In all previous wars, including those in Europe, the battlefield experience of the Japanese army was only infantry confrontation, and the tactical principles they followed were movement warfare, positional warfare, blocking warfare, sneak attack warfare, concealment of oneself, and destruction of the enemy. ⑤???? Reading the latest chapter of the book, but now, for the first time, they have encountered a real difficulty, which is that they are unable to effectively conceal themselves in front of the enemy's artillery.

Due to the unfavorable conditions of the terrain and the time relationship, the Japanese soldiers only dug shallow trenches and did not build deep fortifications. More importantly, the conservative Japanese army simply did not have the ideological preparation and experience to build deep fortifications.

“…… We have never encountered such terrible artillery fire. Many years later, Ichiro Katsuta, a 79-year-old Japanese veteran of the former infantry of the Japanese Guards Division, still told reporters with lingering feelings, "...... If you think about it, the Chinese army we had in our impression at that time, a regiment had a few mén mountain guns, and even if it was the best equipment, as soon as the battle started, as long as the machine guns rattled, they quickly dug a shallow pit to avoid the bullets. Therefore, there has always been a saying in the Chinese army that 'new recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns', which has become our joke. But the battle at Lushunkou was not the case at all. Do you know how fierce the guns of the warships of the China people are? Tell you, a few steps and a pit, the shells on those battleships are as thick as oil drums, and a shell can blow up a house......"

The shelling of the Japanese army by the Chinese army can be said to be something that the Japanese simply did not imagine before.

"First of all, two very slow China Navy observation planes swaggered over our positions to conduct unscrupulous low-altitude observations of our positions. A few minutes later, the Shina warship began its trial shè under the guidance of the aircraft. The first large-caliber shell, like a stupid black crow, screamed and swept over our heads, then 'boomed' and exploded behind the vault of a chapel. The blow was so terrible that the roof of the chapel was immediately overturned by the scorching gas, leaving a shell crater with a diameter of more than ten meters on the soft ground. ”

"The second shell of the warship in Shina was corrected and hit a private house that we had requisitioned, blowing to pieces the cooking squad that was hiding in the house for cooking, and I watched as a pot of steaming white rice was blown up into the sky......"

On this very day, the mighty Chinese fleet concentrated its artillery fire on the Japanese positions and fired thousands of shells, all of which were accurately calculated as if they had eyes. The simple fortifications and low walls built by the Japanese officers and soldiers could not withstand the bombardment of the Chinese fleet, especially as they hid in buildings in the hope of concealing themselves, the more heavy the casualties became.

The massive shelling of the Chinese fleet continued into the evening. By the time the Chinese infantry began to attack in the bloody sun, the Japanese counterattack had become very weak, and less than a thousand officers and men of a brigade were still alive and fighting. The brigade commander, Akio Kusai, struggled to get up from the collapsed rubble and raised his pistol to stop the Japanese soldiers who were trying to retreat.

"The one who retreats is dead, do you hear it?"

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Just a few minutes later, a firework cannonball hit him head-on, and the sky was immediately filled with a pink mist of blood. The brigade commander was 42 years old at the time.

That night, the brigade was completely annihilated, and the commander of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Jiro Oniwa, urgently dispatched another wing to reinforce it. However, in the next two days of the battle, most of these reinforcements were also killed and wounded, and they were forced to retreat.

The battle situation was urgent, and Hikoroku Yokoyama and Jiro Oiwa entered the front-line command post.

It was less than three kilometers from the front line, and the Japanese troops were already assembled here.

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to remind you in particular that, according to the report from the Tokyo side, three divisions of the enemy's second reinforcement force have landed, and the enemy's attempt is to rendezvous with the enemy on land by outflanking it. Our army must take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to regain the lost positions and form a group defensive front supported by each other's horns. ”

"Hi Yi"

It rained lightly all day, and at night, a thin mist rose on the flowing fields, and the surroundings were unusually silent, and even the frogs, who were usually the most lonely, stopped making noise.

