The sound of gunfire became more intense because of the cold orders of the two commanders, one behind the other.
Not only the terrifying roar of the heavy machine gun, but also the crisp long burst of Czech light machine gun!
At this moment, no one is stingy with ammunition anymore!
The machine gunners of the 28th Division who were still alive just wanted to keep those Japanese who were struggling to run to the ships with their short legs in the cold river water on the shore as much as possible.
The Japanese infantrymen who were fleeing in embarrassment were no longer as fierce as before. Their faces were full of fear and desire for life.
Although the ships still parked a hundred meters away from the shore came to pick them up under strict military orders and braved a hail of bullets, they did not completely abandon them.
It is a pity that all the artillery on the Chinese position gave up on the ships still in the center of the river, and only focused on the more than 20 ships to set fire. In fact, these ships themselves could not protect themselves.
Katayama Satoshi, who was retreating, could only watch helplessly as clouds of water exploded more than 300 meters ahead, and then, a series of violent explosions resounded across the river!
It was not only the loud noise of the shells exploding, but also the sound of the motorboat being hit by the shells and the fuel and ammunition stored in it exploding.
Staring blankly back at the exploding fireball, feeling the scorching heat sweeping in from hundreds of meters away, Katayama Satoru, whose face had been almost stiff by the cold wind on the river, couldn't help but hang up two crystals.
It's not that the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel is not strong enough, but that he had imagined countless endings for the beach landing operation before, but this ending was completely leaked before it even started, and he was beaten by continuous critical attacks without mercy.
has never appeared.
The Third Army spent a lot of effort on this landing operation in the Tongguan area.
They did not hesitate to persuade the base camp to coordinate, and 25 motorboats for inland river use were seconded from the Central China Front Army and the Kwantung Army. In addition to the North China Front Army's own, a total of 40 motorboats were assembled, which can be delivered to the river bank at one time.
The army has a thousand troops.
In order to confuse the opponent, the Third Army deployed more than 40,000 people along the hundreds of kilometers of the Yellow River, and 40 motorboats were also used scatteredly. However, the Third Division firmly held 23 of them, accounting for one
Most of it.
As the top commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment on the front line of the beach landing battle, Katayama Satoshi put all the two most elite infantry squadrons of his 1st Infantry Battalion on these motorboats equipped with steel plates.
He believes that the army under his command will be as usual, and can be used as arrows for the entire regiment, opening a gap for the entire army, moving forward indomitably, and being invincible!
It's just that the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel didn't expect that the Chinese would have so many heavy machine guns, and they would also practice "transcendence shooting" that appeared in World War I!
The retreat action taken by the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel was actually extremely wise. If he continued to advance against the seemingly endless waves of bullets, even if he could reach the shore, he would only have 2,000 people at most.
It seems that 2,000 people can fight a Chinese infantry brigade, but that is under normal field conditions.
His infantry regiment has enough infantry artillery to destroy the few heavy machine gun fire points of the Chinese one by one, and then it can charge unscrupulously, and then scare the Chinese soldiers who have completely lost their heavy fire cover like herding cattle and sheep.
Retreat, and finally enter the rhythm of chasing the defeated troops.
But what now? Not to mention that the Chinese bunkers have not been destroyed by the heavy artillery group. In order to transport more soldiers, the three infantry brigades only carried 4 infantry cannons, and it is still unknown how many infantry cannons survived.
Even if they are all present, can these four small cannons destroy the Chinese bunker group?
The end result was that all 2,000 people were huddled on the river beach, and they could only be killed one by one by China's terrifying "transcendence shooting" without any resistance.
Unless he bets that China cannot maintain such terrible firepower all the time.
But, does he dare to bet?
Katayama Satoru didn't dare, because what was on the gambling table was not only the lives of more than 2,000 imperial officers and soldiers, but also his own.
As long as it involves oneself, a normal person would hesitate.
Therefore, he made the most correct and reasonable choice.
Tang Dao is not Zhuge Liang, and he can calculate the next five hundred years, but Tang Dao has always adhered to the principle of supremacy in firepower. He exchanged the windfall in his hands for arms and purchased hundreds of thousands of machine rifle bullets in the mountain city.
