Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal
Chapter 115 Going to the high ground?
The Second Division of the Kwantung Army arrived at Jiangqiao one after another and immediately began to station. At this time, all the Japanese had only one idea: they could finally have a good sleep. They had not been able to sleep well in the past few days because of the enemy. They just wanted to complete the stationing and defense work as soon as possible.
The division commander, Lieutenant General Jiro Tamon, was a bold guy. After the troops gained a foothold, he actually went to the front line in person to check the enemy's position deployment.
Leading him was Regiment Commander Ikki Noguchi, commander of the 4th Regiment, the most elite unit of the nd Division of the Kwantung Army. As you can see from the regiment number, the earlier a Japanese regiment was established, the stronger its combat effectiveness and the higher its number.
Captain Noguchi Ikki wanted to tell Lieutenant General Tamon Jiro about the situation, but when Lieutenant General Tamon Jiro used a high-powered telescope and saw the three hills controlled by the Punitive Army, he only replied: "Don't make any noise, I'm thinking."
Lieutenant General Jiro Domon fell silent, looking at the hundreds of bunkers of various sizes standing on the three high grounds. He shouted in his heart, are they going to attack the enemy's fortress group?
Captain Noguchi Ikki asked, "General, should we launch an artillery attack first? The enemy seems to be well prepared and has many concrete bunkers. If the warriors attack directly, I'm afraid there will be more casualties."
Lieutenant General Duomen Jiro asked in return: "Does the enemy have artillery? I looked at the map and it is only 5km from the high ground they control to the Nenjiang Bridge. If they have artillery, they can bombard the Nenjiang Bridge from the high ground!"
Lieutenant General Jiro Domon felt sad in his heart. The enemy was stationed on the high ground on the south bank, which made it impossible for them to completely control the south bank. Moreover, the high ground could also bombard the Nenjiang Bridge. If they could not take over the high ground first, they would not be able to concentrate on attacking the north bank.
Lieutenant General Jiro Tamon was very curious about what kind of force the Punishment Army was that dared to garrison on the south bank. Although their actions did indeed restrict their own side, they also put themselves in a dead end.
The situation now is that the high ground has been surrounded, and the Punishment Army is an isolated force. It won’t be long before they are completely wiped out under their attack, without even a chance to escape.
The commander of the regiment, Noguchi Ikki, replied respectfully: "General, we cannot see the enemy's artillery through the high-powered telescope. They must have hidden it. However, those large bunkers can accommodate 75mm caliber artillery. I believe the enemy has artillery!"
Lieutenant General Duomen Jilang's face was solemn. Along the way, several armies had been harassed by small-scale troops of the Punishment Army, with nearly 400 casualties. Now seeing that the Punishment Army had completed such complete defensive fortifications in such a short time, Lieutenant General Duomen Jilang attached unprecedented importance to the Punishment Army.
"Send an envoy to see if they can persuade them to surrender!"
When Captain Noguchi Ikki heard this, his face changed.
"This... General, the Punishment Army beheaded our envoy before, and now they are sending people to negotiate..."
"Ok?"
Lieutenant General Jiro Tamon only said one word, which made Captain Noguchi Ikki hold back his next words. He swallowed his saliva and immediately said that he would do it right away.
Lieutenant General Jiro Domon made this decision after careful consideration. The Punitive Army's defense was too complete, and it would surely cost a heavy price to attack them. He hoped to get the other side to surrender through negotiations.
Although the envoy who negotiated before was killed, the main army had not arrived at that time. Now that the punitive army is surrounded, their state of mind must be different, and there is still a possibility of surrender. If it succeeds, they will make a lot of money, and if it fails, at most they will lose negotiators.
After a while, the negotiators were selected. A captain and a soldier holding a white flag walked towards the opponent's high ground. Lieutenant General Jiro Tamon locked the two with a high-powered telescope, hoping that the Punishment Army would also send someone to negotiate.
Unfortunately, when the two men advanced to 300 meters in front of the position, two gunshots were heard, and the heads of the two negotiators were blown open by bullets.
Lieutenant General Duomen Jilang was a little annoyed. He actually dared to kill the envoy. He was still so arrogant even when surrounded. If that's the case, then go to hell!
He called the artillery commander over and angrily ordered, "Go set up the artillery positions! Launch an artillery attack immediately!"
Following an order from Jiro Domon, 40 field guns of the Japanese artillery regiment began to be deployed. The Japanese troops were equipped with all Type 41 mountain guns. Although this type of recoil-barreled artillery had less recoil force than a recoil-barreled artillery, it still needed to be shoveled into the ground to be fixed.
It is December in the Northeast and the ground is frozen hard. Although it has not reached the level of permafrost, it is extremely difficult to dig. Unless you use explosives to blast it like the Punishment Army does, manual excavation is quite troublesome.
As the poorest imperialist country, Japan was reluctant to use explosives to dig holes. The poor Japanese artillerymen could only smash the ground with pickaxes. After several hours, they finally dug the holes for the artillery picks.
The Japanese artillery position was behind a forest, 6km away from the high ground, which was the maximum range of the Type mountain artillery. Because the Japanese did not know whether the enemy had artillery, they used this method to protect themselves.
The artillery position was set up, and with the order from the artillery regiment commander, 40 artillery pieces began firing. One 75mm high-explosive shell after another fell on the high ground, blasting up handfuls of fresh soil.
Accompanied by the sound of artillery fire, the Japanese soldiers began a tentative attack. These elks needed to test the firepower configuration on the high ground and prepare for the next key attack.
The Japanese soldiers were a little nervous. After all, it was an offensive operation, a battle where casualties would be the highest. But when they advanced to 600 meters in front of the high ground, the weapons on the high ground still had not fired. The regiment commander Noguchi Ikki, who was commanding the battle, boldly made the decision to continue to advance and test.
So the Japanese soldiers advanced to 500 meters, 400 meters, and finally directly to 300 meters.
The punitive troops on the high ground still did not attack, which made the Japanese puzzled. They had just sprinted up here, so why didn't they open fire?
But no matter what, thousands of Japanese soldiers ran to this distance unscathed, this is an opportunity!
Captain Noguchi Ikki informed Lieutenant General Tamon Jiro of this somewhat rash decision. After getting his consent, he directly changed the main attack to a test and ordered a charge to the high ground!
In an instant, thousands of Japanese soldiers began to sprint as if they were injected with hormones. They finished 300 meters in just one minute. They were too lazy to care about what tricks the enemy was playing and just rushed to the position first!
Of course, at this point the Japs remain vigilant, their formation remains intact, and from time to time machine gun teams set up forward fire positions. If the enemy on the enemy's high ground suddenly launches an attack, these forward fire positions can provide fire suppression.
A Japanese soldier holding a flag rushed the fastest. He rushed to the high ground under the watchful eyes of the officers in the rear, making all the Japanese officers breathe a sigh of relief, and then they were ecstatic! This was victory!
The Japanese soldier who ran to the high ground planted the military flag. He turned around and looked at the people behind him and let out an excited war cry. He had made great contributions by being the first to reach the top, and he would be rewarded when he returned.
But unfortunately, he couldn't go back. The Japanese soldier's excited howling had only lasted a few seconds when a barrage of bullets came from behind him and cut him in half.
The punitive soldiers underground began to move. They used wooden sticks to poke open the shooting holes covered with mud and fired wildly at the Japanese who rushed into the position.
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