The Japanese lieutenant colonel who was already determined to die was ultimately killed by a one-year-old recruit from the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Chinese 18th Group Army because of his indescribable impulse.
A year ago, he was just an ordinary sheepherder in northwestern Shanxi.
If it weren’t for the command knife in the corpse’s hand that was so dazzling, and the lieutenant colonel’s collar badge that had been stained red with blood, it would have been hard for the 772 regiment cleaning the battlefield to know that this little Japs whose face was beaten into a flower,
It turned out to be the Lieutenant Colonel of the 28th Cavalry Regiment. The highest official on the front line who was killed by the Japanese in the first battle of Niangziguan.
As a result, his command knife was seized by Commander Ye of the 772nd Regiment, and his collar badge was turned over to the Niangziguan Theater Command, where he became the target of reporters holding their cameras.
As for the unrecognizable corpse, he will become dried fish just like his subordinates.
There is no suspense. Although the Japanese invaders who charge to the death can be regarded as the elite of the most elite standing divisions of the Japanese army, this Japanese army, which is still stubborn and can only resist about 40 people, has sounded the charge horn for the second time and rushed in, no matter how brave it is.
Regardless of their color or bayonet tactics, they were no less vulnerable to their red warriors.
The huge disadvantage in numbers was naturally the main reason for their defeat, and the gap in weapons was also one of the reasons that cannot be ignored.
The Hanyang-made bayonet itself is ten centimeters shorter than the 38 cap plus bayonet. It has always been a shortcoming in hand-to-hand combat between the Chinese army and the Japanese army. For this reason, the red army developed the red tassel gun to fight the enemy, and the national army like the 29th Army
The machete was developed.
But at this time, the 28th Cavalry Regiment was using the Type 38 lance. The Type 38 lance was a short barrel model of the Type 38 rifle, with a total length of only 966 mm, which was shorter than the Type 38 rifles equipped by the infantry.
It's a full 30cm shorter.
With the bayonet included, the overall length is about 20 centimeters shorter than the Hanyang model with the bayonet included.
In hand-to-hand combat with a gun and a bayonet, if it is shorter than five centimeters, it will be extremely disadvantageous, let alone if it is more than 20 centimeters shorter?
It's like two people fighting. The one with the longer arms hits you in the face with his fist, but your hand is still two punches away from the other person. If the two parties are close in strength, the taller one with the longer arms will naturally have the advantage.
This is actually pretty good. The 38-type carbine does not have a folding bayonet. Generally, Japanese cavalry are accustomed to placing the bayonet under the saddle, and often forget to take it out. However, the 28th Cavalry Regiment is extremely trained.
In a strict army, any soldier or officer who forgets his or her weapons when entering the battle, no matter who they are, will be severely whipped by Okazaki Masaichi afterwards, so these cavalrymen still enter the battlefield with bayonets.
How miserable would they feel if they were like other cavalry units without bayonets and charged with a rifle that was no more than one meter long and faced a gleaming Chinese bayonet that was 1.6 meters long?
In fact, the hand-to-hand combat was not as brutal as people imagined. Thirty meters before the two sides actually came into contact, more than a hundred rifles fired desperately and emptied the five-round magazines inserted into the rifle chamber.
Less than a quarter of the Japanese soldiers could survive and fight hand-to-hand with the 772nd Regiment with bayonets in hand.
In other words, at most a Japanese infantry squad was qualified to "ping-pong-rang" to show the fearlessness of the Japanese Imperial Cavalry.
But what they have to face is more than a hundred high-spirited red troops. In front of the red troops who already have the prototype of the three-three system, three people fight against an enemy in a group, one blocks, and the other two skillfully sprint and fight.
, the earthy-yellow figure was almost like a small wave, disappearing in a sea of gray-blue figures in an instant.
In just one minute, this group of Japanese troops was completely wiped out. The 772 regiment could only injure three people in a row. No one was killed in hand-to-hand combat. Only in the pursuit battle, due to the desperate counterattack of the Japanese army, four people were hit by bullets and died.
, seven people were injured and left the battlefield.
But the results of the battle were undoubtedly brilliant. All the Japanese invaders of more than 60 people were wiped out, and there were no wounded. When cleaning the battlefield, according to the military order passed down by Liu Lang, the commander-in-chief of Jiuguan, Liu Lang and Liu Tuanzuo: Because the Japanese invaders were ferocious, the wounded were also
They will resist with grenades and bullets. In order to protect our soldiers, all Japanese soldiers will first replenish their guns and then conduct searches.
Commander Ye of the 772nd Regiment knew very well that the battle at Pingxingguan on September 25 was because he did not understand the fighting characteristics of the Japanese invaders, and because the wounded Japanese soldiers fired grenades and pretended to be dead when they went to rescue the red soldiers and attacked them with guns.
