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Text Chapter 395 The bloody battle at Jinsha Hill

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    Because the offensive is unfavorable.  [.Com text] A breakthrough has been delayed.  And Colonel Tabota, the captain of the 12th Regiment, who was commanding the 12th Regiment to attack the Kinshagang front line several times, was scolded several times by Lieutenant General Ushijima Mitsuru. Now he was actually in trouble.  It wasn't that the 12th Regiment didn't work hard and didn't attack powerfully, nor was it that Tabota was timid.

    "But it was really hard to use all the strength. Although we occupied some of the opponent's secondary positions, we were still unable to achieve a breakthrough across the board.  In order to break through the Jinsha Gang front line in the shortest time according to the division's deployment, Colonel Tabota almost tried his best.  But the result was not what was imagined.  After the attack in the middle of the night, the 12th Regiment suffered a bloody blow.

    Judging from the military headquarters information forwarded by the divisions that Colonel Tabota received before the war, the opponent only had two dissatisfied regiments in the entire Hoqing area.  Now all the 44th Regiment has been attracted to the direction of Baoqing County, and the military strength in the border area between Baoqing and Fujin is weak.  Even if there are blocking troops, their number will definitely not be large.  In the evening, the scouts reported that the enemy's reinforcements to Baoqing County were only one company.

    But when I arrived at the front line of Jinshagang, I realized that it was not the case at all.  The opponent's troops deployed on the front line of Jinshagang are at least one regiment or more.  Not only are the troops sufficient, but the firepower is not weak either.  It has a complete range of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, infantry artillery, and even mountain field artillery.  As soon as the two armies met, the 12th Regiment immediately fell into a bitter battle.  Several attacks were repelled by the opponent's intensive firepower.

    In several strong attacks, the 12th Regiment has made some progress.  But this progress is really not that big, and even if it were really told, Colonel Tabota himself would feel embarrassed.  A few hours later, the 12th Regiment spent a lot of effort, but could only advance the front line less than two kilometers to the Qixing River.

    Colonel Tabota originally wanted to attack Jinshagang with all his strength, trying to lead the way with one point, breaking through one point and shaking the opponent's entire line, but failed due to the opponent's tenacious resistance.  Although the opponent took the initiative to give up some warning positions and secondary positions that were inconvenient to hold on to, their defense of the main position was extremely tenacious.  As soon as any position is lost, troops will be organized to counterattack immediately.

    Nearly every position has been fought for several times, and the final ownership can only be determined after changing hands many times.  Whenever the 12th Regiment rushed towards the opponent's position while the dust raised by the artillery shells had not yet settled, the opponent's fierce counterattack had already begun before they could stand still.

    ??On the right wing of Jinsha Gang, a small but very important position, it changed hands eight times within two hours.  The fighting troops quickly escalated from the platoon level to the company level, and finally to the battalion level.  All the fortifications on this small position were almost blown to the ground by artillery fire at dawn.

    Some places were even filled with the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves.  By daybreak, the entire position was littered with broken limbs and turned into a piece of dust.  When you grab a handful of floating soil, it is full of shrapnel. In addition to the smell of gunpowder, it also smells of blood.  A depression thirty meters in front of the formation was filled with blood from the dead on both sides.

    The 12th Regiment increased its offensive strength several times and charged more than a dozen times under the cover of artillery.  The covering firepower increased from a mountain artillery squadron and two brigade artillery squadrons to a field artillery squadron and a heavy mortar squadron.  Not only did they fail to capture this seemingly inconspicuous position, but its location was very important.  After rushing in several times, he was beaten back by his opponent's fierce counterattack.

    In the end, on this position with a radius of only a few hundred square meters, Tabota devoted a whole brigade of troops to finally stabilize the position.  One position involved an entire brigade of the 12th Regiment, plus attacks on the main position of Jinsha Gang and other directions.  The 12th Regiment had been engaged in a fierce battle for only five or six hours, but they already felt the lack of strength.

    Before going north, three infantry squadrons of the 12th Regiment were left behind to serve as the mission in Mishan. Two of the several squadrons previously assigned to the 63rd Regiment of the 10th Division were also transferred from the 12th Regiment.  Although before this battle, five infantry squadrons and a mountain artillery squadron of the Eighth Border Guard Corps, as well as two police brigades of Mishan and Puppet Manchuria, were urgently replenished, there were no small problems in the coordination of operations.

    Although the combat effectiveness of the newly added border garrison is not inferior to that of the field division, the two sides have never coordinated training.  Even after being added to the regiment, Tabota had to leave in a hurry due to changes in the battle situation, making Tabota unable to even call several squadron leaders by their names.

    The most important thing is that these border defense teams formed as defenders are obviously better at defense than offense.  The field combat ability can only be described as barely.

    The brigade that attacked Jinshagang's right-wing position was temporarily formed from two squadrons of the Eighth Guards and an original squadron of the Twelfth Regiment.  Although under the cover of artillery fire, we achievedAlthough they have made certain progress, despite the almost life-threatening repeated battles by their opponents, they have never been able to completely occupy the position that is only a few hundred meters in radius, and they have paid a heavy price.

