Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 1335 We are already so powerful!

At this time, the battlefield, which had a total area of ​​10 square kilometers, was filled with deafening gunfire!

Especially the explosive packs fired by the 'Flying Thunder Cannon' by the 772nd Regiment, each round was a violent explosion of nearly 1,000 kilograms of explosives, which could be clearly heard by the Tang Dao in Zhaojiazhuang, which was 4,800 meters away from them.

The firepower of a total of 18 G42 machine guns was really nothing on such a large battlefield.

Therefore, neither Shinozuka Yoshio, who sent his deputy chief of staff, nor the infantry battalion, which was only 1,200 meters away from the ambush site, realized that there would be such a large-scale battle there.

Although many battles occurred during the search on the battlefield, and the cavalry squadron suffered heavy losses, it was because of the small number of troops. Who would have thought that the Chinese were so bold as to gather troops to besiege a reinforced infantry squadron with 300 troops inside the battlefield.

No, to be more precise, it was to besiege and annihilate them.

Moreover, it was on a plain!

The Chinese hiding in the tunnels and trenches used their extreme familiarity with the terrain to divide the 300 Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard into two parts, the front and the back.

After the Chinese hiding in the trenches with wooden boards, camouflage cloth and dry grass, and using submachine guns and light machine guns with terrible firing rates to trap the Japanese infantry in the wilderness, they used small-caliber mortar groups to attack the visible firepower points and grenade launchers.

It took only 5 minutes for the Japanese troops to completely lose all their light machine guns and grenade launchers, which was a fatal blow to a light infantry.

Not only were the Chinese weapons and equipment far superior to theirs, but their shooting skills were at least two levels stronger.

In particular, the sharpshooters of the reconnaissance company led by Niu Er, who were hiding within a straight-line distance of about 250 meters in the Japanese resistance area, almost crushed the Japanese infantry whose mentality had exploded.

According to statistics from Niu Er's observers, Niu Er, who was hiding on a slope, fired 28 bullets in this battle, but killed 22 Japanese soldiers.

‘No-head’, who had become the squad leader, was not as perverted as Niu Er, but his semi-automatic rifle killed 14 Japanese soldiers with 40 bullets and became the second best shooter on the battlefield.

Although Niu Er’s hit rate was far lower than usual, and ‘No-head’’s hit rate was even less than 40%, don’t forget that this was an encirclement and annihilation war, not the usual defensive war, and there was enough time for snipers to lurk and aim.

Everyone was able to output enough bullets at the fastest speed to kill the enemy before the Japanese reinforcements arrived.

According to Gu Xishui’s estimation, the time left for them was only 22 minutes at most. When the time was up, no matter whether the devils were completely wiped out or not, everyone had to evacuate immediately.

They were doing the work of assassins, hitting the target with one shot and fleeing thousands of miles away!

The two elite infantry companies succeeded. After a violent output, the Japanese soldiers who were stunned by the accurate rain of bullets and mortar shells did not choose to wait for death on the spot, but desperately broke through the gap left for them.

That accelerated their demise. 500 meters away from that area, Long Yan was waiting for them with his mountain infantry platoon.

Nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers who managed to escape were subjected to a storm of fire and grenade attacks in the open wilderness.

The lieutenant colonel deputy chief of staff, who was used to following orders from the headquarters to mobilize infantry battalions, had no grassroots combat experience. It was under his eagerness to escape that this group of Japanese remnants embarked on a road of no return.

In just 5 minutes, Long Yan and his mountain infantry platoon wiped out the remnants of the Japanese army, whose strength was almost equal to theirs.

"No wonder the commander of the regiment often said that courage is more important than anything else on the battlefield. The cowardly devils are not as good as a group of antelopes, at least antelopes run fast!" Long Yan's summary at the celebration banquet after the war was applauded by the whole room.

"Although my brother has not read much, he has been influenced by me for a long time, and he has become more or less cultured!" Shen Laoliu grinned and showed off to his wife.

Long Ying rolled his eyes speechlessly. The two brothers were purely influenced by each other. It was unknown how much their personal qualities had improved, but their thickness of skin was definitely on the same level.

Touching his slightly bulging belly, Lieutenant Long Ying couldn't help but worry. With such a father and uncle, the child's personal characteristics were really worrying.

