The morning of June 5th!

South of Hengyang City, Oujia Town!

Hunan Province is located in the area where the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau transitions to the south of the Yangtze River and the Nanling Mountains to the Jianghan Plain. In addition, there are many water systems in the area, and there are many foggy summer and autumn.

Today, the fog started again, and the thick white fog covered Oujia Town. The sparse forests were shrouded in the white fog all over the mountains, as if floating in the air.

As soon as the sky was dawn, Sakuma, the commander of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army, got up as a lieutenant general. Yesterday he didn't sleep well all night. He thought that no matter how powerful the "Taishan Army" stationed in Hengyang was, the 11th Army invested more than 70,000 people to siege the three divisions and another brigade. It was not a dream to defeat the enemy on the 3rd, but it has been almost 3 days and nights since the commander of the army, Yokoyama Yong, announced that he had begun a full-scale attack. As a result, they have not even seen the shadow of Hengyang City.

The only thing that made him feel relieved was that the main force of the 68th Division, which was responsible for siegeing the west of the city, was still rolling in the mud pond, and an infantry corps on the 116th Division was destroyed, and he didn't even climb up a shallow slope. The unlucky guys in the north of the city had not yet crossed the steaming water. Hengshan Yong couldn't blame him.

However, the proposal of the commander of the 116th Division, Izumi Iwasaki was very moved by the lieutenant general. Since it is not feasible to actually operate the main attacks on the south, west and north sides of the Central Army Command, it is better to put the energy in one place and concentrate the heavy firepower of the two divisions on the south mountain of Hengyang City, and open a breakthrough first.

The two commanders of the 11th Army of Japan never expected that the meat grinder-type defense system set up by the Hengyang command system headed by Tang Dao in the south of the city was for the purpose of consuming a large amount of Japanese troops. Originally, a 116th Division 20,000 people could not meet the defensive position built for nearly ten days that cost more than 40,000 soldiers and civilians. In addition, the 68th Division was really unsuccessful.

Sakuma is an extremely responsible general. When he was upset, he decided to go to the front line to check it out in person.

The commander of the 58th Brigade, who had been commanding the battle in the west of the city, was naturally shocked and urged his immediate boss not to take risks. In the past seven years of battles with the Chinese, there were many cases where generals of the division commander level came to the front line but were killed by the Chinese with artillery, and there were more than one or two.

But Sakuma is a reserve head of the Sakuma family, a famous samurai warrior on the island of Japan. He has the pride and courage of the samurai family. As an Imperial Army general, he also has the responsibility and obligation to find a way for the entire division that can reduce casualties and complete combat missions.

What's more, the Japanese Lieutenant General had a very good reason. Now that the fog is so strong, the visibility will never exceed 200 meters. What artillery can see and hit them two thousand meters away?

The Japanese Army Major General was stunned by his immediate superior's sufficient reasons, and could only secretly complain that it was so fog that the Chinese could not see you, but the key is that you can't see the Chinese, right? Then go to the front line and observe a cock.

10:00 a.m.!

The fog dissipated a little, and the officers and soldiers on the Mapleshu Mountain artillery positions suddenly became restless.

It turned out that Lieutenant Colonel Cai Rulin, who was appointed by Fang Xianjue to coordinate and command the artillery positions of the entire Hengyang army, came.

There are a total of two mountain artillery positions on the Fengshushan artillery positions and 6 82 mortars. They are the artillery positions deployed at the forefront of the south of the city, and mainly provide artillery fire support on the flanks of the 10th Division position.

In the past two days, the artillery position has risked being retaliated against by Japanese artillery fire and has strongly supported friendly forces. Ge Youcai, the commander of the 10th Division, also called the command center to request credit for the artillery position.

Cai Rulin came to the position this time with the commission from the Operations Director Tang Dao. Not only did he bring verbal commendation orders from the General Staff, but he also brought milk candy and cigarettes, which was also an incentive to the artillery position.

The artillery soldiers on the artillery position all smiled happily. If it weren't for the silence order, they would have cheered long ago.

