Chapter 425: Crushing
The general attack of the 6th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army was not a one-man show, and almost at the same time, the 18th Wing of the 18th Infantry Regiment in the north went out of the Huashan narrow road and attacked along the Muya River; On the south side, the 7th Wing came out of the Saruwangyue Gorge and attacked the position of Songlin Temple. Top Novel, www.
This was a typical decisive raid, in which the 3rd Division was under tremendous pressure and had unprecedented equipment and strength to make an almost desperate initiative.
Lieutenant General Hasegawa Yoshimichi personally sat at the headquarters of Mt. Saruo, risking long-range artillery bombardment, and seemed to calmly grasp the changes in the battlefield. As for the real set up in Miyu Town. The headquarters is only left as an ornament.
It is quite sad to say that although the Japanese Army has not created many strange traditions since its establishment, the samurai style of "brave and resolute" formed since the Warring States period has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As a general of the first army, he must have a strong fighting spirit and courage that is not afraid of death, and when facing a strong enemy, he should not be afraid to retreat, but should stand bravely at the forefront of the blade like a real samurai.
To sum up, Japanese officers absolutely must not say that they are afraid of the enemy, and the word "retreat" must not appear in their battle plans. When it comes to actual combat, it is the usual dignified lieutenant general commander who will stand less than a kilometer away from the artillery exchange to command the operation.
Of course, there are reasons for this because of the weaponry and tactical thinking of the contemporary army, but now that we have a battlefield telephone, we are a bit too much to say that we will risk the risk of shells being brought to the headquarters and pushed into the reserves.
Hasegawa Yoshimichi can't help it, his mission is not just to replace the Fifth Division and counterattack Shimonoseki. Equipped with a variety of new weapons from the Great Powers. It means that Japan has officially become an accomplice of the great powers. Step into the rhythm of fighting with human life to vote for the name.
Will Japan be able to satisfy the Great Powers? How to show enough qualifications to act as a dog leg of the great powers, it is necessary to declare success through a complete victory.
Moreover, this battle will be fought in full view of the observers of the Great Powers, and his own appearance, and the expression of the entire Third Division, will become the criterion by which the future empire will obtain the status of treatment. In order for the Yamato nation to break away from Asia and enter Europe smoothly in the future and officially become a member of the civilized world, he had to fight. The 3rd Division had to play with its life!
The successful breakthrough of the 6th Infantry Wing, Sugimoto Osa attacked with all his might, sounding the clarion call for the 3rd Division to launch a general attack. There is no temptation, no left-flank offensive tactics, no layers of laying troops to disperse, as soon as you shoot, it is all artillery support! As soon as you attack, it is a comprehensive advance on the entire front!
More than 10,000 Japanese troops swarmed out on a longitudinal position of more than ten kilometers, and the three-way parallel advance was like madness!
Lin Yongfang had just given the order to meet the battle, and then received the news of a large-scale attack by the enemy forces on both flanks. After thinking about it for a while, he immediately telegraphed to the headquarters: "I suspect that the Japanese army is going to play real this time." Their attack is very resolute, and it seems that they are going to fight to the end in one go! ”
Shi Jianfei pondered for a moment compared the map and related information, and then replied: "Send all your regiments up, don't care about ammunition consumption, and resolutely defeat their spirit!" I'll have the reserves to reinforce you, and the Navy cruisers will provide support. ”
As the leading senior staff officer of this era, Shi Jianfei has both strategic and tactical theories in time and space, and his vision has long gone beyond the scope of ordinary operational staff officers, and he can consider war strategies from a global perspective.
Just like this war against Japan, the bones are that China and the great powers used Japan to confront each other, and victory or defeat is directly related to the strategic initiative of the East and the West in the next few years. If China wins, it will be able to gain a bridgehead to break through the island chain and enter the Pacific Pacific. If China loses, it will inevitably fall into an endless exhaustion of resources, and eventually even the thriving revolutionary process at home will be blocked.
So, in any case, China cannot afford to lose this war.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength, Shi Jianfei was influenced by the German staff, and never refused to take risks, and fought steadily in the arrangement of troops, not leaving the other party a chance to sneak attack. Today, the Japanese army was going to attack with all its might, and he was not surprised at all, let alone have any thoughts of luck, and did not hesitate to pile up a large number of troops!
