The location 3 kilometers away from Fulu Ridge is called the Snow Mo Cliff by the locals!
It is said that the name of Xuemo Cliff comes from a poet from the Song Dynasty who rode a donkey from Hebei to Jin Dynasty and rested here. It happened to be winter. When he looked up, he saw white snow in the middle of winter, but the mountains were as black as ink.
One white and one black are distinct yet contrasting with each other, so I used blood-red ink as ink to write the three characters "Snow Ink Cliff" on the straight, tall and dark rock wall!
However, after the battle at Fulu Ridge, Tang Tuanzuo personally renamed it ‘Xuemo Cliff’!
Because, this place is like a millstone, polishing off the last drop of blood of the surrounded 39th Infantry Brigade!
Yang Xiaoshan and Gu Xishui, who were deep in the Japanese army's positions, reported at 11:30 in the night: The remains of the fallen air force had been found! However, they found that the Japanese army in the encirclement was evacuating in an organized way towards Chaiyu Town. The number of people was about 700, and there were also accompanying people.
There is a tank squadron, guard platoon and reconnaissance team trying to stop it!
Tang Dao, who had just finished an attack battle and received a joint message from two of his major generals, frowned and looked at the map for a while before sending out a military order to agree with their opinions.
He hesitated for nearly a minute before making a decision, which was extremely rare in Tang Dao's entire military career!
You must know that the battlefield is already heating up at this time. As the supreme commander of the Four Lines Regiment, not to mention hesitating for a minute, even for a second, may result in the casualties of several soldiers because of his hesitation.
But Tang Dao had to make a careful decision. First of all, in addition to finding the remains of the pilot who died heroically in battle, Gu Xishui also found the remains of a pilot named Shen Chonghai.
The regiment and the 17th Division must find him. He was the best friend of pilot Chen Ping who died in the battle. It was Chen Ping's last wish to find him and escort him back to Zhengcheng!
Every minute he is left on the battlefield is one more minute of risk. Tang Dao knows the value of pilots very well, and exchanging the life of a Chinese pilot for the lives of hundreds of little devils is a loss-making business, even if he wants to
There may be a leftist or even a major general among the escaping Japanese troops!
Secondly, the 88 people led by Yang Xiaoshan and Gu Xishui were all elite members of his Four Lines Regiment, but because they had to penetrate at high speed, they did not carry any heavy weapons. The largest caliber firearms were only two heavy machine gun-type MG34 machine guns plus 4
60 mortars, in order to reduce the load, they will not carry more than 50 rounds!
A platoon with light firepower and a reconnaissance team trying to block a 700-strong Japanese army escorted by a tank squadron on any battlefield would be as impulsive as an egg striking a stone.
However, after hesitating for a minute, Tang Dao finally agreed, because in the area controlled by the Four Elements Regiment and the 17th Division, there is a road that leads directly to the town of Chaiyu, and then from the town of Chaiyu to the place called Xuemo
cliff place.
That means he can drive a tank to support!
"Order Lu Sanjiang to take his cavalry reconnaissance platoon to accompany me to support Gu Xishui. Tell him that I will throw away all the useless things. I will use the vacated horses to carry a 7mm heavy machine gun! Bring as many bullets as possible!
"Tang Dao gave the decisive order.
The soldiers were very fast. They detoured around the town of Chaiyu and then arrived at Xuemoya. It was more than 12 kilometers and it was a night march. It would take at least 3 hours to switch to infantry. Only cavalry and tanks could shorten this time by half!
As a result, an unforgettable scene occurred on this mountain road controlled by the Chinese army. At least 10 soldiers hung themselves on the 89 tank by ropes. In front of them were cavalry trotting all the way leading the way, and behind them were most of the infantrymen.
The squad's Japanese 89 tanks roared forward while spewing black smoke!
No one knows that the top commander of the Four Lines Regiment is sitting in this tank, and no one knows what this small semi-mechanical unit of less than 50 people is going to do!
Lu Sanjiang's cavalry reconnaissance platoon appears to be a platoon-level organization, but it may be the smallest platoon-level unit in the entire Fourth Line Regiment. Including platoon leader Lu Sanjiang, there are only 25 people and 40 horses!
However, the equipment carried by this reconnaissance platoon is definitely daunting. Each soldier carries not only an MP28 submachine gun and a Black Star pistol, but also two MG34 light machine guns and two 60mm guns, which were originally used to carry various supplies.
Along with the 15 vacated horses and equipment, they also brought 3 7mm firepower groups, 3 7mm heavy machine guns, 9 members, and 9 ammunition boxes.
