Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 1440 Eating dumplings and fighting the Japanese

"Order to besiege the Japanese invaders and not attack them by force. The main combat method is to use cold guns and cold guns to attack and cut off the communication between their various departments. Anyone who attacks the Japanese invaders with cold guns and has battlefield records proves it, no matter our Fourth Army Regiment or the 11th Division, All officers and soldiers of the 18th Division can apply for two cans of beef, 2 kilograms of polished rice, 10 toffees, and a box of cigarettes from the logistics office of the Sihang Regiment for an additional NT$3!"

Commander Hu of the 11th Division still gave Tang Dao a lot of face. In view of the fact that the tactics of besieging the two Japanese armies were completely initiated and led by the Four Lines Regiment, he made a special report to his commander and Commander Chen who was far away in Enshi. In the name of the supreme commander of Shipai Fortress, Tang Dao was appointed as the first commander of Beidoushan and Sifangwan areas, responsible for commanding the four infantry regiments involved in encircling and annihilating the Japanese army.

As the first commander, Tang Dao never considered a forceful attack at all. That was because even though the Japanese were tightly surrounded, the Japanese army was extremely capable of constructing field fortifications, and even more so under the deep despair. It took only one afternoon and one night to build trenches and anti-gun holes based on the terrain of the mountainous area.

If a forceful attack were to be carried out, thousands of little Japs would definitely be dead, but at least half of the Chinese soldiers present would have to be buried with the Japanese troops. Tang Tuanzuo would not engage in such a loss-making business.

As for whether there will be long nights and many dreams, based on the current strength of the Japanese 11th Army after its damage, unless Yokoyama has the courage to rush all his remaining 70,000 troops into the mountains, it is possible to break the encirclement.

But now the 10th Group Army of the 3rd Theater and the 74th Army of the 9th Theater have arrived at the outskirts of Shipai. The Chinese military strength within a radius of 100 kilometers is as high as 180,000. I wonder if Yokoyama, who has lost his spirit now, has the courage.

  Anyway, even a man as brave as a Tang sword would think twice before acting in such a situation.

 Encircle the encirclement without attacking. This tactic has been approved by the commanders of the two theaters.

But not attacking means not attacking by force, which does not mean that you can't kill the Japanese. Tang Dao, who was calculated by the two big guys separately, was angry, so naturally he could only kill the Japanese to vent his anger.

Tang Dao, the supreme commander, issued an order. Except for the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment headquarters, the other three infantry regiments were all gearing up and the crowd was excited. The fate of the Japanese army now had little to do with any national hatred or the anger of revenge. It’s all about good food and money.

The reward given by Tang Tuanzuo was really too generous. It was only 3 yuan. The key point was that canned beef, toffee, polished rice, and cigarettes were the most scarce supplies on the front line. Even if you had money, you couldn't buy these things.

Even in elite infantry units like the 18th Army, not many people have ever eaten Japanese-style canned beef, let alone smoked. Some are heavy smokers, but they just get some dry leaves, knead them, roll them up and smoke them. Sometimes There wasn't even paper, so I just lit a dead branch and put it in my mouth to enjoy it.

This Tang Tuan was given a box of cigarettes as a reward when he came to the throne. Who can bear this?

As the saying goes: If you are poor, you will want to change! In order to obtain rewards and not violate military regulations and disciplines, officers at all levels who originally wanted to seize the Japanese positions and chop the Japanese heads off in a force attack came up with various tricks.

Some, like the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment, sent out a large number of three-person teams to sneak into the mountains under the cover of night and bushes. At the closest point, they were less than 300 meters away from the Japanese position. Then during the day, they would seize the opportunity to shoot and kill one of them quickly. Run away.

This is the most conventional one. The main thing is to see whether the level of lurking and shooting skills are superb enough. Shooting Japanese soldiers moving in the trenches with naked eyes from 300 meters to 400 meters. That is not an ordinary shooting skill. Put it in any infantry company. They are all accurate shooters worthy of their reputation.

 The reason why the distance is so far is still the old saying: a trapped beast still fights! The Japanese are not religious men. Although the 231st Infantry Regiment is already a turtle in the urn, after all, it is still in the urn and not on the chopping block. The shooting skills of the Japanese infantry and the grenade with a range of up to 500 meters are not a vegetarian. They are bitten. If you get caught, you may be seriously injured, or you may be dead.

