Masayoshi Yamada never thought that he would fall into such a difficult situation one day!

Since receiving the battle report that the 232 Infantry Regiment was almost wiped out, as the second person in the 39th Division, Yamada Masayoshi knew that he could never have any mistakes, otherwise the huge glory that the 39th Division won in the Battle of Zaoyi last year would be wiped out.

Therefore, he was unprecedentedly cautious. Even though the division commander who was in charge of the warship repeatedly issued electricity and urged him, he still waited for three days until the artillery corps and navy fighter planes gathered fire to blow the opposite mountain into scorched earth, and then he invested more than 1,500 soldiers to attack the important highlands of China.

In his tactical planning, China, which cannot withstand the pressure, will definitely lift their trump card and expose the heavy firepower points that were not reconnaissed in the early stage.

Maybe it can't be done in one go, but it can lay the foundation for the second wave of attack. If nothing unexpected happens, conquering the line of defense in front of you in two days is already the limit that the Chinese can resist.

All the tactics he planned in the early stage were realized as he expected. The Chinese were indeed very tenacious. Under such fierce bombing, they still survived in large quantities and resisted effectively. They also opened the last trump card as expected.

However, this trump card was a bit too fierce, so fierce that even the second person in the 39th Division, which commanded nearly 10,000 troops, could not bear it.

It doesn’t matter if the Chinese have artillery and anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns. After all, this is also the defense zone of the 18th Army of the legendary five elite infantry troops in China. Some artillery prove that they are well-known, right?

But you dare believe that the Chinese people have created tanks in places like this that they struggle to walk? Looking at the tens of thousands of imperial troops invested in this battlefield, there is not a single one of them.

It is not that the Imperial Division lacks tanks, but after early reconnaissance and analysis of the terrain, the senior management of the headquarters believed that dispatching combat vehicles to march here was a time-consuming and laborious act without tactical help.

In fact, through the marching in the mountains these days, the four-type mountain cannons that can be dismantled and transported by pack horses have made Yamada Masayoshi so big. More than a dozen pack horses broke their legs because of the complex terrain. If a big guy like the Type 89 tank came here, he would have to build roads specifically for them. He would not know about the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month when he arrived at the battlefield.

I can only say that the other day, Commander Yokoyama Yuki was still very wise in Colonel Yamada Masayoshi's heart. Now facing the tanks that the Chinese appeared on the battlefield, saying that Yokoyama Yuki is Mrs. Niu is really Colonel Yamada Masayoshi's personal cultivation is very good.

In the past, Masayoshi Yamada would never fill this pit with the lives of precious imperial officers and soldiers. However, the casualties reported by the three infantry brigades and the previous defeat of the 232 infantry corps were not even next to the side of the Shipai Central Defense Zone, and nearly 4,000 soldiers died in the 39th Division.

This terrifying number made the Japanese Army colonel sitting there silent for a long time know that he actually had no other choice.

Apart from strong attacks and breaking through this line of defense, he has no way out!

However, Yamada Masayoshi finally chose to send a telegram to the division commander Murakami, without seeking tactical guidance. He just informed him of the damage caused by nearly one infantry brigade in the first round of attack and the number of tanks currently appearing on the Chinese side. He also said that it is not ruled out that more tanks will appear in the Chinese defenders.

This is also the cleverness of Yamada Masayoshi. He handed over the decision to the division commander. In the future, no matter whether the winner or the loss is too big, Murakami will take the blame. He is just an executor rather than a decision maker.

"This battle is related to the global strategic decision of the empire and the future of our empire. The division decided to implement the base camp, the Chinese Expeditionary Command, and the 11th Army Command. All officers and soldiers of our 39th Division should move forward bravely and take it as their mission to defeat the enemy in front of us!" Murakami sent such a high-profile telegram 20 minutes later.

This telegram sealed by the 39th Division was also considered by military scholars in the future to be the most important factor that led to the 231st Infantry Regiment becoming the most beautiful prey after the Four Corps arrived in central China.

Murakami's mind was actually very flexible. The information obtained from Yamada Masayoshi, a man named Deli, was enough to make him judge that the Chinese defenders faced by the 231st Infantry Regiment were extremely powerful, and the losses would be huge under the strong attack.

