Chapter 104: The Backbone of the Nation
On the forward position, the current fighting has reached an extremely difficult time, because the previous defense line was broken by the Japanese poison gas, Zeng Zesheng's regiment suffered heavy casualties, and the two defense lines of the company collapsed directly, and even the last line of defense was also fiercely attacked by the Japanese army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The most serious thing is that the Japanese army, with their gas masks, continued to fire poison gas bombs at the positions of the 60th Army.
The strip of cloth does not absorb water in the first place, and after a few minutes it will dry and harden, and the dry and hard strip of cloth cannot stop the invasion of highly toxic gases, which means that many soldiers are now completely fighting the Japanese army in the poisonous gas.
What's more serious is that the area they defended was too broad, and the entire group army was a little difficult to put out, and the defense line in many places had not been completed, basically relying on the mountains and forests, and the 60th Army plus 5,000 recruits was only more than 17,000 people, but the Japanese army on the opposite side was more than 30,000 people, and once their front collapsed, the entire defense line would be fatally hit by the Japanese army.
In just a few moments before, the Japanese army had killed and wounded nearly 1,000 of Zeng Zesheng's regiment, and after a round of fierce fighting and poison gas attack, there was only about one battalion of troops on the current position.
There are more than 500 people in this battalion, which can be said to be the only survivor of Zeng Zesheng's regiment now, but the Japanese troops who charged up from the mountain still kept coming, and one soldier after another fell.
The heavy casualties also gradually made the firepower on the forward positions gradually vacant, and some Japanese troops gradually tore through Zeng Zesheng's third-line positions.
After the Japanese army charged up, Zeng Zesheng shouted with a hurry: "Brothers, get on the bayonet and beat the devil down"!
Everyone immediately shouted, and the bright bayonets were attached to the rifles, and they took the initiative to rush out of the position and attack the Japanese troops who rushed up.
The entire position suddenly resounded with a deafening shout of killing, and one after another bright bayonets stabbed at the chest of the Japanese soldiers, and Zeng Zesheng also brandished a Burmese knife like this Japanese soldier slashing.
When they saw Zeng Zesheng's rank, the three Japanese soldiers suddenly besieged Zeng Zesheng, only to see Zeng Zesheng's Burmese knife in his hand slammed away the Japanese army's bayonet and then hacked a Japanese soldier to death, at this moment a Japanese soldier took the opportunity to stab over, Zeng Zesheng hurriedly dodged, but the shoulder was still cut by the bayonet, and the blood immediately stained the whole arm red.
"Dog mongrel!" Zeng Zesheng scolded bitterly and then swept the Burmese knife towards the throat of the Japanese soldier, and at this moment, a Japanese soldier raised his gun and was about to shoot Zeng Zesheng.
At the critical moment, a soldier suddenly picked up his bayonet and stabbed the Japanese soldier to death from the side, and then the soldier charged up like a Japanese soldier charging up.
Zeng Zesheng immediately met with a Burmese knife and hacked another Japanese soldier to death, and then he shouted: "Correspondent, go and call the army commander to inform the army commander that the position will be lost if no reinforcements are sent"!
"Yes"!
After the order was issued, Zeng Zesheng shouted again: "Brothers, if the Japanese army wants to pass from here, they can only step on our corpses, and today the head of this regiment will take the lead, and we will fight with the Japanese army to the end!"
"Kill"!
The Japanese soldiers on the position were fiercely stabbed together, with bayonets, grenades, Burmese knives, with teeth, with fists, but all the ways that could inflict death on the Japanese were used by them.
Some of the soldiers were already mopping the ground with their intestines and still enduring unimaginable pain with bayonets to launch a final attack on the Japanese soldiers, until his whole body was stabbed and holed, until his eyes lost color...
After a fierce stabbing, the two squadrons attacked by the Japanese army left more than 300 corpses and retreated, but the Japanese did not completely retreat, they just retreated to the second-line position and began to shoot, at the same time, the Japanese artillery position once again fired poison gas bombs at the position of Zeng Zesheng's regiment.
"Grab the gas mask from the corpse of the Japanese soldier, hurry!" Zeng Zesheng shouted.
The surviving soldiers hurriedly removed the gas masks from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and retreated to the defensive line to organize resistance. At this time, there were only more than 150 people left on the position of Zeng Zesheng's regiment, and a main regiment of more than 2,000 people had been killed and wounded in just two days, and only one company of troops remained, and there were still dozens of wounded soldiers, and the situation had reached an extremely critical moment.
But Zeng Zesheng did not order a retreat, and the soldiers in the field did not propose to retreat to survive, they were ready to make a final fight with the Japanese army once they charged again, and then they rested completely...
On the periphery of the Japanese artillery position, Lu Hai and they had already touched the deep grass under the mountain, and it was only one kilometer away from the Japanese artillery position, so Li Fan set up the 82 mortar and began to calculate the Japanese artillery position, his target was not anything else but the Japanese army's poison gas bombs stacked in front of the artillery, as long as these poison gas bombs were detonated, then the Japanese army's artillery position would be shrouded in poison gas, which could solve the Japanese army's poison gas threat to a large extent.
Just as Li Fan was measuring the Japanese artillery position, their location was suddenly discovered by a Japanese patrol of seven or eight people.
