Section 122 Crazy Strike

The sky gradually darkened, and Zhang Gushan's battle not only did not end because it was dark, but became more and more fierce. After a whole day of fighting, the Japanese army may have canceled the bombardment of the planes for fear of accidentally injuring the defenders of Dongling, and the suppression of artillery was also extremely limited after yesterday's consumption of a large number of shells.

What frightened the officers and men of the 302nd Regiment was that after dark, the supplies of the Japanese army seemed to have arrived, and with the coming of night, the fierce artillery bombardment made the officers and men of the 302nd Regiment, who had little loss during the day, nervous in vain.

Clusters of dazzling lines of fire flew from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, and the dazzling and colorful lines of fire dragged their long tails, which exploded in the middle of the mountain from time to time, and the flames that rose in the air were like colorful mushrooms, which embellished Zhanggushan with eye-catching abnormalities.

However, the soldiers on the hillside are unable to appreciate and enjoy this "beautiful scenery", the rolling heat, almost let them return to the middle of summer, the continuous shock waves, but also the shock of their internal organs seem to be displaced, under the cover of fierce artillery fire, they also lost the ability to move, can only passively guard their own defense line, against the "boom" explosion and the Japanese bloody fight.

The Japanese army went crazy!

Seeing that the Japanese army after dark not only did not withdraw to rest, but instead stared at the southern foot of Zhang Gushan and attacked fiercely, Shi He, Lin Xiufeng, Wu Zihuai and others couldn't help but have this idea in their hearts. Although the Japanese artillery can suppress them to the death, however, in the case of equal strength, the advantage of the defending side is still quite large, and the night obviously provides convenience for the Japanese attack, but if you want to eat more than 1,000 soldiers of their 302nd regiment in one bite, it is impossible not to pay almost the same number, you must know that this is a fortification on the mountain, and the long hillside is enough to consume most of the physical strength of the Japanese soldiers.

And after a whole day of fighting, they have basically figured out the strength of the devils, about a large group or so, and they do not have an advantage!

Could it be that the devil chose to die with them? As soon as such an idea appeared, they vetoed it, in fact, it was not a big deal for them to die together, losing their 302nd Regiment, as well as the 301st Regiment on the front line of the Great and Small Golden Mountains, as well as the 153 Brigade near Changling, and the 58th Division that acted with them, for the entire 74th Army, their 302nd Regiment was just an insignificant infantry regiment.

But for the Japanese army, more than 1,000 people can't afford to lose, and after these days of bloody battles, how many people are there in the entire 106th Division? I'm afraid that less than half of them have already died, and if there are more than 1,000 deaths, how fast will the speed of defeat be, and the Japanese army will not wait to send them to death?

In fact, Yoshio Sonoda, who commanded at Yamashita, is already going crazy at this moment!

Not only is the entire battle situation becoming more and more critical, but the defense lines everywhere have gradually been unable to withstand the counterattack of the Zhi Na people. The defensive line in the west is not in much danger for the time being, but in the east, because of the loss of the commanding heights of the battlefield of Zhanggushan, the front line of Changling has lost its firepower and suppressed it and has gradually lost it.

The defense line in the Jinshan area collapsed on the whole line, Tianbusu and other heights were occupied by the enemy, and the fire assistance of the flanks was lost, and the enemy army had successfully advanced to the Caijiaqiao line, and could directly danger the command headquarters of Nantianpu, if the disadvantage on the battlefield was not regained, once Nantianpu was lost, the entire division would be divided by the enemy. For a senior commander, the consequences of the division of the position are obviously very clear, in the case of reinforcements from outside being delayed in arriving, once the defense line is divided, the next thing is to wait to be eaten by the enemy bite by bite.

The headquarters was already very dissatisfied with the fact that they had made no progress here all day, and the brigade commander was even ready to rush here to take command in person, and the huge pressure on his body had overwhelmed Yoshio Sonoda, and after receiving the supply of ammunition, he finally stopped scruples and threw all his forces into the frontal attack.

In the attack of artillery fire that did not stop for a moment, Zhang Gushan was illuminated red by the flames raised by the explosion, and faintly, it was clear that figures were shuttling in the night, constantly surging towards the hillside.

The exhausted Japanese soldiers had no choice, they would die if they advanced or retreated, and now that there was no way to live, they could only raise their last remaining strength and go to the mountain. Overhead, the bullets whistled incessantly, and the occasional missed shell exploded beside them, and they couldn't care so much.

"Itachi!" A Japanese soldier personally brandished his sword and rushed forward, his body was close to the ground, constantly rushing from one crater to another, and he waved his saber from time to time to constantly urging his companions behind him to rush towards the mountain. Although he was already in the position of deputy captain, and although officers like him needed to stay in the rear to command the team more often, he had no choice but to personally lead the team up the mountain.