But like Masayoshi Yamada, this Japanese lieutenant general had no choice. In order to plan to conquer Shipai, the commander of the 11th Army, Yokoyama, has been paving the way for half a year. He has been using 150,000 people to launch the Zaoyi Battle to conquer Yiling, and has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to launch the Western Hubei Battle so that the imperial army can launch an attack from four facing Shipai core defense areas. How could the 231 infantry registrar surrender because of the tanks on the other side?

In addition, the 232 Infantry Regiment failed first, Murakami had to take a bet for his own future. As long as the stone cards can be conquered as scheduled, victory can cover up all the ugliness. No matter how heavy casualties are, they will only turn into a string of numbers in front of victory. His division commander will only rise to the sky under the halo of victory.

What's more, he kept bringing the base camp, the China Expeditionary Army Command and the 11th Army Command. Whoever dares to ask him for accountability must first ask those bigwigs who dominate all of this.

Anyway, it's right to throw the pot up.

Murakami's decision to make this seem perfect on many battlefields. The one who loses or dies is the Imperial soldiers, and the one who takes responsibility is the commander; the one who wins or dies or the Imperial soldiers, and he, the commander, takes on the glory of victory.

But he used his intelligence in the wrong place because he didn't know the number of the defenders opposite. It was the Four Lines Group, a Chinese heroic group that defeated three general commanders in the battlefield in North China.

Of course, perhaps even if you know that the defenders are the Four Army Groups and plan for your future, Murakami's chances of choosing a gamble will be more than 80%.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! After all, the reputation of the Four-Road Regiment is mainly in the battlefield in North China. The 39th Division has never met him. You can't scare him away when you hear someone's number! That's not something that the Imperial Japanese Army can do. Even the Americans who have been ahead of Japan for decades in industrial strength, the top Japanese military leaders are planning how to kill them, right?

So, on January 21, 1941, the Little New Year in Southern China!

Under Colonel Yamada Masayoshi's extremely tough military order, the three infantry brigades with great losses after half a day of rest and were supplemented by the shortage of soldiers.

At around 4 p.m., nearly 11 infantry squadrons were deployed, three brigades were heavy machine gun squadrons, three brigades were artillery squadrons, one corps directly under the corps headquarters, and one artillery brigade of artillery gangs, with a total of more than 2,200 infantrymen, 31 heavy machine guns, 10 infantry artillery, 10 mortars, and 16 mountain cannons were launched, and an attack on the seven highlands in Zhujiaping was launched.

The artillery mentioned here is not the artillery attack launched by infantry before the attack, but the artillery that the front-line infantry encountered heavy firepower of the defenders during the attack, and the artillery can provide fire support to them within 10 minutes.

This is also the limit of the response speed of the Japanese artillery, mainly due to communication problems!

But for this era, this is already an exaggeration. You, a heavy machine gun fire point with a strong enough bunker, is desperately suppressing your opponent. In the end, in less than 10 minutes, someone smashed the gun and the shooter into parts.

Without the fire suppression of heavy machine guns, we can only rely on the single-shot rifle in the hands of infantry. With the continuous charge of the opponent's superior forces, we asked how many troops could withstand it.

Fortunately, this is the Four-Road Group.

Not only was the fortifications built strong enough, but the machine gun castle sent by Bai Sheng to assist in the construction of the engineer companies of each battalion was not particularly unlucky and was drilled into the castle by shrapnel. A 70mm infantry cannon that could destroy a fortification was basically futile here, and it was also possible that the various mortars that had been staring at them had been counterattacked.

Moreover, the individual weapons of the Czech semi-automatic rifle and submachine gun issued by the infantry squad of the Four Lines Regiment, coupled with the light machine gun MG42 for work, are the most feared infantry intensive charges, which is the pure life harvester.

Many high grounds were ignored when the Japanese infantry continued to advance. At most, they sent precise shooters to shoot and kill exposed Japanese officers, grenade gunners, and light machine gunners. Basically, they waited until the Japanese infantry entered the 100-meter red line before they started the crazy firepower output.

