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According to internal battle reports of the Japanese army, on this day alone, Japan's North China Front Army and the Westward Army Corps invested a total of more than 150,000 troops of various arms in the offensive.
Putting aside the second-line auxiliary units such as baggage troops, medical troops, and engineers, as well as reserve units, the two Japanese armies almost used their full strength.
But the paradox is that in the Sizhou Mountain Defense Zone, China and Japan are peaceful and quiet.
The front of the Chinese position seemed to be full of knives. The Japanese infantry was only 800 meters away and would not go beyond the barrier.
Of course, it wasn't like both sides were staring at each other from a distance of hundreds of meters to see who had the bigger eyes. The Japanese infantry still shot hard.
Battle report of the 4th Division's West Turf Detachment. During the day on January 9, the West Turf Detachment expended 150,000 rounds of machine rifle bullets and 300 various artillery shells, injuring 138 people and killing 1 person!
If calculated based on an infantry regiment of more than 3,000 infantrymen deployed on the front line of this detachment, each infantryman fired about 40 rounds of bullets on average, and each of the 36 heavy machine guns consumed an average of 800 rounds of ammunition, which is considered a normal level for a day of fierce fighting.
That is to say, 138 people were injured and 1 person was killed. This figure is far lower than that of other Japanese military units. If compared with the more than 500 casualties of the Zhongcun detachment in Zhangjiashan, the number of 1 person killed is completely negligible.
If Masao Nakamura had the opportunity to see the injury report of the West Assault Detachment on that day, he would probably be so angry that he would go to heaven.
Those wounded were injured, but they seemed to have little to do with the battlefield.
For example, some people accidentally stepped on a pit while walking in the trenches and injured their feet, some slipped and injured their feet while carrying bullet boxes, or some were not wearing helmets and were hit on the head by rubble blown up by Chinese mortars.
The most outrageous thing was that two Japanese soldiers went to the battlefield for a convenience. Because of their shy temperament, the woods they went to were a bit deep. As a result, their buttocks were bitten by poisonous insects, and their buttocks were swollen larger than their faces.
The important thing is that there is also a note. The swollen skin is covered with red envelopes, which will make anyone’s scalp tingle when they look at it!
Is there a possibility that those two guys went to the depths of the jungle not to poop, but to look for poisonous insects? Otherwise, in the cold winter, the poisonous insects that come there are rampant. Are you a bunch of major generals and lieutenant generals who are illiterate or idiots?
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The key point is that none of the more than 100 injured people were crying, but they were all smiling. Perhaps it was because they were loyal to the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor after being injured and bleeding!
The only regret is that they won't be able to go to the battlefield for at least a few days!
As for the only guy who died in battle, his cause of death was quite frightening.
As the famous "Tie Hanhan" in the West Turbulence Detachment, Major Sima Momotaro, captain of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division, can be said to be an alternative in the 4th Division. He has a strong and brave personality and a joy in fighting.
He takes off his outer layer of military uniform and exposes a tuft of hair on his chest, and wears a menstrual belt on his head every time he fights, even in the coldest winter.
This may be one of the reasons why he stayed in the 4th Division for 18 years and was still just an Army Major!
The 4th Division values brains rather than recklessness. This is also the unique temperament of the 4th Division that is different from other divisions.
It was the same this time. Although the detachment and the regiment were strictly ordered not to attack rashly, and in the weather of minus 5 or 6 degrees Celsius, the major's face was already livid with cold, but in order to show his bravery, Tie Hanhan still took off his clothes.
Wearing a woolen coat and only a white shirt with a menstrual belt wrapped around his head, he held a command knife and loudly encouraged his subordinates in the trench.
The general idea is: Even a distance of 800 meters cannot stop the accurate shooting skills of our imperial warriors. If I aim and shoot with the Baga's, the Chinese can still be killed and wounded!
Good guy, even Amaterasu wouldn’t dare to have such a dream!
But why can’t we pretend to be accurate when we can’t shoot accurately? With this tireless encouragement, the Japanese infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment were much more enthusiastic about shooting than other infantry groups.
This naturally attracted the attention of Tang Tuanzuo who was observing the movements of the Japanese troops on the high ground.
At this time, the sun was just right, and Shima Momotaro, who was holding a telescope and looking at the Chinese position, had no idea that the reflection from his telescope lens was as bright as the Polar Star in the night sky.
