Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 917

Chapter 917 Tragic

There is no specific number of casualties!

Because the battle is not over yet, the Chinese and Japanese sides who have gone crazy only have eyes on the opponent that is close at hand. Killing the opponent is the only idea. Then will they have time to count their own casualties?

The first battalion, one company and one platoon were reduced by up to half during the third Japanese charge. Before all the seriously injured soldiers had time to evacuate to the second line of defense, up to 200 Japanese troops rushed to the position.

　　At the request of the veteran named Yang, whose leg was broken by a heavy machine gun, all the few grenades were left for the wounded soldiers!

The seven continuous puffs of gunpowder smoke caused more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who jumped into the trench to roll all over the ground, and also blew away the last bit of courage the Japanese soldiers mustered up. The Chinese soldiers on the position were all covered in blood, and they were almost gone. There is no way to tell who is alive and who is dead.

And in this situation where a fierce battle is going on, to recharge a 'corpse' is definitely an act of sending yourself to the gate of hell. But if you don't refill the gun, the 'corpse' may turn into a life-threatening bomb at any time!

It's really difficult.

In the end, less than one-third of the three infantry platoons on the front line were able to retreat to the second line of defense. Comrade Lao Kong's eyes were so red that they almost bled!

That was his sharp knife company. It fought against the Japanese army for just half a year, and the total loss was less than one-fifth. The result of this battle was not good, leaving only one-third for him, and his capital was almost wiped out.

However, the crazy Japanese army did not give the future general of one of the Shanxi North Iron Triangle any more time to feel heartbroken. With the offensive of conquering the first line of trenches, they continuously launched attacks towards the second line of defense.

The two heavy machine guns of the first battalion were blown into parts by the two Japanese infantry cannons during the Japanese army's third charge!

In order to deal with the two most threatening firepower points of the Chinese side, the two infantry artillery pieces of the Japanese army not only fired nearly 100 rounds of artillery shells without stopping, but even the grenadier soldiers came as close as more than 100 meters to the front of the battlefield. More than 6 grenade launchers frantically bombarded the heavy machine gun firepower point more than 500 meters away.

The destruction of the two heavy machine guns was also the main reason why the Japanese infantry rushed into the front-line trenches!

However, the seriously injured Chinese soldiers who were too late to evacuate turned their bodies into bombs and merged with their positions, blocking the Japanese offensive!

According to post-war statistics, there were as many as 16 wounded people in the entire front-line trenches who chose to die with the Japanese troops. After they were reported to the 921st Division headquarters, the division headquarters was shocked.

Because of this alone, these 16 martyrs are eligible to apply for first-class merit, and a company can apply for 16 first-class merit, and this does not include those who performed outstandingly in the battle, such as the one who suffered three gunshot wounds and still refused. Evacuating the second lieutenant platoon leader who was fighting on the front line, such as the private who stabbed two Japanese soldiers to death with a bayonet and successfully evacuated with the injured platoon leader on his back, is really beyond the scope of everyone's understanding.

Therefore, the 921st Division Headquarters even sent a working group to verify the battlefield statistics of the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment!

The results of the verification shocked the entire headquarters of the 921 Division. It is said that after listening to the serious-toned report from the leader of the verification team, the two chief officers and several deputy chief officers of the 921 Division took off their hats and paid tribute to the martyrs who had sacrificed their lives. They held a moment of silence, saluted the commander of the 769th Regiment, whose face was already full of tears, and said the famous words that should have been paid tribute to the unit by the general after more than ten years, when it had been upgraded to the Long Live Army: " The martyrs will live forever! The Chinese people will never forget you! Long live all the 769 commanders and fighters who fought on the front line!”

Long live the army, enjoying their glory more than ten years in advance!

However, these are all obtained by sacrifice. Perhaps, this is not the glory they want!

But when war comes, what can they do? They are not social elites. They have never seen much of the world in their lives. If it were not for their dream of having enough food for themselves and their families, most of them would probably only go as far as a few dozen miles away from the village. in town.

