Chapter 1273 Two of your teeth will fly off if you meet me.
More than 6,000 people led by Nishimura Genichi arrived at Jiulong Mountain on the evening of the 17th. Because the mountain was steep and there were still some troops on the way, Nishimura Genichi did not venture deep into the mountainous area.
Even Genichi Nishimura, who was wary of the Four Elements Regiment, did not send out any scouts to avoid losing their lives in vain.
This top student from the Japanese Army Sergeant School placed his mission of reconnaissance on the enemy entirely on aerial reconnaissance, which seemed to preserve the strength of the infantry, but in fact it left the opponent a lot of preparation time and a unclear opponent's defense map.
When the opponent possesses powerful anti-air weapons, the reconnaissance aircraft dare not lower its altitude at all. An altitude of more than 1,000 meters cannot give the commander much advice at all.
Moreover, the reconnaissance plane could not arrive until 9 a.m. on the 18th at the earliest. It would wait until it returned to the airport to inform the forward infantry headquarters of the reconnaissance results through the radio. Another half day passed, and it would be almost there again after Genichi Nishimura made arrangements based on these.
It's afternoon.
That is equivalent to giving the Chinese another 24 hours to prepare.
This was also one of the reasons for the failure of the Battle of Jiulong Mountain summarized at the post-war Japanese general-level meeting.
How powerful is the current civil engineering work of the Four Elements Group?
If various weapons and equipment are sharp spears in the hands of soldiers, used to take the lives of enemies, then field fortifications are the shields in front of soldiers and the final guarantee of their lives.
Tang Dao attaches as much importance to the upgrading of weapons and equipment as it does to the construction of multiple vision and fortifications.
Although the company, platoon, and squad leaders of the four regiments are promoted based on their military merits and performance, they have an extremely important assessment during their tenure. If they fail the assessment, their salary will be retained but they will not be able to continue serving in the military position.
That is the practical assessment of civil engineering operations!
There are various trenches and tunnels crisscrossing the mountains around Dakouzidong Town. In fact, more than half of them were dug by officers at all levels of the Fourth Army Regiment and led by their troops and passed the inspection.
Of course, before that, a week-long training with Tang Tuanzuo as the chief instructor and engineer company commander Bai Sheng as the deputy chief instructor was a must for newly appointed officers.
In addition to the necessary civil engineering skills, Tang Tuanzu also attaches great importance to tools. Almost one-fifth of the production of fine steel that can be used for gun barrels is used by Tang Tuanzuo to make various digging, planing and
A rough and shallow tool for soil.
Not to mention, the new 'cyclone explosive' has not even begun to be installed in front-line combat troops. Bai Sheng's engineer company has already been equipped with 200 kilograms.
Its purpose is not for combat, but for blasting hard geological soil!
Even the few active new anti-infantry mines "Kudao" designed and produced by Tang Tuanzuo were basically equipped to the engineering companies.
Moreover, it is not just anyone who wants to be an engineer. First, you have to join the army for more than half a year, and you have to pass a strict assessment. It is more difficult than becoming an artillery soldier.
It can be said that within the Four Lines Regiment, engineers are second only to high-tech arms such as artillery, in terms of personnel treatment and equipment.
Of course, the various departments of the Fourth Army Regiment did not complain much about the importance given to the Engineer Company. The results of several battles have proven the importance of the Engineer Company.
Without correct planning by engineers and sufficiently efficient civil engineering operations, the battle losses of each unit of the Fourth Army Regiment would have been at least ten percent higher in the Battle of Eastern Shanxi alone, which would have cost hundreds of lives.
After 1938, a year of systematic training and actual combat, as well as the updating of various equipment, Tang Dao can confidently say that even if his engineering troops are not among the top three in the world, they are at least stronger than the Japanese army, which is the number one in Asia.
The Japanese army's powerful civil engineering operations had already caused enough suffering to the Chinese army and American cowboys during the Second World War. In this time and space, Tang Tuanzuo was just 'replying others in their own way' and following the Japanese's path.
The road left the Japanese with nowhere to go.
Therefore, after the Japanese reconnaissance plane discovered the hiding place of the army at noon on the 17th, the cold front no longer covered it up and started the 'digging' mode with great fanfare, using the 8 hours in advance and the 24 hours generously reserved by the cautious Genichi Nishimura.
A total of 32 hours of civil engineering work dug more than 5,000 meters of trenches on Highland 872 and several affiliated small highlands.
And this is only the superficial amount of work. In order to prevent Japanese bombing, there are more than 20 tunnels buried 6 meters deep underground.
