Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1127 Danger of the Nameless Heights!

September 9 at 9 am!
The 62nd Infantry Regiment finally arrived at the flank of Niangziguan after 5 and a half hours of hard trek and nearly 180 officers and soldiers were killed or injured!

Looking at the undulating and densely vegetated mountains, he could clearly hear the sound of rumbling guns from a few kilometers away. Heng Shanze really wanted to lead the army all the way into this forest. Perhaps he could cooperate with the main force before and after dusk. The pincer attack wiped out the infantry regiment that had been rumored miraculously within the front army.

But Heng Shanze, who has been in the military for more than 20 years, is not a reckless man. He knows that there must be Chinese soldiers hidden in the lush mountains in front of him.

A victory on the battlefield may be called a fluke, but the sturdy record of the Four Elements Regiment has proved the ability of its commander. He will never abandon such an important area on the flank and only garrison troops on the front.

Therefore, Heng Shanze, who was eager to win, had the patience to order the three infantry brigades under his command to send nearly ten scouts, with a strength of more than 160 people, to scout the mountains in front of him!

Naturally, the Chinese soldiers on the high ground would not be used to them, and would even shoot and kill the Japanese reconnaissance soldiers who dared to approach the high ground from a distance of 300 meters!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The sporadic gunshots continued from the afternoon to nearly dusk!
Until the simple sand table in front of Heng Shanze was filled with white flags representing the enemy, this highland reconnaissance battle of the Japanese reconnaissance pioneers at the cost of their lives was not over!
At the cost of 42 deaths and 48 injuries, the Japanese reconnaissance pioneers found out the general situation of the Chinese garrison for Heng Shanze, who liked to use sand tables instead of maps before the war.

Seeing the densely packed small white flags on the sand table, Heng Shanze also had a headache. The Chinese side hardly spared any highland in the continuous mountains. Every highland is like a nail. If you want to pass through, you have to pull it out one by one.

This is just what is in front of you. It is obvious that there must be garrisons on the deep hills. The 62nd Infantry Regiment has no shortcuts and can only attack and attack.

Moreover, it is not possible to gather troops at one place and use a certain high ground as a breakthrough point. Although it can form an absolute force to tear a hole, the mountain here cannot deploy troops. Once covered by heavy firepower, the casualties will multiply!
And what's more terrible is that it will attract more and more Chinese reinforcements. With the killing of the army, it will form a terrible concept of "hollow", that is, the Chinese may be able to concentrate all their troops and firepower to take advantage of their geographical advantages to fight against them. The narrow bottom of the highlands with a large number of troops will also become an obstacle to the army, which is perhaps what the Chinese want to see most.

Therefore, the infantry must be spread out, using the three lines as breakthroughs. As long as there is a hole torn apart, they will divide and encircle alternately. First, annihilate the Chinese nails on the continuous high ground with a width of 4000 meters in the first line, and then advance to its depth. .

Heng Shanze knew very well in his heart that this battle cannot be resolved in a day or two, the best strategy is to figure it out slowly!
But it was one thing to know clearly in his heart, but in practice, this fierce-tempered Japanese Army Chief was a completely different person.

For example, the highland attack battle faced by the [-]st Infantry Battalion under his command who personally supervised the battle!

After tentative shelling with the 4 mountain cannons and 2 infantry cannons he carried and half an hour of observation, Yokoyama Ze personally formulated the tactics of the First Infantry Brigade.

Take the lowest highland in the fringe as a breakthrough point. Although the Chinese on the highlands on both sides will definitely use heavy machine guns to provide fire support, it is clear that there will not be many troops on that highland, and as long as that highland is occupied, the area will be destroyed. The Chinese on the two high grounds had to divide their forces to defend their flanks, which reduced the frontal pressure accordingly.

This move is called "pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth", which directly confused the Chinese commanders who were stationed on the two high grounds and inevitably more!

And the so-called low highland is exactly the 209.1 highland where Tu Yunsheng and Boss Cao are!

