Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1239

So, on January 8, the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting in full swing throughout the more than 150-mile Zhongtiao Mountain defense line.

According to internal battle reports of the Japanese army, on this day alone, Japan's North China Front Army and Westward Advance Corps deployed an astonishing total of more than 150,000 troops of various arms in the offensive.

Putting aside the second-line auxiliary arms such as baggage troops, medical troops, engineers, and reserve forces, the two Japanese armies almost used their full strength.

But paradoxically, in the Sizhou Mountain Defense Area, China and Japan are peaceful and quiet.

The front of the Chinese position seemed to be full of knives. The Japanese infantry was only 800 meters away and would not go beyond the trap.

Of course, both sides were not staring at each other to see who had the bigger eyes from a distance of several hundred meters. The Japanese infantry still shot hard.

Battle report of the 4th Division's West Turf Detachment. During the day on January 9, the West Turf Detachment consumed 150,000 rounds of machine rifle bullets and 300 artillery shells of various types, injuring 138 people and killing 1 person!

If calculated based on the more than 3,000 infantry units of an infantry regiment deployed on the front line, each infantryman fired about 40 rounds of bullets on average, and each of the 36 heavy machine guns consumed an average of 800 rounds of ammunition, which is considered a normal level for a day of fierce fighting.

In other words, 138 people were injured, and the figure of 1 person killed was far lower than that of other Japanese military units. If compared with the more than 500 casualties of the Zhongcun detachment in Zhangjiashan, the number of 1 person killed was completely negligible.

If Masao Nakamura had the opportunity to see the injury report of the West Turf Detachment on that day, he would probably be so angry that he would go to heaven.

Those wounded were injured, but they seemed to have little to do with the battlefield.

For example, some people accidentally stepped on a pit while walking in the trenches and injured their feet, some slipped and their feet were injured while carrying bullet boxes, or some were not wearing helmets and were hit on the head by rubble blown up by Chinese mortars. The most outrageous thing was that two Japanese soldiers went to the battlefield for a convenience. Because of their shy temperaments, the woods they went to were a bit deep. As a result, their buttocks were bitten by poisonous insects, and their buttocks were swollen larger than their faces.

The important thing is that there are also notes. The swollen skin is covered with red envelopes, which makes anyone's scalp tingle when they look at it!

Is it possible that those two guys went to the depths of the jungle not to poop, but to look for poisonous insects? Otherwise, in the cold winter, the poisonous insects are raging. Are you a bunch of major generals and lieutenant generals who are illiterate or idiots?

The key point is that none of the more than 100 injured people cried and cried. Instead, they were all smiling. Perhaps it was because after being injured and bleeding, they were considered loyal to the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor!

The only regret is that they won't be able to go to the battlefield for at least a few days!

As for the only guy who died in battle, the cause of his death was quite frightening.

As the famous "Tie Hanhan" in the West Turbulence Detachment, Major Sima Momotaro, captain of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division, can be said to be an alternative in the 4th Division. He has a strong and brave personality and a joy in fighting. He takes off his outer layer of military uniform and exposes a tuft of hair on his chest. He wears a menstrual belt on his head every time he fights, even in the coldest winter.

This may be one of the reasons why he stayed in the 4th Division for 18 years and was still an Army Major!

The 4th Division values mind rather than recklessness. This is also the unique temperament of the 4th Division that is different from other divisions.

It was the same this time. Although the detachment and the regiment were strictly ordered not to attack rashly, and in the weather of minus 5 or 6 degrees Celsius, the major's face was already livid with cold, but in order to show his bravery, Tie Hanhan still took off his clothes. Wearing a woolen coat and only a white shirt with a menstrual belt wrapped around his head, he held a command knife and loudly encouraged his subordinates in the trench.

The general idea is: Even a distance of 800 meters cannot stop the accurate shooting skills of our imperial warriors. If you aim and shoot with me, the Chinese will be killed and injured!

Good guy, even Amaterasu wouldn't dare to have such a dream!

But you can't pretend to be accurate even if you're not accurate? With this tireless encouragement, the Japanese infantrymen of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 37th Infantry Regiment were much more enthusiastic about shooting than the other infantry brigades.

This naturally attracted the attention of Tang Tuanzuo who was observing the movements of the Japanese troops on the high ground.

