Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1120 Snowflake's Death!

Tired Donkey Ridge!
Compared with the Niangziguan position, which was already roaring with artillery fire eight kilometers away, the Feiluling area, which was even more complex and varied, looked peaceful.

But only the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division who are still busy on the main peaks and adjacent high grounds know that this tranquility will not last long.

The battalions and companies have already conveyed the notice of the division headquarters: an infantry brigade of the enemy's 20th division has more than [-] artillery, engineering, and cavalry arms, and it is coming from the direction of Jingxing in a menacing manner.
The 20th Division is an old rival. In October last year, the 10th Division had a bloody battle with the 17th Division in Hualuling!
Xuehua Mountain, the gateway to Hualuling, is a highland composed of the main peak of Xuehua Mountain with an altitude of more than 700 meters and nearly 10 surrounding mountains.

The side of them is the only passage in this mountainous area. People, carriages and horses can enter Feiluling through this passage, and then travel 8 kilometers to enter Niangziguan!
Since ancient times, if you want to enter Niangziguan from the North China Plain, in addition to the main road, this place is the only way you must pass.

The 17th Division will naturally deploy heavy troops here.

The 17nd Regiment under the 102th Division was ordered to garrison Xuehua Mountain!

The reason why it is the 102nd regiment is that the 102nd regiment took the initiative to ask for a fight. In October last year, this was also their defense zone.

Wearing a steel helmet and uniform, Zhao Shoushan, who was only followed by a squad of guards, walked up to a high ground about 800 meters away from the main peak.

A major infantry battalion commander who had already been notified and three captains and company commanders rushed over to meet him, but was blocked by the accompanying lieutenant colonel and adjutant.

Standing on this small hill with an altitude of more than 500 meters, overlooking the various fortification bunkers that the soldiers are still strengthening a hundred meters away, a trace of pain flashed in the eyes of the white-haired general.

If we say that Lulu Ridge is his sad place, then Xuehua Mountain is his heartache!

In the battle of Hualuling last year, an infantry regiment under the command of the 17th Division lost 70.00% of the battle here, and none of the three infantry companies survived. Its colonel Zhang Jun had to order to abandon the defense. As a result of the fall of the Xuehuashan position, The main force of the Japanese army, Chen Bing, exhausted the main battlefield of Luling, and divided and surrounded several highlands, causing all members of the two infantry battalions to die in the highlands.

In a rage, Zhao Shoushan ordered his confidant to be shot, even if a group of officers from the division headquarters knelt down and begged for mercy, they did not let go.

Recalling the scene of that day, the white-haired general had tears in his eyes.

As a division commander, how could he not know that when an infantry regiment has lost more than half of its battle and can persist, it is already extremely powerful.

With a battle loss of 70.00%, it is a strong army among strong troops.

But that battle was different from ordinary battles. Neither he nor the entire 17th Division could retreat, nor could they retreat.Behind them is the flank of Niangziguan. If Niangziguan is lost, the hinterland of Jin Province will be opened to Japanese invaders, and thousands of people in Jin Province will fall into the flames of war.

Zhang Jun, but he followed his security squad leader when he was the company commander. The two have been together for 15 years, and they have already surpassed the ordinary subordinate relationship. It is not an exaggeration to be like brothers.

But he, at such a critical juncture, withdrew!
If you don't kill him, how can you deal with the thousands of soldiers who died in battle because of the fall of Xuehua Mountain and were divided and surrounded by the Japanese army?And how can they deal with thousands of people in Jin Province?
Colonel Zhang Jun did not beg for life, but asked the firing squad to bring a sentence before they shot: "I deserve to die, but I beg the master to see the old friendship and take my brothers from the 102 regiment home!"

However, he failed to fulfill the request of the colonel who was ordered to die!
The 3000th Division, with less than 17 people, could only carry away those who were still alive when they retreated, and those who died could only be returned to the mountains!
In this battle, the 17th Division is coming to Fallu Ridge again. The first thing all officers and soldiers of the 17th Division do is not to build positions, but to search for corpses all over the mountains and fields!

The local people had buried most of them in the spring, but there were still thousands of corpses lying in the shallow bushes.

Snow Mountain is the best!

There are no snowflakes in Xuehua Mountain, but there are white bones all over the place. His soldiers, even in death, still have to suffer from the wind and rain!

How heartbroken would their parents be if they found out about this?

