Chapter 75 The Bloody Setting Sun (3)
Just as Yang Zhen was nervously adjusting his deployment and preparing to launch a counterattack, there was a loud slap in the Japanese and puppet troops' positions at the foot of the mountain.
More than ten mouths were slapped on his face, and the pain was almost numb, but he didn't even dare to cover his face. He was in a state of disguise. He could not resist, but he could only admit that he was unlucky.
From hearing the dense gunfire sounds on the mountain here, to finding that the opponent was not a friendly army immediately launched an attack to the present, although the four consecutive wave-like attacks occupied halfway up the mountain and drove the bandits to the top of the mountain, they were still unable to expel the bandits from the top of the mountain. But I paid a considerable price.
In addition to the accompanying puppet Manchukuo military and police officers who lost their combat effectiveness under the dense machine gun firepower of those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements, their squadron also paid the price of a whole squad falling under the dense firepower of the opponent's heavy machine guns. Too damn, the heavy machine guns from the opponent?
It's not that Koto Fukuda was ignorant, but he was just a squadron leader. Naturally, he wouldn't know that the opponent who was shooting against him on the top of the mountain had seized a whole train full of arms and ammunition at the Weihe Station. Although Kojirohara Nishinomi knew it, he had never explained it to him.
After paying the price, he received limited results. He was appointed to unify the Japanese and puppet troops' combat staff, Roji Kojihara, who was temporarily appointed to unify the Japanese and puppet troops, would naturally not be satisfied. After killing two puppet Manchukuo who had unfavorable combat on the spot, Takao Fukuda, who commanded the only Japanese squadron, naturally became another punching bag.
Major Kojirohara was not just dissatisfied at this time. It could be said that he was extremely angry, otherwise he would not have violated the convention and killed the puppet Manchukuo officers in front of the puppet Manchukuo military police.
For the puppet Manchukuo, a colony that the Japanese army worked hard to manage, although the Japanese army had much more control and stricter control than the puppet army that had just formed in the pass at this time, it rarely dealt with at will.
For those so-called unfavorable puppet Manchukuo officers, they are usually sent to the military court first. Although it is basically a formality and the result is no different, at least they still have to be pretended on the surface.
At this time, Kojirohara No. 2 Major not only slashed and slashed two puppet Manchukuo officers who were at least unfavorable in his eyes on the spot, but also slapped his squadron leader's face into a pig in front of the puppet Manchukuo police present, which shows how angry he was.
What made Major Kojirohara Nichi was angry was not the casualties he had paid to seize the mountain. The team of troops lost by the Third Squadron made Takao Fukuda feel distressed, but in the eyes of Major Kojirohara Nichichi, these soldiers were just consumables of war. He did not feel sorry for the Japanese, let alone those puppet Manchukuo military and police who were not even as good as dogs in his eyes?
The reason why he was so angry was that in his eyes, the great Japanese Imperial Army, which was enough to defeat a regiment or even a division, was a squadron of the Japanese Imperial Army, and attacked several times in a row, but he could not even take down a small hill occupied by bandits. Several charges were suppressed by the opponent's firepower and could not move on the hillside, which really damaged the imperial army's military power.
The failure of the attack would damage the power of the Imperial Army was just one reason he could say. As for the more furious he was, there were more reasons that could not be said. This time, he entered the Sanqueyi and encircled three sides, and took the three-sided encirclement to drive these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements who had always missed the net in previous clearings to a large encirclement that had been set up in the south to strive for complete annihilation. That was, as the combat staff of the Independent Fifth Guard, he formulated it after thinking hard for a night.
Now, I didn't expect that the bandit armed forces in front of him who only knew how to fight and ambush in his eyes and never dared to compete with the imperial army in a dignified manner were so tough. With the cooperation of a large number of puppet Manchukuo military and police, a squadron of the Imperial Army launched four wave-like offensives that were enough to defeat any army's resistance, and actually persisted. Not only did they persist, they could even bite back and cause considerable damage to the imperial army soldiers.
If he could not defeat these bandits in front of him for a long time, the combat plan he had painstakingly designed before the new commander Sasaki to a major general was about to take office was not entirely lost, but he would end up laughing at him. Although he didn't care much about whether he smiled or not, he knew that if this plan failed, his future would be completely unblocked.
Moreover, in Kojiroharaji's view, the most important reason why he could not tolerate his subordinates' delay in vain was the most important thing. If he could not destroy the opponent's resistance and let the troops surrounded by two wings arrive to defeat the opponent, that would be the most untolerant thing.
