In the early days of the war, the Japanese invasion troops were basically composed of veterans, and even if they were recruits, they had at least 10 months of rigorous recruit training and enlisted in the army for more than a year.

The Japanese Army's emphasis on precision strikes and waste was evident in the Army, which abandoned the more ferocious submachine guns and opted for the most accurate Type 38 rifles in the entire period of World War II, combined with the marksmanship they had trained in rigorous training. In terms of long-range shooting accuracy alone, the overall level of the Japanese Army is definitely one of the best in the world.

On the other hand, the Chinese army has a low level of training and a lack of training materials, even the soldiers of the German armouring division who were personally compiled and reorganized by the advisers of the Third Reich only have 50 rounds of live ammunition a year, not to mention the soldiers of other factions.

In the early days of the war, why the frontal battlefield was defeated again and again may be composed of a variety of complex reasons, such as the Japanese army's heavy firepower far exceeded the Chinese army, or China's elite in Songhu was exhausted, the air force was almost exhausted, and the sky became the world of Japanese aircraft, or the highest level of strategic command mistakes, etc., but the Japanese army's individual military literacy is extremely strong, whether it is shooting or stabbing skills, it is far above most Chinese soldiers, which is also one of the important factors.

On the battlefields on both flanks, the characteristics of the Japanese army's accurate shooting were also vividly displayed. As long as you don't hide yourself tightly and expose your head or body parts slightly, there will be extremely accurate bullets flying from nowhere to hit the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment.

In just 10 minutes, nearly 300 officers and men of two companies of the left flank position, which the future "mad lieutenant general" commanded at the front, and more than 200 Japanese troops 350 meters away, suffered more than 20 casualties, of which as many as 9 were killed on the spot.

This is also the result of the officers and soldiers on the front line wearing the steel helmets supported by Liu Tuanzuo. The red troops have always been accustomed to wearing coarse cloth military hats, and they are not used to wearing bulky steel helmets, but Liu Tuanzuo, as the commander-in-chief of the Jiuguan front, strictly ordered that those who enter the frontline positions without wearing steel helmets will be dealt with according to the violation of battlefield discipline.

If it is hit head-on, the bullet will open the steel helmet through the huge kinetic energy formed by the muzzle velocity of 800 meters, and then the deformed warhead will penetrate the hard frontal bone and stir the brain into a mess.

But the steel helmet can effectively resist shrapnel. Other parts of the human body were broken by shrapnel, and there was still a chance to stop bleeding and suture for rescue, but the head was opened by shrapnel, but there was no way for the gods to come.

In this kind of firepower on both sides is suppressed by each other, and the infantry on both sides are red-eyed rifle fire, the role of the steel helmet is not small, as long as it is not hit head-on, the rounded steel helmet inclination still has a chance to bounce off the bullets.

Stroking a deep bullet mark on his steel helmet, Deputy Regiment Commander Wang, who will be known as a madman in the future, is also inhaling cold air. If it weren't for the steel helmet that flew the bullets fired by a Japanese soldier in the cold, and seeing the heavy casualties on his side, he was already red-eyed, and he personally carried a Japanese-style 38 and covered the front line trenches, Deputy Regiment Commander Wang almost became the highest officer in the entire Niangziguan front line who died.

The most tragic moment of the 17th Division is still coming, and Colonel Zhang Shijun, who was martyred, is still anxiously holding a telescope and staring at the most elite infantry company under his command at this moment, and his heart is like a knife.

If he was still wearing the usual gray cloth military hat, this lieutenant general of the future republic would definitely be heroic at this moment.

However, this did not make the future lieutenant generals of the republic back down.

"Dog's day little devil, shoot so accurately." The future madman general only briefly expressed his surprise, and then shouted loudly: "Order all the officers and soldiers, this is the second battle between my 386th Brigade and the little devils, and I can't let the brothers of the Independent Regiment see our jokes, let alone the Chinese people see the jokes of our 18th Group Army, don't come to be this soldier if you are afraid of death, and let Lao Tzu and them go out to do it." The little devils have accurate marksmanship, and the old men are not bad. ”

If it is said that the order is not afraid of sacrifice, I am afraid that there is no better army in this world than the Red Army, even if Liu Lang preached patriotism and nationalism for five years, it will not be better than them in this regard.

The belief that the Independent Regiment gradually established among the officers and men was that only by protecting the country could we protect the family and protect our parents, wives and children.

The Japanese army was completely brainwashed by the fanatical ****, and even thought that it was an honor to return to the arms of Amaterasu after dying in battle, so their performance on the battlefield was also stubborn and almost terrible.

