Chapter 602: Two Positions, Two Atmospheres (Page 1/1)

On the 22nd, at half past five in the morning

On the high ground of the first frontier, the sky was still bright, and the soldiers of the Japanese Kunlun Pass garrison were trapped in this last defense area, silently in the position, and the Japanese troops in the trenches were vigilant against the Chinese troops in front of the position, below and on the flanks, and the defensive arrangement was still very tight, but the entire highland was lifeless.

The first line of the Jieshou Heights, that is, all the current defenders of the Kunlun Pass garrison, the number has been low to a very terrible point, after the teaching brigade defeated the night attack on the Japanese army led by Lieutenant Saito, the simple combat infantry, the Kunlun Pass garrison only has about one and a half squadrons left, the total number of infantry is less than 250 people, and they are all tired soldiers, and the Chinese army has been fighting for a long time, people are tired and tired, and the strength is scarce.

Lightly wounded soldiers and soldiers with a certain combat ability were wrapped up in wounds and pulled to the position, and in a whole trench, there could be a third of the Japanese soldiers, whose bodies were wrapped in gauze.

In addition, the Kunlun Pass garrison has some non-combat infantry units, including an engineer squad, a squad of mortars, a rapid-fire artillery squad and a mountain artillery squadron, this part of the artillery and engineer units are quite complete, the casualties are not large, and they control all the artillery in the hands of the Kunlun Pass garrison.

In order to make up for the deficit of the infantry, Matsumoto Sozaburo was transferred from these sappers and artillery, and replaced them with infantry weapons to go to the first-line trenches and defend the position with the infantry.

The troops suffered serious losses in battle, and the strength of hard and soft battles plummeted, and they were trapped on the front line of receiving the high ground, which was the current situation of the garrison at Kunlun Pass.

The officers and men of the teaching brigade squatted on the Luotang Heights all night, and these Japanese soldiers also kept watch in the trenches all night, but no one came to disturb them.

In the trenches of the Japanese army, an atmosphere of pathos gradually spread in the position, and at night, the failure of the night raid led by Lieutenant Saito was no secret among the soldiers of the Japanese garrison.

The wails of the wounded, the disarray, and the remnants of the night raiding troops withdrew their positions in such an image, under the note of the defenders of the high ground at the head of the border......

There were more than 100 people when the night raid troops set out, and only forty or fifty people came back, and the retreat was very chaotic, these Japanese soldiers thought with their butts, and they could also figure out what was going on, and the tragic scene when they withdrew compared with the time of departure, it was simply a heaven and an underground, and the defeat of the night raid troops also dealt a blow to the morale of the Japanese troops who were guarding the first heights of the boundary, and the loss of the Luotang Heights from yesterday afternoon to the defeat of the night raid added up, even if the Japanese army was tenacious, the morale had to be shaken.

The troops are insufficient, the defensive positions are compressed, and the only thing that can be taken is a relatively sufficient supply of ammunition and logistical supplies.

This night, this early morning, the Japanese troops in the Kunlun Pass garrison were not only cold physically, but also cold inside.

The early morning wind was also particularly biting, and gusts of wind blew through the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and also blew through the hearts of the Japanese soldiers.

In the trench on the high ground of Jietou, two Japanese soldiers guarding the remote corner, both of them privates, were lying on the trench with cold Type 38 rifles, and in the bright weather, there was no word of conversation.

"Okada-kun, the group of night raiders who came back, the battle turned out to be like this, it's really incompetent."

"Hmph, who said it wasn't, fighting the Chinese army, actually losing the attack in the night attack, it was really a loss to the fifth division."

"How did the Chinese army become so difficult to fight!"

The two Japanese soldiers, chatting about the topic of the night attack troops, occasionally mentioned the loss of the Luotang Heights, in the words, what flowed out was the worry about the battle situation, the tone was very low, but also with disappointment, and contempt for the night attack troops, the conversation between the two Japanese soldiers, can basically represent the psychological activities of most of the Japanese soldiers in the Kunlun Pass garrison.

"Alas, at first after two or three days of fighting, the Chinese army was still like that, it was very easy to fight, but I didn't expect it to suddenly become like that yesterday afternoon, I hope Amaterasu will bless it loudly, bless us to defend this high ground."

"Now that we're in this situation, the wounded have to defend the trenches, and we're afraid we'll all have to be loyal......"

The two were talking, and suddenly, a patrolling soldier heard the conversation, immediately walked around the corner, and grabbed the collar of the clothes of a Japanese private who had just closed his mouth.

"Baga, concentrate on duty! Don't let me hear this demoralizing words again, you are the warriors of the imperial army, and you must meet the enemy with the highest morale! The wounded soldier Cao yelled, his vicious tone, the stubble on his face, and the scars on his face from mortar shrapnel, which frightened the two privates on the spot.

"Smack"

"Smack"

may be that he didn't say enough strength in his mouth, and Jun Cao gave two Japanese soldiers a slap to each of them, and the strength of Jun Cao's slap was three points more than that of this military Cao training recruit before the war.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

The two Japanese soldiers stood up and bowed their heads, and looked at the angry military Cao, who looked at the two unkindly, snorted, and left the defensive position around the corner, the two Japanese soldiers did not dare to chat anymore, and after the military Cao left, they picked up their weapons and honestly guarded in the position, and the trenches guarded by the two restored the silence like death.

As everyone knows, the thoughts in the heart of the departing military cao are not far from those of these two privates, and what he did was just to maintain the morale on the surface, nothing more......

22nd, morning, 6 o'clock.

On the Luotang Heights.

"All squads moved the machine guns down, and took away the ammunition that could be taken away, and left behind those who couldn't take it."

"Engineer platoon, take the blaster, and after the rest is replenished, just bring enough."

If the Japanese position was lifeless, then the position of the teaching brigade was the opposite, full of vitality.

The Luotang Heights were very lively, and at six o'clock in the morning of the appointment, the teaching brigade began the relocation work in a hurry, and Zhang Wei, Qiu Wei, and others personally commanded the relocation work.

The soldiers cautiously handed over their positions to the officers and men of the 598th Regiment who came up to take over the defense, the sound of trumpets and orders came and went, so it was not lively, the ammunition was only enough, not overcarryed, and the more were left on the high ground, and the ammunition supply was attached to the teaching brigade of the 200th Division, and now it was quite bold, anyway, it was a friendly supply, and when they went down the high ground, naturally the baggage troops of the 200th Division brought new ammunition supplies.

After the transfer of defense, the teaching brigade drove down the Luotang Heights, and below, new combat missions awaited them.

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