But no matter whether Long Yan and Shen Laoliu were brave enough to fight seven or eight people, 300 Japanese soldiers were indeed killed by them.

When the infantry battalion that was wiped out reacted and rushed to the battlefield 23 minutes later, there were only more than 300 corpses lying quietly in the wilderness.

The Japanese army lieutenant colonel wearing long leather boots and a command knife did not lose anything, but lost his life. A bullet shot into his chest at close range left only a small bullet hole in his chest, but a hole the size of a cup was blown out on his back.

The Chinese had no intention of cleaning up the battlefield. They just made up their guns and fled immediately. This also made one lucky person among the more than 300 unlucky Japanese soldiers.

A corporal was stunned by the blast of the grenade explosion and was covered by two bloody colleagues. Although it cannot be ruled out that it was a human factor, he escaped by accident anyway.

This also gave Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka the opportunity to obtain the entire process of the attack and analyze the actual combat power of the Chinese.

"The Chinese have about 400 soldiers, but they were able to kill 300 of my Imperial Army in 20 minutes." At that moment, Yoshio Shinozuka's face looked even uglier than when his last reinforced infantry squadron was attacked and wiped out.

This means that in the confrontation between infantry squadrons, his 10th Division is no longer on the same level as his opponent, the Four-Line Regiment.

Even if it is enlarged to the infantry battalion level, can the two 92-caliber infantry guns equipped by the infantry battalion change the entire battlefield pattern?

When thinking of the small-caliber mortars with a range of more than 1,000 meters equipped by the Chinese infantry squad, perhaps one or two may not be very powerful, but when converted, an infantry battalion must be close to 30 guns, and Yoshio Shinozuka can't help but feel numb.

Even as tough as Yoshio Shinozuka was, he had to admit at this moment that without the assistance of fighter aircraft groups and heavy artillery regiments, his 10th Division could no longer pose a major threat to the current Chinese army.

No, to be precise, it was not him who was threatening the Chinese, but the Chinese army, whose strength was no less than his, that was threatening him.

It would take another 40 hours for the two mixed brigades to reach the battlefield, and another 5 days for the heavy artillery regiment. Now the battlefield between the two armies was almost a battle between you and me, and the bomber group that could not enter the low altitude was temporarily useless.

Even though the 2,000 men of Kuroda Saburo had lost a front line of trenches and the defense line was already shaky, Shinozuka Yoshio had not completely lost his fighting spirit. He still had an army of nearly 40,000 people under his command. Even if he relied on consumption, he could hold on for 40 hours and defeat the Chinese army in one fell swoop with the cooperation of more than 10,000 reinforcements.

Especially when he thought that there was an 80% chance that Tang Dao, the confidant of the empire, would be surrounded and killed by himself on that battlefield, Shinozuka Yoshio knew that if he missed this opportunity, he might never have another chance.

But all his persistence and ambitions, after the surviving corporal described his personal combat experience, Shinozuka Yoshio panicked.

He finally understood why the empire's biggest threat dared to lead the army into this battlefield. It was because he had the confidence and strength to do so.

That was only a few hundred light infantrymen, but they had the ability to kill all opponents with similar strength in just 20 minutes in a field battle. What if they multiplied it by ten or even twenty?

It had been a year and a half since the Four-Line Regiment entered Taihang Mountain, and there had been nearly ten battles of varying sizes with the Japanese army. If anyone still treated the Four-Line Regiment as an infantry regiment at this time, then they were simply out of their minds.

Although the intelligence personnel lurking on the Chinese side had given the Four-Line Regiment a special regiment of more than 5,000 people, the intelligence department of the Japanese North China Front Army did not dare to believe it at all. It was not so difficult for them to fight a Chinese infantry division, right?

Even the 683rd Brigade, which had been defined as the most difficult to fight on the North China battlefield and whose strength was increasing, the Japanese generals who had actually fought against the Tang Dao and the Four-Line Regiment believed that they would rather fight against the latter.

"Baga! Tang Dao, what on earth is he planning?" The 10th Division is waiting for reinforcements from the Empire, so what are Tang Dao and the Four-Line Regiment waiting for? This is a question that Shinozuka Yoshio had to think about after personally experiencing the terrifying combat power of the elite infantry of the Four-Line Regiment.

No, the Chinese still have nearly 20,000 troops of the 80th Army in southern Hebei, but obviously, the troops here are far from enough.

