Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1122 Humanity roasted in the flames of war!
The 39th Infantry Brigade before Chen Bing Xuehuashan seemed to have no intention of breaking through the 17th Division's defense line in a short time.

From the afternoon to 105 o'clock in the evening, the 75 heavy artillery and the 18 mountain artillery fired in turn, during which [-] Japanese planes were summoned to drop bombs and wreak havoc!
According to post-war statistics, the artillery wing of the 5th Division consumed 20 artillery shells of various types and 3000 aerial bombs of various types just for this wave of shelling and bombing for more than 100 hours!
This amount of ammunition consumption has already exceeded the consumption of the entire battlefield for five days and five nights of fierce battle between the 40th Infantry Brigade and the 17th Division last year.

This shows Yoshito Takagi's dedication to cannonism.

But this doesn't mean that Yoshito Takagi doesn't want to earn merit. On the contrary, he needs the merits of the Jindong battle too much, but this Japanese army major general with extremely rich battlefield experience knows the truth of haste and waste.

The personnel transfer of the 20th Division has long been noisy. Saburo Kawagishi is about to be transferred away, and he is qualified to be the commander of the 20th Division. Unless he is airborne, he is the only one in the 20th Division, the 39th Infantry Brigade There are only two major generals, the head of the brigade, and the major general Yoshio Yoshio of the 40th Infantry Brigade.

In this kind of wartime, it has always been a taboo in the army to parachute the supreme commander who is not familiar with the battlefield, and the possibility of the new division chief being promoted from within is as high as 80.00%.

Especially when he thought that before the expedition, His Excellency Saburo Kawagishi, who was sitting in Shimen, saw him off with a smile on his face, and besides leaving less than 2000 troops to guard Shimen, he advocated that most of the troops directly under the division should be placed under his command. My heart is hot.

As long as the current line of defense is broken, the triangular defense of the Chinese Jindong Army is completely broken, and the Chinese army with a strength of tens of thousands is finally wiped out, the position of lieutenant general and regiment commander seems to be at your fingertips!

As for Yoshio Yoshio last month, Yoshito Takagi was delighted in his heart.

The division has received information that the main force of the Chinese army on this line of defense is the 921st Division of the Chinese Eighty Group Army. At that time, it was also a series of helplessness.

With such a hard bone, if you want to chew on them, you will inevitably collapse your mouth full of teeth, and besides, it is not the 20th Division that dominates the battlefield, but the 18th Division.

After all, the 18th Division was not only commanded by the Front Army Command to detour in a large area, but also the entire division was attacked, and the commander of the division was the highest commander of the attack line. Not bad.

With such good news, Yoshito Takagi had to be more cautious and never allow himself to make a mistake.

There are plenty of shells. For this battle, the front army headquarters, which has always been digging and searching, is bleeding a lot this time. Only the 20th division has prepared as many as 2 shells and 400 million rounds of machine rifle bullets. The ammunition is constantly coming from Pingjin The two cities were transported to Shimen, and then loaded on a special train to Jingxing and HD, and all the supplies were still provided by the front army, so that the frontline divisions could fight the enemy with all their strength!
With this strong support, can Yoshito Takagi, who has always believed in "artillery doctrine", pour all his firepower on the high ground occupied by the Chinese?

If possible, he even planned to bombard the Xuehuashan positions for two days before starting the infantry attack, but the news that the 21st Division suffered a serious setback on the front line of Niangziguan reached Takagi Yoshito at night, and he knew that his wish was difficult. Achieved.

The pressure from the front army headquarters will soon be passed on to him layer by layer. General Shanshanyuan, who has been planning this plan for so long, originally hoped that this battle would restore the face he suffered from the previous battle in the southeast of Shanxi. He would never Even if this battle is allowed to be lost again, he will not consider casualties at all.

The 21st Division said it was attacking the main defense line at Niangziguan with all its strength in the afternoon, but it only used two infantry brigades. Compared with the three infantry regiments under its command, which amounted to tens of thousands of infantry, it was actually just a tentative attempt. The attack is to use the chariot brigade, which looks spectacular from the scene.

Facing the roar of these giant steel beasts, the First Battalion of the Four Elements Regiment was finally forced to reveal its trump cards, and the 12.7mm heavy machine gun appeared on the stage.

