Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1360 You are lightning, you are glory, you are a conspicuous bag

A hill about 772 meters away from the 2800nd Regiment’s position!

"Does this madman Wang have any organizational discipline? He actually bypassed the brigade headquarters and directly commanded the artillery battalion. Brigadier, at the post-war summary meeting, we can't easily let this guy admit his mistake without any pain. Forget it." Brigadier Cheng just sat down and looked at the map at the temporary headquarters when he received a complaint from the brigade chief of staff.

"The little devil dispatched more than 20 tanks to directly attack my position? Haha, you are really bullying me. The 683 brigade has never fought a large-scale position battle with them. Okay! Then let's clash with them and see whose fist is stronger!" Brigadier Cheng Da took the message handed over by the chief of staff, and his focus was obviously different from that of his own chief of staff.

"Brigade Commander, the artillery battalion is still waiting for orders from the brigade headquarters!" The chief of staff couldn't help but become a little anxious when he saw that Brigadier Cheng was still commenting unhurriedly.

It is one thing to verbally criticize Wang Xiaoqiang, but the 772nd Regiment is recognized as the most capable of the four main regiments of the 683rd Brigade. The Japanese tanks are coming, and there is no room for any delay.

"Look, you, Old Li, are so talkative. While you are talking about severely punishing Madman Wang for ignoring organizational discipline, you are also worried that the artillery battalion will be slow to provide him with support." Brigadier Cheng laughed.

"Don't worry, you don't know what kind of person Crazy Wang is. He is a leader who cannot afford to suffer. Not to mention directly commanding the artillery battalion. I'm afraid he also sent a telegram to the Four Elements Regiment and asked Tang Dao to give it to him. Fire support.

Once the 20 or so big guys hidden in the mountains by the Four Elements Group are taken out, the little devils will have a good drink. "

"Yes, Madman Wang and Commander Tang have a very good relationship in private. How about saying hello to the artillery camp and saving some energy for us?" Chief of Staff Li couldn't relax at this time. Young man, he couldn't help but make a joke.

"Don't talk nonsense. This is the first time since the Anti-Japanese War that our 683 brigade has shown its chariots and horses and half the division to fight. How can we hide it? If we don't fight, it will be enough. If we want to fight, we have to beat the Japanese to tears and make them cry." You know, as long as I have the equipment of the th Army, the First Division will not be able to use any bullshit. We are not just showing off our swords this time to enhance the prestige of our th Army, but to tell the Japanese North China Front Army and the whole of China and North China. It has never been truly occupied!" Brigadier Cheng waved his hands, his usually gentle face full of determination, and his eyes even more murderous.

Obviously, in this battle of Zishan, the headquarters of the 683th Group Army is willing to cooperate with Tang Dao to use the brigade, which has been fully redressed, as the strongest elite force under its command. In addition to tactically cooperating with the Jinan Administrative Office and the Sixth Regiment to attack the First Division, , the more important meaning is to make one's own voice in North China.

Yamashiro had always been extremely wary of the 80th Army, and smeared it for actively conducting guerrilla warfare on the battlefield behind enemy lines to expand base areas and involving the strength of the Japanese North China Front Army, which led to many citizens in the south who did not know the truth to evaluate the 80th Army. went lower and surrounded the Fourth Army in the Jiangnan area with heavy troops.

In the past, Anxian officials were wary of the United Front, considering the grand strategy of jointly resisting Japan, and were unwilling to break up with that person, but now it is different. With the injection of magical fresh blood like Tang Dao, the oil field in the northwest can Producing considerable economic value, many of the army's equipment are already self-sufficient.

Even driven by a mysterious force in the United States, many overseas Chinese made donations and specified that the Eightyth Army would personally receive them when donating money and materials. The economic situation improved greatly in 1939.

With enough confidence, the Eightyth Army decided to show its sword and let the whole of China see that the Eightyth Army also had the courage and strength to fight the Japanese army on a large scale.

Therefore, we can only win this battle, not lose!

Compared with Brigadier Cheng, who shoulders the mission of the power of faith, Tang Dao doesn't have so many scruples. After receiving the telegram with a 'threatening' tone from the madman general, he just smiled slightly: "Now that madman Wang has spoken, No matter what, we have to give this face, order Pang Hai, and the mountain artillery company to give full support, and all gun positions should be based on a base number of one and a half!"

