Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1354

In the dark and cramped tunnel, Tantai Mirror is writing a letter to his parents!

To be precise, it was not only for Lao Tantai and his wife, but also for the parents of the 15 brothers in his infantry squad. Although most of them were not in the tunnel at all, they basically stayed on the position outside the tunnel.

But that was the request that all the brothers made to him as a "cultural soldier" before going to this position.

It's not that the position they were stationed in was very dangerous, but it was the custom of the Sixings Regiment to write a suicide note before going to the battlefield. Naturally, this task was handed over to the cultural soldiers who came down from the battalion and often told them stories in the evening.

And now, what Tantai Mirror has written is a suicide note! Moreover, there was very little time left for him.

The battle was extremely fierce.

The Japanese army attacked one after another, almost endlessly. Even though it was dark now, flares were still flying all over the sky, illuminating the battlefield brightly.

Death is no longer common, but can be seen everywhere.

Whether it's Chinese or Japanese.

Less than 10 meters away from Tantai Mingjing is the remains of his infantry squad leader. Tantai Mingjing searched the battlefield for 15 minutes between battles and found them.

He always remembered what the veteran squad leader said to him before going to the battlefield: "I am not afraid of death, but my body was given to me by my parents. No matter how much it is, if I take it back and bury it next to my home, my parents will always miss me." "

The veteran squad leader was blown to pieces by an infantry artillery piece. The squad leader carrying an MP38 submachine gun killed at least dozens of Japanese soldiers in the fierce battle during the day, and became a thorn in the side of the Japanese army.

An infantry cannon was transported by the Japanese army to a position less than 400 meters away from the battlefield. When the squad leader desperately shot the Japanese infantry who had approached 70 meters away, the infantry cannon opened fire, accurately hitting the fortification where the squad leader was located, and even the fortification belt. The men armed themselves with guns and blasted them to pieces.

Tantai Mirror searched for a long time and finally recovered a few pieces of remains. The extremely strong man from the Northeast, who weighed 130 kilograms, was reduced to pieces of flesh and blood weighing only a dozen kilograms.

Therefore, the suicide note written by Tantai Mingjing for the squad leader is: Parents, when I read this letter, my son has also died in the battle, but he has no regrets. His military medals and accumulated military pay, rewards, and pensions should be enough for his parents to support him for more than a decade. Use.

I hope that my parents can live a good life despite their grief, and that my younger brother, sister, and their children can support me in my son's behalf. Only then will my son's sacrifice be meaningful. My last work will be at the Golden Dragon Peak high ground in Zishan Mountain!

Jinlongfeng Highland is located in the northwest corner of Zishan Mountain. There are crisscrossed ravines and steep mountains. Not to mention that it is not suitable for the transportation of large equipment such as artillery and tanks. Even a sudden advance of light infantry requires a lot of effort. Therefore, in Tang Tuanzuo's plan, only An infantry squad guarding the main peak can prevent the Japanese light infantry from crossing the mountains and entering the Zishan Mountains.

Such a useless breakthrough, no wise commander would spend a lot of effort on it.

This task fell to the 13th squad of the 7th company of the 3rd battalion.

This is an infantry squad without much honor, and it does not even have much glorious combat history.

In fact, as a reserve class or supplementary class, Class 13 has only been established for half a year. There are only two veterans serving as squad leader and deputy squad leader. The rest are all recruits recruited from southern Hebei in the first half of 2039. The veterans In other words, they are just a group of new recruits.

Compared with most of his comrades, Tantai Mingjing, who came down from the battalion headquarters, is actually the third-oldest veteran in the entire infantry squad.

But except for the two squad leaders, no one knew that the signal soldier assigned from the battalion was called Tantai Mingjing. They only knew that the fair-faced young man was called Tan Mingjing, so everyone called him the nickname Mirror.

And these soldiers who had only proven themselves on the training ground did not know that at least half of the reason why they came to the Golden Dragon Peak Highlands was because of the young man nicknamed Mirror.

Tantai Mingjing finally reached the training standards set by Leng Feng two years ago. The Black Star pistol has five rounds of 45 rounds on the 50-meter target, the submachine gun has a 32-round magazine on the 100-meter target and has 26 rounds on the target, and the Czech semi-automatic rifle has a 230-meter target. 10 rounds of ammunition and 87 rings, 5 kilometers of cross-country with a fully armed load of 15 kilograms for 22 minutes, and he can fight with a veteran for 2 minutes without losing.

This is already the standard for selection of reconnaissance company reserve soldiers.

Leng Feng could no longer refuse Tantai Mingjing's request to join the front-line troops, but for the safety of this young man who was eager to fight, Leng Feng finally moved his selfish motives and placed him in the first of the four reserve classes of Li Jiujin's 7th company. 13 Infantry Squadron.