Although the Japanese infantry are proficient in individual tactics, they are all shooting masters. They can hit a watermelon at a distance of 300 meters, and they are all slags in front of a firepower net composed of submachine guns that can sweep out more than 10 bullets in a shuttle.

It would be fine if you lie down honestly, but your chances of survival are greater than 80%. If you still have to hold on, the probability of death will be higher than 80%.

It has to be said that if the B-type division of the 39th Division can become an elite division in the 11th Army, its infantry fighting will is still remarkable.

The 3rd Battalion has fought against many Japanese divisions, but there are no more than three who crawled forward from 200 meters away in the rain of bullets and could climb 70 meters in front of the front-line trenches, according to Boss Cao, at least they are comparable to the 20th Division during the Battle of East Jin.

Although he used the hidden Xiaoqiang tank to attack the Japanese army and killed the Three Hundred Japanese invaders in the first battle, Boss Cao, who won the victory, never underestimated his opponent.

Because he would not forget the battle between the 4th squad, which was almost completely injured and killed on the high ground, the Japanese corpses in front of the positions could be built into high walls, but the Japanese army was still not afraid of the rush of death, which led to the fall of some defense lines in the high ground.

And that is also based on their superior terrain, solid fortifications, leading weapons and equipment, and ammunition storage.

After replenishment, the Japanese army attacking the No. 13 Highlands regained the scale of two infantry squadrons, which was still under the command of Major Yoshizo Sano.

In fact, the Japanese army did not invest much force on the two flanks of Height No. 13, because not far from Height No. 13 is Height No. 11 and Height No. 14. As long as a machine gun is placed, it can form cross-fire on the Japanese infantry who are trying to attack the Height from the edges, which is really fatal to the infantry.

Yoshizo Sano, who had enough strength, invested nearly 280 Japanese infantry on the front battlefield in one breath, and formed 6 scattered lines on the battlefield with a depth of only 360 meters, with about 50 infantrymen on each line.

This is a typical wave attack, just like relying on continuous soldiers' attacks, exhausting the Chinese defenders on the position and eventually defeating their superior forces.

At the very least, we can also have a war of attrition with China.

The Japanese army's intelligence system was not built. They stole intelligence from China on the afternoon of the 21st. Several positions on the left wing of the 11th Division of the 18th Army had defenders but only one infantry regiment. This was also one of the factors that Yamada Masayoshi started the crazy attack mode in the afternoon.

The Chinese standard infantry regiment had a force of more than 2,500, and even the reinforcement regiment had only 3,000. The Niuchangpo had already been in full swing. The Yegou Detachment successively invested thousands of infantry, but the Chinese side still did not retreat. The defenders' forces would never be less than 1,500, which means that Zhujiaping would not be more than 1,500.

With 5000 infantry vs. 1500, even if 3 is exchanged for 1, the Chinese can be exchanged. The Japanese military officers at all levels who are preparing to fight for the battle are now planning to do so.

Just in terms of the current infantry force, Yamada Masayoshi's idea is fine. The 3rd Battalion currently has only more than 900 infantry, and some of them are not on the front line as reserves. For example, the number of people on the No. 13 high ground is now only 33 people.

In the last round of battle, the 14 infantry soldiers who attacked by Boss Cao were not intact, and four were injured by bullets from the counterattack of the Japanese army. The two were seriously injured. If it were not for the first aid, they would have died on the spot.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The total force currently invested by the Japanese Army Major is 10 times that of the defenders on the high ground. If 10 is changed to 1, you can completely replace the two infantry squads on the high ground.

However, without any surprise attacks, Boss Cao in the counterattack battle is not a good bird. His two years of battlefield experience have long since turned from a super bomb thrower with only a rash force to a fox uncle.

Look, the first wave of Japanese people crawling against turtles was hit hard.

As the key target of the famous tailor shop in Hiroshima, Kawakami Akiku, the Kawakami family, who had high hopes for the training of the army, has been extremely brave since entering China and has accumulated merits from Chief Cao to Captain of the Second Lieutenant after the Battle of Zaoyi.

If you make another military achievements, it is very likely that the family's status in Hiroshima Prefecture will be changed. No matter who mentions the Kawakami family, you will not add the word tailor in front of it.

