More than 6,000 people led by Nishimura Motoichi arrived at Kowloon Mountain on the evening of the 17th. Because the mountain was steep and there was still one on the way, Nishimura Motoichi did not rashly go deep into the mountains.

Even, Nishimura Tsuichi, who was afraid of the Four Corps, did not send out reconnaissance vanguards to prevent the sheep from entering the tiger's mouth and sending people to their heads for free.

This top student from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School placed the task of reconnaissance on air reconnaissance. It seemed that he had preserved the strength of the infantry, but in fact it left the opponent with a lot of preparation time and not very clear opponent's defense map.

When the opponent has powerful air-to-air weapons, the reconnaissance planes dare not lower the altitude at all. The altitude of more than 1,000 meters cannot give the commander too much advice.

Moreover, the reconnaissance planes could not arrive at 9 a.m. on the 18th as soon as possible. When they returned to the airport, they informed the infantry command of the front via the radio to inform the reconnaissance results. It was half a day after that. After waiting for Nishimura Toshiichi to make arrangements based on these, it was almost afternoon again.

That is equivalent to giving the Chinese another 24 hours of preparation time.

This is also one of the reasons for the failure of the Battle of Jiulongshan summarized at the Japanese general-level meeting after the war.

How powerful is the civil engineering work of Sixingtuan now?

If all kinds of weapons and equipment are sharp spears in the hands of soldiers and are used to seize the lives of the enemy, then field fortifications are the shields in front of soldiers and the final guarantee of soldiers' lives.

The more important Tang Dao attaches to the upgrading of weapons and equipment, the more important it attaches to the construction of field combat fortifications.

Although the four regiments and squad leaders all rely on their military achievements to improve their achievements, they have an extremely important assessment during their tenure. If the assessment fails, their treatment will be retained, but they cannot continue to hold military positions.

That is the practical assessment of civil engineering operations!

There are various trenches and tunnels on the mountains around Dakouzidong Town. In fact, more than half of them are the results of the excavation and acceptance of officers at all levels of the Four Lines Regiment.

Of course, before that, with Tang regiment as the chief instructor and Bai Sheng, the chief of the engineer company, as the deputy chief instructor, was the one-week training for the newly appointed officers.

In addition to the necessary civil engineering technology, Tang Tuanzou also attaches great importance to tools. Almost one-fifth of the output of the fine steel that can make gun barrels is made by Tang Tuanzou with a large stroke of all kinds of shallow tools that can dig and dig soil.

That's not all, the new "torna dynamite" has not yet begun to be equipped with front-line combat troops, Bai Sheng's engineer company has been equipped with 200 kilograms.

And its purpose is not to combat, but to blast hard geological soil layers!

Even the few active new anti-infantry thunder "Broad Knife" designed and produced by the Tang regiment was basically equipped with the engineer company.

Moreover, if you want to be an engineer, it is not something that anyone can do. First of all, you have to be a soldier who has been in the army for more than half a year, and you have to go through strict assessments, which is more difficult than becoming an artillery soldier.

It can be said that within the Four Lines Regiment, engineers are second only to high-tech troops such as artillery, regardless of personnel treatment or equipment.

Of course, the various units of the Four Corps have paid so much attention to the engineering company, but they have not complained about it. The results of several major battles have proved the importance of the engineering unit.

If there is no correct planning of the engineers and sufficiently efficient civil engineering operations, in the Battle of East Jin, the combat losses of each unit of the Four Army Regiment will be at least ten percent more injured, which will be hundreds of lives.

After the systematic training and actual combat in 1938 and the update of various equipment, Tang Dao could say that his engineers' troops were not the top three in the world's military, and at least stronger than the number one Japanese army in Asia.

The Japanese military's strong enough civil engineering operations had already caused enough suffering in World War II. In this time and space, the Tang Tuanzhang was just "to do what he did with his own way" and took the Japanese path to leave the Japanese without any way.

