Rise From Eight Hundred

Major Tominaga Ichi has worked very hard. He not only accurately predicted that the Chinese would not be satisfied with a successful ambush in the passage, but also wanted to keep the entire 232nd Infantry Regiment in this mountain.

Moreover, during this half hour, Major Tominaga Ichi ordered his soldiers to dig fortifications frantically, striving to provide the 600 infantrymen he could gather with the greatest protection before the Chinese arrived.

This move was indeed beyond Gu Xishui's expectations. In fact, in his mind, the best option for the Japanese army was to evacuate immediately, so that he could maximize the advantages of the mountain infantry company.

First, the sniper team continued to attack and dragged it into the mountains, and then gathered 60mm small artillery and 150mm heavy mortars to cover the Japanese camps that were forced to spend the night in the mountains. With a walkie-talkie, he, as a commander, could clearly know the weak points of its march, and constantly adjust the firepower and manpower to make it bleed continuously on the retreating mountain road, and finally dragged the Japanese army, which still had more than half an infantry battalion left, to death.

On the contrary, Gu Xishui was most reluctant to see someone like Tominaga Ichi who did not leave but dug fortifications on the spot and occupied several small hills and high ground.

If there was only this group of Japanese troops in this direction, it would be fine, but obviously not. There was another infantry regiment in Changyang, and it would only take 24 hours for the Japanese troops to arrive.

In other words, Gu Xishui had only 20 hours at most.

And if he wanted to eat up the 600 Japanese troops who were defending the mountains in 20 hours with only his 230 people, it would be extremely difficult, not to mention daydreaming.

After all, he only had 4 150 mortars on hand that could scare the Japanese into nightmares.

But if he wanted to flatten a mountain position with 600 troops in less than a day and night with only 4 artillery pieces, the future battle on the ice field would be a living example.

At that time, the firepower of the two opponents was completely asymmetric. The American cowboys had more than a dozen cannons and dozens of bombers dropping bombs. There was no example of killing a whole battalion of Chinese soldiers in one day and night.

In addition to the ground reinforcements of the Japanese army, what troubled Gu Xishui the most was the Japanese air threat. Without sufficient anti-aircraft weapons, the Japanese army could easily turn the mountainous areas outside the Japanese positions into a sea of ​​fire.

His mountain infantry company might pay a heavy price for this, and it would be eaten by the tiger instead of fighting the tiger.

From this perspective, Gu Xishui's choice to use 230 troops to encircle the 600 remnants of Tominaga Ichi was a failure.

It looked brilliant, but it was actually stupid!

He had taken enough advantage, but he wanted to take all the advantages. There is no such good thing in the world.

Obviously, Tominaga Ichi also thought so.

"The Chinese will pay the price for their arrogance, and the commander and the officers and soldiers of the empire will not die in vain!" Tominaga, who received the news from the outer reconnaissance scout that the Chinese march was discovered 500 meters away, had a cruel gleam in his eyes.

Tominaga I and his 3rd Infantry Battalion had been harassed enough by the Chinese firepower team yesterday. He knew very well that once he escaped into the mountains, he would probably encounter the scene of yesterday again. With enough infantry guns and mortars, the Chinese could make him a headache, not to mention that he only had 2 infantry guns and only 10 grenade launchers and 4 heavy machine guns. These firepowers were not enough for him and 600 imperial officers and soldiers to escape from this mountain smoothly.

If he couldn't escape, he could only defend and wait for the arrival of reinforcements.

He could even use the Chinese's ambition to wipe out the regiment and win back a city for the entire regiment!

The empire has enough fighter planes, but the Chinese don't. This is the biggest reliance of Major Tominaga I.

It can only be said that Tominaga Ichi is an extremely difficult player to deal with. His mind is even more meticulous than that of the Japanese army colonel who died in the passage. Even at such a difficult moment, he was still thinking about how to counterattack the opponent who had already gained the upper hand.

In order to realize his tactical plan, Major Tominaga Ichi did not even plan to rescue any wounded in the passage. He let the faint howling in the passage gradually become silent, and desperately urged more than 600 infantrymen to desperately build positions. He failed to wait for the attack of the Chinese infantry, but instead waited for the roar of aircraft engines from the sky.

The Japanese infantry on the position burst into cheers. This was not only the most powerful support for them, but also represented a signal that the division had not abandoned them.

