Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1118 The Japanese hold back their big moves!

Undoubtedly, the forward and further forward in the hearts of Japanese military reporters is by no means the present.

Don't look at the offensive force of the Japanese army's aggressive dispatch of more than 380 troops in two waves before and after.

But it was just a tentative attack.

Before finding and destroying the heavy firepower of the Chinese, blindly sending heavy troops to attack can only be an act of death.

Not to mention that Lieutenant Commander Yin Tangxiuer, who has spent more than 18 years in the army, would not do this, even a trainee second lieutenant who had just entered the army would not do this.

The farthest Japanese infantry rushed to the area 200 meters from the first trench on the mountainside. When the two heavy machine guns of the first battalion and the second company had to fire to suppress them, they stopped moving forward and took cover to hide on the spot.

Then, nearly 6 grenade launchers crazily poured grenades towards the firepower points of the two heavy machine guns.

There are a total of 12 grenadiers in the two infantry squadrons of the Japanese army, and they basically stay in the area 350 meters away from the first-line trenches.

Although there is a threat of mortars, mortars can't look like they have eyes, and the accuracy error exceeds 10 meters. It is found that they are being targeted by mortars, and the grenade is light. Run really fast.

So, when two heavy firepower points were discovered, how could the Japanese grenade launchers not be ecstatic?It's a blast when you catch it!
According to their past experience, not to mention several grenade grenades against a heavy fire point, even if one grenade grenade is used against one, five grenades in a row are enough to flatten him.

But this time the Japanese kicked the iron plate. Not only did the two heavy firepower points continue to shoot, they pressed the Japanese troops on the front line so hard that they couldn't lift their heads. What's more, after a moment of silence, the Chinese also used 'Grenade' countered.

But the power is much greater than the 50mm grenade.

That is the French Brand 60 mortar, not counting the range of more than 1500 meters, and the projectile weighing 1.33 kg is far more than the Japanese 50mm grenadier, a typical one with two!

Moreover, this kind of small-caliber mortar that was placed in the infantry platoon to support the front-line infantry was not placed behind the mountain. The artillery observers and mortars were in the trenches, always looking for valuable targets.

The heavy machine guns of the Japanese army are all 800 meters away, and in order to prevent being bombarded by mortars, each firepower group is far apart, and there are simple fortifications and trees and shrubs to cover them. That's not what company and platoon support artillery is for.

60 mortars, which hit the grenades and light machine guns that followed the Japanese infantry.

The Japanese grenadiers exploded recklessly, but their targets were clearly exposed. The 9 60mm mortars placed by the Second Company on the second line of defense have long been "hungry and thirsty"!
The Japanese grenade launchers seemed to have stabbed a hornet's nest this time, and the 9 doors and 60 were forced to open fire here in 3 minutes!
Each cannon shoots five rounds in rapid succession, the game is not about who is accurate enough, the main thing is a probability, if you can't kill you with one cannonball, then add a few more cannonballs!

The 6 groups of Japanese grenadiers didn't have time to appreciate their own results. The overwhelming shelling of small artillery from the Second Company directly stunned the Japanese infantry.

After the gunpowder smoke, all the pieces of meat!
When did the light firepower of the Chinese become so strong?
Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" military correspondent.
Also advance a DER!Chinese German armorers are so frightening, there are so many mortars in the frontline trenches.

If it is said that the Japanese grenadiers throw dozens of grenades crazily and incur dozens of shells in retaliation, it is a kind of seven-injury fist that "hurts others and hurts themselves", then think about it a little bit, at least it can be exchanged for what it is not. ?
But the two MG34s were still "joyfully" spewing flames in the smoke, which made the Japanese infantry very depressed.

Daringly, these idiots on our side are like setting off fireworks during the New Year, which makes people hear a little louder!But the price is too high, it will cost you your life.

The two heavy machine guns are hidden in machine gun bunkers half a meter thick and supported by steel plates. Not to mention 50mm small-caliber grenades, even 70mm infantry guns can carry a wave as long as they are not hit directly!
However, it is not so easy for the Japanese army's 70mm infantry artillery to be exposed to a machine gun bunker with a surface area of ​​only a few square meters in the bombardment from 1500 meters away!
Just like now, at least two infantry artillery began to bombard the position from the forest, but under the sweeping waves like a storm, the two machine gun bunkers discovered by the Japanese army stood still like extremely stubborn reefs.

