Chapter 117: The Battle of Tangji (13)
Zhang Chi's feeling at the beginning was not wrong, the unit that came up was the third brigade under Matsui Kiyoshi's assistant, and the captain was called Esaki Hiroyuki.
Matsui Kiyosuke's 133rd Wing suffered heavy casualties as early as the same ancient times, and later it was replenished with many recruits to recover some vitality, but he did not expect to lose a large number of soldiers in Tangji Zhongfu coupled with successive offensive failures, and at this time only the third brigade in his wing had the strength to take the 159th Regiment.
Matsui Seisuke consulted with Hiroyuki Ezaki, believing that although he could not get the support of air power at night, he still had the advantage of being able to take advantage of the darkness to lurk in front of the enemy's position and take the 159th Heights in one fell swoop...... Hiroyuki Ezaki is a veteran, and he knows very well that in this kind of terrain, that is, the enemy's 159 heights have fire support from the 311 heights and Tangji in two directions, and there are many tanks and armored vehicles with fierce firepower in the Tangji direction, so there is only one way to take the 159 heights, which is to enter the enemy's position and twist it with the enemy.
Once tangled with the enemy, then the 311-tall and Tang-Ji enemy can only stand by and watch...... They couldn't tell the enemy in the dark night, and even if they could, they didn't dare to shoot, because the bullet would penetrate the body of the Japanese soldier and hit the Chinese soldier, and the lethality of the bullet's secondary damage would be even greater.
At that time, the Japanese army will be able to play to their strengths in hand-to-hand combat.
So they quickly developed a battle plan for this sneak attack.
At first, it went well, and the two squads of Japanese troops touched from the left and right flanks respectively...... According to the plan of the Japanese army, the Japanese troops on both flanks lurked as close as possible to prepare for battle, and then attracted the fire and attention of the Chinese soldiers on the 159 heights with a frontal charge, and when the Chinese were not paying attention, the two wings suddenly launched a charge into the enemy position and took the 159 heights.
This plan should be said to have a great chance of success, especially in the dark of night, even if the Japanese troops on both flanks only lurk within the 100-meter line, the rows of grenades fired by the grenadiers will make the Chinese army unbearable.
But just then, a Japanese soldier triggered a mine...... If it were an ordinary pressure mine, it would have been possible to find and avoid it or eliminate it with the quality of the Japanese army, but this mine was a trigger mine.
It is basically impossible to eliminate the trigger mine in this case, this is not the level of the Japanese army or the quality is not enough, the reason is that the Japanese army does not dare to use the flashlight, and the flashlight will be discovered by the Chinese soldiers on the high ground, so in the dark night, it is impossible to find a tripwire as thin as a hair, and when it touches it, the mine has already been triggered...... And so there was the sound of the mine.
However, the Japanese soldier who triggered the mine still showed extraordinary courage and determination, and after half of his foot was blown off, he was able to remain silent, gritting his teeth and holding back without moving.
This made the soldiers of the Engineer Regiment think that it was a small animal that triggered the mine...... This kind of thing is very common, especially when it triggers a mine, which can be detonated by the slightest wind or creep crawling over it.
The Japanese army originally thought that they would be able to fool it out in this way, but Zhang Chi found out something.
In hindsight, the endurance of the Japanese soldiers really makes people feel a little unimaginable, and it is not even an exaggeration to describe it as "terrifying".
This was not only because the Japanese soldier who was injured by the mine was silent, but several Japanese soldiers who were hit by Zhang Chi were also silent and motionless...... In order to be able to test whether it is a "dead corpse", Zhang Chi is not aiming at the vital point, but they all behave like real "dead corpses".
It wouldn't be surprising if one or two soldiers could endure it, but there were three of them, including four wounded by mines...... There can be four of these soldiers in a squad, and the other soldiers are likely to do the same, so this is not an ordinary unit.
In the end, the reason why the Japanese army couldn't bear it anymore and launched an attack was entirely because the leader of the team found that it was not a way to go on like this...... Although all the Japanese soldiers were able to endure without speaking when they were wounded, the eyes of the Chinese soldiers with sniper rifles were too poisonous, and every target they hit was a living "dead corpse", and there was no intention of stopping. If this continues, the dozens of soldiers he brought with him will become toys for this Chinese sniper to practice marksmanship and eyesight.
So in desperation, he had to launch an attack desperately with a howl.
In this way, the night that had been calm just now suddenly became lively...... The Japanese army had already adjusted Zhuyuan's artillery, and immediately fired pieces of shells at the positions of the engineer regiment.
Of course, these shells were all fired in the two directions of Heights 311 and Tangji, and their purpose was, of course, to suppress the possible fire support from these two directions to Heights 159.
At the same time, five 97 tanks rumbled to the foot of the 159 Heights, stopped on the slope of the Japanese army's secret arrangement, and followed the 159 Heights for a burst of random fighting, covering a large number of Japanese troops to attack the 159 Heights from the front and both flanks at the same time.
Zhang Chi had every reason to believe that if the soldiers were still holding Hanyang-made, Zhongguan, or Mosin Nagant, then they would not be able to stop the Japanese attack at all, even if they discovered the Japanese army's hidden movements in advance...... The Japanese charge came too quickly, and the infantry on the front and flank, as well as the infantry, artillery, and tans, were well coordinated, and all forces gathered together almost at the same moment to burst out towards the Chinese troops stationed on Heights 159.
But the problem is that instead of the old-fashioned bolt-pulling rifles, the Chinese soldiers have Enfield, which can fire 30 rounds per minute...... At this time, of course, the soldiers did not care about the order to "save ammunition", and everyone knew that their lives were at stake, so they all used rapid-fire movements to pull the trigger on the enemy who rushed up.
Under the bright light of the flares, the bullets flew towards the enemy in pieces, and collided with the Japanese troops coming like a tide on the opposite side, and after bursting out a bright red blood light, the rows of Japanese soldiers fell like wooden stakes, and then a bunch of Japanese soldiers rushed up with bayonets, and they fell in rows......
There were also bullets and shells that hit the positions of the fighters, and there were also fighters who were knocked down and injured, but the soldiers didn't care...... In fact, it's not that they don't care, but they can't care, because they all know that as soon as the movements of their hands are relaxed, or even just a little slower, then the Japanese army will rush up and string them to the bayonet.