Cai Rulin is a professional artilleryman. After the work arranged by the commanders is finished, it will be his turn to be his professional.

When he walked to the artillery observation position, he took his most precious 8x telescope and carefully observed the distance.

It was already 10:30, and the thick fog on Maple Mountain gradually dissipated and the sunlight gradually penetrated. However, the valleys in the south of the city were still filled with shallow fog, and the mountains and hills were soaked with translucent light fog, and the shadows were slim.

The mountains and rivers of Hengyang are beautiful, and if there were no war, they would be even more beautiful! Cai Rulin just sighed, and suddenly found in the telescope's field of view that there seemed to be a group of black shadows on the ridge north of Oujia Town, about 1,000 meters south.

Cai Rulin immediately adjusted the distance and finally saw clearly that the group of black shadows were wearing yellow military uniforms, which turned out to be a group of Japanese soldiers!

This is normal for the Japanese army to reconnaise and spy on their own positions, but it is abnormal that more than 20 Japanese troops suddenly appeared on a small hill to reconnaise at the same time.

Moreover, according to the position where the group of Japanese people stood, there were several people in the middle, which meant that the Japanese in the middle were probably not ordinary Japanese. Cai Rulin immediately realized that he was likely to have encountered a big fish.

Cai Rulin suppressed his excitement and immediately ordered the artillery positions to enter the position quickly. He personally operated the artillery mirror to calculate the range. The distance was not much different from his estimate, 1,020 meters!

In order not to alert the enemy, Cai Rulin decided not to take the usual single-cannon test-fire test points, but to concentrate all artillery in the entire artillery position, 2 mountain cannons and 6 82 mortars. Based on his calculated gun distance, he set the artillery fire at the group of Japanese guns at the same time, with five guns each!

1,000 meters away, Sakuma was obviously not aware that he had been targeted by the Chinese in the opposite forest. He was in a circle with Colonel Saburo Harada, Chief of Staff of the 68th Division, and pointed at the flanks of the 10th Division.

According to his half-hour judgment, the Chinese would never hoard too much troops on the two small high grounds. As long as they used enough artillery fire or even poisonous gas bombs and attacked with many troops, they could capture the two almost independent hills before the Chinese reinforcements arrived.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As long as you have these two bridgeheads, putting mountain cannons or infantry cannons onto these two high points will pose a great threat to China's large circular position, without having to hesitate in front of the Huangchaling position like the 116th Division.

The key is to see if the main attacking party has the determination and exchange for a breakthrough in the Chinese position at the cost of a thousand people.

"With the personal guidance of the division commander, the 116th Division cannot do it, my 68th Division can definitely do it." The 68th Division Chief of Staff Sadara Harada worked hard to flatter his division commander.

Little did he know that this was the last time he had such an intimate relationship with his immediate boss in his life.

"Swish~~" The sound of sharp shells passing through the sky just sounded in the ears of a group of Japanese people, and what followed was the continuous explosion of "Boom boom boom!"

A flash of fire and a loud bang. Suddenly, the sky and the earth were dark and smoke rose. More than 20 Japanese people fell in pools of blood, squirming and struggling in pain.

"Finish the battle, finish the work!" After the smoke of gunpowder disappeared, Cai Rulin saw that the Japanese were basically knocked to the ground in a row. If nothing unexpected happened, they would be almost done. He clapped his hands very satisfied and ordered the military achievements of killing more than 20 Japanese soldiers to be recorded, and all belong to the artillery position.

The commanders and artillery officers and soldiers on the Chinese artillery position regarded this artillery as an artillery fire attack, killing more than 20 Japanese devils. Even the captain and company commander of the artillery position felt sorry for his loss of 40 shells, especially the precious mountain artillery shells. The total amount of ammunition was only 120 rounds on his position. Lieutenant Colonel Cai consumed 10 rounds as soon as he arrived, which was really extravagant.

No one expected that this artillery bombardment would shock the Japanese army, especially the 68th Division. After only two days of fighting, the division commander and chief of staff were gone.

