Chapter 51 Repeated victories and repeated battles
Taking advantage of local reports to scrap existing anti-aircraft weapons and purchase new anti-aircraft weapons, the Dafranche family welcomed two weddings in just one month.
First, Christie selected a young hero, a lawyer who was preparing to enter politics in the future and who urgently needed the support of a sponsor.
Then Yule took a fancy to a young lady who came from a merchant family. In addition to being fair-skinned, beautiful, and of good temperament, this young lady also had a higher education.
Yule prepared a dowry of 50,000 gold coins for his eldest niece Christie. He also took out another 3,000 gold coins as the cost of Christie's wedding.
As for Yule's own wedding more than half a month later, it cost five thousand gold coins.
Yule, who has a stable family, is already preparing to have one or more children.
He has millions of dollars of property to inherit, and his children will be successful people in the future after they are born.
After Yule's wedding, Zhang Cheng also received the first batch of officially scrapped anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
Although there is a slight overflow in price, ordinary people cannot do the arms business. Considering this, the premium is worth it.
As for anti-inflammatory drugs, I got them earlier. Yule's father-in-law is a drug dealer.
After getting the arms, Zhang Cheng asked Lu'er to move directly to the mountain village where Dongfang Sheng was located, where more than 2,000 soldiers of the Dongfang Sheng Regiment were conducting large-scale military training with the old leading the new.
After leaving arms and medicine for Dongfang Sheng, Zhang Chengcheng asked Lu'er to move back to the main planet. At home, they are still waiting for the next movie.
Dongfang Sheng was left confused. Most people always have some reasons or logic to do things, but this man came to him and made several donations, which greatly increased the combat effectiveness of his regiment, but he was a master who wanted nothing.
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However, we can't control that much. If the regiment doesn't go out to fight the Japanese, the regiment will run out of food in a few days.
As a guerrilla, whether it's weapons or food, they mainly feed on the enemy.
Dongfang Sheng was able to pull up a team of thousands of people from scratch because from the beginning, Dongfang Sheng was the leader of the charge. Now he has become the leader of thousands of people. Every time he charges, he still
Dongfang Shengchong is the fastest - ordinary people can't outrun the innate masters of martial arts.
The so-called generals are brave in the army, so Dongfang Sheng's soldiers don't think too much, they just follow the regiment commander and battalion commanders every time they charge.
After getting these batches of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, Dongfang Sheng immediately led his people out of the mountains overnight. Early the next morning, he surrounded the county town where the Japanese had taken back the Japanese with artillery.
The Japanese commander in the provincial capital, after receiving the distress telegram from the county town, directly dispatched a chariot regiment and a cavalry regiment to cooperate with an infantry brigade to eliminate the Dongfang Victory Regiment.
At the commanding heights of the ambush mountain, Dongfang Sheng, who was hiding in the grass, saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance, the chariot regiment coming all the way and the Japanese cavalry regiment behind it. Dongfang Sheng said: "You really think highly of me! Inform the brothers,
After the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns have been leveled, let me attack the iron coffin of the Japanese first, and all the light and heavy machine guns and artillery can attack the cavalry. Also, inform the cooking company that horse meat will be stewed at noon, please prepare the water for me now!"
The little devil had always believed that his iron bastards were invulnerable, so he did not send out advanced soldiers to explore the road. In fact, the friendly forces in the emergency rescue county needed to march urgently and did not have the time.
But this time, relying on the Iron Bastard that stretched across the plains, the Little Japs met their nemesis. The 12.7mm large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun could penetrate the Little Japs' Iron Bastard from the front, and the 37mm anti-aircraft cannon hit the Japs' Iron Bastard.
, it was a one-shot piercing—the power was already excessive.
A classic ambush was fought, destroying all the Iron Kings of a chariot regiment of the Little Devils. Only a few dozen of the cavalry regiment's more than a thousand people escaped.
Originally, the infantry brigade following behind could all run back to the provincial capital, but the Japanese officer education is that no matter what situation they encounter, no matter how many enemies they encounter, the only correct answer is: charge.
The captain of the Japanese infantry brigade, who did not want to go back to court-martial, had no choice but to bite the bullet and led more than 700 Japanese infantrymen to start an assault on the Eastern Victory Regiment's position, which had a large number of light and heavy machine guns and various artillery pieces, and had recently been strengthened with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.
After three assaults, the Japanese battalion leader successfully killed more than 500 Japanese infantrymen. He withdrew from the battle on the grounds of heavy casualties and fled back to the provincial capital with the remaining nearly 200 Japanese soldiers.
After defeating the Japanese reinforcements, Zhang Cheng sent messengers to speed up the attack on the city. The original city wall of the county town was blown down. After intensifying the bombardment, the county town soon fell again in the battle. A dissatisfaction in defending the county town.
