Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1118

Chapter 1118 The Japanese hold back their ultimate move!

There is no doubt that the Japanese military reporters' thoughts on moving forward are definitely not now.

Don't look at the Japanese army's aggressive deployment of two waves of attacking troops with a total strength of more than 380 people.

But it was actually just a tentative attack.

Before finding and destroying the Chinese heavy firepower, blindly sending heavy troops to attack will only lead to death.

Not to mention that Lieutenant Colonel Yin Tangxiu Er, who had spent more than 18 years in the army, would not do this. Even a trainee second lieutenant who had just entered the army would not do this.

The Japanese infantry only rushed as far as 200 meters away from the first trench on the mountainside. When the two heavy machine guns of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company had to fire to suppress them, they stopped moving forward and found bunkers on the spot to hide.

Then, nearly 6 grenade launchers frantically poured grenades towards the two heavy machine gun fire points.

There are a total of 12 grenades in the two Japanese infantry squadrons, and they basically stay in the area 350 meters away from the front-line trenches. That is the limit range of the rifle. Unless you have an extremely powerful marksman, there should be no worries about safety!

Although there is a threat from mortars, the mortars cannot be like having eyes. The accuracy error exceeds 10 meters. They are found to be targeted by mortars. The grenade is also light. One grenade can and two grenade hands. Run extremely fast.

So, after discovering two heavy firepower points, how could the Japanese grenadiers not be overjoyed? If caught, he'll be beaten hard!

According to their past experience, let alone several grenade launchers to deal with one heavy firepower point, even one grenade launcher to deal with one, five consecutive grenades are enough to destroy it.

But this time the Japanese hit the wall. Not only did the two heavy firepower points continue to fire, suppressing the Japanese troops on the front line so hard that they couldn't even lift their heads. What's even more terrible is that after a moment of silence, the Chinese also used 'Grenade' counterattacked.

But the power is much greater than that of a 50mm grenade.

That is the French Brand 60 mortar. It has a range of more than 1,500 meters, and the projectile weighing 1.33 kilograms is far more than the Japanese 50mm grenade. It is a typical one-two!

Furthermore, this small-caliber mortar, which was placed in the infantry platoon specifically to support the front-line infantry, was not placed behind the mountain. The artillery observers and mortars were in the trenches, always looking for valuable targets.

The heavy machine guns of the Japanese army are all 800 meters away, and in order to prevent being bombarded by mortars, each fire group is far apart, and they are covered by simple fortifications and trees and shrubs. If you want to hit them, you can only use artillery groups to cover them. That's not what company and platoon support artillery does.

60 mortars were used to attack grenades and light machine guns that followed the Japanese infantry.

The Japanese grenades exploded recklessly, but their targets were clearly exposed. The nine 60-meter mortars placed by the second company on the second line of defense were already "hungry and thirsty"!

The Japanese grenadiers were like poking a hornet's nest this time. Nine 60-guns were forced to open fire here three minutes later!

Each cannon fires five rapid rounds in a round. The game is not to see who is accurate enough. The main thing is a probability. If one cannon cannot kill you, then add more cannons!

The six groups of Japanese grenadiers did not have time to appreciate their results. The second company's overwhelming shelling from small artillery directly stunned the Japanese infantry.

After the smoke of gunpowder, the ground is full of minced meat!

Since when did the Chinese's light firepower become so strong?

　　Military reporter for Japan's Asahi Shimbun.

Also move forward to DER! The Chinese German weapons divisions are so terrifying, with so many mortars deployed in the frontline trenches.

If the Japanese grenadier's crazy throwing of dozens of grenades led to the retaliation of dozens of artillery shells, which was a kind of "seven-wounding punch" that "injured both others and himself", then it would be better to think about it, and at least it can be redeemed. ?

But the two MG34s were still spitting out tongues of fire "joyfully" in the smoke, which made the Japanese infantry very depressed.

Honestly, these idiots on our side are just like setting off fireworks during the New Year, making some noise! But the price is too high, risking your life.

The two heavy machine guns are both hidden in machine gun bunkers that are half a meter thick and supported by steel plates. Not to mention 50mm small-caliber grenades, even the 70mm infantry cannon can handle a wave as long as it is not hit from the front!

But it is not that easy for the Japanese 70mm infantry artillery to hit a machine gun bunker with a surface area of only a few square meters from 1,500 meters away!

Just like now, at least two infantry artillery pieces began to bombard the position from the forest. However, swept by the stormy waves, the two machine gun bunkers discovered by the Japanese army were like extremely stubborn rocks and remained motionless.

