28. Fierce Battle Landscape Slope (I)

I'm talking about the Chifeng East Front.

At less than 5 o'clock in the evening of February 28, 1933, under the temporary adjustment of the 118th Brigade of the Military Department, Brigade Commander Liu Yueting and other commanders led the main force of the brigade headquarters and the directly subordinate team to Baimiaozi, five miles east of the city, and set up a command headquarters.

Brigade Commander Liu ordered the 236th Regiment to occupy Daiwang Mountain under the leadership of regiment commander Yang Ruxian, deputy regiment commander Gan Weihan, and chief of staff Chen Dongshan, and rush to repair the fortifications to prepare for a bloody battle with the Japanese army. The 238th Regiment, under the leadership of regiment commander Xia Weili, deputy regiment commander Tian Lianchuan, and chief of staff Wang Zinian, occupied the mountain slopes and river valleys connected to the south of Daiwang Mountain, and all the soldiers quickly rushed to repair the fortifications.

Both regiments immediately sent investigators to the east to conduct in-depth reconnaissance...... The 14th Regiment of the Artillery Brigade was ordered to occupy the Loess Ridge position in the south of Hongmiaozi, in order to provide fire support to the eastern forward troops.

The 237th Regiment and some brigades directly under the brigade were stationed in the West Xiaositai of Loess Ridge as a reserve to protect the front-line troops from the north and south.

At this time, the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Motegi Cavalry, under the leadership of the brigade commander Major General Motegi Mae Nozuki and the chief of staff Shintaro Umei Osa, smashed the Uduntau Sea from the Eight Immortals Tube Station, and rushed from the northeast to Chifeng. They had to leave a 19th Wing with an artillery reinforcement squadron to deal with the rest of Feng Zhanhai and the local volunteers in the Eight Immortals. The main purpose of the Motegi Brigade's westward advance was to implement the Rebei Middle Road plan that had already been reported to the Lushun Kwantung Army Command for approval.

In order to realize this plan, and also to quickly occupy Chifeng, an important town in Rebei, which had been coveted for a long time, the Lushun Kwantung Army Headquarters specially sent Koiso Kuniaki, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, to assist Commander Okamura Ninji, who was sitting in Tongliao.

The commander of Kennozuki Brigade, who was ordered to advance westward, ordered the commander of the 13th Wing, Ono Yataro Osa, to command the 13th Wing and march towards the line of Daiwang Mountain and Shanshui Slope in the east of Chifeng, and the 13th Wing immediately killed him with murderous spirit; The commander of the 7th Wing, Kameda Wusuke Osa, led the 7th Wing to quickly occupy important places such as Hara Pass and Taiping Jibao......

Other machine gun squadrons directly under the brigade and the Lushun Heavy Artillery Brigade were assembled near Sidaowanzi as reserve units, and the automobile transport team and the flying team were also ready to move west from Tongliao......

As soon as a squad of soldiers from the transport brigade stationed at Sidaokou had nothing to do, they went to Yutougou Village to break into people's houses and rape women, causing public resentment to boil, and the villagers wanted to rise up and join the volunteers. When Motegi learned of this, he said gloomily: "Yo Xi, a few women of Shina, all of them don't care, they should feel honored to serve the imperial army......

What is infuriating is that these transport soldiers do not repair their cars and feed the horses well when they are resting, which affects the morale of the imperial army as soldiers. If it weren't for the fact that they were Kumamoto fellows, I would have killed a few of them to work. Umei-kun, you have worked hard to take the Military Judge Advocate General's Office to the four crossings, and give each of those lawbreakers who leave their posts 30 military sticks, which is a great example to ......"

Chief of Staff Shintaro Umei respectfully wrote down the main points, stood up and saluted, and turned to go.

Ono Tataro Osaku hurriedly held a meeting with the officers of the whole wing, and conveyed the news that the commander of the Motegi Brigade was angry and punished the unruly Imperial soldiers. Then the brigades were ordered to be stationed in the second mile east of the first line of Daiwang Mountain, and the artillery Inoue Uehei squadron set up artillery positions in the lower three depressions two miles east of the mountain and water slopes.

