On the front line of Niangzi Pass, after the shelling ended almost at the same time as the old pass, more than 3,000 people from an infantry brigade and two infantry regiments approached the already messy Japanese position from a position of nearly 2,000 meters. On both sides of their backs almost all the heavy firepower of the 12th Division of the Third Army was concentrated, and the commander of the 3rd Army also arrived at the front line, and the commander of the 12th Division looked nervously at the Japanese position with binoculars.

It was also a counterattack, but the Third Army was far more cautious than the Chinese army at Old Pass.

It was not that they lacked blood, but that the battle report of the 129th Division was too exaggerated, exaggerated to the point that they could not imagine it, even if the huge fireballs rising from the Japanese position, it was difficult to dispel their doubts. Just like that, to get into a fairy tale, anyone needs a process of adaptation.

In fact, the intensity of the shelling of the Japanese troops of the 78th Infantry Wing in front of the main position of Niangzi Pass was no less than that of the 77th Infantry Wing in front of the old pass, and in addition to 5 howitzers, at least 8 field guns were used to help their positions.

The reason why all the captured field guns were not used was not because there were not enough shells, but because there were not enough people who could operate the cannons. The artillery battalion of the independent regiment that followed the 771 regiment under the command of the future general was full of only a platoon of dozens of people, even if everyone had fought mountain artillery mortars, they were all experts, but a cannon needed observers, gunners, ammunition men, etc., at least seven or eight people had to wait, and nearly 200 people from the second company of the blue army all went to help, and each gun was assigned three regular artillerymen, which was only worthy of 18 guns.

Otherwise, if the entire artillery battalion had been pulled over and nearly 40 artillery pieces had roared, the Japanese positions on both sides would have suffered even more.

But even so, the 78th Infantry Wing, which remained on the ground, also suffered a catastrophe.

Kobayashi Hengichi is not as wise as his colleague Liden Yui Daisa, firstly, because he did not fight as badly as the 77th Infantry Wing on the Niangzi Pass front, although the losses were not small, but compared to the Third Army, which lost more than 4,500 men, the losses of the 78th Infantry Wing under his command were quite acceptable; People who have never been beaten naturally do not know how painful the stick will be when it falls on their body. Second, he did not think that the Chinese would be able to storm the positions of the 26th Artillery Wing, even if the infantry with 2 infantry squadrons could not hold it, and the field artillery deployed in the infantry to protect the rear would be dry food? He didn't believe that the infantry didn't even have the strength to hold back the Chinese for ten minutes.

Therefore, in addition to transferring a fully established infantry brigade back to the division headquarters, the remaining one and a half infantry brigades and artillery squadrons, as well as the baggage brigade directly under the wing, including the 78th wing headquarters, remained on the front line at Niangziguan.

Under the frenzied artillery fire, whether you are the captain of the Dazuo Wing or the private, the treatment is actually the same. Hide in the trenches and leave it to fate.

If you're lucky, even if the cannonball explodes only 20 meters away from you, it may be fine, but if you're unlucky, even if it's 80 meters away, a small stone flying everywhere may kill you.

If you want to survive the artillery fire, you don't look at your rank, you don't look at your strength, it's all up to luck.

Like Hatori Nakasa, Kobayashi Shoichi was not very lucky, as his wing headquarters 800 meters behind the position was unfortunately hit by a field artillery shell. As a cannon, the explosive power of a 75mm field artillery shell is actually not as great as that of a mountain cannon, let alone when it is used as a curve gun. But the thick skin of the field artillery shells gave it sufficient armor-piercing properties. The wing headquarters, which is dominated by logs and sandbags, may be able to stop the explosion of 75-caliber howitzers, but for this more penetrating field artillery, it hits its soft underbelly.

After penetrating the sand and gravel layer and then penetrating the thick logs, the field artillery shells exploded, although the 105 howitzers did not blow up the entire wing headquarters to the ground, but the shell skin flying everywhere was enough to kill all the people in the wing headquarters. In an instant, there were no more living people in the 78th Infantry Wing Headquarters, and the situation was much more terrible than the only dried black blood left on the side of Nakasa Hatori, and the human bodies torn by the shell fragments were all over the Wing Headquarters, and the flesh and blood of Osa and the second lieutenant were mixed together, and it was difficult to distinguish each other.

Therefore, the 78th Infantry Wing, which had at least three times more troops than the Jiuguan side, was actually much worse than the 77th Infantry Wing, and they suffered equally heavy losses in the shelling, not to mention the loss of unity of command in the shelling. Not only did he lose the co-captain, but he also lost the captain.

In the face of frenzied artillery fire, not only the Chinese have become vulnerable, but also the Japanese.

When the Third Army cautiously sent an infantry brigade to advance cautiously towards the Japanese position, the Japanese position, which originally had nearly 1,800 troops, was actually in mourning.

Compared with the Chinese army, which had suffered heavy losses in the powerful artillery of its opponents, the field trenches built by the Japanese army were mainly aimed at their infantry raids, and there were few anti-artillery holes and hidden soldiers' holes. It's not that the Japanese are lazy, but that they can't use it even if they dig it, and the Chinese must first have a cannon.

Moreover, they are here to attack, not to confront China, and the role of the trenches will naturally be weakened.

If the Third Army on the opposite side of them were subjected to such an artillery bombardment, the loss of 2,000 men of an infantry regiment might be more than a third, and the rudimentary trenches of the Japanese army on the opposite side would definitely be several times more than theirs.

As a result, the heavy losses of the Japanese army that suffered punishment even exceeded Liu Lang's expectations. Originally, before leaving, he also exchanged with the two commanders of the 772nd Regiment about how to use superior firepower to attack the Japanese position, just to have such a day to counterattack the Japanese position. He had no doubts about the bravery of the Red Army, but their current tactics against the Japanese army, a nascent enemy, still needed to be trained in the next war.

