"Well done, the artillery platoon will have extra meals tonight!" Looking at the smoke rising from the telescope and the Japanese soldiers being submerged in the smoke, Wang Xiaoqiang was extremely satisfied. He waved his hand and said, "Why don't you say that today's trip was not in vain?
After taking a few shots from Te Liang's Japs, let's go and retreat first!"
"Captain, are we not going to fight the Japanese here today?" A captain and company commander scratched his head, puzzled.
After all, they had two infantry companies plus a mortar platoon, but they had to go around it with a lot of effort. If they failed again, I'm sorry for the sweat!
"Are you stupid? We have stabbed the enemy in the eyes. They will not fight us! Let me ask you, if they don't pay one thousand, they will pay five hundred. Can you, Captain Hu, stop them?" Wang Xiaoqiang glared.
"Withdraw!" The captain and company commander was very bachelor. Hearing what his regimental commander said, he acted immediately.
The infantrymen helped the artillerymen lift the mortars, and they all ran away in a flash.
In less than half an hour, at least two infantry squadrons and an infantry artillery squad aggressively surrounded us.
If we really want to trap the 300 people led by Commander Wang in this mountain, I am afraid that even if the entire army is not wiped out, they will suffer heavy losses.
Commander Wang Da, who had fired two shots first, didn't even know that his six shells had changed the direction of the entire battlefield, seriously injuring Yamashita, the top commander of the Second Mixed Brigade.
Yes, when Yota Yinto pounced on Yamashita, who had filled his cup and was blown away, he was surprised to find that his brigade commander, who was extremely intelligent and profound, was not dead but still alive.
However, it is actually only one step away from death.
Because the shell exploded about 10 meters away from Yamashita, the air wave formed only briefly knocked Yamashita out of breath, and did not cause fatal damage. The real fatal injury was a piece of shrapnel.
The sharp shrapnel cut a 20-centimeter-long gash in Yamashita's belly. Needless to say how deep it was, you could tell just by looking at his intestines.
The color of the intestines is really rich, especially when part of the intestines are covered with a lot of dust.
A group of panicked Japanese soldiers rushed over and carried their commander into a temporary medical center not far away. The military doctor could only tremble and clean the wound with alcohol and perform simple treatment, and did not even dare to suture it completely.
The military doctor knew very well that he, the brigade commander, might not have much time left. It was not because of the blood loss or the depth of the wound, but because the wound was contaminated and the chance of bacterial infection was as high as 99%.
For this disease, even in the best hospitals on the island, the mortality rate is as high as 80%, let alone in the wild.
Yamashita was also a tough guy. After surviving the wound treatment stage without anesthesia, he immediately called Into Yota Nakazuo and Yoshio Yoshio Yoritani, who were waiting outside the house, into the house.
The time lasted only three minutes, and no one knew what Yamashita told Zhongzuo and Shaozuo. All they knew was that neither Zhongzuo nor Shaozuo looked very good.
When Yota Into announced the military order of Yamashita, ordering Yoshio Yoritani to take over the command of the brigade, the Japanese officers present somewhat understood why Yota Into's face was so ugly.
According to the unwritten regulations within the Japanese army, command power is basically based on military rank. In an ordinary infantry brigade, the brigade commander is a major general, the chief of staff is a center left, and the two infantry regiment commanders are both major left. Because the brigade commander is
When the commander is handed over to one of the two infantry regiment commanders after being wounded or dead in battle, command will often be given to one of the two infantry commanders.
But in the Second Mixed Brigade, because there is no infantry regiment, it is basically a brigade-level establishment. There are no left-level officers in the entire brigade. There is only one artilleryman who can have the same rank as the brigade chief of staff, Yin Teng Youta.
Captain, regardless of rank or position, the person who should take over as commander should be Yota Yoto. Unexpectedly, the commander was given to Yoshio Yoriya. It's strange that Yota Yoto, the center-left chief of staff, has such a good face.
However, Yoshio Laigu has risen to become the supreme commander of the entire brigade, so why does his face look as ugly as if he had eaten a piece of dog shit?
However, considering the current situation of the brigade, which is almost surrounded by enemies from all sides, it is understandable that Lai Gu Yinan's face is not so good.
