Rise From Eight Hundred

In the first wave of 300 Japanese troops, all were killed or injured in the desperate "Banzai Charge".

According to post-war statistics, because the firepower was so terrible, the on-site mortality rate of Japanese troops in the area forty to fifty meters away from the defense line was as high as 70%, and more than a hundred people were still struggling in a pool of blood.

When the two infantry companies of the Fourth Line Regiment ceased fire, the wails resounded through the mountains and fields, and even reached the ears of the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment and the 772nd Regiment who were running this way.

What the 769th Regiment and the main force of the Four Lines Regiment have to face is not a battlefield where they can run freely. There are also two three incomplete infantry squads left behind by the Japanese Army Colonel, lying in front of them.

"Command Pang Pang Hai. I'll give him five minutes. If his mortar group can't defeat this wave of little Japs, he will go to the regiment headquarters in person after the war to make a review. No matter how much the 1st Artillery Company has done in battle, the bonus will be temporarily withheld. ! It was said by me, the last-ranked regimental deputy." Gong Shaoxun seemed to have frost on his face and gave a strict order to his artillery company commander.

The soldiers of the Sixth Army who stayed here all knew that Deputy Commander Gong was really angry now. After the battle in the rear of the Japanese army started, he contacted Tang Tuanzuo through the field radio. As a result, no one answered for a long time.

If it was just that they couldn't get in touch, it would be fine if the officers of the Fourth Army Regiment here, headed by Gong Shaoxun and Guo Shouzhi, were worried. After a while, the signal corps over there called back and it turned out that the regiment was not there.

Without them having to say anything, Gong Shaoxun knew that Tang Tuanzuo must have gone to the front line again.

Knowing that he is the supreme commander, he went directly to the front line instead of personally serving as the commander of the surprise attack force. This is simply willful. How can Deputy Commander Gong, who has already tied his future and destiny to the Four Lines Regiment, not be annoyed!

There is nowhere to vent your anger, but don't let all your anger come out on these desperate Japanese devils in front of you! Pang Panghai and his 1st Artillery Battery obviously belong to the implicated category. Who knows that he is also the direct descendant of a certain regiment commander who violated military orders!

"Te Liang, Deputy Gong's military order is here. If the military order cannot be completed, it is a trivial matter for me and Pang Panghai to write a review. It is also a trivial matter for the brothers not to receive rewards. The key is the regimental commander and the brothers of the guard company and the seventh company. They are still fighting hard with the main force of the Japs over there.

Aren’t they just one or two hundred little devils? You guys, give me all your strength and let everyone take a good look. Our artillery battery doesn't take five minutes, but only three minutes, and we can send those little devils to the west. "Pang Dahai, who had already thrown away his helmet, stood in front of a group of artillerymen with sweat dripping on his face and blushed, lecturing.

"Yes!" The officers and soldiers of the 1st Artillery Company, which had been going smoothly since this battle, all stood at attention.

Li Daxi, who was standing not far away, looked at this scene and turned his head sharply: "Brothers, don't be stingy. Together with the brothers from the Four Lines Group, aim at this last wave of little devils and kill the rest of me. Shoot all the shells! Kill the dog."

"Squad leader, we've fired all the artillery shells. We really only have cannons left. How can we explain to the leaders when we get back!" an artilleryman next to him advised with a grimace.

"You bastard, you are so short-sighted!" Li Daxi puffed out his cheeks, looked at the artillery he had brought out with his own hands, and glanced sideways at the artillery position of the Fourth Row Regiment dozens of meters away. "I heard that the commander of the regiment is still blocking the main force of the Japanese army from behind! Didn't you see that the commanders of the Four Lines Regiment are getting anxious? We are going all out to help them now. How can I remember the situation? Besides, you are so good. Where do the current cannonballs come from? Aren't they all sent by others?

I'm telling you, even though the human heart is hot right now, if you don't take it seriously and pour cold water on it, once it gets cold, it will be difficult to cover up the heat again. "

"Understood!" The artilleryman nodded repeatedly.

"Listen to me, eight cannons and 60 rounds of artillery shells, all of them will be fired by me within three minutes. If anyone who is particularly good is reluctant to part with them, they will all be sent to me to work as heavy troops. The artillery of the 921st Division cannot accommodate them." You're such a light-skinned guy." Li Daxi roared with his big eyes.