However, this time tens of thousands of Japanese troops attacked, and the main force of the third battalion was deployed. Several highlands outside the main position could only be defended by reserve squads.

The 13th Squadron of the 7th Company was assigned to the Jinlongfeng Highland under such circumstances.

However, even Leng Feng and Li Jiujin probably did not expect that a small highland that was 10 miles away from the main position and easy to defend and difficult to attack would become a breakthrough point for the Japanese army.

In other words, it became the only position on the entire Zishan battlefield where the Japanese army could prove themselves.

The fighting broke out in the Jinlong Peak Highlands on the morning of the fifth day of the battle on the Zishan Battlefield!

The first three days of the Zishan battlefield were basically dominated by the Si Xing Regiment. The Japanese artillery fire basically posed a threat to Zishan positions with a complete defense system. Once the artillery fire stopped, infantry was used to attack, and the four troops drilled out of the tunnels and entered the trenches. The officers and soldiers of the regiment will use intensive firepower to teach the Japanese soldiers how to behave.

After two consecutive days of strong attack, the Japanese army was not only left with corpses everywhere, but also beaten to death!

Until the fourth day, the Japanese army suddenly changed their tactics. Instead of using artillery to finish off the infantry attack, they used artillery and infantry to attack together.

The barrage that exploded on various defensive positions was less than 100 meters away from the Japanese infantry. Even if the infantry and artillery coordination training was at the highest level, there was no guarantee that their soldiers would not be swept in by their own artillery fire.

But the First Division did just that.

The distance of 100 meters was simply not enough for the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Row Regiment to get out of the narrow tunnel entrance one by one and enter the already fragmented trench.

Since the Japanese are so crazy and crazy, the battalion and company commanders of the Four Elements Regiment are all ruthless people who fought from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. How can any of them be good?

At the moment, he ordered all the artillery fire he could muster to cover the front of the position, and at the same time ordered each platoon to enter the trench with one-third of its strength.

You dare to die, then we will accompany you. After all, we still have a trench with a depth of 2 meters for protection. What do you think you have?

In just two days, in this almost cruel death-for-death battle, the three infantry battalions of the Fourth Line Regiment lost more than 500 people.

It is impossible to estimate the battle losses of the Japanese army, because both sides invested a large number of artillery bombardments, and many bodies were fragmented, but it is estimated that close to 3,000 battle losses are necessary.

In fact, the Fourth Army Regiment was still conservative. According to the post-war battle report of the Japanese army, it was only Saburo Okabe who cruelly issued the order to attack to the death. On the first day of the coordinated attack with infantry and artillery less than 100 meters away, the First Division and The Third Division alone suffered more than 1,800 casualties and 1,700 serious injuries. Almost a complete infantry regiment was completely wiped out.

In other words, the First Division has enough soldiers, with the entire division having as many as 30,000 soldiers. Otherwise, the battle losses in this day alone would make an infantry brigade lose its combat effectiveness.

But even with extremely sufficient troops, on the fifth day of the Zishan War, the First Division replenished the four infantry regiments on the front with a total of 4,000 troops, engineers, etc., which means that even if the 3rd Division is not counted, The loss of the regiment, in the first five days of the war, not counting artillery and other units lost due to artillery battles, the first division's front-line infantry alone lost more than thousands.

Nearly one infantry brigade disappears every day on average.

It is said that when Yoshio Shinozuka watched the battle report of the First Division after the war, his forehead was covered with cold sweat in the weather which was no more than ten degrees Celsius.

Compared with the tragic Battle of Zishan, the losses of his 10th Division in the Battle of Zhaojiazhuang were nothing to mention.

But no one would have thought that when experts on the history of the Sino-Japanese war discussed the Battle of Purple Mountain in the future, the first thing they mentioned would not be the three main battlefields where the Japanese army attacked, nor the jungle hunting where both sides deployed elite soldiers to snipe and chase each other in the mountains and forests. Killing battle.

Rather, it is located in the Jinlong Peak Highlands, which is nearly 10 miles away from the main battlefield.

It was not because there was the brother-in-law of Tang Dao, the supreme commander of the Zishan battlefield, but because an infantry squad that was no match for the main force actually fought a **** battle against a Japanese infantry brigade. The comparison of military strength is an exaggerated 1:70 that is eye-catching!

And that was only the number of Japanese troops facing the enemy in the 13th squadron of the 7th company. In order to prevent the Chinese rescue, Miyauchi Yoshio, who had completely gone crazy, also requested the use of 4 105 howitzers and 8 150 howitzers to block the area with non-stop artillery fire.