In addition, there are a total of 26 machine gun bunkers with logs as tops and covered with a 2-meter-thick soil layer!
Each bunker is equipped with heavy machine guns and even 20mm machine guns. Unless the Japanese army uses 70mm infantry cannons to blast accurately and violently, or blasts at close range, these deadly things can make the Japanese army lie on the ground.
There is no way to move forward until death.
The entire 872 Highland is like a hedgehog with thorns spread all over its body. If the Japanese army wants to provoke them, it is almost inevitable that the thorns will spread all over its body.
The 981 Highlands on the 46th Independent Brigade were slightly worse. Even Leng Feng specially sent a platoon of engineers to lend out nearly a thousand special tools, and even took out the precious 300 kilograms of 'cyclone explosives' to help attack the hard rock formations.
During the blasting operation, the 46th Independent Brigade barely built 12 machine gun bunkers and 13 tunnels for hiding troops. In addition, 4,500 meters of trenches were dug on the surface.
That was the result of 32 hours of hard work by more than 3,700 people from the 46th Independent Brigade and more than 600 Japanese prisoners of war.
Speaking of these more than 600 prisoners of war from the 4th Division, it was really an eye-opener for the Chinese soldiers.
This group of vendors from Osaka were quite honest during the march. After all, there was an infantry company to guard them. And in this kind of war, the bullets were loaded and the safety was turned on. Whenever the prisoners of war moved, they would shoot them.
kill.
However, when they arrived at Jiulong Mountain and were asked to participate in civil engineering work due to lack of manpower, they encountered strong resistance from the prisoners of war. They believed that they had strictly obeyed the Chinese orders and achieved no one causing trouble and no one escaping during the march. The Chinese should comply.
The terms negotiated by both parties after the surrender did not include labor such as helping to move the earth. If the Chinese insist on doing this, then they, who have abided by the spirit of the contract for generations, would rather die!
Good guy, facing this group of Japanese who "swore not to work to the death", even Brigadier Kong Da and Battalion Commander Leng, who had always been decisive in killing, were a little dumbfounded. However, Tang Tuanzuo, who was far away in Sizhou Mountain, knew about it and made a move.
Idea, give me money!
Prisoners of war were paid on an hourly basis. The hourly wage of 2 yen per hour was more than 20 times the salary of Japanese soldiers serving in the military, which was a substantial premium.
Is this possible? After all, they are prisoners of war, and their life and death are in the hands of the Chinese. No matter how high the salary is, even if it is paid in cash, they can get it back with just a few bullets.
"Tell the highest-ranking prisoners of war that 'tomorrow' will be your guarantee. Even if they unfortunately die in this battle, the reward for their labor will be handed over to their superiors in full." Tang Dao's reply.
easy to understand.
Although he thought it was very fantasy, Leng Feng, who had great trust in Tang Dao, also went to negotiate with the Japanese prisoners of war with the mentality of giving it a try.
As a result, the Japanese prisoners of war actually succumbed to the high daily wages.
The most eye-catching thing is that not only did this group of Japanese prisoners of war not cheat and work as hard as the Chinese soldiers, they even gave the 46th Independent Brigade a lot of professional advice during the construction of the fortifications.
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Chinese officers and soldiers
I'm afraid they didn't capture a group of Japanese invaders, but a group of hidden soldiers who broke into the enemy's territory!
But in the words of the Japanese prisoners of war, they can do as much work as they pay for. Chinese people are not stingy with money. Naturally, they are also like ‘a scholar will die for his bosom friend’!
God, "A soldier will die for his bosom friend." Brigadier Kong Da, who had always been jealous of the sun, had the urge to destroy all his views at that moment.
Of course, this was also the most bizarre prisoner of war that Brigadier Kong Da encountered during the long Patriotic War. Such good things would rarely be encountered in the future.
For example, the more than 300 artillery prisoners of the Fifth Division captured in Shunwangping Sihang Regiment were extremely difficult to manage despite their small number. Those guys looked honest on the surface, but in fact they were thinking about what to do all the time.
Escape.
Because there were many seriously wounded soldiers in the Fourth Army Regiment during the Battle of Shunwangping, it was obviously not suitable to march with seriously wounded soldiers in such a war. So we simply transferred two squads of about 60 people from the baggage company, plus the guard platoon of the third battalion.
120 people stayed in the mountains of Wangwu Mountain, responsible for the safety of more than a dozen medical soldiers and 70 to 80 seriously injured soldiers on the spot, and responsible for the supervision of more than 300 prisoners of war.
Each prisoner of war was tied up in groups of ten with iron wires as shackles. In addition, Adong was asked to call 100 young men from the village to issue weapons and act as temporary guards.