Only Major Tominaga Ichi, the current highest commander of the 232nd Infantry Regiment, looked incredulous. If his memory was correct, it had only been an hour and twenty minutes since he reported the telegram to the division. When did the efficiency of the empire become so high?

In other words, when did the navy marlins love the army so much? It was as if they were waiting for the army's request for help and took off immediately after receiving it.

Otherwise, it was impossible to explain why the fleet could reach this area across nearly 600 kilometers in less than an hour and a half.

The dozen small black dots that appeared on the horizon proved that this fleet was definitely not small.

While Major Tominaga was still daydreaming, a sharp whistle came from the air. It was the Chinese large-caliber mortar.

The face of the Japanese Army Major suddenly turned pale!

He understood! He realized!

That was not the Empire's fleet, but the Chinese.

Because, the Japanese Army Major who had been thinking about how to give a ruthless and arrogant opponent a blow did not know that the one who made this decision was not Gu Xishui, the company commander of the mountain infantry company of the Sixing Regiment.

But Tang Dao, who was 15 kilometers away!

Others may not know the name of the 232nd Infantry Regiment, but Tang Dao has always remembered it.

It was one of the culprits who caused General Zhang's martyrdom in the Zaoyi Battle. In public and private, Tang Dao would not let anyone of this infantry regiment go.

Of course, Tang Dao would not be blinded by hatred. Even if he received the news that Gu Xishui had wiped out the enemies who entered the card slot channel and analyzed that there were less than a thousand remaining enemies outside the channel, Tang Dao did not think of sending out the two main infantry companies of the 4th Infantry Battalion to work together with the mountain infantry company to kill the remaining enemies.

Because he has a more concise and almost brutal way.

After receiving Gu Xishui's news that the remaining enemies outside the passage did not retreat in a hurry and built fortifications on the spot, Tang Dao was overjoyed.

If it were a local battlefield, Major Tominaga's move would be brilliant. The counter-tactical tactic is like a flat-headed brother. Eat him! There is not much meat and it is very difficult to deal with. Don't eat him! He still bared his teeth at you aggressively.

A very typical tactic that is disgusting whether you eat it or not!

Unfortunately, Major Tominaga's pattern is still a little small after all.

This battlefield, which will be named "Paicao Blocking Battle" in the future, is only a small part of the Shipai Defense Battle. Even though the Japanese army that wiped out nearly an infantry regiment here was only mentioned in less than a hundred words in the future military academy textbooks.

"The Four-Line Regiment took advantage of the favorable terrain and successfully ambushed the Japanese 232nd Infantry Regiment in Paicao, annihilating more than 2,100 Japanese invaders!" The introduction of the amazing canyon passage ambush was completed in just one sentence.

The Battle of Shipai, although the core battlefield is only 30 kilometers in radius, it has attracted the attention of many big figures including the Yamashiro Military and Political Department, the Japanese China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, and the Japanese headquarters.

Once Shipai is lost, the eastern gate of Yamashiro will be gone, and China's current economic, political, and cultural center will be in danger, which is very likely to change the course of the entire Chinese battlefield.

Both China and Japan are determined to win this mountainous area where the Yangtze River makes a 180-degree bend!

China is even going to bet everything!

Therefore, Major Tominaga I was confident that only Japan had air support, which was a big mistake.

The Yamashiro Military and Political Department and the Air Force Command promised the 18th Army Headquarters from the beginning that if there was a need, the Chinese Air Force would fully support it.

For this reason, the Chinese Air Force prepared 6 Wildcat fighter squadrons and 3 bomber squadrons, almost doing its best to defend Shipai.

"The main force of the 232nd Infantry Regiment has been annihilated. Our unit has applied for an aerial bombing to completely wipe out the remnants of the 232nd Infantry Regiment from the surface of the earth! For the sake of confidentiality, our unit number should not appear. This achievement should be temporarily recorded as belonging to the 18th Army." Tang Dao sent the following telegram to the division commander surnamed Hu.

Using military merits in exchange for the complete destruction of the 232nd Infantry Regiment, in the eyes of Tang Tuanzuo, this deal is not a loss at all.

For the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment, they have received many medals such as the Baoding Medal and the Loyalty and Bravery Medal on the battlefield in North China, but in the end it is just a face-saving project. The first, second and third-class military merits awarded in the Four-Line Regiment, in addition to the medals being made of gold and silver, also receive bonuses and promotions in military rank and treatment.

The officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment value the military merits of the team, and do not take the military and political departments seriously at all.

