Chapter Forty-Three: Shifting Fronts
"Clean up the battlefield"! Niu Chao said loudly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Yes"!
The living sergeants began to clean up the battlefield one after another, and in only an hour or two, they annihilated a brigade of the Itagaki Division, more than 1,000 people, and the wheat field was full of lying corpses of devils. Looking at the corpses of these so-called elite aces of the Japanese army covering the entire wheat field, everyone exhaled with relief, the artillery and planes of the Japanese army in the past few days have made them suffer enough, and also made them suffer particularly heavy casualties, and finally at this time, the formation of a devil brigade was destroyed, avenging the brothers.
At this time, the battlefield in Shanghai really had everything, there were guns left by the Japanese army everywhere, there were Japanese crooked machine guns and 92 heavy machine guns, and there were many 38 big covers, everyone put away the guns and began to search for the ammunition on these Japanese soldiers and the rest of a series of valuable trophies.
Lu Hai's current trophies are the katana in the hands of the previous Japanese captain, as well as a Wang Ba box pistol, and there is also a document bag, which contains several documents and a small notebook, which is written in Japanese, Lu Hai couldn't understand it for a while, and after pondering for a long time, it sounded that the division commander once placed a young man named Li Zhengguo in their camp, I heard that he graduated from Yenching University and could speak Japanese.
Lu Hai walked over to the battalion commander, took out the saber and pistol and said: "Battalion commander, this is the war knife and pistol of the devil captain, but I can't understand what is written in this document package, is there a new man named Li Zizheng in our battalion, let him translate and translate, maybe he can know the next plan of the Japanese army!"
"Li Zizheng"! The battalion commander shouted.
"In"! I saw a young man about twenty-four or five years old running over. This man has a handsome face, especially wearing a military uniform and a steel helmet, and looks very majestic, but this person's behavior is not as casual as these sergeants, and it looks like he is full of poetry, books, literature and military skills.
"Battalion commander, you called me"? Li Zizheng said.
"Look at what is written on this"? As he spoke, Niu Chaokuan handed over the document bag.
Li Zizheng took a few documents and frowned for a while before he said: "These documents are the combat instructions given to them by the Japanese high-level officials, and the order says that let them quickly clear the remnants of Dongzhuang and converge towards Yuwang Mountain, and if they take Yuwang Mountain, they will fully bombard the positions of the 60th Army, and they also threaten to capture Taierzhuang within three days"!
"Fortunately, the division commander has already seen through the devil's attempt, otherwise once Yuwang Mountain is lost, our 60th Army will really face the catastrophe of annihilation"! Niu Chaokuan said.
"This is a diary of a dead Japanese prisoner, written since he left Japan and entered China, and it is full of some things about his homesickness, and all the wars he has participated in, the most recent of which is ours." Li Zizheng said.
"How to say"? Niu Chaokuan asked.
"In three hours, the Northern Camp was captured, and Manchuria was occupied in three months. Two hours to capture Jinan. The land of Taierzhuang has not been captured for three days.
"I saw the monkey army in Manchuria, and I saw the barbarian army here, and the individual training equipment was not inferior to ours, but fortunately, there were no heavy artillery and aircraft, and since the war against China, I had never encountered such a fierce charge, and the barbarian army that turned into flesh and did not take half a step back"!
"He said that we are a barbarian army, and it seems that they are also afraid of us in their hearts!" Niu Chaokuan said with a smile.
"Okay, let's retreat to the side of the trench first, the devil has suffered a big loss, and if you can't keep it for a while, you will retaliate wildly, we will hold the defensive line, and now it's up to the division commander to them"!
"Yes"!
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At the same time, a wing of the Japanese army is also moving quickly towards the only commanding heights on the battlefield, Yuwang Mountain!
The garrison of Yuwang Mountain was a regiment of Gao Yinhuai before, but now there is indeed only one battalion of troops, moreover, Yuwang Mountain is mostly gravel, digging trenches is extremely unfavorable, this battalion has to be stationed at the foot of Yuwang Mountain, leaving only a platoon of troops under Yuwang Mountain.
On this day, on the plain outside Yuwang Mountain, a whole wing of troops was sent to the mighty force, and the battalion commander responsible for guarding here was none other than Zhao Ke.
Zhao Ke is now wearing a military uniform that is already in tatters, and there are several scabbed wounds on his face, at this time, he took a telescope to look at the Japanese army in the distance, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and call the division commander, let him send troops to support quickly, and others check the equipment and prepare for battle"!
In the headquarters, Gao Yinhuai's face turned blue in an instant after receiving the call, and he also knew that it was impossible for a single battalion on the front line to block the attack of a Japanese wing, but he had no soldiers to send, so he had to pick up the phone and call the army commander: "Army commander, I am Gao Yinhuai, the Japanese army is attacking Yuwang Mountain with the strength of a wing, and there is only one battalion where I am stationed, please send troops to support the division commander as soon as possible, otherwise Yuwang Mountain will be lost."
Lu Han frowned and said: "Tell your brother that you must resist, I have asked Zhang Chong to send troops over to support, he should be able to arrive soon, you must support until the reinforcements arrive." ”
"Yes"! Gao Yinhuai said.
