A thousand meters away, on a hill beside the highway, two old Japanese soldiers, Minamoto Yoshige and Nagumo Chiichiro, were holding binoculars and watching the battlefield.
In the field of view of the telescope, the highway and the hillsides on both sides of the highway were littered with corpses of Japanese soldiers. The blood flowing from the Japanese soldiers almost dyed the highway and the hillsides red. Seeing this scene, the two of them were shocked.
The old devil's face looked a little unsightly. The casualties were really too great!
But there was no way, because Ananweiji gave them a death order. Ananweiji told them clearly that if they could not recapture Zijingguan before dawn tomorrow, they would have to commit seppuku. It was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
How many minutes? There will only be sixteen hours at most until dawn tomorrow.
Fortunately, the sacrifice of the First Infantry Battalion was not without cost.
At least, the remaining two hundred or so remaining soldiers have broken into the Chinese position!
Minamoto Yoshige and Nagumo Kinichiro have reason to believe that as long as the Japanese officers and soldiers break into the Chinese defensive positions, it will mean the end of the battle. Because in hand-to-hand combat, the Chinese have never been their opponents. This has been done before.
It has been proven in countless battles, and I think there will be no exception this time.
Thinking of this, the two old devils couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, the expressions of the two old devils became embarrassed again.
Because they suddenly discovered that the facts seemed to be somewhat different from their imagination. After the remaining 200-odd soldiers of the First Infantry Brigade broke into the Chinese defensive position, the battle did not end immediately, and the Japanese army did not perform well in hand-to-hand combat.
The advantages of chopping melons and vegetables are even at a disadvantage!
"Nani?" Yuan Yishong's eyes widened instantly, and veins bulged in his hands holding the telescope.
The 8th Independent Mixed Brigade has been fighting in the North China battlefield since its formation. It has never been to the Central China battlefield, and has never had the opportunity to see the performance of the independent regiment in hand-to-hand combat. This is the first time I saw Minamoto Yishige.
I simply can’t believe that there are actually Chinese troops who can defeat the Japanese army in hand-to-hand combat?
"Bagagaru!" Nagumo Kinichiro cursed fiercely after he saw it clearly.
Then, Nagumo Kinichiro gritted his teeth and said to Minamoto Yoshishige: "Minamoto Yoshishige, the combat effectiveness of the Chahar Independent Regiment is well-deserved. It seems that the First Infantry Brigade cannot withstand it. If you don't do one thing, you won't stop doing the other, so why not
Order the supporting firepower and artillery brigade to carry out indiscriminate bombardment on the fighting area and kill them all!"
"Yeah." Yuan Yi nodded heavily, "I have no choice but to do this."
"Yo Xi!" Nagumo Kinichiro nodded happily, then turned to order the messenger behind him, "Order, the 8th Heavy Machine Gun Squadron, the 15th Heavy Machine Gun Squadron, the 15th Independence Mountain Artillery Battalion, and the artillery of the stationed tank convoy.
Team, immediately launch indiscriminate shooting at the front combat area!"
"Hai!"
…
On the battlefield ahead.
The brutal hand-to-hand combat continues.
The bravery of the Independent Regiment is vividly demonstrated by the company commander Xu Cenxi. So far, he has killed at least eleven Japs, including two officers!
"Go to hell!" Xu Cenxi stabbed the Japanese soldier who was rushing towards him with a thrust, shocking him to the core, and then kicked the seriously injured and dying Japanese soldier to the ground.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Chunxi was about to find the next target when he suddenly noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
When he looked back quickly, Xu Chunxi was surprised to see that on the Japanese support position 500 meters away, all the heavy machine guns had opened fire violently. Almost at the same time, the short scream of the shells blazing through the air also pierced the top of his head.
In the void, in an instant, Xu Cenxi's pupils shrank sharply, and the Japanese-looking devils shot indiscriminately?
The next moment, Xu Chunxi roared in an extremely sad voice: "I have them all, lie down, lie down quickly..."
Unfortunately, before Xu Cenxi could say the second word "fall", the enemy's machine gun firepower had already been poured out. In an instant, crisscrossing bullet trajectories visible to the naked eye had gathered.
It formed a big net, covering the entire battlefield. In the big net of iron and blood, the Japanese soldiers and the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment who were fighting to the death fell like weeds.
Xu Chunxi was also hit by one of the bullets. His strong body first trembled violently, and then he fell straight backwards.
Immediately afterwards, rows of cannonballs fell down.
In the blink of an eye, the dazzling red light, smoke and dust produced by the explosion of the artillery shells filled the entire battlefield. Faced with the sudden machine gun fire and artillery bombardment, both the Japanese and the independent regiment officers and soldiers were ill-prepared.
Before they could react, they were mowed down by machine guns and completely enveloped in the smoke of exploding artillery shells.
…
After seeing this scene, Yuan Yishige's face finally showed a trace of an extremely ferocious smile.
