Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1126 Heavy artillery washes the ground!

Cangqiao is fortunate that the first class soldier is especially grateful that his parents gave him a good name!
Fortunately, isn't it just good luck!
Can survive this battle, nothing else, pure luck!

He was a member of the team attacking the hillside, but he was very close to the second trench of the Chinese, only about 70 meters!
It's not how brave this poor senior soldier is, but because he escaped catastrophe twice in a row, but the infantry squad he belonged to suffered heavy casualties.

As a result, the poor Japanese corpsmen were incorporated into the desperate squad that rushed to the forefront in this battle.

The so-called Death Squad is the vanguard among the vanguards. They always advance but never retreat. Those who retreat without receiving the military order die!
Extending the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife!The Japanese privates who had been cornered rushed to the forefront this time.

Then, miraculously escaped this disaster!

When the first shell fell, the first class soldier, who had just stood upright and mustered up the courage to shout "on board" with his friends, jumped forward desperately, and jumped into a crater blasted out by a 105 howitzer!
The nearly 1-meter-deep crater blocked the surging air waves, and he tried his best to curl up like a baby in the mother's womb. Although his body was bruised and purple by the falling rubble, he survived fortunately. down.

In other words, the Japanese corporal is really not the only lucky one in the Daredevil Squad, because the Daredevil Squad is located in a geographical environment with many craters and rocks. In the first round of shelling, its survival rate was as high as 60.00%[-]!
On the contrary, the trench, which was considered by most of the Japanese infantry to be less than half a meter deep on average, has become a purgatory on earth!

It wasn't until the artillery shells landed extremely accurately on the left and right sides of the trench, and even nearly one-tenth of the shells fell into the trench, that the Japanese infantry discovered that the reason why the trench was shallow might not be because the Chinese were lazy.

Rather, it seems to be prepared for today!
The four-row regiment's heavy mortar company dropped at least more than 200 shells into this trench area, more than one-third of the total shells dropped on the entire front line.

Shallow trenches can hardly resist the air waves of artillery shells and shrapnel fragments close at hand. The most terrifying thing is that when the shells fall into the trenches, all the soldiers in the trenches with a length of up to 40 meters are either blown away by the air waves or shaken. Bo was so shocked that he vomited blood, and his lethality was much higher than that on the slope!
By the time the Japanese infantry realized that this was a death trap, it was already too late, and the continuous falling shells left them nowhere to escape!
In the end, less than 350 of the more than 70 Japanese soldiers who hid in the trenches survived, and the survival rate was less than 20.00%!

The officers and soldiers of the Second Company who went to clean up the trench afterwards almost vomited. They saw a lot of dead bodies, but there were limbs torn apart by the energy of the heavy artillery, and there were still half-baked intestines and offal hanging on the trench wall. , It is still beyond the acceptable range of most officers and soldiers.

Especially the stench mixed with the smell of meat, it can definitely be called the smell from hell!

After 20 minutes, the blazing artillery fire extended back, and the remaining Japanese troops who had received the retreat order began to retreat crazily. Although there were not many, there were still about 200 people, but the Chinese soldiers on the second line of defense would not let this one go. A rare opportunity, light and heavy machine guns and various rifles began to roar.

'Beat the dog in the water', 'I'll kill you while you're sick', these are all terms that Tang Tuanzuo often talks about, and they go deep into the bones of the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment!
Don't look at the smoke, which gave many Japanese infantry soldiers a chance to escape, but a considerable number of them became prey on the battlefield.

For example, Yang Bicheng, who has been promoted to deputy squad leader, although he has been equipped with a submachine gun and no longer serves as a precision shooter, the corporal who has found confidence in marksmanship still worked hard to carry another Mosingana rifle!
That rifle was specially awarded to him by Tang Dao in recognition of the Gushan blockade, and it was not included in the infantry company's equipment. To put it bluntly, it was Yang Bicheng's private gun.

