Rise From Eight Hundred

If the cold autumn wind was not still blowing on the wet face of the Japanese Army Major General, reminding him of the coldness of the world, Ushijima Mitsuru might have thought that he was still in a nightmare.

If it wasn't a nightmare, why would it become like this?

Three hours ago, he was still thinking about how to destroy the Chinese army that was already at the end of its rope, and how to make the skull of the Chinese commander who made him hate so much and hang it in his military tent as a souvenir, and also thinking about being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and Division Commander, marching south to establish immortal achievements.

But now, only three hours have passed, and those ambitions have gone with the wind, not to mention that the thousands of troops under his command are almost gone?

The gap between fantasy and reality is so huge that the Japanese Army Major General, who has always been very self-righteous, stood in the autumn wind for more than ten minutes.

Until the artillery fire raging in the wilderness continued to extend without cost, Ushijima Mitsuru turned his horse's head melancholy and fled to the wilderness farther with his escort squadron.

The long alarm of gathering resounded in the wilderness, but the number of Japanese soldiers who could come and gather with the sad Japanese Army Major General was far less than he had imagined.

It was not that they were all killed by the continuous rounds of artillery fire, but most of the Japanese soldiers were in a panic and had to avoid the shells that might fall on their heads first.

In addition to the direction of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, there were small units of the 36th Infantry Brigade in the other three directions. The farthest unit even ran to the defense area of ​​the 18th Division.

If it were not for the sentry of the 18th Division repeatedly confirming in Japanese, and even asking the mother's name several times, the infantry squad stationed in the area would definitely summon their main force to kill the group of more than 100 "khaki" as the Chinese infiltration force.

Otherwise, who would believe this group of guys who claimed to be the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division? When did the imperial infantry become so embarrassed?

But the fact is that, facing the same shit-yellow color under the searchlight, the infantrymen of the ‘strongest division on the surface’ who voluntarily dropped their guns had no arrogance of the strongest division. Their arrogance was annihilated by the bullets and artillery fire of the Chinese soldiers on that small position. At this moment, they just wanted to survive, even under the protection of the newly-built division that they usually didn’t think much of.

The Japanese artillerymen, including Komura Akichi, probably never felt so comfortable. Tang Dao ordered them to bring 900 rounds of artillery shells.

That means that one gun has to fire 150 rounds, the number of ammunition for a campaign.

For three hours, the artillery sound on the position of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade did not stop.

Because the coordinates of the artillery fire transmitted to the Tang Dao headquarters were not only in front of the blocking positions of the two security battalions, but also the infantry regiment that blocked the advance regiment’s return to Jiashan’s national defense line.

More than 2,500 infantrymen built simple field positions along the seven or eight kilometers of wilderness, waiting for the advance group to rush in, but they were attacked by at least three thousand Chinese infantrymen from two infantry regiments from the Jiashan defense line.

Originally, according to the strength of the infantry regiment, they were confident that they could kill not only two Chinese infantry regiments, but even an infantry brigade, otherwise Ushijima Sadao would not easily place an infantry regiment six kilometers away from his main camp.

However, the Chinese launched the attack before the night fell. After the Japanese army fought back and wanted to attack them, the Chinese who were engaged in the attack actually retreated and established a field position 800 meters away. The Japanese army that turned to attack was a bit awkward.

Without sufficient artillery support, they had to have the courage to pay a sufficient price if they wanted to break through the Chinese army's position, not to mention that it was already night and the losses would be greater.

When the bad news came from the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Japanese army finally knew the purpose of this group of Chinese people, which was just to drag them.

Just knowing that, the infantry regiment could only stare blankly.

The three or four thousand Chinese in front of them were not too few, not too many, and as long as they dared to withdraw troops to support them, they would dare to attack them. If they withdrew too few, it would be useless, and if they withdrew too many, they would be exhausted. In the end, they could only take care of themselves first, and the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade would be rescued by the 36th Infantry Brigade.

