Chapter 232: Sunset and Western Mountains Section 4: A Lesson in Blood
Kato Osa personally went into battle, with a few guards and staff officers to move with the middle, this time two more guns were pulled up, and the four 75 caliber infantry guns brought were now placed under the hillside, and when I looked at the direction of the muzzle, I knew that the mountain beam in the west was the focus of the attack, and this time a squadron was placed on the side of the road on the platform of the ancient wall, only responsible for monitoring and protecting the flanks, and it seemed that there was no intention of attacking the east. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test
Behind him was the adjutant general of the Kato Wing, Yoshiki Nakasa, this is an officer transferred from the field army, and he has been a staff officer and other military positions for six years in the Chinese battlefield alone, and before Yoshiki was transferred to the Kato Wing, he was in a very strong Japanese army, which was one of the three Japanese troops that fought the most with the Eighth Route Army in northwest Hebei mentioned earlier, the independent second mixed brigade!
In order to cooperate with the Japanese North China Dispatch Army to invade and occupy the Pingjin area, in August 1937, the Kwantung Army ordered the formation of the Chahar Dispatch Corps Headquarters to command the operation in the Chahar area. On the 17th, the Chahar Dispatch Corps Combat Command was established in Duolun (the headquarters was moved to Zhangbei on August 19, and after Zhangjiakou was captured, it was transferred to Zhangjiakou). Chahar sent the commander of the Corps, Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo (succeeded by Major General Yukio Kasawara, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army on September 2). It has jurisdiction over the 1st and 2nd Brigades, the 15th Brigade, the Embankment Detachment, and the Daquan Detachment.
Among them, the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which was formed in the Beiping area in February 1938 (the unit number was formed in Osaka on March 12, Showa 13, codenamed "Hibiki" Force), was subordinate to the Mongolian Army stationed in Zhangjiakou, and successively served as brigade commanders Yokooka Koji, Ueno Kamefu, Abe Norihide (killed in November 1939), Hitomi Yoichi, Mano Goro, Matsuura Toyoichi, Watanabe Wataru, Yunogawa Ryuro, with more than 6,000 personnel.
See, Yoshiki had been with Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who was still a staff officer at the brigade headquarters at the time, and he wanted to talk about their brigade's old employer. That's even more famous, Hideki Tojo is now the prime minister of the wartime cabinet, and with these two proprietors as backers, the promotion path of the officers of the independent 2nd Mixed Brigade in the army is still relatively smooth.
Yoshiki could have gone from a staff officer position in the brigade to lead troops in the army. But the death of the commander of the Abe brigade hit him hard. At that time, he was in the small courtyard where Lieutenant General Abe temporarily served as his headquarters, but fortunately, the mortar shells of the Eighth Route Army did not hit him. But from then on, Yoshiki fell ill and could not hear the movement of the mortar shells, and when he heard it, he trembled!
He also reminded the wing commander, who is an officer stationed in Taiwan, not to put the artillery position too far forward. In particular, the Eighth Route occupies a semi-circular hill beam position, and if the Eighth Route has mortars and other weapons, it is easy to hit the company's artillery.
But this guy is used to being arrogant in Taiwan, and he has never been very polite to his subordinates, and he doesn't pay attention to the few officers who were transferred to him from the Second Independent Mixed Brigade, thinking that there is nothing to be afraid of Tubalu. It was necessary to deploy the infantry guns in front of them, so that they could shoot at close range, directly support the infantry to maneuver on the hillside, reduce the distance exposed to the enemy's fire, and shorten the time of the charge.
Yoshiki Nakasa and those staff officers didn't have a good idea to say anything. After all, I have just been transferred, and I haven't gotten acquainted with this wing commander yet, so don't touch this mold, but these are all officers who have been fighting with the Eighth Route for a long time, and several people glanced at each other, and quietly retreated to a relatively safe area, away from the artillery position where Wing Captain Kato was.
Dozens of shells hit the position of the Eighth Route of the Western Front on the smoke and dust, the earth and rocks were cracked, looking at the effect of the artillery bombardment is still very good, and the infantry team in Kato Osa took off his coat and only wore a short military uniform, the shelling has not yet ended, according to the usual offensive method, began to march halfway up the mountain, as soon as the artillery fire extended, this group of little devils also learned the way of the veterans, and roared and accelerated their pace!
When there was still a distance of dozens of meters from the mountain beam and the platform, the position of the Eighth Route Army, where the smoke had dissipated, seemed to suddenly emerge from the soil, and suddenly there were many more figures, and with a row of grenades with the sound of the wind flying down the hillside, light and heavy weapons opened fire together!
It's okay, this time the little devil has a little memory, and the military order engaged in by Kato Daisa's military law has played a role, and more than 200 little devils have not been hit by grenades and bullets and turned their heads and ran, and they have fallen down a lot, but they also know that they shot at the mountain! The Heavy also knew to find a rock for cover, and suddenly strafed the slope.