Because His Excellency the Wing Commander made it very clear that Zhang Gushan could not be taken tonight, and before dawn tomorrow, they would collectively cut their stomachs and be loyal to the country, so as to wash away their incompetence and shame.

Thinking of the stern expression of the wing commander, and thinking of the orders that the division headquarters had to urge almost every few minutes, they obviously knew that the moment of life and death had come to this time, and there was no time to hesitate. Therefore, except for a few officers such as the commander of the wing and the chief of staff, who still remained behind to command, the operational staff officers of all departments, including the various departments, had already taken up arms and rushed to the front line.

Thinking of this, the young Shaozo brandished his war knife again and shouted: "Banzai! ”

His loud shout inspired the Japanese soldiers beside him, and when he saw the officers rushing to the front in person, the tired Japanese soldiers who could barely stand up roared loudly one by one, and rushed towards the hillside with unimaginable perseverance. I have to say that the combat capability of the Japanese army is really strong, and it is almost unimaginable that they can still charge after dark after fighting a whole dozen and barely resting.

Hidden in the night, in a bush that could not be seen at all, a small shooting roar was pulled away, and the fluttering mud crumbs kept falling, and the heat wave around them suddenly poured in, and the pungent smoke and bloody smell almost made the thugs inside breathe.

However, the three battalion soldiers who held back in the bunker for a whole day couldn't bear it anymore, the long time during the day was okay, although it was a little difficult, but in the face of the bloody battle of life and death, they endured it patiently, but at night it was not good, the devil's artillery was too violent, and the continuous explosions sounded all around, which made them tremble and secretly pray not to be hit by the shells, if they were buried alive in the ground without firing a shot, it was really inverted to the extreme.

Heaven seemed to favor them and gave them a chance to perform, listening to the screams outside, feeling that the Japanese army had rushed not far away, they excitedly opened the baffle in front of the firing hole and stretched out their machine guns. After staying in such a dark place for so long, the machine gun seemed to be unable to hold back, and after the crazy fire was fully fired, it immediately poured out full of anger, killing the enemy in front of him and crying wolf.

The Japanese soldier Shao Zuo held his sword high and suddenly stopped, he was only ten steps away from this dark bunker at the moment, close at hand, when the firing port was opened, he was jumping out of the crater, ready to rush forward, the result was obvious, there was no blocking machine gun, mercilessly left a string of blood holes on his body, so that he fell down with a look of horror.

One by one, the bunkers showed their fangs in the dark night, and these fortifications left by the Japanese army became a sharp weapon against them in just a few days, and the sight-shooting area that was specially cleared covered almost the entire front of the southern foothills, and several machine guns strafed back and forth, basically blocking most of the space.

The first wave of Japanese troops fell under the sudden blow, and dozens of corpses were abandoned halfway up the mountainside, dripping with blood, bloody and terrifying.

The Japanese who then attacked were taken aback, but the current situation did not allow them to retreat, and while temporarily hiding their bodies, they shouted artillery support behind them.

Yoshio Sonoda, who commanded the battle under Yamashita, obviously saw those dark bunkers at the first time, and his face showed a crazy look, and he did not hesitate to shout at the artillery commander not far away in the direction of shooting.

A hurried order was conveyed, and the artillery that was originally bombarding the position of the third battalion lowered the corner of the shooting slightly with the sound of the order, and then in the sound of artillery roaring again, a screaming shell fell to the area where the bunker was located, and for a time most of the machine guns were silent.

And because of the adjustment of the firing angle, many artillery pieces were also missed, and fell directly into the Japanese army in the attack, and even the Japanese army in the attack also suffered heavy losses.

In such a situation, there was no need to care about this, the living Japanese troops rushed halfway up the hill in such a crazy artillery attack, although there were still a few bunkers that could still shoot, but they could no longer block the large space in front of the position, in the dense coverage of artillery fire, they suffered heavy losses, several machine guns and a dozen or so machine gunners were buried alive in the bunker.

Originally, the role of these hidden forts was extremely obvious, because the national army lacked a large number of field artillery and mountain artillery, and there was no effective way to such a strong fortification, but fortunately, the 153 Brigade did not take the usual path and launched an attack from behind the devil, which took Zhang Gushan in one fell swoop, but with these to deal with the Japanese army, it seemed powerless, the powerful fire suppression, in a short period of time, tore open several gaps, tore open the defense line of the three battalions, and the Japanese army, which was already crazy, rushed into the position of the three battalions with a scream.

Although on the way to the storm, they were put down by the fire from the flanks, but as the gap opened, more Japanese troops rushed forward.

Shi categorically ordered the abandonment of the southern foot of Zhanggu Mountain and the withdrawal of all to the main position in the west.