Therefore, Captain Minamikano Six, then commander of the 16th Squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of the Japanese Navy, made a decision.
The original story is quite long. The full text is estimated to be a few hundred words. The main idea is: Army Malus and Lu are idiots who did not last even 2 hours. It really undermines the majesty of the imperial soldiers. We, the Navy Eagle, are not here to help.
This group of Malus have to find their way back to the empire, but for the sake of the empire!
Therefore, after this large aircraft formation of 12 fighters and 8 bombers circled in the air for several times and failed to find any valuable bombing targets, they did not return the same way they came, but continued to fly southwest.
That direction is exactly the direction of Shipai!
"Report to the regiment headquarters that the Japanese aircraft fleet is flying towards Shipai!" Gu Xishui in the dense forest never took his eyes off the aircraft fleet in the sky. After it continued to fly forward, he immediately gave the order to the correspondent.
The battlefield here is actually only about 30 kilometers away from the core area of Shipai Fortress. With the speed of the fleet of more than 300 kilometers per hour, it actually only takes about five minutes. The effect of this early warning is very limited.
The weather that day was clear and the visibility was extremely good. The Japanese aircraft fleet, which was maintained at an altitude of 2,000 meters, only flew for three minutes when they saw a large number of manually dug trenches and fortifications on the mountains below.
If Captain Minamijiano can still maintain his original intention at this time and continue to fly towards the core defense area of Shipai Fortress and launch bombings, there is an 80% chance that he and the fleet he leads will receive a huge reward from the Japanese Navy.
Because Shipai Fortress is the strongest in ground defense. The two main divisions of the 18th Army have nearly 30,000 people deployed on this position with a radius of only 20 kilometers. They also have more than 30 artillery pieces of various calibers. It is definitely a defense for the Japanese.
A hard bone.
But the weakest link of the 18th Army is air defense. The two main infantry divisions only have 32 20mm machine guns. This is too weak for a main infantry army.
The Japanese aircraft fleet does not need to choose the angle of entry into the battlefield. As long as the altitude is maintained at about 2,500 meters, the 20mm cannon with an effective shooting height of only about 2,000 meters can only be disappointed.
Unfortunately, Captain Minamijiano, who was eager to find an effective target to vent his anger at this moment, purely had the mentality that what he eats is meat. After the fleet passed through the mountainous area on the left side of the Shipai defense position at high speed, he gave the order with a ferocious look.
: "Each aircraft looks for its own target, turn back 3,000 meters ahead, and each aircraft is free to attack!"
Not even a warning plane was left high in the sky. It can be seen how confident Captain Minamikano is in the Imperial Navy's aviation. It can also be seen how eager this Japanese Navy captain is to drop bombs on the Chinese.
on top of head.
However, this Japanese navy captain may never have imagined that he picked the wrong person this time.
Directly below the aircraft group, there are eight 40mm anti-aircraft guns whose barrels are camouflaged with branches wrapped around them. Their gun jackets have been removed, and the shells have been loaded. The gunners are staring at the Japanese aircraft group passing high in the sky, waiting for the squad leaders.
The 'fire' command came from the walkie-talkie strapped to his chest.
And this is only part of the air defense battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment. There are 24 squads in the dense forests and highlands behind the carefully constructed positions of the two infantry battalions, with a total of 24 20mm anti-aircraft guns and 24 4-mounted 7mm guns.
Anti-aircraft machine guns are on standby!
The altitude above 2,500 meters is reserved for eight 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, the altitude below 2,000 meters is the 20mm anti-aircraft guns, and the altitude below 1,200 meters is the range of the 7mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
With the continuous iteration of air defense equipment, the Four Lines Regiment has already formed an extremely complete three-dimensional defense system at high, medium and low altitudes.
With one battle after another, the experience of the officers and soldiers of the air defense battalion has become richer than ever. This is the most powerful thing about the Si Xing Regiment air defense battalion.
Perhaps, they still could not prevent Japanese planes from dropping bombs at high altitude, but they could definitely make the Japanese planes that dived or hovered in this airspace pay a sufficient price.
Therefore, when the first batch of four Japanese Type 97 heavy bombers, escorted by four Zero fighters, began to dive and drop bombs, the four nearest 40mm anti-aircraft guns opened fire first.
