Chapter 80: Drawing the ground into prison

On March 22, 1942, it was sunny, dry, and gusts.

Although there is no cloud, and the spring breeze blows towards us, there is a depression between the sky and the earth before the storm is about to come!

The design failed, but instead lost nearly 2,000 elite soldiers on the Piw River Bridge and in Tonggu City. In anger, he finally gathered 23,000 people from the 55th Division at dawn. With the cooperation of three flight squadrons, he launched a fierce attack on Tonggu City, which occupied water, highways and railways at the same time, and even established a military airport.

Tonggu, this Myanmar city, also known as Donggua, is destined to be on this day, because this war has been paid attention to by the world and has been forever recorded in the history of the war!

The Echunk position defended by the 589th Regiment was the outpost of Tonggucheng. They were the first to be hit. In order to conquer this position, the Japanese army directly set up two regiments in front of them! A Japanese infantry regiment, such as the 55th Division, had 2,400 people. In terms of their training and weapon equipment, it had exceeded the level of a Chinese reorganized division. In other words, Lei Zhen and Huang Jingsheng faced an enemy attack with combat power exceeding two divisions in the Echunk position!

Before all the heavy weapons could be sent to the front line, the 598th Regiment had only three anti-aircraft machine guns. In this case, even escort fighters were not needed. The Japanese bombers carrying bombs appeared in the air in a swagger.

"Be careful, be careful to be hidden!!!"

Amid the roars of those grassroots officers with combat experience, more than 20 bombers shouted and swept over the 59th Regiment's position. With the sound of these bombers breaking the wind at high speed, they were the series of bombs that slipped out of the bullet cabin.

There is no threat of fighter jets, no positions composed of air defense weapons.

Those without bulletproof armor and self-sealing fuel tanks look like a cigar. They explode as soon as they are hit and explode. They are nicknamed "air lighters" by the US Air Force. They are between this kind of sky and earth without natural enemies or even resistance.

He is the master!

No matter how deep the trenches are dug, no matter how solid the positions are built, no matter how many mud-filled sandbags are laid on the machine gun fortress, they all seem so fragile in the face of the purest weapon of destruction, such as the bombshell, they are easily torn into countless pieces in the thick smoke that soars into the sky and the terrifying roar that can shake people's eardrums.

At this time, in addition to lying in the bunker honestly and minimizing the amount of damage one's body, the rest is waiting, waiting for the next bomb to be blown into a pile of minced meat, or after the bombing is over.

Slap off the dust on his body, push away the corpse that fell beside him, grab the weapon and wait to welcome the enemy's crazier attack.

"It's like this again, it's like this again. It's like this every time!"

Faced with this war weapon that has gathered the crystallization of human wisdom and brought destructive power to the extreme. Faced with this kind of war weapon that can turn the air that cannot be seen or touched usually into a weapon. Your ears are buzzing and buzzing, and hitting your face, it will make your eyelids hurt. The spirit collapses instantly, not just those recruits who have first entered the battlefield.

A squad leader sat in a trench with a gun in his arms.

In the fiercest bombardment after wave, he burst into tears: "Every time the Japanese are like this. They first bomb with planes and then with cannons. Before they fight with them, our brothers will die halfway! This time we went to Myanmar to fight, aren't we supported by Americans and British people? Where are their planes?

Why are only Japanese planes flying over our heads? Why can’t I see their planes?”

Amid the roar, even the soldiers lying a few feet away could not hear clearly what the squad leader was crying.

"I have fought the Battle of Kunlun Mountain, and I have fought the Battle of Songhu. Every time I have been retreated from the battlefield, we can't even get together with ten people. Most of them were blown to death! It turns out that we have more people than them, and we can barely withdraw. Now there are more enemies than us! No..."

Speaking of this, the squad leader stood up on a position where shrapnel were flying everywhere under the rain! He stared at hissing with his bloodshot eyes: "I don't want to be blown into a pile of minced meat like them. I want to go home, I miss my mother..."

