Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1031

In fact, the fighting in the mountain forest broke out as early as the afternoon.

Just as the Chinese know that if the Japanese army wants to escape, they will definitely enter the steep mountains. The Japanese also know that there are more than just jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains of China. There are more Chinese people who are more dangerous than jackals, tigers and leopards. .

But, what if? Including Yamashita, who had fallen into a coma, all the Japanese soldiers who fled into the mountains understood one thing. Fighting in a Chinese encirclement, they might try to kill a few more Chinese before dying, but they themselves would be dead.

As for entering mountainous areas, although they will still be ambushed, blocked or even pursued by the Chinese, after all, the mountains are vast and the Chinese are not gods. It is impossible to seal the entire mountain, so there is a chance of survival.

Of course, both Tang Dao and Brigadier Cheng understand this.

But for them as commanders, the so-called annihilation of the enemy does not mean not letting go of even the dogs. As long as eight of them are annihilated, the effect has been achieved, provided that they cannot injure their muscles and bones.

The so-called siege of Sanjue Yi, this mountainous area full of murderous intent that both sides knew well, was the pit that even the Japanese who wanted to survive had to jump into even though they knew it was a pit.

The first person to have contact with the Chinese soldiers was of course the first to leave, Yin Teng Yota, who led the brigade **** squadron.

But Yin Teng Youta was very cunning. He knew that he could bump into the Chinese ambushing on the high ground anywhere in the mountains, but he would still kill the two or three hundred people with great fanfare.

In the past, when we were confident, had men and guns, we were faced with mountains and seas. The warriors of the Japanese Empire had always been fearless, but now, the high ground where an infantry platoon was stationed would make them tremble with fear.

Therefore, before marching, he divided the entire **** squadron into squads and detachments, and sent out a hundred people in more than five directions. These detachments were used to explore the road, and their life and death were at stake. The important thing was to find out for him who was the last to enter the mountain that there were Chinese people there.

The officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company who first encountered them were still in charge of so much. If they were Japanese, they would be killed, so they would naturally not show mercy.

The constant sound of gunfire in the mountains gave Yin Teng Youta and the remaining nearly 200 people an alternative path. Then, while going deep into the mountains, they continued to send out pathfinders to the walkable areas.

In this way, relying entirely on the loss of human life, this wise Chief of Staff of the Second Mixed Brigade miraculously led his troops more than ten miles deep into the mountains before nightfall without being discovered by the Chinese soldiers.

Had it not been at night, this man was too cautious, thinking that he might be discovered by the Chinese soldiers who had occupied the high ground while driving at night with a flashlight, and he might be able to escape smoothly with the seriously injured Yamashita.

But unfortunately, Yin Tengyouta didn't know how much the Chinese wanted to kill them. In the rolling mountains, in addition to more than 150 people from the reconnaissance company of the Four Elements Regiment, the most elite of the 16,000-strong army, there were also four elements The first battalion of the regiment is an elite infantry battalion with more than a thousand elite soldiers.

The mountains close to the Japanese positions were too steep. After receiving the mission, Lei Xiong carefully studied the simple map drawn by the scouts. In such a rugged geographical environment, it was difficult to deploy troops, and the peaks were too far away from the valleys. Being far away, it was easy for individual Japanese soldiers to escape using the cover of darkness and bushes.

Therefore, he took a deviant approach and did not put all his troops in this area. Instead, he used this as the center point and divided his troop deployment into three layers. The first layer was an area about 10 miles away from the Japanese position. There are two infantry platoons. The second level is located 15 miles away from the Japanese position and contains three infantry platoons. The third level is the last level and is about 22 miles away from the Japanese position and contains four infantry platoons.

The artillery company is split up to coordinate the operations of each infantry platoon.

This is to form a layer-by-layer net. If the Japanese army fleeing into the mountains wants to be a fish that slips through the net, then it must be protected by Amaterasu to make the dream come true.

In the evening, most of the more than a thousand Japanese troops who had completely collapsed and fled into the mountains did not even pass the first level of interception by the first battalion.

In addition to the more than 100 elite reconnaissance companies ambushed in this area, there are more than 400 Chinese soldiers guarding the highlands, as well as heavy machine guns and mortars. The condescending attack left the Japanese army powerless to resist.

What made the remnants of the Japanese army even more miserable was that they could not cross the valley that was firmly sealed. The main Chinese force in the rear, which had won a comprehensive victory, did not celebrate their victory too much. Instead, they pursued them along the road into the mountains without any scruples. What the sky is getting dark.

Those are two more infantry battalions, belonging to the 772nd Regiment and the 771st Regiment respectively. This kind of mountainous combat is also what they are extremely good at.