An infantry squad of 17 soldiers faced a Japanese infantry squadron of 184 soldiers, an 11-to-1 force ratio.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, near dusk, with the long sound of the Japanese hand-cranked siren, three Japanese infantry squads entered the battlefield one by one.

The most tragic battle of the Niangziguan defensive battle begins here!
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Boss Cao, who disguised himself as a rock on the ground, has been lying there for 10 minutes, just for the two Japanese invaders he has been eyeing 200 meters away, even if the Japanese infantry artillery shells are only a dozen meters away from him There was an explosion, and the stones and soil splashed all over the sky hit him painfully, and the choking gunpowder smoke penetrated into his nostrils, making his nose and mouth black.

A grenade from the grenadier team hit the machine gun team of Squad 4, killing one of the two machine gunners and injuring the other.

The machine gun shooter who has been with him day and night for three months is a hearty Sichuan man. The blood of the two-meter-high man was blown up by the grenade, and the blood of the hearty man, who was lying on the prostration, almost didn't have to look back. The boss knew that the hearty Sichuan man could no longer tell him how clever his three-year-old son was and how virtuous his hardworking wife was. His 24-year-old life came to an abrupt end this autumn.

Damn devil!The tears welling in his eyes did not blur Boss Cao's vision. The super grenadier, who could almost throw a grenade 80 meters, knew that he wanted to avenge his comrades. The grenade alone was not enough. This time he had to use his own gun.

The middle-aged man who joined the army for less than 4 months has been sternly targeting the Japanese grenadier soldiers who have no idea but are extremely cunning and almost hide their figure.

It wasn't until 10 minutes later that the Japanese grenadier soldier quietly poked his head out to observe the battlefield situation and look for the Chinese firepower. The middle-aged man who had been in the same position for 10 minutes in the hail of bullets suddenly pulled the trigger.

One shot.

The 7.92 caliber bullet accurately hit the five-pointed star on the Japanese helmet. The distance of 200 meters made the bullet with a muzzle velocity of 810 meters per second almost instantaneous.

In the front sight of the short-barreled rifle made in the Czech Republic, Boss Cao could see the head of the hit Japanese grenadier throwing back.

Boss Cao knew that the little devil was dead.

Hit this spot, and the tumbling bullet will tear open the skull and puddle the brain tissue into a gooey mess.

Boss Cao, who had no idea about military merit at all, finally understood the meaning of what Tang Tuanzuo said during the recruit company training at this moment.

"There is no final success, no fatal failure, the most valuable thing is the courage to keep going!"

Soldiers, as long as they are on the battlefield, success and failure are no longer their own considerations. What they have to do is to kill the enemy and continue to kill the enemy!
This is actually the fourth wave of the three Japanese infantry squads attacking the 209.1 highland in turn.

In the first two waves, the Japanese army had already found out that the troops on this small highland were insufficient, and there were no heavy firepower points, but the light firepower was very fierce, especially mortar fire support was given to them from time to time on the highlands on both sides.

Therefore, from the third wave onwards, the Japanese army became more determined, making full use of the complex terrain in the mountains, and constantly moving forward with alternate cover. An infantry artillery in the rear even approached the 800-meter area for artillery support.

Fortunately, although the altitude of the 209.1 highland is not high, the area is not very large, and the Japanese gave the four-row regiment nearly 3 days, which is enough for the 4th squad to cooperate with the brothers of the engineering company to build a two trenches and Several anti-blasting holes are relatively complete fortifications.

The semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns plus the violent fire of a light machine gun firmly suppressed the Japanese army beyond the 120-meter cordon.

But the Japanese army did not retreat, and they just fired at the 150th squad in the area around 4 meters away, and the 6 grenadiers also stayed more than 300 meters away. You have to change your position, otherwise you may be targeted by grenades.

That undoubtedly greatly reduces the firepower density!

In the end, the three 3-pointers placed on the high ground where the platoon headquarters was located fired together, which was considered to have repelled the third wave of Japanese attacks.

Putting small-caliber mortars in the platoon-level combat unit is definitely the wisest choice for Tang Tuanzuo, especially after the test of this highland offensive and defensive battle.

