Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1030

Chapter 1030 An unexpected fighter plane!

Distance!

"Well done, the artillery platoon will have extra food tonight!" Looking at the smoke rising from the telescope and the Japanese soldiers being submerged in the smoke, Wang Xiaoqiang was extremely satisfied. He waved his hand and said, "Why don't you say that today's trip was not in vain? After taking a few shots from Te Liang's enemy, let's retreat first!"

“Captain, are we not going to fight the Japanese here today?” A captain and company commander scratched his head, puzzled.

After all, these two infantry companies and a mortar platoon had to go around it with a lot of effort. If they failed again, I'm sorry for the sweat!

"Are you stupid? We've stabbed the enemy in the eyes. They can't fight us! Let me ask you, if they come with five hundred instead of one thousand, can you, Captain Hu, stop them?" Wang Xiaoqiang glared.

“Withdraw!” The captain and company commander was a bachelor. Hearing what his regimental commander said, he acted immediately.

The infantrymen helped the artillerymen lift the mortars and ran away in a hurry.

Less than half an hour, at least two infantry squadrons and an infantry artillery squad came around menacingly.

If we really want to block the 300 people led by Commander Wang in this mountain, I am afraid that even if the entire army is not annihilated, they will suffer heavy losses.

Commander Wang Da, who hit the first two shots without any delay, didn't even know that his 6 rounds of artillery shells changed the direction of the entire battlefield and seriously injured Yamashita, the top commander of the 2nd Mixed Brigade.

Yes, when Yin Teng Youta pounced on Yamashita, whose glass was blown away, he was surprised to find that his very wise and profound brigade commander was not dead but still alive.

However, it is actually only one step away from death.

Because the shell exploded about 10 meters away from Yamashita, the air wave formed only briefly knocked Yamashita out of breath, and did not cause fatal damage. The real fatal injury was a piece of shrapnel.

Sharp shrapnel cut a 20-centimeter-long **** in Yamashita's belly. Needless to say how deep it was, you could tell just by looking at his intestines.

The color of the intestines is really rich, especially when part of the intestines are covered with a lot of dust.

A group of panicked Japanese soldiers rushed over and carried their commander into a temporary medical center not far away. The military doctor could only tremble and clean the wound with alcohol and perform simple treatment, and did not even dare to suture it completely.

The military doctor is very clear that he, the brigade commander, may not have much time left. It is not because of the blood loss or the depth of the wound, but because the wound is contaminated, and the chance of bacterial infection is as high as 99%.

This disease, even in the best hospital on the island, has a mortality rate of up to 80%, let alone in the wild.

Yamashita is also a tough guy. After surviving the wound treatment stage without anesthesia, he immediately called Lieutenant Colonel Yoto Yota and Major Yoshio Yoritani who were waiting outside the house into the house.

It lasted only three minutes, and no one knew what Yamabumi told the lieutenant colonel and the major commander. They only knew that the lieutenant colonel and the major commander didn't look very good.

When Yota Into announced Yamashita's military order and ordered Major Yoshitani Yoshio to take over the command of the brigade, the Japanese officers present somewhat understood why Yota Into's face was so ugly.

According to the unwritten regulations within the Japanese army, command power is basically based on military rank. In an ordinary infantry brigade, the brigade commander is a major general, the chief of staff is a lieutenant colonel, and the two infantry regiment captains are both colonels. The brigade commander died in battle because of When wounded, command is usually given to one of the two infantry regiment commanders.

But in the Second Mixed Brigade, because there is no infantry regiment, it is basically a brigade-level establishment. There are no colonel-level officers in the entire brigade. There is only one artillery major with the same rank as the brigade chief of staff, Yota Into. Captain, regardless of rank or position, the one who should take over as commander should be Yota Into. Unexpectedly, it was given to Yoshio Yoritani. It's strange that Yota Yoto, the lieutenant general and chief of staff, has a good face.

It's just that Major Yoshitani Yoshio has risen to become the supreme commander of the entire brigade. Why does his face look as ugly as eating a piece of dog shit?

However, considering the current situation of the brigade, which is almost surrounded by enemies on all sides, it is understandable that Major Yoshio Raitani's face is not good-looking.