To be more precise, Chief of Staff Harada Saburo was completely gone, and the division commander Sakuma was not completely lost.

It turned out that when the guards of the 68th Division rushed up, only 6 of the 23 Japanese generals, Satoshi, were seriously injured and not dead. Chief of Staff Satosaburo Harada's neck was cut off by a shrapnel and even a little skin was almost completely beheaded, and he had already died thoroughly.

The division commander Sakuma was the kind of person who was full of luck. His lower abdomen was penetrated by shells and his intestines came out, but he was still alive and was very lucky.

But for the successor of the famous samurai family on the island of Japan, it would be better to die on the spot.

Because he could no longer come down to eat Michiko who was waiting for him in his hometown.

A damn shrapnel cut through it like a scalpel of a doctor with a skilled medical skill, cutting it off.

What's even more damn, when he woke up from his coma a few days later, he learned that because the scene was too chaotic, no one paid attention to the piece of meat cut off by the shells, which made him lose the possibility of leaving it to Mission.

The Japanese Lieutenant General, who was urgently transported to Jinling for treatment by military aircraft, did not care about the grief that he could never get down or had no beard. He could not guarantee his life now. He was infected by the wounds that penetrated his abdomen and needed a lot of penicillin. However, the Americans had long imposed an embargo on Japan, and it was difficult to have official channels, so he could only buy it from the black market.

Some generals of the 4th Division, which seemed to have been transferred from China, have goods in hand, so the dispatching army headquarters needs to coordinate with them.

In order to save the life of this seriously injured and waiting to die, Tian Junjiu had to lower his face and send a telegram to his former troops, pinched his nose and paid for 10 small bottles of penicillin.

Among them, military aircraft and a large amount of fuel are required, and the price is not small.

Because of this front-line shelling incident, the commander of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, Tian Junliu, was one of the top two, but as the commander of the 11th Army, Hengshan Yong was shocked.

The slogan of "There will be defeated in three days" was still leisurely, and the command system of the main division under his command came to an end. The Lieutenant General Division Commander was bombed into a eunuch, and the Chief of Staff of the Division was killed and straightened. What kind of a big bully thing is this?

"The commander of Iwaaeon Division is temporarily responsible for taking over the command responsibilities of the 68th Division!" Yokoyama Yu thought about it over and over again, and could only issue such a telegram.

The commander of the 116th Division, Iwa Aeon, was also stunned. Yesterday, he had just discussed with Sakuma for this unlucky child. The two divisions were close to one point and the artillery gang shared resources. This guy, he had not yet understood the matter on his own! He had to command two divisions alone, responsible for the battles in the south and west directions of the city. Isn’t this a man and a man!

It's my life! There is no way, Iron Eiwang had to generate electricity to Major General Shima Genyoshi, the captain of Shima Detachment, who was in charge of the west of the city, and asked him to temporarily command the 68th Division and be responsible for commanding the various units of the 68th Division.

This so-called "Shima Detachment" is an independent mixed combat force formed by the 57th Brigade of the 68th Division led by Major General Shima Genyoshi as the foundation and was formed by strengthening artillery, engineers, baggage and other troops.

The advantage of this is that it is not only under the command of the 68th Division, but also directly ordered by the 11th Army Command, which makes the command system flatter and reduces the intermediate links. It is also a new attempt made by the Japanese Army.

Among the Japanese generals involved in the siege, Shima Genyoshi was a veteran general. He was 55 years old at the time, the same age as Yokoyama Yuki. He also served as the first corps leader of the 120th Infantry Regiment of the 116th Division. Because of his fierce fighting style and resourcefulness, he was valued by Yokoyama Yuki. He was often assigned to an independent detachment and undertakes the task of being independent. In the 68th Division, he is also considered the second largest figure who is the leader of the division after Sakuma.

Iwaaki chose to hand over the command to him, and he was also selling the favor of the major general captain. All fools knew that even if Sakuma survived after being seriously injured, he would not return to the 68th Division. Who is qualified to be promoted to the 68th Division?