“Baga!” Yin Tangxiuer, who was holding a telescope in the distance, was so angry that he kept spitting out fragrance, but he was helpless.

With this kind of bunker, unless the infantry artillery is brought close to within 1,000 meters and targeted for violent bombardment, the Japanese army's existing fortress-breaking equipment is completely powerless.

This also means that the first wave of probing attacks found the heavy firepower points of the Chinese defenders, but they found them in vain because the infantry brigade-level firearms could not attack them.

Furthermore, the Japanese infantrymen on the front line had an intuition that even though the Chinese infantrymen huddled in the trenches fired very little, as long as they advanced another 50 meters, they would be raining down bullets.

Their intuition was quite accurate. The hundreds of infantrymen in the first trench were the first and second platoons of the second company. However, they were equipped with nearly 20 semi-automatic rifles, 8 submachine guns, and 8 Czech light machine guns. They broke out in an instant. The continuous firepower they unleashed far exceeded that of the three leading Japanese infantry squads.

With the firepower of their more than 100 No. 38 bolt-fired rifles, it would take less than ten seconds to join the battle without heavy machine guns. Just these two infantry platoons could shoot them all to the ground!

With the light firepower currently equipped by the Fourth Line Regiment, a 70-man infantry platoon with three infantry squads and one fire support squad dares to confront a Japanese infantry squadron.

Wei Donglai also requested that as long as the Japanese infantry had not entered the 150-meter cordon, the front-line infantry did not need to suppress it with large-scale fire. Once it entered 150 meters, they did not need to leave.

The surging firepower output may not be enough to kill all the prostrate Japanese troops, but it can completely suppress them in place.

In this sortie, each of the 60 mortars carried nearly 120 shells, which was enough to support the artillerymen to kill them one by one by naming them with shells.

However, the lack of large-scale shooting suppression does not mean that the infantry will not participate in the counterattack. The precision shooters of each infantry squad hid in the hidden spots of the trenches and secretly carried out cold-gun sneak attacks on the Japanese troops who entered within a straight line distance of 250 meters.

Those are also six precision shooters. Although they have not reached the ability of the legendary sniper who can "kill an enemy with one bullet", the precision shooters who have experienced the battlefield and fed thousands of bullets on the training ground are not the same. Just 'old bird' can be described.

The Japanese troops in the second-line division saw the terror of the elite soldiers of the "Chinese German Arms Division"!

As one of the Japanese soldiers who survived the war, Senior Hyōkura Hashi of the infantry brigade had the honor to say: When I stepped onto the battlefield, nearly 260 meters away from the enemy trenches, and felt the temperature of Ryosuke-kun's blood, I I had an intuition that the Chinese on the other side were by no means the weaklings who were 'collapsed in a single blow' as the veterans said.

Fortunately, Cangqiao did not describe in detail how his fellow villagers died in the battle. It was not because the scene was too tragic for him to look back on!

On the contrary, compared with the brutality that followed, the first-class soldier who was shot in the mouth and nose, and who writhed on the ground for three minutes before dying, died a more honorable death.

At any rate, he still left a complete body!

Fortunately, Kurahashi, who used a first aid kit to stop the bleeding of his fellow villagers, was sprayed with blood on his face, but he also indirectly escaped a fatal situation by staying 260 meters away and having a rock as a cover!

It was just a probing attack, and the 4th Infantry Squadron, which was making arrowheads, killed 20 people on the spot and injured 18 others.

Eight of them were killed by small-caliber mortar shells poured in by the Chinese defenders, but as many as 12 were killed by cold guns and machine guns!

This is the result of the entire squadron adopting a crawling approach immediately after the first soldier was shot, if they were bent upwards like in training.

The frightened Japanese soldiers simply couldn't imagine that ending!

After only holding on for less than 20 minutes, the reporter from the Asahi Shimbun, who was already filled with desolation, saw his heroic infantrymen dragging corpses and wounded soldiers to defeat in embarrassment!

It's understandable to drag a corpse, but should we also drag a wounded soldier with only hair?

It is really abominable that the cold-blooded gunmen of the Chinese are so abominable. They have been shooting in the dark like poisonous snakes, and their shooting range is as high as 300 meters.

It is already very dangerous to be exposed on the battlefield, but if you have to carry and carry the wounded, you are simply killing them!

There was no other way. Captain Hanyu Chikuma, who was then the 4th Infantry Squadron, could only order everyone, dead or alive, to be dragged away from the 300-meter danger zone.