The 89 tank driven by Tang Dao temporarily turned into a transport tank, with ten fully armed soldiers hanging on it and three boxes of grenades!
Just looking at the speed of 10 yards per kilometer on the mountain road is heart-wrenching. He accidentally blew up the grenade, and all ten of his scouts were blown into the sky. Not to mention Tang in the tank.
The dumplings can also be cooked.
Despite the courage of the scouts, even a ruthless man like Ming Yueye, who charged with the enemy's head hanging on his waist, kept shaking left and right while hanging on the tank, and kept hearing the banging of the grenade box and the tank body.
' made a sound, and his face turned pale at that time.
No wonder he said he was from the Bai tribe living in the south of the Yangtze River. This really suited the situation, he was really white.
Hurrying slowly, Tang Dao finally arrived an hour and a half after receiving his subordinate's request!
Yang Xiaoshan and Gu Xishui were indeed two important generals under his command. Tang Dao was right about Gu Xishui and not to mention Yang Xiaoshan.
After discussion, the two decided not to fight the Japanese troops who were eager to escape, but to adopt a harassment and delaying tactic!
After the Japanese army left, they continued to harass and attack them with small squad units. The guard platoons and reconnaissance teams were equipped with many semi-automatic rifles, and they possessed accurate marksmanship that was not inferior to that of Japanese veterans.
In terrain, it is possible to accurately hit Japanese infantry from 250 meters away.
Moreover, they were not fond of fighting. They would often retreat after firing 10 bullets from a magazine. In one attack, they would kill or injure more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, or kill a few at least!
On the other hand, the Japanese army, which was eager to escape, was divided into front, middle and rear roads, but there were not enough top soldiers to conduct reconnaissance on the cliffs on both sides of the road. Therefore, once it was attacked, the entire army could only find bunkers and use the accompanying light and heavy tanks to attack them.
Machine guns and tank guns covered the attack site with fire!
However, it doesn't have much effect. The Chinese soldiers who are divided into 4 attack teams are like 4 pieces of dog-skin plaster. If you hit me, I will run away. If you want to leave, I will come again!
"Baga! Damn the Chinese!" These were the words that Mr. Li Dengxingyizuo, who was wearing a superior soldier's uniform and was located in the middle of the Japanese Army Road, said the most in the past hour and a half.
Normally, he, the infantry commander who commands more than 3,800 soldiers, would have to send soldiers deep into the mountains to kill these monkey-like Chinese. But at this time, the great left winger of the Imperial Japanese Army had no choice but to do so!
He knew very well what these Chinese wanted to do. They wanted nothing more than to delay until the main force of the Chinese arrived and kill him, the commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade, and the last 700 imperial soldiers.
Yes, by 10:30 p.m., the entire battlefield had been fought for nearly 5 hours. Although they were extremely reluctant to admit it, the Japanese army leaders still had to sadly believe that the defeat of the brigade was inevitable.
The requests for help sent back to the brigade headquarters like snowflakes from the front were not the most important basis for determining failure, but that the right-wing battlefield had been completely eroded.
When he learned that enemies had appeared in the mountains and forests around the heavily protected brigade headquarters, he knew that the situation was over!
The Chinese 17th Division faced by the 78th Infantry Regiment seemed to be engaged in fierce artillery fire, but in fact it was far less dangerous than the right wing.
If nothing unexpected happens, the blocking position dominated by the 78th Infantry Regiment can withstand at least three days.
But the key is that the 77th Infantry Regiment has stretched its hips!
It's not that the 77th Infantry Regiment doesn't work hard enough, it's that the enemy is too cunning!
The focus of Chinese heavy artillery bombardment is often not on the highlands with a large number of defenders, but on the junctions between highlands, completely cutting off the connection between the highlands. Then the Chinese soldiers use these junctions to launch attacks on the highlands from all sides!
The sad thing is that due to time constraints, simple trenches will only be built on the high ground facing the Chinese soldiers, and there are no defenses at all on the other sides.
Once the fortification protection is lost, the small-caliber mortars that China equips in large quantities will become an infantry nightmare!
When a shell came down, the shrapnel and the rocks of the Taihang Mountains were shot at almost 270 degrees. I don't know how many brave imperial soldiers shed their blood on the Taihang Mountains.
The 10 first aid kits carried by an infantry team are enough to save one person!
This Chinese tactic of not trying to swallow up the opponent in one go, but to use small groups of troops to penetrate and encircle the enemy on the defensive line, is really too insidious, like using a rope to gradually tighten a person's neck, without knowing it.
Before you know it, you have strangled your life to death!
