"Teacher, did we win?"
This was the first sentence Fang Shiheng said when she opened her eyes in a coma, felt the warm sunshine, and saw the happy smiling face of Teacher Xiao He.
"Yes, we won!" Teacher Xiao He nodded to confirm the student's question.
As the former leader of the Student Union and the backbone of the arsenal, Fang Shiheng showed enough courage in this battle. Even though he suffered several injuries, he still tenaciously fired with his ammunition hand until he was shot in the chest.
Fall down.
It was when Teacher Xiao He saw the seriously injured and unconscious student that he said that famous saying with tears in his eyes, took over the light machine gun left by the three-person team, and emptied the last four 20-round magazines.
Fortunately, the bullet that hit Fang Shiheng miraculously avoided the heart and aorta. Fang Shiheng, who was supposed to be placed in the corpse queue, was found to be still breathing weakly. After being bandaged to stop the bleeding, he miraculously woke up in the early morning.
How could this not please Teacher Xiao He, who had been worrying about him?
"What about Yuan Ren and the others?" Fang Shiheng instinctively asked the classmates who were fighting alongside him.
Teacher Xiao He's smile froze on his face, and tears shone in his big round eyes!
As the supreme commander of this team, she should not have been so vulnerable, but those lying there were all her students!
Those young people who studied hard in the classroom and actively asked questions, those who spoke passionately about their ideals on campus, are now cold corpses. As their teachers and leaders, Xiao He
How can a teacher not feel sad?
Fang Shiheng, who was hit by two bullets and four grenade shrapnel and was in severe pain, did not shed tears. However, when he saw tears in his teacher's eyes, two large teardrops quietly escaped from this teacher who had experienced the war.
The tempered student leader's eyes slipped and hit the grass under the stretcher.
Without sacrifice, there is no victory!
The cruel battlefield once again verified Tang Tuanzuo's famous saying!
Although a Japanese light infantry brigade that entered Erdaoliang was almost completely wiped out, this "miscellaneous army" armed with heavy firepower also suffered heavy losses.
The 100 light machine guns had almost used up all the ammunition they carried, leaving less than 10,000 rounds, and only less than 20% of the rifle grenade ammunition remained. This meant that the light machine gun company and the rifle grenade company had almost no combat effectiveness.
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But even sadder are the human losses!
Since the Japanese army did not have heavy firepower, the most destructive weapons were grenade launchers and light machine guns, as well as three Type 92 heavy machine guns that were destroyed by rifle grenade attacks at the beginning of the war.
It was also one of the best masterpieces in the life of Lao Tantai, who was responsible for personally commanding the grenade company in combat. It was under his order that in the first minute before the war began, the grenade company assembled three grenade squads to focus fire on the Japanese heavy machine gun position.
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He fired more than 150 grenades wildly, blowing three heavy machine guns and their shooters into pieces. If not for this, if the three Type 92 heavy machine guns were allowed to fire, the damage might be 30% higher than what it is now.
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However, despite this, the "miscellaneous army" participating in the war still killed 76 people, seriously injured 189 people, and injured more than 200 people.
Among them, 13 student technicians were killed and 28 were seriously injured, accounting for almost one-half of the technicians who participated in the war.
Originally, technicians were mostly assigned to combat defense artillery companies and infantry artillery companies, and there were not many rifle grenade and light machine gun companies. This was not to protect anyone, but the technicians were more familiar with artillery performance indicators, in order to prevent workers and militiamen from having ideas.
, a group of student soldiers represented by Fang Shiheng took the initiative to join the two more dangerous companies.
They were very brave. 80 people came to the front line to participate in the battle, and 13 were killed and 28 seriously injured. The casualty rate was more than half, far more than the more numerous workers and militiamen. It was under their brave leadership that two consecutive killings went crazy, and finally
Only then did they achieve the final victory, which covered the battlefield with firepower.
However, when the returning Tang Dao walked up to the dozens of fresh mounds that were finally transported back to the Martyrs Cemetery for burial, he lingered for a long time and refused to leave!
Tang Dao knew that the two teachers and Chu Shaoyun had made the right decision. If the more than 1,000 Japanese troops were allowed to bypass Qingshiyan's rear wing, although it would not immediately cause Qingshiyan's defense line to collapse, Qingshiyan would never have the chance to hold on to Niu.
With the arrival of the second class, the entire 4th Battalion's vitality was at zero!
