"After checking the terrain, what do you think we should do?" Standing on the cliff that was nearly ninety degrees, Gu Xishui stared into the distance.

The Japanese army marched faster than everyone imagined. According to the war report from the regiment headquarters, at least two infantry registrars, Chen Bing, had already launched an attack on the Qingjiang River bank and was about to launch an attack on the Changyang defenders.

That means that at most ten days, the Japanese army will march from Changyang to Shipai Defense Zone, leaving only so much time for the mountain infantry company to deploy defense here.

But the mountains here are very different from those in Taihang. They are not only high but also steep, and they are always like this cliff that is close to 90 degrees.

Don't think that this way, you can be a one-man who can pass through the barrier. It is extremely difficult for infantry to attack such cliffs, but the Japanese artillery is not vegetarian, especially because there are threats from the air. A series of bombs are thrown down, which is simply fatal to infantry shooting at the passage below on the cliffs near civil fortifications.

What's even more terrible is that this kind of natural danger is very painful for the attacking party, and there is no way out for the defending party.

The Japanese could easily bypass the two wings and cut off the only retreat route of the mountain. The defenders on the mountain became completely alone, and reinforcements and supplies could not be raised. They could only allow Japanese planes and cannons to bombard them, and eventually died one by one.

If the war is over, we can only implement this kind of attrition war of both attrition, which is a natural thing to say. Gu Xishui would scatter all four platoons and 16 squads in this mountainous area without hesitation. The Japanese would use human lives and a large number of shells and bombs to pull out these nails one by one.

But the war has not started yet, and the tactical intention of the Tang regiment is to destroy the Japanese army's vitality in this mountainous area, rather than to have sex with the Japanese.

Therefore, you still have to use your brain more than do it.

"Company Commander, I found an interesting place 3 miles ahead. I think we can make use of it!" Long Yan pointed to a rolling area in front of him.

"Then let's go and have a look!" Gu Xishui looked at that direction and made a decisive decision.

There is the only passage from the outside world to the stone tablet, but everyone instinctively believes that the Japanese will never be so stupid. There are cliffs on both sides of the passage, and even the mountain people can't help but look up at the sky when walking on it, for fear that a stone will fall and smash themselves to death.

An ambushed an army above, let alone throwing grenades and firing machine guns, even using stones can kill a large number of people underneath.

How could a large army enter it?

The Third Battalion of Heilongtan, Wangwu Mountain, fought a similar battle when it faced the Guoqi Detachment of the Fifth Division, but the crack passage was much shorter than this one. In addition, the Japanese army was eager to pursue it, so they made a fatal mistake.

Therefore, after a rough look at the terrain of this area, the other three platoon leaders all tended to see that the Japanese army would definitely choose to cross the mountains instead of walking the canyon passage that seemed easier to reach but was a dead end.

But now Longyan has made a move again after on-site inspection, and Gu Xishui has agreed.

Gu Xishui must know Longyan. Although Longyan is careless and unrestrained, he is actually very delicate in his heart. Especially since he joined the army, he has grown rapidly and is no longer the young man who symbolically gave the rank of second lieutenant to appease the Yeyue Village people. He is now an extremely qualified infantry platoon leader.

He said it was interesting, and that must be a place to discover and use it.

Several people approached the mountain road of this placard trough. The overall length was about 3 miles. On both sides were dangerous stone walls, which stood steep like a knife and axe. The passage in the middle was less than four meters narrow, and people were at the bottom of the valley as if they were at the bottom of a well.

The highest peaks on both sides of the mountain road are even hundreds of meters high. When you look up, your neck is sore and you can't see the appearance of the mountain.

"If I were the commander of the Japanese, even if I decided that the main force would pass through this passage, I would first cover the peaks on both sides with heavy firepower, and then send a large number of vanguards to climb these peaks from other places for reconnaissance. In this way, not only did I even suffer losses in the ambush here, but the main force of the Japanese army could not attack this kind of loss-making business." A lieutenant platoon leader looked up at the peak and shook his head.

