Rise From Eight Hundred

The clash between the Four-line Regiment and the 21st Division on the Niangzi Pass defense line is destined to be tragic!

Although the Four-line Regiment has only more than 8,000 troops, it needs to defend the frontal defense line of all friendly forces. Once it is broken, more than 70,000 Chinese soldiers will be doomed!

Just as Tang Dao must believe that the other five infantry divisions can stop their enemies in front of them, his friendly forces must and can only believe that the Four-line Regiment can stop this aggressive Japanese Type B Division.

The 21st Division is also unlikely to give up easily. As soon as they came up, they sacrificed their division commander to the sky, which was like putting all the generals of the 21st Division on the fire. They had no way out except victory, otherwise they would go home with their faces covered with poop with the honor of the family.

Neither side can retreat, so they can only fight until the sky is dark and the earth is dark, and their heads are broken and bloody!

The brutal battle for the 209.1 highland was only a microcosm of the entire Niangziguan battlefield. In fact, in the entire flank highland of Niangziguan, driven by the brutality of Yokoyama Ze, the casualties of the entire 62nd Infantry Regiment reached 1,100 in just one and a half days. Compared with the 4,400 troops under his command, the casualty rate was as high as 25%, which was even higher than the casualty rate of the 8,000 troops deployed by the two infantry regiments in the main position.

Even Nagano Kameichiro couldn't help but take a breath when he heard the casualty figures. If the battle continued like this, it would take less than five days for the entire 21st Division to be wiped out.

Of course, although the high casualty rate of the Japanese army did not capture the highlands and positions controlled by the Four-Line Regiment, it also brought unprecedented casualties to the Four-Line Regiment.

In the unprecedented bloody battle on the morning of September 9 and September 10, only the 3rd Battalion lost 89 officers and soldiers, 132 were seriously injured, and the entire battalion lost more than 200 people, almost half of the infantry company.

If the battle continues at this speed, the Third Battalion will be wiped out in less than five days!

Of course, that is premised on the fact that the 62nd Infantry Regiment can continue to receive fresh blood. Otherwise, with the consumption rate of Hengshanze, in just one and a half days, his three infantry battalions will be out of soldiers.

Since the start of the battle on the Niangzi Pass battlefield, the total casualties of the Four-line Regiment have not exceeded 600, and the Third Battalion alone accounts for half of them, which also shows the ferocity of Hengshanze.

Tang Dao has already listed the 62nd Infantry Regiment on the flank as a must-kill target!

8 kilometers away, another important defense line guarding the flank of the Niangzi Pass defense line - Falu Ridge, the 17th Division has already fought with the 39th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division.

The Xuehua Mountain Heights even fought a bloody battle that stunned both China and Japan!

The most tragic scene that Leng Feng of the Third Battalion had ever imagined became a real event in Xuehua Mountain!

After finding that they could not stop the offensive of the Japanese heavy artillery and infantry, the colonel commander of the 102nd Regiment of the 17th Division stationed in Xuehua Mountain started to fight for his life!

You know, it was only half a day after the war started, and an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people actually started to fight for their lives.

The method of fighting for their lives is very simple. You are a mountain artillery and a heavy artillery. I can't defend the high ground! Then I'll give it to you, just ask if you want it?

If you want it, do you need infantry? Then I will request artillery coverage, and then when the artillery coverage is reached, reinforce the infantry to go up to the high ground and reoccupy the high ground.

To put it bluntly, it's an exchange!

Your heavy artillery destroyed everything on the high ground, the fortifications no longer exist, and life no longer exists. Then what can your infantry use to hide from my 17th Division's mountain artillery?

Use your head to resist!

The 17th Division now has more than 16 mountain guns, 24 82 mortars and 8 92-type infantry guns. Although this firepower cannot match the 24 mountain guns and 12 105 howitzers commanded by the 39th Infantry Brigade, it is not a piece of cake to gather more than 10 mountain guns to attack a high ground.

Under such tactics, a high ground changed hands up to 8 times in a day, which also means that the infantry of both sides who went up the high ground became cannon fodder under the artillery fire of both sides.

That is real cannon fodder!

The war history of the 17th Division has a clear record. Only on the No. 6 high ground 600 meters away from the main peak of Xuehua Mountain, 268 officers and soldiers were killed and no wounded!

Even if they went to the battlefield at the infantry platoon level, they were almost wiped out. Among the 9 infantry companies under the 102nd Regiment, 4 infantry companies had a casualty rate of more than 80% in this brutal battle.

Under such tactics, the Japanese army was also in pain, and faced with this pure exchange style of play, they were also helpless.

After more than 700 casualties, they actually captured less than 3 high grounds. The main peak of Xuehua Mountain and several other high grounds were still firmly in the hands of the Chinese army. If they continued to occupy the entire Xuehua Mountain Highland at this rate of casualties, they would need to pay at least two infantry battalions.

Just looking at the casualty figures, let alone looking at them, just thinking about them can make Takagi Yoshito, the then major general and brigade commander of the infantry brigade, shudder all over.

