At this time, the total area of the battlefield reached 10 square kilometers, and deafening gunfire was heard everywhere!
Especially the explosive package fired by the "Flying Thunder Cannon" by the 772 Regiment. One round was a violent explosion of nearly a thousand kilograms of explosives. Even Tang Dao in Zhaojiazhuang, which was 4,800 meters away from them in a straight line, could clearly hear it.
arrive.
The firepower of a total of 18 60mm guns and 18 MG42 machine guns is nothing on such a large battlefield.
Therefore, neither Yoshio Shinozuka, who sent his deputy chief of staff, nor the infantry brigade located only 1,200 meters away from the ambush site, realized that there would be such a large-scale battle there.
Although there were many battles during the search process on the battlefield, and the cavalry squadron suffered heavy losses as a result, it was due to too few troops. Who would have thought that the Chinese would be so bold as to gather their forces inside the battlefield to attack
A reinforced infantry squadron of 300 troops carried out the siege.
No, to be more precise, surround and annihilate them.
Moreover, it is on a plain!
The Chinese hiding in tunnels and ditches used their extreme familiarity with the terrain to divide the 300 Japanese troops who were caught off guard into two parts.
The Chinese used wooden planks, camouflage cloth and dead grass to hide themselves in ditches. After using submachine guns and light machine guns with terrible firing rates to encircle the Japanese infantry in the wilderness, they used small-caliber mortar groups to attack those in sight.
Firepower points and grenade launchers are used to strike.
In almost only 5 minutes, the Japanese army completely lost all its light machine guns and grenade launchers. This was a fatal blow to a light infantry unit.
Not only are the Chinese weapons and equipment far superior to them, but their shooting skills are at least two levels better.
In particular, a group of reconnaissance company sharpshooters led by Niu Er, who was hiding within a straight line distance of about 250 meters from the Japanese resistance area, almost crushed the Japanese infantry whose mentality had exploded.
According to Niu Er's observer statistics, Niu Er, who was hiding on a slope, fired a total of 28 bullets in this battle, but killed 22 Japanese soldiers.
"No-Brain", who has become the squad leader, is not as perverted as Niu Er, but his semi-automatic rifle killed 14 Japanese soldiers with 40 bullets and became the second best marksman on the battlefield.
Don't look at the fact that Niu Er's hit rate is far lower than usual, and the hit rate of 'Brainless' is even less than 40%, but don't forget, this is an encirclement and annihilation battle, not the usual defensive battle, there is enough time for the sniper to
Let's lurk and aim.
Everyone had to fire out enough bullets as quickly as possible to kill the enemy before Japanese reinforcements arrived.
According to Gu Xishui's estimation, the time left for them was only 22 minutes at most. Once the time was up, everyone had to evacuate immediately, regardless of whether the Japs were completely wiped out or not.
What they do is the job of assassins. With one hit, they can escape thousands of miles!
Two elite infantry companies succeeded. After a violent output, the Japanese troops, who were blinded by the precise rain of bullets and mortar shells, did not choose to wait for death on the spot and desperately tried to break through the gap specially left for them.
This accelerated their demise. 500 meters away from that area, Long Yan was waiting for their arrival with his mountain infantry platoon.
Nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers who managed to escape were subjected to a torrent of strafing fire and grenade attacks in the unobstructed wilderness.
The lieutenant-general and deputy chief of staff, who was used to following orders from the headquarters to mobilize infantry brigade levels, had no experience in grassroots combat. It was precisely because of his eagerness to escape that this group of Japanese remnants embarked on a path of no return.
In just 5 minutes, Long Yan and his mountain infantry platoon wiped out the remaining Japanese troops whose strength was almost equal to their own.
"No wonder the regimental commander often said that courage is more important than anything else on the battlefield. The brave Japs are worse than a group of antelopes. At least antelopes can run fast!" Long Yan's summary at the post-war celebration banquet received full applause.
"Although my brother hasn't read much, he has been educated by me for a long time, and he is somewhat educated!" Shen Laoliu showed off to his wife with a grin.
Long Ying rolled his eyes speechlessly. The two brothers simply influenced each other. I don't know how much their personal qualities have improved, but their cheekiness is on the same level.
Touching his slightly bulging belly, Second Lieutenant Long Ying couldn't help but feel a little worried. With such a father and uncle, the baby's personal characteristics are really worrying.
But regardless of whether the two brothers Long Yan and Shen Laoliu were as good as seven or eight, they were indeed responsible for the defeat of 300 Japanese troops.
