Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1275

Nishimura Genichi was actually no longer the supreme commander of Japan on the evening of January 19.

It was not that he was replaced because he was not effective enough in fighting, but because he fought too hard, which resulted in the seven infantry brigades under his command being exhausted in just two days and two nights.

Yes, the two semi-mixed brigades were almost beaten by Nishimura Genichi on the afternoon of the 20th.

　　Shiro Itagaki, who had just arrived at Masao Nakamura's headquarters to coordinate the conflicts between his two generals, almost died on the spot when he received the news.

Good guy, the entire battle of Zhongtiao Mountain lasted for half a month, and the total casualties of the entire army were only more than 30,000. As a result, because of your participation, the entire army rose by 20%.

That was more than 7,000 infantry, not 7,000 pigs. No matter how much Itagaki Shiro thought, he could not figure out how Nishimura Genichi crippled 7 infantry brigades in such a short period of time.

If he had gone to the scene and had a look, he might have known that it was not that Genichi Nishimura was too stupid, but that the Chinese were too stubborn.

Everyone actually has a gambling habit!

Nishimura Genichi is no exception!

In the battle on the night of the 18th, the two infantry brigades that Nishimura Genichi launched into the attack were crippled. However, the Chinese highlands, let alone the main highland, were still out of reach. Even the small subsidiary highlands were still under the control of the Chinese. in hand.

To put it bluntly, that battle was fought as if the Japanese troops lined up to kill themselves. It cannot be said that they did nothing, it can only be said that they took human lives and consumed some Chinese bullets.

If Nishimura Genichi had sobered up at this time and immediately asked Itagaki Shiro for help, he would have been responsible for blocking the Chinese. This top student of the Japanese Army Military Academy would not have been sent to a military court after the war.

But Gen Nishimura has not been here, and as soon as this message for help is sent out, his future is probably over.

So, he chose to fight again and attack more resolutely.

He did not believe that there was a position in the world that could withstand the bombardment of 72 bombers, 24 mountain guns and 16 infantry guns covering the bombardment. Even if there were, it was definitely not Chinese.

During the day of the 19th, with the rare unanimous support of Shiro Itagaki and Yuan Sugisugi, the Japanese Army Air Forces dispatched the largest bomber group since the Battle of Nakajoyama.

The "New Year's Day Offensive" planned by the Japanese Army Base Camp has basically failed. Many troops on the front and rear wings of Zhongtiao Mountain have gradually gathered towards Yuncheng and withdrawn to northern Shanxi or Hebei Province to rest and recuperate. The Battle of Jiulong Mountain is to preserve the last trace of the Imperial Army's dignity. , this should be the reason why Shanshan Yuan and Itagaki Shiro rarely reach an agreement.

Without Shan Shanyuan's full support, the North China Army Aviation Corps, which had been replenished for a long time, would not have been able to empty its assets to provide such air fire support to Nishimura Genichi, a mere Army major general.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the number of fighter aircraft dispatched was not the 72 requested by Genichi Nishimura, but 96. The number of 500-pound aerial bombs dropped alone was as high as 48. If other large and small aircraft are included, Bombs, no less than 40 tons of bombs rained down from the sky.

A battlefield with a radius of no more than 3 kilometers has been bombarded with such intensity. Not to mention that it is extremely rare on the Chinese battlefield, even in the European battlefield that is about to break out, it can also rank high.

Even though the 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns attached to the Lengfeng Department were fully activated, the Japanese aircraft fleet basically dropped bombs at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters, and the areas belonging to the two highlands were bombing areas. Therefore, in addition to shooting down and damaging three Japanese aircraft In addition, there is no way to prevent bombs from being dropped into the vast mountains and forests.

At least 50% of the bombs were dropped on various highlands. The two main highlands and the associated small highlands were all in flames.

The weather was minus four or five degrees Celsius, but the temperature on the battlefield was so high that people could not even wear cotton-padded clothes. Especially the officers and soldiers hiding in the tunnels. Many of them were sweating profusely. They were both too hot and frightened.

No one can survive this kind of hell-level bombing. Even if they do, they are just a few small fish and shrimps. They have not used much infantry to launch an attack all day long, but they watched the Chinese positions burning in the fire caused by the violent explosion. That's what Genichi Nishimura thinks.

Therefore, at 4:30 on the 19th, when the bombers and the artillery groups that were shelling non-stop finally stopped, three infantry brigades were pushed to the front line in one fell swoop and launched a frenzied attack on the Chinese highlands.

Nishimura Genichi's idea is right or wrong.

The artillery bombardment and fighter bombing on this day indeed caused great losses to the Independent 46th Brigade and the Leng Feng Department. For example, on the 981 Highland to which the Independent 46th Brigade belonged, the trenches were destroyed to more than 2,000 meters, accounting for almost half of them, and the tunnels used to hide troops were bombarded. In two places, more than 200 officers and soldiers were suffocated to death in the mud and rocks without firing a single shot.

Six machine gun bunkers on the position were destroyed, and the observation posts and heavy machine guns hidden inside were all torn to pieces by bombs.

