Chapter 407: Lushun Strategy (4)
After correcting the landing point of the shells, the Ocean and the Ocean fired a total of three salvos, completely destroying the Japanese artillery position.
Although Nogi Noshinori was shocked, how did the warships of the overseas Chinese determine the location of their artillery positions, but at this time they were ready to shoot and had to send it, after all, if they could not recapture the 203 heights, Lushun would definitely not be able to hold it, it was just a matter of a few days earlier and a few days later, so Nogi Noshinori still ordered the army to launch an attack on the 203 heights.
In the morning battle, the Japanese army lost more than 500 people, more than 1,000 combat attrition, and the 3 wings participating in the battle were basically disabled, so the Japanese army that re-attacked was a new unit, and Nogi Noshinori also prepared 2 regiments for the counterattack on the 203 heights, and the first two wings to attack, about 800 Japanese soldiers, despite the loss of the 203 heights, the morale of the Japanese army was still undiminished, holding a rifle with a bayonet, while shouting "Itaya", while launching a charge to the 203 heights.
Of course, in order to capture the 203 heights, the People's Army also paid a lot of price, killed more than 300 people, plus the wounded soldiers, the combat attrition reached more than 700 people, because it was the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion that participated in the battle in the early stage, and the attrition was more than 300 people, so now the task of guarding the position was handed over to the 3rd Battalion, and the 1st and 2nd Battalions were repaired under the 203 Heights, and temporary reorganization was carried out to achieve a combat establishment. However, the machine gun and mortar units of the whole regiment were all pulled up to the 203 heights, and machine gun and mortar positions were arranged during the more than one hour when the Japanese army reorganized the attack. Although Shijian still has some shortcomings, it is far better than the hasty arrangement just now.
The first fire was a mortar, fired at the Japanese army 600 meters away, which immediately caused countless explosions in the Japanese formation, and because the Japanese army was densely positioned, the explosion also caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army, but the mortar blow did not stop the momentum of the Japanese advance, and the Japanese soldiers still shouted "Itaza", and braved the artillery fire to move forward without anything.
After 4 or 5 rounds of mortar strikes, hundreds of casualties have been inflicted on the Japanese army, and the Japanese army has advanced to a position 300 meters away from the position, and the soldiers have already begun to trot, but at this time, the KPA machine guns, rifles, grenadiers and other weapons in the position also opened fire together, and launched a fierce blow to the Japanese army.
Under such a fierce firepower, the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground in rows like dead grass in the wind, although the Japanese army did not refuse, and rushed forward desperately one after another, the soldiers in front fell, and someone immediately made up for it, and the shouts of "Ita-Ita-Ita-" also shouted higher and higher, until they fell.
However, in the face of the KPA's network of fire composed of more than a dozen machine-gun positions, although the Japanese charge was vigorous, the results were useless - except for the more dead, they could not even break through to within 100 meters of the position, and it turned out that without the cover of artillery fire, the use of infantry to storm the positions guarded by machine guns was basically to send people to the head. After all, in the age of *, it is useless to rely on the spiritual strength of a soldier alone.
Despite the tenacious will of the Japanese army, they were never able to break through to the position, so they maintained the attack for more than half an hour, and finally retreated because they could not support it. In this round of attack, the Japanese army almost lost more than 300 people, plus the wounded soldiers, and the two wings were also completely disabled.
But Nogi Noshinori was unmoved, and immediately transferred two new wings to continue the offensive in order to maintain the pressure on the KPA. However, the Japanese army attacked again, and the outcome was no different, and under the intensive fire of the People's Army, it was still in vain.
After two rounds of attacks, the southeast slope of Heights 203 was densely covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, almost covering the entire slope. Yi Xun is also a battle-hardened person now, but this is the first time he has seen such a tragic battlefield. I couldn't help but feel sick in my stomach.
Zhu Jingqi, the deputy head of the regiment, was nervous, and the old god was saying: "This is not a war, but a one-sided slaughter." ”
Yi Xun also nodded and said: "In the old time and space, I have heard a lot of stories about the Japanese army's 'Itaya Charge', and now I have finally seen it, they are really not afraid of death." ”
At this time, Tian Zechu, the chief of staff of the regiment, walked into the temporary command headquarters, heard the conversation between the two of them, and said: "You two will not have to make a noise here, the Japanese army will attack again soon, but the bullets of our machine guns are almost used." Hurry up and add that this round of charge can't be stopped. ”
Yi Xun was also taken aback, and said, "A machine gun group is equipped with 3,000 rounds of ammunition, and it is all used up at once?"
