If Nishiki Yiichi here was hit by a bump on the head at Xifengguchi, although it was heartbreaking but not enough to seek death, Suzuki Mitsuchi over there in Luo Wenyu was so miserable that he would have died without searching.
Liu Lang took two infantry battalions of the Independent Regiment and three battalions of Tang Yongming, who had rested for more than an hour, and stopped 700 meters away from Suzuki Mitsuchi's main position. He did not dig any trenches and just asked everyone to
The soldiers simply dug a foxhole for themselves, so that they could avoid the enemy's machine guns at critical moments.
The battle line was wide open, and a total of more than 3,000 people surrounded the main position of the 4th Brigade from three sides, leaving an opening to the north.
Then, Zhao Ergou, who had completed the test firing, commanded the thirteen Japanese-style 41 mountain cannons he now had on hand to speak.
In order to increase the defense strength, the 4th Brigade concentrated its troops. The entire position was only a piece of land with a radius of more than 10,000 square meters, which was only the size of one and a half football fields. There were more than 2,000 troops in it.
Of course, the defensive strength of a dense formation like this is increased, but the room for strategic maneuver is small, especially if the enemy has a large number of artillery, such a position will undoubtedly seek destruction. When Liu Lang looked down at the 4th Brigade
Tuan huddled into a turtle-like position like this, almost laughing up to the sky a few times to express his inner joy. This was really like lighting a lantern in the toilet - actively seeking death.
However, this really cannot be said to be that Suzuki Mitsuchi is a super idiot. All the arrangements are a way to obtain death. In fact, this dignified Major General of the Imperial Japanese Army also wants to set up a defensive and offensive strategy, which makes people cautious at first glance.
A complete defensive position to stop jumping. However, that must have certain conditions!
It is said that he has more than 2,000 people under his command now. However, except for an infantry brigade that has not been used much as a reserve force, all the equipment is complete. They even have four infantry cannons. The remaining more than 1,000 people are from
Those who fled back in embarrassment during the attack not only lost all their heavy equipment, but many even lost their precious San Ba Gai in order to escape for their lives.
According to common sense, soldiers who lose their weapons on the battlefield must strictly enforce military laws. Not to mention that Suzuki Mitsuru did not dare to issue this order, and I am afraid that even Muto Nobuyoshi could not. The more than 1,400 people who escaped back are enough
Half of them came back with bare hands.
The remaining half are still dragging their guns, but having lost all their heavy firepower and confidence in victory, can they still be trusted like the former Imperial soldiers?
In other words, the actual strength of Suzuki Mitsuchi's hand was only that of the infantry brigade, and the rest of the defeated generals were just filling up the numbers. Naturally, the defense area of an infantry brigade cannot be too large, Suzuki Mitsuchi worried
In the end, all we can do is arrange the defensive positions like this.
Then, the remnants of the 4th Brigade on the position were unlucky.
What is the concept of thirteen 75MM cannons firing at the same time? Not to mention overwhelming! It is also breathtaking.
Those were just the people watching, only the Japanese soldiers in the position felt it the most profoundly. When 13 huge fireballs rose up on the position almost at the same time, countless human bodies were thrown away along with them.
The killing range of each shell is more than 15 meters in radius. The trenches dug by the Japanese army, which were only one and a half meters deep and the shallow anti-gun holes in them, could not defend against the huge power of the 75MM caliber mountain artillery shells.
As long as you are within the range of the mountain artillery, no matter you are hiding in the trench or hiding in the individual artillery cave, you cannot avoid the fate of being killed. The huge shock wave will lift off the Japanese troops in the trench, and at the same time, the shallow
The bomb-proof cave collapsed, burying the Japanese hiding inside alive.
Under Liu Lang's strict order, Zhao Ergou didn't care at all about the loss of artillery shells. Each cannon had 90 rounds of artillery shells, as if it was a waste of time.
More than a thousand artillery shells were fired for more than half an hour, plowing the small Japanese position back and forth several times.
Liu Langshang felt that the fireworks that kept blooming on the Japanese army's position were not gorgeous enough, so he transferred all the mortars he carried and threw them into the trenches of the 4th Brigade, which was already shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
This is actually as deadly as mountain artillery bombing. What is the gun that soldiers hiding in the trenches are most afraid of? It's not howitzers or cannons, but mortars and mountain artillery that can be used as curved cannons.