This is great. Seventy percent of the seriously injured people who were originally wounded by bullets and could survive as long as they were treated properly, rolled their eyes and couldn't even control their urination and defecation after being dragged for nearly a hundred meters! In other words, the number of war dead will basically increase by another 30%, reaching 30!

An infantry squadron with 192 men, just a tentative attack, was almost half disabled!

Needless to say, his morale was instantly low. Some 37-year-old soldiers who had only joined the army less than two years ago and had never experienced a battlefield cried on the spot!

This is a phenomenon that has almost never happened in the Imperial Japanese Army!

Lieutenant Colonel Indou Shuuji's face turned purple with anger. If he hadn't been concerned that Captain Hanyu Chikuma also had relatives serving as Lieutenant Colonel-level officers in the army, he would have probably pulled out his command sword and chopped him down on the spot, but instead of crackling, there were more than a dozen big mouths. Determination is indispensable.

Fortunately, the subsequent tentative attack by the Second Infantry Group next door also hit the iron wall.

Even more than 45, the number of casualties was higher than that of the First Infantry Brigade, which at least indirectly calmed the anger of Lieutenant Colonel Yintang Xiuer.

Being second to last sounds very annoying, but as long as the first to last is at the bottom, the second to last will give you a sense of peace for no reason.

That side is also the defense area of the 1st Battalion. The one responsible for the main defense is Zhao Daqiang's company. Compared with Wei Donglai's forbearance, Zhao Daqiang is not polite to the Japanese army. He doesn't care whether you are tempted or not. When the Japanese army enters the 200-meter area, he orders The frontline trenches are firing with all their might!

Indiscriminate killings with long and short rifles, mixed with free hunting by precision shooters, one guy stunned the Japanese troops on the position, and drove them away in just ten minutes.

Of course, this also caused the first company to have several times more wounded than the second company, and they were basically all shrapnel injuries!

The Japanese army's grenades and infantry artillery were not indifferent. After a round of counterattack, seven or eight soldiers of the first company were hit by shrapnel.

But it was basically not fatal. Four people were sent to the back of the mountain, and four lightly wounded people were bandaged and remained in the trenches. Even if shooting was restricted, it was still possible to help send some bullets and grenades to the comrades. .

Lei Xiong received reports of casualties from each company, and did not question or appreciate the different fighting styles of the two infantry company chiefs. Everyone has different personalities, and naturally their fighting methods are also different.

All advantages and disadvantages must be summarized after the entire war. The number of casualties, number of enemies killed, and ammunition consumption are all important data to consider.

After being hit in the head by two infantry companies, the Japanese army temporarily ceased its activities!

However, for the Chinese and Japanese commanders, they all know that this is just the last calm before the storm.

The Japanese army has not fully revealed its trump card, and the Chinese side has not revealed its trump card!

Until three o'clock in the afternoon, a huge roar echoed across the battlefield.

One of the trump cards of the newly formed 21st Division, the tank brigade makes its debut!

That is a huge steel beast convoy consisting of three tank squadrons and a total of 45 tanks.

On the battlefield in North China, once this steel behemoth is deployed, the Japanese army is almost invincible.

In addition to the small number of 37mm anti-tank guns equipped by China, which is a sufficient threat to the Japanese Type 89 main battle tank, the 12-ton steel beast has a front face of 17mm thick forged nickel-chromium armor steel that is not afraid of any Chinese firearms.

On the battlefield of Xuzhou Battle, the Chinese side, which used superior force to destroy two Japanese brigades in Taierzhuang, once captured an 89 tank and published a photo of the tank in the newspaper.

The 89 tank in the photo is riddled with scars, with hundreds of bullet marks visible to the naked eye, which fully illustrates the bravery of the Chinese soldiers who fought with it, but more importantly, it is helpless.

The Civilian 24th heavy machine gun and the Maxim heavy machine gun equipped by the Chinese army have certain armor-breaking capabilities. When facing a steel behemoth of this level, even if it is as close as 100 meters, it will leave a bullet hole several millimeters deep. , is the limit.

When up to 12 Type 89 tanks were lined up in front of the infantry front, and the black-smoking engines erupted with a huge roar, the momentum was really scary.

The morale of the Japanese infantrymen who had previously been depleted was instantly replenished. Fortunately, the superior soldier Hōkurabashi, who was dragging the bodies of his compatriots back, also waved his arms and shouted loudly with his colleagues in the trenches.