This made him begin to really pay attention to the opponent in front of him who he once thought was vulnerable, but this alert came too late, or even if he paid attention to it, it would not have much effect. Unless he delayed time and waited until the 17th Division ran out of ammunition and food, otherwise this cruel attack and defense would reappear.

What this Northwest Army lacked was never a strong will, but only artillery that could counterattack. Tang Dao did his best to make up for this shortcoming.

Although they still couldn't provide adequate protection for their own infantry, they could give the Japanese infantry a good beating, and that was enough.

The 102nd Regiment suffered nearly 500 casualties in two days, accounting for a quarter of the entire infantry regiment, but the number of Japanese soldiers killed was still above this number, which was an encouragement for the officers and soldiers of the 102nd Regiment.

It turned out that the so-called Type A division was just like this, with a single and stereotyped tactic. It was nothing more than the infantry charging after the artillery bombardment, and continuing the artillery bombardment if the infantry could not charge.

This time, the Snow Mountain was no longer just blue all over the ground, and the "shit yellow" that could be seen everywhere was also a landscape on the high ground.

Especially on the high ground that the two sides had repeatedly fought for 8 times, it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a sea of ​​blood and corpses. Once entering the position, the bloody smell like entering a slaughterhouse made the toughest soldiers couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses with towels.

There was almost no place to stay on the entire position, and there were broken limbs and arms everywhere!

Because the battle situation was urgent, both China and Japan could only do their best to take the wounded away, and the remains of the dead could only be left on the position.

Then, artillery fire from both sides poured down alternately on the high ground that had been cut down by 10 centimeters. For a whole day, the remains of nearly 600 soldiers who died on the high ground almost covered the entire position.

And at this time, after a large number of remains were burned by high temperatures, no one could tell who was Chinese and who was Japanese.

So much so that at night, the Japanese army raised a white flag and sent a second lieutenant to negotiate, not for the victory or defeat of the entire battlefield, but to collect the bodies.

After this battle, 308 people of an infantry battalion that attacked the high ground were missing, which forced the army commander of the infantry regiment to lower his proud head and pretend not to see the infantry battalion commander sent people to negotiate.

Originally, the 3rd Battalion of the 102nd Regiment in charge of the high ground did not want to agree, but there were too many limbs and bodies on the position. It would be fine for one or two days, but it would be easy to breed bacteria if it rotted for a long time. They would find their own comrades to bury them, but how could they have the extra energy to care about the Japanese?

Secondly, the Japanese offered a condition that was hard to refuse. They were willing to return the remains and equipment of the 17th Division reconnaissance pioneers killed in the previous reconnaissance operations.

After layers of requests, the division headquarters, which was only 1,200 meters away from this high ground, received an order: it was agreed that an unarmed medical team of the Japanese army would come to collect the bodies, and the division field hospital would also send corresponding personnel to transport the remains of the officers and soldiers who died in the daytime!

So, on this moonlit night, the most bizarre scene on the battlefield appeared on the high ground of Xuehua Mountain.

A team of 40 people in khaki and a team of 60 people in dark blue actually crossed each other on the same position. The two types of people who were supposed to fight for life and death, miraculously, seemed to have not seen each other, and only focused on searching and identifying on the position.

But this tranquility did not last long. The two sides finally had a dispute over the identification of the difficult-to-distinguish remains.

The Chinese did not want their comrades to be taken away to the island country, and the Japanese did not want their fellow countrymen to be left in distant China.

Don't tell me, although there were Chinese soldiers armed with live ammunition and ready for battle, the Japanese still had a tough attitude and insisted on their own judgment. Even though the half of the human leg was actually a bloody mess and burned black by the high temperature, there was no obvious Chinese or Japanese features on it, but the Japanese had only one judgment, that the fat on this stump was obviously thicker, which was definitely not what the Chinese who couldn't even get enough food had.

This reason made the captain in charge furious. The 17th Division had been preparing for food for the past two months. Not to mention that meat could be supplied for a long time, white flour and rice were enough.

He immediately waved his gun and said, "This is the territory of my 17th Division. If I say it's not, then it's not. If you keep talking, get out of here. If you have the ability, you can capture the position tomorrow. You have the final say on this position."

After saying this, the Japanese Army second lieutenant with a tough attitude finally stopped!

But facing this situation, the 17th Division actually didn't have much to do. They could only use stretchers to collect the remains of their own officers and soldiers that they could distinguish and carry them to the rear. That was a strict order from the division commander Zhao Shoushan. Even if all the members of the 17th Division died in battle here this time, he had to bury his soldiers in the soil, and they couldn't be exposed in the wilderness like last time!

As for the rest that couldn't be distinguished, the captain company commander thought of a trick and dug a big pit behind the high ground and buried them all here. Although there might be Japanese inside, they didn't care so much.

And this high-raised tomb was preserved until decades after the Battle of Snow Flower Mountain. Because it was very likely that Chinese and Japanese soldiers were mixed, this tomb had no name, only a monument written by Division Commander Zhao Shoushan himself after the war------Blood Flower Mountain!

Yes, this is already a mountain stained red with the blood of both the enemy and us. From now on, there will only be blood flowers, but no snowflakes!

