Chapter 336: The Black Tiger Digs Out His Heart

The Kunisaki Detachment is a special independent detachment under the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army (hún brigade formation), in which the soldiers are all from Hiroshima, Shimane, and Yamaguchi in the mountainous region of western Honshu, Japan.

The Fifth Division was a division during the Japanese War of Aggression against China, one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II, and the same name as the Ryosuke Isoya Division, which was the most sharp mechanized unit of the Japanese army, known as the "Steel Army", and the division commander was Itagaki Seishiro who participated in the planning of the 918 Incident, so the division was also called the "Itagaki Division".

Today, the 41st Division, a young army that had just been formed, was facing the most severe test since its birth, and it had to meet the simultaneous attack of two of the sharpest units in Asia.

Facing the Guozaki detachment was the 159th Regiment of the 41st Division, and the regiment commander, Colonel Li Daxi, was an old man who had followed Su Tong since he started his career in the Duolun Militia. Li Daxi doesn't have any big characteristics, but he really wants to say that he is a decent and meticulous person. His biggest advantage is that he will strictly implement the orders issued by his superiors and implement them without any discount.

Therefore, when the Japanese army came, in the face of the trenches, foxholes, jiāo trenches that he dug more tightly than a turtle shell, and the minefields densely arranged around it, the mechanical troops of the Kunisaki detachment, which had always been sharp in attacking, could not do anything about him for a while.

The attack of the Kunisaki detachment did not work, and immediately sacrificed the magic weapon of victory in ordinary times, that is, artillery bombardment. The commander of the Kunisaki detachment was Major General Noboru Kunisaki, the commander of the 9th Brigade, a Japanese general known for his bravery, and the most admired thing in his life was Nogi Noshinori, who was worshiped by the Japanese as the god of war.

The Kunisaki detachment, which had come to China since the Lugou Bridge Incident, had never encountered an opponent, so it also developed the arrogant temper of Kunisaki. Today he actually ate a deflated position in front of a xiǎoxiǎo, which made Noboru Kunisaki's superiority that he had always felt good about himself feel greatly challenged.

He immediately ordered the field artillery wing following the troops to set up positions and start bombarding the 159th Regiment.

After the rumbling artillery sounded, a trace of húnluàn appeared on the position of the 159th Regiment. As the saying goes, 'recruits are afraid of artillery, veterans are afraid of trumpets', and as soon as this cannon thought about it, the defense line with a majority of recruits immediately wavered.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Daxi personally went to the front line to boost morale, and it took a lot of effort to raise the mood of the soldiers who were a little panicked.

Li Daxi, who didn't get angry after doing everything, called several battalion commanders over and scolded him, "Dog's day, I see that you are all able to speak well on weekdays, but now you are dumbfounded, even to appease the recruits, this kind of thing has to be done by me, the regiment commander, your brains are all mush!" The next time I encounter this kind of bullshit, Lao Tzu will report to the division headquarters and let you all go down there to be big soldiers! ”

During the short period when Li Daxi tried his best to pacify the soldiers, the Kunisaki detachment took advantage of this time to advance to a distance of 300 meters from the position under the cover of artillery fire. At this distance, the Japanese grenadiers, light mortars and light machine guns, as well as Type 38 rifles, could be used to the greatest advantage.

"Boom"

A grenadier fell less than 15 meters away from Li Daxi, and the flying dust and sand and stones splashed Li Daxi's body.

"Phew"

Li Daxi spit out the sand in his mouth and asked the correspondent next to him loudly, "Hurry up and contact air support and ask when they will arrive?" ”

"Tuanza, I just asked, because the bombers are nervous today, what about those Stuka who are now busy supporting the 10th Division and other ** positions? I have to wait half a xiǎo hour before I can come over. ”

"What about the artillery regiment's artillery support?"

"The artillery regiment has just supported the 158th Regiment, and it has already broken its position, and now they are moving their positions, and it will take half an hour before they can provide artillery support." The correspondent hesitated for a moment and then said.

"Hún eggs, half a xiǎo hour after the yellow huā dishes are cold." Li Daxi cursed angrily, "You go and order the anti-aircraft artillery company to fire immediately and knock the devil down for me." ”

"Tuanza, didn't that storm our anti-aircraft firepower?"

"I can't take care of so much, if I don't dare to go down with this group of devils in front of me, they have no meaning to exist." Seeing the firepower of the recruits under the fire of the Japanese army, if it weren't for the backbone veterans supporting them, I am afraid it would be even more unbearable, Li Daxi was annoyed in his heart. However, he also knew that it was indeed unrealistic for these recruits to maintain a certain level of awareness and a calm mindset in the midst of the constant artillery fire falling around them.

"Knock knock" received the order to hide behind the position of the six-mén forty-millimeter Bofors anti-aircraft gun faded its camouflage, lù out of the hideous muzzle began his first round of Qi shè.

