Chapter 137: Crazy Shelling
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Two hours later, two infantry squadrons of the corps, accompanied by an artillery squadron with four 150-mm large-caliber howitzers, arrived 8 kilometers away from the Luowenyu Pass.
Two artillery brigades have already been lost, and the 8th Division will naturally not give the squadron this opportunity again, and during the day, two infantry squadrons will be enough to cope with any attack and hold out until the rescue.
However, Suzuki Mitsu had already ordered the two artillery squads of the artillery squadron to stop advancing six kilometers away from the three high ground occupied by Liu Lang and others, while the other two artillery squads continued to advance in the direction of Luo Wenyu.
The idea of the major general of this army was naturally to use two heavy artillery pieces to bombard the Chinese positions he was surrounding, and the other two heavy artillery pieces to deter the Chinese defenders at the Luowenyu Pass. If the main force of the ** squadron at the Luowenyu Pass has any changes, two heavy artillery pieces are enough to make the ** squadron suffer a big loss in the field.
You know, Suzuki Mitsu is actually very jealous of the Chinese defenders at the pass, his 4th infantry brigade is now in the weakest state, if the Chinese go out to fight with him in the field, just the less than two infantry brigades on the pass position he is a little hairy in his heart, but now with the support of four heavy artillery, he can be regarded as completely relieved.
This is also the result of two consecutive battles with the squadron, all the previous arrogance of Suzuki Mitsu has been defeated, and in the past, not to mention two infantry brigades, it is an infantry brigade, and he will not void the squadron ** and an infantry brigade.
Of course, he didn't know that the temporary 2nd Division at the Luowenyu Pass on the opposite side was actually the end of the strong crossbow, and the two infantry regiments had nearly 1,000 casualties, and now they sent a main infantry battalion and the division headquarters guard company, and the soldiers who could fight were only 3,000.
Liu Ruming clearly realized this, no matter how much he felt sorry for his main battalion and guard company and Liu Lang's death squad, he was determined not to go out of the pass, otherwise with his courage, it would have been until Suzuki Mitsu had transferred heavy artillery from Xifengkou, and he would launch an attack on the army as early as early in the morning to cover Liu Lang and their retreat from that dead place.
Liu Ruming is the supreme commander in the direction of Luo Wenyu, and his ultimate goal is to guard Luo Wenyu to ensure that the army does not break through into the Great Wall, if this place is broken, the flank of the 29th Army will be finished, and tens of thousands of troops of the entire 29th Army will be defeated, the entire gateway to Pingjin will be opened, and the North China Plain, with a population of 10 million, will be exposed under the peak of the army. For this goal, not to mention sacrificing the lives of Liu Lang and other thousands, even if all the officers and soldiers of the Provisional 2nd Division, including him, died here, he had to make this cruel choice.
The choice on the battlefield, Wen Maimai is synonymous with defeat, and if you want to win, you can only be cruel.
One second to remember: /or
Liu Lang also had to make a choice, whether to let Chi Dakui and the others give up their positions, or continue to hold on. Because, the army's heavy artillery is coming much faster than he imagined, and the support he is waiting for has not yet arrived.
In this era, there was no radar to track the trajectory of the enemy's artillery, so he could only retaliate against the army artillery according to manual calculations, and the eight mountain guns began to counterattack five minutes after the army artillery opened fire.
However, the result is a little desperate, the army's 150 heavy guns are all 6 kilometers away, the range of 150 heavy guns is as high as more than 11,000 meters, but the effective range of 75 mountain guns is only more than 6,000 meters, and the longer the distance, the more its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
Obviously, the military artillery who knew that there was a Type 41 mountain artillery on the side of the squadron did everything this time, and the distance they stayed at was at the limit of the mountain artillery, which made the mountain artillery a little powerless.
When the army continued to try, the moment the 150 heavy artillery with a radius of 20 meters landed on the hillside and the top of the mountain was a large shell crater, Liu Lang knew that he had to make a choice, in the face of the lethality of this artillery, with Chi Dakui's current strength, it was too difficult to defend. It is very likely that he will send Chi Dakui and all the more than 70 people under his command to the Ghost Gate.
But what happens if you don't? The army will break through the lonely hill position, place artillery and machine guns on it, and the rear anti-slope trenches on the three sides of the high ground that could have been able to resist the army's artillery attack will be completely exposed to the army's firepower.
A closed ring will be completely broken, just like the Great Wall built by the ancients, stretching thousands of miles in the north, which can withstand the nomadic cavalry, but if one of them is broken, the enemy will naturally swarm in, and the entire defense line will be useless.
Therefore, even if you know that you may die, this important line of defense must be defended, and you can't retreat. Because if you defend it, you may die, but you may not lose your position, but if you don't defend it, you will definitely lose your position.
For a person, the biggest thing is life and death, but for the commander, what he has to face is whether a hundred people die or a thousand people die, whether a thousand people die or ten thousand people die.
This is the battlefield, whether it is the supreme commander or the middle and low-level officers, they have to make the most cruel choice because of what they want to stick to.
However, the commanders of both sides may not have expected that the scale of the entire Luo Wenyu is not very large, but it can be called the most tragic battle, and it will be fought on the small hill of Gushan on this sunny afternoon.
After reading the warrant from Major General Mitsu Suzuki Mitsu sent by the herald, the first thing he said was to issue a military order, reorganize the attack on the mountain, and form a death squad with the last two nearly full infantry squadrons under his command plus a cavalry squadron of the Eighth Cavalry Wing, which arrived almost at the same time as Suzuki Mitsu's warrant, to launch a decisive attack again.
The cavalry wing naturally had horses, and the lonely mountain was not that kind of precipitous place, the slope was relatively gentle, and it was not difficult to ride up the mountain, of course, they had to wait until the two infantry squadrons rushed into the position, and then rushed up the mountain, using the height and strength of the horses to use the sabers in their hands to carry out the final destruction against the Chinese soldiers on the ground who might fight with white knuckles.
This is also a tactical adjustment made by Kasawara River after accepting the lesson of the last round of white-bladed battles under his command and being defeated by the Chinese with broadswords, no matter how powerful the Chinese's broadswords are, in the face of the saber wielded by the cavalry riding a tall horse, it can only be a futile resistance.
Since ancient times, the infantry has been a chicken and a dog in front of the cavalry that rushes into the queue, even in the age of weapons.
Of course, the main reason for Kasawara to re-engage in the decisive battle was that he had the support of two heavy guns.
After half an hour of testing, the artillery finally determined the target, and began to vent their anger on the top of the mountain with shells weighing 18 kilograms over and over again.
According to the statistics of the logistics officer of the post-war army, at the request of Major General Suzuki Mitsu, in the first round of artillery attacks alone, the two heavy guns of the heavy artillery brigade fired more than 80 grenades at that small position on the soil.
And that, however, is the amount of shells stored by the heavy artillery unit on the battlefield on the Xifengkou side for a day.
It can be said that since the violent shelling in the afternoon, the two positions on the top of Gushan Mountain have almost ceased to exist, and the soil on the entire summit is soft, and the stone powder and mud that have been blown into powder can bury people's ankles when they step down.
The only thing that allowed the soldiers to dodge the bullets were the huge craters with a diameter of two meters.
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