Rise From Eight Hundred

On the frontal position, because there were a total of five tanks, one large and four small, the Japanese army, which was completely at a disadvantage on the ground, miraculously became the occupier of the advantage!

The Japanese infantry are usually divided into two groups, with the main force at the back and the forwards at the front. The fastest runner has reached a position 100 meters away from the front of the Chinese position. It only needs to advance 70 meters further, which may be enough for them to throw grenades into the trench. It will be the end of all Chinese soldiers on the battlefield!

The casualties caused by the explosion of more than 40 grenades in the trenches will never be less than the previous shelling of more than 10 artillery pieces by the Japanese army.

In other words, the distance of 100 meters is the line of life and death. Many Japanese soldiers have begun to straighten up and prepare to charge with all their strength. If it were not for the slope and the soft soil under their feet, 70 meters would not be enough for these soldiers who are strong enough. It's just a tactical action that can be completed in ten seconds.

But on the Chinese position, except for the popping sound of machine gun bullets from the Japanese Type 94 light tanks, no Chinese soldiers fired back on the nearly 500-meter-wide defense line.

‘This is unreasonable! ’ This was the inner monologue of Captain Kifumi Nakajima, the frontline commander of the Japanese army who was attacking the Chinese position head-on, and the captain of the 1st Squadron of the 105th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Battalion.

Of course, this is not the first time that Nakajima Mifun has fought against the Chinese army. He is no stranger to the 921st Division active in the Taihang Mountains. Even if there are tanks, the Chinese will not be so weak. Until now, they have not fired a single shot.

Especially when the Chinese gathered a force that was several times larger than the imperial army and tried to encircle them and eat them.

That's right, when Goto Koshiminami sent a small group of infantry to the commanding heights on both wings but found that Chinese soldiers had quietly occupied the commanding heights, the middle and high-level officers of the Japanese army knew about the Chinese army's intentions.

The Chinese not only wanted to stop them here, they even wanted to surround them and eat them.

My appetite is really big!

However, as the Chinese saying goes: It depends on whether they have such good teeth!

Regardless of the 600 people under Omura Hiroshi who are marching on the flanks in the mountains for protection, the total strength of the imperial infantry here is only more than 1,500 people, but they are not an ordinary infantry, but a combined force that integrates artillery, cavalry, and armor!

They have artillery for long-range attacks and tanks and infantry for close combat. What's the point of having more Chinese people? Rely on those old guns in the hands of the infantry?

Moreover, the battlefield chosen by the Chinese may be conducive to their encirclement, but given the relatively flat geographical location, what will happen if they are surrounded? If you want to fight, you basically have to go below the high ground.

What's more, the divisional army is gathering, and reinforcements will arrive at any time. They may launch a counter-siege against the Chinese in this mountainous area and kill their main force in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the Japanese army did not take the matter of being surrounded very seriously, and even sent an infantry squadron to the rear for symbolic defense!

The Japanese army had great confidence in conquering the high ground occupied by the Chinese in front of them, but the Japanese infantry, including Captain Nakajima, remained cautious enough!

After all, you only have one life, and no one wants to go home in that little wooden box.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no counterattacks on all Chinese positions.

The fighting on both sides of the frontal position was very fierce. The Chinese not only exposed their light machine guns, but also had grenades and even mortars to help. Two light machine guns and the machine gunner were bombed in succession. The parts that fill the sky are the masterpieces of that terrifying little cannon.

The Japanese infantry on both sides of the battlefield were basically shooting at the Chinese on the position more than 200 meters away.

Although the Japanese infantry had a slight advantage in firepower with the help of Type 94 light tanks, the gap between them and other Chinese troops was by no means as big as it was on the plains of Hebei Province.

The Japanese army has strong tactical skills and accurate shooting skills. However, the elites who have experienced thousands of miles of strategic shifts are definitely not weak. Even if they lower their heads extremely low, their marksmanship can be called accurate. In addition, the advantage of the terrain offsets some of it. Japanese superiority in firepower.

Therefore, on the two flanks, the two sides were evenly matched in attack and defense. It was difficult for the Japanese army to make any progress, and the defenders who were holding back their efforts to kill the Japanese invaders did not expect to shoot the Japanese invaders to their knees. Who could It didn't take much advantage either.

But only on the frontal position where the defense line was longer and definitely more important, it was so strange. The Chinese did not show up or shoot, which formed an extremely strange contrast with the fierce fighting on both sides.

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster. The strange situation on the frontal position may not only be thought by Captain Nakajima, but also by almost all Japanese soldiers.

As a result, the nerves in the minds of the more than 180 Japanese soldiers on the nearly 500-meter frontal defense line were tense. Once there was any disturbance, they had to crawl and dodge. The Chinese who dared to take the lead were left to those hiding behind the iron sheets. The armored soldiers behind the steel armor have been dealt with.

Thinking of those colleagues who could hide comfortably and without danger in invulnerable tanks, dragging them like 2,580,000 men, but I had to risk my life as a Japanese infantry soldier at any time. It is inevitable that they will feel a little angry.

