Chapter 1249 The real battle begins (Part 1)
The explosion in Heilonggou was deafening, and Kwanzaki, 3,000 meters away, could hear it very clearly. His inquiry telegram was even 30 seconds longer than that of Masaoyi Oshima's telegram for help.
Then, Kōzaki, who received a telegram for help from Masao Yoshima, was stunned for the moment and looked confused.
The tragic Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army had no idea what had happened in the past hour.
Didn’t the Four-Road Group run away in a panic? Why did it suddenly appear and hurt Masao Yoshima and surrounded hundreds of people?
What, are Masaoyoshi Oshima and the more than 5,000 people under his command all pigs?
Masayoshi Oshima did not report the number of people who lost the war. First, it was impossible to summarize, and second, it was because he still had some unrealistic fantasies. Even though Masayoshi Oshima had already understood that the record of more than 2,000 imperial officers and soldiers was killed in battle was the second mixed brigade that was directly chased and wiped out the entire army, or the 39th Brigade that was almost wiped out in the Battle of East Jin.
After all, those two times were battlefields where China and Japan invested nearly 200,000 people.
As a result, the Guoqi Detachment was better this time. In the area far away from the main battlefield, a detachment of 10,000 people was facing part of the previous infantry regiment. Before the two sides had actually entered the battlefield, they could not even be considered a test, so they just slapped two infantry brigades.
It's like a man and a woman are fucking fire. She chose a good hotel and just took a shower and hugged each other, and then some people were disarmed...
Just say, if this matter is spread, will you have to throw your face to grandma's house?
If you want to save this face, the only way is to regain your strength. Even if you know that taking too much medicine will be done, you have to do it with your teeth.
After Guoqi was stunned, he naturally had the same idea as his subordinates. In addition to a strengthened infantry squadron in the defense brigade headquarters, the two fully-organized infantry brigades were all moving quickly towards Hexi Village.
In this regard, all the main infantry forces of the Guoqi Detachment were put into the battlefield!
Compared with Heilonggou, which has gradually returned to silence, the battle between the mountains has entered a white-hot heat. An infantry brigade, with the support of infantry artillery and heavy machine guns, attacked the two infantry companies headed by Tang Li with all their might.
For Masayoshi Oshima, if the big explosion in Heilonggou almost gave him a knife in the middle of the waist, then the Chinese army on the ground that was only a few hundred meters away from him was like a thorny mace entering through the eyes. Not only was it painful at that time, but it also had subsequent injuries. Not removing it would be irresponsible to his own life.
However, the two infantry companies of the four-line regiments had no intention of escaping. They defended the high ground with the fire support of two howitzers in the mountains near Heilonggou.
They seemed to be about to become the thorn that plunged into the Japanese army's flesh, and had the ability to pull it out.
Because, in Leng Feng's tactical plan, the two infantry companies that Tang Li and the others interspered into Hexi Village were one of the cores of this round of battlefields, and their tactics were no less important than Shi Hao's troops located on the ridge.
Their tactical role is to attract more Japanese troops and become thorns in the eyes that the Japanese army had to remove.
Using the original words of Leng Feng at the pre-war preparation meeting: "The regiment commander had already made a conclusion when summarizing after the war. In the battle of Qingshiyan, the 4th Battalion should be the first in defense of my four-way regiment! Only you can be competent for this task."
The huge explosion in the canyon bombed the Japanese army, the horses and various equipment, and the main force of the four-line regiment headed by Leng Feng, had basically laid the foundation for the complete victory of this surprise attack without retreating, but advancing.
But Leng Feng still felt that it was not enough. Since the Fifth Division entered North China, it has been unstoppable, and has successively broken into Xinkou and Yuancheng, sweeping across northern Shanxi, causing great casualties to the Chinese military and civilians. Wherever they passed, there were only broken walls left in the town and fires in the villages soaring into the sky. However, they proudly waved swords and guns on the land full of corpses to show their bravery.
If you want to fight, you must completely hurt them, so that they will feel a shadow when they see the Four-Enterprise Group, just like the 108th Division.
