On the Niangziguan front line, after the shelling ended at almost the same time as Jiuguan, more than 3,000 people from an infantry brigade and two infantry regiments silently approached the already messy Japanese position from a position nearly 2,000 meters away. The two sides behind them were almost concentrated.
With all the heavy firepower of the 12th Division of the Third Army, the commander of the Third Army also arrived at the front line, and the commander of the 12th Division nervously looked at the Japanese position with binoculars.
It was also a counterattack, but the Third Army was much more cautious than the Chinese army in Jiuguan.
It's not that they lack bloodiness, but that the battle report of the 129th Division is too exaggerated. It's so exaggerated that they can't imagine it. Even the huge fireballs rising from the Japanese positions can't dispel their doubts. Entering the fairy tale like this, anyone can't believe it.
It requires an adaptation process.
In fact, the intensity of shelling suffered by the Japanese troops of the 78th Infantry Regiment in front of the main position at Niangziguan was no less than that of the 77th Infantry Regiment in front of Jiuguan. In addition to five howitzers, at least 5 howitzers were used to bombard their position.
8 field guns assisted.
The reason why all the captured field artillery was not used was not because there were not enough shells, but because there were not enough manpower to operate the artillery. The artillery battalion of the independent regiment that came with the 771st Regiment under the command of the future general only had one platoon of dozens of people at full capacity, even if each platoon had only a few dozen people.
Everyone has fought mountain artillery and mortars, and they are all experts. However, a cannon requires at least seven or eight people to serve it, such as observers, gunners, and ammunition handlers. Nearly 200 people from the Second Company of the Blue Army all went to help.
Three regular artillerymen are allocated to the door guns, which can only make use of 18 guns.
Otherwise, if the entire artillery battalion was mobilized and nearly 40 cannons roared, the Japanese positions on both sides would suffer even more.
But even so, the 78th Infantry Regiment that remained on the position also suffered a devastating disaster.
Colonel Kobayashi Hisashi was not as wise as his colleague Kirito Yuki. First of all, it was because he did not fight as fiercely as the 77th Infantry Regiment on the Niangziguan front line. Although the loss was not small, it was compared to the loss of more than 4,500 people.
For the Third Army, the losses of the 78th Infantry Regiment under his command were quite acceptable; those who have never been beaten would naturally not know how painful it would be if a stick fell on them. Secondly, he did not think that the Chinese were at all
He would be able to attack the position of the 26th Artillery Regiment. Even if the infantry with the strength of 2 infantry squadrons could not defend it, would the field artillery deployed in the infantry's rear protection be useless? He did not believe that the infantry could not stop China.
A person doesn't have enough fighting power for ten minutes.
Therefore, in addition to the deployment of a fully-equipped infantry brigade to return to the division headquarters, the remaining one and a half infantry brigade and artillery squadron, as well as the baggage brigades directly under the regiment, including the 78th regiment headquarters, are still on the Niangziguan front line.
Under crazy artillery fire, regardless of whether you are a captain or a private, the treatment is actually the same. Hide in the trenches and resign yourself to fate.
If you're lucky, even if the shell explodes only 20 meters away from you, it may be fine. If you're not lucky, even if it's 80 meters away, a small stone flying around may kill you.
If you want to survive under fire, it doesn't depend on your military rank or strength, it all depends on luck.
Like Lieutenant Colonel Hatori, First Lieutenant Colonel Tsuneko Kobayashi did not have very good luck. His regiment headquarters located 800 meters behind the position was unfortunately hit by a field artillery shell. As a cannon, a 75mm field artillery shell
The explosive power is actually not as great as that of mountain artillery, let alone now that it is used as a curved artillery piece. However, the thick skin of field artillery shells gives it sufficient armor-piercing performance. The wing headquarters is mainly made of logs and sandbags.
It may be able to block the explosion of a 75-caliber howitzer, but for this kind of more penetrating field gun, it hits its weakness.
