Chapter 1510: Commander Tang's Spear Is Already Impatient!

In order to improve the combat effectiveness in the future, the Chinese side did not hesitate to spend a lot of bullets and manpower to train new recruits. Faced with such annoying harassment, the Japanese side naturally responded frequently.

East of the city, by the Xiangjiang River!

Hengyang City, like most cities in China, used to be surrounded by city walls. However, since the beginning of the Republic of China, many cities including Hengyang have been gradually demolished due to the need for urban construction and expansion. The old city walls were regarded as a symbol of feudal remnants.

The supreme commander was one of the important driving forces. At that time, the ancient city wall of Jinling affected the Huangpu Military Academy and was ready to be demolished. Later, due to the strong opposition from the people, it was abandoned.

However, as a small border town, Hengyang's city walls were not completely demolished. The city walls in the south and west of the city were very dilapidated. Before the Battle of Hengyang, there were basically only a few loess piles similar to earthen walls left. It took nearly 10,000 civilians a week to reconnect these earthen walls with wood and loess to form a simple defense line 3 meters high. On the east side of the city, in order to prevent the flood at the confluence of Xiangjiang River and Zhengshui River from flowing back into the city, there is a very complete city wall in the northeast corner of Hengyang City.

Soldiers of the 10th Army often went to the Xiangjiang River to fetch water for use, and used these city walls as cover to avoid being shot by Japanese snipers hiding in the reed marshes on the opposite bank.

But the Japanese snipers' marksmanship was very powerful. Even at a distance of more than 450 meters, they observed the gaps between the battlements of these city walls. Once they found a figure passing through, they immediately aimed at the next battlement and sniped, often hitting the soldiers of the 10th Army across the river.

On the first and second days, only two or three soldiers were hit, which was not a large number. The losses were reported to the company and battalion level, but as time went on, especially on the fourth day, the casualties increased sharply, and the number of soldiers killed and seriously injured exceeded 60, including several accurate shooters who attempted to kill the Japanese.

At this time, the battalion and the regiment could not suppress it. The news finally reached the chief of staff of the Hengyang Command, Zhao Zili. Chief of Staff Zhao was furious when he heard it. In a big battle, both sides suffered losses, which depended on the ability of both sides, but how could the Japanese army bear it silently?

He immediately called the infantry regiment commander under the 3rd Division and severely criticized him, accusing him of not caring about the lives of soldiers, which was a typical old warlord style. If he didn't have this ability, he should get out and make room for other troops that could go up.

A colonel naturally dared not argue with a lieutenant general-level chief of staff, and could only bow his head and be scolded, but his superior, Lieutenant General Zhou, the commander of the 3rd Division, felt ashamed and immediately transferred three anti-tank guns from the artillery company directly under the division to Jiangdong.

Although the lieutenant general was quite angry, he knew in his heart that the 3rd Division was not without accurate shooters, but the Japanese were hiding in the reed marshes where they could not see clearly at all, and they were more than 400 meters away, far less clear than their own vision. Relying solely on shooters to shoot at each other might not be good enough to lose both the wife and the soldiers.

Why not do it in the simplest and most direct way? It’s better to keep the Japanese snipers from showing their heads. Once they show their heads, they will be greeted with anti-tank guns. This is called rifles are accurate when poor, and firepower coverage when rich!

"Commander Zhou, how about I go there and help your division save some shells?" Tang Dao, who was inspecting the defense line of the 3rd Division, suddenly interrupted.

Since the battle in Hengyang began, Tang Dao, the director of the Operations Department, has been extremely busy. There are 48 large and medium-sized positions in the outer and inner peripheries of Hengyang, 138 small positions, and all kinds of information of nearly 200 positions are under the overall responsibility of the Operations Department led by him. He is also responsible for connecting the artillery support of each division, regiment, and even battalion.

After issuing a sufficient number of individual walkie-talkies and battalion and regiment-level radio voice communication equipment to each department, the work efficiency of the Operations Department has been greatly improved, but the workload is also two or three times that of the past. Under the busy schedule, he gave the command of the Four-Line Regiment to Ye Chenghuan.

As the strongest individual soldier in the entire Hengyang City, it has been a month since the war began. Director Tang has not even had the opportunity to pull out the Black Star pistol inserted in the right thigh, let alone carry a gun to fight on the front line.

To put it bluntly, Tang Dao's gun has long been thirsty, but it doesn't matter, there is no target!

