Chapter 48: Battle of Cangyun Ridge (Please don't keep the book)
Li Yunlong took a look at the Japanese camp below Cangyun Ridge and continued to add his thoughts.
"If the Japanese headquarters had to promote old Sakata because of the battle, then it means that old Sakata's butt is not stable enough."
"If that's the case, it would explain why Sakata attacked our position so frantically."
“The old devil Sakata wants to use military merit to stabilize his position. At the same time, if he is promoted, his subordinates will definitely be promoted as well.
Without sufficient military merit, his position will definitely not be stable. In order to keep the old devil Sakata in his position and protect their own positions at the same time, his subordinates will definitely attack us frantically. "
Qin Yangming listened to Zhang Dabiao and Li Yunlong's analysis and nodded: "If that's the case, it's really possible."
"Hey~"
"Bombardment!"
"Get into the cannon-proof cave!"
As soon as the three of them stopped talking, the whistling sound of artillery shells was heard in the sky.
The Japanese soldiers who had originally retreated gathered a new infantry battalion and launched an attack on Cangyun Ridge.
"Damn it, the Japs are using the tactic of adding fuel to the fire!"
"grass!"
Qin Yangming saw through the Japanese's plan at a glance.
The plan is to use continuous fighting to directly drag down the Xinyi Regiment!
Nobutsu Sakata now has an army of nearly 10,000 and six infantry battalions under his command, even if they cannot be fully deployed due to the terrain of Cang Yunling.
But if we take turns, we can kill the new group.
Nobutsu Sakata wanted to prevent the Eighth Route Army from having any rest time and force an attack on Cangyun Ridge.
And because his troops were large in number, they could take turns to rest. Even if one battalion fought for an hour, all the troops could still fight for six hours after rotation.
Moreover, if a team rests for three or four hours, their spirit, energy and physical strength can be well restored, and they can launch an attack on Cang Yun Ridge again.
As long as the battle lasted until dawn, the Eighth Route Army responsible for defense would be constantly exhausted, and their mental and physical strength would be reduced to a very low level.
Then the two remaining infantry battalions of the Japanese that were recuperating and did not participate in the battle at all could, with the cooperation of aircraft, take advantage of their absolute advantage to break through Cangyun Ridge and wipe out the Eighth Route Army on Cangyun Ridge.
This is indeed the case. After continuous high-intensity fighting, the soldiers of the New Regiment were exhausted.
Even the soldiers of the Vanguard Camp could hardly hold on any longer.
Some soldiers even fell asleep on the sandbags during the brief ceasefire.
When it was daytime, Qin Yangming, with red eyes, led his soldiers to launch a counterattack and recaptured some occupied positions.
Qin Yangming stood on the position and watched the Japanese retreating quickly without launching another attack, and he knew that the most intense battle was about to begin.
Watching the Japanese soldiers below lining up in an orderly manner, Qin Yangming arranged for the soldiers to take the opportunity to rest and eat as much as possible;
At the same time, personnel were arranged to strengthen the defense line and prepare for battle.
"Go, order the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon to get the anti-aircraft machine guns ready for me, the Japanese planes are coming!"
Qin Yangming looked at the red sun rising in the east and loaded bullets into the magazine of his submachine gun.
Because we know it will be a positional war, there will definitely be close combat.
So when the artillery company and logistics arrived, Qin Yangming directly got a thousand pistols and more than 100,000 bullets.
Basically, every three soldiers in the new group have a big-eyed box with greater melee power.
That is the caliber Mauser pistol produced by Yan Laoxi Arsenal.
It was precisely because of the large number of pistols that we were able to stop the Japanese attacks time and time again.
After Qin Yangming prepared the magazines, he took the telescope and looked at the Japanese camp in the distance.
I saw the Japanese camp packing up and preparing to move forward.
Some Japanese soldiers were making preparations for war.
The Japanese also pushed out one artillery piece after another from the artillery positions, ready to move forward.
Obviously, just waiting for the plane to come.
As soon as the planes come over, the Japanese will immediately send their troops up.
At the same time, those artillery pieces will be sent to the front line for close-range shooting.
"Go, have Li Erhu pull a Type 94 mountain cannon to the front, along with 20 shells!"
After Qin Yangming thought for a while, he gave instructions to Goudan beside him.
"Yes!"
The attack parameters of the artillery had already been set, and the artillery position at the back would be the same whether Li Erhu was leading it or not.
But Li Erhu is needed here.
If the Japanese army moves forward, then the headquarters will definitely move as well.
According to the intelligence obtained by the Japanese, the Eighth Route Army only had the Type 41 mountain cannon with a range of six kilometers.