Although his face was ugly, Yoshitani Yoshio still carried out his mission and issued military orders in an orderly manner. He only waited until everyone left the new temporary headquarters before he bowed his head to Yotai Yin Teng with a bitter look on his face: " The safety of Your Excellency, the Brigade Commander, depends entirely on you, Chief of Staff, and Yoshio Raitani will live up to the trust of Your Excellency, the Brigade Commander."

“Laitani-kun, take care!” Yin Tengyouta's face was stiff and he nodded.

If possible, he would actually be willing to exchange it with the man in front of him.

But perhaps, the army major in front of him thought so too.

The reason is actually very simple. Before Yamashita fell into coma, he gave command to Yoshio Yoritani. That was to ask Yoshio Yoritani to lead the remaining troops to defend and wait for help. By now, almost all senior officers in the brigade knew that the defense was true. But waiting for help may be just a beautiful dream.

Yota Yointo, who has not received command authority, has a more important task, responsible for commanding the squadron directly under the brigade and regiment headquarters to protect the brigade and regiment headquarters' retreat.

The apparent reason is of course that the brigade has a military flag given by His Majesty the Emperor and must not fall into the hands of the enemy. However, in reality, Yamashita, who had suffered heavy losses, wanted to run away.

If he had not been injured, Yamashita, an intelligent warrior, might still be able to calmly face the outcome of death in battle, but people are so strange. When death is still far away, he is not particularly afraid of death, but as he approaches death, he becomes more and more afraid. die.

Seeing the horrified look in the military doctor's eyes when he looked at his wound, Yamashita aroused an extremely strong desire to survive at that moment. In order to ensure that he could survive well after falling into a coma, Yamashita chose Yoto Yoto as the chief of staff. His own 'guard captain', his close confidant Yoshio Raitani became his replacement brigade commander.

There is also Yamashita's consideration in this. As long as Yin Teng Youta wants to survive, he must take him, the brigade leader, out of this mountain, otherwise he will become a fugitive. After all, under his order, this Verbal military orders were not written into battle reports.

As his trusted general, Yoshitani Yoshio will definitely carry out his military orders, lead all the remaining troops to defend to the end, attract the main force of the Chinese, and create a basis for survival for the more than 200 imperial officers and soldiers who fled into the mountains.

To put it bluntly, this is abandoning soldiers to save vehicles. If the brigade commander and brigade chief of staff are not dead, the second mixed brigade will only be severely damaged instead of being surrounded and annihilated, and its establishment will be cancelled.

It's just that Major Yoshitani Yoshio, who is destined to die, and Yota Yoto, who has a chance to survive, are both in pain, and neither of them is happy.

Yin Tengyouta knew that if he broke into the mountains like this, he would be intercepted and chased by the Chinese army at all levels. Even if he could survive, the responsibility for the defeat of the brigade would most likely fall on him, the chief of staff of the brigade. .

Not only would he personally be subject to a military court, but even his family would be implicated. Instead, it would be better to be destined to die heroically like Yoshitani Yoshio, and the empire would not only not blame him, but would also grant him a posthumous military rank.

Unless he can open a big hole in his belly like Yamashita, who was already seriously injured and unconscious.

Because of a fierce battle with the Chinese, he was seriously injured and fell into coma. This is a good excuse.

If Yoshio Raitani knew what this person was thinking, he might spit on the face of the Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff: It's better to die than to live alive. If not, let's switch!

Nodding to each other, the two senior Japanese officers with heavy hearts said goodbye and embarked on their own paths of no return.

Throughout the day, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade did not conduct any further offensives, but resumed civil engineering operations based on the newly constructed defense lines of the Japanese army in the encirclement.

The Japanese army, which has lost most of its heavy firepower, can only watch helplessly but is helpless, even though they know very well that perhaps what awaits them tomorrow will be another overwhelming bombardment of explosives like the Chinese.

Yoshio Raitani once tried to make a surprise attack with a small force to destroy the civil engineering operations of the Chinese army. However, Tang Dao had long been prepared to prevent the Japanese army from leaping over the wall. The firepower points constructed by various light and heavy machine guns were not to mention the Japanese troops rushing out of the trenches. Nothing is safe in the trenches.