Not to mention, Kaoru Kataoka, who was scolded **** by Duo Tianjun on the phone, also went all out and sent 12 fighter planes to drop nearly a hundred incendiary bombs at high altitude in the area, burning the mountains and forests with a radius of nearly 0.5 kilometers. Into a charred black state.

The purpose of these artillery fires and bombings is no longer to kill or injure Chinese soldiers on the highlands, but simply to prevent Chinese reinforcements.

In other words, it is to use the heavily surrounded Jinlongfeng highland as bait to kill and injure the reinforcing Chinese troops.

From a purely tactical perspective, this may be the only highlight of the First Division's battle in the northwest direction of Zishan.

Because, they did hit the weak spot of the 3rd Battalion of the Sixth Regiment with a left hook.

With the Four Lines Regiment's characteristic of never abandoning any of their comrades, they would rush into **** even if they knew it had become hell!

Even if their comrades have turned into ashes, they will still hold back the handful of ashes with their hands!

Li Jiujin, who had never even scratched his oily skin after serving in the army for 12 years, was seriously injured!

Li Jijin, who was eager to increase his troops to Jinlong Peak, personally led two main infantry squads and a reserve squad, a total of 40 people, to advance in the mountains and fields against Japanese artillery fire.

A 150mm howitzer unfortunately landed less than 70 meters to the side of the advancing Li Jijin.

No matter how strong your body and indestructible bravery are, you are still vulnerable in the face of heavy artillery that can destroy strong fortifications.

Six officers and soldiers died on the spot, and 13 were injured, including company commander Li Jiujin. Looking at the Jinlong Peak heights less than 800 meters away, the reinforcements could only carry the seriously wounded and the remains of their comrades.

Otherwise, all the wounded left on this battlefield will die, and all their remains will be torn into pieces by the continuous artillery fire.

Leng Feng, who has always been calm and almost cold, received the news that Li Jiujin was seriously injured, and his eyes were instantly stained with a layer of blood mist.

Everyone who knows him knows that Leng Feng is extremely angry!

“For further reinforcements, tell the 7th and 8th companies that all our officers and soldiers who ascend the Jinlong Peak Highlands will be credited with second-class military merit!” Leng Feng issued a tragic military order.

Another six infantry squads were drawn from the front-line battlefield to form new reinforcements, preparing to rush into the death battlefield that was already filled with incendiary bombs and artillery fire.

"Suspend reinforcements and wait until the artillery battalion has sufficiently suppressed the Japanese artillery before sending reinforcements!" Tang Dao's military order came in time, preventing Leng Feng from making some irrational orders in his raging anger.

If Tang Dao had not given the order in time, perhaps these hundreds of elite soldiers could have passed through the heavy artillery fire and entered the Jinlong Peak Highlands. However, according to the intensity of the Japanese artillery fire that was also going crazy at the time, surviving one out of ten was already the best result.

The 3rd Battalion will suffer greater losses than those on the main battlefield due to the battle on the Jinlong Peak Highlands.

"But the regiment, if there is no reinforcement, not to mention that there is no way to explain to Company Commander Tantai and Director Tantai, I will have no shame to see the families of the 15 brothers in Class 13. As long as they enter our 3rd Battalion, They are my soldiers, Leng Feng. I can't give up on them just because of the loss, not just because Ming Jing is there." Leng Feng's eyes were filled with tears when he said this.

Those should also be the extremely rare tears that Camp Commander Leng had since his brother Leng Feng died in his arms.

On the other end of the phone, Tang Dao, who had always been bold and decisive in killing, was silent for a few seconds, but still said firmly: "Execute the order! Let me explain the families of the sacrificed officers and soldiers, as well as the parents. I, the Four Elements Group, Officers and soldiers can sacrifice, but the sacrifice must be of sufficient value!”

The reinforcements of the 3rd Battalion all stayed in the mountain forest 4 miles away from Jinlong Peak, looking at their own high ground submerged by artillery fire and helpless.

No one knows how Tang Dao felt when he issued this extremely cruel military order. Perhaps only Ye Chenghuan, who was also at the command post, could know that Tang Tuanzuo, who rarely showed his personal emotions during the war, hung up the phone with Leng Feng. , sat in silence for ten minutes.

　　On one side are the 15 officers and soldiers of our own side and his wife and brother, and on the other side are the over a hundred elite soldiers of the 3rd Battalion who are ready to die. This is indeed a difficult choice.

Especially, my wife and father-in-law are both in the military. How would they feel if they knew that this military order that almost gave up rescue came from Tang Dao.

Tantai Mingjing, but how will Mrs. Tantai, the only son of Lao Tantai, who is far away in Shu, be heartbroken?

