"Boom boom boom..."
"Boom boom boom..."
Artillery shells hit the west wall of Nirvana like raindrops, and the Japanese attack began.
The 16 Type 91 105mm howitzers equipped by the Japanese 35th Division Field Artillery Wing are real siege weapons. This is also the first time that the independent brigade has fought against the Japanese Division regiment-level units. If not for other arrangements, the 881st Regiment is absolutely They will not engage in positional warfare with division-level strategic units with field artillery regiments.
If you want to defend the city wall, it is no different than seeking death. You can only engage in street fighting.
The 105 howitzer is very powerful, but the number of shells that their baggage regiment can carry is also limited. Just one Type 91 pointed projectile weighs 15.7 kilograms, has a charge of 2.27 kilograms, and a killing radius of 28 meters.
Name: Type 91 105 mm field gun
Caliber: 105mm
Total weight: 1,750kg
Barrel length: 2,090 mm
Maximum range: 10,800 meters
The power of this gun is great, but its weight of nearly 2 tons is also very picky on roads. It is usually pulled by 6 horses for maneuvering. In mountainous operations, let alone combat, just pulling these guns to the battlefield will be exhausting. It is only suitable for siege warfare with relatively good road conditions.
The basic number of a Japanese gun is 60 shells. A large battle often requires 20 basic numbers, which is 1,200 shells. One shell weighs about 16 kilograms. For a field artillery regiment of 16 guns, 300 shells alone need to be prepared. Ton!
This time the 35th Division only brought 3 basic artillery shells, that is, 45 tons and 2880 rounds of artillery shells, which was enough to deal with the Eighth Route Army Independent Brigade.
The Japanese howitzer has a maximum rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute. If it were to be fired within half an hour after starting to fire, naturally it would not be so willing.
Their artillery preparations lasted only half an hour, and they continued to bombard the city wall at a rate of 2 to 3 rounds per minute, destroying a basic number of shells;
The west city wall had been bombed beyond recognition. The gap at the widest point was more than 300 meters high, and it was almost reduced to ruins. This was the price of fighting a positional battle with the Japanese division-level units.
If the 881st Regiment placed all its troops on the city wall like the Kuomintang army did when defending the city, then the casualties of this round of shelling alone might be more than half. Human lives are not worth mentioning in the face of heavy artillery.
"Yo Xi, the empire's artillery is so powerful. How many people are left in the Eighth Route Army?"
After Colonel Oigawa put down his telescope, he proudly said to Major Torataro Riverside of the first team.
"What your Excellency, the commander of the regiment, said is that the artillery has finished its work. After the infantry of the 219th regiment goes up, we can only collect the corpses for the Eighth Route Army!"
"Haha, Yosi, Mr. Tiger by the River, you are very humorous. When the time comes to make a contribution, please ask Mr. Tiger by the River to lead the first brigade to collect the corpses of the Eighth Route Army!"
"Hey!"
Riverside Torataro couldn't hold back his eagerness for a long time. Destroying Chu Xiong's troops, the Tiger of China, was the dream of every Japanese officer. This good luck fell on his head. How could he not be excited?
"Kill me!"
Ten minutes later, Major Hebianhu pointed his sword and gave the order to attack very gracefully;
Immediately, thousands of Japs from the first brigade of the 219th Regiment were divided into three attack groups on the left, center and right, and lined up in a standard skirmish formation to attack the West City.
Their attack formation is as rigorous as if it were carved out of a mold, fully reflecting the old-fashioned side of this nation. These are their usual training formations;
Although it was the first time to go to the battlefield, the tactical movements were well done, but they seemed too mechanical. There was still a big difference between the training ground and the battlefield, and it was far more complicated than they imagined!
Major Torataro Riverside walked at the front of the queue holding his ancestral command sword, majestic, for fear that others would not know that he was the commander.
The soldiers of the 35th Division were recruited and trained from the second and third supplementary troops in the Kyoto area, and most of them participated in actual combat for the first time;
At home, we have heard too much about the great and invincible achievements of the Imperial Army in China. Everyone at the top and bottom is eager to go to China to make contributions and pick up some merits so that they can go home and shine. So they are crazy to the core. From the captain to the second-class private, they have not even considered the Eighth Route Army. Take it seriously.