Over there, Pang Panghai heard this and turned to Li Daxi with a slight nod, while Li Daxi grinned.

An artillery captain and an artillery sergeant had no further communication. They each stood in front of their own positions and waved the red flag: "Let go!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" Clouds of gunpowder smoke rose from the position of two Japanese infantry teams who were determined to die.

That was a concentrated fire of four 150-mm mortars and 12 82-mm mortars. Not to mention a simple defense line that was less than 400 meters wide, even an infantry regiment-level defense line could explode in a frightening manner.

In 3 minutes, four 150-pound guns fired a total of 36 shells, while 12 82-pound guns fired nearly 80 shells.

When the Chinese army began to charge, there would never be more than 10 Japanese infantrymen on the Japanese position who could still shoot with guns. More than half of them were killed by the air waves and fragments generated by the artillery shells, and nearly 30 others were not shot. They were injured and stunned, and a few people even watched indifferently as more than 300 Chinese soldiers rushed into the trench from 200 meters away at high speed.

They did not raise their rifles until the Chinese soldiers shot them.

From the moment they accepted the order to stop the enemy, they had already accepted the outcome of death. However, this round of shelling, which was far beyond their imagination, shattered their last will to resist like those sandbags and stones.

Regardless of whether you resist or not, you will die, so why bother? This is probably the only thought left by the Japanese infantrymen who looked dull and didn't even want to use their guns.

Like wind and clouds, the Chinese soldiers rushing into the trenches fired at every "shit yellow" in sight, whether they were standing, kneeling, lying, or prone.

As long as they are Japanese invaders, shoot!

As the vanguard of the entire army, Qian Dazhu, the commander of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Si Xing Regiment, issued a strict order before the war to kill every Japanese soldier in sight. This was not only Tang Dao who said before the war: "I will not accept it." Surrender any one of the 108th Infantry Regiment who committed heinous crimes in Hebei Province!" What's more, they have to rush to the battlefield more than 2,000 meters away and have no time to linger here.

Therefore, when the two infantry companies of the 4th and 5th companies rushed through the Japanese blocking defense line like a whirlwind, and continued to stride into the distance, when the two companies of the 769th regiment rushed into this simple trench, it was also There was silence.

Since there were no living people, there would naturally be no prisoners. This gave the two infantry companies of the 769th Regiment a bit of a toothache. The cruelty of the friendly force of the Si Xing Regiment was a bit beyond their expectations. Originally, they thought they could get a few prisoners of war. I'm going back to give a report to the division headquarters.

This is naturally an idea coming from the 921st Division Headquarters. For ordinary officers and soldiers, they have seen too much the cruelty of the Japanese invaders.

Let’s not talk about how the Japanese invaders burned, killed and looted the countryside and committed numerous crimes against the people. Let’s talk about how the Japanese army dealt with the captured Chinese officers and soldiers. They usually nailed the people to trees, disemboweled them and bled them to death. In order to frighten the Chinese military and civilians, the Japanese used cruelty to tell them the consequences of daring to resist.

Seeing their comrades die so miserably, ordinary officers and soldiers will think about what kind of little devil they want alive, and usually take revenge on the spot.

But for the 921st Division headquarters at a higher level, it wanted to play a trick of "using barbarians to control barbarians", educate the captured Japanese soldiers, promote anti-war ideas, and disintegrate the morale of the Japanese army from within.

If you want to say whether this move is useful, then of course it is useful, but how useful it is is hard to say. Anyway, Tang Dao has not yet reached that position, and there is no need for a regiment commander to control the army commander's heart. He will be happy with his grudges and kill everyone he sees. He will never allow the kind of Japanese soldiers who committed the crime of killing our compatriots to live in peace.

Especially when he saw the painless confessions of some 80-year-olds in the future time and space, Tang Dao always had only one thought. If confession was useful, why would he need a gallows?

After rummaging for a long time, the two infantrymen couldn't get a single prisoner of war from even two hundred people, but no one was unhappy. They were all extremely happy to find an undamaged rifle from the pile of corpses. They took off most of the bullet boxes that were still left, took off the cowhide boots from the Japanese soldiers' feet, and some even took off the Japanese soldiers' uniforms.

