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Chapter 1,358: Battle of Sumu Mountain (13)

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    Xinlongwan. The first line of defense of the Second Regiment of the Cavalry Group.

    It is only more than 20 kilometers away from Gaomiaozi, but this distance of more than 20 kilometers is the most difficult section of the road from Zhangjiakou to Xinghe. During this period, the mountain roads are crisscrossed and rugged. Xinlong Bay is where the Japanese army set foot on this winding mountain road.  The first pass.

    When the troops arrived here two days ago, Chow Dafu personally led people to investigate the terrain. He found that the terrain here was of a typical mountain pass type, high in the west and low in the east, with cliffs and gentle slopes on both sides.

    Once the troops settle here, even if no fortifications are built, they will cause a lot of trouble to the little Japanese.

    ¡°However, for the sake of safety and to reduce the casualties of the troops, Chow Tai Fook ordered the troops to use the terrain to build many fortifications, including two trenches and a large number of anti-gun holes.

    In order to deal with the Japanese tanks, many anti-tank trenches were dug and a large-scale minefield was laid out!

    But even so, Chow Tai Fook still did not dare to underestimate the enemy. You must know that the Japs not only have tanks and artillery, but also an astonishing number of fighter planes, so air defense is also essential.

    However, they are not an infantry regiment in the conventional sense. Although they are equipped with light and heavy machine guns, they are not as numerous as a real infantry regiment.

    According to the relevant regulations of the Ninth Army, the main front-line regiment has a total of 88 light and heavy machine guns, but the three infantry regiments of the cavalry group only have 58.

    The main reason is not that the troops cannot afford the equipment, but that heavy machine guns are really useless for cavalry troops.

    You must know that the weight of a heavy machine gun is equivalent to dozens of light machine guns. Take the Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Little Japanese as an example. Together with the tripod used for combat, its weight exceeds 50 kilograms.

    Cavalry combat mainly focuses on mobility and speed, so if you carry too many heavy machine guns, it will inevitably greatly limit the mobility of the troops. Therefore, after research, the headquarters finally decided that each regiment of the cavalry group should be equipped with no more than 8 guns at most.  Heavy machine guns, that is, two per battalion.

    The number of heavy machine guns is so rare, not to mention the even heavier anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns. The entire cavalry group is not equipped with an anti-aircraft machine gun or an anti-aircraft gun.

    Without these weapons, there would be no air defense capability!

    Once the Japanese aircraft cooperate in combat, the consequences will be disastrous.

    Therefore, Chow Tai Fook himself did not have much confidence in the first line of defense, so he only deployed two companies of troops.

    At ten o'clock in the morning, the main force of the Japanese army arrived at Xinlong Bay, and their leading troops also discovered the national army troops deployed at the entrance to the mountain.

    After receiving the report from the vanguard, Goro Mano ordered the troops to camp outside the mountain pass, and then personally took people to the front line to check the terrain.

    After investigating the situation, Goro Mano, who looked solemn, ordered a squadron of his first battalion to go into battle and launch a tentative attack.

    The result of the battle is similar to what Mano Goro expected. The situation is not optimistic. As long as the terrain here is a bit steep, although it cannot be said that one man can't defeat it, it is not easy to fight.

    In order not to waste time, Goro Mano ordered the chariot regiment to dispatch a squadron to coordinate the infantry attack.

    "Boom boom boom"

    Under the cover of artillery, 8 Japanese tanks and more than 500 Japanese soldiers cooperated with each other to launch a second attack on the garrison position in Xinlong Bay.

    And the little devil¡¯s tank also opened fire while moving, and the rumbling sound was accompanied by violent explosions as it rushed towards the garrison position.

    Facing the powerful firepower of the Japanese army, the national troops on the defensive position were completely suppressed. They could not even raise their heads and could only silently crawl in the trenches and pray, like frightened little quails!

    Seeing such a scene, Mano Goro was very excited. In his eyes, this is the momentum that the Imperial Japanese Army should have, and the scene on the battlefield should also be like this.

    ¡°And he also expected that if the fight continued like this, even if the Chinese had an absolute terrain advantage, they would not be able to stop the Imperial Japanese Army for long.

    However, Mano Goro's good mood did not last long. Just when the forward troops advanced a hundred meters in front of the defender's position, the tank that was advancing with black smoke suddenly disappeared!

    That¡¯s right, it just disappeared all of a sudden, as if it disappeared out of thin air.

    After being shocked, Mano Goro and others immediately carefully checked the situation at the front. After some inspection, they discovered that a long and wide trench appeared on the defender's forward position.Previously, this trench was covered with something and dry sand was sprinkled on it, so it was impossible to see the top from the outside.

    And the tentative attack of the troops just now did not rush to such a forward position, so no abnormality was found at all, and the tank troops behind them suffered a big loss without checking.

    In fact, even if the little devils from the front hit here, they would not be able to find the problem, because Zhou Dafu ordered people to lay a layer of wooden boards under the anti-tank trenches, with wooden pillars supporting the bottom of the wooden boards, and then spreading sand on top.  Sturdy.

    The soldiers have tried it before, and one or two people will not tremble at all if they stand on it. Even a cart filled with sand and gravel will only feel a little trembling, but it will not collapse.

    "However, the Little Devil's tank weighs several tons, and when it is in full combat mode, it is fully loaded with ammunition, so the weight is even more astonishing.  Therefore, as soon as we went up, the pillars and wooden boards could not bear the weight and cracked, and the tank fell in.

    In addition, in order to show the majesty of the chariots, the little devil directly arranged the eight chariots in a row and advanced hand in hand, so the final result was that all eight chariots fell in and no one was spared.

    After the Japanese tanks fell into the anti-tank trenches, the national troops on the defending positions opened fire and counterattacked, and dense bullets enveloped the infantry who were fighting together like little devils.

    "Da da da"

    Although there were only a few soldiers on the garrison position, less than 300 in total, their firepower was not weak.

    The firepower network composed of more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns condescendingly knocked down the Japanese soldiers who tried to fight back. For a time, the bodies of the little Japanese soldiers were densely packed everywhere in front of the garrison position.

    This attack lasted less than ten minutes and ended with the failure of the Japanese army. After paying huge casualties, Mano Goro finally gave the order to withdraw the troops.

    However, Mano Goro was not discouraged and immediately organized a third attack again!

    This time the Japanese army spent a lot of money. The artillery did not stop shelling from the beginning of the attack until the cooperating infantry arrived in front of the anti-tank trench and cooperated with the following tanks to use wire ropes to pull out the tanks trapped in the anti-tank trench.  .

    The engineers then followed up and, after wreaking havoc on the defenders¡¯ anti-tank trenches, continued the attack.

    But when they deliberately destroyed the defenders' anti-tank trenches and the tanks behind were about to rush to the defenders' positions, they heard a series of explosions from the front.

    It turned out that the tracks of the tanks hit the mines laid by the defenders. The tracks of two of the tanks were directly blown off, and the other two tanks were directly blown over. The soldiers inside suffered heavy casualties.

    Sudden changes occurred once again and the Japanese offensive stalled

    Out of anger, Goro Mano immediately ordered the artillery to carry out coverage bombing of the minefield in front of the defenders. The area was not very large anyway.

    ¡°At that moment, I saw the continuous sound of shelling from the Japanese artillery position, and the shells fell on the defenders¡¯ position and the minefield in front of them as if they were free.

    The landmine exploded under the bombardment of the artillery shells, making an even louder explosion that lasted for a long time!

    After spending more than ten minutes to finally clear the minefield in front, Mano Goro ordered the troops to launch an attack!

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