Rise From Eight Hundred

"Captain Li, the gunfire in the village has stopped for a long time. Deputy Squad Leader Lin and the others may have already" A soldier in a gray cloth uniform without a military rank looked at the village with green smoke in front of him, with a sad expression on his face.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou, you and I have a total of more than 60 brothers trapped inside, and they are dying or corpses! Even if they have all died, I will snatch all their bodies back today. If you don't want to snatch them, Then I'll grab it." Li Jijin, who was looking at the smoke ahead with a telescope, twitched his muscles fiercely and replied with an extremely rare severity.

The Japanese army's move to attack from the east to the west really caught the garrison troops in several villages near Zhaojiazhuang by surprise. By the time he gathered all the capable troops from the 7th company in Lincheng County and arrived, it was already after dark.

What makes Li Jijin, the supreme commander of the Fourth Army Regiment in Lincheng County, even more painful is that the Japanese army seemed to have expected that a large Chinese force would come to support them. They actually prepared a full infantry brigade in advance and set up a defense line around Zhaojiazhuang. Tanks and mountain artillery assisted.

For the first time, the Japanese army only defended and did not counterattack. In the absence of large-caliber artillery, if he wanted to break through the Japanese defense line, he would have to pay far greater casualties than the more than 60 soldiers in the village.

Moreover, when the news reached the regiment headquarters, Tang Tuanzuo ordered him to be complacent and use the veterans of the 7th company and hundreds of new recruits to attack the Japanese defense line.

Of course, Li Jiujin knew Tang Tuanzuo's difficulties. If he rushed to the defense line regardless of casualties, it would be possible to break through the defense line and provide support to Zhuang Nai. However, this would not only cause a large number of casualties in the company, especially those of new recruits who had only been in the army for a month or two. In the end, it will seriously dampen the enthusiasm of the people in the base area to join the army.

This is a completely normal mentality. Just after sending the baby to the army, only a few dozen days later, every family has received a death notice. The psychological gap is too big. Who will be willing to join the army in the future?

In addition, the more internal reason is that the Japanese army has obviously carried out careful planning this time. The more than a thousand Japanese troops seen on the periphery now may be only part of them, and more Japanese troops may be waiting for them not far away.

If he breaks through the defense line and enters Zhaozhuang at the cost of casualties, then when a larger number of Japanese troops arrive, they may trap the entire 7th Company and even the more than a thousand people who are gathering in the 80th Group Army.

Therefore, Li Jijin could only wait for the arrival of the battalion artillery company's 6 80mm howitzers and 8 7mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

When those big guys come, the Japanese who are nesting in shallow trenches will know what heavy firepower is, and how scummy those little bean tanks that the Japanese put behind the fortifications as fixed machine gun firepower points are.

But after waiting and waiting, until daybreak, the fierce gunfire that had been ringing all night in Zhaojiazhuang gradually stopped, and the artillery battery had not arrived yet. Li Jijin's anger could hardly be suppressed, and now he heard the Eightyth Army When the top commander of Lincheng, Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou, said this, it didn't break out immediately.

The soldier in gray military uniform showed an angry look on his face, slammed his military cap, and pulled out his pistol: "Damn, you, Li Jiujin, are not the only heroes. Captain Li, don't you feel bad for me? You are the only one in the village." Brother, you are so anxious, but there are 60 of my comrades inside, who are fighting for their lives with the little devil! Captain Li, you are the highest military commander in Lincheng, and you ordered me to be the death squad. Captain, rush in without anyone, I will come to see you."

Seeing that this man got angry, Li Jijin was silent for a long time, calmed down his emotions, and handed this man a cigarette: "I'm sorry, Lao Zhou, it's my fault. I just heard you talk about the gun in the village. The sound stopped, in my heart"

Li Jijin poked his heart hard, tears welling up in his eyes: "It hurts!"

"Lin Peng has been following me and the regiment for at least a year and a half. He was a defeated soldier whom our army took in on the road when we retreated from Songjiang. That boy is really good. He is smart and brave in battle. He could have been promoted a long time ago. As a squad leader, he just couldn't bear to leave the brothers in his squad and refused to leave.

