Chapter Seventy-Five: The Capture of the Saber
Fierce fighting continued, and people were constantly falling, and people were blown to pieces. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The sound of guns became the only sound in the field, and the decadent morale of the Japanese army under the personal command of the division commander was also unprecedentedly improved.
Some Japanese troops had already rushed to the second-line positions, and the soldiers on the positions were also in close contact with the Japanese troops, and just as the Japanese troops were constantly rushing up, soldiers of the 60th Army, light and heavy machine guns, appeared on the fake positions on both sides that were originally ungarrisoned. Grenades fired heavily at the Japanese follow-up troops, in order to stop the Japanese troops from crushing the forward troops in one blow.
With the support of both sides, the pressure of the forward troops has decreased sharply, and they have fought back hard, and the charging rifles at close range have become even less rhythmic, and the rest is the bayonet, and the forward troops have already put on the bayonets, so you can imagine the battle situation, while the position on the right is relatively relaxed.
The strength of the Japanese attack on the right side has a brigade, and the defenders on the hill also have two battalions, the strength is basically the same, but the strength of these two battalions is very flexible, using the relatively steep terrain on this side to resist layer by layer, and the soldiers in the chest wall of each trench are relatively scattered to avoid a large number of Japanese firepower, and each firepower point has a machine gun, the firepower will not appear loose, but the weak points of the Japanese army are in the range of fire suppression.
In this way, so that the Japanese army's firepower can not be concentrated, the pressure borne by each part will be compared, and it can effectively kill and injure the Japanese army, but it is not nervous, and the left side of Yuwang Mountain is the most pressure at this time, even more than the pressure on the front, the strength of a brigade of the Japanese army and a pseudo-regiment of about 3,000 people attack in this direction, the pressure can be imagined.
Stationed here are Zeng Zesheng's two battalions, but under the mountain are several times their own Japanese puppet army, some light machine guns on the mountain do not know how many bullets have been fired, it has become all old sleeves, even Hatch Chase is also a little feverish, and the Japanese firepower is concentrated on attacking these machine gun firepower, Hatch Chase fired for a while and had to shift the position, in case the Japanese artillery fire locked.
The only thing to be thankful for is that they captured a large amount of Japanese equipment last night, even the crooked sub-machine guns and 92 heavy machine guns are not a few, and the firepower is quite abundant, at least there will be no helplessness to fight with bayonets when the bullets run out.
In addition to the mortars captured from the Japanese army and its own mortars, although the 60th Army faced the onslaught of the superior Japanese army, its own firepower was not weak, and the Japanese troops attacking the mountain also suffered objective casualties.
At this time, Lu Hai was wandering in the direction of the Japanese army's headquarters, although they didn't know who the officer under the command of the Japanese army was, but this kind of formation was a big sa, but what Lu Hai didn't know was that the commander here was Itagaki Seishiro, if he could do it, if he was lucky enough to get this Itagaki Seishiro, it would definitely be an earth-shattering move in the Sino-Japanese War.
However, Seishiro Itagaki personally commanded, and the security work was also extremely strict, and the number of sentinels was several times more than usual, and it could be said that not even a bird could fly over within a radius of several hundred meters. In desperation, Lu Hai could only lurk nearly a kilometer away and watch with a telescope!
"It's strange, the Japanese army is so strict this time, is there a big fish in it"? Li Fan frowned.
"Either our previous actions aroused their vigilance, or there were really big fish inside, and this place was within the range of our army's heavy artillery bombardment, and we gave the coordinates to the division commander and let them know it soon." Lu Hai said.
Lu Hai handed the recorded coordinates to the signal soldier and said, "Send this to the division commander, and say that you have found the headquarters of the Japanese army!"
After receiving the telegram, the communication soldier quickly sent the content to Zhang Chong on Yuwang Mountain. When Zhang Chong saw this telegram, his frowning brows were instantly relieved, and this telegram was known to everyone who thought that as long as the Japanese headquarters was bombarded with heavy artillery, then the Japanese army attacking the mountain would most likely retreat.
"Pass this order on, and let Wan Baobang's heavy artillery give me a fierce greeting to this position"! Zhang Chong handed the telegram to Zhang Chongdao.
At this time, in the Japanese headquarters, a communications soldier came to him with a panicked expression and said: "Division commander, decipher the telegram of the Chinese army, the Chinese army has discovered the location of the headquarters"!
Seishiro Itagaki looked at the telegram and his face changed drastically: "Transfer"!
Itagaki Seishiro's headquarters didn't have time to pack up other things and quickly retreat, and the Japanese retreated hundreds of meters, and the bombarded shells directly turned the previous headquarters into a sea of fire, and the fate of some Japanese soldiers who failed to withdraw in time can be imagined.
Looking at the dense explosions and roars in the command headquarters, Seishiro Itagaki felt a chill down his spine, the 60th Army had made them suffer a lot since it was equipped with heavy artillery, and it had sent the air force to destroy it many times to no avail, if it had been at night just now, I am afraid that he would have appeared on the tablet of the Yasukuni Shrine.