And the 5,000 regular troops stationed in the depths of the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi can quietly cross the blockade of the 108th Division and advance to Xingtai 200 kilometers away. Will there be more troops lurking in the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain not far from Handan City?

This thought is not a big deal, and Shinozuka Yoshio was directly scared out of his wits!

The lesson of the battle of East Shanxi in September last year is still fresh in our minds. The two old men in the front army headquarters planned for a long time to play the so-called "luring the emperor into a jar" drama. In the end, the emperor did not wait for the emperor, but waited for a fierce tiger, which not only broke the jar, but also captured Shimen.

If the Chinese use this trick to take down Handan and Xingtai again, the new front army commander's face will be swollen.

Who will take the blame for the commander?

Who else can it be except him, the lieutenant general division commander? It is estimated that even a soldier who is least politically savvy can answer this first-grade question in one go.

As for Okuma Yukinosuke, who is still following his orders to intercept the Chinese army in the wild, if Shinozuka Yoshio still has hope for this guy, then his brain is broken.

If the Chinese really attack Handan City on a large scale, the probability of those Osaka vendors running away is higher than 95%.

No wonder the Chinese dared to fight a decisive battle with his 10th Division on this plain. On the one hand, they had enough strength to hold back his 10th Division and even the reinforcements. On the other hand, they used the routine of "making a feint to the east and attacking the west" to secretly attack the two big cities when the defenses were empty.

Although Shinozuka Yoshio knew that the Chinese would not stay permanently even if they broke through the city, and most of them would leave again, there were weapons and supplies in the city, and more importantly, counterattacking the city and occupying it had extremely important political significance.

Now the government is using the advantages of the battlefield in central China to force the Chinese government in the mountain city to surrender, so as to resolve this war as soon as possible, which has already mobilized the empire's reserve resources for decades.

The war has been launched for two years. Due to the decline of the domestic economy caused by the large number of young and strong people joining the army, the empire's finances are already overwhelmed. In addition, the German Empire is lobbying the empire to join the alliance. The empire may face a more powerful enemy.

It is said that the secret negotiations have already made some progress. If such an incident occurs on the battlefield in North China and the intentions of the imperial high-level officials are frustrated, it will be more serious than the so-called battlefield defeat.

Withdrawal and defending the two most core cities in southern Hebei are the key to this battle.

Once this idea was opened, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka had all kinds of thoughts. In the end, the decision was naturally not to fight the Four-Line Regiment here, and we had to defend our home first.

So, what even Tang Dao did not expect was that the 10th Division actually gathered heavy troops before dusk in the afternoon and launched a counterattack against the 772nd Regiment and the Independent Battalion of the Southern Hebei Division, which had been attacking smoothly on the periphery.

For this reason, the few remaining artillery battalions even exposed their coordinates and bombarded for more than an hour in one breath.

More than 1,500 artillery shells and three infantry battalions attacked at great cost, which made the tough commander Wang Xiaoqiang look pale and had to give up the Japanese front-line trenches that had been occupied with a lot of explosives and sacrifices, and the battlefield returned to the starting point.

"The Japanese army wants to fight to the death?" Several infantry company commanders who returned to the Zhaojiazhuang regiment headquarters for a meeting made such a judgment.

Li Jiujin, who had always been careless, looked serious at this time.

He was not afraid that the Japanese army would fight a war of attrition here. This time, the Tang Dao was well prepared, and all kinds of supplies were enough for the whole regiment to fight the Japanese army here for ten days.

Using bullets to exchange lives has always been the combat policy of the Four-Line Regiment. If supplies are gone, they can be bought or robbed from the Japanese, but life is precious.

Therefore, Li Jiujin was afraid that the Japanese army would fight to the death. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army's Type A division was not false. If they really wanted to fight to the death, at least half of the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment participating in the battle would suffer casualties.

Two days ago, the Japanese army made a feint to the east and attacked the west, killing six of his soldiers. Li Jiujin was so distressed that tears flowed, not to mention that half of his comrades who had been with him day and night were gone.

"Why, I rarely see you, Captain Jiujin, so serious. Are you afraid to fight the little devils?" Tang Dao looked at Li Jiujin with a stern face. He didn't take the initiative to smoke the cigarettes on the table. He couldn't help but smile and joked.

