Rise From Eight Hundred

"Blow up all the single-number detonators for me!"

Seeing more than 600 puppet troops crawling toward the defense line of his guard platoon like a swarm of locusts lying on the ground, the lieutenant guard platoon leader roared and issued an order!

"Single-number detonator, explode! Explode! Explode!" The order was continuously passed further away by the surrounding soldiers.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Earth-shattering explosions sounded one after another.

The entire wilderness, which was 800 meters wide and 200 meters deep, was covered in smoke and dust caused by the explosion. No one knew what the more than 600 puppet troops looked like in the thick smoke and dust!

But Deputy Commander Zheng, who was lying 400 meters away from the battlefield, covered his head. Although his head was buzzing, he knew very well in his heart that this infantry battalion was finished.

Of course, the reason why he covered his head was not because he was upset, but because he was hit hard on the helmet by a rock rolled up by the violent shock wave. If it were not for the protection of the helmet, this blow would be enough to send him away.

No matter how much his head was pounding, Zheng Yunqiu knew in his heart that even if he was lying on his stomach, he would almost die even if he was one mile away, let alone the person at the center of the explosion.

In fact, Zheng Yunqiu was already very lucky that he only received a stone. A Japanese soldier 30 meters away from him was really unlucky. A steel plate flew over and forcefully cut open the guy who was still lying on the ground from his back, and from his spine. The cut was very linear until the tail vertebra, and the whole body was perfectly divided into two parts from the chest to the buttocks. Blood and feces flowed all over the floor. The critical moment was to prevent death. The scream was earth-shattering.

Captain Morikawa had to be decisive. After checking the guy's injuries, he decisively took out the Nanbu Fourteen pistol, pointed it at his subordinate's head, shot him three times, and sent him directly to Amaterasu for tea.

However, there was no resentment in the eyes of the Japanese sergeant who was killed by his superior. Instead, his eyes were full of joy.

Life is worse than death, and it was vividly interpreted at this moment!

The steel plates naturally come from the few minesweepers that are still on the battlefield. Although they have completed their mission, their speed is still too slow. Even if they are more than 150 meters away from the center of the explosion, the terrifying shock wave is still easy to Tear it to pieces.

The steel shovel capable of carrying anti-infantry mines was twisted into a twist and lay a hundred meters away. The already not-so-sturdy body was more like a worn-out toy abandoned by a child, leaving only the frame crooked in the smoke.

Fortunately, there are only a few minesweepers. If there were a few more, the steel fragments shattered by the shock wave on these vehicles would not be able to smash the blood of a group of "melon-eating people" hundreds of meters away like bullets. ?

Let alone the puppet and Japanese troops who had experienced it for the first time, the officers and soldiers of the guard platoon had never seen with their own eyes how powerful the 200-plus kilograms of cyclone explosives were, but this was an eye-opener for them.

Before pressing the explosion initiator, everyone's tactical action was to plug their ears with cotton balls, then squat down and hold their heads with their hands to curl up as much as possible. This was a tactical action to defend against enemy heavy artillery, mainly to prevent huge explosions. Sound damages eardrums and shock waves from the ground damage internal organs.

But when the explosion really sounded, the officers and soldiers of the guard platoon, who were about a hundred meters away from the center of the explosion, felt that they were not squatting in a trench but on a ship sailing in the sea. It seemed that the ground under their feet was shaking violently. It was originally flat. The ditches seemed to be twisting and deforming.

They finally knew why the engineer squad that assisted them in installing the explosive device chose to place the explosion point 100 meters away from the trench instead of 50 meters away as they requested.

With the power of the explosion, if it exploded 50 meters away, the trench where they were hiding would most likely be destroyed by the violent shock wave on the surface.

It wasn't that they dug a big hole for the Japanese to jump into, but they buried themselves in it, literally.

In fact, even if the engineers of the Fourth Line Regiment were very cautious, after the war, when the guard platoon lieutenant platoon leader stared at his former battle site from the distant hills with a telescope, even if the cruel battle had ended long ago, his Cold sweat still dripped from his forehead.

The nearly 800-meter straight ditch turned out to be like a straightened twist, with irregular distortions everywhere. It should have been caused by the shock waves inside the land. Let alone 50 meters, the explosion point was only If it needs to be pulled closer to 20 meters, the ditch will collapse.