The remnants of the artillery brigade of the Second Mixed Brigade, who wanted to run away but did not want to lose their guns, were blocked from the front and back in this way. In the end, they were all slaughtered before it got dark.

Really, because of their stupid behavior, even the Chinese soldiers have the urge to call them, "They are worthy of the mountain artillery brigade."

"Ouch! Now that we have cannons, now that we have cannons, the 772nd Regiment can also build a mountain artillery battery. Brigadier, you can't regret it!" Wang Xiaoqiang, who heard that his subordinates had captured seven intact mountain cannons, laughed up to the sky and almost died. Xiao Yue walked over in front of Brigadier Cheng Da, Tuan Zuo Tang and Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment.

Commander Xu, who has always been mature and prudent, couldn't help but look at the sky and rolled his eyes. Let alone the contribution of the 771st regiment, the Four Elements regiment is the one who made the biggest contribution, right? Commander Tang hasn't even spoken yet. What, now you belong to the 772nd regiment? What are you thinking!

However, the calm Captain Xu really miscalculated this time.

After the war, after questioning a Japanese captain who was captured in the mountains, he learned that the cause of the collapse of the 2nd Mixed Brigade in the evening was that Yamashita was accidentally seriously injured by an artillery attack.

Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who was belatedly aware of the situation, did not recall that he had fired a few rounds with Xia Jiba until Brigadier Cheng Da came to visit him. Unexpectedly, he actually killed the Japanese supreme commander.

"In this battle, the 772nd Regiment should take the lead!" These words were not spoken by Brigadier Cheng and Tuanzuo Tang, but by the boss of the 80th Group Army.

As a reward, 4 75mm mountain guns and 300 rounds of artillery shells were given to the 772nd Regiment, becoming the first infantry regiment in the entire 80th Group Army to have a mountain gun company. But Wang Xiaoqiang was so fussy that he wanted to go to the brigade headquarters for a meeting. No guards and a mountain artillery battery.

Returning to the original topic, according to Lei Xiong's layer-by-layer defense deployment, the blocking position finally selected by the first battalion, second company and first platoon located on the outermost layer was not a large mountain, but the junction of consecutive mountains. The mountains were not too high. , the highest altitude is only seventy or eighty meters. The mountains are not particularly steep. They are basically stone mountains. The tops of the slopes are mostly dominated by shrubs and small trees.

There are many hills, which are continuous and continuous. There are many ravines between the tops of the hills, covered with weeds and shrubs. It is no problem for people to leave, but it is difficult for people to travel by car or horse.

　　But even if someone wants to leave, if someone attacks from the mountain, even if a stone is thrown down, the person will be killed.

In other words, if you want to hold on to a gully that can be walked, you only need to hold on to the commanding heights of the hills on both sides of the gully.

However, there is only one way to go. Not to mention a platoon of dozens of people, it is an infantry squad. The Japanese army, which lacks heavy artillery, heavy machine guns and other heavy firearms, wants to open a way to escape. In just a few hours, it pays several times the casualties of the defenders. No matter how hard you try, it's impossible.

But the geography and topography here have determined that there are many ravines for the Japanese army to flee, at least five or six.

In this case, one row can only divide its troops.

However, we cannot blindly divide our troops. Otherwise, if the Japanese army seizes the weakness, divides and surrounds a row, and concentrates its superior forces to defeat each one, it will turn a risky and courageous blockade into a joke. .

Therefore, under the assignment of Wei Donglai, who personally led the team, the infantry squads were used as units. The three infantry squads were divided into three defense zones with character characters. The firepower between each infantry squad could provide support to each other. If you want to attack one of them, From one position, the Japanese army would be attacked by fire from at least two hilltop positions.

Furthermore, the position setting of each squad is also very particular.

For example, an infantry squad establishes a position on the two hills in front of the center, with a firepower group stationed on each hilltop. Another infantry squad cooperates with a firepower squad that provides fire support to establish a position on the rear hilltop 300 meters away. It was enough to ensure that a heavy machine gun and an 82 gun from the fire squad would provide fire cover for their flanks and rear flanks. and

Furthermore, because the 82-gun has a firing range of up to 2,500 meters, it can cover most of the battlefield area, enough to attack the light infantry-type Japanese invaders who can reach this area.

Yes, Lei Xiong dared to cast the net so wide and wide, and did not hesitate to set up defenses in mountainous areas with a radius of dozens of miles, just to bully the Japanese who had completely turned into light infantry. In such a broken place, let alone infantry, artillery and mountain artillery, just being able to carry a few heavy machine guns makes him a super ruthless person.

