Of course, it was not the old man's face that blinded Second Lieutenant Lan Guanhu's eyes, but the shining gold stars on his epaulettes.
The Japanese colonel's shoulder insignia, with yellow and white stripes as the base and three gold stars as the embellishment, made Lan Guanhu blink several times before he was sure that he had encountered a big fish.
A Japanese colonel is not common, especially in this place. At least he is at the level of a regiment commander, or a deputy brigade commander? Looking at the few guards who have been guarding him, if this is not an important target, then who else is?
In the darkness, Lan Guanhu quietly followed with his gun, temporarily letting go of the dark house-like headquarters of the 39th Brigade over there.
Takagi Yoshito, who was still dictating a slightly depressed farewell message in the headquarters, didn't know that he had quietly escaped a disaster because of the tragic Colonel-level subordinate.
Hosokawa Tadayasu walked less than 200 meters when he met the signal corpsman from his regiment headquarters. The signal corpsman holding a large flashlight with a bright beam saw his commander, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stand at attention to say hello and waited for him to be called over.
His Excellency the Colonel issued a military order.
"Baga! Why are you panicking?" Hosokawa Tadayasu, who was almost dazzled by the beam of military flashlight, habitually pointed out the captain's score.
The Japanese signal soldiers were so frightened that they quickly turned off their flashlights.
Hosokawa Tadayasu probably considered the military situation to be urgent, so he did not slap the panicked signal soldier in the same habit as usual. He straightened his face and was about to speak.
Only to hear a "bang" gunshot came from two hundred meters away.
Now, the sound of gunfire is no longer a rare thing for the 26th Artillery Regiment position. The gunfire coming from the surroundings hundreds of meters away is like popping beans. The gunfire unique to the 38th Gate is almost suppressed.
Less than.
While showing the powerful firepower of the Chinese, it made all Japanese troops panic. Especially these artillerymen, they have always been the best protected unit. Apart from the possibility of being shelled, when have they ever experienced being attacked by the enemy?
The army infantry came to the door!
Colonel Hosokawa Tadayasu, who had been squaring his face, seemed to be deep in thought and remained silent. It was not until three seconds later that the signal soldier, who was waiting for military orders with his head lowered, looked up at his superior in a strange way. It is estimated that what the second lieutenant was thinking at this time was:
: It’s now time. Your Excellency, Captain, please stop pretending. If you have something to say, speak up immediately. If you continue to pretend, the Chinese will come and kill you.
At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and the sky was already turning white. Although it was not enough for the Japanese Army Signal Corps Second Lieutenant to see his boss's eyebrows and eyes clearly, he could definitely see clearly that there was a sudden hole in his boss's forehead.
There was a hole as thick as an index finger. When he discovered it, blood was flowing out of the hole, onto Hosokawa Tadayasu's rather strange-looking face, and then dripped onto the ground.
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander..." followed by the terrified exclamation of the second lieutenant of the Signal Corps.
The Japanese colonel made two rattling sounds in his throat and fell on his back.
Hosokawa Tadayasu, passed away.
Until his death, the Japanese colonel did not say a word about the contents of the military order except for pretending to be a coward to stabilize the morale of the army.
This is the price of showing off on the battlefield.
The sharp flashlight of the second lieutenant of the Japanese Army's communications corps helped Lan Guanhu locate the target clearly. Even if it was only for one second, it was definitely enough for a special forces soldier.
Two hundred meters away, Lan Guanhu, who was wearing camouflage uniforms and straw clothes, grinned. As a reward for killing a Japanese commander, he lowered himself again and slipped away to find another target worthy of his attack.
This person, I don’t know, because he killed the commander of the 26th Artillery Regiment, which caused the Japanese army to be five minutes late. They did not prepare to start bombing until the battle situation was completely ruined, but it was obviously too late.
After the 771st Regiment launched an attack on the Japanese positions on both wings, the Bayonet Battalion and the Death Battalion broke through the Japanese squad-level defensive positions in one fell swoop and also rushed into the 26th Artillery Regiment's position.
The nearly 4,000-strong Chinese army attacked in three directions, so fast that the Japanese army could not react at all. Especially after the outer positions were completely lost, an average of four people had one gun. Most of the Japanese artillerymen were small pistols.
Just as the major general and colonel thought, it was like a sheep meeting a wolf and being crushed to pieces.
Although heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns and mortars were banned by the future general after breaking into the Japanese army's outer positions, only submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles were not something that the small pistols in the south could withstand.
Often after only one shot was fired, the enemy was surrounded by submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles that followed the sound.
Takagi Yoshito did not break his promise, and led nearly 300 hastily organized artillery to buy 5 minutes for his subordinates.
The 300 poorly equipped little scumbag soldiers were all killed and wounded under the morale boosted by the Japanese major general's shirtless battle. They faced the 300-strong 1st Company of the Guard Battalion and the 1st and 2nd Company of the Blue Army of the Independent Regiment, which were armed to the teeth.
Stopping more than 500 people, and even with a huge disparity in equipment, is enough to be proud of.
Even Zhang Ruhao, when he passed by Yoshito Takagi who was wearing the uniform of a major general but personally led the counterattack and was eventually beaten into briquettes by a submachine gun and died, he did not happily regard the body of the Japanese major general who did not retreat until the end of the battle as his
It was a very important military achievement. Instead, he stared at the blood-covered corpse of the Japanese major general for several seconds. He sighed slightly and ordered: "Wrap the corpse of the Japanese major general in white cloth. No one is allowed to damage it. After taking pictures,
Buried on site."
