Chapter Ninety-One: The War Begins

In fact, this Japanese squad of about sixty or seventy people, and it is indeed the forward pathfinder force of the Japanese army, the Japanese army is on the offensive very fiercely, and the battle line has been pulled to the vicinity of Wuhan, and now the Japanese army's Bingfeng has tried to break through the Chinese army's defense line from the front line of Yangxin and Paishi, and capture Wuhan in one fell swoop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In fact, it is true that the Chinese army has reached an extremely weak point after many attritions and losses, as long as the living forces of the Chinese army are annihilated in large numbers in the Battle of Wuhan, how many large-scale battles can the weak Republic of China organize?

Although the Japanese attack was met with stubborn resistance from the Chinese army, relying on the absolute crushing of equipment, the Japanese army gradually advanced its forces to the edge of Wuhan, and then the victory or defeat of the battle of Wuhan was known, and perhaps the Republic of China would really surrender.

No, the Japanese army who had just sent Bingfeng to Daopai City couldn't wait to send pathfinders to investigate the deployment of troops around Pai City.

They don't know that there are no troops near Pai City now, and the only one that has it is a battalion in Luhai.

At this time, Zhao Jianying and the others had already laid an ambush on both sides of a small valley that the Japanese army had to pass through, and they were waiting for the Japanese army to come in and play a game for them to close the door and beat the dog.

Half an hour later, the Japanese squad really walked into the valley, and when the Japanese squad all entered the valley, Zhao Jianying shouted: "Grenade"!

The soldiers, who had already prepared the grenades, threw the grenades down, and the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were killed in large numbers, and the rest shot back.

By the light of the explosion, the soldiers who were ambushed on both sides opened fire violently, and the Japanese army fell in an instant, and the living people hurriedly resisted in the surrounding rocks!

Zhao Jianying sneered and shouted: "Detonation"!

The soldier in charge of detonating the detonation suddenly pulled the hemp rope in his hand, and the grenades that had been buried around these stones were violently pulled, and the Japanese soldiers who had just resisted were killed again by the violent explosion, and a squad of sixty or seventy people had already been killed and wounded more than half of them in a moment.

The living soldiers were preparing to break through the encirclement, but at this moment, two light machine guns opened fire fiercely on the way they came, killing four or five devils in front, and those behind hurriedly buried their heads and hidden.

At this time, there were less than 20 Japanese soldiers left, but Zhao Jianying did not let the soldiers rush down in order to avoid casualties, but kept locking and shooting in the valley, and if he couldn't shoot, he was killed with grenades.

More than ten minutes later, the Japanese squad was finally wiped out, and Zhao Jianying ordered: "Clean up the battlefield quickly, and count the casualties in all departments"!

After some counting, they captured two Japanese light machine guns and dozens of rifles, and killed one Japanese squad leader, including documents and one-50,000th of a military map in the hands of the Japanese army, while there were only a dozen lightly wounded in their own team.

In terms of mountain warfare, the Dian army is extremely good at it, such a valley ambush battle is already familiar with the road, and they have buried grenades in some dead corners, this detonation suddenly made the Japanese army have no dead corners to hide, so that it can effectively kill and injure the Japanese army.

After the ambush, Zhao Jianying's troops quickly withdrew from the mountains and sent this information to Wan Baobang, who in turn reported the information to Zhang Chong, who weighed it and ordered the troops to set off overnight to quickly seize Paishi and Yangxin areas to build a defensive line.

The Paishi area is fine, but Yangxin's night was a busy sleepless night, Lu Han and they didn't have time to do anything else after dinner, so they hurried to the hospital to help, this time there were thousands of wounded, they had to help carry the wounded, and some soldiers even began to donate blood to the wounded.

There are too many wounded, even if they donate blood, it is not enough, and this war will be opened, donating too much blood can only cause weakness, and donating too little blood is not enough at all, Lu Hai frowned and said: "Tell today's county magistrate, let him organize healthy people to donate blood, and then inform the people that they must withdraw from Yangxin after tomorrow"!

At the urging of the county magistrate, some people also came to the place to donate blood, while the rest of the people, under various persuasions from the county magistrate, finally agreed to withdraw from their hometown where they had lived for generations and began to move.

After working for half the night, Lu Hai saw that more and more people came to help, so he ordered: "Inform everyone to withdraw and rest, and set off at three o'clock tonight to investigate on the periphery of Yangxin"!

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Wan Baobang's 60th Army also marched towards the Yangxin and Paishi areas at this time, and at this time, the Japanese troops also began to assemble in the surrounding areas.

A big war is about to begin.

Around September 20, 1938, the whole army of the 60th Army had already moved to the Yangxin and Paishi areas, and all the defensive lines were laid out according to the maps marked by Zhang Chong and Lu Hai, but the roads were empty except for some necessary guard troops.

After two days of intense deployment, the artillery and infantry defense lines of the 60 th Army have been formed, and almost all the defense lines are built on the mountains, gathering dangers and defending them, making full use of the complex hilly terrain here.