Therefore, after the Japanese reconnaissance plane discovered the hiding place of the army at noon on the 17th, Leng Feng no longer covered it up and started the "mountain digging" mode with great fanfare. He used the 8 hours in advance and the 24 hours reserved by Nishimura Motoichi, a total of 32 hours of civil engineering operations, dug trenches of more than 5,000 meters from the 872 Highlands and several small highlands attached.

This is just the surface project volume. In order to prevent Japanese aircraft bombing, there are more than 20 tunnels buried 6 meters deep underground.

In addition, there are 26 machine gun castles covered with a 2-meter-thick layer of soil with logs as the roof!

Each convoy is equipped with heavy machine guns and even 20mm machine guns. Unless the Japanese army adopts 70mm infantry cannons to accurately bombard or close-range blasts, these deadly things can make the Japanese army lie on the ground until they die without going further.

The entire 872 Highland was like a hedgehog with thorns spreading all over his body. The Japanese army was coming to provoke them, and it was almost inevitable that the thorns were pierced all over his body.

The 981 highland on the 46th Brigade of the Independent 46th Brigade was slightly worse. Even Leng Feng sent engineers to lend nearly a thousand special tools, and even took out a precious 300 kilograms of "torna" to help blast the hard rock layer. The Independent 46th Brigade only barely built 12 machine gun castles and 13 tunnels for hiding soldiers. In addition, 4,500-meter trenches were dug out on the surface.

That was the result of more than 3,700 soldiers and more than 600 Japanese prisoners of war on the 46th Brigade who worked hard for 32 hours.

Speaking of these more than 600 prisoners of war from the 4th Division, it really made the Chinese soldiers pull their butts with a knife - they opened their eyes.

This group of vendors from Osaka were quite honest during the march. After all, there was an infantry company who specialized in taking care of them. In this kind of war, bullets were loaded and opened. Any prisoners of war would shoot and kill them if they had any abnormal movements.

But when they arrived at Jiulong Mountain, they were asked to participate in civil engineering due to insufficient manpower, but they were strongly resisted by the prisoners of war, believing that they had strictly abide by the Chinese orders and that no one had made trouble during the march and that no one had escaped. China should abide by the terms negotiated by the two sides after the surrender, which did not include helping with the earthwork. If China insisted on doing this, then they would rather die if they had abide by the spirit of the contract for generations!

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Good guy, facing this group of Japanese who "swear not to work", even the brigade commander Kong Da and Battalion Commander Leng, who have always been decisive in killing, were a little stunned. It was still Tang Tuanzhao, who was far away in Sizhou Mountain, who came up with an idea and gave money after finding out!

The compensation for prisoners of war was calculated based on the hourly rate. The hourly salary of 2 yen per hour was more than 20 times the salary of the Japanese army in the army, and it was a good premium.

Can this work? After all, they are prisoners of war, and life and death are in the hands of the Chinese side. No matter how high the salary is, even if it is a deposit, a few bullets can be brought back.

"Tell the prisoners of war that there will be a 'tomorrow' for you to protect you. Even if they unfortunately die in this battle, their labor will be handed over to their commanders." Tang Dao's call for reply was simple and clear.

Although it felt very fantastic, Leng Feng, who trusted Tang Dao very much, also tried it out and negotiated with the Japanese prisoners of war.

As a result, the Japanese prisoners of war actually surrendered to the high daily wages.

What is most eye-catching is that not only did these Japanese prisoners of war not only did not work as hard as the Chinese soldiers during their work, but they even gave the 46th Brigade a lot of professional advice during the construction of fortifications.

Chinese officers and soldiers...

They were afraid that it was not a group of Japanese invaders who captured a group of secret men who invaded the enemy!

But according to the Japanese prisoners of war themselves, the Chinese are not stingy with money, so they naturally "scholars die for their confidants"!

God is so angry that "a scholar dies for his confidant." The brigade commander Kong, who has always been jealous of his enemies, had the urge to destroy all his views at that moment.

