Chapter 182: The Battle of Defense of Nanjing (VI)

Sending a team up the mountain to search is better as bait to lure the Chinese national team ambushing the mountain to expose the target. In the telescope of Takagi Ring, you can clearly see that the team sent has successfully passed the mountainside that had just been shelled and headed towards the top of the mountain. Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire from the mountain, and more than a dozen soldiers rushing in front fell to the ground. The remaining soldiers were lying down and counterattacked. The gunshots were very dense, accompanied by the sound of heavy machine guns, which sounded no less than one battalion.

At this time, Takagi Huan breathed a sigh of relief. If the gunshots were too sparse, it means that the Chinese army on the mountain was deliberately hiding their strength. Now no less than one battalion fired, indicating the real strength of the Chinese army on the mountain. Faced with the attack of a small team, the defenders on the mountain fired at the same time, and even used heavy machine guns, which just reflected the panic psychology of the defenders on the mountain.

It seems that he is still a little overestimated by the Chinese army. Takagi Huan muttered to himself, then nodded to Okatsu Keizhi, who had been impatient and said, "Okatsu Jun, I think you can attack."

"The whole army advanced." Okayama pulled out his command knife, and while shouting the command, he turned his head and said proudly to Takagi Huan: "Takagi, I can stand to the top of Fangshan Mountain in less than an hour."

"Mr. Okayama, I wish you success." Takagi Huan nodded with a smile, but when Okayama turned around, his face changed and he looked disdainful. He always looked down on an officer like Okayama, who was brave but not wise.

At this time, the two brigades commanded by Hasegawa Masaki had already begun to attack the outer positions of Chunhua Town. Although the 3.8 kilogram high-explosive bomb of the Type 92 infantry artillery had already plowed several hills on the periphery, the resistance of the defenders was still very tenacious, and the two brigades were blocked from attacking at the same time.

"Fire the artillery and concentrate the fire to blow it up for me." When the charge was repelled again, Hasegawa angrily ordered the artillery brigade to launch another artillery bombardment.

One round of artillery shells fell on the frontier positions of the 305th Regiment. The sudden shelling caused great casualties among the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 305th Regiment, which had no time to retreat into the anti-aircraft artillery hole.

A soldier lying in the trench with his head in his arms raised his head while taking advantage of the artillery fire. While spitting out the mud in his mouth, he shouted to a sergeant squad leader beside him: "Squad Leader, didn't the commander say that there was artillery fire support from Rongyi Division? Why are the Japanese all bombarded us and we didn't see our artillery fire counterattack?"

"Damn, who knows it? Maybe it's the commander who is coaxing his brothers to kill their lives here again." The sergeant squad leader also cursed with dissatisfaction.

"Wang Laosi, shut up. Disturb the morale of the army and shoot it on the spot. Are you impatient to live?" At this time, a lieutenant platoon leader came out of a pile of floating soil, shook the soil on his body, and stared at the sergeant squad leader and scolded him: "This is what the regiment said in person. Wang Laosi, you were also one of the members of the suicide squad when you were in Luodian. Will our regiment be such a person?"

"Planer leader, I didn't say that the rank was coaxing us. Maybe our rank was also coaxed by the commander above." Wang Laosi said hurriedly.

"Fuck. You guy stared at me as an observation post, and the others followed me into the anti-aircraft cannon hole."

At the same time, the command post on the top of Fangshan could also be clearly seen in the command post of the explosion of artillery shells rising on the frontier positions of Chunhua Town.

"Teacher, fire the artillery. If you continue to blow it up, the brothers of the 74th Army will not be able to withstand it." Li Weishan once again ran to the command post to ask the division commander for fire. Li Weishan, the artillery position of the neon army at the foot of the mountain, had already been aiming in the artillery glasses and then. As long as the eight Krupp mountain cannons arranged on the top of the mountain fired five rapid fires, he would guarantee that he could completely destroy the twelve Type 92 infantry cannons.

