Rise From Eight Hundred

Most of the Japanese infantry guns stayed 1,500 meters away. Even through the gun scope, they could not clearly see the machine gun bunkers on the positions. Although several guns fired at the same time, it was actually just thunder and rain.

Although the two MG34 machine guns were not hidden in the machine gun bunkers, because the machine guns themselves were light in weight, they were often carried by the machine gunners to move positions after firing a hundred rounds of bullets. The flexible movement made the Japanese army hate them but they could do nothing!

The three mortars were hidden in the special mortar positions on the reverse slope dug behind the mountain. Not to mention the direct-aiming guns such as infantry guns, they had no goal. Even if it was a mountain gun or a howitzer, it was not fired from the side, and it had to hit very accurately, otherwise it would just let the artillerymen hear it!

The artillery observer kept reporting the parameters on the phone on the top of the mountain, and the mortarmen below kept throwing shells into the barrels, and the officers’ request was: Don’t stop!

That feeling was really too good!

"Baga! Chinese, all dead!" Yin Tangxiu'er, standing in the shade of the tree, cursed angrily.

As the captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 83rd Infantry Regiment, if the 83rd Infantry Regiment is the vanguard of the entire division, then his 1st Infantry Battalion is the vanguard of the vanguard.

After receiving the military order forwarded by the regiment headquarters from the corps commander, no, now it should be the acting division commander, His Excellency Nagano, Yin Tangxiu'er's smart little head began to work at the speed of light.

The news that Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira pledged allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor is certainly sad, and the generals of the entire division may have to pay the price for it, but from another perspective, this has vacated an extremely important position, isn't it?

Major General Nagano is now acting, and there is an 80% chance that he will be removed from the position of acting in the future. Then the three major infantry regiment commanders will have the opportunity to be promoted to the position of major general corps commander. What about the vacant major left-level regiment commander?

Who else but me? Yin Tangxiu'er's confidence is not out of thin air.

He is the only left-level battalion commander in the 21st Division. Although he does not serve as the deputy commander of the regiment, the other two young left-level battalion commanders in the 83rd Infantry Regiment will take the initiative to salute him when they see him. The regiment commander Matsuura Daizuo is also very polite to him, not treating him as an ordinary subordinate.

In fact, let alone in a Type B division like the 21st Division, even in a permanent division, there are not many infantry battalion commanders who are left-level.

This is actually related to the composition of the 21st Division. The soldiers of the newly formed 21st Division, which was established three months ago, are composed of: one-quarter of the three-year soldiers recruited in 1935, one-quarter of the two-year soldiers recruited in 1937, and one-half of the reserve soldiers. That is, the proportion of veterans is only one-quarter, and the remaining 75% are small scums, and officers at all levels are naturally from the reserve forces.

Old-fashioned officers like Yin Tangxiuer who have been in the reserve forces for many years have average ability values, but they rely on years and seniority to have a high rank, but the positions in the army are limited, and they have to "high rank and low assignment" in the end!

Originally, Yin Tangxiuer's ambition was to be promoted to the rank of infantry regiment commander on the Chinese battlefield, but he never dreamed that the legendary big pie would fall from the sky before the war even started, although it had not yet hit him.

Amaterasu had already given him a chance, and whether he could fight for this position, the rest depended on his own efforts.

So, when he received the military order from the acting division commander, Yin Tangxiuer, who was eager for merit, did this and moved the front-line trenches forward to 600 meters away from the Chinese army's defense line!

In his cognition, even if the Chinese army was not short of ammunition, it was also a frugal army and would definitely not waste it unnecessarily!

As a result, the facts were very different from what he imagined, and the Chinese showed him a lot!

Not only was there heavy machine gun fire, but several mortars did not even stop. In less than 20 minutes, at least 200 shells were fired!

That was 200 shells, not 200 bullets!

When he thought of the smoke rising from the mountains, he smiled at the officers around him with a calm face and contempt: "Poor Chinese, don't you know that their efforts are useless? The brave imperial infantry is not afraid of such harassment! I believe that it won't be long before the poor and stupid Chinese will give up!"

A cheerful laugh rang out in the woods!

The more cheerful the laughter was, the more painful it was for the Japanese Zhongzuo to feel when he was hit on the face by the Chinese!

Without looking at the casualty reports that had not yet been reported from the front line, there were dozens of people who were carried to the rear just within his telescope.

