Chapter 1047 Songshaoguan Resistance Battle (II)

The Japanese army carried out an artillery bombardment on the front line of Songshao Pass for more than an hour, smashing tens of thousands of shells on the front-line positions of the 29th Corps.

Speaking of which, Terauchi Shouichi was cautious enough, but he was also a cunning guy who did not play cards according to common sense, and he did not even send troops to carry out a tentative attack, and used overwhelming artillery fire to cover all the targets within three kilometers on both sides of the road from Songshaoguan to Kunming.

Terauchi Shouichi's style of fighting aroused the opposition of all the Japanese commanders, who had never seen such a battle, and they didn't even know where the enemy's position was, so they blindly shelled, and the shells could grow eyes, and they went to find the location of the soldiers in China? Although it attracted unanimous criticism, Shouyi in the temple ate the scales and was iron-hearted.

Terauchi Shouichi secretly sneered in his heart, "It's all some idiots who stick to the rules, do you still need to determine the position of the Shina army?" Judging from the topography of Songshao Pass, the most suitable thing for establishing a blocking position is nothing more than that hill, opening a three-kilometer passage on each side, so that the troops can quickly pass through Guò without delay. ”

He even expected that the Chinese army, which had just attacked more than 3,000 imperial soldiers, was on that hill, with smug eyes, looking forward to the attack of the imperial infantry troops.

The Japanese artillery bombardment stopped, and the casualties of the front-line troops of the 29 th Corps were quickly reported to the corps headquarters, and looking at the casualty figures, Li Honggang's face turned pale, and the sudden artillery attack of Terauchi Shouichi did cause relatively large casualties to the troops, with a total of more than 3,000 casualties.

The troops of nearly 50,000 troops of the four brigades deployed on the front line were indeed waiting for the attack of the Japanese infantry, and did not see the shadow of the Japanese soldiers, but waited for the shells to fall from the sky.

Even so, the 29th Corps still suffered a small loss, back and forth, Li Honggang and Terauchi Shouichi had a draw, and the chief of staff, Wang Bingde, tentatively said: "Commander, should we adjust the battle plan and use artillery fire to inflict a lot of casualties on the Japanese infantry when they attack for the first time?" ”

Li Honggang slowly shook his head and said: "I underestimated the old devil Shouichi Terauchi, who suffered a secret loss, and the original battle plan remained unchanged, and ordered the front-line troops to withdraw to the second line immediately after repelling the first attack of the Japanese army. ”

The sound of rain and wind could not hide the shouts of the Japanese soldiers, and fighting in this unfortunate weather, only by shouting wildly could their cold blood boil and boost their morale.

The rain was pouring down, the mountain roads were muddy, the Japanese soldiers fell and got up, and from time to time they fell and gnawed on the mud, and the Japanese soldiers who appeared in front of the soldiers of the 29th Corps were all like mud monkeys.

The Japanese soldiers who were dragging their heavy feet and were about to climb to the hill, although they couldn't open their eyes from the torrential rain, they still saw in their eyes that in the white rain, countless dark red tongues of fire suddenly erupted, and they appeared so suddenly, so densely, like a metal wall, crashing head-on.

The first row of Japanese soldiers, more than a dozen blood flowers appeared on their chests, like the defeated grass blown by the wind, they were planted in the rain with brushes, and the dense rain of bullets immediately found the Japanese soldiers behind them, and the soldiers of the 29th Corps stared at each other and poured the bullets in the guns into the Japanese soldiers.

I couldn't tell whether it was gunshots, or the sound of rain or the wind, I only saw tracer bullets, in the rain curtain, chasing countless black shadows climbing up, forty minutes later, the attacking troops of a division of the Japanese army were beaten and fled, and the wolf bèi was defeated and retreated, leaving thousands of corpses on the rainy ground.

Jing Zhanqi, the commander of the first brigade, ordered reluctantly: "The whole brigade immediately evacuated the position, damn, the little devil came to a trick," the Japanese artillery bombardment just now, the first brigade suffered hundreds of casualties, which made Jing Zhanqi, who had never suffered losses in the war, angry, he was unwilling to withdraw to the second line of defense like this, but just now he had a warning, he didn't dare to find the commander to grind his teeth, if in peacetime, he was very bold.

The attacking troops were repulsed, Terauchi Shou was expressionless, and said: "Don't stop, order the 103rd Division, join the attack sequence, the 58th Division, enter the attack position, and after two hours, the troops will pass through Songshao Pass," the blocking Chinese army did not even have artillery, it should not be the troops of the independent division, at least not the main force, which gave him a lot of confidence.

There was another ferocious artillery bombardment, and the Japanese army, which had just retreated, immediately began a second attack, as if to take care of the good mood of Terauchi Shouichi, the heavy rain weakened a lot, and turned into a misty drizzle, and the Japanese soldiers also came to the spirit, followed the head of the way, stepped over the corpses of their companions, and rushed up the hill, the deadly bullet rain, did not appear, only bullet casings everywhere, and the Chinese army that was desperately blocking just now, there was not a single ghost.