The lieutenant platoon leader was one of the veterans who followed Tang Dao and Lei Xiong all the way from Sihang Warehouse. Not only was he experienced enough, but his battlefield experience was also extremely rich. He was considered the second commander in the mountain infantry company, and the company commander Gu Xishui also respected him very much.

He said no, Longyan was basically sentenced to death before he had issued the suggestion.

"Hehe! Brother Zhou, I didn't say I wanted to ambush the Japanese on the mountain. Look there!" Long Yan was not anxious, but chuckled and pointed at the cliff about dozens of meters above his head.

Above the cliffs on both sides, there are many natural stone caves, and the boat-shaped coffins placed by locals can be seen with the naked eye.

That is called the hanging coffin, which is a unique burial method of the ancient Ba people in the Three Gorges area.

After a person dies, his family will choose to be buried at half-waisted position on the cliffs along the river. He will use natural caves on the cliffs or specially chiseled cliff holes to place or suspend the coffins in the caves. These coffins are usually made into the shape of a ship, so they are also called boat coffins or rock coffins.

Although this area is not adjacent to the river, it is only a few miles away from the Yangtze River, which is also an excellent location.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry company came from the north and had never seen such a coffin hanging in a stone cave on the hillside. During the terrain survey, a team also used a walkie-talkie to report to the platoon. The terrifying tone made Gu Xishui next to him laugh.

I don’t know how many times these guys have experienced in the battlefield where flesh and blood are flying, but they are still afraid of the dead coffin that has been dead for many years. I don’t know if they are brave or timid.

Of course, this is mainly due to the factors that awe of ancestors in the Chinese heritage, not how afraid of the officers and soldiers are of the dead bones in the coffin.

"You mean..." Gu Xishui's eyes suddenly lit up.

"That's right, I want to use these natural caves where coffins are placed as firepower points. Company Commander Zhou, you see, these caves are thirty or forty meters away from the ground, and sixty or seventy meters high, and are almost straight up and down from the ground. The Japanese cannot even crawl up or even grenade launchers. As for infantry cannons, they have the ability to carry that thing on their shoulders and heads.

Not to mention that firing can kill people, they think it is me who is their small body!" Long Yan laughed and stretched out his arms to bulge his muscles.

"And! Just now, Brother Zhou was worried that the Japanese would inevitably check the firepower reconnaissance and personnel of the mountain. I hid in such a stone cave, blocked the entrance of the cave with a big stone, and then made some disguise. With the IQ of the Japanese, I would hide above their heads and prepare to open a scoop for them!"

"Good idea! Longyan, you really have it." The lieutenant platoon leader who opposed it at the beginning gave Longyan a thumbs up and took the initiative to help Longyan supplement.

"I can see that there are no less than 30 stone caves where hanging coffins are placed here. We only need to place a three-person team in most stone caves, using two rifles and one submachine gun as firepower, and then putting a machine gun team in a suitable cave in the shooting world to form a perfect firepower network for this passage.

Anyone who dares to pass by here will definitely beat them to heaven and have no way out!

Moreover, after a rough calculation, it was about one platoon's troops. Our other three platoons just happened to guard the other two mountain passes. The Japanese were frustrated on our side. Even if they didn't want to choose this route, they had to choose this route.

It was like we drove fish in the river, driving the Japanese to this place, and killing them all."

"Haha! Brother Zhou, you know me, you're talking about my thoughts without any fault. There is no need for mortars here. I'll give you all the mortars in my row. The more you fight the Japanese on the periphery, the more Japanese people will get here." Long Yan laughed loudly.

"What should you do if you eat and drink in the cave, then platoon leader? There is still a question of how to evacuate, have you considered it?" Another lieutenant asked after thinking carefully.

"Eating and drinking are easy to solve. Prepare dry food and water for 10 days in each hole. In addition, each rifle carries 300 bullets, 1,200 bullets of submachine guns, 70 pistols, and 90 grenades!" Long Yan obviously had a plan for this.