Lin Yongfang was reassured, and without hesitation, he immediately mobilized all the reserves. This time, Lin Yongfang gave an arrogant order: "Use all your milk strength, as long as the little devils attack, your shells will hit as long as you want!" Let go of the means and fix the fuck! ”
The artillery regiment responded with a warm cheer, and then the cannons deployed between the mountains roared, and clusters of large-caliber shells pierced the sky one after another, pouring towards the middle of the defensive positions of the Chinese and North Korean coalition forces!
Yang Hao built the world's most powerful heavy artillery unit, a regiment of three artillery battalions, equipped with 18 122mm howitzers, 18 140mm vehicle-mounted heavy mortars, and 18 152mm heavy howitzers!
A full 54 big guys cover a vast battlefield of 4-18 kilometers, whether it is a direct shot or a curved shot, it has unparalleled lethality and strike density. With the coordination of the air balloon and the former enemy detection force, it is able to accurately pull out most targets within range. In particular, the 18 heavy mortars, in the complex mountain battlefield of Japan, give full play to the advantages of curved shooting to attack the top!
The two howitzer battalions were fired in a company unit, with three guns in a group, and the firing time was staggered, forming a staggered firing pattern of three rounds per cluster and twelve groups per minute. In this way, it was possible to ensure that the shells flying in the air would fall on the heads of the Japanese soldiers almost without interruption! The powerful shells cover an area of a football field at a time, and in the process of firing, with the shaking and displacement of the cannon body, a slight deviation in the firing angle is generated, and the landing point of the shell is naturally scattered, but it can just form a random change that cannot be judged, and it is controlled between the parts of the blow.
In this way, the 18th Wing, which attacked from the north, was the first to suffer from the seedlings!
They rushed into the narrow road from the direction of the hot springs, constantly harassed by small elite units of the revolutionary army along the way, and there were all kinds of mines around their feet, and if they were not careful, they would be bombarded by stones that exploded from the ground or at the foot of the mountain! Those specially buried in the collapsed rubble, linked to more than a dozen kilograms of medicine packets, are extremely vicious. I can't even see the fuse. Exploded coldly. Dozens of tons of stones swept all over the world, covering a wide area as wide as a village at once. Even if the flying stone does not have the sharp lethality of the shell fragment, it will be seriously injured if it hits the body, and it will kill half a person if it hits the head!
Hasegawa Yoshimichi gave a death order, requiring them to quickly cross the narrow road when the attack of the 6th Wing was launched, and in order to achieve the mission, the 18th Wing did not hesitate to send a whole brigade of troops to bravely advance in front of the thorns.
It's a 10-kilometer narrow road. It was still an undulating environment, and a brigade of heroic Japanese soldiers had imitation steel helmets from Germany on their heads, 7.62mm bolt-action rifles made in the United States, military uniforms made in the United Kingdom, military boots from France, belts from Russia tied around their waists, and refreshing drugs that have recently become quite popular in Europe in their mouths.
This body combines the advanced equipment of the great powers, but it cannot change their true colors as Japanese soldiers, and the medicine in their mouths prompts them to secrete a huge amount of adrenaline in a short period of time. The heart beats vigorously and the blood circulates faster. They were all steaming and murderous, as if they were really not afraid of death.
…… In fact, it was the collective drugged, the head was hot and unconscious, no matter if they stepped on a mine under their feet, or there were treacherous mines on both sides, or suddenly there were snipers with cold guns, they could not deter these selfless and crazy Japanese vanguards.
The reconnaissance companies that were harassing along the way saw that the situation was gone, no matter whether they used guns and grenades, or swept with machine guns, or even used bazookas, the little devils left their corpses on the ground, but they still screamed and rushed forward!
There are many people who have been blown up and their heads are broken and bleeding and their bodies are red, and some of them have broken their arms and legs, and they are actually holding on to the line of fire and refusing to get out of the line of fire, screaming and continuing to fight. No matter how bold and brave a warrior is, he can't get right with a bunch of crazy people.