Of the more than 200 heavily armed personnel, half were still front-line soldiers who killed without blinking an eye. The more than 600 people who were replaced by the 4th Division were definitely honest. As a result, once the main force of the Fourth Division left, the group of Japanese prisoners of war started from the second division.
Things started happening the next day.
Not only did they try their best to escape, they also attacked the inexperienced young militiamen, and even held two militiamen hostage with knives and threatened the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment to ask for their release. If the lieutenant and the guard platoon leader had not made a decisive decision, he continuously ordered the shooting and killing of the participating militiamen.
The cold and decisive killings of more than 30 Japanese soldiers completely shocked the Japanese prisoners of war, and the consequences were disastrous.
By the time Nishimura Genichi and more than 10,000 Japanese troops arrived at the two highlands at 4 p.m. on January 18, who had spent the whole day reconnaissance and troop deployment, the Chinese soldiers on the two highlands were already ready.
Looking through the telescope at the rows of trenches on the high ground in front of him, Nishimura Motoichi felt bitter in his mouth. He attacked the high ground bit by bit like peeling corn husks. In the end, the seven infantry brigades under his command could still be left.
how many people?
Obviously, Nishimura Genichi really thinks too much.
The Japanese army, which started its attack at 5 pm on January 18, never imagined that from this moment on, everyone here would embark on a path of no return.
After spending hundreds of lives, Nishimura Yuanichi finally tested the strength of the firepower of Highland 981 and Highland 872.
The Japanese Army Major General, who had been pushed to the point by Shiro Itagaki, also officially made a decision. The 872 Highland, which the Japanese army called the "Single Edge Peak", was mainly for containment and fire suppression, while the 981 Highland, which was called the "Fishbone Ridge", was
The tactic of gathering heavy troops for siege.
It has to be said that at least from this point of view, Nishimura Genichi still has a few skills. He will at least avoid the strong and attack the weak, and use the 46th Independent Brigade as a breakthrough point.
Even though Leng Feng has no more than 1,500 infantrymen available for combat, the individual combat effectiveness and equipment of its soldiers are much stronger than those of the 46th Independent Brigade. In addition, they are more skilled in civil engineering operations, so the difficulty of conquering them is actually much greater than that of the 46th Independent Brigade.
981 Highland.
But this is the weakest link in the Chinese army, but it is also stronger than the Japanese army imagined.
Just in that battle on the night of the 18th, two of Nishimura Genichi's big teeth collapsed.
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An unnamed highland belonging to Highland 981, located more than 800 meters below and to the right of the main Highland 981, is guarded by only one infantry platoon.
The entire position is pitifully small, with only one anti-gun hole used to avoid artillery fire and two trenches no more than 300 meters long at the front and rear. There are no heavy machine guns on the position, only 4 light machine guns and 3 grenades. The remaining
Basically they are rifles.
52 soldiers have medium-sized rifles, Hanyang-made rifles, and a total of 68 Type 38 rifles. In terms of light firepower alone, it is more than a full infantry platoon of the ordinary Chinese army.
But this is definitely not worth mentioning to the Japanese army. Under normal circumstances, even an infantry squad, let alone an infantry squadron, could conquer it under the cover of heavy machine guns and infantry artillery.
But this time, it really opened the eyes of the Japanese.
It was this little-known little position. The Japanese army sent an infantry squadron of 178 people, plus 4 heavy machine guns and 2 infantry cannons to assist. There were even 4 mountain cannons to cover it with artillery fire first. Moreover, the Japanese army's infantry and artillery coordination had reached its limit. The infantry
They had already reached 180 meters from the front line of the trenches on the high ground, and shells from mountain artillery and infantry artillery were blasting smoke from the high ground.
No matter in terms of firepower, troop strength or the strong cooperation displayed by the Japanese army, it is already considered the pinnacle level of the Japanese army. No matter how you look at it, it is all a matter of one blow.
But there is never anything certain in this world, only uncertainty.
The Chinese infantry on the position waited until the Japanese infantry approached 120 meters from the front of the position before starting to fight back sporadically.
They were basically rifles, and the lack of continuous fire suppression from light machine guns made it difficult for the Japanese army to avoid the illusion that "the Chinese have been almost killed by artillery fire."
The Japanese infantry started to straighten their bodies, open their legs, shout "board" and start charging!
A red signal flare rose into the sky, but this did not arouse the vigilance of the Japanese infantry who had already begun to run wildly. They only took it as a signal that the Chinese infantry was about to enter the trenches.
Therefore, the Japanese infantry just wanted to run faster and faster, and rush to an area where they could throw mines before the Chinese reached the front-line trenches.
