The Japanese army learned from the early days of the infantry tactics. At that time, the Japanese army, which was extremely envious of the powerful French army, almost became an Asian copy of the French army. However, when France was defeated in the French war, the Japanese discovered that the French tactics seemed to be a bit out of date, and then quickly turned to the German Empire on the side of the winner.▲∴▲∴, during World War I, Germany faced a group of powerful forces and fought back and forth, but they still fought back and forth. The Japanese army unanimously believed that Germany's final failure was due to internal reasons of the country, not a tactical fault of the army, so they still praised the infantry tactics of the German army, and after years of experiments, they finally developed a unique tactic suitable for the conditions of the Japanese army.

The imaginary enemy of the Japanese army has always been Russia and China, and they have never learned how to fight with European countries, so when the battle began, Kato's squadron suffered a lot.

The Fifth Division was invincible in the battles on the Chinese battlefield. The soldiers of the division were always confident about their combat effectiveness. Perhaps at the beginning, the soldiers were still a little afraid of the French army, but Sergeant Nguyen's appearance dispelled their concerns. Because Nguyen Phuket was also accompanied by a Vietnamese soldier, it led to Captain Kato's misjudgment. He thought that the bunker opposite was full of Vietnamese soldiers wearing French uniforms like Nguyen Phuket. Such shameless slaves who were defeated by the Japanese army could not be the opponent of the Japanese army. In the face of the powerful Wuwei of the Imperial Army, these wastes with fake tiger power would definitely collapse at once.

So Kato squadron launched an infantry assault on the French bunker according to the tactics commonly used in the Chinese battlefield. As mentioned earlier, the Japanese tactics included many shadows of the German army in the First World War, paying attention to the configuration and use of machine gun firepower and the infiltration and detour attacks of small-scale troops. The Miyako Squad and Takeda Squad relied on the rocks and drainage channels on both sides of the road to launch a restraining attack on the bunker. The remaining Tajima Squad sent a rifle team to try to detour from the side to approach the enemy fortress.

The Japanese army is facing very difficult combat now, and the culprit of all this was Morimoto Nakasa's stupid plan. Because it was told that the soldiers were an ordinary marching training, the soldiers did not carry any attack equipment at all. In the past, they encountered obstacles from the enemy's fortification. The Japanese army's usual practice was to rush forward and carry out blasting attacks by engineers or infantry under the cover of heavy firepower. However, now the Japanese soldiers only had lunch for the day except for their weapons and ammunition.

Besides, large machine gun forts like the one in front of us must use large doses of medicine bags or blasting tubes to destroy them. Morimoto's brigade did not carry a baggage team this time. The infantry now doesn't even have explosive bags on hand, let alone the Japanese special-equipped version of the "Bangaluru torpedo (large blasting tube)".

So he faced the French cement bunker. The only thing the Japanese infantry could use was the grenades they carried with them. The grenade launcher in the squad used the eight-nine grenade launcher to conduct several tentative attacks on the bunker. This small-caliber cast iron grenade could not even be tickling the reinforced concrete walls half a meter thick. The only effect obtained here was that explosion and smoke could temporarily block the sight of the shooter in the bunker.

But the problem is that this bunker does not have only one shooting window, and what is even more troublesome is that it is still on the upper and lower levels. The observers on the upper level have a very good vision. The Japanese army's every move cannot escape the observers' sight. As expected, the Tajima team's actions were noticed by the French lookouts at the beginning. Nguyen Phuket quickly mobilized a fortress machine gun to take care of this roundabout team.

The so-called fortress machine gun equipped by the French army is the famous Hatchcais M30, the crazy 13.2mm heavy automatic weapon. This thing is actually designed for the Maginot Line of Defense. It is called a fortress machine gun. In fact, it is that this thing is not very convenient to move and is only suitable for use in fortresses and bunkers as fixed weapons. This expensive large-caliber weapon was originally used to fight cavalry and armored vehicles, and only more than twenty were equipped with the Tokyo Regiment. Two of them were placed in the No. 1 machine gun fortress on the side of Highway 4, because this weapon can destroy light vehicles and is very useful when the road is blocked.

As a result, in front of this terrifying weapon with a rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute, the first team of Tashima was torn into pieces by bullets under the anticipation of the officers and soldiers of the Kato Squadron. In particular, the squad leader Tsukamoto Squadron was hit in the lower abdomen by two large-caliber machine gun bullets, and his whole person was almost beaten into two pieces in half. The extremely strong sergeant scratched the ground and wailed for half a minute, and was finally shot by the captain Tashima who could not bear to see it.

The first attack was severely defeated, and a team of soldiers died in front of everyone. The Japanese soldiers were not afraid of death. However, the death was so miserable that they couldn't help but feel a little scared. The location of the No. 1 machine gun fort was very tricky. It was originally an uphill section of Highway 4. On both sides of the top of the slope were hills more than 90 meters high. The No. 1 bunker was set on the side of the road on the top of the slope. If the Japanese wanted to bypass this place, they had to climb the two hills under the firepower of the bunker machine guns. This was simply a natural murder trap. It can be seen that the French did abandon their efforts when setting up this bunker.