"Huh? This little devil can do it! He also has a telescope!" The blood of a super sniper surged in Tang Tuanzuo's body again.
Half a month ago, he continuously attacked the Third Division at night in Fenglingdu Town. Although it was dangerous and very hard, for Tang Tuanzuo, who was born in the special forces, he found a long-lost sense of familiarity.
He is no longer the person holding the sword, he is just a steel sword stabbing the enemy, and the enemy will be killed when the sword is struck!
After estimating the distance, Tang Dao called to Long Yan: "Bring me a Czech light machine gun!"
The Mosin-Nagant rifle used by Tang Dao is carried by Xia Dayu. Even if it is at hand, in terms of its ballistics, even if Tang Dao can estimate the farthest accuracy, it can guarantee the accuracy of 600 meters to 700 meters, but it is not as good as the range.
The Czech light machine gun with longer range and straighter trajectory is easy to use.
Attaching the scope to the Czech light machine gun, Tang Dao tried to aim at the location with the bright reflection, which made Long Yan confused.
800 meters! That’s a distance of several hills. Are you serious, sir?
Anyway, this was completely beyond Long Yan's understanding of shooting. In the past, the person who could hit wild wolves and boars at 100 meters away in Yeyue Village was a sharpshooter.
With the crude firearms and the far enough distance, the Tang Dao finally 'missed'.
After the 92-caliber warhead crossed 800 meters, it did not shoot the head as usual, but hit the chest hair area exposed by the open clothes. The warhead, whose kinetic energy had begun to decay, broke through the hard sternum and began to flip and deform, directly tearing the heart.
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Major Momotaro Sima did not make it to the field hospital and died on a stretcher.
"This must be the Chinese lurking out of the position, otherwise how could there be such a sharpshooter?" Daxiong Yunsuke almost jumped out of breath after receiving the news that his captain-level officer was killed in battle.
"Let the artillery cover the area 400 meters in front of our position. I will make it impossible for the daring Chinese to come and go!"
Yes, what made Okuma Konosuke angry was not the death of an army major in battle, but the fact that the Chinese went too far. I didn’t even hit you in Baga, so how could you still dare to come down and hit me?
The typical loss is not that big, but the self-esteem cannot bear it.
This is also the reason why the 4th Division's West Turf Detachment did not shell as hard on the 8th but still consumed more than 300 rounds of artillery shells.
An army major who was not well received by his superiors died in battle, and his superiors used 300 artillery shells as a farewell firecracker. It was quite interesting.
Thanks to Tang Dao's use of 5,000 men to block the main force of nearly 10,000 Japanese troops, the 4th Army was much stronger than expected in resisting the 20,000 troops in the hands of Masao Nakamura on its own.
After the three infantry regiments of the 55th Division suffered more than 2,000 losses, an infantry regiment of the 17th Division and the reserve infantry regiment of the 55th Division all went into battle for rotation, giving the three damaged infantry regiments a chance to breathe for most of the day.
Nakamura Masao organized three consecutive rounds of large-scale attacks, but they were all carried down by two infantry divisions of the 38th Army.
The weaker 96th Army dealt with less than 5,000 Japanese troops, and the pressure was much less. Although the entire defense line was in danger several times, it was still firmly in Chinese hands.
Nakamura Masao is not in a hurry for success. He has an entire Chinese army in front of him. What he needs to do most now is to peel off the Chinese defense force layer by layer like peeling an onion. What he consumes is mainly ammunition, and the Chinese
What is consumed is life.
If the war continues like this, sooner or later China's confidence will collapse due to the continued increase in war losses.
As a representative figure of the academic school within the Japanese military, Masao Nakamura firmly believes in a law. There is almost no army in the world that can continue to persist after the battle damage rate reaches 40%.
There may be such troops, but they are definitely not in China, otherwise they would not have been completely defeated on both the East and North China fronts.
To put it bluntly, what Nakamura Masao is playing now is not a conspiracy, but Chi Guoguo's conspiracy, using ammunition reserves in exchange for the lives of Chinese soldiers to see who can persist to the end.
It seems very simple, but it is extremely effective, because it also involves the judgment and understanding of human nature.
Not everyone is a hero, as long as they are human, they will cherish the world and not want to fall into the cold abyss of death.