"Haha! Then Crazy Wang must treat you to a big drink with the regiment commander after the war. Chief of Staff Shangguan and I can have a shameless meal. It's not easy to drink from Crazy Wang's wine. His comrades and I are very I only had two meals a year." Ye Chenghuan had a bright smile on his face.

"Regiment seat, Brigadier Cheng knows that we have 150 howitzers and only use 75 mountain guns to support friendly forces. Isn't it a bit stingy?" Shangguan Yun, who had just returned to the regiment headquarters from the front line for a long time, raised a question.

"Chief of Staff Shangguan doesn't know. It's not that the regiment commander is stingy and doesn't use heavy artillery, but that the reserve of heavy artillery shells is already slightly insufficient. Moreover, the reconnaissance company Mingxin sent a message that a Japanese heavy artillery squadron has been observed taking action.

That thing is too threatening to our army, but our heavy artillery positions are mostly concealed four or five kilometers away from the front line. The Japanese army is also cunning enough. The heavy artillery positions are generally outside the range of our heavy artillery. It is not easy to wait until they take the initiative to walk into us. With the range of the heavy artillery, it was impossible to let them go easily. What the regiment leader meant was to use good steel on the blade and focus the fire to kill several Japanese heavy artillery pieces. "Ye Chenghuan took the initiative to explain.

The 150mm howitzer is a good thing, but its shells are too big and heavy. One shell exceeds 40 kilograms. A lot of the inventory is still unshipped from Fengfeng Coal Mine.

In the early stage, in order to sufficiently deter the Japanese army, a round of artillery fire was basically more than a hundred rounds, and in order to give the Japanese army the illusion that we were not short of artillery shells, Tang Dao basically responded to the frontline commander's call for heavy artillery fire support and artillery retaliation, and the five-day battle At the end of the day, there were less than 300 heavy artillery shells stored in the entire Zishan area.

Although they can still support it for another week, if the Japanese are determined to start a tug-of-war and continue to increase their troops, after one week, there will be no heavy artillery available.

Whether for tactical purposes or strategic deterrence, the 28 150-mm howitzers have to start retaining their strength.

"Besides, a thin-skinned, heavy-filled scum tank like the Little Devil needs heavy artillery. The artillery battalion of the 683rd Brigade and the 36 mountain artillery guns of our mountain artillery company are already very humiliating to them." Ye Chenghuan is now More or less, they also have the "stinky problem" of the Four Elements Group, and they are full of self-confidence.

However, Tang Dao ignored the conversation between the two deputies and kept looking at the map. The 683rd Brigade had arrived according to the pre-war agreement. The Zishan battle situation had entered a turning point. It was no longer just about the enemy attacking and we defending, but also a stage of attacking and defending. .

The First Division has no intention of withdrawing its troops yet. Saburo Okabe probably believes that the tens of thousands of troops under his command are enough to withstand the 683rd Brigade's attack on the plains while continuing to attack the Zishan defense line. This serious misjudgment may become the basis for this former The Japanese Chief of Staff of the North China Front suffered another Waterloo.

If the 772nd Regiment can catch the Japanese by surprise in this battle, maybe this turn of events can overwhelm the First Division.

"Call to Leng Feng, I will dispatch the 1st Company of the 2st Battalion, the 5th Company of the 1nd Battalion, and the 683st Company of the Guard Battalion to the northwest defense line, under his unified command. If the 1940rd Brigade can break through the Japanese rear flank defense line, he will look for opportunities to counterattack and strive to move the northwest direction up The Japanese soldiers are stuck and held back by me. They can fight when they want and leave when they want. Saburo Okabe really wants to be more beautiful than he is. I want to tell him with the life of a Japanese that it is already 1937, not . Come on!" Tang Dao ordered.

"Yes!" Shangguan Yun and Ye Chenghuan looked at each other in surprise, and immediately turned around to convey Tang Dao's military order.

Both officers were veterans who had fought with the Japanese army countless times on the battlefield, but their most common experience before that was not only when the Japanese came to attack, but they and their officers and soldiers risked their lives to defend, as well as many victories. The Japanese army could not attack for a long time and had no choice but to retreat. But that is not exactly what Tang Dao said just now. The Japanese can fight if they want to fight and withdraw if they don't want to fight. They have complete initiative. For any soldier, this is frustrating. !

