For the Japanese soldiers who were still sleeping soundly in the trenches, this sudden blow was indeed shocking.
Perhaps it was not until Tang Dao roared: "Come with me!" A few seconds later that the Japanese army fully realized that the Chinese were coming.
Yes, Tang Dao overestimated the Japanese infantry squad in front of him.
Like the Chinese army, the Japanese artillery also exists like a treasure at the center of the army's sequence. No matter where it goes, this "high-tech unit" is carefully cared for. It is never left alone in the wilderness, even if it is just one person.
Night.
Why did Ushijima Mitsuru turn into a powdered panda when he heard about the attack on the heavy artillery brigade? That’s because he knew how much Ushijima Sadao hated him. If it weren’t for him, how could the dignified commander of the 18th Division take the lead in violating the regulations?
Battle order?
Being well protected means that the escort infantry belonging to the artillery unit has no chance to go to the front line.
Not to mention the heavy artillery brigade, even the infantry escort squadrons of the artillery regiments of Japan's ordinary divisions were almost bystanders in the war.
That is also the position that small landowners and bosses on the main island of Japan most like to send their children to. It is not dangerous, and you can also share the profits in battle, so why not?
These families are not as idealistic as those big nobles. They just want to keep their sons alive and safe in the environment of nationwide military recruitment in Japan, and add some gold rims and so on.
To apply the rhetoric of the future, the situation is small.
The principle that money can make the world go round is basically universal.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese artillery escort infantry can be imagined due to the sparse battle formations and small layout.
The Japanese infantrymen who had just woken up from the panic had not fastened their trouser pockets and hurriedly put their guns in the trenches, but it was too late.
Tang Dao led the four infantry squads of the Sixing Battalion and had already sneaked for more than 200 meters. The closest point to the Japanese trenches was only 35 meters. It only took five or six seconds to run at full strength.
Illumination bombs were also shot into the sky at this time, either by the Japanese troops or by the Four Lines Battalion behind them.
The entire battlefield was as bright as day.
Tang Dao held the saber Heizi returned to him in his left hand and the shell gun in his right hand, and jumped straight into the trench.
The shell gun, adjusted to continuous fire, sprayed out tongues of fire without hesitation, knocking over several Japanese soldiers who were aiming at him in panic.
Then, without feeling any distress, he smashed the expensive shell gun against a Japanese soldier who was rushing from the other side of the trench with a gun in his hand. The "iron lump" weighing one or two kilograms hit the Japanese soldier and covered his chest and abdomen in pain.
The sword struck.
The slower Chinese soldiers in the rear followed the same example, jumping directly into the trenches, holding their guns and shooting at all the khakis in sight, and then entered into bayonet-to-bayonet melee combat.
However, the infantrymen who jumped into the trenches were by no means acting alone. They were basically in groups of three. The squad leader and deputy squad leader with submachine guns and shell guns were accompanied by at least two infantrymen with long rifles.
Hand-to-hand combat is not purely hand-to-hand combat either. Submachine guns and shell guns dodge out of the way to avoid their own soldiers, and they will immediately shoot without hesitation.
If you want to fight with a bayonet, there will be a bayonet to deal with it. If you want to shoot at each other, within a distance of more than ten meters, a rifle and a submachine gun will definitely open the door to death. You are seeking death at home.
Tang Dao's estimate was correct. There was actually more than one infantry squad in this 400-meter-long trench, and the number was close to an infantry squadron.
Most of them are drawn from various artillery squadrons.
However, artillery needs guns to have a purpose. The Japanese, who have always been diligent and thrifty, except for equipping gunner-level sergeants with a Nanbu 24 pistol, most of the Japanese artillerymen are not equipped with guns, no matter how long or short.
Many people may have only shot guns when they were recruits, and have no shooting experience since then, let alone the "white knife goes in, red knife comes out" type of knife that can stab the flesh.
For a time, they were killed by the Si Xing Battalion's desperate style of fighting. This was probably the first time the Si Xing Battalion encountered such a "weak" Japanese infantry.
