And this is just a small microcosm of this tragic battle.

The platoon leader of the Broken Armite named Zhang Wanmu also created his own glory after washing away his shame.

For two consecutive days, the infantry companies on the position had been rotated for seven rounds, but the second lieutenant platoon leader never got off the position once.

In his own words, “This is my position, and my brothers are here to look at me, and I cannot leave them behind.”

However, his life also ended in the 7th round of rotation!

A bombshell dropped by a Japanese plane hit an area less than 30 meters away from the position, and an egg-sized stone that was blown away by the bomb hit him.

Human life is sometimes tenacious, so tenacious that it can still survive several rounds of artillery fire and the charge of Japanese infantry, but sometimes it is extremely fragile. It is so fragile that a small stone can take away the once extremely tough life.

The lieutenant is dead!

The stone hit his neck. When the soldiers who had avoided the artillery fire discovered him, he lay quietly in the broken trenches where he had been staying for two days and one night.

Without the last words or any breath, there was no pain on his face, he just lay there quietly, looking at the sky.

"Veter, don't hurt anymore!" Tang Dao, who was also haggard, couldn't help but burst into tears as he looked at the sallow face of the veteran who had inspired and praised him.

Tang Dao almost never shed tears on the battlefield. Even though his closest comrade was killed in front of him, at this moment, he shed tears for a veteran who could not say much about the intersection.

Most of the soldiers he brought were not considered soldiers. Before arriving here, they had just received queue training, and many people even fired no more than ten times.

If it weren't for the experience of the Battle of Tongguan, let alone the shells fell beside you, I'm afraid that more than half of them would have to be scared to pee their pants when the cannon sounded.

This is also because Tang Dao did not simply use serious military methods to deal with the defeated soldiers who lost their positions and retreated. He set an example and gave them a chance to be brave.

These young men in Sichuan not only did it, but also did it better than he thought.

Take this Army lieutenant with half his arm as an example. This person participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Songjiang. He eventually retired due to injury because he lost a hand. After returning to his hometown, he was hired by Tang Jili as an instructor to train new recruits.

He could not have to participate in the battlefield anymore, but the Sichuan Army's new recruits need to be led by veterans. Otherwise, with Tang Dao and five others, even with three heads and six arms, they would not be able to gather 4,500 young people who are essentially farmer together, let alone have some combat effectiveness.

Some disabled veterans did not shirk their responsibilities. Not only did they come, they also followed Tang Dao to the battlefield of Tongguan and came to Zhongtiao Mountain.

The bare wrist was already shocking, but on the battlefield, because a shrapnel passed by, the broken arm was shorter again.

Although hemostatic cotton and gauze were bandaged, the pain of the exposed muscles and broken bones rubbing against the rough gauze was probably only understood by the person involved.

What's more, this severe pain lasts for dozens of hours!

Whenever the Army lieutenant was holding a wooden stick in his mouth, it was a pain, so he put it in his mouth to prevent himself from biting his tongue.

My originally dark face has always been pathologically miserable. It is not only because of a lot of blood loss, but also because of too much pain, and my physical functions have long been overdrawn.

Perhaps, at the moment before his death, the veteran with a calm face felt a sense of relief! He completed his mission and would no longer bear that inhuman pain.

After two days and one night of fierce battle, what did the Sizhou Mountain battlefield look like?

Not to mention that all the five highlands on the periphery have been lost, only the next four main highlands and the reorganized 6 small highlands under the main highlands.

With the tenacity and command ability of the Tang Tuanzhao, he could only be forced to endure the loss of all the outer edges. It is basically possible to imagine how intense the battlefield was in these two days and one night.

The 20 infantry companies that had just been reorganized under Tang Dao have been reduced to 10. If the remaining heavy machine gun squad and mortar squads were added, the more than 5,300 officers and soldiers who had originally entered Sizhou Mountain have only 2,000 people so far.

That means the battle loss rate actually exceeds 60%!

In the Western world, when an army loses its combat power by more than 20%, it will lose its combat power, and if it exceeds 30%, it will be impossible to fight.

But this army with a new recruit rate of 90%, not only did it not lose its combat effectiveness when the combat loss rate exceeded 60%, but they also held their guns tightly on the battlefield.

Even though they were already looking desperate and exhausted, they were still on the battlefield and did not lean towards the Japanese army due to the heavy casualties, just like a flock of desperate sheep fleeing into the mountains.

