Chapter 552: Defense
The Japanese herald led the order to run down the mountain, and Shiro Inaba also waved his hand to signal everyone to leave.
Funiu Mountain is only two kilometers away from the Yeosu base, completely in the distance covered by artillery fire, with Yoshika Ryosuke's experience there, Inaba Shiro did not want to become the second commander of the Japanese division hit by a stray bullet, while the battle had not yet started, Inaba Shiro hurriedly went down the mountain, got into the car under the mountain, and went all the way to the Japanese army front enemy headquarters in Jinhua.
"Boom, boom!"
The Japanese heavy howitzers sounded again, but this time the target was clear, all the shells hit the fortresses of the big and small Jianling, and the locust-like Japanese puppet army began to attack the high ground on both sides of the big and small Jianling. The devils are not stupid, cover the main fort with artillery fire, and put the offensive target on the obviously impregnable defensive line.
It was about yesterday's attack that made the puppet army feel that it was not so terrifying, or it was seen that after the Japanese artillery attack, they were still digging trenches in a panic, and today's offensive momentum was obviously fierce, and the mixed forces of seven or eight thousand puppet troops and more than a thousand Japanese troops rushed to the defense line with a roar, and the attack distance was advanced to within 500 meters in less than ten minutes.
Subsequently, the 92nd infantry artillery and mortars also began to build positions and began to blockade the front line.
Finally, there was no time to repair the trenches, so they began to return fire with simple bunkers, and the scattered infantry guns and mortars also rumbled, and heavy machine guns began to fire under the hill in the trenches, but they stopped and rested in the coverage of the artillery fire, and the main threat was the two heavy machine guns from the anti-artillery bunkers in the middle of the trenches.
The casualties were not small, and the trenches kept falling and even being directly torn apart by shells.
Although the puppet army rushed bravely, after falling a piece, they lay on the ground and refused to move their nests, no matter how the Japanese soldiers behind roared, it didn't work, and they didn't hear it.
Although it began to look messy, after suppressing the first round of attacks of the Japanese puppet army, it gradually controlled the dominance of the battlefield, and a large group of devils was helpless in the face of a group of "pigs" who could not catch up.
The combat effectiveness of the puppet army is indeed not high, in the Japanese army's war of aggression against China, in fact, the puppet army is rarely used to fight large-scale battles, most of them are used for public security management in the occupied areas, logistics and transportation, or to deal with local bandits and other irregular armed forces, so the establishment of the puppet army is relatively large, under normal circumstances, a division only has about 2,000 people. However, there are tens of thousands of reinforced divisions that have been put into the battlefield this time, and they are all temporarily deployed, so the battle is even more scattered, and there is no combat effectiveness at all. There was no benefit in continuing the attack, and the Japanese battlefield commander decisively gave the order to retreat, giving up the battlefield to the Imperial infantry behind.
The puppet army that received the order to retreat was pardoned, and ran away, not in shape at all, but the people on the mountain began to use this time to build trenches nervously. You can even see a formation of soldiers, quickly jumping over the collapsed trenches from the outside of the trenches to the far end of the main fort for reinforcements.
In the small hillside about a mile away from the defense line, the 13th Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army was nervously digging anti-artillery holes, and the heavy artillery of the Chinese Army had not appeared so far, and they did not dare to relax, and the slopes and ravines were full of potholes they had dug, and several soldiers had dug nearly two meters deep and more than one meter in diameter around an artillery crater on the hillside, and it was estimated that there was no problem in hiding three or five people at the same time.
The Chinese army still did not fire a single bullet, and this crater could only be smashed by the heavy artillery of their own people, maybe it was the first round of test-fired shells, and several Japanese soldiers were talking while digging.
Suddenly, a private went down with a shovel and touched a hard object, and his hand shook and hurt because of the excessive force, and he bent down to carefully remove the soil layer he had just shoveled, and a small piece of white material was exposed on the ground.
"Huh? Is this cement? Private muttered softly, he was only eighteen years old this year, and he had only been a soldier for half a year, so he was often laughed at by other soldiers, and he didn't dare to draw conclusions easily before there was no basis, so he raised the armory shovel in his hand again, ready to find out.
At this moment, a senior soldier next to him snatched his shovel and howled: "Masao Kosaka, still grinding! Get ready to charge! With that, he dragged him out and crawled out.
Sure enough, the troops had already begun to assemble, and Wing Commander Shinichiro Hashimoto was making the final mobilization. The atmosphere was very tense, Kosaka Masao looked at the trenches of the Zhina Army in the distance, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the unprovoked fear in his heart made him quickly forget what had just happened, he never thought that his discovery would save tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and he did not expect that after this battle, he never had the opportunity to say this discovery.
The 13th Wing of the Japanese Army is known as "the strongest wing of the Japanese army", and it is also the number one wing that committed a lot of blood debts against the Chinese people in the Nanjing Massacre. Before the war, Japan had a boastful saying: "The Japanese soldiers in the world are the first, and the Japanese Kyushu soldiers are the first." So Shiro Inaba handed over the first wave of attacks to them, placing high hopes on them.
Wing Captain Shinichiro Hashimoto Osa drew his command knife, pointed the tip of the knife at the position and howled: "Warriors of the Empire, the time has come for you to be loyal to the Empire, kill the chicken!" ”
"Kill the chicken!"
"Kill the chicken!"
The howls of the Japanese soldiers sounded all over the mountains, and they wore steel helmets and carried the 38 big gai to move their legs and rushed to the front line.
"The strongest wing of the Japanese army", this title is not blown, their tactical literacy is indeed not ordinary, after entering the firing range in a straggler formation, they did not immediately charge, but crawled on the ground, the machine man immediately set up a machine gun with the help of limited terrain, suppressed the fire above, and when the artillery fire behind began to cover the position, they decisively launched a charge, and acted quickly and agilely.
The return fire began to be disorganized, and the entire trench was barely effective, and all were covered in Japanese artillery fire. Although the power of heavy artillery is huge, the accuracy of long-range attacks will be much worse, and it is difficult to hit the shells into the trenches, but the 92 infantry artillery does not have this kind of problem, and almost all of them do not fail.
"It looks like the line of defense is about to collapse!" Shinichiro Hashimoto, the commander of the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, stood at the foot of the mountain and thought.
The Imperial Army swooped forward again, and the spearhead had already advanced to less than 100 meters from the front line, and Shinichiro Hashimoto quickly raised his binoculars.
There was no more firepower in the trenches, and although the two heavy machine guns in the anti-artillery bunkers were still firing wildly, they were obviously unable to block all the areas, revealing a gap, and the Imperial warriors would rush forward with a needle.
"Hey, why are there two more holes in the anti-artillery bunker?" Ichiro Hashimoto muttered softly involuntarily, and soon he noticed that two black muzzles were sticking out of the two extra holes, and then four tongues of fire appeared on the anti-artillery bunker.