By the time the senior officer was overwhelmed by the infantry brigade and rushed to the battlefield 23 minutes later, only more than 300 corpses were left lying quietly in the wilderness.
The Japanese Army lieutenant colonel wearing long leather boots with a command knife was missing nothing, except that he was dead. A bullet fired into his chest at close range left only a small bullet hole in his chest, but there was an explosion behind him.
Make a hole the size of a cup.
The Chinese had no intention of cleaning up the battlefield, but simply replenished their guns and fled immediately. This also made one lucky person among the more than 300 unlucky Japanese soldiers.
A first-class soldier was stunned by the air wave from a grenade explosion, and was covered by two bloody colleagues. Although it cannot be ruled out that it was a human factor, in any case, he escaped accidentally.
This also gave Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka the opportunity to obtain an analysis of the entire attack process and the actual combat power of the Chinese.
"The strength of the Chinese is roughly around 400, but they were able to kill 300 of our Imperial Army's troops in 20 minutes." Yoshio Shinozuka's face looked worse at that moment than when his last reinforced infantry squadron was attacked and wiped out.
To be ugly.
This means that in an infantry squadron-level confrontation, his 10th Division is no longer on the same level as its opponent, the Four Lines Regiment.
Even if it is scaled up to the infantry brigade level, can the two 92 infantry cannons equipped by the infantry brigade change the entire battlefield pattern?
When I think of the small-caliber mortars with a range of more than 1,000 meters that the Chinese equip infantry squads with, maybe one or two can’t show how powerful they are, but after conversion, an infantry battalion is definitely close to 30, Yoshio Shinozuka
I couldn't help but feel my scalp numb.
Even a tough man like Yoshio Shinozuka had to admit at this moment that without the assistance of a fighter fleet and a heavy artillery wing, his 10th Division could no longer pose a major threat to the current Chinese army.
No, to be precise, he is no longer threatening the Chinese, but the Chinese army, which is by no means weaker than him, is threatening him.
It will take a full 40 hours for the two mixed brigades to reach the battlefield, and it will take 5 days for the heavy artillery regiment. Now, the battlefield between the two armies is almost one of them, and the bomber group that cannot enter the low altitude is temporarily useless.
Even though Saburo Kuroda's 2,000 men have lost the first line of trenches and the defense line is crumbling, Yoshio Shinozuka has not completely lost his fighting spirit. He still has an army of nearly 40,000 people. Even if he relies on attrition, he can persist.
Forty hours later, with the help of more than 10,000 reinforcements, the Chinese army was defeated in one fell swoop.
Especially when he thought about the 80% chance that Tang Dao, the empire's henchman, would be surrounded and killed by him on that battlefield, Shinozuka Yoshio knew that if he missed this opportunity, he might never have another chance.
But despite all the persistence and ambition, after the surviving superior soldier described his personal combat experience, Yoshio Shinozuka panicked.
He finally understood why the empire's biggest enemy dared to lead an army into this battlefield in person. It was because he had the confidence and strength.
That's a light infantry with only a few hundred people. It already has the ability to kill all opponents with similar strength in a field battle in only 20 minutes. So what if it is multiplied by ten or even twenty?
It has been a year and a half since the Si Xing Regiment entered the Taihang Mountains, and there have been nearly ten battles with the Japanese army. If anyone still treats the Si Xing Regiment as an infantry regiment at this time, then Chun Chun is out of his mind.
Although the intelligence personnel lurking on the Chinese side have given the number of special forces of the Four Lines Regiment of more than 5,000 people, the intelligence department of the Japanese North China Front Army does not believe it at all. It is not so difficult for them to fight a Chinese infantry division, okay?
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Even the 683 brigade, which has been defined as the most difficult force to fight on the battlefield in North China, and whose strength is increasing as it fights, the Japanese generals who have actually faced off against Tang Dao and the Sixing Regiment believe that they would rather face the latter.
"Baga! Tang Dao, what on earth is he planning?" The 10th Division is waiting for reinforcements from the empire, so what are Tang Dao and the Four Lines Regiment waiting for? This is a personal experience of the terror of the elite infantry of the Four Lines Regiment.
After the battle, Yoshio Shinozuka had to think more deeply about a question.
No, the Chinese still have nearly 20,000 troops of the 80th Army in southern Hebei, but obviously the troops here are far from enough.