This kind of honor of owning personal weapons, there are no more than 30 people in the Four Elements Group, such as Ming Xin's epee, Cai Yongguan's thick back knife, and a black star pistol that Tudou himself wanted, which Lao Abacus carried with him. A Tang Dao signature military dagger and more.

That is to say, there are only two types of people who have private weapons in the Four Elements Regiment, either they are super capable or have great military exploits, otherwise, the strict military regulations of the Four Elements Regiment are not just for display.

Because the Four Elements Regiment currently has strict regulations on the load of individual soldiers. During long-distance marches, individual soldiers carry weapons, ammunition, food, water, and a list of utensils. Even if bricks are stuffed in the backpack during training, it must be consistent with actual combat. of.

There are thousands of different types of people in the world, and naturally there are thousands of different preferences. If everyone has additional needs in addition to standard weapons, will the load be increased a lot?
Therefore, the special is only a few people after all, and if you want to have certain privileges, you need to fight for it yourself.

Yang Bicheng also carried the weight of the Mogansina rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition on his back. For the extra kilograms of weight, he did not know how much sweat he sweated during training.

But it was in this kind of constant beating and training that the once cowardly youth was forged from a piece of 'soil lump' into a piece of fine iron!
The thicker the gunpowder smoke, the brighter the devil's eyes will be!
According to post-war statistics, as many as seven Japanese soldiers died under the gun of this sharpshooter alone!A total of 11 bullets were fired!
Cangqiao was fortunate that the first class soldier was the one who escaped by chance, if he hadn't lost his footing and fell into a bomb crater because he was running too fast.

At the cost of a front tooth being knocked out, Yang Bicheng fell into a short coma for 2 minutes and mistakenly thought that he was killed by himself and turned to look for other targets. Otherwise, the Japanese corpsman would never have the opportunity to write his memoirs.

On the entire second line of defense, as many as 10 precision shooters participated in hunting down the retreating Japanese soldiers. Their total score was to shoot and kill 29 people, an average of three people per person.

The success rate of killing the Japanese army even surpassed the 8 light machine guns and 2 heavy machine guns that fired.

In the end, no more than 200 Japanese troops could be successfully withdrawn!
In World War I, 500 Japanese invaders were killed. This is the result of the four-row regiment who can only count the wreckage of the Japanese army before the position. If the 150 heavy artillery destroyed the Japanese trenches 600 meters away, it would be close to 600 results.

In other words, a Japanese infantry brigade was disabled!
On the side of the Four Elements Regiment, it was only at the cost of 1080 rounds of heavy mortar shells!

Of course, in fact, if this round of artillery fire came down, all the more than 500 Japanese soldiers were killed!

Many of them were actually wounded by bombs or concussions, and no more than three-fifths of them died on the spot!

If possible, according to the intention of the frontline commander Lei Xiong, the Japanese army can take back these seriously wounded soldiers, so that they can kill some of the Japanese army's vital forces, and let these seriously wounded soldiers consume the Japanese army's medicines and manpower.

Killing all at once is never realistic. Tang Tuanzuo's favorite mode is to slowly consume the opponent's strength and finally kill you in a decisive battle.

But Yin Tangxiuer, who fell into madness, did something that both humans and gods were angry with.

Amid the continuous bang of Chinese heavy artillery shells, Lieutenant Yin Tangxiuer, who had already retreated another 500 meters and entered the frontline headquarters in the dense forest, kept silent and looked at the distant position with a telescope.

Seeing less than 200 defeated soldiers and the last few tanks retreating hastily in the smoke, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Sergeant, who was silent for more than ten minutes, put down his binoculars with a livid face, without turning his head: "Nishikawa, 21st Regiment of Telex Artillery Lieutenant Commander, request the Howitzer Squadron and the Mountain Artillery Brigade to target the enemy's No. 1 main position and cover with firepower for 30 minutes.

