[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 178: Bloody Battle of Lion Rock (Ask for subscription!) ）

The battle began at 6:12 a.m. on the 27th, when the first battalion of the 200th Regiment of the 7th Division, which was slightly closer to Lion Rock, was the first to arrive at Lion Rock, but before the soldiers of the 200 Regiment had time to build fortifications, an advance squadron of the Japanese army pressed up and quickly launched an attack.

Neither army had time to use artillery, and since the 200th Regiment did not have time to build fortifications, the Japanese simply launched a direct charge.

As is customary, the firepower of the Chinese defenders was very weak, with only one-third of the firepower of the Japanese army for the same strength. Although the Chinese defenders on the hill had nearly 400 troops, while the Japanese side had less than 200 men, they were still inferior in terms of firepower, so the Japanese squadron commander in charge of the command directly issued an order for a reunion, in an attempt to crush the Chinese defenders in front of them in one fell swoop and seize the Lion Rock Heights.

However, he didn't expect that the army on the other side was different from the Chinese/army they imagined, it was an armed force with the same weapons and equipment as them, and even stronger than them in terms of automatic firepower, because Ma Zheng deliberately strengthened the number of light and heavy machine guns in the troops when he went south.

Seeing the Japanese army rushing up in a swarm, Zhang Dashan, commander of the first battalion of the 200th Regiment, naturally did not be polite, and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle, and immediately open fire after the Japanese army entered the effective firing range of the 38 big cover.

"Da Da Da!"

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Light and heavy machine guns and grenadier mortars opened fire at the same time, and the Japanese soldiers who only hit turned on their backs, and most of the Japanese soldiers were shot before they could rush to the defenders' positions, and the rest immediately lost confidence and quickly retreated.

However, taking advantage of this gap, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army have also arrived. A full infantry company arrived at the foot of the Lion Rock.

And the Duqi Division was not to be outdone, the main force of the 200th Regiment had also arrived, and the two sides were facing each other at a distance of 300 meters, and even both sides were within the range of each other's firepower.

By this time, the sky was already cloudy, and since it had just rained last night, there was a faint mist around Lion Rock this morning.

The fog-shrouded Lion Rock is like a fairyland. But neither Ma Zheng nor Harata Shigeichi felt any beauty, but they both smelled the thick smell of gunpowder and blood.

Although the visibility is not very good, with the help of high-definition military binoculars, you can still see the general outline of the other party.

Standing on the edge of the battlefield, Shigeichi Habata was looking through a telescope at Ma Zheng's headquarters, and he was surprised to find that the army on the other side was a copy of the Imperial Army. The weapons and equipment are the same, the military uniforms are the same, but the colors are different. More importantly, the soldier's momentum and eyes are the same, the same fierceness, the same fearlessness.

This is an army from there after all. Why have I never heard of it before? In addition, their military flag seems to be different from the ordinary Chinese army, not the common blue sky and white red military flag, but an all-red battle flag.

When Hakata Shigeichi was observing the Duqi Division, Ma Zheng was also observing the Hatada detachment. Also through the telescope, Ma Zheng found that the opposite side was indeed an elite. Although there were not many soldiers, the momentum was far more fierce than that of the 26th Division in Tsarnan.

But at the same time, Ma Zheng also found that not all soldiers were so fearless, and he saw fear and cowardice in the eyes of some of them.

Thinking of the composition of this army. Ma Zheng was immediately relieved. The Hatada detachment was also called the Taiwan Brigade in the battle sequence of the Japanese army, on the one hand, because this army had been stationed in the Taiwan region before it was transferred to Central China. On the other hand, it is because some of the soldiers in this army are Taiwanese. Although the number is not very large, it does exist.

Although those Taiwanese soldiers fought in peacetime and were no different from ordinary Japanese soldiers, a large number of these people did not join the army voluntarily, but were forcibly conscripted into the army, and their families were taken hostage by the Japanese colonial authorities in Taiwan. Therefore, these people are certainly very "heroic" when they fight against the wind, but once they encounter difficult bones, their morale and combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Plus, it's going to be dawn soon. After daybreak, Japanese planes would arrive to reinforce them, and the 7th Division, lacking anti-aircraft weapons and air support, had to end the battle before the Japanese planes arrived.