This time, the wing commander personally supervised the battle, the infantry and artillery coordination was not bad, the position of the Eighth Road organized a counterattack, the devil infantry on the hillside paused, the four infantry guns tom more than ten shells, the cannon sound stopped, the devil infantry commanders at all levels on the hillside pulled the lying soldiers up and rushed to the mountain, this time it was closer to more than 20 meters, and there was no movement on the position of the Eighth Road!
The devils lay down on the slope, machine guns and rifles were fired several times, and there was still no movement on the mountain! Kato was also quite happy, and it was estimated that the positions of the Eighth Road were ploughed flat by his own artillery fire from close range! Let the flag bearer say the flag and let the squadron leader launch the final attack!
Seeing that these trembling devil soldiers were about ten meters away from the slope, Kato's telescope lens flashed several times! He was startled, and when he put down his binoculars, the yellow and clear soldiers just now were already shrouded in the fire and smoke of the explosion!
As the smoke rose from the explosion of these grenades, a black wall of people flashed from the terraces and mountain beams! In front of him was the cold light of bayonets shining in the sun! It's the first time Kato has seen a counter-assault on the eight roads! These eight roads are too bearable, and it takes people so close to fight back!
In the blink of an eye, Yachilu, who was wearing a black military uniform, was in a scuffle with the devils in yellow tweed coats! From the highway crossing at the western end to the west end of Tieyingpan Village, on the defensive front more than 300 meters wide, the soldiers of the second company of the special training camp were divided into five battle groups, and like five fingers stretched out from the palm of a hand, they rounded up and slapped down on the devils who rushed up!
The company commander and instructor of the second company easily repelled an attack by the devils just now, and they all felt so surprised, why are the devils who came this time different from what they had seen before! It's too fast! If you want to say that you can't see clearly at night, just run, this morning is sunny and sunny, just put on a posture, just throw a round of grenades, this devil turned around and ran back!
When the devil was still assembled at the foot of the mountain, the company commander summoned a few platoon commanders or something to have a battlefield meeting together, and after analysis, this must be the kind of army that pulls strong men in the devil's army, just like the puppet army or something, maybe it is composed of two devils, but it is wearing a devil's uniform, so there is no combat effectiveness, and when you hear the gunshot, you run, and the puppet army has a virtue!
After a short period of analysis and research, the company commander of the second company decided to attack the devil again after a while, and put it closer, if the devil still came to the artillery bombardment, the infantry moved, just wait for the devil to reach the front of the position, and come to him to counterattack! Cripple the devil in one go! What troops without combat effectiveness are most afraid of is not the sound of guns, but the sight of bayonets!
That's right, after all, the gunshot thing is far away, and they are lucky that they can hide it well, the bullet can't hit, the bayonet is different from the bayonet, one or two steps, the stab is the blood rushing, the recruits are most afraid of seeing blood, as soon as they see the tragic situation of the bayonet against the bayonet, the guts are basically frightened!
It's all from this stage, the Eighth Route Army relies on this thing to fight with devils in close combat, and they are not born without fear of death, they are all fed with blood, either you die or I live, kill the little devil for meritorious service and wear a big red flower, and if you die, the martyr's family is in charge of the government!
And the old devils also got through the initial fear of war, or why the little devils are bad enough to let the recruits take bayonets to stab the defenseless people, in order to let the recruits stop worrying about death and killing, slippery under their feet, it can be said that the little devils who can survive until now are absolutely fiercely fed with the blood of our Chinese!
The second company of the special training camp guessed that the devils under the mountain were either recruits or two devils, and before they became old devils and difficult to deal with, they could kill one by one! We also have to take advantage of the fact that the devil is a soft persimmon, give them some bitter food, and let them remember the lesson of this blood!
I was really guessed correctly by the second company! After throwing the grenade and rushing down with the help of the devil's hesitation, as soon as he passed his hand, it was immediately revealed, this guy and the devil are really raw melons and eggs! The hands are very raw, and the stabbing fighting is basically a dish! Erlian these gangs are like wolves and tigers, and they have worked hard in white-knuckle fighting, so they will not hesitate to be soft! Picking a gun and cutting with a knife is the same as chopping melons and vegetables!
Moreover, the second company is a squad platoon as a unit to form five tactical clusters, fighting bayonets and bayonets, guns and bombs are not idle, far away with machine guns in their arms, close to rifle aiming plus grenades, and the Japanese army is on the slope of about 200 meters, almost lined up in a line, the first line is stragglers, the second line is a squad, the formation on the offensive road has been messed up, almost became a line, by the eighth road of the cluster of twenty or thirty people, the formation immediately fragmented!
In a relatively independent space, the tactical cluster of the Eighth Route has the upper hand in terms of both numbers and firepower, and the Japanese soldiers who are fighting against them often have to face several bayonets on the Eighth Route alone, not counting the rifles and machine guns that shoot behind the bayonets, as well as the grenades that are thrown in many places by looking for devils, who can withstand it!
After the fall of some Japanese soldiers, the devils who had not yet connected with the Eighth Route saw the stomachs all over the ground in tatters, their chests bleeding, their stumps flying around, wailing and screaming, where do they still have the heart to fight, this time any military law will not work, and the offensive line will be scattered all of a sudden!