    Within a few hours, both squadrons were completely disabled and lost their combat effectiveness.  In the end, the old squadron of the 11th Division was put into battle, and the current position was barely stabilized without being driven back.  But the entire brigade also lost the ability to conduct subsequent attacks.

    As a captain of the Osaka Alliance, Tabota has fought many battles in the Shina Pass, and even though he has been on the battlefield for many years, Tabota is not the kind of rookie who has just entered the battlefield.  But this was the first time he had seen a battle like today, which was only a large-scale offensive with an average of more than a hundred casualties per hour.

    After receiving another telegram from the division urging development, Colonel Tabota had no choice but to bite the bullet and risk weakening the offensive power of the left wing.  A squadron was transferred from the Third Battalion on the left wing, and the regiment's baggage squadron was added to the First Battalion, whose existing strength was less than one squadron, to strengthen the offensive on the right wing.  The main firepower of the entire regiment and the artillery assigned to the division were assigned to the First Battalion.

    After giving all the main strength to the First Battalion, looking at the dawning sky in the east, Colonel Tabota paid a heavy price in the fierce battle in the middle of the night, but gained almost nothing.  A death order was issued, and the opponent's right wing must be broken through before eight o'clock today.  Create favorable conditions for the main follow-up attack of the alliance.  If he could not break through the right flank of Jinshagang on time, he would commit hara-kiri to apologize to the emperor.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Suppress me to death at the top level, and under the premise that the leader's meaning is always correct.  Seeing his opponent's flaming positions everywhere, Shibayama Hanaji gritted his teeth, knowing that there was little hope, and had no choice but to put all the living forces at hand into it.  He couldn't believe that after a night of fierce fighting, his first brigade was crippled.  The opponent's casualties may be reduced by his own superior artillery fire.

    The corpses lying all over the place in front of the position were not only Imperial Army soldiers, there were also many people wearing the strange military uniforms of their opponents.  Now it was up to us to see who could persist until the last critical moment. He, Major Shibayama, did not believe that the imperial soldiers, who were always known for their tenacity and tenacity, would lose to those cowardly Chinese people.

    In order to boost morale, try to make breakthrough progress in the shortest possible time.  In addition to following the commander's request, Major Shibayama selected a death squad of 200 people.  He also took off his upper body military uniform, tied a menstrual belt on his head, and personally led the death squad to charge.  To be on the safe side, a squadron of the second echelon, commanded by Captain Masazumi Atuka of the brigade, followed immediately.  If the kamikaze fails, the second echelon immediately takes over the attack.

    But what Major Shibayama Hanaji didn¡¯t know was that in order to completely break through the opponent¡¯s defense within the specified time as required by the division commander, his immediate superior had decided not to give him a chance to withdraw or survive.  Before he launched his final desperate charge, Colonel Tabota had ordered the artillery to prepare.  If the two sides enter into hand-to-hand combat, they will use indiscriminate covering artillery bombardment on the defenders' positions.

    ¡°That is to say, Tabota has made up his mind to adopt the so-called Tamashii Offensive to destroy the defenders and his own attacking troops at once.  He would never allow it to happen again that he had rushed into his opponent's position several times before, only to be beaten down by the opponent's huge number of automatic firearms and grenades.

    As for whether the casualties of his attacking troops would be greater than those of the defenders after an indiscriminate bombardment, Colonel Tabota, who was about to be forced to commit seppuku by Ushijima Mitsuru, could no longer care.  Now for Tabota, breaking through the Jinsha Gang front line as quickly as possible is the most important thing.  As for the casualties of soldiers who were regarded as expendables, they were nothing compared to the progress of the war situation.

    Colonel Tabota is ready to burn the boat, and the blocking force on Jinsha Hill that has just been reorganized from the 14th Reserve Regiment into the 3rd Independent Regiment of the First Division is not easy either.  After six hours of fierce fighting, the first battalion of the 12th Regiment was defeated and disabled.  Although the reinforced battalion of the third right-wing regiment, which bore the greatest pressure on the entire Jinshagang front line and was also the fiercest in the previous battle, managed to hold its position in the end, it suffered as many as two-thirds of its casualties.

    Seeing the Japanese troops being pushed back again, Qi Zhibiao, the commander of the first battalion who was stationed on the right wing of Jinsha Gang, wiped the blood on his face from his head injury, lay in the trench and lit a fire on the wood ignited by the shells.  After taking a drag on a cigarette, he puffed out a few eye circles and said to the instructor Guo Zhixin beside him: "Old Guo, how many times has this been the first time you have repelled the Japanese charge?"

    The left arm was stabbed with a bayonet by a Japanese soldier in hand-to-hand combat before he died, and was wrapped in a bandage.  Guo Zhixin, who was struggling to use his right arm to press bullets into the clip of the speed machine in his hand, smiled and said: "I don't know, it seems like seventeen or eighteen times. What kind of medicine did the Japanese take today? It's so fast.  Attack like crazy.There was almost no pause, almost no gaps in the attack.  There is no way to count them at all.  "

    "But Lao Qi, you have to think of a way. We have a strengthened battalion, and now less than one-third is left. Adding in the lightly wounded who can still pick up a gun to fight, there are less than a third left after being pieced together.  Two companies. If the Japanese attack with this intensity, we may not even be able to hold out until noon."

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