The first day of the initial battle at Niangziguan.
On the Snowflake Mountain battlefield, the Japanese 40th Brigade and 80th Infantry Regiment were defeated.
On the main battlefield of Niangziguan, the Japanese 39th Brigade and 78th Infantry Regiment were defeated.
On the Jiuguan battlefield, the Japanese 39th Brigade and 77th Infantry Regiment were defeated.
The second day of the first battle at Niangziguan.
On the battlefield of Snowflake Mountain, the 80th Infantry Regiment of the 40th Brigade of the Japanese Army conquered Snowflake Mountain. The defending Chinese 17th Division lost more than a thousand people in the battle and lost all its wounded soldiers. One colonel commander, two major battalion commanders, and a captain and lieutenant were killed in the battle.
There were five company commanders and dozens of second lieutenants. The attacking Japanese infantry regiment 80th lost more than 300 people to the battle, and more than 300 were wounded. Half of the infantry brigade was crippled. Among them, 150 people died in the battle at Snowflake Mountain No. 1 position.
people, more than 40 people were injured, and an infantry squadron was almost wiped out. The Chinese defenders on the position were an infantry company, and the entire army was surrounded by soldiers. The superior force besieged them, and the ratio was almost 1:1. Looking at the entire Snowflake Mountain
On the battlefield, based on this comparison of casualties, the battle loss ratio was almost 1:2.
On the Jiuguan battlefield, on the afternoon of the 9th, nearly 400 people of the 77th Infantry Regiment were killed. Among them, the 1st Infantry Brigade suffered almost 70% of the casualties, with more than 300 people killed and 300 lightly and seriously wounded.
, the casualty rate exceeded 50%, setting a record since the Japanese army entered North China. The casualties of the Chinese defenders were unknown.
If it were not for the fact that the 78th Infantry Regiment on the main battlefield of Niangziguan suffered less than fifty casualties, and the battle report that the Chinese defenders suffered more than a thousand casualties in the shelling, Bunzaburo Kawagishi was sitting in the headquarters of the 20th Division in Shijiazhuang.
The anger in his eyes could almost set the wooden desk on fire.
In just two days, nearly a thousand of the two main infantry brigades under his command were killed. Adding in the wounded, one and a half infantry brigades were destroyed. If the fight lasted for another ten days and a half, wouldn't it be twelve?
Can infantry brigades be deorganized?
Kawagishi Bunzaburo was furious. In the telegram, he cursed the two major general brigade commanders and Major General Yoshio Uezuki, who had just been transferred to the division and had not yet had time to familiarize himself with the battle ahead.
As the main attack, the 40th Brigade took two full days to capture Snowflake Mountain and suffered heavy casualties. Kawagishi Bunzaburo scolded its stupidity and angrily ordered it to capture the second line of the 17th Division within three days.
line of defense, otherwise we cannot rule out asking the Commander-in-Chief of the North China Expeditionary Force, His Excellency General Juichi Terauchi, to transfer Major General Yamauchi Tobumi back to the 20th Division.
This kind of rhetoric is extremely serious for Yoshio Kamizuki, who has just been transferred to the 20th Division as the brigade commander. This means that if he cannot conquer the Chinese position within three days, Kawagishi Bunzaburo's attack on his wife will be realized.
Due to the outflanking strategy of the Chinese army in the Guan area, he is likely to become the biggest joke in the Japanese army, becoming the major general brigade commander who was impeached by his superiors and transferred out as soon as he took office.
Of course, although he suffered heavy losses, after all, Yoshio Kamizuki, who had conquered Snowflake Mountain, was doing relatively well compared to Yoshito Takagi, who had great ambitions. In another telegram, it was said that Yoshito Kamizuki, who had suffered heavy losses due to the storming of the old pass, was
Takagi Yoshito was almost not asked by Lieutenant General Bunzaburo Kawagishi to commit suicide and commit suicide. If Bunzaburo Kawagishi had not retained a little bit of sanity, he would not have that power for a military general at the level of major general.
But Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo did not know that his anger aroused Yoshito Takagi's determination. If he did not capture the Niangziguan position, he would be responsible for the defeat of the first battle of Jiuguan in the future.
The biggest obstacle for him to ascend to the throne of the Empire's Lieutenant General. To remove this obstacle, the only way is victory.
In wartime, the division commander, Lieutenant General, may be able to scold and issue military orders, but he cannot easily replace a major general brigade commander. As for enforcing military law, that is even more impossible. He is not that big yet.
Right. Takagi Yoshito, who had been stimulated to the point of red eyes by his colleague Yamashita Tomofumi, completely put behind Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo's feint attack diversion order, and made up his mind to fight all the Chinese defenders on the Niangziguan front line.
Even if the first battle was a bloody one in front of the independent regiment.
As the first person responsible for the defeat, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori miraculously was not severely criticized by Takagi Yoshito, even though he was almost slapped several times by the enraged Captain Kotogyou.
Even the back molars were knocked out.
Although his extremely cruel tactics of ordering bombardment of Chinese positions without even caring about his own wounded soldiers were not greatly appreciated by Yoshito Takagi, who was already red-eyed, but Yoshito Takagi, who was under huge pressure from the division, regarded it as encouragement.
The Lord’s teachings have already shown His attitude.
What he needs is the ruthlessness of frontline commanders. He believes that no matter how tenacious the Chinese are, they will become vulnerable to the crazy attacks of the imperial army who are not afraid of death.
