Rise From Eight Hundred

Tang Dao also came to the front line to observe the movements of the Japanese troops.

However, unlike the fat Japanese Lieutenant General who loves to show off, he is a simple and easy-going man. The soldiers in the security squad who are responsible for guarding are at least 100 meters away from him!

Moreover, the security squad is divided into two layers of security nets in groups. If they are all around them, isn't it a disguised reminder of potential dangers that they are the target they are looking for?

Just like the fat man who loves to show off, there are really too many people around him, at least a dozen people!

Moreover, Tang Dao was also wearing camouflage uniforms. Even though he was standing on the top of the mountain, he did not step on the rocks like the fat Japanese lieutenant general, with his whole body exposed, and he looked like he was pointing the country.

Next to Tang Tuanzuo was Xia Dayu, a small signal soldier, and both of them were still hiding in the grass!

Then, Tang Dao saw a group of small black dots in the distance.

The six-fold telescope is already the best military telescope in the country, but it is still shaking slightly. Even with Tang Dao's eyesight, it is impossible to determine what those black spots are.

"Heavy Rain, look, are they a group of people?" Tang Dao handed the binoculars to his signal soldier.

Xia Dayu took the telescope excitedly, stared at it for at least 20 seconds, and nodded affirmatively: "Sir, it's a group of people! And among that group of people, there are senior officials!"

"What is the basis for your judgment?" Tang Dao smiled and took the telescope. "You are praised by Niu Er as the best sniper observer, so don't lose the prestige of your title!"

"Sir, the black dots are distributed in a circle. There are only two possibilities. They are either for protection, or they are the idiom you taught me: the stars support the moon! No matter what the possibility is, the one in the center must be a Senior officer, I might be the captain of the left wing of the Japanese infantry regiment that just arrived!" Xia Dayu analyzed Tang Dao in an orderly manner.

"Haha! That makes sense!" Tang Dao smiled slightly. "Okay, then based on your kid's analysis today, our group of four will fire the first shot! If there are any results, I will credit you kid with a meritorious service!"

"Sir, this is a bit too far!" Xia Dayu touched the Mosingana rifle on his back and was stunned.

According to the ruler on the telescope lens, the two sides are at least 4 miles apart. What kind of gun can shoot that far?

"Silly boy, if you can't hit the gun, you can't hit the cannon!" Tang Dao turned his head to the target hilltop, picked up the telescope again, and his tone gradually became more and more fierce: "Send the order to Dahai, the mountain artillery company No. 1 to 6 gun positions are ready for fire, the target 152013 area, 2000 feet away, fire 5 rounds quickly! In addition, the 1st Infantry Battalion Artillery Company, 2nd Infantry Battalion Artillery Company, 80mm Howitzer Positions 1 to 3, after the mountain artillery battery is completed, each fires 5 additional rounds!"

"Yes!" Xia Dayu turned around and ran away.

Several communications soldiers located less than 50 meters below the mountain peak received Tang Dao's order and immediately turned on the radio to issue military orders to various ministries.

There are two sets of command systems for the Four Lines Regiment. One is at the regiment headquarters. If there is no emergency, military orders will be issued by the staff headed by Ye Chenghuan!

The other set is to follow the regiment leader Tang Dao, who can contact battalion-level units at any time and has the highest command authority!

Following Tang Dao's military order, the artillery positions of the mountain artillery company and the artillery companies of the two battalions immediately began to adjust the muzzles according to the coordinate positions, and the artillery shells were also moved to the artillery.

The artillery units of the Fourth Line Regiment were not idle during these two or three days. The first thing was the location selection of each artillery position.

Some are hidden deep in the woods, some are hidden under huge rocks, and some are even between two huge rock gaps, and all have camouflage nets set up above the artillery!

This is not only to prevent the Japanese artillery group from retaliating, but also to prevent air attacks!

The Japanese army completely occupies air superiority. Although the Fourth Army ambushed 24 anti-aircraft machine guns and 24 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns in this vast area, the ground-to-air force will ultimately suffer some losses. If the Japanese army starts from an altitude of 3,000 meters, When dropping bombs, machine guns and machine guns with a maximum range of only more than 2,000 meters can only look up to the sky and sigh!