Tian Zechu said: "Not all of them have been exhausted, our regiment has a total of 5 4 machine gun groups, according to the statistics just now, there are 5 machine gun groups that have run out of bullets, and there are 21 machine gun groups that have used the last ammunition supply box, and only 4 machine gun groups have used the second ammunition supply box. ”
Zhu Jingqi said: "Almost half of the machine gun crew has been withdrawn this time, will it affect our firepower?"
Tian Zechu shook his head and said: "No, I have carefully observed it just now, to be honest, it is too wasteful to fight like this, and suppress the Japanese army 1 0 0 meters away, other fighters have no room to play at all, you must know that guarding the position is not only the task of the machine gun unit, every soldier in the whole regiment should play a role." ”
Yi Xun also nodded and said: "It makes sense, compared with the Japanese army, we do still have a big gap, and we really can't compare with the regular army when dealing with bandits and the like in the past." ”
While they were talking, the third round of the Japanese offensive began again.
Yi Xun and the others looked like an incomparably tragic battle, but in the eyes of Nogi Noshinori, it was insignificant, you must know that Nogi Noshinori commanded the Japanese army to attack the Shun Brigade battle, and its tragedy was much higher than this battle, so Nogi Noshinori was not moved at all, but mobilized two more wings and launched an attack on the 203 heights again. And a new regiment was transferred.
Because nearly half of the machine gun crews were removed, and the machine gun crews left behind were not as desperate as the previous two times, the firepower attack this time was also significantly weakened, and the fire network composed of machine guns was no longer as airtight as the previous two times, although it still caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese troops, but the Japanese army's breakthrough effect was obviously much better than the previous two times, not only breaking through the 100-meter cordon of the first two attacks, but even breaking through to a distance of only 50 meters from the KPA position.
Although in the first attack, the KPA suppressed the Japanese army 100 meters away, but Nogi Noshinori found that the KPA's firepower was too dense, and there were only two reasons for such tactics, one was that the KPA had sufficient bullets and was not afraid of waste; the other was that the KPA soldiers were inexperienced and could not be restrained in fighting, which was also a common problem for recruits. Therefore, Nogi Noshinori launched a second attack with the intention of consuming the ammunition of the People's Army, and now it seems that he made the right bet, the People's Army obviously wasted too many bullets in the first two times, and this time the firepower was greatly reduced. So Nogi Noshinori immediately ordered to mobilize two more wings, and as soon as the attacking army broke into the position of the People's Army, he immediately followed up and recaptured the 203 heights in one fell swoop.
However, at this time, the other KPA soldiers guarding the position also began to fight, and at a distance of 50 meters, they could already be used*. With the army of this era, the People's Army is equipped with a large number of *, so at a distance of 20-50 meters, if it encounters other armies, it may be able to break through easily, but in front of the People's Army, it is an insurmountable obstacle, and the soldiers guarding the position immediately throw out *. At a distance of 30-40 meters in front of the position, an explosion line was formed, and the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and even if a few Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to break through the explosion, after all, the number was too small to pose any threat to the KPA position.
Although Nogi Noshinori was in the rear, he could see very clearly with a telescope, but he did not expect that after this step, the KPA would be able to turn the tables again, so would the follow-up army continue to engage in the offensive? If the army had not been invested, the offensive would have failed; and if the army had been invested, the army in front had not been able to open up the situation and would inevitably suffer heavy losses. Although Nogi Noshinori didn't care about the casualties of the army, he didn't have many troops in his hands now, and he couldn't withstand such attrition. And just when Nogi Noshinori hesitated, the attacking Japanese army finally couldn't bear it, and was defeated again by the People's Army.
Moreover, the Japanese casualties in this attack were also the largest, after the two wings retreated, they were less than half, and if the wounded soldiers were excluded, then these two companies could almost be regarded as completely annihilated.
In three consecutive attacks, the Japanese army lost nearly 1,200 casualties, and the attrition was as high as more than 2,700 people. In addition, Nogi Noshinori does not see a chance to recapture 203 Heights now, so he doesn't know whether to attack again.
At this moment, the news came, and the Japanese army's Dadingshan position was finally declared lost, and the Dadingshan position was an important position in the northwest of Lushun second only to the 203 Heights, so the loss of the Dadingshan position not only meant that the defense line in the northwest of Lushun completely collapsed, but also that there was no point in continuing to attack the 203 Heights, and if they did not retreat, they were likely to be surrounded by the People's Army.
So Nogi Noshinori had no choice but to order a retreat back to Lushun, and Luo Yue saw that the Japanese army was retreating, and immediately ordered the 6th Division, which served as the general reserve, to attack, and took advantage of the situation to capture Pine Mountain, at this time the front of the People's Army was less than 2 kilometers away from the city of Lushun, so it can also be said that now Lushun has completely opened the door to the People's Army.