Chapter 607 ‘Details determine success or failure’
Kunizaki is worthy of being an elite major general from the elite division of the North China Expeditionary Force. He is arrogant, but when faced with the three highlands that lie in front of his army, he is obviously much more mature than before after experiencing the defeat at Songjiang City.
This time he was not in a hurry.
Instead, they chose to make adequate preparations. Although they were constantly harassed by mortars from the Chinese side, they still spent an afternoon and an entire night to establish heavy firepower positions on several hills facing the three highlands.
Corresponding infantry was deployed for protection.
A total of 12 92-inch infantry guns and 36 heavy machine guns were moved to the mountains, and telephone lines were laid in place, which ensured that Kunizaki's headquarters could coordinate heavy firepower in all mountains.
Kunizaki used his actions to explain the truth that "details determine success or failure" that he talked about. Li Shoushan and all the Japanese military officers admired him. This was sincere and had nothing to do with flattery.
Compared with the confident but ambitious Ushijima Mitsuru and the arrogant but cunning Ushijima Sadao, the arrogant but cautious Kunizaki Zheng is obviously the most powerful person Tang Dao encounters when he comes to this battlefield.
Strong opponent.
Just the 12 92 infantry cannons and 36 heavy machine guns on the mountain are not all the heavy firepower of Kunizaki. Behind the infantry position, there are also 8 92 infantry cannons and 8 Type 41 mountain cannons. And 3,000 meters away, Kunizaki
Zheng also has 12 Type 41 field guns and 4 105 howitzers under his command.
In addition, the first brigade of the Jingan Army also has 12 92 infantry guns and 4 Type 41 mountain guns available.
That also means that even if each highland on the Chinese side is used equally, they will face bombardment from more than 16 artillery pieces and strafing from more than a dozen heavy machine guns. This does not include the light machine guns and grenade launchers equipped by the Japanese infantry.
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The actual area of the three highlands is only tens of thousands of square meters, but they have to face such a density of light and heavy firepower. It is even more terrifying than the Battle of Songjiang. Perhaps only Cangcheng can compare with it.:.
At 9 a.m., the Japanese army began their official attack.
A burst of shelling like a mountain roar and a tsunami completely shrouded the three highlands in front of the Japanese position in gunpowder smoke.
The Japanese army used at least more than 40 artillery pieces.
Although there were no heavy artillery, the Chinese soldiers hiding in the tunnel behind the mountain could still feel the terrifying power of the God of War from the shaking of the oil lamp hanging from the top of the tunnel.
The artillery attack was just paving the way for the infantry's attack. As the sharp iron whistle of the observation post sounded, the infantry in the rear quickly passed through the communication trenches and reached the front-line position.
It was normal for the telephone wires exposed on the ground to be blown down. The signal soldiers were crawling on the ground looking for the broken telephone wires and trying to reconnect them.
However, the heavy machine gun bullets of the Japanese army swept over them like a heavy rain, which dispelled the ambitions of the communication soldiers. As soon as the battle began, the frontal positions on the three highlands returned to the most primitive communication state, with only the rear tunnels and the frontline command of Tang Dao.
Keep in touch with the department.
However, as the battalion commander, how could Tang Dao just sit back and watch his brothers fight bloody battles?
As early as the Japanese bombardment, Tang Dao, who was the director of the operations department of the command headquarters, asked the deputy commander-in-chief, Major General Tong, to sit in the frontline headquarters. However, he arrived at Highland No. 2 with two signal corpsmen, and Lei Xiong arrived at Highland No. 1.
, there are only two people left in the headquarters, Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan, who are responsible for coordinating the replenishment of personnel and the deployment of materials.
As actual commanders, not to mention Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan couldn't stop Tang Dao, not even the Sichuan Army Major General could do anything.
The Japanese troops participating in the attack on Highland No. 1 and No. 2 had as many as six infantry squadrons. The Jing'an Army also dispatched at least one infantry battalion. The black crowd of more than a thousand people, after the rumbling sound of artillery, attacked from three directions.
