charge!"

Xu Chaoyang used a telescope to see the Japanese commander draw his sword and rush towards the Baitai position. He thought that the commander might have shouted the word "charge" in anger.

"Everyone, cheer up! The Japs are about to attack!"

"The machine guns are all set up..."

When Xu Chaoyang heard Qu Yong's cry, he quickly bent over and rushed over from behind a shelter built with bricks.

Logically speaking, since he had already handed over the command, he should not have gone to the front line to control Qu Yong's on-site command, but the current environment no longer allowed it.

The Japanese army regiment in front of them had their own tactics. The offensive methods they used were completely different from the Japanese tactics Xu Chaoyang had experienced along the way.

This is the wave attack that Xu Chaoyang has seen in textbooks!

What was the Japanese wave attack?
Is it really like waves coming one after another, making you feel the sea of ​​people?
No, absolutely not!
At least the wave attack used by the Japanese army regiment in front of us is not.

So what exactly is a wave attack?
It is an effective formation, and an extremely sophisticated skirmish line combination;

It is a tactic that uses extreme control of distance to completely expose all enemy firepower points, leaving room for grenade launchers to complete the attack.

To put it simply, a wave attack is actually to use a very scary offensive to make the enemy troops open fire first, so as to obtain the enemy's firepower data and the location of the firing points.

It was like when Xu Chaoyang raised his fist to scare Qu Yong, Qu Yong always subconsciously dodged. The Japs wanted to use this fake action to make Xu Chaoyang's troops shoot first.

So, doesn't the first shot give you a certain advantage on the battlefield?

That depends on how well both sides have mastered data on weapons, equipment, and so on.

The Japanese army's grasp of data on the equipment used by our army was beyond everyone's imagination. They knew that many of our troops were still using the old Hanyang-type rifle; they also knew that the maximum shooting distance of the old Hanyang-type rifle was about 300 meters, and it would completely lose accuracy beyond this distance.

This is why on a normal battlefield, we would choose to start the charge from a distance of 600 meters, allowing you to see the Japanese troops moving towards you all over the mountains and plains.

At this time, the veterans can still hold themselves back, but the recruits and soldiers who have no knowledge of weapons at all, once they can't bear the psychological pressure and open fire, or if the commander is a jack of all trades and wants to shoot from a distance when he sees a human figure, they will fall into the Japanese trap.

At that time, Xu Chaoyang mentioned this when he was listening to an old man explaining the weapons used by the Japanese in the Military Museum. The old man also specifically reminded him that the range of the Japanese's Type 600 rifle could reach 400 meters. Once they rushed to a distance of meters, they would shoot at our positions, forcing you to counterattack and thus expose the location of their own firepower points.

The old man at the Military Museum asked Xu Chaoyang meaningfully, "Do you still think the Japanese's wave-like attack is a 'die-with-honor' charge this time?"

"Do you still think the Japanese are stupid?"

Xu Chaoyang reached out from behind Qu Yong and put his hand on his shoulder, saying, "Hold steady."

When Qu Yong turned around and saw that it was his eldest brother who came to remind him, he said with a smile, "It's okay~", but in fact he still understood Xu Chaoyang's dissuasion. He swallowed all the words in his mouth and shouted in the snowy night, "Everyone is alert!" and that was all he said.

Xu Chaoyang pointed to the distance, pointed at the Japanese infantry that kept moving forward and said: "Look, look carefully."

"Look at the enemy's infantry formation. Do you find it's a little different from before?"

Xu Chaoyang was particular about this, otherwise the battalion under his command would not have been organized into ten-man infantry squads according to the German army's organization.

"What's the difference? Isn't it just combining light machine guns and infantry together?"

Qu Yong really didn't see anything, but he pointed out the key to the problem.

"Yongzi, you have fought the Japanese so many times. When have you ever seen the Japanese deploy light machine guns on the skirmish line and let such an important type of soldiers appear in the charge formation?"

Qu Yong immediately turned his head and looked at Xu Chaoyang!

He followed Xu Chaoyang all the way from the Northeast to North China, and it seemed that this situation had never happened before. The Japanese had to move their machine gun positions before every battle, otherwise they would not be able to suppress our positions with firepower.

"Then guess what? When the Japanese were about to enter the village, they suddenly retreated and deployed their troops on the side of the white platform to charge forward. Why did they choose to go far away? What was their purpose?"

"Avoid our tripwire grenades?"

After hearing what Qu Yong said, Xu Chaoyang patted him on the back. Qu Yong had grown up, but he was definitely not suitable to command any unit alone. However, you could let such a person charge as a suicide squad, or hold the position in a desperate situation. His own bravery could shock others, but his brain...

"Somebody come!"

A soldier ran up behind Xu Chaoyang with a gun in his hand.

"battalion commander!"

"Tell the artillery position behind us to have the observers go upstairs and measure the distance from a high point. As long as someone in the Japanese forward camp falls behind, immediately use the position of the lagging Japanese soldiers as the target point and launch artillery fire."

After saying this, the soldier turned around and was about to fire at the village, but Xu Chaoyang suddenly remembered something and grabbed him back: "Also, tell our artillerymen that in the absence of Man Guangzhi, each distance measurement must be precise. After the distance measurement is completed, three shots must be fired at the same time. Go!"

The soldier turned to leave, and Qu Yong asked beside him: "Brother, you want to attack the enemy machine gun point? You don't have to use three shells to hit one machine gun point, right?" "Mancangzi is not here, I don't trust these people, I can only try my luck!"