Although they were wearing Japanese uniforms, the mortars they erected were obviously aimed at the Japanese artillery positions in front of them, and anyone who was a normal person could guess whether they were friends or foes.
The Japanese soldiers opened fire directly after a slight hesitation, and several soldiers were caught off guard by the Japanese soldiers and fell down. Chen Liang shot back and said: "Xiaohai was discovered by the Japanese army, what should I do?"
"What to do? Even if we all die here today, we must destroy this artillery position, tell Li Fan to hurry up, you guys will shoot at me!" Lu Hai said.
"Li Fan, hurry up, the reinforcements of the Japanese army will come in a while, and none of us will be able to run"! Chen Liang shouted.
"Got it, you guys get in the way!" Li Fan said.
Just as everyone opened fire on the Japanese patrol hidden in the stones, the gunfire also alarmed the Japanese troops on the Japanese artillery position, and two Japanese squads hurriedly attacked them.
"Fire cover"! Lu Hai shouted.
Four or five light machine guns opened fire violently, and for a time they also suppressed the Japanese attacking troops, and at this moment, Li Fan lowered the mortar angle by a few points and shouted: "Two rapid fire!" Put "!
The four mortars opened fire violently, only to see several piles of poison gas bombs on the Japanese artillery positions suddenly explode, and at the same time Lu Hai hurriedly spoke: "Alternate cover, retreat!" ”
The Japanese army's poison gas bomb was hit by Li Fan's cannonball, and it immediately spread, and the surrounding Japanese soldiers were immediately shrouded in poison gas, and many Japanese soldiers were poisoned to death by their own poison gas in the chaos.
The explosion continued, piles of poison gas bombs were detonated, and the violent poison gas almost enveloped the entire artillery position, and the Japanese artillery suddenly fell silent, and Lu Hai and the others also withdrew to the forest, and then advanced at full speed in the direction of their position.
"Why has the sound of artillery stopped, it's hitting me, this time I must cut off the head of the commander of the Chinese Army and give shame to the Ninth Division"! Suzuki asked.
"Report to Dazuo, the artillery position was attacked by the Shina Army, and all... All gas bombs were detonated, and the artillery was almost completely wiped out"! The Signal Soldier swallowed.
"Yaga"! Suzuki Daisa slapped the messenger hard and shouted.
"Dazuo, what now"? One Nakasa said boldly.
"Send the last brigade up, capture the position of the Chinese army in one go, and send two brigades to exterminate this sneak attack of the Chinese army"!
"Hey"!
It was getting dark, but instead of withdrawing their troops, the Japanese began to build up their forces and try to break through the positions of the two regiments.
Yang Hongyuan was okay, because the terrain was advantageous and there was a spare place to work with, and the Japanese attack was mainly concentrated in Zeng Zesheng's regiment, Yang Hongyuan's regiment only suffered about one battalion of casualties, and was still in a fierce battle with the Japanese attack force.
However, Zeng Zesheng's regiment was only more than 100 people, and the Japanese army under the mountain still had about two squadrons, and what was more serious was that the Japanese army began to increase its troops again, preparing to capture the position of the 60th Army and then take Yangxin and Paishi and then go straight to Wuhan.
On the positions of Zeng Zesheng's regiment, fierce fighting continued, grenades, rifles, machine guns were firing fiercely, and several mortars were still firing fiercely.
One by one, the Japanese soldiers fell under the fire of machine guns, but there were still those who continued to rush to shoot, and in the dense rain of bullets, dozens of people died on Zeng Zesheng's position, and now there are less than 100 people with the full wounded.
Zeng Zesheng looked at the Japanese soldiers who were still charging frantically below, and said loudly: "Brothers, the time has come to martyrdom, even if you die, you will not surrender, and fight with the Japanese army!"
"Fight"!
The fire continued, and the soldiers on the mountain were ready to make a final fight with the Japanese army at this moment, and the Japanese army was also ready to give Zeng Zesheng's regiment a fatal blow and end the battle.
Because of the lack of troops and weak firepower, they were finally torn open by the Japanese army, and a large number of Japanese troops rushed into the gap with the fierce firepower.
"Brethren! Spell it"!
"Kill!"
Everyone was strangled with the Japanese army again, and they were also besieged by the absolute superiority of troops, perhaps in less than ten minutes, their more than 100 people will be wiped out.
But it is precisely this desperate situation that can often make a person's fighting spirit go to an unimaginable level, and it was originally written about tigers and wolves and forced people into a corner.
Zeng Zesheng went crazy, and his soldiers also went crazy, the bayonet stabbed into the chest of the Japanese soldier, the Burmese knife cut off the head, even if the stabbed one was on the verge of death, he insisted on pulling the last grenade on his body, even if he couldn't do it.
Now that we live in an era of peace, it is difficult to imagine the primitive and bloody scenes of those years, and we can only hear the past from the mouths of some surviving veterans.
There were corpses everywhere, blood everywhere, and those tiger-wolf roars and curses full of the disgust of civilized people.
But many of us have forgotten that it is their barbarism and their bloodshed that have laid a peaceful and beautiful home for us, and at this time, as long as they are willing to pick up a gun or even a wooden stick to resist, they are the backbone of the Chinese nation! (To be continued.) )