Rise from eight hundred.

In this battle, Zhen Youcai destroyed two Japanese Type 97 main battle tanks with one person, killing all the personnel inside.

Together with the responding personnel, they transported 4 seriously injured people and a body on the battlefield back to the position.

After the war, this superior soldier was commended by a general order from the 921st Division Headquarters and was awarded first-class individual merit, and the infantry platoon won first-class collective merit.

Zhen Youcai also got his wish and returned home in the spring. At the insistence of his parents, he got engaged to a girl in his hometown. However, due to military regulations, he could not get married yet.

But the girl also said that since we are members of the army, we should follow the rules of the army. Since you, Cai Lang, can get first-class merit, then maybe you can be the leader of the regiment in three years, and then get married. also the same.

Zhen Youcai was very happy to have such an open-minded fiancée, but he finally made a request. From now on, just call him Brother Cai. Calling him Cai Lang always felt weird.

As for becoming the regiment leader and then getting married in three years, Zhen Youcai knew it was a dream. He just hoped that the war would end soon. After the Japanese were driven away, he would be disarmed and return to the village to be a farmer. At that time, no one would care about his farming. When did you get married?

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Little soldier Zhen Youcai did not expect that from the moment he blew up two tanks alone, the gears of fate would start turning for him.

First of all, he was promoted to sergeant by two levels and was promoted to deputy squad leader of the infantry squad. Secondly, after the Zishan War, due to the large vacancy of grassroots officers after the four-line regiment fought hard, the brigade headquarters issued a military order, and his subordinates The entire infantry platoon was secretly transferred to the 4th Company of the Fourth Line Regiment. The files sealed by the brigade headquarters still have the military status of more than 70 of them.

In the next five years, Zhen Youcai, who followed Tang Tuanzuo to fight in the north and south, was promoted from army sergeant to army captain. When he crossed the river and entered the ice sheet 10 years later, he was already commanding a small infantry of three thousand people. The regiment is long.

At that time, he also fulfilled part of his wish. He married the girl who had been waiting for him for five years, kowtowed in front of the graves of his old parents, bought bouquets for all his six sisters, and his son was already able to give them to her. A busy mother in the field brings a glass of water.

However, the dream of farming is difficult to realize in this life.

Later, standing in the auditorium, with four golden stars on his shoulders, he glanced at the crowd and burst into tears.

Of those comrades who had worried about that crazy soldier in the trenches, only a few of them were still standing here.

Shi Buddha, who returned from his injuries in the Battle of Zishan, died in the battle two years later; the squad leader who treated him like a brother died in the same battle two years later; the platoon leader nicknamed Tong Ling died in the southwest jungle.

Of course, that was all more than ten years later. On the battlefield at this time, Zhen Youcai's comrades were cheering for him.

The two Japanese tanks in front of Zhen Youcai's infantry platoon, whether they were brave or cunning, were all lit into two large bonfires.

而在第1师团的战报里也做了沉痛的记录：今天是第1师团沉痛的一天，师团第1战车中队22辆战车及72名帝国官兵皆玉碎于战场。

772团动用70多名最勇敢的步兵以伤33人牺牲17人为代价，炸毁和烧毁了冲进步兵战壕前100米的日军坦克18辆，还有4辆，是被部署于阵地后方600米外的37毫米速射炮击毁。

In addition, two Type 97 light tanks that were anchored in the artillery fire were exploded by Chinese 37mm rapid-fire cannons under the watchful eyes of Chinese and Japanese soldiers. They did not want to give up 6 of the 4 Japanese soldiers and the tank. They were finished together. The two armored soldiers who escaped from the tank did not run far and were killed by the Chinese with mortars.

Both the equipment and personnel of the 1st Tank Squadron disappeared in the prelude to this offensive and defensive battle.

Major General Hattori Akitaro's face was as solid as iron!

However, what made this Japanese Army Major General feel heavy was not just the huge losses of 22 tanks and hundreds of infantry, but the intensity of firepower and quality of soldiers displayed by the Eightyth Army at this time. This was completely different from the report provided by the North China Front Army. It's a thousand miles apart, okay?

Are you telling me that Tuba, who have dozens of artillery pieces and even anti-tank guns, are guerrillas? If the Chinese guerrillas in the three eastern provinces had this strength, hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army troops would be beaten to tears, okay?

