Chapter 1920: The Test of Blood and Fire
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"Boom-"
The roaring and fierce shelling, shaking the rolling mountains, echoed for a long time, and the sound became louder and louder. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ A quarter of an hour after the bombardment, five bomber squadrons of the Anjia Air Force flew over the battlefield and intensively bombarded the main peak of Hung Yen Mountain and the positions on both flanks.
After several days and nights of fierce fighting, Naojiro Tsuchiya, the commander of the 135th Mixed Brigade, who was urgently promoted to lieutenant general commander of the Chita Guard Army by the Japanese base camp, was exhausted, but from this wave of high-intensity artillery bombardment, he was keenly aware of the difference from the past, and immediately dispatched his troops, determined to block the enemy under the main peak position.
The position of the main peak of Xing'an Mountain is 1,000 meters high, due to continuous progressive attacks, the battlefield has been transferred to the 100-meter high mountain at this time, and the large-caliber heavy artillery can not be transported to the complex terrain, rugged and steep heights, and can only be carried with 105mm mountain howitzers and 107mm mountain rocket artillery as the main firepower output point, and at the same time the air force and army aviation cooperate in the operation.
However, fighting in such a steep place, the main force of the attack can only be mountain infantry!
Since the Japanese troops in Ulan-Ude and Petrovsk were speeding through the valley of the Shilok River and fleeing from Chita to Nebuchu and the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, Yin Jinan, in his capacity as the supreme commander of the theater, had already ordered the mountain cluster to take the position in the Khingan Mountains today, occupy Chita, and completely open up the Trans-Siberian Railway.
As the artillery fire extended to the positions on the left and right flanks of the main peak, Lieutenant General Zhang Hao, commander of the Second Mountain Army, looked at his watch, turned his head and gave an order categorically:
"Now begin the general attack, and the divisions will strike according to the predetermined plan, and strive to take positions before sunset! Tell Zhang Guosheng, who is in charge of the breakthrough of the center, that I am waiting for his troops to plant the red flag on the main peak of Xing'an Mountain! β
"Yes!"
Colonel Duan Zhihe, chief of communications, immediately conveyed the order to attack, and soon, a loud trumpet sounded, and the mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army, under the guidance of the 79th Army Flag, rushed to the top of Xing'an Mountain with great momentum.
After several days of fierce fighting, the main peak of the Japanese army and the fortifications, bunker groups, and firepower points below the high ground on both flanks have been removed, and only the high peak stands in front of the heroic mountain soldiers of the An Jia army.
In front of the devil's scorching firepower network, the mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army shouted, one after another, charging towards the mountain, and the sound of guns and cannons and shouting and killing filled the sky.
At the front of the main peak position of Xing'an Mountain, the devils cut out a side slope more than ten meters high in the mountain to prevent the attack of the An Jia army, and the first and second regiments of the Fourth Mountain Division were blocked in front of the side slope, and the corpses of the mountain soldiers were densely covered with mountain soldiers under the mountain col.
After an hour of bloody fighting, Zhang Guosheng, who still couldn't fight hard, stared at the blood-red eyes with gunsmoke and hoarse voice, and yelled at the walkie-talkie: "Old Ma, you turtle son, even if you die, you will plant the red flag on the top of the mountain!" β
There was silence at the other end of the walkie-talkie, and just when Zhang Guosheng was surprised, Guo Zhenjia, the chief of the communications section, shouted: "Division commander! Commander Ma himself rushed up with his troops! β
In the smoke of the grenade explosion dropped by the devil raining down, forty or fifty general-purpose machine guns covered more than 200 daredevils rushed to the slope, and the corpses of the officers and soldiers who settled down in front of the slope had been piled up into a hill, and the follow-up demomen used the corpses of their comrades as a cover to pile up the scattered ** bags to the blasting pit that had been dug under the slope surface.
In just one minute, more than 200 daredevils fell by a third, and the commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Ma Yutian, insensitively put the blood-stained ** bags into the pit one by one, and more than a dozen red-eyed machine gunners blocked their bodies in front of their regiment commanders.