This time, facing the 80,000 Japanese troops forcing Taihang Mountain, the Four Army Regiment dared to divide it into two, which would be due to the cowards of the 108th Division.
Half a year ago, an infantry brigade of the 108th Division dared to stay away from the county town and go deep into the mountainous areas to mobilize and destroy the base area. Now there is no infantry brigade, and they don’t dare to leave 20 miles around the county town at all.
How can a group of cowards who have lost their courage be worth a group of elite four-line teams to deal with them? Half of them are already very respectful to them.
However, these two infantry companies not only have to withstand heavy siege from the Japanese army, but also suffer from heavy artillery from the Japanese army, and casualties are inevitable.
But as Tang Li said when he stood up to receive the military order: "If there is no sacrifice, there will be victory! Since I entered the battlefield of Songhu, I have not planned to live. After living for one and a half years, I have already made no profits. No matter how many Japanese soldiers there are in the Fifth Division, is it more than the Sixing Corps warehouse that year?"
If the battle of the Sihang Warehouse back to the water made these Chinese soldiers like phoenixes of Nirvana no longer fear death, then the battle of Bluestone Rock three months ago was like a forging machine, creating the 4th battalion whose spirit had completely transformed into a completely solid steel, not only without fear of death, but also without fear of any opponent.
Of course, the Heilonggou battlefield is distributed in an area of about 2.5 kilometers, and the fierce battle is not just here.
When the exaggerated explosion in the canyon exploded, both Chinese and Japanese soldiers were stunned. After two minutes, Leng Feng personally led the officers and soldiers of the Four Corps who established the valley entrance blocking position to wake up from the shock.
Even though the battlefield is still dusty, the ash rolled up by the air waves is like a heavy fog, and you can no longer see the figures thirty meters away. But you must also fight.
"I'll beat you if you can't see it, but I'll beat you too." Leng Feng's low roar sounded throughout the audience.
Four MG34 heavy machine guns located 300 meters behind the position were the first to roar, followed by two 12.7 mm Browning heavy machine guns that opened fire unscrupulously. Nine Czech light machine guns equipped by the infantry company also joined the shooting ranks. In addition, more than 200 infantry equipped semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, and single-shot rifles also opened fire with all their might.
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This blocking position located at the entrance of the valley is an extremely rare three-dimensional position. Because time is urgent, it is impossible to dig deep trenches, so Leng Feng simply sets firepower positions according to local conditions.
There are three infantry platoons, one infantry platoon occupies one layer, the fire support platoon occupies one layer, and the 12.7mm heavy machine gun under the artillery company is at the highest position, with a drop of 30 meters between each layer, which just avoids accidental injury.
Such a position may be slightly less used for defense, and if it encounters the firepower of mountain artillery, it will definitely cause heavy casualties, but it is most suitable for this kind of valley blocking battle.
No matter how the Japanese army hid, the bullets fired from up, down, left and right were almost covered without blind spots.
In an instant, the officers and soldiers of the Four Corps poured out more than 600 bullets to the completely confused more than 400 Japanese troops. If they were at this speed, they could pour out more than 30,000 bullets to the Japanese invaders within one minute, which was absolutely a prodigal shooting.
But there is no way. The battlefield now is like being blindfolded by someone. No one can see each other at a distance of nearly 300 meters.
Then, you can only rely on firepower to decide the outcome.
At this time, all the tactics are nonsense. What they have to do now is to pour fire into the other side's direction regardless of everything until the dust in the sky is blown away by the wind.
Although the number of the world's first universal machine gun is not large, there are 8 ammunition chains for each machine gun. The reserve capacity of 2,000 ammunitions for a machine gun is a logistical support that neither China nor Japan can achieve in this era.
The 4 MG34 spitting out flames can be called the most beautiful boy on the battlefield in the first 30 seconds. Even the amazingly powerful 12.7mm heavy machine gun can only be caught behind.
