Rise From Eight Hundred

The sound of gunfire became more intense because of the cold orders of the two commanders in front and behind.

Not only was there the terrifying roar of heavy machine guns, but also the crisp long bursts of Czech light machine guns!

At this moment, no one was stingy with ammunition!

The surviving machine gunners of the 28th Division only wanted to keep as many Japanese as possible on the shore as they could as they tried to run towards the boats in the cold river with their short legs.

The Japanese infantry who were fleeing in a panic were no longer as fierce as before, and their faces were full of fear and desire for life.

Although the boats that were still a hundred meters away from the shore came to pick them up under strict military orders in the rain of gunfire, they did not completely abandon them.

Unfortunately, when all the artillery on the central position abandoned the boats that were still in the center of the river and only focused on the more than 20 boats, these boats were actually unable to protect themselves.

Katayama Satoshi, who was retreating, could only watch the water columns explode more than 300 meters ahead, and then a series of violent explosions resounded across the river!

It was not only the loud noise of the shells exploding, but also the sound of the motorboat being hit by the shells, and the fuel and ammunition stored in it exploding.

Staring blankly back at the exploding fireball, feeling the scorching heat sweeping in from hundreds of meters away, Katayama Satoshi, whose face had been almost stiffened by the cold wind on the river, couldn't help but hang two crystals.

It's not that the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel was not strong enough, but that he had imagined countless endings of the beach landing operation before this, but this kind of ending of completely leaking before it even started and being beaten by people's continuous critical hits, really never happened.

The Third Army spent a lot of effort on this landing operation in the Tongguan area.

He did not hesitate to persuade the headquarters to coordinate and borrowed 25 motorboats for inland use from the Central China Front Army and the Kwantung Army. Together with the North China Front Army's own motorboats, a total of 40 motorboats were collected, which could send thousands of troops to the river bank at one time.

In order to confuse the opponent, the Third Army mobilized more than 40,000 people along the hundreds of kilometers of the Yellow River. The 40 motorboats were also used in a scattered manner, but the Third Division firmly grasped 23 of them, accounting for more than half.

As the highest commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment on the beach landing battle, Katayama Satoshi even placed the two most elite infantry squadrons of his First Infantry Battalion on these motorboats equipped with steel plates.

He believed that his army would be the spearhead of the entire regiment as usual, tearing a gap for the entire army, advancing forward and being invincible!

But this Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel did not expect that the Chinese would have so many heavy machine guns, and they also played the "beyond shooting" that appeared in World War I!

The retreat made by the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel was actually extremely wise. If he continued to advance under seemingly endless waves of bullets, even if he could reach the shore, there would be only 2,000 people at most.

2,000 people against a Chinese infantry brigade seemed to be able to fight, but that was in normal field conditions.

His infantry regiment had enough infantry artillery to destroy the few Chinese heavy machine gun fire points one by one, and then he could charge recklessly, and then scare away the Chinese soldiers who had completely lost their heavy firepower cover like driving cattle and sheep, and finally enter the rhythm of chasing the defeated soldiers.

But what about now? Not only have the Chinese bunkers not been destroyed by the heavy artillery group, but in order to transport more soldiers, the three infantry battalions only carried four infantry artillery pieces, and it is still unknown how many infantry artillery pieces have survived.

Even if all of them are there, can these four small artillery pieces destroy the Chinese bunker group?

The end of 2,000 people hiding on the river beach can only be that they will be killed piece by piece by the terrible "surpassing shooting" of the Chinese side, and they have no power to resist.

Unless he bets that the Chinese side cannot always maintain such terrible firepower intensity.

But, does he dare to bet?

Katayama Satoshi dare not, because what is on the gambling table is not only the lives of more than 2,000 imperial officers and soldiers, but also his own.

As long as it involves himself, any normal person will hesitate.

So, he made the most correct and reasonable choice.

Tang Dao is not Zhuge Liang, who can calculate the next five hundred years, but Tang Dao has always adhered to the principle of firepower first, and exchanged the windfall in his hands for arms. He bought hundreds of thousands of machine rifle bullets in Shancheng, and then extorted hundreds of thousands of rounds from the stingy old man.

