Tang Dao also came to the front line to observe the movements of the Japanese troops.
However, unlike the fat Japanese Lieutenant General who loves to show off, he is a simple and easy-going person, and the soldiers in the security squad who are responsible for guarding are at least 100 meters away from him!
Moreover, the security squad is divided into two layers of security nets in groups. If they are all around them, isn't it a disguised reminder of potential dangers that they are the target they are looking for?
Just like the fat man who loves to show off, there are really too many people around him, at least a dozen people!
Moreover, Tang Dao was also wearing camouflage uniforms. Even though he was standing on the top of the mountain, he did not step on the rocks like the fat Japanese lieutenant general, with his whole body exposed and a gesture of pointing the country.
Next to Tang Tuanzuo was Xia Dayu, a small signal soldier, and both of them were still hiding in the grass!
Then, Tang Dao saw a group of small black dots in the distance.
The six-fold telescope is already the best military telescope in the country, but it is still shaking slightly, and even with Tang Dao's eyesight, it is impossible to determine what those black spots are.
"Heavy rain, look, are they a group of people?" Tang Dao handed the telescope to his signal soldier.
Xia Dayu took the telescope excitedly, stared at it for at least 20 seconds, and nodded affirmatively: "Sir, it's a group of people! And among that group of people, there are senior officials!"
"What is the basis for your judgment?" Tang Daodan smiled and took the telescope. "You are praised by Niu Er as the best sniper observer. Don't let your reputation fall!"
"Sir, the black dots are distributed in a circle. There are only two possibilities. They are either for protection, or they are the idiom you taught me: the stars support the moon! No matter what the possibility is, the one in the center must be a
The high official, maybe he is the captain of the Left Wing of the Japanese Infantry Regiment that just arrived!" Xia Dayu analyzed Tang Dao in an orderly manner.
"Haha! That makes sense!" Tang Dao smiled slightly. "Okay, then based on your kid's analysis, our group of four will fire the first shot today! If there are any results, I'll credit you kid with this!"
"Sir, this is a bit too far!" Xia Dayu touched the Mosingana rifle on his back and was stunned.
According to the ruler on the telescope lens, the two sides are at least 4 miles apart. What kind of gun can shoot that far?
"Silly boy, if you can't hit the gun, you can't hit the cannon!" Tang Dao turned his head to the target hilltop, picked up the telescope again, and said in an increasingly sharp tone: "Send the order to Dahai, the mountain artillery company No. 1 to 6 gun positions to prepare firepower, target
Area 152013, distance 2000 feet, fire 5 rounds rapidly! In addition, the 1st Infantry Battalion Artillery Battery, 2nd Infantry Battalion Artillery Battery, 80mm Howitzer Battery Positions 1 to 3, after the mountain artillery battery bombardment is completed, each fire 5 rounds of artillery shells!"
"Yes!" Xia Dayu turned around and ran away.
Several communications soldiers located less than 50 meters below the mountain peak received Tang Dao's order and immediately turned on the radio to issue military orders to various ministries.
There are two sets of command systems for the Four Lines Regiment. One is at the regiment headquarters. If there is no emergency, military orders will be issued by the staff headed by Ye Chenghuan!
The other set is to follow the regiment leader Tang Dao, who can contact battalion-level units at any time and has the highest command authority!
Following Tang Dao's military order, the artillery positions of the mountain artillery company and the artillery companies of the two battalions immediately began to adjust the muzzles according to the coordinate positions, and the artillery shells were also moved to the artillery.
The artillery units of the Four Lines Regiment were not idle during these two or three days. The first step was to select the location of each artillery position.
Some are hidden deep in the woods, some are hidden under huge rocks, and some are even between two huge rock gaps, and all have camouflage nets set up above the artillery!
This is not only to prevent the Japanese artillery group from retaliating, but also to prevent air strikes!
The Japanese army completely occupies air superiority. Although the Fourth Army ambushed 24 anti-aircraft machine guns and 24 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns in this vast area, the ground to air will ultimately suffer some losses. If the Japanese army starts from an altitude of 3,000 meters,
When bombs are dropped, machine guns and machine guns with a maximum range of only more than 2,000 meters can only look up to the sky and sigh!
Therefore, air defense of artillery positions is very important. Not only simple fortifications were built with sandbags around each artillery position, but trenches more than 2 meters deep were dug. They were not for infantry defense but for artillerymen to avoid the explosion of heavy aerial bombs.