Now the dog days are so good! They all die together. "

"Captain Jiu Jin, I don't blame you, I don't blame you!" After venting his anger, the soldier in gray took a few puffs of his cigarette, with sadness in his eyes. "It was us commanders who underestimated our opponents and caused such heavy losses. After this battle is over, I will ask the commander for punishment."

"Well! That's a good summary. You two, the highest military officer in Lincheng County of the Southern Hebei Administrative Office, need to think carefully about the mistakes you made in this battle."

A metallic sound came from the trench outside the bunker.

The two people in the bunker were slightly stunned, and Li Jiujin showed ecstasy on his face.

That's the sound of Tang Dao!

It was not because Tang Tuanzuo rushed more than 160 miles to the Zhaojiazhuang battlefield in just ten hours, but because Li Jijin knew that when the Tuanzuo leader came, he would be accompanied by elite guards, reconnaissance companies or mountain infantry companies.

Breaking through the Japanese defense line and supporting Zhaozhuang was only a matter of seconds.

"Hello, sir!"

"Hello, Chief!"

Before the two men could greet him, the tall Tang Dao had already bent down and got into the frontline command post that had been built all night long. The two men quickly stood at attention, but neither of them gave a military salute.

During wartime, the 80th Army Group and the Fourth Army Regiment have strictly stipulated that military salutes cannot be performed, even at the command post.

"How is the battle situation now?" Tang Dao walked into the command post without any greetings and went straight to the topic.

"The Japanese army has four lines of defense, each line of defense has an infantry squadron plus a heavy machine gun squad, 6 infantry guns and 2 mountain guns, 4 Type 94 light tanks, and a lot of cavalry.

According to the report of the militia who withdrew from Zhaojiazhuang, there are still nearly 400 infantry and other attached personnel attacking Zhaojiazhuang, and the total force is roughly more than 1,800 people!" Li Jiujin reported hurriedly.

"We currently have 283 people from the original 7th Company, 348 people from the newly established recruit training department, 2 companies of the regular army of the Lincheng Division of the 80th Group Army, and 1,138 people from the county armed brigade. The total force is about the same."

"What about the blocking troops deployed further out?" Tang Dao looked serious.

"There are 380 people from the 1st and 2nd companies of our Four-line Regiment and 1,200 people from the 80th Army Group, who were urgently mobilized from two nearby counties at 8 o'clock last night. They arrived at the designated location at 6 o'clock in the morning and began to build fortifications. As long as the Japanese army does not send out an infantry regiment, they should be able to stop it." Li Jiujin replied.

"Not enough! I have ordered the 4th, 5th and 10th companies to dispatch two more platoons to the Lincheng battlefield on the way, and an independent battalion from the Ji'nan Division of the 80th Army Group is also on the way here." Tang Dao shook his head.

"Then, there are those who followed you here..." Li Jiujin was stunned.

Tang Tuanzuo asked him not to act on impulse yesterday afternoon, why did he feel that Tang Tuanzuo was more impulsive than him now?

Compared with Li Jiujin, the soldiers in gray uniforms were even more dumbfounded.

The Sihang Regiment mobilized 6 platoons of about 600 troops again, which was nothing, but he knew too well the current scale of the Ji'nan Division. He was the deputy battalion commander and the highest military commander of the Lincheng Division. He led two ordinary infantry companies, which had reached a scale of 1,600 people.

And how many people are there in an independent battalion directly under the Ji'nan Division? He was not too clear about the specific number at present, but before May, it was as high as 3,000 people. Two months have passed, and after a large number of guns and ammunition were added, 4,000 people might not be able to stop it.

Adding up, the Chinese troops in Lincheng are nearly 10,000. What does the commander of the Sihang Regiment want to do? Have an infantry division-level battle with the Japanese army?

"Except for the escort company staying at the regiment headquarters, the guard company, reconnaissance company, mountain infantry company, cavalry company 1, regimental artillery company, air defense company, engineering company, and baggage company are all on the expedition this time!" Tang Dao looked at the battlefield calmly, but clearly, the two could see the flames jumping in it.