But no matter what Hattori Akitaro and Okabe Saburo, who are still waiting for the battle here in the distance, think, the First Division is determined to avoid this fierce battle.

The other two main regiments of the 683 Brigade have also arrived. The 771st Regiment is located on the left wing of the 772nd Regiment, and the Independent Regiment is located on the right wing of the 772nd Regiment. The 1.1-strong army is in a crescent moon formation, and half of Hattori Akatsuki's army, which has less than 3000 troops, has been defeated. Surrounded on the battlefield.

Saburo Okabe was forced to take out his last reserve team, and two infantry brigades quickly reinforced Hattori Akatsuki from 10 kilometers away.

By this time, Saburo Okabe had no troops left, unless he began to draw on the three infantry brigades still on the Zishan front line, but that would increase the risk.

Saburo Okabe had met Tang Dao. He was a young man who had both bravery and cunning qualities that he had never seen in his life. What impressed him the most about Tang Dao was his disregard for any rules at this time. Dealing with such an opponent who acted completely unreasonably was indeed the most difficult few days in Saburo Okabe's twenty-year military career.

Such a cunning tiger, what would he do if he smelled the weakness of his opponent?

Hattori Akatsuki said that the First Division of the Eightyth Army was very strong, but for Okabe Saburo, the Tang Sword located in the Purple Mountain was even more terrifying.

Therefore, he would rather exhaust all his cards than easily draw troops from the attacking front line.

As a result, the huge military group that once had more than 4 troops, when the main force of the 683 brigade had already demonstrated its tyranny, could only use less than 5000 troops to stop the enemy. The Zishan defense line area that cannot be attacked for a long time.

This became one of the reasons why Saburo Okabe was dismissed from his military post after the war.

Saburo Okabe did not underestimate Tang Dao, but he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 683rd Brigade.

To make matters worse, at dusk that day, a 105 howitzer squadron that was moving to support Major General Hattori Akitaro encountered an ambush by a Chinese force of about 80 people.

The infantry squadron responsible for protecting this artillery squadron never thought that it would encounter such a large-scale ambush in its own theater. Moreover, this was not a mountainous area, so it did not have the conditions for an ambush at all, which led to its laxity.

How bold were the ambush Chinese? They were lying in the grass, their bodies covered with loess and turf. Only when they got closer to 10 meters would they notice anything strange.

However, due to the exhaustion of consecutive days of fighting and the fact that the infantry had to help the artillery push the heavy artillery truck that was stuck in the mud, the infantry squadron did not check the side of the road it passed at all, and they did not even send out spearheads.

Therefore, the Chinese attacked it almost cheek-to-cheek.

The continuous firepower of the 38-round magazine of the MG32 submachine gun did not give the Japanese infantrymen who tried to prove their bravery with bayonets a chance. In the first ten seconds of the attack, more than 70 Japanese infantrymen were swept down by the dense rain of bullets. land.

When the Japanese infantry made their final resistance using trucks and artillery as cover, the Chinese took out grenades and damn Molotov cocktails and threw them.

The sparks from the Molotov cocktails with unknown chemicals seemed to be unable to be extinguished, and the squeaking sound of burning flesh became a lifelong nightmare for the Japanese infantrymen who narrowly escaped during the attack.

It was not that the Japanese infantry had no chance to bravely assassinate the enemy with their bayonets, but a Chinese soldier with a strange pattern on his face pulled out the big sword and killed a corps commander who had been in the army for six years with one blow. The man was cut in half with a gun, and then a sergeant was cut in half with a sword. After the hearts, livers, spleens, lungs and kidneys of the two men were scattered on the ground, the bravery of the Japanese army was instantly shattered.

No one dared to charge with a rifle, and their final stubbornness was just to rely on the bunker and keep firing in the direction of the incoming enemy troops.

But obviously, the Japanese army, which had completely lost its ability to counterattack and could only be beaten passively, could not hold on for long, especially when the Chinese took out the Molotov cocktail of "burning whoever you see".

As each of the Japanese infantry turned into burning men, howling and rolling on the ground, the psychological defenses of the Japanese artillerymen, who didn't even have a gun, completely collapsed and began to flee into the wilderness.