Therefore, the headquarters was set up at a distance of six kilometers from the main position of Cangyunling. They had no idea that Qin Yangming had three Type 94 mountain guns with a range of eight kilometers.
In the original novel, Li Yunlong used a mortar to bomb Sakata’s headquarters, but now he uses a mountain cannon!
As long as the old Japanese Sakata's headquarters is within the range, Li Erhu can definitely blow it up with one shot.
……
"The Japs are coming!"
"Fire!"
Qin Yangming looked at the Japanese soldiers rushing up Cangyun Ridge and directly gave the order to open fire.
There is no shortage of ammunition, so there is no need to bring the Japanese closer to fight.
Qin Yangming hung the submachine gun in front of him, mounted an MG42 general-purpose machine gun, and pulled the trigger at the Japanese soldiers below.
Different from those machine gunners who just fire in bursts.
He is big enough and strong enough that he can directly suppress the recoil of the machine gun.
So he just fired continuously.
There were five soldiers beside Qin Yangming, all holding ammunition and another MG42 general-purpose machine gun and gun barrel.
Qin Yangming changed guns immediately after he emptied the ammunition box.
The five soldiers worked together to replace the barrel of the machine gun handed over by Qin Yangming and install a new ammunition box.
Qin Yangming moved in the trench while continuously firing at the extremely high rate of fire of the MG42 general-purpose machine gun.
The Japanese soldiers in front of Qin Yangming fell down one after another like wheat.
Every time the pressure in an area was relieved, Qin Yangming would quickly change his position.
The soldiers in charge of ammunition and weapons at the back were replaced by a new group of people because they could not keep up with Qin Yangming's pace.
The artillery positions behind Cangyunling ignored the Japanese planes in the sky and fired to relieve the pressure at the front.
The Japanese planes discovered the artillery positions and dropped shells directly from high altitude.
Because several planes had been shot down by anti-aircraft machine guns.
The Japanese pilots no longer dared to lower their altitude to carry out precision bombing.
After dropping the bombs, the plane quickly flew away from the sky above Cangyun Ridge, leaving only two reconnaissance planes.
……
"Zhang Dabiao, Zhang Dabiao!"
Li Yunlong looked at the Japanese soldiers who had temporarily retreated and hurriedly called out to Zhang Dabiao.
"Captain!"
"Have the divisional headquarters and the field hospital retreated?"
"The division headquarters and the field hospital have retreated, and the independent regiment is protecting them as they pass through the blockade!"
"Hahahaha, I can finally let go and do my job."
Li Yunlong was overjoyed when he heard Zhang Dabiao say that the last field hospital and division headquarters to retreat had already retreated.
Because the division headquarters and the field hospital were behind Cangyunling, Li Yunlong had been fighting cautiously, fearing that the division headquarters and the field hospital behind would be attacked by the Japanese.
……
Sakata Brigade Headquarters.
After learning that the Eighth Route Army's divisional headquarters and field hospital had retreated, the North China Front Army Command immediately used its magic weapon to scold Sakata.
"If you can't wipe out all the Eighth Route Army troops on Cangyun Ridge before noon today, you won't have to be the brigade commander anymore!"
"The Fourth Brigade is here. You must destroy the Eighth Route Army on Cangyun Ridge at all costs and avenge Kimura Shinjiro and Ono Heissun!"
"Hi!"
Hearing the news from the North China Front Army Headquarters, Sakata Nobutsu also became anxious.
His former superior, the 4th Brigade, who is now on the same level as him, is rushing over with his troops.
If the Eighth Route Army on Cangyun Ridge cannot be eliminated before the Fourth Brigade arrives, the North China Front Army Command will lose face.
A brigade was sent to attack an Eighth Route Army regiment, but not only did they fail to defeat it, the brigade commander was also killed by the Eighth Route Army.
A lieutenant general just died, and now a major general has died.
If the Third Brigade fails to achieve military success, countless people in the North China Front Army Command will be punished.
The position of brigade commander of Nobutsu Sakata was recommended by the North China Front Army Headquarters. Now he is under the direct command of the North China Front Army and no longer under the Shanxi Garrison Headquarters.
However, if the Fourth Brigade stationed in Shanxi Province captured the Eighth Route Army on Cangyun Ridge first, the headquarters might think that the Third Brigade was not strong enough and directly merged the Third Brigade into the Fourth Brigade.
By then, the Third Brigade that someone had managed to preserve with great difficulty would be excitedly accepted by Yoshio Shinozuka of the Shanxi garrison.
Especially since the 4th Brigade is Sakata's old unit, half of the soldiers in the 3rd Brigade are former soldiers of the 4th Brigade. There probably won't be much resistance to rejoining Yoshio Shinozuka's army.
(End of this chapter)