At this time, the sun was just right. Momotaro Sima, who was looking at the Chinese position with a telescope in his hand, had no idea that the reflection from his telescope lens was as bright as the Polar Star in the night sky.

"Eh? This little devil can do it! He also has a telescope!" The blood of a super sniper surged in Tang Tuanzuo's body again.

Half a month ago, he continued to attack the Third Division at night in Fenglingdu Town. Although it was dangerous and very hard, for Tang Tuanzuo, who was a special forces soldier, he found a long-lost sense of familiarity.

He is no longer the one holding the sword, it is just a steel knife stabbing the enemy, and the enemy will be killed when the sword comes out!

After estimating the distance, Tang Dao called to Long Yan: "Bring me a Czech light machine gun!"

The Mosin Nagant rifle used by Tang Dao is carried by Xia Dayu. Even if it is at hand, in terms of its ballistics, even if Tang Dao can estimate the farthest range, it can guarantee the accuracy of 600 meters to 700 meters, but it is not as good as the range. The Czech light machine gun with a longer and flatter trajectory is easy to use.

Attached the scope to the Czech light machine gun, Tang Dao tried to aim at the location with the bright reflection, which made Long Yan confused.

800 meters! That's a few hills away. Sir, are you serious?

Anyway, this was completely beyond Long Yan's understanding of shooting. In the past, those who could hit wild wolves and boars 100 meters away in Yeyue Village were the sharpshooters.

The simple firearm and the far enough distance made Tang Dao finally "miss".

After the 7.92-caliber warhead crossed 800 meters, it did not shoot the head as usual, but hit the chest hair area exposed by the open clothes. The warhead, whose kinetic energy had begun to decay, broke through the hard sternum and began to flip and deform, directly tearing the heart. artery.

Major Sima Momotaro did not make it to the field hospital and died on the stretcher.

“This must be the Chinese lurking out of the position, otherwise how could there be a sharpshooter of this level?” Daxiong Yunsuke almost jumped out of breath after receiving the news that his captain-level officer was killed in battle.

“Let the artillery cover the area 400 meters in front of our position. I will make it impossible for the daring Chinese to come and go!”

Yes, what made Lucky Bear big bear angry was not the death of an army major in battle, but the fact that the Chinese went too far. I didn't even hit you in Baga, so how could you still dare to come down and hit me?

Typically the loss is not that big, but the self-esteem cannot bear it.

This is also the reason why the 4th Division's Westward Detachment did not shell as heavily on the 8th but still consumed more than 300 rounds of artillery shells.

An army major who was not popular with his superiors died in battle. His superiors used 300 rounds of artillery shells as firecrackers to see him off. It was quite interesting.

Thanks to the fact that Tang Dao used 5,000 men to block the main force of nearly 10,000 Japanese troops, the 4th Group Army was much stronger than expected in resisting the 20,000 troops in the hands of Masao Nakamura alone.

After the three infantry regiments of the 55th Division suffered more than 2,000 losses, an infantry regiment of the 17th Division and the reserve infantry regiment of the 55th Division all went into battle for rotation, giving the three damaged infantry regiments a chance to breathe for most of the day.

Masao Nakamura organized three consecutive rounds of large-scale attacks, but they were all carried down by two infantry divisions of the 38th Army.

The weaker 96th Army faced less than 5,000 Japanese troops, and the pressure was much less. Although the entire defense line was in danger several times, it was still firmly in Chinese hands.

Nakamura Masao is not in a hurry for success. He has an entire Chinese army in front of him. What he needs to do most now is to peel off the Chinese defense force layer by layer like peeling an onion. What he consumes is mainly ammunition, and the Chinese What is consumed is life.

If the war continues like this, sooner or later China's confidence will collapse due to the continued increase in war losses.

As a representative figure of the academic school within the Japanese army, Nakamura Masao firmly believes in a law. There is almost no army in the world that can persist after the battle damage rate reaches 40%.

There may be such troops, but they are definitely not in China, otherwise they would not have been completely defeated on both the East and North China fronts.

To put it bluntly, what Masao Nakamura is playing now is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy of Chi Guoguo, using ammunition reserves in exchange for the lives of Chinese soldiers to see who can persist to the end.

It seems very simple, but it is extremely effective, because it also involves the judgment and understanding of human nature.

Not everyone is a hero, as long as they are human beings, they cherish the world and do not want to fall into the abyss of cold death.

