Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 168 How is this possible?

“If you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China.”

This is what Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi said in a memorial submitted to the Japanese locusts in 1927.

The Japanese had been preparing for this war of aggression against China for decades.

Not only the Japanese navy, but also the Japanese army were fully equipped with the new Type 95 gas masks, and even the civilians were equipped with gas masks.

Not to mention the elite troops of the Type A Division, gas masks are standard equipment for soldiers.

For the Eighth Route Army, straw sandals were standard equipment.

According to the Taigu battle, some main forces of the Eighth Route Army were equipped with gas masks.

However, the Japanese general staff unanimously believed that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with very few gas masks, and only a very small number of troops, with a maximum of 1000 people, were equipped with gas masks.

After the Japanese army launched the "September 131th" Incident, not to mention the Japanese Army's aviation forces, there were as many as independent artillery units in the Japanese Army engaged in chemical warfare, with a total personnel of more than .

There were as many as 7,000 artillery pieces equipped with various types of guns capable of firing poison gas bombs, and countless types of shells, including mustard gas.

Although Major Ogura was not very fond of using this notorious poison gas bomb on the battlefield.

However, it must be said that this type of poison gas bomb is very powerful and suitable for turning the tide of battle or even turning defeat into victory.

There was complete silence on the Daijiazhai position, as if it were dead, with no sound at all.

Major Ogura took the lead and rushed to the high ground of Daijiazhai. Anyway, if he couldn't capture this position, he didn't intend to withdraw from the battle alive.

Seeing that the position was only dozens of meters away, Major Ogura's mouth curled up slightly. Even if the Eighth Route Army was a piece of iron, it would be corroded by the poison gas bomb.

It seems there is no need to commit seppuku or die in battle!

Suddenly, Daijiazhai suddenly came back to life, and light and heavy machine guns were set up, firing at them crazily.

"Da da da da da da..."

Egg-shaped grenades and wooden-handled grenades were thrown out from the Eighth Route Army trenches.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The series of short explosions were deafening.

"Nani?"

Major Ogura was shocked and fell behind a rock like a dog eating shit. Even so, he was shot in the right arm and blood was gushing out.

In an instant, the Japanese soldiers who had no time to react were swept down.

However, they were the elite troops of the Type A Division after all, and they reacted quickly. The remaining Japanese soldiers crawled on the ground to avoid the counterattack.

Both sides were elite main forces, and the battle was difficult to determine for a while.

Major Ogura stretched his head out to take a look, then quickly retracted it, his face filled with disbelief and shock: "How is this possible?"

"How come these Eighth Route Army soldiers are equipped with gas masks?"

What happened to the straw sandals that were standard equipment for the Eighth Route Army?
How did gas masks become standard equipment for the Eighth Route Army?
This scene caught Major Ogura off guard. He thought that the position he had secured was now in jeopardy.

but!

At the Daijiazhai position, the Eighth Route Army had only one ordinary company with a total strength of no more than 100 people.

The total strength of the regiment headquarters and the 1st Infantry Battalion was more than 1000 people.

"The Locust Army outnumbers the Eighth Route Army by 10 to 1. The advantage is mine."

Thinking of this, Major Ogura took a deep breath, and while firing at the Eighth Route Army position with his tortoise box, he shouted orders:
"Attack! Attack!"

Under his command, the Japanese soldiers quickly adjusted their status.

Light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers continued to pour ammunition onto Daijia Ridge, and Japanese soldiers attacked the Eighth Route Army's positions in wave after wave.

The 772th Company of the 10nd Regiment was responsible for defending the Daijiazhai position.

This was the third attack by the Japanese army. More than half of the 3th Company had been killed or wounded. The company commander and instructor were both injured, but they still held on to their command positions.

If the 10th Company had not been equipped with gas masks, the entire company would have been killed when the Japanese attacked with poison gas bombs.

But the disparity in troop strength was too great, and the Japanese fought with all their might this time.

If this continues, it is only a matter of time before the entire 10th Company is sacrificed and the position is lost.

The commander of the 10th Company glanced back and told himself that he had already sent a signalman to the regimental headquarters to request artillery support.

Why hasn’t the artillery support arrived yet?
Could it be that the 1st Mortar Regiment has run out of ammunition?
Those prodigal sons don't even know how to save money.

Even without artillery support, we must hold our position.

The Japanese wanted to pass through the Daijiazhai position, but they had to step over the corpses of the soldiers of the 10th Company.

Beside the 10th Company Commander, accompanied by a crisp ding sound, the machine gunner groaned as the bullet from the Type 38 rifle pierced his Type 80 steel helmet and his body fell sideways onto the wheeled Maxim.

"Oh shit!"

The company commander pushed the machine gunner aside and personally operated the wheeled Maxim heavy machine gun, firing crazily at the Japanese.

Several Japanese soldiers who had just stood up and were about to attack when the heavy machine gun went silent suddenly fell in a pool of blood.

Upon seeing this, the instructor immediately held up the ammunition belt and acted as the assistant gunner, waiting for the company commander to die before continuing to attack.

A Japanese sniper aimed at the commander of the 10th Company and was about to pull the trigger.

But at this moment, a sharp whistling sound was heard in the sky, and these sharp whistling sounds became one and the same.

This voice is familiar...

Mortar shells travel much slower than the speed of sound, so they arrive about a second later than the sound.