The use of air waves.
As for if a heavy aerial bomb happens to hit the gun emplacement, why not hide? Within a 30-meter radius of the impact point, both the person and the gun will be blown to pieces!
All defenses are still the same as the saying goes: do your best and obey fate!
But the attack is not sloppy. The series of numerical areas just dictated by Tang Dao are the results obtained by the artillery battalion using nearly a hundred artillery observers and more than 50 scouts for two days and nights!
The entire plain and mountainous area in front of the Niangziguan defense line has been artificially drawn into a large chessboard. Each grid with an area of tens of thousands of square meters has its own number. According to this number, the artillerymen move on this two-dimensional 'chessboard'.
After finding the location and using the coordinate parameters already marked above, the artillery shell can be delivered to the area needed by the infantry or scouts in a very short time.
From Tang Dao issuing the military order to the first cannon being ejected from the chamber, the whole process took less than 2 minutes, which shows the success of this artillery tactic!
Even if you are watching fireworks from 2000 meters away, you will be targeted by the opponent's cannon. I can only say that the fat man with semen in his underwear is unlucky enough to open the door for him - he is unlucky.
The mountain artillery company of the artillery battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment is currently equipped with the Bofors 75mm mountain gun. The biggest feature of this mountain gun that is stronger than the 41-type mountain gun is not its range of more than 3,000 meters, but its accuracy.
The artillerymen have tested and found that the impact point error will never exceed 30 meters. This almost means that under extreme conditions, infantry can use infantry to coordinate 100-meter attacks on the enemy, far exceeding the extremely rudimentary 200-meter-plus rifles currently used by the Japanese army.
collaborative distance.
Six artillery pieces fired six rounds at a time, directly blowing up the area around the top of the mountain into a sea of flames. At least a dozen Japanese infantrymen who had no time to escape were swept down the mountain by the air waves.
The panicked fat man let out a strange scream, and with agility that was not suitable for his size, he got into the bushes next to him and lay down on the ground!
Two loyal followers even lay on top of him as human shields. They were the dead soldiers he brought from his family when he took office, and they were specially used as battlefield shields!
If nothing unexpected happens, this sudden bombardment may cause a big blow to the hundreds of Japanese troops led by Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, the division commander, but it will basically not hit this quick-reacting and loyal enough guard.
The boss-level characters cause damage.
Even the roaring second and third rounds...the artillery fire shook the area around the top of the mountain, and the high-ranking guards who originally surrounded Washizu Matsudaira had a death and injury rate as high as 50%.
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But there is a Chinese saying that goes well: If nothing happens, something will happen soon!
Thirty rounds of Bofors Mountain Artillery shells exploded the hilltop into a sea of flames with extreme accuracy, but that was not the reason why the remaining Japanese troops were heartbroken.
Nor was it the subsequent 30 rounds of "explosive bombs" designed to kill people on the ground that plowed the mountain top again, and the high-speed projectiles that ripped holes in the woods!
Instead, after the earth-shaking shelling ended, the Japanese soldiers who ran madly to the top of the mountain were horrified to find the fat figure they were looking for...
A fat man lying in the bushes that was ignited by the high temperature until he was sizzling with oil, but still remained motionless!
Even if the bombardment is over and I am burned to death, I will not get up!
When the Japanese soldiers took a closer look, they realized that Emperor Yili was forced to do so! He really didn't think he had too much fat and wanted to take the opportunity to burn it off.
But, I really can’t get up!
The two big men who were lying on him had completed their tasks perfectly. A bomb exploded almost seven or eight meters away from them. The splashing projectiles almost turned the two men into a sieve.
Then the crazy waves of air swept the two corpses away from the tragic fat man!
At this point, except for the buzzing in the head of Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, other parts of him should be in good condition!
However, his good luck ended here!
A grenade hit a rock less than 20 meters away from the man. The violent energy tore a stone weighing forty kilograms directly from the rock layer and threw it into the air.
Finally, it accurately hit the waist of a certain lieutenant general who was holding his head!
This severe blow directly destroyed poor Washizu Matsuhira's lumbar spine, completely causing him to lose the ability to move his lower body.
Anyone who has experienced a waist injury knows that it is extremely difficult to even turn over on your own if you lose waist strength.
