Chapter 304: The Battle of the Ancient Mountain (6)
The 3rd Brigade of the 16th Brigade of the Japanese Army not only did not plant their military flag on the top of Gushan Mountain, but was directly disabled.
Ten explosive bags were thrown out abruptly by the Dare to Death Company using a rudimentary trebuchet in ancient China, taking away the lives of 1780 devils, and there were definitely no more than 10 devils who could escape from the No. 1 position.
Including Fujita Ichiro, although he lay down at the first time, unfortunately, the landing point of an explosive bag was only seven or eight meters away from him, and Fujita Ichiro's small body was like a leaf that was lifted more than twenty meters away in front of the huge air wave. EVEN MORE UNFORTUNATE, ICHIRO FUJITA, WHO HAD JUST FAINTED, LANDED ON THE STEEL PLATE ON THE TOP FLOOR OF THE BUNKER THAT WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THE 240MM HOWITZER.
The body of the Japanese captain was almost cut in half by the steel plate, and it was like a flag made of human body.
"Baga, Baga, order the heavy artillery brigade, open fire, open artillery, blow them up." Nagagawahara Kan threw the telescope far away, and the muscles on his face twitched violently and roared.
"However, there are still wounded people up there, and they are not dead yet." The leader of the 3rd Brigade, Yamamoto Shaosa, questioned his superior's orders for the first time in despair.
"Yamamoto Shaosa, do you think your stupid subordinates can come back? The Chinese will not let them go. Nagagawahara Kan's eyes shot a cold light, and he glared at the subordinate in front of him who had made him happy before, and said coldly.
Changchuan Yuan Kan is actually not wrong, since the 4th Brigade was collectively broken, the soldiers of the two countries in front of the Luo Wenyu Pass knew that this battle was a situation of never ending. The Japanese did not want to spare a Chinese defender, and similarly, the Chinese would not miss any opportunity to kill the Japanese.
The so-called international law that prisoners who have lost the ability to resist should not be mutilated is nothing more than a joke in such a battle, and no one will abide by it.
In fact, even if the commanders of the two armies want to comply, they can't comply, not only the two armies have already killed the red eye, but even the actual situation does not allow it, who will have extra troops to take care of the prisoners? There are also supplies, not only is it difficult for the Chinese army to supply, but the Japanese army, which has always been weak in logistics, is not as strong as imagined, who will give a small supply to the prisoners?
There was no need for Zhou Shiyu to give an order, and the bandits who dared to die to clean the battlefield directly poked a few times with military thorns on the bodies of every Japanese soldier they could see, and they had no intention of capturing prisoners at all.
Now they are a lone army, and they don't mean to leave a few alive when they see the plans of the Japanese army, so how can they let you live? The beastly nature hidden in the bones of the soldiers of the Dare to Death Company was naturally released to the maximum.
Nishiyichi got a report on the battle of Gushan ahead, two infantry squadrons, can return to the position under the mountain alive, but only 100 people, enough 300 people were left on the Chinese position, and his head was suddenly confused, if it were not for the division chief of staff next to him, Tanibe Zhaobei eyes and hands quickly, it is estimated that the military merit book of the Dare to Die Company would have added a Japanese lieutenant general division commander who was angry alive.
"Shame, this is the shame of the Eighth Division, this is the shame of the Empire, Nagagawahara Kan is such a fool, he should go to a military court." Shaking his head, trying to calm down, Xi Yiyi's face flushed, and he roared.
Nishiichi's frantic roar made the headquarters of the Eighth Division quiet, and the silence was terrifying, and no one dared to persuade the division commander who had to erupt like an angry lion. The fact that 300 Imperial soldiers, under the cover of a heavy artillery brigade and an artillery wing, were still in front of the enemy's positions was unacceptable to almost every commander.
Nagagawahara Kan was quite sensible, and knew that Xi Yiyi must be furious at this time, so he waited for a little ten minutes before he personally ran to the division headquarters ten miles away to apologize.
Nishiyi, who had calmed down, did not do anything to Nagakawahara, and in fact he could not do anything substantive to a major general of the Imperial Army, which was beyond his right.