Therefore, the air defense of artillery positions is very important. Not only are simple fortifications built with sandbags around each artillery position, but trenches more than 2 meters deep are also dug. They are not for infantry defense but for artillerymen to avoid the explosion of heavy aerial bombs. The use of air waves.

As for if a heavy aerial bomb happens to hit the gun emplacement, just hide and seek. Within a radius of 30 meters from the impact point, both the man and the gun will be blown to pieces!

All defenses are still the same as before, do your best and obey fate!

But the attack is not sloppy. The series of numerical areas just dictated by Tang Dao are the results obtained by the artillery battalion using nearly a hundred artillery observers and more than 50 scouts for two days and nights!

The entire plains and mountains in front of the Niangziguan defense line were artificially drawn into a large chessboard. Each grid with an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters had its own number. According to this number, the artillerymen were placed on this two-dimensional 'chessboard'. After finding the location and using the coordinate parameters already marked above, the artillery shell can be delivered to the area needed by the infantry or scouts in a very short time.

From Tang Dao issuing the military order to the first artillery piece popping out of the chamber, the whole process took less than 2 minutes, which shows the success of this artillery tactic!

Even if you are watching fireworks from 2000 meters away, you will be targeted by the opponent's cannon. I can only say that the fat man with semen in his underwear is unlucky to open the door for him - he is unlucky.

The mountain artillery company of the artillery battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment is currently equipped with the Bofors 75mm mountain cannon. The biggest feature of this type of mountain cannon that is stronger than the 41-type mountain cannon is not its range of more than 3,000 meters, but its accuracy.

After testing, the artillerymen found that the error of their bullet impact points would never exceed 30 meters, which almost means that infantry can use infantry artillery to coordinate 100 meters to attack the enemy under extreme conditions, far exceeding the extremely basic infantry artillery coordination distance of more than 200 meters currently used by the Japanese army.

6 artillery pieces fired 6 rounds at a time, directly blasting the area around the top of the mountain into a sea of ​​fire. At least a dozen Japanese infantrymen who did not have time to dodge were swept down the mountain by the air wave.

A panicked fat man screamed and crawled into the bushes beside him with an agility that did not match his body size and lay down!

Two loyal followers even lay on him as a meat shield. They were the dead soldiers he brought from his family when he took office, special battlefield shields!

If nothing unexpected happens, this sudden artillery attack may cause a considerable blow to the hundreds of Japanese troops led by Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, the division commander, but it will basically not cause any harm to this senior figure who is quick to react and has enough loyal guards.

Even though the second and third rounds of artillery fire that roared in shook the area around the top of the mountain, the casualty rate of the senior advisors and guards who originally surrounded Washizu Matsudaira was as high as 50%.

But there is a Chinese saying: If nothing unexpected happens, something will happen soon!

The 30 rounds of Bofors mountain artillery shells blew the small hill into a sea of ​​fire with great accuracy, but that was not the reason for the remaining Japanese soldiers to be heartbroken.

It was not the subsequent 30 rounds of "shrapnel shells" specially used to kill surface personnel that plowed the top of the mountain again, and the high-speed projectiles made the forest full of holes!

Instead, after the earth-shaking artillery bombing ended, the Japanese soldiers who ran madly to the top of the mountain were horrified to find the fat figure they were looking for...

A fat man who was lying in the bushes ignited by high temperature and roasting oil, but still standing still!

Even if the bombardment ended, I would not get up with determination even if I was burned to death!

When the Japanese soldiers got closer, they realized that the Emperor of Perseverance was forced! He really didn't think he had too much fat and wanted to take the opportunity to burn it.

But, he really couldn't get up!

The two big men who were lying on him had perfectly completed their own tasks. A shrapnel bomb exploded almost seven or eight meters away from them. The splattered bullets almost turned the two into a sieve, and then the crazy air wave swept the two bodies off the tragic fat lieutenant general!

So far, Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira's head was buzzing, and other parts should be intact!

But his good luck ended here!

A grenade hit a rock less than 20 meters away from the side of this person. The violent energy directly tore off a stone weighing 40 kilograms from the rock layer and threw it into the air.

Finally, it accurately hit the waist of a certain lieutenant general who was covering his head!

This fierce blow directly destroyed the lumbar spine of poor Washizu Matsudaira, completely depriving him of the ability to move his lower body.