If we continue fighting like this, let alone persisting for five days and nights, we will not be able to survive even today's night.
But ordering the entire brigade to retreat is even more impossible!
As the saying goes, "A defeat is like a mountain falling." Once everyone starts to retreat, it can easily turn into a huge retreat, and you will become a rabbit being hunted by hunters in the mountains!
He is worthy of being the man chosen by Saburo Kawagishi. As the successor of Yoshito Takagi, Yukichi Koito may not be as wise as his already finished boss, but he is even more decisive and ruthless than him.
"The whole brigade, the time has come to serve the empire and the emperor, and fight to the death with the Chinese!" Li Dengxingyi issued a deafening death-defying order at about 11 o'clock to all young left officers at the level of infantry brigade captain.
However, before the acting brigade commander issued this military order, the brigade headquarters and its wing headquarters had quietly gathered together two directly-affiliated squadrons and the rest of the troops following the brigade headquarters, totaling more than 780 people, to burn documents and carry equipment.
, quietly left the battlefield and evacuated towards Chaiyu Town!
As the saying goes, "Sacrificing soldiers to protect vehicles", as long as the headquarters of the 39th Infantry Brigade is still there, it will not be counted as being surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese. How can it save the division a little face for the front army!
"Gentlemen, we are not running away, but for the glory of the empire. The flag of the brigade and the flag of the regiment must not fall into the hands of the enemy, and the remains of the brigade commander must not fall into the hands of the enemy. We must bear this to protect the glory of the empire.
shame!
When we return one day, we will kill all the Chinese people in the fifty-mile radius to avenge Yusui and his colleagues!" Li Dengxing's reason before leaving was that he was noble enough!
If these words were heard by the captain of the 78th Infantry Regiment who had a competitive relationship but had been completely abandoned by him, he might spit in his face: Can you leave such humiliating and heavy-duty work to me? I am not thin-skinned.
of!
At this time, it doesn’t really matter what the reason is, as long as it makes sense.
Anyway, the remnants of the Japanese army who were eager to escape tacitly forgot that the acting brigade commander never sent a message to the division headquarters about the evacuation!
Just run away. The only ones who can escape are the cars, not the pawns who are still fighting for their lives!
Then, these unlucky kids who had lost their will to fight encountered the Brown Candy Tactics!
It took a full hour and a half, and after suffering more than a hundred casualties, they only walked a total of 1,500 meters to reach Xuemo Cliff!
A white five-pointed star is spitting out from the turret, and a 89 tank with a dazzling red sun in the middle blocks the way!
When he saw this extremely familiar Japanese tank for the first time, Momotaro Miyamoto, the lieutenant team leader of the escort squadron directly under the 39th Infantry Brigade of the vanguard, was filled with ecstasy.
It turned out to be an imperial tank. Is it possible that the Acting Brigade Commander also invited reinforcements?
There is actually nothing wrong with the logic of this psychological origin. There was originally a Japanese garrison in the town of Chaiyu, but with the arrival of the Chinese, all the infantry squads in the town of Chaiyu were shattered. In the mountains on the right side of Niangziguan, there was only the 39th
There are ten thousand people in the infantry brigade, and more than half of the accompanying chariot brigade are still fighting the Chinese in the mountains, and the other half are behind them. What is this car that suddenly appeared if it is not a reinforcement?
But the tank slowly turned the turret, and the 57mm short-barreled gun aimed at a group of Japanese infantry who were still surprised!
"Baga, it's impossible!" Miyamoto Momotaro's panic still gradually solidified on his face.
With a sound of "Boom!", a ball of fire came out of the muzzle, which was much brighter than the bright moon in the sky, like the sun rising in the middle of the road.
At least ten Japanese soldiers were turned into flying dancers by this sudden shelling, including a Japanese lieutenant whose head was separated from his body.
Even though his head was spinning in the air, his facial expression was still one of shock and fear!
The Chinese in North China actually have tanks?
But no matter if you don’t believe it, the facts are before your eyes. The 89 tank not only uses the short-barreled artillery to spit out deadly flames, but the two 7mm heavy machine guns equipped with it are also firing with all their strength, directly killing the Japanese vanguard who want to escape.
They were pressed against both sides of the mountain road, and they didn't dare to move.
Although their rifles and machine guns were still firing, the thick-skinned 89 tank didn't even try to dodge. It was firing hard at that spot, so it just turned the turret and fired a shot at that spot!
"It's great! It's so great to fight!" Deng Guihai shouted loudly in the sweltering tank compartment. "Old Hei, load up the shells!"
"What the hell, I'm a captain, who does your little corporal call Lao Hei? If you don't call me "Sir", why don't you call me Brother Zhou?"
