In fact, until the first batch of nearly 1,000 Japanese troops jumped from the wooden raft into the river flooded in their calf and rushed to the land, the gunfire of the opposing defense line was not as fierce as imagined.

This made the Japanese army successfully land at less than double digits!

"Yoxi! The army's well-prepared artillery fire is indeed useful! The Chinese should have been defeated by the bomb. I sent a signal flare to order the troops behind to speed up and go ashore. The wooden boat returned to the subsequent troops to arrive. This time we will break through the Chinese position in one fell swoop and will never let down the trust of Your Excellency Itagaki." Konishi Hayami, standing on the gunboat, put down the telescope in his hand, with a cold face and a determined look on his face.

As the captain of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Konishi Hayami was ordered to lead his troops to Fenglingdu Town five days ago. He had never experienced the painful harassment of his colleagues in the Third Division, and he also maintained the confidence that the Imperial Army would win. This is one of the reasons why Fujita Shin chose him as the front-line commander for forcing the Yellow River to cross.

Another reason is naturally that the 18th Infantry Regiment, which had just arrived, is also the only infantry regiment without combat losses. As the infantry regiment leader who actively demanded to be the main attack, he should of course have this honor.

Although I heard that the Chinese gathered a large number of heavy machine guns during the last forced crusade, causing great casualties to the 6th Infantry Regiment, Konishi Hayami was still full of confidence. After all, more than a thousand imperial warriors of the 6th Infantry Regiment used their lives to explore the last strength of the Chinese, and the division also made corresponding arrangements for this.

Although the wooden raft with thick sandbags as the ceiling cannot withstand shells, the method of wanting to reap the lives of imperial officers and soldiers by shooting is no longer feasible.

The only thing that makes Xiaoxi Hayami a little worried is the Chinese heavy artillery hidden in the mountains. Can heavy artillery cover landings with a width of more than 10 kilometers by relying solely on heavy artillery?

The first batch of landing personnel led by Konishi Hayami had more than 4,200, including two infantry brigades of his 18th Infantry Regiment, the 7th Infantry Regiment, and one infantry brigade under the jurisdiction of the 19th Infantry Regiment.

And this is just the first wave. At each ferry crossing in Fenglingdu, there are two infantry brigades and two artillery squadrons waiting patiently. Once 8 infantry artillery and 8 75 mountain artillery are transported to the river bank, it will become a huge help for more than 6,000 imperial army to conquer cities and land.

When he thought that the troops he commanded might exceed one infantry brigade, Konishi had already seen the fire in his heart becoming more and more intense.

Soldiers who do not want to be generals are not good soldiers. Xiaoxi, who has been determined to become an imperial general since childhood, was promoted to the army collude four years ago. They were only one step away from their dream of being a general, but this step was so difficult that it was almost desperate. But now he finally saw a glimmer of hope that as long as he breaks through Tongguan, the possibility of his front-line commander being promoted will be higher than 80%.

The fire in the heart of the Japanese Army Colonel in the river was rising, but the major general in the army located somewhere on the Chinese position on the river bank was extremely worried.

"The Japanese are already landing. Deputy Chief of Staff, should we fight back?" Brigade Commander Hu, who was on a high ground somewhere 1,300 meters away from the river bank, never put down his telescope, and his face was filled with anxiety.

"No hurry, there are only a thousand people. Wait until they gather more people!" Tang Dao, who was also holding a telescope, looked calm.

This time, Tang Dao's title of deputy chief of staff of the Tongguan Defense Zone was no longer just a decoration, but was appointed by two commanders as the commander-in-chief of the riverbank defense line after the trio's meeting ended at 10 o'clock, responsible for commanding the blocking operations of three infantry regiments deployed on the riverbank line. Not only that, Tang Dao even has the third command of all artillery positions in the Tongguan Defense Zone.

Therefore, even if the command to evacuate all officers and soldiers on the front line positions more than 300 meters away from the river bank to the second line positions 600 meters away, even when Japanese ships approach the river bank, only one-fifth of the machine gun firepower point was allowed to fire, and the other machine gun firepower points were not allowed to fire without seeing red signal flares. Brigade Commander Hu had no choice but to obey the order.

The attack in half-crossed is not just the truth that history tells the Chinese soldiers. The Japanese army also suffered a great loss in this tactic 20 days ago.

As a result, Tang Dao actually abandoned this tactic that only consumes ammunition and does not have to pay much casualties, but also watched more than a thousand Japanese troops continue to advance on the mudflats. They could dig up simple bunkers for individual soldiers and build a position to cover the subsequent troops into the land in less than a few minutes.

