At eight o'clock in the morning on October 4, 1937, the Soviet front headquarters two kilometers behind Zhang Gufeng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Comrade Marshal, the Japanese army launched artillery bombardment on our two high grounds, and the fire was very fierce." The commander of the 32nd Infantry Division, Berzarin, reported loudly to Blyukhel, who was sitting in Ussuriysk, on the microphone.

"Implement the first set of plans and tell the comrades on the front line that the moment the Japanese army charges is the signal for us to attack."

"Understood, Comrade Marshal! Our artillery has locked on to the positions of the Japanese artillery positions and will counterattack in three minutes. ”

It was not pleasant to be bombed without fighting back, but according to the operational arrangements, Colonel Belzarin could only wait patiently, and could not fully expose his own firepower readiness.

In the semi-underground headquarters, Berzarin could hear a loud explosion coming from ahead. Putting down the earpiece, Berzarin turned to the staff officer on the side and ordered: "Tell the artillerymen to let the Japanese be honest." ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander."

Now Berzarin's position is not exactly that of a division commander, but that of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet front, who not only has his own troops at hand, but also drags a tank regiment, two heavy artillery regiments and a field artillery regiment, and Blyukherr gives him more than half of the firepower in the reserves. However, only two artillery battalions would open fire after two minutes, lest the fire be too heavy and the Japanese would discourage the idea of attacking.

The artillery battles in the 30s were not like decades later, when there was no artillery radar to determine the location of the opponent's artillery positions, but the Soviet army had enough reconnaissance planes to find out the positions of several Japanese artillery wings, but the Japanese army could not know the specific location of the Soviet artillery positions: the commanding heights were on the Soviet side.

Two minutes later, Berzarin heard the whistling of shells flying over his side.

"The forward observation post reported that the Japanese infantry began to attack, supported by a small number of tanks, and attacked in two groups to two high grounds, each with about 3,000 Japanese troops, 5 kilometers from the front of the position. On the right side of the Безименная heights (Shacao Peak) also appeared Japanese cavalry, about the strength of a battalion. "The staff officer reported loudly to Belzarin.

"Don't bother with the Безименная heights (sand grass peaks). Tell the swallows and I want them to show up on time in 20 minutes! ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander!"

The defense on the side of Shacaofeng was handed over to the 40th Infantry Division, and the commander of the 40th Division, Bazarov, had more assault force in his hands than Berzarin: the 2nd Independent Mechanized Brigade was already attached to Bazarov as the most powerful Soviet assault force in this campaign.

Blyukher's intention for this campaign was to lure the wolf deeper, take advantage of the Japanese army's mentality of urgently occupying the two high grounds, and fight a small-scale encirclement battle -- this is also the most conventional tactic in Soviet textbooks, the Japanese army knows the Soviet army's combat thinking, but they think that the Soviet army at this time does not dare and cannot do so in this place and place.

But the Japanese were wrong, Blyukhel deployed only two battalions of troops on each of the two heights, and only two regiments of Soviet infantry on the front of the three-kilometer-long position: the 2nd Independent Mechanized Brigade had arrived at the predetermined position, and after the order to attack was given, one tank regiment and two mechanized infantry regiments to which it belonged were to fight out of the gentle hilly terrain on the flank of Shacaofeng; The 40th and 32nd Infantry Divisions consisted of three infantry regiments (the rest of the units were holding out in the fortified area. Together with all the tanks of the reconnaissance battalions of the two infantry divisions, they will be killed from the side of Zhang Gufeng -- the two units will be like a pair of iron walls, attacking from both sides about 10 kilometers away, trapping the attacking Japanese troops in an area of more than 10 square kilometers in front of the two high grounds.

When the encirclement was completed, the Japanese troops in the encirclement were meat on the chopping block, and the Soviets could eat whatever they wanted: in Lin Jun's words, this was the "iron wall encirclement".

The main attack on Zhang Gufeng was the 73rd Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, and Wing Commander Sato Weide watched his troops quickly advance to the predetermined position, feeling that a brilliant future was beckoning to him. The bombing of the Soviet army two days ago caused great humiliation on the 19th Division, and like all officers, the noble-born, baron-titled Sato was determined to wash away his shame with the blood of the Soviet army.