Do you think such a soldier is worthy of Tang Dao's tears?

From a certain perspective, Tang Dao has to thank them, thanks to these illiterate young people for accompanying him to fight for the entire country and nation.

Use your future to exchange for the future of more people!

The young people who were supposed to have a brilliant or ordinary future during the entire war were destined to be sacrificed by this era, and their lives were thrown down as soon as they set sail!

And what about the Japanese who have gradually dominated the battlefield?

Actually, there is not much happiness.

Even Major General Kiichi Yamada, who was as firm as iron, still did not change his will to attack, was planning to attack again before sunset, and looking at the casualties and equipment losses reported by the two infantry regiments under his command, the list of ammunition demands, and couldn't help but tug at the corner of his eyes.

The previous 2,000 casualties were not counted. With the addition of 1,000 baggage troops to the two infantry corpses, after the two days and nights of fighting, the two infantry corpses could still use less than 3,000 infantrymen to be used to attack. This was the result of the two army colludes' strict orders for minor injuries not to leave the battlefield.

That means that the six infantry brigades can fight until now, and only three are left. At this moment, his infantry brigade has basically been destroyed, and the Chinese defense line in this mountain is still stubborn.

Without taking down the three high grounds with an altitude of 600 meters, any troops attempting to pass through this mountainous area will be hit by heavy machine guns and mortars, and a large amount of baggage and pack horses will not be able to pass smoothly.

But if he wanted to take down those three main highlands, how many people could his infantry brigade be left in the end? Yamada Kiyoshi, whose eyelids were pounding, dared not think about this problem at all.

In addition to the heavy casualties of the 21st Brigade, the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Third Division was not much better, but the actual situation was even worse.

In order to prevent the 7th Infantry Regiment from disobeying Yamada's dispatch, Shiro Itagaki even personally sent a telephone to the Third Division to clarify the importance of this battle. He did not hesitate to promise that the lieutenant general division commander who had been beaten to pieces in the battle of Tongguan would, if he was promoted to leave the Third Army that day, he would definitely recommend him to serve as the commander of the Third Army.

Even Shiro, who was as arrogant as Itagaki, did not hesitate to lower his figure and use the most straightforward and direct coercion and old tricks to win over, was the only thing that the Colonel by the River, who was the flag in this chessboard, had the slightest resistance?

In fact, the 7th Infantry Regiment had already suffered 800 casualties on the first day, and the number of 400 deaths in battle was even more shocking. However, under the strict military orders, the colonel by the river could only bite the bullet and continue to drive the officers and soldiers under his command to attack wildly.

The infantry regiment, which originally included more than 3,800 people, which combined the baggage and auxiliary troops, was less than 1,500 people who could participate in attack operations after counting the next evening.

This guy, the 21st Reserve Brigade was just a disabled person. This person directly made his infantry corps seriously disabled. The corps captain was basically an infantry brigade leader.

To be honest, when I saw this casualty number, Yamada Kiyoichi's first thought was that he didn't believe it. Some people in Baga were committing fraud.

This is not the first time in the Imperial Army. The "Wasteless Division" replaced by him is one of the best. The number of dead people cannot be faked, but it is not uncommon for wounded soldiers to wrap their heads with gauze and apply some blood on them.

When changing defenses, Yamada Kiyoichi had witnessed a contestant who was wrapped like a mummy jumping off the stretcher, picking up a box of cans and eating it so hard, like a strong wild boar.

"Seeing the might of the steel army, the officers and soldiers of our division were all inspired by endless courage. The young men want to have enough food to save enough energy to continue fighting for the empire and His Majesty the Emperor!" Major General Yukinosuke, who was shy with a big belly, immediately explained the agile posture of his soldiers.

Seeing this guy licking his face with serious nonsense, Major General Yamada Kiichi took all his strength to control his right hand that was about to move.

At this time, there was no artistic conception of masturbation, but he was afraid that he would cut off this shameless person with one knife.

He even had reason to believe that the Army Major General who licked Zhang Bilian and smiled but did not smile, the gang he said in a stressful tone was definitely not the steel he should have.

According to his observations, there are probably one-fifth of the thousands of people reported to the West Turkish detachment of the 4th Division, which is that the vendors from Osaka are very honest.

"You anal army, horse and land, know how to birds. This not only shows that we fight hard, but also add a batch of medicines. That thing can be the most considerate comfort to those eager women and children in Osaka Castle."

