After giving the order to the communications troops to immediately set up a radio station to contact the division commander, and giving the order to stop and rest for half an hour, I was not mentally prepared for the possible attack. At this time, I was complaining about this special train.
Colonel Watachi Iwaji jumped out of the car first.【.Com text
After jumping out of the carriage first, Mr. Colonel, who always pays attention to his military appearance, straightened his military uniform that looked a little wrinkled after riding the train all night. This journey was not a disappointing one for Colonel Gatachi Iwaji.
Pleasant journey. Due to the lack of passenger trains and the Kwantung Army Headquarters being pressed hard, I could only ride on a very uncomfortable freight train instead of a more comfortable passenger train on this trip north.
Although he and his 14th Regiment shared a separate carriage, and a comfortable camp bed was set up inside the carriage. However, the freight carriage had poor shock absorption and was very stuffy inside, which still gave people a very uncomfortable feeling.
It was uncomfortable. Moreover, I didn’t know where Manchuria was bringing this train from, and what things had been transported before. There was a very unpleasant smell in the carriage, which made the colonel have a strong opinion of Manchuria.
If he had strong objections to riding a freight train, he could suppress it. Then when the colonel got off the train and found that no one at the station welcomed him, nor did he prepare meals according to the requirements of the 25th Division,
The anger in my heart was even more intense.
But before his anger could come out, a not-so-violent explosion suddenly sounded from the soldiers who were jumping out of the carriage one after another, and all his complaints were immediately put back into his stomach. Even more so.
I wonder if the so-called military posture and the stones on the ground will make me more uncomfortable. A beautiful tactical lying down action, lying on the ground.
Before he was startled, Colonel Watachi Iwaji raised his telescope and looked around. Along with the sound, which was not loud, but more like the explosion of someone stepping on a landmine, among the houses and warehouses on both sides of the railway line
There was intensive gunfire, killing and wounding the Japanese soldiers who were jumping out of the vehicle.
The large open door of the freight car gave the sneak attacker great convenience. Accurate infantry artillery shells and mortar shells even followed the open door and penetrated directly into the car. In the enclosed space, a 92 Infantry Cannon shot
The casualties caused by the shells can simply be described as fatal.
Not counting the unlucky ones who were directly hit, even the scattered shrapnel was enough to drink up the Japanese soldiers who had no place to hide in the carriage. The large-caliber machine guns and rapid-fire artillery shells destroyed those who could barely resist the attack of infantry weapons.
The carriages were turned into a hornet's nest. The carriage panels were made of heavy wood and were vulnerable to these large-caliber weapons.
The Japanese soldiers who were getting off the train and preparing to rest were severely injured by the sudden and intensive firepower. From the beginning to the end, each of the eighteen carriages was taken care of by the intensive rain of bullets, and no one was left behind. Inside and outside the carriage, everywhere
They were all corpses and wounded of Japanese soldiers who had been shot dead.
Knowing that they could only wait to die if they continued to stay in the carriage, the Japanese soldiers reluctantly jumped out of the carriage despite the hail of bullets and prepared to rely on the roadbed to resist. But they did not expect that when they got under the carriage and tried to rely on the roadbed to resist, not only did they
A dense rain of grenades was thrown at the houses on both sides of the railway. The roadbed between the two railway tracks and under the sleepers was also filled with mines.
These mines were arranged extremely cleverly, only being placed below the level of the railway tracks. All the mines arranged between the railway tracks were trip mines. In other words, as long as no one got into the railway tracks, these mines would not be set off at all.
But if someone wants to get under the car, sorry, you can't avoid hitting these mines.
There are even more types of landmines buried in the bedrock on both sides of the railway tracks. Trip mines, pressure mines, and even new types of landmines that jump up and explode. Under the rain of pistols and bullets, they can't even bother to observe the carriages.
What's going on down there? As soon as the Japanese troops lay down, they set off trip mines in the railroad tracks or stepped on pressure mines on the edge of the roadbed.
In order to avoid the firepower from both sides, most of these Japanese troops crawled forward or bent down, trying to use the shelter of the platform to escape the opponent's firepower. Unfortunately, the treatment that should have been enjoyed by the engineers this time was enjoyed by the infantry. In line with past practice
Not many had their legs broken, but quite a few had their upper bodies blown away.
In the later generations of Yang Zhenlai, there was a saying in the army. It was said that if an infantry is hit by a mine, the state will raise it, and if an engineer is hit by a mine, it will be cremated on the spot. It means that if an infantry steps on a mine, their legs will be broken. If they are hit by a mine, their legs will be broken.
If you are disabled, you will naturally go to the Invalides after you recover.
As for the engineers, they spend most of the time lying down when clearing mines. If a mine goes off at this time, basically the upper body will be unlucky. And the main vital organs of a person are in the upper body. As long as the mine goes off,
Not to mention the number of people who can survive, even if they are completely dead, there are very few.
Under fire from two sides, the first thing a normal person would think of is to lie down to avoid the ammunition flying everywhere. As a result, when the Japanese soldiers lay down, many of them happened to be lying on the mines.
