The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 407 Accept the challenge
Hyogo Nakajima knew the importance of this breakout operation, and this was probably the only chance to break out.He summoned officers above the squadron leader and handed over the real money to them.

In order to dispel the fantasy of officers and soldiers waiting for reinforcements, he broke the boat.He said: "Everyone, I have one thing to inform you:
The reinforcements sent by the 12th Army Command could no longer come, and the reinforcements of the Yamamoto Garrison were attacked by the enemy, and all the jade was broken.The 56th Wing was also blocked by the enemy, and now we can only rely on ourselves. "

Except for a few captains who had already known the news in advance, the other officers did not expect that the matter would turn out to be so serious, and everyone felt a burst of despair.

For the officers and soldiers of the 18th Regiment, although the days of holding on to help are difficult, they have already experienced the powerful firepower of the enemy, and they will definitely suffer heavy losses if they break through the encirclement by force.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, their faces pale.

Hyogo Nakajima didn't have any confidence in breaking out of the encirclement, but now that the arrow is on the string, he can only put all his eggs in one basket.

He waved his fists and said, "Everyone, for His Majesty Tian Huang, for the Yellow Army of Great Japan, and for our family, we are fighting for life and death. I hope you will go forward bravely."

Everyone was so hungry that they couldn't breathe. They tried their best and shouted together: "Hai."

The breakout operation started. Nakajima Hongo guessed that the enemy's defense must be in the northeast direction, because the southwest direction continued to penetrate into the hinterland of Taohua Mountain, and normal people would not choose this way.

Hyogo Nakajima chose the south as the focus of breaking out.He planned to lead his troops to break out, and immediately turn to the east, taking advantage of the difficulty for the enemy to form a new encirclement, rush out of the Taohua Mountains, and it will be much easier to reach the plains.

In order to attract the enemy's attention, he also specially organized two squadrons to launch a feint attack to the northwest to cover the main force to break through to the south.

What Nakajima Hyogo didn't know was that the enemy had no point of defense, or in other words, there were points of defense on all sides.Because the enemy's forces are too many, there is no need to distinguish the focus of defense.

At midnight, the Japanese troops of the two squadrons launched an attack on Mount No. 67 in the north and Mount No. 46 in the west. These officers and soldiers knew that they would die. In order to cover the main force to break through, they made up their minds to die and shouted loudly , deliberately exposed his target, and launched a suicide charge towards the enemy.

Hearing the fierce gunshots and shouts of killing from the west and north, Nakajima commanded the main force of the 18th Regiment to advance quietly to the south.

Before leaving, Nakajima Hyogo came to the temporary ambulance. There were more than 50 seriously injured people here. In order to ensure the main force broke through, Nakajima Hyogo had no choice but to give up on them.

Fonggo Nakajima bowed deeply to the seriously wounded, and said: "Heroic warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, for His Majesty Tian Huang, your heroic dedication will be admired by all the people, your Your family will be proud of you too. Farewell!"

After speaking, he bowed deeply to these officers and soldiers again.

Those seriously wounded who were sitting or lying down felt a sacred feeling in their hearts at this moment. They had been instilled with the idea of ​​dedicating their lives to His Majesty Tian Huang, and now it was time for them to dedicate their lives.

They struggled to salute Nakajima, and after watching him leave, they all clenched their bayonets and grenades, ready to commit suicide.

Gao Jiu originally thought that he could catch a group of devil's wounded soldiers, even if they were seriously wounded, but now his hopes were dashed.

The Japanese army touched down the mountain and wanted to rush out of the valley. The defenders had already prepared themselves and lit some fires in the valley. If the Japanese army passed through here, they would definitely be discovered.

For this situation, the Japanese army has already made preparations. Their vanguard prepared a lot of grenades, ready to blow up these fires with grenades. The large troops took advantage of the darkness to break through quickly. Although they would definitely be hit by enemy firepower, Passing in the dark, the casualties will be much less.

Dozens of Japanese officers and soldiers came near the fire, and a group of several people threw grenades into the fire.

With the violent explosion, the fire was blown to pieces, and the valley became dark all of a sudden.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the Japanese officers and soldiers ran forward desperately.

Suddenly, a raging fire ignited in the valley, and a wall of fire appeared in front of the Japanese officers and soldiers. Not only that, but several lines of fire quickly burned towards the Japanese officers and soldiers.

It turned out that Gao Jiu had considered this situation a long time ago, and asked people to dig two horizontal trenches in the valley in advance, and dug a few narrow trenches vertically, and sent people to guard here in advance. When the Japanese army broke through, They poured gasoline into these ditches.

After the gasoline was ignited, the raging flames illuminated the valley, and the figures of the Japanese soldiers were completely exposed. The machine guns on the hillsides on both sides spewed out flames, and the Japanese soldiers fell in pieces.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese army had nothing to do. They could not extinguish the flames of gasoline, so they had to stop.