For the first time, the Japanese army felt the despair of being suppressed by firepower!

I just want to crush you with firepower, not rely on human lives. The Chinese soldiers who are surrounding me are high-spirited and full of confidence!

Xiangyue Qingshi in Lucheng and Shanshanyuan in Pingbeicheng had no choice but to order the front army aviation to do their best to support them. The Japanese army aviation, which had enough twenty fighter planes, really only dared to drop bombs at an altitude of 2,000 meters this time. , the ill-aimed bombs hardly posed a threat to the Chinese army, which already had sufficient trench protection.

The successor commander of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, Yoshitani Yoshio, was desperate and had no choice but to ask the Army Aviation to stop dropping bombs and instead drop ammunition and food supplies.

This is a move that saves oneself first rather than hurting others. It is also a move that allows the Japanese army to persist long enough in the encirclement.

It's a pity that bombs cannot even be dropped at an altitude of 2,000 meters, let alone all kinds of supplies hanging from parachutes.

When the mountain wind blows, at least one-third of them fall on the Chinese position.

The Chinese soldiers on the front lines were not polite when they saw the Japanese troops giving away food for free. They were very enthusiastic about making canned beef. Some infantry battalions even gave soldiers 2 taels of white wine each when they had the conditions. The laughter and glasses of wine were exchanged in the trenches. We were here for an outing and almost made the Japanese soldiers on the front line faint.

The morale of both sides was extremely different, and the commanders of the Japanese army were already exhausted. In the evening, a shocking news spread among the Japanese army.

'Your Excellency, the brigade commander, was seriously injured in the attack. He has withdrawn into the mountainous area under the protection of the brigade chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Yin Tengyouta, and the brigade **** squadron. Now, the brigade's first infantry battalion commander, Major Yoshitani Yoshio, serves as the commander of the entire army. ! '

As the saying goes: Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles! The spread of 'rumors' was comparable to the plague. It took almost less than an hour for it to spread to all the Japanese troops in the encirclement.

Once I heard that the top two bosses of the brigade had fled, they were left to fight against the Chinese, and they were obviously used as scapegoats for the bosses. How could the morale of the army not be shaken?

Yoshio Laitani was shocked and angry when he received the news. As the current supreme commander of the Second Mixed Brigade, how could he not know that this 'rumor' was the truth?

But those who know the truth are that there are less than 10 people in the entire brigade, including five infantry captains and four cavalry, artillery, engineering and carriage captains. This news cannot come from other sources, only these few high-ranking people The powerful ones take the initiative to leak.

But what good would it do them to leak such confidential information?

Some of them want to live and do not want to be scapegoats in vain. This is the truth!

Yoshio Laitani's forehead was covered with cold sweat as he thought about this, but for a moment he was at his wits' end.

This was also a fatal mistake made by Yamashita after suffering a heavy blow. He only considered that Yoshio Yoritani was a confidant and would resolutely carry out his military orders. However, he did not expect that Yoshio Yoritani himself was just a major. How could he rely on a military order? To suppress so many officers at the same level as him or even higher?

And this fatal mistake finally broke out near evening.

The Japanese troops, whose military morale was fluctuating, actually took the initiative to leave their positions and enter the mountainous areas, not just a few or dozens, but at the infantry squadron level.

This situation was immediately detected by Mingxin and Shen Laoliu, who were still lurking on the peak, and quickly reported the information to the regiment headquarters.

“Hey! The Japanese collapsed so quickly?” Tang Dao was also a little surprised.

This situation is really different from what he knew about the Japanese army. You must know that although the Japanese army is now completely at a disadvantage and will be wiped out sooner or later, the Japanese army is by no means the type to collapse without a fight. Even if it is defeated, it will fight with all its strength. A ruthless character who bites his opponent.

If this is true, it can only mean that there is a big problem within the Japanese army. Although Tang Dao did not know that it was because Wang Xiaoqiang and Xia Jiba fired a few shots that knocked Yamashita unconscious, he still made a keen judgment and got the right direction. .

