funbook-pk Chapter 1037 War of Attrition
Chapter 1037 War of Attrition
At this moment, on the Pujiang position, the various troops, with the assistance of the 72nd Army, withstood the Japanese attack very dangerously. But even so, the total number of casualties among the various troops throughout the day was more than 2,300.
Of course, the Japanese were more powerful than us. According to reports from some of our statisticians, their casualties were more than 6,000. Of course, our troops did not cheer because they understood that this was all because of the 72nd Army. If it weren't for them, our journey back home would still be dangerous.
At the Luodian position, Guo Shaoqiu adopted a new method and drove the Japanese back another 200 meters.
Li Shaoyi believed that the battle had reached this point and all the ruthless tactics had been used. What kind of tactics could make the Japanese retreat 200 meters?
After talking to Guo Shaoqiu on the phone, I found out that this guy actually used tunneling.
The method was very simple: when the brothers had nothing to do, they would continue digging trenches outward from our trenches. At the beginning, the Japanese bombarded our newly dug trenches, but our artillerymen did not stop and just ate and fought against them.
After silencing their artillery, our infantry continued to dig trenches.
It took us nearly two days to advance two hundred meters. The Japanese side could not withstand our attack at all, so they had no choice but to retreat.
Li Shaoyi thought Guo Shaoqiu's method was quite good. When two armies were in a stalemate, when you were fighting for a position and had to use human corpses to measure the length, every method could be used.
As long as we can advance and force the Japanese army to retreat, the headquarters will definitely support us.
The Pujiang battlefield is now almost in a stalemate.
We seized the position during the day, and at night the Japanese soldiers tied explosives all over their bodies and rushed to our position under the cover of darkness. They shouted, "Long live the Emperor," and then detonated the explosives on their bodies.
No matter how many people are around, even if there are only one or two people, they will launch such a desperate attack.
Although we have taken many measures, such as turning on all the car lights on the battlefield, and although this will consume gasoline and diesel, in order to ensure the safety of our brothers' lives, the consumption is consumed.
The mortars continued to fire flares into the air to increase the brightness of the surrounding area, but no matter what measures we took, the Japanese suicide attacks never stopped.
It is precisely because of their suicide attacks that our front line, despite having the advantage in weapons, is not advancing very quickly.
During the day, the Japanese launched a Banzai charge, leaving behind a large number of corpses in front of our position.
At night, relying on the cover of these corpses, their soldiers tied explosives all over their bodies and caused considerable damage to our positions.
After three or four days of such fighting, the Japanese suffered more than 4,000 casualties every day, and our casualties were close to 3,000. It can almost be said that we lost 800 of our own men for every 1,000 we killed.
Li Shaoyi investigated the casualties on the battlefield and found that most of them were killed in the explosion at night.
The casualties among the more than ten regiments of the 72nd Army were not small, but compared with other units, our casualties were relatively small.
The main reason was that when the Japanese rushed over at night, the firepower of the various units of the 72nd Army was strong, and the soldiers all used double guns, so very few soldiers could rush to the position to detonate explosives. But it was different for other units. On average, one out of every three Japanese soldiers could rush in.
One Japanese soldier rushing in could take away at least seven or eight of us.
"I know what you're thinking. You want to minimize our losses, but we're fighting a war of attrition right now. Against the Japanese, unless you can equip all your troops like your 72nd Army, even if you equip them with all the weapons and equipment, can you train them to keep up?"
Chief of Staff Zhang looked at Li Shaoyi's bloodshot eyes and brought him a glass of milk.
The staff officers in the headquarters knew very well what Li Shaoyi was thinking about these two days.
Li Shaoyi has always wanted to reduce the casualties of our troops, but in the face of the Japanese suicide attacks, this number is difficult to reduce. No matter how fierce our attack is during the day, the Japanese can still organize suicide squads at night.
The firepower of each unit has been strengthened, but as Chief of Staff Zhang said, the weapons in the hands of many troops are not weak, but as soon as they come into contact with the Japanese, the weakness of insufficient training is immediately revealed.
Both sides used the same Type 38 rifle, but the Japanese could fire five bullets in half the time of yours, and the hit rate was still over 60%.
It takes you twice as long as others to fire five bullets, and the hit rate is only 10% to 20%. This cannot be improved simply by giving you weapons. It requires at least several months of training before the war.
Moreover, it is unlikely to equip all the people on the Pujiang battlefield with the equipment of the 72nd Army. Just adding submachine guns and light machine guns to them would require an astronomical daily supply. If they were all equipped with semi-automatic rifles, even Li Shaoyi would not be able to handle it even with his system.
It’s not that the system provides fewer weapons and equipment, but that transportation on the battlefield is a big problem. Now Li Shaoyi has almost used all the drivers on the battlefield as cattle and horses. However, due to the war, a large part of the original roads are blocked, and there are bombings by Japanese planes during the day, so the utilization rate of cars is less than half.
Most of the vehicles active on the battlefield now are small carts or narrow horse-drawn carriages, which are moving through the construction waste. Everyone knows that cars carry a lot of things, but less than 40% of the roads are accessible to cars.
The Japanese Army Air Force also conducted research on the Pujiang urban area. During the day, they dared to drop precious bombs on some buildings where no troops were stationed. You can imagine why they did this, which was to block our transportation and supplies.
Li Shaoyi drank the glass of milk in front of him with a wry smile, always thinking that there must be a way to break the deadlock. If he continued to waste energy like this, it would still be a miserable victory in the end.
"To be honest, we have 3,000 people every day, but they have 4,000. What else do you expect?"
Chief of Staff Zhang said this bitterly, but in the minds of many people, this was already a great victory...