Rise From Eight Hundred

The battlefield on the left wing was like a meat grinder!

Li Shoushan almost frantically invested in the infantry. After nearly 200 casualties, the more than 400 people at the front had lost their spirit, and another wave of three infantry companies came up.

If it doesn't work, rotate again!

Wave after wave, leaving rows of corpses, plus the ones left before, the "shit yellow" mixed with blood covered the entire battlefield, which was shocking.

And its mountain artillery and infantry artillery were not idle. Even if they did not aim at the two sides fighting in the front trenches because of concerns about the infantry in front of the front trenches, their artillery fire was also aimed at the top of the mountain and other areas.

It seemed that even if the cannon was shooting mosquitoes, it would kill a few.

Li Jiujin also adopted a rotation system. As long as the Jing'an Army changed a wave, the Sichuan Army and the second company in the trenches would change a wave.

It can not only maintain the physical strength of the soldiers on the front battlefield, but also make the casualties of each unit less concentrated.

However, Li Shoushan's move of wasting ammunition to bombard the top of the mountain was indeed vicious. All the wounded could only stay in the second-line trenches and receive simple treatment with the first aid kits carried by the second company. They could not be carried to the medical team stationed two kilometers behind.

This also caused several seriously injured soldiers who could have survived to close their eyes before dark.

But this is not just the difficulty mentioned by Tang Dao.

For the entire 145th Division, the most difficult part is not the left-wing battlefield, but the central position.

Yes, although Li Shoushan personally supervised the battle on the left-wing battlefield, not only did he invest more than a dozen artillery pieces, but he also invested more than a thousand infantrymen in turns to attack.

However, the offensive focus of the First Brigade of the Jing'an Army has always been at the central position.

The move played by Li Shoushan is called "double-fist attack", trying to make the Chinese defenders lose sight of one thing while focusing on the other.

It's just that because the Chinese side accidentally joined Tang Dao and the Independent Battalion, they not only blocked Li Shoushan's punch, but also almost broke his bones.

But the central main position was in a more miserable situation, because the central position not only had the First Regiment of the Jing'an Army as the main attack, but also a Japanese infantry battalion as the secondary attack, which was sent by the Kunisaki Detachment, which was still ten kilometers away.

Originally, it was just to supervise the battle and cooperate, but later, after Kunisaki Zheng's approval, it also launched the attack in the afternoon.

The Japanese regular army launched an attack, and the style was much more than the dog they raised.

First, the reinforced artillery battalion carried by the Kunisaki Detachment moved two kilometers from the garrison to the battlefield under the protection of an infantry battalion, bringing the main position of Jiepai Village within its range.

Sixteen 75 field guns concentrated their fire on the central main position of Jiepai Village, covering the entire position in a sea of ​​gunpowder.

Because the 145th Division deployed its defense in a hurry, the entire construction time did not exceed 24 hours. It was the limit to dig two trenches one person deep on each position, not to mention anti-artillery holes.

The 75mm field gun is a cannon, and its penetration is much stronger than that of a mountain gun, which is a howitzer. Its destructive power against simple fortifications such as trenches is also greatly enhanced.

Caught off guard, the two infantry companies in the first-line trenches were first hit by a destructive attack. However, after 30 minutes of shelling, the two infantry companies lost half of their men.

If the commander of the second-line trenches had not reacted in time and quickly mobilized an infantry company to the position, a section of the trench might have been taken away by a Japanese infantry squadron mixed in the Jing'an Army.

But that was also the result of the three infantry companies in the first-line trenches being forced to counterattack with bayonets to stabilize the situation.

The Sichuan Army was forced to use the combat mode they were least good at.

The Sichuan Army was originally not big in size, and after a long journey of more than 2,000 miles to reach the battlefield, their physical strength had long been exhausted. Their opponents were either the tall and strong Jing'an Army or the Japanese Army with short legs but well-nourished and strong bodies. The result of the bayonet fight can be imagined.

Three infantry companies suffered only 100 casualties in more than half an hour of artillery bombardment, but nearly 200 died in the hand-to-hand combat of less than ten minutes.

The losses of the more than 300 Japanese and Jing'an troops in the attack were not even half of the losses of the Chinese.

However, the bravery of the Sichuan people lasted until the arrival of reinforcements. The Japanese and their dog eyes saw that things were hopeless and retreated in an orderly manner.

But it was only four o'clock in the afternoon.

The old routine of the Japanese army was to attack after the bombardment, and continue to bombard if they could not capture it. The attack never stopped.

Throughout the afternoon, the total casualties on the left wing position were more than 60, and more than 500 enemy corpses were left in front of the position.

However, the casualties in the central main position were as high as more than 400, but the corpses left by the Japanese and Jing'an troops were few and far between.