Division Commander Hu was overjoyed. The Four-Line Regiment was just as he thought. It gave him a big surprise right at the beginning. What Tang Dao said was right. The Four-Line Regiment's arrival at Shipai was still a military secret. Even if they waited until the decisive battle to give the Japanese a big surprise, it would be fine to temporarily put this military achievement in the 18th Army.

In the middle of the year, Tang Dao returned to the mountain city. It was no secret that General Zhang was martyred and furious. Of course, he also knew the personal grudge between Tang Dao and the 39th Division. The complete annihilation of the 232nd Infantry Regiment would make the military achievement more perfect, and he could also give Tang Dao a favor. How could he not be willing to do it?

Although Gu Xishui reported it layer by layer, because of the artifact such as the walkie-talkie, the coordinates of the remnants of the 232nd Infantry Regiment in the mountains were sent to the Chinese Air Force Command in less than an hour, and the two sides also agreed that before the arrival of the fleet, the Chinese soldiers on the front line would use artillery fire to mark the fleet with bombing.

Major Tominaga I, you have to pay an extremely painful price for your own pattern!

That is, one hour after Major Tominaga made the decision, a bomber formation escorted by 6 bombers and 12 Wildcat fighters set off from Jiulongpo Airport.

The 12 Zero fighters and 8 bombers that the Japanese Navy also assembled with anger set off nearly 30 minutes later than the Chinese side.

Moreover, the Japanese fleet was far away at Jiangxia Airport, 560 kilometers away, while the Chinese Jiulongpo Airport was only 380 kilometers away, a full 180 kilometers shorter!

That almost means one sentence: The Japanese Navy Air Force will inevitably be late!

As the Chinese saying goes: eating shit can't catch up with hot shit!

At the moment before the arrival of his own fleet, standing on the top of a peak about one thousand meters away from the remnant of the Japanese army, Gu Xishui coldly ordered: "Heavy platoon, change to incendiary bombs to mark the Japanese positions for the Air Force!"

Incendiary bombs are a special type of bomb, because of the extremely high transportation requirements, each heavy platoon does not carry many, and basically only uses them at the most critical moment.

At this time, it is most appropriate to use red flames to mark bombers high in the sky.

Gu Xishui was ruthless enough. Three minutes before the fleet was about to arrive, he ordered the four 150-pound heavy-duty platoons to empty out the 40 rounds of artillery shells they carried.

The Japanese army's position area was basically exposed to rain and dew!

On the Japanese army's position of more than 20,000 square meters, more than 20 bushes were ignited by incendiary bombs. Not only the flames shot into the sky, but also thick black smoke rose.

Looking at the approaching and descending aircraft fleet, Major Tominaga closed his eyes in pain and wailed: "Baga!"

Chinese, there is no way for them to survive. 232 Infantry Regiment!

The field positions that the Japanese infantrymen spent more than an hour constructing after being exhausted to death might be able to block the bombardment of Chinese small-caliber artillery. They can even guarantee that as long as the number of large-caliber mortars does not exceed 20, they will not be able to use all of them. Was killed.

However, the heavy aerial bomb dropped by the plane is really unstoppable!

Yes, in order to satisfy the appetite of Commander Hu and encourage the 18th Army to stick to Shipai, the Chinese Air Force also spent its wealth this time.

Each of the eight bombers carried two 500-pound aerial bombs, which was only nearly one-tenth of the 200 heavy aerial bombs currently stored by the Chinese Air Force.

The 12 Wildcat fighter jets used for escort each carried more than 500 pounds of various bombs!

In other words, the bombs dropped on the heads of the remnants of the 232nd Infantry Regiment were close to 13 tons!

Let me ask, can the field trenches dug by the Japanese now, which are only 3 meters deep, be able to withstand such a violent bombardment?

"The army brothers have given us the bombing area identification number. Each group will start dropping bombs according to the previous attack plan!" Lin Heng, who was sitting in one of the Wildcat fighters and had already hung the rank of Air Force lieutenant, ordered calmly.

The first wave of attacks was carried out by six Wildcat fighter jets, which dived to an altitude of 700 meters and began to drop bombs. After dropping bombs, they quickly pulled up and turned around 3,000 meters ahead and stayed in the airspace of 2,000 meters to provide air security for the entire formation.

Then six Wildcat fighter jets dive-bombed, and finally a group of bombers entered the battlefield in waves of four to drop bombs!

