Chapter 37: Charging with the national anthem
At five o'clock in the afternoon of April 23, the second battle of Xuzhou was still fiercely carried out everywhere, the Yunnan army, the Sichuan army, the Gui army, and the Hunan army were also fighting hard in various places.
Today is the first time that the 60th Army has encountered the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and it is also the second day of fierce fighting, because of the unauthorized retreat of Tang Enbo and Yu Xuezhong to let go of the defense line, the 60th Army has no defense line to rely on, and the Japanese army fought the Great Plains completely by virtue of flesh and blood. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After occupying Xiaozhuang, the Japanese army attacked Guo Jianchen's 540 Brigade in Puwang, Xinzhuang, Daizhuang, and Houbao areas, and on this day, the 182nd Division and 183rd Division were fighting fiercely, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops who broke into the fight to the death, as long as they could not stop it, then the entire defense line would collapse, and Taierzhuang and Xuzhou behind them would also fall into the hands of the enemy one after another, so this battle would be a complete failure.
At this time, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, if it was peacetime, it should be the time for a family reunion to have dinner, but the soldiers of the Yunnan army on the position of Xingjialou were frantically repairing the fortifications, because it was getting dark, and the last attack of the dark would also be the most fierce attack of the Japanese army!
The air was filled with the strong smell of *******, as well as the stench of corpses being charred by the fire, Brigade Commander Chen Zhongshu inspected the forward position with a serious face, and said: "Take advantage of the time, the trenches are dug deeper, and the soil is more tightly photographed by Lao Tzu...
The battle had been going on for a whole day, and now they finally had a chance to take a breather and dig their trenches, which were only a few trenches that were not deep or shallow, but they could give him and her soldiers a little protection, even if it was just a little.
The Japanese soldiers in the distance were eating dinner, preparing for the last attack after dark, and Chen Zhongshu was also eating dinner here, but they were just hard steamed buns and swallowed with water. After everyone finished eating, Chen Zhongshu spoke: "Brothers, we must defend here, if we hold it, there will be hope, if we can't keep it, we will not be able to live with our fathers and villagers, and we will not be able to live with the whole country, our Dian army will be good wherever it goes, and we will never disgrace our fathers and elders or the 60th Army"!
"If you die, you will never be ashamed"!
"Fight for them"!
For a while, everyone shouted, no one is cowardly, this is the strength of the Yunnan army, they are mostly ethnic minorities, ethnic minorities have been fierce since ancient times, they lack food and clothing, they lack resources, but the most lacking is courage, the courage to fight to the death.
"Let's sing a song, let's sing our military song, I'll start"! Chen Zhongshu said.
We come from the great place of the Yunnan uprising,
After walking through the lofty mountains and mountains, we drove to the battlefield of resistance to the enemy.
Brethren fight for the liberation of the nation with flesh and blood,
Carry forward the glory of our defense of the country and Yasukuni!
We must not allow the enemy to run rampant in our land,
We can't still fly enemy planes in our airspace...
For a while, on the battlefield of Xingjialou, which had become a ruin, the high-pitched and passionate military song of the 60th Army sounded again, and the majestic singing of thousands of people roared on this battlefield filled with gunpowder, with their hatred, with their oath, rushed into the sky...
After a military song, the Japanese army in the distance still did not move, and Chen Zhongshu spoke again: "Brothers, do you remember the previous March of the Volunteers"?
"Remember"!
"I start and you sing along"!
Rise up, people who do not want to be slaves, cast our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall, the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time, and everyone is forced to let out the last roar, get up, get up, get up. We are all united in braving the enemy's artillery fire, braving the enemy's artillery fire to advance, forward, forward!
None of them knew that the military song they sang here would become the national anthem later, and they never thought that the military song they sang when they were desperately charging was actually the later national anthem, I once saw such a veteran of the 60th Army, he could sing our national anthem, but he didn't know that this song was our national anthem, only that they sang this military song back then and really braved the enemy's artillery fire to advance, and used their flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall for us, the Great Wall of flesh and blood!
At half past five o'clock in the afternoon of 21 April, more than a dozen Japanese warplanes roared toward the ruined Xingjialou.
The entire Xingjialou suddenly turned into a sea of fire, the column of smoke rose into the air, the flames were rolling, and there were violent explosions everywhere, which were several times more violent than the previous fierce shelling, there was no air force, no heavy weapons, and the only anti-aircraft weapon was their Hatch Kaisi anti-aircraft machine gun.
When the fighter arrived, Zhao Jianying hurriedly installed the anti-aircraft tripod of Hatch Chase and locked a fighter plane and shot wildly, but the machine gun is a machine gun after all, it is not an anti-aircraft gun, and even if a bullet hits, it will not fall. Moreover, most of the heavy machine guns at this time were blown up before, and there were not many left, and in the face of the joint operation of the Japanese air force and army, they only had heavy machine guns and were passively beaten.