Rao is a white-haired general whose mind is already as hard as gold, and every time he thinks about this, his heart is cut like a knife!
The white-haired general stopped silently and looked down. After some time, the adjutant came up and reported softly: "Master, the commander of the 102 regiment Cheng and the commanders of the battalions and battalions have arrived. We are waiting for your lecture!"

"Then let them all wait at the tomb of the martyrs! I'll go there right away! Tell the brothers at Height 521 to stop, I have something to say to them." The white-haired general waved his hand and said.

The tomb of the martyrs was completed just yesterday. All the remains that could be searched in the entire Xuehua Mountain were gathered here. It is a joint tomb of more than 800 people.

The address was chosen by Colonel Cheng Pengjiu of the 102nd regiment guarding Xuehua Mountain. It is just on the side of a highland under the main peak of Xuehua Mountain.

In his words, the brothers are not far away, and will fight side by side with the rebuilt 102 regiment!
An infantry company of 521 people was stationed on the 138 high ground, together with regiment commanders, battalion commanders, and company commanders who came from the highlands of Xuehua Mountain, the officers and soldiers of the 17th division standing in front of the martyrs' tombs were lined up in three rows, and the first row was officers. , the two rows behind are full of soldiers.

The white-haired general stood in front of them.

"Brothers! I know that not many of you have been to this place called Snow Flower Mountain, because most of you who have been here will stay here forever.

At this time last year, our 102nd Regiment had a full staff of 1890 people. When we left, there were only 700 people left, and everyone was injured!The 1190 people who did not leave are all in front of you! "

The tone of the white-haired general was not impassioned, but rather flat.

But people who are familiar with him or not, can clearly feel the heartache of the lieutenant general when he mentioned this number from the little white hair exposed when he removed the helmet.

In the ranks of officers, more than half of the officers have red eye sockets.

Because, in the 102 regiment in the past, 80.00% of them died in the battle from the colonel to the lieutenant and platoon leader. They all survived the war and were promoted.

In the queue of soldiers, there were quite a few people who bowed their heads and wept. In the tomb opposite, all their robes were buried.

"But now, my 17nd Regiment of the 102th Division will guard Xuehua Mountain again, and the enemy will be the 20th Division. Let me ask you, do you want to take revenge for such bloody enmity?"

"want!"

"If you don't avenge this revenge, you will be ashamed to be a son of Sanqin!"

Under the leadership of the head of the 102nd regiment who raised his arms and shouted, more than a hundred officers and soldiers roared in unison!

"Okay! This battle between Jindong and the east is not like the last time when the defense line was breached and there were tens of thousands of people behind it, but it is still a matter of great importance.

If the line of defense is breached, our [-]-strong army in the east of Jin will disintegrate the triangle, and the Japanese army will be able to drive straight into the flanks of the friendly forces. Our [-]-strong army in the east of Jin will be wiped out!

Therefore, this battle is more dangerous than last year, it is a battle to the death!
I, Zhao Shoushan, swear in front of the heroic spirits who died in the battle of my 17th division that in this battle, the 17 soldiers under my 12000th division, Zhao Shoushan, will survive and die together on the battlefield!
Retired, kill!Fighter, kill!Those who quit will also be killed!

In addition, please rest assured that all the brothers of the 102nd regiment, neither I nor the division headquarters will go to this battle. It is just after your Snow Flower Mountain. If you are gone, I, Zhao Shoushan, the division staff and everyone in the guard battalion will fill in. !
You go before me, I will not shed tears, because I know that I, Zhao Shoushan, will join you soon!
If I die before you, then please don't be sad, please continue to hold the guns in your hands and kill the enemy! "

The white-haired general who had been calm just now was like an angry lion, and the sound of cracking rocks echoed in the mountains!

"Kill the enemy!" Seeing that the commander of the division seat was so determined, he actually moved the division headquarters to Xuehua Mountain. The officers and soldiers of the 102nd regiment were also full of enthusiasm, and they raised their guns one after another. In front of the officer, shout wildly!
Will be the courage of soldiers, nothing is better than this!

"Kill the enemy!" The roar of more than 100 people spread to another high ground, and the soldiers on the high ground also raised their arms to echo it!
"Kill the enemy!" The entire Xuehuashan position was full of rumbling roars.

Before the war started, the Snow Flower Mountain was already full of fighting spirit!