Later, I blackmailed a stingy old man for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At this time, more than 300,000 rounds have been used. How do you describe the intensity of this firepower? It may not be able to guarantee the output for a whole day, but it is still not a big problem to kill more than 2,000 Japanese infantry lying on the river beach.
What to do if the shot is empty? Tang Dao is not worried about this. As early as after ordering the entire army to stop shooting unless the barrel of the gun is damaged or the machine gun malfunctions, Tang Dao asked Xia Dayu to report to the Second Theater Command.
Send a telegram.
"At dawn, the Japanese army assembled thousands of soldiers and hundreds of ships to launch a general attack. All our troops have been put into position, and the ammunition storage consumption is huge! The personnel losses are huge!
We are all stupid, but we are determined to build the northwest and east Great Wall with the flesh and blood of our 4,500 troops before Tongguan!
If we are lucky enough to win this battle, I hope the commander-in-chief will see that our new regiment will sacrifice their lives for the country and the people and replenish ammunition for our troops to fight the Japanese aggressors again!"
The message Tang Dao sent to the Second Theater Command made everyone cry.
Yes! 4,500 people is a lot, but they are new recruits, okay? Such a group of new recruits can make the determination to build the Great Wall of the Northwest with flesh and blood, and their request is just to replenish ammunition and fight again!
Even a well-informed woman like Wu Meizi had bright eyes when she received this heavy telegram from the theater staff and sent it to the stingy old man's office.
"Te Liang, the war has just started, and you are running out of ammunition? That's hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition. They are fed to the Japanese, not used as military rations. I can only consume this amount if a division of more than 10,000 people fights for one day.
How can he light it up?
This is Tang Dao's misfortune, this is moral kidnapping! Shameless, so shameless." Who is that stingy old man? You can almost see through the face of a certain group member at a glance.
But what if you see through it? Although a certain regiment did not send a message with a "shameless" invention, it still sent the message to the theater staff department instead of directly sending it to the theater communications office controlled by someone.
As long as the stingy old man dares to give away a dime, then the news that he used 4,500 recruits as cannon fodder without giving them ammunition will spread throughout the war zone. I wonder if that general will feel chilled?
Tang Dao even said directly that day that he would not join the second war zone. Perhaps most generals would think that was only natural.
Therefore, Tang Dao was determined that the stingy old man must send him more bullets. Maybe 500,000 rounds would not be available, but 300,000 rounds would be basically enough.
If the Japanese dare to come again, hundreds of thousands of bullets will be thrown out and she will be killed.
The tragic Katayama Satoshi's choice was fine, but what about the Japanese Imperial Army officers and soldiers who had landed ashore? Those Imperial warriors who were desperately fleeing after receiving the order to retreat, could they still find their way home?
They couldn't be found. Since three motorboats exploded in the sky near the river bank in the gunfire, the Japanese soldiers who were the boatmen on the already weakly protected wooden boats and rafts began to hesitate.
The Japanese troops who waded through the shallow water were only a few dozen meters away from the ships that could take them home. However, the sky-wide artillery fire and the ballistic trajectories that constantly shredded the air meant that only five ships could reach the shallow water!
The surviving Japanese soldiers rushed frantically towards their last means of escape. A wooden boat that could only carry 20 people was instantly filled with people like it was surrounded by a colony of ants. Even the side of the boat was covered with people full of will to survive.
Japanese infantry.
The wooden boat, whose load had suddenly increased several times, was unable to move, let alone embark on the return journey!
"Baga! Damn you bastard, let go of your hand!" A Japanese second lieutenant who finally climbed onto the boat looked at the senior soldier who was still holding on to his belt for most of his body in the water, his eyes full of anger.
"Captain Kuroo, don't leave me, please, Meiko is still waiting for me at home!" The superior soldier's eyes were full of pleading.
"If you can't leave, just act like an imperial warrior, take your gun, and block the enemy's bullets for the warriors!" the Japanese Army second lieutenant sternly reprimanded.
The hand of the Japanese Army private was still holding tightly to his last life-saving straw.
Then, the Japanese second lieutenant raised his pistol without hesitation, pointed it at the soldiers in his squad, and pulled the trigger!