After just one salvo, a heavy 97 exploded into smoke.
"The Chinese are actually equipped with anti-aircraft guns?" Captain Minamijiano looked in disbelief at the airspace where white flowers were blooming.
This really goes beyond his understanding of the Chinese battlefield!
He thought that he would encounter Chinese fighter planes, and he also thought that the Chinese would use poor heavy machine guns to shoot in the air to fight back, but he never thought that the Chinese were equipped with such large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.
"Baga! Group 1 and Group 2 follow me into low altitude, find the Chinese anti-aircraft gun positions, and kill them!" Captain Nanjiano was brave enough. After a brief surprise, he made a different choice.
Because he believed that even if the Chinese had such large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, they would not have many of them. As long as they found the position at low altitude and blew it up, the Chinese would have their last resort.
Regarding the number of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, the brave Japanese navy captain was correct.
But he misjudged the low-altitude defense capabilities of the Four Lines Group!
People can make many mistakes. At school, teachers will take the trouble to correct your mistakes; at home, parents will tolerate your mistakes; at the training ground, instructors will punish you for making mistakes;
But only on the battlefield, the price for making a mistake can only be death.
Captain Minamijiano led eight Zero fighters in a dive from an altitude of 2,000 meters to 1,100 meters, and crashed into the fire net of 20mm machine guns and 7mm heavy machine guns.
On that day, the 20 Japanese naval aviation formations that originally came to rescue the 232nd Infantry Wing did not waste fuel. After all, they dropped more than 70 bombs in the Chinese position area, but at the cost of 3 bombers being damaged, 5 Zero fighters and
The cost of 2 bombers being shot down.
Among them, the top commander of the aircraft formation, Captain Minami Yoshino, died on the spot. His fighter plane was hit by a 20mm cannon shell in the fuel tank, causing a fire. Although he struggled to escape 2,000 meters, the fire was too intense and eventually exploded in the air.
"Tai Slot wiped out more than 2,900 enemies from the leader of the enemy, Colonel Zhiying, and shot down 7 Japanese aircraft in the Niuchangpo and Zhujiaping areas!" Commander Hu surnamed stayed for nearly 30 seconds when he received the battle report from the Four Lines Regiment.
He thought that the Four Troops Regiment could fight, but he didn't expect that it could fight so well. In less than two days, he actually reimbursed an infantry regiment of the Japanese army and 7 Japanese aircraft, allowing the Four Troops Regiment to continue fighting.
Killed a Japanese division!
Of course, the record reported by Tang Dao was too astonishing. Even if Commander Hu believed that Tang Dao was not lying, it was a necessary process for the 18th Army's Military Justice Department to verify this astonishing record.
Then, the colonel and director of the Military Law Department of the 18th Army who arrived at the battlefield at dusk saw the most horrifying scene in his life.
Because the card slot was completely blocked by thousands of tons of boulders, he could only rely on the rope to descend from a lower mountain to the inside of the passage.
Although Gu Xishui had warned him outside that the scene inside was too bloody and it was best to cover his mouth and nose with a towel.
But this man, who had also served as an infantry battalion commander before serving as the Chief of Military Justice, thought he had never seen any battlefields with the 18th Army in its southern and northern wars, so he went down wearing long leather boots and a woolen army coat.
Everyone was still in mid-air, and the peculiar smell of half-cooked organs penetrated the nostrils. When they got down to the inside of the passage, not to mention the minced meat and corpses everywhere, people couldn't help but shrink their pupils.
The strong stench almost caused the battlefield veteran to vomit on the spot.
Don't tell me, this guy is really strong. Apart from frowning, he didn't even cover his mouth and nose with his hands, and continued to move forward along this narrow passage filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers.
There was either blood or minced meat on the ground, and the touch that the soles of the feet conveyed to the brain was really creepy.
But these fears were no match for curiosity. It was difficult for the colonel and director to understand whether the Japanese were crazy and chose to take such a desperate path. Look at how miserable the outcome would be.
Until the colonel director saw a sturdy guy, he wrapped a towel on his face, stretched out two thick arms to dig through a pile of minced meat, and then took out a gold bracelet from a tattered military uniform. He was satisfied.
He wiped the bloody gold bracelet on a Japanese military uniform that was originally bloody and threw it into a cloth bag he carried with him.