The squad leader's cry stopped abruptly. A shrapnel that was more than twenty centimeters long and weighed more than one pound was spinning across his throat. At an astonishing high speed of more than three hundred meters per second, the shrapnel that was blown to the edge of the serrated sharp edge easily cut off the squad leader's neck bone and threw his head back together.

The more fine shrapnel that followed the shrapnel were like locusts flying by, hitting the corpse without a head, and in an instant, countless blood flowers exploded.

It was just the first bombing and the first shelling. The 598th Regiment paid the price of more than 80 people killed and more than 300 people injured. When receiving this purgatory-style baptism, I didn’t know how many people were so scared that they were in pain. How many people couldn’t control it for a while, and let the hot liquid wet their entire army trousers.

But no one laughed at these soldiers who made a fool of themselves in public. Even the "nemesis" who usually fights against each other in an endless battle against the wheat. Suddenly, they suddenly found that the other party became more friendly.

Those veterans who have participated in battles and have practical experience, looking at the new recruits around them, no longer have the same kind of disdain in their eyes.

I don’t know how many veterans pulled out the recruits who were buried in mud and sand again, but they didn’t habitually kick the recruits’ butts hard. After slapping off the dust on the other party’s clothes, most of them only said one sentence: “Boy, you must survive!”

If these recruits can live to see the sun of tomorrow, even if they don’t lose their fetus, they will learn how to protect themselves on the cruelest battlefield and learn to integrate the knowledge they have learned from the training ground into this battlefield where iron and blood meet.

Form the most valuable war experience!

When they can integrate all of this and get used to death, even their nerves become a little numb, congratulations, he is already a veteran.

A veteran who can be a three-pointed person on the battlefield, and a veteran who can gather the morale of new soldiers on the battlefield. So that they will not be scared to the point of being so scared that their legs are weak and they cannot even pull the bolts when they first go to the battlefield!

In a unit, the more veterans, the stronger the combat effectiveness, the easier it is for soldiers to survive on the tragic battlefield, and the more new recruits survive to become veterans, the stronger the unit will be!

This is the iron law of war, and it is also the sentence "Iron-killed soldiers" and the most realistic portrayal. Because...even veterans will die on the battlefield!

On the one hand, it was a thrilling momentum on the battlefield in Myanmar, but it was a blow in front of the ancient city and was eager to take revenge. The 55th Division of Japan was eager to win back its dignity in front of the public.

On the one hand, it was "when the Chinese nation was in danger, every people were forced to roar for the last time", and there was no way out.

Even for the sake of one's own home, for the sake of one's brothers not being used as animals, and for the sake of one's own sisters not being abused at will, and for the sake of one's own battle to the death!

Both sides have reasons that they cannot retreat, and both sides have their own beliefs and persistences that will never change. Therefore, the battle has entered a white-hot stage from the beginning!

The heavy weapons did not have time to arrive at the front line, and the 598th Regiment did not even have infantry artillery. But with the overwhelming rain of grenades, they smashed the enemy's tanks and did not dare to drive in.

Although the fortifications prepared in advance were damaged to a considerable extent by air bombing and shelling, when gunfires sounded, light and heavy machine guns in the machine gun bunkers were fired together, and the bullets were raining.

It has formed a cross-fire network that can be called a solid wall.

I was still very aggressive just now. I wanted to use the Imperial Army's iron fist to smash all obstacles that dared to block the road. I promoted the strength of the 55th Division to the world and soon discovered that the enemy they faced this time was different from the ones ahead.

Very different!

Whether it is the British and Burmese troops composed of the indigenous people of Myanmar or the British army who are well-equipped but not trained very well, facing their attacks, they are soft and shattered as if they are pinched and beaten.

It is because of this that they could almost sweep the entire Myanmar in just a few months, fighting the British army fleeing until they occupied Yangon, the capital of Myanmar!

