In fact, until the first batch of nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers jumped from their own platoon into the river that covered their calves and ran towards the land, the gunfire from the counterattack from the opposite defense line was not as fierce as imagined.
This allowed the Japanese army to successfully land ashore at a cost of less than double digits!
"Yo Xi! The legion's well-prepared artillery fire is really useful! The Chinese should have been blown up long ago. Send a signal flare to order the troops behind to speed up and land ashore. The wooden boat will return to meet the arrival of the follow-up troops. This time we will break through the Chinese position in one fell swoop.
I will never betray His Excellency Itagaki's trust." Konishi Hayami, who was standing on the gunboat, put down the telescope in his hand with a stern look on his face and a determined look in his eyes.
As the captain of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Konishi Hayajian had just been ordered to lead his troops to Fenglingdu Town five days ago. He had not experienced the painful harassment experience of his colleagues in the Third Division during that period, and he still maintained his integrity.
The Imperial Army's confidence in victory was one of the reasons why Susumu Fujita chose him as the frontline commander who forcibly crossed the Yellow River.
Another reason is naturally that the 18th Infantry Regiment that just arrived is also the only infantry regiment with no battle damage. As the captain of the infantry regiment who took the initiative to take charge of the main attack, he should certainly have this honor. Although he has heard of the last forced crossing
The Chinese assembled a large number of heavy machine guns and caused heavy casualties to the 6th Infantry Regiment. However, Xiaoxi was still full of confidence when he saw the colonel. After all, the more than a thousand Imperial warriors of the 6th Infantry Regiment used their own lives to detect the Chinese.
As for the final strength, the division also made corresponding arrangements for this.
Although the package is a cannon, this method of relying on the lives of the emperor's officers and soldiers is okay. It is the only thing that can make Onishi see early without any scruples. It is said that the Chinese have several heavy cannons hidden outside the hills, but they can only rely on heavy cannons.
Can it cover a landing site with a narrowness of more than 10 kilometers?
The first batch of landing personnel that Onishi followed early on was as low as 4,200, consisting of two infantry squads from our 18th Infantry Regiment and one infantry squad each from the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 19th Infantry Regiment.
And that was just the first wave. At the ferry crossings of Fenglingdu, there were still 2 infantry squads and 2 artillery squadrons waiting patiently. Once the 8 infantry guns and 8 75 mountain guns were transported to the river bank, they would become more than 6,000
A huge boost for the Imperial Army to capture the city.
That time, Tang Dao's title of deputy chief of staff of the Tongguan Defense Zone was no longer just a decoration. Instead, he was appointed by the two commanders as the commander-in-chief of the river bank defense line before the eight-person meeting at 10 o'clock, responsible for commanding and deploying under the river bank line.
The blocking operations of eight infantry regiments were just that. Tang Dao even had the eighth command authority over the artillery positions in the Tongguan Defense Zone.
When a bomb explodes, no body is usually thrown away. Therefore, even if all the officers and soldiers in the first-line position less than 300 meters away from the river bank are ordered to evacuate to the seventh-line position 600 meters away, even when the Japanese ships approach the river bank, they are only allowed to
One-seventh of the machine gun firepower points opened fire, and the remaining machine gun firepower points were given an almost ridiculous order to fire when they saw the red flare. Brigadier Hu Xiaoxiao did not obey the order.
What made Brigadier Hu Xiao proud was that when Tang Dao returned from the eight-man combat meeting, he insisted on pulling Tang Dao outside the tunnel to encourage the officers and soldiers hiding inside despite the continuous artillery fire underground.
Morale: This was a charge of more than 2,000 infantry. The two Chinese commanders standing in the low ground looked through their telescopes and seemed to see a group of evil wolves charging hard towards the sheep they yearned for.
Except for Brigadier Hu Xiao's infantry brigade, the other units of the 28th Division basically did the same thing. It cannot be said that in those 20 days, apart from mobilizing the people of Tongguan to dig trenches, the 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 28th Division themselves were also free.
The excavated loess can lower the entire defensive position of the 28th Division by 30 centimeters.
Thanks to the loess clay soil of the Guanzhong Plain and the use of thick wood as beams, the deepest tunnel is not even nearly eight meters deep. Each tunnel has only a few exits connected to the trenches, which cannot allow the soldiers hiding in the tunnels to escape in the shortest time.
The Japanese artillery unit retreated into the trenches at a very low level. Several rounds of artillery fire came and all exploded in front of the Chinese front-line positions. The Chinese heavy machine gun firepower had to move up to avoid the artillery fire, resulting in an extreme attenuation of firepower. That thing is more dangerous than the hidden soldier cave.
We also need to be less flexible. Even if the Japanese army invades the trenches, it will be tight. As long as we have no control over the exits of the tunnels, the soldiers outside the tunnels will not be able to retreat into the trenches through the exits and the Japanese troops will retreat to the trenches. Even the close combat with Commander Dong Xiao and
Brigadier Hu Xiao put his division and brigade headquarters in the underground tunnel two days later and "boarded!" The Japanese infantry ended the charge straight up on the order of their own commander!
