Rise from eight hundred.

The change of the 108th Division actually started a week ago, but the 4th Battalion, under the command of Shangguan Yun, had entered the only place that must pass through the only mountain road in Dakouzidong 10 days earlier.

Bluestone Rock!
Qingshiyan is said to be a mountain, but it is actually a huge rock, but it has become a bumpy mountain after tens of millions of years of wind and rain erosion.

However, Qingshiyan, a hill stretching nearly a kilometer, has very little vegetation and thin soil, so it is extremely difficult to dig trenches and build ordinary field fortifications on it.

Tang Dao has actually made a very detailed plan for the defense system of the entire Dakouzidong, but it is a comprehensive defense system composed of at least 6 infantry companies, which is difficult to complete with only the current 4 infantry companies of the 3th Battalion.

Therefore, after Shangguan Yun asked Tang Dao for instructions, he resolutely decided to use his main force to defend Qingshiyan, which is 15 kilometers away from the station. Along the way, more than 100 people from the arsenal guard platoon were stationed at various important places to prevent the Japanese army from sending elite teams to enter the town from the mountains. Destroy.

Moreover, with the lessons learned from the last time the Japanese army dispatched an elite special agent team like Fujiwara Seno to sneak into the mountainous area of ​​southeast Shanxi to attack, Tang Dao immediately issued the highest alert for the station after learning of the changes in the 108th Division.

This means that the militiamen in Dakouzidong Town who usually participate in military training and receive a monthly salary of 2 yuan will receive guns and ammunition to form armed patrols!

A team of 20 people, with two disabled veterans working in various factories in the station as the principal and deputy captain, conducts armed patrols 2 hours a day in an area 3 kilometers outside Dakouzidong Town.

There are 900 such teams, 45 teams, divided into 3 shifts, each shift has 15 teams of 300 people, one shift patrols, one shift repairs, and another shift patrols the perimeter of the station, and militiamen are allowed to bring their own hunting dogs.

Although it cannot be said that flies and mosquitoes cannot fly in, at least it can give early warning when outsiders jump into the mountainous area.

During the execution of the mission, each militia subsidizes 10 oceans, and those who carry hounds get another 5 yuan!
The remuneration offered by the Four Elements Regiment is very generous, but as much benefit as they enjoy, they have to have as much responsibility. No matter men or women, once they receive the assembly military order, those who do not arrive within 4 hours will be punished extremely severely.

The Four Elements Group will not only take back all their income during the training period, but also put them on the blacklist of the Four Elements Group. All industries involved in the Four Elements Group will not be hired, and their names and home addresses will be notified to the whole town.

In such an era, it is not a matter of community death if it is done like this, and it is basically removed from the villages of Dakouzidong Town.

And if there are those who spread rumors to confuse people, they can be arrested and wait for the main force of the regiment to return to the division and then convicted according to the size of their crimes. You know, Tang Tuanzuo is not just the leader of the Four Elements Regiment, but also stamped by a stingy old man What about the appointed magistrate of Licheng County!
Military law cannot be used against ordinary people, but the rule of law can always be used!Don't say that the head of a county will throw you into a prison, he can be beheaded.

Therefore, few people would dare to disobey the highest martial law order of Tang Tuanzuo and Tang county magistrate. More than 900 of the 880 militiamen who usually participated in the training and received their salaries came, and more than a dozen did not show up. It's also normal, there are always people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, aren't they?

At this time, Tantai Yunshu, who was already the highest rank in the Four Elements Regiment's station, gave an order, and the arsenal's security platoon led militiamen who were familiar with the local terrain to catch the scum that had hidden in the mountains.

Old Tantai may not look like a literati at ordinary times, but he is the patriarch of a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River. There are hundreds of people in the family. If he can manage such a large family well, how can he have a good brother?
He knows very well that in troubled times, heavy codes should be used. If you don't use the bloody facts to calm these militiamen with guns now, and then you will mess up first when you see the battle going bad, it will be extremely troublesome.

