The battle on the No. 13 Highlands was no more than half an hour, and finally achieved the battlefield with the highest combat losses rate of the 231 Infantry Regiment.

According to the battle report that the 231 Infantry Regiment was seized after the war, the Imperial officers and soldiers of the No. 13 Highland were personally commanded by Major Yoshizo Sano personally to command up to 860 infantrymen in front and behind. If heavy machine gun squadron and artillery were added, the total force would reach 1,280.

The battle losses counted that night were only on the No. 13 Highland, including Sano Yoshizo, who died in the civil war, more than 640 infantry, artillery and machine gunners, and more than 700 people died in battle, but there were nearly 300 seriously injured soldiers, which means that the 231 infantry registrar suffered a thousand-level battle losses only when attacking Halfland No. 13.

This is not a war loss that the 231 Infantry Regiment has never experienced since entering China. During the Zaoyi Battle, the 231 Infantry Regiment suffered nearly 1,500 people, which was a heavy blow. But who was their opponent at that time? It was an infantry division of the 33rd Army and a guard battalion of the Army Command.

But now? It's just a small high ground on the Chinese defense line where there are no more than 100 soldiers. How did you think Yamada Masayoshi who saw this number of casualties at that time?

If he knew that on the 13th high ground, there were only 37 Chinese officers and soldiers, including a second lieutenant deputy platoon leader, and after a day of fierce fighting, only 4 people died and 8 people were injured, if he had to talk about the war loss ratio, the ratio between China and Japan was 1 to 80, wouldn’t the Japanese Army Colonel be so angry that he vomited blood on the spot?

In fact, Masayoshi Yamada was already vomiting blood.

Because on this day, the 231 Infantry Regiment had a total casualties of more than 2,800, accounting for almost one-third of the main force of the division he led.

If it were other times, Yamada Masayoshi had to run away after vomiting blood, and lost more than 30% in one day. Does that mean that he, the main army with seven or eight thousand people, is he the only commander left in his main army with seven or eight thousand people?

But the Japanese Army Colonel, who was so depressed that he vomited blood, not only could not run away, but he even had to continue to participate in tomorrow's attack at the risk of becoming a bare commander.

"Yamada, the characteristics of the army you are talking about are most likely the so-called German-armed masters trained by the German idiots before the war. What does that mean? It means that the Chinese have already given all of them. As long as they can kill this elite Chinese in this mountain, the Chinese will no longer be able to compete with the imperial army.

You have to cheer up, even if you put all your money into this mountain and don’t let it support the already precarious frontal defense zone, our division will be a great achievement.

In addition, the intelligence empire you are looking for is doing its best to investigate, and news will definitely come within two days." Murakami tried hard to cheer up his confidant subordinates in the telegram.

Although Yamada Masayoshi's group suffered unprecedented casualties, the 9,000 army led by him personally made a breakthrough in the Shipai Central battlefield and had completely broken through the first line of defense of the 11th Division. In addition, on the right-wing battlefield, it also completely defeated an elite infantry regiment of the 18th Division of the 18th Division of the Chinese 18th Army through joint efforts with the Naval Air Force.

In other words, the several battlefields where Shipai is fighting fiercely, except for the heavy casualties on the left wing, but from the other two directions, they have achieved something. Standing at the height of the overall situation, it is a flaw and no concealment.

What Yamada Masayoshibe has to do now is to drag down the elite Chinese troops on the left-wing battlefield and prevent them from supporting the central position.

This is what the so-called waiting for the flowers to bloom.

Of course, if you want to hold back these elite Chinese soldiers who beat the 231st Infantry Regiment to the fullest, it doesn’t mean that you can just stand on the side of the defense line of the army. You still have to attack and continue to attack.

Use your life to drag it out!

Masayoshi Yamada really wants to cry!