Although the Japanese army may not necessarily have the opportunity to hunt down all the people who evacuated into the mountains, the station they spent half a year operating will definitely be bombed into ruins, which will also be a heavy blow to the Four Lines Regiment.
They succeeded. They used a surprise force that neither the Chinese or Japanese commanders had planned, and with more than 200 casualties, helped the Qingshiyan defense line to hold the rear flank, buying time for reinforcements to arrive.
In the history of war, it was definitely a stunning battle!
However, Tang Dao also knew what this country had lost.
Without this battle, the dozen or so students who sacrificed their lives would most likely have become pillars of the national scientific research community in more than ten or twenty years. There may even be some among them who are capable and evaluated by the United States as 'one person capable'.
A figure who is comparable to the five divisions.
But, the glorious youth and the bright future all disappeared because of this battle!
You say, is this worth it? Or is it not worth it?
It is precisely because of knowing the future that even though he is as open-minded as Tang Dao, he still falls into self-blame and guilt.
As Tang Dao's fiancée, Tantai Mingyue rarely saw Tang Dao blame himself so much, so she had no choice but to call her father to comfort her.
"Uncle, this is all my fault. I underestimated the Japanese. If I hadn't been too confident, they wouldn't have died. If they are alive, they will have the opportunity to create much higher value than the entire Four Elements Group.
"Yes." Tang Dao sighed and sat next to a tombstone.
That was a student named Feng Yuanren. Tang Dao was very familiar with him. He was from a wealthy family with the surname Feng in Hunan Province. He not only had a prominent family background but was also talented. Although Tang Dao did not know what achievements he would have in the future, he studied in the Department of Physics in Hunan Province.
Young people have imagination and creativity that astonished even Tang Dao. After Tang Dao proposed the design idea of rocket launchers, young people in Hunan Province prepared a rocket propulsion engine research group with the support of teacher Xiao He and proposed a solid-state rocket propulsion engine research group.
Fuel concept.
If nothing unexpected happens, his future will be unimaginable! But now, all his talents and knowledge have turned into smoke!
"Tang Dao, I know you are sad, but I don't want to comfort you. This is your responsibility as a commander and comrade." Tantai Yun Shuqing, who seems to have aged more than ten years in the past month, even his hair has turned gray.
Gently stroking the wooden tombstone in front of him, just like tapping the students on the shoulder in the old school days.
"I just want to tell you one thing. The people lying here are not only my students from Jinling University, but also my students from Tantai Yunshu. They are also Chinese.
We soldiers, when the foreign invaders invaded, fought bravely and returned wrapped in horse leather, which was our duty as soldiers.
And we, the Chinese people, must not cower behind the soldiers and watch the soldiers build the Great Wall with their flesh and blood under the fire of the Japanese pirates. It is the Great Wall of China, not just the soldiers.
Therefore, that is also our duty!
Without courageous and sacrificial struggle, how can we talk about achievements and what about the future? No matter how hard they are, they are just asking for benevolence and getting benevolence."
The words were like an enlightenment, and Tang Dao suddenly understood!
Since he came to this era, he suddenly felt a sense of mission, as if he had to shoulder the entire responsibility of killing the enemy and defending the country on his shoulders.
But he seems to have forgotten that this is his country, but it is not his country alone. The key to winning this war is just like in that time and space, the whole country is armed!
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"What? A great victory in the rear, annihilating more than 1,000 Japanese troops?" Shangguan Yunze was immediately stunned after receiving the news. He asked the lieutenant infantry platoon leader he sent to support the rear several times before he truly believed it.
"Send power to the regiment headquarters. I want to ask for credit from the regiment's director, Director Tantai. If we can hold on to the defense line this time, the guard corps formed by the station will be the first to take credit!" Shangguan Yun's fair face turned red from extreme excitement.
"In addition, I would like to inform the whole battalion that the enemies on my rear wing have been completely wiped out by our army. There is no need to worry about the rear wing!"
The morale of all the officers and soldiers of the 4th Battalion, which had been exhausted after several days of fierce fighting, was greatly boosted!
And Shiro Kuyeda, who listened to the sound of gunfire in the distance all night long, had been looking forward to it all night, but he didn’t receive the bad news until the afternoon of the 13th!
The light infantry brigade on the back wing was ambushed by the Chinese, resulting in a major defeat. Major Chiori Momaki, with 5 captains, 16 lieutenants, and 16 lieutenants were defeated in the battle.
Only less than a hundred of the more than 1,400 troops fled!