Once thousands of Japanese infantry gain a foothold on the river bank, accompanied by heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns and infantry artillery, plus the fire cover of heavy artillery groups and aircraft, it will be the end of the 28th Division and the Sichuan Army New Corps.

Yes, this time, the Sichuan Army's new recruits no longer just hide in the mountains behind the river bank positions and held heavy machine guns to the sky. More than 4,000 people returned to the left-wing position of Tongguan City when various Japanese troops had abnormal mobilizations two days ago.

However, the left-wing position at this time is slightly different from the last time after resisting the Japanese attack.

Since Tang Dao used his move to "beyond shooting" to establish his position as deputy chief of staff in Tongguan Defense Zone, coupled with the blessing of such heavy gifts as 30 heavy machine guns and 150,000 bullets, Brigade Commander Hu was almost obedient to Tang Dao.

Tang Dao believed that for ordinary trenches, the bunker group positions could only prevent infantry assaults, but their defenses for heavy artillery and bombs were weak, and they could not rely solely on flesh and blood to fight against Japanese artillery fire. The soil in Tongguan area is most suitable for excavating tunnels, so he proposed the concept of "hiding soldiers with tunnels" to prevent heavy artillery.

Brigade Commander Hu agreed deeply, so when Tang Dao was constantly harassing the Third Division on the other side of the river, he called on more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the entire brigade and more than 4,000 soldiers from the Sichuan Army New Regiment to start a plan to dig the "rat hole" on the original position.

Thanks to the loess clay soil of the Guanzhong Plain, and the deepest tunnel is even nearly six meters deep, each tunnel has several exits connected to the trenches, which allows soldiers hiding into the tunnel to enter the trenches in the shortest time.

One tunnel can hide soldiers and an infantry company, and each tunnel is connected to each other. You can even retreat from the first-line position without passing through the trenches to the second-line position, which means the tunnel is not that wide and the speed is slower.

This thing is much safer and more flexible than the Tibetan Bing Cave. Even if the Japanese army attacked the trenches, it would not be necessary. As long as they did not control all exits of the tunnel, the soldiers in the tunnel would have a way to enter the trenches and engage in close combat with the Japanese army through the exit.

Even if the front-line trenches were occupied by the Japanese army, it would be fine even if the Japanese army entered the tunnel. There were specially reserved crossfire points at the connecting locations between the tunnels. Only two rifles were needed to achieve the effect of being a one-man who could pass through ten thousand men.

Nearly 30 such tunnels were dug in just 20 days, and the total length of the connection was nearly 10,000 meters, which was extremely efficient.

In addition to the infantry brigade of Commander Hu, the other units of the 28th Division have basically done the same thing. It can be said that in the past 20 days, in addition to mobilizing the people of Tongguan to dig through trenches, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 28th Division themselves were not idle. The loess dug out can raise the defensive position of the entire 28th Division by 30 cm.

That is a position with an area of ​​4.5 square kilometers!

Even Master Dong and Brigade Commander Hu put their divisions and brigade headquarters in the underground tunnel two days ago.

In the words of Dong Zhao, "Sleeping in this tunnel, I am no longer afraid of Japanese planes throwing bombs. Even if it is a heavy bomb, can I bite off a hair?"

This is true. In the morning of the bombing of dozens of artillery and dozens of aircraft, the 28th Division suffered less than a hundred casualties, which was at least ten times less than the last time when the Japanese army had only used heavy artillery before using bombers!

The main reason is that there must be enough observation posts on the surface of the ground, and there must be machine gun shooters in the machine gun castle. Otherwise, everyone will hide underground, and the Japanese artillery fire is for heating.

This made Hu Da Brigade so proud. When Tang Dao returned from the trio of combat meeting, he ignored the fire on the ground and insisted on pulling Tang Dao to the tunnel to boost morale to the officers and soldiers hiding there.

Actually, I just want to go to various departments to show off: I see if I am powerful or not, and this move I came up with to make the Japanese devils' heavy artillery blow up. Now I know that I let your baby dig holes day and night for your own good!

Tang Dao was so amused that he could only walk around with him, and then he pulled the major general of the army who had never enjoyed the pleasure of "tunnel war" back to the high ground behind the position.

This kind of tunnel that is only 10,000 meters long is considered a big deal?

Not to mention the future Battle of Five Sacred Mountains, a Chinese infantry army almost hollowed out the entire mountain, nor did it mention that the Chinese army on the entire defense line dug out more than 2,500 kilometers of tunnels. Just talking about the Battle of Sulfur Bombs a few years later, the breathtaking tunnels dug out on the small island over 20,000 days can make this look like a kindergarten playhouse.

