Chapter 148: Turtle Mountain Fortress

A test bombing actually killed the new governor of Taiwan, and the Royal Air Force was not unlucky. But the death of King Hatohiko of the Asahika Palace, even happier was the commander of the Taiwan Front Army, Commander Lin, after the capture of Taoyuan, Taipei has lost its most important peripheral stronghold, and the Japanese army can only deploy defenses along the Guishan hills and the Dakeng Creek.

The makeshift civil fortifications were vulnerable to heavy artillery fire from the Han army, and the death of the prince made the Japanese soldiers even more frightened. Because the sea route was threatened by the submarines of the Han State, the two county lords of the prince wanted to take a plane back to the mainland at Taoyuan Airport before the bombing, but the transport plane was intercepted by the Han Air Force and was forced to return to Taoyuan, and the result was ......

You must know that Kikuko and Zhanzi are both famous royal goddesses in Tokyo, and they actually fell into the hands of the Han Emperor's womanizer, and the Japanese soldiers shouted grief and indignation at the same time, but they had to worry about their fate - even the county lord can't go back to the mainland, can we still go back?

The old Han Chinese saying says that the Japanese army stationed in Taiwan in Taiwan has lost its supreme commander and the retreat has been blocked, but it has exploded into a powerful combat force, and the extreme psychology of the little devils has made it even more crazy.

The Hatian detachment stationed on the Kameyama defense line put up a stubborn resistance between the small hills at an altitude of only three or four hundred meters, and the rudimentary fortifications were not enough to stop the morale of the Yizhou army, but among several small river ditches and dense bamboo forests, the Japanese army turned into multiple small detachments, and under the leadership of the local Takasago people, they sneaked up on the Yizhou army's transport team, destroying the communication line, and greatly slowing down the Han army's march speed, which relied heavily on mechanized transportation.

Dadong Mountain is the highest point of the entire Guishan hills, 405 meters above sea level, the Japanese army has been operating on the 405 Heights for many years, building a large number of chain bunkers, leaning on the strongest fortress in the south of Taipei, a brigade of Japanese troops stationed here.

In response to the Japanese army's sabotage battle, the national forest ordered the Liangzhou Regiment to protect the communication line, and for some Japanese troops hiding in villages, day and night attacks, and the emergence of a Takasago Volunteer Army, the commander ordered to kill!

After the Treaty of Shimonoseki ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895, the Japanese colonial rulers successively launched the god-making movement and the imperial people-ization movement in Taiwan, in a vain attempt to make Taiwan inland and localized. Many Taiwanese have even forgotten Min and Hakka and speak Japanese exclusively. Unlike mainland China, a part of the Taiwanese saw the Han army as an aggressor, not a liberator. After Lin led the Taiwan Front Army to land in Kaohsiung, every time he liberated a city, he encountered not only the cheers of the local people, but also the eyes of hatred, but it was the first time that he had explicitly taken up arms to fight against the Han army.

Most of the Takasago volunteers are aborigines of Taiwan, who are familiar with the jungle climate, can shuttle through the roadless jungle to reconnoitre, and can also distinguish distant sounds and engage in ambushes. They are also skilled hunters, know the tricks of jungle life, and are familiar with the various edible animals and plants in the jungle. Moreover, he was determined and his marksmanship was extremely accurate, which caused great trouble to the transportation and replenishment of the Han army.

These ununiformed enemies were even more difficult to deal with than real Japanese soldiers. The Liangzhou army came up with a solution that set up a separation belt, forced the villages on both sides of the road to be resettled, and sent infantry fighting vehicles to patrol back and forth, and shoot anyone who entered the military area.

This method provoked a certain degree of public anger and left some sequelae. However, the lines of communication were much smoother, and the Takasago people lacked heavy weapons, and the 38 Dagai could not pose a threat to the armored vehicles, but a considerable number of brute brave men were killed by the machine guns on the chariots in the bamboo groves on the side of the road.

