Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1351

After the ground-to-air battlefield in the Zishan War Zone, apart from the crackling sound of crashed fighter planes burning in the jungle, the Chinese and Japanese armies were silent for at least two minutes.

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From a psychological perspective, at least one aspect of the infantry on both sides is exactly the same.

Shock!

Not to mention the Japanese army, from Lieutenant General Okabe Saburo who stayed 12 kilometers away to the lower-level soldiers, were stunned when they looked at the majestic and majestic aircraft fleet that was beaten to pieces, even the infantrymen of the Four Lines of Regiment who got out of the tunnel to watch the results of the air battle were also stunned. Eyes full of disbelief.

Tu Yunsheng knew that the air defense battalion was very powerful, but there were more than a hundred Japanese planes. This was a scale that he had never heard of during the war for more than two years, let alone experienced it personally.

　　The terrifying feeling of the mountain shaking violently in the tunnel was enough to show that the air defense battalion had tried its best, but still could not prevent the Japanese aircraft formation from bombing the forward positions.

However, he never expected that by the time he risked his life and ventured out of the tunnel to look up at the sky, his own side would completely defeat the other side.

This reversal was indeed too unexpected.

It was not until the remaining Japanese planes fled far away, dragging long plumes of white smoke, that the Chinese soldiers who emerged from the tunnels finally confirmed that the air defense battalion had won the ground-to-air battle.

“Long live the air defense battalion!” Tu Yunsheng stretched out his fist and shouted at the blue sky.

“Long live the anti-aircraft battalion!” The infantrymen cheered fiercely everywhere in the mountains and fields.

The cheers of victory that echoed in the valley were deafening and reached the ears of the Japanese infantry 3 miles away.

The Japanese infantrymen were stunned, and their morale plummeted.

Originally, we expected that the air fleet could directly flatten the Chinese frontline positions, and their infantry went directly to pick up the heads. Now, not only was the dream shattered, but the morale of the Chinese on the position was high. How will the next battle be? beat?

The First Division is not a rookie. During the Battle of Nomenkan, due to the transfer of the 4th Division, they also had a real fight with the Mao Xiong Army in the later stages of the war. Although they had not done so, they were not like the other two. The division was also defeated, so naturally they knew the role of morale on the battlefield.

Had I known that the Army Aviation Corps would pull their hips like this, it would be better not to let them participate in the war! This is probably what many Japanese junior officers on the battlefield are thinking at this time.

But perhaps only senior officers like Miyauchi Yoshio, who gasped, knew that they had to thank the Army Air Force pilots for their sacrifices. If these dead ghosts hadn't used their faces to explore the grass, how could they have known that the Chinese had Such solid and complete ground fortifications?

Yes, Miyauchi Yoshio knows that the defeat of the army aviation group was not because they were not brave enough, nor was it because the Chinese air defense firepower was too terrible.

The real reason is that the air defense fortress built by China on the top of the mountain is simply too strong.

What is the concept of more than 20 heavy-weight aerial bombs exploding on a mountain peak? From the perspective of Yoshio Miyauchi, a veteran who has been in the army for nearly 20 years, even permanent fortifications that can protect against 200mm heavy artillery will be destroyed into ruins in the face of such large aerial bombs.

But the Chinese air defense fortress actually withstood such an air wave that could destroy almost everything. Is it possible that the fortification was made of steel?

The Chinese can spend a lot of effort to build fortifications that cannot be destroyed by heavy aerial bombs. Why can't they apply this technology to frontier fortifications?

Miyauchi Yoshio turned his gaze to the hillsides and mountains that had been bombarded by artillery shells and heavy aerial bombs, and felt a chill all over his body.

There seems to be a sleeping, man-eating monster. Once it is disturbed, it is unknown how many imperial officers and soldiers will be stained with blood on the battlefield.

Colonel Yoshiouchi's conjecture was correct. Even after being bombed by nearly ten heavy aerial bombs, Li Jijin's Seventh Company did not lose one person. Only two people were injured due to the violent shaking of the tunnel. One of them accidentally hit the wall of the tunnel and caused a scratch. hurt.

The biggest loss on China's surface positions was that two machine gun bunkers made of half-meter-thick reinforced concrete were destroyed by 150 howitzers, and the rest were trenches that were blown down.

