In addition to the more than 100 wounded soldiers who were sent back to Changyang County on the afternoon of the first day and the 200th Japanese army escorted, the more than 3,400 people from the 232nd Infantry Regiment of the 39th Division were killed in battle and 83 were captured.

The Japanese army knew that the specific losses of its infantry were actually on the radio that China reported to all Chinese people at 9 p.m. that day.

An infantry corps and a naval aviation squadron disappeared into the most beautiful mountains in China. The commander of the 11th Japanese Army, Yokoyama, and the commander of the Japanese Navy, Hasegawa Ao, collectively spit out an old mouthful of blood!

However, the losses of 3,000 people per infantry corps are obviously affordable for the 11th Japanese Army, which has more than 100,000 troops.

The Japanese army attacked from Changyang direction was frustrated, which does not mean that the Japanese army surrounded from other directions stopped.

January 18!

Lieutenant General Yokoyama, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese army, flew to Yiling personally, which was equivalent to supervising the battle on the front line. Murakami, the commander of the 39th Division, took action as the front line commander and personally boarded the Murasu light destroyer, led the 233rd Regiment of the 39th Division, and an infantry brigade of the 13th Division. Under the air escort of dozens of fighter jets, he drove to the front of the Shipai Fortress.

If you think that this Japanese army with only 10,000 people is the main force of Yokoyama Yong's attack on Shipai Fortress, you are very wrong.

Although these three infantry regiments are all elites in the 11th Army of Japan, they only account for a small part of the forces deployed by the Japanese army to attack the Shipai Fortress.

In addition, the Japanese army's real main force was surrounded by the Yegou Detachment, the Neigu Detachment, the 231st Infantry Regiment of the 39th Division, the 3rd Division and the 40th Division.

In this combat area with a length of about 200 kilometers and a width of about 60 kilometers, China has deployed a total of 13 divisions and 3 independent brigades in the Sixth and Fifth War Zones, with a total force of nearly 150,000.

Although the Chinese troops have to exceed the Japanese army with a total force of 120,000, at least five divisions have suffered heavy damage in the early Japanese army's battle against Shipai and were forced to retreat. Only one main infantry army and three divisions and one special regiment are still holding their positions within the area of ​​only 100 kilometers around Shipai. The overall defense force will never exceed 70,000.

70,000 to 50,000, the troops are still not weak, but the heavy firepower is still far inferior.

From the river surface alone, the Japanese army invested four light destroyers and more than a dozen gunboats. Not to mention the 140mm naval guns equipped on the destroyers, just taking the Anzhai gunboat with a tonnage of only 780 tons, it was equipped with two 120mm naval guns.

The smoke from the shelling of the Chinese positions on the Shipai Fortress from the river can be called a cover of the sky and the sun.

On the other hand, the only thing that China can effectively counterattack is the 6 190-caliber Jiangbing guns owned by the fortress, and the main divisions like the 11th Division only have 12 75mm caliber mountain guns.

Not to mention other infantry divisions, some of which don’t even have mountain cannons, only a small number of 82 mortars supporting the facade.

Among the 60,000 to 70,000 Chinese troops, only the Four Army Regiment is a strange one, with heavy firepower that completely surpasses the Japanese army.

At noon on the 18th, the Japanese army launched a landing battle against the front positions of Shipai Fortress. Dozens of naval guns bombed together, blowing the Shipai positions into smoke.

In the sky, the Japanese Navy even put out all its strength, more than 40 fighter jets flew up and down, throwing all kinds of heavy bombs into the mountains where there might be Chinese soldiers.

The six Chinese anti-river cannons also opened fire and fought back angrily, blowing the river surface to a water column splashing more than ten meters high, and flaming the beach where the Japanese infantry were landing black.

An infantry company responsible for defending this place also tried hard to shoot, trying to prevent the Japanese infantry from landing smoothly.

It was just because of the terrain reasons and the tactics of the division commander Hu's contraction defense, the five machine guns deployed on the Tianxiantai and the bullets fired by 130 soldiers were not enough to stop thousands of Japanese troops from jumping out of the cold and waist-deep river water to advance towards the landing field.

The Japanese army suffered more than 200 casualties, and most of them successfully landed on the river beach. This loss was completely within the acceptable range of Murakami's operation.

The most tragic battle broke out at 3:00 p.m. that day!

Tianxiantai is a mountain peak with three vertical sides. There is only one place that can be climbed up the mountain by a small road, and two machine guns block the only road that can reach the mountain. Even if there were thousands of Japanese troops, they could not climb this high ground before the Chinese infantry company had run out of ammunition and food.

And the Japanese army could not bypass this area where deadly bullets could be fired at any time.

