Rise from eight hundred.

Tang Dao and Lei Xiong's First Battalion met up much faster than he expected.

Just less than 3 miles away from Licheng, I saw a convoy stirring up smoke and dust.

If it hadn't been for the group of people standing, lying, and hanging all wearing blue military uniforms through the binoculars, Guo Shouzhi would have almost ordered to stop the enemy.

Yes, although it is a Japanese car, the one on it is Chinese.

The first battalion led by Lei Xiong has successfully completed the blocking mission!
It defeated the Japanese army even earlier than the Battle of Shentouling!

The reason is that the Japanese army from Shecheng was too 'soldier expensive and fast'.

Shecheng is only more than 20 kilometers away from Licheng, and the closer distance is only one aspect. The main reason is that the Japanese army in Shecheng happened to have a cavalry regiment and a logistics regiment belonging to the 108th Division.

The cavalry wing of the Japanese army is placed in the permanent division. It is a real cavalry with horses and sabers!War horses have speed and stamina, and cavalry riding on them are also very impactful. Even in the era of war dominated by hot weapons, if there is not enough continuous firepower, the highly mobile cavalry is still very lethal. Especially in the Chinese battlefield, or more precisely in the northern battlefield, the firepower of the Chinese army is really indescribable against the Japanese cavalry!

But as we all know, war horses are precious things. If you want to maintain the strength and speed of a horse, you have to eat and drink well. It is for war horses and pack horses.

For the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army invested 1937 of the 24 divisions in the country in 21, and invested 1938 of the 34 divisions in the country in 32, accounting for 90.00% of the total army in the country. One can imagine.

The consumption is too great, and we have to find a way to reduce expenses, especially at the imperial meeting, the Japanese army and the Japanese navy, the "enemies of life", kept holding back. No one can move the expenses of the 108 permanent divisions. There are big bosses behind the head of each division, so we can only use second-line divisions, such as permanent divisions like the [-]th division.

Therefore, the so-called cavalry wing of the 108th Division is actually a mixture of motorcycles and horses.

To put it bluntly, the cavalry regiment of a permanent division like the 5th Division has 4 cavalry squadrons under its command, which are real cavalry with hundreds of strong horses, but like the 108th Division, two are real cavalry squadrons. The cavalry squadron, and the other two, were made up of motorcycles.

Anyway, in terms of mobility, everyone is pretty much the same. You don't need to run on two legs. The only difference is that motorcycles only drink oil and not animal feed, which can save a lot of money.

Let's talk about the Japanese army's logistics wing. If it is compared with Germany, Britain, and France in the Western world, the Japanese army's logistics equipped with a large number of pack horses and carts is like a bumpkin meeting the future Jack Ma. One is in the sky and the other is on the ground. If it is compared with the Chinese army, it will be upgraded to a local rich man in a blink of an eye. Each logistics unit has more than 100 trucks, which is a configuration that the principal's direct troops can't even imagine.

Therefore, the Japanese army in the direction of Shecheng received a request for help from Licheng, and immediately organized two infantry squadrons and a "cavalry squadron", more than 20 side three-wheeled motorcycles carrying nearly a hundred Japanese troops, and 4 trucks carrying four hundred soldiers. A Japanese army, dragging two artillery pieces, carrying 500 heavy machine guns, and a rescue force with a total strength of more than [-] rushed to the direction of Licheng.

Although the road between Shecheng and Licheng is full of potholes, as long as the truck does not drive fast, it is enough to move at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

Originally, according to the speed of this "mechanized" force on the Chinese battlefield, it could reach the battlefield within an hour and a half.

But this group of Japanese troops was much more cautious than the 1500 Japanese troops that set off from Lucheng. The distance between the leading motorcycles and trucks was more than 2000 meters, and they had to stop and search every dangerous area. The teacher's harassing attack was frightened.

Although this would delay the time for reinforcements in Licheng, from the perspective of the Japanese army, no one would have imagined that the Sixth Infantry Brigade, which had a solid city wall and 1000 troops, fell within less than an hour.

