Quartermasters can also fight the devils

"Well, Captain Kobayashi Zen, you have worked hard. You go and organize the troops first. After the artillery arrives, we will formally launch an attack on the defensive positions of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese Government opposite. Your First Battalion has already fought with the troops of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese Government. This time your troops will be responsible for the attack. I will organize other battalion commanders to come and observe." After hearing the complaint of Major Kobayashi Zen, the regiment commander, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, did not blame him, but assigned the task of the subsequent first formal attack to the First Battalion.

When the captain of the first battalion, Major Kobayashi Jian, heard that the commander of the regiment did not blame him, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When he heard that the attack would be carried out by his first battalion, he was grateful to the commander of the regiment again. When he knew that other battalion captains would be watching from behind, he felt that this was a good opportunity for him to demonstrate his abilities.

After Lieutenant Colonel Kobayashi Zen went back excitedly to organize the troops and make preparations, the Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Yasumi Kinsaburo whispered to the commander of the regiment, Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke: "Your Excellency, it would be a good idea to have all the battalion commanders come to observe the attack. This way, everyone can have a better idea of ​​what to do. But if this happens, the officers and soldiers of the First Battalion will be under great pressure. Lieutenant Colonel Kobayashi Zen will definitely launch an attack regardless of casualties. This is related to his own face."

After hearing the puzzlement raised by the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Yasumi Kinsaburo, the commander of the regiment, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, nodded and looked in the direction of the defensive position of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese Government in the distance, and said slowly: "Mr. Yamada, I do this to put pressure on the officers and soldiers of the First Battalion. Only when the officers and soldiers of the First Battalion desperately attack, can we fully observe the specific situation and combat power of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese Government on the opposite side."

When the Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Kinsaburo Yasumi heard the explanation from the regiment commander Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, he was also shocked. It turned out that the regiment commander was prepared to sacrifice the officers and soldiers of the entire first battalion in order to find out the situation of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government on the opposite side. It must be said that the regiment commander was really ruthless.

Indeed, the combat mission assigned to them by the headquarters is to occupy the South China Sea. This order will not change no matter what. If the mission cannot be completed, the 42nd Regiment will not be able to escape the blame after the war. Now, even if it loses more troops, they must complete the combat mission assigned by the headquarters on time. Compared with the lives of the soldiers below, their own life and death are the most important.

After the field artillery battalion of the 104th Division that was assigned to assist in the battle arrived at the firing position, the regiment commander, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, ordered the artillery to provide an artillery attack support in fifteen minutes. When the artillery in the back began to fire, the regiment commander, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, had already brought Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Kinsaburo Yasumi and the captains of the other four battalions to a small mound near the starting position and began to observe carefully with binoculars.

The commander of the 1st Battalion, Major Kobayashi Zen, divided his troops into three waves according to the width of the battlefield. This was the most commonly used offensive mode of the Japanese army. This mode was like the waves, continuously impacting the positions of the Chinese army until the Chinese army on the positions was defeated.

After learning from the experience and lessons of the last exploratory attack, Major Kobayashi Zen was also prepared to move all the heavy machine guns in the battalion forward, so as to provide sufficient fire support for the front attack to the maximum extent. Although this would cause casualties among the heavy machine gun officers and soldiers, compared with providing fire support to the front troops, a little casualties was nothing.

However, what Major Kobayashi Zen didn't know was that Major Sugimoto Mamoru, the captain of the 1st Battalion of the 41st Regiment, had the same idea last time. But Major Sugimoto Mamoru has now gone to see Amaterasu. If Major Sugimoto Mamoru could speak now, he would definitely stop Major Kobayashi Zen's seemingly wise arrangement.

The Japanese artillery fire stopped after ten minutes of bombardment, not because the Japanese artillerymen did not try hard, but because the ammunition had not been fully transported up. The little ammunition they carried could only sustain ten minutes of artillery support. For the officers and soldiers of the 104th Division's artillery units, they now felt very helpless.

Because they found that no matter how accurate their artillery was or how fast its firing rate was, it seemed to have no effect on the defensive positions of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. The infantry of the Imperial Japanese Army still died or were injured, and the losses of the attacking forces did not decrease at all, which made the artillery unit feel no sense of accomplishment.

When the artillery fire stopped, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 42nd Regiment of the Japanese Army, Major Kobayashi Zen, immediately led his troops in a charge. All the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion knew that not far behind them, the commander of the regiment and all the senior officers were watching their offensive performance. This was a very exciting thing.