So, the Japanese army first detoured to the rear of Tianxiantai, completely cut off the retreat of the Chinese defenders of Tianxiantai. Then, they covered the Tianxiantai with various artillery fire, and used 12 bombers to bomb the area in turn.

According to post-war statistics, on this day, the Japanese army poured more than 790 shells and 38 bombs on Tianxiantai, a mountain with a radius of only 8,000 square meters, and even steel would blow it to ashes.

But to the Japanese army's surprise, even at such an artillery fire, the gunfire on the mountain did not stop for a moment until nightfall that day.

In order to prevent this confidant from launching another attack at night, the Japanese army waited until early on the 19th, sending an infantry squadron to attack Tianxiantai and completely occupy the extremely soft highland that had been blown up, and the main force advanced towards the core defensive position of Shipai Fortress.

More than 200 Japanese troops did not encounter much resistance in the early morning of the 19th. Mainly after half a day of heavy artillery and plane bombing, there were few living people on the Tianxiantai Highland where all fortifications were destroyed.

Even those who are alive are seriously injured!

According to the oral statement of the 8th Infantry Battalion of the 233rd Infantry Regiment, Edogawa Koiga said to him on the Tianshentai after the war because he was injured:

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! There is no green on this beautiful mountain peak overlooking the river surface and the beach, and it is full of scorched earth. The soil here is obviously much softer than other areas. If you step on it, the dust can reach your ankle.

I don't think anyone could live here, but I was wrong. Just as my colleagues and I were still looking around in a daze, a bullet that burst out of the soil shot into Nomura Kun.

I still remember the look at him at a loss when he looked at his chest. He, like me, didn't believe that there would be enemies here, but the blood flowing from his chest told me that this was the truth.

Someone actually hid in the soil and launched this fatal blow.

My colleagues and I were both angry and fired bullets at the target that had been exposed. In the soil more than 30 meters away, a figure was crawling quietly, and the blood on his body kept splashing under the bullets.

Someone walked over and carefully opened the corpse with a bayonet, and many imperial officers and soldiers were stunned on the spot.

He should still be a teenager, but he was fifteen or sixteen years old.

But what shocked me so much that I haven't spoken for a long time was not because of the young body, nor because the body was only 1.2 meters long at most, because his legs had been blown up by the terrifying shelling yesterday.

Instead, there was no fear on the extremely dirty face of the corpse, but quiet and peaceful. I could even feel that he was laughing!

His legs were broken, he must be in pain. He hit at least 20 bullets in his body before he died. How could it hurt so much, so what was he laughing at?

It's hard for me to understand, maybe he's a lunatic!

......

Edogawa Koimashita's sergeant could not understand the peace of the Chinese young soldier when he died, but he had to thank the Chinese young soldier who made the final resistance on the Tianxiantai position.

Because, after the Japanese army used a bayonet to open his body, they did not notice that he was holding a thread in his hand.

And as the thread pulled, blue smoke began to rise from the dust six meters away from the young soldier's body.

Those were three grenades tied together!

Five seconds later, the grenade exploded, and five Japanese infantry walking towards it were killed and six injured on the spot, including Edogawa Koimasa, who had just woken up from the shock.

A young Chinese soldier achieved the miracle of 1 for 6 at the moment of death. Do you think he should laugh?

Of course, Edogawa Kojima would not understand the calmness of the last Chinese soldier on this position. It was not because he finally completed the feat of one and six, but because he finally met his comrades in another world.

When the Japanese army's overwhelming artillery fire came, as the youngest soldier in the infantry company, he was protected by a group of uncles and elder brothers. Before the company commander died, he ordered him to sneak down the mountain peak to escape from here at night, and asked him to report the infantry company's battle situation to the regiment headquarters.

The brothers can all die, but they cannot die in vain. At least they must let the superiors know that they died bravely. This is the last explanation of the infantry company commander to the brothers of his entire company.

Unfortunately, the only Miaomiao, who was rescued from the artillery fire with her body as a shield, was unable to escape the bad luck in the end. A shrapnel of a shell cut off his leg, so that he could not escape from the position no matter what.

The young soldier blocked the wound of his broken leg with mud, tied the last three remaining grenades on the entire position together, and made a rope into a rare, and then buried himself in the blown-in-the-soft soil.

And, he successfully killed a Japanese invader.

However, the young soldier did not expect the Japanese counterattack to be so rapid. More than 20 bullets hit the body, and several of them hit the arm, with broken tendons and broken bones, which made him not even able to pull the rope at the last moment of his life.

But that doesn't matter. When the bright eyes sink into the darkness, the young soldier seemed to see his comrades walking towards him with a smile.

It's great to see you! The young soldier exhaled his last breath with satisfaction.

Really, nothing else matters anymore, what matters is that we are together!

