Chapter 191: Falling short
In the headquarters, Wan Baobang and the three of them were looking at the map and carefully studying the combat countermeasures, when a communication soldier ran in and said, "Report"!
"Speak"!
"Battalion Commander Lu called to kill the supreme commander of the Japanese army on the opposite side, killing one major general, one Dazuo, and three Shaozuo, and the command system of the Japanese army was almost paralyzed! Request an all-out attack at once"! Said the communications officer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's really fake, they only have a dozen people, how did they do it"? Liu Zhengfu said incredulously.
"Sometimes the war is not fought by the number of people, and the order was immediately sent down to the whole army to intensify the attack and strive to break the will of the Japanese army to resist"!
"Under the notice, the 183rd Division should not be blocked too much, just strive for a part of it"!
"Yes"!
"Inform our artillery to launch a covering bombardment on various locations of the Japanese army to cover the infantry charge"!
"Yes!"
"Report the news to the command"! Wan Baobang said.
"Brother Wan, I'll give you a reinforced company, along with equipment, how about changing these soldiers for me?" Liu Zhengfu said with a smile.
"Even if you give me a battalion, I won't change it, these are my best soldiers, I grabbed them in the martial arts hall back then, and I want to rob them now." Wan Baobang said with a smile.
As he spoke, in the dark, our army's artillery fire opened fire on all fronts, and the small ammunition reserves could be said to be shot out at one time, thousands of large-caliber shells, thousands of mountain artillery shells beckoned, and even those mortars at the front were searching for Japanese fire points to bombard!
The explosions on the Japanese positions roared loudly, and the defensive line, which was originally difficult for the infantry to break, finally became loose under the bombardment of large-caliber shells one after another!
On the battlefield, all the soldiers knew that the final main attack had begun, and as long as this battle was won, they would be able to go straight to Daochang! Victory seems to be on the horizon!
Many of the soldiers, with high morale, loaded their bayonets, loaded their bullets and waited for the shelling to end!
The bombing lasted for half an hour, until only 500 shells remained, and then the bombing gradually stopped, and at this time, red flares were fired from the positions below the mountain!
"Boom"!
"Boom"!
"Brethren! Kill"! Officers at all levels took the lead in shouting and charging towards the Japanese troops on the top of the mountain!
Just when the two armies were only a few dozen meters apart, grenades were thrown out one after another!
In the roar of the explosion, a large number of soldiers rushed into the already chaotic Japanese position, and the tragic white-knuckle battle had begun!
Soon, the Japanese army finally showed its weakness and fear, and retreated one after another, and the attacks of the three regiments of the 184th Division were carried out relatively smoothly. The tenacious Japanese army in the past also showed fear, which is very difficult to see!
However, the command headquarters was destroyed, the command was already chaotic, and the most terrible thing was that the morale of the army had been dispersed, and in the face of such a group of tigers and wolves, the two lines of defense of the Japanese army began to retreat without any decent resistance!
Similarly, although the new 10th Division was inferior to the combat effectiveness of the 184th Division, it advanced relatively smoothly, and the 183rd Division did not block the rear road of the Japanese army.
The 183rd Division waited for the Japanese army to pass two or so brigades before taking the initiative to attack, and under the fierce firepower, more than 800 Japanese troops were divided by firepower on a hill and could not retreat!
Most of the remaining Japanese troops were released, and the Japanese troops who surrounded them were also very crazy, after all, war is life and death, and it is no wonder that you can't live anymore!
The rest of the Japanese army, led by a Japanese major, rushed left and right to break through the defense line of the 183rd Division and break through!
But with the strength of an entire division crushing them on such a small high ground, where else could they retreat?
"Inform the artillerymen! Grenadiers, grenades, explosives packs, etc., greet me together, ready to charge"! Pan Shuoduan said.
"Yes"!
"Be sure to eat the big animals of the 184th Division when they come!"
"Yes"!
"Fire"!
As soon as the words fell, the mortars on the outlying positions opened fire together, and the soldiers in the explosion field launched a large-scale charge, and at this moment, the soldiers who charged up pulled grenades and threw them in again!
There were even soldiers who pulled a bundle of explosives directly and threw it towards a 92 heavy machine gun!
In the violent explosion, the heavy machine gun of the Japanese army was directly blown into the sky, and many soldiers had already charged in when the Japanese explosion wave had just ended!
The sound of machine guns, rifles, the clash of bayonets, screams, resounded throughout the battlefield ...
"Report! Our army broke through the Japanese defense line of the Japanese army, and all units except for the 183rd Division, which surrounded more than 800 Japanese troops, basically ceased fire"! A communications soldier said with joy on his face.
"Inform it, the 184th Division and the new 10th Division will be combined together to continue the pursuit of the Nanxun Railway! The 183rd Division quickly cleared out the remnants of the enemy and cooperated with the pursuit"! Wan Baobang ordered.