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"What are the Chinese doing!" Less than 3 miles away from the Xuehuashan position, a Japanese soldier of a hidden squad was startled by the sudden rumbling roar, and hid in the dense forest one after another.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that they realized that it was the Chinese shouting slogans. Although they couldn't hear what they were shouting, they could still feel the determination of the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side.

Chinese, this is a demonstration!
The information was quickly transmitted back to Yoshito Takagi, commander of the 20th Infantry Brigade of the 39th Division, who was still eight kilometers away from Snow Flower Mountain.

"Haha! A defeated general, dare to speak bravely? It's just to cheer yourself up before the battle! Don't worry about them." Yoshito Takagi put down the information in his hand, his eyes were full of contempt.

Unlike the 21st Division who didn't know their opponents at all, Yoshito Takagi already knew the number of his opponents.

The 17th Division also learned from the Four Elements Regiment to form its own reconnaissance unit, and Yoshito Takagi dispatched up to 200 pioneers before the main force arrived in Jingxing.

This also means that the main forces of the two sides have not yet met, but the scouting vanguards have already clashed in the mountains and dense forests.

In just 24 hours, the reconnaissance vanguards of the two sides exchanged fire no less than ten times, each with casualties.

Relying on a captured Japanese soldier, the 17th Division learned through torture that the opponent was the 20th Infantry Brigade of the 39th Division, and the Japanese army also discovered the number of the 17th Division from the armband of the Chinese scout uniform that died in battle, which also let Takagi The righteous have identified their opponents to face this time.

In the Niangziguan battle of the 20th Division last year, the 39th Infantry Brigade mainly faced the enemy head-on, and it was the 17th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division that fought against the 40th Division in the battle of the Donkey Ridge. In the heart of the arrogant Yoshito Takagi, the 40th Infantry Brigade The brigade's combat power is far inferior to its own 39th Infantry Brigade, and it can still defeat the 17th Division.

Moreover, all the elite of the 17th Division were killed in the last battle, but one year was not enough to recover. This time, he and the 39th Infantry Brigade even brought 3 artillery brigades of the artillery wing of the division. What did the 17th Division use to confront his tens of thousands of troops?
Yoshito Takagi is not arrogant out of thin air. This time the 20th Division seems to be divided into two. The 40th Infantry Brigade mainly cooperates with the 18th Division to attack the defense line of the Chinese army on the eastern front. The 39th Infantry Brigade mainly attacked Niangziguan, but because of the urgent time at that time, the 40th Infantry Brigade only carried an artillery brigade, a tank squadron and part of an engineering wing.

The 20th Division is a permanent division, and its artillery wing can have 4 artillery brigades, three 75mm mountain artillery brigades and one 105mm howitzer brigade.

这意味着第39步兵旅团将拥有24门75山炮和12门105榴弹炮的重火力支援，再加上步兵旅团2个步兵联队自己拥有的8门75毫米山炮、8门90毫米迫击炮、20门70毫米步兵炮，整个步兵旅团可用的全部火炮数量高达72门！
If you add in the air support that can arrive at any time, as well as the half of the logistics wing, two engineering squadrons, and two cavalry squadrons that he is carrying this time, the total strength of the army is as high as 1.2, and he wants to ask, which division Can the defeated general under his command resist the intensive firepower of such an army just by shouting slogans?

Indeed, theoretically and logically, no flesh and blood could survive such terrible fire!
But if this confident Japanese major general has the opportunity to see the battle on the ice field, he will know that miracles are always created by people.

At that time, the Chinese soldiers were not facing them, but the American cowboys who were armed to the teeth. The 72 cannons that made Yoshito Takagi confident were a typical little Karami in front of the American cowboys!

Even if it is to hit a small hill, the Americans will have dozens of doors at least, and hundreds of doors at most, plus dozens of bombers in the sky dropping bombs.

That is a serious bomber, carrying more than five tons of bombs in a single sortie. I don't know how much it can kill the Japanese North China Front Army's [-] fighters that carry only [-] pounds of bombs!
After the artillery fire, the rock layers on the high ground will become softer than mud, and the peaks will be cut down by a few centimeters!

Can anyone still live?
There is still, and the fight continues!

There is an old Chinese saying that man can conquer nature!It is always the people themselves, not the equipment, that determine the direction of victory in a war.

Cannonballs and bombs can shatter flesh and blood, but they can never shatter a person's spiritual will!