What's more, if you want to love others, you must love yourself first. If you are done with yourself, who will reinforce Li Cheng?

The commander of this Japanese army has enough life experience accumulation to fundamentally avoid his fate of being ambushed.

Lei Xiong dispatched the special forces of the special warfare squadron long before entering the battlefield. After observing the Japanese army's marching style, he immediately adjusted his tactics. Since the Japanese were cautious, they changed the ambush into a blockade.

有2门150重迫击炮和8门82迫击炮以及2门92步兵炮的一营在重火力上完全碾压日军，这也是他敢摆开架势和日军硬干的理由。

The location Lei Xiong chose to stop the Japanese army was called Yubeiyu, which was between Licheng and Dongyangguan which had just been occupied by the Japanese army, about 6 kilometers away from Dongyangguan and 7 kilometers away from Licheng.

Just by hearing the name Yubeiyu, one knows what kind of terrain it is. Standing on the highest peak a few kilometers away from here, one can see that this terrain is narrow and slender like a fish.

It looks like a suitable ambush battlefield.

However, don’t think about attacking from both sides of the road. There are bare stone mountains on both sides of the road. It is difficult for even good climbers to climb up in a short time. The two warring parties have given up fighting for the commanding heights just by looking up. Yes, just this mountain, without any bullets, more than half of them can be killed just by climbing.

However, the already curved road has to make a nearly 90-degree turn here, because there is a small hill here, made of the same basalt material, in the future, maybe a tunnel will pass through it, or it will be completely blasted away. It's over, but in this era, we can only succumb to the uncanny workmanship of nature, and the road turns around the side of the mountain.

And this mountain is Lei Xiong's main blocking position!

Zhao Daqiang's first company is the main company stationed on the position, and the fire support company of the first battalion cooperates with them. It has 6 heavy machine guns and 10 light machine guns!
This is just light and heavy firepower on the surface. 400 meters behind the hill, there are 82 8-type mortars and 150 2-heavy mortars!That was Lei Xiong's final weapon!
Nearly a hundred cavalrymen were responsible for guarding the safety of the artillery, while the other two infantry companies and the 3rd company were reserved as reserves, and the 2nd company from Wei Donglai was led by the guide in the mountains as early as when the 1st company was frantically building fortifications. Walking through the small roads between them, they will launch another round of ruthless strikes against the remnants of the enemy at a place more than 3000 meters away from the battlefield.

Lei Xiong's idea was that even if it was a hard job, the Japanese should be heartbroken, and let them know that without the advantage of firepower, they are nothing.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, it was just dawn, when the Japanese army's first wave of vanguard troops consisting of [-] motorcycles had just circled the hill, and with the firing of Zhao Daqiang's gun, the battle started.

The only shortcoming of the four-element regiment fighting this kind of mountain warfare is that there are no landmines.

According to Tang Dao's tactical assumption, the battle should not be initiated by gunshots, but by the detonated landmines on the side of the road. The violent explosion can not only stun the opponent in the first wave, but also completely destroy the road , blocking the opponent's way.

It is far easier to move forward and get out of the range of firepower than it is for the big guys to "think in one place and use energy in one place".

It's a pity that although the equipment of landmines is not a high-tech gadget, it is really impossible to do it with the current industrial level of the Four Elements Group. The team under Mr. Xiao He is now able to do it with a limited level of mechanical processing. Equipment modification.

If you want to really start manufacturing, you have to have a variety of finishing lathes!

However, for Japanese motorcycles without the protection of armored vehicles, bullets are enough!
The rain of bullets composed of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, at a range of 50 meters, caught the Japanese army off guard and wanted to die!

Just the first wave of blows caused more than 20 Japanese soldiers to hate the mountain road. Seven of the eight motorcycles were stopped, and one of them panicked and fell into a deep ditch more than three meters high on the side of the road. Immortal is also disabled!
To the condescending Lian, the counterattack organized in a hurry is like a child's desperate little fist!