The commander of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, Yuyuki Kusaka, crouched behind a low wall to observe the enemy's situation. In his binoculars, a figure that appeared and disappeared quietly in a circuitous way towards his left flank under the cover of the morning fog. ,

Grass Deer is also a graduate of Imperial Land University. Like all the powerful Imperial Road Young Zhuang factions in the Japanese Army, he rose to the high post of commander of the Major General's Brigade at the age of less than 30. Soldiers in wartime are not quite the same as in peacetime, and in peacetime they can sit in a limousine like politicians and talk about intrigue and intrigue, and in wartime, they must use their military exploits and achievements to pave the way to success as generals.

According to reliable information, a large number of squadrons landed in the vicinity of Jinzhou Bay and Laohutan, and their vanguard troops once occupied Wafangdian. On the evening of the same day, the Japanese army increased its strength and recaptured Wafangdian in one fell swoop, and the 7th Brigade was ordered to build a position and defend on the spot. However, the second batch of reinforcements of the three main divisions of the Chinese army and artillery tanks landed one after another, and according to intelligence, it is expected that at least four Chinese divisions will compete with the Japanese army for the strategic location of Wafangdian.

Thinking of the current situation, the commander of the Caolu Brigade couldn't help frowning slightly.

Judging from the map, Wafangdian is close to the river and Shakou in front of it, and the county seat of Zhuanghe is backed by it, which is the only place where the landing Chinese army intercepts the back road of Ludagang. Wafangdian is very close to Haikou, and the terrain is flat and open, completely under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of the Chinese ** ship. At the same time, Wafangdian is also an important strategic support point, if it is lost, the squadron can set up heavy artillery here and bombard Ludagang with all its might.

On the first night, the commander of the Grass Deer Brigade personally led his subordinates to observe the terrain. He found that Wafangdian was surrounded by a network of ditches and rivers, suitable for the concealed movement of infantry, and that there was a forest a mile outside the town, and the small river in front of and behind the forest was covered with dense reeds. With the intuition of a professional soldier, he keenly foresaw that the squadron would launch a sneak attack on the Japanese army, and the bamboo forest and reeds would become the only way to cover the enemy's sneak attack on Wafangdian.

As expected, before dawn, the forward observation post called, and the prediction of the brigade commander was confirmed. The book is updated in real time DU(5) 8.сΟm

In the telescope, the long figure was still moving silently, and its spearhead had already crossed the woods and began to detour to the side of Wafangdian. The chief of staff whispered beside him: "There are really a lot of people from China, do you want to strengthen it again?"

The brigade commander shook his head, yesterday he had only put a squad of troops into the woods, and in front of the position, he had ambushed another squad to intercept the enemy's retreat. He expected that the enemy who would sneak up on him would only be assisted by a small force, and the main direction of attack would still be in front of Wafangdian.

"Wait for the enemy to enter the ambush circle and open fire at my command...... Gotta catch a few alive."

In the early days of this war, the squadron showed unprecedented madness, once they were surrounded, they often chose to fight to the last man, and even the wounded soldiers would pull grenades and kill themselves once they were captured. This kind of war that will not surrender to the death jīng god once became a myth in the Japanese army.

But the commander of the Caolu Brigade, who was full of confidence, was determined to break the myth of war among the Chinese.

"Tom" was launched into the air with a flare, and the silence of dawn was immediately broken by the sound of heavy gunfire. The enemy was ambushed, leaving behind many corpses and fleeing backwards. Japanese officers and soldiers came out of ambush sites in all directions, shouting and pulling the triggers, as if they were chasing and intercepting thieves, chasing the encircled enemy everywhere.

But just as the Japanese army was about to annihilate the invading squadron, a series of flickering flares rose up, illuminating the dark night sky as bright as day. Immediately afterwards, the Chinese occupying the Japanese position turned on the searchlights, and the guns of both sides rang out at the same time, dragging long shells and machine gun bullets like fireflies flying in the searchlight column.

