Under the leadership of Major Gerard and Lieutenant Shanna, U.S. engineers and technicians completed the ground navigation mission in just eight hours.
Wang Peng, who did not need to wait for 24 hours, was not happy, because the 141st Infantry Wing, which had been reinforced to the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, had already come to the foot of Tieqi Mountain under the leadership of Wing Captain Nomura and blocked the only way down the mountain.
After learning that Tieqi Mountain was surrounded by Japanese troops, the Chinese soldiers and officers were very calm, as if they had expected this outcome, and all the men were desperately reinforcing the bunkers and fortifications, and all the trees and stones that could be used on the top of the mountain were used.
Since the 55th and 56th Divisions suffered heavy casualties during the Battle of Tonggu, the task of taking Kunming as an opportunity in this coordinated operation excluded the two divisions, and what is strange is that the base camp drew a wing from each of the 55th and 56th Divisions and reinforced them to the 18th and 32nd Divisions respectively.
The 141st Infantry Wing was now almost entirely replenished by new recruits due to its huge losses in the First Infantry Battle.
This is also doomed to the 141st Infantry Wing to lose the opportunity to attack Kunming to eat meat and win honor, and the basic tasks left to Nomura Dazuo are to protect the baggage team and drive away the guerrillas to gnaw bones, for this time to order them to re-destroy a rebuilt radar station, Nomura is really angry, he doesn't know what kind of radar station actually needs a whole infantry wing to destroy.
Soon a squad sent to the summit to reconnoiter was ambushed by dozens of Chinese at the foot of the mountain, the unprepared Japanese troops fell to the ground and died in a short and fierce firefight, and the remaining Japanese troops fled back in great confusion, because the squad leader had been killed, the remaining Japanese recruits could not tell who they were, how much firepower they were deployed and from which direction they were ambushed.
The sudden attack surprised Nomura, who did not know the strength of the squadron, and in desperation requested aerial reconnaissance, which turned out to be disgraced, and according to the reconnaissance report, there were about 70 to 90 Chinese soldiers on the summit.
For the number of squadrons holding the radar station.
Nomura almost scoffed, in his opinion this was a completely unnecessary operation, a waste of the Empire's precious forces, and if his wing participated in the attack on Kunming, he believed that he would be able to achieve more brilliant results, rather than running to the barren mountains and mountains to destroy a hundred and ten Chinese soldiers.
After lunch.
Nomura summoned his Nagaga Captain into the tent and ordered him to take the main peak before dusk and eliminate the squadron entrenched there.
Nagashi Yonechu is a descendant of a wandering samurai, and then with the help of his uncle, he was lucky enough to enter the military academy to study, and during his studies at the military academy, he was among the top spears and was known for his combat bravery, but because of his humble background, he had been in the position of captain for many years, and he always passed by the opportunity for promotion, so that Nagaku Yonechu's psychology was distorted, and he often made fun of killing people or abusing his subordinates.
After receiving the task.
Nagami Nakami immediately assigned combat missions to the three squadrons subordinate to his own brigade.
He was full of confidence in taking down only 100 Chinese soldiers to defend the mountain peak.
The squadron gave him the impression that it was vulnerable.
When the Japanese troops began to move towards the main peak, they continued to have frequent minestrikes.
Only halfway up the mountain.
The leading squadron of the Long Brigade lost more than 30 soldiers.
Looking at the wounded soldier wailing with a broken leg.
Long Mizhong's face was pale.
He knew that his troops had strayed into a minefield that had been pre-set by the other side.
In the absence of sappers.
The long meter can only allow his soldiers to widen the distance between them.
Lying on the rugged mountain road, the Japanese spearhead carefully carried out mine detection with his portable bayonet.
The Japanese soldiers in the follow-up area lay not far away with a panicked expression.
The speed of a long brigade is the same as that of a turtle.
Even so.
Lacking professional demining knowledge, the Japanese soldiers still touched the mines one after another.
The replacement looked at his companion's bloody body, and could barely hold the bayonet in his hand.
Waiting at the foot of the mountain, Jinomura discovered through the telescope that the Nagaga Brigade was making slow progress and suffering heavy casualties.
So a staff officer was sent to reprimand Nagami Naga.
Reprimanded in the face of the co-captain.
Nagaku-Yone-naka had no choice but to explain to Nomura aggrievedly over the radio: "The Shina army is very cunning.
There is no pattern to be found in their mine-laying methods and areas.
Almost all mines are accompanied by mine tricks.
Elimination is unusually difficult and dangerous. ” Nomura listened to the long explanation and picked up the binoculars.
At that moment, there was another muffled sound on the mountainside.
A pillar of smoke rose more than ten meters high.
Nomura put down the binoculars thoughtfully.
After hesitating for a moment, the order was given to stop advancing.
When he inquired, he learned that the methods used by the brigade headquarters engineer battalion to lay mines were all taught by the brigade seat himself, and the engineers mastered the most classic, most effective, simple, and fast way to arrange mines.