Therefore, when Lord Sano issued a military order, Lieutenant Kawakami was extremely determined to lead his infantry squad as the vanguard of the entire army.

Before entering the battlefield, Lieutenant Akiku Kawakami felt so excited.

"Come back alive, the brigade and division need warriors like you!" Master Sano, who is extremely serious on weekdays, actually patted his shoulder and whispered warmly.

Lieutenant Kawakami has made up his mind that even if he dies in battle, he will repay the Grand Secretary's kindness for his kindness.

So, his wish was fulfilled 60 meters before arriving at the front line of China.

However, the poor lieutenant Kawakami was not killed by a bullet, but was killed by a metal thorn half buried in the soil.

The two Chinese machine guns were really terrifying. With the sound of the "puff" sound similar to tearing the cloth, no matter which wave, the Japanese army would not help but tighten the chrysanthemum.

Lieutenant Kawakami, who had just completed a jump and advanced two or three meters with his powerful waist and abdomen, felt dust splashing on the land beside him until he was targeted by the Chinese machine gunner.

So, the Japanese Army lieutenant, who was brave enough and strong enough, turned over with a rifle and avoided a crater five meters away.

He succeeded and rolled into a one-meter-deep pit that should have been caused by the bomb.

But before I could have time to be happy, the poor lieutenant felt a stinging pain in his chest. He lowered his head and saw that the lieutenant widened his eyes. It was a triangular nail with three sharp thorns, one of which was pierced on his left chest.

In addition, the two dust-filled spikes that appear to be gray were six centimeters long!

"Baga!" The lieutenant hissed and squirted out a mouthful of blood.

That means that the spike that penetrated his body had pierced into the pericardium and penetrated the cardiac artery.

In less than 10 seconds, Akiku Kawakami, who could climb a four-meter trench with his bare hands, never felt that he would be so weak. Not to mention moving his once strong body, he didn't even have the strength to call for medical staff.

"Chinese people are really too sinister!" Lieutenant Kawakami, who was facing up to the sky and bleeding from the corners of his mouth and nostrils, could only use such a trace of resentment to express his helplessness in walking onto the Naihe Bridge before his consciousness sank into the dark abyss.

A small triangle nail quietly took away the life of the bravest infantry captain under Sano Yoshizo.

Lieutenant Akiku Kawakami was the first victim of the triangle nail, but it was by no means the last one.

Because, after the last round of counterattack was completed, Boss Cao asked someone to throw hundreds of triangle nails into front line trenches.

There is no rule. Even if there is a rule, even the Japanese army prepared for another hour of artillery fire, even the gods didn't know where these triangle nails were swept by the air waves.

If you step on the steel nails nearly 6 cm long, the whole foot will be pierced through, and the body will pierce into the internal organs. If your face unfortunately hits you, then congratulations, you won’t have to worry about your IQ shortcoming again.

Who can still call a fool a fool a fool, right?

Of course, it is a blessing to be a fool if you suffer such injuries on the battlefield!

Screams came one after another, but soon, these screams basically disappeared. It was not that these Japanese infantry were tough enough to grit their teeth and persevere, but that after being exposed due to extreme pain, they were basically killed by bullets that came from the sound.

The Japanese army below was restless!

"Order, continue to advance, throw grenades to the 30-meter area, and then the entire army will charge forward long ago! The empire will win!" Sano Yoshizo, who looked at the death of his infantry in front of him from the telescope, looked cold and unmoved at all.

On the No. 13 Highland, three long gun barrels were already in place behind the camouflaged shooting hole.

Because the Xiaoqiang tank has used it to surprise once, it will never be effective as before.

Boss Cao has reason to believe that the Japanese army has transferred at least 4 infantry artillery pieces to wait for the tank to appear in the opposite jungle. The 70mm infantry artillery may not be able to collapse the machine gun castle with three layers of protection, but the TKS tank's 10mm armor will be extremely fragile in front of such artillery.

Therefore, the three TKS tanks have become fixed turrets this time and are placed nearly 60 meters away from the front trenches. There are three layers of sandbags and steel plates in front and rocks for protection. There are slopes specially used for evacuation behind them. This is a special evacuation passage when Japanese military mountain cannons began to cover the shelling.
Chapter completed!