In the artillery battle, the artillerymen of the four regiments took advantage of the ultra-long range of the Bofors Mountain Cannon, but on the ground battlefield they could only rely on hard work.
The Japanese artillery brigade that bombarded the high ground of the 7th Company stopped, but under Yokoyama Sawa's strict order, the 4 mountain guns, 2 90mm mortars and 8 mountain guns belonging to the 62nd Infantry Regiment did not stop.
At least half of them fall on high ground 209.1.
It can be said that this highland offensive and defensive battle not only tested the courage of the soldiers on both sides.
What matters more is the tolerance of the commanders on both sides and their tolerance for casualties. Whoever can't bear it is the loser.
Even though two infantry squads and a heavy machine gun group of 34 soldiers were fighting under artillery fire, they were still in the trenches anyway. As long as the artillery shells were not extremely close, they could at least sneak into the trenches and avoid the terrible damage.
Air wave attack.
Of course, if the shell exploded in the trench, you would have to consider yourself unlucky. A mountain cannon shell could kill everyone in the trench more than ten meters long. It was absolutely unlucky.
In this brutal defensive battle, in 30 minutes, two infantry squads suffered 11 casualties. Three of them were because a mountain artillery shell fell into the trench and died on the spot. Four others died as a result.
The two seriously injured people were carried down the mountain by stretcher teams for treatment.
However, only a small half of the casualties were caused by bullets.
But the Japanese troops 100 meters ahead of the position had no trenches. Not only did they have to endure the continuous firepower of the Chinese on the position, including two light machine guns and one heavy machine gun, as well as submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, they also had to endure continuous firepower from falling on them.
Own artillery shells on their positions.
The absence of trenches means that there is no way to avoid the murderous wave caused by the explosion of the 6.5-kilogram projectile of the Type 41 mountain gun.
Within 30 minutes, there were at least sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers who were blown away by the waves of their own artillery shells. Their number even matched the number of Japanese soldiers killed by two infantry squads of the Fourth Infantry Regiment who fired nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets on the position.
If you are injured by a bullet, you still have the opportunity to fight against the infection caused by bacteria to see if you can escape the sickle wielded by the god of death.
But being injured by the air wave of the cannonball, even this opportunity was lost. The violent air wave was enough to crack the internal organs of the human body. That injury, even eighty years later, would still make all the experts scream.
The beast is scratching its head, let alone this era.
Li Jijin, the commander of the 7th company, has already brought his last mobile infantry squad to the high ground of his sharp knife platoon.
The second lieutenant of the Sharp Knife Platoon looked at Highland 209.1, which was shrouded in gunpowder smoke 300 meters away and still roaring with loud killing noises. He had already wanted to persuade his company commander several times to send reinforcements from behind the mountain to increase the firepower of the high ground and defeat this stubborn Japanese army in one fell swoop.
However, they were all blocked by Li Jiujin's cold expression, which was staring at the battlefield with a cold face.
The defensive battle on Highland 209.1 was fierce, but the number of casualties of 11 was still within the acceptable range of the infantry company commander.
The Japanese army has almost put their cards on the table. The 7th company position is the focus of their breakthrough, and the hillock of 209.1 is the focus of the focus, eventually forming a point-breaking situation!
For this reason, the Japanese army frantically invested more than 1,500 infantrymen toward the 10 highlands defended by the 7th Company, and one-third of them were actually in front of the 209.1 highland.
Leng Feng has called Li Jijin twice and asked him if he needs reinforcements. If necessary, 80 people from the battalion guard platoon will be ordered to join the 7th company in the battle.
At the same time, Leng Feng will ask for reinforcements from the regiment headquarters, even if they only send 100 reinforcements to their third battalion.
But Li Jijin thought carefully and rejected the battalion commander's kindness.
He knew very well that the total strength of the Japanese army was as high as 19,000. The first and second battalions at the main position faced two infantry regiments plus three tank squadrons. They also faced bombardment from mountain artillery and howitzers at any time. The pressure would only increase.
Bigger than Sanying.