"Can't bear it? Other troops may not be able to withstand it, but Zhang Lingfu's troops will definitely be able to withstand it. Stop talking nonsense. The Japanese below are not allowed to be exposed before they come up." Chen Xiuwen glared at Li Weishan and said. He met the Sixth Division again, and was under the city of Nanjing. Chen Xiuwen not only wanted to block the 6th Division's advance, but also determined to teach this beast army a lesson again.

As he said that, Chen Xiuwen raised his telescope and observed nearly a brigade of Japanese soldiers who had already surged from the bottom of the mountain. He said slowly: "Remember, when the fire battalion opens fire, your artillery battalion must guarantee me that the starter hits and completely knock down the Japanese artillery positions."

Only then did Li Weishan understand the commander's intention, and quickly raised his intact right hand and stood attentively and saluted: "Yes, the master seat. We must ensure that the starter hits and destroy the Japanese artillery positions."

"Warriors, rush forward." In order to let the Young Master Takagi see what the real imperial warrior was, Okabaya Keizhi personally led his troops to rush up the Fangshan Mountain. A team sent first was pressed by the firepower of the Chinese army and could not move and suffered heavy casualties. This also made Okabaya Keizhi very dissatisfied. In his opinion, it was precisely because of Takagi Huan's excessive caution that caused the unnecessary casualties. We must rush forward as soon as possible to rescue the team.

At this time, behind the position of the second regiment, the twelve black holes of m2 had already pointed at the Japanese rushing forward. Behind m2 was the mortar position. The gunners were quickly adjusting the shooting elements based on the parameters reported by the commander who observed the Japanese position behind the gun mirror. They were all waiting for the signal of the spy company ambushing on the mountainside. As long as the Japanese entered the encirclement, the fire battalion would concentrate all the firepower to open fire.

Finally, the Japanese who were desperately trying to charge on the top of the mountain rushed to the middle of the mountain. Peng Hui showed his head from behind a big stone. When the Japanese passed by not far away, he had noticed a Zhongzuo who was waving the sword. Undoubtedly, this Zhongzuo was the supreme commander of the group of Japanese.

"Just take him first." Peng Hui murmured in his heart, and whispered to several soldiers around him: "Be careful, the signal flare is ready to be launched. At five o'clock, the officer who is holding the command knife, aim."

"Bang." The signal flare rose from the air halfway up the mountain.

"Shoot!" Peng Hui shouted, and took the lead in pulling the trigger to the officer Zhongzuo who had already put the rifle in his hand. Several other gunshots also rang almost at the same time.

When he heard the sound of the signal flare fire, Okao Jingzhi, who was about to turn around, suddenly exploded. The soldiers in the spy company were basically sharpshooters, and the good performance of the Galand rifle made the other four people, including Peng Hui, aimed at Okao Jingzhi's head. The result of five 7.62mm bullets hitting one head at the same time was that the head was completely smashed, and a blood sword sprayed from the neck that was as big as a bowl to a height of half a meter.

The dozens of Japanese around looked at the scene in front of them in horror, and the captain whose head had lost his head was twitching in a pool of blood.

Before they could react, they saw the twelve m2 and twelve sixty mortars of the fire battalion rising from the signal flares firing and fired amid the roars of the officers. At the same time, more than a thousand rifles from the other two battalions that had not been fired were added, dozens of light machine guns, and more than a dozen heavy machine guns fired at the same time.

Especially the twelve m2 volleys, the firepower that was abnormal to the extreme turned into a huge sickle in the hand of the god of death, harvesting life to the fullest. Wherever the fire net passed, only piles of flesh and blood were left on the ground. In an instant, nearly 300 officers and soldiers fell down.

Fortunately, before the fire net was squeezed, more than 700 other officers and soldiers who were hiding down had not had time to fight back. Suddenly, dense bullets flew from behind and on the flanks. Although not as dense as bullets on the mountain, these bullets were extremely accurate. Dozens of Japanese soldiers were directly beaten into hornets' nests behind them.

