But this is not all the current disadvantages of the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment. They are also at a disadvantage when shooting at the Japanese troops lying on the ground. It is not that they are not brave enough. Many soldiers bravely raised their heads in order to choose a better aim.
He braced himself and started shooting at the Japanese soldiers.
However, under the numerous flares fired by the Japanese army, many young soldiers were shot and fell down. Among the seventeen permanent divisions of the Japanese army, the Sixth Division was said to be as close as the 2nd Division.
The Guards Division exists side by side, and the tactical literacy of their soldiers, both collectively and individually, is far superior to the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment. Just because they can fire more than 200 rounds of live ammunition training every month is not the same as the officers and soldiers of the 152nd Regiment, who can only fire 20 rounds a year.
Live fire training is beyond comparison.
If it weren't for the fact that more than one-third of the 152nd Regiment were veterans who had participated in many civil wars among the warlords in Sichuan Province, we might as well have just killed the new recruits who were shot, leaving those soldiers who were on the battlefield for the first time.
They had a psychological breakdown.
In the face of terrible death, sometimes the psychological quality of human beings cannot be improved. Even if the concept of protecting the home and country is deeply rooted in the bone marrow, it is human instinct to save life and survive. Boundless fear may overwhelm people's thinking and even run away.
It's all just a subconscious behavior.
This is an inevitable learning process. The officers and soldiers of the 43rd Army Sichuan Army who had never dealt with the Japanese army learned with blood and sacrifice, learned how to fight the cruel and cunning Japanese army, learned how to overcome the fear of death, learned to protect themselves and kill
Dead enemy... If you can't learn it, you will only be eliminated by your opponent in the war.
Of course, the cost of this kind of learning is undoubtedly extremely heavy. In just the first round of all-out attack and testing by the Japanese army, the 152nd Regiment paid the price of destroying 3 heavy machine guns, 1 mortar was hit by mountain artillery, and the infantry was
More than 150 people were injured and killed in the artillery fire, and more than 80 people were killed on the spot by bullets during the exchange of fire. Almost one and a half infantry companies were removed from the 152nd Regiment.
Fortunately, not only did the Japanese army have mountain artillery, but the 152nd Regiment also had mountain artillery. He was also ruthless in breaking the foundation. Although the entire regiment's defense line was firmly suppressed by the Japanese army, he actually gritted his teeth and remained silent until the Japanese infantry completely entered.
Within 100 meters in front of the first line of defense, four mountain cannons were ordered to fire with full force at the 100 meters in front of the position.
That was the artillery attack point that he and the artillerymen had discussed long ago. In order to ensure accuracy, after digging the trenches in front, all soldiers and civilians withdrew to 800 meters away. The artillerymen even did not hesitate to waste a few artillery shells to attack the area.
After the test firing, Xie Guji's bet was that even if the landing point of the mountain artillery shells was wrong, our own officers and soldiers were also in the trenches, so the probability of accidental damage was much smaller.
Moreover, the dark night provided excellent cover for the four mountain cannons. The observation balloons that could not be raised and the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft that could not take off could not accurately locate the four mountain cannons. Even if the Japanese army could calculate the approximate position of the mountain cannons in the near future through ballistics.
, that happened a long time ago, and the artillery positions protected by the city wall of Cangcheng had long been moved.
It has to be said that the Type 41 mountain gun is very suitable for mountain warfare. Not only is the ballistic trajectory accurate, but it is also very light. With the weight of the gun mount weighing more than 500 kilograms, four adults can drag it around and move it anywhere. Kubo Masamori can never
Thinking that the Chinese were waiting for him here, waiting for his soldiers to enter the distance where they could almost charge with all their strength, the Chinese mountain artillery opened fire.
When the ear-piercing whistle sounded, Kubo Masamori's face suddenly turned pale, and four fireballs suddenly bloomed in an area of 70 to 80 meters on the frontal position. Although they did not completely hit the Japanese army, they were still in a crawling state and were shooting at the Chinese defenders.
sequence, but there were still five or six Japanese soldiers at the front who were blown away by the air waves and fell heavily to the ground.
At the moment when the Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground, their faces were really similar to the color of the earth very close to them, their faces were earth-colored. Not only did the Chinese have large-caliber artillery, but they also frantically started shelling at the moment when the two armies were fighting.
But the key point is that the Chinese are hiding in the trenches. Even if it explodes twenty or thirty meters in front of them, it may not do anything to them, but if they fall into their sequence, then...
Then they are doomed.
This is the water town in the south of the Yangtze River in China, not the hills and mountains in North China. Especially in the Taihang Mountains, they can still find a ravine or a rock to hide in. The biggest bunker in front of them is just a small bunker with a height of at most 20 centimeters.
Mound of dirt. That thing is not even bulletproof, but can it also be bulletproof?
Obviously, this can always only be a fantasy.
When five seconds later, four artillery shells flew again and smashed into the Japanese army, which was five or six meters apart between individual soldiers, directly taking away the lives of more than fifteen people. If this continues, it will not take long
, this artillery shell alone can wipe out all the Japanese troops in two infantry squadrons.
This is no longer an embarrassing question, but a fatal question. The road before Kubo Masamori has only two choices, either, continue to advance despite the artillery fire and maintain the previous battle plan; or, the entire army retreats
, waiting for the heavy artillery of the division's artillery wing to find the Chinese firing position and suppress it before launching another attack.
