Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Li Yunlong also discovered the troops of the Yamazaki Battalion at this time and exclaimed:

"Thank goodness, we finally got this old devil, Yamazaki. This time it's time for our independent regiment to show off our skills to the head of the headquarters."

"Zhang Dabiao, today's battle is a defensive one. Don't just attack and charge. You need to know how to defend and then find a way to counterattack."

"Old Kong has taken the most combat-capable Second and Third Battalions of our Independent Regiment to set up an ambush. The Fourth Battalion has more new recruits, so your First Battalion will take on the main responsibility of this defensive battle."

Zhang Dabiao first touched his head and responded with a smile:

"Captain, don't worry. I understand this turtle tactic. It's just that when we were short of guns and bullets, we had no choice but to charge and close the distance with the enemy, using hand-to-hand combat to offset the Japanese's firepower advantage."

"Now that we have so much ammunition and such strong fortifications, only a fool would rush out and increase casualties."

"I plan to put the first company of the first battalion at the front line to guard all the trenches and bunkers. The second, third, fourth companies and the battalion's direct troops will serve as reserves. We will have a good time with the Japanese here."

After hearing this, Li Yunlong nodded with satisfaction. This battle was actually very easy to fight. He could just watch from the back and leave the battlefield to his most capable subordinate Zhang Dabiao.

While the troops were resting, Captain Yamazaki used a telescope to carefully observe the opposite position.

After watching it, he couldn't help but admire in his heart that the fortifications built on the opposite side were very organized, with fortifications, bunkers and even communication trenches. The light and heavy machine guns were also matched reasonably, which could be called a textbook-like defensive fortification.

The only drawback is that it is too small. From what we have observed, this is a company-level position, and all the troops combined are no more than an infantry battalion at most.

According to the Japanese's own conversion method, one of their squads can cleanly wipe out a Chinese infantry company, a squadron can easily defeat a Chinese infantry battalion, and if it is a battalion, defeating a Chinese brigade will not be a problem.

This is calculated based on the Chinese Central Army having sufficient ammunition. If it is the Chinese local forces, the ratio will be even higher. It is even possible that one of their battalions can defeat a division of the Chinese local forces.

Yamazaki now has more than 500 people under his command, plus the two troops that were separated out to more than 700 people. With such a powerful force, it will be easy to defeat the opponent's mere garrison battalion.

After a good rest, he sent a small team in a sparse formation to test the opposite position. The artillery behind was also ready to bombard the exposed firepower points of the Eighth Route Army at any time.

Zhang Dabiao saw the first card thrown by the little devil and said disdainfully:

"Captain, for so many years, the Japanese have been using the same old tricks over and over again, never coming up with anything new."

"They really think that our independent regiment is still the same as before, relying only on light and heavy machine guns to suppress the enemy's attack and letting their grenade launchers knock out our supporting firepower points."

"Communicator, notify the first company commander Xiao to fight with all his might. Without exposing the positions of the light and heavy machine guns, repel the Japanese's tentative attacks."

The current independent regiment is different from before. The ammunition reserves are very sufficient, and Li Yunlong is also willing to let the soldiers shoot with live ammunition during normal training.

In Kong Hao's words, if a new soldier who has not fired many shots is sent to the battlefield, the probability of killing the enemy is basically zero. It is better to use these bullets wasted on the battlefield in daily training.

Only by practicing marksmanship well can you kill the most enemies on the battlefield with the lowest cost, and the effort must be proportional to the benefits.

Therefore, even the new recruits of the independent regiment consumed almost twenty rounds of bullets in training. Although this was still not as much as the training volume of the Japanese recruits, it was much stronger than that of other units of the Eighth Route Army.

Sure enough, when the Japanese exploratory team was crouching to attack, Captain Xiao of the first company ordered all the riflemen in the company to fire a bullet first, and then the recruits stopped shooting, and the veterans or the sharpshooters of the unit engaged in the shooting against the Japanese.

As expected, as soon as we fired gunshots, the Japanese soldiers lay down and then shot at us with their Type 38 rifles.

The first company fired more than seventy shots, but no more than ten of them actually hit the Japanese, and probably less than five were killed. The rest of the bullets were all wasted.

However, Captain Xiao was not angry when he saw this situation. After all, there was still a big gap between their troops and the Japanese field troops, so it was understandable that the first round ended like this.

Next, we will just have to consume each other's energy. However, the independent regiment has the advantage, so we are not in a hurry at all.

The main thing is that the company is in a commanding position and has complete defensive fortifications. These are not the kind of field fortifications hastily dug out with an engineer shovel, but permanent fortifications built with a large amount of cement and sleepers.

Especially the bunkers that served as support points for fortifications were reinforced with large amounts of steel bars and cement. It was simply a pipe dream for a small Japanese light infantry to easily break through them.

The following battle was very boring. The veterans of the 1st Company, 1st Battalion, of the Independent Regiment, with their Type 38 rifles, continuously shot and killed the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground with the help of fortifications.

The new recruits peeked through the observation holes on the positions and watched the firing and fighting between the two sides.

Especially those new recruits who just fired a shot but did not hit any target, they can take this opportunity to summarize their respective shortcomings and strive to make the first kill in the next battle.

In fact, there are not many opportunities to observe the Japanese defense and attack with your own eyes on the battlefield. Many new recruits are either frightened or taken away in one wave when they first enter the battlefield.

Only the recruits who survived on the battlefield could summarize the problems they encountered on the battlefield, but in this way at least half of the recruits would be eliminated, which would be a huge loss.

It would be different if there were complete fortifications. They could just observe and summarize on the battlefield, and combine that with the knowledge imparted by veterans during normal training, their combat experience would develop rapidly.

Of course, while we were killing the Japanese, we were also attacked by their special shooters. People were constantly shot and fell to the ground, and were carried away by others.

Fortunately, with the protection of the defensive positions, most of the injured soldiers were slightly injured, while many of the Japanese soldiers were shot in the head or hit in vital parts.

After a fierce battle, the casualty ratio between the enemy and us was about 3:1. One of our casualties was enough to take away three Japanese devils.

This is a remarkable record, as in the past the casualty ratio was usually 1:5.

After Captain Yamazaki saw the battle situation ahead through the telescope, he lamented that he had encountered a tough opponent this time, and he was also conflicted.

The Eighth Route Army on the opposite side all used rifles for shooting, so it would be uneconomical to launch artillery fire at this time.

If the Japanese army equipment is compared with the rest of the world, it is not that strong and is full of pettiness.