To facilitate communication in mountainous areas, the three infantry company headquarters have distributed field radios. However, after all, the Fourth Army Regiment is not yet powerful enough to spread field radios to platoon-level units, and all emergency communications must rely on signal flares.

In the darkness of night, red flares have been fired in the distant mountains and forests, which proves that the Japanese army has fled into the mountains and forests as the regimental commander suspected, and has also come into contact with the first or even second layer of blocking positions.

The officers and soldiers of the second company and the first platoon who had just arrived at their respective positions after a long march did not bother to rest and immediately went into the work of building fortifications. Not only did they know that the battle had been won, but more importantly, they knew that the injured wild boar was more vicious than the tiger.

In order to survive, the Japanese army may have unleashed more terrifying combat power than before.

In such a **** battle, the stronger the fortifications, the greater the chance of survival.

No one wants to die in such a glorious battle, not because they are particularly afraid of death, but because they all want to live to taste the joy after victory.

What's more, Tang Tuanzu often said: Only by surviving can you kill more Japanese. Talking about death lightly is also irresponsible to the country and nation.

The officers and soldiers of the Si Xing Regiment may be less afraid of death than many people, but they are also more "fearful of death" than many people. Especially for the newly rebuilt Second Company, the name 'Steel Company' was forged with the flesh and blood of the 120 martyrs of the former Sichuan Army's Seventh Company. They could not let the Second Company suffer another fatal blow so easily.

It is said that it is repairing fortifications, but in fact it is just filling the four sacks that everyone carries with them with earth and building them up.

This sack is also a necessary item carried by each officer and soldier of the Fourth Army Regiment. Like ammunition, it will be quickly replenished after every battle, and it is tied to the individual engineer shovel that everyone must have.

Don't underestimate the role of sandbags. The soil in most sacks can basically withstand the penetration of 7.7mm bullets from Japanese heavy machine guns. As long as the grenades of the Japanese grenades do not explode accurately behind the sandbags, shrapnel and shock waves will basically be able to withstand it. The person hiding behind could not cause fatal damage. After several battles, this seemingly inconspicuous sack saved the lives of many soldiers.

Three people from the first battalion, second company, first platoon and third squad, led by squad leader Abacus, were also building sandbags. However, they were not on the main position of the infantry platoon, but on a lonely mountain three miles away from the main position. .

Lao Abacus was one of the five veterans from the Sixing Battalion whom Wei Donglai personally requested when the Second Company was rebuilt. The other four have all become platoon-level cadres. Only Lao Abacus did not want to be an officer and chose to continue to be his Soldier, but his military salary is almost the same as that of a lieutenant.

In his words, he is used to being lazy and can't even control himself when it comes to gambling, but he can control so many people there. But he had fought in Songhu, Songjiang, and Guangde, and he was too senior to be a squad leader.

As a result, the former famous old gambler of Sihang Battalion became the most senior sergeant squad leader in the whole battalion. Not to mention the platoon leader who was his old comrade, even the company commander Wei Donglai was very polite to him.

So, Lao Abacus chose a blocking point by himself, and the second lieutenant platoon leader, who was much younger than Lao Abacus, looked at the terrain and agreed.

It was actually the solitary mountain he chose. The mountain was steeper than other mountains, and it was difficult to climb up. However, the mountain was high enough and he could basically see the surrounding area for seven or eight miles.

As an observation point, it is most suitable, and there are many strange rocks on the top of the mountain. If the enemy only relies on gun shooting, the environment here is very conducive to defense.

Furthermore, 400 meters away from this mountain, there are basically cliffs and dead ends.

In other words, the 1,000-meter-long blocking defense line deployed by the entire row ends here. If the Japanese troops fleeing from this direction want to enter the distant mountains through here, they can only fight, otherwise they can only transform. The adult monkey climbed over the cliff.

However, the rugged mountains are destined to be unfavorable for human passage. As long as you are not too stupid, you will generally not pass through the valley that is full of rocks and cannot stand.

Otherwise, the first platoon would not have given up this position as a position. The chance that the Japanese army would choose to pass through here was really very small.

In the second lieutenant's platoon leader's mind, Lao Abacus had found a relatively safe place. For this reason, he privately asked Lao Abacus to take Tudou, who had been promoted to corporal, with him.

Potato is young, but he is a "veteran" of the Steel Company, because he has been in the Steel Company earlier than 95% of the officers and soldiers.

Originally, he was the signal soldier and orderly soldier of the company commander Wei Donglai, but this stubborn boy had to go to the front-line army since the battle of Mouse Mountain.