Immediately ordered these deserters to be beaten 50 lashes in front of all the militiamen, and then the lashes dipped in water, let alone 50 lashes, 30 lashes can beat the entire back without a good piece of meat, and a dozen cowards have completely become. The chicken that killed the chicken and scared the monkey was stunned on the execution ground. If it is not treated properly, it will die or be disabled!

Logically speaking, this is lynching for old Tantai, but the future father-in-law of Tang county magistrate can say: "I am the father-in-law of Tang county magistrate, and I can beat him, but I can't beat the wicked people in Licheng county? "

There is nothing wrong with what you say, no matter ancient or modern, the county magistrate's father is a ruthless character in the territory of a county!

Moreover, Lao Tantai's incomparably cruel orders did have an effect. The 900 militiamen who were completely intimidated, led by disabled veterans, defended the entire area around Dakouzidong Town like a rail pass.

Maybe these militiamen who are still ordinary people can't fight the main force of the Japanese army, but when they encounter a small-scale Japanese army, under the leadership of experienced veterans, they can still eat them with a complete force advantage.

It is enough to have this effect. As long as the backyard of the house does not catch fire, the front can fight with peace of mind.

Shangguanyun made up his mind to guard the Qingshiyan position. It would be best if he could block the incoming Japanese army. If he couldn't stop it, he could also use the space difference of 15 kilometers from Qingshiyan to the garrison to provide machinery for the garrison arsenal. Evacuation of equipment and personnel wins time.

Of course, because of the special terrain of Qingshiyan, Shangguanyun would not put his personnel on the exposed rocks and let the Japanese artillery bombard him. In the center, solid, underground, concealed light and dark firepower points, bomb sites, intermittent trenches, and arc-shaped fortifications supported by traffic trenches were built, forming a dense and multi-layered firepower network.

In order to prevent the Japanese troops from breaking through the division and encirclement one by one, the infantry in each position was required to carry enough dry food and water for 7 to 10 days, and made sufficient preparations.

In addition to solid defense, Shangguan Yun also made his own counterattack. Blindly defending can only be passively beaten. Counterattack is a necessary and necessary means in defensive warfare.

Long before the arrival of the Japanese army, an engineering squad assigned to the 4th Battalion laid anti-personnel mines on roads and areas where the Japanese army might attack, and even laid anti-tank mines on open ground far away from the Qingshiyan position.

The anti-tank mine was also searched by Tang Dao from the Krupp ammunition warehouse, but Tang Dao disliked that it was too heavy, and the main force of the Four Elements Regiment had 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns, just like the Japanese army. Small thin-skinned tanks are not to be feared at all, so I didn't carry any of them.

Shangguan Yun was born in the regular army of the 88th Division, but he likes this kind of anti-tank mines very much. If there is no date, he will shoot two shots first, and then he will directly bury dozens of anti-tank mines in the field hundreds of meters away from his position. inside.

The Germanic Empire, which had long foreseen that the mechanical torrent of tanks would dominate the battlefield in the future, developed anti-tank landmines frantically a few years ago. This black technology is already considered the top in the world.

The batch of anti-tank mines obtained by the four-row group has a warhead of 12 pounds of explosives and a pressure threshold of 200 pounds, which also means that the anti-tank mines have enough resolution to step on their own heads. Infantry is also a vehicle, and 12 pounds of explosives can not only blow off the tracks of a heavy tank, but also turn a light tank into a toast.

It is also the existence of these anti-tank mines that completely turned the aggressive 108th Division into pure infantry.

在开战之前，可怜的108师团费了九牛二虎之力才运进大山里的8辆94式装甲车被炸毁6辆，仅存的2辆是死活也不敢再往前走了，6辆被炸毁的94小豆丁在12磅炸药的爆发下没有一个乘员幸存。

Of course, anti-tank alone did not do much damage to the Japanese army. After all, the Japanese army never had the tactical concept of using tanks to win the battlefield.

It is this backward tactical concept that will lead to tens of thousands of Japanese troops being completely rubbed against the ground by the steel torrent of the fighting nation in the future Battle of Nomenkan. The gap between the world's first-class army and the world's second-rate army is no longer just a matter of equipment. .