Because there was no firepower from the air or the ground, the Chinese Air Force fleet almost always dropped more than 80 aerial bombs of various types into the Japanese positions marked by incendiary bombs at an altitude of 700 to 800 meters.

It can be called unscrupulous!

Loud "boom" sounds echoed in the mountains, and the huge explosion energy made the entire earth tremble. The Japanese positions were all shrouded in black smoke.

However, no one among the officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry company could appreciate this rare sight.

Because the officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry company staying more than 1,000 meters away were covering their ears and crouching in the temporary bunker.

Not only must we avoid falling gravel from the mountain, but we must also prevent the Chinese Air Force from slipping. As long as one bomb deviates, it may cause the group to be wiped out!

They were about to win a complete victory. If unnecessary attrition was caused by such a mistake, the company commander Gu Xishui would be kicked to death by Tang Tuanzuo.

Platoon Leader Long, who is still in the cave on the cliff of the card slot, is the most anxious. The battle belonging to his 3rd platoon has ended, but he is now in a state of being unable to reach the sky or the ground. Without external assistance, even if he has great abilities, he can only Able to do things in caves.

"Platoon commander, didn't the company commander say that before? After we deal with this wave of Japs, someone will come and get us up." The soldier comforted Long Yan, who was spinning around anxiously.

"You know a hammer, am I worried that we won't be able to get up there?" Long Yan glared. "I ask you, if I ask you to dig for supplies among the dead people below, will your son go?"

"This" the Army Corporal glanced into the passage and couldn't help but retched.

Although many Japanese soldiers below were killed by bullets and their bodies were still relatively intact, nearly half of them were killed by the explosion of explosive packs and grenades, which is called a bloody mess.

When the smoke cleared, a long green-yellow object several meters long was hanging on the cliff less than 20 meters away from the three of them. The Army Corporal took a closer look and saw that it turned out to be a large intestine.

As for who the large intestine belongs to, there is no need to say it!

The large intestine in the abdominal cavity can fly upward for thirty meters, and the arms, legs and all kinds of weird severed bodies must not be scattered everywhere.

Just ask, what does it feel like to go to a place like this that is mixed with all kinds of strange smells and lumps of meat? Moreover, the word "planing" spoken by the platoon leader Long Da is really very picturesque.

Then you can't dig through the pile of flesh and blood bit by bit!

Even after two or three years of blood and fire battlefield tests, if you can avoid going to such a nightmare place, it's better not to go.

"Isn't this it? After the company commander and the other three platoons have dealt with the remaining Japanese soldiers outside the passage, we are the type to recharge our batteries. Who else will we be given if we don't go into the passage to clean the battlefield and do statistics?" Long Yan He glanced resentfully at the smelly passage below and said helplessly.

Platoon Leader Long always looks at things from such a weird angle, but I have to say that it still makes some sense.

But what's helpless is that Long Yan has foreseen the outcome but can't change it. Gu Xishui really can't care about them now and just waits for the remnants of the Japanese army to be blown to pieces.

After the bombing, 12 Wildcat fighter jets descended to an altitude of 500 meters and plowed back and forth three times with their airborne machine guns on the Japanese positions that were still filled with gunpowder smoke. Just like the Japanese planes did to the Chinese army, they killed at least dozens of remaining Japanese troops. After killing him in the trench, he jumped into the sky and left with satisfaction.

However, Gu Xishui, who had been observing the Japanese positions with a telescope, did not intend to surround the entire army immediately, but only sent three combat teams to approach the battlefield for observation.

Because he was also on guard against the Japanese aircraft group!

His caution prevented the mountain infantry company from suffering losses. About 50 minutes later, the roar of aircraft engines sounded again in the sky.

The entire mountain infantry company entered the dense forests of the mountainous area for concealment!

The Japanese reconnaissance plane descended to 1,000 meters, and from the porthole, it saw that the messy positions were full of "shit yellow" lying everywhere.

The unbelievable Japanese reconnaissance plane even descended to 800 meters and circled above the positions three times, only then finally determined that the army idiots they were going to support were finished.

What can we do?

The Japanese pilots in the air were confused!

What does it mean to come excitedly but leave disappointed? At this time, it is probably the most true portrayal of the Japanese naval aviation!

Even if the wings are full of bombs, they can't find where the Chinese are. Bombing the mountain to vent their anger? This is impossible.

But leaving in such a huff is clearly not the temperament of the Japanese naval aviation forces!

So