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The original No. 2 character is a must-have option. If you add the military achievements of breaking Hengyang City, wouldn’t it be a foregone conclusion?

Iwai Aeon is a smart person and his considerations are not far-reaching. However, this Japanese lieutenant general commander really underestimated his sixth attributes. It would be really unfortunate to be too close to him.

Shima Genyoshi became the leader of the 68th Division, and it was really hard to hide his inner excitement, but after being excited, he looked at the swamp and mud monkey-like soldiers in front of him, and felt a deep headache.

Compared with the south of the city, the west of the city is a plain area, which was originally more conducive to attack, but the Chinese were simply too bad. After digging the steamed water bank and released the water, the fertile fields and ponds all turned into mud. Not to mention the chariots started, it was extremely difficult to walk even if people were walking inside.

Even the war-torn veterans, wearing heavy leather boots, became as slow as the old man in his seventies and eighties, which was so fatal on the battlefield of gunfire.

For example, in the northwest corner outside Hengyang City, a position called Yise Temple Street is 1,200 meters wide, with paddy fields and ponds all opened up and filled with water to become mud, leaving only this street with one passage.

The Chinese demolished the townhouses every three or five to prevent Japanese infantry from touching them from the continuous houses, laying multiple obstacles at the corners of the streets, setting up machine gun castles, and cross-blocking them with light and heavy firepower to form an insurmountable line of fire.

The Japanese army of Shima Detachment had no choice but to cover the area with artillery, and then attacked the position by lying on the mud.

However, the Chinese had a large number of trenches and bunkers. Although there were casualties under the attack of artillery fire, their combat effectiveness was not lost. The Japanese army in the mud was slow to move and were constantly treated as living targets or attacked by grenades. In the past two days alone, his detachment had killed more than 400 people in front of the position.

Perhaps because he became the supreme commander of the 68th Division at the last battle, Shima Genyoshi, who was originally resourceful, suddenly made plans in his mind!

On the night of June 5, the Chinese defenders who had been fighting for a whole day, except for some guard soldiers, most of them fell asleep in a drowsy manner. Suddenly, there was no need for anyone to call for an enemy attack. The movement scared the officers and soldiers so much that they were all awake.

When the flare was fired, I saw oxen and horses in groups in the dark, flames were lit on their tails, sharp knives were thorned on their heads, and I didn't know what they were carrying. I ran out from the Japanese army, spreading my hooves and rushing towards the position. The fireball behind me was lit up, and the torch was as bright as day.

This is the tactic that Shima Genyoshi thought of in his mind. The "Fire Bull Formation" used in the history of ancient Chinese wars, but there are too few cows at present, so use Japanese pack horses to get it together.

This used at least a dozen cows and more than forty horses, and Major General Shima Genji also invested a lot of money.

However, the "Fire Bull Formation" that has been tried and tested in the cold weapon era depends on the actual effect.

The Chinese officers and soldiers were more calm than the Japanese thought, until the fire bull and fire horses rushed to more than 100 meters. The machine guns and submachine guns went into battle together, and blood splattered everywhere on the body of the bull and horses, and by the way, some Japanese troops behind the bull and horses were also swept down.

The vitality of cattle and horses is much stronger than that of humans. Several fire cattle are still hit by at least ten bullets. However, this does not mean that cattle and horses are stupid. They will be killed if they move forward. If they want to live, they can only escape. The cattle and horse herd turn around and run, and the speed is faster than when they came.

These are so good that they directly trampled a large area of ​​the Japanese troops following behind, and they stepped on the mud, and the mud was really full.

If you want to avoid these crazy cattle and horses, you have to face the Chinese bullet rain. The Japanese infantry are so distressed!

By the end of the battle, the new commander of the 68th Division almost vomited blood. The "Fire Bull Formation" he had worked hard to build was not even touched by the Chinese position. Not only did the 50 pack horses disappear, but also more than 190 Japanese troops did not come back.

I haven't come back at this time, so why can I stay in the stinky mud and watch the stars and the moon?
Chapter completed!