The Japanese bomber formation did not stop supporting its own infantry who were about to be in desperate situation just because one of them was lost in battle.
At Xiangyue Qingshi's request, within 6 hours, three waves of fighter planes bombing the mountains around Changle Village and the battlefields along the Zhuozhang River were conducted, with a total of 36 sorties.
Looking from a high altitude, the originally lush mountain forests are already mottled, while the relatively flat banks of the Zhuozhang River are even more rugged and devastated, with more than 20 large holes visible to the naked eye.
The embankments on the other side of the Zhuozhang River were blown down in several places. The water of the Zhuozhang River, which had already entered the flood season, flowed along the collapsed embankments toward the depressions, submerging many areas that originally belonged to Changle.
There is a lot of land in the village.
Of course, since the terrain on the side where the 683rd Brigade was fortified was higher, the river water that broke out of the embankment basically flowed in the direction of the second mixed brigade.
Although the large piece of yellow land has not been completely turned into a country, it is still very muddy. When you step on it with the strong but heavy cowhide boots worn by the Japanese infantry, my dear, the attached mud is like two straps tied to your feet.
Like a big shot put.
No wonder Major Yoshio Laigu of the 1st Forward Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, who was the first to arrive at Changle Village, looked at the north bank of the Zhuozhang River with his binoculars and couldn't help but cursed the Army Airlines for being a bunch of idiots.
The muddy land not only greatly slows down the advance of the infantry, but also the Type 94 armored vehicles will become difficult to move on such ground. Isn't this a disguised form of helping the Chinese!
What's even worse is that when the vast number of imperial officers and soldiers have to lie down in the mud to fight the Chinese, even if he doesn't have to turn into a mud monkey, Yoshio Laitani's scalp feels numb for a while.
The commanders were like this, not to mention the Japanese infantry who were out of breath after marching 40 kilometers in 7 hours. Looking at the soft mud in front of them that was soaked by the river that broke out of the embankment, the Japanese infantry collectively shouted
Staring little eyes.
"Baga! What are you doing? Order the 2nd Infantry Squadron, 4th Infantry Squadron, and Heavy Machine Gun Squadron to be on alert. The 2nd Engineer Squadron and the 1st Infantry Squadron and 3rd Infantry Squadron immediately arrived 700 meters away from the river to dig field trenches."
Yoshitani Yoshio was quite decisive, knowing that with the 700 to 800 troops he currently had, it would be impossible to easily break through the Chinese defense line on the opposite side. The construction of field trenches for infantry to avoid machine guns and artillery shells had become inevitable.
The distance of 700 meters can be far away from the range of Chinese machine rifles. With the ability of Japanese engineers, they first dig a horizontal trench, then dig forward a traffic trench, and then dig horizontally. It won't take too long to form two trenches.
A complete line of trenches that can be attacked and defended.
The closest one to the river is probably only two or three hundred meters away.
Facing the mud created by the Xia Jiba bombing of our own aviation forces, thinking that they were about to become mud monkeys without a place to bathe, the Japanese engineers and infantrymen carrying shovels and pickaxes had various MMPs in their minds.
But military orders are hard to disobey, and they also know that if they don't conquer the line of defense in front of them, a large number of Chinese troops may rush here at any time. A little mud on them won't kill anyone, but the Chinese are really capable of killing people.
After six days and six nights of fighting for the high ground in the mountains, the pride of the infantrymen of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, which was originally vigorous and high-spirited, had already been kicked to the crotch by the Chinese soldiers who were not afraid of death, especially when they thought that their opponents might be Jin.
The 683rd Brigade and the Four Elements Regiment, the legendary most elite troops in China in the southeast region, are even more frightened.
Being timid before fighting is a taboo for military strategists!
The right time and place were not on the side of the Second Mixed Brigade. Before anything happened, the Japanese army had already committed three major taboos.
However, the Second Mixed Brigade now only has this road. According to reports from Japanese reconnaissance planes, just as the Second Mixed Brigade was marching towards Changle Village, less than 20 kilometers behind them, a Chinese army
, there are tens of thousands of people, rushing to catch up.
