When Jutaro Amami led the 33rd Division out of Gao'an, the division was fully organized and the battle losses were only about 3,000 people (2,500 people died in the battle with Xue Yue's division, and another 500 The rest died in the ambush commanded by Chu Tiange himself). However, now, the 213th Regiment and the 215th Regiment have been wiped out one after another. There are more than 14,000 people under their command, but only less than 7,000 are left. Among them, there are More than a thousand people were taken by Little Nugget City to the main position west of the Lion Gate in the Qiandian Reservoir area. Including the artillery, he actually only had about 5,000 combatable soldiers left. Including nearly two thousand second-line officers and soldiers selected from the logistics and supply units. It is no wonder that he received a report from Kentaro Watanabe and learned that when the "Armored Tank Unit" of a division's cadet army approached his own unit, there would be I fell into a state of trance for a short time. The Xuebingjun came here with bad intentions this time.
At half past five, Japanese soldiers from the 33rd Engineer Regiment and the 214th Regiment, under the supervision of the commanders, Lieutenant Colonel Seiyo Inoue and Ken Sato, were digging trenches in the intersecting hilly and plain area two kilometers west of Lions Gate. When the tank trenches were building defensive positions, on the road to the north of Xishan Township, about five kilometers away from Lions Gate, smoke and dust were rising, engines roared, and the Second Xuexi Division, under the command of Liu Zheliang, arrived with great fanfare.
At this moment, the Japanese army had just dug two trenches with a depth of about 1.5 meters. At this time, they were digging anti-tank trenches in front of the two trenches. The amount of work on the anti-tank trenches was much greater than the two trenches combined, so they At this time, they had just dug out, and the appearance of the Second Academy Division on the battlefield was so scary that Inoue and Sato thought that the Academy Army was about to attack. The two shouted almost at the same time: "Stop digging. Concealed, concealed.”
After hearing the news, more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers immediately rushed back to the first trench. Then, the Japanese soldiers of the Engineer Regiment retreated directly through the traffic trenches, while the Japanese soldiers of the 214th Regiment and the two subsequent brigades were divided into two brigades. In the second trench, the Japanese who stayed in the first trench threw away their shovels, took out their weapons, and began to prepare nervously for battle.
Gan Cang's headquarters was located on a hill one thousand meters west of Lions Gate. He stood at the edge of the bunker of the headquarters, raised his telescope and looked to the west. He first saw a heavy tank and swept over. He saw another one, and glanced towards Zong Shen again, and saw the armored vehicles and the military trucks full of cadets. His brows jumped, and he took a long breath and said: "Ba Ge, it is really an armored fighting vehicle unit. When did the cadet army become So powerful."
Kentaro Watanabe was standing behind him. He put down his telescope and said to Amanami: "Sir, we lack anti-tank weapons, so we can only ask for the support of the aviation force."
Next to him, Captain Hashimoto Sadhisu of the 33rd Light and Heavy Infantry Regiment said: "We have requested aviation support from the headquarters, but the headquarters has not given a clear answer."
Amami put down the telescope and said calmly: "It is useless to base your hopes on the rescue of other troops. The commander and the sixth general Hata Shun are at odds, and Major General Tokugawa only follows the lead of Commander-in-Chief Hata Shun. Will the aviation force? Appearing on the Nanchang battlefield, this is an unknown quantity. Instead of doing this, we should use our brains more and think about how to target the Chinese tanks."
Watanabe turned back and glanced at the artillery position, and said bitterly: "It's a pity that all the artillery issued to our unit are mountain artillery and field artillery. If there were heavy artillery, the Chinese people would not dare to be so reckless."
Gan Can gave him a cold look and said, "Watanabe-kun, there are still more than 500 people in your cavalry regiment."
Watanabe's heart trembled inexplicably, and he nodded: "Yes."
"I think the tactics you came up with before to deal with Chinese tanks are very good. Watanabe-kun, I have a task for your department to complete."
"Hai." Watanabe's heart froze, and he vaguely felt something. He lowered his head and responded respectfully,
Amami turned around and looked back, and found Captain Natoyo Ichiro, the captain of the weapons logistics team standing not far away, and shouted: "Captain Natoyo, come here."
Mingfeng said "Hai" and strode over.
"Captain Mingfeng, how many explosive packs do we still have?"
Watanabe's heart tightened,
Mingfeng replied respectfully: "Your Excellency, there are more than three hundred."
"Very good, Lieutenant Colonel Hashimoto."
"Hai."
"How much gas do we have left?"
"About ten tons, Your Excellency."
"Hurry up and collect glass bottles and other utensils throughout the army, divide the gasoline into incendiary bombs, and you have also seen the military appearance of the Chinese. It is highly mechanized. You have heard of the Chinese tanks, right? Even the Type 99 newly developed by our army is no match for it. This bastard Ouyang Yun is determined to annihilate our army. Hum, are our Yamato soldiers so easy to bully, even if the whole army dies in battle? , I also want to teach him a painful lesson so that he will never dare to despise Yamato’s military spirit again."
"Hai."