It's very simple. At this moment, he was fighting fiercely with Guo Bingxun and commanding the eastward direction to suppress the Japanese and puppet troops, the captain of the first brigade of the Independent Fifth Police Force, Hiroji Nakasa Ikeda was a mortal enemy he had formed since the Army Non-commissioned Officer School.
This person not only robbed him of the first place in the same period of graduation, but also once again made him a loser when competing with each other to pursue the daughter of a general. And Koji Ikeda, who became the son-in-law of the general, has since risen to the top of his career, repeatedly suppressing Kojirohara. When Kojirohara and most of his classmates in the non-commissioned school of the same period were still the ranks of the minority, and even the captain, he had already taken the position of captain of the Nakazo.
I heard that after the clearing was over, this person snatched the first place of Kojirohara and the goddess in his heart and the classmate who climbed the ladder, and was about to be transferred to the regular field division as the captain of the corps. In other words, he was about to be promoted to colonel.
They are about to be promoted to the captain of the colonel, but I am still a small major staff officer. Although I am doing well among my classmates at the same time, I rarely have the position of the major, but after all, I am just a small staff member and have never served as the commander of any army. Not to mention the captain of the regiment, even the promotion to the chief staff officer at least seems to be far away now.
When he thought of this, Kojirohara's heart ached. In his opinion, these should have belonged to him. If it weren't for the damn guy who had a father who was a university professor, he would have appeared in a slashing love halfway through the general's daughter and the position of captain of the colonel, all of this should have belonged to him.
Although nepotism is not as popular as in the Chinese army, there is a general's father-in-law or family member on it, and the speed of promotion cannot be compared with the children of ordinary people. Kojirohara Ji stubbornly believes that his opponent will soon be the leader of the colonel, which is definitely related to the father-in-law who should have belonged to him.
Ojiroharaji, who was blinded by jealousy, didn't think about it. He was just the son of a fisherman in Kitakyushu. In Japan, where the family was popular and the family was worthy of equality, it was impossible for him to marry the daughter of a high-ranking general.
Although the general once looked at him differently at the non-commissioned officer school, and expressed his affirmation of his talent, he would have been willing to call him as his son-in-law because of his affirmation.
It is not scary to have ambitions, but what is scary is that he is blinded by ambitions. After receiving the news that Sasaki, who is known as the father of the Manchukuo Army, was about to be transferred to the commander of the Independent Fifth Police Force, he should have been in the office at the headquarters of the security forces, and it was not easy for him to go to the battlefield. It was believed that it was time for him to perform.
As the combat staff of the Independent Fifth Police Force, Kojiroharaji knew clearly the Kanto Army Command's attention to this anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese elements. He also knew that after the loss of Weihe County, especially the army of the Fourth Division that had just been transferred to Manchuria was ambushed north of Weihe County, and the entire brigade of the Fourth Division was bombed into the sky with the army, the Kanto Army Command was under great pressure from the country.
Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru, the commander of the Fourth Division, even threatened that if the Kanto Army Command could not give the Fourth Division a satisfactory reply to the death and injury of thousands of imperial soldiers, he would directly advise the Emperor to strictly hold the Kanto Army accountable and the person responsible for the matter.
As a combat staff officer in the Senior Command, Kojiroharaji learned about the matter immediately, and immediately felt that this was an opportunity to change his destiny. So he worked hard to come up with this combat plan.
In order to leave a good impression on the general, he taught the guy who had snatched his position as a lesson. As a combat staff officer, Ojirohara Nishiko, who was the combat staff, used the excuse of drawing up the battle plan by himself and persuaded the Chief of Staff, who temporarily acted as the commander of the security forces, to send him to coordinate the operations of various departments before Sasaki to No. 1 lieutenant general.
But what Kojiroharaji didn't expect was his fight in his eyes. Although he sent his enemy back to the arms of Amaterasu and washed away the shame of being stolen by the sword. However, because the daughter of the general who had expressed his appreciation to him became a widow, he was ordered to retire from active service for life after the war. He himself was seriously injured in the battle. Although he was rescued, he became a lifelong disabled person because he lost an arm.
At this moment, mixed with the rage of the attack failure, Kojiroharaji, who repeatedly forced his subordinates to quickly capture the mountain in front of him, did not notice that in a ravine less than 300 meters on his right wing, which seemed very hidden because of good vegetation, a unit was quietly approaching his position. He was dancing and waving his saber and terrifying his subordinates, and his attitude was extremely arrogant, and he was also firmly put in the sight of a Type 38 rifle designed and manufactured by his country.
Li Yanping has been through a long battle formation, but I don’t know one thing. This time, a very ordinary surprise attack in his combat career, made him look a little nervous.