More than 4,000 Japanese officers and men were driven by the searchlight and were forced to stand up straight in the unsheltered field, and then rushed to the enemy line without hesitation, shouting rifles with bayonets in hand. The Chinese army, which had already set up traps, weaved a net of death with their guns and bullets, and the tongues of fire spit out by countless light and heavy machine guns were like sharp steel whips violently hitting the body of the attackers, and the sharp bullets were like sharp sickles, cutting the Japanese soldiers to the ground in pieces. The cannon of the medium ** ship moored on the surface of the sea also sounded. Rows and rows of cannonballs exploded like ploughs on the unobstructed open field, the earth was turned up deeply, and the blood and life were thrown into the sky and into the abyss of death along with the scorching air.

This thrilling spectacle sank forever into the minds of the few survivors of the Japanese army under the strong light of the Chinese army's flares, like a suddenly exposed negative. ,

Stopping the enemy's attack at night turned into a veritable massacre.

In fact, there was only one battalion of the Chinese army that carried out the sneak attack at that time, although the number was small, but they were fully supported by the naval guns, because during the day, the Chinese artillery had already calculated the shè striking elements in the open field, and the naval guns all had fixed shè firing positions, so that even in the dark night, they could repeatedly attack any area in front of the position. Thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers became the first victims in this fire net.

An air-tearing shell blew up the fragile big tuǐ of the commander of the Grass Deer Brigade without a trace. At that moment, he only felt that he had been hit to the ground hard, and his face was pressed against the cold black soil of the Liaodong Peninsula that exuded a strong humus smell, and his body could no longer stand. His hearing began to fade, the fire of the cannonballs flashing before his eyes like a silent movie, and the blood gushed like tap water down the broken arteries. He opened his mouth, but could not make any sound, so he had to watch as the hordes of soldiers were swept away in the furious dance of death, like dead leaves in the wind. The young brigade commander sighed softly, the fantasies in his mind began to blur, and the stream of life gradually flowed away, so he tried to keep Ji Yi, and keep the impression of his hometown, his parents, and his wife and children. But he didn't work out. That attachment to life is like a kite with a broken string that finally floats away and disappears into the boundless dark sky.

The next day, when the sun rose red, the corpses of more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were covered with the corpses of more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers in the middle of nowhere, luǒlù under a sky full of gunpowder. This scene was so tragic and thrilling that the squadron, which hated the Japanese so much, also made an exception to stop shelling for one day at the suggestion of US advisers, so that the Japanese side could send people to collect the remains of the war dead.

And the same tragic battle is going on on all fronts.

Lushun Kou, Tiger Beach.

When the first tank of the first squadron appeared at the forward position, the morning fog had not yet dissipated, and the artillery of the Japanese Second Field Heavy Artillery Wing was lying in the shelter where the water was up to his knees, observing the enemy situation with a high-powered telescope imported from Germany. In this low-lying area, where most of the Japanese soldiers in the trenches were soaked in water, the divisional command post made an exception to move into an underground shelter to prevent artillery shelling and air raids, reinforced with logs on top, and a similar large shelter to hide the mobile forces of a brigade.

Tank groups of the squadron appeared one after another. There were about seventeen or eighteen tanks, all of which were light tanks that used steam sleeves to emit light smoke but were not very fast, and they were separated from the infantry and marched in multiple columns in the morning fog. Tada Jun saw that due to the fog in the morning, not only did the enemy not carry out routine artillery bombardment, but also that each tank had a tank crew waving a small flag to communicate with each other. So Tada Jun expected that the enemy did not find out that his reinforcements had arrived at night, so he decisively issued an order: the troops on both flanks attacked in concealment, and the frontal troops must blow up the enemy tanks.