Burning oneself is the only thing they, the most ordinary soldiers, can do when a crisis comes.

No wonder these big guys, who are used to seeing cruel things, would be so shocked!

The evidence shown to the verification team was very simple, it was the remains of soldiers! The huge power of the long-handled grenade almost tore the human body apart. There were dozens of wounds on each person's body. The blood had long been drained out, and the body was shockingly pale. If it were not at close range, it would not be able to achieve such an effect!

Long wooden handle grenades are only equipped by the Chinese army. The Japanese melon grenades may cause a lot of shrapnel damage, but the explosive power is far inferior.

Finally, after the entire Jindong War ended, although the 683 brigade made great achievements in the battle, 1,500 Japanese troops were wiped out in the battle of Shentou Ridge alone, not to mention the battle of Beiganling, but the number of first-class meritorious service was actually not as much as one battalion of the 769 regiment!

It's not that the battalion fought too badly, but that it should be the first time in the past six months that a unit of the entire Eighty Group Army, with roughly equal strength, tied with the Japanese army with artillery in the field. This is a battle situation that rarely occurs among the direct line troops who are well-equipped!

This gave the entire 80th Army greater confidence. The Japanese army was not invincible!

The five consecutive rounds of desperate charges organized by Komura Hiroshi were not without results. He captured the first line of defense for the third time. Although he was blocked again for the fifth time, if he did it again, he was sure that he would definitely defeat the already shaky Chinese people. The defense line is broken, and the final victory must belong to them.

In fact, the Japanese Army Major's premonition was correct. Because the Japanese army charged in five consecutive waves, the first battalion was forced to consume a large amount of ammunition. It basically reached the point of running out of ammunition and food. After calculating the last bullets and firing them all, On average, there are only three bullets for every two soldiers!

That means that after two rounds of shooting, you can engage in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. Even Comrade Lao Kong carried a rifle. His beloved shell gun became a decoration in the third round of Japanese charges!

It's a pity that time did not give Hiro Komura this opportunity!

Just when the Japanese army organized the last 200 people, and even the light machine gunners and grenadiers joined the infantry and had advanced to a charging distance of nearly 60 meters from the second-line position, a loud charge suddenly came from the hills behind. Trumpet!

Thunder breaks out from the ground! That's roughly it.

'Didi-dip-tick! ' The moment the charge horn sounded, both Chinese and Japanese soldiers were stunned. For the first time, both sides made the same emoticon - looking at the distant hills in disbelief.

Hundreds of meters away, countless gray military uniforms poured out, and then rushed towards the position like a tide. The shouts had already suppressed the gunshots and explosions on the position.

“Withdraw!” Hiro Komura gritted his molars and made the wisest decision in his life.

The Japanese army retreated like a tide. They didn't even have time to carry away the corpses left on the battlefield. The entire army ran away and retreated extremely resolutely.

This is also a sign of losing courage.

The previous hour of fierce battle with the 769th Regiment's First Battalion had already shattered their former pride.

The Chinese troops were even smaller than theirs. They did not have any artillery, and the only two heavy machine guns had been destroyed long ago. They were almost pure infantry, but they still kept them out of the position.

In fact, even the red-eyed Komura Hiro had some doubts. Even if he could finally conquer the position or even annihilate the Chinese army, how many of his men would be left alive?

Perhaps he will become the most tragic major-level squad leader of the 108th Division even though it won the final victory!

He even suspected that he would be slapped no matter he won or lost, but that might still be the best outcome.

But no matter what, the Japanese Army Major, who was almost losing confidence after being attacked by the First Battalion, made the wisest decision at this moment.

As long as it was two minutes later, he and the last remaining more than 200 Japanese soldiers would not be able to leave.

Because what came was an entire infantry regiment, the main regiment under the 683 brigade—the 772 regiment!

Not only were they fully equipped with personnel, but also because of the arrival of the Four Lines Regiment, there were three more all-Japanese infantry companies, and even a 37mm anti-tank gun, which Comrade "Wang Xiaoqiang" stayed at the brigade headquarters for three days. , I got it hard from Brigadier Cheng.