The regimental headquarters of the 236th Regiment was located on the western slope of Daiwang Mountain, and its 16th and 17th battalions were on the front line of Daiwang Mountain to block the Japanese attack; The 16th Battalion occupies the eastern heights and is the commanding height of the whole position. The 17th Battalion occupied the head of Nanling, and while they were fighting the devils, they were also responsible for the positions of the 238th Regiment in the southern river valley......

The 13th Infantry Artillery Squadron of the 92nd Wing of the Japanese Army, plus the artillery squads of the various brigades, threw the shells over one by one. From the Daiwang Mountain position to the south to the south of the river valley position, it was combed and ploughed by various Japanese shells. The front-line trenches were full of craters, the smoke was filled, the trees were on fire, the smoke was billowing out, and the choked soldiers were covering their mouths and coughing.

The first time the fighters fought against the Oriental devils, they all held weapons and stared at the devil's position, to see what kind of tricks he had to break through our position? Wang Fangcheng, commander of the 16th Battalion, and Lin Yukuan, deputy of the battalion, ordered the soldiers of each company to leave the first-line trenches and withdraw to the second-line trenches before the Japanese artillery fire covered them. They all came to wait for the Japanese shells to extend vertically, and then returned to the first-line trenches to shoot at the devils who rushed up.

Li Fuqiang, commander of the 17th Battalion, and Liu Jinbing, deputy of the battalion, camouflaged several dead elm stumps at the front of the front-line trenches, like earthen cannons. The devil artillery just hit the mark, and twice as many shells fell here than elsewhere, until the stumps were set on fire and the trenches were cut off.

The 24th Battalion of the 238th Regiment on the slope of the mountain and water in the south, under the command of the battalion commander Wang Lianfa and the battalion deputy Hao Yutian, repaired the trench into a zigzag shape, and covered it with door panels contributed by fellow villagers and trees temporarily cut down nearby. But the Japanese army's 92 infantry guns were too powerful, even though it was a several-shaped trench, the shells frequently lifted off the upper cover and blew the soldiers away.

Immediately after the 25th Battalion's position on the south side of the 24th Battalion, shells from Japanese grenadiers entered the first and second line trenches one after another. The soldiers saw that their comrades-in-arms were frequently blown away by Japanese shells, and the soldiers of a squad in the third platoon rushed to the front-line trenches and threw grenades to blow up the dogs.

The battalion commander Li Xiuping's battalion deputy Song Wenxi hurriedly ordered them to withdraw, and sure enough, the devil's 92 infantry shells covered it again, and almost killed the lives of several soldiers.

Deputy Song Ying understood the hearts of the soldiers in the third platoon, so he said: "Brothers, this is the time when the devil's artillery fire is about to extend vertically, so you must suppress the fire and not be reckless. The artillery position of the devils is in the lower three depressions, which is too far away for grenades to be thrown there...... We will now hold back the advance of this Japanese cavalry, and wait for the northern and southern lines to form a docking, and then destroy them......"

Battalion Commander Li sent someone to contact the 14th Regiment of the Artillery Brigade and told them that the Japanese artillery position was in the lower three depressions, and the correspondent anxiously said to the commander of the artillery regiment, Wang Fukuan, "Please suppress the artillery artillery, and the target is the lower three depressions......

Wang Fukuan, commander of the artillery regiment, immediately ordered to open fire on the devil's artillery position in the direction of the northeast lower three depressions, and immediately from the Loess Ridge to the lower three depressions, artillery shells continued to whistle and flew by, and the soldiers on the position listened to the whistling sound and rejoiced. The devil's 92 infantry guns were immediately dumb two.

The phone call of the commander of the Motegi Mae Nozuki Brigade immediately reached the 13th Wing Ono Taro Osa, and he scolded: "What kind of work do you do in your place, the combat ground of the artillery squadron is very disadvantaged, and it has affected the speed of our fourth brigade to attack Chifeng, and I want to deal with it by military law...... Hurry, hurry, order the artillery to bombard the ...... greatly"

Wing Captain Ono Taro was scolded, and after a while of "hi, hi", he respectfully put down the phone, and walked out of the door of the headquarters with a command knife in his hand, he wanted to personally go to the artillery position to supervise the battle.