"Boom"!
Hearing only a loud noise, the huge fire instantly rushed up more than ten meters high, and a combat platoon that had just fired into the sky was turned into ashes under the aerial bomb at this moment, such a scene is still evolving on the battlefield from time to time, and the 542 Brigade, which originally had the strength to fight a battle, suffered even more heavy casualties at this time.
After about 20 minutes of bombing, the planes ran out of bombs, and a Zero fighter bullied the soldiers of the Yunnan army on the ground without anti-aircraft weapons, and dived towards the position below 5.
"Da-da-da... Da-da-da..."
A series of powerful bullets swept down towards the ground, and Zhao Jianying suddenly raised his machine gun and fired wildly at this extremely arrogant Japanese fighter. A fighter plane fired at the ground with a machine gun, and a heavy machine gun raised its muzzle to shoot frantically at the oncoming fighters.
"Da Da Da Da"! Listening only to a series of machine gun roars, Hatchkais's armor-piercing steel core bullet directly hit the arrogant pilot on the plane, and the powerful bullet not only smashed the windshield in front of the plane, but also smashed the head of the Japanese pilot who shot more than a dozen soldiers of the Yunnan Army.
The fighter plane, which lost control, landed in a clearing behind the position with a roaring heavy load, and exploded violently.
Seeing this, the remaining Japanese fighters hurriedly began to retreat, and at this moment, the Japanese army, which had been silent for a long time, opened fire at this time, and hundreds and thousands of shells once again turned into a torrential rain and smashed down on Xingjialou.
Immediately afterwards, the remaining tanks of the Japanese army and the tide of Japanese soldiers charged over again, Chen Zhongshu was calm and said loudly: "Don't use violent firepower, wait for the tanks to come up and aim at them to hit the tracks, the demolition team is ready to blow up the Japanese tanks at any time, and the infantry is ready to charge at any time with bayonets"!
"Yes"!
It wasn't until the tanks and infantry were only a hundred meters away from the position that Chen Zhongshu picked up a Czech light machine gun and shouted: "Avenge the brothers, give Lao Tzu a hard beating"!
Zhao Jianying once again aimed at the track of a tank in front of him and shot fiercely, about 100 rounds of bullets, the tank was really broken and could not move a minute, Yu Ci At the same time, the rest of the heavy machine gunners were also firing fiercely at the track of the Japanese tank.
The rain of bullets can no longer be in the fierce situation in the field, it can only be said that the earth is trembling, trembling under artillery fire, bullets shuttling in the air, from time to time Japanese soldiers fall in the rain of bullets, and from time to time there are soldiers of the Yunnan army who are blown up under the fire of the Japanese army.
Until the two tanks were paralyzed to the ground, the entire 542 Brigade was left with only Zhao Jianying's only heavy machine gun firepower, and the rest was destroyed by the Japanese army's accurate five-stroke artillery fire, at this time, their 82 mortars let out an angry roar and bombarded the Japanese troops around the back of the tank.
"Demolition group, rush"! Chen Zhongshu roared, and hundreds of soldiers of the Yunnan army rushed out of the trenches at this moment, braving artillery fire and rushing out to the front of the rain of bullets and bullets.
"Boom"!
"Boom"!
The violent explosion shook the heart, and the two Japanese tanks were completely scrapped in the roar, and some soldiers of the Yunnan army also learned the previous method of destroying the enemy tank, allowing the tank to be crushed and the tank to die together, and a moment later, four tanks were destroyed in the field, that is, most of the infantry were killed and wounded, but the hundreds of soldiers who rushed out were all killed and wounded at this moment!
This time, the Japanese army did not retreat because of this, and still frantically came towards Xingjialou. Come to think of it, they captured the North Daying in two hours, ate the Northeast in three months, captured Jinan in two hours, they were here all the way, a small town was blocked for a whole day, they bombarded with artillery, rushed with tanks, bombed with planes, and used everything they could, while the barbarian army on the opposite side never flinched, even if the casualties were heavy, they were still nailed here, this was their shame, it was their shame, all they had to take here, Otherwise, as the most elite Itagaki Division of the Japanese army, how can we talk about a shame?
After a day of fierce fighting, the 542 Brigade at this time ran out of shells, and the bullets began to be stretched, but the ammunition could not be delivered because of the Japanese artillery blockade, until Zhao Jianying finished fighting the last shuttle, and the entire position suddenly fell into a dead silence.
They had no ammunition, but the Japanese troops on the opposite side were full of ammunition and fierce firepower, at this moment, Chen Zhongshu also threw away the light machine gun and picked up a 79 rifle that had been loaded with a bayonet and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come to serve the country loyally, although you can enter the martyr's hall if you die, now the brigade commander takes the lead, kill me"!
"Kill"!
"Kill"!
Running out of ammunition and food, they all cut off their last weapons at this moment, and rushed towards the Japanese army who was only a few dozen meters away from them...