Chapter 58: The Sun Weeps Blood (5)
In fact, it is indeed as Zhang Chong said, the soldiers on the forward position have suffered heavy casualties, but the Japanese army is also suffering heavy casualties, and the casualties on the second-line position are also not small, but they can only fire at the middle of the Japanese army, and they can't go down to reinforce, because once they are all strangled together with the Japanese army, once they are defeated, the entire defense line will be over, so they can only do this, and the rest can only depend on the situation of the first-line position. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There are three battalions stationed in the forward position of Yuwang Mountain, but because of the Japanese artillery fire and the current state of fighting, there are also heavy losses, but the Japanese attack was blocked by the artillery fire of the 60th Army, and the follow-up troops could not keep up and had to start to retreat timidly. After the first wave of the Japanese charge was defeated, they hurriedly began to collect weapons and ammunition and rush to repair the fortifications, after all, it was only 11 o'clock in the morning, and the Japanese army could not launch only one attack on this day.
Sure enough, just half an hour later, the Japanese army once again launched a new offensive, this round of attack is still a front-line position, but the Japanese artillery is ready to deal with the field artillery position of the half-connected building at any time, who knows that at this time Wan Baobang has already ordered the field artillery position to change the new tactics, that is, after playing a fixed base, the field artillery is much easier to transfer than the heavy artillery, under a round of artillery battles, the artillery position of the half-connected building not only did not lose but also killed and injured a large number of Japanese troops.
The forward positions once again exchanged fire with the Japanese, but this time it was much better than before, at least there was no damn dense artillery fire, and some were just some Japanese mortars, hand guns and tank main guns, although they were still very intense, but they were much better than before.
For a time, the effective support of heavy artillery and field artillery was missing, and the Japanese offensive also appeared weak, and the mortar and anti-aircraft artillery of the 60th Army also effectively weakened the Japanese army's firepower to a certain extent.
The second round of attack, which lasted only an hour, was beaten again, the Japanese army saw that Yuwang Mountain was not easy to attack, so they simply transferred their troops to the surrounding positions of Yuwang Mountain, that is, Huoshibu and Dongzhuang, and the Huoshibu garrisoned was the 182nd and 183rd divisions, and the combatants were only a little more than one battalion, not even a thousand people.
A wing of the Japanese army attacked the grave of nearly 3,000 people, which made Huoshibu and Dongzhuang nervous for a while, especially the Japanese army attacking Dongzhuang reached two brigades, and for a time the whole Dongzhuang was tight, An Enfu picked up the phone and said: "I am An Enfu, the Japanese army transferred firepower to attack my Dongzhuang position, and there are two brigades and four tanks, please ask your department to support quickly"!
Zhang Chong frowned and said, "Brother An, you must hold on, I will send troops to rush over!"
Hung up the phone, Zhang Chong frowned, thought about it, and then picked up the phone and called Zeng Zesheng and said: "Dongzhuang is tight, all of your regiments have withdrawn from Yuwang Mountain and quickly reinforce Dongzhuang Huoshi Port"!
Zeng Zesheng frowned and said, "Yes"!
A moment later, the whole regiment of Zeng Zesheng's regiment stationed on the right side of the position was dispatched and divided into two groups to rush to the aid of Dongzhuang and Huoshibu respectively, and Zhang Chong ordered at this time: "Order the soldiers in the forward position to adjust the defense line and strictly prevent the Japanese from attacking"!
"You tell Regiment Commander Zeng to leave us something when he withdraws, and if the Japanese army comes to attack, I will personally command it," Xue Zizheng said.
With the withdrawal of Zeng Zesheng's regiment, there are only two regiments left on Yuwang Mountain, excluding the number of casualties is only about 4,000 people, and the strength on the right side of the defense line is obviously insufficient.
Sure enough, just after Zeng Zesheng's regiment walked for half an hour, more than 2,000 people from two Japanese brigades attacked Yuwang Mountain again, and the target was the position on the right side where the troops were empty. Zhang Chong hurriedly ordered most of the troops and horses on the second-line position to be transferred to the right position.
Lu Hai's second battalion was also drawn out of two companies, which were Lu Hai's first company and Li Fan's second artillery company. The same is true for other troops, there are as many as two battalions of troops transferred at this time, and Lu Hai's current defensive position is the first-line position at the foot of the left side of Yuwang Mountain.
Just as Lu Hai and they entered the position, the Japanese side was already ringing guns, several tank main guns and Japanese mortars and hand guns were all fired, and the entire position was instantly in flames, and then the machine guns on the tanks and the Japanese troops who charged over were also firing fiercely, and the dense rain of bullets almost suppressed Lu Hai They couldn't raise their heads.
The commander of this battalion formed at zero hour was none other than the chief of staff of the division headquarters, Xue Zizheng.