The Red Army, on the other hand, also has its own beliefs, and it is their belief to overthrow all the old forces and let the poor who live without a piece of land turn over and become masters to give their descendants a better new life. In order to realize one's ideals, one must first drive out the Japanese devils who are preparing to destroy the country and exterminate China, which is the most basic thing. The Red Party has undoubtedly been extremely successful in shaping the faith.

Anyone who has faith that would rather give their life for it is less precious than that.

"Life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown!" Such a romantic and heroic poem may not represent all the Red Party people, but it is definitely a portrayal of most of the people who had a firm belief in the Red Party in that era.

As for the rest of China's troops, it is a little worse, and it depends on their commanders, if the commanders have the determination to kill themselves in a horse-leather shroud, then their subordinates also have the determination to sacrifice their lives, which is a very typical phenomenon of "one nest of bears, and all heroes will be males". Therefore, there are army commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders who led their troops to die with the enemy, and there are also army commanders, division commanders, and other commanders who took the lead in running away and the sorrow of defeat like a mountain.

Not only did the red troops not lack the courage to sacrifice, but this unit, which was built with the backbone of the red elite who had gone through the great strategic transfer of 10,000 miles and had been counted in 100 battles, would never be bad in military quality. In the end, there were only more than 10,000 people left in the hundreds of thousands of red troops, and those who could survive were definitely the elite of the elite, even if it was by luck.

Almost similar to the Japanese army, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army, who were short of ammunition and never dared to waste it, would never shoot easily when they were not absolutely sure, and once they fired, they could make you sweat if they didn't hit.

That is to say, the Hanyang in their hands is worse than the 38 big cover, and its effective range is only 300 to 350 meters. However, with the advantage of condescending and trenches, it was still much more convenient for them to shoot than the Japanese troops hiding in the rocks and barley below the position.

Hearing the order of Deputy Regiment Commander Wang, the officers and men of the two companies of the 2nd Battalion of the 772nd Regiment no longer disregarded their own safety, and they poked their heads out to aim at the Japanese troops at the bottom of the mountain and attacked.

At this moment, the losses of the Japanese army immediately increased.

"Bang bang bang" In the non-stop gunfire of Hanyang, more than 200 Japanese squadrons in charge of the attack fell at least more than 20, although no less than 10 soldiers of the 772nd Regiment were also planted on the position.

At this time, whether it was the 57MM shells of the tank guns that were still exploding or the grenades that the Japanese grenadiers were desperately firing, it was no longer important, the important thing was to kill the opponent and kill the enemy.

The officers and soldiers of the red-eyed 772nd Regiment seemed to have returned to the battle with the White Army a few years ago, sparing all casualties, just to defeat the opponent and kill a bloody road for the whole army. It's not a question of accurate shooting, it's courage.

The courage to dare to face death.

Because, no one can predict whether he will be killed by a bullet after killing a Japanese soldier. Even if he already knew that he was being targeted by several rifles at the same time, he still firmly fired at the target he had already targeted.

And the Japanese army, also do not lack the courage to face death, before the commander gives the order to retreat, they will also fight to the death and not retreat, and the **** that supports them not to fear death is also terrifying.

Two armies with different beliefs but equally fearless of death launched an unusually brutal infantry battle on this battlefield where both sides were pinned down by heavy firearms.

People kept falling, but there were still people braving the rain of bullets to show their heads, aim and shoot, and then fall again.

On both sides, this is true.

In more than 20 minutes, the casualties on both sides were so heavy that they even exceeded the main battlefield of Jiuguan, which was a stage where heavy weapons on both sides bombarded each other, and the infantry of both sides had not yet taken the stage as the protagonists.

However, as the great man said, it is always people, not weapons, that determine the victory or failure of war.

After more than 20 minutes of tragic and unrivaled fighting, the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion of the 772nd Regiment, who had been killed, completely forgot how many casualties they had, and just frantically shot the bullets in their own guns at the Japanese army.

And the Japanese commanders on the front line finally could not bear this brutal battle, shouldn't the Imperial Japanese Army step on the Chinese positions under the cover of their own superior firepower? Instead of dying in vain in this kind of field, which is still more than 300 meters away from the position.

What are the damned artillerymen and tankmen doing? Do you eat Japanese soaking rice in the back?

With the order of the Japanese commander, the Japanese army finally took the initiative to stop this cruel duel, slowly retreated alternately, and took the initiative to stay away from the battlefield.

And the main battlefield in the center of the old pass, at this moment, it is the moment to decide the victory.