Predator Reborn

Chapter 424 Baita Mountain Encirclement and Annihilation Battle (2)

In this way, in less than half an hour, almost two regiments of infantry and more than 8,000 Japs were gathered around the Japanese division headquarters. More importantly, these Japs who arrived in advance

, have used this short time to quickly build three simple circular defenses in a vast area centered on the division headquarters.

At the same time, the entire division's remaining more than 20 mountain artillery, field artillery, and infantry artillery were also constructed less than one kilometer away from the division headquarters under the command of Artillery Regiment Captain Miyagawa Aoyama.

The artillery position...

"Your Majesty, the Division Commander, at least 8,000 Imperial Army soldiers have been gathered around our division headquarters, and a large number of troops are on their way. At the same time, we have built three perimeter lines 200 meters apart.

Circular fortifications... Stationed on the outermost perimeter are more than 3,000 soldiers from three infantry brigades of the 15th Infantry Regiment. Those stationed on the second line of defenses are troops from two brigades. In the innermost line of defenses,

, deployed two brigades of troops. At the same time, there are also two brigades of troops as the division's general reserve team..." Just after completing the task assigned to him by the division commander, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, the chief of staff, Colonel Sano, was out of breath.

He rushed into the regiment headquarters and began to report on the specific situation.

"Yo Xi, Chief of Staff, thank you for your hard work. Order all troops to be ready to fight at any time and resolutely block the possible attack of the Eighth Route Army. In a word, we must hold on until dawn tomorrow. As long as we hold on until dawn tomorrow, we

With the support of aircraft, we can launch a counterattack. At the same time, the troops arriving later will all serve as the division's general reserve after entering the position..." The division commander who got the result he wanted was still nervous, but immediately

Just relax.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander, I will go and deliver the order right away..." the Chief of Staff took the order and left.

While the Japanese troops in the encirclement were reinforcing their fortifications, more than 20,000 Eighth Route Army troops, under orders from the headquarters, were slowly surrounding this huge circular fortification. At the same time,

, the light and heavy artillery distributed in various artillery positions also turned their muzzles at Wang Nanhu's order, and aimed their black muzzles at the Japanese positions in the encirclement...

"Commander, except for a small number of little Japs, they were entangled by the troops of our two main regiments and did not gather around the Japanese division headquarters. The remaining nearly 10,000 Japs have now all gathered together. In addition,

, According to the observations of artillery observers, the Japanese army built three circular fortifications with their artillery positions as the center, and deployed a large number of troops to stand within these fortifications in an attempt to hold on and wait for reinforcements..." The radio station continued to sound.

In the headquarters where the alarm was reported, the chief of staff reported loudly.

"Very good... Are our troops fully in place now..." Wang Nanhu said excitedly as he looked at the changing sand table in front of him. At the same time, he pointed at the sand table in front of him and asked the chief of staff who came to report.

"Commander, all the troops are in place, the infantry, artillery, and armor are all ready. As long as you give the order, more than a hundred artillery pieces at our assembly area can start bombarding..." the chief of staff replied loudly. At the same time, the general

The sand table in front of me has been rearranged based on the latest enemy situation...

"Old Chen, all the troops are now ready. Do you think we will launch an attack immediately?" Looking at a large area where the Japanese army was holding firm, it was completely surrounded by small red flags representing the Eighth Route Army. Commander Wang Nanhu was excited and said,

He asked Chen Gege, the political commissar next to him.

"Old Wang, since the fighter planes have appeared, of course we have to fight. And we must seize the time to annihilate all the little Japs in the encirclement in the shortest possible time..." Political Commissar Chen Revolutionary said with a smile.

"Okay, Chief of Staff, now order all artillery troops to begin indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese positions in five minutes. My request is very simple, that is, the Japanese positions should be bombed for me. As for the end of the bombardment,

I will notify you of the specific time. After the bombardment is over, all troops will launch an attack together, regardless of assists or lords. The entire army will press forward together and continuously compress the positions occupied by the enemy..." Wang Nanhu ordered loudly.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Five minutes later, more than a hundred mortars in the entire third division, plus 54 heavy artillery pieces from two heavy artillery regiments, fired a rain of shells at the Japanese troops in the encirclement at the same time... densely

The shells continued to explode on the Japanese positions like rain. The huge fireballs produced by the explosions were like fireworks, illuminating the Japanese positions clearly.

With a clear target, under the command of the artillery observers, the heavy artillery, as if it had eyes, accurately fired the shells towards the target... As a result, the artillery position just established by the Japanese army had not had time to fire.

One artillery shell turned into ruins in the three rounds of firing from the heavy artillery regiment. Each heavy machine gun position was instantly turned into parts amid the intensive artillery fire. Groups of little devils, under the rain of artillery shells,

, casualties continue to appear...

"Baga, how could the Eighth Route Army have such fierce artillery fire? Baga Road, order the troops to disperse immediately, disperse quickly..." The enemy has always been suppressed by the artillery fire of the imperial army, so

, the division commander, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, wanted to concentrate the troops as much as possible and hold on for a longer time.