In other words, except for his arms and neck, Washizu Matsudaira has almost no place where he can exert strength. In addition, with the huge boulder pressing on his waist that is already unconscious, it is difficult for this unlucky guy to move at all except waving his arms and shouting for help.
, even if he saw the fire coming over, it would soon burn his delicate skin.
It's a pity that when the artillery fire is still raging, let alone the division commander, even if he is the biological father of those subordinates who are still alive, they have to ensure that they are not dead before they can come to him!
Therefore, when the Japanese army found their dear division commander, it was already two minutes after he had been burned by the fire.
After being roasted for so long, not to mention that its fat layer is not much thinner than that of a seal in the Arctic Circle. Even a small squirrel is enough to sizzle and spit out oil.
Even if it’s not fully cooked, it’s still half-cooked!
Therefore, less than an hour after the forwards of the 21st Division arrived on the battlefield, the 21st Division lost their top commander.
A lieutenant general division commander who did not die from the shells, but suffered extensive burns all over his body. The injuries were further aggravated by the crazy moves of his subordinates, and he died without even reaching the bottom of the mountain!
No achievement was achieved! Major General Nagano Kameichiro, who was promoted to the supreme commander of the 21st Division, received the news and was instantly petrified!
Not some bullshit grief!
If it weren't for Washizu Matsuhira, a gift-giving expert, the position of division commander of the 21st Division would have been his, and it would be great if he died.
But it’s by no means crazy!
The division commander was lost before the war started. After the war, the front army will definitely settle the score, and the entire division will be punished from top to bottom. He, the acting division commander who was promoted on the spot, wants to remove the word "acting". This is the only possibility.
It was this battle that won the great victory.
For example, break through the current Chinese defense line and annihilate all Chinese!
Nagano Kameichiro is different from his already fragrant boss. The Japanese army major general who was formally graduated from the non-commissioned officer school was a specific participant in the 918 incident. It was not the group of 'young men' who controlled the superiors, but the group of officials who led the way.
How could our empire have the chance to annex the three fertile and fertile Northeastern provinces?
During the Battle of the Great Wall in 1933, Nagano Kameichiro, who was the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Division at the left level, did not lead the army alone, but his outstanding performance during his tenure was also recognized by Nishi, who was the commander of the Eighth Division at the time.
He was appreciated by Lieutenant General Yiyi and was promoted to the rank of Army Major General two years later.
To put it bluntly, this guy is a bit genuine.
Nagano Kameichiro, who became the second-in-command of the newly-organized 21st Division, knew that the combat power of the 21st Division was different from those of the permanent divisions. The top-tier divisions were on par with second-line divisions such as the 108th and 109th, especially when it was his first time to fight in such a mountainous area.
Offensive and defensive battles.
He has already made a tactical plan and is not in a hurry to attack by force. He will spend ten and a half days with the Chinese in front of the Chinese defense line, maximize the shortcomings of the Chinese ammunition storage, and finally defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!
The reason is also very simple. In addition to their 21st Division, there are also the 18th Division, the 20th Division, and even a detachment of the 5th Division known as the 'North China First Army'!
If they can't break through the Chinese defense line, how can a newly formed division of his 21st Division be used as the bulk? And if they wait until they break through the Chinese defense line, the morale of the Chinese on the Niangziguan defense line will definitely fluctuate, then they can definitely
Take advantage of what is readily available without having to pay too many casualties.
Although the tactics of "not asking for no merit, but seeking no faults" were not approved by Washizu Matsudaira, no matter how stupid the fat man who was still smelling at the moment was, there was one thing that was very good. He knew very well that he
He was not very familiar with the battlefield, so he relied heavily on his second-in-command who had battlefield experience. Seeing that he could not persuade him to listen to him, he finally went along with Nagano Kameichiro's wishes.
But now, with the death of this guy, Nagano Kameichiro's wishful thinking has completely come to nothing.
If the officers above the left rank of the 21st Division have no military merit in this battle, they will all be punished for the death of the division commander after the war!
"I am ordering Captain Matsuura Daizuo of the 83rd Infantry Regiment. I will give him 2 hours to prepare. After 2 hours, I will immediately attack the front line of defense. I will let the hateful Chinese die for the division commander!" Nagano Kameichiro!
With a livid face, he roared Xiao's order.