The MG34 heavy machine gun was not placed in the machine gun bunker at all, because its overall firearms were much lighter than the Maxim machine gun, so the four heavy machine gunners basically emptied 4 rounds of ammunition chains and immediately switched positions with the guns.

In case of being attacked by infantry artillery and grenades, also take this opportunity to cool down the barrel!
The faster the firing rate of the machine gun, the easier it is to cause the barrel to heat up, which affects the rate of fire and accuracy. Although each MG34 machine gun is equipped with 3 spare barrels, it is not a last resort to ensure continuous firepower output. Machine gun shooters are Will not take the initiative to replace the barrel.

The machine gun bunkers are stationed with 12.7mm heavy machine guns and 20mm machine guns, both of which have sufficient armor-piercing capabilities.

Especially when the Japanese tanks appeared, all the 12.7mm heavy machine guns were replaced with steel core bullets, and the armor-piercing ability of 300 meters can completely penetrate the 13mm armor plate. Perhaps the front armor thickness of the Japanese Type 89 medium tank is 17mm. Steel-core bullets falling on the front steel plate cannot effectively penetrate, but when the heavy machine gun bullets with a rate of fire of up to 400 rounds per minute continuously hit the steel plate with the bullets, making that creepy "dong dong" sound, even Not even the toughest tanker can handle it!
Because you don't know when, you may be pierced by such a large bullet, and the feeling is even worse than the fear of being pierced by a shell through a steel plate!

If the continuous firing of the 12.7mm machine guns posed a huge threat to the Type 89 tank, making it no longer advance after reaching the first trench 400 meters away, but only providing support to the infantry with 57mm short-barreled guns, the Japanese infantry would be outraged Scolding and pale face, then when the 20mm cannon started to resound through the battlefield with the 'boom!Boom! 'After the sound of shelling entered the battle, it was the Japanese infantry and tank soldiers at the same time.
The wrinkled flowers shrink, and the little face turns pale!
The target of the 20mm machine gun is nothing but the Type 89 tank, but at a distance of 400 meters, if it hits, it will no longer leave deep bullet marks and frightening metal impact sounds like the 12.7mm machine gun , that will really penetrate armor!
Regardless of Lieutenant Commander Yin Tangxiuer's order of 4 infantry guns to enter a dangerous distance of 1000 meters, they can continue to shoot directly at the heavy fire targets found, but the machine gun bunker on the second line of defense is first exposed to the ground and only less than one meter away. The gunner has very little maneuvering space and is extremely sturdy.

The 4 70mm infantry guns and the 89mm short-barreled guns of the 57 tanks have all bombarded this deadly flame-erupting machine gun bunker, but they didn't hit it as they imagined and blasted away!

In addition to blowing up some sandbags piled up on the outer edge, the bunker is still spewing deadly bullets!

尹堂秀尔中佐手下最为强悍的攻坚装备失去作用，这导致位于二连阵地上的2挺12.7毫米机枪和一台苏罗通20毫米机关炮竟然追着阵地上的4台89坦克和12辆94式坦克打。

What's more terrible is that after the infantry artillery fired, the mortars hidden by the Chinese behind the mountain began to fire. It was a small group of six 6-caliber mortars and three 82mm howitzers.

The distance of 1000 meters is too close. Even if the infantry artillery is hidden in the dense forest, the thick smoke from the artillery bombardment can easily be seen by the lurking artillery observers of the first battalion.

The 9 mortars didn't do any precise bursts, they just focused on the barrage. One round of 9 rounds of shells covered a certain area, and then another round of coverage, 15 consecutive salvos, more than 120 rounds scattered already extremely The opened 4 infantry artillery areas were plowed back and forth twice, allowing the 21st Division to fully appreciate what unlimited artillery fire is!
"Baga! Didn't it mean that the Chinese have very limited artillery and ammunition reserves are extremely low?" Yin Tangxiuer looked at the artillery position less than a mile away from him being rubbed against the ground by the roaring artillery fire from the Chinese, in pain roar.

He must have played a fake Chinese army. Compared with the Chinese army on the opposite side, his infantry brigade seemed more like a Chinese army.