Just when the Japanese sniper was stunned.

"Boom boom boom..." 36 82 mortar shells exploded in the Japanese attack formation, accompanied by 36 plumes of smoke and a shock wave that swept across the entire Japanese attack formation.

36 82mm mortars were rapidly firing at the attacking Japanese 1st Infantry Battalion.

For Captain Zhao, who could hit the target every time without a gun mount, he could command a mortar regiment to provide all-round artillery coverage of the Japanese attack formation without even conducting a test firing in advance.

In the first round of artillery fire, almost all of them hit the Japanese skirmish attack formation.

However, before the Japanese could react to the first round of artillery fire, the second round of artillery fire had already arrived.

"Boom boom boom..."

The dense smoke from the explosion once again enveloped the attacking 1st Battalion of Japanese infantry.

Then came the third round of shells, the fourth round of shells...

"How can this be?"

He watched as his 1st Infantry Battalion was completely engulfed in flames and smoke, with soldiers constantly being thrown high into the air by the shock waves of bombs.

Colonel Kobayashi Hengyi showed an expression of disbelief and shock on his face.

"Is this the artillery firepower of the Eighth Route Army?"

"How could this be the artillery firepower of the Eighth Route Army?"

The dense artillery shells fell like hail, round after round, almost without any pause.

Based on the artillery firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the battle-hardened Colonel Kobayashi Hengyi had no difficulty in calculating the firing rate: about 500 shells fell per minute.

This is at least the firepower of an artillery unit like the military field gas team, which can fire 36 Type 90 mm mortar shells at the same time.

And it was rapid shooting, covering the artillery fire.

It is precisely because of this that Kobayashi Tsuneichi was shocked.

This firepower density would be the artillery fire launched by the Eighth Route Army.

According to the intelligence, isn't it said that the entire Eighth Route Army only has a dozen or so small-caliber mortars at most and is seriously short of artillery shells?

"Did the Eighth Route Army steal all the Type 90 mm mortars from the Field Gas Battalion?"

"But where did the Eighth Route Army get so many 90mm shells?"

The 82mm artillery shells produced by Boss Chen are no less powerful than the Japanese 90mm artillery shells, and are even two points more powerful.

Although Kobayashi Tsuneichi had heard dense artillery fire before, due to the distance, he thought that the main force was engaged in an artillery battle with the Eighth Route Army. After all, the main artillery force of the 79th Regiment was also in the encirclement.

"idiot."

"retreat."

With a grim expression and a frown on his face, Kobayashi Hengyi, who couldn't figure out the solution, cursed angrily and had to order a retreat.

If the Eighth Route Army's artillery continued to bombard his 1st Infantry Battalion, it would be completely wiped out.

……

As the Japanese retreated in disgrace, Captain Zhao of the Eighth Route Army's 1st Mortar Regiment also ordered the shelling to stop.

"This artillery support is awesome!"

When the smoke cleared, the commander of the 10th Company looked at the corpses of Japanese soldiers scattered on the ground and the miserable Japanese soldiers in the distance, and he felt relieved.

The instructor, who came from an intellectual background, curled his lips and said, "Haha, I still like the way the little devil was acting just now."

……

"Reporting to the regiment commander, the battalion commander was hit by an artillery shell and has died for the Sky Locust."

The captain of the 2nd Infantry Company walked quickly to Kobayashi Hengyi and reported with a bow.

Behind the squadron leader, two soldiers were carrying a stretcher, on which lay the battalion leader, Major Ogura, whose body was riddled with shrapnel.

All beings are equal under the artillery shells. Major Ogura was hit by an 1mm shell at close range while he was crawling for cover. He was deader than dead.

Major Ogura fulfilled his promise and would never leave the battle alive.

Kobayashi Tsuneichi glanced at Major Ogura's body, waved his hand coldly, and signaled the soldiers to carry it away.

After the soldiers carried Major Ogura's body away, Major Kobayashi Tsuneichi looked at the squadron leader and asked in a deep voice, "How many troops are left in the 1st Infantry Battalion?"

The second squadron leader bowed his head and said, "Reporting to the regimental commander, the 2st Infantry Battalion has suffered more than half its casualties. The 1st squadron leader is injured, and the 1rd squadron leader died."

Kobayashi Tsuneichi's tone left no room for doubt: "Yamazaki-kun, from now on, you are the captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion. You will immediately reorganize your troops, await my orders, and be ready to attack at any time."

More than half of the troops suffered casualties, and even the elite infantry battalion of the Type A Division suffered a significant blow to their morale.

"Hi!"

Tatsuo Yamazaki suddenly lowered his head, turned around and walked away quickly.

Kobayashi Tsuneichi looked at the communications captain and said, "Immediately send a telegram to the division headquarters to inquire whether the 6th Flight Squadron has set out. Also report the location of the Eighth Route Army artillery positions and request that the aviation units give priority to bombing the Eighth Route Army artillery positions."

"Hi!"

The communications staff member suddenly lowered his head.

He looked at the Daijiazhai Heights and then at the regiment headquarters. He also had a reserve team of the regiment headquarters' guard squadron.

Kobayashi Tsuneichi regained his confidence. As long as the air force destroyed the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army on Daijiazhai Heights would have no artillery fire support, and his troops would definitely be able to capture Daijiazhai Heights!
By then the center will blossom and great things will be accomplished!

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