Chapter 438 Second-line tug of war 2 It was a bad morning for the Takeda Brigade, as the chaotic troops, as they had suffered previous setbacks, prepared for an attack in front of the second-line positions.
The adjutant of the 1st Brigade, who supervised the completion of another combat readiness of the troops, habitually ran to Takeda Masayuki and reported to the captain of the brigade, a role he had been playing these days.
The lieutenant of the brigade is accustomed to such scenes, and this is the case every time there is a sudden battle situation.
The 1st Brigade was blocked or attacked by the Chinese army, and after recuperating from losses, it launched a counterattack.
The appearance of such a regular situation can only show that the intensity of the Chinese army's fighting is increasing one by one, and the first brigade can only bite the bullet.
Takeda Masayuki's 1st Brigade was raided last night and suffered heavy losses, which could not be helped, but the attack continued.
After a night's rest, Takeda Masayuki prepared to attack again, and the preparations before the attack were another adjustment and supplement.
In the raid, the Takeda Brigade lost more than 60 people killed and missing, and the combat squadron suffered more than 50 casualties, which was undoubtedly another heavy blow to the Takeda Brigade.
An infantry brigade, with more than 1,000 men attacking in the direction of Kunlun Pass, fought along the road, and after counting in the morning, the Takeda brigade could barely get together 600 men, including non-combat soldiers.
Takeda had to make another supplementary adjustment of combat soldiers, and it is the norm of the battle to make up while fighting, but the replenishment frequency of the Takeda Brigade is too high.
So far, it has been replenished once after the ambush by the Teaching Brigade, and again after the attack and defense of the village by the Teaching Brigade, and this morning is the third replenishment Takeda's two infantry squadrons each lost nearly 30 men in last night's raid, and they were now empty again.
The casualties brought about another empty formation, and the empty formation directly brought about another decline in combat effectiveness An infantry squadron of the Japanese army had three infantry squadrons, numbering between 190 and 250 men.
The three fierce battles caused heavy losses to the original Japanese combat soldiers, and even after three replenishments, the two infantry squadrons only had 1670 men, and they did not reach the real full strength.
According to the establishment, a standard infantry squadron of 180 men in the Japanese army includes: a squadron headquarters of 19 people: including the squadron leader himself, the executive officer, three subordinate officers, four combat health officers, orderly officers directly under the squadron leader, trumpet commanders, and eight foot or horse communicators, which belong to the non-combatants of the infantry squadron Takeda supplemented all the baggage troops transferred from the baggage squadron, giving priority to meeting the needs of the squadrons under each squadron, and after the replenishment, the strength of the three squadrons was barely replenished, and as for the personnel, such as the order, division number, and squadron headquarters, they were unable to replenish them.
After listening to the routine combat readiness report of the adjutant of the brigade, Takeda Masayuki felt a little helpless in his heart, adding that this word was the one he had heard the most in the past two days, and it also represented what his troops had experienced, with nearly half of the losses and a large number of combat forces "Captain, the artillery has been put into line, and the search soldiers at the front have also been dispatched."
Takeda Masayuki looked at the positions and fields ahead, and the surprise attack on the enemy's position was imminent, attacking, and it was necessary to attack.
Ahead were the frozen corpses of Japanese soldiers after a night of confrontation, abandoned horses and vehicles, and unsightly defensive positions.
"Adjutant, tell me what you think about these enemy forces on the other side."
The adjutant, who had become accustomed to making supplementary reports, was stunned for a moment, and then expressed his views on the forward position.
"Captain, I think these enemy troops are likely to be the ones we are pursuing, in terms of firepower, the enemy has heavy machine guns, and a large number of grenadiers, which are roughly the same as the enemy firepower we defeated in the village, there are enemy troops on both sides of the road, I think, it is the enemy army we defeated in the village, and the combat effectiveness is very strong."
The adjutant conscientiously expounded his judgment and taught the friendly troops of the brigade, the Takeda Brigade and the 65th Regiment to fight each other for nearly two days.
Later, Deng Junlin's troops took up the squad of the teaching brigade and were "defeated" by the Takeda brigade, and the only information that the Takeda brigade could obtain about the enemy troops engaged in the battle was Deng Junlin's department.
The one who conquered the village Takeda Brigade was also the Deng Junlin Department.
The adjutant's judgment came from the firepower and the number of people, and the teaching brigade and the first battalion of Zhou Pu's 65th Regiment were equipped with grenadiers and grenades, and the teaching brigade also had a mortar platoon, which was exactly the same as the firepower of Deng Junlin's department.
Takeda nodded slightly, expressing agreement.
The adjutant of the brigade continued: "Judging from the number found on the corpses of the enemy soldiers left behind in the battle in the village, it is the unit of the 65th Regiment of the 22nd Division of the enemy. ” "It should be these enemy troops, they didn't hold the village position, the speed of building a position here to block us is really strange, it seems that this Chinese army really can't be underestimated."
The heavy machine gun squadron was to support and suppress the firepower, and the soldiers could not move, so Takeda relied on the heavy troops to supplement the combat squadron and maintain the combat strength of the combat squadron, but the blood of the baggage squadron was almost sucked dry, and there was no one.
Where are the baggage soldiers?
All of them were assigned to the combat squadron as combat soldiers, and the baggage soldiers who were still doing their own work were not enough to make up a small team.
For this reason, Takeda had to give up a part of the baggage, the baggage soldiers were not enough, the baggage vehicles could not all follow the road, the abandoned materials and ammunition, Takeda added a part of the ammunition, and it was really impossible to take away, so he could only abandon the cars and horses on the side of the Nanbin Highway and let the reinforcements behind deal with it.
Takeda spread out his troops and adopted the tactics of a wide frontal attack, believing that one of the important reasons for the surprise attack was the fact that the troops were concentrated on the road, and he ordered the whole brigade to attack and search, and to focus on occupying the field.
The Takeda Brigade made intensive preparations for the attack and sent search troops.
After successive defeats and troop losses, Takeda had to be more careful.
In the past, this kind of battle was usually a direct attack, but now Takeda sent search troops to conduct pre-war reconnaissance, at best it sounded careful, but in fact it was really scared, eating more than 50 people in the first battle and more than 60 people in the first war, adding up to a huge number, resulting in the tragic loss of nearly half of the whole brigade.
In front of the second-line position, a group of Japanese troops crawled forward in search of the position, slowly dispersed in front of the second-line position, searched and reconnoitred, and then approached the second-line position in the early morning mist and the cover of the field.
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