The final victory is about to come, and the Chinese soldiers are not fools. They cannot say that they have lost the right to raise their guns and cheer before victory.

There are not many precision shooters like this in China, but you can’t resist the number of infantry companies participating! Just the 231st Infantry Regiment was besieged by as many as 30 infantry companies. Even if each company had one or two excellent precision shooters, each round of attacks could kill twenty or thirty Japanese infantrymen.

The Japanese army was so nervous that they either huddled in the cold trenches without even daring to raise their heads, or they observed the surrounding mountains and forests as if facing a powerful enemy, not daring to relax at all.

This is the purpose of Tang Dao. If a person's spirit continues to be tense, in the early stage, the secretion of adrenaline will be strong and the reaction will be relatively quick. But nothing is unlimited, and the same is true for adrenaline. In the middle and later stages, people will become sluggish and extremely tired. This is also the reason why many energetic young people still sleep for more than ten hours before recovering after a major exam.

Tang Dao used continuous deaths to tease the Japanese soldiers and keep them nervous and excited until their spiritual core gradually dried up and their iron bodies could no longer withstand the internal consumption.

Tang Dao has no intention of spending more than half a month with them here. It’s okay to let the officers and soldiers spend New Year’s Eve on the battlefield, but the Lantern Festival must be celebrated lively.

As for whether there will be someone who pretends to be the leader of the army, maybe it is possible if it is replaced by other troops, but in the Four Lines Regiment or the 11th Division and the 18th Division, which have strict military management, this phenomenon is extremely rare, especially after experiencing such a **** battle, it is extremely rare to survive. If the soldiers still came to cheat and use this trick, then they would be too disappointing. Tang Dao chose to believe them.

 In addition to the conventional ones, there are also unconventional ones.

An infantry battalion of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division came up with a strange move. Didn't Tang Tuanzuo try his best to divide and surround the Japanese army? After two full days of observation, this infantry battalion took advantage of the New Year's Eve night of January 27. The Japanese army was paralyzed by the thought that this day was China's New Year's Eve and the Chinese military would not attack. Three elite infantry squads Ambush in front of the position, and then use personal relationships to persuade the regiment leader to contact his artillery battalion to bombard the high ground stationed by a Japanese infantry squad.

This kind of shelling from time to time on the hilltops became almost a daily occurrence during the two or three days of the siege. The Japanese infantry had long been accustomed to it. When encountering shelling, they would hide in trenches or shell-proof caves and endure it silently.

The 231st Infantry Regiment still has more than a dozen mountain guns available, but with constant consumption and a lot of baggage discarded during the evacuation, the artillery shells have already been fired one by one. The Chinese shelled ten times, and they were able to fight back. Once is enough.

There is no way. For the Japanese army at this time, it is also a disaster. What the Chinese have suffered before is now their turn to bear.

But the Japanese did not expect that the Chinese would be so bold. More than 40 elite infantrymen carrying submachine guns had already been lurking under their noses, only 100 meters away from the position where the cannons were rumbling.

Therefore, when the sound of artillery gradually became sparse, and the Japanese army had just emerged from the simple anti-gun hole, they heard the soldiers who were still on the guard position shouting heartbreakingly about the enemy attack, and then heard something that made them even more frightened. Chinese: 'Vote for me! ’

Dozens of black objects were thrown into the Japanese trenches from 30 meters down the hillside. At that moment, the Japanese infantry were so frightened that the blood in their bodies almost froze.

  Chinese artillery is not terrible, because there are no large-caliber heavy artillery, and the destructive power of the 75mm mountain cannon is average. As long as there are anti-gun holes and trenches, unless you are very unlucky, generally speaking, you will not die.

But what the 39th Division, which has been fighting on the Chinese battlefield for more than a year, is most afraid of is the Chinese long wooden handle grenade imitating the German Empire. According to statistics, this thing caused the highest casualty rate to the Imperial Army.

Even though the destructive power of a single missile is not high, there are so many of them that you can’t handle! There are dozens of this guy, which is equivalent to mortar shells hitting the trenches with precision and exploding. So who can withstand it?

 But obviously, fear cannot stop people from flying grenade shrapnel, only death can.

 When a person is dead, no matter how much shrapnel there is, it will just make the body tremble one more time.