"Ba Ga!" Yin Tangxiuer, who was holding a telescope in the distance, was so angry that he couldn't stop breathing, but he was helpless.

Unless the infantry artillery is aimed at this kind of bunker within 1000 meters, otherwise, the Japanese army's existing fortification-breaking equipment is powerless.

This also means that the first wave of tentative attacks found the heavy firepower of the Chinese defenders, but it was in vain, because the infantry brigade-level firearms could not be chewed.

Moreover, the Japanese infantry on the front line had an intuition that despite the fact that the Chinese infantry huddled in the trenches fired very few shots, as long as they advanced another 50 meters, bullets would rain down like rain.

Their intuition is quite accurate. The hundreds of infantrymen in the first trench are the first and second platoons of the second company, but they are equipped with nearly 20 semi-automatic rifles, 8 submachine guns, and 8 Czech light machine guns. The continuous firepower released far exceeded the three Japanese infantry squads leading the way.

With the firepower of their more than 100 [-]-type bolt-fired rifles, it took less than ten seconds, and they didn't need heavy machine guns to participate in the battle. These two infantry platoons alone could shoot them all to the ground!

With the light firepower currently equipped by the Four Elements Regiment, a 3-man infantry platoon with three infantry squads and one fire support squad would dare to confront a Japanese infantry squadron.

Wei Donglai also asked that as long as the Japanese infantry had not entered the 150-meter cordon, the front-line infantry did not need to be suppressed by large-scale shooting. Once they entered the 150-meter line, they would not have to leave.

The surging firepower output may not be enough to kill all the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground, but it can completely suppress them in place.

In this attack, the 60 mortars carried nearly 120 shells per gun, which was enough to support the artillerymen to kill them one by one by calling the shells.

However, the absence of large-scale shooting suppression does not mean that the infantry did not participate in the counterattack. The precise shooters of each infantry squad hid in the hidden points of the trenches, sneakily attacking the Japanese troops within a straight line distance of 250 meters.

Those are also six precision shooters. Although they haven't reached the legendary ability of "killing an enemy with one bullet", the precision shooters who have experienced the battlefield and fed thousands of bullets on the training ground will never Just 'veteran' to describe it.

The Japanese army of the second-line division has seen the terror of the elite soldiers of the "Chinese German Armor Division"!
According to the lucky dictation of a Japanese senior soldier Kurahashi who survived the infantry brigade after the war: When I stepped into the battlefield and was nearly 260 meters away from the enemy's trenches, I felt the temperature of Ryosuke-kun's blood. I have an intuition that the Chinese on the opposite side are by no means the soft bastards that those veterans said were "one hit and one will collapse".

Fortunately, Cangqiao did not describe in detail how his fellow countryman died in battle, not because the scene was so tragic that he couldn't bear to look back!

On the contrary, compared with the tragedy that followed, the first class soldier whose mouth and nose were smashed by a single shot and writhed on the ground for as long as 3 minutes before dying was a relatively decent death.

Anyway, he still left a whole body!

Cangqiao, who used a first aid kit to stop the bleeding for his fellow countrymen, was fortunate enough to be splattered with blood, but he also indirectly escaped a dead end by staying 260 meters away with a stone as a cover!

It was just a tentative attack, and the 4th Infantry Squadron, which was the arrow, killed 20 people on the spot and injured 18 people.

Among them, 8 people were killed by small-caliber mortar shells poured in by the Chinese defenders, but as many as 12 people died from cold guns and machine guns!
This is also the result of the whole squadron adopting crawling immediately after the No.1 soldier was shot, if it is bent upwards like in training.
The terrified Japanese privates could hardly imagine the ending!

In less than 20 minutes, the "Asahi Shimbun" reporter who was already full of desolation saw his heroic infantry dragging their corpses and dragging their wounded soldiers to be defeated in embarrassment!
It is understandable to drag the corpse, but why should the wounded be dragged?

It is really abominable for the cold gunners of the Chinese people. They have been shooting in the dark like poisonous snakes, and their range is as high as 300 meters.

It was already very dangerous to be exposed to the battlefield, but if you want to carry and carry the wounded, it is like giving them their heads!
There was no way, Captain Hanyu Kinkuma of the 4th Infantry Squadron at the time had no choice but to order, whether dead or alive, to be dragged away from the 300-meter dangerous area by dragging.