At this time, more than 300,000 rounds have been used. How can we say such firepower intensity? Maybe it can't guarantee the output for a whole day, but it is not a big problem to kill more than 2,000 Japanese infantrymen lying on the river beach.

What if it is empty? Tang Dao was not worried about this. After ordering the whole army to stop shooting unless the barrel of the gun was broken or the machine gun was out of order, Tang Dao asked Xia Dayu to send a telegram to the Second War Zone Command.

"At dawn, the Japanese army assembled thousands of soldiers and hundreds of ships to launch a general attack. All our troops have been deployed to the position. The ammunition storage has been consumed! The personnel loss is huge!

All our troops are stupid, but we are determined to build the Great Wall of the Northwest with the flesh and blood of our 4,500 troops before Tongguan!

If we win this battle by chance, I hope the commander-in-chief will see that my new recruits are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country and the people, and replenish ammunition for our troops to fight the Japanese invaders again!"

The telegram sent by Tang Dao to the Second War Zone Command was so moving that everyone could cry.

Yes! 4,500 people are not a small number, but they are new recruits, okay? Such a group of new recruits were determined to build the Great Wall of the Northwest with their flesh and blood, and their request was just to replenish ammunition and fight again!

Even a well-informed woman like Wu Meizi, when she received this heavy telegram from the theater staff and sent it to the stingy old man's office, her eyes were full of sparkles.

"It's really good. The war has just started, and you're saying that the ammunition is in urgent need? That's hundreds of thousands of bullets, which are for the Japanese, not for military rations. I have a division of more than 10,000 people fighting for a day to have this consumption. How can he use it all up?

Tang Dao is playing the victim, this is moral kidnapping! Shameless, too shameless." Who is the stingy old man? Almost saw through the face of a certain regiment commander at a glance.

But what can you do if you see through it? Although a certain regiment commander did not have the "shameless" invention of sending a telegram, he also sent the telegram to the theater staff, not directly to the theater communication office controlled by someone.

As long as the stingy old man dares to be stingy, then the fact that he used 4,500 new soldiers as cannon fodder and did not give them ammunition will spread throughout the theater. Just ask that general dare not be chilled?

Even that day, Tang Dao directly said that he would not stay in the Second War Zone anymore. Perhaps most generals would think that was natural.

Therefore, Tang Dao was sure that the stingy old man must send him more bullets. Maybe there would not be 500,000 rounds, but 300,000 rounds would be enough.

If the Japanese dare to come again, hundreds of thousands of bullets will be thrown out to smash them to death.

The tragic choice of Katayama Satoshi was fine, but what about those officers and soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army who had already landed on the shore? Those imperial warriors who received the order to retreat and were desperately fleeing, can they still find their way home?

They can't find it. Since three consecutive motorboats exploded in the sky of artillery fire near the river bank, the Japanese soldiers who were acting as boatmen on wooden boats and rafts with weak protection began to hesitate.

The Japanese soldiers who waded through the shallow water were only a few dozen meters away from the boats that could take them home, but the sky of artillery fire and the trajectory that kept tearing the air apart made it so that there were only five boats that could reach the shallow water area!

The Japanese soldiers who were still alive rushed to their last means of escape frantically. A wooden boat that could only carry 20 people was instantly filled with people like being surrounded by an ant colony. Even the side of the boat was full of Japanese infantrymen who were full of will to survive.

The wooden boat, whose load suddenly increased several times, could not even move, let alone embark on the return journey!

"Baga! Damn bastard, let go of your hand!" A Japanese second lieutenant who had finally climbed onto the boat looked at the corporal who was pulling hard on his belt and most of his body was still in the water, his eyes full of anger.

"Captain Kuroo, don't leave me, please, Meiko is still waiting for me at home!" The corporal's eyes were full of pleading.

"If you can't leave, show your imperial warrior's appearance, take your gun, and block the enemy's bullets for the warriors!" The Japanese Army second lieutenant rebuked harshly.

The Japanese Army corporal's hand was still tightly holding his last life-saving straw.