Howitzers and cannons are very powerful, but due to accuracy and ballistics they cannot accurately send the shells into the trenches. No matter how powerful the shock wave is, as long as the soldiers hide in the trenches, they will basically be fine, unless they have a small back.
Directly hit by an artillery shell in the trench.
But curve guns are different. What excellent representatives of curve guns like mortars are best at is sending shells into the trenches as accurately as throwing grenades.
The mountain cannon is an all-rounder that can be used as a direct aim or as a curved cannon, but the accuracy is not very good, and it mainly relies on power to win.
There were constant mountain artillery fire above their heads, and there were raindrops of mortars pounding down in the trenches. The defeated soldiers who had been chilled and lost their sense of honor as soldiers of the Japanese Empire were probably shattered. Since
If you can run the first time, you can run the second time.
After watching the remains of their companions being thrown into the sky again and again before their eyes, some of the defeated soldiers finally couldn't suppress their inner fear, jumped out of the trenches, and fled in a direction not surrounded by enemies.
Although I know that the Chinese will not be so kind and will let them go, escaping from this hell is the first priority. They are about to be bombed alive, so what will they think about in the future?
With one leader taking the lead, the defeated soldiers who had already been defeated rushed out of the trenches one after another and ran towards the north with an unknown destiny. There were so many people that even Colonel Gu Yi, who was personally responsible for suppressing the defeated soldiers, was killed with a pistol.
Several soldiers had to give up after that.
Because no one paid attention to him at all, even if he fired several shots and killed several people and were busy escaping, no one paid attention to the once heroic imperial soldiers, and didn't even have the intention to look back. They were like frightened rabbits, their heads
Without looking back, he got into the smoke that was still rising and ran towards the north.
"Baga, it's over, it's over, the 4th Brigade is over." Gu Yi collapsed in the trench.
He understood that what destroyed the 4th Brigade was not the shells flying from the sky, but themselves. From the time when they started to be deserters even though they were not afraid of death, the once invincible 4th Brigade was already finished.
Most of the Japanese soldiers who wanted to escape from hell were torn to pieces by the fierce artillery fire on the way. Only a few lucky ones broke out of their positions and ran into the distance without looking back.
However, according to post-war Japanese statistics, among the five people from Luo Wenyu's 4th Brigade who finally survived the expedition, one sergeant fell off a cliff and broke his leg during the march and was sent back to the division field hospital for escort by his companions.
Because of this, the two privates did not catch up with the battle and escaped death.
There was also a second lieutenant who was even more lucky. He was injured after a failed attack on Luo Wenyu Pass and escaped the Chinese military's attack because of his own artillery retaliation. The second lieutenant named Okada Koichi was as lucky as his name.
The air wave from the explosion of the artillery shell blew into a ravine, saving him from the bad luck of being torn apart by his own artillery fire. Although there were thousands of wounded soldiers on the position, no one had such good luck. Not only did Second Lieutenant Okada miraculously
He survived and escaped from the battlefield while it was dark.
I don't know whether it was because it was dark and he couldn't tell the direction or for some other reason. Okada did not return to the brigade position. Instead, he met the main force of the 8th Division after running away all night and hiking for more than 30 miles.
The last remaining quota belongs to the thousands of deserters who braved artillery fire to escape and completely collapsed the position.
Yes, only one person was still alive in the end. The others were either torn to pieces by artillery fire, exhausted and frozen to death in the early spring morning in northern China, or were beaten by the 29th Army who had blocked their way.
Hunted like rabbits on the mountain roads of northern China.
Qi Guangyuan, the only one left in his family in Heilongjiang, had no intention of taking prisoners of war.
Because of this battle, Qi Guangyuan became sixth on the Japanese generals' must-kill list, far surpassing many lieutenant generals and generals in the national army.
In fact, the lucky man who escaped the battlefield and saved his life still went to the military court, and the entire Japanese people pleaded for him, but in the end he was shot.
The deserters who fled the battlefield despite artillery fire were all wiped out.
In the 4th Brigade, only four lucky or unlucky people survived.