It's just that the battle defense artillery and the artillery platoon in charge of the artillery did not belong to the 772 Regiment, but were only temporarily seconded to the 772 Regiment, but that was enough to satisfy the two chief officers of the 772 Regiment who returned from the division headquarters. These two people didn't expect that after just a month of seeing each other, the 772nd Regiment came to replace the shotguns with cannons. Not only did they have three more infantry companies with brand-new equipment, they also had an artillery that could fight tanks!

The four anti-tank guns sent by the Four Lines Regiment are very delicious. Not to mention the regiment-level unit of the 772nd Regiment, even the 683rd Brigade may not be able to keep it. It was originally destined to be transferred by the division headquarters. , but because the 683 brigade was about to fight the battle of Shentou Ridge, the two bosses of the division decided to temporarily leave the four guns in the 683 brigade.

And the chief officer of the 683rd Brigade was not an extraordinary person. He immediately established a brigade artillery company. The personnel were all carefully selected, and the instructors were all provided by the Fourth Army Regiment. Because there were enough artillery shells, he was like an oil seller: without him, Only if you are familiar with it!

In half a month, each cannon fired nearly 200 rounds of live ammunition, which fed out the already somewhat basic gunners.

You said, based on the current strength of the 772nd Regiment, not to mention that the total strength of Komura Hiroshi, including the two infantry cannons and the heavy machine gun squad, does not exceed 300. Even when he was at his peak strength, he would probably be defeated by Tuba, who had more than 2,000 troops. 'The first fighting group was rubbing against the ground.

Up to this moment, the blocking battle named Banbishan in the future is over!

Post-war casualty statistics, the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment: 196 officers and soldiers died in the battle, 148 were seriously injured, and 162 were slightly injured.

The total strength of the 1st Battalion participating in this battle was just over 500, which meant that everyone was injured. Even Comrade Kong, the elder of the 1st Battalion, had blood dripping on his arms. When he saw the three chief officers of the 772nd Regiment, he even saluted Neither can be done.

The reason is that the three chief officers of the 772nd Regiment, including Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who always stared at him with big eyes to compete with him, took the initiative to pay military salutes to his "subordinate" after seeing the battlefield littered with corpses.

This battlefield is really too tragic.

At a quick glance at the relatively vast battlefield, blood and corpses can be seen everywhere. Gray and **** yellow overlap, becoming the only two main colors of the entire battlefield.

Afterwards, a count showed that not counting those taken away by the Japanese army, the number of corpses left by the Japanese army on the battlefield alone exceeded 200. This means that in terms of battle deaths, China and Japan were 1 to 1 in this narrow encounter in the field. A battle loss ratio of 1.

This is not an ambush or a surprise attack, it is a pure head-to-head confrontation, death for death!

The results of the battle are brilliant, but the blood is depressing!

Comrade Lao Kong was such a strong man. When the three chief officers of the 772nd Regiment saluted him, and he tried hard for a long time but could not raise his arm to return the salute, tears directly flushed the black smoke on his face into two white lanes.

His entire battalion was crippled!

The combat effectiveness of the main battalion of the 769 regiment at this time is not as good as that of a battalion of the supplementary regiment. It will not be possible to return to the previous level for at least half a year.

How should he explain this to the group leader?

What is even more painful is that there is still a cooking team and a propaganda team left at the station. When they set off, they beat gongs and drums, expecting their brothers to return victorious from the battle.

Now, the battle has been won, but less than half of the people are gone, and nearly 200 familiar faces are gone.

Thinking of this, this strong soldier who had experienced snowy mountains and grasslands, watched his comrades being swallowed up by swamps, was knocked down by hunger and cold but was helpless, and thought he could accept all sufferings, squatted in front of several of his old comrades and cried. like a child.

Victory is very sweet, but it is also so bitter that it is hard to swallow!

“Lao Kong! I will definitely help your brothers get revenge, believe me!” Wang Xiaoqiang tightly hugged his old comrade's shoulders.

