Chapter 41: Adjustment of the Line of Defense

Because of the addition of more than 5,000 new troops of the 544 Brigade in the entire battle group, the Japanese army was suddenly unable to resist, especially Wang Bingzhang took the lead, stabbing six or seven people to death in a bayonet fight, and soon the forward position of the Japanese army was unable to support the entire Yunnan army and began to retreat. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing the retreat of the Japanese army, Wang Bingzhang hurriedly said: "Everyone, take the wounded soldiers and retreat quickly."

As soon as the words fell, many soldiers of the 544 Brigade began to quickly withdraw from the Japanese positions with the light and serious wounded in the field on their backs or on their backs, and just after everyone left the position more than ten meters, they only heard a burst of violent explosions, but hundreds of shells of the Japanese army had already fallen on the previous position.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the Japanese army organized most of the troops to attack the previous position in an attempt to regain the position, just when a Japanese wing of about 3,000 people rushed to the previous position, Zhang Chong's 82 mortar ambushed in the wheat field opened fire fiercely, and the same hundreds of shells greeted the Japanese position, for a time the flames were soaring, the smoke was billowing out, and the Japanese army that was caught off guard also suffered heavy losses, and the remnants of the 544 Brigade and the 182nd and 183rd divisions finally rushed out along the Japanese blockade gap.

The 182nd and 183rd divisions of the Yunnan Army suffered extremely heavy losses in the second battle, and the 182nd Division alone lost more than 2,000 soldiers and countless wounded, and the structure was basically disabled, only seven or eight hundred soldiers could fight, and Gao Yinhuai's 183 was not much better, and his 183rd Division also suffered heavy losses, and there were less than 1,000 soldiers left who could participate in the battle. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire army was wiped out.

The only thing that could still fight was the 184th Division, because the 184th Division was used as a reserve division for the whole army, and there was basically no fierce fighting with the chairman's order to defend Taierzhuang, and there were only sporadic losses.

This all-front attack almost pushed the 60th Army into a Jedi, and the battle situation that Wendy finally came down from was suddenly empty and dangerous, and once the Japanese attacked, I am afraid that the entire front would collapse.

April 26th, Night! In the military department, Lu Han scolded angrily with tears in his eyes: "Tang Enbo, I will grass your grandmother, Lao Tzu must kill him with his own hands when he goes back this time"!

"Army commander, after this battle, the 182nd and 183rd divisions have lost more than half, we are shifting the center of gravity of defense, once the Japanese army comes to attack us, it will really be unstoppable"! Zhang Chong said urgently.

"I don't know what you said, but the chairman of the committee personally summoned me to the Xuzhou War Zone and said that the gains and losses of Taierzhuang are related to the international audition, and I have been ordered to stick to Taierzhuang with a division no matter what, and my opinions have been conveyed, and I have no choice if he disagrees." Lu Han lamented.

"There is only one broken wall in Taierzhuang, the previous fortifications were destroyed in the first Taierzhuang victory, even if we stay there it is useless, we can't hold Yuwang Mountain can't hold Taierzhuang, we will fail in this way, how can we explain to Chairman Long, how to explain to the elders of Yunnan"? Zhang Chong said angrily.

Yuwang Mountain is the commanding height of Taierzhuang area, is a stone mountain 400 meters away from the Grand Canal, at the southeast end of Taierzhuang, the northeast is Hushan, Guoshan, the north is Xingjialou, the position of the Five Holy Churches, it can be said to overlook the entire 60th Army defense line.

Lu Han thought for a while and said: "Zhang Chong, order your 184th Division to leave a regiment to garrison Taierzhuang, and the rest of the troops will quickly move closer to Yuwang Mountain to support Gao Yinhuai's 182nd Division, and be sure to hold Yuwang Mountain!"

"But... Zhang Chong hesitated.

"But what, I'll carry my head to blame, if Yuwangshan loses it, you come to see it!" Lu Han said angrily.

Zhang Chong's face changed, and he said, "Yes"!

"Do you want to give the headquarters a breath, so it's more secure"? Zhao Jinwen said.

"Execute the order first, and then I'm calling to tell Li Zongren, so he can't do anything, right?" Luhan Road.

"Army commander, then I'll go back and mobilize the troops and seize Yuwang Mountain!" Zhang Chongdao.

"Go for it". Lu Han waved his hand.

......

About an hour later, Luján picked up the phone and said, "Give me the theater command."

"I'm Lu Han, please answer the phone with Commander Lee." Luján continued.

"I'm Li Zongren." Li Zongren's voice came.

"I am Lu Han, and my department requests that the 184th Division be transferred from Taierzhuang, seize Yuwang Mountain, and form a defense line centered on Yuwang Mountain"! Luhan Road.

After Li Zongren was silent for a moment, he spoke: "I agree to transfer your troops out of Taierzhuang, but you must leave a regiment to garrison, so that we can all explain."

Seeing that Li Zongren agreed, Lu Han didn't want to say more, hung up the phone directly, thought about it, came to the communication corps and said: "Send a telegram to Chairman Long"!

Jun Jian, commander of Kunming Dragon: I have been informed of both Wu and Hai. The terrain here is flat, only the village is the stronghold, the enemy's artillery fire is very split, so the sacrifice is the greatest, most of them are in the original position, the guns can not be taken out, only the lightly wounded can be transported to the rear, self-raising (22nd) so far this night, except for the loss of hundreds of the Zhang division, the loss of three-quarters, the high division only more than 1,000, the An division only 6 or 700. The officers suffered two-thirds of the casualties, and they were still ordered to hold the front of Taierzhuang, with a total of about 40 divisions of the original and new friendly troops. Respectfully, Lu Han knocks.

