Chapter 1 The Demise of the Sakai Yu Company

The Japanese devils of Sakai Yu’s company, charging at the front, had already been bayoneted to death. The second echelon of Japanese devils also encountered the Third Company.

Their morale and combat quality were no match for the devils who had already died. At this time, engaging in close combat with the soldiers of the Third Company could only lead to their demise.

Sakai Yu, the company commander, witnessed the situation on the front line – a completely one-sided massacre.

He couldn't help but wonder: When did things turn out this way? In the past, wasn't it always his team unilaterally crushing the National Army?

The world was changing fast, and he didn't realize that the special brigade opposite him was completely different from the National Army he had faced before.

In fact, after a year of hard work, the combat effectiveness of the National Army had also improved a lot.

On the contrary, only the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devils was declining due to the continuous consumption of veterans, the deterioration of the domestic economic situation, and the increasing shortage of various materials.

Sakai Yu, the company commander, finally reached the time to personally enter the battle. At this time, less than ten devils remained under his command.

Sakai Yu, the company commander who was at the rear of the team, had no choice but to wave his command knife and charge towards Zheng Tianan, the Third Company commander.

When he personally fought with Company Commander Zheng, he finally understood why the more than fifty devils in front had died so quickly.

The strength of the person opposite him was surprisingly great, and his movements were as fast as lightning. The Type 38 rifle in his hands seemed to come alive, emerging like a nimble dragon and retracting like a snake.

Sakai Yu, the company commander, only parried twice before being stabbed to the ground. Just as he felt he had been hit, the second stab arrived.

When he died, the entire Sakai Yu Company of devils was finally wiped out, and Hill 302 was also occupied by the Third Company.

In fact, at this time, it wasn't just the Sakai Yu Company that was wiped out. The Kawamura Saemon Company and the Kamiura Shota Company had also been annihilated.

The Third Battalion of the Japanese 39th Regiment, which Tada Kazuzo had deployed on the Plum Tree Ridge defense line, including the Fujita Yoshio Battalion, had also been completely annihilated by the Second Regiment.

Outside Huoshan County, it wasn't just the Second Regiment attacking. The Sixth Regiment was also attacking Zhujia Chong.

Their attacks weren't much different from those of the Second Regiment, with artillery bombardment, aircraft strafing, and infantry charging.

The only difference was that the devils in front of the Sixth Regiment were the Fourth Battalion of the 39th Regiment.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo had also carefully arranged the defense line around Zhujia Chong.

He had built a large number of bunkers, fortifications, and communication trenches on this defense line.

Building these fortifications required a lot of manpower and material resources. In order to do all this as quickly as possible.

With the help of the traitors in Huoshan County, they conscripted a large number of laborers from the surrounding villages.

They ordered them to cut down trees and quarry stone mountains, using local materials to build bunkers and trenches out of these stones and trees.

Although these bunkers and fortifications were damaged a lot in the half-hour artillery bombardment, the prototypes of the bunkers and fortifications were still there.

When facing the Sixth Regiment's attack, these fortifications and bunkers immediately played their role.

Zhujia Chong was located west of Huoshan City. From here, you could clearly see most of the area in Huoshan City from a high position with binoculars.

This was also the reason why Ye Dadan was determined to attack Zhujia Chong: as long as Zhujia Chong was occupied and artillery positions were set up on it, Huoshan could be taken in one fell swoop.

To the right of Zhujia Chong was Wenjia Ling, and to the left was Zhangjia Bang. Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo had deployed a company in each of these three places.

At the same time, he also left three companies of reserves less than one kilometer behind these three highlands, ready to reinforce them at any time.

Defending the main peak of Zhujia Chong was the Yamato Kotaro Company. When the Sixth Regiment's rocket launchers bombarded, the company commander immediately ordered all the devils to shrink back into the air-raid shelters, leaving only sentries outside for guard duty.

Yamato Kotaro, the company commander, had built sturdy air-raid shelters on the main peak of Zhujia Chong, because it had learned a lesson from the 16th Division being bombarded by heavy artillery and losing its combat effectiveness.

It believed that since the special brigade on the opposite side had heavy artillery, they would definitely use it preferentially when attacking.

When the rockets first exploded on the main peak of Zhujia Chong, a smug smile appeared on the face of Yamato Kotaro, the company commander.

Not only did a smug smile appear on its face, but all the devils of the Fourth Battalion were also hiding in the air-raid shelters and smiling smugly.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo stayed in the rear, watching the smoke rising from the three main positions he was defending, and listening to the rumbling explosions.

