Chapter 232: The Tunnels of the Battle of Nanjing

"Report to the brigade, the troops of at least two infantry wings of the army have started to attack the main peak position of General Mountain from both sides of the northern slope of the General Mountain Fortress!"

After receiving the report of the operational staff officer, Sun Guiming, who had just taken a nap because of fatigue, bounced up from the ammunition box as if he had installed a spring, took the telescope and ran quickly to the mouth of the tunnel, the cliff on the south side of Niushou Mountain that sloped almost more than 60 degrees, and was only about 1,000 meters away from the main peak of Jiangjun Mountain, and the heavy machine guns on the position of the main peak of Jiangjun Mountain could completely block the ridge line, so that the army could not approach the mouth of the tunnel under the cliff.

When digging these tunnels, Zhang Xuewu fully considered the problem of mutual protection between the southern slope of the Niushou Mountain Fortress and the northern slope of the General Mountain Fortress, but the north slope of the Niushou Mountain Fortress was continuously attacked by the army after many failed assaults, the army took the use of flamethrowers, poisonous gas and many other means, fortunately, Zhang Xuewu was very experienced in digging the tunnel, so the army's attempt did not succeed, and in desperation, the army was afraid of the counterattack of the [***] team, so it blew up the mouth of the tunnel, Except for the feeling of being very stuffy in the tunnel, there is nothing wrong with the rest.

The army tried to attack the mouth of the tunnel on the southern slope several times, but was beaten all over the ground by the on-duty machine gun at the mouth of the tunnel, the heavy machine gun and the 75-millimeter mountain gun on the Jiangjun Mountain fortress, and one squadron dispatched by the army lost more than 200 people at one time, and the huge proportion of casualties made the army dare not act rashly.

In particular, when the army tried to transport the 38-type 150-millimeter howitzers to the top of Niushou Mountain, they were bombarded by 12-inch naval guns on the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress, which directly caused the Yue army of a brigade of the 16th Division of the Yue Army stationed at the Niushou Mountain Fortress to bury their heads in digging fortifications all the time.

Sun Guiming held the binoculars, looking at the dense army like locusts along the slope of the hill to attack the main peak of the General Mountain Fortress, the follow-up mortar detachment and the 92-type infantry artillery detachment are constantly arriving, Sun Guiming knows the typical offensive tactics of these the army, light and heavy machine gun cover, grenadier follow-up, mortar accompanying cover, 92-type infantry artillery with the maximum elevation angle using a direct firing ruler to destroy the exposed firepower points on the [***] position, the infantry of the army almost used the firepower assigned to them to the extreme.

Looking at the guns and cannons spewing out of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress, as well as the rumbling explosion with the smoke column that rose high in the air with the explosion of the cannonballs, Sun Guiming turned around and said: "Pull out our treasure for Lao Tzu, and order the sixth, tenth, and eleventh tunnels to also push the treasure out, and the rest of the troops at the mouth of the tunnel will push all the heavy machine guns to the mouth of the tunnel, support the General Mountain Fortress with firepower, and beat the little devil's ass fiercely." ”

The troops in the twelve tunnels south of the fortress began to mobilize, and the Maximine heavy machine guns were dragged to the mouth of the tunnels, and the shovels wielded by the machine gunners were struggling to set up the machine guns.

Sun Guiming's so-called treasures are actually four Swedish Forts 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft guns assigned to him, which have never been used, and no troops have entered the tunnel.

Bang, bang! The firing sound of the Maxine heavy machine gun was mixed with the sound of the Swedish Forts 20mm four-barreled anti-aircraft gun, and some tunnels even moved out the German-made MG34 general-purpose machine gun, which is a famous ripping machine, which is known for its fast rate of fire.

Under the shooting of the ruler, the dense rain poured on the back of the attacking army of the general mountain fortress, and the attacking army was suddenly shot from the rear, and immediately fell into a panic, a large number of soldiers of the army were shot and rolled down the hillside, and were hit by 7.92 mm caliber bullets relatively happy, because if they were hit by 20 mm ammunition with a fixed altitude fuse, then what was waiting for them was probably to be torn apart.

The bullets fired from the heavy machine guns in the sky and the ammunition scattered by the Swedish Forts 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft guns exploded continuously, forming a cloud of black explosion smoke, and the prefabricated fragments of the Swede-made 20-mm anti-aircraft guns were completely irregular hexagonal rows, and this kind of fragments were specially designed to deal with enemy planes that swept over the ground and air, and they could not be described as cruel when dealing with people.

If they still have a breath, the ambulance soldiers of the Yue army will also find that the first aid kits and hemostatic drugs equipped with them cannot stop the compound rupture, and the wounded can only bleed and struggle to die in pain, and the screams and moans of the wounded are almost a devastating blow to the morale of the Yue army.

