Chapter 1048 Japanese invaders who are unwilling to fail
Captain Li Dengxing, who rushed to the front line from the wing field headquarters located in the rear and was located with the artillery brigade, looked at the row of corpses of soldiers in front of him who were covered with white cloth but still emitting a stench. He almost wanted to vomit blood.
Major General Takagi Yoshito has promised him that as long as his 77th Infantry Regiment can capture the old pass and inflict heavy damage to the enemy in front of him, then if he can be promoted in the future, he will definitely give him the position of commander of the 39th Brigade.
Recommended by the division and the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters.
For his own future, in order to win the first battle with the legendary independent regiment, Li Dengxingyi used twelve 105 howitzers to blast for an hour, almost flattening the top of the mountain. In order to ensure the infantry attack
At that time, the obstacles were minimal, and hundreds of artillery shells were even spent to cover the area hundreds of meters in front of the three positions. They also specifically requested the aviation wing support from the division headquarters. Twelve bombers dropped thousands of kilograms of bombs.
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More than half of the 24 Type 89 medium tanks and 9 Type 94 reconnaissance tanks supported by the division were mobilized. The entire 77th Infantry Regiment, three infantry brigades, and the 3rd Infantry Brigade were used as backup and to defend the main position and
The artillery squadron directly under the infantry wing, the 1,100-strong 1st Infantry Battalion mainly attacked the main position in the center of Jiuguan, and the 2nd Infantry Battalion mainly attacked the two flank positions.
It can be said that the 77th Infantry Regiment, which is full of anger, is holding back its energy and wants to have a good fight with this legendary and terrifying opponent. Even from the first sergeant Li Dengying to the most junior second lieutenant,
The commanders at all levels of the 77th Regiment are not without ambitions. If they can defeat the independent regiment in one fell swoop, they will not only wash away the shame of the Imperial Army, but also record the glorious history of the 77th Infantry Regiment in the history of the division.
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In October 1937, the 77th Infantry Regiment fought with the Independent Regiment of the 22nd Army of the Chinese garrison at Niangziguan, Shanxi, China, and completely wiped out their troops. Such a record even cost the 77th Regiment 3,800 soldiers more than defeating a Chinese division.
People are more excited.
Because their opponents had defeated the Eighth Division! In the Battle of Rehe four years ago, although the empire realized its strategy and brought Rehe under its control, it also forced the Chinese not to station troops along the Great Wall.
, However, the defeat of the Eighth Division was like a thorn in the hearts of all the Imperial Japanese Army.
The navy's gang of "turtles" used the Imperial Army's disastrous defeat from time to time to stimulate the Army, which competed with them for military spending. The Army bosses hated the Chinese army for leaving them with shame. There were even rumors that who
If you can annihilate the Chinese army that is no more than a regiment level, it will be easy for a lieutenant general to become a general and a major general to become a lieutenant general.
In addition to the ambition of promotion and wealth, the Japanese Army has always been unfavorable in the war against China. The increasingly arrogant Japanese Army cannot accept such a defeat, especially in the three months since they entered northern China, nearly 200,000 Chinese troops
After being unable to resist the attack of hundreds of thousands of imperial troops.
In this battle, Captain Li Dengxing had great expectations.
However, this first battle failed unexpectedly.
Failure could have been accepted. However, the Chinese did not lay landmines on the position, but planted another type of landmines, and the alternative landmines played a great role, which is a bit difficult to accept.
Most of the members of the death squad sent by Lieutenant Colonel Hatori actually died under the influence of this alternative "landmine", including Captain Kotogyuki himself. After careful questioning, there was still an indescribable stench on his body, but luckily he was not found.
After Lieutenant Matsuda, the leader of the decisive battle team, was also disgusted by Langdanza's move, he would never be able to endure lying on a piece of shit and being blown up by Chinese shells.
So, just like his dignified captain, the casualty rate of the desperate squad fighting on the ground was as high as 60%, 48 people, 19 died and 15 were injured. Fortunately, the infantry squadron behind them
The main force did not follow up so quickly, and there were still a large number of shell craters as bunkers, so the casualties were not so heavy. However, 11 people were killed and 18 injured by the crazy Chinese mortars. A whole infantry squad and a half,
It completely lost its combat effectiveness.
The Chinese, on the other hand, were basically unscathed.
The heavy machine guns and grenade launchers that blindly fired at the mountains could not find their targets, and the results of the battle could not be counted. The two wings were fighting fiercely and the winner has not yet been determined, but the central position suffered a huge loss.
Undoubtedly, in the first battle that Captain Li Dengxing had high hopes for, he was severely beaten by Lang Danzao.
Even though his trump card has not yet been revealed, the mere presence of small weapons taught the Japanese army a moderate lesson.
Of course, the special "biochemical" weapons he came up with as an idea also played a certain role in this.
The Chinese have already used "biological and chemical" weapons, so why didn't the captain Li Dengxing, who was so disgusted by Langdanzu, not use it?