"This battle is finally going to be eyebrowed"! Liu Zhengfu often breathed a sigh of relief.
"Report, telegram from the Supreme Minister's Department"!
"Report, command telegram"!
A company of two communication soldiers ran in, Wan Baobang walked over and picked up the telegram, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, he slapped the table and said angrily: "What kind of bullshit order!" I refuse to carry out "!
Liu Zhengfu took the telegram in Wan Baobang's hand, looked at it, and his face changed: "How can this be?" Now let's retreat"?
Wan Baobang picked up the phone on the side and shook his mouth and said, "I'm Wan Baobang, pick up Commander Lu"!
A moment later, Lu Han's voice came from the other side of the phone: "I am Lu Han, you speak"!
"Why retreat? Our unit has broken through the last line of defense of the Japanese army, and we will be able to capture the Nanxun Railway in an hour, and we will be able to launch a general attack on Nanchang before dawn tomorrow! At this time of retreat, have all my brothers died in vain? What kind of bullshit command is this? What bullshit command? Wan Baobang was furious.
Although when they were in the province, Wan Baobang and Lu Han were both brigade commanders, but Wan Baobang has always admired Lu Han's military talent and character, and Lu Han is Long Yun's cousin, and he can be regarded as the second-in-command of Yunnan's military and politics.
In the face of Wan Baobang's merciless questioning, Lu Han did not get angry, but sighed and said: "The battle situation has changed, and you are tantamount to killing yourself in front of the sudden attack!" The commander of the 32nd Army of the 29th Army was killed in battle, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and now they have fully retreated, and the rest of the divisions have been blocked by the Japanese army, and it has just been ascertained that the two divisions of the Japanese army are implementing a strategic detour like our rear, what do you think is the point of attacking now"?
"But we are almost, as long as we hold out for half a day, we can launch an offensive again, I dare not say that capturing Nanchang can also capture most of the Japanese army in Nanchang, besides, don't we still have the 74th Army on the side? We broke through the Japanese defense line, but the Japanese troops on their side could not hold out for long even if they were alone, and the strength of our five divisions could not be defeated." Wan Baobang is still making the final struggle.
"There is no room for it, the current 32nd Army has all retreated, you can be regarded as the first unit to break through, it is very likely that the Japanese army will be surrounded and annihilated in the breakthrough, and the 74th Army has just ceased fire and is ready to retreat! You're a veteran until what to do"! Lu Han sighed.
Wan Baobang was silent for a while before he spoke: "I know"!
Putting down the phone, Wan Baobang couldn't even stand on his feet, as if the strength of his whole body had been extracted at this moment, and he said after a while: "Inform the 184th Division and the New 10th Division to stop attacking, clean up the battlefield quickly, and retreat across the river before dawn"!
"Yes"!
"Inform the 183rd Division to quickly wipe out the Japanese troops surrounded inside, and retreat quickly after cleaning up the battlefield"!
"Yes"!
A series of orders were issued, and Wan Baobang got up and said: "At the last moment, it fell short!" This battle is too damn and a wreck"!
"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, let's look at some of them." Liu Zhengfu said.
"But since we came to the battlefield, we have been defeated, we have been defeated, we have been fighting there and losing there, where can we retreat? Retreat to Yunnan, Guizhou or Sichuan? Finally in being driven to Burma and Vietnam"? Wan Baobang complained.
The field suddenly fell silent, and no one spoke, because Wan Baobang was right, they almost paid a heavy price of 10,000 casualties in this battle, and they finally defeated the Japanese army in front of them at all costs, but they fell short at this last moment, who would be better?
After the same order came down, not to mention the grassroots soldiers below, Zeng Zesheng and Yang Hongyuan, the emergency officers, were also puzzled.
Zeng Zesheng and the others even called the command headquarters, and when they learned the truth, they were heartbroken, and all they could do was obey the order!
In order to ensure that the soldiers were not overly emotional, Zeng Zesheng and Yang Hongyuan decided after discussing that they would let a small number of officers on the partition do the final work, and then quickly clean up the battlefield and bury the remains of the martyrs!
The sky is dark, just like everyone's heart, dim and gloomy, not seeing a trace of light, defeated, defeated, defeated...
However, when the night always dawned, the sky was bright again, and the First Army had all withdrawn across the river and began to move towards Changsha, compared to the other troops, their retreat was the last!
Unexpectedly, this time the Japanese army did not pursue and intercept the retreating troops of our army as before, not because of the discovery of conscience, but because their casualties were so large that it was difficult to pursue.
On May 7, all the attacking forces had been withdrawn, and the Battle of Nanchang was declared over.
However, this battle is still of positive significance, at least it shows that our military and civilians are still resisting, and it has also killed and injured a large number of effective forces of the Japanese army, so that the strategy is stalemate, so that the Chinese's respite stage is one step ahead, and the Japanese army's offensive is gradually slowing down, and it is not as high as before! (To be continued.) )