Li Daxi also brought out his last killer weapon, the forty-millimeter high shè cannon. In the Second World War in later generations, except for the temporary use of captured weapons, it was very rare for each team on both sides of the Jiāo War to be officially equipped with the same weapons. There was one exception, however, the Swedish 40 mm (1.57 in) Bofors L/60 Flè Gun (hereinafter referred to as the Forty mm Bofors Anti-Aircraft Cannon), which was widely used by both the Allies and the Axis powers and was considered a standard anti-aircraft weapon.

This anti-aircraft artillery was able to conquer all the warring states with its powerful power and reliable xìng, and although Chahar had always done a good job in the struggle for air supremacy, Su Tong still equipped each unit with a certain number of Bofors 40 anti-aircraft guns. In later generations, Commander Guy Su heard that the effect of using anti-aircraft artillery to fight the infantry was very good, and Commander Su of Sāo Bao also specially wrote this article into the Chahar Infantry Manual as his own initiative, and today is the time to test whether Commander Su's words are correct.

Well, the effect of the six-mén forty-mm anti-aircraft guns was still very good, and the actual speed of forty mm shells reached eighty rounds per minute, and a dense barrage was fired in front of the position of the 158th Regiment. In the course of this barrage, all obstacles were swept away by the invincible artillery fire.

The Japanese soldiers, who had been aggressively dodging the rain of bullets in front of the position, or crawling forward, or hiding behind obstacles, were hit with a fierce blow they had never encountered. The dense shells carried countless flying shrapnel and sand, and after the first round of five minutes of bullet rain, most of the Japanese soldiers who had rushed to the front of the position had become scattered fragments and blood mist.

The remaining Japanese soldiers hid tightly behind what they thought were safe bunkers, but these Japanese soldiers, who thought they would be safe by hiding behind bunkers or trees, miscalculated this time. Under the continuous shè blows, all the temporary bunkers were floating clouds, and in the bursts of cannonballs like beating drums, all the Japanese troops hiding behind the bunkers were destroyed by the artillery fire.

When the shè men who were playing the Bofors cannon stopped to watch their results, both sides of the jiāo battle were stunned. On the forward position of the 159th Regiment, the position at this time was like a field ploughed by a group of old oxen, neatly combed, and a squadron that had rushed to the front of the position with great momentum had disappeared without a trace at this time, except for the scattered rifle machine gun parts on the position, there was not a trace left.

This situation made the mood of the commanders on both sides feel like a roller coaster, the difference is that one is from sadness to joy, and the other is from joy to sadness.

Li Daxi never expected that the power of the Bofors anti-aircraft gun forcibly distributed by Commander Su was so amazing, and more than 300 Japanese troops in a squadron were wiped out by a round of artillery fire.

Fortunately, Li Daxi was not really dizzy, and hurriedly issued the following order, "Quick, order the anti-aircraft artillery company to extend the shè attack and hit the forward position of the devils, and be sure to hit their formation." ”

Just when Li Daxi ordered the anti-aircraft artillery to extend the shè attack, Kunisaki Noboru did not care about his sadness, and he immediately ordered the field artillery wing to suppress the fire of the high shè guns in front, and for a while the two sides were in full swing.

Just when the 41st Division was desperately sniping at the Japanese army, the attack of the 10th Infantry Division was also going on with difficulty, and the soldiers of the 16th Division, who knew that they had reached a desperate situation, did burst out with amazing combat effectiveness in a desperate situation.

In the ruins, in the heaps of the dead, they constantly sought all the warplanes that attacked all the enemies they saw.

Peng Zeyuan, who knew that time was precious, in order to break the deadlock on the battlefield, personally took a company of guards to Máo's home lane to supervise the battle, and he still looked so heroic when he was just over forty years old this year, he stood in front of a ruin in Máo's home lane.

At this time, the first battalion commander Ren Ran stood in front of him, looking at Ren Ran, who was covered in blood, and the hundreds of tired soldiers behind him who had been fighting from morning to afternoon, Peng Zeyuan hardened his heart and said to Ren Ran: "Battalion commander Ren, I heard that when you conquered the Japanese position this morning, you rushed in front of the whole division?" You're playing well! ”

"Chief Xie praised, he was ashamed of his duties, it was all the result of the hard work of his brothers!" Hearing that the division commander praised himself, Ren Ran didn't smile at all, he knew that the division didn't come here today to praise himself, so there must be some fatal and arduous task waiting for him.

Sure enough, Peng Zeyuan ordered as soon as he changed his words: "In view of the excellent combat effectiveness of your battalion, I specially assigned your battalion a task!" ”

"That's coming!" Ren Ran's heart sank, he knew that it would never be a simple task to get the master to come over and issue the order in person.

"I have decided to order your troops to immediately pass through the Japanese defense line and attack the headquarters of the 16th Division, and come to a black tiger to dig out the heart!" Peng Zeyuan stared at Ren Ran's eyes and said word by word.