Then, the Japanese second lieutenant raised his pistol without hesitation, coldly pointed at the soldiers of his squad, and pulled the trigger!

"Asshole! Coward!" The Japanese second lieutenant turned his head and roared: "Start the boat immediately! Anyone who obstructs will die!"

With the second lieutenant leading the way, the Japanese soldiers who were eager to go back waved their rifles and smashed their colleagues who were still clinging to the side of the boat without mercy, as if they had forgotten that they were still drinking sake together with their arms around each other last night, talking about going to the Chinese village to relax after conquering the Chinese position.

There were men who were harmless for them to kill, and women!

Countless Japanese soldiers screamed and fell into the water, and then the Japanese soldiers who were still carrying guns also launched their own revenge.

"Pah! Pah! Pah!" The sound of the Type 38 rifle rang out.

However, this time it was not aimed at the Chinese, but at their own people.

"Baga! Shoot these bastards who dared to betray the empire!" The Japanese second lieutenant who was shot in the shoulder had veins on his forehead and gave a stern order.

The Type 96 light machine gun mounted on the bow roared, aiming at the people in the water who dared to shoot at the wooden boat.

On the water, the screams were deafening. The Japanese soldiers who were unwilling to die for a moment, like they had met a mortal enemy, pulled the trigger at the boat that was more than ten meters away from them before they sank into the surging Yellow River, even if they could only fire one shot.

The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to get on the boat fought back desperately!

The ugliness of human nature was fully revealed at this critical moment!

This scene simply shocked the Chinese officers who were lucky enough to see this scene behind the telescope.

It turned out that when the Japanese were defeated, they would also kill each other!

"Haha! Damn it, you are good! Keep fighting hard for me! Tell all the brothers in the brigade that after this battle, I will buy ten pigs out of my own pocket to give them a meal at night!" The major general brigade commander who arrived at the front line in person saw this scene through the telescope and laughed loudly.

This may be the most comfortable moment for him in the six months since he was stationed in this area. I hope his brothers are not far away and can see such a miserable scene of the Japanese.

Similarly, Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi, who had been beaten to tears, also saw the story happening in this area of ​​water through a telescope.

This time, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, who was no longer strong enough, did not cry, but just closed his eyes in pain.

This is no longer a question of how much loss there is, but it is very likely to become a shame for the entire infantry regiment and even the entire Third Division!

But, what can he say? If he were in the other place, he might make the same choice. Instead of dying together, it is better to cut off the arm of a hero and let those who can still walk live.

Staying on this river bank, the only ending can only be death!

Of course, in addition to the Japanese soldiers who did not even spare themselves when they were ruthless, the Chinese artillery fire and the heavy and light machine guns were the main reasons for the Japanese soldiers who tried to escape from the shore to suffer a devastating disaster.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Katayama Satoshi did not say that he fled back to the other side with a complete shame. At least he had a few people to support him.

Not all Japanese soldiers fled without caring. After all, there were still "smart people", or people who were rational and firm enough.

There were nearly 500 Japanese soldiers who landed, with a strength of about 10 infantry squads. After Katayama Satoshi issued the order to retreat, most of the Japanese soldiers lost their will to fight and tried their best to escape, but there were still two infantry squads with nearly 100 Japanese soldiers who worked very hard to dig individual shelters on the shore.

The two infantry squad leaders knew that in such a crazy firepower concentration by the Chinese side, even if they wanted to leave, it would probably be one in ten!

In this case, it is better to risk one's life and use the individual shelter to save oneself for the time being. Not only can it provide cover for colleagues who are retreating, but it may also be possible to hold out for a certain period of time until the next wave of reinforcements arrives.

Even if they do not persist until they die in battle, the division will be highly commended for their bravery, and the empire will even give them honor for it!

Ideals are full, but reality is very hard!

After all, the little people have never sat in that position, and do not know the real thoughts of the big people.

After all, the sound of gunfire on the river beach continued for another half an hour before it stopped.

In front of them was the strength of a whole Chinese infantry regiment, with 90VS2000, absolutely inferior forces, absolutely inferior terrain and fortifications. This spirit of fighting is worthy of being praised and commemorated in any country.

