Rise From Eight Hundred

So, Lieutenant Nan Jiano Roku, then the leader of the 16th Squadron of the 2nd Air Wing of the Japanese Navy, made a decision.

The original words were quite long, and the full text was estimated to be several hundred words. The gist of it was: The army's millipedes didn't even last for 2 hours, which really damaged the dignity of the imperial soldiers. Our navy eagles are not here to help these millipedes get back their ground, but for the empire!

Therefore, this large aircraft formation with 12 fighters and 8 bombers, after circling in the air for several circles, did not return to the original route after finding no valuable bombing targets, but continued to fly southwest.

That direction was exactly the direction of Shipai!

"Report to the regiment headquarters, the Japanese aircraft group is flying towards Shipai!" Gu Xishui in the dense forest never took his eyes off the aircraft group in the sky. After it continued to fly forward, he immediately gave an order to the communicator.

The battlefield here is actually only about 30 kilometers away from the core area of ​​Shipai Fortress. At the speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, it is actually only about five minutes. The role of this early warning is very limited.

The weather was clear that day, and the visibility was very good. The Japanese aircraft group, which maintained an altitude of 2,000 meters, flew for only three minutes before seeing a large number of man-made trenches and fortifications on the mountains below.

If Captain Nanjiano Roku could still keep his original intention at this time and continue to fly to the core defense area of ​​Shipai Fortress and launch bombing, he and his aircraft group would have an 80% chance of receiving a great reward from the Japanese Navy.

Because the strongest point of Shipai Fortress is ground defense. Nearly 30,000 people from the two main divisions of the 18th Army are deployed on this position with a radius of only 20 kilometers, and they also have more than 30 artillery pieces of various calibers, which is definitely a tough nut for the Japanese.

But the weakest link of the 18th Army is air defense. The two main infantry divisions only have 32 20mm machine guns, which is too weak for a main infantry army.

The Japanese aircraft group does not need to choose the angle of entry into the battlefield. As long as the altitude is maintained at about 2,500 meters, the 20mm machine guns with an effective firing height of only about 2,000 meters can only sigh in despair.

Unfortunately, Captain Nanjiano Roku, who was eager to find an effective target to vent his anger, was purely in the mindset of eating meat in his mouth. After the fleet flew over the mountainous area on the left wing of the Shipai defense position at high speed, he gave an order with a ferocious look: "Each plane will find its own target, turn back 3,000 meters ahead, and attack freely!"

Not even a warning plane was left in the sky, which shows how confident Captain Nanjiano Roku was in the Imperial Navy Air Force, and how eager this Japanese Navy captain was to drop bombs on the heads of the Chinese.

However, this Japanese Navy captain probably never dreamed that he had chosen the wrong target this time.

Right below the fleet, 8 40mm anti-aircraft guns with branches wrapped around their barrels had their guns removed and shells loaded. The gunners stared at the fleet of Japanese planes flying in the sky, waiting for the "fire" order from the walkie-talkies tied to their chests.

And this is only part of the strength of the air defense battalion of the Fourth Regiment. In the dense forests and high ground behind the positions carefully constructed by the two infantry battalions, there are 24 squads with a total of 24 20mm anti-aircraft guns and 24 4-mounted 7mm anti-aircraft machine guns on standby!

8 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns are reserved for altitudes above 2500 meters, 20mm anti-aircraft guns are reserved for altitudes below 2000 meters, and 7mm anti-aircraft machine guns are within range below 1200 meters.

With the continuous iteration of air defense equipment, the Fourth Regiment has already formed a very complete three-dimensional defense system at high, medium and low altitudes.

And with one battle after another, the experience of the officers and soldiers of the air defense battalion has long been rich, which is the most powerful part of the air defense battalion of the Fourth Regiment.

Perhaps, they still cannot prevent Japanese planes from dropping bombs at high altitudes, but they can definitely make Japanese planes that dive or hover in this airspace pay a sufficient price.

Therefore, when the first batch of four Japanese Type 97 heavy bombers began to dive and drop bombs under the escort of four Zero fighters, the four 40mm anti-aircraft guns closest to them opened fire first.

