Chapter 917 Tragic
There are no specific casualties!
Because the battle has not ended, the Chinese and Japanese sides, who have fallen into madness, only the close opponent in their eyes. Killing the opponent is the only idea. Will there be time to count their own casualties?
The number of battalions, one company and one row of Japanese troops was reduced by half during the third charge. Before all the seriously injured could retreat to the second line of defense, the Japanese troops of up to 200 people rushed to the position.
At the request of the veteran Yang, whose leg had been broken by a heavy machine gun, all of them were left to the wounded soldiers!
The seven smoke rising continuously blew up more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who jumped into the trenches and rolled all over the ground, and also wiped out the last trace of courage that the Japanese soldiers mustered up. The Chinese soldiers on the position were all covered in blood, and they could hardly tell who was alive and who was dead.
In this fierce battle, rushing to a "corpse" to replenish a gun is definitely a behavior of sending you to the gates of hell. If you don't replenish the gun, the "corpse" may turn into a life-threatening bomb at any time!
It's really too difficult.
In the end, less than one-third of the three infantry platoons on the front line could retreat to the second line of defense. Comrade Kong's eyes were so red that they could almost drip!
That was his sharp knife company. He fought with the Japanese army for half a year, and the total loss was less than one-fifth. As a result, this battle was good, only one-third of it left, and almost all his capital was ruined.
However, the crazy Japanese army did not give this future general, one of the northwestern iron triangles, to continue to feel heartbroken. With the offensive to conquer the front-line trenches, they launched continuous attacks on the second line of defense.
When the Japanese army charged for the third time, two heavy machine guns in the first battalion were blown into parts all over the sky by two Japanese infantry cannons!
In order to deal with the two most threatening firepower points of the Japanese army, the two infantry artillery of the Japanese army, not only did the infantry artillery bombard nearly 100 rounds of shells, but even the grenade launchers approached the frontier of more than 100 meters on the battlefield, and more than 6 grenade launchers crazily bombarded the heavy machine gun firepower points more than 500 meters away.
The end of two heavy machine guns is also the main reason why Japanese infantry rushed into the front-line trenches!
However, the severely wounded Chinese soldiers who had no time to evacuate turned their bodies into bombs and positions into one, blocking the Japanese offensive!
According to post-war statistics, there were as many as 16 wounded people in the entire front-line trenches who died with the Japanese army. After being reported to the 921st Division, the division headquarters caused a shock.
Because of this alone, these 16 martyrs are qualified to apply for first-class merit, while one company will receive 16 first-class merits, and it does not include those who perform outstandingly in battle. For example, the lieutenant platoon leader who was carrying three gunshot wounds and still refused to evacuate and fight on the front line, such as the corporal who stabbed two Japanese troops to death with a bayonet and successfully evacuated with the injured platoon leader. This is really beyond everyone's understanding.
Therefore, the 921st Division even sent a working group to verify the battlefield statistics of the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment!
The results of the verification shocked the entire 921 Division. It is said that after listening to the heavy report of the head of the verification team, the two chief officers of the 921 Division and several deputy chief officers took off their hats and observed silently to the martyrs who had already died. They saluted the commander of the 769th Regiment, who had already been covered with tears, and said the famous saying that should have been upgraded to the Long Live Army in more than ten years, and the general paid tribute to the headquarters: "The martyrs will be immortal! The Chinese people will not forget you! Long Live all the commanders and fighters fighting on the front line in 769!"
Long live the army, enjoyed their glory more than ten years in advance!
But this is all due to sacrifice. Perhaps, this is not the glory they want!
But what can they do when war comes? They are not social elites, and they have never seen any world in their lives. If it weren't for the dream of letting themselves and their families have enough food, most of them might have only gone to a town dozens of miles away from the village at the farthest.
Burning yourself is the only thing the most ordinary soldiers can do when the crisis comes.
It’s no wonder these big guys who are used to being tragic are so shocked!
The evidence presented to the verification team is very simple, it is the remains of warriors! The huge power of the long-handled grenade almost tore the human body apart. There are dozens of holes in each person's body, the blood has already flowed out, and the body is so pale that it is shocking. If it weren't for close distance, this effect would not have been achieved!
The long wooden grenade is only equipped with Chinese troops. The Japanese melon grenade may have many shrapnel injuries, but the power of the explosion is far inferior.
In the end, after the end of the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty, although the 683rd Brigade made great achievements, the 1,500 Japanese troops were destroyed in the battle of Shentouling alone, regardless of the Battle of Beiganling, the number of first-class military achievements was not as good as that of a battalion of the 769th Regiment!
It’s not that the battalion fought too badly, but that it should be the first time in the past six months that the entire Eighty Army had a unit. With roughly the same force, it tied with the Japanese army with artillery in the field. This is a battle situation that few of those well-equipped direct troops rarely appear!
This gave the entire Eighty Army greater confidence, and the Japanese army is not invincible!