When the situation report came, Lin Yongfang quickly thought of that possibility, couldn't help but gasp, and blurted out: "I'm his uncle!" The little devil can really do it! Don't make a mistake with eating that thing for your own soldiers? ”
Political Commissar Li Guangyi said with a cold face: "The imperialist troops do not cherish their soldiers, and in order to win the war, they can do whatever it takes. Most of the lower-ranking soldiers of the Japanese army were farmers and fishermen, and they had no status in the first place, and they did not even have enough to eat, and they had become accustomed to being held hostage by warlords for hundreds of years. The so-called civilization and enlightenment they pursued are in fact just a fig leaf used by the upper echelons to fool people, and in their bones, there is no difference between Japan today and 200 years ago. ”
Lin Yongfang still thinks it's incredible, if this happens in China, whether it is the waste green battalion or the old Huai army, who dares to force the troops to be so neat, sooner or later they will be beaten or rebelled. Little devils, this is too easy to fool, right?
But it was only a momentary emotion, he gritted his back molars and sneered: "Whatever, anyway, we never expected to rescue these white-eyed wolves who have forgotten their ancestors!" If he dares to die, Lao Tzu will dare to bury it! Not afraid of death, are you? Let's see if the cannonball is blown up, and if the dog can still jump! ”
The reconnaissance company and the raiding detachment received the order to retreat after completing the blockade of the enemy, and let these devils rush out of the narrow road all the way by stepping on the bombing point.
A whole brigade of Japanese troops ran ten kilometers out of the valley, and it took less than two hours, which can be described as godfast! But they paid for more than 400 casualties, and the rest of them were 90% slightly injured and overdosed, which was a bit crazy!
Finally, he came out of the narrow road and arrived at the foot of Takahata, and connected with the flank detour troops of the 6th Wing, and completed the rapid breakthrough with "Shun Lì". The commander of the 18th Wing was overjoyed and ordered the rest of the troops to move and kill them regardless of a single thing!
At this moment, the twelve-rhythm bombardment of the two heavy artillery battalions followed!
The main force of the 18th Wing had just emerged, and an explosion suddenly appeared, and the powerful and astonishing 152mm grenade wantonly released its terrible lethality, and three rounds suddenly swept across both sides of the Muya River, setting off a large wave of death, and the Japanese troops who fell into it were cut down in a blink of an eye!
The 18th Division thought that it had been hit by a heavy artillery cluster, and hurriedly stopped and waited for the shelling to end. As a result, the left and right waited endlessly, and it was found that the number of shells falling each time was limited, but the explosion coverage was really amazing!
The wing commander could not withstand the urging of the headquarters, gritted his teeth and ordered the troops to disperse, one squadron at a time. Venture forward with a crater! Can you rush over the lì smoothly? It's all up to their luck. In short, as long as the main force of the entire wing is killed. If you form a joint force with the Sixth Wing, you will be able to take the White Mountain position in one fell swoop!
As a result, thousands of Japanese troops rushed out of the narrow road with roaring shells and went straight to the Takahatayama position!
They thought about luck, but they didn't know what kind of ferocious strike force they were facing! 18 122mm grenades and 152 guns were staggered and bombarded, and their landing points and dispersions were not consistent with each other, but they just happened to play a role in complementing each other's shortcomings.
With a five-second burst of fire, a deadly storm always reverberated in a radius of one kilometer. No matter how much the Japanese dispersed their forces, there were always casualties in each attack. What is helpless is that every explosion will form a triangular killing zone with a diameter of one or two hundred meters, and it will not be good to fall into it.
If this is a seasoned veteran, he may be able to jump the crater in advance with his hearing to dodge. But the problem is that there are very few old oilmen in the current Japanese Army who have survived the Chinese battlefield. More than ninety percent of the recruits had never even heard of the movement of the cannon a few times before, and they hadn't learned such a technical skill as the ricochet crater!
The screaming sound of large-caliber grenades falling from the sky was soul-catching, and the recruits behind them were not drugged, so they were naturally terrified to hear it. If you can be one step ahead, you can jump into the crater and get away with it. Most of them were stunned and knocked to the ground by the impact of the explosion, or their bodies were torn apart by fragments. Screaming in pain!
