Rise From Eight Hundred

Yes, it was like meeting a Siberian tiger in the mountains.

The most terrifying thing was not the tiger's roar, but the tiger's sharp teeth.

The biggest blow to the Japanese on the battlefield was the section of the city wall that was completely blown away.

A large number of bricks and lumps of earth flew over the Japanese positions, and then fell heavily, directly raining bricks and stones.

Seven or eight soldiers of the third battalion who were lying hundreds of meters away and wearing helmets were injured, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who were only tens of meters away.

The safest position on the entire battlefield was the city gate hole 100 meters away from the explosion point. The engineering platoon responsible for detonation and Li Jiujin's 7th Company 1st Platoon were hiding there. They only needed to curl up and lift their chests and abdomens off the ground to prevent being injured by shock.

The bricks flying in the sky weighing a few kilograms were small ones. Seven or eight kilograms were very common. Not to mention people's heads, even houses would be hit with a big hole.

The 16 82mm mortars of the 1st Artillery Company and the 3rd Battalion Machine Gun Company were already aimed at the Japanese positions, but they had not even fired yet. The explosion of the city wall had already smashed the Japanese defensive positions into a field of mourning.

If time and space could be reversed, I wonder if Sakira Nakadama would regret deploying the defensive positions in this way, but to be honest, if he had placed all the defensive troops on the top of the city, the outcome would probably not be much better than it is now.

A solid city wall can defend against machine guns and rifle bullets, but not artillery shells.

In the battle of Songjiang last year, in order to defend against the Japanese heavy artillery, an infantry army and several thousand young men in Songjiang City used almost blood-exhausting labor to dig fortifications in the city wall to barely resist the heavy artillery bombardment. Without those fortifications, the heavy artillery alone could reduce the 67th Army by one-third.

Lieutenant Yamashita Nakaki had a headache, not because he saw the 60 people in the four squads deployed on the front line were smashed and bleeding, and many people were even bleeding, but because he was also hit by a big piece of earth while wearing a steel helmet.

If it was not a lump of yellow earth that hit him, but a solid blue brick, the Japanese lieutenant who looked at the roof that was almost smashed into a panoramic skylight above his head knew very well that he might not have to feel the feeling of a big head now.

Not having to face this mess, he might be much happier.

The potential energy of dozens of tons of bricks and stones flying to a height of more than ten meters or even tens of meters is no less than that of dozens of mountain artillery shells falling on the battlefield.

At least 70% of the houses were destroyed by the terrible rain of falling rocks, and even the roofs were smashed into sieves. How could the people hiding inside be spared?

The roofs that people can stand on are as thin as cicada wings and cannot provide any protection under the destruction of the stone rain. What about the completely exposed positions? That goes without saying.

The Imperial Japanese Army has never been so extravagant since its establishment, and even set up a steel shed for the infantry's positions. In this desolate place in Asia, what high-altitude throwing objects are there?

Therefore, the brave Japanese Imperial Army could only stand firm under the Chinese people's unethical "stone throwing from high altitude".

Those who could wail were those who were hit on their arms and legs but not on their heads. Those who were hit on their heads basically went to their Amaterasu to drink tea, chat and play mahjong.

It was just that the timing was not right, and there were a lot of card pairs coming, so Amaterasu must be very annoyed at this moment.

Many people like to say: It is better to live a miserable life than to die! That's because they have never been to the battlefield.

People who have been to the battlefield will tell you: Sometimes, death is much happier than living!

Just like here, the Japanese soldiers who were hit on their arms and legs were actually much more miserable than their companions who were directly killed.

The fresh bone fragments that were smashed out made the heart-wrenching screams of the Japanese infantrymen even reach the Wang family mansion area 700 meters away.

In fact, bones have no pain nerves. Even if the arm is broken, it is not as painful as imagined at that moment. The intense pain in the head still comes from the dense nerve groups in the muscle tissue.