However, this kind of outdated tactical concept is very practical on the Chinese battlefield, because the opponents of the Japanese army do not have many armored vehicles and artillery. All kinds of weapons and equipment are enough to crush them. What advanced tactical concepts are needed?
Therefore, after learning that his armored units had suffered heavy losses, the head of the 108th Brigade of the 104th Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Kuyeda Shiro, who led the department, still resolutely launched an attack.

The intelligence department of the front army has made it very clear that the main force of the enemy's four-row regiment is already in the east of Shanxi, and there are no more than a thousand people left behind at its station. Now he has two infantry regiments and two artillery regiments that have just been replenished. There are also two supply squadrons in the brigade, with a total strength of more than 8000 people. Why does he not take the initiative to attack?

After tactical reconnaissance and artillery preparation, more than 2000 Japanese infantry attacked from two directions in Qingshiyan, and a thousand-man infantry brigade gave up infantry artillery. Qingshui avoided Qingshiyan and entered the mountain from a position about 3000 meters away from Qingshiyan, attempting to climb over the mountain and attack the rear wing of Qingshiyan.

This is also the rough terrain around Qingshiyan observed by the reconnaissance balloon flying tens of meters above the sky. Kuyone Tianshiro made a tactical adjustment after thinking hard for a day.

Otherwise, the Battle of Qingshiyan would not have erupted until the afternoon of September 9th.

It's true that the 108th Division has been beaten by the Four Elements and the 683rd Brigade in the past six months, and it's useless!Even in the face of a small hill stretching for more than a thousand meters, and a Chinese army position with no more than a thousand defenders at most, and our own troops occupying an absolute advantage, we must think twice and never dare to go to war lightly.

If it was half a year ago, the 108th Division would have been more brave than the colleagues of the Type A Permanent Division.

As for the tactical reconnaissance before the war, it was also bought at the price of blood.

The 104th Infantry Brigade was very well prepared for the attack on Dakouzidong. They carried 3 scout balloons, so that the sight range of the scout balloons rising tens of meters in the air was as high as several thousand meters, but in order to be able to see clearly Some, Koyone Tianshiro ordered the reconnaissance balloon to take off about 1500 meters in front of the Qingshiyan position.

Logically speaking, this distance is quite a safe distance. The heavy machine gun seems to be able to shoot so far, but the huge balloon is placed at such a long distance, and it is very small in the shooter's field of vision.

As a result, the cautious Kuyone Tianshiro still underestimated the strength of the Four Elements Group.

The 4th Battalion, which has almost all been equipped with German weapons, has both 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns, and is also equipped with special observers and observers. Their target is the high-speed movement at an altitude of 1500 meters. Japanese handjobs, this kind of live target that rises into the sky, has no pressure on them.

The reconnaissance balloon that was pierced by the 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets and dropped rapidly directly smashed two senior Japanese staff officers into meatloaf.

Kuyoneda Shiro, who had learned the lesson, had to order the reconnaissance balloon to be placed 2500 meters behind the entire battlefield. With such a long distance, even with a telescope, he could only get a rough look.

Still, that was enough for Kuyoneda Shiro.

Through the observation of the terrain and the map drawn by the staff officer, Kuyone Tianshiro thought he was clever in playing the tactical plan of feinting the main battlefield and attacking from the flanks.

The Chinese have an advantage in terrain, but they have a huge advantage in military strength, and can dispatch troops calmly, while the Chinese can only stick to the terrain. The Japanese army occupies the absolute initiative in the current battlefield. Judging from the current battlefield situation For this, there is no problem.

However, Kuyone Tianshiro's knowledge of the Four Elements Regiment was still a few months ago. He only knew that the Four Elements Regiment had certain heavy firepower such as mountain artillery and mortars that would cause damage to the Imperial Army, but these heavy firepower would definitely Will be carried by its main force.

This idea is also no problem, the main battle is not equipped with heavy firepower, should the heavy firepower be left in the camp to eat ashes?
However, although the heavy firepower of the current Sixing regiment battalion is not as good as that of the Sixing regiment before the first half of the year, if you want to fight a group of infantry who don't even have infantry artillery, they carry rifles and light and heavy machine guns on their backs. , it is really possible to achieve 'beating until you don't even know you'.

