Chapter 281: Fierce Street Fighting
When dawn had just arrived, it was supposed to be quiet and peaceful, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and when the shops had just opened, it was all reduced to nothingness in the war, and the former common people and traders had either been exiled to other places, waiting for a bowl of leftovers from well-wishers, or had died under the guns of the Japanese army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The fertile land, the white rice has little to do with them, and I don't know how many people will starve to death on the way to escape in such a cold winter, the living are displaced, and the dead have turned into decay, this is what the war has brought us.
A friend once asked me, is it worth fighting such a battle and dying so many people? Aren't both Japanese and Chinese the same, and aren't they all the same when they notice and rule by their own people? The same farming, the same operation.
At that time, I was furious, and said that this remark was no different from a traitor, and since then I have also turned this so-called friend into a passerby, we are an ancient nation that has lasted for 5,000 years, how can we allow foreign people to rule?
"This battle must be fought, as many people die must be fought, if we win, we are worthy of our ancestors, worthy of future generations, if we can't win, we are the sinners of the nation, even if we die, we have no shame to see the ancestors underground." This is a 90-year-old veteran of the Dian Army, who has now become one with the earth, but the spirit of the Dian Army they left behind has forever remained on the land of Yunnan, telling us patriotism and telling us the responsibility and responsibility that we should have as a Chinese!
This war has been fought all night, and the lives of thousands of people have turned into smoke after a night's effort, but this war will still be fought, and if they win the reconquest, if they lose, Yuanshui will be their burial place!
Throughout the night, many soldiers had forgotten their fatigue, and the fierce charge again and again kept people in a state of extreme excitement, and even they forgot that they had charged for a whole day, and they didn't even eat a bite of fried noodles.
This was a large-scale street battle, the entire streets and houses outside Changde were fighting, the troops of both sides had been fully invested, and a pile of ruins had even become a place for the two sides to fight to the death.
On the periphery of Changde, the 20th Army and the Fourth Army were also in a fierce exchange of fire, Changde was in a hurry, and the Japanese reinforcements arrived after being blocked by the Fourth Army and the 20th Army on the periphery, on this morning, the entire Changde area, more than 100,000 troops were fighting, the artillery sounded one after another, the fight was one after another, and the fierce exchange of fire also led to the sacrifice of a large number of troops on the battlefield.
The 29th Regiment was put into use, and with the full cooperation of Lu Hai's 31st Regiment, the first three lines of defense of the Japanese army were forcibly torn apart, leaving dense corpses on several roads.
At this time, the charge continued, the strength of the three battalions attacked from two sides, and the three battalions of the 29th Regiment attacked each other in coordination with each other behind the flank of the Japanese who were attacking with all their might.
Similarly, the attack in the direction of Li Jian was also very fierce, the strength of the three regiments was deployed here, and the fighting was even more tragic, but the resistance of the Japanese army here was also more fierce, the two sides fought back and forth for a whole hour, and the Japanese defensive positions were also very heavy casualties, although the speed of advance was still relatively slow, after all, it was still advancing!
At noon, the two sides finally entered a cease-fire period, and their respective troops were eating breakfast in concealment in their respective positions, while the Japanese troops were eating canned rice on their positions, while the attacking troops could only eat fried noodles.
"Order down, the various observation posts search for the Japanese army's gathering place, and wait for the order to shell!"
"The three battalions are ready to intersperse!"
"Yes!"
Lu Hai didn't know that the Japanese army on the other side was also preparing, ammunition and weapons were constantly being transported to the front, mountain artillery, grenadiers, and mortars were also greatly replenished, and the battlefield that seemed to have calmed down was actually still so murderous.
What they didn't know was that the Japanese army had prepared a large number of poison gas bombs, mobilized all the tanks, light and heavy artillery that could be mobilized, and quietly dispatched the last reserves!
Similarly, on several Japanese battlefields, dozens of planes were loading ammunition, preparing to bomb Changde at once!
Just as these soldiers had just finished eating a few handfuls of fried noodles, Lu Hai categorically ordered: "Order the troops to prepare for the attack!" ”
"Yes!"
A minute later, Lu Hai picked up the phone and said, "All the artillery is firing with all their might, and the infantry is following the charge!" ”
"Yes!"
"Ready!"
"Put!"
As soon as the words fell, the sound of the clanging artillery once again tore apart the peace, and on the Japanese position, some Japanese soldiers who were eating were suddenly subjected to heavy shelling.
