Chapter 1045: The old war begins (seeking a monthly ticket)
Because the 77th Regiment had tanks to support the battle, at the beginning, both the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment positions on the left and right wings of the Jiuguan front line suffered much greater pressure than the Third Army in front of Niangzi Pass.
The shadows of the Japanese infantry were still hundreds of meters away, and the Japanese howitzers came first to clear the way, pouring artillery fire on the main Jiuguan position and the two flank positions for more than an hour, plowing the hillsides and hills several times.
The trenches were all destroyed and unusable.
During this hour, Japanese aircraft also arrived to help. A total of twelve bombers in two waves dropped twelve heavy bombs on the Jiuguan battlefield. However, they had the experience of being ambushed by two anti-aircraft positions before.
The Japanese army always dropped bombs at an altitude of at least 800 meters, so the accuracy was just that.
But a blind cat can also catch a dead mouse, not to mention an aerial bomb that explodes into a sea of fire for thousands of meters? Although there are not many soldiers staying on the position to observe, they are hiding in bulletproof holes that can only be used to protect against mountain artillery shells.
soldiers still suffered casualties.
Within an hour, at least three infantry squads were dispatched from three positions, despite the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese artillery fire. In the end, only one-third survived.
There were more than 20 people who were torn to pieces by the cannon fire before they had a chance to fire a shot at the Japanese invaders. Like the Third Army in front of Niangzi Pass, even those as strong as Liu Lang did not dare to put an observer in the position.
None of them allowed the Japanese army to occupy front-line positions so easily.
The most important tactical point of the anti-slope tunnel tactic is not to defend the ridge of the mountain top, but to withdraw the camera to the tunnel on the back of the mountain, and then cover the ridge position with own artillery fire before recapturing it.
To put it bluntly, if you want to successfully fight this kind of mountain defense battle based on reverse slope tunnels, first of all, the defender must have a large number of artillery, enough to cover the ridge position; for this point, the artillery battalion of the independent regiment has 6 mountain guns and a large number of fortresses.
There is even a storm rocket launcher that has been kept secret and has never been exposed. It is completely satisfactory and is much stronger than during the Battle of the Great Wall.
Secondly, there must be tunnel fortifications on the back of the mountain that will make the attackers scratch their heads. Even if they occupy the ridge line, it cannot be said that they can guarantee that they will enter the tunnel and completely drive the defenders out of the position. But this time, Liu Lang is far better than
It was no longer the time of the Great Wall War of Resistance. The Luowen Valley where the Independent Regiment spent a month building fortifications on the Tushan Mountain was far better than the old pass where the Independent Regiment only spent a week on the Stone Mountain at this time.
If the mountaintop ridge position like this is lost during the day, as long as the Japanese army discovers the clues, invests a large number of troops and uses artillery to suppress the artillery, the 772nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment in the simple reverse slope tunnel will have to pay an extremely heavy price.
Therefore, the position on the top of the mountain cannot be lost easily, and even if it is to be lost, it cannot be lost at this time. Liu Lang, who is as strong as Liu Lang, can only harden his heart and watch Ye Zifei send another one after he cannot contact the soldiers at the observation position on the top of the mountain.
Four to five people go up, three waves in a row.
The same is true for the 772nd Regiment. Faced with a death rate as high as 80%, troops are constantly dispatched. In terms of executing military orders, the Red Army is completely comparable to, or even stronger than, the Independent Regiment. All sergeants who have received military orders,
Without hesitation, they led their soldiers into a battlefield that could shatter anyone's bones at any time.
When the suffocating bombardment ended and the sharp sound of bamboo flutes was heard from the top of the mountain, everyone knew that the Japanese army had begun to attack.
The walkie-talkies developed by the independent regiment are equipped at least to the squad leader level except for the special brigade, and the rest of the troops are also equipped at least to the infantry company level. There are even two telephones on the front line on the top of the mountain to keep in touch with the rear at all times.
At the beginning of the war, the Independent Regiment used it quite well. It was based on the American cowboy's aircraft wireless communicator. Liu Tuanzuo proposed the idea, and a group of talented people led by Comrade Lao Ye worked hard to develop the Republic of China's wireless communicator for more than a year.
The version of "Big Brother" is very good. Even in this kind of mountain, the communication distance can reach up to ten kilometers, which is far beyond Liu Lang's imagination.
But when the battle started, Liu Lang tragically discovered that he had really thought too much. Not to mention this era, even in the next eighty years, anti-electromagnetic interference will be a problem that troubles all professors. When the sky is filled with artillery fire,
, let alone ten kilometers away from the walkie-talkie, even just a few hundred meters away, you can only hear the "sizzling" sound of electricity from the walkie-talkie.
Regardless of the special high technology, Liu Lang was forced to continue to use the bamboo whistles and flares of different colors used during the last Great Wall War to replace long-distance communications. As for telephones, do you think telephone lines can still survive such a level of bombing?
Can it remain unbroken?