Major Kobayashi Zen also personally led the team to command this offensive operation. This offensive was very important to him. If this offensive could successfully occupy the defensive position of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese Government, he would definitely have something to brag about in the 42nd Regiment. At the same time, it would also make the commanders of the 41st Regiment feel ashamed.

Thinking of the various benefits after victory, Major Kobayashi Jian's eyes were red with excitement. He kept shouting at the officers and soldiers of the attacking troops to pay attention to maintaining formation and keeping a good distance between the three squadrons. At the same time, he also directed the fire suppression on the heavy machine gun positions. It can be said that the busiest person in the entire First Battalion is none other than Major Kobayashi Jian.

The officers and soldiers on the first line of defense of the new 211th Division also entered their respective firing positions from the anti-artillery holes when the Japanese artillery fire became sparse. They had practiced the tactics many times during this period, and now it seemed to be the same as during the exercises, and there was no particular sense of tension.

The sharpshooters organized by the new 211th Division also found their positions. They had heard from officers who had observed the combat of the new 210th Division that the sharpshooters of the new 210th Division had killed many Japanese officers and soldiers. Now it was their turn to show off, and they believed that they would not do worse than the people of the new 210th Division.

When the Japanese army entered to a distance of 211 meters, a burst of gunfire was immediately heard from the defensive position of the New 211th Division. The Second Squadron of the First Battalion of the Japanese Army, as the first wave of attacking forces, was directly suppressed in front of the position by the firepower output of the New th Division.

In order to boost morale, Major Kobayashi Zen also required the officers of the troops to charge forward with the soldiers before the attack. This could boost the morale of the soldiers in his own troops, and secondly, it could allow him to command nearby and promptly discover and utilize changes on the battlefield.

But what Major Kobayashi Zen did not expect was that his arrangement, which had a good starting point, just catered to the appetite of the sharpshooters of the New 211th Division. During the Japanese charge, the sharpshooters of the New 211th Division had already aimed at the Japanese officers within their respective shooting ranges. After they fired the first round of bullets, there was no officer left alive in the Japanese Second Squadron.

The remaining soldiers of the Second Battalion were suppressed by the firepower of the New 211th Division's position and could not move forward. The collective death of the officers also made the soldiers panic. Many soldiers did not know when their commanders were hit by the Chinese army. Some soldiers were still lying on the ground waiting for orders from the officers.

Major Kobayashi Jian looked at the soldiers of the Second Squadron in the front who were lying on the ground motionless, and immediately shouted loudly from behind at them to charge forward quickly, but his shouts could not be heard in front of the position covered by gunfire and explosions.

"Go tell the people in the third squadron to charge upwards, bypass the second squadron and continue the attack." Major Kobayashi Jian pulled a messenger beside him and yelled loudly. He really couldn't understand what the people in the second squadron were doing there.

The regiment commander, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Kinsaburo Yasumi, who were watching the battle from behind, also saw that the attack of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion was suppressed by the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. They had a wider observation range in the back, so they clearly discovered the tactical confusion of the squadron at the front of the 1st Battalion.

"What is Kobayashi Zen doing? His troops in the front are in chaos and casualties are increasing. What are the officers in his troops doing? An attack is so chaotically organized." Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Yasumi Kinsaburo is very dissatisfied with the current offensive situation of the 1st Battalion.

"Yashimi-kun, Kobayashi Zen has already led the second wave of troops to charge. What we need now is to carefully observe the defensive performance of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government. From the current point of view, the performance of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government is still very stable. However, it depends on whether the Chinese army can still perform as steadily as it is now as the First Battalion increases its offensive strength." The commander of the regiment, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, held up a telescope and comforted the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Kinsaburo Yasumi.

The commander of the regiment, Colonel Hidenosuke Yamada, thought that the command of the front line should be handed over to Major Zen Kobayashi. Their goal was to find the weaknesses of the New 22nd Army of the Chinese government through this formal attack, so as to formulate targeted tactics for subsequent offensive operations.

Major Kobayashi Jian was also very anxious. The soldiers of the third squadron had already rushed forward, but the chaos in the second squadron seemed to have not stopped. He shouted to a messenger beside him, "Go to the second squadron and find Captain Ono, and ask him to quickly organize the troops. He can't even do this, he is just a waste."