Now, we can finally use guns and cannons to tell the Japanese that when they come, they will be used as fertilizer for me. I may not allow you to leave. Who would be unhappy instead?

But who is the most high-spirited man on the battlefield now, Wang She Wang Xiaoqiang?

How does it feel to be able to mobilize 36 mountain guns and more than a dozen mortars and combat defense artillery? Wang Xiaoqiang can tell you with a gray face: It’s great! It’s so cool!

The truth is within the range of the cannon! This sentence applies to any era.

When the 36 mountain guns from several directions raised their muzzles, and the artillery squad leader waved the red flag and let out heart-rending roars, there was more than ten seconds of silence on the battlefield northwest of Zishan.

Because soldiers from both China and Japan were lying in the trenches, trying to determine where the sudden scream in the air would fly and how many seconds they would have until they landed.

This kind of thing happened countless times every day in these five or six days. No matter how stupid the soldier was, he learned the parabolic algorithm that he couldn't learn no matter how hard he learned it in the math class. Those who didn't learn it had a higher mortality rate under artillery fire. It will be as high as ninety percent.

Then, a series of "boom-boom-boom" muffled sounds came from the sky.

The cannonballs did not fall on the Zishan battlefield, but on the plains farther away.

The Chinese and Japanese soldiers in the Zishan War Zone were slightly relieved, no matter where the shells landed, as long as they were not on their heads.

But Major General Hattori Akitaro was in an extremely bad mood!

Dazzling fireballs rose up in an area less than 1000 meters away from him, and the ground seemed to be shaking. Even if he stood in a fortification that was strong enough to withstand 105 grenade, Hattori Xiaotaro still looked pale.

If the first round of more than 10 artillery shells fell on that vast plain, Hattori Xiaotaro still had a bit of luck. The power of more than a dozen mountain cannons was not enough to cause damage to his position that stretched for more than 3000 meters and was 1000 meters deep. Too much of a threat.

But as one shell after another hit hard, and finally like a continuous rainstorm, when the entire front line of the position was submerged in smoke and dust, all the luck of Hattori Xiaotaro was wiped out. That was the bombardment of more than 40 artillery pieces. Every second, his soldiers would be attacked by three artillery shells. With such a firepower density, even the division and the entire artillery regiment must be dispatched.

But compared to the crazy artillery of the Chinese, what made the Japanese major general even more frustrated was that just 3 minutes ago, he sent out a squadron of tanks and 800 infantry.

These people were all exposed in the wilderness and were within the coverage of Chinese artillery fire.

It was he, the major general brigade commander, who pushed these imperial officers and soldiers into the abyss.

Yes, under such fierce artillery fire, let alone people, even the 15-ton Type 97 medium tank was like a ship in the sea, shaking violently in the air waves caused by the explosion of the shells, and shrapnel hit the steel plate. The sound was like rain hitting banana trees.

The clanking sound was the sound of death to the Japanese armored soldiers in the tanks.

It is true that shrapnel cannot penetrate steel plates of more than ten millimeters or even twenty millimeters, but what if a shell happens to hit the tank?

In terms of caliber, the fragile top of the tank has no distinction between armor-piercing projectiles and grenades. Whether it is a 150-meter heavy gun or a 75-meter mountain gun, they all have the energy to destroy a tank.

The smoke and dust stirred up by the artillery shells made the visibility of the Japanese tank observation ports extremely low. There were only two options before these Japanese tank soldiers: either advance or retreat!

If you move forward, you may be attacked by more artillery fire, but if you retreat, you have to turn and avoid the infantry following closely behind, which means you have to stay in the area covered by artillery fire for a longer time.

Kamiya Haosen, then commander of the 1st Tank Squadron of the st Division, made an extremely heroic decision and picked up the radio: "Brave Imperial Knights, follow me and advance at full speed! Long live the Empire!"

"Long live the Empire!" came the heroic slogan of the Japanese armored soldiers from the wireless intercom.

Except for the two Type 22 light tanks, the tracks of the 97 tanks were damaged and unable to move due to shell explosions on the sides of the vehicles. The remaining 20 tanks continued to move forward at full speed amidst the violent storm of artillery fire.