At this time, a herald, Lieutenant Tsutata, ran back, and when he saw Captain Ono Setaro taking a big stride, his brand-new military boots were kicking loudly, and he walked forward violently, and he hurriedly flashed aside, stood up and saluted, and said a little melancholy: "Captain Ono, Captain Kawahara Jun of the artillery squadron has detected from the direction of the defenders' shells, and the artillery of the Chinese defenders is not far from the area of the Loess Ridge in the southwest......

Ono Yataro was originally angry, and wanted to raise his hand to give Lieutenant Tsukuta a few mouths, but then he thought that it was not his fault, and he took the initiative to understand the enemy's situation, so he suppressed his anger and said: "Tsutata, Kawahara Jun and Mitsuda Hiroshita, these two stupid pigs, since they know the approximate location of the artillery positions of the Chinese defenders, why don't they hurry up and carry out a suppressive test firing?" Lieutenant Tsurita looked at the change in the expression on Ono Osa's face that was sunny for a while and cloudy for a while, and hurriedly said: "Captain Kawahara Jun, they are busy moving the gun emplacement, and they are afraid that the shells of the Chinese defenders will hit the imperial artillery again......"

Ono Yataro smiled, turned his face again, gritted his teeth and said, "You land, work in the ground again......"

Listening to his order to probe again, he seemed to feel the unhappiness of the wing commander with him, so after he twisted his fat breeches and turned back to the headquarters, he quietly walked to the lower Sanwa artillery position. He was the herald of the wing, and when he went to the brigade or squadron below, everyone wanted to slap him up and look up to him. In this way, he also went to the brigade of Xiao Ya Sanzhong Zuo unnaturally.

As soon as they arrived, several officers and staff officers of the brigade saw Lieutenant Seta coming during the pre-battle interval and surrounded them to greet them. Xiao Ya Shimosanzhong asked him: "Lieutenant Tsuta, just now the enemy and our artillery seemed to be firing at each other, why is there no movement at this time?" If Captain Kawahara's bombardment stops, we Imperial warriors will be ready to charge......"

When Lieutenant Tsuida heard this, he couldn't afford to take this responsibility, so he said: "You have to wait for the order of Captain Ono, just say that it is rumored that the opponent's defenders are not high-strength, but looking at their posture on the high ground, it seems that it is not so simple, even Captain Ono is quite cautious, no, order me to take a look again?" ”

Xiao Ye Shimosan said: "You still need to run in person, can't Captain Ono make a phone call?" Lieutenant Tsukita lowered his voice and said, "Captain Ono is reluctant to call Kawahara Jun and Mitsutenhiro because they are not authentic Kumamoto Prefecture. Those two also relied on the fact that they graduated from the pure artillery department, and they didn't like to take Ono Osa in their eyes......"

Lieutenant Katsuta was talking to Koya Nakasa's men, although he found a little feeling, the main purpose was that he wanted to find his fellow countryman Lieutenant Honda, and wanted him to go to Shimosanwa to have a look, and he could talk along the way, but he couldn't find him.

Both Lieutenant and Honda confide in each other with nostalgia for each other, and they were originally studying in the Tokyo Business Training School, and they wanted to start a business after graduation, work in business for a few years, and start their own company. Who knew that Motegi returned to Kumamoto to recruit soldiers, and they were enlisted halfway through. Since they landed in North Korea, the two of them discovered that it was not at all like what the recruiting department said, with good treatment and a big silver ticket......

If there are more silver tickets, then you have to gamble with your life. Moreover, since entering South Manchuria, he has been fighting and killing people, and he has developed a habit of making himself into a habit, and when he sees the Chinese and the Koreans, his hands are itchy and want to shoot people. They betrayed their beloved fiancée and raped several Chinese women......

Every time they participated in the gang rape, they regretted it afterwards, and they were so excited that they had to compensate for their physique. The injured person generally has a fierce glint in his eyes; or disdain or hatred in the eyes, always wake yourself from your sleep. I was tied to this evil chariot, and I lived like a year, and I wanted to go back to my motherland and see Mt. Fuji......

I don't know if I can go back in this life.

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