Even the mortar position hidden on the back side of the highland was half destroyed. Five 82-guns were blown away by the air waves, and more than 30 artillerymen died in the line of duty.

The 12 mountain artillery positions were not much better. 4 mountain artillery and more than 40 artillerymen disappeared in the roaring air waves.

However, thanks to Nishimura Genichi's caution, the complete fortifications completed within 32 hours allowed the main force of the 46th Independent Brigade to still exist.

Nishimura Genichi, who harbors beautiful illusions, is doomed to fail in this round of attacks by investing the main force of infantry at all costs, especially when the four-line regiment has no damaged 6 Bofors mountain guns, 6 150 heavy guns and 6 80 mm guns. The moment when the howitzers used all their strength to provide artillery support to the high ground of the Independent 46th Brigade.

The earth shook and the mountains shook, and flesh and blood flew everywhere!

The Japanese army imagined how miserable the Chinese people were, just how miserable they were!

For example, on the unknown high ground where the young soldier was located, three red signal flares were fired at dusk to request artillery fire to cover the position, up to three positions.

However, it was not a complete death together. There were tunnels for hiding troops in these positions. After a round of artillery fire, the well-prepared Chinese soldiers immediately rushed out of the tunnels and shot and killed the remaining Japanese troops on the surface positions.

The Japanese army had long been shattered by the terrifying power of the 150-meter force. Even if they knew that there were fewer Chinese people rushing out from nowhere, few of them chose to resist on the spot. Instead, they jumped out of the broken trench, and ran down the mountain without looking back, even though there were machine guns from the supervising team behind them.

In the words of the Japanese soldiers who survived by chance: It's just like killing a bird. If you don't go to the battlefield, you'll be shot. If you go to the battlefield, you'll be hit by artillery shells more ferocious than those of the Empire! Everything is dead.

"Baga! I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe that the Chinese still have so many artillery shells in reserve, keep attacking, long live the empire!" Genichi Nishimura shouted the famous little daughter-in-law style when night fell on the 19th. Three don't believe it.

It was these three unbelievers who completely nailed the Japanese Army to the pillar of shame!

After the war, he was rated by the Japanese people as one of the ten most powerful Japanese army generals on the Chinese battlefield, and he was completely on par with Major General Kunisaki Sei of the 5th Division.

On the contrary, Major General Okuma Konosuke of the 4th Division has a very high reputation among the people, especially in the Osaka area. Major General Okuma, who led a large number of Osaka youths to return to the mainland intact, is worshiped by many families.

There are not a few people who worship his portrait in their homes. Even driven by public opinion, Major General Daxiong, who retired from the military, served as the president of the Osaka Regional Chamber of Commerce and eventually became the chairman of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company.

Until the already successful Okuma Konosuke went to visit this old classmate in the slums and said directly: "This war initiated by the empire was not what the people wanted from the beginning. It was just to fulfill the ambitions of a few people, but it was Let tens of millions of people sacrifice their lives, and those who are alive will eventually wake up. "

　　After being completely abandoned by the powerful and the people, Genichi Nishimura breathed his last in loneliness and regret.

But obviously, Major General Nishimura Genichi who is still on the battlefield cannot be said to have nothing to do with his sobriety, but can only be said to be completely insane.

At this time, the Japanese Army Major General no longer had any concept of victory or defeat in the traditional sense. What he wanted now was to conquer the opponent's high ground, even if it was not the main peak, but a piece of high ground, that would be enough.

But this wish was not realized until he was dismissed from his post.

You may not believe in the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment, but you must not disbelieve in the importance the Four Lines Regiment places on its equipment. Although it is not a mechanized force, under the leadership of Tang Tuanzuo, officers at all levels of the Sihang Regiment attach great importance to ammunition reserves. Even if it is just long-distance training, 4 grenades and 150 rounds of bullets carried by individual soldiers are standard.

What's more, during this kind of war, more than two-thirds of the transportation capacity of the baggage company advancing with the army was to transport various artillery shells. Including the artillery battalion's transport by pack horses, the number of various artillery shells exceeded 8,000.

Nishimura Genichi was really wrong if he wanted to rely on human lives to consume the Leng Feng Department's artillery reserves.

As a result, the seven infantry brigades under the command of Nishimura Genichi came to an end in the "three disbeliefs" caused by his young wife's rage.

The Japanese troops above completely lost the bet!

On the afternoon of the 20th, Nishimura Genichi was personally ordered to be removed from all posts by the disgraced General Sugisu Moto. Suematsu Shigeru, the commander of the 114th Division who had just arrived near Yuncheng, assumed the role of the supreme commander of the Battle of Jiulong Mountain, and the responsibility rate had been withdrawn. Sixteen thousand people from the 114th Division on the main battlefield of Tiaoshan and the remnants of Nishimura Yuanichi participated in the unfinished Battle of Jiulongshan.

If the Japanese army ended here, the Chinese side would only have killed more than 4,000 infantry and artillerymen and seriously injured more than 3,000 Japanese troops in the Battle of Jiulong Mountain. This would not be very conspicuous in the context of the entire Anti-Japanese War.