Of course, it is not realistic to use the howitzers and 82 mortars currently deployed in Qingshiyan to fight an infantry brigade light infantry. After all, the main position is facing two infantry regiments and two artillery brigades. For the Japanese, these limited artillery fires had to support the main positions.

But here I have to praise Teacher Xiao He. After learning that the 108th Division of the Japanese Army was gathering heavy troops to attack the garrison while the main force of the regiment was away, Teacher Xiao He, who was the director of the arsenal at the time, made a decisive decision and ordered the arsenal to put down all other affairs and focus on production and processing. Improved magazines for semi-automatic rifles and MP28 submachine guns that have not yet been promoted.

This is a request made by Tang Tuanzuo a long time ago. He hopes to continue to strengthen the light firepower of the front-line troops, increase the magazine capacity of the Czech semi-automatic rifle to 20 rounds, and increase the magazine capacity of the MP28 submachine gun to 32 rounds.

This is not what Tang Dao thought of himself, but it has appeared on the battlefield three years later. With a larger capacity magazine, the firepower of the MP3 submachine gun will be doubled in an instant.

It's just that this kind of magazine is not just as simple as increasing the volume, it needs to be improved through continuous testing to prevent bullets from jamming when entering the magazine.

Teacher Xiao He is indeed a genius. Under the reminder of Tang Dao, he made a sample as early as one and a half months ago and entered the trial stage. He also produced hundreds of magazines and planned to enter a small-scale promotion. As a result, the war started before it had time. up.

Looking at it now, the Japanese army is attacking heavily, and the fourth battalion has not many troops. If we don't strengthen our firepower, we may have no chance in the future.

However, these two types of magazines have not experienced the test of fire after all. After all, the proving ground and the battlefield are still two different things. If there is a malfunction on the battlefield, it will be a disaster.

With this idea, even Shangguan Yun, who is most eager for firepower output, dare not make a decision lightly. Teacher Xiao He has confidence in his products and made a decisive decision. Two days before the start of the battle, tens of thousands of Magazines were shipped to the front.

That also means that the semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns equipped by the 4th Battalion at this time are much more powerful than the main force of the Four Elements Regiment fighting in Niangziguan.

按照一个步兵班2杆冲锋枪3杆半自动步枪的配置，一个4营步兵班在火力压制阶段的集火输出，比还在和21师团血战的三大步兵营一个步兵班多了最少200发子弹。

That's almost equivalent to having an extra light machine gun.

With such firepower, thousands of lightly armed Japanese soldiers who had finally climbed over the cliff would be beaten to tears.

In the future battle of Pine Bone Peak, the Chinese soldiers also marched lightly for more than 100 miles, and even blocked the tanks and cannons of the American cowboys. The indomitable spiritual will of the stone is the best soldier on the planet, but even so, the casualties are still so heavy that the always tough Chinese top commander has tears in his eyes after seeing the casualties.

Of course, this is just a later story. In the current battle of Qingshiyan, it is necessary to block the two infantry regiments of the Japanese army from attacking in turn.

On the afternoon of September 9 alone, the Japanese army launched three rounds of artillery attacks, six infantry attacks, and invested more than 10 troops. The attack intensity was not weaker than that of the main battlefield of Niangziguan.

Over there, the first battalion and the second battalion are defending, and Qingshiyan has only 8 infantry platoons and one artillery company.

The last two infantry platoons were firmly held by Shangguan Yun. Even if red flares were fired on some positions to ask for reinforcements, he would not be moved.

During the 9 months in the Concession, the bewilderment and despair not only tempered the spirit of the former army captain and company commander, but also gave him a rare time to ask and learn from Chief Xie.

With cruel battlefield practice and the guidance of an excellent and brilliant instructor, Shangguan Yun is far more terrifying than his white-faced scholarly appearance. Tang Dao chose him as the commander of the 4th Battalion, not because he is an old officer, but Xie Jinyuan highly recommended.

If the former army captain and company commander was a sharp sword, then the current Shangguan Yun is a seemingly simple and unpretentious epee.

No front epee!

But it can break through heavy armor!

With one sword strike, the enemy must die!