The regimental commander holds the guard company and the cavalry battalion as the last mobile force of the regiment. The total strength will not exceed 550 people. It is the strongest and final force to fill in when a certain line of defense is breached.
But at this time, it was only the third day after the war started, and the regimental commander had to use his last strength. What should we do next?
Therefore, the 7th company can only support itself now, and wait until it can no longer support it.
Although Li Jijin is still oily and slippery today, as he has been with Tang Dao for a long time, his state of mind has become completely different from that of a year ago.
He is no longer just a soldier, a small squad leader who only supervises about 10 people, but a mid-level commander who commands more than 300 soldiers. In an ordinary army, he is at least a battalion commander.
As early as 20 minutes ago, he was thinking, what would Tang Tuanzuo do if he were here?
Based on his understanding of Tang Dao, when the position is still under his control and the firepower has not been significantly weakened, Tang Dao will not easily send reinforcements.
It’s not that I don’t feel sorry for my own soldiers.
Rather, we must not easily let the precious lives of our soldiers become the victims of the crazy Japanese invaders.
The 105 howitzers that the Japanese army bombarded nearly 4,000 meters behind the position reminded Li Jijin all the time that the Japanese commander he was facing was not a normal person at all. He even spared the lives of his own soldiers and used infantry and artillery as close as 100 meters to coordinate tactics. That was simply impossible.
We rule out the possibility that he frantically ordered the 105 howitzer to fire on the top of the mountain without caring about the life and death of the Japanese infantry.
At that time, instead of two infantry squads and more than 30 members of a heavy fire team being maimed, it might be the death anniversary of an entire infantry platoon!
Tang Dao is gradually growing into a qualified regiment-level commander. Old brothers like Li Jijin who have followed him on the battlefield for a year are not only being promoted in military rank, they are also growing up and learning to stand on the bigger picture.
From the perspective of the battlefield, we can arrange tactics more rationally.
Including accepting sacrifices, including learning to save more power with fewer casualties!
If you are reluctant to make sacrifices, the price will be even more sacrifices!
Just like the night attack on the Japanese artillery position at Mouse Mountain in Guangde, Li Jijin also had the consciousness to stay behind with an infantry platoon to block the attack and protect more brothers from surviving!
What Tang Dao said sonorously and forcefully at a meeting of officers above the company level: "For victory, no one can be sacrificed, from the commander to the soldiers! For victory, all of us in the Chinese army are always ready to burn ourselves
.Without this kind of awareness, it is impossible for us to win!" It has always shocked and affected all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment.
Li Jijin's persistence is correct.
Never underestimate the madness of the Japanese or how afraid they are of death. The so-called elite Japanese troops in front of the positions are just a bunch of mountain people and fishermen in the eyes of Japan's upper-class nobles. How many casualties they have, they
Don't really care that much.
Just like Yokoyama Sawa who is looking coldly at the battlefield with a telescope, at this time, there are no casualties in his mind, only how to conquer the current position.
However, under such a tough offensive, the muzzle shells on the Chinese position were still shining, stinging his eyes and mowing down one after another Japanese infantry who tried to advance.
Yokoyama Sawa's eyes behind the telescope became colder and colder, and he finally said: "Send orders to the front, everyone to retreat 150 meters! Get rid of the wounded, and do not evacuate with the remains of the fallen warriors."
With the hand-cranked sirens blaring, the khaki Japanese troops retreated like a tide!
"The stubborn little Japs have finally retreated!" the second lieutenant platoon let out a long sigh of relief.
On the high ground of 209.1 was his precious infantry squad that had just been commended by the commander of the regiment. Sergeant squad leader Tu Yunsheng and grenadier Lao Cao were among the thirty soldiers who were personally hosted by Tang regiment for their outstanding performance in the previous battle in southeastern Shanxi.
If two of the officers and soldiers died in battle, the loss would be huge.
"You want to run away? The person who killed me still wants to run away. How can it be that easy?" A trace of ferocity flashed across Li Jiujin's face.
"Order the three 60-guns of the fire squad to prepare 60 rounds of artillery shells! Also, help me get through to the battalion headquarters and request fire support from the three howitzers of the battalion artillery company. I don't want much, just 30 rounds of artillery shells.