The attack started on the top of the mountain.
It is normal for the Japanese mountain artillery to stop attacking at this time, but as direct-fire artillery, most of the 92 infantry artillery deployed in the mountains opposite the highlands have also stopped bombarding. The shelling from time to time in twos and threes is like an old man peeing - sparsely
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Experienced commanders on the Chinese side all know that it is not that the Japanese infantry artillery is afraid of accidentally injuring their infantry and reducing the frequency of shelling, but that they are waiting.
I don't know how many artillery observers are hiding in the dense forest, waiting for the Chinese big killer to show up.
Gu/span>The machine gun was exactly the target that the Japanese artillery wanted to capture.
If we don't take out the firepower points of the machine guns that killed two Japanese naval fighter planes yesterday, let alone the infantry guns that moved up the mountain to parallel them in order to cover the infantry, even the Japanese commanders at all levels hiding behind 700 meters will not be able to do anything.
Feel like you're in danger.
Once the 20mm machine gun with an anti-air range of up to 2,000 meters is leveled and fired, the range is as high as 2,500 meters. Isn’t it just fun to shoot 700 meters?
Tang Dao looked through the telescope at the seemingly aggressive but slow-moving Japanese infantry, with a sneer on his lips.
The Japanese don't do anything new, after all, they are still doing the same thing.
They are feinting!
This can be regarded as the most traditional infantry tactic of the Japanese infantry. They use large soldiers to intimidate the opponent with their momentum, causing the impatient opponent to use heavy firepower to suppress the infantry group. Then, of course, they use the 70mm infantry cannon that they currently have the most equipment.
Clear out heavy firepower points with an unknown number of grenadier soldiers lurking at the foot of the mountain.
This tactic would naturally be effective if applied to ordinary Chinese defenders, including the 145th Division. Even if they knew the Japanese tactics, they would have to fall into their trap.
The reason is very simple. The ordinary Chinese army is equipped with rifles and has limited continuous firepower. Naturally, heavy machine guns are needed for fire suppression. Even if they know that the Japanese army is feigning an attack at this time, they can only be forced to face the pressure of the Japanese infantry.
Use light and heavy machine guns and other firepower to suppress it. Otherwise, when the Japanese infantry arrives within 150 meters, the feint attack will become a real attack.
At that distance, the Japanese infantry only needed to advance more than a hundred meters to throw the grenade into the trench, which would be a disaster.
As a result, you can only watch the light and heavy machine gun firepower points being destroyed by the opponent's infantry artillery and a large number of grenade launchers.
For the Chinese commanders who lacked enough artillery to suppress the Japanese army, it was an almost unsolvable problem. Drink poison to quench thirst. If you drink it, you will die. If you don't drink it, you may die faster.
The Japanese army, which had tasted the benefits of several wars against China, became more and more comfortable with this tactic, and it was even included in the Army Infantry Drill Code.
But obviously, ordinary Chinese troops are afraid of this Japanese tactics, but the defenders on the highlands are not afraid of this.
Because they have the most powerful short-range continuous fire weapons between China and Japan on this battlefield, MP28 submachine guns and shell guns.
If the Japanese army dared to launch a "board-mounted" charge, they would definitely be defeated.
What's more important is that they also have more than ten mortars supporting them behind. Even if the range of fire is limited, as long as these killer weapons are there, the Japanese infantry artillery must carefully find gun positions and do not dare to act recklessly.
What Tang Dao was worried about was not the changes in Japanese tactics, but the determination of the Kunisaki detachment.
He now only has a total of 2,000 people. Once the Kunisaki detachment makes up its mind to exchange death for death, it will be a hard battle, a bloody battle, and even a battle in which the entire army will be annihilated.
Fortunately, what Tang Dao was worried about did not happen during the first wave of Japanese attacks.
However, Kunizaki is more cunning than Tang Dao imagined. We provide you with the fastest updates and free reading.:.
