Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 607

Chapter 607 'Details determine success or failure'

Kunizaki is worthy of being an elite major general from the elite division of the North China Expeditionary Force. He is arrogant, but when facing the three highlands that lie in front of his army, he is obviously much more mature than before after experiencing the defeat at Songjiang City. This This time he was not in a hurry.

Instead, they chose to make adequate preparations. Although they were constantly harassed by mortars from the Chinese side, they still spent an afternoon and an entire night to establish heavy firepower positions on several hills facing the three highlands. Corresponding infantry was deployed for protection.

Fully 12 92mm infantry guns and 36 heavy machine guns were moved to the mountains, and telephone lines were also laid in place, which ensured that Kunizaki's headquarters could coordinate heavy firepower in all mountains.

Kunizaki used his actions to explain the truth that "details determine success or failure" that he talked about. Li Shoushan and all the Japanese military officers admired him. This was sincere and had nothing to do with flattery.

Compared to Mitsuru Ushijima, who is full of self-confidence and ambition, and Sadao Ushijima, who is full of arrogance but is cunning and cunning, the arrogant but cautious enough Kunisaki is obviously the most powerful person Tang Dao encounters when he comes to this battlefield. Strong opponent.

Just the 12 92 infantry cannons and 36 heavy machine guns on the mountain are not all the heavy firepower of Kunizaki. Behind the infantry position, there are also 8 92 infantry cannons and 8 Type 41 mountain cannons. And 3,000 meters away, Kunizaki There are also 12 Type 41 field guns and 4 105 howitzers under his command.

In addition, the first brigade of the Jingan Army also has 12 92 infantry guns and 4 Type 41 mountain guns available.

That also means that even if each highland on the Chinese side is used equally, each will face bombardment from more than 16 artillery pieces and strafing from more than a dozen heavy machine guns. This does not include the light machine guns and grenade launchers equipped by the Japanese infantry. .

The actual area of the three highland positions is only tens of thousands of square meters, but they have to face such a density of light and heavy firepower. It is even more terrifying than the Battle of Songjiang, and perhaps only Cangcheng can compare with it.

At 9 a.m., the Japanese army began their formal attack.

A tsunami-like shelling blast blasted the three highlands in front of the Japanese positions and completely shrouded them in smoke.

The Japanese army used at least more than 40 artillery pieces.

Although there are no heavy artillery, the Chinese soldiers hiding in the tunnel behind the mountain can still feel the terrifying power of the God of War from the shaking of the oil lamp hanging from the top of the tunnel.

The artillery attack is just paving the way for the infantry attack. As the sharp iron whistle of the observation post sounds, the infantry in the rear quickly reach the first line position through the communication trench.

It is normal for the telephone lines exposed on the ground to be blown down. The signal soldiers were crawling on the ground looking for the broken telephone wires and trying to reconnect them.

However, the heavy machine gun bullets of the Japanese army swept over them like a heavy rain, which dispelled the ambitions of the communication soldiers. As soon as the battle began, the frontal positions of the three highlands returned to the most primitive communication state, with only the rear tunnels and the frontline command of Tang Dao. Keep in touch with the department.

However, as the battalion commander, how could Tang Dao just sit back and watch his brothers fight **** battles?

As early as the Japanese bombardment, Tang Dao, who was the director of the operations department of the command headquarters, requested the deputy commander-in-chief, Major General Tong, to take charge of the frontline headquarters. However, he arrived at Highland No. 2 with two signal corpsmen, and Lei Xiong arrived at Highland No. 1. , only Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan are left in the headquarters, and they are responsible for coordinating the replenishment of personnel and the allocation of materials.

As actual commanders, not to mention that Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan couldn't stop Tang Dao, even the Sichuan Army Major General was powerless.

The Japanese troops participating in the attack on Highland No. 1 and No. 2 had as many as six infantry squadrons. The Jingan Army also dispatched at least one infantry battalion. More than a thousand people in the dark, after the rumbling sound of artillery, attacked from three directions. The attack started on the top of the mountain.

