Having said this, Du Kaishan showed an unusual smile and said: "However, we can't take advantage of those shrinking turtles in the fortress. I will allocate four chemical defense companies to you, plus 200 seized poison gas cans and poisons." Pump, give them a little appetizer before blowing up their vents."
"Don't these little devils like to drill holes? Aren't they even beaten to death? Well, I will help them. Don't have any scruples tomorrow and smoke all these turtles to death in their caves. Anyway, these The poison gas was also seized from their hands, so it can be regarded as returning it to its original owner."
"When blowing up their secret entrance and exit on the mountain, you use flamethrowers and anti-aircraft machine guns to cover the blasters. Don't be afraid of consuming explosives. When you find an entrance and exit, put thousands of kilograms of explosives in it, and try to get it in with just one blast. The exit was completely blown up. As long as the casualties are not serious, the headquarters will not care about these explosives."
Wang Xiaoming did not hesitate to respond to Du Kaishan's suggestion of using poison gas. Wang Xiaoming fully accepted Du Kaishan's suggestion. In this battle, all the departments in the Jidong Military Region did not suffer less from the poison gas. Although all the troops were We were equipped with gas masks, but during the pursuit, we encountered poisonous gas spread by the Japanese army. Simply relying on these gas masks would not be of much use.
For him, the Japanese army did the first grade, so don’t blame him for the fifteenth. In the First Battle of Fangzheng, if the 14th Division had not been retreating, they would have used poison gas dispersing vehicles to spread poison gas in large quantities to the pursuing troops. It caused a lot of casualties. Wang Xiaoming would not let the remnants of the 14th Division escape from his hands.
The poison gas spread along the way when the 14th Division retreated had poisoned hundreds of people in the Second Column and killed dozens of people. While the entire Second Column hated the 14th Division, they also hated the poisonous gas. It made my teeth itch. If the Japanese army hadn't spread a large amount of poisonous gas along the way, even if they couldn't completely wipe out the 14th Division, it wouldn't be a problem to completely cripple him.
During the battle in Mudanjiang, in order to protect Mudanjiang, a key point on the Binsui Railway, the Japanese 29th Division fired thousands of poison gas shells at once. During the entire Mudanjiang offensive and defensive battle, although the battle only lasted five days, The Japanese army fired five to six thousand poison gas shells.
However, compared with the previous spread of poison gas without a trace, these poison gas shells were much less of a threat to the second column, which was fully equipped with gas masks, but hundreds of people were poisoned. Not long ago, they suffered heavy losses in the Japanese poison gas war. , so Wang Xiaoming had no objection to Du Kaishan's tactic of using captured Japanese poison gas to deal with the Japanese.
The battle on the second day was exactly as Du Kaishan expected. In order to regain the commanding heights of Triangle Mountain, the Japanese army dispatched two infantry brigades and several squadrons to launch an attack on the front line of Triangle Mountain from the Madashan fortress group connected to Triangle Mountain. Counterattacks took turns, trying to recapture the front line of Triangle Mountain from Wang Xiaoming.
Compared with the North and South Tianshan fortresses in the north, the Japanese troops on the Shenghongshan and Xunshan front lines lost the Triangle Mountain and only lost the commanding heights. But for the Japanese troops on the Mada Mountain front line, it was a different matter. The Triangle Mountain was right in Mada. The west side of the mountain controls the western barrier of Mada Mountain's first-line fortress group.
Losing the Triangle Mountain to the west means that the opponent's bayonet has been thrust into one's back. Especially when the Japanese firepower cluster on the front line of Mada Mountain is facing the Soviet Union, losing the Triangle Mountain as a barrier to the west can be said to be It is a fatal threat. The artillery fire on the Triangle Mountain can hit it from behind at any time.
The Japanese army fought tooth and nail for the front line of Triangle Mountain. In addition to the strategic location of Triangle Mountain being very important relative to the front line of Mada Mountain, there was another thing that Wang Xiaoming didn't know. At this time, the headquarters of the Japanese 12th Division was deployed at Within the Japanese fortress group in Mada Mountain.
The opponent's bayonet is pressed against his back, which is equivalent to a sharp sword always hanging over his head. If he does not recapture the front line of Triangle Mountain, how can the division commander Lieutenant General Kawabe Masami feel at ease? If the opponent uses heavy artillery to bombard him, Doesn’t that mean that you are in danger of annihilation at any time?
It's just that the three columns and one regiment that captured Triangle Mountain used the Japanese traffic trenches and anti-tank trenches on the mountainside as improvised positions to withstand the concentration of the two Japanese infantry brigades and the First Border Guard at Mada Mountain. Several squadrons of the fortress, under the cover of five infantry guns, two 75mm mountain guns, and two field guns, charged desperately.
At the same time, a battalion of troops was concentrated, and with the cooperation of two specially deployed reconnaissance companies, they began to clear out the Japanese troops in the mountain fortification groups one by one, so as to prevent the front-line combat troops from being attacked from the front and back. In order to kill and injure the Japanese troops as much as possible, Wang Xiaoming A brigade of artillery was specially mobilized to form a mobile artillery group, forming a fire interception network between Mada Mountain and Triangle Mountain.
In order to maximize the power of artillery fire, Wang Xiaoming specially formulated a fire network plan. When the Japanese army first launched the attack, the artillery group only assisted the front line operations with small-scale artillery fire. After the Japanese army devoted all its strength to launch the attack, it would blockade it with intensive artillery fire. The Japanese army retreated. At the same time, they used artillery fire to repeatedly cover the battlefield between the two mountains.