Moreover, Nakamura Masao did not engage in the Japanese Army's most common practice of sending small groups of troops to penetrate behind enemy lines to harass. He just wanted to use abundant firepower and sufficient troops to continuously oppress and consume the opponent, causing the opponent to collapse psychologically and retreat.
The Yellow River behind Zhongtiao Mountain is both a dead end and a way out.
He believed that Chinese soldiers would rather choose the cold, roaring river than bullets and bayonets, so after all, there was still a one-ten-thousandth chance of survival.
If nothing else goes wrong, when the North China Front's army aviation fleet comes to help in four days, it will be the time for him to launch a full-scale attack, and then, he will be successful in one battle!
The white-haired general of Munan Town has been frowning for the past two days. It is not the long list of casualties that makes this iron-blooded general anxious, but the Japanese general's tactics of slowly tightening the rope that makes him unable to show his face.
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In just two days, the Japanese army had already demonstrated sufficient firepower. Not only was it forced to bring out its reserves, but also the 16 mountain guns of the 17th Division Mountain Artillery Battalion and the infantry artillery batteries of each brigade had to engage in artillery counterattacks.
Except for the strange force of the Four Elements Regiment that had not yet arrived, he had very few cards left in his hand.
However, the Japanese fighter planes have not yet joined the battle, the 105 howitzers have not yet appeared, and the two infantry regiments have also taken turns to attack.
This is like a competition between two martial arts masters. One of them has shown 90% of his strength, but the other is still able to do it with ease and has not even drawn his sword.
This feeling is extremely uncomfortable for any commander.
But this is the gap between China and Japan. One side can build aircraft, tanks, and giant ships, while the other side can just produce a few mortars and it is enough to celebrate.
The white-haired general couldn't think of any effective countermeasures. The only thing he could do was to persist and persist!
Until the day when 20,000 people from two divisions of the 38th Army persisted until they were no longer afraid of the cold.
Perhaps his biggest advantage over Masao Nakamura is that he believes that his men can maintain combat effectiveness even after the battle damage rate reaches 50%.
Masao Nakamura is an excellent commander, but he still doesn't quite understand his opponent.
The Chinese should be a very special nation in this world. They are smart, kind and tolerant. Even if you snatch all the rice from their bowl, they will swallow it for a while, and they can also say "take a step back and the sky will be brighter" and so on.
I comfort you, but if you not only snatched away the rice but also smashed the bowl, then
Then they are really going to work hard!
In ancient times, there was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, today there is the Patriotic War, and in the future there will be the Battle of the Snowy Fields!
The Chinese are not rabbits who only bite when they are in a hurry. They are dragons. If they move their scales in reverse, it will shake the world!
Compared with the fierce fighting in the Zhongtiao Mountain War Zone, the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi seem much calmer.
Since the Japanese army launched a 9th Army encirclement and suppression campaign in May and was defeated, the Japanese army has been far more defensive than offensive in the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi.
Even though 80,000 troops were assembled again to march into the Taihang Mountains this time, they were no longer as arrogant as before. Shecheng, Lixian, Changzhi and other large counties all stationed an infantry regiment, and only five infantry regiments were left behind.
The number of troops and other branches of the army totaled 30,000.
Only 50,000 people can march into the Taihang Mountains, but this is still an extremely huge number.
The 80th Group Army, whose headquarters is still in the Taihang Mountains, can be said to be fully mobilized this time. The headquarters guard regiment, the guard battalion directly under the 921st division, the supplementary regiment, the new regiment, and the 4 infantry regiments under the 683rd brigade have assembled more than 20,000 people.
A total of more than 40,000 local armed brigades and militiamen were stationed on key roads and highlands.
The two infantry battalions of the Sixing Regiment and the attached artillery and heavy equipment had to be divided into two groups under the leadership of Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan respectively to block the approaching 8,000-person infantry brigade of the 109th Division.
But at this time, there was a Japanese army of about 4,500 soldiers, composed of two infantry brigades, cavalry, artillery, and heavy equipment, similar to a small mixed brigade, silently walking along the mountain trail towards Dakouzi
He lurked in the direction of Dongzhen.
This is one of two task forces composed of elite troops drawn from the 18th Division. Its main purpose is to attack the Si Xing Regiment's station in Dakouzidong Town while the main force is attacking.
The tactical purpose of this task force is to destroy the war potential of the Four Lines Regiment.