That's okay. The current strength of the Second Mixed Brigade is enough to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese army, which is similar in strength to our own. But before Yamashita could order the entire army to stop marching, another urgent message came from the headquarters.
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'With Wuxiang as the center and a radius of 40 kilometers in the mountains, a large number of Chinese troops were found moving, at least 3 infantry divisions!'
This message completely put an end to Yamashita's thoughts of a decisive battle with the Chinese army that was daring to pursue him. He only needed to hold him back for two days, and his second mixed brigade might have to face 40,000 or even 50,000 people.
besieged by the Chinese army.
At that moment, no one knew whether Yamashita regretted it or not. Judging from the current situation, staying in the mountains and defending against danger might be the safest strategy.
In fact, even at this time, besides continuing to move forward alone, Yamashita had another option: to abandon all the baggage, including artillery and tanks, and enter the mountains with the second mixed brigade as pure light infantry.
The Chinese encirclement could not cover the entire mountain range, and there were no fighter planes flying freely in the sky as eyes. He and the Second Mixed Brigade had at least an 80% chance of escaping from the mountain.
However, this basically declared that the Second Mixed Brigade was defeated, and the act of throwing away all the baggage could be called a defeat.
They were defeated without firing a single shot. Even if the Second Mixed Brigade could finally escape from the mountain, it would be a shame for the Imperial Japanese Army, and Yamashita himself would be firmly nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
, will never be able to stand up again.
Before the war, some generals raised concerns about annihilating a full-scale Japanese army to Tang Dao. Among them, some Japanese generals had the idea of abandoning their baggage and escaping into the mountains with light equipment.
"That's because you still don't know enough about the extreme nation of Japan. They belong to the lineage of Eastern civilization, but they don't have what we call 'big men who can bend and stretch, and it's unknown whether they will come back in the future.' Everything they do is extremely extreme, and they are cruel and extreme.
, Bravery is extreme, and persistence in honor is also extremely extreme. Compared to this, life is not that important.
Therefore, they will definitely not make such a choice to flee in embarrassment!" Tang Dao, who did not participate in the meeting, asked Brigadier Cheng to reply to the generals this way.
The generals suddenly discovered that none of their commanders were as detailed and comprehensive as their considerations. They put the Japanese generals on the same level of thinking as themselves, but Tang Dao had already considered a national character.
Moreover, the word "extreme" sums it up extremely well. Looking at what the Japanese army did on the Chinese battlefield, it is exactly what these two words embody.
In fact, the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield only showed "extremeness". It was not until the Pacific battlefield a few years later that the Japanese army really showed "extremeness".
Not to mention "kamikaze" and "suicide one-man submarine", these are all original creations of the Japanese army. They regard the residents of the entire island as their own food reserves, using underground tunnels crisscrossing the island and the submachine guns of American soldiers.
Naval artillery and aircraft competed with the more than 20,000 soldiers defending the island. In the end, 22,000 people died in the battle and only 1,000 survived. As a result, the U.S. soldiers who completely reduced the dimension of the attack suffered as many as 6,800 casualties and more than 20,000 injuries.
Why do you think the United States dropped big fat bombs to repair them? That's because the U.S. Army Staff has calculated that if conventional warfare is used after landing on the Japanese mainland, the U.S. Army will suffer more than one million casualties.
Considering that the United States has always been dissatisfied with others, it was also frightened by the extreme little Japan. Did the big fat bomb they just made have to be arranged?
It is said that the United States has already made a plan. If little Japan does not kneel down and call daddy, it will continue to throw away the Japanese island, even if it sinks the Japanese island.
Fortunately, the extreme Japanese kneeled down decisively in order to continue to preserve their own race.
But this kneeling down is not a big deal, his extreme characteristics are revealed again, he actually likes to kneel down, no matter how the American baba ravages him, even if the iron whip and torch are arranged, Japan still keeps his knees firmly on the ground, quite a bit.
Deputy, I will act like I am your son for the rest of my life.