Of course, this is also the most bizarre prisoner of war encountered by the brigade commander of the Confucius Great during the long Patriotic War. Such good things are rarely encountered in the future.

For example, the 5th Division captured more than 300 artillery prisoners of war in the Fourth Army Regiment of Shunwangping. Although the number of people is small, it is extremely difficult to manage. Those guys look honest on the surface, but in fact they are always thinking about how to escape.

Because the Four Regiment had many seriously injured in the Battle of Wangping, Shunwangping, it was obviously not suitable to march with the seriously injured during this war. He simply drew two squads of about 60 people from the baggage company, plus a total of 120 guard platoons of the Third Battalion, stayed in the mountains of Wangwu Mountain, and was responsible for the safety of more than a dozen medical soldiers and seventy or eighty seriously injured soldiers on the spot, and was responsible for the supervision of these more than 300 prisoners of war.

Each prisoner of war also tied it up in groups of ten people with iron wire as shackles, and asked Adong to call 100 young and strong men from the village to use weapons as temporary guards.

Half of the more than 200 fully armed personnel were still front-line soldiers who killed people without blinking. The more than 600 people from the 4th Division were definitely honest. As a result, as soon as the main force of the Four Lines Regiment left, the Japanese prisoners of war started to cause trouble from the next day.

Not only did they try their best to escape, they also attacked the inexperienced young militia, and even held two militias with kidnapping and threatened the officers and soldiers of the Four Corps to release them. If the lieutenant guard platoon leader had not made a quick decision and ordered the shooting and killing of more than 30 Japanese soldiers involved, the cold and decisive killing completely shocked the Japanese prisoners of war, and the consequences were unimaginable.

When January 18th, at 4 pm, when the daytime reconnaissance and deployment of troops of Nishimura, Toshiichi Nishimura and more than 10,000 Japanese troops arrived at the two high grounds, the Chinese soldiers on the two high grounds were already on high ground.

Through the telescope, he looked at the high ground in front of him with rows of trenches and felt a bitter taste in his mouth. The high ground attacked little by little like peeling corn. How many people could his seven infantry brigades be left in the end?

Obviously, Nishimura Tsingichi was really thinking too much.

The Japanese army, who started attacking at 5 pm on January 18, never expected that from this moment on, everyone here embarked on a path of no return.

After spending hundreds of lives, Nishimura Tsinichi finally tested the strength of the firepower of the 981 Highlands and 872 Highlands.

This Japanese Army Major General, who had been forced to Liangshan by Shiro Itagaki, also officially implemented the strategy of gathering heavy troops to siege the 872 Highland, which was called the "Du Ren Peak" by the Japanese army, mainly restraining and suppressing the firepower. The 981 Highland called the "Yu Bo Ridge" was a tactic of gathering heavy troops to siege.

I have to say that at least from this point, Nishimura Motoichi still has a few tricks. He will at least avoid the strong and attack the weak, and use the 46th Brigade as the breakthrough point.

Although Leng Feng has no more than 1,500 infantrymen to fight, their soldiers' individual combat effectiveness and equipment are much stronger than those of the 46th Brigade, and they are more skilled in civil engineering operations, so the difficulty of conquering is actually much greater than that of the 981 Highlands.

But it is the weakest link in this Chinese military sequence, which is also a hard bone beyond the imagination of the Japanese army.

But the battle on the evening of the 18th broke out in the two big teeth of Nishimura Soichi.

An unknown highland belonging to the 981 Highland, located more than 800 meters below the lower right of the main highland of 981, with only one infantry platoon garrison.

The entire position is pitifully small, with only an anti-aircraft hole used to avoid artillery fire and two trenches with a length of no more than 300 meters in front and rear. There are no heavy machine guns on the position, only 4 light machine guns and 3 grenade launchers, and the rest are basically rifles.

52 soldiers have regular rifles, Hanyang made rifles, and the Type 38 rifles totaled 68. In terms of light firepower, it is more than the ordinary Chinese army's full infantry platoon.