This amount of work is nothing to the defenders. As long as the Japanese infantry does not attack at night, it will be repaired in half a night.

After losing the air battle, Saburo Okabe decided to rely on himself. Throughout the afternoon, the Japanese artillery of various calibers continued to bombard the Chinese positions indiscriminately.

However, Peng Panghai will not tolerate them this time. You beat yours and I will beat mine.

12 Bofors Mountain Cannons, 28 150mm howitzers and 12 150mm heavy guns all opened their gun jackets, revealing the sharpest fangs of the Fourth Row Regiment Artillery Battalion to the First Division in this afternoon.

In addition to the 28 150-mm howitzers that completely suppressed the Japanese 105-mm and 150-mm long-range howitzers, the other 24 artillery pieces were all aimed at Japanese positions one kilometer away from the forward positions.

Except for a handful of observation posts of the Fourth Line Regiment, which were hiding in the half-meter-thick permanent fortifications to observe the battlefield, the rest of the officers and soldiers basically went into the tunnels to rest and eat and drink when they should. Old gamblers like Lao Abacus even started betting with itchy hands. , betting on when the Japanese would stop shelling.

Don't tell me, this kind of bet on the judgment of the battlefield situation has attracted many people to participate. Even Wei Donglai lost 10 yuan, betting that the Japanese army would last for up to 3 hours.

Wei Donglai was not just making blind guesses like most of the grassroots officers and soldiers. Information about the military experience and personality of the First Division, from the division commander Okabe Saburo to the captains of each brigade and regiment, was distributed to each battalion by the regiment headquarters yesterday. , company, Wei Donglai is a judgment based on the character characteristics of Saburo Okabe and the current battlefield situation.

The intelligence department led by Gong Shaoxun has developed significantly in the past year due to sufficient capital injection. It has several underground intelligence stations not only in southern Hebei, but also in Jincheng and Pingbeicheng. It has even extended its intelligence tentacles as far as central and southern China. .

Of course, they are not good enough to collect the personal information of the Japanese generals in North China and even the Army Colonel. Most of the information on the commanders at all levels of the First Division came from Xiaoyang Niuer and Tang Dao on what happened in time and space in the past. Synthesis of historical memory.

The little foreign girl risked her life for the hot man she admired very much, and even used money to bribe the military attaché of the embassy in Japan.

At this time, although Japan was also intensively planning for war in Southeast Asia and almost broke up with the Rooster of Gaul and the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, it still tried its best to maintain relations with the United States because it still needed imported resources such as steel and oil from the United States.

Although American cowboys are also wary of the ambitious Japan, the national policy of the United States, which took advantage of the arms trade in World War I, is to use this rare opportunity to make another big profit!

Therefore, verbal condemnation of Japan, a big customer, is still maintained. Secretly, a large number of cargo ships are still transporting materials to Japan, and then taking away a large amount of gold and silver.

It is precisely in this relationship that seems to be separate but has to depend on each other, the embassy in Japan still has no big problem in collecting the personal information of Japanese military generals.

Wei Donglai judged that Saburo Okabe had a tough character, especially after the defeat in the air battle. He must and could only use violent artillery fire to re-arouse the morale of the entire division's infantry. Even if there was a counterattack, three hours of artillery fire would be His bottom line.

Wei Donglai's accurate judgment won him 30 yuan of funds. Tudou and Yang Bicheng, who followed Wei Donglai to place bets, also took away 30 yuan from the tearful old abacus. Together with other people's bets, I almost lost my old abacus.

But there are many people who are more miserable than Lao Baanpan, such as the Japanese infantry who only have trenches to cover their bodies.

The truth is within the range of the cannon! In the spring breeze of March in northern China, the infantrymen of the Japanese First Division fully understood this truth.

It's just that it was obtained with blood and death.

Under the command of the front-line artillery observers, the Bofors Mountain Artillery pushed out of the tunnel fell into the Japanese infantry position as if it had eyes. The 1.6-meter-deep field trench that the Japanese army had hastily completed was completely destroyed under the bombardment of 6-kilogram heavy grenades. Can't hold on.

Not to mention the 150-meter heavy-duty gun, within a range of 3,000 meters, it is more powerful than the 105-meter howitzer.

Many Japanese soldiers did not die from the air waves and shrapnel of shell explosions, but were squeezed to death by deformed trenches or buried and suffocated after collapse.