The 772nd Regiment left an infantry battalion to assist the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment in cleaning up the battlefield. The remaining 1,500 troops rushed towards the battlefield that belonged to them at high speed!

As for Komura Hiro, his inner sadness is not much less than that of a Chinese soldier who feels dejected.

Not to mention the remains of more than 200 imperial infantrymen left on the battlefield, there were nearly 60 remains that could be carried away, and nearly 100 seriously wounded. As for the remaining 200 infantrymen, everyone was injured!

In order to carry away more wounded people and remains, they were even forced to throw away a lot of baggage. The carts and packhorses were all hunched over with human bodies. No matter how far or near they were, they looked like a defeated army!

This is indeed the case. Judging from the outcome of the battlefield, the First Battalion and Hiro Omura's battalion were tied in a draw, with nearly 1 to 1 battle losses. The Chinese army showed extraordinary courage and technical and tactical levels, but the Japanese army was not bad either. , also withstood a terrible casualty rate, and could maintain enough morale to attack until Chinese reinforcements arrived.

However, they failed to cross the defense line of the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment, and they also failed to prevent the 772th Regiment, which subsequently marched in a hurry, from reaching the battle position preset by the Chinese commander. This resulted in the main force of the Japanese army that had marched to the Beiganling area being unable to occupy the flanking high ground. Opportunity.

From a tactical point of view, this was a complete failure. At the high-level military meeting of the 108th Division after the war, Komura Hiro was pulled out and whipped into a corpse, becoming one of the main culprits for the Japanese army's defeat in this battle.

In the end, this unlucky guy who had a chance to become an army major general was stripped of all his military positions and returned home in despair.

But obviously, the failure of this battle had far-reaching implications, and it was not something that he, a mere army major, could do.

Fortunately, there was an unlucky guy with a bigger head standing in front of him.

For example, the Japanese army commander who strictly ordered him to attack but did not provide any substantial help.

When the 772nd Regiment arrived, the main force of the Japanese army also began to officially enter the Beiganling area. The main force of the 769th Regiment also arrived at this time because they abandoned all their baggage and only carried guns and ammunition. They ran to the highest level of light infantry on the mountain road. The preset frontal position of Beiganling.

25 minutes later, with the arrival of the Japanese forward troops, the battle began.

The forward company of the 772nd Regiment also climbed onto the flanking high ground!

The main force of the Japanese army, which has begun to exchange fire with the front positions of Beiganling, has lost the initiative on the battlefield. Going back home is the most correct choice for them at present.

But that meant that all the Japanese troops in Licheng and Shentouling were abandoned. Obviously, that result was unacceptable not only to Xiong Yuan, but also to the captain of the 108th Infantry Regiment, who was the supreme commander of the Japanese reinforcements at the time.

Not only was the Sixth Infantry Brigade stationed in Licheng under his command, but the Japanese Army Colonel knew better than anyone else that there was also a massive amount of gold and jewelry in Licheng that he used to bribe the general of the shroud in the house, which he spent half a year to obtain. From what I found, I heard that General Indoor Shroud is about to return to China for promotion, and there is no time to give him another half year.

As a result, the main force of the Japanese army, with more than 1,500 troops, launched their frenzied attack mode regardless of the cost.

10 armored 94 light tanks and as many as 10 artillery pieces of various types accompanying the army were all the confidence of the Japanese army commander.

The "Tuba" still use the standard rifles from fifteen years ago, and the largest caliber artillery is only a mortar. In addition to their geographical advantage, what else do they have?

Let alone an infantry regiment, it is an infantry division. The more than 1,500 Japanese troops with pride and firepower superiority are also confident of defeating them.

What's more, the mountains in the Beiganling area are not steep, and some slopes are even gentle enough for a Type 94 light tank to climb up.

In the first 20 minutes of the battle, almost all the Japanese troops were showing off their power. The Japanese artillery fire made the Taihang Mountains, which already had little vegetation, become even more bare.

(End of this chapter)

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