Of course, the feeling of despair of watching one's arm and leg bones being exposed to the air with blood is the most frightening. Crying helps to alleviate the huge fear that comes. This mentality is the same as when a woman encounters difficulties and chooses to cry to relieve her inner sadness.

That's right, at the moment of encountering irresistible fear, the warriors of the Imperial Japanese Army also took off their strong masks and became sissy!

"What's wrong with the little devils?" Shen Laoliu, who had been carefully searching the distant streets with a scope, had his eyes twitching.

This pig-killing scream easily made him think that these devils were not taken from behind by Battalion Commander Leng and Company Commander Li with red-hot iron bars!

If that's the case, it's really unbearable!

Li Jiujin: You complain about Battalion Commander Leng, why do you bring me with you?

"Do your job well. The better they fight over there, the safer we are!" This time, it was Heizi's turn to complain about Shen Laoliu.

"That's right! We've been waiting for a long time, why haven't the Japanese reinforcements come yet? Why, who are they looking down on?" Shen Laoliu cast his eyes a hundred meters away, puzzled.

According to the pre-war estimate, if the Japanese reinforcements are blocked in the middle, they should arrive about 10 minutes after the battle begins. Now, let alone 10 minutes, there are several 10 minutes, and no Japanese have come. This is unreasonable.

"Could this be related to the fact that the Japanese infantry captain is not here?" Heizi shook his head and made up an excuse. "No matter how the battle situation changes, we will implement the tactics planned by Captain Gu before the war. As long as the Japanese dare to come, no matter how many people come, we will fight a defensive battle with them here to see who can hold on to the end."

Heizi is no longer the thick black machine gunner he once was. He is now a second lieutenant of the special forces and the captain of a special forces team. Although he cannot become a special forces commander like Gu Xishui who can plan the overall situation, he can firmly carry out the instructions he had made before the war. Develop good tactics that will remain unchanged no matter how the battle situation changes.

He is not the best commander, but he can be the best executor. This is also the soldier that the Four Lines Group needs.

In fact, as he said, the civil war situation in the city had already changed with the escape of Qi Liangchuyu.

The battle situation outside the city also exceeded the expectations of the commanders of the Chinese and Japanese armies.

The directional blasting of 400 kilograms of explosives was more effective than expected. The screams of the Japanese infantry made Leng Feng couldn't help but clenched his fists in excitement. If he had known this, the 200 kilograms of explosives in the first round should have been used like this.

Yamashita Nakaki: We are not humans, but you are also real dogs!

However, the Japanese army's nightmare was not over yet.

Thirty seconds after the explosion, Yamashita, who was knocked unconscious by a big lump of earth and still scolding the Chinese for being so vicious, was creampied. No, it was Lieutenant Zhongshu who heard "Peng" that made his liver and gallbladder split. "Peng Peng" made a dull sound.

The shells fired from the 16 mortars that had raised the front line to a distance of less than 500 meters from the battlefield were slower than the speed of sound. The next second the Japanese Army Lieutenant heard the sound of the mortars coming out, there was a "boom". "Boom, boom" was the loud noise of continuous explosions of artillery shells.

"Baga! It's over!" This was the last thought that filled Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita's mind as he stood stunned in the bunker of the squadron headquarters.

Compared with the artillery fire coverage, the round of 'high-altitude stone throwing' just now really shouldn't be too gentle.

Stones can hit people to death, but there is a chance of it. As long as you are lucky enough, you will end up with a bag on your head!

But cannonballs can’t do it! That thing will explode when it hits the ground!

The air waves caused by the explosion and the splashing shrapnel wreaked havoc on the position that had just been destroyed by falling rocks. How many people could survive?

It can only be said that Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita is still used to maintaining his arrogance towards Chinese soldiers. He underestimates his opponent too much.

At Leng Feng's request, Pang Dahai ordered the whole company's mortars to be replaced with 'steel ball bombs'. During the week-long four-line regiment construction period, China's future 'Madame Curie' took her students , worked overtime and modified a full 50 artillery shells.

