This battlefield that broke out on the plain on the north bank of the Yellow River was recorded in the history of the Sino-Japanese War.

The title of the record given to this battlefield by China is: The fastest Japanese infantry unit to die in the Patriotic War!

It’s not how fast they died, but that their marching speed is really first-class.

It took only 2 hours to reach the Bihe battlefield 15 kilometers from the base to reach the Bihe battlefield, and a gang of infantry corps, carrying all the equipment. This did not include the 20 minutes of rest in the middle, which meant that they were moving at a speed of about 9 kilometers per hour.

With such a marching speed, the cliffs can make the Four-Road Group ashamed. They have been advancing for 20 consecutive days, and the average distance they are moving forward every day is only 30 kilometers. The 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 14th Division ran one-half in just two hours.

What is elite? That's it.

Even Ishiguro Sadatsu himself is proud of his own command.

There are not many troops who run 15 kilometers in two hours, but there are really not many people who can maintain a neat queue like his command.

All the good moods of the Army Colonel riding on a tall horse were destroyed at the moment when the first ray of sunshine shone on his face.

Finally, there is no need to worry about what he is worried about.

The reconnaissance team led by Captain Utsunomiya was discovered and was found 3 kilometers away from the north bank of the Bihe River.

However, a reconnaissance team of 94 people was piled up into a small pile.

He didn't go to the scene to watch it in person. Listening to the report of the Grand Captain of the First Infantry Brigade who was riding horses ahead, the scene appeared in Shiguro Sadatsu's mind.

More than 90 heads were stacked up layer by layer, and the ancient Chinese Jingguan!

That is also a sign that the opponent never stops.

Obviously, there is no need to ask why the reconnaissance team was wiped out. The Chinese should have mobilized heavy troops to siege and kill them after discovering the traces of their reconnaissance team across the river, which caused the current situation.

Why did Utsunomiya's reconnaissance team not send a telegram to the wing headquarters until all members of the Yuzusai? It is very likely that he did not expect such a tragic pain at the beginning. When he wanted to send the telegram, he might have lost that ability due to the damage to the radio station or the death of the communications soldier.

As for why the Chinese were willing to build Jingguan so far from the Bihe River, according to the Japanese Army's terrain survey of nearby terrain, fierce battles occurred there, and the charred blackness caused by a large number of explosions can be seen everywhere.

That should be the reconnaissance team tried hard to evacuate, but still failed. There was the farthest distance they had escaped.

"Baga! Order the first and second brigades to continue to speed up to reach the banks of the Bi River. When the Chinese army is unprepared, cross the river immediately. If there are any Chinese troops stationed in the defense, they will quickly defeat them. The artillery squadrons of the corps will provide fire support to them. In addition, if you inform them, our troops do not need to be captured!" Ishiguro Satozo issued a military order with a pale face.

"In addition, we ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade to collect the remains of the Imperial Warriors, and to pay tribute to us when our troops defeat the Four Corps and build a taller and larger Jingguan with their heads!"

The two infantry brigades of the 2nd Infantry Regiment were originally trotting forward, but after receiving the military orders of the rear corps, they accelerated again.

Although the two infantry brigades suffered losses in the continuous battle, they still maintained a force of 900 people and a queue of more than 1,800 people. If you look down from the air, they are like a long yellow dragon, squirming and moving forward on the wasteland covered with thighs and deep weeds.

Heavy cowhide shoes stepped on the only dirt road leading to the bank of the Bi River, and the steps were like thunder!

The originally quiet dawn on the wastelands of the Central Plains was completely broken!

Because of this military order issued by Ishiguro Sadatsu at about 7 a.m.

The title of the record given to this battle in the history of the Japanese Army is: The stupidest military order in the history of the Army, no doubt about it!

Yes, in order to speed up the march, the two infantry brigades advanced in a long snake formation on the only dirt road. They did not even send any reconnaissance vanguards, even without conducting a decent search of the weeds that could not be seen at all on both sides of the dirt road.

There, let alone hiding people, it is not easy to see even a group of bisons, let alone under such a sky.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawn, and with the mist in the early morning of winter, the visibility was only fifty or sixty meters, so it was absolutely impossible to say how good the sight was.

But the Japanese army ignored these things and followed this only dirt road and bravely rushed towards the quiet Bi River.

To be honest, this is not that more than 3,000 Japanese troops were all pigs from Ishiguro Satozo. However, since North China, the 14th Division has won many battles and has almost never encountered too decent resistance. Even the Chinese army, which is well-equipped like the First Army, has far exceeded the 14th Division and is still defeated continuously.

It can be said that although the 14th Division did not make shocking military achievements in conquering Jin Province like the 5th Division, they were better than the 5th Division in terms of combat losses and defeating the Chinese military front.

I am the first in the Standing Division of the Imperial Japanese Army, and this idea has long spread among the 14th Division.

Not to mention that they had never thought they would be ambushed by the Chinese army, even if they were ambushed, they could still crush the Chinese attacks. This is the confidence that the 14th Division exuded from the bones.