I also contacted His Excellency, Head of the Yongye Division, the enemy has hidden large-caliber mortars, which hindered our attacking troops, but please rest assured, the Head of the Yongye Division.In the next battle, I will do my best to conquer the ground. "

The young lieutenant staff officer felt a chill run down his spine.Although there is no high probability of the shelling this time accidentally injuring the defeated soldiers who had withdrawn 400 meters from the battlefield, there are still many seriously injured soldiers left on the battlefield before they could be dragged off the battlefield.

When the howitzers and mountain cannons bombed, it was just like what he said, it was a cover bombing, let alone alive, even the corpses could not be found neatly.

Even if this position can be captured, after the war, I am afraid that all the remains will be burned together, and then a handful of ashes will be taken as remains and sent back to the country in a special small wooden box.

"Since it is for the prosperity of the empire, let them fight to the end for the empire!" Lieutenant Yin Tangxiuer sighed coldly as if he knew what his staff officer was thinking without turning around.

Even Lei Xiong, who was sitting on the front line, didn't expect that the Japanese commander he met this time was more brutal than he had ever encountered. As soon as his defeated soldiers retreated, he immediately asked the artillery to bomb the battlefield, and he didn't care about leaving dead bodies in the battlefield. The corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the ground and the seriously wounded soldiers who had not yet been evacuated.

Although cold-blooded, this move is extremely vicious and even effective.It can not only attack the Chinese soldiers and fortifications on the position, but also reduce a lot of burdens, and don't have to worry about those wounded soldiers who have no combat effectiveness but waste medicine and personnel care.

The extremely cruel decision made Lei Xiong's wishful thinking come to nothing, and he directly killed all his wounded soldiers with artillery.

It was also this decision that caused more than 200 Japanese soldiers who had a chance to be alive to lie on the battlefield in the field of mourning, watching their own shells falling from the sky and blowing themselves into fly ash.

Don't look at this man who is so cold that the staff officer is in a cold sweat. In fact, he is also taking a huge risk.

Leaving aside the boss's censure, as long as he can win this offensive and defensive battle, all ugliness can be covered up, even the cruelty of shelling his own soldiers.

However, regardless of the strict discipline of the Japanese army, they would carry out even such cruel orders from their superiors. However, there are many ruthless Japanese soldiers.

Yin Tangxiuer's Zhong Zuo Ke also took the risk of being blacked out by the group of one or two hundred defeated soldiers who had withdrawn from the front line.

The red-eyed infantrymen who were stimulated by the casualties of their fellow countrymen took advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to fire black guns behind their backs, and no one could find out and say nothing.

The point is, if everyone is dead, who will investigate?Maybe the other infantry captains are still laughing behind their backs so that they can't even close their mouths?

Knowing that there would be such disadvantages, Lieutenant Commander Yin Tangxiuer still did this, and even bypassed his immediate superior, the captain of the General Commander, and directly contacted the Divisional Headquarters.

That's because the official position of the captain of the regiment is so desirable that he is already desperate.

Even from then on, the eyes of his guard team will not only stay on the Chinese positions, but also guard against the hatred eyes of the soldiers behind them.

How to say that sentence: If God wants to make people perish, he must first make them crazy!
The lieutenant commander of the Japanese Army belongs to this category. Even the captain of the 83rd Infantry Regiment in the rear, his face turned ugly after knowing his decision. Liang wants to go to the military court, can you not drag me into the water?"

However, there are too many lunatics among the Japanese. Compared with the saucy operations behind the fierce and famous Yokoyama Ze of the 62nd Infantry Regiment, the crazy Yin Tangxiuer is just like a docile little lady.

The most tragic battle on the entire Niangziguan battlefield is not on the main battlefield, but on the flanks!

That was actually Nagano Kameichiro's craziest bet!
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Don't look at the main battlefield where Kameichiro Nagano invested as many as two infantry regiments, three tank squadrons and almost all artillery, but in fact Kameichiro Nagano still has some combat experience. Lose confidence in breaking through the frontal position.

The reason why the main force is placed in the frontal position is actually just one point, to contain and consume not enough troops of the Four Elements Regiment.

