In the first wave of 300 Japanese troops, all were killed or wounded in the desperate "Banzai Charge".
According to post-war statistics, because the firepower was so terrible, the on-site mortality rate of the Japanese troops in the area forty to fifty meters away from the defense line was as high as 70%, and more than a hundred people were still struggling in a pool of blood.
When the two infantry companies of the Si Xing Regiment ceased fire, the wails resounded throughout the mountains and fields, and even reached the ears of the 772 Regiment and the two regiments of the 772 Regiment who were running towards this direction.
What the main force of the 769th Regiment and the Sixth Regiment had to face was not a battlefield where they could run freely. There were also two three incomplete infantry squads left behind by the Japanese Army Colonel, standing in front of them.
"Command Pang Hai, I'll give him five minutes. If his mortar group can't defeat this wave of little Japs, then he will go to the regiment headquarters in person after the war to make a review. No matter how much the 1st artillery company has done in battle, the bonus will be temporarily withheld.
! It was said by me, the last-ranked regimental deputy." Gong Shaoxun seemed to have frost on his face as he gave a strict order to his artillery company commander.
The soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment who stayed here all know that Deputy Commander Gong is really angry now. After the battle in the rear of the Japanese army started, he contacted the Tang regiment leader through the field radio. As a result, no one answered for a long time.
If it was just the lack of contact that made the officers of the Fourth Army Regiment here, led by Gong Shaoxun and Guo Shouzhi, worried, then it would be fine. After a while, the signal corps over there called back and found out that the regimental officer was not there.
Without them having to say anything, Gong Shaoxun knew that Tang Tuanzuo must have gone to the front line again.
Knowing that he is the supreme commander, he went directly to the front line instead of personally serving as the commander of the surprise attack force. This is simply willful. How can Deputy Commander Gong, who has already bound his future and fate to the Four Lines Regiment, not be annoyed!
There is nowhere to start a fire, but you can't let it out on these desperate Japanese devils in front of you! Pang Panghai and his 1st Artillery Battery obviously belong to the implicated category. Who makes him also a certain person?
A direct descendant of the commander of the regiment who violated military orders!
"Te Liang, Deputy Gong's military order is here. If the military order cannot be completed, it is a trivial matter for me and Pang Panghai to write a review. It is also a trivial matter for the brothers not to receive rewards. The key is the regimental commander and the guard company, brothers of the seventh company.
They are still fighting hard against the main force of the Japs over there.
Isn’t it just one or two hundred little devils? You guys, give me all your strength and let everyone take a good look. Our artillery battery does not take five minutes, but only three minutes, and we can send those little devils to the west." Already.
Pang Panghai, who had thrown away his helmet, stood in front of a group of artillerymen with sweat dripping down his face and blushed, lecturing.
"Yes!" The officers and soldiers of the 1st Artillery Company, which had been going smoothly since this battle, all stood at attention.
Li Daxi, who was standing not far away, looked at this scene and turned his head sharply: "Brothers, don't be stingy. Together with the brothers from the Four Lines Group, aim at this last wave of little devils and kill the rest of me.
Fire all the shells! Blow them up to death."
"Squad leader, all the artillery shells have been fired. We really only have artillery left. How can we explain it to the leaders when we get back?" an artilleryman next to him advised with a grimace.
"You bastard, you are so short-sighted!" Li Daxi puffed out his cheeks, looking at the artillery he had brought out with his own hands, and glanced sideways at the artillery position of the Sixth Regiment dozens of meters away. "I heard that the commander of the regiment is here.
The main force of the Japanese army is still blocking the back! Didn’t you see that the commanders of the Four Lines Regiment are getting anxious? Let’s go all out to help them now. How can they remember the situation? Besides, where did your current artillery shells come from?
Yes, aren’t they all gifts from others?
I’m telling you, even though the human heart is hot right now, if you don’t take it seriously and pour cold water on it, once it gets cold, it will be difficult to cover up the heat again.”
"Understood!" The artilleryman nodded repeatedly.
"Listen to me, eight cannons and 60 rounds of artillery shells, all of them will be fired by me within three minutes. If anyone who is particularly good is reluctant to part with them, they will be sent to me to work as heavy troops. The artillery of the 921st Division cannot accommodate them."
You are a shallow-eyed creature." Li Daxi roared with his big eyes wide open.