Because, in his eyes, it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to gather enough artillery to compete with the artillery of his own division. However, this time, he made a mistake. The Eighth Route Army's artillery fire was completely beyond his imagination. Because of the position

The soldiers on board were so dense that the explosion of almost every artillery shell fired by the Eighth Route Army would take away the lives of several Imperial Army soldiers.

However, even if the division commander at this moment, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, discovered this problem in time, it was too late. Because, around them, there were more than 20,000 soldiers, waiting solemnly.

Waiting for the little Japs in the encirclement to hit their guns. What's more important is that in this intensive artillery fire, all the contacts that were just established with the forward positions were blown up before they could play their due role.

"Hi, Your Excellency, Division Commander. However, the communication staff just reported that now our contact with each unit has been completely cut off, and we are unable to convey orders at all..." Feeling the constant shaking of the earth, Chief of Staff Sano replied rationally.

"Baga, send a messenger and order the troops to disperse immediately to avoid the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire... No matter what, we cannot allow so many Imperial Army soldiers to gather in this small area. Otherwise, under this dense artillery fire,

It is tantamount to suicide, and the messengers were immediately dispatched..." Looking at the position where explosions were constantly happening a few hundred meters away from the headquarters, the division commander, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, roared loudly...

"Hey, division commander, I'll go and do it right away..." Soon, under the orders of Chief of Staff Colonel Sano, nearly a hundred soldiers quickly left the division headquarters, which had not yet exposed their target. They headed towards the end of the position.

At the front, the position that had already been plunged into a sea of ​​flames rushed over.

However, at this moment, in the position where explosions continued to occur, the Japanese commander who received the order tried his best to contain the scattered troops and disperse them to the surrounding areas. However, the Eighth Route Army troops hiding directly opposite them were

Didn't give them any chance.

Under the illumination of the huge fireballs, almost every move on the Japanese army's position was within the sight of the surrounding soldiers. More than 20,000 soldiers and more than 100 heavy machine guns were all prepared to do anything.

Get ready to fire bullets. As long as the little devils on the position dare to show their heads, there will be airtight bullets waiting for them.

Under the double blow of the rain-like shells and the airtight rain of bullets, the thousands of little Japs on the frontline were in a state of misery. At this moment, the only thing they could do was to lie down in the trenches and pray.

Don't let the cannonballs fall on you. However, they forget that this is the land of China, and their prayers will not have any effect...

Under the cover of various heavy artillery, the light mortars deployed by each regiment were immediately moved to the forefront of the position. The mortar shells were accurately fired into the trenches that the Japanese army had just dug.

The vital force to kill the little devils in the trenches...

Although, compared with the power of heavy artillery, these mortar shells were like itching when hitting the Japanese positions. However, the characteristics of mortars' direct fire are something that heavy artillery does not have. The two kinds of artillery compensate for each other, and the heavy artillery continuously fires

Kill and injure the defenders on the surface of the Japanese army and destroy their fortifications. As for the light mortars, they used their excellent characteristics of deflection to shoot the shells into the Japanese trenches where the heavy artillery shells could not be fired.

, killing and injuring the effective forces of the Japanese army in the trenches.

At this moment, in the entire Baita Mountain area, in addition to the sound of exploding artillery shells, there were also explosions. The entire Japanese position, a large area with a radius of several kilometers, was almost completely covered by artillery fire. The intensive artillery fire had the power to kill this little devil.

At the same time, it continued to ignite the trees and dead grass around these little devils...

In less than twenty minutes, more than 100 artillery pieces fired almost 5,000 rounds of various artillery shells into this small area... The entire Japanese position was full of trees ignited by the shells and bombed.

The bodies of the soldiers were broken into pieces, and craters with a depth of one meter were created by the bombing.

"Haha, Lao Wang, I never thought that our Eighth Route Army would have such a day. With such intensive artillery fire, the little devil could not lift his head, so he could only be passively bombed and become a roast suckling pig..." Looking at a few kilometers away

, a large Japanese army position has been completed and turned into a sea of ​​fire. All the commanders in the headquarters, except for the necessary staff officers, all ran to the top of the mountain where the headquarters is located, admiring the sight in front of them that is almost unforgettable.

scene.

"Haha, Lao Chen, this is partly due to the two regiments of our heavy artillery brigade. At the same time, we also want to thank Zhou Zhigang of our military division artillery regiment. If they hadn't destroyed almost all the artillery in the Japanese artillery regiment, we wouldn't have

The fight will go so smoothly." Looking at the scene in front of him, Commander Wang Nanhu also had a smile on his face...

"Yes, when the time comes, I will personally ask the commander for credit for these troops...Old Chen, can you see if the artillery bombardment is enough? If the bombardment continues, all these more than 10,000 little devils will be wiped out by the artillery.

Well. We should leave some scum for the more than 20,000 remaining infantrymen..." Chen Guangye responded with a smile.