It is normal for the Japanese mountain artillery to stop attacking at this time, but as direct-fire artillery, most of the 92 infantry artillery deployed in the mountains opposite the highlands have also stopped bombarding. The shelling from time to time in twos and threes is like an old man peeing - sparsely .

Experienced commanders on the Chinese positions all know that it is not that the Japanese infantry artillery is afraid of accidentally injuring their infantry and reducing the frequency of shelling, but that they are waiting. I don't know how many artillery observers are hiding in the dense forest, waiting for China's big killer to show up.

Machine guns were exactly the targets that the Japanese artillery wanted to capture.

If we don't take out the firepower points of the machine guns that killed two Japanese naval fighter planes yesterday, let alone the infantry guns that moved up the mountain and parallel to them in order to facilitate the cover of the infantry, even the Japanese commanders at all levels hiding behind 700 meters will not be able to kill them. Feel like you're in danger.

The 20mm machine gun with an anti-air range of up to 2,000 meters once fired flatly has a range of up to 2,500 meters. Isn't it just fun to shoot 700 meters?

Tang Dao looked at the seemingly aggressive but slow-moving Japanese infantry through the telescope, with a sneer on his lips.

The Japanese don't have any new tricks, after all, they are still doing the same thing.

They are feinting!

This can be regarded as the most traditional infantry tactic of the Japanese infantry. They use large soldiers to intimidate the opponent with their momentum, causing the impatient opponent to use heavy firepower to suppress the infantry group. Then, naturally, they use the 70mm infantry cannon that they currently have the most equipment. Clear heavy firepower points with an unknown number of grenadier soldiers lurking at the foot of the mountain.

This tactic would naturally be effective if used on ordinary Chinese defenders, including the 145th Division. Even if they knew the Japanese tactics, they would have to fall into their trap.

The reason is very simple. Ordinary Chinese troops are equipped with rifles and have limited continuous firepower. Naturally, heavy machine guns are needed for fire suppression. Even if they know that the Japanese army is feigning an attack at this time, they can only be forced to face the pressure of the Japanese infantry. Use light and heavy machine guns and other firepower to suppress it. Otherwise, when the Japanese infantry reaches within 150 meters, the feint attack will become a real attack.

At that distance, the Japanese infantry only needed to advance more than a hundred meters to throw the grenade into the trench, which would be a disaster.

The result of this is that you can only watch the light and heavy machine gun firepower points being destroyed by the opponent's infantry artillery and a large number of grenade launchers.

For the Chinese commanders who lacked enough artillery to suppress the Japanese army, it was an almost unsolvable problem. Drinking poison to quench thirst will cause death. If you don't drink, you may die faster.

The Japanese army, which had experienced the benefits of several wars against China, became more and more comfortable with this tactic, and it was even included in the army's infantry drill code.

But obviously, ordinary Chinese troops are afraid of the Japanese tactics, but the defenders on the highlands are not afraid of this.

Because they have the most powerful short-range continuous fire weapons between China and Japan on this battlefield, the MP28 submachine gun and the shell gun.

If the Japanese army dared to launch a "board-mounted" charge, they would definitely be beaten.

More importantly, they still have more than ten mortars supporting them behind. Even if the range of fire is limited, as long as these killer weapons are there, the Japanese infantry artillery must carefully find gun positions and do not dare to act recklessly.

What Tang Dao was worried about was not the Japanese army's tactical changes, but the determination of the Kunisaki detachment.

He now has a total of about 2,000 people. Once the Kunisaki detachment makes up its mind to exchange death for death, it will be a hard battle, a **** battle, and even a battle in which the entire army will be annihilated.

Fortunately, what Tang Dao was worried about did not happen during the first wave of Japanese attacks.

However, Kunizaki is more cunning than Tang Dao imagined.

(End of this chapter)

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