"Why didn't the Soviets shell yet?" Although Sato had a fanatical desire to win, it felt that something was wrong with the intuition of a soldier. Sato looked down on several other wing commanders in the division, such as the captain of the 74th Infantry Wing, Chang Yong, who was simply a straw bag who only knew how to charge, relatively speaking, this Sato's military literacy was still high in the Japanese army.

The one that was thinking about Sato saw an explosion in the middle of its infantry through the telescope.

"I finally can't stand it anymore!" The density of the shelling is not large, and judging from the dirt raised, it is not a large-caliber artillery, at most, it is the artillery of the first level of the Soviet Corps, which poses little threat to its own troops.

Putting down the binoculars, he saw that the staff officers standing on his left and right all looked calm: "Not bad." ”

"Changyong Dazuo called, the 74th Wing attacked smoothly and was not counterattacked by the Soviet army." The staff officer on the side read aloud with a telegram in his hand.

"Yes." Sato just snorted. The two wings of this attack were dominated by the 73rd Wing, and as a nobleman, Sato took command as a matter of course, and Changyong, a guy born as a low-ranking samurai, could only listen to it.

"Send a report to the brigade commander that the high ground will be taken before 12 noon!"

At 8:30 a.m., the Japanese attacking troops rushed to a kilometer in front of the two high grounds, but not a single shot was fired from the Soviet positions, only more and more intense artillery bombardment.

"Comrade commander, the Japanese army is approaching a kilometer in front of the front-line position, and the aviation has already arrived in the predetermined airspace." The staff officer reported to Berzarin.

Grabbing the microphone, Berzarin gave the order to attack in a powerful voice: "I'm Colonel Belzarin, the general offensive begins!" ”

With the commander's order, dozens of telephones connected to the other end of the phone also gave a loud order at the same time: "The general offensive begins!" ”

More than 400 large and medium-caliber guns roared like a sea of mountains, half of them fired shells at the Japanese artillery positions more than ten kilometers away, while the others generally smashed the shells at the attacking Japanese infantry. More than 300 tanks that had already started their engines were put into gear and rushed out of the hidden area in an offensive formation, followed closely by tens of thousands of Soviet infantry, like two sharp knives from the east and west, and thrust into the Japanese army at high speed.

Sato, who was 5 kilometers away, knew he was going to be attacked when he heard the whistling sound of a large number of shells flying overhead, and at the same moment he saw Soviet shells explode in the middle of the troops in front of him, some of which were dozens of meters high in the dirt mixed with human flesh.

"It's Soviet heavy artillery!" As soon as he saw this stance, Sato knew that there were heavy artillery of more than 150 mm caliber shelling his own troops.

This was not over, Sato saw a large number of Soviet tanks and infantry rushing out of the woods on the left and right sides of the front, and it was too far to see the number, but it knew that it was not something it could stop.

At this time, something that made Sato's heart even more frightened happened, Soviet planes with black pressure appeared in the sky, and more than 300 bombers and fighters launched a fierce air attack on the Japanese - the two attacking Japanese wings had not yet taken the honor of all the bombs, and half of the planes were prepared for the Japanese reserves behind.

"Attack! Offensive! Only by taking Zhang Gufeng can we hold it! Sato jumped into his car and ordered in an almost frantic voice.

Sato understood that there was only a chance of survival if he occupied the high ground, and if he retreated at this time, it would only be a massacre - in the choice between being surrounded and slaughtered, Sato made a relatively correct decision at the first time: in the plains, the retreating infantry and the group's charging tanks would fight, which was a situation that it did not want to be killed.

Sato's decision was the right one, but not everyone could have made such a correct decision, including Major General Nobuki Morimoto and Wing Commander of the 74th Wing, Nagayu Osa.

Chang Yong ordered the whole wing to retreat as soon as he found out that the situation was not good, and it did not want to have a hard time with the Soviet tank group, but Chang Yong, who was accustomed to seeing the Type 89 medium tanks, miscalculated the attack speed of the Soviet tanks.

As soon as Major General Nobuki Morimoto heard of the Soviet counterattack, he immediately ordered the 38th Infantry Brigade to go to support - it could only win this battle, and the honor of the imperial soldiers did not allow it to choose to retreat, and there was no word for retreat in Morimoto's dictionary, and the Imperial Army had not retreated in the offensive for many years, so it could not set this precedent.