Although the raiding warfare adopted by the Hatada detachment and the Takasago people, who considered themselves Japanese nationals, had added many difficulties to the Taiwan Front, they could not stop the advance of the army after all, especially when the steppe wolf commandos joined the battle, the bamboo forest was no longer their hiding place, equipped with advanced communications and aiming tools, and the special combat personnel who were also familiar with jungle warfare were not comparable to the hunters. After the Takasago Volunteers were attacked, and their leaders, the Japanese and Takachiji, were killed at Hutou Mountain, they could no longer organize a large-scale raid and harassment operation, so they retreated to the 405 heights of Odongsan together with the remnants of the Hatada detachment.

Dadongshan became the last obstacle to enter Taipei.

Calling it a mountain, Dadong Mountain is actually just a small plateau, surrounded by water on both sides, and the road leading to Taipei is built along the foot of the mountain, making it a key point.

The 93rd Division of the 31st Army of Yizhou did not launch a strong attack on the Dadongshan fortress, because it was limited by the Dakengxi River, and the valley in front of the mountain was only more than 100 meters wide, which was not suitable for the deployment of large troops. In addition, the Han army has never had the habit of attacking by force, and when the ground firepower and air superiority are huge, no commander is willing to use the method of killing people to attack the enemy's position.

The battalion of 105-mm howitzer guns, with continuous shelling, ran out of shells from one base. Many of the semi-bunker fortifications on the front of the fortress were lifted. But the laterite-structured trenches were not much damaged, and the tentative attack of one battalion was quickly repulsed, and the ferocious fire in the trenches seemed to mock the Han artillery for wasting half a day's effort.

The elevation angle of the fortress is too large, the tank is useless, and the special terrain makes the Han army give up the idea of bypassing the fortress, and if they want to march into Taipei in this direction, Dadongshan must be taken.

The second round of shelling still failed to achieve the desired results, the slope angle of more than 40 degrees and the trenches built in the rock layer made the landing point of the grenade very narrow, although the shelling was littered with rubble, the momentum was shocking, but in fact, the damage to the defenders hiding in the trenches several meters deep was very small. When the Yizhou army attacked, it not only had to face the rain of bullets in the trenches, but even the stones that rolled down from time to time became a great threat. The condescending Japanese soldiers, with a grenade thrown out of their hands, could be thrown nearly 100 meters away. The Han army, on the other hand, did not dare to throw grenades at all - if they threw them, they would blow up their own people if they didn't get able to roll down.

In three rounds of attacks, the two vanguard battalions of the 93rd Division suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat. The situation was reported to the headquarters in Taoyuan, and the commander grinned, "Then wait for a fart, call the Air Force!" Those uncles eat and drink well every day, and you don't need them at this time, when do you use them? ”

The staff officer of the headquarters pursed his lips and smiled, the commander dared to say this, of course they didn't dare, made a phone call, and politely asked the Air Force for assistance.

The Royal Air Force's Howler bombers were dispatched very quickly, and the Japanese Air Force in Taiwan did not dare to take off at all these days, and His Majesty had ordered that there should be no large-scale bombing of urban facilities in southern Taiwan, and that there were many targets in Keelung Port, but if Keelung Port was bombed, it was estimated that the Navy would have to be in a hurry. In this way, except for several Flying Dragon fighters that take off every day and impose a no-fly blockade on Taiwan, everyone else has become idle. The all-loudspeaker army attack did not go well, but the group of bomber pilots was very happy. The H36 Howler medium-range bomber has a strong dive ability, which is the most suitable for this kind of work. However, when a squadron of howlers arrived at Dadong Mountain, they found that there was no room for them to play at all. Dive towards the peaks, unless the pilot is crazy! The flanks were diving, and the river valley was too narrow, and there was no room to pull up, so they had to carry out horizontal bombardment. But even the artillery bombardment has no effect, and it is conceivable how effective this horizontal bombing can be.

Don't drop the bomb, the whistling will return in vain!