That scene happened to be seen by a Japanese reporter who was accompanying the army. He wrote this paragraph with tears in his eyes: The enemy's artillery fire was fierce. Even though I was thousands of meters away, I could feel the heat wave coming towards my face, but... In such a purgatory, the empire's more than 20 tanks were still firing at full power, killing the Chinese positions like sharp arrows.

They are like the sword in the hand of His Majesty the Emperor, which can cut through the darkness and pierce the sky; they are lightning and the glory of the empire!

Just barely, the lyrics of the song "You are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth" that will be sung in future classics were released in advance by this emotional Japanese military reporter.

However, when the tearful man tried his best to praise the heroic and fearless Imperial Steel Knights, he may not have seen that Major General Hattori not far away from him also had tears in his eyes at this moment.

It's just that I cried because of my heartache.

Tanks have steel frames. As long as they are not unlucky enough to be hit by a shell, the probability of survival is still very high. But what can those Japanese infantry who can only lie on the ground do to resist the artillery fire?

Relying on the dirt accumulated from not bathing for a long time? Relying on the protection of the unreliable Amaterasu?

In the end, we can only rely on our lives!

But it doesn't depend on luck, but as long as he dies enough, the reaper will always miss a few kittens and puppies, right?

According to Hattori Kotaro's estimate, 30% of the infantrymen in the area covered by artillery fire would eventually survive, which made him chuckle even in his dreams.

The prerequisite for having such a high survival rate is that his subordinates are agile enough to hide in a crater not far from them before the next shell kills them.

Hiding in the crater is the only chance of survival for the Japanese infantry, but that also means that no infantry can kill the enemy positions with sparks and lightning like the heroic Japanese armored soldiers.

The only outcome of running under gunfire is to be torn into pieces by the gunfire.

Obviously, the "conspicuous packs" who bravely moved forward in the artillery fire completely lost the infantry protection after running wildly for one minute and finally escaped from the artillery fire coverage area.

Tanks are indeed very powerful weapons on the battlefield, especially when there are not enough anti-tank weapons, they are simply invincible to the infantry.

Heavy machine gun fortification, a tank with a tank gun can blast it into the sky with one shot, and the machine gun carried by the tank itself can immediately rush to the next life if the infantry dares to provoke it.

But there is a prerequisite for this, no one can get close to the tank.

In World War II, the famous German general "Gu Bu Shuai"'s blitzkrieg defeated the Western world. This man was never said to be a group of steel monsters rampaging on the battlefield. He also had the most advanced infantry-tank coordination tactics in the world during this period.

That is, the infantry moves forward with the tank as the center. The tank opens the way for the infantry and blocks enemy fire attacks. The infantry needs to observe the surrounding environment at all times to prevent enemy infantry from raiding the tank, clear anti-tank mines on the road, etc., and provide space for the tank. safety protection.

Tanks have always played the role of pioneers, while infantry is an extension of the tank's firepower, responsible for expanding the results of the battle. This is a bit like the relationship between the queen bee and the worker bee, the only difference is that the tank does not create infantry.

The Japanese rely on 20 tanks to rush in front of nearly 4000 elite infantry, and they also have 37mm combat anti-cannons in front of 4000 elites. So what do you say?

All I can say is that there is no other word to describe them except silly.

"The Japanese tanks are quite strong! They just rushed over like this?" Some infantrymen were still amazed that the Japanese tanks were really strong.

"Squad leader, what can we do about this?" Some recruits who have had contact with tanks also expressed panic.

"I'm panicking. Haven't you been specially trained on how to fight tanks? Wait for the order." The squad leaders basically remained calm.

"Each demolition team used gunpowder smoke and terrain cover to avoid machine gun fire, and used explosive packets and Molotov cocktails to kill the devil." The battalion and company-level commanders who were hiding in the trenches were still looking serious. But he couldn't hide his excitement.

They are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for many years. The shortest service time is more than 6 years. They have never seen any kind of battlefield. They watched these 20 or so conspicuous vehicles dragging thick black smoke towards them. Behind them, If there isn't a Japanese soldier, we won't be able to find a fighter right away.

It's not that the crazy general is reluctant to use 37mm anti-aircraft guns to shoot at the armored clusters of Japanese troops that are rumbling over, but that it is more cost-effective to use infantry to throw incendiary bottles and explosive packets.

Tanks without infantry protection are just a bunch of giant turtles. What else do they have besides a harder shell?