This was the first shelling attack by the Chinese all day.
But this shelling was too deadly. Although the power of the 75mm mountain cannon was not as powerful as the 150mm howitzer, for the Japanese troops who had no place to hide, even a small mortar could make them bleed dry.
The artillery company that had fallen into madness started from the top of the mountain. After feeling that the top of the mountain could no longer satisfy their anger, the artillery fire extended downwards along the position, catching up with the machine gunners and hurlers who were abandoning their equipment and running down the mountain like rabbits.
The cannon soldiers drowned them in the sky full of artillery fire.
What shone red in the firelight was Nagakawahara Kan's dumbfounded face.
The 3rd Brigade still had two or three big cats and kittens left, but the 2nd Brigade was blown to ashes by the Chinese artillery fire in front of his eyes.
The 16th Brigade had already lost half of its force before even engaging the main force of the Chinese. One infantry brigade completely lost its combat effectiveness, and the other, together with their brigade captain, became the one they were determined to plant their military flag on.
Fertilizer on the hilltop.
Zhou Shiyu and the eight wounded soldiers he led became the most dazzling fireworks in this era. The machine gun platoon leader wrote their names in a telegram and sent it to the independent regiment headquarters.
In fact, Zhao Ergou's artillery battery was not so relaxed. Their bombardment quickly attracted retaliation from the Japanese artillery. The howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade and the mountain artillery of the 8th Artillery Regiment launched a crazy attack in the direction of the artillery company that dared to fire.
shelling.
As the saying goes, those who are ruthless are afraid of those who are aggressive, those who are aggressive are afraid of those who are stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of losing their lives. The artillery company, which was mentally stimulated by the daredevil company's bravery to fire at me, had only one idea at the moment, to kill the people on the mountain.
Japanese, as for the others, we will talk about them later.
The artillery company that was determined to bury all the Japanese soldiers on the ancient mountain for its comrades ignored the crazy revenge of the Japanese army and persisted in firing artillery shells full of hatred into the hill stained with the blood of Chinese and Japanese soldiers.
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It's like three people fighting with bayonets. The artillery company definitely can't win in a 1V2 battle, but if you want to kill me, I can, and I have to kill you first.
Of course, the protection of the mountains where the Great Wall is located is also one of the reasons why the artillery company dared to be so bold. Except for two mountain cannons that were exploded 40 meters away by a 240MM howitzer and were overturned. Eight artillerymen were killed and ten were injured. The other artillery was crazy.
Completed that crazy mission.
A total of 600 rounds of artillery shells plowed the small ancient mountain from top to bottom, and from bottom to top, back and forth several times, and the shelling lasted for nearly an hour.
In the midst of the rumbling gunfire from both sides, Liu Xueyuan, a beautiful reporter from the "Beiping People's Daily", wrote the second battlefield diary in tears on this night when everyone was sad.
On March 22, the 22nd year of the Republic of China, it was a good day as expected, but the clouds of war that shrouded the battlefield finally fell. The Japanese invaders chose an isolated mountain called Gushan directly in front of the Luo Wenyu Pass for their first round of attack.
There are 206 officers and soldiers of the independent regiment's suicide company stationed above.
In this battle, the Japanese invaders dispatched a heavy artillery brigade with 150MM caliber howitzers and 240MM howitzers and the 8th Artillery Regiment with 36 mountain guns. Thousands of Japanese troops from the 16th Brigade were responsible for the ground attack.
Because of the strict order of Commander Liu of the Independent Regiment, I could not reach the front line. I could only look from a distance. Although I did not know what kind of crazy enemy attack the death company on the ancient mountain was going through, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The sound of guns and cannons on the ancient mountains inside and outside never stopped.