The one-kilometer Tongguò area is simply the Nai He Bridge of Lord Yama, and no one knows if they will be able to pass it alive. The 18th Wing broke through with difficulty in such a painful situation.
However, compared to them, the 7th Wing that broke through from the southern battlefield was really miserable.
They didn't encounter much attack as they broke through the valley, but they had just come out of the river when a cannonball fell with a thunderous roar!
This is a shell from a naval gun from the sea! The four "Dengzhou-class" destroyers, docked at the mouth of the Kiya River and more than five kilometers to the east, each raised their twin 127mm guns high and rained projectiles wildly towards the predetermined area!
The hand-reloading can reach a large explosion of 15 rounds per minute, and a full 24 doors are fired in tandem to envelop a two-kilometer-wide position into an impermeable death zone! Compared with the more durable strike capability of the army artillery, there is no need to worry about the life of the body and the consumption of ammunition, these four destroyers are bombarding indiscriminately!
They didn't just fire at the intended target, but from time to time, they fired dozens of grenades at the updated coordinates from time to time under the command of the frontal observation post on the battlefield! Those machine guns are also self-loading rapid-fire, and in less than a minute, they can sweep the ground the size of a village, and the walls and houses will collapse, and the ground will be full of debris!
The Seventh Wing also gritted its teeth and rushed forward, hoping to cross the danger zone and kill the flanks in one go. In fact, their scattered breakthrough did achieve considerable results, but they never expected that when they just rushed out, the expected opposing blocking fire did not appear, but they were suddenly attacked fiercely by the river!
Four 200-ton submersible gunboats appeared not far away without warning, and the single-barreled 76mm rapid-fire guns on the bow of the ship really played the style of the machine, with the amount of ammunition projectile far exceeding that of an artillery battalion, accurately covering the top of the Japanese army!
In addition, the single-barreled 40mm Bofors guns on the gunboat also fired fiercely, and the twin 14.5mm heavy machine guns fired a shiny rain of bullets like the wind! It was really as terrible as an iron broom, sweeping parallel along the river, not only cutting off the trees and jungles on the shore, but also cutting off a layer of rocks in the distance!
One can imagine how sad the Japanese army was. The first nine deaths in the front of the breakthrough shell interception, the back foot was blocked by the gunboat at close range, and then the heavy machine gun was swept away, and even a corpse could not be found!
When Hasegawa received the report, he was so shocked that he shouted: "Impossible! When did they bring the submarine gunboat over?! ”
Nothing is impossible. Since Yang Hao had made up his mind to drag the Japanese to death on this ten-kilometer-wide position, it was naturally impossible to leave them any gaps, and such a useful thing as a submarine gunboat must of course be taken out and put into good play.
Hasegawa Yoshido instantly felt that it was not good, he didn't calculate this in a thousand calculations. Don't look at just a few gunboats, but in the area of the mouth of the wide river, they can play a great killing role. It was a haunting floating artillery group, and for them who had to cross the river to attack, it was equivalent to a line of death that could not be surmounted!
He had a random cold war, and suddenly thought of the Sixth Wing, which had already broken through with the whole team, and had just crossed the river at this time and entered a stalemate with the defenders of Baishan. The ferocious support artillery fire of the other side did not play a huge role, and it was possible to pull out the nail as long as the troops on both flanks surrounded it.
But, but, ah, the appearance of gunboats on the river means that there will be a sharp knife in the back of their buttocks, and if they are not careful, it is very likely that they will be wiped out!
He grabbed the phone and called the artillerymen: "At any cost, be sure to block the river channel!" ”
But it was too late, at this time the artillery was being chased all over the ground by the 140mm mortars that couldn't stop smashing, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, and the foreign devils were still counting on more tests of the combat effectiveness of the new artillery, where did they care how many people he killed and wounded!?
Hasegawa Yoshimichi watched as the Seventh Wing was killed by the vanguard, and it was difficult to break through to the ship's guns. Four gunboats rushed up the current, killed the flanks and backs of the 6th Wing, and washed them from head to toe with frantic artillery fire! (To be continued......) R527