"Commander-in-Chief, the attacking force reports that the positions of the Chinese army have been occupied, but alas, the Chinese army has fled," the chief of staff reported in surprise, "Hani? Without the blocking of the Chinese army, you mean, the second attack, without fighting, achieved its goal? Shouichi Terauchi asked suspiciously.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General Kobayashi, commander of the 103rd Division, reported this," the chief of staff replied accurately, and Terauchi Shouichi's eyes rolled a few times, and he always felt that something was wrong there, and the Shina army, which had been fighting fiercely just now, suddenly disappeared.

He didn't believe that it was possible that the shelling just now killed all the soldiers on the position, and the casualties were very large, but why did they give up blocking the attack? Strange, there was a strange strangeness on the battlefield, "Order the troops, expand the breakthrough, and search within ten kilometers of each flank to see if there is any trace of the Zhina army?" "Shouichi Terauchi ordered.

After giving the order, watching the chief of staff walk towards the telephone, Terauchi Shouichi seemed to call him back, and dispelled this thought, I don't know why, there was an indescribable uneasiness and panic in his heart, this feeling, I can't catch it, I can't touch it, but I can't dispel it from my heart.

"Boom, boom, boom", the earth-shattering loud noise scared Shouichi Terauchi, who was in a state of deep thinking, and he could naturally hear that this was not thunder, but the sound of countless artillery pieces and salvos.

Suddenly, Terauchi Shouichi jumped up and shouted, "Hurry, hurry, order the troops, retreat immediately," the chief of staff was not stupid, his face turned pale, this cannon sound, naturally not the artillery of the imperial army, in the shelling of the positions of the Chinese army, he did not give such an order, there is only one explanation, the Chinese artillery is shelling the imperial army troops.

All the telephones communicating with the attacking troops could not be called, the chief of staff put down the microphone in a gloomy manner, followed behind Terauchi Shouichi, rushed out of the tent, in the direction of Songshao Pass, the fire of the artillery firing reflected half of the rain curtain red, meteor-like shells, streaked across the night sky, and then, pierced the earth.

In that direction, it was the position occupied by the attacking troops just now, which made Terauchi Shouichi and his chief of staff, a more unforgettable scene appeared, in the rainy night when the dark clouds were overwhelming, the meteor shower that would never appear, flew in the sky, and the burning meteors, dragging longer and thicker tail flames, fell overwhelmingly on the ground, and in an instant, a sea of fire, rising in the rainy night, a huge explosion, spread to the night.

Terauchi Shouichi was stunned, he had never seen the Thunder rocket artillery, but in the enemy report of the General Intelligence Bureau of the base camp, he had read about the artillery that the Japanese soldiers called "devil's punishment", and he still remembered that he laughed at the time, thinking that this was those frightened troops, exaggerating, such a powerful artillery, not even the Imperial Japanese Army, inferior Shina. How can you have it, isn't it a big joke?

Witnessing it with his own eyes, Terauchi Shouichi knew that this was not a legend, that sea of burning fire, the earth and trees flying in the air, under such a rain of bullets, his two divisions would never have the reason to survive, terrifying, terrible, indescribable trembling, like a giant's big hand, tightly grasping his heart.

Turning his head and seeing the chief of staff who was also stunned, Shouichi Terauchi couldn't suppress a trembling voice and asked, "Sato-kun, what kind of weapon is that?" Hearing the commander-in-chief's question, Chief of Staff Sato came back to his senses and shook his head with a blank face, he, like Shouichi Terauchi, was so shocked by the terrifying scene that his brain temporarily short-circuited.

"Boom, boom, boom", more than a dozen large-caliber shells fell in the woods, the mud that was blown up, flying all over the sky, a section of broken wood that was blown up to the sky, happened to fall on the tent, the headquarters of the dignified Imperial Japanese Army general, was crushed by a cut of wood, and the staff officers in the tent escaped with a frightened look on their faces.

The chief of the guard of the temple Shouichi pounced very loyally, regardless of the three seven twenty-one, and pressed His Excellency the commander-in-chief to the muddy ground, probably too violently, the general was very lucky to have zero contact with the muddy water, and the muddy water on his face almost blocked his breathing.

More than a dozen shells flew in, and the guards didn't care about holding Shouichi Terauchi, and ran quickly to the back, where they could still take care of these, and if they didn't run, the shells of the people in China would hit the head of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and they tossed again and again, and His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had no strength to speak.

When the fiery red sun rose in the east, it was a sunny day, and the heavy rain washed away the smoke of the war and diluted the blood and water everywhere, but it could not erase the traces of last night's thrilling shelling.

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