Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1014

The Japanese bomber formation did not stop supporting its own infantry that was about to be in dire straits just because one of its bombers was lost in battle.

At Xiangyue Qingshi's request, within 6 hours, three waves of 36 fighter aircraft bombings were carried out in total on the mountains around Changle Village and the battlefields along the Zhuozhang River.

Looking down from a high altitude, the originally lush mountain forests are already mottled, while the relatively flat shores of the Zhuozhang River are even more pitted and devastated, with more than 20 large holes visible to the naked eye.

The embankment on the other side of the Zhuozhang River was blown down in several places. The water of the Zhuozhang River, which had entered the flood season, flowed along the collapsed embankment to the depressions, submerging many areas that originally belonged to Changle. A lot of land in the village.

Of course, due to the higher terrain on the side where the 683rd Brigade was fortified, the river water that broke out of the embankment basically flowed in the direction of the second mixed brigade.

Although the large piece of yellow land has not been completely turned into a country, it is still very muddy. When you step on the strong but heavy cowhide boots worn by the Japanese infantry, my dear, the attached mud is like two straps tied to your feet. Like a big shot put.

It's no wonder that Major Yoshio Laitani of the 1st Infantry Battalion, who was the first to arrive at Changle Village from the Second Mixed Brigade, looked at the north bank of the Zhuozhang River with his binoculars and couldn't help but cursed the Army Airlines for being a bunch of idiots.

The muddy land not only greatly slows down the advance of the infantry, but also the Type 94 armored vehicles will have difficulty moving on such ground. Isn't this a disguised form of helping the Chinese!

What's more terrible is that when the imperial officers and soldiers have to lie down in the mud to fight the Chinese, even if they don't roll into mud monkeys, Yoshio Laitani's scalp feels numb.

The commanders were like this, not to mention the Japanese infantry who were out of breath after marching 40 kilometers in 7 hours. Looking at the soft mud in front of them that was soaked by the river that broke out of the embankment, the Japanese infantry collectively shouted Staring little eyes.

"Baga! What are you doing? Order the 2nd Infantry Squadron, 4th Infantry Squadron, and Heavy Machine Gun Squadron to be on alert. The 2nd Engineer Squadron and the 1st Infantry Squadron and 3rd Infantry Squadron immediately arrived 700 meters from the river to dig field trenches." Yoshitani Yoshio is quite decisive, knowing that with the 700 to 800 men he currently has, it is impossible to easily break through the Chinese defense line on the opposite side. The construction of field trenches for infantry to avoid machine guns and artillery shells has become a necessity.

The distance of 700 meters can be far away from the range of Chinese machine rifles. With the capabilities of Japanese engineers, they first dig a horizontal trench, then dig forward a traffic trench, and then dig horizontally. It won't take too long to form two trenches. A complete line of trenches that can be attacked and defended.

The closest one to the river is probably only two or three hundred meters away.

Facing the mud created by the Xia Jiba bombing of our own aviation forces, thinking that they were about to become mud monkeys without a place to bathe, the Japanese engineers and infantrymen carrying shovels and pickaxes had various MMPs in their minds.

However, it is difficult to disobey military orders. They also know that if they do not conquer the line of defense in front of them, a large number of Chinese troops may rush here at any time. A little more mud on them will not kill people, but the Chinese can really kill people.

After six days and six nights of fighting for the high ground in the mountains, the pride of the infantrymen of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, which was originally majestic and high-spirited, had already been kicked to the crotch by the Chinese soldiers who were not afraid of death, especially when they thought that their opponents might be Jin. The 683rd Brigade and the Four Elements Regiment, the legendary most elite troops in China in the southeast region, are even more timid.

Being timid before fighting is a taboo for military strategists!

The right time and place were not on the side of the Second Mixed Brigade. Before anything happened, the Japanese army had already committed three major taboos.

However, the Second Mixed Brigade now only has this road. According to reports from Japanese reconnaissance planes, just as the Second Mixed Brigade was marching towards Changle Village, less than 20 kilometers behind them, a Chinese army , there are tens of thousands of people, rushing to catch up.

