The abnormal movements of the 108th Division actually started a week ago, but under the command of Shangguan Yun, the 4th Battalion entered the only mountain road in Dakouzi Cave 10 days ago.

Bluestone Rock!

Bluestone rock is called a mountain, but it is actually an extremely huge stone. It has become an uneven mountain in the erosion of tens of millions of years of wind and rain.

However, Bluestone Rock, a hill that stretches for nearly a thousand meters, has very little vegetation and thin soil layers. It is extremely difficult to dig trenches on it and build ordinary field fortifications.

Tang Dao actually made a very detailed plan for the defense system of the entire Dakouzi Cave, but it was a comprehensive defense system composed of at least 6 infantry companies. It was difficult to complete only the current three infantry companies of the 4th Battalion.

Therefore, after asking Tang Dao for advice, Shangguan Yun resolutely decided to use his main force to defend Qingshiyan, which was 15 kilometers away from the base, and then use an arsenal to defend more than 100 people from all key areas along the way to prevent the Japanese army from sending elite teams from climbing from the mountains into the town for damage.

Moreover, with the lesson of the Japanese army sending elite special forces like Fujiwara Zhanxiong to infiltrate the mountainous areas in southeastern Shanxi to attack, Tang Dao immediately issued the highest warning at the garrison after learning that the 108th Division had any abnormal movement.

This means that militias who usually participate in military training and receive a monthly salary of 2 yuan will receive guns and ammunition to form an armed patrol team!

A team of 20 people, two disabled veterans working in various factories in the garrison serve as chief and deputy captains, and conducts armed patrols 24 hours a day in the 3-kilometer area outside Dakouzidong Town.

Such a team has 900 people and 45 teams, divided into 3 shifts, each shift has 15 teams and 300 people, one shift patrols, one shift repairs, and another shift patrols the surroundings of the base, and militias are allowed to carry their own hunting dogs.

Although it cannot be said that even flies and mosquitoes cannot fly in, at least when outsiders jump into the mountains, they can be warned in time.

During the mission, each militia will be subsidized by 10 yuan, and a further 5 yuan will be added to those who carry the hunting dog!

The rewards offered by the Four-League Group are very generous, but the greater the benefits you enjoy, the greater the responsibility you have. No matter whether you receive the order to assemble the military, the punishment will be extremely severe if you are less than 4 hours.

The Four-Line Group will not only recover all its income during its training period, but will also include it on the Four-Line Group blacklist. All Four-Line Groups cannot be hired in the industry, and will notify the whole town of their name and home address.

In such an era, being dealt with like this would not be a problem of social death, and it was basically removed from the villages in Dakouzidong Town.

If someone spreads rumors and bewitches people's hearts, he can even arrest the main force of the group and then convict the crime based on the size of his crime. You should know that the Tang group is not just the leader of the Four-Second Group, but also the stingy old man who stamped the seal and appointed Licheng County Magistrate!

You cannot use military law to the common people, so you can use the rule of law! A county chief must not say that you want to throw you into a prison, you can be beheaded.

Therefore, the highest martial law order of the Tang regiment and County Magistrate Tang was so rare that few people dared to violate it. More than 880 militiamen who participated in training and received salary usually came, and more than a dozen had not arrived. That was normal. There are always people who are afraid of death, right?

At this time, the Four-Royal Regiment's garrison was already considered the highest rank. At the order of Dan Tai Yunshu, the Arsenal Security Platoon brought militias familiar with the local terrain to capture the slags who were hiding in the mountains.

Although Old Dantai is usually gentle and gentle, he is a literati, but he is the leader of a prominent clan in Jiangnan. There are hundreds of people in his family, and he can manage such a big family well, so how can he have a good slut?

He knew very well that he should use the principle of heavy sanctions in troubled times. If he did not use bloody facts to suppress these militiamen who had guns, he would start to get in trouble when he saw that the battle was not good, which would be extremely troublesome.

Immediately ordered these deserters to be beaten 50 whips in front of the militia. A whip dipped in water, not to mention 50 whips, 30 whips can make no good meat on the whole back. More than a dozen cowards completely became the chicken that killed the chicken and scared the monkey. They were so painful that they were fainted on the execution ground. If they were not properly treated, they would be disabled even if they were not killed!