"As for the evacuation issue, hehe! It depends on you guys. If you still have people alive, you will naturally hang ropes from the mountain to pull us up. If it is gone, what else can I say? Let's have fun together!"

The words made several lieutenants dumbfounded. This guy is really a cruel man. Others are putting themselves to death before they die. Not only does he kill himself, but he also completely handed over his life to his comrades.

It is really a perfect interpretation of the life together and death together.

"Okay! Since you, Longyan and the brothers in the 2nd Platoon have this awareness, then all the brothers in my mountain infantry company will accompany you to gamble. I will try my best to install walkie-phones in each cave. If you have any needs, you can ask for help through walkie-phones. Don't end up living, but you, the leader of the Long Dalian, starved to death and thirsty in the cave.

Then I must not be chased and beaten by Platoon Leader Long Ying and Platoon Leader Shen in front of the regiment seat. The couple, one playing with a knife and the other playing with a gun, really can't win!" Gu Xishui was also a brave man. Amid the discussions of the platoon leaders under his subordinates, agreed to Long Yan's tactics.

It is really not easy to enter the cave. It is definitely not possible to get from bottom to top at a height of tens of meters. You can only hang from top to bottom.

It took three days to send more than 80 officers and soldiers, the weapons and materials needed to them into the caves.

The height of the downward cable is dozens of meters short and more than a hundred meters long. Even the villagers in Yeyue Village who grew up in the mountains and picked herbs on cliffs felt dizzy when they were hung in the air more than a hundred meters in the cold wind in the winter.

But that was not the most difficult, but basically the soldiers in a group of three had to spend many days with the dead bones in the cave.

In that era, the countryside was filled with talks between gods and ghosts. When I thought that I not only had to move the coffins of these Ba people’s ancestors, but also had to be in a space of only a few square meters with them. Basically, soldiers from peasant origins were all standing upright.

"Find a place for me to put all the bones, light three incense sticks, light three cigarettes without incense, kowtow to the ancestors, tell them that their descendants will fight the Japanese and occupy their place, and tell them not to blame us. If possible, they will lie down and see how we kill the Japanese." It must be Long Yan, who listened to the soldiers who picked up broken arms and legs on the battlefield without frowning in the walkie-talkie, who kept asking for instructions on how to deal with those coffins that occupied space and were eye-catching, and gave such an order directly.

As soon as he heard this, the hurdle in the hearts of the soldiers who were troubled by the affairs of ghosts and gods was smooth.

Yes! If the ancestors knew that they had invaded the Japanese pirates who invaded their homes, they would definitely not blame them. Maybe they could bless them on the side!

Morale rose inexplicably.

As expected, within three days, the regiment headquarters heard news that Changyang County had fallen!

In another two days, Yuyang Pass was lost!

A Japanese division led the mountain road between Changyang and Shipai and headed straight for Shipai.

At the same time, the two divisions of the 13th Division and the 39th Division have gathered in Yiling, and there are more than 20 Japanese warships coming from Jiangxia, including four of the 2,000-ton class destroyers, eight of them, and 700-ton and 600-ton class gunboats, and as many as 15 armed transport ships.

All of this has shown that the Japanese army has not been waiting for the Chinese New Year, and hopes to break through the east gate of China's most important city before the Chinese New Year arrives.

Once, in time and space, the Japanese army gathered heavy troops to attack Shipai because the Japanese Navy suffered repeated failures on the Pacific battlefield. The military headquarters located in Japan hoped to mobilize the army and naval forces on the Chinese battlefield to invest in the Pacific battlefield.

Conquering Shipai, intimidating the attack on the mountain city, forcing the Chinese government to surrender to quickly resolve the war on the Chinese battlefield.

That was influenced by the entire grand strategy, otherwise the Japanese army would not have rashly put tens of thousands of troops into this steep mountain.