Nakajima's eyes were red when he saw this situation. He immediately ordered the troops to attack on both sides of the valley, hoping to occupy the enemy's position and cover the main force to break out.

However, this effort was in vain. Before the Japanese army launched an attack, a large number of torches were thrown from the hillsides on both sides. The Japanese army could not see the enemy, but they were exposed to the enemy's guns, and they were quickly repelled. down.

Most of the anti-Japanese troops who besieged the enemy were originally resting. After the battle started, they rushed over and joined the battle.

Nakajima saw that the enemy's firepower was getting stronger and stronger, and there were muzzle flashes all over the mountains and plains. He knew that it was impossible to break out of the encirclement.

The officers and soldiers of the anti-Japanese army pressed towards the Japanese army while fighting.The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army originally launched the breakout operation with the belief that they must die, but when things came to an end, they would not blindly die knowing that they would die.

Seeing that he could not break out of the siege, Nakajima had no choice but to return to the mountain with the defeated soldiers.

The anti-Japanese army did not launch an attack. After they forced the Japanese army back, they returned to their original positions and continued to besiege the Japanese army.

After Hongo Nakajima returned to the mountain, the unit went to count the number of people, and reported to Hongo Nakajima when he came back.

The Japanese army lost more than 400 officers and soldiers in this failed breakout operation. If the seriously wounded people who committed suicide on the mountain were added, the force was reduced by more than [-] people.Up to now, there are still more than [-] Japanese soldiers trapped on the mountain.

After this failed breakout operation, the mental state of the Japanese officers and soldiers has undergone considerable changes compared to before the breakout operation.Now that they knew there was no reinforcements, they became even more desperate.

Nakajima was very helpless, so he had to ask the 12th Army Headquarters for help again.

Jinan.

The chief of staff of the 12th Army, General Haneda, stayed up all night, waiting for the news of Nakajima's successful breakthrough with a fluke mentality.Unfortunately, there is still bad news waiting.

He really has no soldiers to send.
The main force of the No.12 Army went to participate in the battle in Wuhan, and the troops left in Shandong were already stretched.In order to cooperate with the Taohuashan operation, the underground party mobilized almost all of its armed forces in Shandong to harass the Japanese army everywhere, making the Japanese army panic everywhere.

In terms of Wuhan, due to the emergence of Gao Jiu, history has undergone a lot of changes, and the national army is much stronger than in history.The Battle of Wuhan, which had come to an end in history, is still far away from the Japanese army's victory.The two sides are in a stalemate, and it is completely impossible to deploy troops from inside to Peach Blossom Mountain.

Under such circumstances, it is simply impossible to deploy troops to rescue the 18th Wing.Not only that, in order to maintain the law and order in the surrounding areas of Jinan, the 56th Wing must also return to Jinan.

General Haneda has never felt so helpless. All he can do now is to cheer Nakajima Hongo, saying that he will find a way to mobilize reinforcements, and will order the Air Force to continue to airdrop supplies to Taohuashan tomorrow.

The commander of the Third Air Force, Yokota Makio, received a notice from the 12th Army Command to load supplies on the transport plane overnight, and continue to go to Peach Blossom Mountain for airdrops tomorrow.

Yokota Makio made many excuses and was unwilling to perform such a task again.

The officer on duty at the No.12 Army Command reluctantly reported to Chief of Staff Haneda.General Haneda called Yokota himself and finally forced Yokota to agree to another airdrop tomorrow.

Peach Blossom Mountain.

After a fierce battle, the soldiers of the anti-Japanese army repelled the Japanese army's breakout, and the big fish and meat began to eat supper again.After eating and drinking enough, the sentry was left to monitor the movement of the Japanese army, and the rest fell asleep comfortably.

The days of the Japanese soldiers trapped on the mountain became more and more difficult. They hadn't eaten for more than two days, and they couldn't bear it any longer.There were many new wounded in this battle, and there were more than 600 lightly wounded like the original ones. Their life was even more difficult. Pain and hunger tormented them at the same time, and their spirits had already collapsed. the edge of.

Another thing is very bad. There are many corpses of Japanese soldiers on the mountain. It is midsummer and the weather is hot. Many corpses have begun to rot and emit a stench. The living Japanese officers and soldiers still have to endure this unpleasant smell. torment.

Today the anti-Japanese army is relatively honest, and there is no more broadcasting and shelling.However, on the mountain guarded by the Japanese army, gunfire and screams sounded from time to time.

The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army were tortured, and some of them really couldn't hold on anymore, so they chose to commit suicide to relieve themselves.Those gunshots were made when officers and soldiers committed suicide.

The reason why the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army chose to shoot themselves was because suicide by caesarean section was not something ordinary Japanese officers and soldiers could do.Because this is a privilege, only those who have considerable status can do it, and ordinary officers and soldiers do not have such qualifications.Another reason is that suicide by caesarean section is extremely painful, and only those with a strong will can carry it out. Ordinary officers and soldiers are unwilling to suffer such pain.