When it was daytime, with the help of artillery and bombers, it should not be difficult to defeat the Chinese army in front of them.

But the result was that the Japanese army did not wait for their own artillery, and was hit by a heavy artillery in the middle of the night.

At that moment, the Japanese infantry regiment on the position was absolutely stunned.

When did the Chinese also have such heavy artillery? Didn’t they agree that it was the patent of the empire?

Are the Chinese about to launch an attack?

The reaction of the colonel commander of the Japanese infantry regiment, who had not been beaten by the Chinese army, was obviously much slower than Setouchi Riki, and even issued a military order that all units of the army should not leave the position.

Little did he know that the Chinese troops of the two infantry regiments opposite him had quietly withdrawn from their positions 20 minutes before the artillery fire came, and then ran away at the fastest speed.

Is it okay not to run?

Tang Dao said in the telegram sent to the headquarters: "Because the artillery range exceeds 10 kilometers, and due to the calculation errors of direction and other data, our army cannot guarantee the landing point of the shells. The only thing we can guarantee is the intensity of the artillery fire. Please evacuate our troops in the area at the fastest speed!"

One side ran away in advance, and the other side insisted on holding on. The outcome of both sides can be imagined.

According to the battle report of the 18th Division after the war, the order of the colonel commander of the infantry regiment caused his infantry to endure the Chinese artillery bombardment for about an hour on the position.

The most fatal thing is that in the later period, the crazy Tang Dao troops were no longer satisfied with the 6 heavy artillery operated by the Japanese artillery surrender soldiers. Cheng Tieshou led dozens of people and operated another 6 150 heavy artillery under the careful "teaching" of the Japanese army such as Komura Mingyi who had completely torn off their underwear.

A group of Chinese artillerymen who saw heavy artillery for the first time had no problem laying the gun flat and firing a few hundred meters, but if they wanted to hit a target ten kilometers away, they naturally had no accuracy at the beginning, basically just blasting the ground for fun, and even a few shots deviated for several kilometers, almost sending away a wave of Chinese infantry platoons that were bypassing from the flank.

However, the Japanese "instructors" were very awesome, and the Chinese students worked very hard. It took them 20 minutes to finally adjust the accuracy and gradually hit the Japanese position with artillery shells.

12 heavy artillery pieces plowed back and forth on the positions of the Japanese infantry regiment without sparing any shells.

In this more than one-hour bombardment, although the unit was not directly destroyed, the heavy losses should be unprecedented since the establishment of the infantry regiment, and even greater than the losses of many front-line troops that fought for a week on the Jiashan national defense line.

Ushijima Sadao, who received the news, was almost sent away by this fool under his command with a simple field position and 150 heavy artillery.

But this was not the last tragedy. When the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese front-line infantrymen who were scared to death by the bombing had not yet recovered, and they were horrified to find that the movement on the opposite Chinese position seemed to be getting bigger again, which was the rhythm of the attack.

Both sides fired flares at each other, illuminating the battlefield that was already full of craters, and the dark gray and dark blue of the Chinese army reappeared in the field of vision of the Japanese commander's telescope.

The Japanese army, who cheered up, lay on the trenches, ready to use rifles and machine guns to teach the Chinese who dared to come.

Is it great to have heavy artillery? I have the samurai spirit of facing death with indifference.

However, having heavy artillery is really great.

Five minutes later, the Japanese army, which did not wait for the attack of the Chinese infantry, waited for a new round of artillery bombardment.

What returned was just a Chinese infantry company with artillery observers. They just came to observe the battlefield. They didn't expect the Japanese to be so awesome and still alive and well after being bombarded for so long.

If one bombardment can't solve it, then two or three bombardments will do.

Anyway, Tang Dao still has a lot of artillery shells seized from the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and this night is still long enough.

Just treat it as a training for the artillery.

It's rare to have such a good "instructor" and so many artillery shells, as well as such a durable target.

The tragic Japanese army on the position was bombed for another half an hour.

Then, it collapsed!