Although his face was ugly, Yoshitani Yoshio still carried out his mission and issued military orders in an orderly manner. He only waited until everyone left the new temporary headquarters before he bowed his head to Yotai Yin Teng with a bitter look on his face: "
The safety of Your Majesty the Brigade Commander depends entirely on you, Chief of Staff, and Yoshio Raitani will live up to the trust entrusted by Your Majesty the Brigade Commander."
"Laitani-kun, take care!" Yota Yin Teng looked stiff and nodded.
If possible, he would actually be willing to make an exchange with the man in front of him.
But perhaps, the Army young leftist in front of him also thinks so.
The reason is actually very simple. Before Yamashita fell into coma, he gave the command to Yoshio Yoritani. That was to ask Yoshio Yoritani to lead the remaining troops to defend and wait for reinforcements. By now, almost all senior officers in the brigade knew that the defense was true.
But waiting for help may be just a beautiful dream.
However, Yota Into, who did not receive command authority, had a more important task: commanding the squadron directly under the brigade headquarters to protect the brigade headquarters' retreat.
The apparent reason was, of course, that the brigade had a military flag bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor and could not fall into the hands of the enemy, but in reality, Yamashita, who had suffered heavy losses, wanted to run away.
If he had not been injured, Yamashita, an intelligent general, might still be able to face death in battle calmly, but people are so strange. When death is still far away, he is not particularly afraid of death, but as he gets closer to death, he becomes more and more afraid of death.
Fear of death.
Seeing the horrified look in the military doctor's eyes when he looked at his wound, Yamashita aroused an extremely strong desire to survive at that moment. In order to ensure that he could survive well after falling into a coma, Yamashita chose Yoto Yinto as the chief of staff.
His own 'guard captain', but his close confidant Yoshitani Yoshio became his replacement brigade commander.
There is also Yamashita's consideration in this. As long as Yin Teng Youta wants to survive, he must take him, the brigade leader, out of this mountain, otherwise he will become a fugitive general. After all, under his order, this
Verbal military orders were not written into battle reports.
As his trusted general, Yoshitani Yoshio will definitely carry out his military orders, lead all the remaining troops to defend to the end, attract the main force of the Chinese, and create a basis for survival for the more than 200 imperial officers and soldiers who fled into the mountains.
To put it bluntly, this is abandoning soldiers to save vehicles. If the brigade commander and brigade chief of staff are not dead, the second mixed brigade will only be severely damaged instead of being surrounded and annihilated, and its establishment will be cancelled.
However, Yoshio Yoriya, who is doomed to die, and Yota Yinto, who has a chance to survive, are both in pain, and neither of them is happy.
Yin Teng Youta knew that if he broke into the mountains like this, he would be intercepted and hunted by the Chinese army at all levels. Even if he could survive, the responsibility for the defeat of the brigade would most likely fall on him, the chief of staff of the brigade.
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Not only would he personally be subject to a military court, but even his family would be implicated. Instead, it would be better to die heroically like Yoshitani Yoshio, and the empire would not only not blame him, but would also grant him a posthumous military rank.
Unless, he can open a big hole in his belly like Yamashita, who was already seriously injured and unconscious.
He was seriously injured and comatose due to a fierce battle with the Chinese, which is a good excuse.
If Yoshitani Lai knew what this person was thinking, he might spit on the center-left chief of staff's face and say: It's better to die than live. If not, let's switch!
Nodding to each other, the two senior Japanese officers with heavy hearts said goodbye and embarked on their own paths of no return.
Throughout the day, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade did not conduct any further offensives, but resumed civil engineering operations based on the newly constructed defense lines of the Japanese army in the encirclement.
The Japanese army, which had lost most of its heavy firepower, could only watch helplessly but was helpless, even though they knew very well that perhaps waiting for them tomorrow would be another overwhelming package of explosives dropped by the Chinese.
Yoshio Raitani once tried hard to conduct a surprise attack with a small force to destroy the civil engineering operations of the Chinese army. However, Tang Dao had long been prepared to prevent the Japanese army from jumping over the wall. The firepower points constructed by various light and heavy machine guns were not to mention the Japanese troops rushing out of the trenches.