Naturally, asking those 'bastards' to work more on the battlefield became the psychological projection of these Japanese infantrymen.

"Hugh!" A sharp bamboo whistle sounded.

Suddenly, the bamboo whistle sounded suddenly on the Chinese position. The already tense Japanese infantrymen naturally shrank in fear, thinking that the Chinese had some terrible and vicious plan.

Those with rich imagination even thought of the mortar shells flying all over the sky. When the tanks hundreds of meters away fired to suppress the Chinese positions, they used mortars to prove that they had this terrible small artillery.

The mortar may not be very effective in bombing tanks, but it can bomb people in large numbers. If you want to say what the Japanese infantrymen hate most about the weapons equipped by the Chinese army, if the long-handled hand grenades equipped in large quantities are ranked first, then the 82-caliber mortar is definitely qualified to be ranked second.

There was a statistics after the war. During the entire Anti-Japanese War, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers died from 82 mortars. Even the "flower of famous generals" died under this kind of artillery.

We can only hope that Amaterasu will bless us. If we want to bomb, just bomb others, not ourselves. A group of Japanese soldiers who were already prepared but still scared to death wanted to hide their faces in the mud in front of them.

If they didn't hide deeper, what if the shrapnel flew over?

Similar to the tradition in the Chinese army, not everyone is qualified to become the first infantry squadron in the first infantry battalion. The first infantry squadron under Nakajima Muwen is a famous sharp-edged infantry squadron in the 105th Infantry Regiment. The tactical reaction of more than 180 people crawling collectively in one or two seconds can also give us a glimpse of the leopard!

However, the soil on the hillside where the shells were bombed is a bit soft! Moreover, why is there a little peculiar smell? The Japanese soldier who smashed himself to the ground and buried his head without hesitation had a trace of doubt in his mind.

Obviously, this cognition is wrong.

The technical and tactical level of the Japanese artillery is very high, but the altitude of the Beiganling Mountain area is not high.

The vertical height of the hill that spans the only road connecting Licheng and Lucheng is no more than 400 meters, and the slope is gentle. Because the ridge is narrow, building the position on the ridge provides the most accurate coordinates for the Japanese artillery. Without sufficient extension, it will cause heavy casualties of the infantry. Therefore, the 769th Regiment, which arrived 20 minutes ahead of the Japanese army, built the position halfway up the mountain, and the company-level positions were staggered and not on the same horizontal plane. This can also ensure that if the Japanese army breaks through a hole, the entire defense line will collapse!

Saying that the Japanese artillery has a high level of technical and tactical skills means that the Japanese artillery fire is almost concentrated around the position, and the error rarely exceeds 50 meters! This is of course related to the fact that the Japanese army is equipped with a large number of 92 infantry guns. Except for four 75-caliber mountain guns, the rest of the infantry guns are placed in an area less than 1,200 meters away from the front line. At such a close range, if the error of the 92 infantry guns, which are direct-aiming guns, exceeds 50 meters, then the Japanese artillery can really go to shit.

Those craters 50 to 60 meters outside the position were mostly left by 75-caliber mountain artillery, which was a howitzer. It was normal to have such an error, otherwise the Japanese infantry would have to follow the extended artillery fire!

If they could achieve 100 meters of infantry-artillery coordination, then this battle would almost not have to be fought, and they would not be able to win at all.

Therefore, the reason why the land was soft 100 meters in front of the position was not because of the artillery shells, but that piece of land was farmland, or to be exact, cornfield.

There are many stone mountains in the Taihang Mountains, but the Beiganling area is an exception. Compared with the current station of the Four-Line Regiment---Dakouzidong, the land is so "fertile"!

In that era, there was no concept of returning farmland to forests. The mountain people would not care about the green mountains and clear waters, so they naturally cut down trees and turned them into fields.

To put it bluntly, the area 60 to 120 meters below the front position, perhaps because of the best soil, was all farmland cultivated by Chinese mountain people for generations.

What crops are most abundant in the mountains? Besides corn, what else can there be? This thing can survive as long as there is some rain. If there is enough rain and fertilizer, it can be harvested.

Moreover, the yield per mu is high, and the straw can be used to feed cattle and horses. It is simply the most suitable crop for the mountain people who are struggling in the barren mountains.

It is estimated that there are not enough people to develop the whole mountain into a corn field. Otherwise, in summer, the mountain will be full of corn cobs.

"Baga! What did the damn Chinese put here? What on earth is this?" A Japanese lieutenant pulled his face out of the "mud" with some difficulty.

It really was pulled out. The soil in China is really too sticky. If you have to find an adjective, Lieutenant Matsuda, who grew up in the countryside since he was a child, has only one noun in his mind to describe it, fertile.

This is definitely a fertile land. You can get shit on your face. At least, that's how Lieutenant Matsuda, who came from a farming family, feels.

As the commander of the death squad appointed by Captain Nakajima himself, Lieutenant Matsuda led more than 40 people to the front of the entire infantry squadron, at least 50 meters away from the main force in the rear.