Bombard the area 180 meters in front of the high ground for me. I will make it impossible for him to retreat or advance. Doesn’t the sharp knife platoon also have a Maxim heavy machine gun firepower group? Hit it from the flank!"
"yes!"
This is the situation now. The Japanese want to retreat, but the Chinese won't give in!
The rising smoke and dust in the area about 200 meters in front of the position formed a barrage. Anyone who tried to get into this barrage would be torn into pieces by the shrapnel scattered by the mortar shells.
The reason why the three double-barreled guns equipped by the third battalion are called howitzers by the officers and soldiers is that their 80mm barrels can be used as mortars at a high firing angle, and can be used as a howitzer at a lowered elevation angle. Its 80mm caliber
The power of the artillery shells is even greater than that of the 82MM mortar, so it has become the most popular infantry support artillery in the entire infantry battalion.
The Japanese troops who were retreating from the area 100 meters in front of the position were directly blocked by this terrifying barrage. The bullets that kept flying from the mountain and the flanks suppressed the nearly 100 Japanese troops on the hillside, unable to move, and they could only be beaten passively!
If this situation continues, it won't be long before these hundreds of Japanese soldiers are basically ordered to report to Amaterasu.
If this is the case, this early morning attack launched by Yokoyama Sawa personally will not only be in vain, but the loss will also be as high as 200 people. In addition to the losses last night and yesterday during the day, the Japanese losses on the small 209.1 highland will be
will reach more than 500.
Casualties almost followed the main position.
But compared to Yokoyama Ze, who is in last place, and has become second to last, Yoon Tang Sooul, center left, can ask back without blushing: "There are at least hundreds of Chinese on my main position here, how about you, Mr. Ze?"
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At its peak, the strength of the troops on Highland 209.1 was only 34. After more than 40 minutes of fierce fighting, the number was reduced from 11 to 23, which is similar to half a Japanese infantry squad!
This battle-loss ratio is simply unbelievable!
Unfortunately, the battle is not over yet. In the cold words of Yokoyama Sawa Ozuo standing behind the bunker: 'In a race, you don't necessarily win by being fast, and you don't necessarily lose by being weak in a fight. The one who laughs at the end is the real winner!'
After saying this, Yokoyama Ze raised his hand and looked at the watch on his wrist. What filled his sinister eyes was not frustration, but a more terrifying intensity, which made Shao Zuo, the staff officer next to him, break into a cold sweat on his vest.
Facing the Chinese soldiers on the top of the mountain, they opened fire mercilessly, killing nearly a hundred Japanese troops who were blocked by mortar barrages and unable to retreat. The mountain artillery and infantry artillery that the Japanese army used to fire from time to time suddenly became much sparse.
Not a single shell fell for dozens of seconds!
"Something's wrong!" Li Jijin narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Order that all platoons of mortars attack the Japanese troops on the highlands at all costs. All the platoons on the highlands of our company, except for one infantry squad that stayed behind, will withdraw to the anti-gun holes as quickly as possible." Li Jiu
Jin gave the order decisively.
"Also, use a red flare to remind Highland 209.1, and use a flag to inform them that only half of the infantry squad can be left at most. The rest should evacuate the high ground first. If the Japanese use heavy artillery to bombard my Seventh Company position, they will bear the brunt!
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"Squad Leader Tu, you and the brothers from Class 4 should retreat quickly." Guard squad leader Zhou Dapeng, whose face was darkened by gunpowder smoke, hurried over, patted Tu Yunsheng's shoulder while the hygienist wrapped up the wound on his back, and shouted.
"Evacuate? Where to retreat?" Tu Yunsheng turned his head and glanced at his old comrades, and replied somewhat bleakly.
How could a young sergeant not feel bleak?
His Squadron 4 had only one person killed and three wounded in yesterday's extremely fierce battle, but in this early morning battle that lasted less than an hour, they were almost wiped out.
The shell that landed in the trench took away the lives of three soldiers from his 4th squad and the lives of two others were unknown. One had his arms cut off by shrapnel, and the other was swept up by the air wave and Gao kept vomiting blood.
