Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 607 'Details determine success or failure'

Kunisaki was indeed an elite major general from the elite division of the North China Dispatch Army. He was arrogant, but when faced with the three highlands in front of his army, he was obviously much more mature than before after experiencing the defeat at Songjiang City. This time he was not in a hurry.

Instead, they chose to make enough preparations. Although they were constantly harassed by mortars from the Chinese side, they still spent an afternoon and a whole night establishing heavy fire positions on several hills facing the three highlands. And deployed the corresponding infantry for protection.

A total of 12 92 infantry guns and 36 heavy machine guns were moved to the mountain, and telephone lines were also laid in place, which ensured that Kunizaki's headquarters could coordinate the heavy firepower of all the mountains.

Kunizaki was using his actions to explain the truth that "details determine success or failure" that he talked about. Li Shoushan and all the Japanese military officers admired him. This was sincere and had nothing to do with flattery.

Compared with Ushijima Man, who is full of self-confidence and eager to make contributions, and Ushijima Sadao, who is full of stagnation but old and cunning, Kunizaki, who is full of pride but cautious enough, is obviously the worst thing Tang Dao encounters when he comes to this battlefield. Strong opponent.

光是山地上的12门92步兵炮和36挺重机枪，还不是国崎怔的所有重火力，步兵阵地后还拥有8门92步兵炮和8门四一式山炮，而在3000米外，国崎怔的麾下还有12门四一式野炮和4门105榴弹炮。

In addition, the 12st Brigade of the Jing'an Army also has 92 4 infantry guns and [-] [-]-style mountain guns available.

That also means that even if the Chinese highlands are averaged, they will each face the bombardment of more than 16 artillery pieces and the strafing of more than a dozen heavy machine guns. This does not include the light machine guns and grenades equipped in the Japanese infantry. .

The actual area of ​​the three highlands is only tens of thousands of square meters, but they have to face such a density of light and heavy firepower, which is even more terrifying than the Battle of Songjiang. Perhaps only Cangcheng can compare with it.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army began to officially attack.

A tsunami-style bombardment completely enveloped the three highlands of the frontal Japanese positions in gunpowder smoke.

The Japanese army used at least more than 40 artillery pieces.

Although there is no heavy artillery, the Chinese soldiers hiding in the tunnel behind the mountain can still feel the terrifying power of the God of War from the shaking of the oil lamp hanging from the top of the tunnel.

The artillery attack was just paving the way for the infantry to attack. With the sound of the sharp iron whistle of the observation post, the infantry in the rear quickly reached the front line through the traffic trench.

It was perfectly normal for the exposed telephone wires to be blown up on the surface, and the communications soldiers crawled on the ground looking for the ends of the blown-off telephone wires, trying to reconnect.

However, the heavy machine gun bullets from the Japanese army swept over like heavy rain, which dispelled the ambitions of the signal soldiers. As soon as the battle started, the front positions of the three highlands returned to the most primitive communication state. keep in touch.

However, as the battalion commander, how could Tang Dao just sit in the back and watch his brothers fight bloody battles like this?

As early as the Japanese artillery bombardment, Tang Dao, the director of the operations department of the command headquarters, asked the deputy commander, Major General Tong, to sit in the frontline headquarters, but he arrived at the No. 2 highland with two signal soldiers, and Lei Xiong arrived at the No. 1 highland. , Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan were left in the headquarters, and they were responsible for coordinating personnel replenishment and material allocation.

As actual commanders, not to mention that Guo Shouzhi and Zhuang Shisan couldn't stop Tang Dao, even the Major General of the Sichuan Army couldn't do anything.

The Japanese troops who participated in the attack on the No. 1 and No. 2 highlands had as many as 6 infantry squadrons. The Jing'an Army also dispatched at least one infantry battalion. More than 1000 people were crowded in the dark. The hills began to attack.

It is normal for the Japanese army’s mountain artillery to stop attacking at this moment, but as a direct-firing artillery, most of the 92 infantry artillery deployed in the mountains opposite the highlands have also stopped bombarding. of.

Experienced commanders on the Chinese side know that it is not the Japanese infantry artillery that is afraid of accidentally injuring their infantry and reducing the frequency of artillery fire, but that they are waiting.

I don't know how many artillery observers are hiding in the dense forest, waiting for the Chinese big killer to show up.

Machine guns were exactly what the Japanese artillery wanted to capture.

If we don’t kill the firepower of the machine guns that killed two Japanese naval fighter planes yesterday, let alone the infantry guns that moved up to the mountain to be parallel to them for the convenience of covering the infantry, even the commanders at all levels of the Japanese army hiding behind 700 meters will not be able to kill them. Feel yourself in danger.

Once the 2000mm cannon with an air-to-air range of up to 20 meters is fired flat, the range can be as high as 2500 meters. Isn't shooting 700 meters the same as playing?
Tang Dao looked at the aggressive but slow-moving Japanese infantry through the binoculars, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

The Japanese did not play any new tricks, after all, they are still old routines.

They are feinting!
This can also be regarded as the most traditional infantry tactics of the Japanese infantry. They use large soldiers to intimidate the opponent in terms of momentum, so that the impatient opponent uses heavy firepower to suppress the infantry group. Then, naturally, they use the 70mm infantry artillery that they are currently equipped with the most. And the unknown number of grenadier soldiers lurking at the foot of the mountain cleared the heavy firepower.

If this tactic is used on ordinary Chinese defenders, it will naturally be effective, including the 145th Division. Even if they know the Japanese tactics, they have to fall into their trap.

The reason is very simple. The ordinary Chinese army is equipped with rifles, and their continuous firepower is limited. Naturally, heavy machine guns are needed to suppress firepower. Even if they know that the Japanese army is feinting at this moment, they can only be forced to face the pressure of the Japanese infantry to move forward. Use firepower such as light and heavy machine guns to suppress, otherwise, when the Japanese infantry approached within 150 meters, the feigned attack would become a real attack.

At that distance, the Japanese infantry only needed to advance more than 100 meters to throw the grenade into the trench, which would be a disaster.

As a result of this, you can only watch the firepower of the light and heavy machine guns being destroyed by the infantry artillery and a large number of grenades equipped by the opponent.

For the Chinese commander who lacked enough artillery to suppress the Japanese army, it was an almost unsolvable problem. Drinking poison to quench thirst would kill him, but if he didn't drink it, he might die sooner.

The Japanese army, who had tasted the sweetness of the Chinese war several times, became more and more comfortable with this tactic, and it was even written into the army infantry drill code.

But it is clear that ordinary Chinese troops are afraid of the tactics of the Japanese army, but the defenders on the high ground are not afraid of this.

Because they have the most powerful short-range continuous fire weapons of China and Japan on this battlefield, MP28 submachine guns and shell guns.

If the Japanese dared to launch an 'onboard' charge, they would all be covered.

More importantly, they still have more than a dozen mortars behind them. Even if the shooting range is limited, as long as there are these big killers, the Japanese infantry guns have to carefully find the gun positions, and they dare not be unscrupulous.

What Tang Dao was worried about was not the tactical changes of the Japanese army, but the determination of the Kunisaki Detachment.

He now has a total of about 2000 people. Once the Kunisaki detachment makes up its mind to trade death for death, it will be a bitter battle, a bloody battle, and even annihilation of the entire army.

Fortunately, what Tang Dao was worried about did not happen in the first wave of Japanese attacks.

However, Kunizaki was more cunning than Tang Dao imagined.

(End of this chapter)