Chapter 168: The Heart of War
Because of this round of fierce shelling, the soldiers on the front line of the Japanese army were too seriously killed, and the follow-up soldiers did not dare to step forward because of the firepower. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In just a few minutes, thousands of soldiers of the Dian Army had already rushed to the Japanese position, and the two armies were strangled together, almost in a short period of time, a gunfight turned into a tragic white-knuckle battle.
Because all the soldiers of the Yunnan army understood that such an attack could make the follow-up firepower of the Japanese army unable to deploy, because once it was deployed, it was very likely to injure their own people, and this situation was the most conducive to the battle of the soldiers of the Yunnan army who were good at bayonet fighting.
Seeing that the forward position had been broken through, Yang Hongyuan and Zeng Zesheng ordered all the troops to press up on the whole line almost at the same time, and at the same time, the two regiments of the new 10th Division also pressed up on the whole line, almost in just ten minutes, nearly 10,000 troops pressed up!
"Commander! The Dian army took the lead in breaking through the Japanese defense line, and the two sides had already started a fierce battle, and the current Japanese positions had been disrupted by them"!
"How so? So fast"? Wang Yaowu was shocked.
"Their artillery now has an advantage over us, their tactics are different from ours, the tactics of the martial arts were learned from the Japanese army before, and now the commander of the 184th Division is still a highly talented student of the Imperial Army University of the Japanese Army, when they are shelling, the infantry is already moving rapidly, only a hundred meters away from the front line of the Japanese army, and after the shelling, almost a minute later they rushed into the Japanese position"!
"Inform Zhang Lingfu that while the Japanese army's formation is chaotic, all of them will rush forward and press this group of devils to the end"!
"Yes"!
Just when the Dian army and the Japanese army were fighting fiercely, the 74th Army also launched a fierce attack under the condition of the opening of the artillery fire and the chaos of the Japanese army, and the ace unit of the Central Army also rushed into the Japanese defense line and fought with the Japanese army at close range.
The stabbing of the Zhongzheng rifle and the 38 rifle, the duel between the big blade and the katana has been unfolded on all fronts, and the shouts, shouts, scolding, fighting, and screams resounded throughout the suburban hillside flats.
Similarly, on the side of the Dian army, the fighting was even more intense, tens of thousands of people fought in this narrow space, and the corpses were injected with hot fresh blood again on the blood that had fallen on the entities and had not yet dried up.
The Burmese knife cut off the arm and head, the bayonet pierced the chest, some of the soldiers who were stabbed with blood all over their bodies pulled grenades and rushed towards the crowd of Japanese soldiers, and in the loud bang, the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the main attack force composed of veterans of the 60th Army clashed with the Japanese army from the front, and the combat quality and assassination skills of these veterans were more exquisite and sophisticated than the Japanese army to a certain extent, and every two strokes could stab a Japanese soldier to death.
The Japanese army, which has always been known for fighting bayonets, now has the strongest opponent they have since the war in China, because all the assassination tactics of these guys are basically the same as theirs, and they are more savage and crazy!
After a fierce battle, the losses of the Japanese army reached as many as a thousand, and many soldiers were almost covered in blood, and even their faces were red with blood, but they were still shouting and roaring, and continued to charge with almost bent bayonets.
This scene was very bloody, and many Japanese troops were already weakened in momentum, and the so-called bushido spirit was nothing more than this under absolute force, under the barbarian army's barbaric primitive courage!
The Japanese army finally began to retreat, Li Zuo saw this and resolutely ordered to pursue them with all his might, entangled them to the death, and must not pull the distance between the two armies, once they were pulled away, the two sides would fall into a bitter battle, so the best way was to entangle them so that their firepower could not be released, and they would be pressed to the end!
Similarly, the offensive of the 74th Army was also carried out on the whole front, and the Japanese troops of a brigade in front of them were also defeated and retreated by them.
In the same way, Wan Baobang on the top of the hill ordered: "Inform the artillery, extend the firing range, attack the follow-up units of the Japanese army, cover their frontal charge"!
The artillery fire of the Yunnan army rang out again, and shells whistled and smashed into it, many Japanese troops who had just withdrawn to the rear were directly blown up, and some of the 92 machine gun nests that had just been repaired were destroyed again by the Japanese artillery fire.
Similarly, the 184th Division, the troops of the whole line launched a frantic pursuit, and the Japanese army could not resist and retreated, and pursued it until it reached the edge of the Jinjiang River.
At this time, it was the dry season, and the deepest part of the river in the Jinjiang River was only half a person deep, and there were several pontoon bridges on it, and the Japanese troops began to retreat along the pontoon bridges!
"Inform the division commander, report the location of the pontoon bridge, cut off their retreat, and drive them to the river for me"! Li Zuo ordered categorically.
"Yes"!
After receiving the situation on the front line, Wan Baobang quickly repaired the heavy artillery according to the coordinates provided by Li Zuo and began to bombard.
In the roaring cannon, a column of water more than ten meters high rushed up on the river! The makeshift pontoon bridge was blown to pieces by artillery shells, and even the Japanese soldiers who were fleeing for their lives were directly torn to pieces by artillery fire.