Xue Zizheng's origin is a little mysterious, he was temporarily brought in by Zhang Chong in Wuhan, and he has served as the chief of staff of the 184th Division since then, but he has not appeared in the division headquarters, and no one knows what Xue Zizheng is capable of, but since Zhang Chong asked him to command, then he must act in strict accordance with his orders.
Lu Hai's company had just exchanged fire with the Japanese army and was directly withdrawn by Xue Zizheng, and at the same time there was another company that withdrew, and the firepower on the forward position suddenly weakened a lot, and the Japanese army took advantage of this time to swarm in, and suddenly the forward position was already tight. Just when the front army was preparing to fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, Xue Zizheng once again ordered the forward troops to withdraw from the front-line positions.
Although the front troops were puzzled, the commander's order naturally had a reason for his order, so they had to all retreat, just when the Japanese army occupied the front-line position, Xue Zizheng smiled coldly and said: "Detonate"!
A soldier next to him slammed the detonator in his hand!
"Boom"!
Hearing only a loud noise, the Japanese troops who were about to continue charging were instantly engulfed in flames, and about 200 Japanese soldiers were killed in an instant, and at the same time, Lu Hai's company of more than 160 people also set up machine guns in a small forest on the side of the detour according to Xue Zizheng's order and fired at the Japanese army's side.
The rate of fire of Hatch Chase was particularly advanced in the world's machine guns at that time, and several Hatch Chase machine guns fired at the Japanese army on the side, as you can imagine, the gunfire rang out, coupled with the large grenades thrown out, the Japanese army fell in an instant, and for a time the forward offensive weakened and fired fiercely at the side.
"Withdraw"! Lu Hai gave the order suddenly, and all the soldiers of the whole company also quickly retreated, and at this moment, the soldiers on the forward positions that had just withdrawn rushed in the opposite direction, and for a time there was also a loud sound of guns and artillery on the forward positions, and the Japanese forward positions had already suffered heavy casualties, and the attacked troops on both sides were scattered. The seven or eight hundred men who rushed out of the forward positions scattered the entire Japanese front line for a time.
At the same time, the two companies that originally attacked from the flank were attacking in depth behind the enemy, and at this time, Li Fan and Sun Yang's artillery companies also fired fiercely, not only mortars but also a battle defense gun, but both of them were born in mortars, and it was the first time to control the war defense artillery.
The soldiers in the front stage launched a counterattack against the Japanese army with absolutely inferior forces under the cover of more than a dozen Czech light machine guns, grenades and mortars.
Generally on the battlefield, when launching a counter-attack, it is generally when the number of their own troops is significantly superior to that of the Japanese army, and no matter how bad it is, it must be relatively equal, but the Japanese army has two brigades of more than 2,000 Japanese troops and they only have two battalions, and there are only less than 800 troops in the frontal charge.
But these 800 troops will be the Japanese army's forward positions to fight back again and again, heavy casualties, the soldiers of the 60th Army needless to say, most of them are Yi soldiers, whether it is physical fitness or blood and combat skills are relatively good, but here it is a tough encounter with the Japanese army, although sometimes it is unavoidable, but the 60th Army has not participated in foreign wars for many years, let alone fought with the Japanese army, and the tactics are a little dull, and Xue Zizheng's real identity is the Communist Party, and the Communist Party knows how to study tactics the most.
In this blocking battle, Xue Zizheng used guerrilla warfare methods, but instead maximized the combat power of the Sixty Army, and even the power of these weapons and ammunition was maximized by Xue Zizheng.
The Japanese army was attacked on three sides and was in chaos for a while, but whenever they wanted to concentrate their firepower to annihilate a certain unit, this force retreated and did not fight them at all, while the rest of the troops launched a fierce attack at this time, and the two brigades of the Japanese army, which were exhausted, left behind the corpses of six or seven hundred people, began to retreat.
Everyone was overjoyed when they looked at the Japanese army that had retreated, they were already short of troops, but it was such a small force that repelled the Japanese army and said for a while: "Staff Officer Xue is really a god"!
"At first, I thought he wanted me to be a deserter!"
"Staff Officer Xue is amazing, it's just Zhuge Liang alive...
For a while, many words of praise sounded among the soldiers, Lu Hai frowned and suddenly sounded the notebook that Chen Zhongshu gave him before, this method of warfare is very similar to Zhu De's so-called guerrilla warfare, Zhu De is now the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, so this Xue Zizheng... Did all the people who joined their army in Wuhan?
After thinking for a while, Lu Hai's brows relaxed, but he said: "Don't care about him, it's all devils"!
"What?" Li Fan on the side was puzzled.
"It's nothing, you'll know later."
At this time, Xue Zizheng's order came again, ordering them to secretly withdraw from the position and move to the slopes on both sides, and the front-line position was completely empty, although they did not understand Xue Zizheng's intentions, but after just standing up, everyone was also convinced by Xue Zizheng's command ability and retreated.