Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 917 tragic
No specific casualty figures!

Because the battle is not over yet, the Chinese and Japanese, who have fallen into madness, only have the opponent who is close at hand, and killing the opponent is the only thought. Will there be time to count their own casualties?
The first battalion, one company and one platoon were reduced by half when the Japanese army charged for the third time. Before all the seriously wounded had time to withdraw to the second line of defense, the Japanese army with up to 200 people rushed to the position.

At the request of the veteran surnamed Yang whose leg had been broken by a heavy machine gun, all the few grenades were left for the wounded soldiers!

The seven puffs of gunpowder that rose continuously blasted more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who had jumped into the trenches and rolled all over the ground, and also wiped out the last trace of courage the Japanese soldiers mustered up. All the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield were covered in blood. Can't tell who's alive and who's dead.

And in this situation where the fierce battle is in full swing, charging a 'corpse' with a gun is definitely an act of sending oneself to hell, but if you don't fill up the gun, the 'corpse' may become a deadly bomb at any time!
It's really hard.

In the end, less than one-third of the three infantry platoons on the front line were able to retreat to the second line of defense. Comrade Kong's eyeballs were so red that they almost bleed!

It was his sharp knife company. After fighting the Japanese army for half a year, the total loss was less than one-fifth. In the end, this battle was good, and only one-third was left for him. It almost wiped out all the money.

However, the crazy Japanese army did not give this future general, one of the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi, time to continue his heartache. Relying on the offensive of conquering the first line of trenches, they successively launched attacks towards the second line of defense.

The two heavy machine guns of the first battalion were blown into parts by the two infantry guns of the Japanese army when the Japanese army charged for the third time!

In order to deal with the two most threatening firepower points of the Chinese side, the two infantry artillery of the Japanese army not only bombarded nearly 100 shells without stopping, but even the grenadier soldiers approached the front of the battlefield more than 100 meters away. More than 6 grenades crazily bombarded the firepower of heavy machine guns more than 500 meters away.

The end of the two heavy machine guns was also the main reason why the Japanese infantry rushed into the first-line trenches!

However, the severely injured Chinese soldiers who had no time to evacuate turned their bodies into bombs and positions into one tragically, blocking the Japanese offensive!
According to post-war statistics, there were as many as 16 wounded who chose to die with the Japanese army in the entire frontline trenches. After reporting to the division headquarters of the 921 Division, it caused a shock in the division headquarters.

Because of this alone, these 16 martyrs are eligible to declare first-class merit, and a company reports 16 first-class merit, and it does not include those who performed outstandingly in battle, such as the one who suffered three gunshot wounds and still refused The evacuation of the second lieutenant platoon leader who was fighting on the front line, such as the second-class soldier who stabbed two Japanese soldiers to death with a bayonet and successfully evacuated with the injured platoon leader on his back, is beyond everyone's understanding.

Therefore, the division headquarters of the 921st Division even sent a working group to check the battlefield statistics of the 769st Battalion of the [-]th Regiment!

The results of the inspection shocked the entire headquarters of the 921 Division. It is said that after listening to the heavy-toned report of the inspection team leader, the two chief officers and several deputy chief officers of the 921 Division took off their hats one after another and paid tribute to the martyrs who had died. I mourned in silence, and paid tribute to the commander of the 769 regiment, whose face was already full of tears, and said the famous saying that should have been upgraded to the Long Live Army more than ten years later, and the general paid tribute to the department: " The martyrs are immortal! The Chinese people will never forget you! All the commanders and fighters of 769 fighting on the front line, long live!"

The Long Live Army enjoyed their glory more than ten years in advance!

However, this is all in exchange for sacrifice, perhaps, this is not the glory they want!

But when the war comes, what can they do?They are not social elites, and they have never seen the world in their life. If it weren't for the dream of making themselves and their families have enough to eat, most of them would only go to the village dozens of miles away from the village. in town.

Burning themselves is the only thing these ordinary soldiers can do when the crisis comes.

It's no wonder that these big bosses who are used to seeing tragic events are so shocked!

The evidence shown to the inspection team is very simple, it is the remains of soldiers!The huge power of the long-handled grenade almost tore the human body apart. There were dozens of wounds on everyone's body. The blood had already flowed out, and the body was shockingly pale. If it wasn't for close range, such an effect would not be achieved at all!

The long wooden handle grenade is only equipped by the Chinese army. The Japanese melon grenade may have a lot of shrapnel damage, but the explosive power is far inferior.

In the end, after the entire Shanxi-East War ended, although the 683 Brigade made great achievements in battle, only the battle of Shentouling alone wiped out 1500 Japanese troops, not to mention the Battle of Beiganling, but the number of first-class military exploits was not as good as a battalion of the 769 Regiment!

It's not that the battalion fought too badly, but that it should be the first time in the past six months that the entire [-]th Army has a unit that is roughly equal in strength and has tied with the Japanese army with artillery in field battles. This is a battle situation that rarely occurs in direct line troops with much better equipment!