More than 50 melon-style grenades thrown from the mountain gave the remaining 10 Japanese soldiers a good experience of what is called Imperial Japanese military manufacturing!
To be honest, although the melon-style grenade designed as a shrapnel-killing type has a small charge and cannot blow people up like a German long-handled grenade, the shrapnel flying around can make unprotected infantry desperate.

Especially when there are so many of them.

By the time the Japanese troops behind reacted through gritted teeth, the company on the hill had already dealt with the front group of Japanese troops with a wave of bullets and grenade storms.

Chinese, set up a line of defense here!

Its purpose is nothing more than to prevent the imperial army from reinforcing!The Japanese commander in the rear had an easy answer!

What should I do in this situation?
You must fight!For the Japanese army who advocated bravery, there is no south wall in this world, and even if there is, it should not belong to the Chinese.

Yes, you can say that the Japanese army was brutal, or that the Japanese army was inhuman, but when it comes to the execution of the military orders of the superiors, the Japanese army in this period is definitely at the forefront of the global army.

Of course, too much arrogance is also the main factor in the birth of this psychology!
Moreover, this almost iron-headed executive power is from top to bottom, even if you are a lieutenant general or a general.

In the future, the Battle of Hengyang, known as the "Battle of Moscow in the East", will be the most iron-headed battle of the Japanese army under the influence of this psychology!

In this battle, the Chinese army participated in the battle with a total strength of 1.7 infantry troops, while the Japanese army besieging the city amounted to more than 10 people from five divisions.

In terms of the comparison of the strength of the two sides, this battle even surpassed the strength ratio of the 67th Army in the small town of Songjiang six months ago to resist the Japanese Tenth Army for four days and nights.

There is no doubt that China will lose!This is the prediction of all military strategists in the East and West who paid attention to the war before the war.

However, they predicted the ending correctly, but no one expected that the process would be so bloody!
This battle lasted for 47 days and nights!The Chinese defenders changed from 1.7 to 1200, but what about the Japanese army?2 were killed, nearly 6 were injured, and even the commander of the 68th Division, Zuo Jiujian, was killed. The battle damage on both sides is jaw-dropping!

So much so that at the end of the fight, the Japanese army, known for their iron heads, gave in and took the initiative to publicly promise that as long as the remnants of the city surrendered, they would not do any harm to the wounded soldiers and civilians who were still alive in the city!

This is probably the first time in the history of the Sino-Japanese War that Japan seems to have won a battle that seems to be far away from victory.

But in any case, the iron-headed temperament of the Japanese was fully exposed in this meat grinder-style city defense battle. They could not have attacked so hard, but in order to show the bravery of the empire, they fought hard.

So, bloody!
Such a battle can be fought, and just a small mountain in front of us, some Chinese, can stop their determination to reinforce the friendly army?how is this possible?

Park the car on a mountain road 1500 meters away from the battlefield, and two infantry squadrons dragged two infantry artillery and 4 heavy machine guns, and rushed to the battlefield!
That momentum is awesome.

As a result, they encountered a series of head-on blows from Zhao Daqiang. The firepower network composed of 6 heavy machine guns and 10 light machine guns made the Japanese infantry confused.

Is this Baga fighting a Chinese infantry regiment?
Fortunately, they still have two infantry guns!

As soon as the artillery comes out, the Chinese will be finished. This is the battle mode that the Japanese army has become accustomed to!

Several clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the bush-covered hills, and the Japanese infantrymen, who were so pressed by light and heavy machine guns that they couldn't lift their heads, were almost not excited at that moment, and their eyes were wet!
Seeing that the onboard cheers were about to linger in the mountains of China, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" A burst of bullets rose in the area where the two Japanese infantry guns were located.

The reason why the eight 8mm mortars and two 82mm heavy mortars remained silent more than ten minutes before the battle started was that they were waiting for the Japanese infantry artillery.

