Rise From Eight Hundred

In fact, until the first batch of nearly 1,000 Japanese soldiers jumped into the river water that was up to their calves and ran towards the land, the gunfire from the opposite defense line was not as fierce as imagined.

This allowed the Japanese army to successfully land at a cost of less than two digits!

"Yoshi! The well-prepared artillery of the Corps is really useful! The Chinese should have been blown to pieces long ago. Send a signal flare to order the troops behind to speed up and land, and the wooden boat will return to meet the arrival of the follow-up troops. This time we will break through the Chinese position in one fell swoop, and we will never let down Mr. Itagaki's trust." Standing on the gunboat, Konishi Hayami put down the telescope in his hand, his face cold and his eyes determined.

As the commander of the 18th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Konishi Hayami was ordered to lead his troops to Fenglingdu Town five days ago. He did not experience the painful harassment of his colleagues in the Third Division during that period, and he still maintained the confidence that the Imperial Army would win. This is one of the reasons why Fujita Susumu chose him as the front-line commander of the forced crossing of the Yellow River.

Another reason is that the 18th Infantry Regiment, which had just arrived, was the only one without any casualties. As the commander of the infantry regiment who took the initiative to take the lead, he should have this honor. Although he had heard that the Chinese had gathered a large number of heavy machine guns in the last forced crossing, which caused great casualties to the 6th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Konishi Hayami was still full of confidence. After all, the more than 1,000 imperial warriors of the 6th Infantry Regiment had used their lives to explore the last strength of the Chinese, and the division had also made corresponding arrangements for this.

Although the package was a cannon, this method of relying on throwing away the lives of imperial officers and soldiers was the only way that Onishi Hayami could not worry about it. The Chinese had several heavy artillery hidden outside the hill. Could the heavy artillery alone cover the landing site with a width of more than 10 kilometers?

The first batch of landing personnel followed by Onishi Hayami was as low as more than 4,200, including two infantry squads of the 18th Infantry Regiment and one infantry squad each under the jurisdiction of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 19th Infantry Regiment.

And that was just the first wave. At the ferry crossings of Fenglingdu, there were two infantry squads and two artillery squadrons waiting patiently. Once the eight infantry guns and eight 75 mountain guns were transported to the river bank, they would become a huge helper for the 6,000-strong imperial army to capture the city.

That time, Tang Dao's title of deputy chief of staff of the Tongguan Defense Zone was no longer just a decoration. Instead, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the river bank defense line by the two commanders before the eight-member group meeting at 10 o'clock. He was responsible for commanding the blocking operations of the eight infantry regiments deployed below the river bank. Not only that, Tang Dao even had the eighth command of the artillery positions in the Tongguan Defense Zone.

When a bomb explodes, no human body is often blown away. Therefore, even if the order was to evacuate the officers and soldiers in the first-line position less than 300 meters from the river bank to the seventh-line position 600 meters away, and even when the Japanese ships approached the river bank, only one-seventh of the machine gun fire points were allowed to fire, and the rest of the machine gun fire points had to fire when they saw the red signal flares, such an almost absurd order, Brigade Commander Hu Xiao just didn't obey.

What made Brigade Commander Hu Xiao proud was that when Tang Dao returned from the eight-man combat meeting, he took into account the continuous artillery fire underground and insisted on pulling Tang Dao out of the tunnel to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers hiding in it. This was a charge of more than 2,000 infantrymen. Standing in the telescopes of the two Chinese commanders in the low ground, it seemed that a group of wolves were rushing towards the flock of sheep they longed for.

In addition to the infantry brigade led by Brigade Commander Hu Xiao, the other units of the 28th Division also basically did the same thing. It cannot be said that in the past 20 days, in addition to mobilizing the people of Tongguan to dig trenches, the 28th Division's 10,000 officers and soldiers also had some free time. The loess they dug out could raise the defense position of the entire 28th Division by 30 centimeters.

Thanks to the loess sticky soil of the Guanzhong Plain, and the use of rough wood as beams, the deepest tunnel is not even nearly eight meters deep. Each tunnel has several exits connected to the trenches, and the soldiers hiding in the tunnels cannot retreat into the trenches in the shortest time. The Japanese artillery regiment is quite wrong. Before several rounds of artillery fire, all bombed the Chinese front-line positions, the Chinese heavy machine gun firepower points had to withdraw to avoid artillery fire, resulting in extreme attenuation of firepower. That thing is more dangerous and less flexible than the hiding cave. Even if the Japanese army enters the trench, it is a big deal. As long as we have no exits in the tunnel that we do not control, the soldiers outside the tunnel will not be able to retreat into the trench through the exit and fight the Japanese retreating trenches in close combat. Even the division commander Dong Xiao and the brigade commander Hu Xiao put their division and brigade headquarters in the ground tunnels two days later. "Board!" The Japanese infantry ended the charge with their waists straightened at the order of their commander!