Under the white light of the illumination bombs, the Chinese elites who rushed into the trenches through the smoke of two rounds of bombs shot at everything they could see with submachine guns and pistols.

 It took less than 10 minutes to annihilate all the Japanese troops in this position, while only suffering less than 5 casualties.

 That is to say, a lot of ammunition was consumed. The 40 elites who concentrated almost the entire infantry battalion's submachine guns and pistols fired more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition in just ten minutes, with an average of more than 100 rounds per person.

The distressed colonel commander of the 33rd Regiment, who was over 50 years old, scolded his only remaining battalion commander for ten minutes on the phone. However, he heard that the director of the Logistics Department of the Si Xing Regiment had promised to deliver the goods before dawn. After receiving the reward for killing 46 Japanese soldiers and adding a special reward of a pig's hind leg, he turned his anger into joy and directly praised the infantry battalion commander for his proper tactics. Several communications soldiers at the headquarters of the 33rd Regiment were stunned for a moment. The regiment leader changed his face in Sichuan Opera faster than a professional, without even a transition.

The surprise attack on this hilltop and killing 46 Japanese soldiers was only secondary. More importantly, this hilltop was like a knife, completely cutting off the two highlands defended by an infantry squadron of the Japanese army and its main force.

By the time the Japanese army reacted, an infantry company from the infantry battalion had already entered the position, took over the defense of the high ground, and placed two of the four heavy machine guns available for the entire battalion on the high ground. At the same time, 33 The regiment's 6 82nd guns provide fire support at any time.

On the first day of the 41st Lunar New Year in China, the military flag was planted on a corner of the high ground where the Japanese army belonged in the encirclement. For the Japanese army, it was a small thing to be extremely dazzling. It meant that with the erosion of the Chinese army, their position gradually became smaller. The tactical activity space is further compressed.

Early in the morning before it was completely light, the Japanese army used two infantry squadrons to try to retake the position. Before they reached 300 meters in front of the position, they were directly bombarded by 24 mountain artillery fire.

That was a masterpiece of cooperation between the 11th Division Artillery Battalion and the Mountain Artillery Battery of the Sixings Regiment. How could shelling the Japanese in the trenches be as satisfying as shelling the exposed Japanese? Being bombed to death in a trench, you can't even see the blood, but outside you can see your arms and legs flying around, it's a completely different feeling.

Only then did the Japanese completely accept the reality. The offensive and defensive sides had already changed positions. They were now turtles huddled in their shells. The Chinese hoped to use this method to get them out of the trenches so that they could be exhausted little by little.

   The 231st Infantry Regiment wisely abandoned its 200 comrades who had been cut off, just as the 11th Army abandoned them.

 Let’s give up on this! If you do it a lot, it can easily become a habit.

 An infantry squadron of Japanese soldiers could only watch as the Chinese were forcibly separated from their own positions and trapped again.

Originally, they could still get supplies from the brigade headquarters through this highland, but now they are hanging outside the isolated island. Not to mention supplies, even looking at each other has become a luxury.

Speaking of the New Year's Eve, the Japanese were naturally miserable and had nothing, because the Chinese continued to organize cold gun and artillery attacks. They didn't even dare to light a fire in the cold winter night. Everyone in the encirclement including Colonel Yamada Masakichi The rice **** eaten by the Japanese are always cold, and even if they are eaten for a long time, you can still feel the winter temperature.

On the Chinese side, Tang Dao ordered each company to dedicate enough manpower as early as the afternoon to roll out dough and make dumplings in the inverted tunnel. Although there was also a ban on open flames, the cooking places of each cooking class were all in the Japanese army. The mountain cannon shot out of bounds.

Moreover, the Japanese artillery nested in the encirclement generally will not fire easily, because the area they occupy is extremely limited. Once the artillery fire is fired, it is easy to find the location of the position. Now the Chinese have more than 30 mountain guns and dozens of mortars. The door was staring at them, and a saturation attack with artillery fire could come at any time.

If the last defensive weapon was gone, Yamada Masakichi would probably have cut his own belly with a knife instead of crying.

The four infantry regiments that also participated in the battle had tens of thousands of people. Except for those who were out on raid missions, they all ate hot dumplings on the night of New Year's Eve.