Among the besieged Japanese troops on the mountain, the atmosphere of desperation became more and more intense.

That night, the national army's air force dropped all the supplies Gao Jiu wanted in Taoyuan Town.

After receiving the supplies, Li Chengwu and others immediately transported them to the temporary headquarters of the Taohuashan Anti-Japanese Army.

Peach Blossom Mountain.

Gao Jiu was very excited when he saw the airdropped equipment, and said sincerely: "I didn't know Ouyang Xue for nothing, she is a good thing."

The Swedish-made Bofors 40mm high-level dual-purpose gun sent by Ouyang Xue was one of the best anti-aircraft guns during World War II, and it was also a model that Gao Jiu liked very much.

This anti-aircraft gun produced by Sweden in 1934 has a weight of 1.98 tons, a muzzle velocity of 881 m/s, a maximum range of 7160 meters, and an air-to-air range of 3800 meters. It uses 8 rounds of magazines for ammunition.

Most of these guns are arranged in double mounts. The gun squad consists of 6 members, one gunner, who commands the entire gun squad;

This kind of artillery has a high rate of fire and can be used for air defense, as well as armored targets and bunkers. The best thing is to use it to hit cars. It feels like tearing a cardboard box. It is a very practical rapid-fire gun.With this kind of artillery, all the aircraft equipped by the Japanese army were within the range of the anti-aircraft guns on Taohua Mountain. From then on, Taohua Mountain no longer had to worry about the bombing by Japanese aircraft.

The anti-aircraft machine gun DShK/DShKM large-caliber machine gun sent by Ouyang Xue was the first large-caliber heavy machine gun in the Soviet Union.

The muzzle of this anti-aircraft machine is 12.7mm, the maximum effective range is 3500 m, the maximum range is 5400, the maximum anti-aircraft height is 2500 m, the combat rate of fire is 125 RPM, the ammunition capacity is 50 rds, the direction of the anti-aircraft fire is 360°, and the flat fire is 120°.

DShK/DShKM large-caliber machine guns are relatively backward in the anti-aircraft machine gun models of World War II, but they are also sufficient for air defense of Taohuashan.

The types of air defense weapons currently owned by Taohuashan are messy, which is inseparable from the level of China's defense industry in this era.

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, China's national defense industry base was very weak. It could only produce small-caliber weapons such as rifles and mortars, but could not manufacture large-caliber guns and artillery, let alone large-scale weapons such as aircraft, warships, and armored vehicles.Therefore, it can only be purchased everywhere, just like India today, which belongs to the IWC brand weapons.Of course, the situation at that time is still incomparable with others in India now.

Among the materials airdropped this time, there is also a batch of broadcasting equipment. Gao Jiu wants to broadcast propaganda to the Japanese army and strive for the surrender of the Japanese army.

Gao Jiu assembled the anti-aircraft gun with his own hands, and after debugging, he waited for the devil's plane to come and kill him.

This time the devil's plane came early, at 8 o'clock in the morning, four transport planes flew over.

The Japanese soldiers trapped on the mountain were already very weak due to hunger. When they heard the roar of the plane, they all got up from the ground one after another like chicken blood, waiting to loot the supplies that fell from the sky.

The Japanese army's transport plane had the experience of the last airdrop, and this time it maintained a flight altitude of 4km. It planned to reach the sky above Taohuashan, and dropped the supplies to complete the mission.As for the Japanese army below, whether they can get supplies is not what they said they were worried about.

At this time, the pilots were relatively relaxed, because they knew that there were only a small number of anti-aircraft machine guns below, and the range could not reach them.

"Tong Tong Tong Tong", with a burst of intensive gunfire, a transport plane was shot into the air and exploded, and then another plane fell down with black smoke.The other two transport planes panicked in fright, and hurriedly continued to pull up, trying to avoid the anti-aircraft fire on the ground.

They are considered lucky. Today's anti-aircraft gunners have not yet been trained. Gao Jiu is the only one who can shoot a plane. The dual-mounted anti-aircraft gun can only hold 16 shells at a time. He has no time to change the magazine, so he can only watch. The Japanese transport plane flew out of range.

The rest of the transport planes didn't care about airdropping supplies, and turned a corner and returned directly to Jinan.

Seeing the scene in front of them, the Japanese officers and soldiers on the mountain were extremely desperate, and they all sat on the ground like mangy dogs whose spines had been removed.

After completely destroying the foreign aid of the 18th Wing, Gao Jiu started a plan to force the Japanese army to surrender.

Forcing the Japanese army to surrender was an extremely difficult challenge. Although Gao Jiu did not agree to the request of G and G, he had already accepted this challenge in his heart.

Gao Jiu had to go through a series of complicated psychological warfare to finally force the Japanese army to surrender.

(End of this chapter)