Chapter 1265 The battle to break the wall (Part 2)
The sound of gunfire coming from the distance did not come from Li Jijin's troops who had been lurking two miles in front of the Japanese artillery position.
But it came from the defense area of the 38th Army!
This time Tang Dao did not take the initiative to kick the stubborn train of history. He knew that the wise and brave Chinese soldiers would eventually make their own right decision.
Although the battle situation at this time is slightly different from the previous time and space due to the arrival of the new Sichuan Army Corps. For example, the 4th Army is at least not short of food and ammunition now, and there are also 5,000 new troops like Tang Dao and the troops who came not far away two hundred miles.
The main force was the Si Xing Regiment, but the Japanese army also underwent changes, with at least two more divisions in strength.
This basically belongs to one side and the other side. In the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Chinese and Japanese armies still had the absolute upper hand.
Seeing that the Sizhou Mountain side was extremely difficult, General Baifa planned to ask Brigadier Kong to bring a regiment and three other companies that came to reinforce the military headquarters to support the Sizhou Mountain war zone. So he took the civilian personnel of the military headquarters and Qingzhuang to stick to Monan.
town.
Although the Japanese army that had been scared away was still a threat, with the blocking battle in Longyan as the confidence, hundreds of people and hundreds of guns could resist for a day and a half without any problem.
Unfortunately, before Brigadier Kong Da had time to lead his troops, another telegram was sent from the 12th Division. About 400 Japanese soldiers entered the defense area through the gap between the two armies.
This is good. If they are allowed to join the Japanese infantry brigade hiding on an unknown mountain, the strength can reach more than 1,000 people. It must be an infantry regiment.
As a last resort, the infantry regiment of the 96th Army had to stay to assist in the defense. Brigadier Kong was worried and left his guard company with the military headquarters, while he rushed to Sizhou Mountain with two baggage companies of less than 300 people.
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With this small amount of troops, to be honest, there is no difference between coming and not coming. Brigadier Kong Da himself knows this very well.
But to the surprise of the Army Major General, Tang Dao not only rejected Brigadier Kong Da's kindness in the message, but also responded uncharacteristically: "What I want are soldiers, not a corpse collection team!"
Because of the cruelty of the battlefield, people will become different from usual, but Tang Dao's reply still deeply stimulated the self-esteem of this Northwest Army warrior.
Little did he know, that was exactly what Tang Dao wanted.
Just like in that time and space, how could that army major general fight such a stunning counterattack until the end of the road?
Sure enough, on the afternoon of the 13th, the brigade commander of Kong Da proposed that the white-haired general sign and agree to a counterattack tactical plan.
Brigadier Kong decided that if he persisted in defending, the final outcome would be that a certain defense line was broken and the whole army was destroyed. It was better to fight to the death and let him lead the 46th Independent Brigade to break out of the encirclement and march to the rear of the Japanese army alone, which could attack the Japanese rear supplies.
The transportation and logistics bases pose a major threat, and at the end of the day, they can contain part of the Japanese army and reduce pressure on the front line.
Although the white-haired general over there knew that the most likely outcome of this desperate effort would be to send the entire 46th Independent Brigade into the tiger's mouth, it would be a matter of time before the defense line was breached unless it put any pressure on the Japanese army.
After sitting for nearly an hour, the white-haired general who rarely went to the gambling table actually chose to gamble the lives of more than 4,000 people on the lives of the entire army group and even the entire Zhongtiao Mountain 200,000-strong army.
Of course these two generals did not know that in the past, it was this desperate fight with less than one tenth of the chance of winning that not only broke through the heavy Japanese military deployment known as the "June 6th Bloody Battle" in the middle of 39
The attack line reached all the way to Kerui City and Yuncheng, forcing the main force of the Japanese army to return to support its most important logistics base, and was eventually forced to end the battle in an anticlimactic manner.
And in this time and space, the Independent 46th Brigade, which is about to launch a brilliant attack, is no longer fighting alone. The main force led by Leng Feng has already been eyeing Yuncheng.
The person in charge of the communication line between Yuncheng and Ruicheng was the West Burst Detachment of the 4th Division, who was swearing but had been sitting back and watching the storm.