Suddenly, I heard that there were Japanese snipers provoking on the other side of the Xiangjiang River, and they had been provoking for a week, killing and injuring more than 20 comrades. How could Tang Dao tolerate it?

"Director Tang, that's unacceptable. Where are you going? If you get hurt, the commander will swallow me up." Lieutenant General Zhou shook his head repeatedly.

He is old, not stupid!

Let's not talk about how much Fang Xian absolutely values ​​Tang Dao. He directly put Tang Dao, a colonel in the army, in the position of the director of operations who almost commands the entire army. Just talking about the performance of the Four-Line Regiment in the past month, it really reflects the reputation of the rumored "No. 1 Regiment in the World".

Earlier in Huangchaling, a battalion of the Four-Line Regiment resisted the attack of a Japanese infantry regiment and directly crippled an infantry regiment. The layers of corpses in the killing trenches were chilling. The green-headed flies growing in the deep trenches were as fat as beetles and flew to Hengyang City ten miles away.

As a result, the soldiers and civilians in the city knew where the big green-headed flies came from as soon as they saw them.

As soon as the anti-aircraft battalion of the 4th Line Regiment showed up, it directly killed more than a dozen Japanese fighters and bombers, and the Japanese Army Air Force was defeated. In the next few days, no bombers were seen.

According to his private communication with the commander of the 10th Reserve Division, Ge Youcai, with the current combat effectiveness of the 4th Line Group, it might be a bit exaggerated to beat the 10th Army, but it was a foregone conclusion that it would surpass their two divisions.

To put it bluntly, in the eyes of the two lieutenant generals who hold the military power in Hengyang City, Tang Dao is actually a person who can be compared with them.

Because the Four-Line Regiment under his command has this strength.

In the battlefield where the weak are the prey of the weak, no identity or background is important, everything depends on the strength in hand.

As a result, Tang Dao, a commander who ranks in the top five in Hengyang City in Zhou Qingxiang's mind, actually said that he was going to fight with Japanese snipers. Who would agree?

"Haha! Who said I want to go? Commander Zhou, you know that my Four-Line Regiment is well equipped, but you probably don't know that my regiment has several very good snipers!" Tang Dao laughed. "Do you still remember the revenge my regiment launched against the Japanese after I was assassinated? In Jiangxia City, the old devil Tanabe Shengwu was shot and killed by someone from hundreds of meters away. That was the joint attack of two snipers in my regiment."

Erya, who followed Tang Dao, blinked her eyes, but smiled softly.

How to say it? The commander of the regiment is so handsome when he talks nonsense seriously.

Captain Erya, who has been promoted to the deputy company commander of the communication company of the Four Lines Regiment and the chief of the Tangdao Secretary Section, has now returned to female clothing.

Her identity was not exposed by Tan Tai Mingyue, who had guessed it long ago, but originated from a battle. Erya, who was still the deputy captain of the medical team, was injured. It was a gunshot wound in the ribs. After Erya's bra was untied while she was in a coma, the story of Hua Mulan joining the army for her father in ancient times and now Captain Erya is as brave as men quickly spread in the Four Lines Regiment.

There are many female soldiers in the Four Lines Regiment, but Erya is a female officer who has been dressed as a man for several years and has even been fighting on the front line. Everyone is more impressed than surprised.

Erya may have gotten used to it. She no longer needs the bra that is almost suffocating her, but her hairstyle is still the buzz cut of male soldiers.

With healthy wheat-colored skin, a buzz cut and a set of military uniforms, her heroic appearance attracted a large number of young officers.

However, Captain Erya is no longer the soldier who was almost scared to tears when shooting and killing the enemy. In the seven years following Tang Tuanzuo, she has learned a lot of close combat skills and gun skills from Tang Dao. Her skillful headlock can make a strong man as strong as an ox lose his ability to resist in just three seconds.

If you want to pursue her, you must defeat her first, which makes many young handsome men in the Four Lines Regiment give up.

"Hiss~~~Are you serious?" Zhou Qingxiang was stunned.

With his level, he only knew that the important general of the Japanese army in Jiangxia was shot and killed because of the revenge of the Four Lines Regiment, but he didn't know the inside story. Most of them were more inclined to be assassinated by intelligence personnel. Now he heard Tang Dao admit that it was the work of the elite shooters of the Four Lines Regiment, and he was naturally shocked.

"How can I deceive Commander Zhou?" Tang Dao waved his hand. "Go and inform Instructor Niu Er and Pang Zilong, tell them that there is a good prey today."