"Sir, you don't know me yet. From the Fourth Line to now, I was afraid of fighting the devils that time, but I thought that the devils suddenly wanted to annihilate them so desperately. At least a hundred good guys in my company were gone. I said goodbye to too many people in the past two years. Thinking of this, I still feel a little uncomfortable." Bitterness surged on Li Jiujin's face.

As soon as these words came out, not to mention the white-faced scholar Wei Donglai's eyes flashed with sadness, even Cai Yongguan, nicknamed "the bravest of the three armies", twitched his eyes.

Both of them remembered the Mouse Mountain in the past. Although that battle won their infantry company the title of hard bones and steel company, those brothers would never come back.

But what frightened the two more was that when they thought of those brothers, they couldn't remember their eyebrows and eyes.

Are they about to forget those people? If even they, the brothers and superiors, forget, will they still exist in this world?

Yes, as soldiers, they fear death but are brave enough to face it, but they are afraid of forgetting.

"Okay, you, Li, care about your soldiers, and you are already qualified to be a company commander." Tang Dao was not dissatisfied with Li Jiujin for showing his vulnerability at such a tense moment, but instead smiled and praised him.

"However, you don't have to worry too much about the Japanese from the 10th Division fighting us to death this time. After all, they are not in the final desperate situation, and they have reinforcements coming soon."

"Why did the little Japanese fight so hard with the 772nd Regiment in the afternoon? Could it be that Captain Wang accidentally poked a veteran Japanese in the back door, and the veteran Japanese was so angry that he had to give Captain Wang a blow?

If you ask me! The one I admire most in the 80th Army is Captain Wang. It's okay that he doesn't play by the rules, but he stabbed people with a ruthless heart and a ruthless hand." Hearing Tang Dao say this, Li Jiujin, who had lost his mind, returned to his old self.

Several company commanders who were familiar with Wang Xiaoqiang laughed.

This man has a straightforward personality and likes to play the fool and eat the tiger. He looks like a fool but is actually very cunning. He is completely different from his world-famous brigade commander who is both wise and brave. He is definitely an outlier in the 80th Army with a rigorous style. In the Four-Line Regiment, except for Tang Dao, he is very compatible with several company-level officers of the Four-Line Regiment, such as Li Jiujin, Cai Yongguan and Pang Dahai. They have drunk and chatted together many times in private.

"Haha! You guys are making up stories about Captain Wang. Be careful that he will find out and use the name of drinking to extort some pistols and submachine guns from you guys!" Tang Dao also smiled lightly.

This sentence made several infantry company commanders blush.

They secretly sponsored some old friends Black Star pistols and submachine guns in private, but even if they were company commanders, they could not give away these weapons and equipment at will. They could only report the war damage, and the regiment and battalion would not hold them responsible for a few guns.

Unexpectedly, Tang Dao knew about this little trick.

"You are now the chief officers of my Four-Line Regiment outside the army. Your actual power is far greater than that of an infantry company. You can help friendly forces and civilians to the best of your ability. Just don't put the supplies you receive from the regiment into your own pocket. That is the bottom line for every one of our officers." Tang Dao tapped several company commanders under his command lightly and brought the topic back to the battlefield.

"Shinozuka Yoshio could have pretended to be exhausted and waited for reinforcements to arrive in two or three days before fighting a decisive battle with our army, but he insisted on counterattacking at all costs. There must be something wrong. I think he wants to escape."

"Ah? A Type A division can't be so weak!" Cai Yongguan was incredulous.

He had won many battles, but fighting a Japanese division would take at least a week to determine the winner. How could a Japanese division with spare strength want to escape after only two days of fighting? How could this be possible?

"What's impossible? So what about a Type A division? Their veterans are getting fewer and fewer, while our veterans are getting more and more, and our equipment is constantly being updated. Sooner or later, the Japanese will be so scared that their legs will go weak when they hear the name of our regiment." Wei Donglai usually doesn't talk much, but this time he refuted his best comrade-in-arms in a very sonorous and powerful way.

These words awakened several officers who were surprised by Tang Dao's judgment.

It turns out that their Four-Line Regiment has not only quietly grown to the point where even a Japanese Type A division has to go all out, but has even made them deeply afraid.

This is actually the same as other people's children growing up fast. The most difficult thing for people in the game to see clearly is always themselves! ()

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