The straight-line distance between Laojinkeng and the area where the Kunisaki detachment is located is four kilometers, and it is surrounded by mountains in the middle. Although the explosion here was so intense that it shocked the Japanese army to death, but it was a bit difficult just to rely on sound waves to transmit it.
not easy.
Moreover, even if Kunizaki heard the roaring sound here, he would never think that a fierce battle was taking place here without receiving radio waves.
And even if there is a fight, so what?
The reason why the Japanese major general divided his army into three groups was not a decision made with a slap on the forehead.
Before dividing his troops, Kunisaki fully estimated the strength of the Chinese army. It was only two to three thousand people at most. The strength of any of his armies was equivalent to that of his army. The heavy firepower was far superior to that of his opponents. As long as he could entangle them, he would wait for the other two armies.
The army arrived and the Chinese were unable to escape.
Kunisaki was stunned, but he never expected that the Chinese would play a trick on him, "You surround my point, and I will attack your reinforcements." The Chinese soldiers actually wanted to wipe out his entire army.
At this time, Kunizaki, who was sitting in Qinglongling Village, looked quite relaxed. Three infantry squadrons had already attacked three times in rotation. The Chinese had strong firepower with light firearms and were extremely lacking in heavy weapons.
Therefore, now the artillery is basically the main force. The 6 mountain guns and 10 infantry guns carried by the army will blow up the mountains and send rubble flying everywhere.
Maybe there is no need to wait until Takeuchi Unzan arrives, the Chinese army on the mountain will be almost wiped out by 16 artillery pieces.
That was really too much taken for granted by Kunisaki.
The reason why Leng Feng made a desperate move and chose Qinglongling Village as a blocking site was firstly because of the obvious geographical advantages of Qinglongling Village, and secondly because of the structure of Qinglongling Village itself.
Qinglongling Village, a small village isolated on the mountain, covers an area of only 0.3 square kilometers, but it is definitely an iron walnut.
The small village not only has a stone wall, which is nearly one meter thick, but also has a trench surrounding the entire village outside the wall. The houses in the village are also made of stone, which is extremely sturdy.
If you cut down the big trees covering the village, you will find that it looks like a small castle built on the mountain...
Leng Feng only found out after asking the elders in the village that more than a hundred years ago, this was the lair of a group of bandits that stretched across the entire mountainous area of southern Anhui. The walls and trenches were built by the bandits.
In that era of cold weapons, standing behind the wall and shooting arrows at the enemy who fell into a trench two meters deep and three meters wide was simply a massacre.
It is said that the officers and soldiers used nearly 5,000 people, and more than half of them were killed or injured before the bandits, which numbered only more than 500 people, were completely wiped out. Because they were all stone buildings, the officers and soldiers who had finished suppressing the bandits were too lazy to take the trouble to dismantle them. Then the ancestors of Qinglongling Village
A village was built on the site of this bandit den.
There are many bandits in the mountains, so the villagers will not abandon these walls and trenches that can ensure their own safety. They maintain and repair them all year round. In more than a hundred years, they have protected the villagers at least ten times.
Unexpectedly, this time, it would be used again.
Although the Japanese army's artillery fire was sharp and the smoke rising from the outside looked very fierce, in fact the old people and soldiers were either hiding in the ditch or behind the wall, and the casualties were far less than the Japanese army imagined.
The Japanese army's 16 artillery pieces have been bombarding for an hour. More than a dozen stone houses in the village have been damaged, but the casualties will not exceed 20 people. The 70-caliber 92 infantry artillery and the 75-caliber mountain artillery can't fire at all.
The wall is one meter thick.
Of course, this is related to the insufficient caliber and quantity of Japanese artillery. If the four 105 howitzers are still there, the small village will be wiped out this time. No matter how strong the stone house is, it cannot withstand that kind of heavy
Exploded by 18kg howitzers.
Therefore, with these supports, Leng Feng was not worried about the "small artillery" used by the Japanese army in front of him. What he was most worried about was the Japanese aircraft. In front of the heavy aerial bombs dropped by the fleet, these were like paper.
Fortunately, this is China's territory, and God is on the side of the Chinese.
There was heavy fog in the Songhu area, and even light reconnaissance aircraft, let alone bombers, could not take off.
The Kunisaki side was bombarded with Chinese mountain villages, while the Takeuchi Yunshan side was bombed by explosives. After all, it seems that neither China nor Japan took advantage.
