Chapter 272: The End of the 4th Brigade (13)
There were three patrols in the Japanese army, and the thirty-odd people were not pigs, and even if they were pigs, they would let out a heart-rending howl when they were slaughtered.
Finally, a Japanese soldier pulled the trigger, and the gunfire of "Lie Gouer" pierced the night sky, and the silent Japanese position began to stir.
However, it was already a little late, and the 16 members of the special brigade who quickly finished the patrol had already divided into three groups and rushed to the Japanese troops who were resting in the main position. In addition, Chen Yunfa took out the signal gun inserted in his thigh, shot straight into the sky, and the red signal jumped into the night sky to represent the official start of the attack on the position of the Japanese artillery brigade.
The three battalions of the 29th Army, which had been confronting the Japanese defensive positions for a long time, seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and at the moment when they signaled to the sky, they poured all their firepower into the Japanese positions that were still a little dazed on the opposite side.
Whether it was a heavy machine gun, a light machine gun, or even a rifle, whether they could hit it or not, they rushed towards the Japanese position 400 meters away regardless of it, and completely punched the old master to death.
Although the 29th Army was a little poor, the firepower of three battalions, more than a thousand rifles, more than two dozen light machine guns, and six heavy machine guns was not so easy to mess with.
There was no fire from the shells, and the only red bullets had already torn through the black night sky. The light from the bullets in the dark night where I couldn't see my fingers just now could even make people see the faces of their comrades ten meters away.
A small squad of Japanese troops, who had been on high alert, were caught off guard and were pinned down in the trenches with no chance to raise their heads.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack, request for reinforcements." The captain of the Japanese squad who was pinned down in the trench screamed heartbreakingly.
The Chinese must be crazy, and the Japanese squad leader who exposed all his firepower points at the beginning and was well versed in battlefield tactics can only use this word to describe the Chinese commander on the opposite side.
This kind of all-out firepower without any temptation is only done by the newcomer on the battlefield, and he will soon be punished, and his own grenadier team will clear the exposed fire points one by one, as long as they are given enough time.
The Japanese squad leader was secretly ruthless in his heart.
The only thing that made his heart palpitate was the sound of gunfire and flares coming from the rear of the position, although he could hardly believe that there would be a Chinese army behind the position, and there would be no Chinese army north of the Great Wall. Before their troops, nearly 10,000 men, arrived, they had already reconnoitred the area.
Unless the Chinese army abandoned their defensive positions and bypassed the mountains, and the Japanese squad leader tried hard to bury this terrible idea in his heart, if that was the case, it would be a big bad day today.
Of course, it wasn't just the poor Japanese second lieutenant who thought so. At the moment when the gunshot rang out, before the flare was raised, Shinichi Kihara's face, who had not slept much, became more ugly than a dead man.
There was an army of the Shina people behind the position, and Captain Ben Sehao's conjecture was correct, and the courage of the commander of Shina was much greater than he thought.
"The 3rd Infantry Squadron defends against the enemy in the rear, the headquarters of the 1st Artillery Brigade takes up arms to cooperate with the 3rd Squadron to defend, and the 3rd Artillery Brigade belongs to the 8th Infantry Squadron to defend. Kihara Shinichi looked at the officers of the various departments who came over in a hurry, and ordered with a pale face.
At the same time, he bowed solemnly to his colleague Akiyama Kinshosa, the captain of the 3rd Artillery Brigade, who was also pale: "Akiyama Shaosa, please forgive me for my previous disrespect to Your Excellency Suzuki, Your Excellency Suzuki's military order is correct, the people of China are very cunning, their target is not only us, but also our artillery, now please lead the remaining personnel to put explosives under each cannon, if the situation is critical, please order the bombing, please." ”
"Hey!" Although the officers gathered by the Japanese army were all miserable, they still accepted the order with a strong will.
It has to be said that there was a reason why the Japanese Army was able to become the first in Asia before World War II, not only because of its superiority in equipment, but also because of its will to fight, and even in the face of such a predicament, it did not shake its determination to resist.
In other words, some warlord troops of the national army may have basically collapsed at this moment when they were attacked on their backs. In terms of combat will, only some elite units of the Central Army and the red troops, which attach special importance to ideological education, can compare with them.
Of course, people are not forced to be ruthless, and they do not know how much potential they will have, and in the face of the collapse of the country and the collapse of the family, the energy of the Chinese army can attract the attention of the whole world. In the bloody battle of Tengxian County, all 3,000 people of the Sichuan Army's Wang Mingzhang Department were killed, but none of the Japanese troops were captured, which was just a microcosm of the vast anti-Japanese battlefield.
Just like the current independent regiment, it is transforming from a new army like an elite in constant fighting.
The fully armed independent regiment began to run wildly at the moment the signal flare was fired, and it took them just over six minutes for a distance of four miles.
Before the Japanese could fully lay out their defensive lines, six infantry companies launched a tidal attack. There was no fire test at all, and after observing the positions arranged by the Japanese army in a hurry by firing a few flares from the grenadiers, the 1st Battalion carrying out the attack on the front opened fire with all their might, and the 9 Type 60 mortars also opened fire without any scruples.
The Japanese troops, who simply did not have time to dig fortifications and had to defend according to the ready-made terrain, suddenly suffered heavy casualties. Ten MG42s opened fire with all their might, pouring out tens of thousands of bullets per minute, almost covering the Japanese positions with a width of more than 500 meters, not to mention that there were 9 mortars to help, and heavy machine guns and light machine guns that dared to shoot back would be patronized by several guns at the same time, and they were often blown into parts in less than a minute.
The performance of the Japanese army, which had lost artillery support, was no better than that of the Northeast Army, which had been driven by them to run like rabbits.
What's more, they also encountered their own unique attack tactics, and the three companies of the second battalion of the independent regiment frantically launched an attack on the two flanks of the Japanese army from the flanks and rear.
The Japanese artillery who were responsible for defending the two flanks were the Japanese artillery, and the Japanese artillery who had lost their cannons and picked up their rifles were as weak as lambs to the slaughter, they did not have any heavy firepower, and the 38 big cover was already the best weapon, and many people even only held the pitiful southern pistol with an effective range of only 60 meters, commonly known as the "Wang Ba Box".
Even if they desperately pulled the bolt of their guns and pulled the trigger, and tried to face the opponent who far exceeded their firepower, proving the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army, it was still useless in the face of the torrent of bullets.
It took less than ten minutes for the defense of both flanks of the Japanese army to be beaten into a sieve, and the soldiers who wanted to prove the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army went to serve Amaterasu, and it was proved stupid to prove their bravery in the face of the torrent of bullets without superb infantry tactics.
The 1st Infantry Squadron was much stronger than the artillerymen's clumsy performance, and they resisted for fifteen minutes, and 200 Japanese infantrymen proved their ability, taking the lives of up to thirty soldiers of the Independent Regiment before all the firing points were cleared by the Separate Regiment.
But that's all, when the three companies that completely broke through the two flanks of the Japanese position opened fire on this Japanese army, the fate of 200 Japanese soldiers was already doomed, and the Japanese troops who took care of one side were killed by bullets one by one in the field before they even waited for the Chinese army to charge.
The defense of the Japanese rear positions lasted only 20 minutes from the raising of flares to the end of the battle.
The 1st Infantry Squadron was completely wiped out, and more than 500 soldiers of the 1st Artillery Brigade gathered to participate in the defense suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were defeated and retreated to the main position.