Due to the unfavorable offensive, it has been impossible to achieve a breakthrough. Colonel Tabota, the captain of the 12th Regiment, who is commanding the 12th Regiment to attack the Kinshagang front line with all his strength after being scolded several times by Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru, is actually in trouble now. , it’s not that the 12th Regiment didn’t work hard and their attack power wasn’t strong, or that Tabota was afraid to move forward.
But he really tried his best. Although he occupied some of the opponent's secondary positions, he was still unable to achieve a breakthrough across the entire line. In order to break through the Jinshagang front line in the shortest time according to the division's deployment, Colonel Tabota almost used all kinds of tricks. Although they were strong, the result was not what they imagined. After Xiao Midiye's attack, the 12th Regiment suffered a bloody blow.
Judging from the military headquarters information forwarded by the divisions that Colonel Tabota received before the war, the opponent only had two dissatisfied regiments in the entire Baoqing area, and now they have all been attracted by the 44th Regiment to the direction of Baoqing County. The military strength in the border area between Baoqing and Fujin was weak. Even if there were blocking troops, they would never be large in number. In the evening, the scouts reported that the enemy's reinforcements to Baoqing County were only one company.
But when we arrived at the front line of Jinshagang, we discovered that it was not the case at all. The troops deployed by the opponent on the front line of Jinshagang were at least one regiment or more. They not only had sufficient troops, but also had strong firepower, including light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and infantry cannons. , and even mountain artillery. As soon as the two armies fought, the 12th Regiment immediately fell into a hard fight. Several attacks were repelled by the opponent's intensive firepower.
Although the 12th Regiment has made some progress during several strong attacks, this progress is really not that big. Even if it were really told, Colonel Tabota himself would feel embarrassed. A few hours later, the 12th Regiment The alliance spent a lot of effort, but could only advance the front line less than two kilometers to the Qixing River.
Colonel Tabota originally wanted to attack Jinsha Gang with all his strength, trying to lead the way with one point, break through one point and shake the opponent's entire front, but failed due to the opponent's tenacious resistance. Although the opponent took the initiative to give up some warning positions and secondary positions that were inconvenient to hold on to, but The defense of the main position is extremely tenacious. As soon as any position is lost, troops will be organized to immediately counterattack.
Almost every position has been repeatedly contested and changed hands many times before the final ownership can be determined. Whenever the 12th Regiment rushes into the opponent's position under the dust raised by the artillery shells, before they can stand still, the opponent's offensive begins. The fierce counterattack has already begun.
On the right wing of Jinsha Gang, a small but important position changed hands eight times within two hours. The troops fighting were quickly upgraded from the platoon level to the company level, and finally quickly Upgraded to a battalion-level battle, all the fortifications on this small position were almost flattened by artillery fire at dawn.
Some places were even completely filled with the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves. At dawn, the entire position was full of broken limbs and broken arms, turning into a piece of floating soil. If you grab a handful of the floating soil, it will be filled with shrapnel. Besides the smell of gunpowder, it is just messing with it. The smell of blood was overwhelming. A depression thirty meters in front of the battle line was filled with the blood of those killed on both sides.
The 12th Regiment increased its offensive strength several times, charging more than a dozen times under the cover of artillery. The covering firepower increased from a mountain artillery squadron, two brigade artillery squadrons, to a field artillery squadron and a heavy mortar squadron. , instead of being able to capture this seemingly inconspicuous but important position, I rushed in several times, but was beaten back by the opponent's fierce counterattacks.
In the end, on this position with a radius of only a few hundred square meters, Tabota invested a whole brigade of troops to finally stabilize the position. One position involved an entire brigade of the 12th Regiment, plus the attack on Jinsha Attacks on the main position and other directions, the 12th Regiment had only been engaged in a fierce battle for only five or six hours, but it already felt the lack of strength.
Before heading north, three infantry squadrons of the 12th Infantry Regiment were left behind to serve in Mishan. Two of the several squadrons previously assigned to the 63rd Infantry Regiment of the 10th Division were also transferred from the 12th Infantry Regiment. Although Before this battle, five infantry squadrons and a mountain artillery squadron of the Eighth Border Guard Corps, as well as two police brigades from Mishan and Puppet Manchuria, were urgently replenished. However, there were considerable problems in combat coordination.
Although the combat effectiveness of the newly added border garrison was not inferior to that of the field division, the two sides had never coordinated training. Even as soon as they were added to the regiment, they set off in a hurry due to changes in the battle situation, which made the names of several squadron leaders in Tabota company It's not even called it complete.
The most critical thing is that these border garrison teams formed as defenders are obviously better at defense than offense, and their field combat capabilities can only be described as barely adequate.
The brigade attacking Jinshagang's right-wing position was temporarily formed from two squadrons of the Eighth Guards and an original squadron of the Twelfth Regiment. Although it made some progress under the cover of artillery fire, Despite the opponent's almost life-threatening repeated struggles, he was still unable to completely occupy the position that was only a few hundred meters in radius, but he paid a heavy price.