Don't look at the shit yellow color, it's also stained with blood, but that doesn't matter. The fabric of Japanese military uniforms is strong, and the cotton padding is sufficient. If you take it back and wash it and then dye it, isn't it a good military uniform? !

Perhaps the only thing that made them a little sad was that their own artillery fire was really bad. Many weapons were blown into parts together with the Japanese army, which really cost them some rifles and military uniforms.

The cowhide boots have no impact. After all, even if you have a broken foot, as long as the shoes are not rotten, you can wear them. How can the soldiers of the 769th regiment who wear straw sandals in winter be so disgusted?

The Japanese Army Colonel probably never dreamed that the little tail he severed would completely fall apart in less than five minutes.

Of course, no matter how long they hold on, they will never get anything done.

Ever since his forwards were swallowed up by a wave of firepower and his rear troops lost all courage and were knocked to the ground, the fate of hundreds of Japanese troops was already doomed.

The Japanese army colonel and the more than 200 Japanese troops under his command were trapped animals and still fighting. They dug up individual bunkers on the spot despite the hail of bullets, intending to make a last stand, even if they drank poison to quench their thirst.

The Chinese side, however, was not in a hurry. While organizing a large army to encircle them from all sides, they continued to use direct-aimed artillery fire at the remaining five Japanese tanks that were maneuvering in vain.

Of course, the four remaining Japanese infantry artillery pieces also counterattacked during this process, but their counterattacks were quickly put out.

There are still 6 mortars on Tang Dao's side. When the distance between the two sides is no more than 500 meters, the thick white gunpowder smoke on the four infantry artillery positions completely illuminates the coordinates of the mortars.

Moreover, this distance was even within the range of the grenade. The grenadiers who sneaked into the forest and cooperated with 6 mortars took less than 5 minutes to pull out the last four fangs of the remaining Japanese troops.

Then, it completely became a battlefield for 37mm rapid-fire artillery and 92mm infantry artillery. Before the infantry encirclement gradually formed, three of the five Little Doudins were hit and set on fire, and one was hit by three consecutive infantry artillery shells. Exploded into a pile of scrap metal.

But don't tell me, the last little Douding, who was forced to look anxiously, probably had the mentality of wanting you to die even if I die, and rushed to the front circular position without hesitation.

That's quite bluffing. The Type 94 light tank with a steel plate is a scumbag in front of anti-tank guns, but it is definitely a killer against light infantry!

The light and heavy machine guns deployed on both wings fired in unison, and dense bullets hit the steel plate with sparks flying. That was during the day. If it was night, it would definitely be a moving firework.

But despite the rain of bullets, it really can't penetrate the average 7mm steel plate, nor can the two high-speed machine guns MG34 that have just shown their power.

If he had not just experienced a disastrous defeat and knew that the Chinese firepower was far beyond the ability of a group of light infantry to resist, the Japanese Army Colonel really wanted to give an order at that moment, and the remaining 200 imperial officers and soldiers followed the heroic Type 94 tank to attack the Chinese defense line.

Fortunately, enough rationality allowed him and the more than 200 Japanese infantrymen to breathe for more than ten minutes.

Over there, Tang Dao looked at the Japanese little beanie rushing towards the trench without hesitation, and he couldn't help frowning!

He had at least three kinds of artillery on hand that could threaten this thin-skinned small tank, but whether it was a machine gun, a rapid-fire gun or an infantry gun, the lightest one weighed 200 kilograms.

Obviously, this kind of weight is really a burden for infantry company-level troops.

Moreover, in Tang Dao's future plan, the Four-Line Regiment will fight in mountainous areas for at least two years. The mountain infantry regiment is the future direction of the Four-Line Regiment. It is imperative to reduce the burden on soldiers and troops.

Let alone rapid-fire guns weighing more than 400 kilograms, infantry guns, which weigh 220 kilograms, will not appear in company-level units. At most, they will only be equipped with mortars. Even Tang Dao thinks that the 82 mortars weighing 60 kilograms are not suitable. Small-caliber mortars that are lighter and more convenient to carry are the best choice for infantry company-level units.

And mountain guns, which weigh more than 700 kilograms, are destined to be the equipment of artillery units directly under the regiment.

But Tang Dao has to face a problem. The reduction in weight is conducive to improving the mobility of the troops, but the firepower is weakened, especially the heavy firepower. If it encounters such a thin-skinned tank that requires heavy firepower attack, how can the infantry company fight against it?