"Major General Nagagawahara Kan, there is no need to apologize, next I hope to see the warriors of the 16th Brigade to wash away the shame, the Heavy Artillery Brigade and the 8th Artillery Wing will continue to fully support you, before dark, I want to see the Imperial Army's flag planted on the top of that mountain, before the military flag is planted on the top of the mountain, you don't have to report the casualty figures to me, if the soldiers are dead, then the squad leader squadron leader, if the squadron leader is dead, then the captain is on the captain, if the captain is dead, Nagawa-kun, You should apologize to His Majesty the Emperor by disembowelment! Xi Yi coldly threw away a word to the brigade commander who stood tremblingly in front of him with a face of defeat, and turned his head out of the division headquarters.
Even Liu Lang didn't expect that the Japanese army would be so decisive in capturing a small hill, his original intention was just to let the Death Company garrison Gushan and prevent the Japanese army from using the height of Gushan to fire on Luo Wenyu's three positions, and even to contain a part of the Japanese army, so that they did not dare to let go of the attack.
In fact, no one on the Chinese and Japanese sides expected that the most tragic battle of the Luo Wenyu Pass would break out on the first day, and a reinforced company of the Chinese side stubbornly resisted the siege from a brigade of the Japanese army, plus a heavy artillery brigade and an artillery wing.
The first order for Kan Nagakawahara, who was wrapped in a white cloth and bare his chest with a white cloth on his head, was that the commander of the 3rd Brigade, who had brought great humiliation to the Imperial Army, led his 400 remnants to launch a decisive attack on Furuyama.
According to the statistics of the Japanese logistics officers after the war, on the first day alone, the heavy artillery brigade fired 1,100 grenades at the small position on the ancient mountain, and the 36 mountain guns of the 8th Artillery Wing ran out of shells on two bases.
It can be said that since noon, the two positions on the top of Gushan have almost ceased to exist, and the soil on the entire summit is soft, and when you step down, the stone powder and mud that have been blown into powder can bury people's ankles.
For a whole afternoon, the gunfire on the ancient mountain did not stop.
The Japanese troops of the 16th Brigade attacked the top of the mountain again and again under the command of Kan Nagakawahara, who was standing in the cold wind with a command knife and a frosty face, and was repulsed by a burst of artillery bombardment, and then attacked.
The 3rd Brigade, the first to be ordered to attack to the death, after several hours of fierce fighting, there were not many people who could move anymore, from the captain Yamamoto Shaoza down, more than 500 officers and soldiers were killed in the battle, 70 were seriously wounded, and there were no minor injuries, and the soldiers who dared to retreat without permission were all shot and killed by the Inspectorate at the foot of the mountain.
The entire 3rd Brigade can be said to be basically finished, except for some special arms, three infantry squadrons, and only a few dozen seriously wounded gasps.
On the other hand, even this side of the Dare to Die is actually the end of the strong crossbow.
Just after repelling another wave of Japanese attacks, a violent explosion sounded again on the top of the mountain, and all the soldiers who could breathe dared to die hid back in the tunnel.
Zhou Shiyu was wrapped in bandages, staggering in the tunnel to inspect the situation of the soldiers, he knew that he still had ten minutes, and as soon as the ten minutes passed, he would rush out of the tunnel with everyone else and continue to block the Japanese attack.
Yes, everyone, the Dare to Die Company now has no reserves, and there is not even a one-two-row, three-row, four-row formation.
In the afternoon of fierce fighting, although the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, even if they dared to die, it was not even good, a full 100 people died in the afternoon, and more than 30 seriously wounded were carried into the tunnel, where the only medical soldier in the company carried out simple treatment.
There were also no minor injuries, because as long as the soldiers who could hold the gun and pull the trigger were on the front line.
Zhou Shiyu only wanted to know now how many soldiers he still had who could shoot.
The tunnel was actually not dug short, and the soldiers all leaned against the tunnel wall with their backs either closing their eyes and recuperating and grasping the precious ten minutes to recover their strength, or drinking water and eating dried meat to replenish their energy, but Zhou Shiyu only took a minute to walk past the last soldier leaning against the tunnel wall.
There were a total of 56 people, and Zhou Shiyu's heart throbbed violently, only one day! His death company became a death platoon, 206 people, and there was only so much left.
"Zhan Datong, how many observation posts are left on the top of the mountain?" Zhou Shiyu yelled habitually.
If there are still 4 left, according to the custom, there will be 60 people at best.
No one agreed.