He didn't know how long he had studied the topographic map of Shipai. The so-called breakthrough of the central position and the right wing mentioned by the division commander were actually several mountains away from the core of the Chinese position. It was obvious that it was definitely not something that could be attacked in one or two days, especially the defenders were the 18th Army of the five elite infantry troops in China.

Murakami was painting a big cake for him! It depends on whether he has the life to eat this big cake.

In fact, Murakami was helpless in acting as a Lieutenant General, because Lieutenant General Yokoyama, who was in person, who was visiting Yiling, was also drawing big cakes for him and strictly ordered him not to retreat one person.

The Japanese Lieutenant General, who was standing in the courtyard of the temporary headquarters, looked up at the starry sky, had a cold face because he knew the importance of this battle to the entire empire.

The empire's strategic focus has shifted, and the army is preparing to target Southeast Asia. In less than half a year, a large number of elite divisions will be transferred from the Chinese theater to the Southeast Asian battlefield. The ones that fill in them are the Type B and Type C divisions that have been trained for less than half a year.

The navy is even more bold and is no longer satisfied with dominating the inland seas of the East China Sea and the South China Sea. They have turned their attention to the vast Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The eyes of the empire's senior officials are no longer limited to the land of East Asia, but look down at the entire Asia.

Once this grand strategic goal is achieved, the island nation will take off completely, and their descendants will no longer live in a corner, but will become the rulers of the world's first continent.

What is the glorious Chinese civilization and what is the Southeast Asian countries with rich resources, everything will become the past, and all history will be written by the island nations. Hundreds of years later, those slaves only knew that their master was the Yamato nation.

Before these grand strategic goals are achieved, what they generals have to do is to resolve the Chinese resistance first.

Once the stone card was broken, the door of Sichuan Province, the most important logistics base for the Chinese people, was completely opened.

What's so great about deaths of thousands of people under such a wonderful prospect? Their deaths will create a better and happier life for millions of descendants.

To a certain extent, the infamous Lieutenant General Yokoyama is actually an idealist, willing to go through fire and water for the beauty of the future.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Of course, the grassroots officers and soldiers under his command are not him.

On another level, Yokoyama Yuki also has his own little 99. The former commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Koji, has been transferred to commander of the North China Front Army and promoted to general. His successor, as a successor, has all failed to launch two battles in Tanzhou in the past year. Although his opponent is powerful and even he admires the general surnamed Xue of China, there are many people in the base camp who have complained about his command ability. Even if it is not for the future, just to gain a foothold in the position of commander of the 11th Army, he must make achievements in the battle of Shipai.

Even if you fight for the 39th Division, 13th Division, Nogou Detachment, etc., you will have to conquer Shipai in this battle. This is the original message sent by Yokoyama Yokoyama to Murakami.

Little did they know that the Chinese Ministry of Military Affairs also sent similar telegrams to the commanders of the two major Chinese war zones.

Even if the 70,000 troops in the deep mountains fight to the death, they must still defend the stone tablet.

To this end, the command centers of the two lieutenant generals of the 18th Army were basically less than 3 kilometers away from the front line.

The will of the supreme commander of the front line of both sides has determined that regardless of success or failure, both Chinese and Japanese soldiers must shed the last drop of blood in this mountain!

The battlefield of the Shipai No. 2 meat grinder is not Zhu Jiaping, who lost nearly 3,000 Japanese troops in one day.

Instead, the Sifang Bay, which was stationed by the first battalion.

On the third day, the Japanese army captured several local villagers in a cave through reconnaissance vanguards. After threatening their lives, they finally found out that there was a mountain road 4 kilometers away from Zhujiaping, which could bypass Zhujiaping and reach the stone plank.

This is also one of the reasons why Murakami insists on his main force of the 39th Division still sticking to the front line.

The 231st Regiment fought fiercely in Zhujiaping, and the Yegou Detachment was blocked by the Chinese position in Niuchangpo. The 40th Division was fighting hard on the right wing and the 18th Division. Those who could complete this task could only be handed over to the Zigu Detachment.