In view of the fact that the departure of this "untrustworthy" guy caused huge losses to the Sichuan Army's new regiment, Tang Dao decided to give this group of hawkers from Osaka a hard time, letting them feel more deeply that not only is the Mao Xiong powerful, but it is also powerful in China.
Cruel person.
Thank you! If His Majesty Major General Konosuke Ohma knew that his new friend with whom he had a "very happy chat" had such malicious intent, he would surely complain so crazily.
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This night was definitely the most miserable winter night that Captain Hebian had ever experienced, bar none.
The Chinese counterattacked again, but this time the counterattack was not a small force, but a full-scale counterattack by Baga.
When the artillery shells exploded on the hilltop that was finally captured, the Japanese sentries who were still alert immediately fired illumination bombs on the hillsides on the left and right of the high ground.
Then, sparks blinded the Japanese sentries, and countless guns fired at the position in the grass and woods.
Several infantrymen who were rushing to observe the enemy's situation at the edge of the trench were caught off guard and screamed repeatedly. Some were directly hit by bullets raining down, while others were hit by ricocheting bullets that hit rocks or bunkers.
This shows that the density of firepower of the Chinese army is enough to prove that the number of troops the Chinese have invested in counterattack is at least a thousand-man level.
"Order the entire army to stand firm! Wait for artillery support! The Chinese are dead!" This was the first military order issued by the unsurprised but overjoyed Colonel Hebian who calmly stood at the field headquarters.
Even at that moment, the corner of Colonel Kawabe Soya's mouth was slightly crooked, revealing the unique evil charm of the future crooked-mouthed Dragon King.
Really, if the 42-year-old man were ten years younger, he would almost be able to pretend.
It would be fine if it was a small-scale attack, but it would be a big mistake for the Chinese to dare to engage in such a desperate counterattack involving almost the entire army.
Since the Chinese night attacks occurred in various positions last night, Major General Yamada Seiichi convened several regiment commanders for a meeting. The five "stooges" discussed for a long time and finally formulated a countermeasure.
Before dusk, the artillery observers from the artillery brigade to each infantry brigade summarized the coordinates below the occupied hilltops and numbered these coordinates one by one. Once the Chinese attacked at night, the Japanese troops on the position only needed to report
The 12 mountain guns of the artillery brigade will find the corresponding coordinates for bombardment based on the number of your own highland and the area number that requires artillery fire coverage.
Don't tell me, the method thought up by the five "stooges" is quite targeted. It reduces ineffective communication between professionals and non-professionals, prevents false alarms, and allows our own artillery to respond in the shortest possible time.
If it is really as planned by the five "stooges", then the counterattack of 2,000 infantrymen who can still fight, led by Tang Tuanzuo himself, will definitely be a bad move that will never get any worse.
It is extremely dangerous to place 2,000 soldiers on an unobstructed hillside and shoot at the Japanese army. If there is another wave of artillery shells, they will really treat themselves as meat on the chopping board.
Unfortunately, Colonel Kawabe Soya didn't know that before the shells landed on the high ground he owned, in a bush 8 miles away, a man with a face covered in black and gray was revealing a mouth that he hadn't carefully brushed for who knows how many years.
Huang Banya passed by: "Let the mortar fire and clear the way for me!"
Even if Major General Yamada Seiichi is short of troops, he has always adhered to army regulations. Artillery units must be protected by infantry. The artillery group under his command has always been surrounded by two infantry squadrons.
However, in the evening, Yamada Seiichi had determined that the Chinese had become a turtle in the urn, and no matter how difficult it was to make trouble, he agreed to the infantry regiment under his command, which was short of major generals, to transfer its infantry squadron, but still maintained an infantry squadron.
defensive power.
An infantry squadron, even if an infantry battalion-level Chinese army attacks, can resist for at least 2 hours. Chen Bing's main force in Sizhou Mountain can return reinforcements in less than half an hour, easily swallowing them up in one go.
Deep down in his heart, Major General Yamada still hoped that the Chinese would try to attack his artillery brigade.
Because the battles in the past few days have made this Japanese army major general understand that the enemies in front of him are die-hards, and only by eliminating as many of their effective forces as possible can the list of dead in his hand not be longer.
Tang Tuanzuo satisfied the ambition of the Japanese Army Major General. Nearly 900 people from the three infantry companies led by Li Jijin squatted in the grass and watched the "bait" thrown by the Japanese Army Major General for several hours.