Under such a terrifying explosion, the Japanese troops hundreds of meters away were crushed and bleeding. The officers and soldiers of the guard platoon in the trenches a hundred meters away had their hearts beating, and the more than 600 puppet troops had no way to survive.

When the smoke cleared, there was dead silence in front of the guard platoon position.

Because no one is still alive, naturally there is not even a groan.

A veteran who had been in the army for at least a year and participated in several wars just raised his head and squatted in the ditch to vomit desperately.

There were stumps and broken bodies everywhere, which had not penetrated the bottom line of this veteran who was only 20 years old, but a grinning head was looking at him less than 6 meters away from him, and not far away there was a pair of flowers. A green and steaming large intestine hangs on a bush

Although the nose was still filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke, the young veteran's mind was filled with the smell of killing pigs during the New Year and taking out the water.

This is the battlefield. No matter how you experience cruelty, you cannot be immune to cruelty!

Even the more tenacious lieutenant platoon leader looked pale: "Made, it's such a hot day. There are so many pieces of meat piled here. I don't know how many flies will come around later. By then, The smell just hits my nose! No, you have to ask the group leader to get us some liquor to smoke it!"

This was originally a worry that was about to become a reality, but it made the soldiers in the ditch so sick that they vomited a large amount.

The shocking explosion here naturally alarmed Yoshio Shinozuka who was 3,000 meters away. After receiving the news that all the minesweepers and an infantry battalion security force were destroyed, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General looked cold, as if This result had been expected.

Although Yoshio Shinozuka didn't know who the top Chinese commander was on the opposite side, he had an intuition that told him that Tang Dao, the legendary leader of the Four Elements Regiment, was not far away from him.

Tang Daoneng led the Four Lines Regiment to beat up the 108th, 109th, 20th, 21st and other divisions. Didn't he get his reputation in vain? It was earned with the lives of tens of thousands of Imperial Japanese officers and soldiers.

In order to prove his intuition, Shinozuka Yoshio knew that the undefended open area was a trap, but he still did not hesitate to use an infantry squadron and a security army infantry battalion to test it, for no other reason than to know what was going on. Who is the commander of.

Yoshio Shinozuka also specially studied the battle reports of the Four Troops against the Imperial Division. The Four Troops were not only good at defense but also good at sneak attacks. On several occasions, when the battle between the two sides reached its peak, they sent small groups of elite infantry to attack artillery or heavy equipment. Conducting an attack, the Imperial Division lacked heavy firearms and was defeated by the Four Lines Regiment with their terrifying heavy firearms.

The three balloon troops also directly proved that there was a small group of Chinese elites on the periphery of the battlefield!

This already has some characteristics of Tang Dao's military use. When the huge explosion and the loss of personnel came, Shinozuka Yoshio was 90% sure that Tang Dao was commanding this attack that was beyond everyone's expectation. battlefield.

This is because Tang Dao is very good at using explosives. Whether it is the Sihang Warehouse, the Battle of Guangde, or the Battle of Wangwushan, Tang Dao's subordinates use the terrain with a large amount of explosives to severely damage their opponents.

After using the lives of hundreds of people to prove his conjecture, Yoshio Shinozuka breathed a sigh of relief. What he was most afraid of was not that Tang Dao was here, but that Tang Dao was leading a group of elite soldiers hiding nearby. However, his 10th Division has already deployed all its elite troops. Once it launches an all-out attack on the Chinese army in the encirclement, there will be no turning back and there will be no spare power to guard against a Chinese general as fierce as a tiger.

"For the time being, all ministries are mainly conducting exploratory attacks. They are not allowed to advance without military orders. The 1st Cavalry Squadron, 2nd Squadron, and 3rd Squadron will use the cavalry squad as a unit to search the wilderness outside the battlefield. If they encounter a small group of Chinese infantry, they can proceed according to the actual situation. Chase them down. If there are too many enemies, call for support and be sure to annihilate them!

The 9th Infantry Brigade used the infantry squadron as a unit to search all uninhabited villages within a radius of 3 kilometers with Zhaojiazhuang as the center, killing both humans and animals, and destroying the villages if there were no living creatures.