This is great. The seriously wounded who were originally shot by bullets and could survive as long as they were treated properly, after being dragged for nearly 70.00 meters, [-]% of them rolled their eyes on the spot and couldn't even control their bowel movements!

In other words, the number of war dead will basically increase by 30.00%, reaching 30!

An infantry squadron with 192 people, just a tentative attack, was almost half disabled!

Needless to say, his instantly low morale, and even the 37-year-old soldier who had just joined the army for less than two years and had never experienced a battlefield cried on the spot!
This is a phenomenon that has almost never appeared in the Imperial Japanese Army!

Lieutenant Yin Tangxiuer's face turned purple with anger. If it wasn't for the fact that Captain Hanyu Kinkuma also had relatives serving as lieutenant rank officers in the army, he would probably have to pull out his command knife and chop him off on the spot, but there were more than a dozen big mouths crackling. Sub-decisions are indispensable.

Fortunately, the subsequent tentative attack of the Second Infantry Battalion next door also hit the iron wall.

Even, the number of casualties over 45 was higher than that of the First Infantry Battalion, which at least indirectly calmed Lieutenant Commander Yin Tangxiuer's anger.

The penultimate number sounds very painful, but as long as the penultimate one is at the bottom, the penultimate one will feel a kind of unreasonable peace of mind.

That side is also the defense zone of the first battalion, and Zhao Daqiang's first company is in charge of guarding. Compared with Wei Donglai's forbearance, Zhao Daqiang is not polite to the Japanese army. It doesn't matter what you try or not. When the Japanese army enters the 200-meter area, they will order The frontline trenches are fully fired!
The random killing with long guns and short guns, mixed with the free hunting of precision shooters, beat the Japanese soldiers on the ground into a daze, and drove them away in just 10 minutes.

Of course, this also caused the number of wounded in the first company to be several times higher than that in the second company, most of which were shrapnel injuries!
The grenades and infantry artillery of the Japanese army were not vegetarians either. After a round of counterattacks, at least seven or eight soldiers were hit by shrapnel in a row.

But it is basically not fatal. Four people were sent to the back of the mountain, and four lightly wounded remained in the trench after being bandaged. Even if shooting is restricted, it is still possible to help send some bullets and grenades to the comrades. .

Lei Xiong received the reports of the wounded from each company, and he did not question or appreciate the different fighting styles of the two infantry company commanders. Each has a different personality, and the fighting methods are naturally different.

All the advantages and disadvantages must be summarized after the entire battle. The number of casualties, the number of killed enemies, and the consumption of ammunition are all important considerations.

After being hit by two infantry companies, the Japanese army temporarily died down!
However, for the Chinese and Japanese commanders, they all knew that this was just the last calm before the storm.

The Japanese army didn't fully show their trump card, and the Chinese side didn't show their cards!

Until three o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by a huge roar resounded through the battlefield.

One of the killer features of the newly created 21st Division, the chariot brigade is on the scene!
It was a huge steel behemoth convoy consisting of three tank squadrons and a full 45 tanks.

On the North China battlefield, once this giant steel beast was sacrificed, the Japanese army would be almost invincible.

In addition to the small number of 37mm anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Chinese side, which is a sufficient threat to the Japanese Type 89 main battle tank, the forged nickel-chromium armored steel with a thickness of 12mm on the front of the 17-ton steel behemoth is not afraid of any Chinese firearms.

On the battlefield of the Xuzhou battle, the Chinese side, which used superior forces to destroy two Japanese brigades in Taierzhuang, captured an 89 tank and published a photo of the tank in the newspaper.

The 89 tank in the photo is full of scars, and hundreds of bullet marks can be seen with the naked eye, which fully demonstrates the bravery of the Chinese soldiers who fought against it, but more is helplessness.

The Min 24 heavy machine gun and the Maxim heavy machine gun equipped by the Chinese army have certain armor-piercing capabilities, but when facing a steel behemoth of this level, even if it is as close as 100 meters, it will leave a bullet hole several millimeters deep. is the limit.

When as many as 12 Type 89 tanks were lined up in front of the infantry line, and the black-smoky engines burst out with a huge roar, the momentum was really scary.

The morale of the Japanese infantry was replenished in an instant, and the upper class soldier Canghashi, who dragged the corpses of his fellow soldiers back, was fortunate enough to wave his arms and shout with his colleagues in the trenches.

