Although the Eighth Division knew before the battle that Fu Zuoyi's troops were the main force of the Jin Army, and they were even stronger than Shang Zhen's troops, since the Battle of Nantianmen, they were invincible all the way, and they had crippled three main divisions of the Central Army in a row.
On the same day, the Japanese army mobilized a total of ten aircraft, ten tanks, thirty mountain field guns, and dispatched thousands of infantry to launch a charge toward the main position of Niulan Mountain. In the first round, they suffered a loss, and did not even see anything in the outer trench, and the mines exploded one by one, and the tanks in front and the infantry behind were lifted and fried, like stir-fried vegetables, full of color and fragrance.
Looking at the wreckage of the tank and the unbearable corpses of their companions, the ghost soldiers were so frightened that they no longer dared to cross in front of the position like a crab. But you always have to go to the front. Walking or walking, carrying, that is, picking long grass or seemingly untouched ground. So you don't have to step on the thunder? Bump into big luck only. Look at personal luck, good luck to win the lottery, bad luck waiting for the next round of gunshots.
Before the Central Plains War, Feng Yuxiang's most despised thing was actually the Jin Army, and the Northwest Army recruited soldiers and never refused to recruit Shanxi people, which was not entirely out of prejudice, there was still some reason. At that time, Shanxi was very rich, the so-called "born in comfort, died in distress", most people lived a good life, eating and wearing, food and clothing worry-free, a lot of wives and children, always afraid of death, fighting a war naturally did not have the bitter and vengeful Northwest Han people to open up. The Jin army has always been heavily defended, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Northwest Army, which has a certain relationship with its military resources.
Although Fu Zuoyi's troops were still classified as jin troops in terms of organization, because they left Shanxi after the Central Plains War, they have been stationed in Suiyuan since then, so they have been significantly different from the style of the original Jin army, and can actually be defined as Sui army.
Suiyuan, like Chahar, is a pre-liberation territorial concept, and its geographical location is just behind Chahar, that is, in the middle of what is now Inner Mongolia, and needless to say, it is also a very poor place. However, there are advantages of poverty and poverty, first, you live here, others will not worry, and second, the folk customs here are also extremely tough, they are all Han immigrants, and there is such a force of "fighting with the heavens is endless, fighting with the earth is endless, and fighting with people is even more fun", which is no worse than the brothers in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. They also have an advantage that is difficult to reach in other places, that is, they are in the endless prairie, they are born with little myopia, and they are most likely to shoot sharpshooters. The large number of sharpshooters will naturally cause more kills and injuries to the other side when attacking, which is also an important condition for Fu Zuoyi to be particularly able to defend.
Before the war, the Kwantung Army Flying Team had bombed the Niulan Mountain position, but due to the particularly good concealment of the fortifications, it did not cause much damage to its positions. Now the sharpshooters were crouching in the trenches and shooting out through the holes of a gun that were only two inches wide and four inches long, giving the Japanese soldiers a nod.
The Great Wall Anti-War Bullpen Mountain (3) serial, to be continued.......