Ten minutes later, they had crossed the city wall and entered the city, but still did not see a single Eighth Route Army soldier. This made the Japanese become bolder, and some even straightened up and joked with each other.
"Ono-kun, let's make a bet, who will cut off more ears of the Eighth Route Army today?"
"Yoshi, Nakamura-kun, let's compete, who loses a can of beef!"
"Ono-kun, just wait until noon to eat the ears of the Eighth Route Army to satisfy your hunger!"
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Unknowingly, they had penetrated hundreds of meters into the city, and still did not encounter any resistance. The place was filled with smoke and ruins.
Even the most cautious Japanese began to straighten up...
"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta..."
"Bagou! Bagou!"
The sudden burst of gunfire knocked down dozens of Japs in an instant. The Japs of the 219th Regiment finally saw the cruelty of war!
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
But this did not intimidate Major Tiger from the Riverside. Instead, it made his blood boil. A war without an opponent is lonely!
"Kill the chicken for..."
The Japanese troops advanced instead of retreating, shooting wildly in the direction of the Eighth Route Army's fire, without any stage fright!
"withdraw!"
The commander of the first battalion and the first company began to flee in panic with about a hundred people, which made Kotarou Kotaro excited - the Eighth Route Army was vulnerable, and as expected in China, it was defeated in one blow.
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
"Want to run? There's no way!"
When the Japanese soldiers saw that the Eighth Route Army was about to run away, they chased after them with shouts. These were all shining military achievements...
Running eight directions, the Japanese chased them, and soon they were led into the ambush position of the first battalion.
The bombs used to ambush the Japanese were buried separately and covered a very large area. They used fuse ignition. The area was too large and electromagnetic ignition was not possible.
When the Japanese army entered the ambush circle, a soldier in charge of ignition, hidden in the ruins of the wall, decisively lit the fuse...
"Kill the chicken, hurry up, don't let the Eighth Route Army -"
"boom!"
"Boom boom boom..."
A series of violent explosions drowned out the voice of Major Hebianhu. The explosion of hundreds of bombs almost engulfed the entire Hebianhu brigade. The huge shock wave threw a large number of Japanese into the air, and many of them had been blown to pieces. .
After the explosion, Qin Feng regretted it. It was such a waste of bombs. Even if Chu Xiong saw it, he would call him a prodigal!
"Ta-ta-ta..."
"Ta-ta-ta..."
After the explosion, the officers and soldiers of the Second and Third Companies who were ambushing around picked up their guns and fired wildly at the remaining Japanese;
The Japs, who were still in a state of confusion, had not yet reacted. They just stood there and were slaughtered. Until their death, they did not understand why this was different from the war they imagined!
"Bagayalu! Didn't it say that the Chinese people would collapse at the first touch?"
Qin Feng couldn't care less about the Japs' miserable mood, so it was his fault that they came to a place they shouldn't have come to!
"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, be quick! Just pick up weapons and ammunition, and remember to hit the enemy with last hits!"
This ambush battle came and went quickly. Qin Feng used more than a hundred picric acid bombs to take advantage of the Japanese's underestimation of the enemy and severely inflicted the enemy's misfortune.
In the end, no more than a hundred people from the 1st Battalion of the 219th Wing fled back, leaving behind seven to eight hundred corpses and body parts everywhere. These can only be considered missing!
The equipment of nearly a brigade was seized, which severely dealt a blow to the Japanese arrogance.
"Baga Yalu, who can tell me what happened in the city?"
"Pa bang bang..."
Colonel Oigawa angrily slapped a Japanese soldier several times. The Japanese second lieutenant finally managed to save his life from the city. His whole body was stunned and his head was still buzzing. He was slapped several times by the captain. Mouth, completely crazy
"Groups! Lots of gangbusters! Ghosts! There are ghosts!"
"Bagayalu, go to hell!"
Colonel Da Qingchuan split the Japanese second lieutenant in half with a knife, and blood spurted on his face, making him look more like a devil.
"Kill the chickens, fire! Fire! Blow up all the people in the city!"