"Chief of Staff, order the two regiments of the heavy artillery brigade to stop shelling and be on standby at any time. All troops immediately launch an attack and tell the commanders on the front line that when attacking, they must pay attention to the coordination of infantry and artillery, and bring mortars to attack together. Infantry

If it can't be solved, use artillery shells, and pay attention to controlling the casualties of the soldiers..." Wang Nanhu nodded and gave a loud order to the chief of staff beside him who was also excited.

"Tick-tock...tick-tock..." Less than two minutes after the chief of staff left, the artillery position, which had been roaring just now, immediately heard it. However, the sound of the cannons was immediately followed by the loud sound of the charge bugle.

.More than a dozen main regiments and more than a hundred buglers, under Wang Nanhu’s orders, simultaneously blew the horns of charge...

The loud sound of charging horns immediately began to ring across the entire battlefield. Immediately, more than a hundred heavy machine guns arranged around the Japanese position spurted out dense tongues of flame. More than a hundred tongues of flames surrounded a semicircle

He began to fire back and forth on the Japanese position that had been bombed into ruins, providing fire cover as much as possible for the attacking troops.

"Comrades, charge with me... charge..." The loud roars overwhelmed the sound of nearly a hundred heavy machine guns and resounded on the huge battlefield... Groups of soldiers, under the command of their respective commanders

, holding the rifle with the bayonet already fixed, he jumped up from his position and launched a swift charge...

One by one, the bayonet formations emitted bursts of cold light under the firelight... The densely packed bayonets quickly surrounded the Japanese army's position. At this moment, the Japanese army's position was like a small island in the sea.

Like an island, it slowly shrinks in the huge waves, and finally slowly disappears...

Because the Japanese army's forward position was not only bombarded by two heavy artillery regiments for nearly five minutes. More importantly, more than a hundred mortars fired almost all the shells into this ring that was less than a few kilometers long.

In the trenches. Therefore, the several brigades placed at the forefront by the Japanese division commanders, with more than 3,000 little Japs, were almost completely lost at this moment...

The few hundred remaining little Japs, in front of the densely packed soldiers, were not even enough to fill the gap between the soldiers' teeth. They were quickly submerged by the wave of soldiers, and not even a scrap was left. And the front line of the Japanese army

The position was occupied by the soldiers in a dramatic manner.

With the Japanese army's forward position occupied, the soldiers did not blindly charge towards the Japanese army's second blocking position. Because all commanders knew that the number of remaining Japs on the second line of position was much higher than that on the forward position.

Their blocking strength will also be far stronger than that of the forward positions. In order to obtain the greatest victory with the smallest casualties, these commanders wisely chose to suspend the attack and prepared to use artillery shells and bullets to replace the casualties of the soldiers and solve their own problems.

The question comes…

"Click, click, click...boom, bang, bang..." Under the command of commanders at all levels, the heavy machine guns and mortars located in the rear moved to the Japanese army's forward position one after another, and began to target the Japanese army's second line two hundred meters away.

Suppressive shooting was carried out in the blocking position...the dense heavy machine gun bullets were fired almost close to the edge of the Japanese trenches, killing the little Japanese who dared to show their heads. Each shell was like having eyes.

It accurately landed in the trenches, killing and injuring the Japanese troops hiding in the trenches...

Finally, under the double blow of heavy machine gun bullets and artillery shells, the Japanese army's second blocking position slowly quieted down. No one dared to show his head and fight back...

"Comrades, charge with me and occupy the second blocking position of the Japanese army..." One unit after another launched an attack. Although each unit encountered varying degrees of resistance during the attack, as long as the Japanese army dared to take the lead,

Instead of attracting heavy machine gun bullets like raindrops, I was attracted accurate artillery shells...

Groups of Eighth Route Army troops, under the cover of heavy machine guns and artillery fire, quickly rushed into the grenade throwing range. With a burst of intensive grenade explosions, the Japanese army's second blocking position sounded... The Japanese army worked hard

The second blocking position was quickly occupied by the soldiers without any surprises.

At this moment, the entire Japanese army position, after losing two lines of defense, has been compressed into a small area of ​​less than two kilometers in radius. And with the two lines of defense nearly 5,000 little Japs were wiped out, in this

There were less than 4,000 Japanese troops left in the small area.

"Reporting to your Excellency, Division Commander, our first and second blocking positions have been completely occupied by the Eighth Route Army. Division Commander, we must find a way to break through now. Otherwise, under the fierce attack of the Eighth Route Army, our 14th

The division can't hold out until dawn..." Hearing the explosions constantly coming from the surroundings and the shouts of the Eighth Route Army, Colonel Sano, the chief of staff who learned of the battle situation, rushed into the division headquarters with a face full of panic.

"Baga, is the excellent Imperial Army really so vulnerable in front of the Eighth Route Army divisions? In less than an hour, the two lines of defense were occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

Nearly 5,000 elite imperial soldiers of the Japanese Empire were lost?" Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, the division commander, did not directly answer the chief of staff's question, but asked in confusion.