He was still a little uneasy. He connected to the phone of Yamato Kotaro, the company commander on the main peak of Zhujia Chong, and heard that the devils on the position had not suffered any casualties. He encouraged Yamato Kotaro a few words.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo also called the company commanders, Odayama Yamato and Matsukuchi Rintaro, and learned that the situation on the three positions was not much different. Although the two sentries placed outside Zhangjia Bang by the Matsukuchi Rintaro Company were killed, such losses could be ignored.

Finally relieved, Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo had a reason to relax. He began to plan how to organize a counterattack after the shelling ended.

He carefully inserted flags representing the strength of both sides on the sand table in the command post, as if these flags were the real battle.

Regardless of the situation of the devils, the Sixth Regiment's bombardment did not stop. They continued the bombardment for half an hour.

Only then did they stop, and the First, Second, and Third Companies charged towards the devils' three positions at the same time.

The Sixth Regiment's attack had no priorities, no main attack and feint attack. The attacks of the three companies were all main attacks.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu led the First Company to attack Zhujia Chong. The First Company's six earthen tanks charged at the front, although they were still hundreds of meters away from the devils' position.

However, Sergeant Funai Yusuke, the guard sentry of the Yamato Kotaro Company on the front line, had already discovered that the infantry team on the opposite side had begun to attack.

He immediately sent a signal, and Company Commander Yamato Kotaro immediately ordered the Marubayashi Kaito squad to attack.

He ordered them to defend the front line. In order to strengthen their strength, the only heavy machine gun in the entire company was dispatched.

In addition to the two light machine guns and grenade launchers that the Marubayashi Kaito squad had, the entire squad's firepower configuration was already quite powerful.

Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito had been deeply involved since the construction of the bunkers and trenches here.

He commanded the team to rush out of the air-raid shelter quickly and rush towards the frontmost工事 along the交通壕.

After rushing out of the air-raid shelter, Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito realized that the heavy artillery bombardment of the National Army had not killed any of their devils.

However, the damage to them was very great.

During these days, the entire Yamashita Yujo Battalion had spent a lot of manpower and material resources on the main peak of Zhujia Chong to build a defense line, which was now unrecognizable. 大风小说

Even if these devils wanted to rush to the front line along the交通壕, it was impossible. Many places in the交通壕 had been collapsed, and they could not pass at all.

When they reached the forefront, Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito looked at the工事 that was still fine in the morning, but now it was scattered.

Some places were truly razed to the ground, and some places had a large pit that was one meter deep.

The position originally planned to place the heavy machine gun had now become a flat ground. Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito could only order the heavy machine gun to be set up next to the original position.

At this time, the First Company's charge had not reached the front of the devils' position two hundred meters away, and the devils of the Marubayashi Kaito squad were not panicked.

The squad leader was calm and composed, and methodically directed them to use the existing 工事 for firepower layout. These devils were not in a hurry at all.

Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito did not think about repelling the enemy two hundred meters away.

He did not order the devils to fire on the First Company two hundred meters away.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu did not let the First Company launch a rapid charge at this time. The First Company's speed of advance was not fast, although they had not stopped since they started.

When Company Commander Zhen Jianshu led the team to enter the position two hundred meters away from the devils' position, he stopped the two infantry guns, built 工事, and prepared to suppress the devils' firepower.

The First Company's two infantry guns and five mortars stopped two hundred meters away from the devils' position and began to prepare.

Until now, the devils' firepower points had not been exposed, and these guns had no target for the time being, but they were ready to fire at any time.

When Zhen Jianshu led the First Company to enter the position one hundred and fifty meters away from the devils' position, Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito thought that it was time to attack.

Just as he was about to issue the firing order, a low-pitched engine sound of "嗡嗡嗡" came from the air.

One plane after another flew over from a distance. Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito thought that this was a plane that came to help them.

The devils of this squad thought so, and some devils even couldn't help but cheer.

In their cheers, the ground attack plane began to dive, and then four fiery red tongues of fire rushed towards them.

The plane spewed fire all the way, and Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito was knocked to the ground without saying a word. His head was broken, half of it was still on his body, and half of it was flying somewhere else.

This situation was completely unrecoverable!

When the plane was strafing in the air, Company Commander Zhen Jianshu finally issued the order to charge.

The First Company began to advance rapidly and launched a charge towards the devils' position.

The devils of the Marubayashi squad had not yet recovered from the attack just now.

Their commander, Squad Leader Marubayashi Kaito, was dead. Many devils around them were also dead, and many devils were injured.

These injured devils were groaning and wailing, and immediately devils ran over to rescue these devils who could still breathe.

As for shooting? Without a commander, these devils would not fire. They were a group of robots who only listened to orders.