The reason why the Japanese army counted less than a hundred people, while the Chinese side counted less than 1,100 killed, is not because both sides were ignorant of numbers.
But there are too many ravines and bumps in the Taihang Mountains, especially at night when the visibility is extremely poor. The Japanese army did not dare to light fires. In panic, many of them missed the mark and fell into the deep ravines.
It would be fine if he fell to death on the spot. He was afraid of breaking his arms and legs. Once he lost the ability to move, there was no telling what the consequences would be in such a wilderness.
With the end of the entire defensive battle of Dakouzi Cave, Shangguan Yun organized a small-scale reconnaissance operation to prevent the remaining Japanese troops from lurking, and eventually more than a hundred wrecks were found in many cliffs and piles of rocks.
After inspection, some of the wreckage showed traces of being eaten by wild wolves, but more of the wreckage had no other injuries except broken limbs or gunshot wounds. It is thought that they died of thirst on the spot after falling from a high altitude and losing the ability to move.
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There is little rain in the autumn in the Taihang Mountains. Not a drop of rain fell for nearly half a month. As a result, many Japanese corpses had their mouths filled with weeds but found it difficult to swallow. You can fully imagine their despair before they died.
As for the nearly 100 other people who disappeared, it seems that they have never appeared. In response to the battle report that China published with great fanfare in newspapers sponsored by the Second War Zone, the 108th Division could only include these 100 people in the list of missing persons.
It was not until many years after the war that during a geological expedition in the Taihang Mountains organized by a Chinese university, a large number of human skeletons and weapon fragments were discovered in an uninhabited valley covered by bushes.
Finally, through identification plate identification and modern DNA testing, it was determined that nearly a hundred bones were left behind by the Japanese invaders.
Combined with the battlefield records in the Taihang Mountain area of the War History Museum, nearly a hundred people listed as missing by the Japanese army at that time were finally found.
But they were only two infantry squads, so how could they be wiped out in a small valley? Not to mention the Japanese, even the Chinese were a little confused.
In the end, it was the local old people in Taihang Mountain who gave the answer. The valley is called Snake Valley, which is famous for producing a variety of precious traditional Chinese medicines, but few people dare to set foot in it. There are so many venomous snakes in it that even standing in the valley in the early morning
When looking down from the peak, I feel that the valley is filled with steam, and the faint fishy smell makes people dizzy just by smelling it.
Come to think of it, nearly a hundred Japanese troops broke into the Snake Valley in a panic at night. Facing the surging snakes, the weapons they carried were useless, and their visibility was poor at night, so the group's destruction became inevitable.
The skeleton was covered by bushes that grew day after day and year after year. Even if someone happened to pass by by chance, they would not find it. It was not until more than eighty years later that a well-equipped scientific expedition team discovered it.
If the Japanese soldiers who fled the battlefield knew that they would encounter this kind of death, they might prefer to stay on the battlefield and fight to the death, which would definitely be much happier than dying of thirst and starvation.
Unfortunately, there is never if in this world.
The dead Japanese infantry were actually quite happy. At least they would no longer be driven towards the battlefield by a supervising team composed of heavy machine guns by the furious Shiro Kuyeda, and then be mowed down by a hail of bullets like their colleagues.
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Before the support troops of the light machine gun company and the grenade company, excluding the wounded, entered Qingshiyan, they were stopped by Shangguan Yun himself and his men.
As a commander, Shangguan Yun knew very well that the success of the Erdaoliang ambush was actually due to great chance. It had the advantage of fire coverage, but more importantly it was due to the Japanese army's unfamiliarity with the terrain and their lack of even a single weapon.
Counterattack with heavy firepower.
If these troops composed of students, workers, and militiamen were allowed to rush onto the Qingshiyan battlefield, the casualty rate would be extremely high.
Before the Qingshiyan defense line reached the worst situation, he would never let these people go up and die easily.
Therefore, at his insistence, the light machine gun company and the rifle grenade company handed over 70% of the machine guns and rifle grenades to Shangguan Yun, and the spare personnel were equipped with rifles. Most of them went to transport the wounded back to the station, and a small number went to
He served as a guard for the combat defense artillery battery and infantry artillery battery that had to be detoured because the road was cut off by Japanese aircraft.
In other words, after a fierce battle with the Japanese light infantry, these two companies turned into transport teams and handed over dozens of undamaged light machine guns and rifle grenades to the frontline troops, successfully completing this 'miscellaneous brand'
Army's historical mission.