This gave the entire [-]th Army more confidence. The Japanese army is not invincible!
Hiroshi Komura's five consecutive rounds of decisive charges were not fruitless. The third time he took down the first line of defense, and although he was blocked again for the fifth time, if he did it again, he was sure that the already shaky Chinese The defense line is broken through, and the final victory must belong to them.

In fact, the Japanese Army Major’s premonition was correct. Because the Japanese army charged five times in a row, the first battalion was forced to consume a large amount of ammunition. Basically, it had reached the point of running out of ammunition and food. On average, there are only three bullets for every two soldiers!
That means that after two rounds of shooting, you can go to bayonet hand-to-hand combat. Even Comrade Kong is carrying a rifle, and his beloved pistol has become a decoration in the third round of the Japanese charge!

Unfortunately, time did not give Hiroshi Komura this chance!

Just when the last 200 people organized by the Japanese army, even light machine gunners and grenadiers joined the infantry sequence and had advanced to a charging distance of nearly 60 meters from the second-line position, a loud charge horn suddenly came from the hill behind Voice!

Thunder from the ground!That's basically it.

'Drip tick! The moment the "Charge" sounded, the Chinese soldiers and Japanese soldiers were stunned. For the first time, the two sides made the same emoticon package - looking at the distant hills in disbelief.

Hundreds of meters away, countless gray military uniforms poured out, and then, the tide rushed straight to the position, and the shouts had already suppressed the gunshots and explosions on the position.

"Withdraw!" Komura Hiroshi gritted his molars and made the most wise decision in his life.

The Japanese army retreated like a tide, not even having time to carry away the corpses left behind on the battlefield. The whole army ran away, retreating extremely resolutely.

This is also a manifestation of the loss of courage.

The hour of fierce fighting with the 769st Battalion of the [-]th Regiment had already knocked their pride to dust.

The Chinese troops are even smaller than theirs, without any artillery, and the only two heavy machine guns have been destroyed long ago. They are almost a pure infantry, but they still keep them out of the position.

In fact, even the red-eyed Komura Hiroshi had doubts a little bit. Even if he could conquer the position and even wipe out the Chinese army in the end, how many people under his command would survive?

Perhaps, he will become the most tragic junior captain of the 108th Division despite winning the final victory!

He even suspected that no matter whether he wins or loses, he will be slapped in the face, but that may still be the best result.

But no matter what, the Japanese Army Major, who was almost lost in confidence by the first battalion, made the most wise decision at this moment.

As long as it is 2 minutes later, he and the last remaining more than 200 Japanese soldiers will not be able to leave.

Because it was a whole infantry regiment, the main regiment under the command of the 683 brigade - the 772 regiment!
Not to mention full staff, but also because of the arrival of the Four Elements Regiment, there are three more all-Japanese infantry companies, and there is even a 37mm anti-aircraft gun. Comrade 'Wang Xiaoqiang' stayed at the brigade headquarters for three days , I got it from Brigadier Cheng.

It's just that the anti-war artillery and the artillery platoon in charge of the artillery do not belong to the 772 regiment, but are temporarily seconded to the 772 regiment, but that is enough to satisfy the two chief officers of the 772 regiment who returned from the division headquarters.

These two didn't expect that after only a month of seeing each other, the 772 regiment came to change their shotguns. Not to mention the addition of three infantry companies with brand new equipment, they even had a cannon that could hit tanks!
The 4 anti-aircraft guns sent by the Sixing Regiment are delicious, not to mention the 772 Regiment, a regiment-level unit, even the 683 Brigade may not be able to keep it. , but because the 683 brigade was about to fight the battle of Shentouling, the two bosses of the division decided to keep the four cannons in the 683 brigade temporarily.

And the chief officer of the 683 brigade was not very human. He immediately formed a brigade-owned artillery company. Handy!
In half a month, each cannon fired nearly 200 rounds of live ammunition, feeding out the already basic gunners.

You say, with regard to the current strength of the 772 regiment, not to mention that Komura Hiroshi now has two infantry artillery and heavy machine guns and the total strength of the squad does not exceed 300. Even when he was at his full strength, he would probably be defeated by Tubachi with a strength of more than 2000. 'The first regiment of combat power rubbed against the ground.

Up to this moment, the blocking battle named Banbi Mountain in the future is over!
Post-war casualty statistics, the 769st Battalion of the 196th Regiment: 148 officers and soldiers were killed in battle, 162 were seriously injured, and [-] were slightly injured.

The total strength of the first battalion participating in this battle is only a little over 500 people, which means that everyone is injured, even Comrade Kong, the leader of the first battalion, has blood on his arms. When he saw the three chief officers of the 772 regiment, he even saluted Can't do it.

The reason is that the three chief officers of the 772 regiment, including Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang, who always stared at him and competed with him, took the initiative to salute him, a 'lowerer', after watching the battlefield in the wild.

This battlefield is really too tragic.

Looking at the fairly vast battlefield, blood and corpses can be seen everywhere. Gray and feces yellow overlap, becoming the only two main colors of the entire battlefield.

And counting afterwards, not counting those taken away by the Japanese army, there were more than 200 corpses left by the Japanese army on the battlefield alone. 1 battle loss ratio.