Within a few hours, the two squadrons were all disabled and lost their combat effectiveness. In the end, the old squadron of the 11th Division was thrown into the battle, and they managed to stabilize the current position without being driven back. , but the entire brigade also lost the ability to conduct subsequent attacks.
As a captain of the Osaka Alliance, he has fought many battles in the Shina Pass and has been on the battlefield for many years. He is not the kind of rookie who has just entered the battlefield. However, in a battle like this today, which is only a large-scale battle, This was the first time he had seen a battle with an average of more than a hundred casualties per hour.
After receiving another telegram from the division urging development, Colonel Tabota had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the risk of weakening the offensive power of the left wing. Enter the First Battalion, whose existing strength is less than one squadron, strengthen the offensive on the right wing, and assign the main firepower of the entire regiment and the artillery assigned to the division to the First Battalion.
After giving all the main strength to the First Battalion, looking at the sky in the east, the fierce battle in the middle of the night paid a heavy price, but gained almost nothing. Colonel Tabota, the captain of the First Battalion, Major Shibayama Hanaji, A death order was issued, and he must break through the opponent's right wing defense line before eight o'clock today to create favorable conditions for the main force of the regiment's follow-up attack. If he could not break through the Jinshagang right wing position on time, he would commit seppuku to apologize to the emperor.
Under the premise that the leader's meaning is always correct, under the premise that the leader's meaning is always correct, Shibayama Kaji gritted his teeth and knew that there was little hope for his opponents, and had no choice but to use everything he had on hand. He put all his effective forces into it, but he did not believe that after a night of fierce fighting, his first brigade was crippled, and the opponent's casualties would be so small under his own superior artillery fire.
The corpses lying all over the battlefield in front of the position are not only Imperial soldiers, but also many people wearing the strange military uniforms of their opponents. Now it’s up to us to see who can persist until the last critical moment. I don’t believe that Major Shibayama is known for his tough character and tenacity. The imperial soldiers will lose to those cowardly Chinese people.
In order to boost morale and try to make breakthrough progress in the shortest time, Major Shibayama not only selected a death squad of 200 people in accordance with the request of the commander, but also took off his upper body uniform and tied a stick on his head. Menstrual Belt, he had to lead the charge with the suicide squad himself. To be on the safe side, he also designated Captain Masazumi Fukka of the brigade to command a squadron of the second echelon to follow immediately. If the suicide squad failed, the second echelon would immediately take over the attack.
However, what Major Shibayama Hanaji didn't know was that in order to completely break through the opponent's defense within the specified time in accordance with the requirements of the division commander, his immediate superior had decided not to give him a chance to withdraw or survive. Before the final desperate charge, Colonel Tabota had ordered the artillery to be ready. If the two sides entered into hand-to-hand combat, they would launch an indiscriminate and covering artillery bombardment on the defenders' positions.
In other words, Tabota has made up his mind to adopt the so-called Tamashii Offensive to defeat the defenders and his own attacking troops. In the past, he had rushed to the opponent's position several times, but was defeated by the opponent's huge number of automatic firearms and grenades. He would never allow something like a slap in the face to happen again.
As for whether the casualties of his attacking troops would be greater than those of the defenders after an indiscriminate bombardment, Colonel Tabota, who was about to be forced to commit seppuku by Ushijima Mitsuru, could no longer care. For Tabota, the most important thing now is The most important thing is to quickly break through the front line of Jinshagang. As for the casualties of soldiers who are regarded as consumables, they pale into insignificance compared with the progress of the battle situation.
Colonel Tabota was about to burn the boat, but the blocking force on Jinsha Hill, which had just been reorganized from the 14th Reserve Regiment into the 1st Division Independent Regiment, was not having an easy time either. After six hours of fierce fighting, the 1st Battalion of the 12th Regiment was beaten to a pulp. , a reinforced battalion of the third right-wing regiment, which bore the greatest pressure on the entire Jinshagang front line and was the fiercest in the previous battle, although it finally held its position, suffered casualties as high as two-thirds.
Seeing the Japanese troops being pushed back again, Qi Zhibiao, the commander of the first battalion who was stationed on the right wing of Jinsha Gang, wiped the blood on his face from his head injury, lay in the trench and lit a fire on the wood ignited by the shells. After taking a drag on a cigarette, he puffed out a few eye circles and said to the instructor Guo Zhixin beside him: "Old Guo, this is the first time we have repelled the Japanese charge."
Guo Zhixin, whose left arm was stabbed with a bayonet by a Japanese soldier in hand-to-hand combat before he died, was wrapped in a bandage and was using his right arm to press bullets into the clip of the speed machine in his hand and said with a smile: "I don't know either. It seems to have been seventeen or eighteen times. The Japanese have taken some medicine today and they are almost crazy. There is almost no pause in the offensive and there are almost no gaps in the offensive. There is no way to count."
"But Lao Qi, you have to think of a way. We have a strengthened battalion, and now less than one-third is left. Adding in the lightly wounded who can still pick up guns and fight, we have been patched together and now there are less than one-third left. Two companies, if the Japanese attack with this intensity, we may not even be able to hold on until noon."