Early morning on the second day of the Battle of Gushan.
China and Japan did not imagine that a fierce battle would break out when the sun jumped above the horizon.
The Japanese army was burning the remains of the soldiers killed yesterday on a large scale. Dozens of thick smoke proved that the Eighth Division was in pain. After gathering nearly 10,000 remains of the 4th Brigade in the past few days, they lost another one yesterday.
Thousands of people, a standard infantry brigade organization, thus disappeared from the structure of the Eighth Division.
What they got was just a broken hilltop whose top was blown down by ten centimeters, and a company of Chinese.
Moreover, they didn't even find a single Chinese corpse. They should have been blown into ashes by a total of more than 3,000 artillery shells fired by both sides. The damn Chinese even blew up their counterattack to avoid the artillery shells at the last moment.
The inclined tunnel is truly a genius mountain defense fortification.
Although Nishi Yiichi does not regret his decision to attack China's ancient mountain positions with heavy troops, if Nishi Yiichi had to choose the attack method again, he would no longer be superstitious about his artillery tactics. After seeing the Chinese army's anti-slope tunnel fortifications,
Afterwards, Nishi Yiichi has understood that artillery is not an unstoppable god of war for the Chinese. At least in this mountain defense battle, the Chinese have maximized their geographical advantages.
Seeing off thousands of Japanese troops were a brigade and a half of tens of thousands of Japanese troops who were about to participate in the attack on Luo Wenyu Pass. They watched their comrades turn into a plume of smoke and dissipate in the air. The Japanese troops, whose morale was low because they had suffered heavy losses again, were under the accumulation of hatred.
Regain your courage.
There were even dozens of middle- and lower-level Japanese officers at lieutenant level who wrote suicide notes on the spot and wrapped white cloth ribbons around their heads to express their determination to die.
As the supreme commander of the Eighth Division, Nishi Yiichi held his Lieutenant General's command sword and quietly looked at the thick black smoke rising from a dozen huge fires with an expressionless face.
Nishi Yiichi has given up the last bit of luck. If he wants to defeat the Chinese stationed on the defensive line in front of him, it is no longer possible to care about casualties. There is only one tactic left, a strong attack, a continuous strong attack, and use the advantage of his own numbers to fight with the Chinese.
Exchange, death for death, injury for injury, he still had the last two useless cards in his hand, and he already knew the Chinese's trump card, which was nothing more than reverse slope tunnel tactics and ancient equipment that could project explosive packets.
As long as they occupy the position on the top of the mountain and gain a firm foothold, the Chinese hiding in the tunnels can only become ground rats. No matter how deep they hide, they can only be dug out one by one and eliminated one by one. The casualties may be huge, but as long as they are eliminated
Seeing the Chinese army in front of Nishi Yiyi, who was already a little disappointed, everything was worth it.
Nishi Yiichi even had a feeling that if this army was allowed to return to China alive, they might one day become a serious problem for the empire.
It has to be said that Lieutenant General Nishi Yiichi is worthy of being the commander of the most elite division of the Kwantung Army. He quickly understood the weaknesses of the anti-slope tunnel tactics, and wisely gave up trying to break through Luo Wenyu Pass without causing too many casualties.
fantasy, and at the same time, he also decisively discerned the biggest weakness of the independent group.
Indeed, the number of independent regiments is too small. The entire defense line, including the 288th and 289th regiments, only has more than 7,000 people. However, the Japanese army plus the puppet troops have as many as 30,000 people. Even if the offensive and defensive sides are converted at a ratio of 2:1,
The Japanese army was able to achieve the result of annihilating Luo Wenyu's defenders at the cost of nearly half of their casualties.
Of course, the so-called data conversion is only the commander's calculation. The final decision on the battle situation is always the soldiers themselves. In fact, according to statistics after World War II, an army that can withstand a casualty rate of 30% without collapsing is already qualified.
Elite, the Japanese army is one of them.
In a battle, if the casualty rate exceeds 60%, the unit has lost its combat effectiveness. According to the military regulations of Western countries, surrender is allowed, although they often surrender when the casualty rate is 20 to 30%.
.This is also the reason why Nazi Germany established so many prisoner of war camps. If the Red Soviet Union had not been beaten into the home and system, I am afraid it would not be much better than the Western powers. After the German army made a lightning raid on the Red Soviet Union for six months,
Seven million Soviet troops were wiped out, but the vast majority stayed in prisoner-of-war camps and suffered torture.
On the Chinese battlefield, the elite Japanese army also won more victories than lost, defeating numerous national armies again and again. Most Chinese armies collapsed after suffering 20% casualties.
But the only army that has not retreated with 100% casualty rate and no one was captured or surrendered is only in China. Yao Changqing’s Baoshan Camp, Wang Mingzhang’s bloody battle in Tengxian... The lives of thousands of soldiers prove that China
The nation is inherited from the blood in the genes.
After five thousand years of ups and downs, the Yellow River civilization is still able to stand firm in the tide of history, unlike countless civilizations that were submerged in the dust of history. This in itself proves the strong vitality of the Chinese nation.
A Japanese nation that can sustain 30% casualties and still continue to fight encounters a Chinese nation that is on the verge of collapse when it has not yet awakened, but is able to fight to the death without retreating when the blood in its bones breaks out. What kind of splendid situation will it encounter?
spark?
The two Chinese and Japanese commanders didn't know, nor did the Chinese and Japanese high-level officials who were paying attention to this battle, nor did the 40 million Chinese who followed this through newspapers.
Perhaps, no one can know that this battle is purely a battle of death.
The powerful Japanese swore an oath in front of the fire that burned their compatriots into ashes, while the Chinese could only look into the distance with silent sadness.
The ancient mountain a few miles away is close at hand yet far away. All 206 officers and soldiers of the death-defying company died there.
From the moment the radio station went silent, although it was hard for everyone to believe it, they had to accept the cruel fact that the death-defying company had disappeared from the independent regiment.
Zhou Shiyu and his 16 "deserters" and 189 bandits were all killed in battle. Moreover, they could not pay homage to their comrades like the Japanese invaders. They could only stand in silence for a few miles
Outside, he stared silently at the mountain top mixed with the flesh and blood of his comrades.
"Salute." Liu Lang looked back, his eyes filled with frost, looking at the soldiers standing neatly behind him, and roared.
"Wow!" Hundreds of officers and soldiers saluted the ancient mountain. There is Cangshan, where the blood of comrades flows, and there is Cangshan, which is integrated with the comrades. That military salute is not only to Cangshan, but also to the comrades.
The robe is also given to myself.
If they could, they would also be willing to spread their blood all over the Cangshan Mountains at their feet, and be willing to integrate their flesh and blood with the passes built by their ancestors, just to kill all the Japanese invaders and prevent them from returning their armor.
"Shot."
Along the entire ten-mile defense line, thousands of guns were fired into the sky. It was a salute to see off the warriors, and it was also a declaration of war by the more than 7,000 soldiers of the Third Regiment against the Japanese invaders.
Come on, we'll wait for you here, with the steel guns in our hands.
An arrogant Chinese, Xi Yi clenched the handle of the knife in his hand, his veins showing.