I directly used human flesh to test how many mines the opponent had planted on this section of the railway. When I got down, the part that won the bid was mostly the upper body.
And these landmines are not just landmines, most of them are also laid as booby traps. The landmines are attached with grenades, blasting tubes, and even 60 mortar shells. Some are also tied with bullets and gravel to maximize the increase in the number of mines.
Lethality. A person lying down and setting off a landmine often involves several of his comrades. Many Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the hail of bullets did not escape the looting of landmines and mortars.
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More than half an hour later, most of the regiment, which was the vanguard of the 25th Division, was almost passively beaten but had no power to fight back. More than half of them had been killed or injured inside the carriage, on both sides of the roadbed, on the platform.
Down below, there were corpses of fallen Japanese soldiers everywhere. Even in a few low-lying areas, the blood flowing from the corpses gathered into small pools of blood.
The remaining Japanese troops were tortured to the point of collapse by landmines and dense bullets. They no longer cared about taking cover. Anyway, there was no safe place under the platform. Waiting to fight back would be death, and standing up and charging would also be death. Since they are all dead,
Even if you are a bad guy, you have to grab one or two backers.
When these Japanese soldiers, risking being hit by enemy bullets or blown up by mortar shells, rushed onto the platform, they were shocked to find that what was waiting for them was the still dense rain of bullets and the distance from the railway line to the railway line.
In addition to the opponents who rushed out of the houses that were no more than twenty or thirty meters away and no more than fifty meters away, there were dozens of tanks that rushed out of the freight warehouses on both sides of the railway.
While braving the flames, these tanks, with the cooperation of the infantry, rushed into the Japanese troops who were lucky enough to be alive, and repeatedly crushed the Japanese troops back and forth. Wherever they passed, they left behind a pool of flesh and blood. Several people were covered in blood.
Except for one lucky man, most of the Japanese soldiers who were bundled with grenades and wanted to kill them didn't have time to pull off the grenades on their bodies, and were shot into a hornet's nest by the dense bullets fired by the submachine gunners who had been prepared near the tank.
Although the grenade fired by this lucky man took away the lives of many Tongze, it did not cause too much damage to the rough-skinned French R-35 tank. The machine gun on the vehicle,
After a brief pause, the artillery regained its vitality in an instant.
The suddenness of the firepower, coupled with the concentration of almost all the light and heavy machine guns of a reinforced regiment as well as tanks and light artillery on a wide front, caused the Japanese army to suffer more than half of its casualties in a short period of time. The 14th Regiment took the lead.
The final desperate struggle of the troops also destroyed the last hope of survival for most of the regiment.
If the Japanese army did not make a desperate struggle after being attacked, but would rather pay a certain price to turn around and break out to the south with all their strength, the three scattered companies placed by He Zhishan in the south may not be able to withstand their life-threatening impact.
However, the Japanese army, who were stunned after being beaten, chose the east side where there was no hope, that is, to break through the encirclement toward Shuangcheng City.
Although according to the current fire rate of manual rifles in addition to light and heavy machine guns, the distance of thirty to fifty meters is not necessarily a dead end. But when the opponent has tanks and high-speed submachine guns and automatic weapons
, these thirty to fifty meters became the last place where the Japanese army died.
In addition to their most lethal anti-aircraft machine guns, the losses caused by dozens of tanks to the Japanese army are even more unforgettable. To deal with this thing, you can't do it if you are passionate and not afraid of death. Especially this tank
The surrounding opponents also deployed a large number of submachine gunners specifically to deal with Japanese soldiers who tried to blow up the tanks with human bombs.
With the protection of the tanks, there was almost no taboo, and even chased the Japanese soldiers who were scattered. When they were far away, they used machine guns and artillery bombardments. When they were close, they directly went up and crushed them with crawler tracks. At a distance of only thirty meters,
But it became the life and death line for most Japanese officers and soldiers, and these dozens of tanks became their nightmare.
When a small number finally broke through the opponent's fire network, they finally came close to bayonet range. However, under the firepower of the tanks and the desperate crushing, the Japanese soldiers who had long been unable to form tactical cooperation were swarmed by the opponent and adopted the tactics of using less to hit more.
As a result, he was quickly defeated in hand-to-hand combat.
When the last gunshot fell less than an hour after the explosion of a landmine that had been stepped on by the Japanese army as a signal, all the 1st Brigade and three of the 3rd Brigade of the 14th Regiment, the vanguard of the entire 25th Division,
The squadron plus a search squadron were completely destroyed.
What is even more tragic for the Japanese army is that at this time, the six Type 94 light tanks and two Type 97 tanks of the 25th Division Mechanized Search Squadron assigned to the vanguard were still tied to flatbed vehicles.
There was no time to unload them. The six Type 94 tanks were smashed into colanders by the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun fired horizontally on the train.
By the end of the battle, in addition to the capture of more than a hundred lightly and seriously injured soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness, the 2,000-strong leading force of the 25th Division was almost completely wiped out. And their colonel, who complained about the discomfort of the freight car before getting off the train,
Your Excellency, the captain, can only complain to their Amaterasu at this moment.
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