Chapter 141: The Japanese counterattack
When the remnants of Ichiro Yamamoto's troops were knocked down by reinforcements, all the soldiers pursued the Japanese in condescending pursuit. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Fighting many times, whether it is an officer or a soldier, they all understand the tactics of the Japanese army too well, which is nothing more than the sentence said in the regiment commander: "The artillery rushes after the artillery bombards, and the infantry charges the artillery after the artillery bombardment"!
I have to say that when the Japanese army attacked on a large scale, its tactics were already very dull and rigid, almost every time it was a three-way attack tactic, and the war was nothing more than a bombardment of aircraft and artillery, and then there was an infantry charge, and after the infantry charge was repulsed, the artillery was bombarding. Chase it out and fight it, the artillery will suppress your artillery fire, don't chase it out and fight, the artillery will bombard the infantry and repair it, and adjust the deployment to rush up and fight.
The difference is that because the many attacks of the 60th Army always hit the sore spot of the Japanese army, the Japanese army was angry and often attacked with poison gas bombs when the 60th Army was pursuing, forcing the 60th Army to retreat, which was often like this, and the soldiers of the 60th Army hated it deeply, but made the soldiers hate the Japanese army to the extreme, and the resistance often became endless.
The best way to deal with the Japanese army with such an advantage in weapons is to do everything possible to entangle with the Japanese army, as long as the two armies are entangled in too many people, it will naturally be difficult for the Japanese artillery to attack, after all, if the bombing is carried out and their own people are bombed, their morale will also be affected.
What's more, this time the Japanese army did not have an effective artillery bombardment for the time being, and more than 10 Krupp heavy guns of Wan Baobang were still bombarding the depth of the Japanese army, and a Japanese defense line that had just been formed was hit by a large-caliber shell, and under one shot, more than a dozen Japanese troops, including a 92 heavy machine gun, were directly blown to pieces.
The most shocking thing is that the violent explosion not only killed them, but even their bodies were shattered, and a piece of intestines of one or two meters hung directly on the neck of a soldier who was fleeing in a hurry, and the scattered limbs and heads were scattered like hell.
In the real battlefield, far from what we think, the Japanese artillery fire often caused our army heavy losses, and the formations died on the positions, and the aerial bombs and large-caliber shells had torn apart too many peasants and peasants who were forced to resist.
I once read a report on Yunnan TV that in Taierzhuang, Shandong, I remember that in order to trace the footprints of the Yunnan army and visit the local people, after several inquiries, an octogenarian took out a thigh-thick cannonball and said that he saw this large-caliber cannonball kill more than 30 soldiers of the 182nd Division with one shot. In his honor, he saved this warhead.
For the sake of beauty and safety, Yin Shiju never filmed a scene of the real battlefield, and in the TV series, the machine gun only made a small hole, and even the power of an aerial bomb explosion is no different from the power of a grenade explosion. Artillery bombardment is always just a hit.
In fact, the Japanese artillery was used very accurately, and once the firepower was exposed, it would suffer artillery strikes at any time, which was also the reason why the 60th Army, which had never fought with the Japanese army, suffered heavy losses in Taierzhuang. However, now they have completely figured out the tactics of the Japanese army and avoided a large number of losses.
Now the Japanese army has lost its important minions, the tanks are still on the way, and although the artillery has been arranged, the 60th Army has already taken advantage of the rout of the Japanese army to attack and strangle the Japanese army on all fronts, and there is no way to open artillery.
The two regiment commanders, Yang Hongyuan and Zeng Zesheng, were advancing and commanding at this time, and the deputy regiment commander Li Zuo led two battalions of troops straight to the Japanese position, and a large-scale melee battle that failed to set up a defensive line in time had completely broken out.
The grenades were being flicked, the light machine guns were sweeping, the heavy machine guns were constantly changing positions to strike at the depth of the Japanese army, and when the distance rushed to the front and it was too late to shoot, it was the bayonet to greet them.
"Did you bring a war defense gun?" Yang Hongyuan said while observing the battlefield with a telescope.
"Bring it, it has been arranged on the mountains on both sides, just to prevent the Japanese tanks from attacking, can you gray grandson not mess around next time, Lao Tzu just overturned a Japanese brigade and rushed all the way over, he couldn't even breathe, and those artillerymen dragged the cannon over in such a short time and their legs were broken"! Zeng Zesheng said while looking at the battlefield.
"See, the Japanese army is in a rout, maybe it can annihilate a big Zuo or something tonight, after this battle, I don't believe that the Ninth Division still has the ability to organize a large-scale attack, haha"! Yang Hongyuan laughed.
"Okay, you command here, I'll go to both sides to command, prevent Japanese reinforcements and tanks from coming at any time, go back and wait for the commander to clean you up"! Zeng Zesheng kicked Yang Hongyuan's buttocks, then withdrew from the position and walked towards the side of the hill.
"I said that you are a person, Lao Tzu has made a great contribution to you, and if you are not grateful, you will have to kick Lao Tzu"! Yang Hongyuan said dissatisfied.