Really, Tang Dao, who comes from the future, has seen many ethnic groups on the earth, including the cunning and wise Xi Laibo people, the old Maozi who has a single-minded mind but extremely developed limbs, the tough and cruel Southeastern people, even the weird ones who parade on motorcycles
The third brother of the style has never wanted Bilian. Everything is our stick, and I have never seen a Japanese number. Anyway, we just walk all the way to the dark without turning.
Even if you are a turtle grandson, you must use the length of a hundred years to calculate.
Tang Dao knew the characteristics of the Japanese nation so well that this idea only flashed through Yamashita's mind and was immediately rejected by him.
Yamashita still decided to follow the previous battle plan and rush to Changle Village, where he would fight his way out of the encirclement carefully designed by the Chinese and make the Chinese happy in vain.
Of course, this is because he still has confidence in himself and the Imperial Army Aviation. He does not believe that under the indiscriminate bombing by dozens of bombers dispatched by the Army Aviation and the impact of his elite troops, a mere ten thousand Chinese troops can still hold the line of defense.
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He overestimated his own army aviation, and even more underestimated the combat effectiveness of his own infantry. In other words, he too underestimated his opponent.
Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be victorious in every battle. At this moment, Yamagata does not know either himself or the enemy.
First of all, the dozen tons of bombs dropped by 36 fighter planes did cause certain losses to the 683 Brigade, which is inevitable in war.
However, the anti-cannon holes dug in advance and a large number of camouflaged wooden men reduced this loss by at least 80%.
The 683rd Brigade suffered about 500 casualties in these three waves of bombings. This was a number that greatly surprised Brigadier Cheng.
Before that, he had estimated the number to be 1,500. He would lose most of the infantry regiment before the official battle with the Japanese infantry began. This was a tragedy, but it was also a cruel reality.
If there were no mountains for cover, perhaps this number would double again. The reason why the Japanese army repeatedly defeated the larger numbers with fewer troops was that thorough control of the air was a very important factor. If they lost air supremacy, the Japanese army would simply rely on heavy firepower on the ground.
But it is absolutely impossible to achieve the current record.
The losses of the 683rd Brigade were not as heavy as Yamashita imagined. The strength of the infantry was still there, and the artillery that had been hidden was not damaged at all. This alone was enough to feed the second mixed brigade.
What's more, in order to deal with the urgent pursuit of the Four Troops Regiment from the rear, Yamashita had to call two infantry brigades and a heavy supply brigade as the rear brigades to protect his rear wing, and put more troops in the front to break through the Zhuozhang River defense line.
The number of engineers and baggage troops will never exceed 4,000.
The more than 800 Japanese troops who arrived first did not attack rashly. Two under-equipped infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron also guarded the flanks and front very steadily, basically not giving the Chinese troops in the mountains a chance to break out.
But this does not mean that the 683rd Brigade will watch them "leisurely" build trenches and then extend the trenches to their own defense area.
The current 683 brigade, with Tang Dao's silent support of adding some guns today and sending some cannons tomorrow, has grown slowly, not to mention completely! It is still a semi-finished product at least.
This time, for the second mixed brigade, Commander Liu of the 921st Division spent a lot of money. On such a difficult and dangerous battlefield against the 16th Division, he still deployed 4 75 mountain guns and an artillery company to follow the 683rd Brigade. In addition, in the past few months,
The 30 mortars I saved and sent to a certain regiment when they had a disagreement were about firepower, not to mention the more than 20 75mm mountain guns carried by the second mixed brigade!
At least, I won't be beaten passively like usual. You hit me like a storm with your tortoise punches, and I can also use one to lift your vaginal legs, black tigers to take out your heart, and so on.
"Damn it, the man who bombed me to death actually dared to dig a trench in front of me with such arrogance?" Wang Xiaoqiang, the supreme commander of the Zhuozhang River defense line, looked at the Japanese soldiers hundreds of meters away through the telescope.
The crunching sound of teeth.
Those temporarily dug anti-gun holes may be able to withstand bombardment from 75mm mountain guns or even 100mm cannons, but they are still too fragile to 500-pound aerial bombs.
