Chapter 279: The End of the 4th Brigade (20)

If it is said that here Xi Yiyi touched his head at Xifengkou, although it hurts his heart, but he is not looking for death and life, Suzuki Mitsu is miserable in Luo Wenyu, and he will die if he doesn't need to look for it.

Liu Lang took the two infantry battalions of the Independent Regiment and the three battalions of Tang Yongming, who had been resting for more than an hour, to stop 700 meters away from Suzuki Mitsu's main position, and did not dig any trenches, but just asked each soldier to dig a simple foxhole for himself, so that he could dodge the enemy's machine guns at a critical moment.

The battle line was very open, and a total of more than 3,000 people surrounded the main position of the 4th Brigade from three sides, leaving an opening to the north.

Then, Zhao Ergou, who had already completed the test firing, commanded the thirteen Japanese-style Type 41 mountain guns he now had on hand to speak.

In order to increase the strength of defense, the 4th Brigade and Regiment concentrated its troops, and the entire position was only a piece of territory with a radius of no more than 10,000 square meters, and it was only the size of a football field and a half, and more than 2,000 men and horses were placed in it.

Of course, the defensive intensity of such a dense formation has increased, but there is little room for strategic maneuver, especially if the enemy has a large number of artillery, such a position will undoubtedly kill itself. When Liu Lang overlooked the 4th Brigade's position shrunk into a turtle-like group, he almost didn't look up to the sky and laugh a few times to express his inner pleasure, which was really a lantern in the toilet --- took the initiative to find death.

However, this really can't be said that Suzuki Mitsu is a super idiot, and all the arrangements are a way to die. In fact, this dignified major general of the Imperial Japanese Army also wanted to put on a complete defensive position that would lead the attack in the middle and make people feel small at first glance. However, there must be that condition!

It is said that there are now more than 2,000 people under his command, but except for an infantry brigade that has not moved much when the reserve is not moving, all the equipment is complete, and they even have four infantry guns. The rest of the more than 1,000 people fled back from the attack in embarrassment, not only lost all their heavy equipment, but even lost their precious 38 covers in order to escape for their lives.

According to common sense, soldiers who lose their weapons on the battlefield must be strictly enforced by military law, not to mention that Mitsumi Suzuki does not dare to give this order, I am afraid that even Muto Nobuyoshi will not be able to give it, and half of the more than 1,400 people who escaped back ran back with their bare hands.

The remaining half were still dragging their guns, but after losing all their heavy firepower and confidence in victory, could they still be trusted like the Imperial soldiers of the past?

In other words, the actual strength in Suzuki's hands is only enough for the infantry brigade, and the rest of the defeated generals are just enough to replenish the number. The defensive area of an infantry brigade naturally cannot be too large, and Mitsumi Suzuki can only arrange the defensive position like this when he is worried.

Then the remnants of the 4th brigade on the positions were out of luck.

WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF FIRING THIRTEEN 75MM CALIBER CANNONS AT THE SAME TIME? Let's not talk about the overwhelming mountains! That's also moving.

It was only the people who watched, and only the Japanese soldiers in the position felt it the most. When 13 huge fireballs rose up on the battlefield almost simultaneously, they were accompanied by an unknown number of human beings who had been thrown away.

THE KILLING RANGE OF EACH SHELL IS MORE THAN 15 METERS, AND THE TRENCHES DUG BY THE JAPANESE ARMY ONLY ONE AND A HALF METERS DEEP AND THE SHALLOW ANTI-ARTILLERY HOLES IN THEM CANNOT DEFEND AGAINST THE HUGE POWER OF 75MM CALIBER MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY SHELLS.

As long as you are within the range of mountain artillery, whether you are hiding in a trench or hiding in a single anti-artillery hole, you will not be able to avoid the fate of being killed or wounded. The huge shock wave lifted the Japanese troops in the trenches away, and at the same time collapsed the shallow anti-artillery holes, burying the devils hiding in them alive.

Under Liu Lang's strict order, Zhao Ergou did not feel sorry for the loss of shells at all, and each cannon had enough 90 shells, which meant that the days were over.

More than 1,000 shells were fired for more than half an hour, plowing the small Japanese position back and forth several times.

Liu Langshang felt that the fireworks that kept blooming on the Japanese positions were not gorgeous enough, so he transferred all the mortars he was carrying and threw them into the trenches of the 4th Brigade that had been shrouded in gunsmoke.

