1173. Japanese field artillery and howitzers came together
Even if it is a white-knuckle battle, there is no need to kill them all one-on-one, the Chinese army has a numerical advantage, why not send reinforcements to support the third battalion, after all, the third battalion is the main battalion of the 152nd regiment.
Therefore, in addition to the 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion of the 152nd Regiment, which remained to defend the position, the two infantry companies of the 2nd Battalion were also sent out by the regiment commander to fight from the two flanks and enter this white-knuckle battle of thousands of people.
The 3rd Battalion was fighting with the 2nd Brigade of the 216th Wing of the Japanese Army, and now two companies of 300 or 400 new troops were suddenly added to the situation, and the situation of the battle suddenly changed rapidly.
The Japanese army could not bear it at once, and could only withdraw from the battlefield in batches alternately, but the Chinese army did not chase too much, but only bluffed after it, and immediately returned to its position.
Because the trumpeters at the regiment headquarters had already sounded the call to retreat, Liu Guangyu was still very cautious now, after all, this was already half of the regiment's combat soldiers, and he didn't dare to mess around.
If the Japanese army only has one brigade, or is far away from the troops behind, the 152nd regiment will send people to chase and kill the devils.
But now I don't dare, after all, behind the second brigade of the 216th Wing of the Japanese army, there is the main force of the Japanese army's wing, and even the division, an infantry regiment of the Chinese army.
Although the battle must follow the order of the upper authorities to fight hand-to-hand combat for life, but also can not fight indiscriminately, the Japanese army retreats without chaos, not a poor man, even if it is a poor man, you must be very careful to pursue and kill.
After this battle, the Japanese army found out the intention of the Chinese army, and immediately changed its fighting style, this time it was a wing-level unit, the 216th Wing of the 34th Division.
This time, the Japanese army moved the wing gun, that is, the 75 field gun of the 38 year, which was one of the most equipped field suppression artillery pieces of the Japanese army.
Although it is an old-fashioned artillery, its shooting accuracy is very high, and the firing range is not close in the same caliber artillery, and the production cost is very low and the performance is good, so the Japanese army is equipped with a lot of artillery units in wings and divisions.
The Japanese field artillery and infantry artillery were used together, mainly to bombard the positions and suspected fire points of the Chinese army, while the field artillery infantry artillery was used as cover for the 120 field howitzers of the 38 year.
This 38-year-old 120 field howitzer is considered an old artillery in the Japanese army, and many of its performance are outdated, in the process of being discontinued and eliminated, and it is a reserve.
However, because the 34th Division was a newly formed garrison division, it was not equipped with the most advanced artillery at the first time, and the Japanese Army Headquarters gave these items to these newly formed garrison divisions.
The main defect of this 120mm field artillery is that the firing range is too close as a field artillery, and the projectile power is not large, it is heavier as a mountain artillery, and the complex terrain is not so easy to maneuver, so the regular mountain artillery field artillery is unwilling to ask for it.
But even if the artillery of the Japanese army was unwilling to use the artillery, it was still a first-class artillery on the Chinese battlefield, a 120-caliber field artillery, and a 51-caliber mountain artillery to attack the 75 mountain artillery of the 75th Division, which was a very easy task.
No matter how short its firing range is, it reaches four or five thousand meters, no matter how small the power of the artillery shell is, it is also 120 caliber, and the killing radius of its grenade also exceeds more than 30 meters, and can reach more than 50 meters.
Therefore, the Japanese 120 howitzers first interfered with the possible mountain artillery positions of the 51st Division, and their observation balloons kept floating in the area behind Jingshan, and as soon as the mountain artillery of the 51st Division appeared, they immediately guided their artillery to the target.
Therefore, the mountain artillery of the 51st Division did not dare to show its head for a long time, there was no way, it couldn't beat others, people were still squatting and waiting in front of your house, there might be planes in the sky, fast and fierce, they couldn't outrun them.
The mountain artillery of the 51st Division could not be hit, so the 75 field artillery of the Japanese wing artillery and the 92 infantry artillery of the brigade artillery raged, and they actually advanced the artillery to a distance of less than 500 meters from the position.
At this distance, it is basically possible to shoot directly at the point, and directly and completely block all the threatening firepower points of the Chinese infantry company and even the infantry regiment.
The 152nd Regiment and even the three battalions were suddenly filled with a tense atmosphere, and in this case, at present, they could only lie in the bunker trench and be beaten passively, and they could only wait until the Japanese army came up and fight together.
It can be seen that in this formation, the Japanese army came up with a wing, and last time an infantry brigade fought very hard, and now a wing, an infantry regiment can't bear it at all.
Liu Guangyu immediately called the division headquarters, and Division Commander Li was also paying close attention to the forward position of Jingshan Pass, at this time his soldiers were all sent out, in addition to the 152nd Regiment, the 151st and 153rd Regiments were still guarding the front line at the southern foot of Jingshan, and they were also tight.
The three battalions and seven companies are still guarding their familiar positions, and at present, in the front line of the Jingshan Pass position, although many mountains have been dug out of the Jingshan Pass, the forward position at the foot of the mountain is still very important.
Similar to a buffer zone, when engaging fire with the enemy, it can be slowed down, so that the main position has time to prepare, and there is an extra depth of distance, so as not to be broken through by the superior forces of the Japanese army at once.
At present, the Xiapi Bridge at the northern foot of Jingshan is a position similar to this, where the 58th Division is on top and the main force of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army is attacking from that side.
The 216th Wing on the side of Jingshan Pass also belongs to the main attacking force, but the direction is different, and the current wing commander Ogawa Osaku wears white gloves and holds a telescope, standing on the edge of the command post lookout hole, with an imminent momentum.
It is also true that, at least until now, even if the 34th Division is a garrison division and does not belong to the first-class Class A standing division, under the attack of one of their infantry wings, there has not yet been a Chinese army that can withstand it.
It is indeed difficult to withstand, and this is now in a very difficult and dangerous situation for the platoon commander of the third battalion, seven companies, and three platoons.
Due to the close firing of the Japanese artillery, it was very destructive, and almost all the bunkers in the outpost where the three platoons were located were overturned, and the trenches were destroyed as if they had been plowed several fields.
The third platoon had more than 60 people at most, and after the battle on the south bank of the Jinjiang River, and now after the first battle for the defense of Jingshan Pass, nearly a third of them have been killed.
Now there are only more than 40 people left in the third platoon, which was blown up by this round of heavy artillery fire, and at least half of them were lost, and there is no way to make statistics now, because the Japanese artillery is still bombarding.
The beard was buried in the dirt, and he kept digging a hole to breathe, but after a while, he was buried in the dirt and gravel.
This was considered lucky, some of the soldiers were buried in the mud and could not dig out, so they were suffocated to death in the dirt, and some were hit by cannons and lifted into the air from the dirt, and the human body was disintegrated in mid-air.
Blood and pieces of broken bones and flesh flew down with the dirt and gravel, and the beard was now struck in the face by the broken organs of a warrior's body.
Touching the salty rotten things on his face, in the blood-red eyes of his beard, he couldn't stop crying, such a man from the northwest, who had fought with the Japanese army for many years, rarely shed tears, and the most recent time should have been when his fellow brother Lao Yuan died in Kaifeng. Take a look at the latest chapter of "Iron and Blood Road of the Anti-Japanese War: Eight Thousand Miles of Iron and Blood Claw Book House" to read it for free for the first time.