After entering the position, the officers and soldiers of the battalion and company discovered that this time, it was not the familiar Japanese infantry formation, but tanks leading the formation, followed by infantry.
Moreover, there were not just a few tanks, but a dozen or so. Black smoke was billowing out, and there were four large tanks and one small tank in the direction of the main position at Jiuguan.
The big one, the veterans of the First Battalion and the First Company had seen it when they were at the Great Wall. The familiar Type 89 tank weighed fifteen tons and was equipped with a 57MM cannon. During the Battle of the Great Wall, the two regiments of the 29th Army fought against
They can only carry explosive packs and cluster grenades as suicide bombs, otherwise they have no other choice.
I've never seen a small one before. It's even a little pitiful. It doesn't even have a turret, it's just a heavy machine gun.
However, no matter how small they are, they are still made of steel. Faced with this monster wearing tens of millimeters of steel plate armor, the light and heavy machine guns on the position almost did not dare to show their heads. A few heavy machine guns just fired tentatively and swaggered themselves on the hillside.
The Type 89 medium tank on board blasted it with one shot. Although the 57MM short-barreled artillery is not very powerful, it is still no problem to hit temporary fortifications surrounded by sandbags such as light and heavy machine guns.
The small Doudin tank unscrupulously poured 7.7mm machine gun bullets on the position hundreds of meters away, causing only smoke and dust to rise from the position.
Jiuguan Mountain is not dangerous. After a round of crazy rounds of howitzers, the boulders on the hillside have been blown away but many huge craters have been left.
With a small engine of only 32 horsepower, it is not easy for the Type 94 Little Douding Tank to cross the somewhat complicated environment on the battlefield. Even though its body is equally small, its total combat weight is only 3.3 tons, its length is only 3.12 meters, and even
It's a little shorter than the future Alto sedan's 3.2 meters.
To be honest, the Japanese army actually had no experience in cooperating with armored forces. The tanks were patrolling back and forth on the hillside with black smoke and were unable to move forward. They simply threw away the tanks and attacked on their own, using the tanks as close-range stationary equipment.
Turrets and machine gun fire points.
After all, the firepower of the Type 94 light tank, which has no turret but is equipped with a 7.7mm machine gun, has been proven both in the North China battlefield and the southeastern Songhu battlefield.
Although they are still looking for a way up the mountain on the hillside, the Japanese tank brigade, which seems to be a scum-type tank in European and American countries, is definitely not weak, and the defenders on the mountain really use this kind of tank for at least five days.
The steel monster a hundred meters away was helpless.
Because they have to cross the ridge, the blind spot of the Bofors Mountain Cannon of the Independent Regiment's Mountain Artillery Battalion happens to be the area of several hundred meters from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain. This means that the Japanese army's howitzers and mountain artillery cannot hit the Independent Regiment behind the ridge.
Winning the reverse slope tunnel is the same thing.
Mountain artillery that can cause damage to such thin-skinned tanks cannot be hit, only mortars. But the Japanese tanks are not stupid. When several mortar shells exploded not far away, their tanks began to move, using
If a mortar is used to hit such a moving target, then the artilleryman is not very effective and can only rely on luck.
However, Liu Lang, who was personally on the front line commanding the operations, watched through the telescope as the Japanese troops several hundred meters away began to abandon their tanks and attack upwards, with a sneer on his lips.
If the tiger doesn't show off its power, then I'm really being treated like a sick cat. Is having a tank a big deal?
The Japanese infantry attacked to a position 300 meters away. The Jiuguan position was still quiet. Miraculously, there was not a single gunshot in the three defensive positions. The Japanese tank battery fired a few cannons and shot several heavy machine guns tentatively.
After becoming mute.
This scene made Lieutenant Colonel Hatori, the captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 77th Infantry Regiment, the frontline commander of the Japanese army, very creepy. Infantry battalion captains are usually major-level officers, so one can imagine his qualifications when he is a senior officer.
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As I usually say, he is an old bird.
He didn't have much serious education in the Army, but the infantry captain, who had been promoted from sergeant to lieutenant colonel, felt deeply that there was a conspiracy.
Damn it, that vicious "Colonel Beast" definitely has a big conspiracy.
However, even if he knew that the infantry squadron under his command had been surrounded by someone's conspiracy, the veteran lieutenant colonel in the Japanese army could only continue to bite the bullet and order his group of equally stubborn soldiers to move forward.
No matter how strong the independent regiment is, no matter how cunning Liu Lang is, if he retreats just because the opponent does not fire a shot, then not only will he become a big joke, I am afraid that the entire 77th Regiment and even the 39th Brigade will become a Japanese army.
A big joke.
When the Japanese troops advanced in fear to 200 meters, and could almost clearly see the faces of the Chinese defenders on the opposite side, a sharp bamboo whistle suddenly came from the top of the mountain.
Almost all the Japanese soldiers who were hunched forward immediately fell to the ground, almost peeing in fear.
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