Whenever someone was shot and fell to the ground, someone next to him immediately picked up the general-purpose machine gun and continued to shoot at the Japanese army, and the devil soldiers who served as the main peak defense task knew that if the slope was blasted, then the loss of the main peak position was only a matter of time, so hundreds of devil soldiers who were full of ** were "chirping" and rolling down the slope with a scream, and the continuous explosion of gunpowder smoke instantly completely blocked the bottom of the slope.
Zhang Guosheng, who was observing the battle situation with a telescope, was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears and muttered: "Old Ma, why are you so stupid, you brought someone up by yourself......
When Qian Leju, the political commissar of the 1st regiment, learned that the regiment commander and the officers and men of the 1st battalion who were in charge of the assault mission had all been killed, he did not hesitate to say to Wu Liguo, the combat staff officer beside him:
"Transfer the second battalion to replace the first battalion and continue to carry out the blasting! I will go to the third battalion, and even if I fight the whole regiment today, I will take down the enemy's main peak position. β
Major Wu Liguo, who had been in the team with Ma Yutian and Qian Leju for more than two years, was also red-eyed at this time, and without saying a word, brandished a Type II automatic rifle, and led the reinforced second battalion directly to the inclined plane under the main peak position.
At the same time as the 2nd Battalion rushed forward, the snipers of the 4th Mountain Division continued to shoot at the enemy on the top of the mountain, and the recoilless guns aimed at the position of the main peak of the Japanese army, bombarding vigorously one by one, and mortar shells rained down, while the bombers in the sky who assisted in the battle continued to dive down and drop huge aerial bombs......
The splashing firelight and thick gunpowder smoke have always shrouded the position of the main peak of Xing'an Mountain, but the devils used the tunnels and complex terrain structures on the top of the mountain to resist stubbornly, and the various clear and dark forts still continued to spray fire downward, firmly blocking the officers and soldiers of Anjia under the top of the mountain!
The battle has reached this point, and both the enemy and us have no way to retreat, so they can only grit their teeth and persevere to the end.
After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the tide of battle changed after the arrival of two waves of helicopter groups!
Forty or fifty helicopter gunships, hovering in the air on the top of the mountain, covering the assault of the mountain infantry of the Anjia Army, and after all the attention of the Japanese army was attracted, more than 100 transport helicopters landed in a woodland behind the side of the main peak with the momentum of thunder, and the officers and men of a regiment suddenly appeared behind the enemy, and many devils were stabbed to the ground by the officers and soldiers of Anjia who rushed up before they could understand what was going on.
With the cooperation of helicopter gunships, this airborne regiment succeeded in taking the summit position in only a quarter of an hour, and then reversed its firepower to suppress the mountains on the left and right flanks, and at the same time sent a small force to seal the devil's tunnels scattered all over the mountain tops by means of explosives.
After many reinforcements, the Japanese army that stuck to the front line of the Xing'an Mountains had as many as two ** mixed brigades and a border garrison, with a total of 25,000 troops, but after a few days of hard fighting, more than half of the casualties had been lost, and now the position was in chaos, and the Japanese commander Lieutenant General Naojiro Dotani realized that the situation was not good.
"I really didn't expect that the kind of aircraft that can hover in the air can directly participate in the battle of the airborne troops, it seems that this time there is less ...... of evil."
Naojiro Tsuchitani's eyes were gloomy, and his heart was full of helplessness. He was ordered to hold on to Khingan Mountain for a week, to buy as much time as possible for the main retreat, and to retreat a day earlier would be held accountable, in this case, he could only give a counterattack order: "Tell Saito-kun that you can't preserve your strength at this time, and you must recapture the main peak position as soon as possible, otherwise military law will be engaged!" β
Shigeru Saito is the commander of the Chita ** garrison who served as the reserve of this battle, and the task he received before was to fill the gaps, where there was danger, where to reinforce, and now this wave of new forces will be put into the battle for the main peak.
"Heyβ"
Communications staff officer Captain Inamoto quickly conveyed Naojiro Tsuchitani's order.
When the Japanese troops on the main peak and the two flanks of the mountain were engaged in a fierce battle with the airborne Anjia Army assault troops, the devil reserves hiding in the mountain tunnels were ordered to swarm out, and the entire front and anticline of the main peak of the Hung Yen Mountain fell into a melee at the same time.
Fortunately, at this time, the slope had been successfully blasted, and the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the 4th Mountain Division quickly climbed to the top, while the 5th and 6th Divisions on the left and right flanks also advanced vigorously, and soon approached the hill and engaged the Japanese at close range.