When the Japanese counterattack launched a full-scale counterattack toward the front line of Triangle Mountain under the command of Shozo Kawayama who was personally commanded by a rear observation post in Madashan Fortress, no matter how much pressure the front-line troops were under, Wang Xiaoming always controlled The pace of firepower did not involve all artillery being put into battle.
Until the afternoon, the Japanese military fortifications inside the mountain that were blasted on Triangle Mountain were ventilated?p>
The explosion of the vertebrae and the heavy casualties of the counterattack troops made Heshan Zhengsan, who was a little worried, unable to calm down. He was the last one to enter and exit the Jiaojiao Mountain underground fortification group on the right mountain leg. After putting all the two brigades that have been serving as reserves into the attack?p>
The reason why Masami Kawayama is so restless is that in addition to the important geographical location of Triangle Mountain, there are two important reasons. First, in the underground fortification group of Triangle Mountain, in addition to part of the troops of the First Border Guard, there are also There are four infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron of the Twelfth Division. In addition to these, the most important thing is the water source needed to defend Madashan Fortress.
If the Triangle Mountain fortification group is completely lost, in addition to losing an important barrier, the Madashan front line will be directly exposed to the opponent's heavy artillery fire. Moreover, one and a half regiments in the Madashan fortification group will lose their water source. Under the circumstances, it was reduced to a pile of dried fish. Without water, his regiment, including his division headquarters, could not survive even three days.
And once Triangle Mountain is unable to be recaptured, for the defenders inside the fortress who are waiting for each vent hole to be blown into ruins, their only result will be to become a can that no one will ever open. Can the First Border Guard save them? It doesn't matter, but it can't be done without saving those squadrons.
Although the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties in the battle for surface positions, the casualties were all from the First Border Guard. His 12th Division was stationed in four squadrons at Triangle Mountain, but under the conscious control of Hebian Zhengzo, none of them suffered a single blow. No injury. Originally, Shozo Kawabe wanted to use these troops to form a flanking attack with the frontal assault troops, inflicting heavy losses on the attacking opponents.
He thought that the opponent actually ignored his frontal attack, mobilized troops to search carefully, cleared out the ventilation holes on the mountain one by one and blew them up. At the same time, he mobilized flamethrowers and flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns to blow up several underground fortifications. After the entrance and exit were tightly sealed, a large amount of explosives were used to completely destroy the entrance and exit.
If Triangle Mountain cannot be recaptured within a short period of time, if the current situation continues, it won’t take long for several squadrons within the entire Triangle Mountain to be buried in the huge tomb dug by the Japanese army. The most important thing will be lost. The key water source, as well as the equally critical military strength in the current war situation, are the main reasons why Lieutenant General Hebian Zhengsan could not calm down in the first place in this battle.
As early as the previous day's battle, the underground passage connecting the two fortress groups was completely destroyed by three 300-mm-caliber heavy artillery shells accurately hit by the opponent. In order to rescue the Japanese troops inside Triangle Mountain, no matter what Masami Kawabe did not do, If you don't want to, you can only mobilize the troops you can and launch an attack from superficial positions.
After receiving the report of the Japanese army's attack on the front line, Wang Xiaoming, who personally observed the number of Japanese troops on the front line, felt that the time had come. He ordered two mountain artillery battalions, one 100mm howitzer battalion, and A 105 field artillery battalion, two 107 rocket artillery regiments directly under the Second Column, as well as a 122 rocket artillery battalion and a 155 heavy artillery battalion attached to the headquarters concentrated all the artillery shells, creating a dense fire net behind the Japanese army. .
The fire net produced by these light and heavy artillery pieces, combined with the light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenade launchers, rapid-fire artillery and infantry artillery of the frontal blocking troops, as well as the Japanese 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns captured on the spot, fired flatly against the Japanese troops launching counterattacks. The two infantry brigades launched a massacre-like fire attack.
In this battle, Wang Xiaoming mobilized artillery troops in just two hours. Not counting mortar shells, but mountain artillery shells alone, howitzers with a caliber of more than 100 mm actually fired tens of thousands of shells in one go. This created the self-organized formation of the Jidong Military Region. Later, a separate record of shells fired in a battle.
After this battle, almost all the 3,000 rounds of 107 rocket launchers and 122 rocket shells transferred to the front line were consumed. The 75mm mountain artillery shells and 100mm howitzer shells were also consumed more than half. After the war, Yang Zhen received After Wang Xiaoming reported the battle, he reprimanded him severely and bluntly gave him a three-word evaluation: "A prodigal son."
However, although the artillery shell consumption in this battle was huge, the power of this fire net, which was woven from artillery shells of various calibers and repeatedly swept through the Japanese attack group, was also obvious. The dense artillery shells blew up the Japanese troops into the sky. And the deployment The 300mm caliber heavy artillery in the rear fired support shells from time to time, and one shot could wipe out a Japanese squadron.
In addition, two planes from time to time dropped new incendiary bombs regardless of the threat of Japanese anti-aircraft fire at Madasan. Within just two hours, the two brigades and several attached squadrons that launched the Japanese counterattack suffered casualties. Ember. During the charge, the two brigades plus several squadrons had nearly 2,000 troops, but only a few dozen people returned.