And the 5,000 regular troops stationed deep in the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi can quietly cross the blockade of the 108th Division and rush to Xingtai, 200 kilometers away. Will there be more troops lurking at the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains not far from Handan City?
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This thought was not trivial, Yoshio Shinozuka was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat!
The lessons learned from the Jindong War last September are still fresh in our minds. The two old men at the Front Army Headquarters had been planning for a long time to play the so-called "lead the king into the urn". In the end, the gentleman did not wait, but waited.
A ferocious tiger came and not only broke the urn, but also captured the stone gate.
If the Chinese use this move again to capture both Handan and Xingtai, the old face of the new front army commander will be swollen.
Who will be the person who can take the blame for the commander?
Who else could it be besides him, the lieutenant general, the division commander? I guess even a low-level soldier who is the least politically savvy could answer this first-grade elementary school question.
As for the big bear Konosuke who intercepted the Chinese army in the wild under his orders, if Yoshio Shinozuka still has hope for this guy, his brain is simply broken.
If the Chinese really attack Handan City in a large scale, the chance that the Osaka vendors will run away with oil on their feet is higher than 95%.
No wonder the Chinese dared to engage in a decisive battle with their 10th Division on this plain. Firstly, they had enough strength to hold back their 10th Division and even reinforcements. Secondly, they resorted to the trick of 'making an attack in the east and attacking in the west', secretly taking advantage of the situation.
The two big cities were attacked when their defenses were empty.
Although Yoshio Shinozuka knew that even if the Chinese captured the city, they would not stay permanently and would probably leave again, but there were weapons and equipment in the city, and more importantly, it was of extremely important political significance to counterattack and occupy the city.
Now the government is taking advantage of the battlefield in Central China to force the Chinese government in the mountain city to surrender, in order to resolve this war as soon as possible, which has used the empire's reserve resources for decades.
The war that has been launched for two years has caused a decline in the domestic economy due to the large number of young men joining the army. The empire's finances are already overwhelmed. The German Empire is also lobbying the empire to join the alliance. The empire may face a more powerful enemy.
It is said that private and secret negotiations have begun to take shape. If such a change occurs on the North China battlefield and the intentions of the empire's top officials are frustrated, it will be much more serious than the so-called responsibility for the battlefield defeat.
Withdrawing troops and defending the two core cities in southern Hebei is the key to this battle.
As soon as this idea opened up, Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio had all kinds of thoughts coming to him, and in the end he made the decision of course that we cannot fight head-on with the Four Elements here, we have to defend our home first.
Therefore, what even Tang Dao did not expect was that before dusk in the afternoon, the 10th Division actually gathered heavy troops and launched a counterattack against the 772nd Regiment and the Independent Battalion of the Southern Hebei Division, which had successfully attacked the perimeter.
For this reason, its few remaining artillery brigade even did not hesitate to expose the coordinates and bombarded wildly for more than an hour.
More than 1,500 rounds of artillery shells and three infantry brigades took turns attacking at all costs, which made the famously tough commander Wang Xiaoqiang turn pale. He had to abandon the Japanese front-line trenches that had been occupied with a lot of explosives and sacrifices, and the battlefield returned to its original starting point.
"Does the Japanese army want to fight to the death?" Several infantry company commanders who returned to the Zhaojiazhuang regiment headquarters for a meeting all made this judgment.
Li Jijin, who had always been carefree, now looked unusually serious.
He is not afraid that the Japanese army will fight a war of attrition here. Tang Dao is fully prepared this time and has enough supplies for the entire regiment to fight the Japanese army here for ten days.
Exchanging bullets for human lives has always been the Four Lines Regiment's combat policy. When supplies are gone, you can buy them and rob the Japanese, but life is precious.
Therefore, Li Jijin was afraid that the Japanese army would fight tooth and nail, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Army's Class A Division was not empty. If they really fought for their lives, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment participating in the battle would have to pay at least half of their casualties.
Two days ago, the Japanese army killed six of his soldiers in one attack. Li Jijin shed tears of distress, not to mention that he lost half of his comrades who had been with him day and night.
"Why, it's rare to see you, Captain Jiujin, so serious. Do you dare not fight against the little devil?" Tang Dao couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Jiujin's sullen face and even the cigarettes on the table without taking the initiative to smoke them.
Er smiled and joked.
"Sir, you don't know me yet. From the Fourth Army to now, I have been afraid of fighting the Japanese all the time. But I thought that the Japanese would suddenly become so desperate and want to annihilate them. My company commander said that I would lose a hundred good guys."