This is actually as deadly as mountain artillery bombardment, what is the cannon that soldiers hiding in the trenches are most afraid of? Not howitzers and not cannons, but mortars and mountain guns that can be used as curve guns.

Howitzers and cannons are powerful, but because of accuracy and ballistics, they can't accurately send shells into the trenches, no matter how powerful the shock wave is, as long as the soldiers hide in the trenches, they are basically fine, unless they are a little back, and the shells hit the trenches directly.

But curve guns are different, and what good representatives of curve guns like mortars are best at is sending shells into the trench with the same precision as throwing grenades.

The all-rounder of the mountain cannon can be used as a direct aim or as a curve gun, but the accuracy is almost there, and it mainly relies on power to win.

There are constantly mountain artillery urging overhead, and there are raindrops of mortars in the trenches to smash down, and the defeated soldiers who have been chilled and lost their sense of honor of the soldiers of the Japanese Empire are estimated to be broken jars, since they can run the first time, they can run the second time.

After watching the remnants of their companions being thrown into the sky again and again in front of their eyes, some of the defeated soldiers finally could not suppress their fear, jumped out of the trenches, and fled in a direction that was not surrounded by enemies.

Although I know that the Chinese will not be so kind and will let people go, but escaping from this hell in front of me is the first priority, and they will be blown up alive immediately, so what will they think about later?

There was a leader, and the defeated soldiers who had broken jars and broken broke out of the trenches one after another, rushing to the north with an unknown fate, and there were so many people that even Gu Yi Dazuo, who was personally responsible for pressing the defeated soldiers, had to give up after killing several soldiers with a pistol.

Because, no one paid attention to him at all, even if he fired a few shots and killed several in a row, and was busy running away, no one cared at all, and the once heroic Imperial soldiers didn't even have the intention of turning back, like a frightened rabbit, without looking back, he burrowed into the smoke that was still rising, and ran north.

"Baga, it's over, it's over, the 4th Brigade is over." Gu Yiyi collapsed in the trench.

He understood that it was not the shells that fell from the sky that made the 4th Brigade finish, but themselves. From the moment they began to be deserters even without fear of death, the 4th Brigade, which was once invincible, was finished.

Most of the Japanese soldiers who wanted to escape from hell were torn apart by the heavy artillery fire, and only a few lucky ones rushed out of the position and ran away without looking back.

However, according to the statistics of the Japanese side after the war, among the five people who survived the 4th Brigade Headquarters of Luo Wenyu, one of the soldiers was sent back to the division field hospital by his companions because he fell off a cliff and broke his leg during the march, and the two privates who escorted him did not catch up with the battle and survived.

There was also a second lieutenant who was even more unlucky, he was wounded in the attack on the Luo Wenyu Pass, he escaped the attack of the Chinese army because of his own artillery retaliation, and the second lieutenant named Koichi Okada was as lucky as his name, and he was swept into a ravine by the air wave of the shell explosion, which saved him from being torn apart by his own artillery fire, although there were thousands of wounded soldiers on the position, and none of them had this good luck. But Second Lieutenant Okada not only miraculously survived, but also took advantage of the darkness to get out of the battlefield.

I don't know if it was because it was dark and I couldn't tell the direction or for some other reason, Okada did not return to the brigade position, but after running for more than 30 miles on foot all night, he met the main force of the 8th Division.

And the last remaining place belonged to the thousands of deserters who fled under artillery fire and completely collapsed their positions.

Yes, only one person is still alive in the end. Others were either torn apart by artillery fire, frozen to death on an early spring morning in northern China due to physical exhaustion, or hunted like rabbits by the 29th Army, which had blocked their way, on the mountain roads of northern China.

Qi Guangyuan, who was the only one left in the family in Heilongjiang, had no intention of taking prisoners of war at all.

Because of this battle, Qi Guangyuan became the sixth place in the list of Chinese generals in the Japanese army, far surpassing many lieutenant generals and generals of the national army.

In fact, the lucky man who escaped from the battlefield and saved his life still went to court-martial, and the entire Japanese people pleaded for him, but in the end he was also shot.

The deserters who fled the battlefield in the face of artillery fire were all wiped out.

In the 4th Brigade, only four lucky or unfortunate people survived.