"Bastard! Coward!" The Japanese second lieutenant turned around and yelled: "Set the ship immediately! Anyone who obstructs will die!"
With the second lieutenant taking the lead, the Japanese soldiers who were eager to return waved their rifles and hit their colleagues who were still clinging to the side of the ship without mercy. They seemed to have forgotten that they were drinking sake together with their arms around their shoulders and talking about the attack last night.
After landing at the Chinese position, we all went to the Chinese village to relax.
There were non-threatening men there for them to kill to their heart's content, and women too!
Countless Japanese soldiers screamed and fell into the water. Then, the Japanese soldiers who were still carrying guns also launched their own revenge.
"Pah! Pah! Pah!" the sound of the Type 38 rifle sounded.
However, this time it was not the Chinese who were targeted, but their own people.
"Baga! Shoot these bastards who dare to betray the empire!" The Japanese second lieutenant who was shot in the shoulder gave a stern order with veins popping out on his forehead.
The Type 96 light machine gun mounted on the bow of the boat roared, aiming at the fellows in the water who dared to shoot at the wooden boat.
On the water, there was a pitiful roar, and the Japanese soldiers, who were unable to die for a while, were like encountering a life-or-death enemy. Before they sank into the roaring Yellow River, they pulled the trigger on the ship that was already more than ten meters away from them, even if it could only open a single shot.
gun.
The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to board the ship fought back with all their might!
The ugliness of human nature is fully revealed at this critical moment!
This scene simply stunned the Chinese military officers who were lucky enough to see this scene behind the telescope.
It turns out that if the Japanese are defeated, they will fight among themselves!
"Haha! You're a good fighter, Ri Nenliang! Keep beating me hard! Tell all the brothers in the brigade that after this battle is over, I will buy ten pigs out of my own pocket to give the brothers extra meals in the evening!" Arriving at the front line in person
The major general brigade commander saw this scene through the telescope and laughed loudly.
This may be the most comfortable moment he has experienced in the six months he has been stationed in this area. He hopes that his brothers are not far away and can see such a miserable scene of the Japanese.
Similarly, Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi, who had been beaten to tears, also saw the story happening in this water area through the telescope.
This time, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, who was no longer strong enough, did not cry, but closed his eyes in pain.
This is no longer a question of how big the loss is, but it is likely to become a shame for the entire infantry regiment and even the entire third division!
But, what can he say? If he were in another place, he might make the same choice. Instead of dying together, it would be better for a strong man to cut off his wrist and let those who can still walk live.
If you stay on this river bank, the only outcome is death!
Of course, in addition to the ruthless Japanese troops themselves who were not even willing to spare themselves, the Chinese artillery fire and heavy and heavy machine gun fire were the main reason why the Japanese troops who tried to escape from the shore suffered disaster.
However, Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi did not say that he fled back to the other side completely bearing the shame of shame. At least he still had a few people under his command to support the scene.
Not all Japanese soldiers fled regardless. After all, there were still "smart people", or people who were sensible and determined enough.
There were nearly 500 Japanese troops who landed, roughly the strength of 10 infantry squads. After Katayama Satoshi gave the order to retreat, most of the Japanese troops lost their will to fight and tried to escape. However, there were still two infantry squads with nearly a hundred Japanese troops working very hard on the shore.
While digging a personal bunker.
These two infantry squad captains knew that with such a crazy concentration of firepower from China, even if they wanted to leave, they would probably not survive!
In this case, it is better to risk your life and use the individual bunker to save yourself for the time being. Not only can you provide cover for your retreating colleagues, you may be able to hold on for a certain period of time until the next wave of reinforcements arrives.
Even if they don't persist until they die in battle, for their bravery, the division will praise them greatly, and the empire will even give them glory for it!
The ideal is very full, the reality is very backbone!
After all, the little people have never sat in that position, and they don't know what the big people really think in their hearts.
After all the fleets were evacuated, the sound of gunfire on the river beach continued for another half an hour before stopping.
In front of them is the strength of an entire Chinese infantry regiment. With 90 vs 2000, absolutely inferior strength, absolutely inferior terrain and fortifications, this kind of non-stop fighting spirit is worthy of being flaunted and commemorated in any country.