Then, Minamoto Yoshige turned to Nagumo Kinichiro and said: "Nagumo-kun, the first line of defense has been broken through. In order to save time as much as possible, let's let the garrisoned battle fleet also join the attack later, right?"
"Let the chariot team also go into attack?" Nagumo Kinichiro hesitated after hearing this, "Should we slow down first?"
Minamoto Yoshishige then said: "Nanyun-kun, I know you are worried. If the chariot fleet suffers losses, then when the main force of the Chahar Independent Regiment arrives, we will not be able to use equivalent chips to stop the opponent's attack.
The tanks are swarming."
"Minamoto Yoshi-kun, aren't you worried?" Nagumo Kinichiro frowned, "There are various signs that the Chahar Independence Regiment is indeed equipped with a large number of Soviet-made tanks. If there is no equivalent bargaining chip to prevent Chahar's independence,
The regiment's tanks, even if we recapture Zijingguan in time, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold it."
The task assigned to the two of them by Anan Weiji is not only to recapture the Bauhinia Pass, but also to hold the Bauhinia Pass until the follow-up reinforcements arrive. However, if the only chariot fleet is exhausted in the offensive operation, when Chahar becomes independent
When the main force of the regiment rushes over, what else can they do to stop the opponent's tank group?
Yuan Yizhong said: "Nanyun-kun, you have also seen the battle just now. Just to break through the first line of defense of the China Army, we lost an entire infantry brigade, and from here to Zijin Pass, there are at least five more
Kilometers away, how many layers of defense will there be in these five kilometers?"
After a pause, Minamoto Yoshitaka continued: "If one infantry brigade is lost at each level of defense, how many troops will be left when we advance to Zijin Pass? However, the more important thing is that one defense and one defense
How long will it take to push the defense line past the Bauhinia Pass? Eight hours? Twenty hours or more?"
Nagumo Kinichiro then fell silent, because Minamoto Yoshige's worries were justified.
Minamoto Yoshitaka said with a gloomy face: "Nanyun-kun, if we can't capture the Bauhinia Pass in time and stop the Chahar Independent Regiment's advance through the Bauhinia Pass natural barrier, what's the use of keeping the entire garrisoned chariot fleet?
?You don’t think that by spreading out the garrisoned combat convoys on the road, you can stop the advancement of the Chahar Independent Regiment’s tank cluster, do you?”
"Okay." Nagumo Kinichiro was convinced, nodded and said, "Then let the chariot team participate in the next attack."
At that moment, Minamoto Yoshitaka turned around and said to a Japanese colonel standing behind him: "Suzuki-kun, I'll leave it to you to station the chariot fleet for the next attack."
"Hai!" Suzuki Jiro, the captain of the stationed chariot team, said with a heavy heart, "I understand."
Watching Suzuki Jiro's figure go away, Minamoto Yoshishige raised the telescope in his hand again, and while adjusting the focus to observe the enemy positions farther ahead, he said to Nagumo Kinichiro: "Nagumo-kun, what about the next period of time?"
, just let me quietly enjoy the wonderful performance of the stationed chariot fleet on the battlefield!"
"Yoshi." Nagumo Kinichiro nodded happily.
…
By this time, the smoke shrouding the battlefield ahead had dispersed.
Tieniu struggled to move away the two Japanese corpses that were pressing on him, and struggled to sit up. He felt his head was dizzy. This was a typical concussion symptom. He had just been affected by the impact of a Japanese artillery shell.
The only good thing is that the fragments of the cannonball were caught by the two Japs on his body, otherwise he would have been blown to pieces.
After shaking his head, Tieniu finally regained consciousness. When he looked again, he saw a horrific sight like purgatory. He saw that the entire position was littered with corpses, and not a single one was complete as far as the field of vision could see.
They were all broken limbs, including the remains of their brothers from the third company, but most of them were the remains of the little Japanese.
Moreover, the entire position seemed to be dead, with no smell of living people at all.
"Is anyone alive?" Even though Tieniu is a veteran who has experienced many battles, there is a hint of crying in his shouts at this moment, "Is anyone gasping for breath? Say something! If there is someone alive, please say something!"
"
Unfortunately, the entire position was still dead silent, without any response.
"Is there anyone alive?" Tieniu still didn't give up, crawling on the battlefield while continuing to howl, "Is there anyone alive? Is there anyone who can still breathe? You should just squeak..."
The iron bull crawled and howled in despair.
Finally, after he crawled forward for more than fifty meters, he finally heard a low cough.
After determining the location, Tieniu immediately crawled over with his hands and feet as fast as possible, and moved several corpses of the Japanese away, and then a figure with a face covered in blood was revealed.
"Company Commander?!" Tieniu immediately shouted in surprise.
Unexpectedly, it was Xu Chunxi who was dug out of the dead body by Tieniu.
"Tieniu." Xu Chunxi was obviously seriously injured and said weakly, "I can't do it anymore, so the second company will be left to you. From now on, you will be the company commander..."