In addition, inform the aviation regiment that our army's position is very close to the enemy. After the bomber group arrives, our division will bombard the enemy's position with incendiary bombs to indicate its target! "Yoshio Shinozuka issued two military orders.

After all, Yoshio Shinozuka can be regarded as a general with extremely rich battlefield experience in the Japanese army. Otherwise, he would not be sent to be the principal of the non-commissioned officer school to clean up the periphery before the war and not give the Chinese elite troops a chance to attack the location of their artillery group. .

This is not a mountainous area. The hiding places of small groups of Chinese troops are either in deserted villages or in the narrow and shallow access ditches dug by the Chinese.

For this reason, Yoshio Shinozuka was even willing to give the Chinese some more time to breathe, and also sent 1,000 infantry and more than 360 cavalry to clean up the periphery of the battlefield.

Of course, this is also a time gap to wait for the bomber group. Even though more than 70 artillery salvos blasted the trench position where the Chinese were clearly visible on the opposite side, causing mud and smoke to scatter, Yoshio Shinozuka believed that since the Chinese dared In field battles with imperial divisions in plain areas, one must be persistent. I am afraid that artillery alone will be difficult to achieve a devastating blow against these trenches that look like spider webs from a distance.

The heavy aerial bombs dropped by the bombers will make the Chinese realize the fatal mistake they have made.

Modern warfare is no longer the ancient era when two armies faced each other and the brave one won on the battlefield. The one who has control of the air will definitely win the final victory.

No matter how good the groundhog is at digging tunnels, it will eventually become food for the goshawks flying in the sky and the wolves on the ground!

Yoshio Shinozuka's judgment was very accurate. Not only did he guess that his opponent was Tang Dao, he also predicted the general area where the mountain infantry company and the reconnaissance company were hiding.

Moreover, there was no problem with his tactical waiting. Due to the dense forests in the mountainous area, most of the bomber groups could only rely on the pilot's observation to drop bombs blindly, and less than a quarter of the bombs actually landed on the position.

But it's different on the plains. If there is another fire indication, at an altitude of 1,500 meters, the bomber group's bomb hit rate will be more than 70%.

If a 500-pound aerial bomb really fell on the position, no trenches or anti-gun holes would work. If an infantry platoon could survive half of this kind of bomb, everyone in the Tang regiment would probably be happy.

Unfortunately, Yoshio Shinozuka still made the mistake of taking it for granted that "I don't want you to think, I just want what I want."

What he thought of, how could Tang Tuanzuo not think of it?

This time, the two companies were not wandering in the wilderness as a group or infantry squad, but as an infantry platoon, with local militia as guides. The criss-crossing ditches were their roads, and the villages where all the soldiers and civilians had been evacuated were their fortresses.

Shinozuka Yoshio naturally went to search with a 20-man cavalry squad or a 180-man infantry squadron. If they didn't encounter them, it would be fine. If they did, they would be beaten to a bloody mess, or even annihilated.

For example, a Japanese cavalry squad was very unfortunate to find several shadows in gray uniforms through a telescope in the fields outside Xiaohan Village, about 4 kilometers away from Zhaojia Village.

The Japanese second lieutenant squad leader was eager to gain merit, so he led his 19 cavalrymen to chase them all the way.

In the eyes of the Japanese cavalry who drew their sabers, the gray shadows fleeing frantically in the distance were like rabbits in the field, and the sharp sabers in their hands were about to taste the deliciousness of blood.

The Japanese cavalry, who were able to keep a distance of more than 20 meters between each soldier, were indeed qualified to treat the lone infantry as rabbits. The openness of the plains had allowed them to increase the speed of their Japanese horses to nearly 45 kilometers per hour. In the absence of heavy machine guns, the high-speed flash of the sword could not only cut off the enemy's head, but also cut off a rifle.

The Japanese cavalry, which was running towards several Chinese soldiers in a semi-arc shape, was like a wolf pack hunting at this time. Not to mention that the target of the hunt was a few pure infantry, even if there were two light machine guns at this time, they could not stop their attack.

The Japanese second lieutenant who rushed to the front raised his saber high, his eyes fixed on the gray figures that were only 100 meters away, and he had even thought about how to swing the sword later.

