Zhang Wei led the engineer platoon to the front line of the 200th Division's attack, and was behind the command post of the 200th Division, where many large craters had been blown up by Japanese planes.
There were many soldiers of the 200th division around Zhang Wei, and several officers kept shouting in the crowd.
"It's time to attack, spread out, watch out for shelling" "All parts retreated" The soldiers behind the command post of the 200th Division retreated some distance one after another, and Zhang Wei mixed with the soldiers of the engineer platoon and the 200th Division, the uniforms were exactly the same, and they were also wearing German-style steel helmets, and the difference was completely invisible.
The officer's shouting was a sign that an attack by the 200th Division was about to begin.
"Captain, this is about to start" He Jinhai asked curiously.
"Look at the front line, it's about to start, and the Dai division of these two hundred divisions really has the courage to put the division headquarters so close, let's take a look at the attack of their troops first."
It was quite a good time for me to come here, and before I entered the command post to report to the senior officers of the 200th Division, I was about to witness an attack Zhang Wei calmed down, raised his binoculars, and looked at the forward position of the 200th Division in the distance, and most of the positions of the Japanese army were also within Zhang Wei's line of sight.
In front of the Japanese position, Zhang Wei saw a lot of corpses, all of them were killed officers and soldiers of the 200th Division, and there was actually the wreckage of a chariot on the halfway slope of the high ground, which Zhang Wei recognized as the Italian CV35 light tank that the assault column had been equipped with during the Battle of Lanfeng.
It can be seen that the 200th Division has paid a considerable price in order to gnaw away the enemy's position.
What Zhang Wei saw was the position of the 598th Regiment of the 200th Division, and the area where the 598th Regiment attacked was Luotang Heights, an important stronghold of the Japanese garrison at Kunlun Pass.
Luotang is the highland on the west side of Kunlun Pass, and together with the Jieshou Plateau on the east side, it is an important support point for the Japanese army in Kunlun Pass.
If you want to attack the Kunlun Pass, it is inevitable to take the high ground, otherwise the troops who attack the pass head-on will be subjected to crossfire from the east and west sides of the Japanese army.
The Japanese army and the 200th Division knew the importance of the Luotang Heights, and in the morning, the 598th Regiment of the 200th Division launched an attack on Luotang.
Needless to say, the 598th Regiment only occupied a part of the Luotang Heights, and it was lost immediately.
Now, the 598th Regiment is about to attack again.
In the trenches, the officers and men of the 598th Regiment loaded their bayonets, and although they failed many attacks, these brothers still had to attack the enemy's high ground, and these recruits grew up very quickly in attack and death again and again.
The corpses of the officers and men of the 598th Regiment on the high ground are the price of this attack.
The soldiers of the 598th Regiment held up their Zhongzheng rifles diagonally, and everyone's bayonets had not been fired since they were loaded on the rifles, and the company platoon commanders of the 598th Regiment were also in the crowd of soldiers, holding rifles and making a charging posture.
Although it could not be captured, the courage of the officers and men of the 200th Division was very full.
Everyone is waiting for the attack signal.
Colonel Gao Jiren, commander of the 598th Regiment, personally went to the front-line position and commanded the second attack.
Before the attack, the troops of the 200th Division will be supported by the artillery of the Fifth Army, which includes six German-made 15th howitzers from the 1st Battalion of the 14th Artillery Regiment, two 75 mountain guns from the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Artillery Regiment, six 75 field guns from the supplementary battalion of the 2nd Artillery Brigade, and four 75 mountain guns from the Mountain Artillery Company of the 46th Army.
Gao Jiren, the commander of the 598th Regiment, looked at his watch and asked the lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment commander beside him.
"Artillery fire is almost there" "Tuanza, two minutes to go" Two minutes later, there was a piercing whistling sound in the sky, and the sound of fifteen howitzers and a large number of seven-five caliber mountain artillery guns firing in clusters made the soldiers near Zhang Wei feel quite uncomfortable, and many soldiers of the 200th Division blocked their ears.
"Let's fight" Zhang Wei's eyes widened and he looked at Luotang Heights.
"Boom Boom" Dense falling bullets, violent explosions, the Luotang Heights were instantly covered by the fire of the Fifth Army's covering artillery, and the heights were no longer visible under the bombardment of the shells.
Shrapnel and waves of air swept across the Luotang Heights, and the corpses of many brothers killed in the 200th Division were also involved in the bombardment The shelling came and went quickly, and lasted for five minutes before it came to an abrupt end, but even those five minutes could blow up the soil on the high ground.
"Kill" Two minutes after the shelling stopped, the smoke cleared, and the soldiers of the 598th Regiment rushed out of their positions and launched an assault on the Luotang Heights.
The shouts of the officers and men of the 598th Regiment were very imposing, and they did not look like the performance after repeated setbacks.
Company commanders and platoon commanders, personally leading the infantry, fought and rushed.
The number of infantry attacking was roughly the strength of a multi-infantry battalion.
Zhang Wei nervously observed the situation at the front line, looking at the performance of the 598th Regiment after the shelling, Zhang Wei found that there was a problem with the coordination of the infantry shock and the artillery, there was no decent coordination, and after the artillery was blown up, the infantry waited for a while before launching a charge.
The soldiers of the 598th Regiment shouted and screamed to the sky, and climbed along the slope to the Luotang Heights.
Although the soldiers were brave, the formation was very dense, and it could even be said that it was slightly crowded, and it was clear that the principle of spreading out to reduce casualties was not well implemented.
The unilateral attack of the 598th Regiment continued, and when the vanguard was 50 meters away from the top of the high ground, fierce gunfire broke out on the Luotang Heights, and continuous and dense machine-gun fire also appeared on the slope of the high ground.
Judging from the situation of the Japanese firing, the Japanese army most likely built a hidden bunker and a hidden trench in the front, and in the face of such fierce firepower, the dense attack formation of the officers and men of the 598th Regiment was the best target.
As a result, under the crossfire of rifle machine guns and grenadiers, the officers and men of the attacking 598th Regiment were knocked down one after another, suffering heavy casualties, and many more corpses appeared on the high ground that had been slightly cleaned by the shelling.
Naturally, the officers and men of the 598th Regiment would not give up just yet, and some of the officers and men continued to assault forward, while the other part took cover on the spot and launched a confrontation with the Japanese troops on the high ground, but unfortunately the officers and men of the 598th Regiment who attacked did not have any decent firepower, and all of them were rifles, light machine guns, and grenadiers.
For the Japanese troops who were in the trenches and fortifications, these firepower were not enough to fear.
Looking at the brothers of the 598th Regiment who fell one after another, Zhang Wei also felt a heartache, they were all brothers from the Fifth Army.
"Boom Boom" Suddenly, a violent explosion sounded on the front of the high ground, and the officers and men of the 598th Regiment were suddenly shelled by the Japanese defenders.
The attacking team of hundreds of people was annihilated in the smoke of artillery "Mortars of the Japanese Army" Zhang Wei closed his eyes in pain ：。
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