Major General Yukinosuke Okuba turned his face and felt disdainful. If Lord Yamada, who was flushed with his face, knew about it, he would probably not be able to bear it if he had been touching the right hand on the command knife handle.

"I dare not cut people and let them go, and I am so disgusting that I can't say anything if I have the ability to put them in another place..." Your Excellency Big Bear can definitely say this.

Who told Nakamura Masao to replace him without being virtuous? If the Chinese broke the contract and refused to give him "penicillin", he could stab all major general-level officers and villains of the Fifth Division in the command center for three years.

‘It is better to demolish ten temples than to destroy a single business!’ This is the survival philosophy of Osaka people.

However, compared to Yamada Kiyoichi, who had become a little dark after being stimulated by psychological stimulation, the Colonel of the 7th Infantry Regiment is a simple and good boy.

Yamada Kiyoichi sent his own Chief of Staff of Nakasa to check it out personally. The field hospital had already reported the numbers, and more than 1,300 seriously injured soldiers needed treatment and rest.

With two plus items, there are still 1,000 people left, and naturally they are all gone.

Because the weather is cold enough, there is no need to worry about the remains corrupt, the bodies covered in white cloth are piled on the roadside 3 kilometers away from the battlefield. The truck transporting ammunition supplies sent by the command center was dragged to the outskirts of Yuncheng for centralized treatment.

I heard that a large-scale incineration yard has been built there, and there is no need to mention the large amount of cut wood, just gasoline and diesel used for auxiliary fuels is counted in dozens of tons.

The three infantry regiments that the Japanese army had put into combat had only 4,500 infantrymen who could fight by the evening of January 13, and the casualty rate was basically more than 60%.

In other words, just by looking at the loss rate of war, China and Japan miraculously reached a balance, and no one said they were better than anyone else.

However, judging from the consumption of troops, China has taken a big advantage. The Japanese army has invested more than 9,000 infantry, and now the remaining half is 4,500 less, while China has 3,300 less.

Moreover, judging from the consumption of ammunition and other materials, the Japanese side suffered a huge loss.

In the Sizhou Mountain battlefield these days, because Masao Nakamura regarded this place as the main breakthrough point, the bomber dispatch alone reached a hundred times, which was not achieved by any battlefield in the entire Nakatiao Mountain battlefield.

The bomb dropped is no longer about pounds or kilograms, but more than 30 tons!

The shells fired were even more amazing, and even the battle-level division-level battlefields like the Central China Battle have not reached this intensity.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! The 30 infantry cannons owned by the Japanese side fired a total of more than 8,000 shells in these days, and the 41 mountain cannon even bombarded more than 5,000 rounds that made the Japanese stunned. The 105 howitzers also had to support other battlefields, but they also reached an astonishing 800 rounds.

This has not included the grenades fired from small-caliber grenade launchers, and the total number of shells is nearly 14,000.

Even Yamada Kiyoichi, who had experienced the Battle of Xinkou, had never had such powerful artillery fire support.

In the understanding of this Japanese Army Major General, even under such fierce artillery fire, even if it is a mountain, it will be blown down. Even if the people in the mountain are steel, they will be melted!

Unfortunately, the Chinese disappointed the Japanese Army Major General.

From yesterday to now, some people fell down in that Chinese position and some people stood up.

Even in the high ground that had been conquered by the imperial officers and soldiers, they did not capture a few wounded soldiers, because as long as the wounded soldiers who could still act, they would still participate in the war until the blood was exhausted and died.

Apart from the lively and lively people, there are only dead people left! There will be no half-dead existence at all.

The Chinese in the artillery fire are like the weeds in the mountains of China. Even in autumn and winter, the withered and yellow can easily be burned out by a wildfire, but by the spring of the next year, it will be lush again.

The tenacious Kiyoichi Yamada wanted to meet the commander opposite and asked him how he did all this.

And Yamada Keiichi would not know that it was not what the commander wanted. That tenacity was obtained by more than 1,800 lives!

In the setting sun on January 13, the jungle on the back of the last few highlands of Sizhou Mountain was almost covered with dark blue...

They did not have the Japanese army with abundant supplies and could also be treated as if they were wrapped in white cloth. Each person could only cover a piece of yellow paper on their faces according to the customs of Sichuan, so that when they walked on the Naihe Bridge on the Huangquan Road, they could have some money to get rid of the little ghosts who blocked the road.
To be continued...