The Japanese security brigade of members was once again wiped out.
When the Japanese commander in the provincial capital received the news that the tanks of the chariot regiment had been wiped out, that the cavalry regiment had only a few dozen signalmen available, that more than two-thirds of the infantry brigade had been killed, and that the county seat had been lost again, he fainted from a cerebral hemorrhage.
When the Japs Commander's men saw this situation, they had to find someone to take the responsibility.
The Japanese commander who could no longer speak seemed to be the best choice, so everyone from the chief of staff to the intelligence department faked the scene of the Japanese commander committing suicide out of fear of guilt. Then they waited peacefully for the new commander to take office.
Let alone regaining the county seat, most of the personnel of two infantry brigades have been lost, plus a tank regiment and a cavalry regiment. Now there is only one gendarmerie brigade, one and a half infantry brigade and one dissatisfied personnel left in the provincial capital.
artillery regiment and half a baggage regiment.
The defense of the provincial capital is also full of loopholes. Anyway, the former commander committed hara-kiri in fear of committing the crime, so we will wait until the next commander takes office.
Taking advantage of this period of lull in Japanese troops, the Eastern Victory Regiment was divided into three parts. The third battalion brought some heavy weapons including anti-aircraft machine guns and 18-pound cannons to confront the troops in the provincial capital of the Japanese, and fired a few shots at the city wall.
Make a posture to attack the city.
The remaining team was divided into two teams, Dongfang Sheng and a battalion commander, each led a team of troops, and used the newly obtained fortification weapons to sweep away the group of bunkers placed by the Japanese along the roads and railways.
A bunker group can only have a hundred or so Japs at most. If they set up 37mm anti-aircraft guns and fire a few rounds from each bunker, they can go up and clean the battlefield.
In Dongfang Sheng's opinion, in order to ensure the safety of communication lines, the Japanese forces were too dispersed. Once the guerrillas had heavy weapons, they could easily smash the group of bunkers built around the communication lines.
Considering that the provincial capital was besieged by a large number of guerrillas armed with heavy weapons, the Japanese General Headquarters wanted to improve the situation as soon as possible. The new commander flew in by plane to take office. However, when the plane was about to land at the airport outside the city, the fuselage was damaged.
A few tongues of flame suddenly burst out from the anti-aircraft machine gun.
The new commander, his own adjutant and pilot all crashed into the airport with the damaged aircraft, causing five deaths and twelve injuries to the people at the Japanese airport.
The third commander sent by the Japanese General Headquarters first waited for reinforcements from a division thousands of miles away, and then followed the division all the way south by train. However, three hundred miles away from the provincial capital, the entire team's movement
The troop train was blown up by Dongfang Shengbu, sending all the reinforcements from the Japanese division into the sky.
The fourth commander didn't even dare to sit on the train anymore. He followed a brigade that was finally squeezed out from the headquarters and marched thirty kilometers every day, preparing to take up his post in a provincial capital thousands of miles away step by step.
With the victory in many battles and the seizure of enemy weapons to arm itself, there is no shortage of soldiers in this area. The Dongfang Shengbu has grown from a regiment of more than 2,000 people to a regiment of more than 15,000 people - the guerrillas are not
If you win, you will have an establishment. The rear officers will never dare to come to the occupied areas to count the results of the battle. Without the statistics of the battle results by the rear officers, it will not be counted as a battle result.
However, Dongfang Sheng, who has more than 10,000 people under his command, is now living the life of a division commander. Anyway, the guerrillas are poor, and there was no radio station in the regiment before, so now they can use it to move around freely.
By seizing the enemy's weapons and equipment, this division still has light and heavy machine gun equipment in the squad - because there are many people in the regiment, there are 30 people in a squad, and three deputy squad leaders help manage it.
Anti-aircraft machine guns, a company has five combat platoons, and there are anti-aircraft guns at the company level. One battalion manages five companies, each company has a small number of 1,000 people, and each battalion has nearly 5,000 people. The three battalions plus the regiment headquarters have more than 1,000 people.
There are more than 15,000 people in one group.
When the fourth Japanese commander led the brigade south into the plain base area opened by Dongfang Sheng, Dongfang Sheng had already prepared a feast for the Japanese brigade. This brigade was put together by the Japanese in an emergency. Dongfang Sheng based
The scout's investigation determined that the main camp of the Japs - nearly ten thousand people camped there, also had requirements.
What's more, this team of Japanese soldiers only advanced thirty kilometers every day. That would make it easier to deduce the campsite.
Besides, even if the judgment is wrong, it only takes a little effort.
As a result, on the third day after entering Dongfang Shengbu's sphere of influence in the plain base area, a series of explosions occurred in the Japanese camp at night.