Of course, although this level of tunnel is not awesome, it is enough to deal with the attack of the Third Division in front of you.

The little days on Iwo Jima have to deal with, but the American cowboys with 800 ships, 2,000 aircraft and more than 60,000 troops have more than 500 large-caliber naval guns alone. One round of volleys can cover the entire island in the smoke of gunpowder. If you don’t dig more tunnels, what can you resist?

"Yoxi, the Chinese are no longer able to do it, please order them to hurry up!" Xiaoxi, who had arrived in a gunboat less than 300 meters away from the river bank, could no longer suppress his excitement at this time.

As long as the four infantry brigades successfully climbed the river bank, with his experience in fighting with the Chinese army this year, the Chinese would never be able to pose a threat to them without two infantry divisions. When the two subsequent infantry brigades and artillery were transported here, it would be the end of the Chinese.

In this battle today, he had almost touched the brink of victory.

On the river bank line 6 kilometers wide in front of the left wing position of Tongguan, at least two and a half infantry brigades had been poured into more than 2,000 people. Not to mention that they were dense like ants, at least there were crowds of people.

"Order, the front-line troops enter the trench from the tunnel, use half of the heavy machine guns to fire and suppress the Japanese army. The mortar squad will open fire according to the previous tactics and the number of red signal flares!" Tang Dao finally issued an order.

"Order the artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters to use 6 mountain cannons to gather fire in front of my left wing position; order the 150MM heavy artillery company to shoot ten rounds of rapid fire 300 meters in front of my left wing position!"

One minute later, fireworks sounded from the Chinese position.

The Japanese troops, less than 200 meters away from the front line, fell to the ground and fought back desperately.

Crawling on the ground can indeed avoid the hot bullet flow, but what really kills people are the mortar shells and mountain cannon shells that are fired overwhelmingly.

When a flower explodes, people's bodies are often blown away.

That's fine. In this kind of battle, not to mention dozens of people, even if there are ten times more losses, it is within the acceptable range of Konishi Hayami.

But the 150MM heavy artillery that followed was different. On the river bank without any cover, the temporary shelter that was urgently dug only half a meter deep cannot be said to be useless to this heavy artillery that kills people with air waves, but can only be said to be of no use for half a cent.

The Chinese used at least forty heavy machine guns and more than a dozen mortars. The firepower of the Chinese did exceed Konishi Hayami's expectations, but this was still within the controllable range.

After all, intelligence shows that there are Chinese main infantry divisions and several miscellaneous infantry regiments in the Tongguan area on defense.

This should be the last strength they can bring out!

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing that several heavy artillery of the Chinese who had been concerned about it also started to fire, Xiaoxi was not surprised but happy. After observing the entire battlefield, he decisively issued a military order: "Kill it! The whole army attacked!"

Originally, this Japanese Army Colonel with rich combat experience planned to wait until the next batch of reinforcements arrived. After having sufficient strength and infantry artillery, he gathered infantry artillery to bombard them, first opened a breakthrough on a certain position, and then invested a steady stream of follow-up forces to tear open the Chinese defense line along this opening.

By then, the Chinese will have a sharp drop in morale as before, and even if they do not collapse or escape, they will retreat into the second line of defense.

But that was just a drinking poison to quench thirst. For the Battle of Tongguan, Fenglingdu Town was no longer just the Third Division. The commander of Itagaki Army had quietly transferred a main infantry brigade of the Fifth Division and was stationed in the mountains less than 10 kilometers from Fenglingdu Town.

Once the Third Division can open a frontier position on the other side of the Yellow River, what awaits the Chinese will be the most elite infantry in the empire in more than 15,000.

The fertile Guanzhong Plain will be completely conquered by the empire, and the mysterious Qinling Mountains of the Chinese will definitely not be able to stop the imperial army.

The conquest of the entire China is just a matter of time. When Xiaoxi thinks of this, she feels hot inside and can no longer help but be able to resist her passionate fighting spirit.

‘The enemy's more than 20 guns were fired with all their strength, and there were dozens of heavy machine guns, and the firepower was very fierce. In order to avoid the passive beating of thousands of imperial officers and soldiers on the river bank, Koxi Hayami-sei ordered more than 4,100 troops under his command to launch an assault on the entire Chinese defenders at 1:32 pm on January 1, 1939.’

This is the battle report sent by the Third Division Division to the Third Army Headquarters!