But in this era, the Chinese dispatched troops made this arrangement resolutely two years in advance. To be honest, it is still inseparable from Tang Dao, a little butterfly from the future.

Mainly, Shancheng, with the help of the Rockefeller family, received assistance from new fighter jets and a large number of anti-aircraft guns in 1940.

This may be the prelude to the Americans' participation in the war, and whether they have set up an alliance with China in private? This is a question that the top Japanese leaders who have already dispatched troops to point directly to the battlefield in Southeast Asia must think.

With the idea of ​​Southeast Asia's extremely rich and fertile land, the first one they would not agree to was naturally the old empire that the sun never set, but the empire is currently fighting with the German Empire, and it is difficult for them to protect themselves. How can they have much energy to pay attention to the colonies thousands of kilometers away from their hometown?

The already inflated Japan did not take the Sun-Down Empire seriously. What they deserved their most attention was the United States, which has remained neutral so far.

It can be said that the Americans did it in 1940 like a beautiful woman posing, constantly teasing the extremely fragile nerves of this short and rough Japanese man.

With constant guessing, the senior executives of the Japanese base camp finally made up their minds to first solve the stubborn enemy of China, and then gather the whole country to fight the Americans.

China still has millions of troops and vast land. With the current scale of only one million Chinese dispatched troops, if you want to eat them in one bite, no matter how arrogant the Japanese are, they will not be able to do that.

The simplest and easiest thing is to point the troops directly to the mountain castle, forcing the Chinese government in the mountain castle to surrender. As long as it surrenders at the center, millions of troops will be nothing more than a mess. It is only a matter of time to destroy it. Unlike now, the Chinese army is fighting more and more, so many that even the strong generals as strong as Shiro Itagaki feel a little desperate.

January 13, 1941!

The 232nd Infantry Regiment of the 39th Division of the 11th Army of Japan, led by its infantry regiment commander, Colonel George Naoke, set out from Yiling to cross the Qingjiang River, cross Changyang, and ran along the mountain road towards Shipai.

This may not be the first Japanese army to approach the Shipai Central Defense Zone in the future, and the blocking battle they encountered in the end was not the first battle in which the Shipai Defense War broke out.

But this is definitely the first wave of Japanese elite troops in the Shipai defense battle!

Although the 39th Division is only a B-type division organized by the 3-infantry regiment, the reason why General Zhang died in the Battle of Zaoyi not long ago was that he was besieged by the division. His division commander Murakami was also a product of Japan's "elite education" and his strategy and courage were not bad. In order to catch up with the West, Japan has formed a unique "elite" education system after a series of reforms. First enter the kindergarten school to study, and then the outstanding people then study at the Jinshi Junior College. Finally, the so-called "elite" talents in Japan are Japan's so-called "elite" talents!

This future commander of the Japanese Third Army, Murakami Qisuo, may not make a statement, but those who have the same study trajectory as him, such as Okamura Koji, Anan Weiji, and Datianjun, all committed heinous crimes on the land of China.

The combat effectiveness of the 39th Division is comparable to that of a number of old permanent divisions!

Even after knowing that Changyang took the lead in striking the central position of Benshipai, he specially called Tang Dao: "Do you have the confidence to block this Japanese army? If the troops are insufficient, the 34th Division can temporarily support one or two infantry battalions at any time!"

As for this, Tang Dao did not tell him that he had only sent a mountain infantry company. Although the force was more than ordinary infantry companies, it was not worth mentioning compared to the elite infantry corps of the Japanese army.

Tang Dao chose to trust Gu Xishui and rejected the kindness of the division commander Hu. However, during his cautious period, he also gave reinforcements to the mountain infantry company. However, he only sent a heavy platoon and a baggage platoon to support him, with a total of 4 150 caliber mortars, 400 shells and 150 second-line combat soldiers!

At noon on the 15th, the sniper of the Mountain Infantry Company fired the first shot on a peak 400 meters away from the Japanese army!

Kill and kill one Japanese lieutenant!
Chapter completed!