Logically speaking, Old Dan Tai is a lynching, but County Magistrate Tang’s future father-in-law can be said: “I am County Magistrate Tang’s father-in-law, and I can beat him even if I beat him. Who can’t beat the evil people of Licheng County?”

This is nothing wrong with saying it. No matter in ancient and modern times, the county magistrate's father is a ruthless person on the territory of a county!

Moreover, Old Dan Tai's extremely cruel order did work. The 900 militia who were completely intimidated were defended by the entire area around Dakouzidong Town like a railway track.

Perhaps these militias who are still ordinary in their bones cannot fight against the Japanese main force, but when they encounter small-scale Japanese troops, under the leadership of experienced veterans, they can still eat them with a complete advantage of military strength.

This effect is enough. As long as the backyard of your home does not catch a fire, you can fight with peace of mind in front of you.

Shangguan Yun made up his mind to guard the Bluestone Rock position. It would be best if he could block the attack of the Japanese army. If he really couldn't stop it, he could also use the space difference of Bluestone Rock 15 kilometers away from the garrison to win time for the evacuation of the mechanical equipment personnel of the garrison arsenal.

Of course, because of the special terrain of bluestone, Shangguan Yun would not just put his personnel on the exposed rocks and allow the Japanese artillery fire to bombard the Japanese army. He built a solid underground, underground, hidden light and dark fire points, bomb dropping stations, intermittent trenches, and traffic trenches, forming a dense and multi-level firepower network.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through the division and encirclement, the infantry on each position were required to carry enough dry food and water for 7 to 10 days, and make sufficient preparations.

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

Long before the Japanese arrived, an engineer squad assigned to the 4th Battalion buried anti-infantry mines on the roads and areas where the Japanese army might attack, and even buried anti-tank lightnings on the open ground far away from the Bluestone Rock position.

The anti-tankrei thing was also plundered by Tang Dao from the Krupp Company's arms warehouse, but Tang Dao despised that the thing was too heavy. Moreover, the main force of the Four Lines Regiment had 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns. Just the thin-skinned tanks of the Japanese army were not afraid at all, so they didn't carry any one.

Shangguan Yun was born in the regular army of the 88th Division, but he liked this kind of anti-tank ray very much. He would first hit two poles if he had dates or not, and then buried dozens of anti-tank rays in the wilderness hundreds of meters away from his position.

The German Empire, which had long foreseeed that mechanical torrents such as tanks could dominate the battlefield in the future, had crazily developed anti-tank mines a few years ago. In this black technology, it is already the world's top.

The batch of anti-tank mines obtained by the Four Lines have a warhead of 12 pounds of explosives and a pressure threshold of 200 pounds, which also means that the anti-tank mines have enough discern whether an infantryman or a vehicle that is stepped on from their heads. The 12 pounds of explosives can not only break the tracks of a heavy tank, but also turn a light tank into a toast.

It is precisely the existence of this batch of anti-tank mines that completely transformed the 108th Division, which was coming in full force, into pure infantry.

Before the war began, the poor 108th Division spent a lot of effort to transport 8 Type 94 armored vehicles into the mountains and were blown up 6. The only two remaining vehicles were not afraid to move forward any further. None of the 6 bombed 94 Xiaodouding survived the outbreak of 12 pounds of explosives.

Of course, anti-tanks alone actually do not cause much damage to the Japanese army. After all, the Japanese army has never had the tactical concept of using tanks to win the battlefield. No matter which kind of tank, it is just an auxiliary to infantrymen.

It is precisely this backward tactical concept that in the future Battle of Nomenkan, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were completely pressed on the ground by the torrent of steel of the fighting nations. The gap between world-class army and world-class army is no longer just a problem of equipment.

But this tactical concept, which is already a backward one, is very practical on the Chinese battlefield, because the Japanese opponents do not have many armored vehicles or artillery at all. All kinds of weapons and equipment alone are enough to crush them. What other advanced tactical concepts do you need?

