The 33rd Division's counterattack seemed crazy and caused a lot of casualties to the Independent Regiment, but in fact it was a helpless choice.
Facing the Chinese army, which had an absolute advantage in artillery fire and air firepower, the 33rd Division's fortifications on Xiaowu Mountain had already been blown beyond recognition. The entire mountain was covered with floating soil, and even if they wanted to build temporary fortifications, it was too late.
Facing the independent regiment that was about to charge forward, the Japanese army could only adopt this suicidal counterattack.
Moreover, Amakasu Jutaro is not a lunatic. At first, his purpose was just to withstand the Chinese army's offensive. Even if it was just for an hour, they could take advantage of this time to build temporary foxholes and bunkers to prepare for the attack.
Prepare for the next battle.
In order to achieve the purpose of surprise, Amakasu Jutaro ordered more than 6,000 people from the 213th Infantry Regiment and the 33rd Baggage Regiment to attack at the same time, trying to use the numerical advantage to defeat the Chinese army that invaded Xiaowu Mountain, and if possible, even eat them.
Lose.
Originally, in Jutaro Amakasu's view, the attacker was not the Liantai militia with all German weapons and equipment, but the Eighth Route Army with relatively simple equipment.
As long as the two regiments charge straight down from Xiaosong Mountain, they will be able to defeat the attacking Chinese army in less than half an hour with several times their strength advantage.
The ensuing battle did not surprise him. Although the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side temporarily blocked the initial attack, their defense line was already shaky. If they tried harder, they would definitely break through.
In fact, this was indeed the case. After suffering huge casualties, the hundreds of Japanese soldiers at the front held bright bayonets and shouted the slogan "Onboard!" and successfully attacked a place more than 20 meters in front of the first battalion.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers were even more crazy. Zhang Dabiao and a group of independent regiment soldiers at the front even saw the beast-like madness in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers under their helmets.
Facing the crazy counterattack of the Japanese army, Zhang Dabiao was unequivocal. This man from the Northwest Army's Swordsman Corps, who had participated in the Battle of Xifengkou, pulled out the sword from behind and shouted loudly: "Everyone come up!"
bayonet!"
"Whoosh!"
Following Zhang Dabiao's order, a battalion of soldiers took out the bayonets from their waists and inserted them into the card slots. For a while, there was a constant sound of metal collision.
Not far from the rear of the first battalion, Li Yunlong also wielded a big sword and roared loudly: "Brothers, I made a guarantee with the brigade commander this morning. If I can't take the Xiaosongshan position, I will never live.
Go back to see him, Xiaosong Mountain is right in front of you now, do the brothers have the confidence to capture him?"
"Fuck the little devil!"
Following Li Yunlong's voice, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment behind him also mounted their bayonets, watching as a large-scale hand-to-hand combat was about to break out.
At this time, if you look down from the air, you can see at the foot of Komatsu Mountain, more than 2,000 troops in gray military uniforms are facing enemies several times their size and are facing them without fear. The two sides are about to collide.
together.
"kill!"
"Give it Tusi!"
Accompanied by the roar of two languages, the two torrents are about to collide.
At the moment when the two sides were about to come into contact, there was suddenly a burst of intense gunfire, and dozens of heated bullets poured out from behind, forming an airtight steel barrage, instantly knocking down hundreds of rushers.
Among the Japanese soldiers at the front, only seven or eight of the first wave of Japanese assault soldiers were lucky enough to rush to the soldiers of the first battalion. However, before these soldiers had time to stab, they were stabbed by dozens of bayonets from different directions.
Heart-breakingly cool.
The armored battalion led by Li Chang'an finally arrived. More than eighty tanks poured into the charging Japanese troops like wolves into a herd of sheep. The fastest Lynx reconnaissance tank took the lead in passing over piles of Japanese corpses, carrying steel tracks.
With a body weighing more than ten tons, he rushed towards the charging Japanese troops.
The 20 mm caliber sliding movement single-barreled small-caliber artillery on the leading Bobcat reconnaissance tank kept pouring out tongues of fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute, forming a barrage in front of the tank and tearing it apart in an instant.
The tanks hit the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, and the tracks were pressed directly against the Japanese soldiers who could not disperse. For a moment, the tank tracks were like a "meat grinder", all covered with red minced meat and internal organs, and these sudden tanks
It also became the last straw to defeat the Japanese army.
Facing dozens of tons of steel monsters speeding towards them, the aggressive attempt to use the human sea tactic to defeat the independent group in one fell swoop became the biggest joke.
The high-density formation now became the favorite of the armored regiment, and the Japanese army, which had originally vowed to tear the independent regiment into pieces like wild beasts, collapsed.
Although the Japanese army is crazy, they are not fools. No matter how low their IQ is, they still know what will happen if their body collides directly with a body of steel.
Dozens of minutes later, under a half-man-high scorched tree at the foot of Xiaowu Mountain that had been blown up and set on fire, only a handful of Japanese soldiers were left. These people stared blankly at the slaughterhouse-like battlefield.
Under the dazzling eyes, in an open area less than 500 meters from the foot of the mountain to halfway up the mountain, countless corpses were lying everywhere, with mutilated corpses, broken arms, broken flesh and red blood everywhere.
Dozens of tanks were walking through the sea of corpses. The tanks that were originally painted gray had already turned blood red. The steel tracks were like meat grinders, grinding the corpses on the ground into minced meat. And these armored soldiers seemed very
Enjoying this feeling, the tank drivers actually drove the tank in a zigzag pattern in the sea of corpses.
In a depression somewhere, a group of surviving Japanese soldiers surrounded a colonel. This colonel was none other than the commander of the 213th Regiment, Uho Kawahara.
Colonel Kawahara Youhei, who was holding a saber in his right hand, was seriously injured. In his left hand, he was still holding a rising sun flag with the four words "Martial arts will last forever" written on the four corners.
"Burn the military flag!" Kawara Youhe said through his teeth.
Although the flag in his hand was not a regiment flag, but just an ordinary flag, he was unwilling to leave the flag to the Chinese. After hearing his order, a Japanese soldier quickly struck a match and lifted the flag.
ignite.
When the tank walking in the sea of corpses discovered this group of Japanese soldiers, the rising sun flag had been lit. Then all the remaining Japanese soldiers were crushed to death by the tanks that came after hearing the news. Before Kawara Youbing was crushed to death by the tank,
It was purely unnecessary and he pulled out his saber and prepared to commit suicide by caesarean section.
Although they had nowhere to escape, the Japanese soldiers who were in the sea of corpses still refused to surrender. Many injured Japanese soldiers shouted. Some soldiers of the independent regiment who could not bear it tried to capture them, but they were killed by these Japanese soldiers.
The soldiers were blown up with grenades or beaten to death. In the end, Li Yunlong gave the order to stop these actions and allowed the armored battalion to use tanks to crush all the Japanese who preferred death to surrender.