What frightened the officers and soldiers of the Ogata brigade that the nightmare was not over yet. A strange cry came from the air, and twelve sixty-mm mortar shells were smashing towards them one by one.

"Boom boom boom boom" Amid the sound of the earth shaking explosions, the officers and soldiers of the Xufang Brigade were drowned in the smoke and dust in the sky, and a series of fireballs rose into the air. Never saw such firepower. The Japanese officers and soldiers who could not scream even if they could not make a sound were blown into the air one after another by powerful air waves, and then they were torn into pieces by sharp fragments and bullets flying from all directions. Some Japanese lying on the ground, but were rolled into the air with the soil, and then turned into a burst of blood mist and sprinkled on the ground.

A signal flare suddenly rose from the back of Ogata's brigade in the charge. Takagi Huan, who was watching the progress of the troops with a telescope at the foot of the mountain, suddenly felt something was wrong. Before he could shout "bad" in his mouth, the entire mountain suddenly seemed to have erupted like a volcano, and the entire part above the mountain was boiling. In the lens of the telescope, Takagi Huan saw the powerful firepower he had never seen before. The officers and soldiers of the Ogata's brigade were suffering from the devastating killing of innocent people. Yes, it was to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and he had no power to fight back. Takagi Huan opened his mouth wide, unable to believe that everything in front of him was true.

Suddenly, an unusually strange scream came from the air. Takagi Huan couldn't help looking up at the sky, and then his face changed drastically. Fire lights passed by the sky and headed straight for the artillery position that was shooting towards the outer periphery of Chunhua. Only then did he realize that the strange scream was the sound of the shells flying rapidly in the air.

"Boom boom boom boom." A series of violent explosions made the ground under Takagi's feet tremble. This feeling made him feel like he was back to the scene of the Kanto earthquake he had experienced more than ten years ago. With a "wow" scream, Takagi fell to the ground with his head in his arms.

Masahen Hasegawa also watched all this in a daze. His artillery position suddenly fell into a sea of ​​fire. The light-shaped 92 infantry artillery was blown into the sky and disintegrated in the air. The soldiers who were fleeing everywhere screamed and the shells that were exploding one after another. There was no rapid fire at all, and the landing point was extremely accurate. Is this the Chinese army I remembered? Is it the 20th Independent Brigade in Songjiang again?

With a sudden loud bang, the largest shell on the artillery position was detonated, and a huge shock wave passed like a hurricane. Even Hasegawa, which was almost one kilometer away from the position, almost lost his tenure. At this time, he woke up. The artillery position was over, and the first troop attacking Fangshan was in danger. The key now is to break through the outer defense line of Chunhua Town as soon as possible and occupy Chunhua. Otherwise, when the Chinese army on Fangshan freed up their hands, such powerful firepower would be condescending, then the only thing waiting for his forty-seventh Regiment was to be destroyed.

"Attack, attack Junhua immediately." Masahen Hasegawa roared hysterically.

The officers and soldiers of the Second and Third Battalions woke up as if they were dreaming, raised their guns and launched an attack on the outer positions of Chunhua Town again, but all the things they had just witnessed greatly reduced the morale of these terrified officers and soldiers.

"Awesome, it's really amazing." The front-line command post of the 305th Regiment, Li Tianxia, ​​the commander of the 153rd Brigade, and Zhang Lingfu, the commander of the 305th Regiment, looked at everything in front of him foolishly, and they were all petrified. They saw the scene as if the Chinese national team and the Japanese army were transferred during the Battle of Shanghai. The predecessor of the Rongyi Division, the Independent Twenty Brigade, was well-known and famous. Li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu, who had not witnessed it, both had an idea of ​​whether they were too exaggerated. But after witnessing all this in front of them, they were sure that it was true. At the same time, what surprised them was the powerful firepower of the Rongyi Division and the suddenness of the attack, which just gave the most heavy blow to the Japanese attacking Fangshan.