I don't know how long they can hold on.
There was also a soldier whose helmet was shot by the Japanese during a crazy exchange of fire. The recruit, who had experienced such a terrifying battlefield for the first time, was too nervous and did not untie the helmet's rope as he asked, but tied it firmly around his chin.
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Although due to the rounded corners, the 6.5 mm 38 rifle bullet was deflected and did not penetrate the helmet, the huge impact of the bullet is not something that the most fragile neck bone of the human body can withstand if it is caught off guard.
The soldier, whose head was twisted at a weird angle, almost didn't say a word and just fell in the trench. When he was found and rescued, he had stopped breathing due to the broken neck bone and obstructed breathing.
Originally there were 12 infantry squad members including him, but at this time, only 6 were still able to fight, including the medical soldiers who came to support from the platoon headquarters.
In other words, out of the original 15 people in Squad 4, 4 were killed in the battle, 6 were seriously injured, and only 5 remained.
Is his Class 4 still there?
"Aww, Brother Peng, Class 4 is gone, and all my brothers are gone!" The Army sergeant, who had always been calm and tenacious, actually cried like a child.
Big tears flowed down his cheeks, which were already in his early 20s but tanned due to long-term training. Now he looked even more dirty and looked like a little old man.
"Yunsheng, Class 4 is still here. Look at Lao Cao, the horses and the others are still jumping around!" The guard squad leader comforted his comrades who were half a year younger than him, but there were tears in his eyes.
, the voice couldn't help but be choked.
The 7th Company has only been established for half a year, but the original group of old brothers in the 7th Company has a total of hundreds of soldiers. They have already established an extremely deep comradeship in countless battles, and Zhou Dapeng also became the infantry company after the Battle of Southeast Shanxi.
He was only transferred from the sharp knife platoon to the company headquarters as the guard squad leader when the number of troops expanded. He was the squad leader of the 4th squad before. Most of the brothers who were killed or seriously injured in the 4th squad were comrades who trained and slept with him...
However, after just one battle, it was gone.
Moreover, his 18-person security squad only had 12 people left, with 2 dead and 4 seriously injured.
It can be said that for him, the guard squad leader, he suffered a double injury. If he didn't burst into tears on the spot, he had to stay with Li Jijin for two months and learned to be patient.
For a young man like him, the blow was extremely heavy!
However, no matter how heavy it is, the growth rings that time has given him are youth, but he is also a veteran and grassroots commander with 4 years of military service and experienced several wars. He must accept it and continue to command the soldiers to fight.
This battle is still early!
The dead have completed their mission, but the living must continue to fight!
"Class 4 is still here, still here, but they can never go home again." Tu Yunsheng burst into tears, one after another on his face filled with black smoke.
"Yunsheng, you and your brothers have done a good enough job. Take your brothers and withdraw first! I will take five brothers to stay at the position! I guarantee you that everyone is here!" Zhou Dapeng suppressed the pain in his heart and comforted him again.
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Although a red signal flare was fired on the main high ground on one side to indicate an emergency situation, and it was uncertain when the Japanese army would cover the high ground with artillery fire, but in the face of the sad little brother, could he bear to be more harsh?
He thought that when he made this promise and received military orders, he would convince the sergeant squad leader in front of him.
However, after all, he still didn't understand his little brother well enough.
Or maybe he underestimated this young man who was so shy when they first met and handed over the hookah as a sign of friendship.
The young sergeant's heart is both tough and fragile!
When his heart is smashed like porcelain by the Japanese army, he will also do crazy things.
This aspect is actually very similar to Tang Tuanzuo!
When your heart begins to bleed and hurt so much that you can't breathe, then watch your enemies bleed with your own eyes and smear their blood on your chest.
That's a rare elixir for heartache!
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PS: I went out yesterday and there was no update on the new book. I was really tired from being a driver all day and couldn’t write at night. Please continue to support Feng Yue’s new science fiction book "I Can Burial Everything". It already has 1.1 million words, in case anyone still doesn’t know.