Thinking of this, Ma Zheng gave the order to attack the troops! At the same time, Ma Zheng asked Huang Sicheng to take two battalions of the Independent Regiment to make a detour behind Lion Rock, and immediately flank the left flank of the Japanese army after the battle began.

The roar of the "boom boom" artillery and the violent explosion brought Ha Tian's thoughts back to reality.

He didn't expect that the army on the opposite side would take the initiative to attack, and it was met with fierce artillery bombardment. Based on his experience, it is not difficult to hear that the other side actually used 75mm caliber mountain artillery and field artillery produced in the empire. And there are quite a few of them, there are at least 20 guns of the two types combined, which is equivalent to the firepower of an artillery wing.

Shigeichi Hata suddenly felt bad, they had always had the advantage, and before each battle, it was his troops who first bombarded the Chinese defenders with artillery, and then let the infantry charge, and then crush the opponent. I didn't expect things to turn out to be the other way around today, the other side attacked first, and the quantity and quality of the opponent's artillery were also stronger than theirs.

However, Habata knew that his troops had no way out, and they had no other way to go than to crush the opposing army.

Shigeichi Harata immediately ordered the 1st Wing of the headquarters to launch an immediate attack, and at the same time asked the telegraph soldiers to immediately send a telegram to the headquarters of the 11th Army requesting air support. At the same time, he also asked the telegraph soldiers to send a report to the 101st Division stationed at Hukou, requesting operational guidance.

The battle began to heat up, as the Japanese found that although the Duqi Division occupied even high ground, it did not have time to build fortifications, so the terrain advantage was greatly reduced, so after the artillery bombardment, a large-scale charge was launched.

It was not that the Japanese were too stupid to know that the charge would bring huge casualties, but because this was the only way to counteract the opponent's terrain advantage as quickly as possible, and then crush the opponent.

What's more, they don't have much ammunition, and if they can't end the battle as soon as possible, once the opposing army discovers the abnormality, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The momentum of the Japanese attack was very crazy and terrifying, but the Duqi Division was not frightened, and the units of the Duqi Division fought with the Japanese army dozens of times in the southern part of the war, and the Japanese puppet army was wiped out tens of thousands of people in the big battle, and the combat achievements were impressive. Not to mention the Japanese wing, even the divisions and brigades have all been faced with each other, how can they be afraid.

The officers and men of the 200th Regiment responded to the battle calmly, opened all their firepower, and took advantage of the terrain to shoot a large number of the Japanese army's living forces.

However, due to the fact that the Duqi Division did not have time to build fortifications, coupled with the interference of fog, coupled with the fearless charge of the Japanese army, the two sides inevitably got mixed together and launched a tragic hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing that the 1st Wing had finally rushed to the top of the hill, Hakata Shigeichi smiled with satisfaction, although there were countless casualties along the way, as long as the two sides were mixed together, the tragic hand-to-hand combat would definitely destroy the will of the Shina army.

The reason why Shigeichi Harata thinks this way is entirely empirical. In previous battles, they discovered a pattern, the Chinese defenders were not afraid of their artillery fire, but were afraid of hand-to-hand combat with them. Because hand-to-hand combat requires not only combat skills and strong physical strength, but also fearless courage, and in this regard, Harata Shigeichi is confident that his troops are definitely much stronger than the Chinese.

But what Hakada Shigeichi didn't know was that the army opposite him was also a unit that paid great attention to hand-to-hand combat, and in order to restrain their stabbing skills, this army had deliberately conducted a long period of tactical coordination training and had passed the test of war.

The brutal hand-to-hand combat continues, and the screams, roars, and clashing sounds of knives and guns on the battlefield mingle in a death waltz.

Through the binoculars, Hakata Shigeichi was shocked to find that in the course of the white-knuckle battle, their soldiers were absolutely inferior, and almost all the corpses that fell on the battlefield were their people.

How is this possible? The stabbing technique of the Imperial Japanese Army was terrifying even to Soviet Russia in the north, how could it be defeated by the Chinese people?

Shigeichi Harata couldn't have imagined that he was facing a special forces king who had crossed over from behind, and his troops had a magic weapon to restrain their stabbing techniques. (To be continued.) )