Rise From Eight Hundred

In the trenches of the Japanese front line.

Kanda Masatane's face was livid.

Five minutes ago, news came from the flank that the breakthrough on the flank of the Chinese position ordered by him personally had failed.

But failure is not terrible. The Imperial Army had suffered too many defeats that night, and failures on local battlefields were already commonplace for Kanda Masatane.

What annoyed Kanda Masatane was his battlefield intuition, which was not effective when it was good but effective when it was bad.

As his intuition reminded him, it was really the Chinese reinforcements that arrived.

If it weren't for the reinforcements, his flank breakthrough tactics would have worked long ago, and all the Chinese on the defense line would now only be struggling to survive.

But, that was just if.

Maybe there were not many troops, but under the moonlight, Chinese people continued to join the battlefield, and the Chinese defense line, which was already in danger, was strengthened by firepower again.

The fierce offensive of the infantry, which had already occupied a complete advantage, was curbed again.

Moreover, the Chinese who came to help regained their mortars.

The heavy machine guns and infantry artillery positions that were originally high up on the hills became the main targets of the Chinese mortars.

What made the Japanese army miserable was that the artillerymen had worked so hard to capture the hill. They had thrown at least 800 shells at the hill, which blew up the small hill bare. There were no trees or stones, only craters and loose soil.

The heavy machine guns and infantry guns did not strictly follow the "Army Manual" to build perfect fortifications. In order to prevent the Chinese heavy machine guns from firing back, they just piled a few sandbags in front of the heavy machine guns.

When encountering such mortars that fell from the sky, what use were these simple fortifications?

Although it was night and the Chinese could not locate the firepower points so accurately, the mortars hiding in the dark kept bombarding the hill area.

Twelve heavy machine guns plus four infantry guns, either run or stay where you are, relying on Amaterasu to take care of not being hit by shells within ten meters around you.

The 300 infantrymen led by Lei Xiong brought a total of 6 mortars and 120 rounds of artillery shells. After arriving at the front line, the artillerymen of the fire support company who were unable to fight due to injuries stopped providing the specific coordinates of the hills, and Lei Xiong keenly discovered the opportunity.

It is actually very difficult for mortars to hit the Japanese heavy machine guns on the front battlefield, because it depends entirely on the artillery observers to estimate the distance and direction, and the chance of hitting is pitifully low.

But the hills that originally belonged to the area where our people were located are different. They are only a few thousand square meters. As long as they hit that area, the chance of bombing the unlucky guy is much greater.

If one round is not enough, then 50 rounds will be used first.

Therefore, the 6 mortars did not help the front battlefield suppress the heavy firepower of the Japanese army that was still madly spewing, but found another way to find the Japanese heavy firepower point on the "Lonely Mausoleum".

The Japanese army, who originally thought that since the Chinese could resist our mountain artillery and infantry artillery for so long on this position, what else could the Chinese small-caliber mortars do, was in trouble.

As the saying goes, when the Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery were showing their power, the Chinese infantry were hiding in trenches that were one and a half meters deep. All machine guns and heavy machine guns had circular fortifications, and trenches were specially built for soldiers to hide.

When the Japanese artillery was rampant, and the Chinese defenders used explosives to self-detonate, which killed one thousand enemies and damaged one thousand of their own, these fortifications that could originally avoid artillery fire became ruins.

The Japanese equipment and personnel were almost on the exposed land, relying entirely on the care of Amaterasu and the artillery shells to see who was luckier.

Facts have proved that Amaterasu is unreliable.

Six mortars fired at high speed, and before they had fired all the 50 shells ordered by Lei Xiong, the Japanese on the hill began to run away.

One of the four infantry guns was directly blown away by a mortar shell that exploded three meters away, killing and injuring half of an artillery squad; the other gun was even more unlucky, the shell did not hit the location of the infantry gun, but hit the shell box more than ten meters away...

What does the explosion of twenty shells look like?

The Chinese and Japanese infantry on the battlefield saw it.

A brilliant fireball suddenly rose up and illuminated half of the battlefield, but it was secondary. Some shells that were rushed to high altitudes by the air wave and then exploded one after another were like fireworks set off during the New Year, but the sound was a little louder.

The most amazing shell was ejected more than two hundred meters by the air wave before it exploded.