"Regiment leader, do you want to order part of the mountain infantry company to take a detour and enter from the other side of the battlefield? Even if it cannot reinforce the Jinlongfeng Highlands, it can still involve some Japanese troops and reduce the pressure on the Jinlongfeng Highlands?" Ye Chenghuan stared at the map. After a while, he carefully gave suggestions.

"The terrain there is difficult. Even if the mountain infantry company abandons its heavy weapons and equips itself with light equipment, it will still take three hours to make a 13-mile detour, and there is also the risk of being counter-surrounded by the Japanese army who will continue to increase their troops." Tang Dao waved his hand and refused Ye Chenghuan's suggestion.

Obviously, Tang Dao had already thought of this move, and it was overturned by himself.

"Could it be that we were helpless and just watched Ming Jing and the 13th Squadron of the 7th Company being eaten alive by the Japanese? It's my fault. When I received the tactical plan from the Third Battalion, considering the pressure on the main position, I didn't let them send more troops. A main infantry squad has arrived at the Jinlong Peak Highlands, otherwise they will definitely wait until our reinforcements arrive." Ye Chenghuan's eyes were full of regret and he blamed himself very much.

“Director Ye, do you believe there will be miracles in this world?” Tang Dao suddenly raised his head and looked at Ye Chenghuan, who was blaming himself.

"What?" Ye Chenghuan obviously didn't understand what Tang Dao meant.

"You know, I have never had the habit of abandoning my comrades. This has nothing to do with Ming Jing being on that battlefield. Even if Tantai is on the high ground right now, I will make the same choice." Tang Dao's eyes flashed with light. , took a deep breath and said extremely firmly.

"The main reason why I made this choice to reduce the losses of the 3rd Battalion is that I believe that the 13th Squadron of the 7th Company will not let me down, and the Mirror will not let me down. Even without reinforcements, they can hold on. Live on the high ground.”

Ye Chenghuan opened his mouth, but said, "That's impossible!" ' The four words were swallowed back again.

He wanted to deny Tang Tuanzuo's almost impossible belief, which was based on his experience in the army for more than 10 years, but from the bottom of his heart, he also hoped that this completely impossible miracle would happen. .

However, what Tang Dao, who said he would not let down, did not expect, was that the battle at Jinlong Peak would last a whole day and night!

The 501st Regiment, which suffered a **** blow on the main battlefield, actually used a mountainous area where it was impossible for a large-scale regiment to enter as a second battlefield.

Faced with the overwhelming artillery fire that the four-line regiment mobilized 12 Bofors Mountain Cannons and 8 150-meter heavy guns for fire support, it mobilized 2 infantry brigades to enter the mountainous area.

An infantry brigade set up blocking positions on the surrounding peaks to block the Chinese reinforcements, and an infantry brigade violently attacked the Jinlong Peak highland.

The Fourth Army Regiment also did not show weakness. When the Japanese heavy artillery fire finally stopped, it sent two **** companies and the main force of the 7th Company, which was furious because Li Jijin was seriously injured, to violently attack the Japanese defense line in the mountains.

"Even if all of your troops are killed in the battle, you must not send a single soldier of the Four Rows Regiment to reinforce the high ground. I will use the heads of all the soldiers of the Four Rows Regiment on the high ground to pay homage to the dead officers and soldiers of my First Division! "This is the military order issued by Yoshio Miyauchi to the Major Captain of the 3rd Infantry Battalion under his command.

The main reason why Miyauchi Yoshio and even Okabe Saburo were even willing to trade the lives of nearly 2,000 Japanese infantrymen for a Chinese highland that was not so important to both sides was that both of them knew that the defeat of the Zishan battle was certain. The only ones who regained control of the First Division were this somewhat unexpected Chinese highland and dozens of soldiers from the Fourth Line Regiment on the highland.

The First Division can accept defeat, but it must not accept a defeat with no results at all.

Because they represent not only the powerful Kwantung Army group that wants to confront the Mao Xiong Kingdom, but also the glory of the 'Imperial Dao Sect', which is the military group that most advocates a decisive battle with the Mao Xiong Kingdom. If they are beaten into this **** by the Chinese In this way, the blood they paid in the coup is not only worthless, but will also become the laughing stock of history.

So, in the battle on the Golden Dragon Peak Highlands, for the Four Lines Regiment, what they wanted was the survival of their comrades, but for the First Division, what they wanted was the illusory glory of the faction.

Both sides will not give up!

The Golden Dragon Peak, which has been bombarded by heavy artillery from both sides until it is almost soft at an altitude of 376 meters, is destined to be covered with flesh and blood!

Chapter end

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