Because of the twists and turns of the mountain roads, the Japanese infantry artillery would never stay too far. The fact is, in order to maintain the hit rate, the two infantry artillery were pushed to a distance of 500 meters from the company's position. Artillery observers at high places can use binoculars Clearly found the area where the Japanese artillery was located.

The intensity of the concentrated fire of the 8 mortars did not give the two 92 infantry artillery a chance to transfer. In just 5 minutes, this infantry artillery squad has become a thing of the past.

If the stunned Japanese commander had cleared his mind at this time and led the infantry to turn around and run away, Wei Donglai's 400nd company would probably have no choice but to sprinkle salt on his wounds with a force of more than 2 troops.

Unfortunately, no!

"Don't worry, the Chinese don't have too many shells!" Seeing that his most important heavy firepower, the infantry artillery, was finished, Lieutenant Takahashi Saikong, who was then the 108st Infantry Squadron of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 1th Infantry Regiment, unexpectedly Such a bowl of poisonous chicken soup was brought to the subordinates.

Without Ikkyu's brains, and also suffering from Ikkyu's illness, Saiku Takahashi perfectly interpreted the consequences of stepping on the air with a stilt.

Name it!It's also a technical job, so I really can't X** do it.

The 8 Type 82 mortars that have been exposed have given the Japanese army a good experience of what it means that their shells will not be too many.

在超过半个小时的攻防战中，8门82迫倾泻了足足300发炮弹，带走了最少150名日军的生命以及4挺重机枪。

At this time, Saiku Takahashi considered whether he wanted to love himself or his lover, and then, the 2 doors finally received the 150 heavy force from the position of the Japanese truck and opened fire.

With only 5 shells, 4 Japanese trucks were blown into parts flying all over the sky, and all the truck queues of the Japanese army staying on the mountain road were blocked.

'idiot!Leave the first team to block the enemy, and the rest all retreat! When Saiku Takahashi issued the military order with a gray face, he found painfully that there were only 200 people left under his command, and he almost didn't even have an infantry squadron.

Then, the remnants of the Japanese army, which was originally full of "mechanized" temperament, completely returned to two legs and ran flying.

It was impossible not to run, and the remaining infantry squad was completely defeated in only 3 minutes.

Because Lei Xiong ordered 10 artillery pieces to clean up the defense line of the infantry squad in a 'frenzied manner', it was so prodigal that the Japanese also felt heartbroken. The Chinese are crazy!

Of course the Japanese didn't know that Lei Xiong had an idea about the truck that hadn't been blown up on the mountain road. In order to prevent the Japanese army from having time to damage the truck, he had to end the battle in the shortest possible time.

When the charge horn blew, and the sound of horseshoes sounded on the mountain road, Takahashi Saiku almost didn't freak out. The Chinese even had cavalry. What kind of fairy army did he encounter?
Regardless of blowing up the trucks that were still on the mountain road, the Japanese soldiers who immediately left the road and drilled into the mountains saved their lives, but left behind 8 trucks and 13 motorcycles that were still able to drive.

Motorcycles are actually very easy to control. Most of the veterans of the original 88th Division in the first battalion have fiddled with them. The trucks are a bit more difficult to control, but the special forces from the special squadron have all received driving training during the thousand-mile march of the Four Elements Regiment. It's still no problem when the driver pulls the big guy back.

It’s just that there are a lot of people who need to be pulled. There are more than 40 people standing in the compartment of a car, and there are more than a dozen ‘hanging’ outside. In addition to the dozen or so three-wheeled motorcycles, two infantry companies and one firepower The support company was pulled up.

The artillerymen had their own pack horses, and the cavalry who did not continue to hunt down the Japanese army would protect them and move towards Licheng!
Wei Donglai's 2nd company has its own tasks, and they need to be on guard in the direction of Dongyangguan, and they need to stay in the mountains for the time being.

The first battalion led back to Licheng turned into a motorized battalion, at least in this early morning.