But these Japanese infantrymen, who were almost blown to pieces by a large number of mortars and grenade fire, may never have expected that their determined fighting process was not recorded in the battle report, and even the death list of those who died heroically in battle was not included in the battle report.
None are eligible to enter.
They were included in the missing list of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, and it was not until more than ten years after the war that the Japanese soldiers who survived the battle spoke out about this.
The reason is simple: Susumu Fujita could not tolerate the first battle of the westward expansion that he had devoted all his efforts to end in failure.
Regarding the battle to forcibly cross the Yellow River that morning, the battle report sent by the Third Division to the Third Army Headquarters was simply 'During a trial attack, the division suffered a minor setback'!
But this time, due to the "small setback" in Susumu Fujita's battle report, how much damage did the 6th Infantry Regiment bear when it was forced to return to the starting point?
Of the 3,200 men from the three infantry brigades of the 6th Infantry Regiment, only less than 1,800 men, including the wounded, were able to return to the shore.
That means 1,400 people died in battle! The battle fatality rate was almost 40%.
The highest battle fatality rate was among the more than 480 people who first landed ashore. The two most elite infantry squadrons under Lieutenant Commander Katayama Satoshi, except for an infantry squad that stayed with him, were all the ones he called the indestructible Arrow One.
elements.
However, this indestructible arrow was smashed into pieces against the Chinese iron wall. Only 43 people came back alive!
It’s really impossible to save even one out of ten!
The only thing that comforted Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi was that he no longer had to deal with the bastards who shot his colleagues with machine guns in order to escape for their lives.
Because even if they got on the boat, the boat couldn't escape the cannonballs. The Chinese, who had already made up their minds, extended the artillery fire to the center of the river.
Only two wooden boats returned with holes in them, but there were only living people and no corpses on board. In order to speed up, all the corpses were mercilessly thrown into the cold river water.
On the river, wrecks of motorboats, wooden boats and flames can be seen everywhere!
Viewed from a distance, it looks like the boat lanterns that Chinese people like to put out during the Lantern Festival!
This time, the fuel was 1,400 Japanese lives!
The Third Division's first large-scale beach landing battle was a huge defeat!
However, the Chinese troops on the ground, including the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army's new corps who participated in the battle with hundreds of thousands of machine gun bullets and more than 1,500 artillery shells, did not celebrate their hard-won victory.
"Kill!" Susumu Fujita, who was furious, roared angrily.
After the last gunfire stopped on the river beach, the Japanese artillery group fired wildly again.
The rumble of artillery fire lasted from early morning to dusk, and the Japanese army continued to bombard the area throughout the day.
According to statistics, during this day alone, the Sixth Artillery Regiment of the Third Division fired more than 8,000 artillery shells!
In fact, not only the southwest shore defense position of Tongguan, which caused them heavy losses, but also the front and Tongguan City were within the range of artillery coverage.
Tongguan City, which was already devastated, turned into rubble on this day. If it weren't for the tall and thick old city wall surrounding Tongguan City, even the Tongguan people themselves would not be able to recognize their home.
Fortunately, eight days ago, a propaganda team from the 26th Division went to the streets with loudspeakers to shout messages, asking the people of Tongguan to temporarily hide in the mountains outside Tongguan City and wait until the war subsided before returning home. Otherwise, there would be more than 1,000 people in Tongguan City.
Only one-third of the 50,000 people are left at this time because of God's blessing.
It must be that the Japanese army emptied at least half of their artillery shell reserves in one go. At about five o'clock, the Japanese artillery fire finally stopped.
However, the Third Division may have never dreamed that it was knocked unconscious by a Chinese soldier with a hammer. Some people just love to toss.
When you calm down, he becomes even more enthusiastic!
For example, for a man named Tang, his principle has always been: when the enemy comes, I beat him; when the enemy leaves, I stick with him; when the enemy is stationed, I attack; when the enemy is tired, I continue.
Anyway, in addition to beating up the enemy, the most important and core point is: not letting you have a comfortable life!
This is a 17-word tactical formula that Tang Dao summarized by combining mobile warfare, guerrilla warfare, and defensive warfare and taught it to each battalion and company commander under his command to adjust themselves according to the battlefield conditions. ()