Two snipers from the Four-Line Regiment who happened to be resting in Hengyang City were ordered to come. In order to open the eyes of Master Zhou, Pang Zilong shot a human-shaped wooden target hidden in the bushes 400 meters away.

"Let's go!" Seeing Tang Dao personally carrying a long and big rifle and getting on the jeep, Lieutenant General Zhou Da, who was sitting in a jeep behind, always felt that something was wrong.

His premonition unfortunately came true.

After making arrangements and instructions with his regiment commander and battalion commander in the fortification bunker 100 meters away from that section of the city wall, the two snipers from the Four-Line Regiment disappeared, and even Director Tang Da also slipped away.

The only thing that appeared in the vision of the Chinese Army Lieutenant General was the back of the man who was bending over with a nearly 15-kilogram gun but moving forward very agilely.

"Good!" The Chinese Army Lieutenant General couldn't help but burst out a swear word.

Now he finally understood why the heroic commander was collectively called a thorn by the commanders of the war zone he had served.

This guy was simply a typical example of a rebellious person.

What? For the shooting, can a long, big and thick gun be enough?

But the facts proved that it might really work!

In order to allow the lieutenant general to see more clearly, the artillery platoon moved all the artillery observation mirrors to this fortification less than 100 meters away from the Xiangjiang River.

The scene in the reed marsh opposite was clear, but the lieutenant general of the army could not see any Japanese.

The lieutenant general of the army could not see it, but it did not mean that the three super snipers led by Tang Dao could not see it.

Tang Dao knew that the Japanese who had tasted the sweetness must be hiding in the reed marsh, but they were just well disguised.

On the battlefields of World War II, many people left their names in history with their superb shooting skills and terrifying number of single-soldier kills. There were the bear Vasily Zaitsev who sniped at least 242 enemy soldiers, the German Empire's top ace Mahaus Heitzenauer who killed 345 people, and so on. Even the Chinese "Tuba" who was extremely short of weapons and equipment had a gun god who killed dozens of Japanese soldiers at a distance.

But no Japanese gunner has ever achieved such an achievement. Is it because the Japanese shooting skills are not good?

On the contrary, the Japanese shooting skills are not very good but quite good.

The Japanese army has an almost abnormal requirement for accuracy in shooting training. For example, the Kwantung Army requires that all five bullets must hit the target (only the head and shoulders) 300 meters away, and at least three of them must be concentrated on an area the size of a fist.

After reaching this level, it is a limited-second shooting. Initially, it was limited to hitting a target that appeared from somewhere 300 meters away within 4 seconds, and then it was limited to 2 seconds. After doing this, put on the gas mask and run 30 meters quickly, and then enter the limited-second shooting. If you fail to finish, you will be beaten and reprimanded by the veterans, and you will not be allowed to eat if you fail to hit!

After the recruit training, they will move to squad and squadron-level collaborative tactical training. At this stage, the recruits will be trained in the devilish way by the veterans, such as standing with weights and holding a gun with long aim; shooting incense heads from a hundred meters away at night; and running to avoid bullets. and shooting methods for avoiding bullets and running, etc. These devilish trainings have indeed greatly improved the individual combat capabilities of Japanese soldiers. This is also one of the reasons why China almost continued to lose in the early three years of the war and there was very little news of victory. .

In terms of training quality, if the Japanese army is a college student, the Chinese army is an elementary school dropout at best.

So why can't the Japanese army produce ace-level snipers? This is largely related to their devilish training methods. In the Japanese Army, although the so-called "five basic combat ethics" - loyalty, humility, courage, honesty, and frugality - are also formulated, the grassroots officers of the Japanese Army The way they treat their subordinates is the complete opposite.

In the Japanese Army, lower-level soldiers will be severely punished if they make any mistakes, negligence, neglect, or carelessness. Corporal punishment of soldiers is commonplace, not only in recruit training, but also in combat units.

Japanese soldiers' fear of being punished for making mistakes and their trepidation when facing the authority of their superiors have largely stifled their initiative. For this reason, Japanese soldiers are often too disciplined to seize fleeting opportunities.

They are all trained to be cogs in Japan's war machine. Under military orders, they do their best to complete the combat tasks assigned to them by their superiors, and rarely take the initiative to think about how to fight this battle.