Then, he opened up a pile of minced meat and continued to rummage on a corpse that had no head but only an upper body. The serious man didn't seem to notice that someone was watching him more than ten meters away.
That situation, not to mention how intrusive it was.
The colonel and director finally couldn't hold back the overwhelming feeling in his chest, so he bent down and vomited.
This naturally alarmed a certain platoon leader who was carefully looking for trophies. He raised his head and saw five or six officers and soldiers in neat military uniforms, lining up to vomit as if they had been collectively poisoned. Their eyes were full of envy.
Being able to vomit means that there is food in the stomach, but he, a long queue leader, has vomited five or six times, and all he vomited out was water, and he no longer wants to vomit.
The strange thing was that even though he had vomited completely, he was not hungry at all, and he was sure that at least in the next few days, he would not want to eat any meat.
Really, in this afternoon, he had seen all the meat he could see in the first twenty years of his life.
Long Yan had never hated his own mind so much. It was just as he thought. After the Japanese fighter planes were driven away, Gu Xishui immediately organized three other platoons to advance against the Japanese positions in the form of infantry squads.
After all, there were hundreds of Japanese troops there. No matter how powerful the bombs dropped by the bombers, it was impossible to kill them all. In the end, infantry had to solve the problem.
There were indeed remnants of Japanese invaders on the Japanese positions, but their numbers were so small that the officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry company were surprised.
Moreover, Gu Xishui had no intention of attacking at all. The infantry squads advancing towards the Japanese defense line from various places all had walkie-talkies. If they needed artillery support, they could directly call the heavy force platoon and the four 60-gun guns in his own platoon. If 10 rounds were not enough, then add 10 more
hair.
If they couldn't be killed for a while, they suppressed them until the Japanese army couldn't lift their heads. Then the infantry crawled forward to reach 40 meters in front of the position. The raindrop grenade attack, let alone a few remaining Japanese soldiers, could not stop them even in their heyday.
Working steadily, it took almost three hours to clear out the last hundred or so Japanese soldiers in this position, and also captured dozens of wounded Japanese soldiers.
Miraculously, the wounded Japanese soldiers did not die together this time. Instead, they watched the Chinese soldiers rushing into the position almost blankly. When the Chinese soldiers signaled them to raise their hands and lie on the ground, there was more in their eyes than
Pain and despair, but relief.
Yes, as long as the Chinese soldiers do not intend to shoot them, then they are the lucky ones compared to the other nearly 3,000 people in the entire 232nd Infantry Regiment.
At least, they can still be alive!
Following the guidance of the wounded soldiers, the mountain infantry company dug out its top commander, Major Tominaga, in an area where the trench had been filled with soil.
The Japanese Army Major did not die in the bombs dropped by the Chinese fighter planes, nor did he die in the final siege of the mountain infantry company. After the Chinese fighter planes flew away, he took a look at the devastated position and the few officers and soldiers under his command.
A military order to break out of the encirclement was issued.
Then, he cut open his belly with his command knife and ended his life!
The only remaining captain on the position did not break out immediately as Major Tominaga wanted, but chose to hold on.
He thought that Major Tominaga must have been confused before he died. His own fighter fleet was about to arrive. His hundreds of defeated soldiers would break through. Wasn't it playing into the hands of the Chinese? He had to wait for the imperial fleet to kill the Chinese lurking around.
, it’s not too late to run.
Because time was short, the Japanese army captain had no time to collect the remains of Japanese infantry that were thrown away by heavy aerial bombs in various positions. As a result, the Japanese aircraft in the air saw a mess and scattered corpses after the bombing.
The hundreds of Japanese remnants waving their hands in the trenches for attention have lost their fire support value to them. They were actually abandoned by Japan's proud naval aviation.
So, after they woke up and missed the best opportunity to break out, this wave of defeated soldiers couldn't leave even if they wanted to.
This gave the mountain infantry company a chance to wipe them all out. Otherwise, if the Japanese troops had burrowed into the mountains, the main force of the mountain infantry company still more than 1,000 meters away would have been very hard to pursue. It would be normal for a few to slip through the net.
Nothing more.
As for the three infantry squads that had set up positions at the entrance of the passage to meet the 232nd Infantry Regiment, they did not run away. It was not that these 150 Japanese soldiers did not want to run, but the key was that they had nowhere to run.