Those who are familiar with Tang Dao know that it is very dangerous.

Not only will it burn people, it will also explode!

"In addition, the main force of the 772nd Regiment of the 683rd Brigade is heading towards southern Hebei overnight. At 7 o'clock in the morning, our Chinese forces in southeastern Shanxi have been prepared to take the initiative to attack and block the main transportation channels in southeastern Shanxi!"

Tang Dao's voice did not stop, and the determination to mobilize tens of thousands of troops seemed to be just a light chess game.

The two were completely stunned.

A small Zhaozhuang not only made Tang Tuanzuo mobilize all the troops in southern Hebei, but even the southeastern part of Shanxi was on fire.

This is not a division-level scale, it is completely an army-level.

"Shinozuka Yoshio just wants to use the blood of our soldiers and civilians in Zhaojiazhuang as bait to lure out my main force so that he can use his Type A division to fight me? Okay! Then I will satisfy him this time and let him see whether the Japanese Type A division can be invincible when the strength is not much different." Tang Dao's eyes suddenly became fierce, and his voice was so cold that the two major-level officers couldn't help but tremble all over.

"He used the lives of 66 Chinese officers and soldiers as bait, so I will use the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers in front of me as bait, but I will swallow them first and digest them well before he arrives."

Tang Dao's pupils with jumping fire suddenly looked at the two Chinese majors standing upright.

"Two battalion artillery companies have arrived 2,000 meters away, and the guard company, reconnaissance company, mountain infantry company, and cavalry company have arrived with me. I will put my headquarters in Zhaojiazhuang in 1 hour and wait for Shinozuka Yoshio to fight. Tell me, can you do it?"

"Report to the commander (chief), we can do it!" The two shouted loudly without thinking.

As the charge horn sounded, soldiers entered the front-line trenches one by one, waiting for the artillery fire to cover the Japanese positions before launching a charge.

This time, a fully-staffed infantry battalion of the Japanese army faced the attack of four infantry companies of the Four-line Regiment and two infantry companies of the Eighth Army with more than 1,000 people, and the first artillery fire they had to endure was the bombardment of 12 80mm mortars and more than 40 60mm mortars.

It is not an exaggeration to describe it as raining bullets!

In just ten minutes, the Chinese side threw nearly 2,000 shells at the key breakthrough area, and the intensity of the artillery fire was even close to the level of the American cowboys beating the Japanese island guards in the future Pacific battlefield.

The mortar groups of the four participating Four-line Regiment infantry companies almost emptied 90% of their ammunition in just 10 minutes, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as giving it all.

The defense line of a Japanese infantry squadron was only more than a thousand meters wide. 2,000 shells fell, which was equivalent to two shells falling at a distance of one meter. Not to mention that the shells would explode, even if they relied on pure copper bullets, it was estimated that many Japanese soldiers would be killed.

The Japanese army's civil engineering work was actually very good. The loess in southern Hebei was very sticky and very suitable for excavation. However, the 5-meter-deep trenches and simple anti-artillery holes could not withstand such a high density of artillery explosions!

I don’t know how many shells fell in the trench that was no more than 2 meters wide, or even in front of the entrance of the anti-artillery hole, killing countless Japanese soldiers and burying them in the loess.

The Japanese heavy machine gun squad that had been marked as a target was the focus of the mortar group. They fired 1,700 shells at the Japanese infantry trench and 300 shells at the Japanese heavy machine gun position in the direction of the breakthrough.

Using 300 shells to hit 4 heavy machine guns may seem like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken, but this butcher knife is really crisp!

The 4 heavy machine guns, the shooters, and the ammunition handlers were all blown into pieces on the ground. Even if there were still people who could survive, the heavy machine guns were gone. Would they go to the battlefield with a handful of bullets?

The muscles shown by the Tang sword are not just mortars of different calibers. After the artillery preparation, the main machine gun used by the Chinese to cover their soldiers' charge was not MG42 or MG34, but the terrifying 7mm heavy machine gun.

In order to ensure the hit rate, 16 7mm heavy machine guns were moved to the front line no more than 400 meters away from the Japanese trenches!

