Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1122

Chapter 1122: Humanity scorching in the flames of war!

The 39th Infantry Brigade in front of Chen Bing's Snow Flower Mountain seemed to have no intention of breaking through the 17th Division's defense line in a short period of time.

From the afternoon to eight o'clock in the evening, the 105 heavy artillery and the 75 mountain artillery fired in turns. During this period, 18 Japanese aircraft were summoned to drop bombs and wreak havoc!

According to post-war statistics, in this wave of shelling and bombing for more than 5 hours, the 20th Division Artillery Regiment consumed 3,000 artillery shells of various types and 100 aerial bombs of various types!

This amount of ammunition consumption alone has exceeded the consumption of the entire battlefield last year when the 40th Infantry Brigade and the 17th Division fought fiercely for five days and five nights.

This shows Yoshito Takagi's persistence in artillery doctrine.

But this does not mean that Yoshito Takagi does not want to earn merit. On the contrary, he needs the merits of this Jindong battle too much, but this Japanese Army major general with extremely rich battlefield experience understands the principle of haste but not speed.

The personnel transfer of the 20th Division has long been noisy. Saburo Kawagishi has reached the age and is about to be transferred. He is the only one qualified to become the commander of the 20th Division unless he is airborne. Looking at the 20th Division, he is the only one of the 39th Infantry Brigade. There are only two Major Generals, the brigade commander and Major General Yoshio Uezuki of the 40th Infantry Brigade.

In this kind of war, it has always been a taboo in the military to airdrop a top commander who is unfamiliar with the battlefield. The possibility of the new division commander being promoted from within is as high as 80%.

Especially when I think of the fact that before the expedition, His Excellency Saburo Kawagishi, who was stationed at Shimen, saw him off with a smile on his face, and in addition to leaving less than two thousand troops to guard Shimen, he urged that most of the troops directly under the division be put under his command, Yoshito Takagi It was hot inside.

As long as the current defense line is broken, the triangular defense of China's Jindong Army is completely destroyed, and the Chinese army with tens of thousands of troops is finally annihilated, the position of Lieutenant General Division Commander seems to be within easy reach!

As for Yue Yue Yoshio, Yoshito Takagi was secretly happy.

The division has received intelligence that the main force of the Chinese army on this line of defense is the 921st Division of the Chinese Eightyth Group Army. That unit is recognized as the backbone of the front army. Even the proud Shiro Itagaki mentioned that he wants to fight this unit. At this time, I was also helpless.

With such a hard bone, if you want to take it down, they will inevitably collapse their teeth, and they are not the 20th Division who dominate the battlefield over there, but the 18th Division.

After all, not only was the 18th Division commanded by the Front Army Headquarters to make a large-scale detour, but the entire division was also involved in the attack. Among them, the commander of the general division served as the highest commander of the offensive line. He had military exploits. Last month, Liangfu was able to divide the **** capital. Not bad.

Under such good news, Takagi Yoshito must be even more cautious and never allow himself to make any mistakes.

There are plenty of artillery shells. For this battle, the front army headquarters, which has always been searching hard, has been bleeding heavily this time. Only the 20th Division has prepared a reserve of 20,000 artillery shells and 4 million machine rifle bullets. Arms are constantly flowing from Pingjin. The two cities were transported to Shimen, and then put on special trains to be transported to Jingxing and HD. Moreover, all the baggage troops were provided by the front army, just so that the frontline divisions could fight the enemy with all their strength!

With such strong support, can Yoshito Takagi, who has always believed in "artillery doctrine", not be able to pour all his firepower on the high ground where the Chinese are entrenched?

If possible, he even planned to bombard the Snowflake Mountain positions for two days before launching an infantry attack. However, the news that the 21st Division suffered a heavy setback on the Niangziguan front line reached Takagi Yoshito in the evening, and he knew that his wish would be difficult. Achieved.

The pressure from the front army headquarters will soon be passed on to him. His Excellency General Shanshan Yuan, who has been planning this plan for so long, originally expected this battle to regain the face he suffered in the previous battle in the southeast of Shanxi. He would never If he allowed this battle to fail again, he would not consider casualties at all.

The 21st Division said it would attack the main defense line in front of Niangziguan with all its strength in the afternoon, but it only used two infantry brigades. Compared with the three infantry regiments under its command, with a scale of tens of thousands of infantry, it was actually just a trial. The attack involves the use of a fleet of chariots, which looks spectacular from a scene perspective.

