Chapter 35 Ambush
Yamamoto's special forces team was retreating urgently on a mountain path. The No. 86 members were divided into three long lines. Even during the retreat, the search scouts in the front and the rear guards in the rear were still meticulous.
"Colonel, why are you retreating like this? Koshikataro is only scratched, he's still capable of fighting.
And according to my estimation, the Eighth Route Army had low combat effectiveness and had no experience in dealing with close-range attacks with automatic weapons. In the initial contact, no less than two hundred people should have fallen under our guns.
According to intelligence, the Eighth Route Army headquarters is guarded by only three regiments, and the remaining two regiments are in other locations. We can easily defeat this regiment, go in and destroy the Eighth Route Army headquarters, and then withdraw. "
Yamamoto Ikki looked at his subordinate with approval. He also agreed with the other party's statement that his small force could defeat an entire regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
But, in his mind, that's not how a war is fought.
“Although we have the ability to defeat an enemy regiment, there will be losses.
We are not samurai, we are assassins!
When the environment, time and objectives have reached a suitable opportunity, it is time for us to take action.
My goal is to change the current way of fighting and make the Army pay attention to special operations.
The Eighth Route Army headquarters is not our final goal. We can have many strategic goals. Yan Xishan’s headquarters, Yan’an, and Chongqing can all be our targets.
However, it is better to launch a decisive battle and then complete the mission at a terrible cost, or to quietly take off the enemy leader's head like an assassin without any casualties of your own.
Which method do you think will be more favorably looked upon by the military?"
Even if this subordinate was stupid, he would make the choice, so he understood.
Night battles are not very friendly to both sides, but they are also the strong points of both sides.
When the Japanese fought against the Russians in the early years, their weapons were not as good as theirs, and they did not have as many artillery as the Russians. They could only rely on night battles and large-scale pig-style group charges to narrow the gap between the two sides.
The Eighth Route Army had poor weapons and equipment. Often a regiment of more than a thousand people had only four or five hundred guns, so in addition to hand-to-hand combat, night combat was also the first choice.
Yamamoto's special forces team was divided into three combat teams, with some distance between them. If the first team was ambushed, the following two teams would outflank it.
If the combat group in the middle is ambushed, the combat groups at both ends will encircle it.
The same goes for the following. If it were any other troop, with such a small combat unit, with a combat team of about twenty people, it would be simply playing with life.
But Yamamoto's special forces are not ordinary soldiers. Many of them are veterans who have received special training in Germany and learned special operations.
They have the qualifications to be confident that even if they are ambushed by the Eighth Route Army here, they are capable of fighting their way out as long as not everyone enters the ambush circle.
Even so, their vanguards still moved forward with meticulous vigilance.
From time to time, they would go up to some ridges where ambushes were likely to occur to check.
Including the places they checked, they were generally no more than 500m away from the marching road. After all, there were not many sharpshooters in the Eighth Route Army beyond 500m, and every battle would be fought after firing a few rows of shots and then charging into hand-to-hand combat.
At a distance of 500m, even a sharpshooter of the Eighth Route Army would find it difficult to hit someone from this distance.
If someone knew their search distance and hid 500m away, it would not be impossible for them to move forward after they finished searching.
However, a large force moving forward several hundred meters would cause a lot of noise, especially at night. In this silent environment, the sound of any movement could be heard from far away.
If it is a small force of dozens of people, or even more than a hundred people, they are not afraid.
Unless they are also special forces, and well-equipped special forces, and train like them or even harder than them.
But this is obviously impossible. Even in Europe, except for Germany, there is no such force, let alone in faraway Asia.
Brigade Commander Chen, along with Chen Xiao and the students from the Scout School, lay in the bushes and watched the enemy's search scouts passing by not far below them. Even he felt a little nervous.
Ding Wei's new regiment did not catch up because they could not keep up the speed.
The students of the Scout School started weighted forced march training more than two months ago, with remarkable results.
The ambush location was decided by Chen Xiao. Brigade Commander Chen saw that he was taking it as a joke, so he took the map and found several of his platoon leaders and squad leaders, asked them questions, and asked them to choose a suitable place for the ambush.
Then he found out their loopholes and mistakes from their answers, pointed out that the Japanese special forces marched differently, and the ambush points had to be arranged according to this feature, and he personally finalized the ambush point.
In fact, Chen Xiao knew nothing about ambushes. The reason why he was able to find was because he had a teaching eye.
The teaching eye can see the mistakes of the students and correct them.
He had trained his trainees in the same way before, including forced marches with weights, and also corrected the breathing and running rhythm of the trainees through the teaching eye.
In addition, targeted training is provided based on each student's physical fitness and knowledge, so that they can be reborn and their combat effectiveness can be increased dramatically within three months.
So, even though he didn't understand ambush, the teaching eye could give the best answer based on the students' mistakes, so he understood it.
The ambush point was a human-shaped curve, and Yamamoto's troops would walk from one foot of the person to the top of the head, and then walk out from the other foot.
According to the marching method of Yamamoto's special forces, when his first combat team reached the exit of the pedestrian curve, the second combat team just reached the top of the pedestrian curve, and the third combat team just reached the entrance of the pedestrian curve.
After the search scouts of Yamamoto's special forces passed, Chen Xiao and Brigade Commander Chen led the scouts and quietly moved to a position 250 meters away from the exit bend below.
There are more than fifty scouts in the school, but originally there were only about forty of them, and later a few more were added from the headquarters.
"Pass the order on. The enemy special forces are equipped with MP38 submachine guns, which are the standard submachine guns of the German army with an effective range of 200 meters.
These people below are a special forces unit composed of the best Japanese soldiers, so their shooting skills should not be underestimated.
However, the effective range of their submachine guns is still shorter than that of our rifles. Your usual training results within 300 meters are still excellent.
It's dark now. I'll fire flares later, and you can use your light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers to attack the enemy.
Your shooting accuracy is no worse than that of the enemy, your shooting range is longer than that of the enemy, and your number of people is greater than that of one of the enemy's combat teams.
So my requirement is to cripple one of the enemy's combat groups as quickly as possible, and then immediately move on to attack the combat group at the entrance.
Remember quickly, the enemy special forces' grenade launchers are as accurate as mine!"
"Yes!" came a soft reply, and everyone prepared for battle. Chen Xiao held the flare to the muzzle of the gun.
The battle is about to begin...