The five consecutive rounds of decisive charges organized by Hiro Komura were not without results. He captured the first line of defense for the third time and was blocked again for the fifth time, but if he did it again, he was sure that he would break through the already shaky Chinese defense line, and the final victory would definitely belong to them.
In fact, the Japanese Army's chief had a correct premonition, because the Japanese army charged for five consecutive waves, and the first battalion was forced to consume a lot of ammunition and basically reached the point where the ammunition and food were exhausted. After counting the last bullet storage and all of them were fired, there were only three bullets per two soldiers on average!
That means that after two rounds of shooting, you can fight with bayonets. Even Comrade Kong took a rifle, and his beloved shell gun became a decoration in the third round of the Japanese army's charge!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Unfortunately, time has not given Komura Hiroshi this opportunity!
Just as the Japanese army organized the last 200 people, even the light machine gunners and grenade launchers, joined the infantry sequence and advanced to a charge distance of nearly 60 meters from the second-line position, a loud charge suddenly came from the hill behind!
Thunder broke out on the ground! This is basically what I meant.
The moment the charge of the 'Drip!' sounded, the Chinese soldiers and the Japanese soldiers were stunned. Both sides made the same emoticon for the first time - looking at the distant hills in disbelief.
Hundreds of meters away, countless gray military uniforms surged out, and then rushed to the position like a tide. The shouts had already suppressed the gunshots and explosions on the position.
"Retreat!" Komura Hiroshi bit his back teeth and made the most wisest decision in his life.
The Japanese army retreated like a tide, and even the bodies left on the battlefield were not too late to carry away. The entire army ran away and retreated very resolutely.
This is also a manifestation of the loss of courage.
The hour before fighting with the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment had already knocked their former pride down.
The Chinese side's troops were even less than them, without any artillery, and the only two heavy machine guns had long been destroyed, almost just a pure infantry, but they were still kept tightly outside the position.
In fact, even Hiroshi Komura, who had red eyes, had doubts a little bit. Even if he could conquer the position and even wipe out the Chinese army in the end, how many people could survive under his command?
Perhaps, he will become the most tragic squad leader of the 108th Division, although he won the final victory!
He even suspected that he would be slaughtered no matter what he wins and loses, but that might be the best result.
But no matter what, the Japanese Army Major who was almost losing confidence by the first battalion made the most wise decision at this moment.
As long as he and the last more than 200 Japanese soldiers were not allowed to leave.
Because I came here, there was a whole infantry regiment, the main regiment under the 683rd Brigade-----772nd Regiment!
Not only did the full staff say that the four teams were full of three all-Japanese infantry companies, and even a 37mm war defense cannon, which was found by Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who was found in the brigade headquarters for three days and found brigade commander Cheng.
However, the war defense artillery and the artillery platoon responsible for the artillery did not belong to the 772nd Regiment, but were temporarily seconded to the 772nd Regiment, but that was enough to satisfy the two chief officers of the 772nd Regiment who returned from the division headquarters.
Unexpectedly, after only one month, the 772nd Regiment had a bird gun to replace cannons. Not only did they have three infantry companies with brand new equipment, they even had a cannon that could fire tanks!
The four war defense cannons sent by the Four Lines Regiment are popular. Not to mention the 772nd Regiment, the regiment-level unit, even the 683rd Brigade may not be able to be kept. It was originally determined that it would be transferred by the Division Headquarters, but because the 683rd Brigade was about to fight the Shentouling battle, the two bigwigs of the Division Headquarters decided to keep the four cannons in the 683rd Brigade for the time being.
The head of the 683rd Brigade was not an extraordinary person. He immediately formed a brigade artillery company. All the personnel were carefully selected. All the instructors were provided by the Four Corps because the shells were enough, just like the oil seller: nothing else, only you can do it!
In half a month, each gunbomb shot out nearly 200 live ammunition, feeding the gunner who was already a little basic.
You said, just with the current strength of the 772nd Regiment, let alone the total strength of Komura Hiroshi now is no more than 300 with two infantry artillery and heavy machine gun squad. Even when he was full of troops, he would probably be pressed to the ground by the First Regiment of the "Tu Eight" combat power with more than 2,000 troops.
Until now, the battle to be named Banbishan is over by the future!
Statistics of post-war casualties, the First Battalion of the 769th Regiment: 196 officers and soldiers were killed in battle, 148 seriously injured, and 162 slightly injured.
The total number of troops in the first battalion was only over 500, which means that everyone was injured. Even the battalion leader Comrade Kong, had blood on his arms. When he saw the three chief officers of the 772nd Regiment, he could not even salute him.
The reason is that the three chief officials of the 772nd Regiment, including Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who always stared at him with big eyes when he saw him, took the initiative to salute him, the "subordinate".
This battlefield is really too tragic.
When I glanced at the vast battlefield, blood and corpses could be seen everywhere, gray and shit and yellow overlapped, becoming the only two main colors on the entire battlefield.