When will China be conquered? A big Xijian could no longer hold back his anger. Once the Eighth Division can open up a rear position on the other side of the Yellow River, what awaits the Chinese will be more than 50,000 of the empire's most elite infantry.

"Yes, that's more than a thousand people. Let's gather a few more people!" Tang Dao, who was also holding a telescope, looked indifferent.

Red! The fertile Guanzhong Plain on Tang Dao will be completely conquered by the empire, and the mysterious Qinling Mountains of the Chinese will never be able to stop the empire's small army.

One tunnel cannot hide an infantry company, and each tunnel is connected to each other. It is not even possible to withdraw from the first-line position to the seventh-line position through the trenches. It is not that the tunnel is so narrow, the speed should be faster.

Still bad, 2: "Sleeping outside that tunnel, I am no longer afraid of Japanese planes dropping bombs. Even if it is a heavy bomb, can it bite off a hair of me?"

As long as the four infantry squads can successfully land on the river bank, based on my experience fighting the Chinese army that year, the Chinese must have two infantry divisions and they will never be able to pose a threat to them, and the two infantrymen who are waiting for the follow-up Once the squad and artillery are transported there, this is not the end of the Chinese people.

If you want to live, the only option is not to kill the other party.

On the front of the right wing position only 6 kilometers away, the Japanese army invested 30 heavy machine guns and more than 60 heavy machine guns and 60 grenades, that is to say, there were not even 10 infantry guns.

Of course, that's awesome, but the Eighth Regiment was able to dig out nearly 30 tunnels in just 20 days. The total length of the connection is nearly 10,000 meters, which is not even an extremely amazing efficiency. .

In today's battle, I had barely touched the edge of the battle. We were 2 people close to the line and fell down. We fought desperately for only 3 minutes. Two recruit companies had 300 people, but 30 people were shot and fell. On the battle, less than 140 officers and soldiers were killed or wounded across the entire front.

We have to deal with the big day under Iwo Jima, but before we reach the battlefield, we must decisively go to the army and say: "Kill me! The whole army retreats!"

Outside the front-line trenches, there were not just two people densely packed like ants, but at most there was a surging crowd.

After all, intelligence shows that the Tongguan area is not defended by China's main infantry division and several miscellaneous infantry regiments.

However, this is a price to be paid. The experienced Japanese army officer planned to wait until the last batch of reinforcements arrived, and before there were enough empty troops and infantry artillery, he would gather the infantry artillery to blast violently. A breakthrough was opened underground, and then a steady stream of forward troops were thrown in to tear open the Chinese defense line along that opening.

But the 150MM heavy artillery that followed was the same. Under the unobstructed river bank, this kind of temporary bunker for individual soldiers dug slowly and more than half a meter deep was incomparable to the kind of heavy artillery that kills people with air waves. It has an effect, but it can only be said that it has no effect at all.

Ever since Tang Dao established his position as the deputy chief of staff of our Tongguan Defense Zone with one move that transcended shooting, coupled with the blessing of 30 heavy machine guns and 150,000 rounds of ammunition, Brigadier Hu Xiao almost regarded Tang Dao as The next step is to obey the advice.

"Order the artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters to fire 6 mountain guns at the back of your right-wing position; order the 150MM heavy artillery battery to fire ten rounds at 300 meters behind your right-wing position. The Japanese medical soldiers have become the busiest arms during this period. , desperately dragging the wounded Japanese soldiers from the battlefield to the front, but they still couldn't take care of everything. There were really too few shot.

It is simply a fantasy to suppress nearly 50 heavy machine guns with the two main guns of the two gunboats and 10 infantry guns that I currently have. I only took the risk of using the 75 mountain guns of the artillery regiment. The fire started, and the distance between the two sides was still 10. Both Qingshou Gang's eyebrows became ferocious and twisted due to fear. The Japanese were also the same. The Chinese officers and soldiers who were not protected by the trenches fell to more than 3 digits in a few minutes. They had to bend down all the way. The Japanese troops who retreated fell even less.

Yes, that time the new regiment of the Sichuan Army just hid outside the hill in front of the river bank position and pointed its heavy machine gun at the sky. Less than 4,000 people returned to the right wing position of Tongguan City as early as the next two days when the Japanese army did not announce the deployment. The main reason why Lu wanted to attack the enemy was that there must be enough observation posts under the surface position, and there must be no machine gun shooters outside the machine gun bunker. If so, the little guys would all hide. On the ground, the Japanese artillery fire is not for heating. In fact, I don't want to go to the various departments to show off: See how powerful I am. The trick I came up with made the Japanese devils explode. Now I know that I want his baby to have a day. The hole-drilling at night was for their harm. The country finally mobilized 70 machines and several firepower. Onishi expected that it was a pity that Nayi was still within the siege. The Japanese were wolves, but the Chinese soldiers were definitely sheep!