Regardless of the small caliber of the 60 mortar, it is not much larger than the 50 mm caliber of the Japanese grenade, but the charge of the shell is more than twice that of the Japanese grenade, and there are many more fragments of the projectile body. The damage caused is definitely not comparable to that of grenades.

Especially when the shooting angle is fixed, a skilled gunner can completely achieve the density of one round every 3 seconds, which means that within 1 minute, 3 60-guns firing at full speed can completely fire 60 rounds.

The mortar squad, which was ordered by the second lieutenant platoon leader to focus fire for 3 minutes, finally fired 200 shells in one breath, accounting for a quarter of the ammunition stored in the entire artillery squad.

Even the second lieutenant platoon leader couldn't help but feel pain when he heard this number.

There were a lot of small-caliber mortar shells carried by the supply battalion this time, but no more than 1 rounds could be distributed to each infantry battalion.

Good guy, less than an hour into the battle, he knocked out 300 rounds in a platoon, and nearly 1000 rounds in a company. The battalion commander and the company commander knew that they would swallow him alive.

But he couldn't do anything about it. The Japanese actually played tricks, attacking the two highlands with 3 infantry squads and one mortar squadron, only invested a total of one infantry squadron, but only one infantry squadron was invested in the attack on the small highland where the 4th squadron was located. A whole infantry squadron was thrown in.

What if he, the platoon leader, doesn't fully support him?The Four Elements Regiment did not have the habit of abandoning their comrades in arms!
Moreover, if the 209.1 highland is lost, the highlands on both sides will lose their flank protection, and the Japanese army can invest heavy troops to attack from the two ridges or even around the back.

No matter what, you have to support!
This kind of small-caliber mortar produced in the French Empire made a horrible sound like opening a beer bottle, and it became a nightmare for the Japanese infantry who survived this offensive and defensive battle every night.

Because no one knows where the shells will fall. No matter where you hide, those terrible shells that rain down from the sky are enough to turn hell within ten meters may bring you into the attack range of shrapnel.

In a sense, this small-caliber mortar specially used to kill infantry is even more painful to the Japanese soldiers hiding on the hillside than the larger-caliber mountain guns and howitzers.

However, the charge of a few hundred grams is destined not to produce too strong shock waves, but more fragments of shells with no rules can make people dig a hole and hide in the ground to feel safe.

Even if you lie on your stomach, you may be sieved by the fragments of shells flying around.

When it comes to killing people, guns are always better than guns.

Don't look at the 209.1 soldiers on the 16 highland who spent an hour and fired as many as thousands of bullets, but only a dozen Japanese soldiers were killed or injured.

But the efficiency of killing an enemy with more than 300 bullets is actually much higher than the level of the Western World War during World War II.

Compared with the results of the bombardment of 60 shells thrown by the 3 mortars on the Japanese infantry for 200 minutes, it was really weak.

The frontal width of the 209.1 highland is actually only 60 meters, and the vertical height is just over 200 meters, but the hillside is a gentle slope of more than 40 degrees. In fact, the length of the slope from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain is about 500 meters. The Japanese troops are distributed between 330 meters and 120 meters from the top of the mountain. area, and its area is about two football fields.

This also means that even if the Japanese infantry hides completely in the form of skirmishing lines, they will hide from the density of a Japanese army every two or three meters on average. The bombardment of terrible density is also a tragedy.

With luck, even if the cannonball exploded two meters away from him, there was only a splash of ashes in the natural stone pit. At most, his ears were deafened by the "big gun battle", and he lost his hearing in a short time.

I was lucky enough to stick to the ground desperately, only to be hit by flying gravel or shell fragments, no matter if it was a leg or an arm, as long as it wasn't a vital part like the head, chest and abdomen, although the injury was bloody and painful, but Can always breathe.

Even the choking smoke.

For the unlucky, unlucky ones, whether you're hiding behind a rock or in a shell crater, a shell that falls right on or near your forehead will blow you to pieces.

Of course, such unlucky people are still a minority after all, only twenty or thirty.

In fact, it should be considered lucky to be directly killed by the bombing and return to the arms of the Great God Amaterasu. Originally, those who were not very lucky but were injured and survived were the real unlucky ones.