This was Xu Chaoyang's truest thought. He suspected that the Japanese's wave tactics, besides testing their own firepower, had a second purpose, which was to push the light machine guns with scopes to a position within 400 meters at night using human waves. Otherwise, they would not have incorporated the light machine guns into the infantry squads at all.

If these people were allowed to advance to 400 meters, and use the Japanese's shooting skills and the scopes on their light machine guns to attack the entire defense line, then only the fallen bodies would be able to prove how much the gain would outweigh the loss!

Xu Chaoyang didn't intend to suffer this loss, so he could only find a way out on his own.

After firing three shells, if they miss, at a distance of 400 meters, the G98 will never let these devils off. The battlefield will see a change!
"Yongzi, tell all the soldiers on the first line of defense who are good at shooting that once they find the Japanese machine gunner lying behind the skirmish line and starting to fire, keep their eyes open. They must find the machine gunner's position under the artillery attack and lighting. I don't care whether you use a light machine gun with a scope or some other weapon, you must kill him!"

"Brother, 400 meters?"

"Find Liu Gener, he knows how to use the scope on a machine gun. Tell him to stop fiddling with the Maxim first and go back to play with those two antiques after he's done with this!"

"Yes!"

"Battalion Commander, the Japs are coming!"

With the reminder of the soldiers beside him, the pitch-black night and the white snow on the ground formed an extreme contrast of black and white. The snowflakes all over the sky made the whole world appear black with white and white with black.

When Xu Chaoyang saw the Japanese, with the naked eye, the Japanese were just a tiny dot in his sight, and they were blurry and a little unclear.

He raised the telescope again, and was able to see a little more clearly. At this distance...

Xu Chaoyang was a little confused about the Japanese's intentions.

But in fact, Sasaki has a more headache than him!

Just now, the beachhead troops of the 14th Brigade in the rear sent someone to deliver a message, claiming that the soldiers who survived in Caijiayu brought back the weapon used by the enemy from the corpse, which was a German-made G98.

This news put an end to Sasaki's entire attack plan against Bai Taizi!
G98!
In other words, their position was completely exposed to the enemy's firing range, so they gave an urgent order for the entire army to slowly withdraw to the side of the entire village and escape from danger in a large-scale offensive posture.

From this point of view, Sasaki's tactical movement was very successful. At least they did not suffer any fire attacks from our troops during the movement.

But what to do next?
Saito issued a strict order to capture Baitaizi and recapture the artillery position!
Sasaki could only reorganize the troops in danger: "I order!"

"Machine gun crews, mix into the infantry squads, and the entire army will slowly advance forward in a wave-like attack, with the infantry in front and the machine gun crews in the back. Send all the machine gun crews to a position 600 meters ahead of the front line."

Therefore, on the battlefield, the distance between the two sides, which had already widened, was gradually reduced again during the process of advancing in a skirmish line. Xu Chaoyang was paying attention to the distance issue the whole time, but he ignored the enemy's slow attack speed.

"report!"

"The skirmish line advances to a distance of 800 meters!"

"Seven hundred meters!"

"Six hundred and fifty meters!"

"Machine gun crew, get in position!"

Xu Chaoyang thought that the Japanese army would choose to make room for the machine gun crew to charge forward when the entire army charged forward, and through the machine gunners' control of the firing range, leave room for the infantry to charge forward; but he did not expect that his prediction would also be wrong, and Sasaki did a completely opposite operation.

"Machine gun crews open fire!"

"Suppress the enemy's firepower... The rifle teams will split up on the battlefield and rush to the left and right sides, looking for cover on both sides of the white platform. While the enemy is suppressed by firepower, push the front lines on both sides forward to 400 meters!"

Sasaki had never seen the equipment of Xu Chaoyang's troops, but with just a G98, he performed Japanese military operations that were not even mentioned in history textbooks!
This time, he did not move the machine gun positions, but placed all the machine gun positions directly opposite Xu Chaoyang, allowing the remaining infantry to advance along both sides of the white platform.

This is experience, this is the talent of a true soldier on the battlefield.

Sasaki concluded that Baitaizi was guarded by a strong enemy force through the exploding grenades and the human head tower at the entrance of the village. Under such a defense, they would definitely set up fortifications outside the village, and all the enemy's heavy weapons would be set up inside the fortifications.

However, their wave-like attack did not draw out any enemy fire at all. Sasaki, who was ordered to seize the artillery position of Baitaizi, could not stop at all. He could only let all the heavy weapons placed in front of him fall into the air...

In other words, until this moment, Sasaki was not sure whether what he did was right or not, but this treasure happened to be accurately bet on the right position.

Japan not only has war maniacs who keep saying "I love work", but also has real "geniuses" honed on our battlefields, such as Sasaki.

Xu Chaoyang, this time he has met a real opponent, a very strong opponent.

Da da da da da da!

Under the night sky illuminated by the snow, a burst of gunfire suddenly broke out. Immediately afterwards, directly opposite Xu Chaoyang's position, dozens of light machine guns at a distance of 600 meters opened fire at the position under the night sky through the sights on the machine guns. The gunshots were connected into one!
"Big brother!"

“Fight or not!!!”

Qu Yong lowered his head suddenly behind the position and was provoked by the Japanese right away!
　Thanks to my brother 'Myopia 30000 degrees' for the reward of 888. Thank you very much.

　　After a day of rest, I feel refreshed. I would also like to thank all my brothers for their comments on my leave request, "read but not approved." Thank you. This shows love. I understand and I love you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)