It's just a sacrifice, but it's inevitable!
The choice made by the arrogant Yoshito Takagi is exactly the same as that of the fat lieutenant general who is about to be roasted. As soon as he comes up, he will be served first!
For him, it doesn't matter what the cards are or not, he just plays the cards, so what can the Chinese do?
Isn't it just bombed?
He just wants to use his own big killer to smash the so-called will of the Chinese people!

Truth, only within the range of the cannon!Yoshito Takagi is a fan of Bismarck, the iron-blooded Prime Minister in Germanic history, and he admires this iron-blooded theory even more.

Just when the two infantry brigades of the 21st Division began to attack the main defense line of Niangziguan on a large scale, the Xuehuashan position was also subjected to the first round of shelling from the 20th Division.

12 Type 10500 91 howitzers with a range of up to 105 meters are the first to attack!

The main peak position of Xuehua Mountain and nearly ten highlands on its flanks were all included in the attack range, and all positions were blown into a sea of ​​flames and filled with gunpowder smoke.

91式105榴弹炮做为日军师团所属最大口径火炮，炮弹弹体重18公斤、装药2.52公斤，以454米初速在空中狂奔数千米的弹丸落到地上的杀伤力，杀伤半径高达32米。

Do a simple calculation problem, calculate the area of ​​the circle, you can know that the killing area of ​​​​the artillery shells is as high as more than 3200 square meters.

And how big is a basketball court?The length is 28 meters, the width is 15 meters, the area is 420 meters, and the area is 3200 meters, which is close to the area of ​​8 basketball courts.

When a 105-caliber shell fell, a sea of ​​flames spread within 3200 square meters.What would it be like if the twelve guns fired at the same time?

In the morning, the Niangziguan defense line was only bombarded by four 4mm howitzers, and no protrusions could be seen.

With nearly 10 minutes of fire raids, each howitzer fired at least 40 shells, and several highlands in Xuehua Mountain, which were ravaged by 500 shells, were simply horrible.

The 1.8-meter-deep trench collapsed in more than a dozen places visible to the naked eye, none of which were hit by the frontal shell, but even if the impact point was still more than ten meters away, the trench was squeezed inward and completely collapsed due to the violent energy.

If there were people hiding inside, they might be crushed to death by the earthen wall!

The soldiers spent two days, and the heavy machine gun fortifications that were piled up with three or four layers of sacks and logs that could resist bullet attacks had already been blown into a white field, whether it was a man or a machine gun, they were all turned into a pile of parts.

The autumn sun in the afternoon was actually quite warm, but at the moment the temperature on the position had risen by at least ten degrees, because not only the fortification hornbeams on the position were burning, but even the surrounding woods and shrubs were burning.

The Japanese army not only used flowering grenades, but also used sulfur bombs, which are simple versions of incendiary bombs!

The main purpose of turning the entire mountain forest into a sea of ​​fire is not to say that many Chinese soldiers can be burned to death, but if the woods and shrubs on the high ground are cleared, it can give the follow-up infantry more vision when attacking.

Soon the Japanese army will regret it.

Because the vision of their infantry is much clearer, but the Chinese soldiers are the same, and they are condescending, and they are better at killing people!
After the artillery fire raged, except for the crackling sound of burning wood, but on the 521 highland, 300 meters away from the 489 highland, there was miraculously not much crying on the battlefield!

There, there was a whole infantry platoon of 50 people stationed there.

This is somewhat weird!
The Xuehuashan Highland is different from the main defense line of Niangziguan. Because of the terrain, the Japanese artillery can only fire in the direction of the slope.

However, the terrain of Xuehua Mountain is plum-blossom-shaped, and there must be defenders on every high ground, which leads to the fact that not every high ground has areas that can be used to avoid artillery on the reverse slope.

When the artillery strikes, the only thing that can protect the soldiers is the artillery holes and trenches!
Under this round of fierce shelling, losses are inevitable!

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PS: I went to the county yesterday because of business, good guy, the wine in the mountain area is really strong, the scum of the wine like Fengyue, I feel almost drunk just by smelling it, let alone drinking at least 3 taels, what? Those who went home didn't know, so they didn't even ask for leave.

In June, although there is no need to attend classes, there are too many business affairs. I will go to Jinling, Hangzhou, and Shanghai to visit and study in several colleges and universities in the second ten days. After that, Fengyue will definitely work at full capacity.

(End of this chapter)