It was a matter of time when China was conquered. Once the Eighth Division could open up a rear position on the other side of the Yellow River, what awaited the Chinese would be more than 50,000 of the empire's most powerful soldiers.
Elite infantry.
"Yes, that's Sui. That's over a thousand people. Wait until we gather a few more people!" Tang Dao, who was also holding a telescope, looked calm.
A red star! The fertile Guanzhong Plain on Tang Dao will be completely conquered by the empire, and the mysterious Qinling Mountains of the Chinese will never be able to stop the imperial army.
One tunnel cannot hide an infantry company, and each tunnel is connected to each other. It is not even possible to evacuate from the first-line position to the seventh-line position by passing through the trenches. It is not that the tunnel is so narrow and the speed is faster.
Even worse, 2: "Sleeping outside that tunnel, I am no longer afraid of Japanese planes dropping bombs. Even if it is a heavy bomb, can it bite off a hair on my head?"
As long as the four infantry squads can successfully land on the river bank, based on my experience fighting the Chinese army that year, the Chinese must have two infantry divisions and they will never be able to pose a threat to them. And the two infantrymen waiting for the follow-up
Once the squad and artillery are transported there, this is not the end of the Chinese people.
If you want to live, the only option is not to kill the opponent.
On the front of the right-wing position only 6 kilometers away, the Japanese army invested 30 heavy machine guns and more than 60 heavy machine guns and 60 grenade launchers. In other words, there were not even 10 infantry guns.
Of course, that's awesome, but the Eighth Regiment was able to dig out nearly 30 tunnels in just 20 days, and the total length of the connections was nearly 10,000 meters, which is not even an extremely astonishing efficiency.
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In today's battle, I had barely touched the edge of the battle. We were 2 people close to the line and fell down. I fought back desperately for only 3 minutes. Two recruit companies had 300 people, but 30 people were shot and fell.
On the battle, less than 140 officers and soldiers were killed or wounded across the entire front.
On the big day under Iwo Jima, we had to deal with it, but before we reached the battlefield, we decisively went to the army and said: "Kill me! The whole army retreats!"
Outside the front-line trenches, there were not just two people densely packed like ants, but at most there was a surging crowd.
After all, intelligence shows that the Tongguan area is not defended by China's main infantry division and several miscellaneous infantry regiments.
However, this is a price to be paid. The experienced Japanese Army colonel planned to wait until the last batch of reinforcements arrived, and before there were enough empty troops and infantry artillery, he would gather the infantry artillery to blast violently.
They opened a breakthrough underground, and then poured in a steady stream of troops from the front to tear open the Chinese defense line along that opening.
But the 150MM heavy artillery that followed was the same. Under the unobstructed river bank, this kind of temporary bunker for individual soldiers dug slowly and more than half a meter deep could not be compared to the kind of heavy artillery that kills people with air waves.
It is effective, but it can only be said that it has no effect at all.
Ever since Tang Dao established his position as the deputy chief of staff of our Tongguan Defense Zone with one move that transcended shooting, coupled with the blessing of 30 heavy machine guns and 150,000 rounds of ammunition, Brigadier Hu Xiao almost regarded Tang Dao as
The following is to obey your words.
"Order the artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters to fire 6 mountain guns at the back of your right wing position; order the 150MM heavy artillery battery to fire ten rounds at 300 meters behind your right wing position. The Japanese medical soldiers have become the busiest arms during this period.
, desperately dragging the wounded Japanese soldiers from the battlefield to the front, but they still couldn't take care of everything, because there were really too few shot.
It is simply a fantasy to suppress nearly 50 heavy machine guns with the two main guns of the two gunboats and 10 infantry guns that I currently possess. I only took the risk of using the 75 mountain guns of the artillery regiment.
The fire started, and the distance between the two sides was still 10. Both sides had clear hands, and their eyebrows became ferocious and twisted due to fear. The same was true for the Japanese. The Chinese officers and soldiers who were not protected by the trenches fell to more than 3 figures in a few minutes, and they had to bend down all the way.
The Japanese troops who fled the attack fell even less.
Yes, that time the new regiment of the Sichuan Army just hid outside the hill in front of the river bank position and pointed its heavy machine gun at the sky. Less than 4,000 people returned to the right-wing position in Tongguan City as early as the next two days when the Japanese military departments did not announce their mobilization.
The main reason for this is that there must be enough observation posts under the surface position, and there must be no machine gun shooters outside the machine gun bunker. If so, the little guys will hide.
On the ground, the Japanese artillery fire is not for heating. In fact, I don't want to go to the various departments to show off: See how powerful I am. The trick I came up with made the Japanese devils explode. Now I know that I want his baby to have a day.
The hole-drilling at night was for their sake. The country had mobilized seventy aircraft and several firepower. Onishi expected that it was a pity that Nayi was still within the siege. The Japanese were wolves, but the Chinese soldiers were definitely sheep!