Facing the roar of these steel behemoths, the First Battalion of the Fourth Army Regiment was finally forced to reveal its trump card, and the 12.7mm heavy machine gun appeared in full force.

The MG34 heavy machine gun was not placed in the machine gun bunker at all, because the overall firearm was much lighter than the Maxim machine gun, so the four heavy machine gunners basically emptied 100 rounds of ammunition and immediately changed positions with the gun.

To prevent being attacked by infantry artillery and grenade launchers, also take this opportunity to cool down the barrel of the gun!

The faster the machine gun fires, the easier it is for the barrel to heat up and affect the rate of fire and accuracy. Although each MG34 machine gun is equipped with 3 spare barrels, in order to ensure continuous firepower output, it is not a last resort. Machine gun shooters are The barrel will not be replaced voluntarily.

The machine gun bunker is stationed with 12.7mm heavy machine guns and 20mm machine guns, both of which have sufficient armor-piercing capabilities.

Especially after the emergence of Japanese tanks, all 12.7mm heavy machine guns were replaced with steel-core bullets. The armor-piercing capability of 300 meters can completely penetrate 13mm armor steel plates. Perhaps the thickness of the front armor of the Japanese Type 89 medium tank is 17mm. A steel-core bullet cannot effectively penetrate the steel plate on its front, but when this heavy machine gun bullet with a rate of fire of up to 400 rounds per minute continues to hit the steel plate with bullets, making that creepy 'dong-dong' sound, even if Even the toughest tanker can't bear it!

Because you don't know when, you may be pierced by such a large bullet. The feeling is even more terrifying than being pierced by a cannonball through the steel plate!

If the continuous firing of the 12.7mm machine gun posed a huge threat to the Type 89 tank, causing it to stop advancing after reaching the first trench 400 meters, and only provide support to the infantry with the 57mm short-barreled gun, the Japanese infantry would be angry. He scolded and turned pale, then when the 20mm machine gun started to resound with the 'boom' that resounded across the battlefield! Boom! ' When the sound of artillery fire entered the battle, it was the Japanese infantry and tank soldiers who fired at the same time.

The wrinkles shrink and the little face turns pale!

The target of the 20mm machine gun will never be anything other than the Type 89 tank, but at a distance of 400 meters, if it hits, it will no longer leave deep bullet marks and frightening metal impact sounds like the 12.7mm machine gun. , that will really penetrate the armor!

Although Lieutenant Colonel Yin Tangxiu Er ordered four infantry cannons to enter the dangerous distance of 1,000 meters, they can continuously fire directly at the targets with heavy firepower. However, the machine gun bunker at the second line of defense was first exposed to the surface with less than one meter, leaving The gunner's maneuverable space is extremely small, and it is extremely sturdy.

Four 70mm infantry cannons and the 57mm short-barreled gun of the 89 tank all bombarded this machine gun bunker that emitted deadly flames, but they did not hit it and blast it away as they imagined!

In addition to blowing up some sandbags piled on the outer edge, the bunker is still spewing deadly bullets!

The most powerful offensive equipment under Lieutenant Colonel Yin Tangxiuer lost its effect, which caused the two 12.7mm machine guns and a Sulotong 20mm machine gun located on the second company position to chase the four 89 tanks and 12 Type 94s on the position. Tanks fight.

What's even more terrible is that after the infantry artillery opened fire, the Chinese mortars hidden behind the mountain began to fire. It was a small artillery group consisting of 6 82-caliber mortars and 3 80mm howitzers.

The distance of 1,000 meters was too close. Even if the infantry artillery was hidden in the dense forest, the thick smoke from the shelling could easily be seen by the lurking artillery observers of the battalion.

The nine mortars did not engage in any precise burst fire, but concentrated fire barrages. One round of salvo fire of nine shells covered a certain area, and then another round of coverage, with a continuous salvo of 15 rounds. More than 120 rounds of artillery shells were extremely scattered. The area with the four infantry guns opened was plowed back and forth twice, allowing the 21st Division to fully appreciate what unlimited artillery fire meant!

"Baga! Didn't you say that the Chinese artillery is very limited and the ammunition reserve is extremely low?" Yin Tangxiuer looked at the artillery position less than a mile away from him being pressed to the ground by the roaring Chinese artillery fire, feeling painful roar.