To put it bluntly, the 83rd and 82nd infantry regiments are actually cannon fodder in the eyes of Kameichiro Nagano. The one who really determines the victory on the battlefield must belong to the 62nd infantry regiment that entered the mountain from the mountain road.

Yokoyama Ze, captain of the 62nd Infantry Regiment, is not only his confidant, but also has a very famous elder brother Yokoyama Yong in the Japanese Army. Although Yokoyama Yong, who is 48 years old and in his prime, has just been promoted to major general, but It is also known as the 21st "Three Feather Birds" in the Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. Ishihara Wanji and Iimura Soko are all elites in the Japanese Army. During this kind of war, their prosperity is almost visible to the naked eye.

Indeed, the Japanese are also very good at dealing with the world. At this time, Yokoyama Yong, who is only the Minister of Resources of the Ministry of Army, will be promoted to lieutenant general and head of the 1st division in a short time, officially entering Japan A high-level army officer, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, he successively served as the commander of the 4th Army of the Kwantung Army and the commander of the 11th Army of the North China Front Army, commanding an army of [-] troops.

"Regardless of the situation on the frontal battlefield, as long as Zejun breaks through the flanking Chinese positions, with me as a guarantee, your elder brother will walk around the Ministry of the Army. The next commander of the 21st Division must be you, one with two generals, The glory of the Hengshan family will be incomparably brilliant!"

This is the promise Nagano Kameichiro made to Yokoyama Ze in private when he personally came to see him off before the 62nd Infantry Regiment set off.

Yokoyama Ze, who was born in a military family, is not stupid. He knows that his immediate boss is in an embarrassing situation. The accidental death of the head of the Jiuzu Matsudaira division is an opportunity, but it may also become Kameichiro Nagano's Waterloo.

The future and destiny of this major general of the Imperial Army is at the mercy of the Niangziguan battle!

If you win, you will successfully succeed the head of the division!

Defeated, ranging from standing still and encountering criticism from the Front Army and the Army Headquarters, to being transferred to the reserve service and ruining the future!
If not, he wouldn't even draw a big pie for himself when his future and destiny are not yet clear!
But he really had to eat the cake he drew.

Really, Nagano Kameichiro caught the biggest throbbing in his heart!

Since childhood, his elder brother, who is five years older than him, has always been a symbol of family glory. He was a shining figure in the non-commissioned officer school.

On the other hand, he, the second son of the Hengshan family, who worked hard as hard as his elder brother, never lost to his elder brother, but he has always been just like his elder brother's shadow. The captain of the infantry regiment, many people thought it was thanks to his elder brother, but they didn't see his efforts!

It has always been Yokoyama Ze's dream to be close to or even surpass his brother!But now, this dream is in front of him, how can Heng Shanze not be moved?
Therefore, Yokoyama Ze even has a stronger psychological need to win than Kameichiro Nagano!
The members of the third battalion located on the flanking highlands did not expect that they would face such a brutal opponent.

However, for the officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion of the Four Elements Regiment who have never been afraid of tough battles, no matter how tough the opponent is, it is nothing more than "soldiers come to cover up water and earth"!
Sixing Warehouse, Songjiang, Guangde, Bihe, Licheng, and Changle Village, were the Japanese troops not tough in that battle?But in the end, wasn't he smashed on the head by their iron hammer, and his face was covered with blood?

The 4000 Japanese bandits led by the iron-headed commander who dreams of surpassing his elder brother, and the more than 1300 steel army led by the cold-faced battalion commander who bears the family's blood feud, are destined to kill a corpse in this rolling mountain. Mountain blood sea!
Regardless of the fact that the number of Chinese and Japanese troops participating in the war does not exceed 6000, it is not obvious in the history of the Sino-Japanese war, but the attacking side still maintains an offensive posture despite the high casualty rate, which is extremely rare in the entire history of war.

This battle was also called a contest of will by the boss of the [-]th Army!
(End of this chapter)