It will be interesting for people from eastern Shanxi to come here to pay tribute in the future. The tombs of other Chinese soldiers are filled with incense, liquor, and cigarettes, but this tomb is the only one with a ditch naturally washed out by rainwater. On one side of the ditch are incense, liquor, cigarettes, and even tanks, cannons, and machine guns made of mud... But the other side is empty and deserted.

In the original words of the locals of Faliling: That naturally formed ditch is a trench. Our soldiers told us that they are still fighting the Japanese devils underground! We must support them no matter what!

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As for the 921st Division and the 104th Division, although they were facing the 18th Division and part of the 20th Division, they faced more than 30,000 Japanese troops, which was the direction with the largest number of Japanese troops. However, because the 921st Division had taken a large number of railway rails and sleepers, the 18th Division had to get off the train and march quickly after arriving outside the city of HD.

When the 18th Division arrived at the mountain defense line of the 921st Division, the Chinese and Japanese sides on the other two defense lines were actually fighting in full swing.

As one side gained strength while the other side lost strength, the Japanese army came slowly, and the 921st Division and the 104th Division had more time to dig fortifications. The large number of rails and sleepers carried by the railway came in handy at this time. A large number of anti-artillery holes and reverse slope tunnels provided the officers and soldiers of the two infantry divisions with the greatest protection.

The 18th Division's 8 105mm howitzers did not inflict heavy damage to the two infantry divisions as expected. On the contrary, when resisting the 40th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division, because the infantry brigade only carried an artillery battalion of 12 Type 41 mountain guns, they were actually suppressed by the 683rd Brigade in front of them in terms of heavy firepower, and almost made the then major general commander of the 40th Infantry Brigade of the 20th Division doubt his life.

How could the "Tubalu" be more exaggerated than the legendary German-equipped division? Not only did they have the 70mm infantry guns of the Empire of Japan, but they also had 20mm machine guns, 75mm mountain guns, and even more outrageous was the 150mm heavy mortars!

Brigade Commander Cheng's military tactics were simply perfect. He first showed the enemy weakness and lost three positions in a row. After seeing that the 40th Infantry Brigade, which was in high morale, had more infantry but not as strong artillery support as he had imagined, he directly used the Tang sword to give the 6 150mm heavy mortars that the 683rd Brigade had been hiding. He also requested firepower support from the artillery battalion of the division headquarters. With a barrage of bombardment, he directly sent away hundreds of Japanese infantry occupying their own trap-like positions.

That was really a good guy. The 683rd Brigade swore to cross the Yellow River, fought dozens of battles, and annihilated thousands of Japanese troops, but it took a whole year to achieve this result, and it also paid the price of three or four thousand casualties. There were even many veterans who had experienced a long journey. But with this firepower output, at least 500 Japanese troops were killed.

If the battle lasted for a week, how many enemies would be killed?

The 40th Infantry Brigade was stunned by such a blow, and the subsequent offensives were no longer as sharp as before, and were even worse than the 21st Division they looked down on.

This is the bad nature of the Japanese. When they meet someone weaker than themselves, they are more ruthless than wolves and tigers, but once they are sure that the opponent is stronger than themselves, they can't wait to kneel down and call daddy!

The 18th Division was the same. The cannons were bombarded, the planes were also laying eggs, and the infantry rushed forward, but the Chinese were like indestructible cockroaches, and they popped up from the positions again. They had no shortage of light machine guns and heavy machine guns. You have grenade launchers, and they have them too. You have infantry artillery, and they use mortars...

And the geographical advantage of being high above is really too headache. The Japanese infantry rushed to a distance of 50 meters and threw grenades at least 20 meters away from the trenches, but the long-handled grenades thrown from the trenches could be thrown into the attacking queue.

The two Japanese armies with the largest forces fought painfully and helplessly!

On the contrary, although the two Chinese infantry divisions in the Yangquan direction had twice the strength of the temporary detachment of the Fifth Division, their heavy firepower was far inferior to that of their opponents, and the battle was extremely difficult. They lost 5 high grounds in two days and suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.

Fortunately, the most abundant thing in the mountains of eastern Shanxi is mountains. The two lieutenant generals quickly established the third line of defense and were still able to block the attack of the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, the current situation is that the Chinese and Japanese sides are in a bloody battle in the direction of Niangziguan, the HD Xingtai direction is fighting very anxiously, and the Yangquan direction is struggling to support it. It depends on which army of the Chinese and Japanese sides will not be able to hold on first.

But no one expected that the most brutal battle did not take place in the battlefield of eastern Shanxi, but in Dakouzidong Town, 200 kilometers away.

The two infantry regiments of the 108th Division, plus various auxiliary arms, with a total of 8,000 troops, marched towards the Sihang Regiment’s station.

The remaining army of the Four-Line Regiment only has an infantry battalion that was established no more than a month ago and an arsenal mainly composed of skilled workers!

The famous Battle of Qingshiyan has begun!

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ps: Fengyue has been running around these two days, so there is very little time to write. Fengyue can only use the time when she gets up in the morning and returns to the hotel at night to write. The update is a little unstable. Please forgive me. Fengyue can only guarantee to update as much as possible. It will be fine when Fengyue returns in early July. Please understand!