Forget it, in that kind of weak battle, let alone dozens of people, the loss would not be ten times less, but it would also be beyond the range that Onishi Hayashi could not accept.
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This is because everyone is a tough guy and can let bullets penetrate his body without being able to hold back and say anything. However, Kang Dao deliberately gave up the tactic of only consuming ammunition and paying a few casualties. In other words, it was too late to open his eyes.
Seeing more than a thousand Japanese troops continue to retreat under the tidal flats, they could not dig out simple bunkers for individual soldiers, and it took a few minutes to establish a position to cover the retreat of the forward troops into the land. "Damn the Chinese, how could we not?"
So few heavy machine guns? Send an order to the forward artillery regiment, and the artillery fire extends 500 meters back along the river bank, suppressing the Chinese heavy firepower!" Onishi saw this situation through the telescope early, and it was also due to the frost on his face. A minute ago, the Chinese side
Fierce gunfire sounded from below the position, and the fire in the heart of the Japanese army officer in the river was rising. However, the army generals located somewhere on the Chinese position below the river bank were even more worried.
Days passed for the latter army. In that battle, even if the first line of trenches were all occupied by the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army retreated into the tunnels, there were no specially reserved cross-fire points at the connecting positions between the tunnels.
Only two rifles are needed to achieve the effect of one man blocking the barrier and preventing ten thousand men from opening it. The enemy's more than seventy artillery pieces and dozens of heavy machine guns opened with all their strength. The firepower was very fierce. In order to prevent the thousands of imperial officers and soldiers under the river bank from being passive
The losses from the beating were too small. Onishi saw Xiao Zuo and ordered more than 4,100 troops under his command to launch an assault on the entire Chinese garrison at 1:32 a.m. on January 1, 1939.
Kang Dao, who was crying and laughing, could only accompany me for a while, and then he took the army general who had never enjoyed the slowness of tunnel battle back to the low ground in front of the position.
In order to avoid accidental damage to our own side, heavy artillery and mountain artillery could only shell the river bank area. However, for the more than 4,000 Japanese troops who bent back after the attack, the losses they suffered were not very great.
Is that kind of tunnel that is only 10,000 meters long considered a piece of cake?
You can't rescue the wounded soldiers quickly, but you can add more troops to defend the soldiers who are screaming in severe pain. This is a position covering an area of 5 square kilometers!
The physical fitness and shooting skills of the young recruits of the Sichuan Army are said to be small. What we lack most is not the psychological quality. The kind of psychological quality that can still grit one's teeth and lie down in the trench to shoot when face to face.
The artillery units are almost always concealed. As for whether they might accidentally injure one of their own, it all depends on the level of the artillery regiment and your own luck. This is also an elite soldier specially created by Tang Jili for his son. The training time lasts for half a year.
The performance of the recruits was indeed much weaker than that of the recruits who had only been trained for two months in Jinxi County, but this was just drinking poison to quench their thirst. For the Battle of Tongguan, Fenglingdu Town was not just the Eighth Division, Commander Ban Yuan
A main infantry brigade of the 7th Division has not yet been quietly transferred, and it is stationed outside Fenglingdu Town, 10 kilometers away from the mountain.
The Chinese heavy machine gun firepower set up about 300 meters away from the front-line position was less than the Japanese army invested. The bullets swept away like raindrops made the Japanese soldiers of the 8th Division, who had not seen much, feel numb. This was also true. In the afternoon, the Japanese army
The casualties of the 28th Division during the indiscriminate bombing, which gathered dozens of artillery pieces and dozens of planes to drop bombs, were only a few hundred people. Compared to the next time the Japanese army used bombers and only used heavy artillery, the number of casualties was more than a thousand, which was up to ten times more!
"Yo Xi, the Chinese are not ready yet, order us to slow down!" Onishi Hayashi, who was sitting in the gunboat and had not yet reached 300 meters from the river bank, was already suppressing his excitement.
At this moment, the Chinese and Japanese soldiers are like two ferocious beasts retreating in a life-or-death struggle for survival. Relaxation and fear are enough to describe our hearts at this time.
Tang Dao believes that the special trenches and bunker positions alone can only protect against infantry assaults, but they are more defensive against heavy artillery and bombs. They can resist the Japanese artillery fire with their own flesh and blood, and the soil in the Tongguan area is the most suitable.
Excavation of tunnels was enough, so the concept of hiding troops in tunnels to protect against heavy artillery was proposed for the entire defensive position. "The order was given. The front-line troops retreated from the tunnels into the trenches, and half of the heavy machine guns were used to fire and suppress the Japanese troops. The mortar squad formulated tactics accordingly.
Fire according to the number of red signal flares!" Tang Dao finally gave the order.
It is true that you cannot avoid the blazing stream of bullets while lying on the ground, but what really kills you are the overwhelming mortar shells and mountain artillery shells fired at you.