Furthermore, Masao Nakamura did not engage in the Japanese Army's most common practice of sending small groups of troops to penetrate behind enemy lines to harass. He just wanted to use abundant firepower and sufficient troops to continuously oppress and consume the opponent, causing the opponent to collapse psychologically and retreat.

The Yellow River behind Zhongtiao Mountain is both a dead end and a way out. He believed that Chinese soldiers would rather choose the cold, roaring river than bullets and bayonets, because after all, there was still a one-ten-thousandth chance of survival.

If nothing else happens, four days later when the North China Army's army aviation fleet arrives to help, it will be the time for him to launch a full-scale attack, and then, he will be successful in one battle!

The white-haired general of Moonan Town has been frowning for the past two days. It is not the long list of casualties that makes this iron-blooded general anxious, but the Japanese general's tactics of slowly tightening the rope that make him unable to show off. .

In just two days, the Japanese army had already demonstrated sufficient firepower. Not only was it forced to take out its reserves, but also the 16 mountain artillery pieces of the 17th Division Mountain Artillery Battalion and the infantry artillery batteries of each brigade had to be engaged in artillery counterattacks.

　　Except for the strange force of the Four Lines Regiment that has not yet arrived, he has very few cards left in his hand.

However, the Japanese fighter planes have not yet joined the battle, the 105 howitzers have not yet appeared, and the two infantry regiments have also taken turns to attack.

This is like a competition between two martial arts masters. One of them has already shown 90% of his strength, but the other is still able to do it with ease and has not even drawn his sword.

This feeling is extremely uncomfortable for any commander.

But this is the gap between China and Japan. One side can build aircraft, tanks, and giant ships, while the other side can produce a few mortars, which is enough to celebrate.

The white-haired general couldn't think of any effective countermeasures. The only thing he could do was to persist and persist!

Until the day when the two divisions of his Thirty-eighth Army, with 20,000 men, persisted until they were no longer afraid of the cold.

Perhaps his biggest advantage over Masao Nakamura is that he believes that his men can maintain combat effectiveness even after the battle damage rate reaches 50%.

Masao Nakamura was an excellent commander, but he still didn't quite understand his opponent.

The Chinese should be a very special nation in this world. They are smart, kind and tolerant. Even if you **** all the rice from their bowl, they will swallow it for the time being, and they can also say "take a step back and the sky will be brighter" and so on. I comfort you, but if you not only snatched away the meal but also smashed the bowl, then...

Then they really know how to fight!

In ancient times, there was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, today there is the Great Patriotic War, and in the future there will be the Battle of the Snowfield!

The Chinese are not rabbits who only bite when they are anxious. They are dragons. If their scales move against their will, it will shake the world!

Compared to the fierce fighting in the Zhongtiao Mountain War Zone, the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi seemed much calmer.

Since the Japanese army's 9th Route Army encirclement and suppression campaign in May was defeated, the Japanese army has been far more defensive than offensive in the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi.

Even though 80,000 troops were once again assembled to march into the Taihang Mountains this time, they were no longer as arrogant as before. Several large counties such as Shecheng, Lixian, and Changzhi all stationed an infantry regiment, and only five infantry regiments were left behind. There are 30,000 troops and other military units.

There are only 50,000 people who can march into the Taihang Mountains, but this is still an extremely huge number.

The 80th Group Army, whose headquarters is still in the Taihang Mountains, can be said to be fully mobilized this time. More than 20,000 people from the headquarters guard regiment, the guard battalion directly under the 921 division, the supplementary regiment, the new regiment, and the 683 brigade's four infantry regiments have assembled. A total of more than 40,000 local armed brigades and militiamen were stationed on key roads and highlands.

The two infantry battalions of the Fourth Line Regiment and the accompanying artillery and heavy equipment had to be divided into two groups under the leadership of Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan respectively to block the approaching 8,000-person infantry brigade of the 109th Division.

But at this time, there was a Japanese army of about 4,500 soldiers, composed of two infantry brigades, cavalry, artillery, and heavy supplies, similar to a small mixed brigade, silently walking along the mountain trail towards Dakouzi He lurked in the direction of Dongzhen.

This is one of the two task forces composed of elite troops from the 18th Division. Its main purpose is to attack the Si Xing Regiment's station in Dakouzidong Town while the main force of the Sixing Regiment is attacking.

The tactical purpose of this task force is to destroy the war potential of the Four Lines Regiment.