This kind of fighting style that is purely suppressed by firepower output is definitely a nightmare for this wave of Japanese infantry! The Japanese infantry who had just experienced air waves and various flying human body parts flying over their heads were already trembling and dared to cover their heads and lie on the ground, as if they were frightened, and they did not dare to move easily.
The Chinese are so vicious that every Japanese vanguard who is both scattered is swearing the most vicious curses in his heart.
But they still scolded them too early, and the Chinese are even more "vicious" than they thought!
The metal torrent that is even more dangerous than the air wave, one wave after another, endless.
The pouring bullets like raindrops pressed hundreds of Japanese infantry tightly into the field where there were basically no blockages, and there was almost no decent counterattack.
The reason why they did not fight back was that anyone who dared to raise their heads and put their bodies higher than 20 cm lost their lives in the rain of bullets.
The dust rolled up by the air waves covered both sides' eyes, and all the accuracy had lost its effect. What the Four Lines Army used to deal with the Japanese army was firepower, totally superior firepower, and used a large pile of bullets to pile up the enemy in front of them.
A few minutes later, when the mountain wind blew away the dust bit by bit and the smoke was no longer enough to block the view, what appeared in front of the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment was a river of blood.
Dozens of Japanese vanguards less than tens of meters away from the position were naturally dead and could not die any more.
No one can survive this terrifying rain of bullets.
Even if you can instantly turn into a groundhog and dig a hole into the ground to avoid bullets, more than 100 long-handled grenades can kill them.
The distance is close and the distance is far, and it is not much better.
Perhaps, the Japanese army who were far away hoped that they would be vanguards and could die faster, which was a blessing for them who had been in a torment.
If you are just beaten by the firepower of Chinese soldiers far exceeding them, you will die if you die, and you don’t have to think so much.
However, the dust rolled up by the air waves provided them with a barrier, and the exaggerated firepower was just diffusing. For the Japanese army at the valley entrance, the lethality was reduced by at least two-thirds.
In order to avoid the terrible air waves spewing out of the valley, the Japanese infantrymen who dug temporary field trenches under the command of the squadron leader basically hid in the small ditch they had just dug out on both sides of the valley.
There may also be some natural stones as bunkers there, but for the number of nearly 300 people, it is really too few.
The Japanese infantrymen had no choice but to crawl to the ground and try hard to lower their bodies and lower them a little.
This is the quality that the elite Japanese veterans should have. In this way, even without any cover, they can escape the torrent of bullets that whizz over their heads for a while.
No one can accurately shoot a human body 300 meters away with his eyes and his body lying on the ground without revealing his body. This is for the officers and soldiers of the Four-Road who have poor vision and can only shoot at their locations with their memory. It is entirely up to luck to hit them.
However, the Four Lines Group does not only have machine guns, rifles, submachine guns!
The reason why they poured out their prodigal firepower was that in addition to the metal torrent that fired at least more than 50,000 bullets in a few minutes, the 9 gates and 60-four in the valley 500 meters behind also poured out at least 200 shells on both sides of the valley entrance.
Without a target, all the gunners were given the order to bombard the two wings of the valley entrance, and the indiscriminate bombardment.
This time, the Japanese army was in trouble. They could lie on the ground and avoid bullets, but there was no way to do so for shells falling from the sky.
Seeing that his companion who was also holding Mother Earth tightly was blown away by several meters above him, he shouted and fell without any sound. Moreover, such a story was still being staged, and 200 shells almost covered the area of tens of thousands of square meters near the valley entrance.
The Japanese army, who were lucky enough to be unexploded by shells, had actually forgotten some sadness. They were mainly fear. No one knew whether it would be their turn in the next moment.
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Waiting, I witnessed my companions and comrades leaving helplessly. Perhaps, it was my turn to be blown into pieces by a mortar shell in the next second.
This is an unbearable torture for any normal person, even if he is a warrior who has experienced many battles. His nerves are hard-working, and he cannot resist the fear of death.
After suffering for a few minutes, the Japanese army, who had completely broken their minds, dared to sacrifice their lives and raised their heads and even shot bullets at the enemy's positions with guns to express their resistance to their fate, were basically shot and killed by the bullets flying all over the sky.