This extreme confidence also made them make mistakes in judgment. Even if the Chinese army wants to stop them, they can only rely on natural dangers in rivers to block them, and will not be in such an unobstructed plain area. This is completely self-destructive for the Chinese army that lacks artillery.

If it were other Chinese troops, Ishiguro Sadatsu's judgment was correct. If the infantry was put down on such an unrestrained plain, a single infantry squad might be gone with a shell. As long as the Chinese commander with a little brain is not going to do this.

Unfortunately, he met the Four Lines Group!

His highest commander, Tang Dao, said in what Kenji Doihara, had the favorite tactic of surprise attacks. What the opponent thought was impossible, and the best reason for him.

The Four-Road Regiment is not an ordinary Chinese army. This time, they transported two infantry regiments, not to mention dozens of heavy machine guns, more than one hundred light machine guns, and even six 150-caliber heavy mortars.

That thing, except that it's only a little closer to 3,300 meters, is not smaller than the 105 howitzer.

In addition, there are more than 20 82mm mortars, 7 infantry artillery pieces seized from the Japanese army and 4 75 mountain artillery pieces of the Type 41.

And what about the 2nd Infantry Regiment?

Each infantry brigade is only equipped with two infantry artillery guns, and the wing headquarters has 4 infantry artillery squadrons, totaling 10 infantry guns. In addition, the rapid-fire artillery squadron directly under the wing headquarters is equipped with 6 37mm rapid-fire cannons, and the mountain cannon squadrons are equipped with 4 75mm 41 style mountain cannons.

A total of 20 artillery pieces were used to deal with ordinary Chinese troops. The 2nd Infantry Regiment had a heavy firepower capacity of more than one infantry division.

But in front of the current Four-Road Group, these 20 cannons may only be beaten, which is also one of the confidences that Tang Dao dares to play such unexpected tactics.

Of course, compared with the advantage of heavy firepower, the biggest reason why Tang Dao dared to make up his mind is probably the Czech semi-automatic rifle, submachine gun and mausoleum gun that have been equipped with the entire regiment.

That was a secret that Tang Dao didn't take out during the military parade in the town. Except for a limited number of generals, no one knew that the entire Four Lines had equipped the continuous firearms that could be continuously fired to the level of the top corps.

Yes, except for the 500 new recruits and student companies, all battalions changed their clothes during the confrontation with the 20th Division more than 20 days ago, and even the cooks were equipped with shell guns.

The most conservative estimate of the continuous firepower of the individual soldiers that the Four Lines Regiment has exploded instantly is three times that of the past. Not to mention that it is far beyond the Chinese army, even the Japanese army equipped with Type 38 rifles are beyond the reach.

Therefore, when the vanguard of the Japanese First Infantry Brigade could already see that the wide surface of the Bihe River was beginning to slow down and planned to send vanguards to reconnaissance and the main force was preparing to cross the river.

"Bang!"

The gunshots sounded!

That is the signal gun located in the wasteland.

Erya pulled the trigger to the sky, and the red signal flare burst out with a brilliant red light in the sky, like a meteor that cut through the haze, leaving a brilliant silhouette in the Japanese army's pupils that suddenly contracted.

What followed was the sound of gunfire like.

The Japanese army caught off guard fell down like mowed grass.

"Enemy attack!" The heart-wrenching roar of the Japanese officer was soon obscured by the surging metal bullets.

The bullet came from the grass on both sides of the dirt road that the Japanese army did not care about when they were roughly inspected. Tang Dao took out all the seven infantry companies in his hand, including Peng Chong's guard company and 300 of the 500 new recruits.

The one-length snake formation of two Japanese infantry brigades on the dirt road was nearly 1,500 meters long. The attack line of six infantry companies and 300 new recruits on both sides of the dirt road just included this 1,500-meter section.

The closest trench to the dirt road is only 30 meters away, and a little farther, it is only 40 meters, which is almost a short distance between troops.

Because the distance is too close, and Tang Dao uses ambush from both sides of the road. Even if the terrain of the highway is higher than the grass on both sides, the soldiers of the Four-Road regiment spent the whole night digging nearly 90 cm of trenches. Tang Dao still ordered the companies to adopt the method of interlacing troops.

In other words, each shift is not allowed to face each other, and it must be staggered at a certain distance. All the firepower on both sides of the highway firmly clamps the entire dirt road like a staggered stagger.

The firepower distribution is fine. The key is this extremely bold tactic of using the grass and ambushing almost under the Japanese noses. Not to mention that the Japanese army did not expect, even Lei Xiong, who advocated taking the initiative, was so shocked that he almost dropped his chin.

As long as the Japanese army was careful and searched the grass, even if the soldiers used the evening time to dig trenches that were most of the people deep, and covered them with straw mats sent by the baggage company and spread them with dead grass to make enough disguise, it was inevitable that they would be discovered.

By then, the Japanese army used various artillery to bombard the grass on the plains, and more than 90% of the possible reasons were that they would not lose rice if they could steal chickens.