On the issue of retreating or not retreating, the two wings of the army organized firepower to counterattack the middle [***] firepower point on the Niushou Mountain Fortress on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also organized troops to attack the main peak of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress and asked their respective brigade and regimental headquarters at the same time.

Attacking the northern slope of the fortress of Jiangjun Mountain will be hit by the fire of Zhong [***] who retreats from Niushou Mountain into the rat hole, which is a great surprise to him.

Under the fierce fire of the Chinese defenders from both sides, the troops of the Yue Army who attacked the northern slope of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress suffered heavy casualties, a large number of officers and men of the Yue Army were shot and fell on the hillside, and their bodies rolled down, and the living officers and men looked at each other from a distance, not knowing whether to retreat or organize a counterattack, or continue to attack the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress, and when the corpses of the soldiers of the Yue Army were almost covered with the northern slope of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress, the 30th Infantry Wing of the 16th Division of the Yue Army received an order to retreat.

Since the 16th Division has retreated, then the headquarters of the 11th Division has no reason to resist, at least they retreated behind it, and the retreat of the troops attacking the northern slope of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress made the various units of the Yue Army attacking the southern slope suffer a fierce and abnormal artillery fire, and the Yue army left hundreds of corpses on the southern slope and fled in disarray.

If the failure of the attack on the southern slope was entirely the responsibility of the 11th Division, when the commander of the 11th Division, Yamamuro Sotake, received the casualties of the 12th Infantry Wing attacking the northern slope, he was completely furious like a mad lion, and directly called the command of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, and directly asked the acting commander Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya why his troops were still under heavy fire from [***] in Niushou Mountain when they attacked the northern slope of the Shogun Mountain fortress?

The sudden fierce firepower caused nearly 2,000 casualties to the 12th Infantry Wing of the 11th Division, and it can be said that the main force of the entire 12th Infantry Wing was destroyed, and only one attack disabled an elite Twelfth Infantry Wing of Yamamuro Sotake, which made Yamamuro Sotakeshi and his subordinate brigade commander Nayama Tani Jiro not be annoyed?

After receiving the angry accusation of Yamamuro Sowu, Hatohiko of Asakamiya was puzzled in his heart, the imperial flag fluttering on Niushou Mountain was indeed true, and it was blown up by the artillery fire of Zhong[***] several times in a row, and it was re-erected, it is said that in order to set up the flag, the 16th Division suffered nearly 100 casualties, which can prove that the emperor's [***] team has indeed occupied the main peak position of the Niushou Mountain Fortress, so where did the firepower of Zhong[***] come from?

With countless questions, Asakanomiya Hatohiko decided to insist on going to the front line to see what was going on with this Niushoushan fortress despite dissuasion, and Asakanomiya Hatohiko believed that even if Nakajima Imago had ten guts, he would not dare to joke about the military situation related to the battle situation and the overall morale of the dispatched army, otherwise it would be Nakajima Isago who had enough to live.

Just when Prince Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace went to inspect the front-line position of Niushou Mountain, the battle for the re-establishment position of the entire Nanjing City entered the most intense and tragic stage.

The morale of the various units of the Yue army and the Chinese defenders, who swore to defend the capital of the Republic of China to the death and had the heart to die, launched the most tragic bloody battle of this century.

On the front line of Qixia Mountain, after the troops were hit head-on by the 5th and 6th Brigades of the Teaching Corps, they again carried out the so-called special bomb attack, and the officers and men of the Teaching Corps, who lacked gas masks, covered their noses and mouths with diaphragm-soaked hand towels and squatted in the trenches to minimize the number and amount of breathing.

In the fierce battle, the gas mask made of rubber is a very fragile thing, even after being installed in the cylinder, it cannot completely avoid its bumps, if once the storage barrel is more seriously damaged or the gas mask body appears slightly scratched, it may lead to the effectiveness of the gas mask, so the gas mask of the [***] team is less and less.

When the soldiers wearing the Type 92 self-priming filter gas masks rushed up with a sullen howl, the light and heavy machine gun shooters on the defending positions all fired aimlessly in the thick smoke, and the screams of the officers and men who had been shot were constantly heard from the thick fog of the poison gas bombs.

The poisonous gas densely launched by the army was as dense as a fog and was not easy to disperse, and the soldiers of the army who were advancing rapidly with the poisonous gas easily captured the peripheral alert position, and when they entered the main position, the division of the 13th division of the army was the lieutenant general of the Zhou Libing.

He was still slightly dissatisfied with the fact that he commanded the 13th Division to participate in the war, because the 13th Division was also recruited in Sendai, and it was formed with the remaining office of the Sendai Second Division as the backbone to supplement non-commissioned officers and officers, and it can be said that the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Second Division had already gone to Manchukuo.

Strictly speaking, although it is true that the 13th Division is a type A division, its combat effectiveness is at best the standard of a type B division.

A true samurai needs a sharp blade! He believed that he was definitely a samurai, and the 13th Division was indeed not the sharp blade he wanted.

(To be continued)