Red Alert 1895

Chapter 38 – 1 More Vote

The last more than a hundred Japanese troops immediately began to surrender. They had never seen such fierce firepower at all, and even when they were fighting against Manchu soldiers, they had never encountered such fierce firepower at all. But now they were suddenly stunned, and they had already lost 90% of their vitality, so they couldn’t stand it at all. The Japanese army in this period did not have the Bushido spirit of the World War II period, and their psychological quality was still much weaker than later. They surrendered very spinelessly, and accepted Wang Guorui’s disarm.

“Let these prisoners quickly dig a big hole, throw all the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and bury them!” Hu Wei said.

Now that it is after the war, Hu Wei began to direct the soldiers to do those ordinary things. And these Japanese prisoners were also ordered to dig a pit, and they dug a huge pit, and then buried the bodies of more than a thousand Japanese soldiers. Anyway, these Japanese prisoners had to do rough work, after all, Wang Guorui couldn’t spend money to support them for no reason. What’s more, these Japanese soldiers can also be regarded as their former comrades-in-arms, and it is appropriate for them to bury the corpse. At this time, Wang Guorui didn’t have so much time, so he just dug a hole and buried it directly, so that he couldn’t be cremated. As for after the war is over, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers will be returned to the Japanese government, which is a bit humane! Wang Guorui didn’t even intend to insult the corpse. After all, they were all war dead. If he insulted the opponent’s corpse today, his army would also suffer retribution in the future. Although maybe the Japanese army would not take this into consideration, Wang Guorui had to take this into consideration.

“Master Wang, this time we wiped out a total of 1,054 enemies, and the remaining one hundred people surrendered. This time is our victory, this time is really a big victory! You must know that in the In Liaodong, we only wiped out more than 2,000 people in the entire war, but we only wiped out more than 1,000 people in this ambush, which is really a great achievement!” Hu Wei said.

Wang Guorui immediately asked, “How much did we sacrifice this time?”

“Only five people were sacrificed, and no more than 20 were injured. The wounded were also arranged, and they were all treated by doctors in the field hospital. They were not serious. However, Mr. Wang, our main ambush in this ambush is We also rely on powerful firepower to win, and there is not much fighting process in itself. I have no doubt that if the enemy has the same weapons and firepower as us, we will lose ugly!” Hu Wei said with a sigh .

Wang Guorui was a little fortunate that these officers were also aware of their own shortcomings, that is, they had too little actual combat experience, and the officers’ command ability was also somewhat poor. This time, a half-layman, Wang Guorui, the commander, could see that these officers were either a little confused when the battle started, subconsciously ordering all of them to shoot indiscriminately, without any rules. Either it is very dogmatic, without any flexible control, and it is completely done according to the scriptures, according to the previous training. Both of these are actually caused by lack of combat experience. If the Japanese army hadn’t been beaten, the Japanese army might retreat in time.

And this time the victory was mainly due to the fact that Wang Guorui’s army was more than ten times more powerful than the opponent’s, completely suppressing it. It was this situation that made it impossible for the Japanese army to resist. It can be said that this battle did not reflect the fighting level. Even Wang Guorui had to admit that the Japanese army lost a bit aggrieved this time.

“I’m very happy that you can know this. However, we are now relying on firepower to defeat them. I can tell you that you have to study hard during this period before you can truly adapt to this new combat mode. And this time we also had the advantage of the terrain. We set up an ambush on the mountain and completely overwhelmed the enemy with artillery and machine guns, so that they could not resist at all. And they either choose to attack the mountain, and the other side is the ocean. It is impossible to pass. So this also caused them to be squeezed in a relatively small place, which is beneficial to our fierce firepower. If they are in the plains, our firepower advantage will be greatly reduced. At that time, they will not be able to beat them. Detours can be made so that our firepower advantage does not take too much advantage,” Wang Guorui said.

Being able to ambush this time has such a great effect, and it has a lot to do with the terrain restrictions on the Japanese army. It faces the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, which is relatively narrow. Either these Japanese troops were attacking up the mountain, so they suffered a lot. On the other side is the ocean, and it is impossible for them to throw themselves into the sea. In this way, they could only rush over from the front, but Wang Guorui deployed two battalions of troops in front of them, and there was an artillery battalion to bombard them, so it would be a ghost if they didn’t suffer heavy losses.