Putting aside the hatred between the two peoples, on this war-torn battlefield, the Japanese Army Major General who refused to retreat showed his qualities as a soldier. This is a pure soldier versus another soldier on the battlefield.
A tribute without any other emotions.
On the position of the 26th Artillery Regiment, the two top commanders of the Japanese army were killed one after another.
The Japanese army, which had lost its unified command and was completely disrupted, realized that the situation was over and tried to bombard the enemy again, but it was already too late.
Not only did the special forces who found the howitzer position began to snipe them one by one without mercy, but the soldiers of the Independent Regiment and the officers and soldiers of the 771st Regiment who had already rushed in used bullets like pouring bullets to let them know, and then gathered around the cannon.
It's death.
Of course, there are also successful ones.
Several mushroom clouds and a loud bang knocked the soldiers who were charging forward 200 meters away to the ground.
There was even a group of Japanese soldiers who fearlessly threw hand grenades into an ammunition point storing 105 howitzer shells. At least 40 18-kilogram 105 howitzer shells exploded and formed a fireball that illuminated most of the sky above the battlefield.
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The huge sound shook the eardrums of most people on the battlefield with a radius of nearly one kilometer. Even an infantry company that had established a blocking position on the hillside seven or eight miles away heard it.
Such a terrible explosion, not to mention several Japanese soldiers who were far away from the center of the explosion were blown to ashes, even the barrel of the 105 howitzer dozens of meters away was twisted like a twist. If it weren't for the howitzer being placed in a
In the valley, there are rocks blocking both sides to minimize the power of more than 300 kilograms of artillery shells exploding together. It is estimated that an infantry platoon that is rushing towards this place with a distance of only 200 meters will have to finish them all.
Even so, a dozen people were injured by the flying rocks, seven or eight people were injured by the huge shock wave, and an infantry platoon lost half of its combat effectiveness in an instant.
By 7:10 in the morning, fifty minutes after the battle broke out, it was already dark, figures tens or even hundreds of meters away could be clearly distinguished, and the battle had come to an end. Except for a group of Japanese soldiers who took advantage of the previous darkness or escaped.
After entering the mountains, either along the north side where there was no gunfire, a small infantry squad of defenders gathered and fled towards Jiuguan. The rest of the Japanese troops were all annihilated on the position of the 26th Artillery Regiment.
In the wilderness, Japanese corpses can be seen lying everywhere.
However, this time they did not kill everyone. As long as they knelt down and raised their hands in surrender, they were not killed. They were all put under special guard. Of course, this was not a violation of Vice President Liu by Zhang Ruhao and the future general.
Military orders from command.
But after the precedent of Koizumi, Liu Lang specifically confessed before leaving that as long as the little Japanese who are afraid of death and surrender, especially the technical arms such as artillery, are more useful alive than dead.
Of course, if you don't want to surrender, you'd better die! Compared to such hard-core foreigners, Langdanzu still likes to be soft, not to mention using the enemy to fight the enemy! It's also good to use it to disgust the top brass of the Japanese army.
As long as there were enough, Liu Lang didn't mind letting these guys walk around Niangziguan with flowers and banners reading "Long Live the Chinese Nation" after the Battle of Shanxi Province.
In the end, 276 Japanese soldiers were captured, but more than 2,100 were killed. According to the size of an artillery regiment of the Japanese permanent division of about 2,600 people, plus the defeated defenders of about an infantry squadron, the Japanese army is here
The total strength of the Japanese army was about 2,800, and the number of Japanese soldiers who could escape was only 400 at most. It was basically considered a total annihilation.
Of course, it is no longer important how many Japanese soldiers were killed. What is important is how many cannons were captured. The continuous explosions previously made the future general and Zhang Ruhao not look happy.
The purpose of this battle was not to annihilate how many people, but to see how many cannons, or how many 105 howitzers, could be grabbed. The officers and soldiers of the artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment who followed were basically empty-handed.
, if you didn’t give them a weapon to take advantage of, then wouldn’t it be a waste of effort for most of the day!
I have to say that as they won one victory after another, the mentality of these two people became a little bit arrogant. If it were changed to the past, they could kill more than 2,000 Japanese troops and blow up all the Japanese cannons. Then the big guys
I just slapped my butt and carried the captured guns and ammunition and went back to drink a celebratory drink. Do I still think about whether I can grab the cannon?
Even if there was one, it wouldn't be possible to pull it away, wouldn't it? The hundreds of kilograms of field artillery was fine, but if the nearly two-ton piece was pulled up, it would become a complete drag.
But now, it's different. After snatching the Japs' cannons, they didn't want to leave. This position became theirs. More than 4,000 infantrymen guarded these cannons, and then beat them with Japanese cannons.
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The targets of the beating were naturally the two infantry regiments located on the front lines of Jiuguan and Niangziguan. They were having a great time during this period, blasting the Chinese defenders with cannon after cannon. Now, it was their turn to be bombed.
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How hard you beat them, whether they beat them into a pile of mud or make them unable to take care of themselves, depends on how many cannons you can capture.