The Japanese intelligence agency is not a vegetarian. In the past few months, it has attached great importance to the Si Xing Regiment and conducted large-scale intelligence infiltration into the Taihang Mountains. Although it failed to obtain core intelligence, it finally discovered that the Si Xing Regiment had a large-scale
The arsenal can produce rifles, machine guns and various types of ammunition in large quantities.
Especially after conquering Shimen in the Jindong War, a large number of machine tools and steel materials were obtained, and it is not ruled out that it can produce artillery in the future.
It's okay, the Four Lines Regiment is already so powerful now. If it still has enough military production capacity and its army scale is expanded, let alone a brigade, even a division may not be their opponent.
The Japanese North China Front will never tolerate a powerful enemy that continues to thrive, and will strangle it in the cradle no matter what.
This New Year's Day offensive led by the Japanese Army Base Camp has a total of one strategic purpose and three tactical purposes. The strategic purpose is naturally to march into Guanzhong and use it as a springboard to march into southwest China. Among them, the destruction of the war potential of the Si Xing Regiment is the three tactical purposes.
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As for the other two, one is to deal with the enemy in Zhongtiao Mountain in southern Shanxi, and the other is to find another henchman, the headquarters of the 80th Army, and destroy it.
As long as one of these three tactical goals is achieved, it will be victory for the Japanese army.
Therefore, two task detachments composed of the 18th Division, under the cover of a violent attack by tens of thousands of troops, headed towards Dakouzidong Town, while the other headed towards the headquarters of the Eighty Group Army.
But for this, the intelligence department of the Japanese North China Front spent a lot of manpower and material resources to fully prepare, and every detail from the march route to the people leading the way was recorded in detail.
Otherwise, the 18th Division would not have spent so much money on recruiting its elite troops and matching their firepower. It would not only be able to adapt to the light march in the mountains, but also have sufficient ability to attack difficult situations.
This may also be the first unit of the Japanese Army to have a prototype mountain brigade, which was forced out by its opponents.
Even Shanshan Yuan himself may not have expected that an infantry regiment with only a few thousand people would actually become an existence comparable to a group army and a hundred-mile defense zone in his eyes half a year later.
The Japanese army's "mobilizing the tiger away from the mountain" and "secretly crossing Chencang" were extremely successful at least at the beginning of the war. Until January 9, when all the troops were fighting with the Japanese army in darkness, no one could notice that there were two elite Japanese troops.
The troops have already rushed towards the hinterland of their base area through small roads.
For the Four Lines Group, the crisis does not only come from the Dakouzidong Town resident.
Shunwangping!
Located at the junction of Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain, it is the legendary farming land of Emperor Shun and is also the main peak of Mount Li, with a maximum altitude of 2,358 meters. The top of the mountain is an alpine meadow, covering an area of several thousand acres, but the mountainside is covered with virgin forests and trees.
Extremely lush!
Standing at the top of Shunwangping and looking down, you can see a fertile river valley, where the Bihe River meanders through, separating Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain.
If someone wants to go from Taihang to Wangwu and then to Zhongtiao, but also wants to stay hidden enough, this river valley that was once full of crops is almost a must-go.
A soldier wearing an khaki woolen coat and a steel helmet stood on this 2,000-meter mountain peak, looking at the river valley in front of him with a telescope.
This soldier has been doing the same thing for nearly two days.
After waiting for a long time for the prey to arrive, you will inevitably feel anxious, but the hunter has a calm face. Even the people who know him best, no one can see through his facial expressions to see through his true inner world.
"Your Excellency, the detachment leader, the reconnaissance leader reported that the main force of the Four Troops Regiment has appeared!" A Japanese major hurriedly ran out of the woods, his voice a little excited.
"They are finally here!" The thin-faced soldier let out a long sigh of relief, his eyes flashing with light.
Today he can finally repay all the shame that Tang Dao and the Four Elements Group gave him.
No, it’s double the amount!
He even thought about it. On that day, Tang Dao took pictures of the corpses of his colonel, lieutenant colonel, and major, which were neatly arranged and made headlines in Chinese newspapers. After today's battle, it would be disrespectful to come and go! He will also take photos.
This is done.
It's just that it's hanging on the tree, like a wind chime!
The wind and snow blowing across northern China are filled with the smell of death!