I could only tell from the increasingly serious face of Commander Liu of the Independent Regiment that the situation of the 206 officers and soldiers under his command was getting worse and worse. Later, I finally found out that after a day of fighting, the 206 people in the death-defying company were
Before the last telegram report to Commander Liu, there were only 57 people left, including one lieutenant, two second lieutenants, and four sergeants. This was just a platoon establishment. Before that, they had four infantrymen.
Arrange a reinforced company of a cannon platoon.
In fact, at this time, even though I was grieving, I was still happy. In such a crazy attack by the Japanese invaders, they achieved the record of defeating two enemy infantry brigades, killing and wounding not only hundreds of Japanese troops, but also dozens more.
It is indeed a blessing for our Chinese nation that the warriors survived.
Isn't it? Although I don't know much about military affairs, I also know how powerful the Japanese invaders are. During the September 18th Incident, a few thousand Japanese invaders were able to defeat hundreds of thousands of our Northeastern men and retreat from the three Northeastern provinces. Forty million
The people of the country were humiliated. But this time, the 206 soldiers of the death-defying company did it. They used their flesh and blood to kill thousands of Japanese invaders on the Great Wall defense line that their ancestors had spent their lives on.
"When the Qin Dynasty was bright and the moon was shining, when the Han Dynasty passed, the people who marched thousands of miles have not yet returned. But the flying generals of Dragon City are here, and they will not teach Hu Ma to cross the Yin Mountains." This poem was written to them.
Night is coming soon. According to the practice of the Japanese invaders whose equipment is much better than ours, they will not launch an attack at night. I thought these surviving warriors would have the opportunity to receive praise from their countrymen and medals representing the honor of soldiers.
, I have even thought about shaking hands with each of them to express my highest respect for them as a citizen.
But, I was too naive.
The Japanese invaders, who suffered heavy losses, launched another crazy attack. The once green and beautiful ancient mountain has become a barren mountain, but the terrifying fireworks are still blooming on the top of the ancient mountain. No matter how strong the position is, it cannot withstand the raindrops of the Japanese invaders.
Like a cannonball!
But the warriors are still fighting, and the gunshots of their resistance are still reaching my ears through the space several miles away. Like every officer and soldier of the independent regiment staying in the trench, I pray to the sky that they can survive
In this last battle, I have already heard Commander Liu’s order that he would take a company of officers and soldiers to meet his death-defying company at night.
However, what I saw was that Commander Liu received a death message from the last second lieutenant officer of the death-defying company. He was already the highest officer on the top of Gushan Mountain.
He asked the artillery company of the independent regiment to fire on the top of the mountain without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy.
Yes, shoot, shoot me, that's what they asked.
This was also their last message. From then on, their radio station fell into silence. No matter how the signal soldiers at the independent regiment headquarters called, they never called back.
Commander Liu finally gave the order. Please forgive me, because my eyes have been blurred by tears. I couldn’t see Commander Liu’s face clearly. In other words, I didn’t dare to look into his eyes. I fired at my comrades as a soldier.
As a frontline commander, what kind of suffering is he enduring in his heart?
Even though, his figure with his back to me is still as tall as a mountain as usual.
But I seemed to hear crying. In the north wind in March, the pine forests all over the mountain seemed to be crying, for our heroic soldiers.
Let us always remember their names, Zhou Shiyu, the commander of the company who dared to die, Chang Zhan Datong, the commander of the company who dared to die...
Their names will forever be engraved under this beautiful starry sky. They are the cutest people of our time.
For unknown reasons, the Japanese army never reached the top of Gushan on this night.
Perhaps, they were afraid that picking up pale corpses everywhere in the watery moonlight would make the already low morale of the 16th Brigade even worse!
Or maybe it was too difficult to walk on the mountain, which was full of blood and mud, and Kan Nagakawa, whose legs were already heavy, could not place the brigade flag, which had been stained red with the blood of the Imperial Army of Japan, on the top of the ancient mountain.
From day to night, the Gushan position is always in the hands of the independent regiment's death squad.
Even though they have become one with the rocks and soil on the top of the mountain.