At least that's what Shangguan Yun and others thought at the time.
And although these unexpected additions of light firepower cannot directly dominate the battlefield, they definitely greatly enhance the firepower output of the front line.
Shangguan Yun ordered each infantry squad to add an additional light machine gun and a rifle grenade.
It is up to the infantry squad leader to decide exactly how to use it and when to use it.
Although the front-line infantrymen were all red-eyed, the infantry squad leaders were all veterans, absolute old silver coins on the battlefield. They had been hiding the unexpected increase in firepower until the Japanese army began to charge to the death, and brought out all the firepower.
Output!
Faced with the sudden increase of dozens of light machine gun firepower points and the overwhelming incoming grenades, the Japanese army was almost beaten to tears!
Is there any law of heaven? Is there any law of kings? Why do we keep firing more machine guns? What's the point?
From the time they received the news that the light infantry brigade was dead until the sun set, in just three hours, the Japanese army frantically launched six waves of attacks.
Among them, the 'door bolt' position was still the main direction of the Japanese attack. Under the command of Fan Mobei, less than 30 infantrymen repelled five waves of Japanese attacks. In the last round of the battle, only 12 people were still able to fight on the position, and the seriously wounded were
When there were 6 people, Fan Mobei, who was going crazy, was forced to resort to the "flowering battle" tactic.
The so-called flowering battle was when Fan Mobei abandoned the edge of the position and huddled the remaining 18 people on the core position, which was only a few hundred meters above the position. They were like the core of a flower, and the surrounding positions were like petals.
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No matter which angle they stood at, the Japanese army believed that they were about to win this offensive battle as long as they finally annihilated a small group of Chinese army remnants located in the highlands.
As a result, nearly 200 Japanese troops from more than one infantry squadron viciously surrounded the occupied position from three directions, vowing to kill the dozen or so Chinese soldiers who were still resisting in this area, which cost them more than 700 casualties.
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Two minutes later, the confident little Karami were stunned.
As the name suggests, the 'doorbolt' position is an important place to lock the entire defense line, but it is actually synonymous with small.
The 4th Battalion had no more than 60 troops at its peak when it was placed on this position. However, the Japanese army was not lucky, with an influx of 200 people. Not to mention that like China's popular tourist attractions in the future, they will be crowded every tourist season.
Although the distance between individual soldiers is never more than one meter.
On the battlefield, this is simply asking for death. A volley of bullets will pierce through human flesh like a skewer, and at least five or six people will be hit.
At this point in the battle, the 12 people on the position who could still fight together with Fan Mobei were already holding either submachine guns or light machine guns, or at worst semi-automatic rifles. The sudden concentrated fire knocked all the little Karamis off their feet.
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But this is not the essence of the "Flower War" tactics. The most important thing is to have mortars, 9 60-mm mortars, 3 82-mm mortars, and 3 80 mm howitzers. The moment the signal flare hits the sky, all of them are directed at
The 'petals' area of the door bolt position is covered by artillery fire.
This is undoubtedly a desperate tactic. If one or two shells fall into the "flower core", the 12 Chinese officers and soldiers and 6 seriously injured people who can still fight will undoubtedly die.
But in Fan Mobei's original words: "If you don't fight, you will die. If you fight, you can save more Japanese lives. Anyone else would choose this way!"
Fortunately, the infantry battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment is equipped with small-caliber mortars. It may not be able to guarantee that the shell landing error is within 10 meters, but it can at least guarantee that it is within 30 meters, and it can almost perfectly avoid the "
Huaxin', the shell closest to the Chinese soldiers, also exploded 10 meters outside the trench.
200 Little Karami may have never dreamed that the Chinese would do this. When there were still people on their own position, they came to cover them with artillery fire, and they were blown up to pieces.
Two minutes later, as three red signal flares rose into the sky and the artillery fire ceased, 12 Chinese soldiers armed with continuous-fire firearms rushed out. In the crazy flow of bullets, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers were driven out of their positions.
There are nearly a hundred corpses on the battlefield!
Become famous in the battle of flowers!
Even after this tactic was spread to the Sixth Regiment Headquarters, on the main battlefield of Niangziguan, the Third Battalion responsible for defending the high ground on the flanks used it as many as four times. A wave of mortars concentrated fire, putting the Japanese infantry in a dilemma.
, even if you really occupy the position, your balls will shrink.
This chapter has been completed!