Gu Xishui had already deployed several firepower groups at several important mountain passes. Once the Japanese left their field positions and wanted to escape, three MG42s would make them retreat. The Japanese army could only stay in their positions, like others.
The Japanese troops at one end were also looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements.
The final result was of course that the main force of the mountain infantry company came and wiped out the Japanese troops in the rest of the area. Dozens of artillery shells were thrown down at once, and the Japanese troops were almost bruised in the face.
In the afternoon, when all the battlefields were over, Long Yan and his 3rd Platoon number 80 were picked out one by one by the remaining platoons that had their hands freed.
However, the officers and soldiers of the 3rd platoon fought several tough battles within 24 hours. Even the company commander Gu Xishui, including the company commander, was as tired as a dog. Only the officers and soldiers of the 3rd platoon recharged their energy in the cave.
For several days, the previous fierce battle lasted only half an hour, and the physical effort was only to light explosive packs and throw cluster grenades, and then to shoot down with various guns, without even taking the time to aim.
Yes, that one is very powerful.
If they don't leave it to them to clean up the battlefield, who can we leave it to?
Cleaning the battlefield is an old tradition of the Four Elements Regiment. In the words of Tang Tuanzuo, the Japanese must be killed, but the brothers' hard work cannot be in vain!
The captured guns and ammunition are naturally assigned to the regiment headquarters, but for the personal property carried by the Japanese infantry, the distribution plan of the four-line regiment has always been that the regiment headquarters gets 30%, the directly affiliated battalion, and the company gets 70%. How to distribute it is up to each directly affiliated battalion.
Even make independent decisions.
Moreover, the Japanese have always had the habit of carrying gold and silver utensils with them. Even if one person only carries one tael of gold, there are at least 2,000 Japanese in this passage, and that is 2,000 taels. A mountain infantry company can get 1,400 taels, which is average for each person.
There are two to three taels of gold there. For ordinary officers and soldiers, it can be considered a windfall.
In order to lead by example, Long Yan, the platoon leader, could only lead the way and dig for gold among the blood and flesh of the Japanese army.
No, I've been working for almost an hour, and I'm used to feeling sick!
But obviously, his casual action of shaking a mutilated corpse with only the upper body left to look for money directly disgusted a group of officers and soldiers of the 18th Army's Military Justice Department.
"Platoon leader Long, I see you have gained a lot!" The colonel, who finally recovered after vomiting for a while, listened to the introduction of the deputy platoon leader of the accompanying mountain infantry company, with a pale face and carrying a bag.
Loot dragon rock says hello.
"It's okay. I estimate it's five or six kilograms. There are still dozens of meters here that haven't been finished. Otherwise, sir, come here with your brothers, and everything found will be yours. It can also be regarded as the responsibility of all the brothers of the 18th Army.
It’s all for nothing.” Long Yan weighed the weight of the bag in his hand and answered honestly.
"Ugh!" The colonel and the director of military law retched again.
He really couldn't do this kind of job of digging for money among the meat, even if he could find gold!
Moreover, he has a high military rank and is not stupid. Don't say that he is embarrassed to snatch the money from the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment who have made great military exploits. With the nature of the commander surnamed Hu, if he heard about such a thing, he might not only
It has to be returned and some more put in.
But fortunately for the Chief of Military Justice, through the seizure in the hands of the second lieutenant platoon leader who was bathed in the aura of death, he could estimate the casualties of the Japanese troops in the passage without having to check the entire passage.
There are at least 1,500 corpses here, if anyone is interested in piecing together the body parts.
The Four Elements Group did not exaggerate their achievements!
"Congratulations to China! Congratulations to Shipai! Congratulations to all our officers and soldiers in Shipai!"
After the commander surnamed Chen who was far away in Enshi received a coded message from the 18th Army about the results of the first contact battle between the Shipai Central Defense Area and the Japanese army, he, who rarely drank alcohol, drank three glasses of wine in his office!
For this person who bet on his family background in civil engineering, the fact that this first battle was so brilliant was just one of the reasons. More importantly, it was a good start, which indicated that perhaps the Battle of Shipai was not as pessimistic as before.
But he also obviously underestimated Yokoyama Isamu’s determination! ()
