Chapter 225 Under the Frenzy of Nanjing Defense War

With the intermittent fire of the Japanese army's heavy howitzers, the artillery of the Chinese defenders in Niushou Mountain began to pour fiercely on the Japanese army attacking the front positions. The 16th artillery regiment of the Japanese army was also shooting madly at Niushoushan, trying to suppress the artillery fire of the defenders. In a burst of violent explosions, the Japanese infantry held up. The Type 38 rifle with bayonets shouted a quick assault.

In the wanton shrapnel, the Japanese soldiers kept falling to the ground. Some Japanese soldiers with a broken arm were blankly looking for their broken arms, facing the hot fire network of the Chinese defenders. The Japanese soldiers rushed to the ring position at the foot of the Niushou Mountain Fortress in vain under the expulsion of the officers.

Under the hot artillery of the two armies, in the outer position of Niushou Mountain, the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army commanded the remaining three infantry brigades to launch a fierce attack. The 33rd Infantry Regiment under the command of Fuda Shinji is the main wing of the 30th Infantry Brigade, which is also the 16th. The main wing of the division, so it has five infantry brigades. There are only four infantry brigades in the 38th wing of the same infantry brigade, and the four infantry brigades of the 38th Infantry Wing after the 33rd Infantry Regiment are also divided into four attack waves and begin to slowly enter the position ready to start. On the impact.

It can be said that from Sasaki, the commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, to Major General to Colonel Nobuji Fukuda of the 33rd Infantry Regiment, the Japanese army is really red-eyed at this moment and began to play with his life! This wave attack formation is generally suitable for use under very limited battlefield capacity, and Niushoushan is exactly such an environment, so the Japanese army's multi-wave assault with wild artillery fire attack tactics are quite useful.

After the Japanese army broke into the outer position within 50 meters, the 105mm howitzer group on the General's Mountain had stopped fire support in order to prevent accidental injuries, and began to bombard the troops of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, which attacked the General Mountain Fortress.

The 75mm field artillery group on Niushou Mountain began to use the lowest ruler at a low elevation angle to start shelling to the preset area at the front. In the dense artillery fire, the Japanese soldiers kept jumping forward and lying down, or charging quickly. The officers and soldiers were very clear that as long as they rushed into the middle [***] defense line, they The cannons lose their role. Do you want to minimize casualties? Then you must not be afraid of casualties.

For the honor of the 33rd Infantry Regiment, Fuda Nobuji waved his family sword and rushed up against the dense firepower of the Chinese garrison position. In the scattering of the shrapnel launched by the garrison position, from time to time, officers and soldiers were shot to the ground, and the 7.92mm caliber 51 fired by the Maxin heavy machine gun. Four-fifths of the heavy machine gun bullets loaded with drugs were all broken bones and flesh and blood.

A Japanese military officer who was hit on the knee held only a trace of the knee that was hit, howled and rolled on the ground. Only the part that was hit was white bones and broken rotten meat, as well as continuous blood. Soon, because of a large amount of blood loss, the military officer twitched and fell to the ground.

The Japanese soldiers who broke through the artillery of the Niushou Mountain garrison were constantly shooting alternately cover. In the face of the fierce rain of the defenders, they can still insist on counterattacking, and they can also constantly move the Type 29 heavy machine gun forward, implement fire support, and cooperate with the projectile effectively form a small-scale assault and counterattack against the front-line Chinese defenders.

The quality of the Japanese army is indeed commendable. Using a small range of firepower to counterattack and cooperate with the continuous assault of individual soldiers, the Japanese army finally broke into the Chinese garrison position on the outer line of Niushou Mountain as expected. The continuous shelling of the two armies has been fired at each other, which also made the fifth brigade and ninth regiment of the garrison. The first battalion suffered heavy casualties, but Luo Tianming, the commander of the first battalion, threw himself into the reserve team in time to fight back.

In the typical Sidrog trench, Japanese soldiers with bright bayonets with Type 38 rifles encountered an unprecedented crisis, because the Sidrog trenches were in World War I. During the Battle of the Marne on the Western Front, German infantry colonel Sidrog. B. Bacon invented a multiple trapezoidal arrangement with different depths and narrow special trenches.

This kind of trench often turns, and you need to kneel down and crawl over when passing through shallow places, because the front trench is a gradual slope. When you don't pay attention, the troops moving quickly along the trench will be completely exposed, and many sections of the trenches are often only allowed to pass by one person.

What's more important is that the Sidero trench needs to be extremely familiar with the terrain, and even the defenders need to practice and cooperate frequently. Therefore, the Sidero trench is a nightmare in a nightmare for the Japanese army with a Type 38 rifle and a bayonet, but for the Chinese defenders who use a large number of automatic weapons, the Sidero trench is The military's grave, submachine gun and grenade can be said to be the two magic weapons of the Sidero trench.

