kingnovel Chapter 884: Fight During the Day
Chapter 884: Fight During the Day
Not attacking at night has always been the rule of the 72nd Army.
The Japanese had been fighting with the 72nd Army for quite some time. Whenever night fell, these people would feel very safe because the 72nd Army would only launch offensives during the day.
All I can say is that the people of the 72nd Army were too confident. A sneak attack at night would be a good opportunity for any army, but the people of the 72nd Army chose not to do it. If they wanted to fight, they would fight during the day because the visibility is better during the day and the advantages of all weapons can be brought into play. They would not do a sneak attack at night, even if they had the advantage.
In fact, this is all because of the big data department established by Li Shaoyi. After various observations and calculations, the big data department believes that at night, our combat effectiveness can only be exerted at about 85% of that during the day. Don't underestimate this 15% combat effectiveness. Compared with an army of tens of thousands of people, this 15% combat effectiveness is not small.
Therefore, unless there is a special opportunity, or Japan has a relatively large flaw, otherwise, we will only reinforce our positions at night, notify one-third of the brothers to be on duty at night, and the rest of us will go back to sleep.
Of course, one-third of the brothers on duty would not be idle either. Whether they were machine guns or mortars, they would fire at the Japanese positions every once in a while.
The Japanese soldiers didn't understand what was going on and thought they were about to face an attack, so many of them couldn't sleep well all night. However, after the soldiers of the 72nd Army had experienced a period of discomfort, they now understood that as long as their superiors didn't say anything, it meant that the matter had nothing to do with them, and they could just listen to the sound of machine guns and fall asleep slowly.
At the beginning, many people couldn't sleep, but later they got used to it. The same noise is heard every day. If you can't sleep, you won't be able to keep up the energy during the day.
After dark tonight, some of our observers arrived at their respective positions and turned on high-power radars for fear that the Japanese might launch a surprise attack at night. However, what surprised the observers was that the Japanese had no intention of launching a surprise attack. Instead, they sent out groups of soldiers and began digging trenches around them.
The news soon reached Li Shaoyi. Li Shaoyi and Zhao Tiezhu also came to the front line. They could see clearly through the telescope that there were at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers in the distance, starting to dig trenches outside their military camp.
"These devils are very quick to react, but this is useless. Notify our artillery unit. Half of them cannot rest tonight. Observers, watch carefully. If there is any dust, the artillery must start firing."
To deal with such trench diggers, as long as you have enough artillery shells, you don't have to worry at all. Of course, this will only make the artillery and transport troops work hard.
"These beasts have quite a few ways to deal with us, but even if we use artillery shells, the trenches they've dug will still be quite a few. Tomorrow's attack might cause us some trouble."
Zhao Tiezhu frowned and said, our artillery shells can indeed kill some of their soldiers and destroy the dug trenches, but you cannot kill everyone, nor can you destroy all the trenches, so this approach of the Japanese side will still have results, and will delay our attack tomorrow.
"Your thinking is a bit stagnant. Warfare requires flexibility. Use artillery fire in the first half of the night. They'll think we won't do anything other than fire, and that'll reassure them. Around three in the morning, or four, just before dawn, send out a commando team to rush directly to where they're digging their trenches, kill them all, and blow them flat at the same time."
Li Shaoyi's words made Zhao Tiezhu happy again. Our Marshal is good at making flexible deployments and does not stick to the old ways. As long as we can cause losses to the Japanese, we can do anything.
"If it really doesn't work, you can talk to the Air Force. When you see the Japs digging a hole inside, just drop incendiary bombs, open the auxiliary fuel tanks, and pour fuel in. It's not like we haven't done this before. Burn these bastards to death."
Anyway, there are many ways to deal with the Japanese, it just depends on how you do it. Our pilots have mastered the essentials of night takeoff and landing, and now it is different from before. Of course, when bombing the enemy at night, the accuracy is greatly reduced because there are not many reference objects on the ground.
Li Shaoyi was too lazy to care about this matter. After saying a few words, he went back to sleep. He had been busy all day. There were special personnel on duty at night. He asked Zhao Tiezhu to take these personnel to deal with the Japanese. He would come to work overtime tomorrow morning. We can't let all the people get tired out. We have to learn how to take shifts.
"Commander, order the artillery to attack now?"
A combat staff officer asked Zhao Tiezhu, this guy was listening next to Li Shaoyi when he was speaking just now.
"What nonsense are you talking about? The Japanese soldiers have just started working. If we start firing now, how much can we achieve? You have to let them dig for a while. Do you think earthwork is easy? They have to be replaced every hour, otherwise they will be exhausted. Let them work for a while first."
Zhao Tiezhu said cheerfully while arranging the assault team. He still remembered what happened last time very clearly. He would fill the truck with oil drums, drive to the edge of the trenches, and burn the Japanese pigs.
There are many ways to die on the battlefield, but if you want to leave a lasting impression on the Japanese, burning them with gasoline is arguably the best way. And we don't lack gasoline or anything like that. If they were killed directly with bullets, wouldn't that be a normal death? What kind of impression would that leave on the Japanese?
Only by burning these devils with gasoline and filling the air with an unbelievable smell of meat can these Japanese feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.
An hour later, Zhao Tiezhu ordered his artillerymen to start the attack. Most of them were large-caliber heavy mortars, and howitzers tried not to expose their positions.
Mortars with a range of over 100mm began to pour shells towards the Japanese positions. In a short while, thousands of shells were thrown at them. The Japanese soldiers who were digging trenches were in trouble. The large number of shells falling from the sky made it impossible for them to escape. The trenches were too narrow.