At this time, Zhang Lingfu understood why the Rongyi Division did not fire when his position was violently bombarded by the Japanese. It turned out that it was the time to wait for this. However, despite this, Zhang Lingfu still felt a little strange in his heart. After all, his battalion on the front line suffered a lot of casualties in the series of shellings.

"The Japanese are coming up again." As a staff officer holding a telescope is in charge of observing the Japanese's movements exclaimed, Li Tianxia and Zhang Lingfu quickly picked up the telescope in their hands and looked forward through the observation hole.

The Japanese, who had been defeated twice, rushed up to the two small hills defended by the First Battalion and the Second Battalion again.

"Fight, fight hard for me. The Japanese artillery positions are over. Tell my brothers, let the Rongyi Division see. Our 74th Army is not a vegetarian." Zhang Lingfu did not care about asking for instructions from the brigade commander Li Tianxia next to him, and directly gave an order.

Hearing Zhang Lingfu's tone of ordering, he was vaguely thinking of parting with Rongyi Division, Li Tianxia couldn't help but frown slightly. This junior who was released from the Tiger Bridge Prison after the war, who was several years older than him, was indeed very good at leading troops to fight, but he was just too arrogant.

The sound of gunfire on Fangshan finally calmed down. In less than half an hour of fire raid, the soldiers of the Second Regiment, including the regiment commander Wang Shaoping, opened their mouths and looked at everything in front of them. A whole gang of Japanese soldiers, except for two or three hundred who fought to break out, the remaining seven or eight hundred Japanese were lying at the forefront of the position, and many who were not dead were still wailing.

The Second Regiment of Supplementary Regiment is the worst combat power of the entire Rong 1 Division. In addition to some of the soldiers screened out from the more than 4,000 Northeast Army and defeated soldiers from the Eastern Suburb Barracks when they formed the Rong 4th Regiment, there are also the officers and soldiers of other troops who were constantly dispersed from the front line during this period. They have never seen such terrifying firepower as the Rong 1 Division Firepower Battalion. Especially the twelve M2 heavy machine guns that they had never seen before, hit people, either missing arms and legs, or directly blowing their heads, or even cutting them in the waist. Several of the poor resistance could not help but squat in the trenches and vomiting.

"Order the Second Regiment to clean up the battlefield." Chen Xiuwen, who was the first director, put down the telescope in his hand and ordered. Although there were two or three hundred Japanese who fought to break through the siege, the results of the battle were beyond his expectations. Moreover, he was satisfied with Peng Hui's actions of trying his best to block the Japanese who fought to break through the siege despite the casualties. Two or three hundred Japanese were nothing in his eyes, but the soldiers of the special agent camp were much more valuable than these Japanese who broke through the siege, and even one to ten, Chen Xiuwen was unwilling to change them.

"Fight! Hit me hard! Machine gun! Shoot in depth, suppress the Japanese firepower tightly, and the mortar immediately knocked off the Japanese machine gun!" The first battalion commander of the 305th Regiment, at the forefront, jumped into the bunker of heavy machine guns, loudly ordered the machine gunners to strengthen the deep strafing, and turned around to order the regiment commander to temporarily allocate the mortar platoon to kill the Japanese machine guns that were covering the infantry charge.

"Bong! Bong!" Two dull sounds sounded behind him, two mortar shells flew out of the cannon chamber and accurately landed next to the light machine guns that were firing. Two Neon Army machine gunmen were blown up before they understood what was going on. Then another light machine gun was blown into a dumb. The other few machine guns were either suppressed by the machine gun fire of the condescending Chinese defenders, or chased by the mortar shells that fell from time to time. For a moment, the firepower of the Neon Army suddenly weakened, and the second team, which was attacking the hills of the first battalion, was once again suppressed in the open space, but the casualties this time were much greater than the previous two attacks.