According to statistics after the war, in the artillery battle between the two sides on the afternoon of the first day after the war started, more than 1,800 Japanese infantrymen from the three front-line infantry brigades totaling 21,000 were killed or wounded, accounting for nearly one-tenth of the total infantry force invested.

In addition to the heavy casualties of the infantry, the artillery was not much better.

However, the most severely damaged was not the 12 150mm howitzers, but the artillery brigade with 12 105mm howitzers. Because it was a plain, the artillery brigade learned from yesterday's lesson and specifically increased the distance between artillery positions to 200 meters, which far exceeded the 40-meter distance stipulated in the army's operating instructions.

Although this greatly increased the difficulty of guarding the two infantry squadrons guarding them, everything was worth it in the face of precious lives.

At least that's how it seemed to the artillery major who unfortunately died in the bombardment.

The Japanese have done everything they should do, but just like they often hung on the sidelines, everything is illusory in the face of absolute strength.

After the artillery brigade was ordered to shell the Chinese position for more than an hour, a reconnaissance team originally lurking 2 kilometers away ventured to the vicinity of the artillery position covering an area of about 0.2 square kilometers.

The two infantry squadrons are not large in number, but they are too few to protect such a large artillery position.

As a result, the reconnaissance group got so close that they could even use submachine guns to kill the Japanese artillerymen who were working hard to move the artillery shells, and no one noticed.

Fortunately, although the reconnaissance team had ruthless people like Ming Xin, after careful observation, they found that the Japanese artillery position was too big. Even if they blocked the enemy, they would not be able to kill them. If the Japanese artillery was surrounded by Japanese infantry, it would be doomed in such plain areas.

So, after they finished positioning, they ran away, running 1,500 meters away in one breath, and hid in an abandoned cellar. Then they used a personal radio to send the coordinates of the artillery position to the artillery battalion.

They made the right decision.

Pang Panghai is also a ruthless person. After receiving the coordinates sent by the scouts, he immediately ordered 28 150-mm howitzers, which had completely exposed their fangs, to focus fire on the coordinate area.

The Bofors 150 howitzer is very powerful. With a range of nearly 15,000 meters and an error value of 100 meters, it will definitely defeat any long-range heavy artillery on the Chinese battlefield. But don't forget that the artillerymen of the Fourth Line Regiment are also the second time. Operate this big guy.

Yesterday, a sudden concentration of fire wiped out a Japanese army baggage squadron. It was the result of luck, artillery accuracy and the Japanese army's unpreparedness. The three are indispensable.

Pang Dahai, who was well aware of his own shortcomings, simply punched the old master to death with just one punch out of ten.

As a result, 28 heavy artillery pieces came overwhelmingly. The first wave of shells landed about 1,000 meters away from the left wing of the Japanese artillery brigade, and the nearest shell was only 300 meters away from Mingxin and the others.

Rao is the strength of hundreds of people, but in the tsunami tsunami exploded by dozens of heavy artillery shells, his face can't help but be white.

He had already hid so far away, and he would not die unjustly if he was taken away by a blast of artillery fire from his "unreliable" artillerymen.

"It's off, it's off! 1,200 meters to the left, no, 2,000 meters! If you don't hit it right, the brothers will probably turn gray instead of eating ashes!" Pang Panghai read the message handed over by the communications squad leader who was holding back a smile. , a face flushed like a purple eggplant.

"You bitch, tell those **** in the heavy artillery company who are so good at letting me receive telegrams like this from the brothers in the reconnaissance company, I will stick the telegrams on the foreheads of their company commanders, platoon commanders, and squad leaders for a week!" Pang Dahai said The roar even drowned out the roar of a 150-meter heavy artillery piece a hundred meters away.

No wonder Pang Panghai, who had always had a good temper, was angry. He and the air defense battalion commander Cheng Tieshou were old friends and biggest competitors. One of them was in charge of the air combat power, and the other was in charge of the strongest firepower on the ground.

Cheng Tieshou showed his hand violently in front of the entire regiment, causing the entire regiment's officers and soldiers to shout "Long live the air defense battalion". Even if Peng Dahai didn't see Cheng Tietshou's black face, he could still imagine the oily shine on that face. It's enough to stir-fry two dishes.