But the Japanese could not swallow this breath. After the sound of gunfire on Jiulong Mountain had stopped for only a day, it sounded again on the afternoon of January 21.

Three infantry regiments, amidst the roar of more than 50 mountain guns, fought their way to the Chinese highlands.

Wave after wave of Japanese troops were like locusts, struggling to attack the highlands that had been bombed to the point where there were almost no trenches, and then they were repulsed one after another.

Then, after a round of shelling, the locusts attacked again like a wave and were driven back again.

In the next two days, the battle situation simply repeated itself like this.

The Japanese had enough trucks to transport corpses several miles away from the Jiulong Pass.

Even Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeru, the commander of the division, couldn't help crying when he looked at the transport truck piled with corpses.

But at this point in the war, it was no longer up to him.

The Japanese North China Front Army and even the Imperial Army's pocket cloth are all in this battle and cannot be completely stripped off by the Chinese.

To use the metaphor of many Japanese war historians, the Battle of "Heartbreak Ridge" in Zhongtiao Mountain is like China's Four-Hing Warehouse in the Battle of Songhu. It doesn't matter what high ground or Chinese people are there. What matters is the face of the Imperial Army.

If this group of Chinese who attacked Yuncheng cannot be completely eliminated, the personal reputations of Itagaki Shiro and Sugimoto Yuan will not be discussed, and the Imperial Army's face will be lost.

Therefore, if one infantry regiment of the 114th Division is crippled, another one will be replaced, and then crippled again, and then replaced again, until all three infantry regiments of nearly 9,000 people have been crippled.

It takes three days!

By this time of the war, although Highland 981 was still in the hands of the Chinese, all its affiliated highlands belonged to the Japanese army.

Most of the 872 highlands have been surrendered to the Japanese army. The Chinese are already crumbling, like a centenarian on the verge of death. You barely need to push them with your hands, you just blow your breath and they fall.

This is indeed the case. Lu Qingyi, the second lieutenant radio operator of the 46th Independent Brigade Headquarters, was ordered to send a telegram to the 38th Army Headquarters: "The enemy has captured the last subsidiary highland of our highland in the afternoon. There are nearly a thousand soldiers in front of the main peak of our highland. The final battle is about to begin." In the decisive battle, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of our unit were killed, and Yu Qian was seriously injured. Most of the officers of the two regiments, battalions, and companies were killed in the battle. Only 600 soldiers could still fight. There was no longer a roundabout battlefield, and no soldiers could stop the attack. I swore to my rank to I will die to serve the country, fulfill my duty as a soldier, and never let down the ideals of training in the military. This shock may be the last one. See you in the next life."

Given the strength of Brigadier Kong Da, who sent such a desperate farewell message to the military headquarters before going to the frontline trenches in person, one can imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time.

But in the hard battle that followed the night, the Chinese were not defeated in one push as Suematsu Shigeru imagined, even though he added 1,600 heavy baggage troops to his last two infantry brigades, with a total strength of more than 3,500 troops.

But he still couldn't break into the main peak of Highland 981, which he also focused on attacking. The dying Chinese would always appear out of nowhere and shoot wildly at the numb imperial officers and soldiers until all the imperial officers and soldiers still on the position were killed. .

No one escaped, and both sides just exchanged shots almost numbly until one side fell completely.

Yes, by this time of the war, both the Chinese and the Japanese were almost numb, and even death was no longer so fearful.

The only thought on both sides is to kill the other party, no matter what happens to them next.

One side is exchanging death for death, and the other side is exchanging life for life!

When Suematsu Shigeru arrived at the front line in the early morning, he was stunned.

On the charred mountain peaks, the Chinese military flags, which had been broken into strips, were still fluttering in the wind. The hillside was littered with khaki corpses, including on the Chinese positions.

Clearly knowing that if they use more force, China may lose, but the dejected Suematsu Shigeru clearly knows that this will never be possible.

Because he has no available troops, and cannot even gather 500 men, unless he pulls up all the artillerymen who have no shells.

By the 23rd day of the war, the artillery of both China and Japan no longer roared.

Because both sides have run out of artillery shells.

The Chinese side was passive and had no supplements. It is understandable that the artillery shells were used up. However, the Japanese army was the active side and had backup. Why did Mao have no artillery shells?

In fact, the night attack in Yuncheng almost abandoned the Japanese army. Not to mention the artillery shells were gone, and even the rations were almost gone.

This is not only Suematsu Shigeru's 114th Division, but also Itagaki Shiro's direct 5th Division.

Since yesterday afternoon, the 114th Division has been out of food. The entire army slaughtered 50 pack horses to barely feed the people who were still alive. Anyway, more than 1,000 heavy troops were dragged onto the battlefield, and the pack horses were of no use.

Even if Suematsu Shige is given a few thousand troops to fight the Chinese for two more days, or even one day, without any external force, the 114th Division will collapse.

What's even more terrible is that when Suematsu Shigeru was still in pain so much that he almost wanted to throw off his helmet and tear his hair to vent, a message forwarded by the command from the Army Aviation made him feel like he was falling into the abyss.

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