The Chinese used almost "prodigal" waste to teach Yin Tangxiuer, who had just arrived at the battlefield, a lesson.

This battle was by no means as easy as he imagined.

Fortunately, half an hour later, the confidence of the Japanese Zhongzuo, who was beaten black and blue by the Chinese, was once again saved by the surging artillery fire of his own artillery group.

Under the strict order of the enraged Nagano Kameichiro, the 36 75mm mountain guns of the Japanese artillery regiment moved the artillery position forward 2,000 meters, nearly 5,000 meters from the front line of Niangzi Pass!

This is the distance that the Japanese artillery still feels safe!

Because the Chinese army in North China has no heavy artillery at all, and the most common equipment is the 75mm mountain gun of the type 41, which has a range of only 6,000 meters.

And the artillery will never be placed on the front line, at least 2,000 meters away from the infantry defense line. Even if the Chinese estimate the approximate area of ​​the artillery position based on the trajectory, their artillery can only sigh in despair!

The Japanese calculations are very precise, but if you don't understand the opponent, don't calculate again next time.

The artillery group of the Fourth Line Regiment is indeed at least 2,000 meters away from the front line, but the mountain artillery company is not equipped with imitation 41-type mountain artillery, but the Swedish Bofors 75 mountain artillery. The longest range is as high as 9,300 meters, directly chasing the 105 equipped by the Japanese army. Howitzer!

It is a pity that the Japanese army does not know this fact!

Therefore, they were very happy to use all their firepower. The 36 75mm mountain guns raised their muzzles and fired at full power!

All the mountain positions over 1,500 meters were shrouded in gunpowder smoke!

Although the 105mm heavy artillery was not used this time, the Japanese army used 36 artillery pieces this time. One concentrated fire was 36 rounds of 6-kilogram shells, which could cover nearly 10,000 square meters of damage!

From Yin Tangxiuer's perspective, the damage caused by the previous four 105 grenades was much more terrifying.

"Yo Xi! Hurry up and blow them up!" The Japanese army's center and left patted their thighs to support their own artillery.

"Your Excellency Zhongzuo, are you ordering the front line to hurry up and dig trenches?" The staff officer on the side gently reminded his boss who quickly got out of the embarrassment.

If our own shelling ends and the trenches are not dug deep enough, it will be really embarrassing if the Chinese come back to harass us like they did before without spending any money on shells.

"Baga! Do you need to say this? The heroic imperial infantry will never waste time like the stupid and hateful Chinese!" Yin Tangxiuer glared at his subordinates with dissatisfaction.

This is also reality. There are many people who flatter and flatter others, but there will always be blind subordinates who will disturb the good mood of the leader!

But that being said, Yin Tangxiuer was not a fool after all. He knew that there must be people with real skills among his subordinates. He listened to the opinions in an obedient manner and issued military orders to hundreds of Japanese troops on the front line to hurry up and dig trenches.

This kind of trench is not used for defense, but it is an important area that can be used by front-line infantry to take a short rest when the attack is not going well.

After all, this kind of offensive and defensive battle never succeeds once, but will always be repeated many times.

And on the side of the Four Elements Group, Pang Dahai is also asking for a fight!

"Director Night, the Artillery Battalion Mountain Artillery Battery is requesting a counterattack. The frontline scouts have determined the general area of ​​the Japanese artillery positions through ballistics and gunpowder smoke!"

"No! All units of the artillery battalion remain on standby. If you fire back artillery without orders from superiors, military law is ruthless!" Ye Chenghuan decisively rejected Pang Panghai's request for a fight.

"Director Ye, the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, but they misjudged the range of our artillery, and the scouts helped correct the trajectory. It was a rare moment to fight back. Why did they refuse Deputy Battalion Commander Pang's request to fight?" A captain staff officer was a little confused. Asked Ye Chenghuan curiously.

"Hey, Captain Yang, help me tell Staff Officer Gao my reasons and see if you are right!" At this time of the battle, Ye Chenghuan changed his previous harshness and used the advice of his staff officers with great interest. The question arises from Yang Xiaoshan, commander of the communications company who works jointly with the staff department.

As soon as he came to the Sixings Regiment, he heard about some of the young men Tang Tuanzuo admired the most. Qian Dazhu, Zhao Daqiang, Wei Donglai, and Gu Xishui were either infantry company commanders or reconnaissance company deputy commanders. He had outstanding achievements in several battles and was worthy of the appreciation of Tang Tuanzuo.