"Watanabe-kun, please assemble your officers and soldiers to prepare for special operations. Whether we can escape this time depends on you." After Amami finished speaking, he solemnly lowered his head to Watanabe and bowed. ,
At this point, Watanabe already knew that the fate of his unit could no longer be changed. Amanami's so-called "special operations" were invented by him first, even though he knew that this method would be very harmful to the armed and vigilant cadet army. It was really unknown whether it would be effective, but Gan Cong solemnly asked him, but he had no room for doubt, so he could only return the salute respectfully, and then quickly walked towards the gathering place of his troops.
In the eastern sky, the sun shines through the clouds. In the fields northeast of Xishan Town, which had long been destroyed by the war, units of the Second Academy Division began to enter the battlefield. One after another, tanks and armored vehicles drove into the sight of the Japanese army. There were squads of cadets rushing in with live ammunition and hiding behind tanks and armored vehicles. In the first trench dug hastily by the Japanese army, the breathing of many Japanese soldiers unconsciously became heavier. The military posture displayed by the Second Division was like a huge stone oppressing the fragile hearts of the Japanese, making many people feel the strong smell of death.
For Feng Lanshan and other students who stood firm at the top of Lion Gate, this night was so long.
The entire top of the Lion Gate Mountain was almost dyed red with blood, and the strong smell of blood was wafting in the wind. Once they thought that among them was the blood of their brothers who had been chatting and laughing with them not long ago, many students could not hide the sadness and joy in their hearts. Angry, they held the steel guns in their hands tightly, lying on the blood-stained stone ground and looking down the mountain with wide eyes. There was only one thought lingering in their minds: Damn it, come on, just let me give it to my brother. revenge,
In Jiangxi in January, the night temperature was still below zero, which directly led to the following scene. Many cadets' clothes were soaked in blood, and then they were frozen tightly on the stone ground. Even when they found out that reinforcements were arriving, , when many people want to move their hands and feet or get up, they find that they can't move.
"Jiguang tanks, ah, are our reinforcements."
"Where is it, MD, why can't I move?"
"I can't move either, MD, I'm frozen."
...Feng Lanshan led two brigades to reinforce Lion Gate, plus the Third Brigade of the First Division that was previously stationed at Lion Gate, a whole division of trainees. In the end, only four regiments of trainees survived, and that was Half of the cadets from these four regiments had frostbite at this time. The most serious among them were the cadets from the regiment standing on the top of the mountain. Many of them had blood in their shoes and their toes were frozen. several,
Because Feng Lanshan had to inspect the position and give a speech to boost the morale of his brothers, when he found a place to lie down, the blood had already frozen, so he was lucky to escape this disaster.
The students were originally feeling happy because of the arrival of reinforcements, but now they fell into a huge panic because of this accident.
"Master, I'm frozen and can't move." One of his guards shouted to him. Only then did he realize the seriousness of the problem.
"How could this happen?" He squatted next to the student soldier, checked the situation, thought for a moment, and said, "Don't move." Then he took out a dagger from his body and cut open the back of his camouflage uniform. Take your upper body out first." He said to the student soldier,
So, like a cicada shedding its shell, the student soldier emerged from his camouflage uniform with his upper body. Then, he asked Feng Lanshan to cut off his belt and belt, take off his shoes, and directly stretched his legs out of his pants. ,
The student wearing a cotton-padded jacket, sweatpants, and socks stood beside Feng Lanshan unaccustomedly. Beside him, several comrades could not stand the teasing of his coy expression, so they covered their mouths and laughed,
"Why are you laughing? He is doing this all to fight the Japanese." Feng Lanshan yelled at those guys, but he himself couldn't help but grinned and suppressed his smile.
With this soldier as an example, others followed suit, and soon they all became cicadas who shed their shells, standing on the top of the mountain wearing only cotton-padded jackets, sweatpants, and furry military boots.
"Go down, let the other brothers come up." Feng Lanshan said,
Seven to eight hundred cadet soldiers withdrew with more than a hundred frostbitten comrades.
Feng Lanshan watched them leave, bent down and touched the camouflage uniform that was frozen hard, and said with emotion: "Fortunately, the uniforms of our Xuebing Army are of high quality, otherwise, if this blood seeped into it, it would be terrible We have to freeze everyone."
Because of this accident, when the guerrilla students on the top of the mountain were changing defenses, the attack of the Second Student Division began.
The first step was to prepare for a round of artillery fire. Twenty-four 105mm caliber and twelve 150mm caliber heavy artillery roared at the same time. In an instant, the first trench of the Japanese army was engulfed by the sky full of artillery fire. ,
"Heavy artillery," Jutaro Amami was guarded by several gendarmes. His eyes shrank and he said,
Behind him, a staff officer said: "Why hasn't the chief of staff sent back any information?"
Gan Can: "Don't count on them. Even if they succeed in the sneak attack, can we withstand the Chinese attack from the front?"
"Hai." The staff officer didn't dare to speak.
Brick Amami looked at his own artillery position and said in his heart: "Kenichi Yoshida, it's up to you now."