Because the 77th Wing had tanks to help, at the beginning, whether it was the first battalion of the Independent Regiment or the positions of the 772nd Regiment on the left and right flanks, the pressure on the Jiuguan front was much greater than that of the Third Army in front of Niangzi Pass.

The shadows of the Japanese infantry were still hundreds of meters away, and the Japanese howitzers came to open the way first, pouring artillery fire on the main position and the two flanks of Jiuguan for more than an hour, plowing the hillside and the hill back and forth several times. Several trenches were blown up alive and unusable.

In this hour, Japanese planes also arrived to help, and a total of 12 bombers in two waves dropped 12 heavy bombs on the Jiuguan battlefield. It's just that there is a lesson from being ambushed by two air defense positions before, and this time the Japanese are dropping bombs at an altitude of at least 800 meters, so this is exactly what happened.

But a blind cat can also catch a dead mouse, not to mention an aerial bomb that is thousands of meters of fire? Although there were not many soldiers who remained on the position for observation, the soldiers who hid in the bulletproof holes that could only protect against mountain artillery shells at most still suffered casualties.

In an hour's time, braving the wild bombardment of Japanese artillery fire, at least three infantry squads were dispatched upwards from the three positions, and only one-third of them survived in the end.

There were more than 20 people, and before they could fire a shot at the Japanese invaders, they were torn to pieces by the artillery fire in the sky. Like the Third Army in front of Niangzi Pass, even if it was as strong as Liu Lang, it did not dare to have a single observer on the position, so that the Japanese army could easily occupy the front-line position.

The main tactical element of the anti-slope tunnel tactic is not to hold the ridge line on the top of the mountain, but to withdraw the camera to the tunnel on the back side of the mountain, and then recapture it after covering the ridge line position with its own artillery fire.

To put it bluntly, if you want to fight this kind of mountain defense warfare based on anti-slope tunnels, first of all, the defender must also have a large number of artillery, which is enough to cover the artillery of the ridged position; The artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment has 6 mountain guns, a large number of mortars, and even a storm rocket launcher that has been kept secret and has never been revealed, which is completely satisfied, and it is much stronger than at the time of the Battle of the Great Wall.

Secondly, there must be a tunnel fortification on the back of the mountain that makes the attacker scratch his head, even if it is to occupy the ridge line, it cannot be said that it can guarantee the attack on the tunnel and completely drive the defenders out of their positions. But this point, Liu Lang this time is far less than the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, the independent regiment spent a month to build fortifications on the earth mountain, Luo Wenyu is far better than the independent regiment at this time only spent only a week on the stone mountain, I don't know where to go.

If the ridge line position on the top of the mountain is lost during the day, as long as the Japanese army finds out the clues, invests a large number of troops and suppresses the artillery with artillery, the price paid by the 772nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment in the improvised anticline tunnel will be extremely heavy.

Therefore, the position on the top of the mountain cannot be easily lost, even if it is to be lost, not at this time. is as strong as Liu Lang, and he can only harden his heart, watching Ye Zifei send four to five more people up after he can't contact the soldiers in the observation position on the top of the mountain, three waves in a row.

The same is true of the 772nd Regiment, which constantly sends troops in the face of a death rate of up to 80 percent. In the execution of military orders, the Red Troops are completely comparable to the Independent Regiment, or even stronger. All the sergeants who received the military order did not hesitate to take the soldiers under their command into the battlefield that could break people at any time.

When the suffocating shelling was over and the sharp sound of bamboo flutes from the top of the mountain was heard, everyone knew that the Japanese army had begun to attack.

In addition to the special brigade equipped with walkie-talkies at the level of squad leader, the rest of the troops are also equipped at least to the infantry company level, and there are two telephones on the front-line position on the top of the hill to keep in touch with the rear at any time.

At the beginning of the war, the independent regiment used it quite well, based on the American cowboy's aircraft wireless communicator, Liu Tuanzuo proposed that a group of proud sons of heaven led by Comrade Lao Ye had painstakingly developed the Republic of China version of the "big brother" for more than a year, even in this kind of mountain, the communication distance could reach up to 10 kilometers, far beyond Liu Lang's imagination.

But as soon as the battle started, Liu Lang still found out tragically, he really thought too much. Not to mention this era, even in the next 80 years, anti-electromagnetic interference is also a difficult problem for all brick professors. When the artillery fire is all over the sky, let alone 10 kilometers, even a few hundred meters in this area, you can only hear the "zizi" electric sound in the walkie-talkie.

With the high technology of Teniang, Liu Lang could only be forced to continue to use the bamboo whistle and signal flares of different colors used in the last Great Wall Anti-Japanese War to replace long-distance communication. As for the telephone, with such a level of bombardment, do you think the telephone line can still be kept from being blown up?

