The first day of the first battle of Niangzi Pass.

On the battlefield of Snow Flower Mountain, the 40th Infantry Wing of the 80th Brigade of the Japanese Army was setback.

The main battlefield of Niangzi Pass, the 39th Infantry Wing of the 78th Brigade of the Japanese Army, setback.

Jiuguan battlefield, the 39th Infantry Wing of the 77th Brigade Regiment of the Japanese Army, setback.

The second day of the first battle of Niangzi Pass.

On the battlefield of Xuehua Mountain, the 40th Infantry Wing of the 80th Brigade of the Japanese Army conquered Xuehua Mountain. The defending Chinese 17th Division lost more than 1,000 casualties, including one colonel, two battalion commanders, five captains, lieutenants, company commanders, and more than a dozen second lieutenants. The 80th Infantry Wing of the attacking Japanese army suffered more than 300 killed and more than 300 wounded, and half of the infantry brigade was disabled, including the No. 1 position of Xuehuashan, that is, 150 people were killed and more than 40 were wounded, and an infantry squadron was almost wiped out. The Chinese defenders on the position were an infantry company, and the whole army was silent. The superior forces besieged and went to fight to a ratio of almost 1 to 1. Looking at the entire Xuehua Mountain battlefield, according to the comparison of this casualty figure, it is almost a 1 to 2 battle loss ratio.

On the Jiuguan battlefield, in the first battle on the afternoon of the 9th, the 77th Infantry Wing suffered nearly 400 casualties, of which the 1st Infantry Brigade almost bore 70 percent of the casualties, killed more than 300 people, and the light and serious casualties also reached 300, with a casualty ratio of more than 50 percent, setting a record since the Japanese army entered North China. The casualties of the Chinese defenders are unknown.

If it weren't for the fact that the 78th Infantry Wing on the main battlefield of Niangziguan suffered less than 50 casualties, and learned that the Chinese defenders had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in the shelling, the anger in the eyes of Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumizaburo, who was sitting at the headquarters of the 20th Division in Shijiazhuang, could almost have set the wooden desk on fire.

In just two days, the two main infantry brigades under his command suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and with the addition of wounded soldiers, the strength of one and a half infantry brigades was over. If we fight for another ten days and a half months, will the twelve infantry brigades be abolished?

Fumizaburo Kawagishi, who was furious, sent a telegram to the two commanders of the Major General Brigade of Major Generals, even Major General Yoshio Kamitsuki, who had just been transferred to the division and regiment and had not yet had time to familiarize himself with the battle ahead.

The 40th Brigade took two days to capture Snow Flower Mountain and suffered heavy casualties, and Kawagishi Bunzaburo denounced its stupidity and angrily ordered it to capture the second line of defense of the 17th Division within three days, otherwise it was not ruled out that His Excellency General Terauchi Shouichi, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, should re-transfer Major General Yamauchi Fumifumi back to the 20th Division.

This kind of rhetoric is already extremely serious for Yoshio Kamitsuki, who has just been transferred to the 20th Division as a brigade commander. This means that if he fails to conquer the Chinese positions within three days and realize Kawagishi Bunzaburo's roundabout strategy of outflanking the Chinese troops in the Niangzi Pass area, he is likely to become the biggest joke in the Japanese Army, becoming the commander of the Major General Brigade who was impeached and transferred by his superiors as soon as he took office.

Of course, although the losses are heavy, after all, Yoshio Kamitsuki, who has conquered Snowflake Mountain, is not bad compared to Yoshito Takagi, who has great ambitions. In another telegram, Yoshito Takagi, who had suffered heavy losses due to the storming of the old pass, was almost not asked by His Excellency Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumizaburo to apologize for his seppuku, if it weren't for the fact that Kawagishi Fumizaburo still had a little bit of sanity. A military general at the level of a major general, he doesn't have that power yet.

But Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo didn't know that his anger aroused the determination of Yoshito Takagi, if he didn't capture the Niangzi Pass position, he would definitely be responsible for the defeat in the first battle of Jiuguan in the future, which would be the biggest obstacle for him to ascend to the throne of the Imperial Lieutenant General, and the only way to remove this obstacle was victory.

In wartime, His Excellency the Division Commander, Lieutenant General, may be able to scold and give military orders and commands, but he cannot easily replace a major general and brigade commander. Yoshito Takagi, who had been stimulated by his colleague Yamashita Fumi, completely threw behind the feint order of His Excellency Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo to fin and contain the army, and made up his mind to fight with all the Chinese defenders on the front line of Niangzi Pass, even if the first battle was broken in front of the independent regiment.

As the first person responsible for the defeat, Hatori Nakasa was miraculously not severely criticized by Yoshito Takagi, even if he had been smoked a few big mouths by the angry Koi Deng, and almost even his back molars were knocked out.

Although his brutal tactics of commanding the shelling of Chinese positions without even disregarding his own wounded soldiers were not praised by Yoshito Takagi, who was already red-eyed, his attitude was already expressed by Yoshito Takagi, who was under tremendous pressure from the division.

What he needs is the coolness of a front-line commander. He believed that even if the Chinese were tenacious, they would become vulnerable to the frantic attack of the imperial army, which was not afraid of death.

He did not believe at all that the Chinese could hold out much longer with the 105 heavy artillery that could not be resisted by manpower and the crazy bombs of the Imperial Army Air Force and the unrivaled courage.