More than 8,800 Japs were killed by the company's large-area ring mines, killing more than 1,400 and injuring more than 3,700.
Then Dongfang Shengbu began to fire at the Japanese camp from the outside to ensure that the Japanese had no time to save people. The Japanese camp was in chaos, the fourth commander was seriously injured, and the brigade commander was killed.
The remaining regimental commanders and battalion commanders commanded several assaults in the direction of the artillery bombardment. They suffered heavy casualties under the machine gun and artillery attacks of Dongfang Shengbu. More than a thousand Japanese soldiers died before the Japanese soldiers stopped and dug trenches to avoid the shells.
After daybreak, more than 3,700 wounded people died, and more than 2,500 more died due to factors such as shelling and blood loss.
More than half of the entire brigade suffered casualties. The important point is that this time the commander was seriously injured and could no longer command.
After daybreak, the more than two thousand Japs who were still able to move withdrew 60 kilometers a day, covering the distance of the previous two days. When they were camping at the campsite the day before yesterday, they were hit by a series of thunderstorms at night.
It’s still a familiar recipe and a familiar taste.
Dongfang Sheng is here to teach the Japanese to be good. It was a safe camp the day before yesterday. It does not mean that it is safe today, because the guerrillas have been expanding their territory. The place that was not a base the day before yesterday was already a base yesterday.
After one division was destroyed, another brigade was completely annihilated. Along the railways and highways around the provincial capital, the total number of Japanese who were wiped out by the Dongfang Victory Regiment totaled several thousand people, almost a brigade.
This time, because of the lack of mobile troops, the entire Japanese north became a sieve and was beaten everywhere. The Japanese Northern Headquarters could only ask for help from the country.
However, the Japanese reinforcements cannot arrive in a few days. Even if they can reach the shore in a few days, the road to the provincial capital is already notoriously difficult.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the main force of Dongfang Shengbu went south and once again intensified its attack on the provincial capital. The provincial capital fell immediately, and the more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers in the provincial capital once again became the military and transportation brigade of Dongfang Shengbu - the Japanese originally wanted to
A street fight is a provincial city meat grinder tactic, but the principle of Dongfang's victory is that you fight yours and I fight mine.
After the troops broke through the city wall and entered the city, they first used long-range and powerful anti-aircraft machine guns to block the streets. The attack always started in the courtyard and went directly to the wall-breaking tactics. They quickly inserted themselves into the rear of the Japanese, and instead divided and surrounded the Japanese who were preparing for street fighting in the city.
Then eliminated.
Many guerrilla groups in the province also became connected with the fall of the provincial capital and the re-opening of surrounding transportation lines.
For the Japanese, it was not just a matter of losing a province, but the destruction of a standing division, a patchwork brigade, and two garrison divisions, causing the Japanese to suddenly lose a large number of soldiers, and even more
Railway traffic between the north and the south was cut off.
After taking the provincial capital, the army expanded to more than 30,000 people. Each squad had 60 people and six deputy squad leaders. The Dongfang Sheng Regiment still maintained its offensive against the Japanese everywhere, because Dongfang Sheng knew that the Japanese had a peeing habit.
, they must wait for the reinforcements to arrive and retaliate crazily. Taking advantage of the fact that the Japs have no mobile troops, they can eat as many Japs as they can and kill a large number of the Japs' effective forces. Even if the Japs re-occupy these places, they will still have to fight.
Divide your troops to guard and spread your strength little by little.
The victory during this period of time made the Eastern Victory Group's combat effectiveness grow like a snowball. New recruits can become veterans after fighting once and cleaning the battlefield once, and then lead the new recruits to fight and clean the battlefield.
In many battles, more than 50,000 Japanese were eliminated. Although a lot of equipment was lost in various explosions and shellings, the remaining intact guns and the guns assembled with intact accessories were still able to arm more than 30,000 people.
people.
Ordinarily, after losing the provincial capital, the Japanese would be willing to shrink their defenses and temporarily give up some territory, which would save many lives.
However, according to the devil's behavior, whoever dares to say this will definitely be hacked to death as a national traitor by the middle- and lower-level officers in the army who are eager to make achievements.
Therefore, after the domestic devils transferred two divisions to the northern capital a month later, the Northern Headquarters still felt that the troops were not enough. These two divisions were just newly built divisions, each with more than 15,000 people.
.The number of veterans is even smaller, only 3,000.
If we can train for half a year and lead the new with the old, the combat effectiveness can be improved a lot. However, what the Japanese lack most now is time.
After the two new divisions arrived in the north from China, according to information from the intelligence department, the Dongfang Sheng Division had expanded to 100,000 men. Although most of them were equipped with swords, spears and spears, nearly half of them were equipped with Japanese soldiers.
Chapter completed!