After entering the position, the officers and men of the first battalion and one company found that this time, instead of the familiar Japanese infantry formation, they were led by tanks, and the infantry followed closely.

Moreover, not a few tanks, but a dozen. There was black smoke suddenly, and there were four large and one small one in the direction of the main position of the old pass.

THE BIG ONE, THE VETERANS OF A BATTALION AND A COMPANY HAD SEEN IT WHEN THEY WERE ON THE GREAT WALL, THE FAMILIAR TYPE 89 TANK, WEIGHING FIFTEEN TONS, WAS ARMED WITH A 57MM SMALL GUN. During the Battle of the Great Wall, the two regiments of the 29th Army had no choice but to carry explosive packs and cluster grenades as human bombs in order to deal with them, otherwise there was no other way.

The small one, I haven't seen it, the small one is even a little pitiful, it doesn't even have a turret, it's just a heavy machine gun.

However, no matter how small it is, it is also made of steel. In the face of this monster wearing more than ten millimeters of steel plate armor, the light and heavy machine guns on the position almost did not dare to come forward, and a few heavy machine guns just opened fire tentatively, and the Type 89 medium tank that swaggered itself on the hillside bombarded it with one shot, and although the 57mm short-barreled artillery was not very powerful, it was no problem to hit the light and heavy machine guns such as temporary fortifications surrounded by sandbags.

The small Peeding tank unscrupulously dumped 7.7 mm machine gun bullets on the position hundreds of meters away, causing only smoke and dust to rise from the position.

Jiuguan Mountain is not dangerous, after a round of howitzer madness, the boulders on the hillside have been blown away, leaving many huge craters.

With the small engine of the Type 94 Xiaodouding tank with only 32 horsepower, it is not easy to get over the somewhat complicated environment on the battlefield, even if it is also small, the total combat weight is only 3.3 tons, and the length of the car is only 3.12 meters, which is even a little shorter than the 3.2 meters of the future Alto sedan.

To be honest, the Japanese army actually had no experience in fighting in concert with armored forces. The tanks were unable to advance as they patrolled back and forth on the hillside with black smoke, so they simply threw off the tanks and attacked on their own, using the tanks as fixed batteries and machine-gun fire points at close range.

After all, the firepower of the Type 94 light tank, which had no turret but was armed with a 7.7mm machine gun, was proven both in the North China Battlefield and in the Southeast Songhu Battlefield.

Although they are still looking for a way up the hill on the hillside, the two tanks of the Japanese tank brigade, which seem to be scum in Europe and the United States, are definitely not weak, and the defenders on the mountain are really helpless against this kind of steel monster at least 500 meters away.

Because of the relationship between crossing the ridge, the dead angle of the Bofors mountain artillery of the mountain artillery battalion of the independent regiment happened to be an area of several hundred meters from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, which is also the same reason that the Japanese howitzers and mountain artillery could not hit the independent regiment behind the ridge to win the anti-slope tunnel.

The mountain artillery that could inflict damage on such a thin-skinned tank could not hit, only mortars. But the Japanese tanks are not stupid, when a few mortar shells explode not far from the perimeter, their tanks begin to move, using mortars to hit the target of this kind of activity, then, the sharpshooters are not good, can only rely on luck.

However, Liu Lang, who was on the front line to command the operation, watched from the telescope as the Japanese army hundreds of meters away began to abandon the tank and attack upward, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The tiger is not powerful, and he really treats Lao Tzu as a sick cat. Isn't it great to have tanks?

The Japanese infantry attacked to a position of 300 meters, and the Jiuguan position was still quiet, and there was not a single shot fired in the three defensive positions, after the Japanese tanks fired several guns and knocked out several heavy machine guns tentatively firing.

This scene made the Japanese front-line commander of the 77th Infantry Wing, the captain of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Hatori Nakasa, very creepy. The captain of the infantry brigade is generally a junior officer, and this capable officer can also imagine his qualifications.

As usual, it's an old bird.

I haven't read the army very seriously, but the infantry captain who has risen all the way from Juncao to Zhongsa deeply feels that there is a conspiracy.

Baga's, that vicious "Beast Colonel" definitely has a big conspiracy.

However, even if he knew that his infantry squadron had been surrounded by someone's conspiracy, the old bird Nakasa in the Japanese army could only continue to order his group of equally hard-headed soldiers to advance.

No matter how strong the independent regiment is, no matter how cunning Liu Lang is, if he retreats just because the opponent does not fire a shot, it will not only become a big joke, but I am afraid that the entire 77th Wing and even the 39th Brigade will become a big joke in the sequence of the Japanese army.

When the Japanese army advanced to 200 meters in horror and could almost see the faces of the Chinese defenders on the opposite side, a sharp bamboo whistle suddenly came from the top of the mountain.

Almost all the Japanese soldiers who were hunched forward were lying on the ground for the first time, almost not being scared to pee.

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