In front of Tong'an Ancient City, on this land called Echunk, they finally encountered the most powerful resistance since entering Myanmar!

Although they are also Chinese troops, don’t forget that their 55th Division is not just equipped with local Hanyang-made, heavy machine guns, and poorly few light machine guns, but a purely mechanized unit like the 200th Division, a trump card among the aces of the National Army, which was strictly trained by American instructors!

Even if such a unit has no time to send heavy weapons to the front line, it greatly affects their firepower suppression and can only allow the Japanese Air Force to show off their power above their heads. However, their light and heavy machine gun equipment definitely exceeds the standards of any German-equipped division.

To borrow a sentence from Deputy Commander Huang Jingsheng... Just the Air Force is useless. If you want to occupy Echunke and open the gate to Tonggucheng, you must first ask about the machine gun in my hand!

The Chinese soldiers hid in the trenches that had been blown into ruins, lay in the middle of the comrades' bodies, and half-kneeled behind large stones. In short, when they walked into the Chinese soldiers' positions within fifty meters, with a gunshot, the figures of Chinese soldiers could be seen everywhere. As they finally burst into crazy roars, the ones that hit the head were hundreds of grenades that had been squeezed out of sweat on wooden handles!

Immediately afterwards, all kinds of light and heavy machine guns were fired in the fortifications built with various terrain and buildings, and they even jumped into the shells, pouring bullets at them one after another like it was raining.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers caught off guard and were beaten to the ground and unable to raise their heads, the enemy started charging, and ran to the trenches in person, Huang Jingsheng, who set up a telescope to observe the situation of the battle, patted his thigh and shouted three times, "Okay! OK! OK!"

Seeing Huang Jingsheng's excited look, if the command knife had not been abducted by the command knife by the Regiment Commander Zheng Tingji, he might have drawn the command knife and issued a counter-charge order.

At this moment, a series of bullets suddenly hit Huang Jingsheng's side, and the gravel that was blown from the sandbag bounced hard on his face, causing a burning pain.

"Fuck, who bastard beats so accurately?!"

As soon as he shouted, another rifle bullet flew over Huang Jingsheng's cheek. The bullet slashed the air at high speed, and the heat felt that it rubbed. Huang Jingsheng's hair was so hot that it stood up.

Huang Jingsheng quickly squatted into the trench and watched the bullet holes left behind when the rifle bullet hit the trench wall behind him. Huang Jingsheng's first thought was... impossible!

The bullet hole left by the rifle bullet was tilted. From an angle, the enemy was actually shooting at him from a high point!

The terrain here is flat, even if it cannot be said to be flat.

But looking around, there is no small highland nearby that can provide good firepower vision. If there were any, Huang Jingsheng would have occupied it long ago. How could it be the enemy's turn to run here before developing and exploiting it?!

However, whether it is the light machine gun bullet or the rifle bullet that almost hits the target directly, it means that even if you hide in the trenches and use the pre-built chest wall to observe the battle situation, the enemy can see him to a limited extent!

In fact, the enemy could see that it was not just Deputy Commander Huang Jingsheng. In just a few dozen seconds, several light machine gunners had been hit by the enemy on the defense line of the 598th Regiment.

Huang Jingsheng moved his footsteps and moved more than ten meters in the trench, he looked into the hole on another chest wall.

He carefully poked out his telescope and after careful observation, Huang Jingsheng suddenly spat out and whispered: "Are these little Japanese all monkeys? They can climb onto trees and shoot, right?!"

Myanmar has a tropical monsoon climate. You can see towering trees on the high ground of more than ten meters in this country, and some Japanese soldiers actually climbed onto the big trees. This is not significant, but it is enough for them to obtain the height of their firepower vision.

Snipe the machine gun fire point on the 598th Regiment's position from a high place.