Over there, Pang Panghai heard this and turned to Li Daxi with a slight nod, while Li Daxi grinned.
An artillery captain and an artillery sergeant had no further exchanges. They each stood in front of their own positions and waved the red flag: "Let go!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" Clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the position of two Japanese infantry teams who were determined to die.
That was a concentrated fire of 4 150mm mortars and 12 82mm mortars. Not to mention a simple defense line less than 400 meters wide, even an infantry regiment-level defense line could be detonated in a frightening manner.
In 3 minutes, four 150-pound guns fired a total of 36 shells, while 12 82-pound guns fired nearly 80 shells.
When the Chinese army began to charge, there would never be more than 10 Japanese infantrymen on the Japanese position who could still shoot with guns. More than half of them were killed by the air waves and fragments generated by the artillery shells, and nearly 30 others were not shot.
They were injured or stunned, and a few people even watched indifferently as more than 300 Chinese soldiers rushed into the trench from 200 meters away at high speed.
They did not raise their rifles until the Chinese soldiers shot them.
From the moment they accepted the order to stop the enemy, they had already accepted the outcome of death, but this round of bombardment, which was far beyond their imagination, shattered their last will to resist like those sandbags and stones.
Regardless of whether you resist or not, you will die, so why waste any effort? This is probably the only thought left by the Japanese infantrymen who looked dull and didn't even want to use their guns.
Just like the wind and clouds, the Chinese soldiers rushing into the trenches fired at every "shit yellow" in sight, whether they were standing, kneeling, lying, or prone.
As long as they are Japanese invaders, shoot!
As the vanguard of the entire army, Qian Dazhu, the commander of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Si Xing Regiment, issued a strict order before the war to kill every Japanese soldier in sight. This was not only Tang Dao who said before the war: "I will not accept it."
Surrender any one of the 108th Infantry Regiment who committed heinous crimes in Hebei Province!" What's more, they had to rush to the battlefield more than 2,000 meters away and had no time to linger here.
Therefore, when the two infantry companies of the 4th and 5th companies rushed through the Japanese blocking defense line like a whirlwind, they continued to stride towards the distance, and when the two companies of the 769th regiment that followed rushed into this simple trench, it was also
There was silence.
Since there were no living people, there would naturally be no prisoners. This gave the two infantry companies of the 769th Regiment a bit of a toothache. The cruelty of the friendly force of the Si Xing Regiment was a bit beyond their expectations. Originally, they thought they could get a few prisoners of war.
I'm going back to give a report to the division headquarters.
This was naturally an idea coming from the 921st Division Headquarters. For ordinary officers and soldiers, they had seen too much the cruelty of the Japanese invaders.
Let’s not talk about how the Japanese invaders burned, killed and looted the countryside and committed numerous crimes against the people. Let’s talk about how the Japanese army dealt with the captured Chinese officers and soldiers. They usually nailed the people to trees, disemboweled them and bled them to death. Then
In order to frighten the Chinese military and civilians, the Japanese used cruelty to tell them the consequences of daring to resist.
Seeing their comrades die so miserably, ordinary officers and soldiers will think about what kind of little devil they want alive, and usually they will avenge their grievances on the spot.
But for the 921st Division headquarters at a higher level, it wanted to play a trick of "using the barbarians to fight the barbarians", educate the captured Japanese soldiers, propagate anti-war ideas, and undermine the morale of the Japanese army from within.
If you want to say whether this move is useful, then of course it is useful, but how useful it is is hard to say. Anyway, Tang Dao has not yet reached that position, and there is no need for a regiment commander to control the army commander's heart.
He must be happy with his grudges and kill every one he sees. He will never allow the Japanese soldiers who committed the crime of killing our compatriots to live in peace.
Especially when he saw the painless confessions of some 80-year-olds in the future, Tang Dao always had only one thought: if confession was useful, why would he need a gallows?
After rummaging for a long time, the two infantrymen couldn't get a single prisoner of war from even two hundred people, but no one was unhappy. They were all extremely happy to find an undamaged rifle from the pile of corpses.
They took off most of the bullet boxes that were still left, took off the cowhide boots from the Japanese soldiers' feet, and some even took off the Japanese soldiers' uniforms.
Don't look at the shit yellow color, it's also stained with blood, but that doesn't matter. The Japanese military uniforms are made of strong fabrics and well stuffed with cotton. If you take them back and wash them and then dye them, aren't they the best military uniforms?