At eight o'clock in the morning of September 23, there were small clouds in the sky, and the gloomy clouds overhead had covered the entire sky, and the ninth division of the Japanese army had been assembled.

As the chief of staff, Nakagawa Kosa nodded and said: "It is two regiments of the 60th Army, about 4,000 people"!

"That old guy in Itagaki was defeated by this Sixty Army? Even the saber was captured by these guys! This time, the 60th Army crashed into the guns of our 9th Division, and the shame of the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Army will definitely be washed away under the fierce attack of our 9th Division. Inform Yoshiyoshi Akiyama to let his 7th Wing attack on time at 10 o'clock in the morning!"

"Division commander, although the 60th Army is not the Central Army, their elite level is no worse than that of the Central Army, and the quality of their soldiers is not worse than ours, should we consider increasing our troops?" Yoshiyoshi Akiyama said worriedly.

"Yaga! The strength of just two regiments is like a wing blocking my 9th Division? Even if the entire Sixty Army is placed here, it will not be enough for a round of attack by my Ninth Division, let Akiyama Yoshiyoshi tell the soldiers that in front of us is the Sixty Army of the Zhi Zhi and tell them to prove to me that the Ninth Division is the strongest army in the empire"! Ryosuke Yoshizumi sneered.

"Hey"!

Just when the Japanese army was burying the pot and cooking, Lu Hai was leading a team of dozens of people to carefully observe the movements of the Japanese army through a telescope on a mountain peak not far away, and after a while, Lu Hai said: "Inform Brigade Commander Wan that the Japanese will attack soon, and the strength is about a wing"!

Wan Baobang, who received Lu Hai's telegram, compared the map and then said: "Inform Zeng Zesheng and Yang Hongyuan that the Japanese army is expected to attack this morning, so let them prepare for anti-artillery"!

An hour later, after breakfast, the Japanese troops drove mightily towards the north bank of Fushui in Paishi.

Just after the Japanese troops were only a kilometer away from the forward defense line, thousands of Japanese troops stopped one after another, and at this moment, dozens of heavy artillery pieces of the Japanese heavy artillery that were already ready opened fire violently.

Outside the position, the Japanese field artillery also opened fire one after another, and the forward position suddenly turned into a fire, and the hillside one after another suddenly turned into a sea of fire, but what the Japanese did not know was that before they attacked, all the forward troops had withdrawn to the woods on the mountain and waited.

The bombardment lasted for an hour, and it was estimated that several thousand shells had landed on the forward positions, but fortunately all the soldiers had already withdrawn from the forward positions, and the Japanese bombardment was effective except for the limited shells that flew out of the firing range, but the rest were blown up on the empty hillside.

Estimating that the Chinese troops on the mountain were empty, Akiyama Yoshiyoshi drew his saber and shouted: "Attack"!

At this time, the Japanese field artillery was still bombing, and the ground troops also began to attack under the bombardment of artillery. The frontal enemy of Zeng Zesheng's regiment was about more than 1,500 people, and similarly, there were also more than 1,500 people in front of the position of Yang Hongyuan's regiment, and more than ten tanks were divided into two teams and rushed towards them.

Zeng Zesheng saw through the binoculars that the Japanese troops had launched an attack, and the Japanese artillery fire was much weaker than just now, so he ordered: "Quickly return to the position and organize resistance"!

After a while, all the troops rushed out of the mountains and forests, quickly seized various positions, and waited solemnly, just when the Japanese advance was only a hundred meters away from the forward position, the officer at the front ordered: "Fight"!

All the light and heavy weapons on the forward positions opened heavy fire, and the dense machine gun bullets had already flown out, killing a large part of the Japanese forward troops, and the only two anti-aircraft guns on the front line were also dragged out and began to fire at the Japanese tanks.

The whole valley suddenly burst into a loud noise, gunfire and explosions rang out, and the attacking Japanese troops also opened fire fiercely, and constantly guided the Japanese field artillery to bombard the forward positions.

The explosion on the forward position was violent, and soldiers were constantly killed by artillery fire, and even some machine-gun positions were also named one by one by Japanese tanks, and the Japanese troops who were also attacking were also killed and wounded by heavy firepower, and the opening scene was extremely fierce.

On a mountain peak on the periphery of the Japanese field artillery position, Lu Hai marked the Japanese army's position with dozens of field guns, and then handed it to the communications corps: "Tell the army commander that there is a Japanese field artillery position here, and let him concentrate his firepower to bombard!"

Ten minutes later, Wan Baobang took the telegram and looked at it, picked up the phone, shook it, and said: "Heavy artillery company, there is a Japanese artillery position four kilometers ahead, order your department to organize a counterattack according to the target speed, and quickly withdraw to the reserve position after 500 rounds"!

"Yes"!

A moment later, all the heavy guns of the heavy artillery battalion were calibrated and loaded according to the coordinates, and then the bolts were pulled together at the command of a company commander...