, I have said goodbye to too many people in the past two years, and I still feel a little uncomfortable when I think of this." Li Jijin's face was filled with bitterness.
As soon as these words came out, not to mention the pale-faced scholar Wei Donglai's eyes flashed with sadness, even Cai Yongguan, nicknamed "The Brave Champion of the Three Armies", twitched hard at the corners of his eyes.
Both of them thought of the Mouse Mountain back then. Although that battle earned their infantry company the title of Hard Bones and Steel Company, those brothers would never come back.
But what frightens the two of them even more is that when they think of those brothers, they can't remember their facial features.
Are they almost forgetting those people? If they forget that they are brothers and officers, will those people still exist in this world?
Yes, as soldiers, they fear death but are brave enough to welcome it, but they are afraid of forgetting.
"Okay, you, Old Li, feel sorry for your soldiers. This company commander is already 80% qualified." Tang Dao was not dissatisfied because Li Jijin showed his vulnerability at such a tense moment. Instead, he smiled and praised him.
"However, this time you don't have to worry too much about the Japs from the 10th Division trying to kill us. After all, they are not in the last desperate situation, and they have reinforcements that are about to arrive."
"Then why did the kid fight so hard with the 772 regiment in the afternoon? Could it be that Commander Wang accidentally poked an old Jag in the back door, and the old Jag got so angry that he insisted on doing something to Commander Wang too?
Let me tell you! The one I admire most among the Eighty Group Army is Commander Wang. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t play according to the routine. This stabbing also belongs to the type of person who has a dark heart and a dark hand." After hearing what Tang Dao said, his thoughts
Li Jiujin, who was gone, returned to his old self.
Several company commanders who were very familiar with Wang Xiaoqiang burst into laughter.
This person has a bold personality and likes to pretend to be pigs and eat tigers. He looks like a fool, but he is actually very cunning. He is completely different from his world-famous brigade commander who is both wise and brave. He can be regarded as a member of the Eighty Group Army with a rigorous style.
He is an outlier among the Four Elements Regiment. Apart from Tang Dao, he is very close to several company-level officers of the Four Elements Regiment, such as Li Jiujin, Cai Yongguan and Pang Panghai. There are many times when they drink together and talk about the mountains in private.
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"Haha! You guys are here to organize Commander Wang. Be careful, if he finds out, he will extort some pistols and submachine guns from you in the name of drinking!" Tang Dao also smiled softly.
This sentence made several infantry company commanders blush slightly.
A few of them secretly sponsored some old friends Black Star pistols and submachine guns. However, even if they were company commanders, they could not give these weapons and equipment to others at will, so they could only report battle damage. The regiment and battalion would not be affected by a few casualties.
Hold them accountable at gunpoint.
Unexpectedly, Tang Dao actually knew about this little trick.
"You are now the commander-in-chief of our four-line regiment outside. Your actual power is much greater than that of an infantry company. To help friendly forces like this, you, the people, can do what you can to the best of your ability. As long as you don't put the supplies you received from the regiment into your own
Just keep it in your pocket, that's the bottom line for each of our officers." Tang Dao gave a small knock to several company commanders under his command, and then brought the topic back to this battlefield.
"Yoshio Shinozuka could obviously pretend to be helpless and wait for another two or three days for reinforcements to arrive before engaging in a decisive battle with our army. However, he had to fight back at all costs. If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. I judge that he wants to run away.
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"Ah? A Class A division can't be so weak, right?" Cai Yongguan said with disbelief on his face.
He has fought and won many battles, but when fighting against a Japanese division, it would take at least a week to determine the outcome. How could it be possible that the Japanese division would just run away after only two days of fighting?
How can this be?
"What's impossible? What about the Class A Division? The more they fight, the fewer veterans they fight, but the more we fight, the more veterans we fight, and the equipment is constantly being updated. Sooner or later, one day, the little devils will be scared when they hear the name of our regiment.
Weak." Wei Donglai usually doesn't say much, but this time he gave an extremely powerful rebuttal to his closest comrade.
These words woke up several officers who had expressions of surprise because of Tang Dao's judgment.
It turned out that their four-line regiment had not only quietly grown to the point where even a Japanese Army Class A division had to go all out, but it had even become deeply fearful to them.
This is actually the same as other children growing up quickly. The hardest person in the game to see clearly is always oneself! ()
This chapter has been completed!