Therefore, upon learning that his armored troops were severely damaged, the Major General Brigade Commander of the 104th Brigade of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army led the troops, Shiro Kuroda, still resolutely launched the attack.

The intelligence department of the front army has made it clear that the telex division unit is the main force of the enemy's four regiments is already in Jindong, and the maximum number of people left behind is no more than a thousand people. He is now carrying two infantry corpses that have just been replenished, two artillery brigades and two baggage squadrons, with a total force of more than 8,000 people. What is the reason why he doesn't take the initiative to launch an attack?

After tactical reconnaissance and artillery preparations, more than 2,000 Japanese infantry attacked from two directions of Bluestone Rock, and a thousand-man-level infantry brigade gave up the infantry artillery. The entire army was light-fit, carrying only guns, ammunition and two-day portions of dry food and water to avoid Bluestone Rock, and entered the mountain from about 3,000 meters away from Bluestone Rock, trying to cross the mountains to attack the rear wing of Bluestone Rock.

This is also the general terrain around the bluestone rock observed by flying up to a reconnaissance balloon that was dozens of meters high. Shiro Kuromota made a tactical adjustment after thinking hard for a day.

Otherwise, the Battle of Bluestone Rock would not have been delayed until the afternoon of September 10th.

In the past six months, the 108th Division has been beaten up by the Four Army Regiments and the 683rd Brigade and is also weak! Even when facing a small hill that lasts more than a thousand meters, the Chinese military positions with a maximum of only a thousand defenders have an absolute advantage in their own troops, and they have considered it over and over again and never dare to start a war easily.

If it were half a year ago, the cliff of the 108th Division would be more brave than the colleagues of the permanent division of the A Division.

Just this pre-war tactical reconnaissance was also earned at the cost of blood.

The 104th Infantry Brigade was extremely well prepared for the attack on Dakouzi Cave. It carried three reconnaissance balloons to reach the sight of the reconnaissance balloons that were dozens of meters high up to thousands of meters. However, in order to see more carefully, Shiro Kuromota ordered the reconnaissance balloons to be launched about 1,500 meters in front of the Bluestone Rock position.

Logically speaking, this distance is quite safe. Heavy machine guns seem to be able to hit such a long distance, but the huge balloon is very small in the shooter's field of vision.

As a result, the cautious Shiro Kuromota still underestimated the strength of the Sixing Group.

The 4th Battalion, which has almost all been replaced with German weapons, has both a 20mm machine gun and a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, and is also equipped with special observers and observers. Their target is Japanese ash machine moving at a high speed at a height of 1,500 meters. This kind of live target that rises to high altitude is stressless for them.

The reconnaissance balloon that was shot through the air leakage was quickly dropped by a 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullet, which directly broke two senior Japanese staff members into meat pies.

Shiro Kuromota, who had learned his lesson, had to order the reconnaissance balloon to be placed 2,500 meters away from the entire battlefield. At such a long distance, even if there was a telescope, he could only see a rough look.

However, this is enough for Shiro Kuromota.

Through the observation terrain and map drawn by the staff officer, Shiro Kuromota thought he was smart and played the tactical plan of feint attack on the main battlefield and circling the attack on the flanks.

The Chinese have terrain advantages, but they have huge advantages in military strength and can calmly dispatch troops. The Chinese can only defend according to the terrain. The Japanese army has the absolute initiative on the current battlefield. Judging from the current battlefield situation, there is no problem.

However, Shiro Kuromota's understanding of the Four Lines Regiment was still a few months ago. He only knew that the Four Lines Regiment had certain heavy firepower such as mountain cannons and mortars that would cause damage to the Imperial Army, but these heavy firepower would definitely be carried by its main force.

This idea is also fine. The main force is not worthy of heavy firepower. Do you leave the heavy firepower in the camp and eat dust?

But although the current four-line regiment battalion is not as powerful as the four-line regiment that was half a year ago, if you want to say that you don’t even have infantry artillery, just carry a rifle and carry a light and heavy machine gun to cross mountains and hills, you can really do it, "I can't beat you so hard that you don't know anything."