Even valuable snipers, whose marksmanship is precise and perseverant, do not know how to adapt and often stick to one spot and shoot until death. Doesn’t this make yourself a disposable consumable?

The ace sniper who can leave his name in the sky of history didn't run away immediately after killing the enemy, waiting for the next opportunity to continue hunting prey. Otherwise, where did the terrifying number of more than 300 come from?

Even if he was as strong as Tang Tuanzuo, he would repeatedly jump between the several sniper positions he selected. Once he found that the Japanese artillery was targeting him, he would immediately turn around and run away. Even a dog could not catch up with that speed.

The Japanese army's "not afraid of death" strategy is the real reason why they don't have an ace sniper.

The Japanese army does not have an ace sniper, but it does not mean that their marksmanship is not good. Tang Dao, Niu Er, and Pang Zilong all know this.

Therefore, they are located in three places and are very careful.

"What is Tang Dao doing?" The Chinese Army Lieutenant General, who had been looking at the reed field opposite for a long time, could only turn his attention to the three Tang Dao people who had already hid behind the broken city wall.

But he was surprised to find that Tang Dao was leaning against the city wall, the big black gun was also placed on the ground, and he was stabbing something with a few wooden sticks and ropes.

Tang Dao's craftsmanship is good. He built a frame in three strokes, five divided by two. After taking off his military uniform and wearing it on this frame, he also put his helmet on this simple wooden frame. The Chinese soldiers behind him Only then did I understand.

Tang Tuanzuo's craft is called making scarecrows, and it seems to come from the countryside. From a distance, it looks a bit like that.

"Is this called luring a snake out of its hole?" the Army Lieutenant General raised his eyebrows slightly.

But, so what if it’s drawn out?

The other two officers, who were called sharpshooters by Tang Dao, did not look out. They sat quietly behind the city wall and checked their guns. They did not say at all that the chief had worked hard to stab the wooden man to conduct reconnaissance for them. They wanted to The intention to immediately jump into battle.

In the reeds!

Second Lieutenant Kotohara Zou was searching the river bank through the 4x scope of his Type 99 sniper rifle. More than 2 meters beside him, there was his assistant Konishi Zaomi Sergeant.

This was already the fourth day that the duo came to this area to set up an ambush for the Chinese water-receiving soldiers. With their precise shooting skills and the tacit cooperation of the duo, they had achieved fruitful results in the past few days and were highly praised by Colonel Yoshimasa Matsuyama.

It is believed that the duo's continuous successful sniper kills are gradually restoring the 6th Infantry Regiment's declining morale.

This is also one of the reasons why the division headquarters arranged the 9th group of the escort squadron to the 6th Infantry Regiment. They killed Chinese soldiers to save the morale of the 6th Infantry Regiment that was about to collapse. In addition, they had to reconnoiter the battlefield because the main force of the 3rd Division It is also about to arrive at Hengyang battlefield.

The duo are not soldiers of the 6th Infantry Regiment, but are directly under the division headquarters. They are a special infantry squadron built by the 3rd Division in the past two years to imitate the reconnaissance company of a Chinese unit. The superficial designation is The division is directly under the escort squadron. In fact, the 120 officers and soldiers in the squadron are composed of elite soldiers selected from the division's 25,000 people.

To enter the squadron, the starting point of military service is 4 years, and the minimum military rank must be sergeant. Usually, they do not participate in battles as a squad or squad, but enter the battlefield as a team of 2 or 6 people.

In the past year and a half since the formation of the escort squadron with the tactical purpose of reconnaissance, secret attacks, and long-range sniping, the results have been extremely fruitful. The highest-level target killed by Second Lieutenant Ogasawara Zou, an outstanding leader, was even a Chinese army colonel.

That was a commander at the level of a regiment commander. Xiao Liyuan Jiang even still remembers the moment when he killed the Chinese commander surrounded by many soldiers in a bush 480 meters away from the Chinese position. The Chinese soldiers were stunned.

At that moment, Lieutenant Xiao Li felt that he was the sharpest sword in the hands of the emperor of the empire.

Now, this sharp sword strikes again. Lieutenant Xiao Li has a hunch that soon, the Chinese will either use artillery or send archery masters to fight him.

It can only be said that men's intuition is too sharp, which is really not a good thing.

The Japanese duo provoked three super snipers who ranked in the top three in the entire Hengyang City and even the entire Central China.

Their only advantage is that the reed marsh is too easy to hide. Unless you have a pair of eagle eyes, it is difficult to find their specific location.