As a matter of fact, if it had not been sharpened for eight years on the whetstone of the Japanese, it may not be known whether the republic, which had just been established for less than a year, would have been able to fight bloody battles with the so-called "United Nations" forces on that icy and snowy land for three years. That, but the equipment was far superior to the terrible opponent of Japan who beat the Japanese to tears in the Pacific, and an infantry company could call in the support of 150 howitzers.

That may also be the only result of this damned war that caused great disasters to China, the only result left to the Chinese, countless ordinary and simple peasants, learned how to kill people at the smallest cost, learned to face the robbers who broke into their homes in full armor, not with pleading and tears to protect their parents, wives and children, but with their chests up and fighting them.

However, there is no need for it.

On the side of Jiuguan, the No. 1 Infantry Brigade of Hatori Nakasa, which numbered only a few dozen people, was only a few dozen people left after the shelling, and the mortars in the rear did not have time to hit at all, and the hundreds of grenades thrown from 50 meters away were almost equivalent to a round of shelling.

And the Niangziguan side is even worse, the remaining Japanese army of more than 1,800 people will not even exceed an infantry squadron. The rest, whether infantry or artillery, machine gunners or baggage men, were all reduced to ashes in the fury of the 105 howitzers and field artillery.

When the Japanese troops, who were stunned by the artillery fire, trembled and climbed up from the trenches, they were faced with the Chinese army, which was black and oppressive.

Two infantry regiments and six infantry battalions, although they are not in the same number, but these 3,000 or so people are pressed in the morning light in such a dark and oppressive light, which is enough to make people frightened, not to mention the Japanese army who has just been stunned by the crazy artillery fire?

It has to be said that the Japanese army was strong enough, although there was no one in ten, and they could not even find their own commander, but they still fulfilled their duty as soldiers, shooting at the Chinese troops who were approaching 400 meters away on a position as wide as 1,500 meters.

In a flurry of gunfire, more than a dozen Chinese soldiers fell, stopping the 3,000-odd people of the Third Army slowly approaching. It's not that the Japanese firepower is fierce, but that the Japanese firepower is unexpectedly weak, you know, there is an infantry wing on the opposite side, how can it be just this little firepower?

At least two infantry battalions have already entered the range of their heavy machine guns and even light machine guns, but Mo said that heavy machine guns, even light machine guns, do not exceed three.

Except for the two infantry battalions on either flank, which began to move towards the flanks, the three infantry battalions in the center stopped, and one infantry battalion tentatively began the attack under the cover of four heavy machine guns on each flank.

Until this infantry battalion advanced to a distance of only 150 meters from the Japanese position, there was no shadow of the Japanese heavy machine gun fire point. At this time, the weapons that the Japanese army could take out, except for the three heavy machine guns that had to be moved around by eight heavy machine guns, were several grenadiers firing in vain.

However, with an effective range of only 500 meters, there is no threat to a heavy machine-gun position that is specifically located at a distance of 700 meters.

Seeing that the Japanese troops had been shooting like this, they had advanced to a distance where they could charge to the death, and they could not see any powerful firepower, nor did they show the strength of an infantry wing, even if they had just been abused by a round of artillery fire. But there are more than 3,000 Japanese troops! It can't all be killed by shells! It's almost a fairy tale for anyone.

The commander of the leading infantry battalion, the battalion major, was a big man from Shandong, and he saw that his three main infantry companies had already entered within 120 meters, and it only took 15 seconds for the whole army to rush into the Japanese trenches. "Niangniang, pout, no matter what tricks you play, I'm fighting with you today." The battalion commander of the major gritted his teeth, stuffed the Browning pistol he was holding tightly in his hand into the hands of the orderly who had been following closely beside him, and by the way, he snatched a Hanyang Zao who had already loaded a bayonet from his hand, and roared angrily: "Brothers, listen to Lao Tzu, put on a good bayonet, follow Lao Tzu, charge the whole battalion, throw bombs from the first row of forty meters, and throw the grenades on your body to Lao Tzu, Li Ermao, blow the charge horn to Lao Tzu." ”

As the bugle sounded, "Kill!" Behind him, an infantry battalion of nearly 500 people launched a decisive charge against the Japanese position, which was nearly 1,200 meters wide, and launched a decisive charge against the Japanese position, which was once unreachable. No longer worried, no longer hesitated, under the leadership of their commander, rushed to the unpredictable Japanese position, and at the same time, tried to shoot the loaded bullets in the chamber.

The subsequent regiment commander and brigade commander probably did not expect the infantry battalion under his command to charge so resolutely, and at the same time, his face suddenly tightened, and at the same time, he ordered the heavy machine guns on both flanks to suppress the fire of the Japanese trenches, and at the same time ordered the infantry moving on both flanks to speed up. This was a very safe way of attacking, and in case the Japanese army played tricks, the two infantry battalions on both flanks could contain part of their firepower, so that the infantry battalion that rushed into a state of charge would not be completely annihilated.

The Japanese troops in the trenches were also frenzied, and although the heavy machine-gun bullets fired from the Chinese positions caused the trenches to smoke and smoke, there were still many people who desperately fired at the infantry battalion of the Third Army, which was rushing wildly, and the sound of "snapping" gunfire resounded throughout the battlefield. In just seven or eight seconds, at least sixty or seventy soldiers fell to the ground in the middle of the run, some rolling in pain, and some were silent and silent.

However, no one stopped the charge.

The so-called comrade-in-arms, in addition to being the person who can make you feel at ease to hand over your back to him, is that when he falls, you don't have to look at him with tears and sadness, but in the direction of his fall forward, along the road he has not finished, forward, forward.