Of course, it is not realistic to use the soyer and 82 mortars currently deployed in Qingshiyan to attack a light infantry brigade. After all, the main position faces two infantry corpses and the Japanese army with two artillery brigades. These limited artillery fire must support the main position.

But I have to praise Teacher Xiao He here. After learning that the 108th Division of the Japanese Army was not in the middle of the main force, he was gathering heavy troops to attack the garrison, Teacher Xiao He, who was the director of the arsenal, made a quick decision and ordered the arsenal to put down all other matters and make every effort to produce and process the unpromoted semi-automatic rifles and MP28 submachine guns to improve magazines.

This is a request that the Tang regiment has long put forward, hoping to continue to strengthen the light firepower of the front-line troops, increase the magazine 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 appeared on the battlefield three years later. With a larger capacity magazine, the firepower intensity of the MP28 submachine gun will be doubled in an instant.

However, this kind of magazine is not just about increasing the volume, it requires continuous testing and improvement to prevent the bullet from getting stuck when it enters the magazine.

Teacher Xiao He is indeed a genius. Under Tang Dao's prompt, he prepared the samples a month and a half ago and entered the test stage. He also produced hundreds of magazines to be promoted in small-scale. As a result, the battle began before the war could be done.

Now, when the Japanese army is attacking heavily, the fourth battalion has not had many troops. If the firepower is not strengthened, there may be no chance in the future.

However, these two types of magazines have not yet experienced the test of war. After all, the test field and the battlefield are still different. If there is a malfunction on the battlefield, it will be a disaster.

This idea is that even Shangguan Yun, who is most eager to output firepower, dare not make a decision easily. Teacher Xiao He was confident in his products and made a decisive decision. Two days before the battle began, he transported tens of thousands of increased capacity magazines to the front line.

That also means that the firepower of the semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns equipped by the 4th Battalion at this time is much stronger than that of the main force of the Four Lines Regiment fighting at Niangzi Pass.

According to the configuration of an infantry squad with 2-shot submachine guns and 3-shot semi-automatic rifles, the fire-raising output of a 4th battalion infantry squad during the fire suppression stage has at least 200 more bullets than an infantry squad of the three infantry battalions that are still fighting with the 21st Division.

That is almost equivalent to an extra light machine gun.

Under such firepower intensity, the light Japanese troops who had finally climbed over cliffs would be beaten to tears.

In the future Battle of Songgu Peak, Chinese soldiers also marched more than 100 miles lightly and blocked the tanks and cannons of American cowboys. The premise was to occupy favorable terrain in advance. Moreover, the Chinese soldiers at that time were also not weak in light firepower. The tenacious will of hunger and even eating stones to satisfy their hunger was the best soldier on the planet. However, even so, the casualties were still so heavy that the always hard Chinese commander was tearful when he saw the number of casualties.

Of course, this is just a later story. In the current battle of Bluestone, the two Japanese infantry regiments must first block the attacks in turn.

On the afternoon of September 10 alone, the Japanese army launched three rounds of artillery attacks, with six infantry attacks, and more than 8,000 troops were deployed. The attack intensity was no less than that of the main battlefield of Niangzi Pass.

And there were the first and second battalions on the other side, and there were only 8 infantry platoons and one artillery company on Bluestone.

The last two infantry platoons were kept tightly in their hands by Shangguan Yun. Even if there were already red signal flares on the position to request support from the troops, he was not moved.

During the nine months of being trapped in the concession, confusion and despair not only tempered the spirit of this former army captain, but also gave him a rare time to ask Chief Xie for advice and study.

With the cruel battlefield practice and the outstanding and brilliant instructors' heartfelt guidance, Shangguan Yun is much more terrifying than his white-faced scholar's appearance. Tang Dao chose him as the battalion commander of the 4th Battalion, not because he was the old commander, but because Xie Jinyuan's strong recommendation.

If the former army captain company commander was a sharp sword, then Shangguan Yun now has restrained his sharpness and seemingly unpretentious heavy sword.

A heavy sword without a sharp edge!

But it can break through the heavy armor!
Chapter completed!