At this time, the rear hospital was very busy even though it was late at night, because of the Japanese artillery blockade and aircraft bombardment, the wounded soldiers of the 60th Army could only be brought here by train at night for treatment.

At this time, the field hospital was full of wounded soldiers, some had their legs broken, some had their hands broken, and some had been burned by the shells, and there were as many as five or six thousand wounded soldiers gathered here, but the doctors in charge of treatment were always limited, and most of the soldiers could only get a simple iodine sterilization, and then they waited for a long time for the doctor to operate on them.

Many soldiers were waiting to die of their wounds, and some of them were festering and even worse, and in just six days it became a living hell, screams, wails, and sighs of despair.

In the operating room at this time, Qiao Miao was sweating profusely and giving hands to the attending doctor on the side, making a gagging sound from time to time. But every time she forcibly held back. He kept catching the maggot-laden flesh that the doctor had cut from the wounded soldier.

The person lying on the stage was none other than Chen Liang, who had fought fiercely against the Japanese army in Chen Wafang and was suppressed by the temple.

At this time, Chen Liang had several knife edges on his body, and the most serious was that there was a wooden rafter inserted on the left side of Chen Liang's lower abdomen for building temples.

Chen Liang was accidentally discovered by friendly troops passing by Chen Wafang after the war, and they all thought they were dead, but Chen Liang was weak and asked for help, so he was urgently rescued by friendly troops and sent to the hospital...

On April 27, most of Zhang Chong was transferred out of Taierzhuang, the 544th Brigade reinforced Yuwangshan, and the 543rd Brigade reinforced the frontal 183rd Division position. Lu Han and Li Fan, they finally don't have to hold on to Taierzhuang anymore. The current defense line is weak everywhere and is in danger, and the rest can only rely on the 184th Division.

After six days of fierce fighting in the Great Plains, the heavy artillery, anti-defense artillery, and field artillery they wanted finally arrived, although the number was small, but they finally had a certain amount of heavy firepower, at least to deal with the Japanese Iron King Eight, and it didn't take 100 casualties to blow up a Japanese tank.

On this day, Wan Baobang, who was in charge of commanding these heavy artillery, assigned a company of battle defense guns to several defensive lines where the Japanese were attacking fiercely, and transferred 12 Krupp heavy guns of a battalion of heavy artillery battalions to Chehui Mountain to garrison. Always ready to carry out suppressive fire on the artillery of the Japanese army.

It is worth mentioning that Wan Baobang graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and he studied artillery, but he is a relatively authoritative general in China who is familiar with the laws of Japanese artillery. Although there were only more than 20 heavy guns and mountain guns for him, the Krupp mountain guns, made in Germany, were one of the most advanced heavy guns in the world at that time, and the caliber of the heavy guns also reached 150 mm, with a maximum range of 23 kilometers, while the Japanese heavy artillery heavy artillery had a caliber of only 115 mm and a maximum range of 18 kilometers. The caliber of the field artillery is comparable to the two, but the number is still much different from the hundreds of heavy guns of the Japanese army.

Wan Baobang placed the heavy artillery on Chehui Mountain, which not only used the terrain of Chehui Mountain to conceal, but also completely outside the range of the Japanese heavy artillery, and the rest was to suppress and shoot once the Japanese artillery fired.

On this day, the Japanese army mobilized most of its troops like Dongzhuang in front of Taierzhuang, and Huoshibu continued to attack, trying to break through our army's defense line from the front, in fact, the Japanese plan was also good, after all, 182 and 183 suffered heavy losses, and the two divisions combined were less than the combat power of a regiment.

But what they didn't know was that the 544 Brigade had all moved to the vicinity of Yuwang Mountain, and even the 1085 Zeng Zesheng Regiment where Lu Hai was located had also moved to the vicinity for reinforcements. And these tanks that specialized in fighting the Japanese army were also quietly hidden behind the trenches, and they only waited for the Japanese tanks to drive and let him not return!

No, the nine tanks of the Japanese army on the opposite side were still swaggering and ready to make up for the last stab for the soldiers of the Yunnan army who had suffered heavy casualties on the opposite side, and by the way, the old tactics crushed the barbarian army who tried to blow up the tanks.

As everyone knows, on the battlefield now, there are no longer more than 100 people of the 183rd Division who have suffered heavy casualties, but the new force of the 1085th Regiment, which is a full battalion.

Lu Hai, who was in charge of the reconnaissance of the former army, looked at the Japanese tanks on the opposite side and said: "In the past, I reported to the battalion commander that there were nine Japanese tanks and a brigade of infantry, and the artillery had not yet opened fire, and it was recommended to retreat to avoid the decisive battle of the Japanese artillery"!

"Yes"!

A soldier hurriedly touched the trench, from today, Lu Hai can really be considered on the battlefield, especially after knowing the news of Chen Liang's death, Chen Liang has been holding back a wave of anger in his heart, perhaps the only good news is that on the flint port, he met a surviving comrade-in-arms, Zhao Jianying!

After losing Chen Liang, Lu Hai did not want to fight with the Japanese army opposite to avenge Chen Liang all the time, but the situation has always suppressed him from participating in the war. Now that we finally have a chance to show our skills, let's use the blood and heads of the Japanese invaders to pay tribute to those dead heroic brothers.

"The battalion commander agreed to retreat, but it was necessary to hide"! Signal Soldier Road.

"Quick, retreat to the wheat field on the side of the road," Lu Hai said.