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    After giving the order to the communications troops to immediately set up a radio station to contact the division commander, and giving the order to stop and rest for half an hour, I was not mentally prepared for the possible attack. At this time, I was complaining about this special train.  Colonel Watachi Iwaji jumped out of the car first.  ¡¾.Com text

    After jumping out of the carriage first, Mr. Colonel, who always pays attention to military appearance, straightened his military uniform that was a little wrinkled after riding the train all night.  This journey was not a pleasant one for Colonel Watachi Iwaji.  Because there is a lack of passenger trains, and the Kwantung Army headquarters is pressing hard.  This time I had to ride a very uncomfortable freight train to go north, instead of a more comfortable passenger train.

    ¡°Although he and his 14th Regiment enjoyed a separate carriage, and a comfortable camp bed was set up for him in the carriage.  However, the freight car skin has poor shock absorption performance and is very stuffy inside, which still makes people feel very uncomfortable.  And I don¡¯t know where this train was transferred from by Manchuria Railway, or what things it had transported before.  There was a very unpleasant smell inside the carriage, which made the colonel have a strong opinion of the Manchurian Railway.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? off out of his opinion about riding a freight train, could be suppressed by him.  So when the colonel got off the bus and found that no one at the station welcomed him, and no meals were prepared according to the requirements of the 25th Division, his anger became even more extreme.

    But before he could get angry, a not-so-violent explosion suddenly sounded from the soldiers who were jumping out of the carriage one after another, and all his complaints were immediately put back into his stomach.  He didn't even care whether the so-called military posture and the stones on the ground would make him more uncomfortable.  A beautiful tactical prone move, lying on the ground.

    Before he could be startled, Colonel Watachi Iwaji raised his telescope and looked around. Along with the sound, which was not loud, but more like the explosion of someone stepping on a landmine, among the houses and warehouses on both sides of the railway line  There was intensive gunfire, killing and wounding the Japanese soldiers who were jumping out of the car.

    The wide open door of the freight car gave the sneak attacker great convenience. Accurate infantry shells and mortar shells even followed the open door and penetrated directly into the car.  In a closed space, the casualties caused by a shell from the 92 Infantry Cannon can simply be described as fatal.

    Not counting the unlucky ones who were directly hit, even the scattered shrapnel was enough to drink a bottle of Japanese soldiers who had no place to hide in the carriage.  Large-caliber machine guns and rapid-fire artillery shells turned those carriages that could barely resist the attack of infantry weapons into a hornet's nest.  The carriage panels are made of heavy wood and are vulnerable to these large-caliber weapons.

    The Japanese soldiers who were getting out of the car and preparing to rest were seriously injured by the sudden and intensive firepower.  There were a total of eighteen carriages from beginning to end, each one was taken care of by the intensive rain of bullets, and no one was left behind.  Inside and outside the carriage, the bodies of killed Japanese soldiers and the wounded were everywhere.

    When the Japanese soldiers knew that they could only wait for death if they continued to stay in the carriage, they reluctantly jumped out of the carriage despite the hail of bullets and prepared to rely on the roadbed to resist.  But they didn't expect that when they got under the carriage and tried to rely on the roadbed to resist, not only did they throw a dense rain of grenades from the houses on both sides of the railway.  The roadbed between the two railroad tracks and under the sleepers was also covered with mines.

    These mines were arranged very cleverly, only reaching the level of the railway tracks.  All the ones placed between the rails are trip mines.  In other words, as long as no one gets into the railway tracks, these mines will not be set off at all.  But if someone wants to get under the car, there's no way you can avoid hitting these mines.

    There are even more types of landmines buried in the bedrock on both sides of the railway tracks.  Trip mines, pressure mines, and even a new type of mine that jumps up and explodes.  Under the rain of bullets from their opponents, the Japanese soldiers, who did not care to observe what was going on under the carriage, just lay down and triggered trip mines in the railway tracks or stepped on pressure mines on the edge of the roadbed.

    In order to avoid the firepower from both sides, most of these Japanese soldiers crawled or bent down, trying to use the shelter of the platform to escape the opponent's firepower.  The result is unfortunate. The treatment that should have been enjoyed by the engineers went to the infantry this time.  Not many had their legs blown off as usual, but quite a few had their upper bodies blown off.

    In the later generations of Yang Zhenlai, there was such a saying among the troops.  It is said that if the infantry is struck by a mine, the state will raise it, and if the engineer is struck by a mine, it will be cremated on the spot.  What it means is that if an infantryman steps on a landmine, his leg will be broken. As long as the mine is hit, the leg will be broken and become disabled. After recovering from the injury, he will naturally go to the Invalides.

    As for the engineers, they spend most of their time lying down when clearing mines.  If a landmine goes off at this time, basically the upper body will be unlucky.  And the main vital organs of human beings are all in the upper body. As long as a landmine goes off, there are very few people who can survive, even if they are completely dead.

    On both sidesUnder fire, the first thing a normal person would think of is to lie down and avoid the ammunition flying everywhere.  In this way, when the Japanese soldiers lay down, some of them happened to lie on the mines, and they directly used human flesh to test how many mines their opponents had planted on this section of the railway.  When he lay down, the most affected parts of his body were his upper body.

