The inevitable attack of the 215th Regiment failed again. Jutaro Amanasa put down his telescope and looked at the Lion Gate standing in the night. He was speechless for a long time.
The light of the flares gradually dissipated, and Lion Gate, a mountain with an altitude of only more than 600 meters, actually became majestic in the night. "Your Excellency, I'm sorry, please punish me." Nagato Wakimi said in front of several officers. Accompanied by him, he walked up to Gan Can. He held his command knife with both hands, lowered his head and said,
"How's the battle damage?" Gan Cang asked calmly,
"About a brigade, Your Excellency, I'm sorry."
Gan Can ignored him and closed his eyes. Another battalion was missing. Counting the two large battalions lost by the 213th Regiment, under the Lion Gate, the imperial army actually handed over three battalions. Painful and unwilling, Gan Can Suddenly he opened his eyes and looked directly at Nagato: "Nagato-kun, you are not to blame for the defeat in this battle. I didn't expect that the Chinese sent reinforcements so quickly. Do you still dare to fight?"
"Your Excellency." Nagato became excited. He really didn't expect that Amanami could give him a chance. He bowed to the ground and said in a deep voice: "Please give me another chance. If I can't reach the top of the mountain this time, , I will have a caesarean section to thank you for your trust."
"Go, Little Nugget King." Little Nugget City took a few steps forward and stood next to Gan Cang, and said cautiously: "Your Excellency, the Chinese people seem to be reinforcements. Little Nugget City took a step forward, lowered his head and said: "Your Excellency."
"You personally command the artillery operations and must completely destroy the Chinese defense line."
"Hai."
This round of Japanese artillery bombardment was more violent and sustained than the previous rounds. Xiao Nugget City personally directed it. He asked the 33rd Mountain Artillery Regiment to bombard the top of the Lion Gate Mountain and the eastern half of the mountain repeatedly for three rounds, and then let the Nagato Regiment The remnants launched an attack,
There are still more than 1,400 people in the Nagato Regiment. Under the demonstration of Nagato Wakiganwei, each of these Japanese soldiers tied a white cloth strip to their forehead. Nagato personally selected more than 100 people from them and gave them to them. Equipped with a unified German submachine gun and a crooked machine gun, he said to them: "Success or failure depends on this one move. Failure to succeed will lead to success. Soldiers of the 215th Regiment, now is the time for you to realize the value of your life and die gloriously." , let us become heroic souls in the temple to protect our descendants; or let us suffer humiliating defeat and become lonely ghosts wandering in a foreign land, and our families will be humiliated as a result. It is time for us to make a choice. For the sake of the emperor and the sake of the empire, soldiers, fight to the death."
"Die to death, die to death."
Continuous shelling by the Japanese army has turned the top of the Lions Gate into a gravel field. Many of the bodies of the martyrs who were too late to collect them were blown into pieces. Their flesh, blood, and iron bones were mixed with the gravel, and they were never seen again. They are inseparable from each other. They truly fulfilled their promise and defended Xuanyuan with their own blood and bodies.
The lack of bunkers and the inability to dig bombproof holes caused heavy casualties to the cadets guarding the top of the mountain under the bombardment. When Ge Zhengshu and the others went up, they had three regiments. When the bombardment was over, they only had two regiments left. Among them, there are also about a regiment of lightly and seriously injured people,
The Lions Gate offensive and defensive battle has now become a veritable meat grinder. Both the enemy and us have paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties here.
This wave of Japanese attacks is particularly sharp. If the previous Japs would have felt timid when faced with the intensive firepower of hundreds of guards Aoshi, now, under the leadership of Nagato, the remaining Japs of the 215th Regiment Without blinking an eyelid, the Japanese finally got angry.
Shooting, assassination, soldiers from both sides rolled together and hugged each other. Suddenly there was a "bang" and a group of fireworks exploded. Several soldiers from both sides were affected, and they were all blown away by the air waves...
At the foot of the mountain, Jutaro Amami suddenly called loudly to Colonel Sato Ken, the commander of the 214th Regiment: "Sato, immediately send a brigade to follow."
"Hai." Sato responded. With a wave of his hand, one of his subordinates, a lieutenant named Joichiro Murayama, immediately led his team and rushed towards the mountain.
Halfway up the mountain on the east side, Feng Lanshan also saw something was wrong. He waved directly: "Brothers, follow me." He then said to Mao Xiangnan, the commander of the Sixth Brigade: "You are responsible for this." Then, he led the four The brigade and the sixth brigade each added a regiment to the mountainside and rushed up the mountain.
This was a complete melee. Both sides filled in one thousand and two thousand people respectively, and the melee broke out on the top of Lions Gate, which was less than two thousand square meters. Gunshots, screams, explosions, and miserable howls resounded. The top of the mountain makes the air on the top of the mountain become fiery.
While the officers and soldiers on both sides of the mountain were fighting to the death, Little Nugget City received a telegram from the 11th Army Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadatsuki. He reported the contents of the telegram to Amanami, who did not take it seriously. , after thinking for a while, he sent the 213th Wing, which was already less than one brigade, to Gao'an.
At nearly ten o'clock, the melee on the top of the Lion Gate Mountain finally came to a close. Under Feng Lanshan's personal command, the Xuebing Army finally crushed the enemy's attack at the cost of two regiments of casualties. When Kouichiro Murayama died in battle and the remaining 300 or so Japs from the Murayama Brigade began to be driven down the mountain, Amanami took personal command and asked the Yoshida Regiment to launch an indiscriminate bombardment.
As the gunfire rang out, the remaining Japs from the Cunshan Brigade no longer cared about the pursuing soldiers behind them, and fled down the mountain in a rolling and crawling manner. After Feng Lanshan weighed it up, he gave up the pursuit and instead ordered One company was left to guard the top of the mountain to monitor the Japanese troops, and the others immediately withdrew to the middle of the mountain.
This melee ended with the defeat of the Japanese army. This battle also depleted the morale of the Japanese army. When the more than two hundred Japanese who survived appeared in front of Gan Can in an inhuman state, the old Japanese Finally convinced, he decided to postpone the attack and began to reorganize his troops on the spot.
The troops under the 33rd Division, in addition to the three infantry regiments 213, 214, and 215, also have one cavalry, artillery, engineer, and light and heavy infantry in the regiment, and one communications team, health team, and weapons service team each in the brigade. In addition, There are also the 1st and 2nd field hospitals and a sick horse farm,
The three infantry regiments are the absolute main force of the division. Now that the main force is exhausted, he has to find a way to select soldiers from other auxiliary arms to fill the front-line troops. He believes that this is not the case, even if he can win the Lion Gate , then we will definitely not be able to attack Nanchang.
The Japanese army suspended their attack, and the cadets at the top of Lions Gate finally breathed a sigh of relief. The medical company and the cooking class became busy. When some young people in the medical company went up to the top of the mountain and saw the tragic scene on the top of the mountain, many people's faces changed. He instantly turned pale and immediately started vomiting.
The scene at the top of Lions Gate Mountain at this time can be described as hell on earth.
Those who were shot and fell to the ground died beautifully, and there were very few such people. The vast majority of students and Japanese soldiers had their bodies mutilated, and the worst thing was that only the remaining The next broken head,
The cruelty of war was finally fully highlighted at the Lion Gate.
(Old Poison: I will try to publish another chapter tonight, but it is estimated to be around one o'clock in the morning)