The Japanese army who no longer lie on their backs waiting to be blown into pieces by shells falling from the sky, but run desperately or crawl forward to move towards the safest position in their memory, will eventually survive.
The Japanese army that survived were either lucky or occupied a good position at the beginning, not only able to withstand bullets, but also had enough cover to block the shrapnel flying around.
But this is just two out of ten.
In other words, when the dust is gone, the Japanese army can still survive and fight back desperately on the entire battlefield, at most less than a hundred people, and they can gather two infantry squads to the sky.
Of course, even though the situation is so difficult and even if it is broken, as the famous steel army of the Great Japanese Empire, the Japanese infantry did not fail to fight back. They also had seven or eight light machine guns and eight grenade launchers, pouring their indomitableness and anger into the positions of the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment.
However, the firepower is too weak, and it is also aimless.
There were also officers and soldiers of the Four Rangers who were unlucky were hit by shrapnel of grenades or stray bullets, and three people were sacrificed on the spot and 18 were injured.
This loss is not small for the Four Lines, but it is acceptable. After all, they took away more than 200 Japanese troops in the shooting battle.
Of course, these losses were not caused by these Japanese infantry who were dazzled by the torrent of bullets and violent shells.
Instead, there are three Type 94 Xiaodouding Tanks.
The Type 94 tank has very thin armor, and the thickest steel plate is only 10 mm. Due to its size, it is impossible to install a tank gun. It is only 2 heavy 7.7 mm machine guns. It is better to say that it is a tank than to say that an armored vehicle is more suitable. It is a bastard on the plain battlefield, but it is a rare weapon for the Japanese army to be in the mountainous battlefield of Jin Province.
The lightweight size makes this armored vehicle that even the Japanese Army dislikes can travel on simple mountain roads in the mountains, and can also use two heavy 7.7mm machine guns to provide firepower support to infantrymen with two heavy 7.7mm machine guns when the Chinese did not have 37mm war defense guns, this small iron lump that could cross mountains and ridges was simply invincible.
This is also the reason why Masayoshi Oshima let four Type 94 light tanks take the lead into the canyon with one wave of his hand. It is one of the sources of confidence for the imperial officers and soldiers.
In fact, except for a Type 94 tank that was turned to the valley entrance, which was overturned by a huge air wave, which was extremely unlucky to become a model of "death before he succeeded", the 94 Xiaodouding, who was spread out on the left and right wings of the valley entrance, did not disappoint the expectations of the imperial officers and soldiers. When the pouring bullet came, the jingle made it impossible to penetrate the front steel plate of 10 mm. Even if the steel plate was hit by the bullet, it was like a cannabis face.
Even if the mortar shell exploded two or three meters away, it did not cause any substantial damage. The three tank crew members were safe to sit inside and protected a group of Japanese troops huddled behind the tank vehicles.
They didn't dare to move around. Friends lying on the ground to avoid throwing bullets, and drove for a few meters. The tracks were destined to be covered in flesh and blood. They could only hold on and shoot at the four-line group positions on the opposite side with two machine guns.
The 7.7mm machine gun is extremely powerful. All three soldiers who died in the Four Lines Regiment were hit in the head and chest by machine gun bullets.
The steel helmet also becomes extremely fragile in the face of such a bullet with extremely strong kinetic energy.
The Japanese army can still have two remaining teams, and these three little doodians have made great contributions.
However, with a clear vision, their good days are over.
Two 12.7mm heavy machine guns were targeted by them. At only 500 meters, they were foolishly staying in place and using the body of the car to serve as shields for the infantry. They were like the girl standing at the entrance of Dongguan Lane in the future who waved at you with a sweet smile. They were almost like the machine gun shooters who said "Welcome to submit".
With the roar of the squad leader of the machine gun squad, "Don't hell," the muzzle of the heavy machine gun was adjusted, and the bullet as thick as a thumb pressed back into the bullet bay, and the Japanese army's final support was about to end.
Chapter completed!