Nothing is safe in the trenches.
For the first time, the Japanese army felt the despair of being suppressed by firepower!
I just want to crush you with firepower, not rely on human lives. The Chinese soldiers surrounding you are high-spirited and full of confidence!
Xiangyue Qingshi in Lucheng and Shanshanyuan in Pingbeicheng had no choice but to order the front army aviation to do their best to support. The Japanese army aviation, which had enough twenty fighter planes, really only dared to drop bombs at an altitude of 2,000 meters this time.
, the ill-aimed bombs posed almost no threat to the Chinese army, which already had sufficient trench protection.
The successor commander of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, Yoshitani Yoshio, was desperate and had no choice but to ask the Army Aviation to stop dropping bombs and instead drop ammunition and food supplies.
This was not to hurt others but to save yourself first, and it was also a move that allowed the Japanese army to persist long enough in the encirclement.
It's a pity that even bombs cannot be dropped accurately at an altitude of 2,000 meters, let alone all kinds of supplies hanging from parachutes.
When the mountain wind blows, at least one third of it falls on the Chinese position.
The Chinese soldiers on the front lines were not polite when they saw the Japanese troops giving away food for free. They were very enthusiastic about making canned beef. Some infantry battalions even gave out 2 taels of white wine to each soldier if they could.
We were here for an outing and almost made the Japanese soldiers on the front line faint.
The morale of the two sides was extremely different, and the commanders of the Japanese army were already exhausted. In the evening, a shocking news spread among the Japanese army.
'Your Excellency, the brigade commander, was seriously injured in the attack. He has withdrawn into the mountainous area under the protection of the brigade chief of staff, Yin Tengyota, and the brigade's escort squadron. Now, the commander of the brigade's first infantry brigade, Yoshio Yoshio, is in charge of the entire army.
commander!'
As the saying goes: Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles! The spread of 'rumors' was as fast as the plague. It took almost less than an hour for it to spread to all the Japanese troops in the encirclement.
As soon as I heard that the top two bosses of the brigade had deserted, they were left to fight against the Chinese, and they were clearly acting as scapegoats for the boss. How could the morale of the army not be shaken?
After receiving the news, Yoshio Raitani was shocked and angry. As the current supreme commander of the Second Mixed Brigade, how could he not know that this 'rumor' was the truth?
But those who know the truth are that there are less than 10 people in the entire brigade, including five infantry captains and four cavalry, artillery, engineering and carriage captains. This news cannot come from other sources, only these few high-ranking people
Those with authority take the initiative to leak information.
But what good would it do them to leak such confidential information?
Some of them want to live and don't want to be scapegoats in vain.
This is the truth!
Yoshio Raitani's forehead was covered with cold sweat as he thought about this, but for a moment he was at his wits' end.
This was also a fatal mistake made by Yamashita after suffering a heavy blow. He only considered that Yoshio Yoritani was a confidant and would resolutely carry out his military orders. However, he did not expect that Yoshio Yoritani himself was just a young leftist. How could he rely on a young man?
Military orders can suppress so many officers at the same level as him or even higher?
And this fatal mistake finally broke out near evening.
The unmotivated Japanese troops actually took the initiative to leave their positions and enter the mountainous areas, and not just a few or dozens, but units at the infantry squadron level.
This situation was immediately detected by Ming Xin and Shen Laoliu, who were still lurking on the peak, and quickly reported the information to the regiment headquarters.
"Hey! The Japanese collapsed so quickly?" Tang Dao was also a little surprised.
This situation is really different from what he knew about the Japanese army. You must know that although the Japanese army is now completely at a disadvantage and will be wiped out sooner or later, the Japanese army is by no means the type to collapse without a fight. Even if it is defeated, it will fight with all its strength.
A ruthless character who bites his opponent.
If this is true, it can only mean that there is a big problem within the Japanese army. Although Tang Dao did not know that it was because Wang Xiaoqiang and Xia Jiba fired a few shots that knocked Yamashita unconscious, he still made a keen judgment and got the right direction.