This is not an ambush or a surprise attack, it's pure head-to-head, death for death!

The results are brilliant, but the blood is depressing!

Old Comrade Kong was such a strong man, at the moment when the three chief officers of the 772 regiment saluted him, but he tried hard for a while but couldn't raise his arms to return the salute, the tears directly flushed the black smoke on his face out of two white lines.

His first battalion was disabled!
The combat effectiveness of the main battalion of the 769th regiment is not as good as that of a battalion of the supplementary regiment at this time, and it will never return to the previous level within at least half a year.

Well, how did he explain it to the head of the team!

What is even more painful is that there is still a cooking team and a propaganda team in the resident. When they set off, they beat gongs and drums, hoping that their brothers would return after victorious battles.

Now, the victorious battle is fought, but less than half of the people are gone, and nearly 200 familiar faces are gone.

Thinking of this, this strong soldier who had experienced snowy mountains and grasslands, watched his comrades swallowed by swamps, knocked down by hunger and cold but could do nothing, and thought he could bear all the suffering, squatted in front of his old comrades, crying like a child.

Victory is very sweet, but it is also so bitter that it is hard to swallow!

"Old Kong! I will definitely avenge your brothers, trust me!" Wang Xiaoqiang tightly hugged the old comrade's shoulders.

The 772 regiment left an infantry battalion to assist the first battalion of the 769 regiment to clean up the battlefield, and the remaining 1500 troops rushed to their battlefield at high speed!

As for Komura Hiroshi, the sadness in his heart is not much less than that of the Chinese soldiers.

Not to mention the remains of more than 200 imperial infantrymen left on the battlefield, there are nearly 60 remains that can be carried away, nearly 100 seriously injured, and the remaining 200 infantrymen are all wounded!

In order to carry away more wounded and remains, they were even forced to throw away a lot of luggage, carts and pack horses, and the camels were all human bodies. No matter how far or near, they looked like a defeated army!
This is indeed the case. Judging from the outcome of the battlefield, the first battalion and Hiroshi Komura belonged to a tie, almost 1 to 1. The Chinese army showed extraordinary courage and technical and tactical level, but the Japanese army was not bad. , also withstood the terrible casualty rate, and could maintain enough morale to attack until the arrival of Chinese reinforcements.

But they failed to cross the line of defense of the 769st Battalion of the 772th Regiment, nor did they prevent the [-]nd Regiment, which marched quickly, from arriving at the battle position preset by the Chinese commander. Opportunity.

From a tactical point of view, this was a complete failure. At the high-level military meeting of the 108th Division after the war, Komura Hiroshi was pulled out to "whip the corpse" and became one of the main culprits for the Japanese army's defeat in this battle.

In the end, this unlucky guy who had a chance to become a major general was stripped of all his military posts and returned home in despair.

But obviously, the defeat in this battle has a lot of ramifications, and he is not a mere army major who can top the tank.

Fortunately, there was an even bigger unlucky guy in front of him.

For example, the Japanese army commander who strictly ordered him to attack, but did not provide any real help.

When the 772nd regiment arrived, the main force of the Japanese army also began to officially enter the Beiganling area, and the main force of the 769th regiment abandoned all the luggage and only carried guns and ammunition. It ran on the mountain road with the highest level of light infantry. The preset Beikan Ridge frontal position.

25 minutes later, with the arrival of the Japanese forward troops, the battle began.

The forward company of the 772 regiment also boarded the flank highlands!
The main force of the Japanese army, which has already started to shoot at each other from the frontal position of Beiganling, has lost the initiative on the battlefield so far, and returning home is the most correct choice for them at present.

But that meant that all the Japanese troops in Licheng and Shentouling were abandoned. Obviously, not to mention Xiong Yuan, the result was unacceptable, and the captain of the 108th Infantry Regiment, who was the supreme commander of the Japanese reinforcements at the time, was also unacceptable.

Not only is the Sixth Infantry Battalion stationed in Licheng under his command, but the Japanese Army Colonel knows better than anyone else that there is also a large amount of gold and jewels in Licheng that he used to bribe His Excellency the Shroud General, which he spent half a year to buy. I found it, and I heard that His Excellency the Indoor Shroud General is about to return to China for a promotion, and there is no time to give him another half a year.

Therefore, the main force of the Japanese army, with more than 1500 troops, desperately started their mad attack mode.

The 10 armored 94 light tanks and as many as 10 artillery pieces of various types accompanying the army are all the confidence of the Japanese army chief.

The "Tuba" are still using standard rifles 15 years ago, and the largest caliber artillery is just a mortar. Apart from geographical advantages, what else do they have?
Not to mention an infantry regiment, even an infantry division, the more than 1500 Japanese troops with pride and firepower superiority are also confident to defeat them.

What's more, the mountains in the Beiganling area are not steep, and some slopes are even so gentle that Type 94 light tanks can go up.

In the first 20 minutes of the battle, almost all the Japanese troops were showing their power. The artillery fire of the Japanese army made the Taihang Mountains with little vegetation even more bare.

(End of this chapter)