The chain reaction caused by the rout was extremely terrifying. The remaining 80 or so infantrymen could hold on for at least another 20 minutes. If they could wait for reinforcements, they might be able to hold on to the artillery and even launch a counterattack.

However, the hopes of the Japanese infantry were destroyed by the artillerymen they were protecting. The Japanese infantry who fell into chaos also fled into the wilderness one after another.

And this is obviously an extremely stupid behavior, especially in front of a group of Chinese elites.

The reconnaissance company, which can be called snipers, is deployed in the surrounding area. There are at least 12 people. A group of silly ducks are running wildly in the unobstructed wilderness. It is simply their hunting feast. The extremely accurate marksmanship made it possible for the Japanese soldiers to be killed with one shot even if they ran 400 meters away.

And there will never be more than 20 people who have the chance to escape that distance!

In fact, this is already an excellent ending. If this group of Japanese troops with a strength of 400 did not run away, they would only end up being wiped out.

Because, it was not until 35 minutes later that a baggage squadron came panting from 3 kilometers away to support. It was because Mingxin ordered the use of 105 howitzer shells and the shocking explosion of the artillery shells alarmed the Japanese army. Gang, who no longer had mobile troops, Busaburo ordered a baggage squadron near the division headquarters to go.

But without what-if, the reality was humiliating enough. Seeing that our own troops were lying dead in the field in such a short period of time, and all five heavy artillery pieces were blown up, the Japanese baggage squadron was shocked and concluded that at least one Chinese infantry battalion was present here.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to nearly annihilate an infantry squadron and an artillery squadron in such a short period of time. They are 400 people, not 400 pigs?

The 1st Division headquarters was so frightened that a Chinese infantry battalion actually sneaked into the war zone. What did they want to do?

Okabe Saburo instantly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and he no longer felt so painful about the loss of five 105 howitzers. If these unlucky guys hadn't accidentally bumped into the Chinese guns, they might have been injured. At night, did the infantry battalion's gun hit him, the lieutenant general's division commander, in the back of his head?

You must know that the current guard of the division headquarters is only a 500-man escort squadron directly under the division headquarters, and the main infantry regiment closest to the division headquarters is still 11 kilometers away.

For safety reasons, the 1st Division headquarters even began to prepare to evacuate this area.

Fortunately, there were still Japanese soldiers who managed to escape from that battlefield, and these Japanese soldiers who were from mountain people and fishermen were quite honest and did not blindly exaggerate the number of attackers. After more than 20 shocking descriptions of the Japanese battlefield and on-site inspections by the Japanese staff, After comprehensive judgment, the conclusion reached almost made Saburo Okabe angry to death.

If possible, it would be better for these idiots to all die on the battlefield, so that the truth would be covered up.

That was definitely a Chinese army of no more than 100 people. Otherwise, how could it be hidden in that small wasteland?

For such a small force, no matter how elite the equipment was, even if it had elements of a sneak attack, an infantry squadron with a full strength of 180 people could not resist for only 10 minutes before the entire army collapsed, causing five 5 howitzers to be blown up, and more than 105 The artilleryman died in battle.

This record may qualify as the first division's infantry sequence with the best performance on the entire Zishan battlefield.

The reason why we use maybe is because there are Japanese troops on the Zishan battlefield who perform equally poorly. Their performance is so poor that they can be called the Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Infant of the 1st Division along with this infantry squadron.

However, that is not infantry, but artillery!

It belonged to the 1rd Artillery Squadron of the 4th Artillery Battalion of the 3st Artillery Regiment. After receiving the military order to support Hattori Akitaro, the artillery squadron slowly pulled 4 heavy truck tractors and pulled the 4 big guns towards the established location. The artillery positions advance.

China's current situation is not like the high-speed highways of the future. Now, let alone highways, let alone national roads, even rural roads have become roads as more people use them.

As soon as the tractor gets stuck, the artillery and infantry have to dig and use wooden planks and steel plates to pave the road, not to mention the marching speed.

More than two hours have passed, and the huge convoy has only traveled less than 2 kilometers on the plain. Over there, Hattori Akatsuki's troops were almost beaten by Chinese artillery, and the four 4-meter heavy artillery were still far away from the scheduled artillery. The positions are nearly 150 meters apart.