He must have fought a fake Chinese army. Compared with the Chinese army opposite, his infantry brigade seemed more like the Chinese army.

The Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel who was stunned didn't know that this was only the artillery firepower of the Four Lines Regiment Artillery Battalion. The 12 Bofors Mountain Cannons and 12 150-caliber heavy guns of the Four Lines Regiment Artillery Battalion were still in use until now. Hiding under the camouflage net and waiting.

In fact, the two infantry brigades participating in the attack now only have 2,000 troops, so it is not worth using them!

Tang Tuanzuo's philosophy has always been that once he wields a big stick, he should hit the opponent so hard that he can no longer relax!

I don't know if Yin Tangxiuer would have the courage to continue the attack if he could see the high-pitched but unfired cannon muzzles 1,000 meters away behind the mountain. But at least we haven't completely lost confidence yet. Even in the first round of attacks, three 94 tanks were beaten into sieves. They were all masterpieces of Browning's 12.7mm machine guns!

After trying to shoot through the Type 89 tank parked hundreds of meters away, the two 12.7mm heavy machine guns set their targets on those little beetles that ran extremely fast.

8 Little Dougins were ordered to use machine guns to provide fire support to the advancing infantry. Due to their small size, powerful diesel engines, and tracks, they showed their mobility and flexibility on the hillside, just like a small motor. Jumping back and forth more than 300 meters away, 16 machine guns fired fiercely, so that the Chinese officers and soldiers in the front line trenches could not raise their heads.

If it weren't for the ferocious firepower of two heavy machine gun-type MG34s, nearly 400 Japanese troops would have crawled to the most dangerous 100 meters!

But as the saying goes: If you often walk by the river, there will be shoes that don't get wet! After going up a lot of mountains, we finally encountered a tiger. When a small car drove into a bomb crater in a hurry, it was a crater more than half a meter deep caused by a 105 grenade. The engine at the rear was spewing black smoke, and the whole vehicle was still struggling to escape. At this time, the 12.7 mm machine gun chasing him finally found an opportunity.

Fired 40 rounds of bullets in one go, the steel plate with only 5 millimeters in the side of Xiaodou Ding was completely unable to withstand the steel core bullet with a muzzle velocity of 940 meters at a distance of 330 meters!

Huge holes visible to the naked eye continue to appear in the body of this poor little beanbag!

There was no explosion, but this Type 94 armored vehicle did not get out of trouble until this round of offensive and defensive battles came to an end. It just stayed quietly in this small crater with its head down and its **** up, just like a car burying its head in the sand. ostrich.

Both China and Japan included it in the battle results (battle damage) at the same time, because in the small space of the Type 94 tank, as long as a bullet can break through its armor, the three members inside will be dead, not to mention that at least the side will be shot out. Fifteen or six big holes.

This is also true. In the evening, when the Japanese army raised the white flag and sent out the corpse collection team to collect the corpses on the battlefield, the three corpses pulled out of the Little Doudin tank were almost three lumps of minced meat, and more than a dozen thick warheads shot into the tank were impacting When it hits the steel inner wall of the tank, fragments similar to those of artillery shells will be sputtered. Even fragments the size of mung beans are enough to penetrate the human body, and such fragments may be as high as hundreds. The Japanese tank crew can still maintain a human shape. It is considered very lucky. .

The four 89 tanks were quite smart. After firing several shots during the movement and finding out that the effect was not good, they immediately reversed until they were 600 meters away, finally dodging the 20mm machine gun fire.

Japanese tankers, who have always been full of pride, know very well that so far it is not a full-scale attack, but is still in the testing stage.

Even though the Chinese machine gun bunkers are very strong and powerful, I don't know how many artillery observers are constantly calculating their coordinates. Four 105 howitzers and 36 75 mountain guns will be the focus of subsequent artillery strikes.

If one shot doesn't work, then use more shots! Only after the fortifications that the Chinese have worked so hard to build are completely destroyed will the infantry commanders issue orders for a general attack.

In this case, why should they risk their lives with the Chinese? Then hurry up and slip away!

It can only be said that this group of Japanese soldiers who belong to the technical arms have very clear minds, but they did not expect that they escaped, but the 20mm machine gun shooter who fired two bullets in a row and found nothing vented his anger until he ran away. Among Huan's Type 94 tanks, the other two Type 94s that were damaged in the battle were basically destroyed by machine gun shells as thick as cigars.

