In "Bright Sword", the independent regiment fights the Yamazaki brigade and completely annihilates the Japanese army with 3600 grenades, is it feasible in military combat?
This is to be discussed separately, in the TV series, in the novel, and in the real history, it is a completely different situation. Let's talk separately.
In Li Youbin's version of "Bright Sword", the characteristics of the Japanese position are described in detail. This position was built on a hilltop platform in Lijiapo and was a circular position. Because the ring position is in the center of the hilltop platform, no matter which direction the Eighth Route Army rushes up, once it goes to the platform on the top of the mountain, it needs to charge a distance of 80 meters, such a long distance, no matter what, it will be killed by the Japanese army, which is the fundamental reason why the blind man of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, 772 Regiment, suffered heavy casualties but failed to take down the Japanese army.
The key here is how to reduce the charging distance, reduce the casualties in the charge, and take down the summit platform in one fell swoop. Li Yunlong's way was to advance 50 meters by geotechnical excavation, and the remaining 30 meters were handed over to grenades. Through grenade projection, the Japanese army suddenly lost its resistance, and a single charge could completely annihilate the remaining Japanese troops.
TV dramas are nipple music culture, as long as you are cool, there is no need for you to think about more problems. Therefore, the TV series simplifies the battlefield situation to the greatest extent, on the one hand, so that the audience can understand, on the other hand, it also shows Li Yunlong's ability to contact military command and tactical arrangements.
In the novel, the Japanese position is set up like this:
Yamazaki, a graduate of the Imperial Army University, was an excellent tactician who commanded and constructed field fortifications. At the top of the Lijiapo Heights is a flat round platform, which is conventionally guarded by the fortification positions of one side. It should be built on the ridge of the hillside platform, so that it can have a clear view of the dynamics of the attacking side, and it is also convenient to carry out firepower from a commanding height. However, Yamazaki built the ring fortifications in the center of the flat round platform on the high ground, and the attacking troops could not see the defenders under the slope, and the direct fire was useless, and the curved fire such as mortars was very small. The attacking troops had just rushed up the steep slope, and as soon as they appeared, they were immediately knocked down by Japanese snipers. The battle lasted for a whole day, and the hillside was covered with the corpses of eighth route army soldiers, and the first few main regiments to participate in the attack suffered more than half of the casualties and lost the ability to attack.
Obviously, the Japanese army's killing distance was 80 meters, the geotechnical excavation was 50 meters, and the grenade was thrown out for 30 meters, which was enough to blow up all the Japanese troops in the ring fortification, and then solve the battle with a charge.
If the Japanese ring position was really so simple, Li Yunlong's tactics would really work. A battalion of 360 men each had 10 grenades, and throwing 360 at a time was a big bombing, and these grenadiers continued to rush forward, throwing at the same time, the Japanese fortifications were blown up, the Japanese army was also bombed, and then the machine gunners, short guns and bayonets were left to reap the fruits of the battle.
As you can imagine, this is a completely lifeless style of play, a real short-term encounter. Li Yunlong directly concentrated the light machine guns of the whole regiment and used them as submachine guns, and as soon as the grenades stopped, the machine guns went up, and then the whole regiment mounted bayonets and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. In this way, the Japanese army had no chance of surviving.
On the real battlefield, Li Yunlong's tactics may not be of much use.
First, the Japanese had grenadiers and mortars, and although they were equipped with only one brigade, they were equivalent to at least one brigade of the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese army's brigade of 1,000 people can often directly fight against the 10,000 people of a division of the Nationalist army, and Li Jiapo's Yamazaki brigade is by no means as simple as a simple 500-man half brigade. In the face of the strong firepower superiority of the Japanese army, coupled with air support, Li Yunlong's geotechnical excavation speed will be very slow and slow.
Secondly, how large is the area of the Japanese position, is it three-dimensional? None of these novels nor TV series are introduced. According to the tactical regulations of the People's Liberation Army, the distance between every two fighters should be kept between 10 and 20 meters, so as to ensure that the enemy can only kill one person at most in a single shell. In this way, even if the number of soldiers in the Yamazaki brigade is halved and the tactical dispersion is halved, 5 meters a Japanese army, 100 Japanese troops can fill a circular position with a diameter of 50 meters. The grenades thrown by the Independent Regiment could only penetrate the edge of the Japanese positions, and there was no way to penetrate the depth.
Finally, according to the tactical principle of going it alone, the Japanese army must have a fire support point in addition to the ring fortifications, and this support point can be used at any time to support the main position with grenadier mortars and machine guns. The Independent Regiment wanted to carry out the geotechnical excavations with the support of artillery fire, and if it wanted to throw grenades after the earthworks were completed, it was bound to be hit by Japanese crossfire.
In real history, the prototype of the Battle of Lijiapo is the Battle of Guanjia'an. In this battle, the Japanese army was annihilated by more than 200 people, while the Eighth Route Army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the exchange ratio between the enemy and us was one to ten, which was the worst tactical battle in the Hundred Regiments War.
Afterwards, Mr. Peng, Mr. Liu, and other senior generals of the Eighth Route Army returned to Guanjia'an, visited the Japanese positions, and found that the Japanese army's temporary fortifications, bunker bunkers, and firepower configuration were very methodical. In particular, individual bunkers such as the "Cat Ear Hole" greatly inspired the Eighth Route Army, and these tactics were well implemented and used in the later Liberation War and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In the Battle of Guanjia'an, the Japanese army's defense was very tenacious, and the important reason was that it also occupied the willow tree embankment higher than the Guanjia'an as a vitality support point, and condescended to provide fire support to the Guanjia'an, and the effect was quite remarkable.
In the Battle of Guanjia'an, the Japanese position was not a circular fortification in the center of the so-called circular terrace, but a row of caves in the topography of Guanjia'an layer by layer, and each cave was an independent combat unit. These caves are simply a one-sided outward bunker group, and the fire net set up by the Japanese army with machine guns and rifles makes it impossible for the Eighth Route Army to rush through, and can only compete for one cave after another, and occupy a row of caves and a row of caves. As for Li Yunlong's one-step tactics, it is simply impossible to achieve.
I live in the northwest of Jin, my home is on a hilltop terrace, every day when I go out, I can see the rows of cave dwellings on the hillside. If you rush along a certain ditch to the top of the mountain, you will inevitably be hit by crossfire from the caves on both sides, and there is no possibility of rushing up.
Of course, although Du Liang, the author of "Bright Sword", is from Jiangsu, he has written many stories about the Loess Plateau. In another novel, "Blood Romance", it is said that the protagonist walked a day to find the heroine in a neighboring village, so it is impossible for Du Liang not to know the topographical characteristics of the Loess Plateau, and the Battle of Lijiapo was written so easily, just to make the novel more beautiful.
Real wars are often not as good as novels and television, but are very bloody, very terrible, very boring, very devastating.