The number of troops was reduced to dozens, and the battle was won, but dozens of red elites were lost, which made all red commanders heartbroken.
Liu Tuanzuo's military order was naturally in line with his wishes. The red soldiers strictly implemented this military order, so how could there still be wounded Japanese soldiers? Whether they really wanted to surrender or they were determined to be loyal to their Emperor.
None of the die-hard elements escaped, they were all killed.
The so-called human nature refers to humans, not animals.
Compared with this group of little Japanese who also caused losses to the red troops, the other group of Japanese who escaped from the left-wing position were much more embarrassed. They did not organize a decent counterattack at all, they just ran away, frantically.
However, they had already spent a lot of energy, and it was really impossible for the red warriors who had accumulated energy for a long time on the top of the mountain to escape.
If they were Japanese infantrymen who tried to run away with all their strength, they might have been able to escape for a while due to their superior physical fitness. But who were they? The aristocratic men who had been riding on their tall horses and looking at the infantrymen with their nostrils all year round.
The crazy escape for more than two miles completely exhausted their little physical strength. The saints could explode their own small universes again and again and rejoin the battle like undead heroes, but these little devils could not.
The desire to survive could only support them to run for a thousand meters before the small universe was burned out. Forty-two Japanese invaders were shot one by one on the way to escape, and the last little Japanese invader who was killed at close range was not even seen at all.
He didn't run much, but sat down on the ground and stared back at the swarming pursuers without making a sound.
When the red soldier who chased him to a distance of twenty meters was about to catch him alive, he saw him slowly raising his gun. There was a burst of gunfire, and the Japanese soldier who was hit by at least ten shots fell down with a strange smile on his face.
land.
That weird smile seems to be understood by the red elites who have experienced a major strategic shift. Running for more than a thousand meters without any physical exertion like this, the pain was like a torch being lit in the lungs. At that time, it was really raw.
Better to die.
Perhaps this Japanese invader was finally freed!
The Japanese troops on both wings were completely destroyed.
As for the one on the top of the mountain? The shelling had stopped for a long time. Zizihua led the first company and left the tunnel to search for the top of the mountain two minutes after the artillery company completely stopped shelling.
The scene that appeared in front of them stunned Ye Zihua, who had experienced countless battles, and the soldiers who had experienced the tragic battle on the Great Wall.
It's not that they haven't witnessed the tragedy, but the mere 9,000 square meters of position still made the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment holding guns a little stunned.
The scene after more than 100 mountain artillery shells wreaked havoc was too tragic to watch.
The city wall and pass at Jiuguan have long since disappeared because more than 60 kilograms of explosives were buried there. Even the broken walls were not left behind. They were all turned into fly ash by the crazy bombardment. If you don’t look carefully, you won’t know.
I know there used to be a city wall with a height of 3 meters.
The position was full of large craters, and even a pickaxe had to be swung hard to cut away a little bit of hard rock. It also looked fragile in the face of the power of artillery shells.
The machine gun fortifications that used to be stacked with sandbags to protect against grenades have long since disappeared. It can be said that all the protrusions on the position have been basically wiped out by the ferocious artillery fire. Nature will give up in the face of weapons invented by humans.
, not to mention human beings’ own buildings.
What’s more, humans themselves?
The small position was full of broken limbs and arms. The stumps were turned black by gunfire and smoke, but revealed an extremely palpitating pallor. The black and white colors tried hard to show the cruelty of war.
The pools of purple-black blood had long been evaporated by the high temperature generated by the explosion, and only the marks left behind proved that thousands of milliliters of blood had flowed here.
The soldiers, who endured the nauseating smell of undercooked barbecue that passed through their noses, cautiously approached the trenches. There were few living people in the trenches.
Among the piles of corpses, only a few Japanese soldiers whose faces were obscured by gunpowder smoke sat there in a daze. If their eyes hadn't been blinking and the searching officers and soldiers of the First Company of the Independent Regiment hadn't looked carefully,
I thought it was a corpse too!
Of the nearly 200 little Japs who had invaded the position on the top of the mountain, only a few of them were left in this round of crazy shelling? Moreover, like a fool, they looked at the slowly approaching enemy with only their eyes moving.
, without even picking up the gun next to him.
Holding the semi-automatic rifle in his hand, he looked down at the few remaining Japanese officers and soldiers in the trench who seemed to have been blown away. They were not only filled with joy after victory, but also fear.
Fear of cannons.
No matter how heroic they are, they are still human beings, normal human beings.
In the face of the harm caused by the sky-wide artillery fire, it is impossible to say that they are not afraid, even if they know that it is the enemy who encounters this nightmare.
This trench is still too shallow! This is the first thought that comes to everyone's mind.