There is a big difference between the battlefield and the imagination. This is true even for a battle-hardened lieutenant general like Kuichi Tanaka, who is fifty-four, and has not been on the front line for a long time.

As for the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Japanese army, Tanaka Kuichi's understanding is still in the early stage of the war of aggression against China. Or subconsciously, he was required to follow the requirements of the group of well-trained Japanese officers and soldiers who dedicated themselves to the emperor.

Night fighting with meat bullets, which is not a tactic, is quite famous among the Japanese army, and has even been deified to a certain incredible extent. The reason for this is that the so-called military god of the previous generation of the Japanese army, General Nogi Noshinori, once used this means to conquer the Lushun 203 Heights, which were heavily guarded by the Russian army.

Tanaka Kuichi admired Nogi Noshinori's predecessors quite a lot, and he once listened to Nogi Noshinori's lectures when he was a teenager. If Li Guang had read the battle of the Japanese army attacking the 203 heights, he would know that Tanaka Kuichi had copied almost exactly the tactics used by his predecessors decades earlier.

But the Naval Resistance Army is not the Russian army, and the Japanese army is not the elite it was at the beginning.

From the moment the Japanese attacked, they had already lost.

The battlefield at midnight was not quiet at all, and although the gunfire was not as dense as during the day, it did not completely stop. From time to time, the alert artillery of the Naval Resistance Army will fire a few shots.

According to Tanaka Kuichi's deployment, in order to achieve a sudden goal, the Japanese heavy artillery did not prepare for artillery fire.

Countless swarthy devils had just climbed out of the trenches, just as the naval resistance army was roaring with artillery fire. This kind of routine shelling, as the name suggests, is actually a vigilance. But the explosion of this vigilant effect caused an anomaly of a devil.

Fearless of death, that's an adjective. I'm really not afraid of death, and I can't find a few of the little devils. These officers and soldiers of the Japanese army were glorified by the propaganda. But when the body was full of explosives, there were already two tremors, and the string in my heart was already tightened. When the shell exploded in the distance, Private Kozaburo Kondo's nerves, which had been stretched to the extreme, immediately collapsed.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he rushed forward crying.

Kozaburo Kondo behaved like this, and the other devils were actually not much better. They shouted and started attacking. If you don't scream, if you don't have this kind of crazy shouting and courage, I'm afraid that few devils will have the courage to charge so much and send them to death like this.

The devil's dying howl gave the Maritime Resistance Army early warning time. It immediately attracted the machine-gun fire of the Navy's scythe of death. The surprise attack that Kuichi Tanaka fantasized about was no longer possible.

Countless devils from the trenches, from the ravines. Swarming out from behind the stones.

The devil is greeted by a dense web of fire like a spider's web.

The devil who had lost his mind rushed forward desperately, knowing that he would die, and he also fantasized that he could rush to the position of the Maritime Resistance Army and detonate the medicine.

Suddenly, countless pillars of light lit up the entire battlefield. Dozens of searchlights of the Naval Resistance Army flickered together, shaking up and down. Stimulated by the strong light, the little devil couldn't open his eyes at all.

Under the intensive machine-gun fire of the Naval Resistance Army. Smashed into a ball of minced meat. This was followed by the dying devil pulling the dynamite bag. burst out with a fire that was countless times brighter than a searchlight.

In desperation, the meat bombs pulled off the explosive packets one after another, and the continuous explosions shook the earth. In the darkness of the night, minced flesh and blood splattered everywhere. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers committed suicide with meat bullets, and the casualties caused by the naval resistance army were not large. If you talk about the effect, there is still a little. The cage-shaped barbed wire fence piled up in front of the fire point of the Maritime Resistance Army was blown to pieces, and it was difficult to create an obstacle for the Japanese troops who were desperately charging.

You can see it. The devil really made a bloody investment. Even when the meat bomb attack was detected, the Japanese still launched a massive charge.

Under the supervision of the devil gendarme, thousands of devils began to attack together.

Under the faint light of the flares, what appeared in front of the officers and men of the Naval Resistance was a scene of a tactical offensive by a sea of people. Countless devils rushed out of the tunnel, screaming and charging, pounced, jumped up and ran forward, and then fell down again.

It was a battle of steel and flesh, and the living people would be torn to pieces by machine guns and shells in a matter of seconds, and the tragic scene made the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army tremble in their legs, let out the same screams as the enemy, desperately pulled the guns, and sprayed tyrannical bullets.

In just a few minutes, the front of the Haikang Army fortifications was already covered with wounded and dead Japanese officers and soldiers lying on the ground, and the sound of guns and explosions was mixed with the miserable wails of the wounded. And the wave of Japanese attacks was still surging. The follow-up troops of the devil charged into battle with the bodies of their companions.