The retreating 74th Wing was in chaos, and if their wing commander's order was to continue the attack, they would still be able to storm for a while, but these fanatical Japanese soldiers had no "experience" of retreating at all, and many Japanese troops had not even seen tanks - they had seen them in photos and movies, but they had never seen real things, and the steel monsters spitting flames in front of them and the tanks seen in the propaganda videos were completely different things.

Chang Yong's luck was "very good", more than half of the tanks equipped by the Second Mechanized Brigade were BT-5 fast tanks, and more than 40 "field mice" rushed wildly in the direction of the Japanese retreat. The Japanese were in the last position during the attack and found that the Soviet tanks had cut off their retreat at incredible speed, and machine gun bullets and shells were smashing at them.

The Soviet tanks were not running around, at least they would not rush straight into the Japanese formation, what they had to do was to cut off the rear road of small Japan -- the bombers were tilting the bombs representing death on the heads of the Japanese troops, and the Soviet artillery was also non-stop, and the Japanese army was full of explosions and solidification****** explosions and explosions, and rushing into it at this time was 100 percent accidental injury.

The troops encircled on both sides were like two floodgates, slowly cutting the Japanese retreat to death. At the moment when the soldiers of the 74th Wing used their flesh and blood to attack the Soviet tanks, the soldiers of the 73rd Wing also stepped into a dead area - a minefield in front of Zhang Gu Peak.

The first 300 meters of the Soviet position is a minefield, and the width of the minefield is more than 200 meters, and if you want to rush through this area from the front, being blown up by dense mines is the only outcome, not to mention the dense bullets fired from the position - although the minefield was partially destroyed by the Japanese artillery in the early stage, the Japanese artillery in the fire preparation stage fired most of the shells at the position of the top of the hill, and the minefield on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain was not very damaged.

At the moment when the two infantry wings attacked, the positions of the two artillery wings in the rear of the Japanese army were a busy scene, and the shirtless Japanese gunners shouted trumpets to reload the shells, throwing the steel of revenge for the division commander in the direction of the Soviet position.

Wing Commander of the 15th Field Heavy Artillery Wing, Masasa Suzuki, stood in front of the artillery position and supervised the work under his hands. The Soviet artillery was dumb, and its own artillery did not have to worry about the Soviet counterattack from the very beginning. But just half an hour after the liaison officer informed his infantry of the attack, the characteristic whistling sound of shells tearing through the air appeared over the position.

Before Suzuki could give the order to conceal, a row of large-caliber shells fell beside it, and Suzuki and several staff officers were left with no flesh and blood. The artillery bombardment of the Soviet army was not something that the Japanese Army could imagine at that time, and the artillery of a fully armed Soviet division exceeded all the artillery of the Japanese first-class division, although the strength of the Japanese division was almost three times that of the Soviet infantry division! Not to mention that this time Marshal Blyukhel pressed almost all the artillery reserves that he could mobilize in a short period of time, and now the Japanese artillery really tasted the power of the god of war!

In the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army's firepower was basically superior, and the Chinese army was unable to fight a decent artillery battle with the Japanese army most of the time, but now the Japanese were facing the Soviet army, which had always paid attention to artillery, and they could only be bombed.

The artillery of the 19th Division was worthy of the name of their samurai, that is, when they were shelled by the Soviet army, the living Japanese troops were still carrying shells, and the gunners braved scattered shrapnel and shelled two high ground according to the original order.

However, the number of these Japanese artillery personnel became smaller and smaller, and the Soviet aircraft group that appeared in the air completely destroyed the Japanese artillery positions -- this time Antonov still let the bombers bring half of the blasting shells and half of the solidified ******, and after the bombing of the aircraft group, several Japanese artillery positions were completely destroyed, and the blazing fire and the sound of ammunition explosion continued for a long time -- the bombardment of Soviet artillery and the bombardment of aviation had turned the 19th Division into an "infantry" division without artillery support.

The 5th Anti-aircraft Artillery Wing was the only air defense force in the entire division, but in the course of the reconnaissance of Soviet reconnaissance planes in the past few days, the impatient Japanese anti-aircraft artillery shooters had already exposed their positions, and a counterattack by Soviet artillery took it as a special target, and Antonov also prepared a full 40 fighters with incendiary bombs for it.

Wing Commander Ping Xiang was directly hit by a 76.2 mm shell, and Ping Xiang, who had originally fantasized about shooting down the Soviet plane, was buried alive like his predecessor division chief of staff!

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