"He went crazy and cut off the retreat of the Japanese army, and we will suffer heavy casualties in the last battle of the Japanese army"! Wang Yaowu said through the telescope.
At this moment, Li Zuo and the others rushed up again, dozens of light machine guns in front of them opened the way, and the soldiers behind flicked grenades.
The defense line that the Japanese army had just formed was torn apart again, and in the face of this group of fierce and vicious Yunnan soldiers, these Japanese soldiers had no heart to resist, and some Japanese troops on the defense line were ready to wade into the water to flee for their lives.
Just after they rushed into the river, they were trapped in the mud and became a live target for the soldiers on the shore for a while.
Under the fierce rifle machine gun fire, almost all the Japanese soldiers in the river were killed, and the river water, which had begun to be muddy, was full of corpses, and the blood dyed the turbid river water purple, showing a strange look of turbidity and red.
In Nanjing, the Japanese army killed and wounded a large number of innocent civilians and disarmed soldiers of our country, threw their corpses into the river, and the blood stained the entire river red.
We don't like war! But we will not succumb to the butcher's knife of others, the Chinese soldiers must not be humiliated, and the Chinese people must not be bullied!
The rear road was cut off, the forward attack was fierce, and the Japanese army's imminent spirit of battle was also aroused, and many Japanese soldiers fell into madness and began to fight back desperately, but in the face of these charging soldiers who were not afraid of death, resistance was only delaying the time of death and rout.
The Japanese defense line was no longer even concerned that there were still their own people in the crowd and began to fire fiercely, and many soldiers fell in the gunfire, and many Japanese soldiers were killed by their own people.
The attack at the front was finally blocked, and seeing this, Li Zuo categorically ordered the troops to retreat, and at the same time ordered: "Notify the artillery, report the direction"!
"Yes"!
After receiving the report, Wan Baobang resolutely ordered: "The artillery is bombing on all fronts, and the mountain artillery and field artillery are transferred to the position!" Rush across the board"!
As soon as he put down the phone, Wang Yaowu's phone called: "Commander Wan, do you know that this will arouse the Japanese army's desire to fight, and they will fight to the death!"
"Commander Wang! I know, but has Commander Wang thought about it, if we let them go, how difficult will it be for us to cross the river? They're putting up a line of defense, and we're going to have to pay heavy casualties too, and that's it! It's better to attack directly, in one go, even if you can't completely annihilate them, you will have to hit them hard, and after crossing the river, you will be advancing for twenty miles to the Nanxun Railway"!
Wang Yaowu's anger suddenly weakened, because Wan Baobang said that it was very reasonable, the Japanese army would resist to the death, and it was not false that our army's casualties would increase, if you really let the Japanese army pass, and the pontoon bridge was bombed, the difficulty for our army to attack it would increase exponentially, and the casualties at that time would probably be greater!
Putting down the phone, Wang Yaowu picked up the phone and said: "Inform our artillery not to worry about ammunition and bomb all fronts!" Bomb this beast into the river! ”
"Yes"!
A moment later, all the artillery fire of the Dian army, including the mortars that came up from the movement, opened fire on all fronts, and immediately afterwards, the artillery fire of the 74th Army was also firing wildly, and the Japanese troops who had just formed a position on the riverside suddenly suffered heavy artillery fire, and almost in the first round of shelling, there were hundreds of shells.
Large-caliber 105, Krupp, its own mountain artillery, field artillery, as well as the Japanese army's 75 mountain guns, 92 infantry guns. The captured 60 mortars, the 82 mortars of the Dian Army, and the light and heavy mortars of the 74 Army also opened heavy fire.
Almost immediately, the casualties on the Japanese positions had reached hundreds of people, and the hastily constructed defense line was bombed with craters everywhere.
The military quality of the Japanese army is extremely advanced, after the first round of shelling, many Japanese soldiers relied on the craters to build a defensive line, many craters, there were many Japanese heavy machine guns and crooked handles, after the construction of the defensive line, the Japanese army is also firing back!
At this moment, the second round of shelling roared down again, the third, the fourth ...
At this time, thousands of shells all hit the narrow position of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, which was killed and wounded, could no longer resist anymore, and most of them began to retreat and prepare to force the Jinjiang River to flee!
In the headquarters of the 106th Division, the division commander looked at the battle report sent from the front line, his face almost turned iron-blue, and he was almost wiped out by General Xue Yue when he smashed Wanjialing before, and now he was finally formed, and he was beaten and suffered heavy losses instead of fighting a turnaround, and if he continued to fight like this, the soldiers on the other side of the 106th Division River would probably be wiped out.
"Is the Air Force coming?"
"Just now the headquarters called and said that because the Chinese army was attacking on all fronts, the air force was also fighting continuously, and it was still in the process of loading ammunition"!
"Yaga! Inform all the personnel in the division who can participate in the battle to go to the river to support, pull them back, build a defensive line, and must not let them cross the river"!
"Yes"!
Just when most of the Japanese troops were fleeing to the river, the shells also followed, and the heavy machine guns fired with all their might to shoot at the Japanese soldiers fleeing in the river, and at this time, the last wing of the 106th Division, even their or their military doctors, had already picked up their guns and quickly moved towards the river! (To be continued.) )