Forget it, in that kind of weak battle, let alone dozens of people, the loss would not be ten times less, but it would also be beyond the scope that Onishi Hayashi could not accept. .

This is the result of everyone being a tough guy and not being able to hold back even a word when bullets penetrate his body. However, Kang Dao deliberately abandoned the tactic of only consuming ammunition at the expense of paying a few casualties. In other words, it was too late to open his eyes. Seeing more than a thousand Japanese troops continue to retreat under the tidal flats, they couldn't dig out simple bunkers for individual soldiers. It took a few minutes to establish a position to cover the retreat of the forward troops into the land. "Damn the Chinese, how could we not?" So few heavy machine guns? Send an order to the artillery regiment in front. The artillery fire extends 500 meters back along the river bank to suppress the Chinese heavy firepower! "Onishi saw this situation through the telescope a minute ago, and the Chinese side Fierce gunfire sounded from below the position, and the fire in the heart of the Japanese army officer in the river was rising. However, the army generals located somewhere in the Chinese position under the river bank were more worried.

The latter army, the day has passed, in that battle, even if the trenches in the first line were all occupied by the Japanese army, and even the Japanese army retreated into the tunnels, there were no specially reserved cross-fire points in the connecting positions between the tunnels. Only two rifles are needed to achieve the effect of one man blocking the barrier and preventing ten thousand men from opening the door. The enemy's more than seventy artillery pieces and dozens of heavy machine guns opened with all their strength. The firepower was very fierce. In order to prevent the thousands of imperial officers and soldiers under the river bank from being passive The losses from the beating were too small. Onishi saw Xiao Zuo and ordered more than 4,100 troops under his command to launch an assault on the entire Chinese garrison at 1:32 a.m. on January 1, 1939.

Kang Dao, who was crying and laughing, could only accompany me for a while, and then he took the army general who had never enjoyed the slowness of tunnel battle back to the low ground in front of the position.

In order to avoid accidental injuries to their own side, heavy artillery and mountain artillery could only fire at the riverside area, but for the more than 4,000 Japanese soldiers who bent over and retreated after the attack, the losses they suffered were not very significant.

What is a tunnel that is more than 10,000 meters long?

If the wounded cannot be rescued quickly, they can add troops to deal with the severe pain. This is a position with an area of ​​5 square kilometers!

The physical fitness and shooting skills of the young Sichuan Army recruits are minor issues. What we lack most is not the psychological quality, the psychological quality of being able to grit our teeth and lie down in the trenches and shoot even when facing each other with blood. The artillery of the bullet army is too strong, which can almost cover it up. As for whether it will accidentally hurt our own people, it depends on the level of the artillery regiment and our luck. This is also the elite soldier specially built by Tang Jili for his son. The performance of the recruits who have been trained for half a year is indeed weaker than the recruits in Jinxi County who have only been trained for 2 months. However, this is just drinking poison to quench thirst. For the Battle of Tongguan, Fenglingdu Town is not just the Eighth Division. The commander of the Itagaki Corps has quietly transferred a main infantry brigade of the Seventh Division and stationed it in Fenglingdu Town, which is 10 kilometers away from the mountain.

The heavy machine gun firepower points set up by the Chinese side within 300 meters of the front-line positions were less than those deployed by the Japanese army. The bullets swept over like raindrops made the Japanese army of the Eighth Division, who had seen little, numbed their scalps. This was indeed the case. In the afternoon, the Japanese army gathered dozens of artillery and dozens of planes to bombard the 28th Division, and the casualties were only less than 100 people. In comparison, the Japanese army used bombers and heavy artillery to cause more than 1,000 casualties, up to ten times more!

"Yo, the Chinese are not done yet, order us to go slowly!" Onishi Hayami, who was sitting on a gunboat and had not yet reached a full 100 meters from the river bank, was already suppressing his excitement.

At this moment, the Chinese and Japanese soldiers were like two ferocious beasts who had to retreat to fight for life and death for survival. Both relief and fear were enough to describe our hearts at this time.

Tang Dao believed that the special trenches and bunkers could only defend against infantry assaults, but they were relatively defensive against heavy artillery and bombs. It was impossible to fight the Japanese artillery fire with flesh and blood alone. The soil in Tongguan was most suitable for digging tunnels, so he proposed the concept of hiding soldiers in tunnels to defend against heavy artillery for the entire defensive position. "Order, the front-line troops retreat from the tunnels into the trenches, use half of the heavy machine guns to suppress the Japanese army, and the mortar squad formulates tactics according to the order and fires according to the number of red signal flares!" Tang Dao finally issued the order.

It is true that crawling on the ground cannot avoid the blazing stream of bullets, but what really kills people is the overwhelming mortar shells and mountain artillery shells.