That's all. With the current strength of the Second Mixed Brigade, it was enough to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese army, which was about the same strength as our own. But before Yamashita could order the entire army to stop marching, another urgent message came from the headquarters. .

'With Wuxiang as the center and a radius of 40 kilometers in the mountains, a large number of Chinese troops were found moving, at least 3 infantry divisions! '

This message completely put an end to Yamashita's thoughts of a decisive battle with the Chinese army that was daring to pursue him. He only needed to hold him back for two days, and his second mixed brigade might have to face 40,000 or even 50,000 people. They were attacked by the Chinese army.

At that moment, no one knew whether Yamashita regretted it. Judging from the current situation, staying in the mountains and defending against danger was the safest strategy.

Actually, even at this point, Yamashita had another option besides continuing to move forward alone. He could discard all his baggage, including artillery and chariots, and enter the mountains as pure light infantry with the second mixed brigade.

The Chinese encirclement cannot cover the entire mountain range, and there are no fighter planes that can fly freely in the sky as eyes. He and the Second Mixed Brigade have at least an 80% chance of escaping from the mountain.

But this basically declared the Second Mixed Brigade defeated, and the act of throwing away all the baggage can be called a defeat.

They were defeated without firing a single shot. Even if the Second Mixed Brigade could finally escape from the mountain, it would be a shame for the Imperial Japanese Army, and Yamashita himself would be firmly nailed to the pillar of shame in history. , and will never be able to stand up again.

Before the war, some generals raised concerns about annihilating a full-scale Japanese army to Tang Dao. Among them, the Japanese generals had the idea of abandoning their baggage and escaping into the mountains with light equipment.

"That's because you still don't know enough about the extreme nation of Japan. They belong to the lineage of Eastern civilization, but they don't have what we call 'big men who can bend and stretch, and it's unknown whether they will come back in the future.' Everything they do is very extreme, and they are cruel and extreme. , Bravery is extreme, and persistence in honor is also extremely extreme. Compared to this, life is not that important.

So, they will definitely not make such a choice to escape in embarrassment! "Tang Dao, who did not participate in the meeting, asked Brigadier Cheng to reply to the generals like this.

The generals suddenly discovered that none of the small regiment leaders they considered were meticulous and comprehensive. They put the Japanese generals on the same level of thinking as themselves, but Tang Dao had already considered a national character.

Moreover, the word "extreme" sums it up extremely well. Looking at what the Japanese army did on the Chinese battlefield, it is exactly the embodiment of these two words.

In fact, the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield only showed "extreme". It was not until the Pacific battlefield a few years later that the Japanese army really showed the "extreme" incisively and vividly.

Not to mention the "kamikaze" and "suicide one-man submarine" are all original creations of the Japanese army. They regard the residents of the entire island as their own food reserves, using underground tunnels crisscrossing the island and the submachine guns of American soldiers, Naval artillery and aircraft competed, and the more than 20,000 soldiers defending the island were ultimately killed at the cost of 22,000 and only 1,000 survived. As a result, the U.S. soldiers who completely reduced the dimensionality of the attack suffered as many as 6,800 casualties and more than 20,000 injuries.

Why do you think the United States dropped big fat bombs to repair them? That is because the U.S. Army Staff has calculated that if conventional warfare is used after landing on the Japanese mainland, the U.S. Army will suffer more than one million casualties.

Given the fact that the United States has always refused to obey anyone, it was also frightened by the extreme little Japan. Did the big fat bomb they just made have to be arranged?

It is said that the United States has already made plans. If little Japan does not kneel down and call daddy, it will continue to throw away the Japanese island, even if it sinks the Japanese island.

Fortunately, the extreme Japanese kneeled down decisively in order to continue to preserve their race.

And this kneeling down is not a big deal, his extreme characteristics are revealed again, he actually likes to kneel down, no matter how the American baba ravages him, even if he is equipped with iron whips and torches, Japan still keeps his knees firmly on the ground, quite a bit. Lieutenant, I will act like my son for the rest of my life.