The result was good for him. The 28 cannons were smashed down at once. Not only did they not get the Japanese artillery, but they almost wiped out the most elite reconnaissance team in the regiment.

Although the message sent by Ming Xin did not contain a single curse word, it was either eating ashes and about to turn into ashes, or it was the most severe curse word.

After the heavy artillery battery was recalibrated, the second wave of artillery shells basically landed on the Japanese artillery brigade position. This should have something to do with Mingxin's very wise request to offset the distance by 2,000 meters.

In any case, the shot cannot be that accurate. If it is a little crooked, the shot may be wrong.

The artillerymen of the heavy artillery battery, whose level had not improved because of the commander's anger, did miss again, but seven or eight shells still fell into the artillery brigade's position.

This is already terrible.

Think about it, the cannonball was still 300 meters away from the Mingxin reconnaissance team hiding underground. It frightened a group of scouts who had received the most rigorous training to kill people. You think a cannonball fell on it? What is the scene like in the area where the Japanese artillery is less than 100 meters away?

The huge air wave is like a ravaging thing, destroying all objects within a radius of 50 meters from the impact point as the center of the circle.

Let alone a human body weighing more than 100 kilograms, even a howitzer weighing 5 tons will be overturned by air waves.

In order to make up for his previous mistakes, each artillery position of the heavy artillery company fired two base numbers of 40 shells in one go!

That's 1120 rounds of artillery shells, each weighing 40 kilograms!

Just to transport one artillery shell, two soldiers had to use a wheelbarrow to push it out of the cave 50 meters away. After an hour of shelling, all the ammunition handlers collapsed on the ground from exhaustion.

Even Pang Panghai couldn't help but cursed him as a prodigal son after receiving the ammunition consumption report from the heavy artillery company. It was almost a third of the heavy artillery company's inventory that was emptied in the first battle.

But as the saying goes, only by giving up can you gain, and efforts will always be rewarded.

That should also be the battlefield that suffered the most heavy artillery bombardment in the world-famous Battle of Zishan. Within a kilometer radius centered on the Japanese artillery brigade, everything was scorched black!

The artillery brigade had 1,130 people plus two infantry squadrons of 400 people. After the artillery battle, after an inventory, less than 400 people remained. On the contrary, because the artillery was strong enough, only 5 were destroyed, and 4 were overturned by the air waves and repaired. Still functional, 3 doors survived.

Although the major captain of the artillery brigade died in battle, he received a medal from the Kwantung Army Headquarters after the war.

Because after investigation, it was found that if the major had not used the geological characteristics of the area to dig underground storage points to store artillery shells after arriving at the position, and decisively ordered some people to hide in the artillery shell storage points when the enemy's artillery fire was approaching, then maybe 400 Survival is just a luxury.

The hole five meters deep underground protected the artillery shells from causing explosive explosions, and also saved the last seeds of the artillery brigade.

Yes, more than 360 of the 400 people who survived were artillerymen. Of the 400 infantrymen who could only stay in simple field trenches, less than 40 people survived.

How did the Chinese obtain such large-caliber heavy artillery? This became the focus of investigation by Japanese intelligence agencies after the war.

However, paradoxically, after the investigation into the Far East Branch of the German Empire's Krupp Arms Trading Company, the matter fell silent as its general manager Rostav was transferred to the headquarters.

The lives of thousands of Imperial officers and soldiers of the First Division who died in the heavy artillery battle are not worth mentioning in front of the thick legs of the mustachioed Fuhrer.

Of course, this is a later story.

The current battlefield is that even though the Japanese North China Front Army and the First Division have tried their best, they are still on the losing side whether it is an air battle or an artillery battle.

If Jun Tatian and Saburo Okabe give in at this time, then perhaps the Japanese North China Front Army can still retain some face.

But the face of the Imperial Japanese Army was thrown to the ground by these two men and was stepped on again and again by the Four Troops.

So, even if they are deeply worried at this time, they are already riding a tiger and it is difficult to get out of the situation. Even if they know that their opponent is a white-fronted tiger with a dazed look, they can only wave their fists.

It's a pity that they are not Wu Song, and they don't drink. More importantly, the tiger they want to fight is not a South China tiger, but a Siberian tiger.

When Wu Song encountered this thing, he would have been bitten to pieces even if he drank eighteen bowls of it!

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