    And these landmines are not just mines, most of them are also laid as booby traps.  The mines are attached to grenades, blasting tubes, and even 60 mortar shells.  Some were also bundled with bullets and gravel to maximize their lethality.  One person lies down and triggers a landmine, but often several of their colleagues are involved.  Many Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the hail of bullets did not escape the looting of landmines and mortars.

    More than half an hour passed, and most of the regiment, which was the vanguard of the 25th Division, was almost passively beaten but had no power to fight back. It had already suffered more than half of its casualties.  Bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers were everywhere in the carriages, on both sides of the roadbed, and under the platform.  Even in a few low-lying areas, the blood flowing from the corpses gathered into small pools of blood.

    The remaining Japanese troops were tortured to the point of collapse by landmines and dense bullets, and could no longer take cover. Anyway, there was no safe place under the platform.  Waiting to fight back is also death, standing up and charging is also death.  Since they are all dead, good guys have to catch one or two backers.

    When these Japanese soldiers, risking being hit by enemy bullets or blown up by mortar shells, rushed onto the platform, they were shocked to find that what was waiting for them was the still dense rain of bullets and the distance from the railway line to the railway line.  In addition to the opponents who rushed out of the houses that were no more than twenty or thirty meters away and no more than fifty meters away, there were dozens of tanks that rushed out of the freight warehouses on both sides of the railway.

    "While braving the flames, these tanks, with the cooperation of the infantry, rushed into the Japanese troops who were lucky enough to be alive, and repeatedly crushed the Japanese troops back and forth.  Wherever it passed, it left a pool of flesh and blood.  Several Japanese soldiers were covered with grenades and wanted to kill them. Except for one lucky man, most of them did not have time to pull off the grenades on their bodies and were shot to death by the dense bullets fired by the submachine gunners near the tank.  Hornet's nest.

    Although the grenade fired by this lucky man took away many Tongze's lives, it did not cause too much damage to the rough-skinned French R-35 tank.  The machine guns and artillery on the car only paused for a short time, and then regained their vitality in an instant.

    The suddenness of the firepower, coupled with the concentration of almost all the light and heavy machine guns of a reinforced regiment on a wide front, as well as tanks and light artillery, caused the Japanese army to suffer more than half of its casualties in a short period of time.  The final desperate struggle of the vanguard of the 14th Regiment also destroyed the last hope of survival for most of the 14th Regiment.

    ¡°If the Japanese army did not make a desperate struggle after being attacked, but would rather turn around and break out to the south at a certain cost, the three scattered companies placed by He Zhishan in the south may not be able to withstand their life-threatening impact.  But the Japanese soldiers, who were beaten dizzy, chose the east side where there was no hope.  That is to say, forcefully break through toward the Shuangcheng area.

    Although according to current standards, apart from light and heavy machine guns, most of them still have the rate of fire of manual rifles.  The distance of thirty to fifty meters is not necessarily a dead end.  But when the opponent had tanks, high-speed submachine guns and automatic weapons, these thirty to fifty meters became the last place for the Japanese army to die.

    In addition to their most lethal anti-aircraft machine guns, the losses caused by dozens of tanks to the Japanese army are even more unforgettable.  To deal with this thing, you can't do it just by being passionate and not afraid of death.  In particular, the opponent also deployed a large number of submachine gunners around the tank, specifically to deal with Japanese soldiers who tried to blow up the tank with human bombs.

    With the protection of the tanks, there was almost no taboo, and even the Japanese soldiers who were beaten were chased and killed.  If you are far away, use machine guns and artillery bombardment. If you are close, just go up and crush them with crawlers.  This thirty-meter distance has become the life and death line for most Japanese officers and soldiers, and these dozens of tanks have become their nightmare.

    When a small number finally broke through the opponent's fire network, they finally came close to bayonet range.  However, under the firepower of the tanks and the desperate crushing, the Japanese soldiers, who had long been unable to form tactical coordination, were swarmed by the opponent and adopted the tactics of using less to hit more, and they were quickly defeated in hand-to-hand combat.

    When the last gunshot fell less than an hour after the explosion of a landmine that had been stepped on by the Japanese army as a signal, all the 1st Brigade and three of the 3rd Brigade of the 14th Regiment, the vanguard of the entire 25th Division,  The squadron plus a search squadron were completely destroyed.

    What is even more tragic for the Japanese army is that at this time, the Mechanized Search Squadron of the 25th Division, which was assigned to the vanguard,One Type 94 light tank and two Type 97 tanks were still tied to the flatbed truck and had not had time to be unloaded.  The six Type 94 tanks were smashed into colanders by the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun firing flatly on the train.

    By the end of the battle, in addition to the capture of more than a hundred lightly or severely wounded soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness, almost all of the 2,000-strong vanguard of the 25th Division had been wiped out.  And their Colonel Captain, who complained about the uncomfortableness of the freight car before getting off, could only complain to their Amaterasu at this moment.

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