A simple first aid kit may stop the bleeding, but not the pain.What was even more frightening was that he lost the ability to move and could only lie down and watch the shells continue to fall. The feeling of being sentenced to death with reprieve may be something no one wants to try.

Mortar shells rained down for 3 minutes, and the Japanese infantry position was full of howling ghosts and wolves.

Regardless of Chinese or Japanese, not every soldier is a hero. Many heroes are forced to do so. What can we do if we don't fight?
Killing one is enough money, killing two earns one!This is the psychological construction that Chinese soldiers make for themselves when they are desperate.

To be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor and for the samurai spirit, this is the psychological comfort given to him by the powerful Japanese army before they die!
It is a pity that except for a quarter of the infantry of the newly formed 21st Division are veterans, most of the remaining soldiers are either recruits with one year of military service or reserve soldiers. They are not yet up to the standard of permanent division soldiers.

What's more, no matter how tough your nerves are, no matter how strong your mind is under hypnosis, when you see your blood rushing like running water, your muscles are split open like the small mouth of a nursing baby, and your yellow subcutaneous fat can be clearly seen. When it is visible, it will be completely broken!

Crying children have milk to eat not only for children, whoever yells loudly, the medical soldiers will naturally crawl over faster.

As the sirens sounded, the Japanese army retreated, dragging the wounded and corpses.

A round of shells shattered the third wave of attack ordered by Yokoyamaze himself.

All the officers and soldiers of Squad 4 breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly informed the stretcher team 400 meters behind the mountain to carry down the two seriously wounded who were hit by bullets, while the rest of the slightly injured were sent to the trenches by medical soldiers. Bandage.

All the staff restocked their ammunition, entered the anti-bunker hole to drink water and repaired. They thought that the Japanese army would not launch an attack after being frustrated. They just took turns keeping vigil at night to prevent the Japanese army from sneaking in!

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army launched the fourth wave at sunset in less than 20 minutes.

The Japanese army's fourth wave of attack fell into a stalemate again, but this time, the Japanese army formed a death squad with white cloth tied across their chests, and crawled close to the area only 100 meters away from the trench!

Even grenades and light machine guns are only 200 meters away!
The two sides almost entered a face-to-face confrontation!The strength of the Japanese army is still as high as 140, but there are only 14 infantry in the trenches!
This has not yet reached Boss Cao's range of throwing grenades, so Boss Cao suddenly turned into a cold shooter, but don't tell me, his marksmanship is not bad. 200 meters away, the Japanese grenadier shot his head.

And this was not just his first prey in the nearly 25-minute fierce battle, before that, he also killed a guy who rushed to the front with a swollen face and a waist knife.

Boss Cao didn't know that that guy was the second lieutenant captain of the Japanese army's death squad. He was a veteran who had served in the army for more than 8 years. He had gone through the Battle of Rehe and the Battle of Marco Polo Bridge. It was still killed by a Chinese recruit.

The two targets Boss Cao killed were very valuable, but they still could not alleviate the current pressure on the 209.1 highland. The Japanese army was slowly approaching the top of the mountain relying on the fire cover from the rear and the superiority of their troops.

The platoon had sent a semaphore earlier, telling Squad 4 that the mortar ammunition was consumed too much, and the next fire support would have to wait for Squad 4 to fire a red signal flare.

Originally, Tu Yunsheng had planned to request an infantry squad for support when he saw the strength of the Japanese army, but he heard the same fiery gunfire from a distance, and knew that the highlands stationed by the entire company were facing the enemy, and company commander Li Jiujin only had three soldiers in his hand. An infantry squad and a guard squad serve as the reserve team, but there are up to 10 highlands to be stationed in the entire company, and there are still 14 infantry available on my side, and there is still enough ammunition. The black Japanese army stopped attacking.

Yes, up to this time, all the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment, including Li Jiujin, commander of the Seventh Company, the supreme commander in this area, have not realized what the Japanese commander they are facing this time will do for their dreams. How insane it is.

(End of this chapter)