The only exception is Yang Xiaoshan. He was promoted very quickly. He was promoted from a small private to an army lieutenant through several ranks. His position was also from the commander of the special agent company to the commander of the communications company, but he had never held this position in the internal affairs force. The experience of the combat commander of the front-line troops seems to be appreciated by Tang Tuanzuo, but it is more like the legendary one when Tang Tuanzuo broke into Sihang Warehouse alone, he was the only person who helped Tang Tuanzuo. Tuanzuo means repaying kindness.

In the past few months of contact with Yang Xiaoshan, Yang Xiaoshan has also behaved very calmly, with maturity far beyond his peers, but he has not shown any edge! Even Ye Chenghuan, who has read countless people, has some subordinates that he cannot see through.

"Director Ye did not allow the artillery battalion to counterattack, perhaps not because he was afraid that the fire of our 12 Bofors mountain guns was not sharp enough, but because the Japanese Type 41 mountain guns actually did not cause much damage to our positions. If the battle had just begun, Just beat him half of his life. Given the characteristics of the Japanese army, they will definitely ask the rear to replenish their artillery before they dare to fight again.

And after the Japanese army discovered that they had misjudged the range of our artillery, they would definitely reflect on it. Maybe all they sent were heavy artillery like 105 howitzers, which would be troublesome for our army, so they might as well send the Japanese The 75 cannons were kept, making them think it was quite lively!

In addition, good steel should be used on the blade. The 12 Bofors Mountain Cannons are one of the trump cards of our regiment. If they are not shown, they will be used. Once they are shown, they must let the Japanese know how many eyes Lord Ma has! Yang Xiaoshan thought about it for a moment and said with a calm expression.

"Good guy, there are really no weak soldiers under a strong general. The elites who followed the regiment leader from the Sixings Warehouse are different. They have almost seen through all my little calculations!" After hearing this, Ye Chenghuan's eyes were filled with admiration. .

"Director Ye, I learned this from the group leader, you and Chief of Staff Gong during this period. Just don't dislike me as a student." Yang Xiaoshan's somewhat honest face flushed red, and he waved his hands repeatedly.

Even though Yang Xiaoshan now has nearly a hundred people with him, he is actually only 20 years old, which is about the same age as most soldiers.

His honest and shy nature did not change much with his promotion in the military.

No wonder Tang Dao wanted Yang Xiaoshan to train in the spy and communication companies first. On the one hand, he still had many shortcomings, but more importantly, he wanted him to learn and improve with them! The key is that he really has this potential. It seems that he is more likely to become the head of a battalion ahead of Qian Dazhu and others in the future. Ye Chenghuan suddenly realized it in his heart.

Ye Chenghuan naturally didn't know Tang Dao's future plan for the Four-Line Regiment. With a sufficiently stable rear, the battlefield in North China also changed from the offensive state of the Japanese army to a stalemate. The main force of the Four-Line Regiment would not stay in a corner. At that time, it would be dispersed to a wider battlefield behind enemy lines in battalions and companies.

You can develop an infantry company into an infantry battalion. That's your ability, so be the battalion commander!

As long as the overseas market for penicillin is not cut off and can continue to provide blood transfusions to the country, no matter how many soldiers the Four-Line Regiment headquarters can eat.

Of course, compared with the larger-scale expansion of the 80th Army in the future, Tang Dao still insists on taking the route of elite soldiers. All new recruits must go through a three-month recruit period before they can go to the battlefield, otherwise it is a meaningless consumption of the young and strong in the base!

China has a large population base, but 18-year-old guys are born by their mothers and raised by their fathers. The passing of a life is the eternal sorrow of a family. Even as a consumable, it must be consumed meaningfully.

A maximum of 9 infantry battalions are acceptable to Tang Dao, which can provide all standard weapons and military pay, and Yang Xiaoshan can only be regarded as one of the new battalion commanders. Whether he can do it depends on whether he has really improved by following the superiors these days.

But obviously, Yang Xiaoshan has grown a lot at this time compared to when he fought out of the Guangde battlefield. He can guess the tactics discussed by Cheng Huan and Tang Dao at night.