With such a giant steel beast as a shield, they did not believe that the Chinese could still be as tenacious as before, even if they had machine guns with an exaggerated rate of fire, and even if they had solid fortresses that were not destroyed by concentrated fire from grenades and mountain cannons.

The 89 tank is not only thick and durable, but also has a 57mm short-barreled cannon with 100 rounds of ammunition. It can reach a distance of 500 meters, which is enough for them to accurately blast any semi-permanent fortifications that are not made of reinforced concrete into the sky. .

In addition to the 12 Type 89 tanks, there are also 33 Type 94 armored vehicles, which are light tanks nicknamed "Little Douding" by Chinese soldiers.

Although the Type 94 armored vehicle is somewhat disliked by the Japanese army itself, with only 10 mm of frontal armor, it cannot completely guarantee safety when faced with close-range fire from heavy machine guns equipped by the Chinese army, but it is still a tank after all, isn't it?

It can not only provide cover for the infantry, but also has two 7.7mm heavy machine guns to provide fire support. If the Chinese light machine guns and infantry dare to show up, the flexible little Douding can also use the heavy machine gun to kill them.

To put it bluntly, although the tank is scummy, if it is to deal with the Chinese army with worse equipment, the Type 94 Xiaodouding can still be regarded as a small killer!

The entire battlefield was filled with the roar of Japanese tanks and the deafening cheers of "Long Live" from the Japanese infantry!

But the Japanese army did not take any action!

"Order, except for the air defense company, the whole regiment should leave a small number of observation posts on the front line. Everyone else should immediately enter the hidden tunnel. The Japanese planes are coming." Tang Dao, who was still staying on the cliff in the distance to patiently observe the Japanese army, had a cold look in his eyes. .

Based on the Japanese army's previous eagerness to attack, Tang Dao judged that the previous use of mountain artillery to bombard the hill must have completely angered the Japanese army. Although he did not know the outcome of the battle, it must have caused damage to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army only suffered a small setback, and even after the arrival of its tank brigade, they brazenly drove dozens of tanks to the front line to demonstrate, but did not immediately launch an attack. This contradictory performance of rushing and slowing down can only have one possibility.

They are still waiting for stronger support!

Tang Dao's judgment is correct!

A hundred kilometers away, on the clouds at 3,500 meters, a group of small black dots were moving at high speed. If it hadn't been for the low roar, people on the ground would have been hard-pressed to notice that there were such a group of aircraft flying above their heads wielding death scythes. .

This time, it was not the 12 or 24 Japanese aircraft that the Four Troops had experienced before, but a whopping 48!

In order to cooperate with General Gen Sugami's plan to destroy the Jindong Army of China, the Japanese North China Front Army Provisional Aviation Corps, which received less than two days' notice, assembled nearly a hundred aircraft belonging to its seven aviation groups and four independent squadrons. Fighter planes join the battle.

After receiving a request from Maj. Gen. Nagano Kameichiro, acting division commander of the newly formed 21st Division, which had begun a fierce battle with the Chinese army at the Niangziguan defense line at noon, the Japanese North China Front Army Staff Headquarters immediately issued a military order to the Provisional Aviation Corps, which was on standby.

The news of the death of Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira in the battle was not actually announced. Only the commander of the North China Front, General Geng Sugamimoto, and the chief of staff, Saburo Okabe, knew about it.

To be honest, the moment the two senior Japanese generals who led the war received the "announcement of mourning" telegram from the headquarters of the 21st Division, their eyes went dark, and they were almost stunned by the "What can I do?" The dead man who was the first to give gifts to the poor was so angry that he lost his temper.

You said that you, a lieutenant general in command of an army of 20,000 people, have nothing to do but go to the front line to play ball? It's okay now! Not only did the people become roast pigs, but the Imperial Japanese Army also lost face.

From now on, when talking to the navy, just saying "Not a single lieutenant general in our navy has died" is enough to break the defense of the entire army, okay?

If possible, Gen Sugami and Saburo Okabe really want to kick the pig heads of the 21st Division into the sea.

It's a pity that now the arrow is on the string and has to be fired. How can we prevent these idiots from killing the lieutenant general and division commander and still not being able to kill the Chinese? Then we can only increase support!

The weak will always get more help. This saying is true.

So, under the quiet instruction of Saburo Okabe, General Tokugawa of the Provisional Aviation Corps dispatched 48 fighter planes, four squadrons, to bomb Niangzi Pass!

Sasaki, the lone star of the evil sky, sets off again!

(End of this chapter)

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