But this is absolutely not worth mentioning for the Japanese army. In the past, not to mention dispatching an infantry squadron, even an infantry squadron cannon, under the cover of heavy machine guns and infantry artillery, it can also be conquered.

But this time, it really opened the eyes of the Japanese.

It was this unknown small position. The Japanese army sent a squadron of 178 infantrymen, plus 4 heavy machine guns and 2 infantry artillery pieces to assist, and even 4 mountain cannons were covered by artillery fire. Moreover, the Japanese infantry cannon coordination has reached its limit. The infantry has reached 180 meters in the front of the highland trenches, and mountain cannons and infantry cannon shells have blown the high ground to smoke.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Whether it is firepower, troops or the strong cooperation shown by the Japanese army, it is already the peak level of the Japanese army. No matter how you look at it, it is a matter of one go.

But there has never been anything certain in this world, and there are only not certain.

The Chinese infantry on the position actually waited until the Japanese infantry approached 120 meters away from the front of the position before they began to fight back sporadically.

It is basically rifle, and the lack of continuous fire suppression of light machine guns makes it difficult for the Japanese army not to have the illusion that "the Chinese have almost been killed by artillery fire."

The Japanese infantry began to straighten their bodies and move forward cautiously since they bent over and walked out of their legs and shouted "Onboard" to charge!

A red signal flare rose into the sky, but this did not arouse the vigilance of the Japanese infantry who had already begun to rush forward. They just thought it was a signal that the Chinese infantry was about to enter the trenches.

So, the Japanese infantry just wanted to run faster and faster, and rushed to the area where they could pitch grenades before the Chinese arrived at the frontline trenches.

Victory is less than 50 meters away!

But the sharp whistle that broke through the air made the Japanese infantry's eyes light up from now on.

That is a light ball formed by the explosion of countless mortar shells.

The winter nights in northern China always come earlier and are already dark at 6 o'clock in the evening, but Nishimura Motoichi will never give his opponent a night of rest.

The fortifications spread all over the mountains almost overnight made Nishimura Motoichi clearly know that the Chinese people dug up such a huge system of field fortifications by sleeplessly dying, which was at the cost of huge physical strength.

If he doesn't attack while the opponent is weak and waits for his opponent to have a good sleep at night, that's a pure silly criticism!

Therefore, a wave of nearly 10 shells fell and exploded and sparked fire, which was enough to illuminate most of the hillside, allowing Japanese commanders 600 meters away to see the scene of the artillery massacre.

Although the Japanese infantry individuals were scattered wide enough and crawled in time, the Chinese shells were like waves in the sea, wave after wave, and did not give the Japanese infantry on the hillside any chance to breathe.

The only thing they could do was to lie on the ground and pray to the Chinese artillery fire to end quickly by silently reciting the blessing of Amaterasu.

It was an artillery position formed by 10 gates and 82 force deployed on the rear wing of the 981 Highland, and it was also an artillery force supported by the Lengfeng Department.

Given that he had 6 Bofos mountain guns, 6 150 heavy guns, and 6 80mm howitzers owned by two battalions of artillery companies, and there was a 60-force squad in the infantry platoon. Leng Feng believed that he was far better than the Independent 46th Brigade in terms of artillery fire support, so he simply transported the 6 82 backup guns from the Independent 46th Brigade and transferred 12 experienced mortars to support the Independent 46th Brigade.

Brigade Commander Kong Da was also a smart man, so he used these six mortars as his team and drew 2 82 from each of the two infantry regiments to form a mortar company.

The location of this mortar company is destined to support the small highlands below the main highlands.

That's because although there are 12 mountain cannons seized from the Japanese 41st style, first of all, the artillery of the 46th Brigade is not skilled in controlling the mountain cannons, and the shooting range of mountain cannons is also limited, and the set shooting elements are also aimed at the direction of the main position.
To be continued...