Company Commander Yamato Kotaro, who was still in the air-raid shelter, was anxious, and he loudly ordered: "Matsushita Takeo Squad! Attack!"

Squad Leader Matsushita Takeo also saw that the situation on the front line was urgent. After receiving the order, he couldn't wait to jump out.

He rushed to the front of his squad. Ordinary devils were in front, and he only needed to rush to the position to command those devils to fight.

Behind him were more than fifty devils from the Matsushita squad. These devils had not rushed to the front line yet.

Company Commander Zhen had already led the team into the devils' defense line first, which frightened the devils who were still in the defense line and did not know what to do.

They immediately fled backward. These devils ran backward along the交通壕 that was not smooth. Squad Leader Matsushita Takeo shouted: "Counterattack! Counterattack!"

He slashed his command刀 towards the devil who was running the fastest. Sergeant Uenishigawa Hara Minoru was quick-witted and dodged.

He was slashed by the squad leader, although he was not injured, Sergeant Uenishigawa Hara Minoru did not dare to escape any more.

He could only quickly retreat two steps before turning around and rushing towards the First Company that was chasing over.

The devils who had been running behind him just now saw that Squad Leader Matsushita Takeo was really slashing!

They all stopped fleeing and turned around to rush towards the First Company.

The squad behind Squad Leader Matsushita also ran past him one after another at this time.

The battle on the main peak of Zhujia Chong had already started a bayonet fight before either side had fired a shot.

This was not the original intention of Company Commander Yamato Kotaro. The battle had suddenly progressed to this point, and he had to adapt to the situation.

Company Commander Yamato Kotaro commanded the last of the devils in the entire company, rushed out of the air-raid shelter, and rushed towards the First Company.

He knew that in a bayonet fight, the more people there were, the stronger the strength, and the more people took advantage.

The Yamato Company had more than one hundred and eighty devils. Even if some devils had died in the attack just now, the number was almost the same as the soldiers of the special brigade who had rushed up.

In this case, he had nothing to fear in the bayonet fight.

Squad Leader Matsushita Takeo, who was already in the battlefield, had already seen the ferocity of the First Company: the soldiers of the National Army who were chasing up stepped their feet on the ground with earth-shattering steps when fighting with bayonets, and the shouts in their mouths were equally deafening.

In this case, the two squads he was commanding now were obviously much worse.

In one face-to-face, at least ten devils from the Marubayashi Kaito squad fell down.

These devils who had just been running around had not yet smoothed their breath.

When they greeted the刺刀 stabbed by the warriors of the First Company, their hands were shaking, their hearts were beating wildly, and they had no strength to parry at all.

It would be strange if they didn't die. These devils were just competing to see who could run faster, and now they were competing to see who could die faster.

When Company Commander Yamato Kotaro led the team into the battlefield, he sadly found that the situation, which was originally about the same number of people on both sides, had undergone a fundamental change.

There were less than two squads of devils in his company. The Marubayashi Kaito squad, which was the first to enter the battlefield, had been completely wiped out at this time.

Only the devils of the Matsushita Takeo squad were still struggling on the battlefield. From the effect on the scene, their struggle was also in vain.

They could not pose a suppressive threat to the soldiers of the special brigade who rushed up, and in the fight he had just seen, all the devils fell down.

None of the attacking soldiers on the opposite side fell down, and they also cunningly used three people to deal with one devil.

This group of soldiers without martial virtue really suppressed the devils.

Company Commander Yamato Kotaro had to loudly remind the devils: "Counterattack! Counterattack!"

Counterattack required capital, either a large number or strong martial force.

The remaining devils of the Yamato Company were now less than one hundred, and it was already a fool's dream to counterattack with刺刀 against the First Company, which was still full.

Even so, Company Commander Yamato Kotaro did not give up. He had sent a devil back to the air-raid shelter to call for reinforcements.

The Yamato Company only needed to persist for ten more minutes, and reinforcements would definitely arrive.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo did not expect that the battle had just begun, and he received a call for help from the front. The Yamato Kotaro Company was in urgent need of help: the entire company was fighting a bayonet battle with the attacking National Army team. The soldiers were nearly half casualties, requesting reinforcements!

What else could he do? Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo immediately sent the Yamashita Kotaro Company to support the main position of Zhujia Chong.

This was a position he had to save, and he had prepared a reserve team before the war.

Everything was as expected, but the reserve team was used too early. According to Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo's plan: the use of the reserve team should be at least three days later.

He did not expect that the Yamato Kotaro Company would not only fail to persist for three days, but would not even persist for thirty minutes.

"Fool!" Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo sent the most realistic evaluation to Company Commander Yamato Kotaro.