However, after inspecting the terrain, Tang Dao, who arrived at the north bank of the Bihe River at night, adopted this tactic arbitrarily.

This is the inspiration that Tang Dao got from the almost miraculous battle of the "Shentouling" of the 386th Brigade in time and space. Since he has decided to attack him unexpectedly, he will take this to the extreme.

In the Battle of Shentouling, the ambush location of the 386th Brigade was only ten meters away from the Japanese marching road, but the Japanese army did not notice it at all. In the end, the 386th Brigade wiped out the baggage team of more than 1,500 people with more than 200 people.

What is even more amazing is that the main force that ambushed the Japanese baggage team is not the main 772nd and 771st Regiments of the 386th Brigade, but the supplementary regiment.

It is called a supplementary regiment, but it is actually a reserve service. During this period, the 386th Brigade's regular army's bullets were only one Hanyang-made and 10 bullets, let alone the reserve service. According to the war history records at that time, the 386th Brigade's supplementary regiment had an average of three people and one gun, and each was given 5 bullets, but each was equipped with a red tassel gun.

The most fundamental reason for annihilation of more than a thousand Japanese invaders was that the ambush location was chosen very close. After all the officers and soldiers of the supplementary regiment shot bullets, they all started hand-to-hand combat with red tassel spears.

The 1.7-meter-long 38th cover of the Japanese army was originally dominated by Hanyang, which was 10 cm shorter, but the 386th Brigade Supplementary Regiment did not have many rifles at all. The red tassel spear, which was more than 2 meters long, was the most advantageous weapon in their hands.

Faced with the Japanese baggage troops that were dozens of centimeters longer than their rifle, the 386th Brigade was able to win this magical battle.

On the other hand, the Japanese Second Infantry Regiment, both the equipment and fighting will of the baggage troops are not comparable to those of the baggage force, but the equipment of the Four Army Regiment and the 386th Brigade supplementary regiment are also one in the sky and the other in the ground.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! All infantry equipped with semi-automatic rifles are equipped with 120 bullets, infantry equipped with submachine guns are equipped with 160 bullets, and those equipped with 160 bullets are also equipped with 160 bullets. In addition, because other supplies were discarded, each infantry carried an average of 6 grenades, and some of them were strong enough, and even more 10.

Light machine guns and grenade launchers were not only sent to each infantry squad, but each infantry company equipped with 9 light machine guns and 9 grenade launchers. In order to ensure the intensity of firepower, Tang Dao ordered the transport of Maxim heavy machine guns to be taken out. Each infantry company drew 8 machine gun shooters to serve as temporary heavy machine guns, and 4 people were responsible for a heavy machine gun. During the march, a dedicated person helped to lift the heavy machine guns and ammunition.

In this way, an infantry company has 9 light machine guns and 2 heavy machine guns, while an infantry company alone has 12 heavy machine guns.

But that's not all. The three infantry battalions have a machine gun company. Because the ambush distance is too close, the mortars of the machine gun company will not shell the road area unless necessary to prevent accidental injury, but machine guns will not. The 6 heavy machine gun squads were originally standardized with 6 heavy machine guns. In order to strengthen firepower, Tang Dao was furiously equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns for the heavy machine gun squad.

That means that the six infantry companies, plus three machine gun companies, were responsible for ambushing the grass on both sides of the highway. In addition to the semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns and mausoleum guns originally equipped by nearly a thousand infantrymen, they had 54 light machine guns, 48 ​​Maxim heavy machine guns, 54 grenade launchers, and 18 82-caliber mortars.

According to the configuration of the Japanese infantry brigade, the two infantry brigades marched on the dirt road, one infantry brigade was equipped with two light machine guns, and the other was only six brigades. The two infantry brigades were only 48 at most and were somewhat close to the Four-Line Regiment, the two heavy machine gun brigades equipped with the two infantry brigades only had 24 Type 92 heavy machine guns, but they were completely beaten by 48 Maxim.

Tang Dao felt that it was not enough to attack the Japanese army with heavy firepower.

The ambush position chosen by the Four Lines regiment is only 40 meters away from the dirt road. What is the purpose of making it convenient for bomb drops?

Nearly a thousand infantrymen, each with an average of six or seven grenades, which is thousands. The other 300 new recruits ordered to join the battle are not just here to feel the atmosphere on the battlefield.

The recruits who were also in the trench were ordered not to fire unless in an emergency. All they had to do was to throw out all the grenades they carried.

There is no need to throw accurately. Just throw the grenades to 30 meters or 40 meters as they usually train. That is also the only tactical training for the recruits in the past month, besides the training queue, which did not expect to come in handy so soon.

Such bomb dropping soldiers are basically assigned 50 people per infantry company involved in the ambush.

This also means that at this time, the Japanese army on the road not only had to suffer from the baptism of dense metal bullet flow of intensity that they had never experienced before, but also had to withstand the intensity of an average grenade explosion of every 10 square meters.
To be continued...