Really, Tang Dao, who comes from the future, has seen many ethnic groups on the earth, including the cunning and wise Westerners, the old Maozi who has a single-minded mind but extremely developed limbs, the tough and cruel Southeastern people, even the weird ones who parade on motorcycles. The third brother of the style has never wanted Bilian. Everything is our stick, and I have never seen a Japanese number. Anyway, we just walk all the way to the dark without turning.

Even if you are a turtle grandson, you must use the length of a hundred years to calculate.

Tang Dao knew the characteristics of the Japanese nation very well. This idea only flashed through Yamashita's mind and was immediately rejected by him.

Yamashita still decided to follow the previous battle plan and rush to Changle Village. There, he would fight his way out of the Chinese people's carefully designed encirclement and let the Chinese people rejoice in vain.

Of course, this is because he still has confidence in himself and the Imperial Army Aviation. He does not believe that under the indiscriminate bombing by dozens of bombers dispatched by the Army Aviation and the impact of his elite troops, a mere ten thousand Chinese troops can still hold the line of defense. . He overestimated his army aviation, and even more underestimated the combat effectiveness of his infantry. In other words, he underestimated his opponent.

Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be victorious in every battle. At this moment, Yamashita does not know either himself or the enemy.

First of all, the dozen tons of bombs dropped by 36 fighter planes did cause certain losses to the 683 Brigade, which is inevitable in war.

However, the anti-gun holes dug in advance and a large number of camouflaged wooden men reduced this loss by at least 80%.

The 683rd Brigade suffered about 500 casualties in these three waves of bombings. This was a number that greatly surprised Brigadier Cheng.

Before this, he had estimated the number to be 1,500. Most of the infantry regiment would be lost before the official battle with the Japanese infantry began. This is a tragedy, but it is also a cruel reality.

If there were no mountains for cover, perhaps this number would double again. The reason why the Japanese army has repeatedly defeated many with less is that complete control of the air is a very important factor. If it loses air supremacy, the Japanese army will definitely not be able to achieve its current results just by relying on heavy ground firepower.

The losses of the 683rd Brigade were not as heavy as Yamashita imagined. The strength of the infantry was still there, and the artillery that had been hidden was not damaged at all. This alone was enough to feed the second mixed brigade.

What's more, in order to deal with the urgent pursuit of the Four Troops Regiment from the rear, Yamashita had to call two infantry brigades and a heavy supply brigade as the rear brigades to protect his rear wing, and put more troops in the front to break through the Zhuozhang River defense line. The number of engineers and baggage troops will never exceed 4,000.

The more than 800 Japanese troops who arrived first did not attack rashly. Two under-equipped infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron also guarded the flanks and front very steadily, basically not giving the Chinese troops in the mountains a chance to break out.

But this does not mean that the 683rd Brigade will watch them "leisurely" build trenches and then extend the trenches to their own defense area.

The current 683 brigade has grown up under the silent support of Tang Dao, who will replenish some guns today and send some artillery pieces tomorrow, not to mention the entire army! At this moment, it is at least half-finished.

This time, for the second mixed brigade, Commander Liu of the 921st Division spent a lot of money. On such a difficult and dangerous battlefield against the 16th Division, he still deployed 4 75 mountain guns and an artillery company to follow the 683rd Brigade. In addition, in the past few months The 30 mortars that I had saved up and sent as a gift to a certain regiment after a disagreement were important in terms of firepower, not to mention that they were equivalent to the more than 20 75mm mountain guns carried by the second mixed brigade!

At least, you won't be beaten passively like usual. You hit me like a storm with your tortoise punches, and I can also hit you with a kick, a black tiger to take out your heart, and so on.

"Damn it, the man who bombed me to death actually dared to dig a trench in front of me with such arrogance?" Wang Xiaoqiang, the highest commander of the Zhuozhang River defense line, looked at the Japanese soldiers hundreds of meters away through the telescope. Teeth crunched.

Those temporarily dug anti-gun holes may be able to withstand the bombardment of 75mm mountain guns or even 100mm cannons, but they are still too fragile to 500-pound aerial bombs.