He simply did not believe that the Chinese could persist much longer with the overwhelming human power of the 105-meter heavy artillery, the crazy bombs of the Imperial Army Air Force, and the unrivaled courage.
Yes, even though the Jiuguan Battlefield Independent Regiment has demonstrated an advantage in light weapons that the Japanese army cannot match, in terms of heavy firepower, the Japanese army still firmly occupies an advantageous position.
Moreover, the Japanese army, which has always won against the Chinese army by using fewer and more, used more and fewer for the first time, with a regiment of 3,800 fighting 3,000. No matter from which point of view, they should be the winner.
At least, not only the commander of the 39th Brigade, Major General Yoshito Takagi, and the captain of the Japanese infantry battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori, think so, but also General Huang from the China Jindong Theater Command to Lieutenant General Zeng from the Niangziguan Frontline Command.
thought.
During the first battle, Liu Lang received several messages from the theater headquarters and frontline headquarters, asking if he needed support. Infantry from at least two regiments could support Jiuguan at any time.
The more than 20 aircraft sorties circling over Jiuguan and the smoke of artillery fire that covered the sky made the generals and lieutenant generals of the national army terrified for an entire afternoon.
The Japanese bombarded Niangzi Pass three times, dropping more than a thousand shells and causing huge casualties of more than a thousand people. However, the small Jiuguan Pass was bombarded four times and was dropped by more than 20 Japanese bombers.
The aerial bombs will definitely cause more serious casualties.
Moreover, they were attacked by more than 3,000 Japanese troops from one regiment and three infantry brigades. They faced similar enemies as the nearly 30,000 defenders at Niangziguan main position.
But they were all wrong.
In the next two days, over the Jiuguan Pass, the White Sun Flag in the Blue Sky was still flying high on the Jiuguan Pass, even though it had been blown into strips.
Even though the artillery fire on the position could be seen for tens of miles, the smoke blackened half of the sky.
Even if Li Dengxing, who came to command the Jiuguan frontline headquarters in person, became furious and shot two lieutenants and squadron leaders in succession, he could not keep his infantry on any position in Jiuguan for more than 30 minutes.
Yes, during the two days of brutal fighting, the Japanese infantry did not fail to advance even half a step. They also once attacked the position on the top of the mountain.
The Japanese commanders at all levels were not fools. After several battles, they keenly discovered that the firepower of the main position in the center of Jiuguan was much stronger than that of the two wings, whether it was mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, or rifles. So, they
They adopted a strategy of feigning an attack on the central main position, and instead used two infantry brigades to take turns to attack the two wings.
Under the cover of infantry artillery, mountain artillery, even howitzers and tanks, and driven by the infantry captain who came to the front line with a "menstrual belt" wrapped around his head, the crazy Japanese main force invaded the main positions on both wings at least three times.
Although the old Hanyang-made 772 regiment, Czech light machine guns and even the Civilian 24 heavy machine guns, including several mortars supported by the independent regiment, are good compared with the ordinary national army, they are still no match for the Japanese invaders. However, since its establishment, it has been
The weak defeat the strong, the small defeat the large, and the Red Army, which fights at a disadvantage, lacks the courage to die with the enemy.
The infantry company on the position suffered heavy losses and withdrew. Before the Japanese army could gain a firm foothold, the reserve force rushed up and competed with the Japanese army for the position. On both sides of the war, there were me and me, and all the Japanese artillery and bombers in the sky had nothing to do with it.
The capable people stared and watched helplessly as the Chinese used submachine guns, grenades, explosive packets, and even flesh and blood to clear the way, killing or driving their colleagues in the trenches out of their positions.
Contrary to what the Japanese army imagined, there was no large-scale hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, who were so close that they were almost shooting face to face.
It's not that the Japanese didn't want to, but the Chinese soldiers armed with slightly shorter Hanyang-made rifles didn't give them a chance.
The submachine guns supported by the independent regiment for the 386th Brigade played a big role in short-distance trench warfare. Dozens of submachine guns and raindrops of grenades were used intensively to carry a 1.7-meter-long 38-meter cover in a trench less than two meters wide.
The Japanese soldiers fought until they were howling like ghosts. In addition to submachine guns, there were also hand grenades and lit explosive packets. The craziness of throwing explosive packets from a distance of more than ten meters made the Japanese soldiers feel nervous.
Within two days, they attacked the position three times in a row, only to be driven out by Chinese counterattacks. The infantry lost more than 600 people.
The 77th Infantry Regiment, whether in front of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment or the 772nd Regiment, was beaten to death.
However, this time, the 772nd Regiment also suffered heavy losses, so heavy that the tough man, Deputy Commander Wang, could not help but shed tears when he reported the battle report to the future general at the rear.
During the three-day battle at Jiuguan, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the 772nd Regiment died, up to 400 of them. Most of them were sacrificed during the three battles with the Japanese invaders for the main position on the top of the mountain.
When the explosive packets thrown by both sides explode, they can even blow soldiers from both sides out of the trenches. Even the Red Army has never experienced the use of explosive packets and grenades as the main weapons of hand-to-hand combat.
However, the 772nd Regiment, which had the courage to sacrifice even more, defended its position three times in a row.
Jiuguan, which was not the direction of the main battlefield of the Japanese army, was turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, not to mention Fululing, which was designated as the main direction of attack by the 20th Division.
The sound of cannons there lasted for two whole days, from day to night, and never stopped.
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PS: The old mother had an enhanced CT examination today, and the results will not be available until this afternoon or tomorrow. She can only continue to wait. I feel very uneasy and hope everything is okay.