Nomura is not the kind of traditional Japanese officer who treats the lives of his soldiers as if they were mustards, and it is not that he is reluctant to sacrifice his soldiers.
Rather, he sees the soldiers as his bargaining chips.
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Obviously, the goal on the mountain was not worth the effort in his opinion.
Nomura, who regretted not carrying the sappers, was just about to ask the division headquarters for guidance from the sappers, when Ichiro Yamamoto, the chief of staff of the division, personally asked for a walkie-talkie.
After conveying the division commander's request that the US radar station be destroyed in the early morning of tomorrow, the safety of the aircraft group attacking Kunming in the sky was guaranteed.
Nomura realized the importance of this mission, and the depressed Nomura had no choice but to send the only Type 92 infantry artillery squadron at hand to Nagayama and ask him to plow a passage to the top of the mountain with artillery fire.
Because tomorrow's air raid was top secret, the division headquarters concealed the combat objectives from Nomura before the operation, and Nomura only regarded this mission as a routine clearance, and for tactical purposes and troop formation, Nomura had to carry a squadron of Type 92 infantry guns that was thought to be streamlined, and the worst thing was that the 141st Wing did not carry enough shells.
The Japanese artillery squadron finally completed the task of clearing the road when the shells were exhausted, and the long rice that had been suppressed for a long time pulled out his saber and slashed at the hill with a hideous face: "Advance" Under the leadership of several military cao, the long brigade set up an offensive formation, and the expressionless Japanese soldiers quickly dispersed into a skirmish line to launch an upward attack on the main peak.
Due to the ruggedness of the road leading to the main peak and the deliberate sabotage of the engineer platoon sent by Wang Peng, the road for the Japanese troops to pass was very narrow, and even though the formation of the Japanese soldiers who spread out the straggler line was still very dense, the four Type 92 heavy machine guns that followed the troops could not be deployed because they did not find a suitable firing position.
The dense offensive formation of the Changjiu Brigade made Chang Mizhong very worried, while Wang Peng, who was in the main fortification of the main peak, calmly observed the Japanese offensive formation, and the six Type 42 heavy machine guns beside him were waiting for his firing order.
The Japanese army's use of artillery fire to destroy the minefield was expected by Wang Peng, the minefield was used to delay time and consume the Japanese army's edge, and the Japanese army's artillery fire density and firing time interval made Wang Peng realize the shortage of Japanese artillery, which was very beneficial to his defense.
Kobayashi Koji, as a supplementary second lieutenant who had just been promoted after returning from the battle, urged his soldiers to move forward from the beginning of the attack, but the unusual tranquility of the main peak made him uneasy, and he even smelled the fishy smell wafting in the slightly blowing mountain breeze With Kobayashi Koji's rich experience as a veteran of the war in 1937, he had never seen any Shina army use such a dense number of mines, Kobayashi Koji could be sure that the Shina army on the mountain must not be simple.
When the Japanese army advanced to less than 50 meters away from the windward line of the main peak, several Japanese soldiers who were walking in front broke out at the same time, and accelerated their pace and began to attack the main peak.
In the face of the swarming crowd of Japanese troops, Wang Peng picked up the phone with a slightly trembling hand and said loudly: "The second, fourth, and sixth fire forts start shooting."
After a pause of a few seconds, the three fire support points located on the slope of the windward line began to spray tongues of fire, and for a while, gunshots like bursting beans resounded through the mountains.
Time seemed to stop at this moment, the Japanese soldiers in the impact were like hitting the iron plate, in the dense rain of bullets, dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were shot one after another, under the huge impact of the bullets, the Japanese soldiers who were shot rolled down the rugged mountain road one after another.
The Japanese troops who were assaulted by fire did not fall into a panic, and the follow-up Japanese troops immediately fell down on the hillside, trying to use the terrain to pay for stubborn resistance, but when the Japanese soldiers lay down, they were surprised to find that even if they were lying down, they could not effectively dodge the bullets fired from the peak.
When the rest of the Japanese army tried to find a favorable terrain to rely on for cover, they found that the terrain around them seemed to have been sorted out, and after suffering seventy or eighty casualties one after another, the Japanese army began to retreat to a small hill a hundred meters below.
As if he had experienced a nightmare, Kobayashi Koji fled back to the starting position in a panic with his head in his hands, and then was dragged by the collar by the long rice and gave more than a dozen big slaps, Kobayashi Koji, who was beaten to the point of bleeding from his nose and mouth and his eyes with gold stars, suddenly sobered up, looked at the wounded soldiers wailing beside him, Kobayashi Koji was ashamed and lowered his head and snapped.
After counting the casualties, Chang Mi Zhong's eyes were dark, and he almost fell to the ground with a tree trunk beside him, and it turned out that in just five minutes from the launch of the attack to the defeat and retreat, at least more than 100 Japanese soldiers were lying on the hillside, plus the previous casualties in the minefield, the Long Brigade had successfully reduced almost one squadron.
The most unacceptable thing for Nagami is that he has made such a huge sacrifice, and even the opponent has not seen it, which is simply a great shame for the Nagaku team
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