At the moment when the battle report was issued, the front line of the Tongguan Defense Zone could be described as a rain of bullets.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring oneself, heavy artillery and mountain artillery could only shoot into the riverbank area, but the losses suffered by more than 4,000 Japanese troops who had already begun to bend over and move forward have become very small.

The closest distance between the infantry on both sides was below 120 meters, and you could even see the opponent's eyes and eyes that became ferocious and distorted due to nervousness and fear under the opponent's steel helmet.

The soldiers of both China and Japan are like two ferocious beasts who are fighting for life and death in order to survive. Neither nervousness nor fear can describe their hearts at this moment.

If you want to live, your only choice is to kill the other person.

There were no more than just the officers and soldiers of the 28th Division in the front-line trenches. The two best infantry companies in the Sichuan Army's new recruits were also led by Lu Sanjiang to enter the front-line trenches.

That is also an elite soldier specially created for his son by Tang Jili. The new recruits who had been training for half a year were indeed much better than the new recruits who had only been trained for February in Jinxi County.

The young Sichuan Army recruits have little physical and shooting problems. Their most lack is their psychological quality. This psychological quality is that they can still grit their teeth and lie on the trenches when they are in the face of guns and guns.

After crossing this level, they are real soldiers and no longer have to bring the word "new".

But that comes at a price.

The price of life!

Just on the 6-kilometer front of the left wing position, the Japanese army invested 30 heavy machine guns and more than 60 light machine guns, not only more than 60 grenade launchers, but also 10 infantry artillery pieces.

The average heavy firepower density of a heavy machine gun of 200 meters is extremely dangerous even if it is lying on the edge of the trenches and sandbags as cover, not to mention the counterattacks of Japanese veterans with accurate shooting skills.

In less than 3 minutes, 30 of the two recruits were shot and fell after less than 300 of them. More than 140 officers and soldiers were killed and injured in the battle on the whole line.

Fortunately, the 28th Division had already made full preparations and recruited nearly 2,000 local young and strong men in Tongguan as stretcher soldiers. They had been lying on standby in front-line trenches everywhere. Once soldiers who were killed or injured in battle appeared, the two of them carried them together and quickly transported them to the second-line trenches.

This will not only help the injured soldiers quickly, but also reduce the psychological impact of the injured soldiers on the officers and soldiers in the trench due to the severe pain.

Not everyone is a hard man, and you can hold back without saying a word if you let the bullet penetrate your body.

The same is true for the Japanese. Chinese officers and soldiers with trench protection fell more than three digits in a few minutes, and the Japanese soldiers who had to bend down and trot all the way to attack fell more.

The 28th Division belongs to the Central Army and is equipped with official rifles. The 7.92 caliber bullets imitated from the German Mauser rifle are far more powerful than the 6.5 caliber of the Japanese army. When it hits the body, it is usually a meat hole the size of an egg.

The Japanese army was shot and screamed, if it weren't for the fire of gunfire, it would have been almost impossible to cover up.

The Japanese medical soldiers became the busiest group of troops during that period, desperately dragging the injured Japanese army from the battlefield to the rear, but they still couldn't take into account everything. There were too many shots.

The heavy machine gun firepower points set up more than 300 meters away from the front line position of China were investing more than the Japanese army. The bullets swept over like raindrops made the knowledgeable Japanese army of the Third Division numb.

"Damn the Chinese, how could they have so many heavy machine guns? The artillery gang in the rear was ordered to extend the artillery fire 500 meters along the river bank to suppress the heavy firepower of the Chinese!" Konishi Hayami could not help but face frost when he saw this situation in the telescope.

It was a fantasy to try to suppress nearly 50 heavy machine guns with the two main gunboats he now owned. He had to take the risk of letting the 75 mountain cannons of the Artillery Corps open fire.

As for whether you will hurt your own people by chance, it depends on the level of the artillery corps and your own luck.

The Japanese artillery gang had a very good level. After several rounds of artillery fire attacked and all of them were bombed on the front line of China, the Chinese heavy machine gun fire point had to be removed to avoid artillery fire, which led to extreme decay of fire.

"Onboard!" The Japanese infantry began to charge straight at the command of their own commander!

It was the charge of more than 2,000 infantrymen. Standing in the telescope of two Chinese commanders on the high ground, it seemed as if a group of evil wolves were rushing towards the flock they yearned for.

Unfortunately, the Japanese are wolves, but Chinese soldiers are definitely not sheep!

"Three red signal flares!" Tang Dao ordered coldly.
Chapter completed!