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"Order, the artillery battalion bombards the Japanese defense line with full firepower for ten minutes. The engineer company will deploy as many thunder mines as possible to hit them first. All infantry are on standby. If the Japanese army retreats, they will immediately attack across the board." Tang Dao knew that the fighter planes were slightly manipulated.
Although it was not completely certain that the Japanese army was on the verge of collapse, they still decisively issued military orders.
"In addition, I sent a message to Brigadier Cheng, asking them to prepare to completely annihilate the current enemy. Maybe we don't have to wait until early tomorrow morning. Today, we can have a celebratory drink!"
"Team leader, could this be intentional by the Japanese army to lure our army into taking the initiative to attack before we are fully prepared to inflict enough damage on our army?" Gu Shaoxun, who returned from the second battalion, was slightly worried.
"The Japanese are very proud. They have never regarded us Chinese soldiers as opponents, so they have never thought of killing the other side's soldiers. Even now, their purpose is obvious, and they are waiting for help! Besides, I am four
The regiment will not overwhelm all the infantry at once, so to be honest, this trick has no practical significance." Tang Dao thought for a moment, shook his head and rejected Gu Shaoxun's suggestion.
"Yes, I agree with the commander's decision. Fighters are fleeting!" Ye Chenghuan took the initiative to answer. "If the Japanese army wants to escape, this dusk is their last time. After tonight, they will be unable to fly."
"Haha, but the Japanese have absolutely no idea that the mountain behind them is the real place of death!" Zhuang Shisan, the director of the Munitions Department who rarely spoke, said with a smile, perhaps because he was in a good mood.
The battlefield ended one day earlier, and the burden on his shoulders as the director of munitions was lighter. How could he be unhappy?
It's fun to follow Tang Tuanzuo to fight and kill the Japanese, but it's really a waste of supplies!
The artillerymen and infantrymen just fired the guns and pulled the triggers, pouring shells and bullets towards the Japanese positions, but did they know how many shells and bullets were used?
Just talking about the consumption in these two days, more than 6,000 artillery shells were used, 800,000 bullets were fired, and 5,000 kilograms of explosive bags were thrown out. The 17th Infantry Division and the 104th Infantry Division fought for six full days, but they were useless.
So many shells and explosives.
Why, the time has passed? When I think of this, as the chief steward of the Four Elements Group, Master Zhuang, who is only 30 years old, has a lot of gray hair.
Of course, apart from this joy, he admired the commander he chose even more.
Sooner or later, the Japanese army will retreat into the mountain. This is what Tang Dao has long judged. Not only did most of the elite reconnaissance company detour into the mountain in advance, Lei Xiong's battalion also quietly withdrew from the position at ten o'clock in the morning and became the mountain.
The most terrifying strangler in the mountains.
By then, the Japanese army would have to not enter that mountain. Once they did, the light infantry, which had completely lost their heavy firearms, would be ambushed on countless highlands and would completely lose the possibility of survival.
In other words, this is Tang Dao's favorite result.
If the Japanese army just relied on field fortifications, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade would not be able to defeat them, but the casualties would be huge. The explosive packs used in Hongtianlei were not unlimited. In the first wave of attacks in the early morning,
Already used most of it.
That was what Tang Dao deliberately requested. He wanted to use this wave of indiscriminate bombing to chill the Japanese army.
In less than five minutes, the entire Fourth Army Regiment was ready. The artillery battalion spoke first. The full-out artillery fire from 22 artillery pieces fell on the Japanese army's crude defense line, followed by more than a dozen sky-shattering thunderbolts erected more than 300 meters away! Two
An artillery company from an infantry battalion also joined in the fun, and a dozen 82-guns were able to beat the enemy with great joy.
A total of nearly fifty artillery pieces of various calibers were used for the first time by the four-line regiment. The Japanese defense line, which was more than 2,000 meters long, was shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
But that's not all. The mortars of each regiment of the 683rd Brigade also began to fire with all their strength at the Japanese infantry in the front position. Although the cannon was small, it was still a concentrated fire of more than 30 mortars.
According to post-war statistics, the intensity of artillery fire involving more than 80 artillery pieces at one time has never been seen even on the distant battlefield where the main force of the Eightyth Army and the Japanese 16th Division faced tens of thousands of troops.