"Order, the artillery battalion will bombard the Japanese defense line with full firepower for ten minutes. The engineer company will deploy as many thunder mines as possible to hit them first. All infantry personnel are on standby. If the Japanese army retreats, they will immediately attack across the board." Tang Dao knew that the fighter planes were slightly manipulated. Although it was not completely certain that the Japanese army was on the verge of collapse, they still decisively issued military orders.

“In addition, I'm sending a message to Brigadier Cheng, asking them to be prepared to completely annihilate the current enemy. Maybe we don't have to wait until early tomorrow morning. Today, we can have a celebratory drink!”

“Tuanzuo, could this be intentional by the Japanese army to lure our army to take the initiative to attack before we are fully prepared to inflict enough damage on our army?” Gu Shaoxun, who returned from the second battalion, was slightly worried.

"The Japanese are very proud. They have never regarded our Chinese soldiers as opponents, so they have never thought of killing the other side's soldiers. Even now, their purpose is obvious, and they are waiting for help! Besides, I am four The regiment will not attack all the infantry at once. To be honest, this trick has no practical significance." Tang Dao thought for a moment, shook his head and rejected Gu Shaoxun's suggestion.

“Yes, I agree with the regimental commander's decision, the opportunity is fleeting!” Ye Chenghuan took the initiative to answer. "If the Japanese army wants to escape, this dusk is their last time. After tonight, they will be unable to fly."

"Haha, but the Japanese have absolutely no idea that the mountain behind them is the real place of death!" Zhuang Shisan, the director of the munitions department who rarely spoke, said with a smile, perhaps because he was in a good mood.

The battlefield ended one day earlier, and the burden on his shoulders as the director of munitions was lighter. How could he be unhappy?

It's fun to follow Tang Tuanzuo to fight and kill the Japanese, but it's a waste of supplies!

The artillerymen and infantrymen just fired the guns and pulled the triggers, pouring shells and bullets towards the Japanese positions, but did they know how many shells and bullets were used?

Just talking about the consumption in these two days, more than 6,000 artillery shells were used, 800,000 bullets were fired, and 5,000 kilograms of explosive bags were thrown out. However, the 17th Infantry Division and the 104th Infantry Division fought for six full days, but they were not used. So many shells and explosives.

What's the matter? The day is running out? Thinking of this, Master Zhuang, who was only 30 years old as the chief steward of the Four Elements Group, started to lose a lot of gray hair.

Of course, apart from this joy, he admired the commander he chose even more.

The Japanese army will retreat into the mountains sooner or later. This is something Tang Dao has long judged. Not only did most of the elite reconnaissance company take a detour into the mountain in advance, Lei Xiong's battalion also quietly withdrew from its position at ten o'clock in the morning, becoming the most terrifying strangler in the mountain.

At that time, the Japanese army will not enter the mountain. Once they enter, the light infantry, which has completely lost their heavy firearms, will be ambushed on unknown highlands and will completely lose the possibility of survival.

In other words, this is Tang Dao's favorite result.

If the Japanese army just relied on field fortifications, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade would not be able to defeat them, but the casualties would be huge. The explosive packs used in Hongtianlei were not unlimited. In the first wave of attacks in the early morning, Most of it has been used.

That was what Tang Dao deliberately requested. He wanted to use this wave of wild bombing to chill the Japanese army.

In less than five minutes, the entire Fourth Army Regiment was ready. The artillery battalion was the first to speak. The full-out artillery fire from 22 artillery pieces fell on the Japanese army's crude defense line, followed by more than a dozen sky-shattering mines erected more than 300 meters away! The artillery companies of the two infantry battalions also joined in the fun, and a dozen 82-guns made it a blast.

A total of nearly fifty artillery pieces of various calibers were considered the first time that the four-line regiment had fully opened fire. The Japanese defense lines of more than 2,000 meters long were shrouded in gunpowder smoke.

But that was not all. The mortars of each regiment of the 683rd Brigade also began to fire with all their strength at the Japanese infantry in the front position. Although the guns were small, they were still a concentrated fire of more than 30 mortars.

Post-war statistics show that the intensity of artillery fire involving more than 80 artillery pieces at one time has never been seen even on the distant battlefield where the main force of the 80th Army and the Japanese 16th Division faced tens of thousands of troops.