After only one round of salvo, a Type 97 heavy bomber emitted thick smoke.

"The Chinese are actually equipped with anti-aircraft guns?" Captain Nan Jiaye Liu looked at the airspace where white flowers were blooming in disbelief.

This really exceeded his understanding of the Chinese battlefield!

He thought that he would encounter Chinese fighter planes, and he also thought that the Chinese would use pitiful heavy machine guns to fire back at the sky, but he never thought that the Chinese were equipped with such large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

"Baga! Group 1 and Group 2 follow me into low altitude, find the Chinese anti-aircraft gun position, and kill them!" Captain Nan Jiaye Liu was brave enough, and after a brief surprise, he made a different choice.

Because he believed that even if the Chinese had such large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, there would not be many. As long as he entered the low altitude to find the position and blow it up, the Chinese would have no last resort.

The brave Japanese naval captain was right about the number of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

But he misjudged the low-altitude defense capability of the Four-Line Regiment!

People can make many mistakes. In school, teachers will correct your mistakes tirelessly; at home, parents will tolerate your mistakes; in the training ground, instructors will punish you for making mistakes;

But only on the battlefield, the price of making mistakes can only be death.

Captain Nan Jiaye Liu led 8 Zero fighters to dive from 2000 meters to 1100 meters in one breath, and crashed into the firepower network woven by 20mm machine guns and 7mm heavy machine guns.

That day, the 20 fighters of the Japanese Navy Air Force formation that originally came to rescue the 232nd Infantry Regiment did not waste fuel. After all, they dropped more than 70 bombs in the Chinese position area, but paid the price of 3 bombers being damaged, 5 Zero fighters and 2 bombers being shot down.

Among them, Captain Nan Jiaye Liu, the highest commander of the aircraft formation, died on the spot. His fighter was hit by a 20mm machine gun shell and the fuel tank caught fire. Although he tried hard to escape 2000 meters, he finally exploded in the air because of the large fire.

"The card slot annihilated more than 2900 enemies from the enemy leader Colonel Saji Naoki, and shot down 7 Japanese planes in Niuchangpo and Zhujiaping areas!" When the division commander surnamed Hu received the battle report of the Four-Line Regiment, he was stunned for nearly 30 seconds.

He thought that the Four-Line Regiment could fight, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful. In less than two days, it actually wiped out a Japanese infantry regiment and 7 Japanese planes. If the Four-Line Regiment continued to fight, it would have to kill a Japanese division!

Of course, the record reported by Tang Dao was too amazing. Even if the commander surnamed Hu believed that Tang Dao did not lie, it was necessary for the 18th Army Military Law Department to verify this amazing record.

Then, the colonel of the 18th Army Military Law Department who arrived at the Pai Cao battlefield at dusk saw the most terrifying scene in his life.

Because Pai Cao was completely blocked by thousands of tons of boulders, he could only rely on rappelling from the lower peaks to the inside of the passage.

Although Gu Xishui had reminded him outside that the scene inside was too bloody, it was best to cover his mouth and nose with a towel.

But this man, who had been an infantry battalion commander before becoming the military judge, thought that he had seen all kinds of battlefields following the 18th Army, so he went down wearing long leather boots and a woolen coat.

While he was still in the air, the peculiar stench of half-cooked organs drilled into his nostrils. When he went down to the inside of the passage, not to mention the broken meat and corpses everywhere, the pupils could not help shrinking. The strong stench almost made this veteran vomit on the spot.

Don't say, this man is really strong. In addition to frowning, he didn't even cover his mouth and nose with his hands, and continued to move forward along this narrow passage full of Japanese corpses.

There was blood and broken meat on the ground, and the touch of the soles of the feet to the brain nerves was really creepy.

But these fears could not overcome curiosity. It was difficult for the colonel to understand whether the Japanese were crazy and chose to take such a desperate road. Look at the ending, how miserable it would be.

Until the colonel saw a sturdy guy wrapped a towel around his face, stretched out his two strong arms to pick through a pile of minced meat, and then took out a gold bracelet from a tattered military uniform, wiped the bloody gold bracelet on a Japanese military uniform that was already bloody, and threw it into a cloth bag he carried with him.