“Master Wang, I have an idea, why don’t we make another vote?” Hu Wei said.

“One more vote?” Wang Guorui asked back.

Hu Wei immediately explained: “Miss Tan Ya just now interrogated the captives, and he confirmed that this brigade is only at the forefront, and there is at least one regiment behind them. If we can annihilate them, then we will encourage the entire The anti-Japanese situation in Taiwan is over. No one in the brigade just now was able to escape, which means that their follow-up troops did not know that the brigade in front was annihilated. Maybe we can lay out another ambush and then wipe out a unit of them. The strength of the regiment! As long as one regiment can be wiped out, the Japanese army in Taiwan will probably suffer heavy losses.”

“A coalition?” Wang Guorui’s heart skipped a beat.

If one regiment of the Japanese army can be wiped out, that is, more than 3,000 people, then more than 4,000 Japanese troops can be wiped out. According to the ratio of more than 20,000 people in a Japanese horse-drawn division, that is already a loss of one-seventh. One-seventh of the battle damage is already a huge battle loss for an army. Then this can completely shatter the idea of the Japanese Guards Division occupying Taiwan, and they will inevitably fall into a morale drop, which can completely destroy the spirit of the Japanese army.

“If one regiment is destroyed, the Japanese Guards Division will suffer heavy losses. This Guards Division is the Imperial Forest Army of the Japanese Army, and it is a great encouragement to us in Taiwan’s resistance to Japan. At that time, Taiwan’s confidence in resisting Japan will inevitably surge again. At that time, the people of Taiwan also had a lot of confidence in the resistance to Japan. At this time, confidence was actually more important than weapons. Many Taiwanese believed that the Japanese army had defeated the entire imperial court, so how could the power of a single province in Taiwan be able to resist? What? We are going to eliminate a Japanese army regiment, especially the Japanese guards, which can boost morale!” Hu Wei said.

Wang Guorui understood what Hu Wei meant, that is, he had to achieve results in order to boost morale. Although Wang Guorui can boost the morale of some soldiers, morale does not mean confidence. There has always been a kind of thinking circulating in Taiwan, that is, China’s national power has not defeated the Japanese army, so how could a province in Taiwan be able to defeat it? So a big victory must be used to boost morale.

Just like the War of Resistance Against Japan in later generations, China could not have the confidence to resist the Japanese army after repeated defeats. After the Battle of Pingxingguan, the myth that the Japanese army was invincible was broken, which restored everyone’s confidence and let everyone see that the Japanese army can also be defeated. The Japanese army is also a human being, not a god.

“Okay, let’s make another vote!” Wang Guorui said.

But at this time, Tan Ya said: “Commander, I want to remind you, I’m sure, once you do this and wipe out a regiment of the Japanese army, the Japanese army will immediately realize that it is impossible to get close to the guards. Occupying Taiwan, they will inevitably increase their troops. Especially if they transfer troops from China, you will be under a lot of pressure. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com So, do you really want to do this?”

“Do we have a choice?” Wang Guorui asked.

Wang Guorui really has no choice, because the terrain here is good now, the terrain is narrow, with mountains on one side and ocean on the other, which is very helpful for Wang Guorui’s intensive firepower. Once they leave here, the terrain advantage will disappear, and the Japanese army will have more and more room to move and dodge. And once they take a step back at this time, the Japanese army will come rushing in like a flood breaking a bank.

At this time, it is different from the Anti-Japanese War more than 40 years later. The method of exchanging space for time can be used to dilute the Japanese army to the huge Chinese territory. But Taiwan cannot use this method. Taiwan is just an island, and its strategic depth is too small. So since the terrain here is very good, we can only stick to it, no matter how much pressure there is, we must hold on. At least this was the case in the early stages of the war, and this result could not be changed until the middle and late stages of the war. But in the middle and late stages of the war, what they faced was that the Japanese army attacked from both directions in Taipei and Tainan. This was a huge test.

“Let’s fight! Anyway, we will fight sooner or later. Who will prevent me from backing down? Once I back down, the geographical advantage and performance will no longer exist, and the crisis we are facing will be even greater. We must grit our teeth and persevere in spite of difficulties. We just want to Delay until the financial collapse of the Japanese army.” Wang Guorui said.

Tan Ya didn’t continue to say anything, after all, the commander has the highest power, and he is just a hero. The hero cannot command the army instead of the commander, only the commander can make the final decision.