The unprecedented melee exceeded everyone's expectations, especially the devils who were in an extremely disadvantageous situation chose to counterattack instead of retreating, which directly led to the rapid escalation of the intensity of the battle.
At this time, the artillery suppression had completely lost its effect, and the bombers and helicopters in the air did not dare to splash fire at will, so they could only rush to the rear of the Japanese army and shoot the reinforcements of the devils.
The 60,000 or 70,000 Chinese and Japanese armies fought mercilessly around the summit of Hung Yen Mountain, and the three hills with a radius of more than 10 square kilometers became the most tragic bloody place since the attack on East Siberia and the Far East.
As the battle became more and more intense, Yin Jinan even personally called Lieutenant General Jiao Guangxu, the commander of the mountain cluster, to inquire about the battle situation.
Jiao Guangxu, who was standing on a big rock at the bottom of the mountain to watch the progress of the battle, put down the walkie-talkie, turned to look at the sound of guns and cannons stirring in the sky, and said to Major General Gao Jinbao, chief of staff:
"Transfer Wang Huanyan's Third Army up, be sure to defeat the Japanese army before sunset, occupy the position of the main peak of Xing'an Mountain, and officially enter Chita at night."
"Yes!"
Gao Jinbao had no objection and took the order, and it didn't take long for the new forces of the three divisions to join the battle group.
At this time, the battle on the top of Khingan Mountain had entered a white heat, and Naojiro Tsuchiya had realized at this time that there was no hope of taking back the main peak position, but the problem now was that if he did not withstand the ferocious attack of the Anjia army, then most of the Japanese troops on the defensive would inevitably be blocked in the tunnel, and the end would be self-evident.
So, Naojiro Tsuchitani ordered the troops in the tunnel to counterattack at all costs, and at the same time, he also rushed to the top of the mountain with a death squad composed of guards, signal soldiers, staff officers, grooms, and men, echoing the battle of the troops on the mountain.
The whole Xing'an Mountain, full of shouts and killings, the Japanese army is like a mountain mouse, constantly drilling out of the caves in the mountains, the mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army block the rats everywhere, where the devil soldiers appear, they rush to where, first the submachine gun shooting, and then the grenade grenade, for the mouth of the big tunnel, after suppressing its firepower, directly use the flamethrower to go up for a fierce spray, until the sky is dark.
Everywhere in the mountains, there were officers and soldiers on both sides who were fighting each other with white knives, but as the follow-up troops of the Anjia Army continued to rush to the top of the mountain, the balance of victory gradually tilted in favor of the Anjia Army. After a fierce battle until three o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army finally collapsed on all fronts, and most of the devil soldiers began to turn around and flee down the mountain without their lives.
Naojiro Tsuchiya pulled out his pistol and killed several deserters one after another, but there were too many soldiers who fled later, and several staff officers saw this and hurriedly surrounded him and fled together.
This escape was unstoppable, and under the continuous strafing of the fighters of the Anjia Army in the sky, the devil soldiers did not dare to withdraw to Chita City in the northwest, and could only flee to the east without a life, and the entire Chita front completely collapsed!
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Along the Trans-Siberian Railway, just a few days after the Japanese army went east, the sound of rumbling and noisy marching footsteps sounded again in the heavens and the earth, and a group of neat and energetic troops appeared on this silent field.
The Japanese immigrants who had been killed and abandoned by their own troops had already embarked on the journey back to the east one after another in the past few days, and the villagers of Russian and other nationalities, who had just settled down and were still frightened birds, let out a cry of fear, and one by one wolves and rats were running in the wilderness, and some villagers who had lost their relatives in the chaos of the previous two days seemed to resign themselves to their fate, hiding in their own homes and not going out, just waiting for the disaster to come.
Unexpectedly, most of the soldiers marched directly along the railway, without anyone stopping, about a company of soldiers was ordered to break away from the brigade and command more than a dozen wagons into the village, most of which were loaded with corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other grains.
"Folks, don't be afraid, we are An Jiajun, after five years, we are back! We know that your food has been robbed, this is temporarily taken out of our army, it is about enough for you to survive for three to five days, and from tomorrow, there will be a special rescue team to bring more food, food and daily necessities......"
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