Anyone who has experienced waist injuries knows that losing waist strength makes it extremely difficult to even turn over on your own.

In other words, apart from his arms and neck, Washizu Matsudaira had almost no place to exert strength. Coupled with the huge rock pressing on his unconscious waist, this unlucky guy could only wave his arms and shout for help, and it was difficult for him to move at all, even though he saw the fire coming and was about to burn his delicate skin.

Unfortunately, the artillery fire was still raging. Not to mention that he was just the division commander, even if he was the father of those surviving subordinates, he had to ensure that he would not die before coming to find him!

So, when the Japanese army found their dear division commander, it was already two minutes after he was roasted by the fire.

After being roasted for so long, not to mention that his fat layer was not much thinner than that of the seals in the Arctic Circle, even if it was a little squirrel, it would be enough to sizzle and ooze oil.

Even if it was not cooked through, it was still half-cooked!

So, less than an hour after the 21st Division’s vanguard arrived at the battlefield, the 21st Division lost their top commander.

A lieutenant general who didn’t die under the shells, but died before he could even reach the foot of the mountain because of extensive burns all over his body and his injuries were further aggravated by the crazy movement of his subordinates!

He didn’t make any contribution! Major General Nagano Kameichiro, who was promoted to the top commander of the 21st Division, was petrified instantly after receiving this news!

It’s not some shitty grief!

If it weren’t for Washizu Matsudaira, the gift-giving expert, the position of the 21st Division commander would have been his. It would be good if he died.

But it’s definitely not crazy joy!

The division commander was lost before the war even started. After the war, the front army will definitely settle accounts, and the entire division from top to bottom will be punished for this. The only possibility for him, the acting division commander who was promoted on the spot, to remove the word "acting" is that he won great merit in this battle.

For example, breaking through the current Chinese defense line and annihilating the Chinese!

Nagano Kameichiro is different from his already roasted boss. He is a Japanese Army major general who graduated from a non-commissioned officer school and was a concrete participant in the September 18th Incident. If it weren't for this group of "young and strong" people who rebelled, how could the empire led by those officials have the opportunity to annex the fertile and rich three provinces in the northeast?

In the Battle of the Great Wall in 1933, Nagano Kameichiro, who was then the left-level deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Division, did not lead the army alone, but his outstanding performance during his tenure was also appreciated by Lieutenant General Nishi Yoshiichi, then the commander of the Eighth Division, and was promoted to the position of Army Major General two years later.

To put it bluntly, this guy is a bit of a real deal.

Nagano Kameichiro, who became the second-in-command of the newly formed 21st Division, knew that the combat power of the 21st Division was not as good as those of the standing divisions. At best, it was on par with the second-tier divisions such as the 108th and 109th, especially since it was the first time to fight such a mountain offensive and defensive battle.

He had already made a tactical plan and was not in a hurry to attack. He would spend ten days and a half months with the Chinese in front of the Chinese defense line, maximize the shortcomings of the Chinese ammunition storage, and finally defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!

The reason was also very simple. In addition to their 21st Division, there were also the 18th Division and the 20th Division, and even a detachment of the 5th Division, which was known as the "First Army in North China"!

If they couldn't break through the Chinese defense line, how could his 21st Division, a newly formed division, take the lead? And if they waited until they broke through the Chinese defense line, the Chinese on the Niangziguan defense line would definitely be in turmoil, and then they could completely take advantage of the ready-made advantage without suffering too many casualties.

Although the somewhat "not seeking merit, but seeking no mistakes" tactic did not get the approval of Washizu Matsudaira, no matter how stupid the fat man who was still smelling the fragrance was, he had one very good point. He knew that he was not familiar with the battlefield, so he relied on his second-in-command who had battlefield experience. Seeing that he could not convince him to listen to him, he finally did what Nagano Kameichiro wanted.

But now, with the death of this guy, Nagano Kameichiro's wishful thinking has completely come to nothing.

If the officers above the left level of the 21st Division did not have military merit in this battle, they would all be punished after the war because of the death of the division commander!

"Send a message to Matsuura Daisa, the commander of the left regiment of the 83rd Infantry Regiment, I will give him 2 hours to prepare, and immediately attack his front defense line after 2 hours. I want the hateful Chinese to be buried with the division commander!" Nagano Kameichiro roared with a sullen face.