Afterwards, the Japanese army took away more than 200 corpses left by the Japanese army on the battlefield alone mean that in terms of deaths in battle, China and Japan fought a 1-to-1 loss ratio in this narrow field battle.
This is not an ambush battle, a surprise attack battle, a pure head-on battle, and death for death!
The results of the battle are brilliant, but the blood is sad!
A man as strong as Comrade Kong, when the three chief officials of the 772nd Regiment saluted him for a while, but he could not raise his arm to return the salute, tears directly drove the black smoke from his face out of two white sacred words.
His battalion was destroyed!
The main battalion of the 769th Regiment is not as good as that of the battalion of the supplementary regiment at this time. It will not be possible to return to its previous level within at least half a year.
How did he explain this to the leader!
What's even more painful is that there is a kitchen team and a propaganda team left at the station. When they set off, they beat drums and drums, hoping that their brothers would return after winning the battle.
Now, the victory is a battle, but half of the people are gone, and nearly 200 familiar faces are gone.
When he thought of this, this strong soldier who had experienced the snow-capped mountains and grasslands and watched his comrades be swallowed by the swamp and knocked down by the hunger and cold but was powerless, thought he could accept all the suffering, squatted in front of his several old comrades and cried like a child.
Victory is sweet, but it is bitter and hard to swallow!
"Old Confucius! I will definitely avenge your brothers, believe me!" Wang Xiaoqiang hugged his old comrades' shoulders tightly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The 772nd Regiment left an infantry battalion to assist the first battalion of the 769th Regiment to clean the battlefield. The remaining 1,500 troops of the entire army ran towards their battlefield at high speed!
On the other side of Hiroshi Komura, the inner sadness is no less than the sadness of the Chinese soldiers.
Not to mention the remains of more than 200 imperial infantry left on the battlefield, nearly 60 remains could be carried away, nearly 100 seriously injured, and the remaining 200 infantry were also injured!
In order to carry away more wounded and remains, they were even forced to throw away a large amount of baggage. The carts and pack horses were all human bodies, and no matter how far or near, they seemed to be a defeated army!
This is true. Judging from the battlefield outcome, the First Battalion and Hiroko Komura belonged to a draw, with nearly 1-1 damage. The Chinese army showed extraordinary courage and technical and tactical skills, but the Japanese army was not bad either. They also withstood the terrible casualty rate and maintained enough morale to attack until the Chinese reinforcements arrived.
But they failed to cross the defense line of the 1st Battalion of the 769th Regiment, nor did they prevent the 772nd Regiment, who followed the rush to march, from reaching the battle position preset by the Chinese commander, which caused the main Japanese army who had marched to the Beiganling area to lose the opportunity to occupy the flanking highlands.
Tactically speaking, this was a complete failure. At the senior military meeting of the 108th Division after the war, Hiroshi Komura was pulled out to "whip the corpse", becoming one of the culprits of the Japanese army's defeat in this battle.
In the end, this unlucky guy who had the opportunity to become a major general of the army was stripped of all his military posts and returned home in shame.
But obviously, the defeat in this battle was very confusing, and he was not the only army's chief.
Fortunately, there was a bigger unlucky guy in front of him.
For example, the Japanese Army Colonel who ordered him to attack but had no substantial help.
When the 772nd Regiment arrived, the main force of the Japanese army also began to officially enter the Beiganling area. The main force of the 769th Regiment abandoned all the supplies and only carried guns and ammunition, and ran to the highest level of light infantry on the mountain road. At this time, he also arrived at the preset front position of Beiganling.
25 minutes later, with the arrival of the Japanese vanguard troops, the battle began.
The 772nd Regiment's forward company also climbed to the flanking highland!
The main Japanese army's main force, which had already begun to shoot at the front positions of Beiganling, had lost the initiative in the battlefield, and returning home was their most correct choice at the moment.
But that means that all the Japanese troops in Licheng and Shentouling were abandoned. Obviously, Xiong Yuan could not accept that result, the 108th Infantry Regiment, who was the highest commander of the Japanese reinforcements at the time, could not accept it.
Not only was the Sixth Infantry Brigade stationed in Licheng under his command, but the Japanese Army Colonel understood more than anyone else that there was a large amount of gold and jewelry he used to bribe the indoor shroud general, which he took half a year to loot. I heard that the indoor shroud general was about to return to China for promotion, and I don’t have time to give him another half year.
Therefore, the main Japanese army, with more than 1,500 troops, started their mad attack mode at all costs.
The 10 armored 94 light tanks and up to 10 guns of various types accompanying the army are all the confidence of the Japanese Army colonel.
The 'Tu Eight's' used standard rifles from fifteen years ago, and the largest caliber artillery was just mortars. Besides having geographical advantages, what else do they have?
Not to mention an infantry regiment or an infantry division, more than 1,500 Japanese troops with pride and firepower advantages were also confident that they could defeat them.
What's more, the mountains in the Beiganling area are not steep, and some slopes are even as smooth as that of the Type 94 light tanks.
Chapter completed!