Lao Hei almost rolled his eyes with his big white eyes.
However, looking at Tang Tuanzuo, who kept adjusting his car body through Xia Dayu's reports, the commander of the reconnaissance company who was forced to be an ammunition carrier did not express his crazy complaints to his mouth.
The standards of the members of this tank are a bit high. This gunner boy will definitely be promoted in the future, so he will be as good as he is!
Lao Hei, who had already taken off his upper body military uniform, revealing his muscles, worked hard to lift the artillery shells from the ammunition bin and load them!
"You actually have tanks?" Shen Chonghai, who was lying in the forest, looked at the 89 tanks that were firing fiercely under the flares, with a dull look on his face. "It's just that this tank is too underestimated. There are seven Japanese behind it."
Eight tanks.”
Gu Xishui's reconnaissance team and Yang Xiaoshan and his guard platoon, no matter the equipment, the number of individual soldiers, or tactics, gave Shen Chonghai an unreal feeling this night.
With 80 against 800 and a group of tanks, they all killed nearly a hundred enemies, and their own losses were only single digits!
If the Chinese Army is of this level, can the Japanese reach Central China? Even if they can land in Songhu, they are considered powerful.
He originally thought that the elite among the elites were powerful enough, but the Four Troops once again refreshed his view. A tank that should have been captured from the Japanese army swaggered and blocked the way of the Japanese army.
In other words, it was almost like a show of force and a violent beating of the Japanese infantry!
However, what worried Shen Chonghai was that engines were roaring on the mountain road behind him, and a group of Japanese tanks were about to come up. No matter how he looked at it, one tank couldn't beat seven or eight tanks.
"Hehe! Brother Shen, don't worry, our regimental commander is not only a hero on the ground, but also a little devil can't match him in driving a tank." Gu Xishui smiled softly. "By the way, our commander said it's just a small propeller plane like yours.
, he drives it like it’s for fun, he’s driven all kinds of jets!”
"Jet type? What kind of plane is that? I will definitely ask your commander for advice someday." Shen Chonghai was so confused by this new term that he had never heard of that his eyes began to draw circles. He asked about the rumored hero group.
I am even more curious.
With an infantry of no more than a hundred men, he fought his way through the Songhu battlefield and built an infantry regiment with such combat power. Now he can also drive tanks to kill the enemy. The key is that his subordinates do not panic at all when they see him trying to fight against many.
, any one of these is a god when placed in a person, but it turns out that it is concentrated in one person. Who can be curious about it?
Shen Chonghai, who would later become China's number one ace pilot, never expected that, as people say, "One meeting with Yang Guo will lead to a lifetime of misfortune", but his meeting with Tang Tuanzuo was no better.
Shen Chonghai, who was fooled by Tang Tuanzuo's drawings of a 'jet fighter' and a 'ground attack aircraft sitting on a 30mm cannon,' couldn't find the north. He beat up the American cowboys on the northern ice field.
Not to the north.
However, what Tang Tuanzuo and his car showed to the young and brave Chinese Air Force pilots at this time was not that one man was in charge and ten thousand others could not open it.
But, vulgar! Extremely vulgar!
The Japanese army's two 94 tanks and one 89 tank were the first to arrive!
Amidst the wild fire from four 7mm machine guns, the White Star tank burst into flames, and then it reversed crazily, as if it was running away if it couldn't be beaten.
Three Japanese tanks were waiting there. Amid the roars of a group of infantrymen, the 89 tank took the lead and fired two shots, both of which hit the rocks on both sides of the 89 tank. It was so majestic.
The White Star tank reversed awkwardly, hitting several small trees and hiding in the forest on one side!
Shen Chonghai couldn't help but draw circles with his eyes again!
This Chief Tang seems to be very courageous!
Then, a burst of fire stung everyone's eyes!
Less than 250 meters away from the Japanese Type 89 tank, a 7mm machine gun fired wildly from the flank!
A row of smoking bullet holes appeared on the 17mm steel plate armor on the side of the 89 tank, as if it had grown suddenly.
Damn it! Dare Qing has a helper? This is using his body as bait, and then killing his opponent unexpectedly. Shen Chonghai has the urge to give a thumbs up.
Really, compared to the kind of reckless man who acted whenever he disagreed, Chief Tang's behavior was definitely done by a wise man and was in line with his imagination.
It was only in the subsequent battle that Shen Chonghai realized that he was wrong!
In front of people like Chief Tang, even a wise man can only swallow his shit! Not to mention the Japanese who are eager to escape and their heads are buzzing!