"Order the artillery regiment, except for the 105 howitzers stationed in the original position, leave an infantry squadron to protect them, and all other mountain artillery, move 2,000 meters forward to the enemy position. One hour later, I want to see the Chinese front-line positions, including the rear, covered by our artillery fire!"

"In addition, order the 62nd and 63rd Infantry Regiments to run forward and arrive by dusk this afternoon at the latest!

Tomorrow, gather the strength of our division to capture the enemy's position and comfort the spirit of the division commander with the heads of all the enemy's school-level officers!"

"Hi!" The Japanese officers around Nagano Kameichiro bowed their heads.

The 21st Division was forced to change its tactics because of the accidental death of its own division commander and most of the officers of the division staff, from dawdling to fighting to the death!

But the instigator, Tang Tuanzuo, did not know that his previous wave of military orders had completely changed the direction of the entire war.

Originally, he was just hoping for the best. If he knew that the black spots were actually the commander of the 21st Division, Lieutenant General, and a bunch of high-ranking staff members under his command, including the left-wing and the left-wing, he would have concentrated his fire on the 1st to 6th artillery positions, firing at least 30 rounds per gun, and would not stop until the mountain was blown to pieces.

Then, I'm afraid that Washizu Matsudaira would not even be able to find his greasy body, and he would be directly buried by artillery!

As a result, after that round of artillery fire, the Japanese 105 howitzer stopped firing soon, and Tang Tuanzuo did not take the possible results of spending 60 rounds of artillery shells too seriously, and instead observed the movements of the Japanese troops at the front.

Not long after, Tang Dao discovered that the Japanese army had given up digging field trenches 1,000 meters away and directly advanced the first field trench to about 600 meters. The shadowy shadows were a little blurry in his telescope, but for the front-line positions of Niangzi Pass, it was not too far.

The Japanese thought that there were no heavy machine guns on our front-line positions. They were too bold!

Tang Dao's mouth curved with a trace of coldness!

He didn't need to give orders, he knew what the first battalion of the Japanese army would do!

His company and platoon leaders who had experienced bloody battles would never miss this opportunity to eliminate the Japanese invaders' vitality.

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"My goodness! The Japanese are taking the initiative to send their lives to my guns!" Wei Donglai, who was lying on a top of an observation post covered with steel plates, sandbags and soil, and protected by sandbags and logs on both sides, put down the telescope in his hand and smiled like a flower.

"Order the two MG34 machine guns and three 82-mm mortars on the second line of defense to fire at full speed. Let's teach the Japanese a lesson and let them know that they are not qualified to act like masters in front of my 2nd Company. Even if they dig trenches, they have to dig them while lying down!"

"Company commander, you should go back to the trenches behind the mountain! Leave this to me!" A lieutenant accompanying Wei Donglai advised with a bitter face.

The second company now has more than 300 people in the whole company. It is much stronger than before, but the stronger the strength, the greater the responsibility. The width of the surface position responsible for defense is nearly 800 meters!

As the highest commander of this 800-meter position, it is extremely dangerous to directly reach the first line of defense on the mountainside, even if it has an observation post that can resist 75mm mountain artillery.

The Japanese army had previously used 105 heavy howitzers. The trenches built on the front line collapsed in several places during the bombardment half an hour ago. The soldiers were sweating profusely to repair them.

Otherwise, the platoon leader in charge of the first line of defense would not have ignored the military order and instead advised his company commander.

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to your advice, but before I retreat, I have to see the results of the battle!" Wei Donglai is considered to be a more elegant company commander of the Four Lines Regiment. Facing the dissuasion of his subordinates, he is gentle and does not get angry, but he remains the same.

This is also one of the temperaments that the officers of the Four Lines Regiment learned from Tang Tuanzuo. Leading by example is never just talk!

So, in the field of vision of the somewhat stubborn army captain's telescope, a cloud of smoke spread out a mile away.

The Japanese army was furious and fought back with 70mm infantry guns and 92-type heavy machine guns deployed on both wings.

With the blood flowers blooming on the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese infantrymen, the second battle of Jindong Niangziguan in the Anti-Japanese War officially kicked off!

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