After suppressing a veteran, he stretched out his already loaded rifle and was about to kill the guy on the Japanese position who was waving his sword and dancing. After Li Yanping roughly estimated the distance between the enemy and us, he signaled the troops to continue to conceal the enemy as much as possible.
Two hundred meters, one hundred fifty meters, one hundred meters, when the troops covered with branches as disguised, crawled forward little by little bit at a distance of less than one hundred meters away, Li Yanping, who was originally a little nervous, suddenly relaxed.
Turning his head and looking at the light and heavy machine guns that had been set up, Li Yanping drew out his pistol and whispered to the two company commanders who were following him: "Tell the troops not to charge, just use firepower to kill the enemy. If there are many people there, shoot there. Remember to concentrate all the firepower to attack the infantry first, and hand over the Japanese artillery to the commander to deal with."
Seeing the two company commanders nodding, Li Yanping raised his head and carefully observed the Japanese and puppet troops who were attacking the mountain position again, and the axe shell gun in his hand was the first to fire.
After his pistol was fired, the detoured troops concentrated all the light and heavy firepower towards the Japanese and puppet troops who were desperately attacking the defenders on the top of the mountain under Kojirohara.
The Japanese and puppet army was attacking desperately on the hill, but the sudden firepower appeared on the flanks. The Japanese and puppet army, which could not be defended, were hit by the dense firepower that suddenly appeared behind them. Under the attack on both sides, they were defeated after only a short period of resistance.
Yang Zhen, who had been commanding troops on the hill to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops, seemed to be madly attacking the Japanese and puppet troops, saw that Li Yanping had already been detoured and had already fired first. He immediately ordered the artillery that had already determined the firing world to fire immediately, and the dense artillery fire was given priority to hit the Japanese and puppet troops' artillery positions.
The infantry artillery positions of the Japanese and puppet troops were set on a plain in the mountains. Kojiroharaji, who was eager to make achievements, was too careless and too impatient. After he discovered the so-called anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements who were strictly ordered by the Kanto Army Command to annihilate, he immediately began to attack. In order to defeat these troublemakers first, he did not even do the most basic fortifications. Several infantry artillery that served as firepower support were placed on the bare plain.
Although he knew that a train full of arms and supplies in the Kwantung Army, especially a train loaded with some equipment from a mortar brigade prepared by the Kwantung Army to form fell into the hands of the bandits when they were adding coal at Weihe Station, he still didn't care.
In his heart, he did not think that these bandits would use artillery. Because the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces had never used a weapon like mortar when they were harassing the pioneering regiment and the tribes of the group.
The consequence of Kojirohara's carelessness and over-expanding ambition was that his artillery was blown into a pile of scrap iron by dense mortar shells flying over the ridge at the first time.
After a sudden blow and watching his artillery and artillery be restored to parts, he has been serving in the command organs since he graduated from the non-commissioned officer school. The lack of experience in fighting was undoubtedly exposed by Major Kojirohara, who had never served as the head of the army.
At this critical moment, his performance was not as good as that of him, although he was shocked, but soon woke up. With the loss of the commander, his subordinates who spontaneously launched resistance under the command of the sergeant actually became stunned.
If Kojirohara was still alive, Kojiroharaji was dazed at this critical moment and would not have posed a fatal threat to the Japanese and puppet troops. As a very few officers promoted by soldiers in the Japanese army, Kojirohara, who has rich practical experience, at least knows what he should do.
Unfortunately, when Li Yanping commanded the detour troops to launch an attack, he and several soldiers around him were knocked into a hornet's nest by machine gun bullets as soon as possible.
The death of Fukuda Takao was at a loss in the first time, and Kojiroharaji was at a loss. The entire Japanese and puppet army lost command. When the mortar group commanded by Yang Zhen killed the Japanese artillery and began to turn fire and smash the shells on the Japanese and puppet infantry, the Japanese and puppet troops who had lost command could not withstand the attack on both sides. Shortly after the puppet Manchukuo military and police, the relatively weak combat power began to collapse, the Japanese army, which had always been strong, gradually could not support it, showing a collapse.
Gradually awakened from the sudden blow, Kojiroharaji wanted to make his last effort to stabilize the troops, but a mortar shell falling from the sky made him shut his mouth.
Seeing the supreme commander lying in the rain of mortar shells, the Japanese army, which had already shown a collapse, could no longer support it. Under the leadership of the remaining lieutenant captain, he raised the remaining breath and retreated.
After defeating the Japanese and puppet troops at the foot of the mountain, Yang Zhen stopped Li Yanping's idea of pursuing and ordered Li Mingrui behind him: "Send a report to the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, telling him that the Japanese and puppet troops have been resolved here, and ask them about the situation of the war there? Tell them that they can retreat."
Chapter completed!