Not only were the number of people beyond the imagination of the Japanese army major general, but they were also equipped with two mortars that could penetrate the soul with one shot.
Under the cover of darkness, the mortars that quietly arrived 430 meters away from the Japanese defense line took the lead in attacking. Two large artillery shells with almost no accuracy exploded at the edge of the Japanese army's simple field trenches.
But these two artillery shells showed the Chinese soldiers who began to bend forward the concept of "power, but also accuracy".
The flames from the explosion of these two artillery shells almost illuminated the entire Japanese army's position. In front of the field trenches, there was also a barbed wire fence laid by the Japanese army at all costs. However, under the air waves generated by such artillery shells, dozens of meters long
The barbed wire fence and a dozen wooden piles that were more than half a meter deep into the ground were uprooted and turned aside.
Even the Chinese soldiers who were still 400 meters away felt a heat wave coming towards their faces, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who were less than 20 meters away from the explosion point of the shell.
The soldiers of the Fourth Line Regiment could not see so far away, otherwise they would definitely see at least dozens of Japanese soldiers with two lines of blood flowing from their ears. The air wave may not have killed the Japanese soldiers nestled in the trenches, but the huge banging sky
The sound directly shattered their eardrums.
"Good boy! This gun is really powerful. Fortunately, Brother Tu let me stuff it with cotton." Adong, who was following Class 4 with Tu Yunsheng on his back, muttered to himself.
Tu Yunsheng patted him on the shoulder, clenched his fists and pointed forward. This was a tactical gesture that Adong had rarely learned after being specially recruited into the 7th company and 4th squad. On a battlefield filled with bullets and bullets, no matter how hard humans tried to make a sound,
The voice is also insignificant, and gestures are a compulsory course for every soldier who joins the Fourth Line Regiment, so that they can more accurately understand the instructions issued by the grassroots platoon and squad leaders on the battlefield.
Tu Yunsheng meant to tell him not to be distracted, to follow the brothers and not to fall behind. Squad 4 was advancing in a 33 system. He, the squad leader, led a firepower team of a 60-gun and a light machine gun at the rear to give everyone a try.
The squadron provides fire support. A second of delay may cost the lives of the brothers in front.
The Japanese infantry squadron responsible for defense was originally a squadron that defended a trench of about 800 meters. However, when night fell, an infantry squadron was transferred back to the original infantry wing. This unlucky boy had to use three infantry squads to defend a trench of more than 1,700 meters.
trenches.
With an average of only one soldier per 10 meters, the defense system cannot be said to be weak against an attacker with 900 people covering it from three sides, but can only be said to be able to defeat it.
Who is Li Jijin? He is a veteran who has been in the army for ten years. He either doesn't take action, but once he does, he uses all his strength.
The light and heavy machine guns owned by the three infantry companies didn't matter what their firepower was. They just swept towards the Japanese artillery position area. Regardless of whether they were infantry or artillery, they would be beaten anyway if they didn't lie down.
As for the light machine guns that the Japanese army started to counterattack, they were left to the 60-guns equipped in each squad to deal with them. If one 60-gun couldn't deal with them, then two would be used.
The nine 60-gun guns equipped by an infantry company are definitely a nightmare for the Japanese light infantry after losing heavy fire support.
Although the caliber of that thing is not much larger than that of a grenade, the power of the shell is two or three times that of a grenade.
What's even worse is that the Chinese have a lot of equipment! An infantry squadron only has 6 grenade launchers, but the Chinese who are surrounded by a black crowd have 27 grenade launchers.
As long as the Japanese light machine guns dared to fire, at least two or three 60-mm guns would fire five rounds in a row to surround them.
This is a density of more than a dozen rounds. No matter how keen the intuition of the Japanese light machine gunners is and how skilled the tactical movements are, they still cannot escape!
What's more, the young gunners at this time are not the new recruits of the new army. They are all veterans who participated in the Battle of Shanxi. The shells fired range from 300 to 280. Not to mention, they all hit where they are.
A master gunner can still achieve an error of three to four meters, especially at a distance of less than 400 meters.
Losing fire suppression, and the attacker still has heavy fire suppression, how do you think this Japanese infantry squadron will fight?