Of course, Company Commander Yamato Kotaro, who was still struggling on the mountain, would never hear this comment.

Because it did not expect once again that it would be so difficult for his company to persist for ten minutes under the offensive of the First Company.

When Company Commander Zhen Jianshu and the others were fighting刺刀 with the devils, the two infantry guns and five mortars two hundred meters away were advancing forward.

They were also going to rush up to participate in the battle.

The devils were afraid of the warriors of the First Company when they fought with刺刀: these soldiers on the opposite side rushed up in groups of three and stabbed. If they parried one, they could not parry the second.

Until now, none of these devils had been able to parry the third 刺刀.

Most of these devils were recruits who had been replenished. Few of them had received one month of military training.

Most of them were allowed to learn in battle and train in battle. Now it was a training session.

It was just that these devils were destined not to be able to leave the training ground.

When Company Commander Yamato Kotaro fell down, the reinforcements he was expecting were still at the foot of the mountain.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu discovered that the devils at the foot of the mountain were rushing towards this position, and immediately ordered: "Infantry guns! Mortars! Fire!"

The seven guns that had not performed today immediately fired.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu continued to order: "Heavy machine guns! Fire."

The heavy machine guns of the special brigade came with shields and did not choose the battlefield or the position.

Whether they were moving or stationary, they could be used as a bunker at any time and fire immediately.

Now the six heavy machine guns were like this, firing completely exposed.

After receiving the order to reinforce the main peak of Zhujia Chong, Company Commander Yamashita Kotaro acted without delay.

As a result, it was still so late, and the position had changed hands.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo, who saw this scene in the distance, jumped and cursed Company Commander Yamato Kotaro: "Fool! Pig! The position was lost in less than ten minutes."

In his opinion, this was completely impossible. The more than one hundred and eighty devils of the Yamato Company had not suffered any casualties in the artillery bombardment.

How could so many devils have all died so quickly?

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yujo really couldn't figure out how Company Commander Yamato had lost all the devils in the entire company in less than ten minutes.

The same idea was in the mind of Company Commander Yamashita Kotaro. After all, the sound of guns and artillery had just been heard from the main peak until now, and the sound was so harsh.

They were all hitting the Yamashita Kotaro Company. His company was originally here to reinforce, but now it had become a strong attack on the mountain peak. Wasn't this fatal?

The First Company on the top of the mountain was stepping up to build a defense line at this time: there were many trenches and bunkers built by the devils on this.

However, the direction of their defense line was to the west, and there was no defense at all against the attack from behind.

The devils at the foot of the mountain were attacking from behind, and the First Company had to repel the devils under completely unprotected conditions.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu loudly ordered: "Heavy machine guns are scattered, and defense lines are established with heavy machine guns as points."

Immediately, someone began to dig behind the heavy machine guns. At this time, they had to dig out bunkers one by one, which would be convenient for use in the next battle.

Once again, there were planes passing by overhead. The ground attack planes of the special brigade saw the bayonet fight on the top of the mountain, and they could not help.

They could only continue to fly forward, and there were still positions in front that needed their strafing.

The battle on Wenjia Ling was different from here. The Yamato Odayama Company was more fortunate. The first squad leader they sent out was not killed in the first air raid.

Therefore, their defense was规中矩 from the beginning.

Squad Leader Yamamoto Yuto commanded the devils under his command and fired at the Second Company led by Company Commander Meng Qilue in the distance.

The two sides began to shoot at each other from a distance of three hundred meters. The infantry guns and mortars of the Second Company bombarded the heavy machine guns and machine gun firepower that the devils had exposed fiercely.

They did not give them any chance to breathe. Although they had not blown up their machine guns for a while, they also silenced the devils' machine guns.

Company Commander Meng Qilue led the team to advance. At a distance of three hundred meters, the Second Company did not rush forward.

The company commander only let six earthen tanks lead the way, and the entire company was hidden behind the earthen tanks, and they advanced until they were one hundred and fifty meters away from the devils' position, and then ordered the rocket launchers to aim at the devils' heavy machine guns and fire.

The heavy machine gun of the Yamato Odayama Company finally flew into the air when the third rocket was bombed.

Originally, it had not exerted much power, and the symbolic significance was greater than the actual significance.

After flying into the air and falling heavily back to the ground, the heavy machine, which had deformed the barrel, was completely unable to continue to be used.

Although this heavy machine gun had not been fired much since the start of the war, this situation still made the morale of the devils of the Yamamoto Yuto squad plummet a lot.

The direct reaction was that the shooting speed of these devils' rifles slowed down.

In the following time, the squad's two light machine guns were also blown up.