Perhaps the telescope in Huang Jingsheng's hand had already explained his identity. Under Huang Jingsheng's stunned gaze, a Japanese soldier who knew that he was making a living in an acrobatic troupe was actually aimed at the position of his hiding in a tallest and thickest tree, and set up a grenade that was not as heavy as a rifle, but could use the Type 91 grenade to shoot out a grenade 600 meters away!

"boom!"

Japanese veterans, who were experienced, used grenade launchers to attack within a range of 400 meters, meant to hit wherever they were, but obviously they had not received training in using grenade launchers on big trees.

Although he aimed at Huang Jingsheng, the Ground Nine-style grenade ejected from the big tree and finally landed on a flat ground more than ten meters away from Huang Jingsheng.

Looking at the rising smoke, Huang Jingsheng's face changed before he could even breathe a breath of air conditioning.

As a commander with rich practical experience, Huang Jingsheng immediately thought of the seriousness of this situation... One-third of the Japanese soldiers were all A-level shooters. If hundreds of A-level shooters were allowed to climb onto a big tree and snipe their defense line with a high gun, and then cooperate with the acrobatic grenade bomb attack, they would be afraid that within an hour, they would carefully build the defense line by the Japanese soldiers using this "monkey climbing tree" tactic that makes people laugh and cry!

The distance between the two sides has exceeded 500 meters. Hanyang's rifle is said to be able to hit eight or nine hundred meters, but the veterans all know that the distance between five hundred meters is really beyond its limit.

If you have to shoot against those Japanese soldiers holding Type 38 rifles and condescendingly, it is tantamount to seeking death.

Use heavy machine guns in the fortifications to attack the Japanese soldiers scattered on the big trees. Not to mention the limited firepower in the fortifications, looking at these heavy guys, there is a feeling of nowhere to start like anti-aircraft guns hitting mosquitoes.

As for the Czech light machine gun with an effective range of up to 800 meters, Is it true that the 598th Regiment equipped with more light machine guns, or are there many A-level shooters in the two Japanese regiments? And once such a shooting breaks out, the veterans who operate the Czech light machine gun are too dead, which will seriously affect the firepower equipment of the 598th Regiment's front defense!

You should know that veterans with rich practical experience can only play a real role by using this Czech light machine gun with a magazine capacity of only 20 rounds. They often use three-long and two-short point shooting method to support the battlefield and in close combat.

In order not to let the enemy determine how many bullets there are in their magazine, they often have bullets in their magazines. When the enemy dares not charge rashly, they quickly change the magazines to disrupt the enemy's judgment and attack rhythm.

Without a long period of baptism on the battlefield, it is difficult to do this even if you have received rigorous training. Most of the recruits will not stop when they hit the trigger and don’t finish the bullets inside.

Frankly speaking, in the battle with the Japanese army, the main force supporting the National Army's firepower network is the magazine that is really small in capacity, but the range is long enough. The accuracy is high enough Czech light machine guns, plus grenades that everyone can throw!

No matter how many expectations Huang Jingsheng had made about the possible war situation, he did not expect the Japanese soldiers to adopt such "exciting" tactics, let alone cracking them against tit!

“Huh…?!”

Huang Jingsheng suddenly widened his eyes because in his telescope's sight, the one he had just pointed at was hiding.

The Japanese soldier who fired a shot trembled suddenly. As a splash of bright blood, the nine-one grenade that he had pinched in his hand, planted a tree more than 20 meters high.

I don’t know who it was, but with just one shot, I shot the Japanese soldier who was born in a 90% acrobatic group and could play grenade launchers in a big tree.

Just as Huang Jingsheng was staring in a daze, the Japanese soldiers who climbed onto the big tree and sniped the defensive positions of the 598th Regiment with one gun. Even the enemies who shot them were not found there, they fell down from the big tree one after another.

Huang Jingsheng suddenly showed a look of what he understood. No wonder Lei Zhen and the others had the best shooting skills today. They put down their signature Thompson submachine guns of their spy platoon and picked up the Type 38 rifle seized from Japanese soldiers.
To be continued...