The position defended by Tada Jun's unit is located in the northeast of the urban area of Luda, only a few miles away from the Japanese positions in the bay and Shakou, and is a strategic point on the middle road of the Lushunkou battlefield to resist the landing enemy and lead to the urban area. Since the attack of the squadron has shaken the Japanese defense line in many places, if this place is lost and the two Chinese armies are combined, the battlefield situation will immediately have a fundamental reversal that is not conducive to the Japanese army.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Hikoroku Yokoyama personally issued a death order: Those who lose their positions will be severely punished according to military law.

The 2nd Field Heavy Artillery Wing, which had come to reinforce from the mainland, was ordered to take over the defense of the 2nd Wing of the 3rd Division here before the rain. The second wing, the earliest unit to participate in the war, had been beaten to pieces by the Chinese, and after taking over, it retreated to the rear defense line to rest. After the Second Field Heavy Artillery Coalition Army took over the defense, the officers and men who had never participated in the battle were enthusiastic about fighting, and they were all grinding their fists and preparing to fight to the death with the squadron.

As the morning mist gradually lifted, an autumn apple-like sun rose brilliantly over the sea, spreading its radiance and heat generously on the war-torn earth, spreading every inch of its earth.

There was a sudden "buzzing" vibration sound in the air, as if many swarms of flies were gradually bumping into the clear air from far and near, and the Japanese officers and soldiers raised their heads one after another, looking for the source of this sound in horror. Tada Jun quickly turned the telescope, but he only had time to see countless small silver shavings that shook with metallic light released from the depths of the huge burning sun, and the sun's light immediately burned his eyes. ,

At this moment, he already understood that it was the Chinese's plane that was sneaking up on them with the help of the sun's rays

"Enemy aircraft are coming...... The troops evacuated," Tada shouted.

But it was too late, and this time, even the sun, which represents the "god Amaterasu", was on the side of the Chinese.

Some 200 Chinese planes flew suddenly from the east with their backs to the sun over the Japanese positions, and the Japanese officers and men were horrified to see such a picture of war that they had never seen before: the sky was obscured by the neat formation of a huge group of bomb-carrying planes, the sunlight seemed to have dimmed, and the heavy roar of the engines shook the earth. Many of the Japanese soldiers who had seen so many planes for the first time stared up at the sky, as if they did not understand where the big steel birds had flown from.

“…… At that time, our officers and men were not afraid of death, and their morale was high, and it should be fair to say that in that battle, there was not a single cowardly person in our army. Jun Tada, who survived, recalled, "When the enemy planes attacked us, it was not because we didn't know how to defend against air defense, as we were accused of later, but because it was a network of rivers and the water level was too high to build air defense fortifications. ”

"If our infantry charges with the Shina army and fights 'swordsmanship', I bet the Shina will not have the upper hand. If our weapons were similar to those of the Shina people, I don't think the Shina would dare to be so rampant...... The problem was that the disparity between the weapons of the two sides of the jiāo war at that time was too great, we were rifles, they had warships, planes, artillery and tanks, could we just not be afraid of death? Even if you build a position with the blood of hundreds of millions of Japanese people, you can't withstand the bombing of bombs......"

A few years later, Tada Jun was criticized by fanatical war activists in Japan for "weapon-only theory" and "shaking the morale of the military" because of this sentence, and he almost collapsed for a time.

The fact is that in the summer of 1921, this huge bombing on the outskirts of Ludagang brought a catastrophe of destruction to the Japanese army. More than 200 Chinese planes carpet bombed the Japanese position, which was only a few square kilometers, for more than three hours. The sound of the violent explosion shook the Japanese position like the sky was falling apart, and the smoke and gas raised by the explosion covered the earth like scorching rain and fog for a long time. The fortifications and artillery positions built by the Japanese were quickly destroyed, and the positions were full of broken arms and limbs, and a hundred-year-old tree broke with a bang, and the uneven branches were covered with the rags and blood of Japanese officers and soldiers.