Then, he turned over the pile of minced meat and continued to search on a corpse with only the upper body left without a head. He was so serious that he didn't seem to notice that someone was watching him more than ten meters away.

That situation was so creepy.

The colonel finally couldn't hold back the turmoil in his chest, and he bent down and vomited.

This naturally alarmed a platoon leader who was searching for spoils seriously. He looked up and saw five or six officers and soldiers in neat uniforms vomiting in a line as if they were collectively poisoned by gas, with envy in their eyes.

Being able to vomit means that there is food in the stomach, and he, the platoon leader, has vomited five or six times, and in the end, all he vomited was water, and he didn't want to vomit anymore.

The strange thing is that even though he vomited everything, he didn't feel hungry at all, and he was sure that at least in the next few days, he didn't want to eat any meat at all.

Really, he had seen all the meat he could see in the first twenty years of his life this afternoon.

Long Yan had never hated his mind so much. Just as he thought, after the Japanese fighter planes were shot away, Gu Xishui immediately organized the other three platoons to advance towards the Japanese positions in the form of infantry squads.

After all, there were still hundreds of Japanese soldiers there. No matter how powerful the bombs dropped by the bombers were, it was impossible to kill all of them. In the end, the problem had to be solved by infantry.

There were indeed remnants of Japanese invaders on the Japanese positions, but their number was so small that the officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry company were surprised.

Moreover, Gu Xishui had no intention of forcing an attack. The infantry squads advancing from various places to the Japanese defense line had walkie-talkies. If they needed artillery support, they could directly call the heavy mortar platoon and the four 60-mm mortars in their own platoon. If 10 rounds were not enough, they could just call another 10 rounds.

If they couldn't kill them in one go, they would suppress them, so that the Japanese couldn't raise their heads. Then the infantry crawled forward to 40 meters from the front of the position. The rain of grenades could not stop even the few remnants of the Japanese army, not to mention the full strength of the troops.

It took almost 3 hours to clear the last hundred or so Japanese soldiers on this position, and captured dozens of Japanese wounded soldiers.

Miraculously, the Japanese wounded soldiers did not die together this time, but watched the Chinese soldiers rush into the position almost sluggishly. When the Chinese soldiers signaled them to raise their hands and lie on the ground, their eyes were not filled with pain and despair, but with relief.

Yes, as long as the Chinese soldiers did not intend to shoot them, they were lucky compared to the other nearly 3,000 people in the 232nd Infantry Regiment.

At least, they were still alive!

According to the guidance of the wounded soldiers, the mountain infantry company dug out its highest commander, Major Tominaga Ichi, in an area where the trenches had been filled with soil.

This Japanese Army Major did not die in the bombs dropped by the Chinese fighter planes, nor did he die in the final siege of the mountain infantry company. After the Chinese fighter planes flew away, he took a look at the devastated position and the few officers and soldiers under his command, and issued an order to break out.

Then, he cut open his belly with his command knife and ended his life!

The only captain squadron leader left on the position did not break out immediately as Major Tominaga Ichi meant, but chose to hold on.

He believed that Major Tominaga Ichi must have been confused before he died. His own fighter fleet was about to arrive. If he, a hundred or so defeated soldiers, broke out, wouldn't it be exactly what the Chinese wanted? He had to wait for the Imperial fleet to kill the Chinese hiding around him before running away.

Because of the urgent time, the Japanese army captain had no time to collect the wreckage of the Japanese infantry thrown by heavy bombs on various positions, which resulted in the Japanese aircraft in the air seeing a mess and corpses after the bombing.

The more than 100 Japanese remnants waving their hands in the trenches for attention had lost their fire support value to them. In fact, they were abandoned by the arrogant Japanese naval aviation.

So, when they realized that they had missed the best time to break out, this wave of remnants could not leave even if they wanted to.

This gave the mountain infantry company the opportunity to wipe them out. Otherwise, if these Japanese troops went into the mountains, it would be extremely difficult for the main force of the mountain infantry company that remained more than 1,000 meters away to pursue them. It was normal for a few fish to slip through the net.