At this moment, Itagaki Seishiro suddenly felt that something was missing on his body, and when he looked down, he found that what was missing on his body was the saber that he had been inseparable, and his half-circle face that was thinking about it instantly turned into the color of pig liver, and he stepped violently but was about to walk inside, and the Japanese officers in the field hurriedly stopped him, Itagaki Seishiro looked at the continuous fierce artillery fire and said angrily: "My saber!" Go and snatch my saber back"?
"General, now we have to retreat quickly, we have spies from the Zhina Army around us, and the artillery fire will extend the shooting later, this knife will definitely burn under such a fierce heavy artillery bombardment, and it will not fall into the hands of the Zhina people, quickly retreat"!
However, Seishiro Itagaki is still extremely persistent, this saber was given by the emperor himself, not only his honor but also the honor of the Sakagaki division, how to explain to the emperor if this saber is lost? This is an immeasurable loss for morale and for the face of the Banyuan Division!
At the strong request of Seishiro Itagaki , more than a dozen Japanese soldiers had no choice but to brave the fierce sound of artillery to penetrate the headquarters that was almost in ruins, but when they were only more than ten meters away from the headquarters, a series of three heavy artillery shells smashed down, and the violent explosion instantly exploded several Japanese soldiers who entered into it into flesh and blood.
When Lu Hai saw through the telescope that it was actually a Japanese lieutenant general, a Japanese major general and several big generals, Lu Hai's excited body trembled slightly and said: "This is the division commander of the Banyuan Division, hurry up and inform the division commander to expand the scope of bombardment"!
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly looked around, but most of them couldn't see far without binoculars, but when they heard Lu Hai say this, they also knew that the crowd in the distance was really big guys, when this telegram appeared in the field and Xue Zizheng, Zhang Chong hurriedly called Wan Baobang, and Wan Baobang also hurriedly notified the artillery below, and the range of the heavy artillery battalion began to extend and shoot.
But now Sakagaki has quickly withdrawn from the battlefield under the strong pull of the troops, and the shells have hit the air, and Lu Hai wants to get up and pursue at this time, and even the soldiers under his command can't hold it back.
"Xiaohai, what are you hesitating about, you can't catch up if you hesitate"? Kaijiji urged.
"Catch up? What can you do to catch up? Die? Lu Hai said with a serious face.
"But let such a big fish escape?" Haizhi is in a hurry.
Lu Hai sighed and said: "There are a large number of Japanese troops, our dozens of people are not enough for them to stuff their teeth, the command system of the Japanese army has been destroyed by our army, and now as long as the first wave of attacks is defeated, the Japanese army is lost its command, and we have to retreat quickly!"
"Where to go?" Mu Yuanliang asked.
"Back to Yuwang Mountain"!
"What? Get back? Isn't it very good for us to be behind enemy lines, and we can also serve as eyes for the division commander, and we have a greater role in staying here, so why go back"? Hai Zhizhi was puzzled.
"You are stupid, the Japanese army originally knew that we existed, and now we have given them such a hand, at most tonight, the Japanese army will definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress us, and then we will not be wiped out!" Li Fan patted Haizhizhi's steel helmet and said.
"This... All right...
"Sun Yang, can you find the location of several of their troops?" Lu Hai frowned.
"Didn't Sun Yang fire last night? They should be around here, but the other two platoons can't be found, they don't have a radio." Li Fan said.
"The rear of the Japanese army is extremely well defended, they can't penetrate it, they should still be around here, so let's leave a mark on the road and tell them to retreat, so that they don't go back"!
"Yes"!
"Wait a minute, that old guy from Sakagaki just now has been trying to rush in and get something, it must be very important, send a telegram to the division commander, we will take advantage of the artillery fire to force them far away to go in and find out"!
At this time, on Yuwang Mountain, the fierce battle continued, the Japanese army was still launching a fierce charge, but did not know that their headquarters had lost contact, the Japanese cavalry brigade rushed up the hill and was violently strafed by the fierce machine gun fire, that is, hundreds of horses were killed, and the grenades were smashed down like flying stones.
Although the artillery fire of the 60th Army did not kill Seishiro Itagaki this time, it also destroyed Seishiro Sakagaki's command system, and when the first wave of Japanese shock was knocked down, it was found that there was no news from the headquarters, and the smoke column behind the headquarters was vacant, and the Japanese troops who were repulsed suddenly felt bad and retreated.
Zhang Chong, who knew that the Japanese army was retreating, ordered the pursuit again, and took back all the positions in one fell swoop before stopping the pursuit, and at this time, Tang Enbo and Yu Xuezhong also took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had to retreat on all fronts in a hurry.
What's even more uncomfortable for Seishiro Sakagaki is that Lu Hai found some documents in the headquarters that were not blown up, as well as Seishiro Sakagaki's saber!