The so-called detachment is composed of infantry brigades, cavalry, artillery, laborers, and other corpses. Although the detachment is only a brigade-level organization, it is actually complete and its overall combat capability is stronger than that of many infantry brigades.

For example, the Needle Valley Detachment was the 34th Division who drew the main force, with 3 infantry brigades, 1 independent infantry brigade, 2 mountain artillery brigades, 3 baggage squadrons, 2 cavalry squadrons, 2 engineer squadrons, and 2 field medical teams. The total force reached more than 7,000 people, and they were fully qualified to compete with the two Chinese Class B Divisions.

Hengshan Yong had high hopes for the Zhigu Detachment. When Zhujiaping and Niuchangpo were in full swing, the Zhigu Detachment, which quietly gathered in the mountains, quietly bypassed Zhujiaping and inserted directly into the main position of the Shipai.

Logically speaking, Tang Dao had known that there was such a road on the flank of Zhujiaping. Once, the Japanese army in time and space almost broke the Sifang Bay position from here and approached Shipai. How could he make the same mistake again?

But this time, Tang Dao seemed to have done nothing and allowed the 7,000 Japanese troops to spend a day marching to Sifang Bay. There was no ambush or mine attack, so the Japanese troops who were guarding the road arrived intact in front of their positions.

That's because Tang Dao's appetite is much bigger than the highest commanders of China and Japan imagined.

The strategic level of Yokoyama Yong launches the Shipai Battle is to conquer the East Gate of the Chinese capital, and the tactical level is to try to kill the elite Chinese troops in this mountain, paving the way for his future attack on Tanzhou.

The Chinese Ministry of Military Affairs is simpler, and it will do anything to ensure the security of the southwest!

Tang Dao's plan was to bury more Japanese troops into pits on the battlefield of the left wing of the Shipai.

Tang Dao did not take the thousands of people from the 39th Division alone seriously, and they alone were not enough to satisfy the appetite of the Tang Tuan.

231, 232 One of the two infantry corps was killed and the other was seriously injured. In Tang Dao's eyes, although there are still four or five thousand soldiers in the 231 infantry corps, the elite infantry has consumed most of them. The rest is just using some second-line soldiers to make up for their numbers. The combat effectiveness is no longer as low as half of the previous ones, and it is almost the same as the dying ones.

After three days of fierce battle, the Yegou Detachment relied on its so-called steel army background and rushed up and attacked hard. It was also hit with blood on his face, which was equivalent to a toothless tiger. It was okay to roar twice. If you really want to fight, the 18th Army's temporary 6th Division, which had been eyeing them, would probably beat them to dad.

Tang Dao had already set his sights on the Needle Valley Detachment that had arrived at the battlefield in the end.

This detachment is not a good thing. In 1943, in time and space, it was this detachment that led the factory tragedy that shocked China and the world.

In North China, due to the existence of the Eighty Army, the Japanese army did not dare to enter the countryside unless they were brigades and division-level mobilizations, and large-scale massacres were rare.

However, in the battlefields of central China and South China, facing the strong resistance of Chinese military and civilians, the Japanese army still attempted to destroy the will of Chinese military and civilians by massacres, and large-scale massacres occurred frequently.

The Changjiao Massacre was a large-scale massacre that the Japanese army once again shocked China and foreign countries after the Jinling massacre.

The total number of Chinese military and civilians massacred exceeded 30,000. In the Dian'an Yahe River, where the most murders were the most, the bodies were piled up like mountains. Because the Japanese army threw more than 4,000 people who had been massacred into the river, the 2.5 kilometers long and 200 meters wide, the water flowed still, blocked it and turned into a "dead river".

As long as it is a Chinese, it is difficult to see the details of the massacre. The Needle Valley Detachment became such a group of wild beasts under the leadership of its detachment leader Yiyuan.

You said, how could Tang Dao let them live here for such a beast army? They must not even be kept with a dog.

