Songhu: Never Give Up

Chapter 199 Wang Jianfei's Battle at Purple Mountain (1)

Captain Sakaguchi's expression turned grim. He finally realized that he might have hit a wall.

Although the terrain of Yingzui Slope is a bit steep, it is not to the point where one man can block the passage of ten thousand, and there are two or three attack routes.

Judging from the visual, there is at most a battalion or even a company on the slope, no more than 200 people, if there are more, there will be no room for them.
One of his fully-strength squadrons had more than 180 men, but after attacking for half an hour there was no progress and instead heavy casualties, including the loss of more than half of the squad. This made him feel very embarrassed, so he drove his soldiers to continue the attack, wave after wave.

Yue Wanli gradually adapted to the battlefield environment, commanding a platoon to fight calmly, and using the terrain to easily pin the Japanese on the hillside, which also made his self-confidence soar, and his IQ began to rise;
He estimated the distance of the Japanese skirmish line. Although it was about sixty or seventy meters away, he was in a commanding position. After throwing the grenade, he could roll into the group of Japanese. This was much better than competing with the Japanese in shooting.

Then he pulled out a grenade from his side, pulled the fuse and threw it down immediately. The grenade rolled a few times and then bounced into the air and exploded;
Hundreds of shrapnel took the lives of the Japs, knocking down two or three of them on the spot.

Yue Wanli saw that it was working, so he shouted at the top of his voice:
"Blow them up with f*cking grenades!"

Yue Wanli finally swore and felt much better. On the battlefield, he had to be simple and rough. He was too polite, even a corporal dared to roll his eyes at him.

It turns out that the Yue family all hold grudges and will take revenge for any slight. Sun Sanjiu will most likely be in trouble after the war. Who made him see something he shouldn't have seen?

As rows of grenades rolled down the hillside, the Japs' hard times were coming. They had no cover, lying halfway up the hillside, unable to use their strength, and were completely exposed to the artillery fire.

The Japs were attacking from above and we couldn't throw grenades up, so we could only passively take the bombing. The number of casualties kept rising. The Japs were so angry that they cried out, "Keep the attack, otherwise all the lives would be lost in vain."

"Boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom..."

Rows of artillery shells whizzed onto the Eagle's Beak Slope position, and each row of artillery fire caused a lot of casualties to the defenders. Since the two sides were relatively close, the Japanese in Sakaguchi's squadron were also hit by a lot of shells, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Yue Wanli had entered a state of selflessness, leading a row of brothers to fight to the death under the enemy's artillery fire. His luck was really good, and he had not lost a single hair so far.

Captain Sakaguchi saw that things were hopeless, so he decided to end this exploratory attack and leave the rest to the artillery, who would come up and collect the bodies after they saw the result.

There were few easy-to-deal-with devils in the Class A Division. They had very high tactical skills and a good grasp of the transition between offense and defense. They took turns covering their retreat, leaving the defenders with little opportunity to take advantage of the situation and kill them.

As soon as the Japanese infantry withdrew, sharp and piercing anti-artillery whistles were sounded on the position. Yue Wanli and others hid in the tunnels one after another. This was repeatedly emphasized by the regiment commander Wang Jianfei.

Yue Wanli also had a strong sense of self-preservation. It was Corporal Sun Sanjiu who hesitated. He raised his foot and kicked him in the butt, kicking him into the tunnel.

Sun Sanjiu was just about to curse someone for biting him, but when he turned around and saw that it was the platoon leader, he shrank his neck and hid inside.

A smug smile appeared on Yue Wanli's face, he was just like Yue Qianli, as long as conditions permitted, he would report back on the spot and try not to stay overnight!

Qin Mingsong smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that officials are indeed petty-minded. Sun Sanjiu deserved the kick. Yue was a dark-hearted man. The first platoon had just taken shelter in the tunnel when the Japanese artillery fire came. The Eagle's Beak Slope was immediately covered with dust, and sections of trenches were destroyed.
The Japanese' revenge was obviously not over yet. Twenty or thirty bombers flew over and dropped a series of bombs.

The Japanese fought in such a simple and crude way. First, the Japanese infantry charged, followed by artillery bombardment and aircraft bombing. This round of firepower attack caused a lot of losses to the 5th Regiment.
Not only was Wang Jianfei not angry, but he looked stern and admired Yue Qianli in his heart. They had practiced this kind of attack and defense on the sand table at West Point a few years ago, so it was very easy for them to deal with it now.

Thanks to the targeted plans and preventive measures taken in advance, the Fifth Regiment suffered relatively few casualties in this round of bombing.

As soon as the artillery preparation was completed, more than a dozen Type 95 tanks rumbled up from the relatively gentle southern slope;
They were lined up in two rows, and it was estimated that there was at least one battalion of attacking infantry accompanying them. After a tentative attack, the Japs finally started to get serious.

Wang Jianfei's expression remained calm. A dozen tanks could not scare him. The training corps had practiced how to fight tanks before the war and had summarized several plans.

Before it was extended to other troops, the Japanese launched a full-scale war, and many of the new tactics of the Teaching Corps remained only in the teaching plans.

In Wang Jianfei's opinion, the most practical weapon to deal with the Japanese iron turtles is the rocket launcher, which only his eldest brother Yue Qianli can make;
Now we can only settle for the second best and place our hopes on the four 4mm anti-tank guns, which are now hidden on the flanks of the south slope.

He had long been on guard against the Japanese. Only the southern slope was relatively flat, with a small slope and open space, suitable for tank combat.

He and Yue Qianli had repeatedly deduced that it was better to attack a tank from the flank than from the front, as a tank takes a lot of time to turn, so the anti-tank guns could fire more shots.

"Jian Xinyi, take a company from the Second Battalion and quietly move to the small woods on the left wing of the Japanese tanks to ambush them. Open fire on the Japanese and lead them to the left wing. Quick!"

Wang Jianfei made quick adjustments, and the second battalion commander led a company to ambush in the woods.
It didn't take long for the Japanese attack team to come up, with more than a dozen tanks rushing in the front, followed by a large number of infantry, but the coordination between the infantry and tanks was somewhat disconnected.

When Captain Jian saw the Japanese coming, he immediately ordered to open fire. Rows of dense bullets swept towards the Japanese, knocking down many infantrymen, but they were helpless against the tanks.

When the Japanese tank squadron leader, Major Matsuyama Yasuta, saw a large number of Chinese people appearing on the flank, he immediately ordered them to turn around excitedly. He wanted to use his tracks to crush the Chinese defenders.

Major Matsuyama didn't know where the defenders were, and now that there were hundreds of them, he would naturally not let them go;
The Japanese infantry also turned around. They had to protect the safety of the tanks. However, what Songshan did not notice was that turning took time. By the time they completed the turn, dozens of the accompanying infantry had suffered casualties.

"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"

After completing the turn, Major Matsuyama couldn't wait to rush to the position of the Second Battalion. With the tank's speed advantage of dozens of kilometers per hour, Major Matsuyama was confident that the battle could be resolved within a few minutes.

Just as the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Just when the Japanese tank squadron was about to start a massacre;
The weeds on the slope behind them were lifted up, and several anti-tank guns that had been hidden in the pits were pushed out. They fired at the rear of the Japanese tanks, and destroyed three tanks with just one round of shooting.

"Bakayaloo, enemy attack!"

(End of this chapter)