Even the shells could be blown away hundreds of meters by the energy of the explosion, not to mention the Japanese troops around the center of the explosion.

The 200-kilogram gun barrel of the infantry gun, which was more than ten meters away from the center of the explosion, was like a leaf. It was blown away by the air wave for more than thirty meters. It smashed two Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground and screaming into a ball of meat paste, and the gun barrel was twisted like Tianjin hemp twist.

An artillery squad hiding near the infantry gun was completely wiped out. It was Amaterasu's care that they were able to survive.

In addition to the infantry gun, the heavy machine gun position was even worse. In order to ensure the density of bullets for concentrated fire, the Japanese army's twelve heavy machine guns were almost on one side of the hill. They found a relatively flat place and lined up in a row, which was very pleasing to the eye and increased the deterrence.

But once it was bombarded, to put it simply and crudely, this formation was like a "chicken" that had drunk ten times the amount of aphrodisiac, and its thighs were almost split.

It would be a miracle if it was not blown up.

Among these dozens of shells, at least a dozen shells happened to fall into the area of ​​​​the twelve heavy machine guns.

The Japanese heavy machine gunners who were expecting the appearance of Amaterasu tasted the good fortune of being hit by artillery shells.

Eight heavy machine guns were blown away by the air wave and turned into scrap metal. More than dozens of shooters and ammunition handlers were killed or injured, which was much more miserable than the infantry artillery.

If the Japanese soldiers on the "Lonely Mausoleum" were just not blessed by the light of luck of Amaterasu, then the nearly 100 Japanese soldiers who were retreating frantically on the flank were really pitted by Amaterasu.

It was all because of the gorgeous fireworks show.

The retreating Japanese soldiers ran and found that the major was missing.

This can't be! Wasn't the major running in front?

Yes, Major Sakamoto of the 6th Infantry Battalion of the 45th Infantry Regiment, who personally approached the flank to command the breakthrough, did not foolishly go down to the battlefield to engage in a "white knife in and red knife out" hand-to-hand combat.

Although he was extremely confident in his sharp samurai sword and the kendo he had practiced for more than ten years, this Japanese Army Major was not such an ignorant person. Entering such a battlefield, there are only two results, either killing or being killed.

He was a distinguished major, not a soldier, and he didn't need to prove his bravery with the lives of his enemies. Naturally, he was standing outside the battlefield and watching the battle.

When the Fourth Battalion arrived and joined the battlefield like wolves and tigers, the situation on the battlefield, which was originally stalemate, changed dramatically. It was this major Sakamoto who found that the situation was not right and issued an order to retreat.

Then, under the protection of six guards, the Japanese Army Major was the first to run away.

No matter how you count it, the Japanese Army Major was the safest existence on the flank of the Japanese army, and even Niu Er hiding in the dark couldn't do anything to him.

It's not that the distance is too far, but Niu Er has darkness as a protective color, and the Japanese Army Major also has it. He stood on the dark edge of the battlefield, and there were 6 infantry guards around him. Niu Er, who was already similar to a sniper, couldn't do anything to him.

It's just very unfortunate that when the fireworks show broke out, the Japanese army that was defeated by Lei Xiong, Pang Dahai and others on the flank and fled was just more than 200 meters away from the "Gu Ling".

The "two-kick firecracker" triggered by the big fireworks just flew to that position.

It was right in the middle of the Japanese formation.

When it comes to running, the more ordinary soldiers run faster, and it is not determined by their official positions or who runs first. In this regard, the Japanese infantry with strong training intensity are much better than the officers.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise.

Four or five Japanese soldiers were like puppets pulled by strings, and they were blown away seven or eight meters away.

The infantry artillery shells that exploded in the air lost their penetrating power, but the shrapnel that splashed was also majestic. More than a dozen Japanese infantrymen who were running wildly around them fell down in an instant.

The missing Major Sakamoto must have been dazzled by the splendor of the fireworks!

The Japanese infantrymen who shouted "Baga" in their hearts frantically surrounded the fallen Japanese soldiers.

If something happened to the major, even if they withdrew alive, no one would be better off.

Therefore, in the brilliant fire of the large-scale "fireworks", the Chinese officers and soldiers who were crouching and carrying the wounded on the battlefield more than 200 meters away saw that the Japanese who were running happily seemed to have stopped again and were still huddled together.

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