However, the Japanese troops in the river valley were not as lucky as Tong Yi and Leng Feng. They had trenches and stone walls to block and hide, but they were bombed and beaten.
100 "heartless cannons" can throw out at least 500 explosive packets in less than 3 minutes. In a 3000-meter-long river valley, the average is almost 6 meters. That is to say, the valley is wide enough and narrow enough.
200 meters, and the width is 300 meters, otherwise the 2,000 Japanese troops who entered the valley would have been buried by the turbulent air waves.
However, the actual situation is that although the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, the wide terrain still gave more people a chance to survive.
The number of Japanese troops killed and wounded in the bombing never exceeded 600, and nearly 1,500 Japanese troops still maintained their combat effectiveness.
However, although this made Tang Dao a little disappointed, it was still within the acceptable range for him. For the attack formation he arranged, using explosive packs to kill a large number of Japanese troops was only one of them. It disrupted the Japanese army's structure and increased its combat effectiveness.
A reduction in magnitude is the most important thing.
To put it bluntly, it means that the soldiers cannot find the general, and the general cannot find the soldiers. No matter how many troops are out of command, there will not be much combat effectiveness left.
Tang Dao did not underestimate the strength of the Japanese army, but the response of the Japanese army still surprised him again.
These Japanese infantrymen, who had received at least more than a year of military training in Japan and fought in North China for two months, were very capable. Under such a ferocious attack, most of them did not run blindly into the fields.
After experiencing the initial panic, under the restraint of the squadron leader and squad leader, they searched for bunkers along the mountain road to escape, and also launched a counterattack towards the mountain.
His tenacious willpower and high tactical literacy make him a representative of the elite infantry of this era.
However, since Tang Dao dared to ambush the Japanese army whose strength was almost the same as his in such terrain, how could he easily give the Japanese army a chance to counterattack?
The granite landforms in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui are especially obvious here. The mountains on both sides are almost a single block of large rocks. After tens of millions of years of weathering, soil gradually formed and vegetation grew.
The lower part of the mountain is mostly covered with bare rocks, and even weeds are dotted here and there. It is not only difficult for people to climb on it, but the goal is even more obvious.
Any Japanese infantry who dared to climb up the mountain became the key target of the independent battalion soldiers on the mountain position.
Within five minutes, no less than a hundred Japs were killed on the way to counterattack.
Ten minutes later, Takeuchi Yunshan's military orders were estimated to have arrived everywhere. The Japanese aggressors no longer blindly counterattacked, but organized infantry squads and infantry squadrons, using individual engineer shovels carried by individual soldiers to build positions frantically and follow the army.
The grenade he carried also continuously fired grenades at the firepower points on the mountain to cover his infantry.
This is to stick to the rhythm of waiting for help.
Lei Xiong and others who were observing all this on the battlefield frowned.
The "Heartless Cannon" has carried out the planned tactics to the extreme. The hundreds of Japanese corpses lying strewn in the river valley can almost declare that their ambush has been a great success.
If they withdraw now, the victory of annihilating hundreds of enemies will be enough for the commander-in-chief over at Jinling to write a blank check.
But Tang Dao's tactics don't stop there. What he wants is to completely cripple or even annihilate the Kunisaki detachment.
But obviously, the strength of the Japanese army in the river valley exceeded their expectations, and they could still maintain a certain organizational structure despite such heavy losses.
If they were allowed to build fortifications in the river valley and the two sides fought a protracted battle, by the time the Japanese air support arrived, the battle losses of the independent battalion, which had already devoted all their strength, would exceed everyone's imagination.
Especially after the Japanese grenadiers began to fight back vigorously.
As many as dozens of grenade launchers used the smoke from the explosive packs to secretly attack the mountains, causing certain casualties to the attacking troops. Two heavy machine gun teams were too involved in the attack and were attacked by grenade launchers.
Members were either killed or seriously injured, and even the heavy machine guns were damaged.
Lei Xiong pursed his lips tightly. If Tang Dao, the supreme commander, had not changed his tactics with a stern expression, he would have even suggested that Tang Dao launch a charge. The entire army would mount their bayonets and use submachine guns and bayonets to attack the tenacious man in front of him.
opponent.
But in that case, the battle losses would still be too great to accept.
There are more than 1,800 people here. I don’t know how many people can see the sunset...
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