The Japanese intelligence agency is not a vegetarian. In the past few months, it has attached great importance to the Si Xing Regiment and conducted large-scale intelligence infiltration into the Taihang Mountains. Although it failed to obtain core intelligence, it finally discovered that the Si Xing Regiment had a large-scale The arsenal can produce large quantities of rifles, machine guns and various types of ammunition.

Especially after conquering Shimen in the Jindong War, a large number of machine tools and steel materials were obtained, and it is not ruled out that they can produce artillery in the future.

It's okay, the Four Lines Regiment is already so powerful now. If it still has sufficient military production capacity and the size of its troops is expanded, let alone a brigade, even a division may not be their opponent.

The Japanese North China Front will never tolerate a powerful enemy that continues to thrive, and will strangle it in the cradle no matter what.

This New Year's Day offensive led by the Japanese Army Base Camp has a total of one strategic purpose and three tactical purposes. The strategic purpose is naturally to march into Guanzhong and use it as a springboard to march into southwest China. Among them, the destruction of the war potential of the Si Xing Regiment is the three tactical purposes. one.

As for the other two, one is to deal with the enemy in Zhongtiao Mountain in southern Shanxi, and the other is to find the headquarters of the 80th Army, another henchman who is a serious enemy, and destroy it.

As long as one of these three tactical goals is achieved, it will be a victory for the Japanese army.

Therefore, under the cover of the mad attack of tens of thousands of troops, two task detachments composed of the 18th Division headed towards the town of Dakouzidong, while the other headed towards the headquarters of the Eighty Group Army.

However, the intelligence department of the Japanese North China Front spent a lot of manpower and material resources to fully prepare for this, and all details from the march route to the personnel leading the way were recorded in detail.

Otherwise, the 18th Division would not have spent so much money on recruiting its elite troops and matching their firepower. It was not only able to adapt to light marching in the mountains, but also had sufficient ability to attack difficult situations.

This may also be the first unit of the Japanese Army to have a prototype mountain brigade, which was forced out by its opponents.

Even Shanshan Yuan himself may not have expected that an infantry regiment with only a few thousand people would become an existence comparable to a group army and a hundred-mile defense zone in his eyes half a year later.

The Japanese army's "mobilizing the tiger away from the mountain" and "secretly crossing Chencang" were extremely successful at least at the beginning of the war. Until January 9, when all the troops were fighting with the Japanese army in darkness, no one could notice that there were two elite Japanese troops. The troops have already rushed towards the hinterland of their base area through small roads.

For the Sixings Group, the crisis does not only come from the Dakouzidong Town garrison.

Shun Wangping!

Located at the junction of Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain, it is the legendary farming land of Emperor Shun and the main peak of Li Mountain, with a maximum altitude of 2,358 meters. The top of the mountain is an alpine meadow, covering an area of thousands of acres, but the mountainside is a primeval forest with extremely lush trees!

Standing at the top of Shunwangping and looking down, you can see a fertile river valley, where the Bihe River meanders through, separating Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain.

If someone wants to go from Taihang to Wangwu and then to Zhongtiao, but also wants to stay hidden enough, this river valley that was once full of crops is almost a must-go.

A soldier wearing an khaki woolen coat and a steel helmet stood on this mountain peak of more than 2,000 meters, looking at the river valley in front of him with a telescope.

The soldier has been doing the same thing for nearly two days.

After waiting for the prey for a long time, it is inevitable that the heart will be anxious, but the hunter has a calm face. Even the people who know him best, no one can see through his true inner world from his facial expressions.

“Your Excellency, the detachment leader, the reconnaissance leader reported that the main force of the Four Troops Regiment has appeared!” A Japanese major hurriedly ran out of the woods, his voice a little excited.

“They are finally here!” The thin-faced soldier let out a long sigh of relief, and a light flashed in his eyes.

He can finally repay all the humiliation Tang Dao and Si Xing Tuan gave him today.

No, it's double the amount!

He even thought about it. On that day, Tang Dao arranged the corpses of his colonel, lieutenant colonel, and major sergeant neatly for photos and made the headlines of Chinese newspapers. After today's battle, it would be rude to come and go without reciprocating! He will do the same.

It's just that it's hanging on a tree, like a wind chime!

The wind and snow blowing across northern China are filled with the smell of death!

Chapter end

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