After seeing the stinking remains of his own warriors, the furious Li Dengying gave the order decisively. After another half-hour artillery suppression on the main position of Jiuguan, he dropped an amount of red agent poison gas that exceeded the entire defense line of Snowflake Mountain.
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Almost the entire afternoon, the smoke from the Jiuguan position continued, accompanied by yellow-green poisonous smoke.
Fortunately, not only the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the Independent Regiment are equipped with gas masks, but all the officers and soldiers of the 772nd Regiment are also equipped with gas masks because of the Independent Regiment. The poisonous gas that is so powerful in other positions in China is in this position.
completely lost its effect.
However, the Japanese army did not know this.
After a large number of poison gas bombs were dropped for 30 minutes, they invested a large number of troops to wait for the Chinese to be severely poisoned, and then went to the battlefield to add bayonets as before. Their ambition to win an easy victory was eliminated by those who also wore gas masks like them.
After the Chinese soldiers smashed them with crazy firepower, they realized that the Chinese with technology could also defeat them.
Even this time, the Xiang who had been deployed by them personally on their position was still not cleared away by howitzers.
In this round of attacks that focused on poison gas, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori's 1st Infantry Battalion suffered even more heavy losses.
In order to seize the position in one go, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori deployed two infantry squadrons to participate in the attack this time. Because in the previous attack, they were blocked by smoke bombs set off by the Chinese and the 5th squadron belonging to the first squadron of the tank group was unable to form a suppressive force.
A Type 89 tank and three Type 94 Xiaoduding tanks angrily drove the tanks to a position only 400 meters away from the position.
The commander of their chariot brigade, Major Shoji Miyazaki, is the younger brother of the commander of the cavalry brigade who was hung high on the tallest tree. If this battlefield could not be captured, the Japanese troops in the chariot brigade would know Shoji even with their butts.
How intense will be the Major's anger?
Although the poisonous gas is strong and blocks a certain amount of sight, the tank gunners can guarantee this time that as long as the Chinese machine guns dare to fire, they will be able to break it into pieces. This is not the case for the alliance 2,000 meters away.
This cannot be guaranteed by the 4 Type 41 mountain guns and 4 Type 92 infantry guns of the squadron directly under the team's artillery force.
Then, the Japanese were quickly punished.
Liu Lang's infantry squads are equipped with rocket launcher teams, but the maximum range is only 150 meters. Naturally, there is nothing they can do against eight steel monsters 400 meters away, unless they dare to risk their lives and run within the 150-meter range.
It’s not that the Japanese tanks don’t have the guts to shoot at close range. On the Chinese battlefield, except for the 37mm combat anti-cannon that poses a certain threat to them, other weapons are basically ineffective. They have proven this with three months of fighting without losing.
Yes. At least this tank brigade directly under the 20th Division has not had a single tank damaged so far, even if it is a mini bean sprout with a steel plate as thin as a cicada's wings.
It's just that the howitzer was so powerful that it blasted the front line of the position into craters. Some shell craters were even big enough to fit a small beanbag. It was not that easy to drive up the mountain without finding a good road.
Previously, the eight tanks simply used themselves as movable heavy firepower points to support the attacking soldiers.
Liu Lang doesn't have a 37mm anti-tank gun. It's not that he has no financial resources, but that although he has a set of thin-skinned tanks for fighting small Japs, they are too heavy. The total combat weight of 450 kilograms can almost drag a Bo
The Foss Mountain artillery was destroyed. So Liu Lang gave up this artillery, which was regarded as an important weapon by the Central Army's German armorers, from the beginning.
However, independent regiments with strong financial resources are equipped with a large number of twin-mounted Sulotong 20mm machine guns. They can shoot upwards to attack aircraft and level fire for fortifications. They can also suppress firepower points at a high rate of fire. The Sulotong 20mm is known as a three-faceted expert.
The machine gun is definitely the best small cannon of this era, bar none.
The Suratung 20mm machine gun with an anti-air range of up to 2,000 meters effective range can easily penetrate 30mm steel plates within a range of 400 to 500 meters if equipped with steel-core armor-piercing projectiles.
If such armor-piercing capabilities were placed in Europe, European tank crews would laugh. Their at least 50 mm thick steel plates are enough to withstand this 20 mm machine gun, which is not much larger than a heavy machine gun.
However, in Asia, it is different. The thickness of the steel plate of the Japanese Type 89 medium tank that dominated the Chinese battlefield in the early days of the war was only 17 mm. Not to mention the 94-inch bean dice, the thickest part was only 10 mm, and the thinnest
The armor, which was no more than 6 millimeters, could withstand heavy machine gun fire, making the tank crews terrified.
The 20mm Suratung cannon can definitely shoot it out.
When the Japanese howitzers launched artillery retaliation, Liu Lang ordered Zhao Ergou to move four Sulotong machine guns from the air defense position into the Jiuguan position.
As soon as the bombardment ended, the Japanese army began to release poison gas. Four Sulotong machine guns were carried by four squadrons of artillery battalion soldiers into the firepower point that had been built long ago and covered with steel plates to withstand the bombardment of 75-caliber mountain artillery. They aimed at the Japanese tanks.