That was the bewildered Japanese Army Lieutenant Commander who didn’t know that this was just the artillery firepower of the Sixing Regiment Battalion. The 12 Bofors mountain cannons and 12 150-caliber repressors of the Sixing Regiment Artillery Battalion have not been fired until now. Hiding under a camouflage net and standing by.

In fact, the two infantry brigades participating in the attack now have only 2000 troops, so it is not worth using them!

Tang Tuanzuo's philosophy has always been that since he wields a big stick, he can hit the other party too hard!
I don't know if Yin Tangxiuer would have the courage to continue to attack if he could see the high but unfired muzzles 1000 meters behind the mountain.

But at least it has not completely lost confidence. Even in the just round of attack, three 94 tanks were smashed into sieves, all of which were the masterpieces of Browning's 12.7mm machine gun!
After trying to shoot through the Type 89 tanks that were standing hundreds of meters away, two 12.7mm heavy machine guns aimed at those little bean dings who were running extremely fast.

Eight small Doudings were ordered to use machine guns to provide fire support to the advancing infantry. Relying on their small size, powerful diesel engines, and tracks, they showed their mobility and flexibility on the hillside, just like a small motor Jumping back and forth from more than 8 meters away, 300 machine guns fired fiercely, so that the Chinese officers and soldiers in the frontline trenches could not lift their heads.

If it weren't for the ferocious firepower of the two heavy machine gun MG34s, nearly 400 Japanese soldiers would have crawled to the most dangerous 100 meters!

But as the saying goes: if you often walk by the river, your shoes will not get wet!When a small Douding drove into a crater in a hurry, it was a crater with a depth of more than half a meter caused by a 105 grenade. Black smoke was emitted from the engine at the rear of the vehicle, and the whole vehicle was still struggling to get out of trouble. At that moment, the 12.7mm machine gun chasing after him finally found a chance.

Fired 40 bullets in one breath, Xiaodouding's side pierced the sky with a steel plate of only 330 mm, and at a distance of 940 meters, it was completely unable to resist the steel core bullet with a muzzle velocity of [-] meters!
Big holes visible to the naked eye keep appearing on the body of this poor little bean!

There was no explosion, but the Type 94 armored vehicle did not get out of trouble until the end of this round of offensive and defensive battles. It just stayed in this not very big crater with its head down and buttocks up, like a dog with its head buried in the sand. ostrich.

Both China and Japan included it in the battle results (battle damage) at the same time, because in the narrow space of the Type 94 tank, as long as there are bullets that can break through its armor, the three members inside are dead, not to mention that at least the side was shot Fifteen or six big holes.

The fact is the same. When the Japanese army raised the white flag in the evening and sent a corpse collection team to collect the corpses, the three corpses pulled out of the Xiaodouding tank were almost three pieces of minced meat, and a dozen thick warheads shot into the tank were hitting When it hits the steel inner wall of the tank, it produces fragments similar to artillery shells. Even fragments the size of mung beans are enough to penetrate the human body, and such fragments may be as high as hundreds. The Japanese tankers can still maintain their human shapes. .

The four 4 tanks were quite smart. After firing several shots in a row and found that the effect was not good, they immediately reversed until they retreated to 89 meters away, and finally escaped the shooting of the 600mm cannon.

The Japanese tankers, who have always been full of arrogance, are very clear that so far it is not a full-scale offensive, and it is still in the tentative stage.

Although the Chinese machine gun bunkers are very strong and awesome, but I don’t know how many artillery observers are constantly calculating their coordinates. Four 4 howitzers and 105 36 mountain guns will focus on the subsequent bombardment.

If one shot doesn't work, then a few more shots!Only when the fortifications built by the Chinese are completely destroyed, the infantry commanders will issue a general attack order.

That being the case, why should they risk their lives with the Chinese?Then hurry up and slip away!
It can only be said that this group of Japanese soldiers belonging to the technical arms was very clear-headed, but they did not expect that they slipped away, but the shooter of the 20mm machine gun who fired two bullets in a row and found nothing vented his anger to the thief who ran away. On Huan's Type 94 tank, the other two Type 94 tanks damaged in battle were basically destroyed by machine gun shells as thick as cigars.