Just this meal of dumplings consumed 5,000 kilograms of the bacon purchased by the Sixings Regiment when they set out from the mountain city. The Chinese officers and soldiers who had just survived the meat grinder-style battlefield were full of oil, and many of them were even more so. Full of tears and flowers.

For example, Shi Dakuan, who insisted on following, was already the acting company commander of the 9th company of the 31st regiment, but the 9th company was just a designation. Except for him, a fairly lively sergeant company commander who had just been promoted to the third level in a row, he had no one. .

The commander of the 31st regiment simply asked Shi Dakuan to follow him. The purpose of making this brave soldier his infantry company commander was to inspire the officers and soldiers of the division to fight bravely, but he must not be a guy who doesn't know any tactics!

The incompetence of a general can kill the whole army. Although a company commander is only a junior officer, he still has 150 people under his command. If a recruit who jumps up like a rocket brings all 150 people to death, let alone the excitement of the commander named Hu. Shang Wuguang, the leader of the regiment will become a joke to the whole army.

This experienced army colonel wanted Shi Dakuan to follow him and teach him how to be a good commander. This was fundamentally different from the big-headed soldier who only relied on his life.

Shi Dakuan worked hard. He had been following his regimental commander for the past two days to see how he issued military orders to the commanders of each battalion and the various opinions he put forward while inspecting the positions of each battalion.

This made the army colonel very happy. He felt that this 17-year-old young soldier was a good prospect. If he kept him by his side for training and study for half a year, he might not be able to become a qualified company commander.

 But when it was time to eat dumplings, the army colonel found that the young soldier was crying while eating.

“What’s the matter with you baby? How come you’re covered in cat urine when you eat dumplings?” The army colonel from a rough background glared.

"Captain, I think of the squad leader and the others. Before the war started that day, the squad leader told me that after the battle was over, he would use his military salary to treat our whole class to eat dumplings and drink wine. The platoon leader also said that he would participate. As a result, , they are all gone, not even a bite of the dumplings." Shi Dakuan was in tears, and he did not look as ferocious as he was on the battlefield, holding a Japanese soldier's windpipe in his mouth, with red eyes and carrying a gun everywhere.

"You child, the earthen pot will inevitably break at the well, and the general will inevitably die before escaping." The army colonel was told by the young soldier that his throat was choked. He wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't even comfort himself.

In the battle on the 23rd, his 31st Regiment was actually disabled, and there were less than 700 people in the entire regiment who could still fight. It was actually the selfishness of the division commander surnamed Hu to give more troops to the 31st Regiment. Earn some military merit, and if you report it when the time comes, you can get more bonuses for the officers and soldiers who died in battle.

Tang Dao probably knew what the commander surnamed Hu was thinking, and he took great care of this former main infantry regiment, which was actually only one infantry battalion. The entire 31st regiment only guarded three highlands, which was the most difficult terrain for the Japanese army to break through, lest they have another chance. loss.

"Don't be too sad. I'll give you a bowl of dumplings, a bottle of wine, and a pack of cigarettes. When we finish this last battle, you can go and offer them to the graves of your brothers in the 9th company." said the Army Colonel.

"Thank you, sir. I thank you on behalf of our brothers in the 9th company." Shi Dakuan's eyes were filled with gratitude.

 He knew how precious materials were on the battlefield, and for a commander of his regiment to be so generous for one of his thoughts, it was truly a deep and profound feeling.

“You’re a good company commander!” The army colonel slapped Shi Dakuan **** the shoulder.

Shi Dakuan was slightly startled. This was not the first time that the regiment leader praised him, but it was the first time that he said he could be the company commander.

 It was not because he was the only soldier in the whole company who walked off the battlefield alive, nor was it because of his impressive military exploits of killing 6 enemies, but because of the memory of his sacrificed comrades.

Young soldiers don’t understand, it’s because of their purity and character!

Maybe he will have many changes in the future, but not forgetting his comrades who share life and death will give him a unique cohesion, which is the first condition for being a good grassroots officer.

 A lot of people who don’t know how to learn can learn from it, but this is the only one that cannot be learned. That’s human nature!

 The Army Colonel liked this soldier very much. In Shi Dakuan, he saw his former self.

But the army colonel didn’t know that this little soldier actually did something terrible after eating dumplings on New Year’s Eve.

In order to repay the bowl of dumplings that the group leader promised to give to the brothers, he decided to earn Tang Tuanzuo's canned beef reward.