"Instruct the artillery regiment, except for the 105 howitzer stationed at the original position, leaving an infantry squadron to protect them, and all other mountain artillery to move 2,000 meters forward to the enemy position. After an hour, I will see the Chinese forward positions, including the rear, being
Our army is covered by artillery fire!"
"In addition, the 62nd and 63rd Infantry Regiments are ordered to advance at a running pace. All members will arrive by dusk this afternoon at the latest!
Tomorrow, we will gather all the forces of our division to conquer the enemy's positions and use the heads of all the enemy's school-level officers to comfort the spirit of the division commander in heaven!"
"Hi!" The Japanese officers around Nagano Kameichiro all lowered their heads.
The 21st Division was forced to change its tactics due to the accidental death of its own division commander and most of the officers on the division's staff, from working as a foreigner to fighting to the death from the start!
But the instigator, Tang Tuanzuo, did not know that his wave of military orders had completely changed the direction of the entire war.
Originally, he was just holding on to the luck mentality of "if there are dates or no dates, let's hit two shots first". If he knew that the black spots turned out to be the lieutenant general of the 21st Division and a group of senior staff officers under his command.
If you don't have a lot of left, what's the use of gun positions 1 to 6? It's just a battery of mountain artillery. At least 30 rounds per gun will hit the base, and you won't stop until the mountain top is blown to pieces.
Then I'm afraid Washizu Matsudaira wouldn't even be able to find the sizzling and oily body, and he would just be cannon-buried!
As a result, after that round of artillery fire, the Japanese 105 howitzers ceased fire soon. Tang Tuanzuo did not pay much attention to the possible results of spending 60 rounds of artillery shells, and instead went to observe the movements of the Japanese troops at the front.
It didn't take long for Tang Dao to discover that the Japanese army had given up digging a field trench 1,000 meters away and moved the first field trench forward to about 600 meters. The shadowy shadow was a bit blurry in his telescope field of vision, but for his wife,
For a front-line position, that's not too far.
The Japanese think that we don’t have heavy machine guns on the front line, so they are too courageous!
There was a trace of coldness at the corner of Tang Dao's mouth!
Without him giving orders, he knew what the first battalion of Japanese troops facing him would do!
The company and platoon leaders under his command who had experienced bloody battles would never let go of this opportunity to eliminate the effective strength of the Japanese invaders.
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"Good boy! The Japanese are taking the initiative to put their lives on the muzzle of my gun!" Wei Donglai was lying on an observation post that was covered tightly with steel plates and sandbags and soil on the top, and the sides were also protected by sandbags and logs.
Put down the telescope in your hand and smile like a flower on your face.
"Order the two MG34 machine guns and three 82-guns on the second line of defense to open fire at full speed for me. Let me give the little devils some color first and let them know that if they want to pretend to be uncles in front of my 2nd company, they are not qualified. Even if they are poached,
I have to dig the trenches lying down!"
"Company commander, you should go back to the trenches behind the mountain! Just leave it to me!" A lieutenant accompanying Wei Donglai advised with a grimace.
The second company now has more than 300 people. It is much stronger than before. But the stronger the strength, the greater the responsibility. The width of the surface position responsible for defense is also nearly 800 meters!
As the supreme commander of this 800-meter position, it is extremely dangerous to directly reach the first line of defense on the mountainside, even if it has an observation post that can withstand 75mm mountain artillery.
The Japanese army had previously deployed 105 grenade heavy artillery. The trenches built on the front line collapsed in several places during the bombardment half an hour ago, and the soldiers were sweating profusely to repair them.
Otherwise, the platoon commander in charge of the first line of defense would not have given the military orders but instead advised his company commander.
"Okay, okay, I can't listen to your little melon's advice, but before I retreat, I have to see the results of the battle first!" Wei Donglai is considered to be the more refined one among the company commanders of the Four Lines Regiment. Faced with the dissuasion from his subordinates, he
His tone was gentle and not irritable, but he remained the same as before.
This can be regarded as one of the qualities that the officers of the Si Xing Regiment learned from Tang Tuan Zuo. Leading by example is never just a matter of words!
As a result, in the somewhat stubborn army captain's telescopic vision, clouds of smoke dispersed a mile away.
The Japanese army responded angrily with 70mm infantry cannons and Type 92 heavy machine guns deployed on both wings.
With blood blooming on the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese infantrymen, the second battle at Niangziguan in eastern Shanxi during the Anti-Japanese War officially kicked off!
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