Rise From Eight Hundred

Lieutenant Colonel Takumi Tanaka, deputy commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and leader of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, did not fail to make efforts.

After learning the news of the death of Colonel Sadazō Ishiguro, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel who was in command of the 3rd Infantry Battalion immediately issued what he thought was the most correct military order - evacuate the entire army!

This Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel was also decisive enough, but he was still not as good as his superior. One broke through on his own, and the other evacuated. It seemed that both were running away, but the forms were completely different.

Takumi Tanaka hoped that the 2nd Infantry Regiment would have a chance to make a comeback, at least to ensure that an infantry battalion left the battlefield as a whole.

Therefore, he ordered three infantry squads in the regiment guard squadron, which had burned the regiment flag, to stay and block the Chinese army 600 meters away from the 3rd Infantry Battalion. The rest followed the remaining 400 people of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, plus the various communications, medical, and baggage personnel of the regiment headquarters, a total of more than 600 people, and retreated hastily to the north.

This is indeed a heroic act of a hero cutting off his arm, but for this Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel, it is actually not without selfishness, and even puts selfishness on the table. The regiment guard squadron is naturally the confidant of the deceased Colonel Ishiguro Sadazo. Leaving them on this battlefield to cover the remnants of the entire regiment is undoubtedly to cut off Ishiguro Sadazo's last wings. When the 2nd Infantry Regiment is rebuilt, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka Takumi will undoubtedly be able to control this new infantry regiment effortlessly.

As for how to hold the responsible party accountable after the war, it would naturally be Ishiguro Sadazo, the Colonel Regiment Commander, who had died on the spot, and no one could trouble a dead man. On the contrary, Tanaka Takumi was able to lead hundreds of people to evacuate the battlefield, which was a meritorious deed.

It can only be said that this Lieutenant Colonel Deputy Regiment Commander, who was usually cautious and never in the limelight under Ishiguro Sadazo, was very smart. He could still consider the future at such a critical moment of life and death.

Being very smart was to shoot himself in the foot. The more than 140 soldiers of the regiment guard squadron who were forced to stay by military orders were in low morale and their combat effectiveness was less than half of that in normal days. What was even more terrible was that their enemies reacted much better than them.

Leng Feng, the commander of the third battalion, keenly discovered the changes on the battlefield and immediately changed from defense to offense.

On the front battlefield, the 8th Company covered the fire support company and moved forward slowly, oppressing the enemy in front, while Li Jiujin's 7th Company quickly bypassed the flank and approached the Japanese defense line.

In the area 300 meters close to the Japanese defense line, Leng Feng not only ordered his 6 mortar squads to bombard the Japanese trench area, but also sent telegrams to the first and second battalions, requesting their mortar squads to provide fire support.

Lei Xiong and Guo Shouzhi had basically entered the battlefield cleaning stage, so they refused the request for help from the third battalion. A total of 18 82-caliber mortars bombarded the area where the 140 Japanese soldiers, whose morale was already low, and nearly 300 shells were poured in 5 minutes of firepower coverage. The simple trenches that had been destroyed by mountain artillery and 150 mortars were howling again.

This is the advantage of mortars. If it is replaced with a bunker or concrete fortification, the small-caliber mortar shells will only make a small pit at most. But for this kind of improvised trench that is only half a person deep, the mortar shells that fall almost vertically are a big killer. Even with the trench as a cover, the Japanese infantry suffered more than 50 casualties in the five-minute fire coverage.

Of course, it was not the artillery that really defeated the Japanese army, but the people.

Five minutes is enough for the infantry on the front battlefield to crawl forward 200 meters, approaching the desperate 100 meters. If they were not afraid of being accidentally injured by their own artillery shells, the 8th Company's spearhead squad could now advance to the 40-meter area where grenades can be thrown.

When the mortars stopped firing and the Japanese infantry wanted to fight back, they found in despair that the Chinese side had set up more than 15 heavy machine guns over 400 meters away to suppress their firepower. Bullets rained down like raindrops. Any firepower point that wanted to suppress the opponent's infantry's resolute advance would be targeted and suppressed by several heavy machine guns, and all the bravery was buried in the rain of bullets.

As soon as the grenade launcher soldiers fired grenades to counterattack, a pile of grenades flew quickly. The Four-Line Regiment now has one grenade launcher per infantry squad, and one infantry company has as many as 10, which is far more than the scale of 6 grenade launchers in a Japanese infantry squadron.

In terms of ground light and heavy firepower advantages, the Four-Line Regiment now completely surpasses a Japanese infantry regiment, not to mention the half of the infantry squadron with low morale.

However, in order to avoid heavy casualties, the 9 infantry squads of the 8th Company did not crawl to the bombing area too eagerly to launch the final attack, but crawled 70 to 80 meters away to suppress the Japanese army with various continuous firepower.

If the remaining 80 to 90 Japanese soldiers on the front battlefield could still hold on for a while, then as Li Jiujin's 7th Company detoured to the left wing and resolutely used six grenade launchers to cover and blasted a light machine gun fire point that was desperately shooting at them, the Japanese defense line collapsed.