Especially at many narrow corners, when the officers and soldiers swarmed along the trenches and were ready to quickly invade, they gradually found the strangeness and difference of the Chinese defenders' trenches. Shinji Fukuda saw his soldiers falling into a pool of blood like being slaughtered. When he was furious, he actually jumped on the trench with a samurai sword high. After commanding the Japanese soldiers to throw grenades, he took advantage of the gunpowder smoke generated by the explosion to cross the trench and start a close hand-to-hand fight with the Chinese defenders.

Fukuda Shinji's arrogant behavior also attracted the attention of two Czech ZB-26 light machine gun groups. With the flash of the shell explosion, Fukuda Shinji, wearing a tted military uniform, brown cowhide boots, and carrying a southern pistol and white gloves, was undoubtedly exposed. Suddenly, a few short shots made Fukuda Shinji's side dusty. Yang, who was slightly stunned, did not wait for the transfer, and the two Czech ZB-26 light machine gun groups fired several long-point shots in a row.

Fukuda Shinji's body suddenly spewed a fog of blood. Fukuda Shinji rolled and fell into the trench. The two soldiers on the side rushed to the captain of the joint captain. However, at this moment, Fukuda Shinji had no breath for a long time, and Futian Shinji was beaten into a hornet's chest and became the general manager of the strategy of Nanjing. The first joint captain killed after the attack, if Shinji Fukuda was killed by the cannon, maybe the military department would not promote him to a major general, because the Japanese army has strict evaluation criteria for the promotion of the dead officers.

Just like Major General Tokuta Sakai of the 11th Infantry Brigade, who was killed before, is declared according to the death of the major general. Not all the fallen officers can be promoted, especially for the promotion of lieutenant to majors. The promotion of colonels is extremely strict. One is the pension problem, and the other is the battle of a dead general against the front line. The morale of the army will have a huge impact.

With the death of Shinji Fukuda, the Japanese army that invaded the outer position of the Chinese garrison in Niushou Mountain was gradually compressed and annihilated. A large number of Japanese soldiers's corpses were piled up in the trenches. The Chinese soldiers who counterattacked in front of the battle rushed forward with the bullets of the Japanese army, and the death squad of the first battalion of the ninth regiment of the garrison was held. The improved P-18D submachine gun of Baotou Military Factory counterattacked the Japanese army's intruder trenches.

The spouting of blood! The flash of life is consumed in vain! Just as the first battalion of the ninth regiment of the fifth brigade of the Chinese defenders was about to destroy all the Japanese army that had invaded the trenches, another wave of Japanese infantry of the 38th regiment of the Japanese infantry that followed the attack broke into the trench.

The Japanese army, which was supported by the fresh force, used the corpses to pile up bunker fortifications in the trenches, and used the gap between the corpses to cover the repeated assaults. For a while, the war situation entered a stalemate.

Sun Guiming called the phone directly to the command post of the Ninth Regiment and roared at the microphone: "Cheng Cannon! I'll give you two hours to fully restore the outer position, otherwise don't blame me for my ruthless military law.

Cheng Zhiwei, commander of the Ninth Regiment of the Fifth Brigade, hesitated at the other end of the phone and said, "The brigade, it is better to let the Japanese army invade and occupy part of the positions, so that the enemy's artillery cannot be suppressed against our army, and our artillery can carry out artillery fire against the enemy, which can be consumed faster and more effective consumption. The living force of the army is also more in line with the principle of giving the Japanese army the greatest killing and injury proposed by the commander.

Sun Guiming was slightly stunned. All the officers of the Rehe Legion mentioned the commander of the army, but on the first day of the battle, they were rushed into their positions by the Japanese army? Isn't this nonsense to his mother?

Sun Guiming stared and roared, "Cheng Zhiwei, I warn you. If you lose your position, you have to raise your head to see me. If you let me lose the outer position of Niushou Mountain on the first day, I will want your head."

Cheng Zhiwei took a deep breath and said, "Please rest assured that the humble position will definitely take advantage of the favorable situation and quickly consume the living power of the Japanese army."

The 11th Division of the Japanese Army, which attacked Jiangjun Mountain, also calmly repelled the crazy attack of the Japanese Army with the assistance of the Teaching 1st Regiment and the 2nd Teaching Regiment, as well as the temporary 5th Brigade.

The Qixia Mountain Fortress, which was responsible for the defense of the 103rd Division of Gui Yongqing, was responsible for the defense of the 60th Division. Under the response of the Ye Zhao Department of the 60th Division, it resisted the fierce attack of the Taiwan Shige Teng Deteng Detachment and the 13th Division, and the headquarters of the 13th Division of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army and the headquarters of the 18th Division and the Maomatsu Maozhi began to Under the cover of artillery fire and chariots, they attacked the positions of Yu Jishi of the 74th Army in the south of the city, and the 51st and 57th divisions of the 74th Army used the front-line positions of Gujiaying, Yangjiazhuang, Dashishan and Liuzhuang.

The 51st Division and the 57th Division are covering each other. They use the two-level artillery groups of the division and the army to continuously implement regional intensive firepower coverage of the Japanese army. They are very uncomfortable with the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese army. The Japanese army, which has lost the advantage of artillery fire, can only concentrate repeatedly. The combination point of each position of the team in the force attack or the pre-selected breakthrough.

(to be continued)