"Assault! Take out the spirit of a Japanese man and follow me!" The second team of the Miyi Squad jumped out of the hidden place and began to advance quickly. The team leader Guize wrapped his head with a victory turban and led the team personnel to launch a decisive assault. One of the Japanese infantry tactics is that when encountering a strong enemy and when it is unable to find the enemy's weakness, it should launch a continuous and tentative attack continuously to disrupt the defense rhythm of the defenders, and find out the weaknesses on the enemy's front line.

Just as the Kizawa team was attacking bravely under the French machine gun shooting, Lieutenant Nobi, the adjutant of Morimoto Zaiji, came to Kato Soyuki with the command of the captain. Morimoto was very dissatisfied with the combat process of Kato Squadron and believed that the first battle would be like this, which would really damage the majesty of the Japanese Imperial Army. However, considering that Kato's available conditions were really limited, he was not prepared to blame the other party too much for his performance. However, the entire brigade could not have been blocked by a small bunker on the road, so this operation of Morimoto's brigade would become a huge joke.

Although Morimoto has a lot of problems and flaws, when it comes to war, he can be regarded as a fierce general with great experience. He has accumulated rich combat experience in the Chinese battlefield, so when the attack is blocked, he immediately made a corresponding solution. He ordered Kato Squadron to restrain the attention of the bunker and cover the two squadrons of Hasegawa and Okubo to launch a detour from both wings. The two squadrons will bypass the hills on both sides and advance directly to the rear of the enemy, catching the enemy off guard. Morimoto judged that this should be the main defense line of the French army on the periphery. As long as he breaks through this point, Tongdengcheng, who has no defense ability, will be exposed to the Japanese army.

This is really not a fault for Morimoto's idea of ​​being too simple. This is actually a manifestation of the Japanese army's lack of intelligence information on French Indochina. Morimoto's map only marks the external transportation and urban road distribution in the Tongdeng area. In addition to marking that the French army built a fort on Pingding Mountain in the southwest of the city, the other military arrangements were completely blank.

At that time, the total number of Japanese expatriates in the entire French Indochina was less than 500, most of them lived in Haipong, Hanoi and Saigon. Before 39 years, no Japanese intelligence officer had ever been to Tongdeng. The map in the hands of the Japanese army was bought by Japanese spies from French bookstores, which only indicated various civil roads and facilities. As for the distribution of military units on the map, the French were not so stupid.

In French Indochina, the intelligence gathering methods used by the Japanese army were not very effective. The nature of the French colonists was destined to not trust the local people easily. For example, the construction of the Tongdeng Fort, the workers sought by France were hired from the Jiaozhichina and did not recruit any local people to participate in it, just to ensure that the fort structure will not be leaked. At the same time, because of the French background, the Japanese army could not use aircraft to reconnaise the terrain as in China. This is a serious violation of airspace. It will inevitably cause international disputes. In the existing harsh diplomatic environment of Japan, it is best not to do such a thing that will make the Ministry of Foreign Affairs crazy.

Therefore, Morimoto Zaiji was actually not very familiar with the situation on the other side of the border, but out of confidence in the Japanese army's previous brilliant achievements, he still issued the order to push the entire brigade into the abyss.

"The team is moving forward! Eliminate all enemies you encounter, and we will spend the night in Tongdengli tonight!"

The progress of the detour troops was not as smooth as Morimoto thought. Hasegawa Squadron climbed a hillside full of Artemisia annua and shrubs from the left side of the road. After climbing for a long time, he found a cliff that was nearly 70 degrees ahead. After turning around the top of the slope for several times, he could not find other roads that could be passed. In the end, he could only return from the original road, wasting more than twenty minutes.

Okubo Squadron successfully bypassed the mountain from the right and moved to the side of the No. 1 Machine Gun Fortress. When the officers and soldiers of the squadron happily drilled out of the Artemisia annua cluster and rushed onto Highway No. 4, they found that just under the hillside diagonally opposite the highway, there was a French stronghold standing, with a bright yellow Indochina Federal flag flying high on the flagpole of the stronghold's watchtower.

Okubo Squadron was eager to travel at that time, and did not pay attention to the reconnaissance ahead and the concealment of the troops. The officers and soldiers of the squadron appeared rashly in front of Lieutenant Domiere.

Hundreds of Japanese troops suddenly emerged from the grass beside the road. Lieutenant Domiere was really scared. The company commander was setting up defenses on the walls of the stronghold at that time and was preparing to organize some soldiers to support Nguyen Phuket, who was struggling to resist, transport ammunition and remove the wounded.

Domier was very surprised to find that the Japanese army had crossed the wild slopes with no roads. It was the end of the dry season. Artemisia anesthesia generally grew more than 1.5 meters. These Japanese soldiers could not see their heads when they threw them in. God knew how they identified the direction and found the way down the mountain. However, everything they thought was redundant. The French lieutenant reacted very quickly. He immediately ordered the machine guns and infantry on the wall to shoot at the Japanese officers and soldiers next to the road. In an instant, the soldiers of Okubo Squadron were shrouded in a rain of bullets.

I just looked at the ranking and fell to 96th place. What's more speechless is that from Monday to Saturday, the book hit only 1,000, but this month has only been halfway through. I hope that book friends will support it in the second half of the month. Your encouragement and support are the most important motivation for me when writing. (To be continued.)
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