Is this still a joke? The tankers of the Type 94 tanks saw that they had a total of 8 tanks, but they lost three tanks in less than 10 minutes. Does that mean that in another 20 minutes, everyone will be beaten into one? Heap minced meat?
Don't look at the fact that Japanese tankers usually have armor and body protection, but their own family members know their own affairs, let's take the tank design level of the empire!No escape design was considered at all, and the internal space is extremely narrow, and the protection of the magazine is also very fragile. It is fine if the armor is not broken by the enemy. Once it is broken, it is basically the end of the calf's life.

Whether it is the Type 89 or the Type 94, a large number of 37mm anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Chinese army were destroyed in the Songhu Battle last year, especially the Battle of Taierzhuang that broke out at the end of March. The Isogani Division belongs to the "Super Macho" equipped with a full 3 tanks of various types!
But what was the result?The steel behemoths who were frantically besieged by the Chinese assembled 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 20mm Surotong machine guns were also beaten all over their faces!
Even the red-eyed Chinese used infantry to drill into the bottom of the tank with six clustered long-handled grenades for blasting. The fragile tank chassis and tracks could not stop such explosive energy. Once they lay down, waiting for the tank soldiers In the end, he was either burned to black charcoal or blown into a pile of minced meat!
Infantry, even if they die in battle, most of them can still keep a whole body, but when it comes to tank soldiers, they don't exist.

So, those who don't run are idiots!
As for the military order, it was the military order of Lieutenant Commander Xiu Er, and they only listened to Lieutenant Commander Xi Kang, the captain of the tank regiment, in their affairs.

Seeing the Japanese tanks run away, Wei Donglai smiled: "The tanks can run, but the infantry must die! Since they are here, let me keep them!"
Order each platoon, 60 cannons for me to shoot, no target, one base for each cannon, let me shoot empty!

Heavy machine guns, machine guns, I will also shoot them, and those who hide behind rocks, then shoot the rocks to Lao Tzu! "

brutal!

Apart from brutality, there is no other word to describe the firepower on the Chinese front at this time

The Chinese not only used mortars to bombard the Japanese infantry hiding everywhere on the hillside, but even used the 12.7mm heavy machine guns and machine guns that just hit the tanks!
According to the memoirs of Cangqiao, who was withdrawn again by luck, it was the most tragic battle I have ever experienced. Mr. Ma Tian, ​​who was less than 10 meters away from me, was originally hiding behind a rock that was at least half a meter high and tens of centimeters thick , Unless the mortar shells rained down by the Chinese hit within a range of three meters, he would have the opportunity to withdraw to the front with me.

But because he bravely fired a grenade at the Chinese, the Chinese machine gunners focused on him.

The ferocious machine gun actually started to bombard his rock bunker with warheads, like a giant hammer, hitting the rock continuously, and the flying stone fragments even left a wound several centimeters on my face.

The Chinese must be crazy, that precious shell that can penetrate tank armor, but they used it on a grenadier.

I still remember the frightened and helpless look Asada-kun threw at me, but who can blame him?No matter how brave the imperial infantry, under the attack of a 20mm machine gun, they will panic!

I know, he wants me to save him, but how can I save him?
I can only look at him sadly, looking at the cruel Chinese, who did not hesitate to spend dozens of 20mm caliber shells, tearing up the rock where Ma Tianjun was hiding and Ma Tianjun himself!
Ma Tian-kun's blood spilled on my face nearly ten meters away, and I can still feel the warmth to this day! "

Cangqiao was fortunate that the words written by the upper class soldier made the islanders deeply feel the cruelty of the war, but obviously, the upper class soldier did not completely describe the battlefield situation that day.

For example, his rifle was lying in front of him, but intentionally or unintentionally, the muzzle was aimed at the grenadier soldier who was looking at him very sadly.

What do you think he would do if someone tried to rush to his deep makeshift shelter, perhaps attracting the brutal Chinese machine guns?
The first class soldier didn't know what choice he would make in the end, but his hand was extremely firm on the trigger, maybe it might be possible to misfire!

The human nature that has been scorched in the flames of war is destined to be like this sky, where there is brilliance, there will be darkness!

(End of this chapter)