Although Tang Dao knows that the Chinese army will be equipped with individual rocket launchers in the future, let alone the 94 small bean, even the big guy like the 89 tank can be solved with one shot, but that is the precision manufacturing of China's military industry after absorbing the achievements of other countries and accumulating decades of experience. No matter how talented Teacher Xiao He and her team are, they can't make this thing in a short time.

Then we can only make a weapon to deal with this thing based on the existing foundation. Tang Dao looked at the little bean that was bravely moving forward under the rain of bullets and fell into thought.

"If we have a machine gun that can penetrate the dog's thin skin, let's see how arrogant it is!" Erya, who was lying in the trench next to her, looked at the little bean that was roaring towards her and said to herself angrily.

A word awakened the dreamer!

"Okay, let's go back and make this kind of machine gun! Not to mention anything else, it's enough to be able to blow up the little bean. Your request is really not difficult." Tang Dao's eyes suddenly lit up, patted Erya on the shoulder, and said with great confidence.

"Sir, I'm talking nonsense." Erya obviously didn't believe it.

"Haha! You're talking nonsense, how can I, as the head of the regiment, make a promise blindly?" Tang Dao laughed. "I may not be able to get the machine gun you want, but armor-piercing bullets that can penetrate this thin steel plate are not difficult to get."

China had few bullets during this period, so what armor-piercing bullets were there? However, Tang Dao knew that there was a kind of bullet that was cheap and good quality, and also had armor-piercing function.

Both the shell and the lead-wrapped bullet were made of copper, because copper was soft and ductile. It could expand and deform slightly when fired at high pressure and high heat. It had good air tightness and would not crack. Copper metal had excellent lubricity, low resistance when extracting the shell, no lubrication was required, and the probability of breaking and jamming was extremely low. Copper was not easy to rust and was easy to preserve.

Copper bullets had many advantages, but they were not the most suitable for China, which lacked copper mines, especially for China, which needed to prepare for war in the future and was afraid of being "poor" in firepower in wars.

Therefore, the wise Chinese chose to use steel. Although steel bullets have many disadvantages, such as the inability to reload and the risk of expansion of the shell, which can easily damage the weapon, the manufacturing cost is much lower than that of copper bullets, not to mention that its armor-piercing performance is much higher than that of copper bullets.

Although it cannot be said that ordinary steel bullets can definitely be used as armor-piercing bullets, as long as they can penetrate the Type 94 steel plate less than 10 mm thick, it is enough.

Tang Dao decided to get a batch of steel bullets for testing when he returned. The destroyed Type 94 tanks on the battlefield happened to be the best test equipment. He could test how many meters the heavy machine gun steel bullets could penetrate the armor of the Type 94 tank in a straight line.

Of course, this is all for the future. Now his soldiers must rely on themselves to destroy this crazy steel behemoth.

Fortunately, he made a good record.

At the moment when the Japanese small bean tanks rumbled into the trenches and the tracks turned wildly in an attempt to rush through the trenches and continue to escape, five Molotov cocktails were thrown out from the trenches on both sides.

The blue flames slowly flowed on the steel giant until it was completely burned into a blazing bonfire.

Two firemen who opened the hatch and tried to escape were knocked to the ground by several bullets.

This also meant that the last struggle of the Japanese army was in vain.

Facing the thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers who surrounded them, the more than 200 Japanese soldiers who survived on the battlefield of less than 1,000 square meters seemed so weak and helpless.

However, the Chinese army that surrounded them from all sides did not launch an attack immediately. Although they were sure to win, more than 200 Japanese soldiers were not a small number.

Just like a group of lions hunting a group of wildebeests, once the wildebeests go crazy, they can also injure a few lions.

The several regimental commanders present were all experienced soldiers in the battlefield. They had to discuss how to eat the last piece of fat meat in front of them with less blood.

Tang Dao met the three commanders of the 772nd, 771st and 769th regiments. The four commanders smiled and sat down 600 meters away from the battlefield. They didn't even have time to smoke a cigarette or drink a sip of water.

A jaw-dropping scene appeared.

Even Tang Dao, a tough soldier who had fought the Japanese countless times, was shocked when he heard the signalman running to report frantically.

The Japanese are playing tricks again!