As for the three infantry squads that set up positions at the entrance of the passage to prepare to meet the 232nd Infantry Regiment, they did not run away. It was not that these 150 Japanese soldiers did not want to run, but that there was nowhere to run.

Gu Xishui had already deployed several fire groups at several important mountain passes. Once the Japanese left the field position and wanted to escape, the three MG42s would make them retreat. The Japanese army could only stay in the position and wait for reinforcements to arrive like the Japanese army on the other side.

The final result was naturally the arrival of the main force of the mountain infantry company that wiped out the Japanese army in the rest of the area. Dozens of shells fell down, and the Japanese army's face was almost broken.

By the afternoon, all the battles were over, and Long Yan and his 3rd platoon of more than 80 people were taken out one by one by the other platoons that had freed up their hands.

However, the officers and soldiers of the three platoons fought several tough battles in 24 hours, including the company commander Gu Xishui, who was exhausted like a dog. Only the officers and soldiers of the third platoon stayed in the cave for several days to recuperate. The previous fierce battle lasted only half an hour, and the physical effort was just to ignite the explosive packs and cluster grenades and throw them down, and then they took all kinds of guns and fired at the bottom, even saving the effort of aiming. They were all vigorous.

Who else should we do this battlefield cleaning if not for them?

Cleaning the battlefield is an old tradition of the Four-Line Regiment. In the words of Commander Tang, the Japanese must be killed, but the brothers must not be allowed to work in vain!

The captured guns and ammunition are naturally allocated by the regiment, but the personal property carried by the Japanese infantry, the Four-Line Regiment's distribution plan has always been that the regiment takes 30%, and the direct battalions and companies get 70%. How to distribute it is decided by the direct battalions and companies.

Moreover, the Japanese have always had the habit of carrying gold and silver objects with them. Even if each person only carries one or two taels of gold, there are at least 2,000 Japanese in this passage, which is 2,000 taels. The mountain infantry company can get 1,400 taels, and each person can get two or three taels of gold on average. For ordinary officers and soldiers, it is a windfall.

In order to set an example, Long Yan, the platoon leader, can only lead by example and dig for gold in the blood and flesh of the Japanese army.

Look, after working for almost an hour, I got used to it after feeling disgusted!

But obviously, his action of shaking a corpse with only the upper body left to find money directly disgusted a group of officers and soldiers of the 18th Army Military Law Department.

"Platoon Leader Long, I think you have a lot of gains!" The colonel military law chief, who finally recovered after vomiting for a long time, listened to the introduction of a deputy platoon leader of the accompanying mountain infantry company, and greeted Long Yan, who was carrying a bag of spoils, with a pale face.

"It's OK. I estimate that there are about five or six kilograms. There are still dozens of meters to be dealt with here. Otherwise, you and your brothers come here, and all the things you find will belong to you. It can be considered that the 18th Army brothers have not come in vain." Long Yan weighed the weight of the cloth bag in his hand and answered honestly.

"Ugh" The colonel military law chief vomited again.

He really couldn't do this kind of work of digging money in a pile of meat, even if he could find gold!

Besides, he was a high-ranking military officer and not stupid. Not to mention that he was embarrassed to rob the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment who had made great military achievements, with the character of the division commander surnamed Hu, if he heard about such a thing, he might not only have to return it but also pay more.

But what made the military law chief feel fortunate was that through the seizure in the hands of the second lieutenant platoon leader who was bathed in the breath of death, he could estimate the casualties of the Japanese army in the passage without checking the entire passage.

There are at least 1,500 bodies here, if anyone is interested in putting those remains together.

The Four-Line Regiment did not exaggerate the battle record!

"Congratulations to China! Congratulations to Shipai! Congratulations to all the soldiers in Shipai!"

After receiving the secret telegram from the 18th Army about the first contact between the Shipai Central Defense Zone and the Japanese Army, the commander surnamed Chen, who rarely drinks, drank three cups in his office alone!

For this man who had staked his entire civil engineering fortune, the fact that he performed so well in the first battle was not the only reason. More importantly, it was a good start, which indicated that the battle of Shipai might not be as pessimistic as before.

But he also obviously underestimated Yokoyama Isamu's determination! ()