The light machine gun fire points in the second trench behind the front line trenches and the light machine guns along with the searchlight fortifications were completely suppressed by two MG34s that fired wildly. Japanese shooters who dared to raise their heads were basically destined to die.
Bureau.
There is no support from the outside, and a group of Chinese who don’t know how many people there are and have excellent weapons and powerful combat capabilities invade the trenches. How can we fight against these bastards?
This may be the miserable thoughts of a group of small landowners, small traders, Japanese infantrymen and Japanese artillerymen who were temporarily filling up the numbers in the trenches.
I am an artilleryman, not a rude infantryman, so some weak-willed people find good reasons to convince themselves and give up.
It's not about giving up the struggle, it's about giving up the fight.
In the long trench, some Japanese soldiers threw away their heavy rifles, climbed out of the trench, spread their short legs, and ran frantically toward the artillery position 300 meters away.
Controlling the cannon, they are the gods of war.
There is nothing wrong with this idea.
But the key is to be able to run back.
What's even worse is that when one person runs, more people will run away. As the artillery continues to leave without discipline, the Japanese infantry who are still resisting desperately collapse completely.
I don’t know how many Japanese soldiers left the trenches on their own initiative and fled in confusion.
At this time, only three minutes had passed. 180 seconds after Yang Xiaoshan fired the first shot, nearly 200 Japanese infantrymen were frightened by the killing of only 60 Chinese infantrymen.
Not to mention the Japanese army, I am afraid that even the Chinese soldiers themselves were a little surprised.
"All troops, attack!" Tang Dao ordered decisively.
Xia Dayu, who had been following him closely, took out his flare gun and fired three red flares into the sky.
"Rumble!" The ground trembled slightly.
It was not the Japanese artillery positions that fired, but the Chinese cavalry.
"Follow me, kill! Kill all the Japanese you can see!" Gong Shaoxun, who was seven hundred meters away, looked at the three red signal flares rising, tore off the white cloth wrapped around the horse's mouth, and drew out his saber.
The war horse, which could finally breathe freely, felt its owner's tightly clamped legs and the approaching stormy battlefield. It jogged forward excitedly while snoring, and then gradually accelerated until it reached full speed.
Three cavalry battalions, with a total of more than 250 horses and warriors, followed the leader Gong Shaoxun and pierced the battlefield like arrows.
He passed by the trench where only his own people were left at high speed, and his horse speed reached its peak.
The sharp saber was swung, and the Japanese soldiers who had just escaped from the trench and were running towards the rear artillery positions were chopped to the ground without any resistance.
Not to mention that they don't have guns in their hands, even if they have guns, no one would have the guts to fight against each of the killing machines with 50-yard speed.
Without the threat of machine guns, the cavalry is the most terrifying killing machine on this battlefield.
The guard battalion staying 500 meters away and more than 1,000 infantrymen from the 67th Army Guard Battalion followed closely behind.
This is Tang Dao's tactic.
First use elite infantry to use surprise to open the gap, then use cavalry to charge, widen the gap and then expand it, and put the main infantry into the battlefield.
This is actually not a novel tactic, but it is the basic tactic in the "Blitzkrieg" played by the Germans in the future: break through the center and tear the two wings apart from the center.
The four-line battalion was fast enough, the cavalry was ruthless enough, and the more than a thousand infantrymen who followed them into the battlefield were accurate enough, not giving the Japanese a chance to breathe.
After all, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade has seven to eight thousand people. As long as they are given a chance, they may bite back at any time. Even if the battle situation is in a stalemate, for Tang Dao, this battle is still lost.
But as more than 200 cavalrymen fiercely charged into the artillery position 300 meters away, leaving behind at least forty or fifty corpses of fleeing Japanese infantry along the way, there was also a panic on the Japanese artillery position in the distance. The battle started smoothly.
of.
The eyes of the Chinese soldiers who were still standing in the trenches waiting for the main force to rush in all flashed with hope.
Only by quickly dealing with the Japanese artillery can they quickly return to support the brothers who are blocking the 36th Infantry Brigade.
However, nothing in this world is destined to happen overnight.
"Dong dong dong!" A scalp-numbing muffled sound came from afar.
The fiery red bullet marks were extremely obvious in the darkness.
