Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

attack!

Su Fei pointed with his big hand and issued a battle order.

The current Su Fei Division has two infantry regiments and a direct guard battalion, some supplementary troops, with a total strength of 5,000 people!

The army was strong and its morale was high, but when the ordinary soldiers learned that the new division commander was the famous General Su Fei, they were all overjoyed.

Artillery fire bombarded the outer defense circle of the Japanese county town.

Under the slow and powerful bombardment of the infantry guns, the bunkers were blown away by the shells that penetrated the firing holes and exploded inside.

A small number of infantrymen would scout ahead and use firepower to attract the enemy. Once the enemy's firepower point was exposed or discovered, they would direct artillery fire to bombard the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was in great trouble. Seeing that the bunker's firepower point was blown to pieces, they could only use artillery fire to counterattack Su Fei's troops.

Both sides suffered casualties.

However, Su Fei's army's infantry and artillery coordination tactics were excellent, and within half an hour, almost all of the Japanese army's outer positions were destroyed.

The Japanese also launched an infantry counterattack.

Squadron level, squadron level, the intensity continues to increase.

The Japanese army's charge was fierce, but it was exactly what Su Fei had been looking forward to for a long time.

Then use the second echelon machine gun group to deal with it!

These machine gunners hid in the ravines and waited for the Japanese troops to swarm in, then immediately opened fire.

Machine gun swarm!

A group has 3 machine guns, two for crossfire and one for cover.

They began to hide in the second line. Once the Japanese army charged, a small number of officers and soldiers in the first line retreated to lure the Japanese army to attack. Then they pushed the second line to the front line. There were often groups of 9 or 18 guns. They had to use up all their bullets in one attack.

Their strafing caused heavy losses to the Japanese army.

Once, a Japanese squad of more than 50 people were wiped out during a charge.

Under the cover of Japanese artillery fire, these machine gunner troops hid in the ravines and dug anti-artillery holes.

The Japanese army was furious.

They had never seen a Nationalist general fight like this.

Speaking of which, the national army relied on its superior firepower.

The Japanese army didn't know that Su Fei concentrated the firepower of two regiments and a special forces battalion of the entire division into one battalion!

The attacking special forces battalion had over 60 captured machine guns, infantry guns, and mortars.

A fist was formed.

Su Fei's tactics are Van Vleet tactics!

Suppress the enemy with concentrated firepower.

The Japanese were rampant not because their own quality was too good, but because their weapons were superior and advanced, which just happened to suppress the National Army. The Japanese army's disastrous defeat in the Pacific Islands and the defensive battle in August 1946 was also due to the suppression of weapons performance.

Courage... is necessary, but it doesn't play a decisive role.

An hour later, the Japanese army had to retreat to the county town and the area to the east.

The Japanese army had no choice but to send troops to conduct a flanking maneuver, which was their trump card.

However, the Japanese army had just returned to their position and had not yet launched an attack when they were stunned by a volley of gunfire.

How could Su Fei not pay attention to the flanks and rear? Most of the troops were guarding these places. Their weapons were inferior, without machine guns and artillery, but they were outnumbered and their fortifications were solid.

The Japanese army's sneak attack and roundabout tactics were ineffective in their defeat.

Su Fei's attack force is small in number, which can avoid too many casualties, and has strong firepower, which can crush the Japanese army on the opposite side.

If there are heavy casualties, follow-up troops can gradually join the front-line combat troops.

In short, there were few people, but they were very angry and extremely vicious.

The two Japanese infantry companies outside the city, plus two reinforcement infantry squads, totaling 500 people, were soon reduced to a handful. In the end, only more than 20 people escaped back to the county town.

The Japanese army was angry and sent another unit, a squadron of infantry plus a cavalry squad, to counterattack from the flank.

However, after Su Fei's troops discovered this, they immediately used mortars to bombard the Japanese army. By the time the Japanese army escaped from the bombardment area, more than half of the 400-man army had been lost.

"Why is the Chinese army's artillery fire so powerful and so accurate?"

"Ahhh, where are our cannons? Are all the artillerymen dead?"

The remaining Japanese soldiers cried in anger.

They had never fought such a cowardly battle.

Is it going to fail this time?

The Japanese called in the Air Force.

At that time, there was no air force, only aviation force, which was divided into army aviation and navy aviation. Six Japanese planes flew over the scene and carried out indiscriminate bombing on the national army.

The national army suddenly fell into loneliness. The Japanese officers and soldiers were watching from a distance in the city and on the roundabout way outside the city, and they were overjoyed. This time, they really bombed the Chinese army!

As soon as the bombardment died down, they launched a full-scale attack.

The battle was crazy and intense.

The Japanese army dispatched two infantry companies, a cavalry squadron, and a puppet army regiment of more than 700 people from the county town, a total of 1100 people. They divided into three groups and attacked Su Fei's position. The flanking force continued to contain the national army from the flank.

"It is estimated that at least 500 Chinese soldiers were killed or injured in the bombing. No, 1,000. Perhaps they are all dead."

The Japanese and puppet troops, feeling proud and confident, advanced triumphantly, believing that the nationalist troops had all been killed or injured in the explosion, or had been shocked into unconsciousness, or had become discouraged and were ready to sit and wait for death or surrender.

When they got close, suddenly, at a command, signal flares were launched into the air, and bugles sounded loudly. Some Kuomintang troops surged onto the ground. There were not many soldiers, but they had plenty of firepower. It was a classic fear of insufficient firepower.

More than 40 light machine guns roared, and artillery fire from the rear bombarded again. There were too many Japanese troops on the front position, so the national army threw blasting tubes, directly killing and injuring a large group of enemies.

In just a few minutes, the Japanese offensive suffered a tragic defeat. When they were forced to retreat, they were continuously shot and covered by artillery fire from the National Army.

Only one-fifth of these troops were able to return to the fortifications in the county town.

Of course, the Japanese artillery also retaliated frantically.

However, the number of national army was small and sparse, and the effect of the artillery attack was not ideal.

The Japanese fled, the puppet troops fled, and a few Nationalist infantrymen began to make trouble, swaggering around to collect the spoils, stripping the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and taking away everything they could use, including their uniforms, boots, belts, canteens, etc., leaving only a loincloth.

The Japanese were so angry that they gritted their teeth and retaliated with artillery fire.

How effective can a cannon be at killing mosquitoes?

In the end, the Japanese retreated to the county town, relying on city walls and other fortifications to hinder the national army's attack, and urgently called for reinforcements.

Su Fei's troops slowly sent their skirmishers to continue advancing, bombarding the soldiers on the enemy's walls with artillery fire, making the enemy unable to raise their heads.

Mortar bombardment.

However, 300 meters away from the county town, Su Fei's troops stopped advancing and the artillery seemed to have run out of ammunition.

The Japanese army was able to continue to hold the county town.

The planes came again, and came several times in a row, bombing the Kuomintang army.

Su Fei's troops dug a large number of trenches and anti-gun holes outside the city and did not attack again.

The Japanese army breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, they just have to hold on and wait for a few hours, and reinforcements will come from other directions to encircle Su Fei’s army!