Yes, even if the Jiuguan Battlefield Independent Regiment has taken out the advantage of light weapons that the Japanese army cannot match, but in terms of heavy firepower, the Japanese army still firmly occupies an advantageous position.

Moreover, for the first time, the Japanese army, which has always won with less and more with less, was the first time that the Japanese army fought more and fought less, and a full wing of 3,800 men fought 3,000 men, and they should have won from that point of view.

At least, not only the 39th Brigade from Major General Brigade Commander Yoshito Takagi to Japanese Infantry Brigade Captain Hatori Nakasa, but even General Huang of the China Jindong Theater Command and Lieutenant General Zeng of the Niangziguan Front Command all think so.

In the first battle, Liu Lang received several telegrams from the theater command and the front-line command, asking him if he needed support. At least two regiments of infantry are ready to support Old Pass.

The more than 20 sorties of planes circling over Jiuguan and the smoke of artillery fire that covered the sky and the sun made the generals and lieutenant generals of the national army jump in horror for an afternoon.

The Japanese shelled Niangziguan three times, dropping more than 1,000 shells, causing huge casualties of more than 1,000 people. However, the small old pass was shelled four times, and more than 20 Japanese bombers dropped terrifying aerial bombs, and the casualties must have been even worse.

Moreover, attacking them, it was up to more than 3,000 Japanese troops of one wing and three infantry brigades, and the nearly 30,000 defenders of the main position of Niangziguan faced the same enemy.

But they were all wrong.

In the next two days, in the sky above the old pass, even though the blue sky and white sun flag had been blown into strips of cloth, it was still flying high on the old pass position.

Even if the artillery fire on the position was visible for more than ten miles, half of the sky was blackened by the smoke of gunfire.

Even if Lidengxing, who came to the command of the front command of Jiuguan, flew into a rage and shot two lieutenant squadron leaders with his own hands in a row, he could not let his infantry stay in any position in Jiuguan for more than 30 minutes.

Yes, after two days of brutal fighting, the Japanese infantry did not advance half a step, they also once attacked the positions on the top of the mountain.

The Japanese commanders at all levels were not fools, and through several battles, they keenly discovered that the firepower of the main position in the center of the old pass was much stronger than that of the two wings, whether it was from mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and rifles. As a result, they adopted the strategy of feints from the central main position, and instead used two infantry battalions to take turns attacking the two flanks.

Under the cover of infantry artillery, mountain artillery, and even howitzers, as well as tanks, and driven by the infantry brigade commander who came to the front line and had his head wrapped around his head, the frenzied main Japanese forces attacked the main positions on both flanks at least three times.

Although the 772nd Regiment's old-fashioned Hanyang-made and Czech light machine guns and even Min-24 heavy machine guns, including several mortars supported by the Independent Regiment, are already good compared to ordinary national troops, they are still not opponents of the Japanese invaders. However, since its establishment, the red troops, which have defeated the strong with the weak and the few over the many, and fought under the disadvantage, have not lacked the courage to die with the enemy.

The infantry companies on the position suffered heavy losses and retreated, and before the Japanese could gain a foothold, the reserves rushed up to fight the Japanese for position. All the artillery and bombers in the sky of the Japanese invaders could only stare dryly, watching the Chinese use submachine guns, grenades and explosives packs, and even flesh and blood, to either kill or drive their colleagues in the trenches out of their positions.

Contrary to what the Japanese had imagined, there had not even been a large-scale white-knuckle battle between the two sides, which were close enough to shoot close to their faces.

It's not that the Japanese don't want to, it's that the Chinese soldiers with slightly shorter Hanyang-made rifles don't give them a chance.

The submachine guns supported by the Independent Regiment for the 386th Brigade played a great role in short-range trench warfare, and dozens of submachine guns and rain-down grenades were used intensively to beat the Japanese troops with 1.7-meter-long 38 canopies in the trenches less than two meters wide. In addition to submachine guns, there were also grenades and lit explosive packets, and the madness of throwing explosive packs from a distance of more than ten meters broke the hearts of the Japanese soldiers.

Within two days, they attacked the position three times in a row, but they were driven out of the position by the Chinese counterattack, and the infantry lost more than 600 people.

The 77th Infantry Wing, both in front of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment, was bumped and bled out.

However, this time the 772 Regiment also suffered heavy losses, which made the deputy head of the Iron Man Wang unable to hold back tears when he reported the battle report to the future generals in the rear.

Jiuguan fought for three days, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the 772nd Regiment were killed, and the number of officers and soldiers sacrificed was as high as 400. Most of them were sacrificed during the three battles with the Japanese for the main position on the top of the mountain.

When the explosive packets thrown at each other explode, they can even blow soldiers out of the trenches. The use of explosives packs and grenades as the main combat weapons of white-knuckle warfare has never been experienced even by the Red Army.

However, the 772nd Regiment, which had the courage to sacrifice, defended its position three times in a row.

The old pass, which was not the direction of the main battlefield of the Japanese army, was beaten into a sea of corpses and blood, not to mention the lack of donkey ridge that was set as the main direction of attack by the 20th Division.

The sound of artillery there rang out for two whole days, from day to night, and never stopped.

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PS: The old mother did the enhanced CT examination today, and the results will only come out in the afternoon or tomorrow, so I can only continue to wait, I am very worried, and I hope everything is fine.