"Inform the third battalion that the outflanking speed must be fast, and boldly rush up and fight them in close combat"!
"Yes"!
In the front, Li Zuo and Lu Hai charged side by side, and the strength of the two battalions had completely penetrated the Japanese defense line with artillery support.
At this moment, Lu Hai suddenly picked up the bloody rifle and pulled the trigger, and a Japanese soldier who was in the trench and was about to shoot Li Zuo fell to the ground with a cloud of blood mist on his steel helmet and died.
Similarly, the three battalions launched a flank attack from the side, and the fire on both sides blocked the Japanese army to prevent the Japanese army from rescuing.
"Mortar, shoot at Lao Tzu"! Yang Hongyuan said loudly.
"Yes"!
More than a dozen mortars revised the target again and whistled into the shells, to say that this way is indeed risky, because the distance between the two armies is too close, their own shells even exploded ten meters away, the slightest deviation will hurt their own people, but it is also this risky way of playing to give them extremely powerful support, the Japanese defense line was torn apart one by one.
"Dazuo, the Chinese army is attacking fiercely, our army cannot retreat in time, the defense line has been torn one after another, they are coming straight at us, and it will be too late if we don't retreat!" A captain said in a panic.
"Who dares to say retreat, I killed him with my own hands, and today we will fight to the death with the Chinese army"!
"Pass down the order for the former army units to release gas bombs, and all soldiers put on gas masks and prepare to fight bayonets"! Ichiro Yamamoto's face was pale.
"Are the tanks coming?" said Ichiro Yamamoto angrily.
"They said they would be on the battlefield in five minutes at the latest!" said the Japanese soldier Shaozo.
"Okay, you go out and personally charge with the troops and press the Chinese army to the end"!
"Hey"!
After the squad leader walked out of the headquarters, he also knew that the current situation could not be turned around, Ichiro Yamamoto was close to madness, there was no way back in this battle, all he could do was to attack with all his might.
There may be still a possibility to attack, otherwise there are only two possibilities, to be killed by the Shina army and shot by Yamamoto!
"Tell the troops to put on gas masks and shoot all gas bombs out"!
"But the troops in front were blocked by the Chinese army, and the order could not be transmitted, so should they be fought?" A Japanese captain hesitated.
"Hit it out and tell the soldiers to get ready to charge"!
"Yes"!
At this time, on the forward front, the fierce battle was still going on, and the divided Japanese army was making the last desperate resistance with Lu Hai.
A Japanese squad leader slashed a soldier to death with a bayonet, and at this moment, Lu Hai, who was not far away, also stabbed a Japanese soldier to death.
Fortunately, Lu Hai found it in time, and his body quickly flashed to avoid the bayonet chopped by the Japanese army, and at this time, the Japanese army swept over again, Lu Hai hurriedly blocked it with a rifle, and then the butt of the rifle violently provoked the Japanese samurai sword and then smashed the butt of the rifle on the chest of the Japanese soldier.
The Japanese army was smashed over and was about to turn over, but at this time, Lu Hai pulled the bolt of the gun and pulled the trigger, and a bullet entered the chest of the Japanese soldier, killing the Japanese squad leader to the ground, and then fighting with a bayonet towards the next Japanese soldier.
At this time, the remnants of the Japanese army were only as many as 100 people, and they were broken through everywhere, and it was only a matter of time before they were annihilated.
Shells smashed into the positions they were fighting for, the explosion was not very powerful, did not cause too many casualties, and the real power was that after the explosion, the smoke and dust all over the ground enveloped them.
Many of the soldiers who were fighting violently coughed violently, and the pain in their throats was incomparable, as if they had drunk a mouthful of sulfuric acid. Similarly, the Japanese troops in the field also lost their ability to resist and struggled on the ground foaming at the mouth.
"Poison gas! Hold your breath and put on your gas mask"! Li Zuo shouted.
"Wear a gas mask"!
The scene was chaotic for a while, the Japanese army disregarded the lives of their own soldiers, directly fired poison gas bombs, most of the soldiers in the field were caught off guard, some soldiers had been poisoned, the severe pain caused them to struggle violently and scratch their own flesh, once the poison gas attached to it quickly festered, until they died in pain.
The soldiers who could still move quickly pulled the gas masks on their faces to breathe, the soldiers who did not have gas masks also hurriedly took out the strips of cloth and dipped them in water and tied them to their faces, and some soldiers also held their breath and searched for gas masks on the corpses of Japanese soldiers.
Fortunately, the 60th Army had some preparations, and it also captured many Japanese anti-poison Burmese troops, otherwise this sudden attack would have caused them heavy casualties and even changed the tide of the war!
Similarly, the three battalions that blocked the attack were forced by the Japanese poison gas to stop firing and retreat to the slopes on both sides, and at this time, the Japanese assault troops of more than two squadrons wore gas masks and launched a counterattack with bayonets! (To be continued.) )