He believed that the wise and powerful division commander at the rear must have discovered their predicament and would find a solution.
The Japanese army colonel was right. Hisao Tani, who had been observing the fighting situation on the opposite side with a telescope, immediately discovered that artillery fire appeared in the fighting area between the two sides. After calling and asking if his own artillery regiment had fired, of course he knew this.
It's Chinese artillery.
According to his military order, in the shortest time, 12 howitzers of the Sixth Artillery Regiment of the Sixth Division began to prepare for fire coverage. The artillery observers tried hard to find the approximate direction of the Chinese artillery based on the ballistics. However, under the artillery radar,
In those days, how easy was it to find an artillery position several kilometers away in the dark night?
Hisao Tani, who was angry and ordered his subordinates to conduct night battles and was not good at night battles, was livid at this time. No one knew whether the lieutenant general felt a trace of regret in his heart. Everyone just knew that he did not overstep his command and ordered Masamori Kubo ahead.
Whether to continue the attack or retreat.
Before the 6th Artillery Regiment struggled to find artillery positions to counter-suppress the Chinese, all the decision-making power for the battle on the river bank ahead was handed over to Kubo Masamori. And Kubo Masamori could only grit his teeth and say, "Everyone.
"Continue to attack harder, and it won't be long before you can drink a lot of wine and eat a lot of meat" was the military order.
This military order was very cruel. Soldiers from both China and Japan had to risk their lives to fight amidst the hail of artillery fire. The shells did not have eyes. If they landed 100 meters away, they could tear the Japanese into pieces, but if they landed 20 meters away,
Within the range, terrible shrapnel can also claim the lives of soldiers of the 152nd Regiment. During this period, a mountain artillery shell even landed directly above the regiment command post in the second-line trench 150 meters behind the first-line position. If the soil had not been enough,
Well, I am afraid that this illustrious anti-Japanese hero who will be listed in the list of anti-Japanese heroes in the future will be killed by our own artillery.
But Kubo Masasori was ruthless, and Xie Guji, a native of Sichuan, was equally ruthless. When they saw that the Japanese army dared to continue the attack despite artillery fire, they ordered without blinking an eyelid: "Order, the artillery continues to shell the designated area. All officers and soldiers of the regiment in the trenches will not do anything."
No one is allowed to retreat without military orders. I want to see how hard the Sixth Division's Japanese troops are. At the same time, I order all the heavy machine gun groups to give me a hard hit if the Japanese army enters the 40-meter area without fear of exposing the target."
"Regiment leader, if this happens, our regiment's few heavy machine guns will probably suffer heavy losses!" The regiment chief of staff beside him was shocked.
They said they were just going to be a blocker, but now it's like a decisive battle?
"Heavy losses? The Japanese are just stupid. If we can't pass this level, how can we have a chance to retreat to Songjiang? There are no people, and we need a hammer for the heavy machine gun." Xie Guji's eyes burst out.
"Inform me to the battalion commanders that they are in position. If they die, I and the chief of staff will go up and fight this battle as the last battle of the 152nd Regiment."
In the sky full of artillery fire, the Sichuan children who had gone from initial anxiety to fear to numbness and finally to all-out went crazy. Many comrades who had been with them day and night fell in a pool of blood like this, and they didn't even have time to care.
, which is to mechanically raise your head, aim and shoot at the Japanese soldiers who are accelerating in the artillery fire, then pull the bolt, aim again, and shoot again.
No one knows when a bullet or shrapnel will take away his life.
The remaining 10 mortars in the rear seemed to know that the battle on the front line had entered a fever pitch. They no longer hid and fled, but poured their shells directly towards the heavy machine gun firepower points passed by the artillery observers in the rear.
go.
Except for China's four farthest mountain artillery pieces, the 152nd Regiment on the river beach and the Japanese 13th Infantry Regiment's 1st Infantry Battalion are almost in a desperate situation at this moment. Even if you can kill me, I will bite you hard.
When you take one bite, you will tear off a long strip of meat.
I'm afraid that this was something that Kubo Masamori and Kazuo Ji had not expected before. It was just the development of the war situation that forced both of their regiment-level commanders to make such a helpless choice.
The first battle between the two turned into a decisive battle in which both sides would die together.
The so-called firepower advantage, tactical literacy, and geographical advantages are completely unimportant at this moment.
At this moment, what supports both sides to continue fighting is courage.
That's right, when two armies meet, the brave one wins.
When neither side can retreat, the army that abandons all fear and even hope for life can win the final victory.
When the Japanese army spent a lot of casualties and crawled to a distance of more than 40 meters where they could charge with all their strength, the Japanese army, which had suffered huge casualties and was red-eyed, had already fixed its bayonet and was just waiting for the officer leading the team to launch a "board" charge.
If they advance ten meters further, they can also throw melon grenades into the Chinese trenches, and then they will sprint with all their strength for six to seven seconds to rush into the Chinese trenches, using hand-to-hand combat to defeat all the fighting spirit of the Chinese defenders.
The company and platoon-level commanders of the 152nd Regiment who observed all this also asked the officers and soldiers to fix their bayonets, and they also made final preparations.
But no one expected that the appearance of a weapon would change the situation of grassroots soldiers on both sides preparing for the final battle.