As Yang Xiaoshan said, Tang Dao believed that with the current level of reverse slope fortifications on the front line, the damage that the 75 mountain guns could cause was limited. It would be better to keep them first to avoid the Japanese army from reinforcing larger caliber artillery. Anyway, their positions would always be in the sight of the scouts lurking in the corners of the battlefield. When the right opportunity is found, they can be killed in one fell swoop.

But the several 105 howitzers that fired earlier were really a thorn in the side, and they must be killed first. Keeping the 12 Bofors mountain guns without firing was actually waiting for them to take the bait!

It was also under the guidance of such tactical concepts that the entire Chinese side only used 4 Bofors mountain guns and 10 82 mortars to retaliate against the areas where the Japanese army might be on the front line during the one-hour crazy bombardment of 36 75 mountain guns.

It was such an intensity of artillery fire that gave Yin Tangxiuer a rough idea of ​​the artillery that China had. This should be most of the artillery that a normal Chinese infantry division could have, and the former division commander's death also had a source.

The 82mm mortars used by the Chinese side are extremely annoying artillery, especially in this kind of mountain warfare, where there are almost no dead angles for shooting, but the power of the shells is still too small, especially when the battle line is stretched long enough, the damage that the mortars can cause to the infantry, which does not exceed double digits, at least cannot determine the direction of the battlefield.

In other words, the casualties caused by the mortars are completely acceptable to the division.

After all, the front hill that the first infantry battalion is going to attack is nearly 800 meters wide.

The 83rd Infantry Regiment has 3 infantry battalions. Even if one is used as a reserve, two infantry battalions are deployed, which is a large battlefield of nearly 2,000 meters.

As the Japanese army continued to bombard frantically, the second infantry battalion of the 83rd Infantry Regiment also arrived at its own battlefield.

This infantry battalion was even more fierce. It took less than half an hour to dig out a simple trench of hundreds of meters that could hide people, with a depth of no more than 50 centimeters, and deployed the heavy machine gun squadron on both wings, posing a posture of strong attack.

This approach did not stimulate the 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment as the defending party, but it deeply stimulated Yin Tangxiuer Zhongzuo.

"Baga! Does the 2nd Infantry Battalion want to win merit? Pass our military order, the 3rd Infantry Company will be the spearhead and attack the enemy, and the 2nd Company will be 300 meters behind it to cover it! The 1st and 4th companies are on standby temporarily, tell them to keep a distance between individual soldiers to avoid being injured by Chinese mortars, and the heavy machine gun company and infantry artillery squad of the battalion will provide fire cover for them!" Yin Tangxiuer couldn't wait to issue an attack order.

Of course, Yin Tangxiuer graduated from the NCO school after all. After issuing the military order, he immediately sent a telegram to the division headquarters, requesting the artillery regiment to extend the artillery fire behind the enemy's defense line for 20 minutes because the infantry was about to launch an attack.

This was not only to avoid accidentally injuring their own soldiers, but also to hope that the extended artillery fire could suppress the Chinese artillery.

There were shells constantly exploding beside him. Even if the artillery was from Xia Jiba and was hundreds of meters away from the real target, it could still cause a certain amount of psychological pressure. Under the psychological pressure of being torn to pieces by artillery fire at any time, it would be good if his artillery operation level could be half of that in normal training.

There were nearly 200 Japanese infantrymen, three infantry squads, and each soldier was at least seven or eight meters apart, scattered on the wide hillside, which was not obvious at all.

But anyone with a little battlefield common sense knew that if these 200 Japanese soldiers were allowed to attack the first trench on the mountainside, it would be bad.

Because of the mountain terrain, the second trench close to the top of the mountain was less than 150 meters away!

After the two trenches, there was a reverse slope tunnel behind the ridge for storing military supplies and hiding personnel.

So, when the Japanese artillery fire began to extend backwards, more than a hundred people rushed to the first line of defense from the communication trench.

The dark blue uniforms of the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment and the pure German steel helmets on their heads that had been transported back from the Krupp arsenal were also very clearly reflected in the eyes of the Japanese commander holding a telescope.

For example, the reporter of the "Asahi Shimbun" who had just arrived at the front line and was advancing with the 2nd Infantry Squadron of the 1st Infantry Battalion, after seeing this scene through the telescope, he was very excited and wrote the title of today's battlefield news in his mind.

"The Chinese German-equipped division appeared on the battlefield, and the imperial infantry marched forward! Forward!"