This was a terrifying battle where the enemy could not be seen. The Japanese commander had to order the troops to suspend their advance and send engineers to the front to explore the thunder and open the way.
The Japanese engineers were well-trained and had clear division of labor. The engineers in front tiptoed out the mines and rubbed the warning signs of small flags. The people behind were careful to thunder. However, it still caused many mine explosions, and some engineers fell into mine-free traps.
The sharp and sharp bamboo pierced through the body, causing heavy casualties among the engineers.
Because the Japanese mine detectors were not very advanced at the time, they could only issue alarms on metal objects. The mines set up by the independent brigade included metal mines and stone mines, and stepping on stone mines and explosive shock waves could still hurt people. Bamboo pile trap exploration
The lightning weapon cannot be discovered at all. There are also lightnings that are specially designed to deal with engineers. When the lightning on top is removed, it will immediately cause an explosion.
Seeing that this was not a solution, it was not only slow to clear mines, but also casualties. He ordered the engineers to stop clearing mines and use grenades and explosives to blast the clearing of the road. The tanks that cleared the obstacles continued to open the way to deal with infantry mines and traps.
Tanks are not very threatening.
When he arrived at the Nanshan mining area, the information stated that there were heavy troops guarding the place. Ikeda felt like he was facing a great enemy. He organized heavy artillery and saw that there was no movement. He sent two regiments to rush over, but found that there was no one inside. He ordered
Place and deal with wounded soldiers on the spot and repair the troops.
Unexpectedly, the soldiers tidied up their thunder while placing the wounded, causing a series of explosions. Two houses that had been bombarded and damaged collapsed in the explosion, burying more than 100 soldiers, wounded, and military doctors into the ruins.
The soldiers who could not dodge outside were smashed to their heads and bleeding.
Ikeda ordered the troops to no longer enter the building, build tents on the open space, and treat the wounded. He arranged for personnel to dig out the ruins and find survivors.
The reconnaissance force reported that a unit of more than 1,000 people was fleeing into the mountains, mainly infantry, well-equipped, carrying a lot of mortars and mountain cannons, which may have attacked our Chinese troops.
After Ikeda asked about the distance between the two armies, he immediately ordered: All mobile troops set out and must destroy this abominable Chinese troops and must not let the tiger go back to the mountain! He thought that it would be very clear to use mobile troops to pursue the enemy infantry. The enemy army came from this.
The road is retreating for a short time and there is no time to set up mine traps, so the mobile troops can be unobstructed.
The puppet soldiers were secretly glad that they didn't have to be cannon fodder this time, and were shouted loudly by the Japanese army and caught the truck like driving away animals and went with them.
All the Japanese mobile troops drove at full speed and advanced at full speed. After a few dozen minutes, the tail of the enemy troops could see it with their naked eyes. Suddenly, a large number of logs and huge rocks rolled down from the hillsides on both sides like an avalanche, blocking them.
The front tank was not braked enough on the thick tree trunk, and the front of the car was raised high and the fire was fired. The tanks moving forward at full speed were too late to dodge, and a serious rear-end collision occurred. The two tanks were deformed in the front
The tank was overturned and the motor vehicle was completely blocked from its way out.
The huge rocks were hit by a military vehicle with great inertia and thunder. The Japanese in the car were killed and injured more than ten people on the spot. Several three-wheeled motorcycles and their cars were knocked away and hit the mountain.
The fuel tank caught fire.
The Japanese Nakasaku was actually using the original method of rolling wood and rocks to block the troops from advancing. When he was yelling to organize a counterattack, dense gunshots sounded on the hillsides on both sides, knocking down the panicked Japanese and puppet troops.
Grenades hit like locusts, and many molten bottles were dropped, which caused shrapnel in the convoy to fly in four times. The flames soared into the sky, and the smoke was rolling. It was hard to see the five fingers. The Japanese and puppet troops on fire were burning all over the ground, and the wounded soldiers were wafting.
He fell to the ground and kept wailing.
The Japanese army finally organized tank artillery and mortars to suppress the enemy's firepower. Due to unclear vision, the shells were targetless and had little effect. At this time, there was no movement on the hillsides on both sides. The Japanese army could still see through the smoke of gunpowders, and those who attacked the enemy were vaguely visible.
The Chinese army ran to the woods and was turning over the horse, bowing and whipping, and rushing into the woods. Motor vehicles could not climb mountains, and it was impossible for infantry to catch up with these cavalrymen. He could only sigh at the enemy. The mobile troops could not continue to advance for the time being.
It would take at least a few hours to clear the obstacles, and he immediately reported the situation to the division command headquarters.
The Japanese Chief of Staff analyzed: "Ambushes in front of the formation, retreat in a tiered manner, and run away after fighting, using various methods to effectively block our pursuit. It seems that the commander of this enemy unit is not only bold, but also has many tricks."
General Ikeda asked his subordinates to take all the information of the enemy, and the Japanese intelligence agencies provided very detailed information on the Chinese army in the Heihushan area. Previously, Ikeda only roughly looked at the enemy's number, troops and weapons and equipment intelligence.
He threw other information aside and looked at it with disdain. He did not believe that just a few thousand Chinese troops could escape the fate of rapid destruction under the iron hooves of tens of thousands of Kwantung troops.
The Chinese soldiers attacking his troops wore the uniform of the National Army. He focused on the information of the National Army's Independent Brigade and saw a series of remarkable achievements. He couldn't help but suffer heavy losses to the Imperial Army.
The commander hated and admired him, and felt that he had encountered a strong enemy for the first time in the Chinese battlefield.
Before he arrived at Heihu Mountain, he set up a formation to fight with the enemy. Nearly a thousand casualties were killed or killed. He felt both angry and excited. He vowed to do his best to destroy this stubborn opponent. He led more than 30,000 Japanese and puppet troops.
A person loses a thousand people, and he still has absolute advantages in military strength and equipment and a certainty of victory!
He reported the battle situation to Shangfeng: the troops marched stubbornly blocked by the enemy. At present, more than 1,000 casualties have arrived near Heihu Mountain and captured the Nanshan mining area.
His report is basically true, and the casualties statistics are accurate, but it is not a capture, but the empty Nanshan mining area was occupied, and more than 100 casualties were killed or killed by the enemy.
Shangfeng was furious and scolded him severely: More than a thousand casualties were only approaching Heihu Mountain. The face of the Kwantung Army was completely lost! You must take down the frontier positions of Heihu Mountain before it gets dark.
Wrong! In order to cooperate with this clearance operation, the headquarters will send air support.
The Independent Brigade of the Heihushan National Army once caused heavy casualties in the Imperial Army. Not long ago, in the battle of Yimeng, it defeated Kimura Mixed Brigade under the eyes of Chinese and foreign journalists, captured Colonel Kobayashi alive, and destroyed the myth of the invincible Japanese Imperial Army. The Heihushan area
The New Fourth Army was also quite active and often destroyed the supply line of the Imperial Army. The Japanese army hated these two Chinese troops to the core. This clearance operation sent heavy troops and bombers, determined to annihilate the Independent Brigade and the Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army in Heihu Mountain.