In his original words: The Japanese are so stupid that those melon skins are dead with just one kick of their legs. I am left to kowtow to them, and my head is swollen. I don't want to do this job! Damn it, let's all go to the Lord of Hell to report. Anyway, don't leave me alone again.

yes! How does that feel when you watch all the brothers you have been with day and night die in battle, leaving only you? Comparing one's feelings with one's own, it would be better to die together.

Having said that, the company commander Wei Donglai said no more and had no choice but to let him work under the senior infantry squad leader Abacus in the entire infantry company.

Wei Donglai's logic is also very simple. The longer a soldier survives on the battlefield, the better he knows how to save his life. Under his command, Tudou has a much higher chance of survival on the battlefield than other squads.

The entire Second Company knew this, but no one blamed Wei Donglai. The young man who yelled "shoot at me" on the phone was the best soldier in the Second Company.

Because he is the hope of all the Sichuan Army brothers who died in the battle! Everyone hopes that he can live well and live until the war, marry and have children for all the brothers who died in the war, and enjoy a good life.

The potatoes that have gone through several battles are much more mature than before. Faced with the kindness of the company commander and all the brothers in the company, he did not say anything to refuse. However, he was still the brave young man who took the lead in the battle for gold, and he was an elite soldier in the old abacus class who could be equipped with a semi-automatic rifle. He did not rely on connections, but his own ability.

The squad leader said hello, Tudou had no choice but to obey orders even if he didn't want to.

Of course, on such a battlefield, even if the terrain is not very likely to become a blocking position, it will mostly become a highland that provides reconnaissance information to the main position. However, a submachine gun paired with a semi-automatic rifle is still not enough. Therefore, another precision shooter carrying a Liao-made Thirteen Rifle was brought along.

This precise shooter is not someone else, but Yang Bicheng, who was called a "coward" before the battle of Baihegang.

Perhaps it was the blessing of the spirits of his brothers who died heroically in battle, or perhaps he had two years of experience in the army. In the past, Zhazha was just a coward by nature. After the battle at Baihegang, this guy who was greatly stimulated and completely transformed, his marksmanship improved by leaps and bounds. Although he failed to become the super sniper of the entire Four Lines Regiment in one fell swoop like Niu Er, he became an elite soldier at the level of precision shooter after the Battle of Guangde.

Later, it was also because Wei Donglai's "Steel Company" was reorganized that he was transferred from Li Jijin's Seventh Company. He was asked by Lao Baanpan to serve as his precision shooter in the third squad of the first platoon, and his military rank was promoted to corporal.

The combination of three people is not weak, a veteran sergeant and two corporals with a strong will to fight.

The second lieutenant platoon leader was worried that their firepower was still insufficient, so he specially gave Lao Abacus two more shell guns and 20 additional grenades.

Including bullets, water, dry food, etc., the three infantry soldiers each carried more than 20 kilograms of weight. Fortunately, there were still four groups of pet hammers, otherwise, it would be really difficult to climb the solitary mountain.

The "Hammer" superior soldiers are not soldiers of the first battalion. They are established at the regiment headquarters. Lei Xiong specially applied to Tang Dao because he wanted to go to the mountains.

Tudou met Tang Dao a lot during the battle at Mouse Mountain, and was naturally familiar with Hammer. The boy was originally innocent, and because he loved Hammer, he basically refused to eat the dried meat distributed by the army and fed it to Hammer. Hammer also liked the boy Tudou very much. .

He said he was serving as a sentry for the 1st Battalion Headquarters, but in fact Hammer always followed Tudou, so Lei Xiong was too lazy to take care of it. He was serving as a guard for the 2nd Company, so he was also helping the 1st Battalion, wasn't it?

Therefore, Hammer, who was wearing a military vest, a steel helmet and a steel collar, also took on the responsibility of a "camel dog". A dog hung more than 30 kilograms of supplies on the left and right sides, which saved the three of them a lot of effort.

For the sake of safety, under the leadership of Lao Abacus, the three people still continued their old profession of infantry, digging the barren soil on the top of the mountain and setting up blocking positions at suitable locations.

If a Japanese army came here, the three of them would naturally not be able to watch the little devil sneak into the mountains and escape.

However, no one in the entire battalion, including Lao Abacus, who was building a position, expected that apart from the main battlefield, the most brutal battle in this mountain would actually break out on this inconspicuous solitary mountain.

Not to mention that they didn't expect it, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, who had tried so hard to survive by relying on his subordinates to sacrifice their lives, also didn't expect that the people who completely blocked his escape door turned out to be three small soldiers.

And, a dog!

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