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Perhaps the only thing that made them a little sad was that their own artillery fire was so bad that many weapons were blown into parts together with the Japanese army, which really left them with less rifles and military uniforms.
The cowhide boots have no impact. After all, even if you have a broken foot, as long as the shoes are not rotten, you can wear them. How can the soldiers of the 769th Regiment, who wear straw sandals all winter, be so disgusted?
The Japanese Army Colonel probably never dreamed that the little tail he severed would completely fall apart in less than five minutes.
Of course, no matter how long they hold on, they will never get anything done.
Ever since his forwards were swallowed up by a wave of firepower and his rear troops lost all courage and were knocked to the ground, the fate of hundreds of Japanese troops was already doomed.
The Japanese army colonel and the more than 200 Japanese soldiers under his command were trapped and still fighting. They dug up individual bunkers on the spot despite the hail of bullets, intending to make a last stand, even if they drank poison to quench their thirst.
The Chinese side, however, was not in a hurry. While organizing a large army to encircle them from all sides, they continued to use direct-aimed artillery fire at the remaining five Japanese tanks that were maneuvering in vain.
Of course, during this process, the remaining four infantry artillery pieces of the Japanese army also counterattacked, but their counterattacks were quickly put out.
There are still 6 mortars on Tang Dao's side. When the distance between the two sides is no more than 500 meters, the thick white gunpowder smoke on the four infantry artillery positions completely illuminates the coordinates of the mortars.
Moreover, this distance was even within the range of the grenade. The grenadiers who sneaked into the forest and cooperated with 6 mortars took less than 5 minutes to pull out the last four fangs of the remaining Japanese troops.
Then, it completely became a battlefield for 37mm rapid-fire artillery and 92mm infantry artillery. Before the infantry encirclement gradually formed, three of the five Little Doudins were hit and set on fire. One was hit by three consecutive infantry artillery shells and was directly hit.
It was blown into a pile of scrap metal.
But don't tell me, the last little Douding, who was forced to look anxiously, probably had the mentality that I will kill you even if I die, and actually rushed towards the circular position in front without hesitation.
That's quite bluffing. The Type 94 light tank with a steel plate hanging all over it is a scumbag in front of anti-tank guns, but it is definitely a killer against light infantry!
The light and heavy machine guns deployed on both wings fired in unison, and the dense bullets hit the steel plate and sparks flew everywhere. That is, during the day, if it was night, it would definitely be a moving firework.
But despite the rain of bullets, it really can't penetrate an average steel plate of 7 mm, nor can the two high-speed machine guns MG34 that have just shown their prowess.
If he had not just experienced a disastrous defeat personally, and knew that the Chinese firepower was far beyond what a group of light infantry could withstand, the Japanese Army Colonel would have really wanted to give an order at that moment, and the remaining 200 imperial officers and soldiers would follow this heroic Type 94
The tanks hit the Chinese defense lines.
Fortunately, he was rational enough to allow him and more than 200 Japanese infantrymen to breathe for another ten minutes.
Over there, Tang Dao watched the Japanese little Doudin rush towards the trench without hesitation from a distance, and he couldn't help but frown!
He has at least three kinds of artillery on hand that can pose a threat to this thin-skinned small tank, but whether it is a machine gun, a rapid-fire gun or an infantry gun, the lightest one weighs 200 kilograms.
Obviously, this kind of heavy load is really a burden for infantry company-level troops.
Moreover, in Tang Dao's future planning, the Four Lines Regiment will fight in mountainous areas for at least two years. The mountain infantry regiment is the future direction of the Four Lines Regiment. It is imperative to reduce the burden on soldiers and troops.
Not to mention rapid-fire artillery weighing more than 400 kilograms. 220-kilogram artillery pieces such as infantry guns will not appear in company-level troops. At most, they will only be equipped with mortars. Even Tang Dao feels that the 82 mortar weighing 60 kilograms is not enough.
Small-caliber mortars that are suitable, lighter and easier to carry are the best choice for infantry company-level troops.
As for the mountain artillery, which is as big as over 700 kilograms, it is destined to only become the equipment of the artillery unit directly under the regiment.
But Tang Dao had to face a problem. Reducing the load would help improve the mobility of the troops, but the firepower would be weakened, especially the heavy firepower. If it encounters such a thin-skinned tank that requires heavy firepower attack, how can an infantry company fight against it.