"Baga!" Seeing that the attacking troops were once again suppressed by the firepower of the Chinese army on the hill, the captain of the second brigade, Yoshioka Rai Sheng, who was lying on the ground, clenched his hands into fists, and smashed heavily on the ground and cursed loudly.

As an experienced commander, Yoshioka Rai Sheng knew very well that if he could not quickly break through the front position and rush into Chunhua Town, once the Chinese army on Fangshan defeated the Ogata brigade, they would be very likely to pursue it. And they would be attacked from both sides.

He must also break through the Chinese defenders' positions. Yoshioka Raisheng gritted his teeth and regardless of the bullets running around him, he once again got up from the ground, waved his commanding knife, and howled loudly: "Attack! Attack! Warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, advance!"

So under the supervision of officers at all levels and Chief Cao, the soldiers of the Neon Army once again got up from the ground and rushed back to the Chinese defenders on the hill. Although the 1st Battalion of the 305th Regiment had an absolute advantage in the terrain and had solid fortifications, the Japanese who were on the verge of attack were at an absolute disadvantage, the number of Japanese soldiers was large, nearly twice that of the first battalion, and the Japanese's superb shooting skills still caused considerable casualties to the soldiers of the first battalion who were hiding in the trenches and constantly pulling the trigger.

"Go forward! Keep moving forward!" Yoshioka Raekaku ran forward quickly while shouting. The experienced Yoshioka knew that the faster he ran, the lower the possibility of being hit by a bullet. He also took the initiative and used his own initiative to motivate the officers and soldiers who were obviously depressed.

Seeing that the position to the top of the mountain was getting closer and closer and the breakthrough was right in front of him, Yoshioka Rai Sheng couldn't help but howl excitedly. The Japanese in the second brigade also boosted their morale and shouted: "Onzai, Onzai." He rushed forward.

But at this moment, the shrill roar of artillery shells suddenly came from behind. The artillery positions on our side had long been destroyed, and even the heels of Yoshioka Raika could imagine that this was the artillery fire of the Chinese army on Fangshan.

"Archite! Bombardment! Lying down, lying down quickly!" Yoshioka Raisheng immediately fell down and ordered the soldiers loudly. However, it was too late. Rows of shells roared in, and huge explosions filled his ears. The shock waves generated by the explosion made Neon soldiers run around with their heads in their arms, with heavy casualties.

Yoshioka looked up and found that not only his troops were bombing, but the third battalion, which was also attacking another hill, was also bombarded.

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat quickly!" Seeing that the situation was not good, Masahen Hasegawa saw more and more accurate shells falling on his troops. He no longer carries out attacks and hurriedly ordered the retreat.

After Chen Xiuwen solved the Japanese attacking Fangshan, he immediately focused on the positions outside Chunhua. Seeing that the Japanese were attacking the frontier positions of the 305th Regiment at all costs, and the defense of the 305th Regiment was in danger, he quickly ordered the artillery battalion and fire battalion to open fire. The eight Krupp mountain cannons and twelve sixty mortars were too threatening to deal with the infantry charging.

"Secret Service Battalion attacked." When Chen Xiuwen saw the attacking Japanese soldiers starting to retreat under the attack of artillery fire, he quickly ordered the spy companies that had moved to the foot of the mountain to launch an attack from the flank to the Japanese retreat team.

The remaining Japanese in the Second and Third Battalions were immediately stunned by the fire of machine guns that suddenly emerged from the flanks. At this time, they were like frightened birds, and they did not dare to fight at all. They fled back desperately in chaos.

Although the two battalions of the 305th Regiment defended the frontier positions were very casualties, Zhang Lingfu, who had been holding on to his strength, was reluctant to miss such a good opportunity and immediately ordered: "Blow the charge and attack the whole person."
Chapter completed!