The field artillery shells penetrated the sand and gravel layer and then penetrated the thick logs before exploding with a bang. Although the field artillery shells did not blow up the entire wing headquarters like the 105 howitzer, the shells flying everywhere were enough to knock out all the people in the wing headquarters.
Everyone was killed. In an instant, there were no more living people in the 78th Infantry Regiment. The situation was much more terrifying than Lieutenant Colonel Hatori's side, where only the dried black blood was left. The human body was torn apart by shell fragments and was full of people.
Covering the entire regiment headquarters, the flesh and blood of the colonel and the second lieutenant were mixed together, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other.
Therefore, the 78th Infantry Regiment, which has at least three times more troops than the Jiuguan side, is actually much worse than the 77th Infantry Regiment. Not only did they suffer equally heavy losses in the shelling, they also lost their unity during the shelling.
Command. Not only did we lose the wing leader, we also lost the group leader.
In the face of crazy artillery fire, not only the Chinese became vulnerable, but the Japanese too.
When the Third Army cautiously dispatched an infantry brigade to advance cautiously towards the Japanese position, the Japanese position, which originally had nearly 1,800 troops, was actually in mourning.
Compared with the Chinese army, which suffered heavy losses from its opponents' powerful artillery, the field trenches built by the Japanese army were mainly aimed at their infantry raids, and there were very few anti-gun holes and soldier hiding holes. It is not that the Japanese are lazy, but,
It won't be of use even if it is dug. The Chinese must have cannons first.
Moreover, they are here to attack, not to confront China, so the role of the trenches is naturally weakened.
If the Third Army opposite them suffered such a level of shelling, the losses of an infantry regiment of 2,000 people might exceed one-third, while the Japanese army's simple trenches opposite would definitely suffer several times more losses.
As a result, the heavy losses suffered by the Japanese army were even more than Liu Lang expected. Before leaving, he had a special discussion with the two commanders of the 772nd Regiment on how to use superior firepower to attack the Japanese positions.
In order to have such a day to turn from defense to attack and launch an assault on the Japanese positions. He did not doubt the bravery of the red troops, but their current tactics against the Japanese army, a new enemy, still needed to be experienced in the coming war.
In fact, if it had not been sharpened on the grindstone of the Japanese for eight years, it would have been impossible for the Republic, which had just been established for just one year to fight the so-called "United Nations" army in that land of ice and snow for three years.
But unknown. That, but the equipment is far better than Japan's terrifying opponent who beat the Japanese to tears in the Pacific. An infantry company can call for the support of 150 howitzers.
That may be the only result left to the Chinese people from this damn war that caused huge disasters to China. Countless ordinary and simple farmers learned how to kill people at the minimum cost and learned to face heavily armed bandits who broke into their homes.
, instead of using pleading and tears to protect his parents, wives and children, he straightened his chest and fucked with them.
But, it's no longer needed.
Over at Jiuguan, Lieutenant Colonel Hatori's 1st Infantry Battalion, which numbered only about 400 people, had only a few dozen people left after the bombardment. Thousands of people charged, and the mortars from the rear had no time to hit. The mortars thrown from fifty meters away were thrown over.
Hundreds of grenades are almost equivalent to a round of artillery fire.
It was even worse at Niangziguan. The remaining Japanese army of more than 1,800 people could not even exceed an infantry squadron. The rest, whether infantry, artillery, machine gunners or heavy equipment, were all under the control of 105 howitzers and field artillery.
Turned into ashes in anger.
When the Japanese soldiers who were stunned by the artillery fire climbed up from the trenches tremblingly, they were faced with the black Chinese army.
Two infantry regiments and six infantry battalions, although they are not fully staffed, but these 3,000 people coming up in the dark morning light are enough to frighten people, let alone the Japanese troops who have just been knocked unconscious by crazy artillery fire.
I have to say that the Japanese army was strong enough. Although they were already out of ten and could not even find their commanders, they still fulfilled their duty as soldiers. They faced up to 400 meters in a position that was 1,500 meters wide.