It's not that they didn't kill many enemy troops, but the Japanese troops responsible for the attack had strong enough firepower to cover, but the Sichuan Army did not have the corresponding heavy firepower to suppress them, which allowed them to take away the bodies and wounded calmly when they retreated.

Two of the only four heavy machine guns and six mortars were destroyed, and the six mortars were also limited in the reserve of shells, so they would only fire artillery support when they had to.

This was undoubtedly an extremely difficult afternoon, but the real test might just be the beginning.

Tang Dao knew that the Japanese army's attack in the afternoon was not going well, and tomorrow they would definitely send out a formation of fighter planes to bomb the various positions in Jiepai Village.

With the current trench strength built according to the mountain terrain, there is no position that can block the bombing of dozens of pounds or even hundreds of pounds of bombs.

If you want to live, you can't be lazy.

According to Tang Dao's suggestion, although it was already night, thousands of soldiers could not rest and recuperate like the enemy army thousands of meters away waiting for the next battle tomorrow. Except for the necessary guard soldiers, the whole army was engaged in digging trenches.

Of course, digging on the original position, there was no reinforced concrete, only wood and sandbags. No matter how solid the fortifications were, they were useless in the face of hundreds of pounds of bombs.

Tang Dao's suggestion was a simplified version of the future battle of Wusheng Mountain on the ice field. If there was no time to build dense tunnels, we could rely on digging a large number of communication trenches to the back of the mountain!

In the event of Japanese artillery bombardment, the first-line trenches and the second-line trenches could be evacuated to the other side of the mountain through the communication trenches, and then enter the position through the communication trenches when the Japanese infantry came up.

Moreover, Tang Dao's practice of digging a large number of communication trenches was not only to facilitate the movement of soldiers behind the mountain and between the first-line and second-line positions, but also to designate positions for each infantry company.

Each infantry company is responsible for a position named with a number. If support is needed, a signal flare will be fired to ask for help, and the front-line command will transport troops to the position through the communication trench for support.

This method is to prevent the situation in which the enemy's artillery fire is fierce and the front-line trenches are lost if they are not entered in time.

"Good! Very good! Then my 145th Division will use the hot pot tactics with the Japanese invaders based on the tactics mentioned by your battalion commander Tang." After listening to Tang Dao's suggestion, the lieutenant general of the Sichuan Army invented a new term.

What is a hot pot? It's just putting all the ingredients in a pot and cooking them. In the north, it's called a stew.

The lieutenant general of the Sichuan Army made a bolder attempt on Tang Dao's suggestion. He even decided to take the initiative to give up the front-line trenches before the Japanese fighter planes came.

Let's have you in me and me in you, so that the Japanese bombers dare not drop bombs easily. If they have the ability to drop, everyone will be finished.

This tactic is bold enough to prevent the heavy bombs dropped by Japanese bombers from causing huge casualties, but it also has disadvantages.

If the transportation trenches for transporting troops to the positions of the infantry companies were cut off by the Japanese army, resulting in the siege of the positions by the Japanese army, the positions would be lost one by one, and the morale would gradually decline, which might lead to a collapse-like defeat. The two or three thousand people in the central main position would die without a burial place.

To put it bluntly, this kind of combat method of actively leading the Japanese army into the position and relying on each infantry company to defend the position like scattered dandelions is no longer a test of how strong the combat power is, but the will.

Only a strong and tenacious will can ensure that the battle can continue in this extreme combat state of close combat or even siege. Once it is weak, the more than one thousand people who entered the position will not survive under the massive pursuit of the Japanese army, whose distance between the two sides will never exceed two hundred meters.

"Not everyone in my 145th Division is a softie like Liu Ruzhai!" The Lieutenant General of the Sichuan Army smiled generously at Tang Dao's slightly worried eyes. "I said I will buy you 24 hours, Captain Tang, and I won't give you a minute less. This time, there is no front command, and my 145th Division headquarters is the front-line command."

This is the confidence of the Lieutenant General of the Sichuan Army.

How can a person who is not afraid of death be afraid of the tactical test he has determined?

Because, this time, he, the Lieutenant General, will take up his gun and go to the battlefield, and his headquarters will move forward 800 meters, only 500 meters away from the front line.

Once encountering extreme combat conditions, this Lieutenant General and his guard company will become the last line of defense on the entire position.

The 145th Division arrived at the Guangde front line with an infantry brigade and a battalion, totaling 5,000 lives, just to buy enough time for the Mouse Mountain position in the rear.

It was extremely cruel, but it was the limit that this Lieutenant General of the Sichuan Army did for his country.

Tang Dao knew that he would do it.

Because, in the past time and space, he only led a battalion of soldiers after many days of bloody battles, and still chose to counterattack the Japanese army.

He left the last bullet in his pistol for himself...

PS: Fengyue has to go to the academy for a meeting in the afternoon. As the holiday is approaching, there will be more people. I will update one chapter first, and another chapter will be updated around 9 pm!

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