As Ye Chenghuan said, if the Japanese army wants to survive, this evening is the last chance to escape into the mountains.

With such an ideology, this wave of artillery fire from China is like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Seeing that the Chinese actually launched a general offensive, the Japanese army began to flee in various positions.

Then, there is a terrible chain reaction.

Whether the Japanese army ministers were unable to suppress it or some of them secretly contributed to the situation, the defense line composed of more than 3,600 Japanese troops completely collapsed in several places when the Chinese infantry began to test the attack.

Visible to the naked eye, large streams of gray and dark blue were rushing toward the Japanese defense line along the breach.

"I have betrayed the trust of the brigade commander! I am sending a message to Commander Xiangyue Qingshi in my own name. The Chinese artillery fire is fierce and our brigade's defense line has been breached. But please rest assured, commander, the imperial officers and soldiers are still fighting bravely." Kill the enemy to repay His Majesty the Emperor!" Yoshio Laigu ordered with a livid face.

After the Yusha message was sent, less than ten seconds later, "Bang!", a gunshot suddenly appeared in the small courtyard of the Japanese army's temporary headquarters.

Seeing that his own defense line was about to collapse in just one day, Yoshitani Yoriyani was disheartened and chose the method he thought was the most heroic.

However, this kind of bravery was considered the most stupid way by both China and Japan after the war.

This Army Major, who was the supreme commander of the Second Mixed Brigade at the time, pulled out his gun box and aimed a shot at his temple. His will was so determined that even his subordinates did not react.

The **** box didn't jam unexpectedly. A shot at such a close range blasted a hole the size of a teacup in his head, leaving white and red stains all over the floor. He was so dead that he couldn't die any more.

Logically speaking, even if he wanted to apologize, an officer of his level would choose caesarean section under normal circumstances, but that kind of technical action was never a one-shot kill, and it would take several hours to die. Yoshio Raitani was probably afraid of death. Half-dead, his head was beheaded by the Chinese prisoners, so he had his head blown open in advance.

Seeing that the supreme commander was so **** off, the Japanese officers, all of whom had lost their minds for a long time, dispersed in a hurry, and even ignored the body of Major Yoshitani Yoshio.

The brains of the second mixed brigade actually collapsed completely before the front-line infantry.

This also resulted in several Japanese troops that were still resisting tenaciously being no longer able to contact the headquarters and fighting independently. The originally firm resistance was completely worn away by suspicion.

The terrible rout resulted in the complete disappearance of the will to fight. Even the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops lost resistance during the Battle of Songhu that day. It was not until they retreated hundreds of kilometers away to rely on the defense line that there was sporadic resistance, let alone the Japanese army. There are only less than 4,000 people.

In the end, in only 40 minutes, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade, which had already noticed the weakness of the Japanese army, used their main force, using a total of nearly 10,000 infantry, to completely defeat the enemy in front of them.

Destroyed more than 2,500 enemies!

However, his own battle damage was only less than 300, and he achieved a battle loss ratio of 1:10 that stunned both China and Japan.

What's even more terrible is that this is the battle loss ratio between the attacking side and the defending side.

This battle loss ratio is even more exaggerated than the Battle of Taierzhuang during the Xuzhou Battle. 100,000 Chinese troops surrounded two Japanese detachments with more than 10,000 men, which was seven to eight times the number of the enemy. In the end, it was only 1:2. of battle damage.

　　The Japanese Army, which cited this war as a shame for the Army, never agreed with China's post-war statistics until the end of the entire war.

Even the Anti-Japanese Martyrs Monument built on the banks of the Zhuozhang River a few years after the final battle of Changle Village did not have more than a thousand names.

It doesn't matter that the Japanese are stubborn and refuse to admit their claims. What's important is that this war of annihilation is not completely over yet.

There were still more than a thousand days before the bandits retreated into the mountains.

Pursuit battles and jungle blocking battles will become the main theme of the battlefield in the next few days!

However, the battle at Changle Village is actually over, and the disappearance of the second mixed brigade is a destined outcome.

(End of this chapter)

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