Life has no scruples at this moment. On the battlefield of life and death, the officers and soldiers of the two sides fought with animal nature. There is only one truth on the battlefield, either you die or I die, someone falls every minute and every second, and life, even your own life, is worthless at this moment.

At the height of the battle, many positions of the Naval Resistance Army were broken through by the Japanese. A reinforced company of the Xuanjia Regiment attacked with a shout, and the bright bayonets flashed in the dark night, and they were immediately strangled together with the strength of almost a brigade of Japanese troops.

On the Ceylon battlefield, the two armies had been fighting fiercely for months, but this sweltering night was the first time that hand-to-hand combat had been seen.

The two armies shouted and collided together, almost a one-touch victory, and in just a few tens of seconds, the position was covered with the corpses of soldiers.

The tragic white-knuckle fighting caused the death of four or five hundred people of the two armies in just a few tens of seconds. Since the founding of the Maritime Resistance Army, the arduous training has shown its might in this short hand-to-hand combat.

"Seeing red with a bayonet" is easy to say, but when you really face a murderous enemy rushing in front of you with a bright bayonet, daring to raise a gun and fight desperately requires great courage and guts, and killing people with a bayonet and killing people with a gun are fundamentally two different things, and this kind of psychological pressure is not something that ordinary soldiers can afford. Without the cultivation of a long-term martial spirit, without hard training, it is not uncommon for the troops to collapse in the face of white blades.

On the domestic battlefield, it is often a white-knuckle fight with a large proportion of casualties, and in this battle, it is reversed. The ratio of casualties between the Naval Resistance Army and the Japanese Army was almost 1 to 3.

To some extent, Li Guang does not support white-knuckle warfare. However, he often put a sentence on his lips to encourage his brothers in the army: The troops that dare to see the red with bayonets are the best troops.

But looking at the tragic casualty figures, Li Guang's heart couldn't help but twitch. In just a few tens of seconds, an elite company with twice the strength of the army suffered nearly half of the casualties. This kind of loss is really heavy enough for the naval resistance army that takes the route of elite soldiers. Many of the brothers who died in battle were veterans who had followed Li Guang for several years, and many of them could be named by Li Guang. The first batch of troops of the Naval Resistance Army came from Guangxi, and the number of Guangxi veterans killed in this battle reached 16. The second batch of veterans of the Maritime Resistance Army came from Henan, and 37 Henan veterans were killed.

Hero. Li Guang thought silently in his heart.

At dawn, Tanaka Kuichi's red eyes lost their brilliance, and the heavy casualties of the 21st Division had exceeded Tanaka Kuichi's bottom line.

But the matter has become a tiger, and Tanaka Jiuichi can't fight again.

The battlefield is gambling. Having lost a large amount of chips, Kuichi Tanaka had to continue gambling.

After a night of fighting, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, but the positions of the Naval Resistance Army were also somewhat fragmented, and several salient positions had fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. However, under the condition that the position and fortification system of the Naval Resistance Army was still basically complete, the Japanese army would have to pay a greater price if it wanted to take Cutler Mountain.

If it is said that Tanaka Kuichi's command last night had elements of underestimating the enemy, he did not expect that the night battle defense of the Naval Resistance Army was extremely perfect, but at this time, continuous attack was the only correct choice. If the Naval Resistance Army redeploys the defensive line, the Japanese army will definitely have to pay a greater price.

In this case, according to Lieutenant General Tanaka Kuichi's understanding, victory depends on who of the two armies is more persistent and who is more ruthless. Kuichi Tanaka, who had lost his red eyes, was now purely a beast, and one command after another erupted from his mouth. The staff officers of the Japanese command headquarters were shocked.

Kuichi Tanaka unexpectedly performed a trick that was even more brutal than a meat bullet attack. Heavy artillery covered the positions of the Naval Resistance Army. You must know that there are not only naval resistance troops on the position, but also more Japanese troops. Now the two armies have been entangled and fighting, and at this time, the heavy artillery bombardment can certainly kill and injure a large number of fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army, but most of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army are still covered by trenches, but the devils are almost all exposed on the mountain. The casualties are absolutely disproportionate.

Dense shells roared down the hill, and mushroom-like smoke rose from the hill, which had long been dried by the flames of war, and instantly enveloped the entire mountain.

In the Tang Port Headquarters, Li Guang's eyes were red, and he nodded and said to Bao Gang: "It's time." ”

At seven o'clock in the morning, the Japanese occupied the Cutler Hill position. (To be continued......)

PS: Thanks for the large piece of meat for the monthly pass.