Chinese troops outside opened fire.
In a burst of sparse gunfire, more than a dozen Chinese soldiers fell, stopping more than 3,000 people from the Third Army who were slowly approaching. It was not that the Japanese army's firepower was fierce, but that the Japanese army's firepower was unexpectedly weak. You know, the enemy on the other side was...
How could an infantry regiment have only this little firepower?
At least two infantry battalions have entered the range of their heavy machine guns and even their light machine guns, but there are no more than three light machine guns, let alone heavy machine guns.
Except for the two infantry battalions on both sides that began to move toward the wings, the three infantry battalions in the middle stopped, and one infantry battalion tentatively started an attack under the cover of four heavy machine guns on each side.
Until the infantry battalion advanced to only 150 meters away from the Japanese position, there was no trace of the Japanese heavy machine gun firepower. At this time, the only weapons the Japanese army could bring out were only three that were suppressed by 8 heavy machine guns and had to be moved around.
The heavy machine gun is just a few grenades firing in vain.
However, the effective range is only 500 meters, which poses no threat to heavy machine gun positions that are specifically located 700 meters away.
Seeing that the Japanese army has been firing like this "to the point of death", they have advanced to a distance where they can charge to the death. They can neither see any strong firepower nor show the strength that an infantry regiment should have. Even if they are just
They had just been tortured by a round of artillery fire. But there were more than 3,000 Japanese troops! It was impossible for them all to be killed by artillery shells! This is almost a fairy tale to anyone.
The leading infantry battalion major commander was a big man from Shandong. Seeing that his three main infantry companies had already entered within 120 meters, it only took fifteen seconds at the slowest for the entire army to rush into the Japanese trenches. "Hey, mother.
Damn it, no matter what tricks you are playing, I will fight like crazy with you today." The battalion commander, the major, gritted his teeth and thrust the Browning pistol he was holding tightly into the hands of the orderly who had been following closely beside him.
By the way, he grabbed a Hanyang-made weapon with a fixed bayonet from his hand, and shouted angrily: "Brothers, listen to me, put on the bayonet, follow me, the whole battalion charges, and the first row drops bombs from 40 meters away.
Throw the grenades on me at me, Li Ermao, blow the charge horn for me."
As the charge horn sounded, "Kill!" the infantry battalion commander wearing a major's collar roared and took the lead in charging toward the Japanese position with a bowed waist and a gun. Behind him was an infantry battalion of nearly 500 people, nearly 1,200 meters wide.
In front of the Japanese army position, they launched a desperate charge towards the Japanese army position that they had been unable to reach. No longer worried, no longer hesitant, under the leadership of their commander, they ran towards the unpredictable Japanese army position, and at the same time, they worked hard to shoot the barrel of the gun.
There are already loaded bullets in it.
The subsequent regiment commander and brigade commander probably did not expect that the infantry battalion under their command would charge so resolutely. With a sudden tightening of expressions, they ordered the heavy machine guns on both wings to use full firepower to suppress the Japanese trenches, and at the same time ordered the infantry moving on both wings to speed up.
Speed. This is a very safe attack method. If the Japanese army plays tricks, the two infantry battalions on both wings can contain part of its firepower, so that the infantry battalion that rushes into charge will not be completely annihilated.
The Japanese troops in the trenches were also crazy. Although the heavy machine gun bullets fired from the Chinese positions made the trenches smoke, there were still many people who desperately shot at the infantry battalion of the Third Army that was running towards them.
Shooting, the sound of gunfire resounded throughout the battlefield. In just seven or eight seconds, at least sixty or seventy soldiers fell to the ground while running along the entire charge line. Some rolled in pain, and some
, then there will be no sound.
However, no one stopped charging.
The so-called comrade-in-arms, in addition to being someone who allows you to trust him with your back, means that when he falls, you don't have to stare at him with tears and sadness, but instead, move in the direction in which he fell forward, and walk along his path.
The road not yet completed, move forward, move forward.