Just like chopping the Chinese prisoners tied to the stakes in training, the head fell off with its eyes closed in fear, and waited until his warhorse passed a few meters away, and the blood column in the neck rushed out more than two meters high, like a flower blooming in cheers for him.

Thinking of this, the adrenaline of the Japanese lieutenant soared, and he felt that he was floating!

That was floating in the literal sense!

Several Chinese who were running suddenly stopped running, looking at the Japanese cavalry rushing over, with disdain on their faces.

Each of them held an MP38 submachine gun in their hands and began to fire fiercely!

If it were just these few submachine guns, the Japanese cavalry might not be a big deal. At a distance of 100 meters, with their continued increase in horse speed, it would only take 7 seconds.

In 7 seconds, they fired at most dozens of bullets, how many horses could they knock down?

Unfortunately, an MG42 suddenly appeared behind a mound, and Long Yan, who had already pulled the trigger, had a ferocious face, like a demon holding a sharp blade.

The Japanese lieutenant who was at the front was the first to be hit. Who made him such an obvious target?

In just one second, at least five bullets swept across the chest and legs of the strong Japanese horse. The Japanese horse neighed and fell down with its head. The Japanese cavalry lieutenant who was still passionately fantasizing on the horse's back must have been thrown out like a cannonball!

It was like being thrown out from a motorcycle at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. The key was that he was holding a saber in his hand.

The instinct of long-term training made the Japanese lieutenant put his arms in front of him when he was "floating" in the air, and his body curled up to protect his internal organs and head as much as possible when he landed.

But because he was too excited a second ago, he forgot that he still had a saber in his hand.

So, when his body came into contact with the ground, under the action of the reaction force, he was pierced by his own knife.

7 seconds was enough for several MP38s to empty their 32-round magazines. The MG42 fired more than 160 rounds of bullets at full firepower. The deadly barrage caused 14 horses to fall in front of the firepower net. When the 6 Japanese cavalrymen who survived on the flanks thought they still had a chance and continued to urge their horses to surround them from both wings, they found that they had really thought too much.

Several Chinese soldiers who had emptied their magazines and thrown away their submachine guns actually had pistols.

The Black Star pistol that could still shoot through brick walls within 50 meters made the Japanese cavalry know how ridiculous the small sabers in their hands were. Even if two Japanese cavalrymen were desperate and wanted to turn their horses around and escape, they were still shot down by several Chinese soldiers with pistols.

"I haven't used this thing to kill the devils for a long time. I still have to use machine guns to satisfy my taste!" Long Yan grinned and threw the machine gun to the machine gunner.

"Then, Young Master, let's switch. You can be the machine gunner and I can be the platoon leader?" The guy who took the machine gun was from Yeyue Village. He blinked and joked with Longyan.

"Get lost. You are such a wretched person, and you are still a platoon leader. Don't you know that being an official now depends on your face?" Longyan rolled his eyes and gave a reason that only he believed.

"See, this is why our young master can be a platoon leader. Nothing else, just confidence!" A guy from Yeyue Village poked the old soldier next to him who was shocked by Longyan's face.

"I understand, I'm convinced!" The old soldier was pounding garlic.

Based on the comparison of faces, the old soldier felt that he would be a company commander sooner or later!

The 20 Japanese cavalry squads were not even appetizers in front of the elite of the Four Lines Regiment with MG42 machine guns.

When the Japanese infantry squadron heard the gunshots and arrived exhausted, Longyan and his men had already run away, leaving behind horse and human corpses everywhere.

To be more precise, all the Japanese cavalry equipment was still there, including carbines, sabers, and so on.

Long Yan said, what's the use of this kind of dregs, it's heavy and has no balls, it's just for the Japanese to pick up, and sooner or later it will be ours after this battle.

This is the confidence from a strong army. The battle has just started, and they are sure they will win.

But the biggest mistake made by Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka was not overestimating his own cavalry and infantry, but waiting for the wrong person.

A total of 36 Type 96 fighters of the Japanese Army Air Corps roared in from Baoding Airport 300 kilometers away, blocking out the sky.

The southern Hebei Plain trembled in the shadow of the bomber group! ()