At the foot of Yuwang Mountain, the Japanese attack on the opposite side stayed for a short time, and then began to divide the troops to attack Yuwang Mountain, and there was a Japanese brigade that rushed forward, but there were only more than 500 people guarding here.
At this moment, the Japanese mountain artillery in the distance opened fire one after another, and a series of famous bombs fell on Zhao Ke's position with a tsunami.
As early as when the Japanese were about to open fire, Zhao Ke ordered all the soldiers to quickly get into the anti-artillery holes on both sides of the trench to take refuge.
Just after a round of heavy shelling, the entire position was instantly dusty, the flames burned everywhere, and some cat's ear holes were directly hit by shells, and the soldiers inside were either killed by shells or buried alive, but in terms of overall casualties, they were much better than the previous defenseless.
After a round of shelling, the Japanese brigade rushed towards Zhao Ke's position under the cover of seven tanks, and at this moment, Zhao Ke drilled out of the cat's ear hole and said: "Prepare to meet the enemy"!
As soon as the words fell, most of the soldiers in the trenches came out one after another, and the heavy machine gunners and light machine guns also occupied the ranks one after another, and they were about to open fire when Zhao Ke gave the order. At this time, the 184th Division, which had been pulled out of Taierzhuang, was moving towards Yuwang Mountain with all its might.
Why do you say all-out exercise? Taierzhuang is not far from Yuwang Mountain, but because of the Japanese artillery fire and aircraft bombardment, and the fact that there is no support on this great plain, they can only march at night, and even the support troops can only do this, otherwise I am afraid that the support troops will be completely covered by the superior artillery fire of the Japanese army before they arrive at the support site.
The 1086 Yang Hongyuan Regiment of the 543 Brigade was responsible for the rescue, and they were not only responsible for the rescue but also responsible for holding Yuwang Mountain, but it was daytime at this time, and once it was exposed on the Great Plains, I am afraid that his troops would suffer a catastrophe before they could reach the spot.
As a result, the entire army could only rely on nearby villages and the occasional grove to make a secret retreat before marching at full strength.
At this time, at the foot of Yuwang Mountain, the arrogant Japanese army was only a hundred meters away from them, and at this time, the only two anti-aircraft guns guarding here opened fire violently, and the two Japanese tanks that rushed to the front burst into flames, and for a while, the tanks on the opposite side also began to slow down in an instant, and they fired fiercely at Zhao Ke's position.
At this moment, the battle defense artillery at the rear of the position opened fire again, and another tank was paralyzed in the panic, because the Japanese army first did not know that the 60th Army already had war defense artillery, and the Japanese tanks were weak in armor, and it was more than enough to bully the weak China without heavy weapons, but after encountering the Soviet tanks, the Japanese tanks were basically paper paste. But that's for another time!
At this moment, the only few mortars on the position also opened fire and bombarded the Japanese troops on the opposite side.
"Hit"! Zhao Ke ordered.
For a while, dense gunfire rang out, light and heavy machine guns opened fire together, and began to shoot wildly at the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and after a while, the Japanese troops were lost three tanks and more than 100 people and began to retreat.
"Battalion commander, we have a battle defense artillery, and the little devils on the other side are just like that!" The first company commander said.
"Hurry back to the cat's ear hole, the Japanese army is going to shell again, tell the brothers who control the anti-aircraft artillery and mortars to be hidden"! Zhao Ke said with a serious face.
"Yes"!
Everyone hurriedly withdrew to the rear position, and just when a group of people had already drilled into the cat's ear hole, the artillery position of the Japanese army on the opposite side suddenly remembered the rumbling dense artillery sound.
"Boom"
"Boom"
Zhao Ke's position turned into a sea of fire again, and some soldiers who failed to get into the cat's ear hole in time were suddenly blown up by the shells...
After a round of artillery bombardment, the Japanese troops on the opposite side charged towards this position again, Zhao Ke looked at most of the casualties on the position with a pale face, and ordered: "The light and heavy machine guns are transferred according to the No. 2 position set before, and the battle defense artillery is ready to strike at the intruding tanks at any time."
A moment later, several tanks drove again and rushed towards the position with a wave of Japanese troops, and at this moment, the Japanese tank main guns and flat-axis machine guns also opened fire fiercely, and the people on the positions suppressed by the dense rain of bullets could not raise their heads.
Zhao Ke said angrily: "Tell the artillerymen to give Lao Tzu those two tanks to Lao Tzu to lay down"!
"Yes"!
A communications soldier hurriedly lowered his head and ran quickly towards the back of the position, a moment later, the two anti-aircraft guns hidden behind the trench locked on the two tanks at the forefront and pulled the rope suddenly, only to hear two sharp sounds of breaking the air, the two tanks on the front suddenly exploded two fires, and then stopped moving, at this time, the Japanese tanks were also searching for the anti-aircraft guns hidden in the trenches, if they did not get the anti-aircraft guns, I am afraid that once their tanks were locked, they would be devastated by the anti-aircraft guns.
At this moment, the Japanese tanks and infantry were shooting frantically from a distance of fifty meters from the control, but they looked like they were suppressed by Zhao Ke's firepower, but at this moment, Zhao Ke's face changed dramatically and he said violently: "Go back to the cat's ear hole and prepare for anti-artillery"!