The dozen submachine gun soldiers who jumped into the trenches fired alternately and advanced. When one submachine gun emptied the magazine, they immediately switched to another submachine gun. They almost advanced with bullets to open the way. All the Japanese who wanted to resist were shot into sieves.

This is the most typical Japanese infantry attack method. The front battlefield suppressed and attracted the opponent's firepower with firepower, and the battlefields on both wings formed a breakthrough.

The Third Battalion used its own methods to fight back, and even did better than the Japanese army itself. The Japanese army was suppressed in the front battlefield and couldn't even raise their heads. The flank battlefield was thunderous and gave the Japanese army no chance to make up.

The overwhelming momentum on the flank battlefield had already made the Japanese army tremble, but the last straw that broke the camel's back was the voice that frightened them.

"Tick-tick! Tick-tick!" The charge horn was blown from the 8th Company.

The infantrymen jumped up and charged at the remaining enemies in the trenches. The last dying counterattack of the Japanese infantry was just to let a dozen Chinese soldiers fall on the way to the charge.

This was the most elite escort squadron of the 2nd Infantry Regiment. Under the siege of an infantry battalion of the Four-Line Regiment, they had a complete line of defense and could not hold out for more than ten minutes, and the casualties caused would never exceed 20.

There was no tragic hand-to-hand combat. The 7th and 8th companies that charged were equipped with a large number of Mauser pistols and submachine guns, and they fired a volley of bullets at the shit-yellow military uniforms.

However, the elite is the elite. Although the resistance time and casualties caused to the opponent were far lower than expected, and there was also a kind of unwillingness to be sent to the "slaughterhouse" by the deputy commander of the regiment, Tanaka Takumi, none of the remaining Japanese soldiers surrendered. Even the wounded tried to resist with guns.

This just suited the Chinese soldiers' wishes. They were all veterans who had been on the battlefield. They would never have the kindness of Cheng Dagui who had just been in close contact with life and death. They had no intention of approaching to check. Even if they fell to the ground covered in blood, they often had to make up two shots to ensure safety.

The last battlefield was resolved in just three minutes, and no Japanese soldier was left alive.

The two infantry companies did not have time to reap their own results. After resolving this battlefield, they continued to rush forward. There was still a final battle waiting for them ahead.

That was the cavalry company led by Tang Dao himself, blocking more than 700 deserters led by Tanaka Takumi.

Originally, the accidental death of Ishiguro Sadazo delayed the 2nd Infantry Regiment's last five minutes of escape, and Tanaka Takumi, who was very smart, continued to order and regroup the troops, which delayed them for a few minutes again, giving the cavalry company a rare ten minutes.

Ten minutes was enough for the cavalry company soldiers to dig out the simplest single-soldier shelter with the single-soldier engineer shovel carried on the horses.

It didn't need to be too complicated, and there were no sandbags. Just pile the excavated soil in front of the people to form a thick shelter. Even if it couldn't block heavy machine gun bullets, it could slow down rifle bullets, which was better than crawling in the wilderness without any cover.

The cavalry had driven the horses 300 meters away. The lances and the light machine guns and grenade launchers carried on the horses were enough to turn them into a light infantry company. This was why they mainly attacked the Japanese artillery this time, otherwise they would definitely bring heavy machine guns and mortars.

But even so, a 600-meter-long defense line composed of 186 people was not so easy to break.

The last 700 men of the 2nd Infantry Regiment led by Takumi Tanaka were blocked like this.

If the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel had recognized the situation earlier and ordered the troops to break out on their own, there might be a glimmer of hope, and at least one-third of them could escape the battlefield.

After all, in order to block the Japanese army's retreat, the cavalry company gave up its most proud mobility, and the main force of the Four-Line Regiment was at least 2,000 meters away from here. As long as they controlled their mouths, moved their legs, and competed in endurance running, the Japanese infantry with short legs but strong bodies had a great chance of escaping from this nightmare battlefield for them.

Unfortunately, he wanted to keep the last remnants of the 2nd Infantry Regiment too much, as he dreamed of becoming the commander of the regiment, and it almost became his obsession.

So, as soon as he arrived at the battlefield, the Japanese infantry rushed towards the prepared cavalry company defense line under his crazy military order.

It was a desperate charge of more than two infantry squadrons and nearly 400 soldiers, and it was also the last life-and-death struggle of the Japanese!

Although Tanaka Takumi made a big mistake, he was still an experienced Japanese army officer after all. He knew that if he didn't fight desperately at this time, he might not even have a chance to fight desperately when the Chinese in the distance chased him.

Therefore, he used up the last capital of his 3rd Infantry Battalion at the beginning. Nearly 400 infantrymen charged desperately under the cover of the only three remaining heavy machine guns.

From the actual battlefield, this is an extremely correct tactic. There have been successful cases of burning the boats and fighting with one's back to the river in history, and the opponent was only less than 200 people and did not have any heavy weapons.

It is possible that this round of desperate charge can kill these 200 Chinese, thus obtaining the most brilliant results of the 2nd Infantry Regiment in this great defeat.

But the battlefield is not like love. What matters is not the process but the ending. The tragic ending made future military historians around the world regard Tanaka Takumi's military order as one of the more stupid military orders on the battlefield known as the "Battle of the Mi River".