In order not to disturb the 7,000 Japanese army, so as not to enter this big pocket, Tang Dao removed the two infantry companies that were originally ambushed on the two high grounds and placed the Needle Valley Detachment into the mountains almost in a "welcome" manner.

The Needle Valley Detachment was extremely arrogant and arrived at 4 pm. He didn't even dig a field trenches. Just when it was almost dusk, he launched an attack on the 1st Battalion Highland under the cover of 12 Japanese planes.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! This may not be an impatient to conquer the position, but it is mainly to test the high ground garrison troops and the allocation of various major firepower points. However, it can also be seen that the Major General of the Needle Valley is eager to make contributions and wants to launch a general attack in the early morning of the next day and take down the Sifang Bay position in one fell swoop.

But he obviously thought too much.

The Japanese army has basically found out the Chinese trump card in Niuchangpo and Zhujiaping. There are roughly a dozen light tanks and large-caliber heavyweights with less than ten large-caliber heavy firearms, as well as some anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns. What remains are solid fortifications and light weapons with fierce firepower.

But that was just the heavy firepower that the Tang regiments allowed them to see. The eight 41 mountain cannons and four Bofos mountain cannons belonging to the Four-Strait Regiment Artillery Battalion have not been fired since the war started.

The Needle Valley Detachment is so awesome that he doesn't even dig simple trenches in the field, and attacks the high ground with a fierce momentum. It's really a little bitch on the tiger's back - to commit suicide!

"Look at the Japanese's supplies first, and let the dogs eat the bark of the tree first!" Pang Dahai selected the most combat-effective but extremely important supplies unit from the coordinates of the Japanese troops reported by the reconnaissance company.

Pang Dahai's move is so vicious!

The Japanese ammunition, rice eaten by people, and fodder eaten by horses were all in the hands of the No. 1800 baggage troops from the three baggage squadrons.

Before entering the mountain, the Japanese army prepared ten-day military rations. According to the Japanese individual soldiers' single-day feeding standards, 640 grams of rice, 200 grams of noodles, and 150 grams of canned meat. This is 1 kilogram alone, and 7,000 people are 70 tons in ten days.

Except for some of the Japanese individual soldiers who carried themselves, 60 tons of food supplies were still carried by 1,800 baggage soldiers and about 900 pack horses.

It would be strange if the Japanese army, who only needs 7 tons of food to eat every day, wouldn't fry the pot.

The 12 mountain cannons were pulled out from their respective hidden cannon positions, and the muzzles with a faint blue glow were raised high under the setting sun.

The shells fired by 4 Bofos were incendiary bombs, and the shells were distributed to the flowering grenades of 8 Type 41 mountain cannons. Pang Dahai planned to blow up the grain bags and it was not perfect enough. What if the Japanese army picked up the rice from the dust? Just set the fire and burned it.

If the Japanese chewed the charcoal to fill their stomachs, then the pony sea could only call them a "ruthless person"!

The shelling of 12 mountain cannons was so shaking that it directly deceived the Needle Valley Detachment, which was still attacking the high ground.

Why didn’t the Chinese artillery attack them, but actually hit the mountain nest behind them?

Perhaps only senior commanders such as Yiyuan, Neigu, were frightened. The Chinese were playing with cutting off the firewood from the bottom of the pot!

The Japanese army still had 12 fighter jets in the sky, but just in order to help the infantry, they had already dropped all the bombs. After the re-submission, they could only turn themselves into a piece of flesh and blood and smash them down.

As for letting them lower the altitude and using airborne machine guns to help the Army Malu, unless they are funny.

Their colleagues used their lives to remind them that these anti-aircraft guns of large and small caliber hidden in the broken mountain valleys. If they didn't shoot at this time, it doesn't mean that they lowered their height and did not shoot.

The 12 Japanese planes that completed the combat mission did not even hover and flew straight to the sky.
To be continued...