As Ye Chenghuan said, if the Japanese army wanted to survive, this evening was the last chance to escape into the mountains.
Under such an ideology, this wave of artillery fire from China is like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
As soon as they saw that the Chinese had actually launched a general offensive, the Japanese troops began to flee in various positions.
Then, there is a terrible chain reaction.
Whether the Japanese army ministers were unable to suppress it or some of them secretly contributed to the situation, the defense line composed of more than 3,600 Japanese troops completely collapsed in several places when the Chinese infantry began to test the attack.
Visible to the naked eye, large streams of gray and dark blue were rushing toward the Japanese defense line along the breach.
"I have betrayed the trust of the brigade commander! I am sending a message to Commander Xiangyue Qingshi in my own name. The Chinese artillery fire is fierce and our brigade's defense line has been breached. But please rest assured, Commander, the imperial officers and soldiers are still on duty.
Kill the enemy bravely to repay His Majesty the Emperor!" Yoshio Laigu ordered with a livid face.
After the message was sent out, less than ten seconds later, "Bang!", a gunshot suddenly appeared in the small courtyard of the Japanese army's temporary headquarters.
Seeing that his own defense line was about to collapse in just one day, Yoshitani Yoshio became disheartened and chose what he thought was the most heroic method.
However, this kind of bravery was considered the most stupid way by both China and Japan after the war.
The Army Shaozuo, who was the supreme commander of the Second Mixed Brigade at the time, pulled out his gun box and aimed it at his temple. His will was so determined that even his subordinates did not react.
The bastard box didn't even jam. A shot from such a close range blasted a hole the size of a teacup in his head. White and red stains covered the ground. He was so dead that he couldn't die any more.
Logically speaking, even if he wanted to apologize, an officer of his level would choose caesarean section under normal conditions, but that kind of technical action was never a one-shot kill, and it would take several hours to die. Yoshio Laitani was probably afraid of death.
Half-dead, his head was beheaded by the Chinese prisoners, so he had his head blown open in advance.
Seeing that the supreme commander was so pissed off, the Japanese officers who had lost their minds for a long time didn't just disperse in a hurry. They didn't even care about the body of Yoshio Laigu.
The brains of the second mixed brigade actually completely collapsed one step ahead of the frontline infantry.
This also resulted in several Japanese troops that were still resisting tenaciously being no longer able to contact the headquarters. They were fighting independently, and their originally firm resistance was completely worn away by suspicion.
The terrible rout resulted in the complete loss of the will to fight. Even during the Battle of Songhu that day, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops lost their ability to resist. It was not until they retreated hundreds of kilometers away to rely on the defense line that there was sporadic resistance, let alone the Japanese army.
There are only less than 4,000 people.
In the end, in only 40 minutes, the Fourth Army Regiment and the 683rd Brigade, which had already sensed the weakness of the Japanese army, used their main force, using a total of nearly 10,000 infantry, to completely defeat the enemy in front of them.
Annihilated more than 2,500 enemies!
However, he only suffered less than 300 battle losses, achieving a battle loss ratio of 1:10 that stunned both China and Japan.
What's even more terrible is that this is the battle loss ratio between the attacker and the defender.
This battle loss ratio is even more exaggerated than the Battle of Taierzhuang during the Xuzhou Battle. 100,000 Chinese troops surrounded two Japanese detachments with more than 10,000 men, which was seven to eight times the number of the enemy. In the end, it was only 1:2.
of battle damage.
The Japanese Army, which cited this war as a shame for the Army, never agreed with China's post-war statistics until the end of the entire war.
Even the Anti-Japanese Martyrs Monument built on the banks of the Zhuozhang River a few years after the Battle of Changle Village did not have more than a thousand names.
It doesn't matter that the Japanese are stubborn and refuse to admit their claims. What matters is that this war of annihilation is not completely over yet.
There were still more than a thousand days before the bandits retreated into the mountains.
Pursuit battles and jungle blocking battles will become the main theme of the battlefield in the next few days!
However, the battle at Changle Village is actually completely over, and the disappearance of the second mixed brigade is a doomed outcome.