If we want to say that this is caused by geographical environmental factors, the Japanese artillerymen have been working very hard. Even if they are crawling with difficulty, they are still heading towards their destination, aren't they?

But the Japanese artillery squadron's next showy operation blinded the titanium alloy dog's eyes.

Pang Panghai's heavy artillery battery had not participated in the battle for a day, so they held back their energy and fired a few shots.

It was not until dusk that we finally received a report from the reconnaissance team with the coordinates of the Japanese artillery's location.

It was a 7-man reconnaissance team led by the two uncles and nephews of the reconnaissance company, Brainless and Unhappy. There were three other reconnaissance groups like them on the vast plains. Their task was to find Japanese artillery positions within the range of our own heavy artillery.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wu brainlessly found this convoy with an obvious target through the telescope. The huge tractor truck was the most obvious target. Even if there was a gun jacket on the artillery, he was basically sure that it was the 150 heavy artillery.

Unexpectedly, this group of Japanese soldiers were like tortoises crawling around. They had been keeping an eye on them for more than 2 hours. They hadn't reached the place yet, and it was getting dark before their eyes. So I thought nothing of it, so I just focused my fire on them. , anyway, whether they move or not, the ball is almost the same.

But this careless guy, No-brain, actually missed a number when reporting the coordinates.

A slight difference can make a thousand miles difference. This is a very correct description of artillery.

The 12 150-meter heavy guns in the heavy artillery company raised their muzzles high and fired at the coordinates reported by the scouts.

Good guy, the brainless man who was 800 meters away from the Japanese artillery convoy was dumbfounded as the artillery shells screamed across the sky and landed less than 700 meters away from him, which was a full 3 miles away from the Japanese artillery convoy.

"The stupid artillerymen, not only missed the target, but they were so good that they almost hit me." Brainless didn't even point to the sky and cursed the artillery brothers, and immediately led three of his subordinates to crawl away. road.

Even though the raging artillery fire was at least a mile away from them, the experienced scouts knew very well that the idiot artillerymen could miss by 1500 meters and then miss by several hundred meters. In order to increase the hit rate, The artillery will also actively deviate from the established coordinates and attack the areas surrounding the coordinates.

Under that kind of heavy artillery, everything can be destroyed. If you don't run, you can only wait to turn to gray.

The scouts of the Four Lines Regiment who made the mistake were busy running away and had no time to send a message to inform their own artillery that their artillery fire had missed.

When I had no idea and sent a message to question the artillery and then correct the mistake, it was already 20 minutes later.

The Japanese artillerymen who were 1500 meters away and watching the raging artillery fire blasting the yellow land had every opportunity to use these 20 minutes to escape with four heavy artillery pieces.

It's hard to move forward, but the way back is fast enough.

However, the artillery squadron leader made a jaw-dropping decision to abandon the artillery to protect the people.

This artillery captain with a professional background supports his mentor's words: People are always more important than equipment. Without great artillery, no matter how powerful the artillery is, it is just a decoration.

Therefore, the artillery captain, thinking that this was just the first round of test firing by the Chinese artillery, and that the area would be covered by artillery fire within a few minutes, firmly chose to protect himself and the precious artillery. Hundreds of Japanese troops threw away tractors, artillery and a large number of artillery shells. In place, running wildly.

The expensive heavy artillery and tractors just stayed alone in the wilderness, feeling the hot wind blowing 1500 meters away. It was not until a full 23 minutes later that the Japanese soldiers who had already reached 2500 meters away watched the crazy artillery fire blast those soldiers. Valuable equipment torn to shreds.

The Chinese did not test the target, but completely missed it.

Each one costs tens of thousands of yen, and its total value can equip two infantry brigades with four heavy artillery pieces. In this way, it became a victim of mistakes made by both sides.

Originally, I was going to be criticized for this matter.

Unexpectedly, the deflected shells in front were not wasted and directly scared away a group of Phoenix chicks, causing the convoy to stop in place. Instead, it caused all of them to be blown up. The result was at least twice as large as previously expected.

"Baga! There were no artillery during the war. What's the use of you artillerymen? Can I use you to attack the Chinese?" Saburo Okabe, who was hit hard, almost lost his mind and chopped down the artillery captain with a knife. If that Not the words of aristocrats. (End of chapter)