Except for 3 that were given to Lu Zhongda, the remaining 47 were given to the 1st Artillery Company. The First Battalion took 7, while Licheng kept a full 40 in order to cope with more complex urban street battles. .

A shell that explodes in the air will fire hundreds of mung bean-sized steel balls, and its lethality to people exposed on the ground is at least three times higher than that of ordinary shells!

Six mortars fired steel ball projectiles, and the remaining 10 mortars fired ordinary artillery shells.

Then, hiding by the relatively strong window of the headquarters, Lieutenant Nakaki Yamashita looked at his own position, especially the first-line position, from the left wing to the front and then to the right wing. The shelling was completely advancing in a barrage situation. One house after another collapsed.

The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of stone attacks rolled out and were then swept away by the shock wave of the shells, or fell to the ground while running and never got up again.

Running is a death, not running is actually a death.

I don’t know how many Japanese infantrymen adhere to the principle of ‘I just lie down, if the shrapnel hits me, it’s my bad luck! ’ The tactical concept is to hide in trenches or fortifications and never move away.

So many of them died like this.

Steel balls accelerated by explosives to a muzzle velocity of 300 meters/second have been tested and can penetrate a 10 cm thick wooden board. It is completely normal for a human body, which is obviously much more fragile than a wooden board, to be punched with a transparent hole.

One may not be enough to kill, but how many or more than ten? Not to mention the bleeding, the pain alone can hurt someone to death.

Sixteen 82 guns, each round contains sixteen rounds, one round is fired every three seconds, and it can fire 20 rounds of 320 shells in one minute!

Of course, the muzzle may need to be adjusted according to instructions. In fact, it can fire about 130 rounds per minute, and Leng Feng's request is to shell for 10 minutes.

This means that more than 1,000 artillery shells fell on the Japanese army's position, which was only 10,000 square meters in area, with an average of one artillery shell falling on 10 square meters. This intensity of artillery fire even exceeded what the Chinese army endured on the Songhu battlefield. Japanese artillery fire.

After all, at that time, due to the lack of enough artillery to fight back, the Chinese army stretched the infantry front very wide to prevent heavy casualties from the Japanese heavy artillery. A 500-meter-long trench was often only guarded by one infantry company, but that was it. A heavy artillery shell fell, and half the infantry company was gone.

All this time, Lao Abacus, who had never seen a sad look on his face and enjoyed gambling in his free time, was lying on the position only 300 meters outside the city wall, watching the flames blooming, and the Japanese troops were being beaten like rag dolls. The air waves rolled up and then fell, tears welling up in my eyes!

Although he tried his best to hold it back, the tears still fell into the soil in front of him drop by drop.

The soldiers next to him obviously didn't notice this veteran who was usually careless and seemed to have no thoughts. Their eyes were all on the artillery battlefield that dazzled the Chinese soldiers.

In the Four Lines Regiment, there are no more than 70 people who have experienced that kind of desperate battlefield. As the battle progresses, there are no more than 70 people. There are no more than 40 people who can witness the Japanese troops struggling in the rear under artillery fire.

Lao Suanpan was one of them!

Before entering the Sihang Warehouse, the infantry platoon he belonged to had lost 90% of its personnel, all thanks to the Japanese heavy artillery. They didn't even have time to fire a shot at the Japanese infantry, and a shell hit the front of his infantry platoon. The entire platoon, including the second lieutenant platoon leader, had 46 people, 26 of whom were killed on the spot, and 8 were injured. Only 12 people remained, less than the strength of an infantry squad.

But even so, the 6 of them still defended for a full 30 minutes and did not allow a Japanese infantry squad to capture the position, but the price was that the entire platoon was left with 4 people!

From that day on, Lao Suanpan swore that he would never let the thief God see his tears again. The brothers who had been with him day and night were all dead, and he would not let the thief God see his weakness.

But today, he watched the Japanese wailing in the continuous artillery fire of his own side, and he could no longer hold back his tears.