However, although it is a death squad, it does not mean that the death squad must die. Lieutenant Matsuda still wants to return to the main island alive and bring back glory and money.

Lieutenant Matsuda, who did not want to die, was definitely agile. After hearing the sound of the bamboo whistle, he shouted "Lie down and hide", and fell into the dust at the fastest speed.

But I didn't expect that the land in China was so fertile. If you bury your head too hard by accident, you will bury your head in the "soil".

Moreover, he was a bit ridiculously fat. For some reason, Lieutenant Matsuda, who was so choked by the Chinese "soil" that he almost couldn't breathe. After wiping the tip of his nose several times before he could breathe normally again, Lieutenant Matsuda actually smelled a... ...

It smells like farmyard manure.

However, Lieutenant Matsuda couldn't think deeply about the coming hail of bullets that could take away lives. He just wanted to bury his head lower. The land full of the smell of farmyard manure brought about A good harvest is hope. Compared with the coming hail of bullets, it is simply not too beautiful.

It wasn't until two minutes passed that Lieutenant Matsuda raised his head and asked the sergeant beside him angrily.

Because, there is a premonition that is getting stronger and stronger for Matsuda Sakane, a farmer's boy.

It really tastes like that!

Baga's smells so bad.

The Japanese sergeant who was only three meters away from him was stunned.

He dared to say that he had never seen a person who could put that thing on his face so evenly.

Black with yellow, and yellow with some indescribable colors, covering the eyebrows, eyes, nose, and face of the Japanese second lieutenant.

Moreover, there are several indescribable white insects dancing crazily on it, twisting their plump and soft bodies.

How do you describe that feeling? The sergeant can guarantee that even if he saw with his own eyes a few drunk Chinese villagers who dared to break into a Chinese mountain village to have some fun, but were spared and stoned their colleagues to death, the faces whose facial features could not be distinguished at all, he did not compare with Jimmy. It felt even more disgusting to see Second Lieutenant Matsuda outside looking at each other like this.

He felt disgusted as never before, and even had the urge to smash the officer to the ground with the butt of his gun.

Is this the legendary ‘smearing your face with dung’?

A gust of mountain wind blew, and an extremely smoky smell spread into the noses of all the Japanese soldiers who raised their heads.

Because of regional differences, different appearances, different languages, and different cultures, there are many human differences between different ethnic groups, but they may be almost identical in one aspect.

excrement.

Exposed to the eyes of the Japanese army, Second Lieutenant Matsuda's face was so yellow, so black, and so smelly that everyone could almost conclude that it was feces.

Yes, they finally recognized it.

That's true, shit.

So, under the stunned gaze of all the officers and soldiers of the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion on the position, dozens of Japanese soldiers who had been lying down very carefully jumped up like crazy, desperately took off their military uniforms, some wiped their faces, and some Wipe your hands.

There's nothing they can do, it's so disgusting that they would rather die.

The noble Imperial Army of the Japanese Empire can accept extremely cruel battlefields and face death fearlessly for His Majesty the Emperor.

But you can't climb on the Chinese people's wings with all your heart, and you can also bury your face in it, as if you smell the fragrance of Mother Earth.

Wait, what are those bugs that are crawling crazily on the face like a lover's gentle touch? Aren't they maggots?

Several soldiers who had hidden themselves as tightly as Lieutenant Matsuda were now vomiting like their commander.

My mentality is really broken!

This is much more disgusting than the 'shit' landmine that Komura Hiro encountered. After all, it didn't fall on his face. At least there is a place to wipe it, but now, should he wipe it on the ground with his face?

The gentle mountain breeze sent the stench-filled smell accurately to the main queue of Japanese troops fifty meters behind. Captain Nakajima, who also fell to the ground with the fumes, covered his mouth and nose: "Baga, the Chinese are using poison gas."

"What is that?" A soldier on the Chinese side asked his comrades in stunned silence.

"It seems to be farmyard manure..." The veteran, who was over 30 years old, had a strange look on his face.

Although he has been away from his hometown for many years, and the successive wars have made him rarely farm, but as a rural person who has helped his family with farm work since he was a child, he is very familiar with this taste.

If you don't turn it over, the smell will only spread for ten to twenty meters, but after it has been soaked for a while, it is turned out and coupled with a gust of wind, it is really amazing.

"The fellow villagers here are really hardworking!" the veteran sighed.

Yes, the 769th Regiment, which arrived on the battlefield only 20 minutes earlier than the Japanese army, was pretty good if it could build a simple bunker. Then there was time to do that.

These masterpieces are all thanks to the hard-working mountain people of the Taihang Mountains. Around April is the best time to plant spring corn. Although it is not the time yet, if you spread enough farm manure on the field, you can have a good harvest this year.

Although there is a war, people also have to eat during the war!

Therefore, the Chinese mountain people who dreamed of eating had not yet seen the harvest, but they first fed the dozens of Japanese infantrymen who invaded their homes with shit!

Perhaps this is the legendary cause and effect!