When the infantry of the three infantry companies reached forty or fifty meters away from the trench, it was even more of a nightmare for the Japanese army. Countless grenades flew over from the darkness, shrouding the entire trench in gunpowder smoke.
After the war, the three infantry companies consumed more than 2,000 grenades in total, more than half of which should have been consumed here.
Then, without even using the Japanese, the Chinese side took the initiative to fire out flares, and the Charge also sounded at the right time.
The remaining Japanese soldiers were horrified to see countless figures rushing toward them in the mountains and fields. Even the most tenacious Japanese soldiers only fired three shots and were forced to get close to the soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment who rushed here.
Fight at a distance.
However, they were hardly given a chance to fight hand-to-hand.
The tip of the triangle formed by all infantry squads has a semi-automatic rifle. The veteran basically shoots all his bullets at the shit-yellow figure he can see, and then the soldiers guarding his flanks carry bayonets already fixed.
The spear rushed forward.
At this time, almost none of the weak Japanese army was still standing.
The Japanese troops were like grasshoppers facing the blue tide. They only struggled a few times and were completely submerged.
The Japanese artillerymen ran faster than rabbits. After discovering that enemies were attacking from three sides and shells more terrifying than the 105 howitzers fell on their own positions, the artillery battalion captain rationally ordered the entire artillery battalion to evacuate.
Evacuate from the only side that the Chinese are not attacking!
Artillery is a valuable technical force and must not be wasted easily on such a crude infantry battlefield. The reason the Japanese artillery major, who was born into an aristocrat, gave himself to escape seemed to be reasonable.
It's a pity that he doesn't need to use this reason to reply to Major General Yamada Seiichi who will definitely accuse him.
How could Li Jiujin, who was already familiar with the "Surround Three Ques One" tactic, let go of the "one" he let go of his own initiative?
Two elite infantry platoons and two heavy machine guns were ambushed in an area 1,000 meters away from the Japanese artillery position, waiting for the Japanese army to break.
After cleaning up these scattered troops, they will still have to shoulder the responsibility of blocking Japanese reinforcements, if the attack is slow or the Japanese reinforcements return quickly enough.
But obviously, judging from the current situation of breaking through the Japanese defense line in just 7 minutes, there is no need for it.
The 'Crooked-mouthed Colonel' who was still smiling evilly over there sent no less than ten telegrams at once, almost seeing through them, and he did not wait for his own fire support.
Then, he received bad news from Yamada Seiichi: the artillery brigade was being attacked by the Chinese, and your department immediately dispatched 3 infantry squadrons and 1 infantry artillery squad to support.
Colonel Kawabe Soya's mouth was really crooked at that moment, but it was just because he was angry.
Now the Chinese have used all their main force to attack him. Without artillery support, it is already very difficult for him. As a result, he is asked to allocate his few troops to support the artillery positions. This is not possible without killing him, right?
The colonel by the river wanted to spit thick phlegm in the face of the Major General, whom he was already unhappy with, and replied: "I love so and so, I don't have time anyway."
However, after calming down for two or three minutes, Colonel Kawabe Soya could only obey his orders when he thought of Yamada Seiichi's dark mustache and sinister pea eyes.
He knew that as long as he disobeyed military orders and the artillery brigade made mistakes, he would definitely be the one to take the blame after the war.
Originally there were less than 1,500 capable soldiers, and almost 500 had to be mobilized. Colonel Kawabe Soya had no choice but to send his entire regiment headquarters escort squadron to the high ground.
Seeing that the area around the wing headquarters was deserted, Colonel Caoya by the river couldn't help but feel a little scared. What if a group of Chinese people were killed in the dark night? The twenty or so hairy men at the wing headquarters would be able to deal with it.
OK?
Therefore, His Excellency Colonel Kawabe Soya simply ordered the regiment headquarters to move forward, which was only more than 300 meters away from our own high ground. This was a direct change to the forward point.
Don't tell me, the commander's "heroic" act of standing with us stimulated the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment, and the originally low morale miraculously rose.
But Colonel Kawabian Kusaya never expected that there were not only Malu in the Imperial Army, but also Laoliu!
Being greedy for life and afraid of death is not just for those traitors who kneel down when asked!