After the Shipai Defense Battle, the division commander surnamed Hu stood on this position filled with remains of his own officers and soldiers, unable to let go of them for a long time.

It was the only infantry company in the entire Chinese unit that was killed in the entire battle between the Shipai Defense War, and none of them could survive.

The Chinese infantry used ground to deal with the three-dimensional attacks on the Japanese army's navy, land and air, but they were naturally defeated. No matter how tragic the Japanese army could not prevent them from successfully landing on the river and pushing the troops towards the Shipai Fortress.

Where are the Chinese Air Forces who mobilized dozens of fighter jets and bombers?

The Chinese Air Force actually participated in the war!

However, the Chinese Air Force did the opposite this time, and did not fly directly over Shipai Fortress to defend the airspace. Instead, at around 4 pm, more than 30 fighter jets and bombers were dispatched to bomb the airports of Yiling and Jingmen.

This tactic of "You fight yours, I fight mine" was proposed by Zheng Shaoyu. He judged that the Japanese army would definitely put more air force on the battlefield, not because they were afraid of head-on battles, but because the Chinese Air Force had just a little bit of financial resources. If they fought all this battle, what should they do in the next six months?

So, a group of aircraft led by him took advantage of the Japanese fighter planes showing off their power on the Shipai battlefield and directly circled a large arc and blew up the Yiling Airport occupied by the Japanese army.

Many Japanese planes that had thrown their bombs were originally going to reload bombs at Yiling Airport and put them on the battlefield, but their homes were gone and they had to return to Jiangxia Airport hundreds of kilometers away.

This invisibly prevented the Japanese fighter jets from returning to the battlefield to drop bombs, and even two Zero fighter jets had to land in the farmlands of the Jianghan Plain due to insufficient fuel.

Moreover, Zheng Shaoyu's prediction is very accurate. In order to seek a decisive battle with the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese Navy used more than 50 fighters this time. In addition to the fighters involved in the attack on the enemy, 12 Zero fighters were hovering at an altitude of 4,500 meters.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the Chinese Air Force really wants to fight against it, it will have to lose at least 20 fighter jets in this battle. This will definitely be a damaging blow to the Chinese Air Force, which is responsible for providing air support to the 5th, 3th, 9th, and Sichuan Province defense.

Although the Chinese defenders of Shipai were under all pressure on the first day, all the airports in Yiling and Jingmen were successfully bombed by the Chinese Air Force, which also caused the Japanese Navy to take off from Jiangxia Airport 600 kilometers away. Not only did the air attack time have to be shortened, but the frequency and efficiency of the dispatch were reduced accordingly.

It can be said that although the Japanese army won a comprehensive victory on the landing field on the 18th, with more than 9,000 Japanese infantry soldiers stationed in front of the Shipai Fortress, in fact, China and Japan fought back and forth on this day.

Yokoyama, who lost two airports, cursed the two infantry captains guarding the airport in a bloody way.

The two Japanese Army masters were actually very aggrieved. The 25mm dual-mounted machine guns they equipped could reach an altitude of 2,500 meters by the sky. However, the Chinese people's ash jets were all in the 3,000 meters area. What else could they do except get bombed?

"The Chinese Air Force is so hateful. Why don't you bomb the Navy's Malu warships with the ability?" The two Japanese Army Majors who were scolded by their superiors were almost stuffed into their crotch.

Airports are valuable, but warships are also valuable. They can transport infantry, have large caliber naval guns to provide firepower support to the ground, and even air defense.

On a 780-ton gunboat like the "Anzhai" there are three three-year 76 mm guns with a 40-times 76 mm gun, with a shooting energy of 6,800 meters, which is an absolute air defense weapon.

The Chinese planes went to find their bad luck and cut off the rear route of landing more than 10,000 infantry soldiers. How can they do the tactics?

The hopes of the extremely aggrieved Japanese Army Major come true.

At 10 a.m. on the 19th, 16 wildcat fighters from the Chinese Air Force visited the sky above Shipai. Instead of bombing the Japanese infantry that had already landed, they attacked the Japanese Navy fleet that had broken down on the riverside.

When aircraft hit ships, the most commonly used mode is to drop bombs and torpedoes. Wildcat fighters are all land-based. The Chinese Navy, which basically loses all ships, does not have torpedoes, so it is naturally the most conventional bomb drop.

Seeing more than a dozen fighter jets rushing towards the sky along the direction of the Yangtze River, more than a dozen warships of all sizes of the Japanese Navy were panicked.

Although the destroyers and larger gunboats are equipped with anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, that thing can be used to hit the plane but can't hit the bombs.

Not to mention a 500-pound bomb, even if a 250-pound bomb is hit by a destroyer, the destroyer will suffer a severe blow.
To be continued...