The Japanese commander had a good idea. The thousand-man brigade only defended but did not attack, which was to firmly absorb the Chinese troops who wanted to rescue from the periphery. Once the opponent's forces gathered enough, the main infantry from Xingtai and Handan would come to encircle and eat up the main Chinese forces in Lincheng area in one fell swoop.

It was a bit similar to the tactics of the Panzhai battlefield, but the difference between the two was that this time they had already eaten Zhaojiazhuang, which was already their trophy. Whether the main Chinese forces came or not, they had already made a profit.

Moreover, this time, under the command of Shinozuka Yoshio, there were 4 infantry battalions and 2 artillery battalions ready for battle, plus 1,800 people near Zhaojiazhuang, that is an infantry brigade.

Chinese, do you have the ability to come with an infantry division?

According to the comparison of combat power, they are not afraid at all, even if the four-line regiment is fierce?

There is also an infantry brigade of the 4th Division in Handan City! In the southern Hebei region, Shinozuka Yoshio can mobilize more than 20,000 troops, and they can be killed by stacking people.

It is based on this tactical guiding ideology that the 4 Type 94 tanks are surrounded by a circle of sandbag fortifications outside, and they are completely used as fixed heavy machine gun points.

There is nothing wrong with this. The two machine guns of the Type 94 tank with sandbag fortifications and 10mm frontal steel plates can completely sweep the wide area in front without scruples. No matter how brave the soldiers are, they can only lie down sadly 100 meters away from them. It is simply an indestructible firepower point.

Unless the 80mm howitzer hits the front, it can't do anything to this iron turtle, not to mention the shock waves and shrapnel caused by the small-caliber mortar, which only make the Japanese listen to the music when they fall on the steel plate.

But the mortar can use the shock wave to peel off the not very thick sandbag fortifications surrounding the tank layer by layer!

When the Chinese 7mm heavy machine gun began to roar, the Type 94 tank knew how terrible it was.

At a distance of 400 meters, for this large-caliber machine gun, a 10mm thick steel plate is just a thicker cardboard, which can be penetrated with one shot.

The Type 94 tank located in front of the soldiers' assault was hit by 4 7mm heavy machine guns, and it did not fire a single bullet until the end of the battle.

Only the Japanese soldiers nearby could see in horror that the bullet holes on the front steel plate of the Type 94 tank, which was once thought to be enough to rush around on the battlefield, were like honeycombs. People with intensive phobia would definitely feel numb and unable to bear to look directly at it.

The steel plate was shot like this, let alone the fate of the tank crew members inside.

The three tank soldiers had long been torn into pieces by the huge bullets that penetrated the tank in various postures.

The defense line that was once thought to be impregnable was broken through in just 15 minutes after the Tang Dao arrived at Li Jiujin's command post.

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"The Chinese must be crazy!" Colonel Takuma Numata of the 39th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Brigade, who was the highest commander of the Japanese front line in Zhaojiazhuang at the time, looked at the crazy artillery fire and could only use this sentence to express his feelings at the time.

Although he didn't know how many reinforcements the Chinese had sent, he knew from the fierce artillery fire that the main force of the Chinese army that the division commander and the brigade commander were looking forward to had arrived.

"Call the brigade headquarters to request quick reinforcements. The Linmu Squadron will hold on to Zhaozhuang to attract the Chinese troops to advance. The rest of the troops will shrink their defense lines and hold on to wait for reinforcements!" Numata Tazo was terrified, but he still made tactical arrangements based on his battlefield experience that would not make big mistakes.

But he misjudged Tang Dao's determination this time, and this mistake would lead to his and his subordinates' eternal damnation.

If he could decisively withdraw from the battlefield, at least half of the Japanese infantry would be alive to see tomorrow's sunrise.

But with the issuance of this military order, this part of the Japanese army was doomed.

Tang Tuanzuo, who showed his full strength at the beginning, would not let a single Japanese soldier die.

That was the best sacrifice for the sacrificed soldiers under his command!

Tang Tuanzuo never waits overnight for revenge! ()