Victory is less than 50 meters away from them!
But the sharp scream of "咻儿~~" coming from the sky made the Japanese infantry's eyes brighter.
That was a ball of light formed by the explosion of countless mortar shells.
Winter nights in northern China always come earlier, and it's already dark at 6 p.m., but Genichi Nishimura will never give his opponent another night to rest.
The fortifications that spread all over the mountains and fields almost overnight made it clear to Genichi Nishimura that the Chinese had dug out such a huge system of field fortifications by working tirelessly, at the expense of huge physical strength.
If he doesn't take advantage of the opponent's physical weakness to launch an attack now, but waits until the opponent has a good night's sleep before attacking again, that wouldn't be pure stupidity!
Therefore, a wave of nearly 10 artillery shells fell and exploded, causing fires that were enough to illuminate half of the hillside, allowing the Japanese commanders 600 meters away to see the scene of this artillery massacre.
Although the distance between the individual Japanese infantry soldiers was already wide enough, and they were able to crawl in time, the Chinese artillery shells were like waves in the sea, one after another, not giving the Japanese infantrymen on the hillside any breathing space at all.
Chance.
The only thing they could do was to lie on the ground and silently pray for the blessings of Amaterasu to end the Chinese artillery fire.
That was an artillery position composed of 10 82-guns deployed on the rear flank of Highland 981. It was also the artillery force supported by Leng Feng.
In view of the fact that he has 6 Bofors Mountain Cannons, 6 150-meter heavy howitzers, and 6 80-mm howitzers owned by two battalions of artillery companies, and there is also a 60-meter howitzer in the infantry platoon, Leng Feng believes that he needs to provide artillery support.
It is far stronger than the 46th Independent Brigade, so we simply put the 6 82 mortar guns transported in the baggage company as backup and deployed 12 experienced mortar operators to support the 46th Independent Brigade.
Brigadier Kong Da was also a smart man, so he used these 6 mortars as his team, and also transferred 2 82-guns from each of the two infantry regiments to form a mortar company.
The location of this mortar company is destined to specifically support the small highlands below the main highland.
That's because despite the fact that there are still 12 captured Japanese Type 41 mountain cannons, the artillerymen of the Independent 46th Brigade are not proficient enough in controlling the mountain cannons, and the shooting range of the mountain cannons is also limited. The set shooting targets are also aimed at the main positions.
direction.
The coordinates in front of each small highland have long been marked by experienced gunners and assigned serial numbers as standard. Once the call comes in, the 10 mortars only need to cover the gunfire according to the coordinates corresponding to the serial numbers.
The rudimentary communications in the Chinese military can only ensure that there are telephones at the battalion level, but observation posts are densely scattered on the battlefield, which is enough for the battalion headquarters to know which position fired the emergency signal bomb.
It was precisely because of this information delay that the Japanese infantry was allowed to rush forward nearly 80 meters.
The mistake of the Japanese army was that they did not "enter the village quietly" this time. You just charge, and they shouted crazily about the "board". Why didn't the Chinese defenders on the position quickly fire red flares that symbolized an emergency?
The artillery has already established rules. The coordinates of the artillery attack are 40 meters away from the front edge of each highland. Unless there are three red signal flares, the artillery fire coverage is based on the position as the coordinates.
Therefore, a dozen mortars are basically a base number, with almost 10 shells per gun.
100 rounds of artillery shells would be absolutely disastrous for a Japanese infantry squadron crawling on the mountain without any cover.
In this minute of saturation bombardment, in the end, less than 30 people of this infantry squadron, which had not even seen a Chinese figure, were able to successfully retreat from the hillside.
The battle damage rate exceeded 80%. This infantry squadron was no longer disabled, but was gone.
And this was only the first wave. The rate of consumption of soldiers definitely stunned the Japanese commander.
"The Chinese will never have a large reserve of artillery shells. So many artillery pieces are gathered in a small highland. They seem powerful, but they are actually weak on the outside." A Japanese major in charge of the area analyzed through gritted teeth.
His analysis makes sense, but the subsequent battle has proven that it is better not to analyze it.
From 6 pm to 10 pm, the infantry brigade launched a total of 5 rounds of attacks, with an average of more than 40 minutes.
Why no sixth round?
That's when the infantry brigade finally gave up.
It's not that they are timid, it's that there are only a few people in the infantry brigade.
On this unknown highland, the Japanese infantry brigade paid the price of more than 390 people being killed and more than 260 people seriously injured.
The unknown highlands are still in the hands of the Chinese.
And this is just one of Nishimura Genichi’s big teeth that was blown away. ()