Just three hours ago, a 500-pound aerial bomb dropped by a Japanese bomber hit an area 20 meters above an anti-gun cave. Although it did not hit the front, the terrible energy still collapsed the cave dwelling supported by rough wood.
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There were nearly 70 people inside, and the roar of Japanese fighter planes was still in his ears. After receiving the news, Wang Xiaoqiang took the lead in rushing out of the shell-proof hole and led his people to dig soil frantically.
But it was still too late. Of the 70 young people, more than 40 people suffocated to death under the soil.
Some of them followed the 80th Army across half of China and did not die in the snowy mountains and grasslands or on hundreds of battlefields; some were locals who had just joined the army for less than three months and were sweating profusely on the training ground every day.
To defend the home;
But everything they had done was in vain. On this battlefield, they did not fire a single shot. In order to disguise the wooden man, many people did not wear military uniforms and died here because they were suffocated.
Seeing the pale and young faces lying quietly in front of him, Wang Xiaoqiang, the leader of the group, felt heartbroken!
He, who was always loud, actually didn't say a word. He sat next to his soldiers who were already extremely quiet, silently lit all the packs of cigarettes he had on him, and stuck them in the soil.
That was his last inventory, and he didn't know if his young soldiers could smell the smell of tobacco again, but he wanted to do it.
Perhaps, this young and strong regiment leader hopes that his soldiers will open their eyes and call him regiment leader again!
Unfortunately, this is a battlefield and there are not so many possibilities.
It was extremely lucky to be able to rescue the twenty or so people back to the outermost layer.
"Captain, although we are within the range of the heavy machine gun, it is too far away. It is probably a waste of bullets to shoot. I think it is better to save them for when the Japanese attack!" Battalion Commander Xiao Ding on the side advised.
He knew the personality of his regimental commander very well. The Japanese plane killed and injured nearly a hundred people in the 772nd regiment. Wang Xiaoqiang suffered a big loss. He had to make up for this bad breath no matter how hard it was.
"Bullshit! You're so good and you're still so picky. The Japanese are still playing ball. If they can't use heavy machine guns, then give me the 4 mortars assigned to your 1st Battalion and shoot them like a dog.
Damn it." Wang Xiaoqiang's eyes widened.
"Captain, the four mortars only have 30 shells left in total, and they still have to be kept to deal with the Japanese attack!" Battalion Commander Xiao Ding's face suddenly became bitter.
"Then I will tell you that tonight, Commander Tang will send 500 rounds of artillery shells to our regiment. You can fight or not. If not, I will give this task to the 2nd Battalion." Wang Xiaoqiang put his eyes behind the telescope again.
, no longer look at his first battalion commander.
"Hit, 16 rounds of artillery shells, no, 20 rounds of artillery shells!" When Battalion Commander Xiao Ding heard this, he didn't care about a mere 20 rounds of artillery shells.
Even if all the shells of the battalion's mortar platoon are fired, there will still be a mortar company at the regiment headquarters! Taking a step back, the four mountain cannons placed by the brigade headquarters in the mountains are not a living thing.
Therefore, while the Japanese engineers and infantrymen were sweating profusely and fighting against the mud, bombs exploded around them.
The Chinese, without any sense of martial ethics, used mortars to prevent them from digging trenches.
Caught off guard, more than a dozen Japanese infantrymen fell down in succession, howling miserably, and the mud was flowing red.
The miserable Japanese infantrymen could only kneel in the mud and start digging. Before the trenches were dug two feet deep, facing the mortar shells that could fly at any time, they were like little boys who encountered a bad guy.
The girl has no defense except being hurt until she cries.
The situation was reported to Yoshio Raitani, who was planning to use Changle Village as a temporary headquarters. The Japanese major's eyes flashed with horror under his gloomy face.
Are the Chinese so wealthy? They dare to 'waste' precious artillery shells before the battle has even begun.
What's even worse is that China's customary mortars have a range of up to 2,500 meters. Could that also threaten his village, which serves as a temporary headquarters, at any time?
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