The tank crews of the Type 94 tank saw that they had a total of 8 tanks, but they lost three of them in less than 10 minutes. Does that mean that in another 20 minutes, everyone will be beaten into pieces? Pile of minced meat?

Even though the Japanese tank crew usually has armor protection, he is just a man, but his family knows his own affairs, and the tank design level of the empire is high! No escape design has been considered at all, and the internal space is extremely small, and the protection of the magazine is also very fragile. As long as the armor is not broken by the enemy, once it is broken, it will basically be the end of the calf's life.

Whether it is Type 89 or Type 94, a large number of them were destroyed by the 37mm anti-tank artillery equipped by the Chinese army in last year's Songhu Battle, especially the Battle of Taierzhuang that broke out at the end of March, and was known as the Empire's First Mechanical Corps. Isoya Ren's division is a "super strong man" equipped with 60 tanks of various types!

But what is the result? The steel behemoths that were crazily besieged by the Chinese's 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 20mm Sulotong machine guns were also beaten up!

Even the desperate Chinese used infantrymen to carry six clustered long-handled grenades into the bottom of the tank for blasting. The fragile tank chassis and tracks could not block such explosive energy. Once they lay down, waiting for the tank soldiers In the end, he was either burned to black charcoal or blown into a pile of minced meat!

Even if the infantrymen are killed in battle, most of them can still retain their whole bodies, but when it comes to tank soldiers, there is no such thing.

So, those who don't run are idiots!

As for the military orders, they were those of Lieutenant Colonel Xiu Er. No matter what happened to their chariot regiment, they only listened to the regiment leader, Lieutenant Colonel Hosei Kang.

Watching the Japanese tanks running away, Wei Donglai smiled: "The tanks can run, but the infantry must die! Since they are here, let me stay here!"

Order each platoon to fire 60 guns for me, no target limit, each gun has a base number, and fire it for me!

Heavy machine guns and machine cannons are also available to me. If you are hiding behind a rock, shoot the rock for me! "

Cruelty!

Other than brutality, there are no other words to describe the firepower on the Chinese side at this time.

The Chinese not only used mortars to carpet-bomb the Japanese infantry hiding on the hillsides, they even used the 12.7mm heavy machine guns and machine guns they just used to attack tanks!

As stated in the memoirs of Private Kurahashi who was again lucky enough to withdraw: It was the most tragic battle I have ever experienced. Asadkun, who was less than 10 meters away from me, was originally hiding behind a rock that was at least half a meter high and tens of centimeters thick. , unless the mortar shells rained down by the Chinese hit within a three-meter range, he would have a chance to withdraw to our formation with me.

But because he bravely fired a grenade at the Chinese, the Chinese machine gunners targeted him.

The ferocious machine cannon actually began to bombard his rock bunker with warheads, like a giant hammer, constantly hitting the rocks. The flying stone fragments even left a wound of several centimeters on my face.

The Chinese must be crazy, that is a precious shell that can penetrate tank armor, but they used it to attack a grenade launcher.

I still remember the frightened and helpless look Asadkun gave me, but who can blame him? No matter how brave the Imperial infantry is, they will panic under the attack of a 20mm machine gun!

I know that he hopes that I can save him, but how can I save him?

I can only look at him sadly, watching the cruel Chinese, even spending dozens of 20 mm caliber artillery shells, tearing apart the rock where Mr. Asada was hiding and Mr. Asada himself!

Asadkun's blood fell on my face from a distance of nearly ten meters. I can still feel the warmth to this day! "

Kurahashi was fortunate that the words written by the first class soldier made the islanders deeply feel the cruelty of war. However, it is obvious that the first class soldier did not write a completely true picture of the battlefield situation that day.

For example, his rifle was placed in front of him, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the grenadier soldier who was looking at him extremely sadly.

If someone tries to rush to the temporary bunker where he is hiding deep, perhaps attracting the brutal Chinese machine guns, what do you think he will do?

The private didn't know what choice he would make in the end, but his hand was extremely firmly on the trigger. A misfire might also be possible!

Humanity that has been roasted in the blazing fire of war is destined to be like the sky, where there is light there is darkness!

(End of this chapter)

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