Gangzi, Erdan, you are watching in heaven! When we have so many artillery, the little devils are crying miserably! The old abacus was crying and laughing at the same time!

The data reported by the three artillery observers in front allowed the sixteen 82 mortars to basically pour all the shells on the Japanese positions, and few of them fell into the rest of the houses.

The heavy machine gun firepower point behind the Japanese positions, which relied on at least two layers of sandbags and hardwood steel plate fortifications to shoot recklessly from the beginning, was not unlucky because a mortar was aimed at its approximate direction and bombarded it fiercely.

In fact, it was unlucky from the moment the city wall was directional blasted.

The heavy machine gun firepower point was actually quite far away from the city wall, at least 100 meters. In terms of distance, the Chinese grenades could never reach there.

But no one knew that grenades could not reach there, but stones could actually fly there.

A 300-kilogram stone bar may be located at the center of the explosive energy push, and it was pushed to a height of more than 20 meters and then ran wildly in the sky for nearly 100 meters before falling.

But a stone bar, even if it falls, will never harm an area of ​​more than 0.5 square meters. Unless you have violated some heavenly law in your previous life, it is difficult to become a victim of its huge gravity.

But unfortunately, there must be someone in this heavy machine gun fire point who has been cuckolded by Amaterasu in the previous life, otherwise it would be such a coincidence?

The stone bar fell down so openly, hitting the Japanese army's carefully designed heavy machine gun fire point!

The four Japanese soldiers in the heavy machine gun fire point, which was well protected all around but had a real "panoramic skylight", looked at the falling black shadow in despair.

No one can react so quickly, no matter how elite the Japanese army is.

"Winter!" There was only one sound in total.

The stone bar directly smashed two of the four unlucky children into meat paste, the fresh kind! The other two were already scared silly after being splashed with blood.

Really, having seen people shot to death by bullets, killed by artillery bombs, stabbed to death by bayonets, and burned to death, these two had already thought that their hearts were tempered and could not be invaded by anything!

But in the face of this tragic scene where two colleagues were beaten into fresh meat paste by a 40 cm wide and 150 cm long stone bar like slapping flies, especially when those meat strips splashed on their faces and mouths, which were inexplicably sweet, they finally broke through the defense!

"Ah!

!" The sudden broken voice howled, like a hen with its neck cut!

The two Japanese soldiers who escaped from the fortifications vomited crazily. They didn't want to stay here for a moment, even though they had escaped the Chinese artillery bombardment for several minutes.

So, they died!

Even the two layers of sandbags were blown to pieces, revealing the steel plates behind them. How long can the human body survive in such a fierce artillery fire?

And the other heavy machine gun fortification was actually not much better. The moment they started shooting and exposed themselves, they were actually destined to die.

This is almost the inevitable fate of all heavy firepower points when the enemy has artillery.

The two 37mm rapid-fire guns were dragged to the city wall area during the bombardment. The steel plates of the rapid-fire guns can provide certain cover for the artillery. The engineers also quickly built fortifications on both sides with sandbags. As long as they are not attacked by grenade launchers, they can ensure basic safety.

Guided by the flares that were constantly fired into the sky, the artillerymen quickly locked their targets. It was easy for the 37mm anti-tank guns that could penetrate 40mm thick steel plates to penetrate two layers of sandbags and a 10mm steel plate.

The two rapid-fire guns fired three shells each, and the heavy machine gun fortifications that they felt were very solid collapsed like broken building blocks.

None of the four Japanese soldiers inside came out. There is no need to think that although the shells of the 37mm rapid-fire guns are armor-piercing shells, the shrapnel that splashes after breaking can still kill people like slaughtering dogs.

With the destruction of the two heavy machine gun fortifications, the fall of the Japanese defensive position at the South Gate could actually be declared complete!

Lacking suppressive firepower and suffering heavy infantry losses, what could Lieutenant Yamashita Nakashu use to fight against the Lengfeng Third Battalion, which had already begun to gather its forces?

Head?