Just three hours ago, a 500-pound aerial bomb dropped by a Japanese bomber hit an area 20 meters above an anti-gun cave. Although it did not hit the front, the terrible energy still collapsed the cave dwelling supported by rough wood. .

There were nearly 70 people inside, and the roar of Japanese fighter planes was still in his ears. Wang Xiaoqiang, who received the news, took the lead in rushing out of the shell-proof hole and led his people to dig soil frantically.

But it was still too late. More than 40 of the 70 young men suffocated to death under the soil.

Some of them followed the 80th Army across half of China and did not die in the snowy mountains and grasslands or on hundreds of battlefields; some were locals who had just joined the army for less than three months and sweated profusely on the training ground every day. To defend the home;

But everything they had done was in vain. On this battlefield, they did not fire a single shot. In order to camouflage the wooden man, many people did not wear military uniforms and were bare-chested. They died here because of suffocation.

Seeing the pale and young faces lying quietly in front of him, Wang Xiaoqiang, the leader of the group, felt heartbroken!

He, who was always loud, actually didn't say a word. He sat next to his soldiers who were already extremely quiet, silently lit all the packs of cigarettes he had on him, and stuck them in the soil.

That was his last inventory, and he didn't know if his young soldiers could smell the smell of tobacco again, but he wanted to do it.

Perhaps this young and strong regiment leader hopes that his soldiers will open their eyes and call him regiment leader again!

Unfortunately, this is a battlefield and there are not so many possibilities.

It was extremely lucky to be able to rescue the twenty or so people back to the outermost layer.

“Commander, although it is within the range of the heavy machine gun, it is too far away. It is probably a waste of bullets to shoot. I think it is better to save it for when the Japanese army attacks!” Battalion Commander Xiao Ding on the side advised.

He knew the personality of his regimental commander very well. The Japanese plane killed and injured nearly a hundred people in the 772nd Regiment. This was a big loss for Wang Xiaoqiang. He had to make up for this bad breath no matter how hard it was.

"Bullshit! You are so good, you are still picking at Sosou. The Japanese are still playing ball. If they can't use heavy machine guns, then give me the 4 mortars assigned to your 1st Battalion and shoot him like a dog. Damn it." Wang Xiaoqiang's eyes widened.

“Commander, there are only 30 shells left in the four mortars, and we still have to keep them to deal with the Japanese attack!” Battalion Commander Xiao Ding's face suddenly became bitter.

"Then I will tell you that by tonight, Commander Tang will send 500 rounds of artillery shells to our regiment. You can fight or not. If not, I will give this task to the 2nd Battalion." Wang Xiaoqiang put his eyes behind the telescope again. , no longer looked at his first battalion commander.

"Hit, 16 rounds of artillery shells, no, 20 rounds of artillery shells!" When Battalion Commander Xiao Ding heard this, he still cared about a mere 20 rounds of artillery shells.

Even if the battalion's mortar platoon has fired all its shells, there will still be a mortar company at the regiment headquarters! Taking a step back, the four mountain cannons placed by the brigade headquarters in the mountains are not for living.

So, while the Japanese engineers and infantrymen were sweating profusely and fighting the mud, bombs exploded around them.

The Chinese were so ungrateful that they used mortars to prevent them from digging trenches.

Caught off guard, more than a dozen Japanese infantrymen fell down in succession, howling miserably, and the mud was flowing red.

The miserable Japanese infantry could only kneel in the mud and start digging. Before the trenches were dug to a depth of two feet, facing such mortar shells that could fly at any time, they were like little boys who encountered a villain. The girl has no defense except being hurt to the point of crying.

The situation was reported to Yoshio Laitani, who was planning to use Changle Village as a temporary headquarters. The Japanese major's eyes flashed with horror under his gloomy face.

Are the Chinese people so wealthy? How dare you 'waste' precious shells before the battle even started.

What's more terrible is that China's usual mortars have a range of up to 2,500 meters. Can they also threaten his village, which serves as a temporary headquarters, at any time?

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