But these Japanese infantrymen who were almost blown to pieces by the concentrated fire of a large number of mortars and grenade launchers may never have expected that not only their determined fighting process was not recorded in the battle report, but they were not even qualified to be included in the list of deaths of heroic deaths.

They were included in the missing list of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, and it was not until more than ten years after the war that the Japanese soldiers who survived this battle spoke out for this.

The reason is very simple. Fujita Susumu could not tolerate that his first battle to the west, which he had put all his efforts into, ended in failure.

Regarding the battle of crossing the Yellow River that morning, the battle report of the 3rd Division to the 3rd Army Headquarters was just "the division suffered a small setback in the test attack"!

But this time, how much damage did the 6th Infantry Regiment, which was forced to return to the starting point, suffer in the "small setback" reported by Fujita Susumu?

Of the 3,200 people in the three infantry battalions of the 6th Infantry Regiment, only less than 1,800 people were able to return to the shore, including the wounded.

That means 1,400 people died in battle! The death rate was almost more than 40%.

The highest death rate was among the more than 480 people who landed on the shore first. The two most elite infantry squadrons under Lieutenant Colonel Satoshi Katayama, except for an infantry squad that stayed with him, were all part of the arrowhead he called indestructible.

However, this indestructible arrowhead was smashed to pieces on the Chinese iron wall, and only 43 people came back alive!

It's really one in ten!

The only thing that comforted Lieutenant Colonel Satoshi Katayama was that he didn't have to worry about dealing with those bastards who machine-gunned their colleagues in order to escape.

Because, even if they got on the boat, the boat couldn't outrun the shells after all. The determined Chinese extended the artillery fire to the center of the river.

Only two wooden boats returned with holes in them, but there were only living people and no corpses on them. In order to speed up, all the corpses were thrown into the cold river without mercy.

On the river, the wreckage and flames of motorboats and wooden boats can be seen everywhere!

From a distance, it looks like the boat lanterns that Chinese people like to put up during the Lantern Festival!

This time, the fuel is 1,400 lives of the Japanese army!

The first large-scale beach landing battle of the Third Division was a big defeat!

However, the Chinese troops on the battlefield, including the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army Recruit Corps who participated in the battle with hundreds of thousands of machine gun bullets and more than 1,500 artillery shells, did not celebrate their hard-won victory.

"Kill!" Fujita Jin roared in anger.

After the last gunfire on the river beach stopped, the Japanese artillery group fired crazily again.

The rumbling of artillery sounded from early morning to dusk, and the Japanese army bombarded non-stop for a whole day.

According to statistics, during this day alone, the Sixth Artillery Regiment of the Third Division fired more than 8,000 artillery shells!

Even, not only the southwest shore defense position of Tongguan, which caused them heavy losses, but also the front of Tongguan City and Tongguan City were within the coverage of artillery.

The already devastated Tongguan City turned into a pile of rubble on this day. If it weren't for the old city wall that was still tall and thick around Tongguan City, even the people of Tongguan themselves would not be able to recognize their homes.

Fortunately, eight days ago, the 26th Division had a propaganda team with loudspeakers to shout to the streets, asking the people of Tongguan to temporarily hide in the mountains outside Tongguan City and wait for the war to ease before returning home. Otherwise, it was God's blessing that more than 50,000 people in Tongguan City could still have one-third of them.

It should be that the Japanese army emptied at least half of the artillery reserves in one breath. At about five o'clock, the Japanese artillery fire finally stopped.

However, the Third Division, which was knocked unconscious by a hammer from a Chinese soldier, might never have dreamed that some people! Just love to toss.

You stop, but he gets more excited!

For example, a certain Tang, his principle has always been: if the enemy comes, I beat him; if the enemy moves, I stick to him; if the enemy stays, I attack him; if the enemy is tired, I continue.

Anyway, in addition to beating the enemy, the most important and core point is: I won't let you have a comfortable life!

This is the 17-character tactical formula that Tang Dao combined with mobile warfare, guerrilla warfare, and defensive warfare to teach the battalion and company commanders under his command to adjust themselves according to the battlefield situation. ()