Although Tang Dao knows that the Chinese army in the future will be equipped with individual rocket launchers, not to mention the 94 small Douding, even the big ones like the Type 89 tank can be solved with one shot, but that is because the Chinese military industry has absorbed the achievements of other countries and
With decades of experience in manufacturing, no matter how talented Teacher Xiao He and her team are, they can't come up with this thing in a short period of time.
Then we can only develop a weapon based on the existing basis to deal with this thing. Tang Dao looked at Xiao Douding who was bravely moving forward under the rain of bullets and fell into thinking.
"If we had a machine gun that could penetrate Gouri's thin skin, look how arrogant it can be!" Erya, who was lying in the trench next to him, looked at the little Douding roaring over and said to himself angrily.
A word that wakes up the dreamer!
"Okay, let's go back and build this kind of machine gun! If nothing else, it just needs to be able to blow up the little bean sprouts. Your request is really not difficult." Tang Dao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he patted Erya's shoulder, feeling extremely confident.
said.
"Sir, I'm just talking nonsense." Erya obviously didn't believe it.
"Haha! You are talking nonsense. How can I, the leader of a regiment, make such a false promise?" Tang Dao laughed. "I may not be able to get the machine gun you want, but it is really not difficult to get an armor-piercing bullet that can penetrate such thin steel plates.
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There were very few bullets in China during this period, so what armor-piercing bullets were there? But Tang Dao knew that there was a kind of bullet that was both good and cheap, and also had armor-piercing capabilities.
Whether the bullet is a cartridge case or a warhead wrapped with a lead core, both are made of copper. This is because copper is soft and has good ductility. It can expand and deform slightly when fired at high pressure and high heat. It has good air tightness and will not crack.
Copper has excellent metal lubricity, low resistance when pulling out the shell, no need for lubrication, very low chance of breakage and jamming, copper is not easy to rust, and is easy to store.
Copper warheads have many benefits, but they are not the most suitable for China, which lacks copper mines, especially for China, which needs to prepare for war in the future and is afraid of "poor" firepower in the war.
Therefore, the wise Chinese chose to use steel. Although steel warheads have many shortcomings, such as the inability to be reloaded, and the risk of shell expansion and easy damage to the weapon, the manufacturing cost is much lower than that of copper warheads, and it is enough.
What's more, its armor-piercing performance is much higher than that of copper warheads.
Although it cannot be said that ordinary steel bullets can definitely be used as armor-piercing bullets, it is enough as long as they can penetrate a 94-inch steel plate less than 10 mm thick.
Tang Dao decided to get a batch of steel warheads for testing when he got back. These destroyed Type 94 tanks on the battlefield happened to be the best test equipment. He could definitely test how many meters in a straight line the heavy machine gun-type steel warheads could move.
The range penetrates the armor of 94 tanks.
Of course, this is all for the future. Now his soldiers must destroy this crazy steel beast on their own.
Fortunately, he made preparations.
At the moment when the Japanese Xiaodoudin tank rumbled into the trenches, its tracks turned wildly in an attempt to rush forward through the trenches and continue escaping, five Molotov cocktails were thrown from the trenches on both sides.
The blue flames slowly flowed through the steel behemoth's body until it was completely burned into a blazing bonfire.
The two burning men who opened the hatch and tried to escape were knocked to the ground by several bullets.
This also means that the last struggle of the Japanese army has come to nothing.
Facing the thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers surrounding them in darkness, the more than 200 Japanese troops standing on a battlefield of less than 1,000 square meters looked so weak and helpless.
However, the Chinese army that was surrounded from all sides did not launch an attack immediately. Although victory was inevitable, more than 200 Japanese troops were not a small number.
Just like a pride of lions hunting a herd of wildebeests, once the wildebeests go crazy, they can also maul a few lions.
Several regiment-level commanders present were all soldiers with rich battlefield experience. They had to discuss how to eat the last piece of fat in front of them with less bloodshed.
Tang Dao met the three commanders of the 772nd Regiment, the 771st Regiment and the 769th Regiment. The four commanders sat down 600 meters away from the battlefield with smiles before they even had time to smoke a cigarette and drink some water.
A jaw-dropping scene appeared.
Even Tang Dao, an iron-blooded soldier who had fought countless battles with the Japanese, was shocked when he heard the signal soldiers running madly to report.