Because he was not facing ordinary infantry, but a group of Chinese cavalry who were required to shoot at a target 150 meters away while galloping on horseback at high speed.

They may not be as good as infantry in battlefield movement and attack, but in terms of shooting, their average level is definitely far above ordinary infantry.

Especially when the Japanese infantry launched the "Banzai Charge" regardless of the consequences, 170 cavalry rifles opened fire when they reached the 200-meter area.

In just one round of shooting, more than 80 Japanese soldiers fell on the way to the charge, and the hit rate was frighteningly high.

The Japanese soldiers who did not receive the order to retreat were all scared, but they could only bend over and continue to charge, and then they could only be shot to death like being shot at live targets.

When they reached the area of ​​about 130 meters, no one could charge fearlessly as before, and they all lay down.

It was not that they were all killed, but that the Chinese side only shot two rounds and half of the 400 people fell down. With such a casualty rate, jumping up and running wildly would be courting death.

Dare to die and rush to die are two concepts, aren't they?

At this time, the Japanese army could only suppress the Chinese army's defense line with firepower. There was only one heavy machine gun left, which could not pose much threat to the Chinese.

The reason is very simple. The Chinese had a sharpshooter who was beyond everyone's imagination.

More than 400 meters apart, with bushes as cover, the two heavy machine guns fired no more than 100 bullets each, and the Chinese sharpshooter magically found their position and shot the shooter to death.

The main shooter died, and the deputy shooter was on top. Then, a second later, the deputy shooter also died.

Heavy machine gunners are professionally trained. It is not that anyone can hold the gun handle and shoot. Moreover, there are our own people charging ahead. If you are not careful, you may kill more of our own people than the Chinese.

The heavy machine gun is still there, but the shooter is gone.......

This is really a sad thing. The eyes of the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel are red. If it were not for a group of people pulling him hard, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka Takumi really had the urge to become a heavy machine gun shooter himself.

After all, when he was a sergeant, he also had the experience of operating a heavy machine gun, and the blood of a soldier still existed.

But to be honest, he had to thank his superiors. If it were not for Ishiguro Sadazo leaving such a big flaw, Tang Dao would lead the cavalry company to chop down the "little cabbages" of the artillery squadron, Tang Dao would definitely bring Erya, and Erya would definitely carry the Mosin-Nagant with a scope on her back.

As for the unlucky boy Tanaka Takumi, there were so many people around him that anyone could tell he was a big boss. A distance of 500 meters was not a difficult task for the Tang Dao.

Without the threat of heavy machine guns, the Japanese army, crawling on the ground and trying to lie on the cavalry company's defense line, was almost playing a shooting game with the cavalry company.

Both sides were models of precision shooting. The only difference was that the cavalry company had bunkers for cover, while the Japanese had nothing.

If they continued shooting like this, it would be obvious who would die more.

The battlefield fell into a brief stalemate!

But that was obviously very disadvantageous to the Japanese army.

Because in the distance, Yang Xiaoshan also surrounded him from the side with his three engineering platoons and twelve heavy machine guns of the 2nd artillery company.

Yang Xiaoshan was very smart. He knew that the combat effectiveness of the engineers he led was far inferior to that of the Japanese army. He might not be able to stop the crazy attack of the Japanese army who were eager to escape, so he desperately dug fortifications 600 meters away from the Japanese army's field of vision.

This was really the strong point of the engineers.

More than 100 engineers from three engineering platoons dug a trench that was almost visible to the naked eye, and the excavated earth piled up seven or eight sandbags!

If the Japanese want to attack them again, they don’t need engineers. Just the twelve heavy machine guns can let the Japanese know what "why there are so many bullets" means!

"It's over!" Tanaka Takumi, who was scanning the surroundings with a telescope, wailed in pain, and tears flowed down.

The originally fierce gunfire in the rear stopped!

There were Chinese blocking the front and flanks. Where can his hundreds of people run?

They couldn't run away, so they could only defend on the spot and use the civil engineering work that the Imperial Japanese Army was very good at.

A group of Japanese, under the defense of the infantry, under the watchful eyes of the Chinese cavalry and engineers, stopped making unnecessary attacks and began to dig trenches, intending to make a final dying counterattack.

This is really stupidity opening the door to stupidity----stupidity!

This is the most unified definition given to Tanaka Takumi by military historians in later generations.

Because, there are cases of relying on civil engineering fortifications for defense, but that was when the opponent did not have large-caliber artillery.

And the Four-Line Regiment, is it lacking that?

Obviously not, let alone 6 150mm heavy artillery, even if there are only 2, the Japanese can be blown to death in the trenches like groundhogs.

"Move over 4 150mm mortars from the 1st artillery company, and 4 more infantry artillery!" Looking at the Japanese's actions, Tang Dao laughed.

"Pang Dahai will definitely say that the Japanese are really annoying and waste my artillery shells!" Gong Shaoxun laughed.

"Damn Japanese, they are stupid and want to implicate me!" Pang Dahai, who received the military order on the south bank of the Bi River, gritted his teeth.

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