With such a steel monster as a shield, they don't believe that the Chinese can still be as tenacious as before, even if they have machine guns with an exaggerated rate of fire, even if they have a solid fortress that has not been blown up by grenadiers and mountain cannons.

The 89 tank is not only rough and thick, but also has a 57mm short-barreled gun with 100 rounds of ammunition, which can reach a distance of 500 meters, which is enough for them to accurately blast any non-reinforced concrete semi-permanent fortification into the sky up.

In addition to 12 89 tanks, there are 33 two 94-type armored vehicles, which are light tanks nicknamed Xiaodouding by Chinese soldiers.

Although the Type 94 armored vehicle is somewhat disliked by the Japanese army itself, the frontal armor of only 10mm cannot completely guarantee the safety of the heavy machine guns equipped by the Chinese army when shooting at close range, but it is still a tank, right?

It can not only provide cover for the infantry, but also provide fire support with two 7.7mm heavy machine guns. Whenever the Chinese light machine guns and infantry dare to show their heads, the flexible Xiaodouding can also use heavy machine guns to kill them.

To put it bluntly, although the tank is scumbag, if it is used against the Chinese army with even more scumbag equipment, the Type 94 Xiaodouding can be regarded as a small killer!
The roar of Japanese tanks and the deafening 'Long live' cheers of Japanese infantry resounded throughout the battlefield!
But the Japanese army did nothing!
"Order, the whole regiment, except the air defense company, leave a small number of observation posts on the front line, and everyone else immediately enters the hidden tunnel. The Japanese plane is coming." Tang Dao, who still stayed on the cliff patiently observing the Japanese army from a distance, turned cold .

According to the previous performance of the Japanese army eager to attack, Tang Dao judged that the use of mountain artillery to shell the hill must have completely angered the Japanese army. Although the results of the battle are not known, it must have caused damage to the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army only suffered a small setback, and even after their chariot brigade arrived, they blatantly drove dozens of chariots to the front line to demonstrate, but they did not launch an attack immediately. possibility.

They are still waiting, waiting for stronger support!
Tang Dao's judgment was correct!

A hundred kilometers away, on the clouds at 3500 meters, a group of small black dots are moving at high speed. If it is not for the low-pitched roar, people on the ground would hardly notice that such a group of aircraft wielding death scythes are flying above their heads. .

This time, instead of the 12 or 24 Japanese planes experienced by the previous four-row group, it was as high as 48!
In order to cooperate with General Shan Shanyuan's plan to destroy China's Jindong Army, the temporary aviation regiment of the North China Front Army of Japan, which has just been notified for less than two days, gathered nearly a hundred aircraft belonging to 7 aviation brigades and 4 independent squadrons under its command. Fighters join the fight.

After receiving a request from Major General Nagano Kameichiro, the acting head of the newly formed 21st Division, which had already begun fierce battles with the Chinese army at the Niangziguan Defense Line, the Japanese North China Front Army Staff Headquarters immediately issued a military order to the temporary aviation regiment that was on standby.

The news of Lieutenant General Jiuzu Matsudaira's death in battle was not actually announced. Only the Commander General Sugimoto and Chief of Staff Saburo Okabe knew about the entire North China Front Army.

To be honest, the moment the two senior Japanese generals who led the war received the telegram of "reporting the funeral" from the headquarters of the 21st Division, they were all blinded, and they were almost not caught by the "what can't be done, what can't be done?" The dead ghost who gave gifts and cried poor No.1' got angry.

You said that you are a lieutenant general in command of an army of [-], and you have nothing to do to go to the front line to get the ball!It's all right now!Not to mention the fact that people are roasted pigs, the face of the Imperial Japanese Army is also lost.

In the future, when we fight with the navy, just saying "our navy didn't die a lieutenant general" is enough to break the defense of the entire army, okay?
If possible, Shanshan Yuan and Okabe Saburo really want to kick the pigs of the 21st Division into the sea.

It's a pity, now that the arrow is on the string and has to be launched, how can we prevent these idiots from dying?Then we can only increase our support!

There is nothing wrong with the saying that the underdog always gets more help.

Therefore, under the quiet instruction of Saburo Okabe, Tokugawa Hiroshi of the Provisional Air Corps dispatched 48 fighter planes in one go, a full four squadrons, to bomb Niangziguan!

Sasaki, the lone star of Tiansha, set out again!

(End of this chapter)