The Japanese army did not expect that the Chinese army fought all night, and finally had a chance to breathe but took the initiative to attack, this round of shelling turned the Japanese forward position into a sea of fire, many Japanese soldiers were blown up, and in the roar, a Japanese mortar position and the light and heavy machine guns in the front line were accurately bombed.
With a roar, a tattered machine gun was overturned, and at this moment, the soldiers who were ambushed in the ruined houses began to charge again. The exposed soldiers were shooting fiercely at the Japanese position, the explosion of grenades, and the sound of gunfire rang out in a ball, but the soldiers of the other two teams were led by a few soldiers with sledgehammers to directly smash open the houses and rush inside, plus when the 74th Army was stationed in Changde before, these houses were also integrated into the city to facilitate maneuvering.
So it was not too much effort, the troops in the houses gradually opened the rest of the passages under the attack of the forward troops, and some soldiers even touched the houses above the heads of the Japanese soldiers.
At this moment, the officers who took the lead gave orders one after another, and one by one the soldiers pulled grenades and threw them at the Japanese troops downstairs.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Explosions sounded on the Japanese positions, and the Japanese heavy machine gun positions that could not be knocked down before were blown up by grenades, and many Japanese soldiers were also blown up.
With the offensive launched on both sides, coupled with the sudden attack of artillery fire, this round of attacks directly tore the three lines of defense of the Japanese army to pieces.
Similarly, the third battalion, under the leadership of a few leading soldiers of the capture team, shuttled through these civilian houses, trying to avoid the Japanese defense line and launch a surprise attack inside!
After all, the quality of the Japanese army is very strong, although the suddenness of the attack once made them helpless, but just after advancing a few lines of defense, the Japanese army also responded, the mortar grenadiers that were not destroyed were firing fiercely, and the Japanese troops on the follow-up positions also fired fiercely and returned fire, and the dense rain of bullets flying from multiple angles directly turned this place into a meat grinder, and once there was life rushing up, it was beaten into a sieve.
In the same way, the Japanese troops also counterattacked along these houses against the attacking troops on both sides, and the two sides fought in these houses, because the spears in these houses were not easy to deploy, and the terrain was crisscrossed, although the two sides fought fiercely, but the speed of advance was also slowed down.
What is even more serious is that the Japanese artillery began to fire poison gas bombs, and the forward positions were filled with poison gas everywhere, and the soldiers with gas masks hurriedly put on gas masks, and those who did not hurriedly retreated, and the offensive slowed down again!
But at this time, the Japanese troops took the initiative to rush out of the position to launch a counterattack, and Haizhizhi looked at the steady stream of Japanese troops rushing and immediately shouted: "Open fire and suppress, ask for heavy artillery support!" ”
"Yes!"
"Regiment commander, the Japanese army has released poison gas and asked for heavy artillery support!"
"You have to resist, I will immediately call for artillery support!"
"Yes!"
After Lu Hai finished speaking, he hurriedly shook the phone and said: "Division commander, our unit has been attacked by the Japanese poison gas, and the Japanese army is counterattacking, requesting artillery support, coordinates 003.006"!
"You must hold on, I will command the artillery to launch a bombardment!"
"Yes!"
"Order, the first battalion of heavy artillery and the first battalion of mountain artillery will bombard the 003.006 position, two bases!" Xiao Benyuan said.
"Yes!"
"Target 003.007, two bases, fire now!"
"Yes!"
After the order was issued, dozens of artillery pieces of the two battalions quickly repaired their positions and bombarded the front, and one shell after another flew out with a roar.
At the front line, while wearing gas masks, they were firing fiercely, and bullets flew towards the charging Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers fell in large numbers in the gunfire.
However, after all, there are a small number of soldiers with gas masks, and the current Japanese army is a full-scale counterattack, so the pressure on the front line is huge, and when the Japanese army is about to break through, Hai Zhizhi is even ready to order a retreat, but at this time, a huge roar sounded overhead.
"Anti-artillery!"
As soon as the words fell, a shell smashed into the crowd of Japanese soldiers, and the explosion roared loudly, many Japanese soldiers were directly blown up by the battle, and many Japanese soldiers were directly blown into pieces under the bombardment of heavy artillery.
"Haha, it's our own cannon!" Haijiji laughed.
"Order the follow-up soldiers to move forward with their mouths and noses gagged, and launch a full-scale attack once the shelling stops!"
"Yes!"
However, Haizhizhi's calculation was in vain, this round of bombing was a full two bases, a round of bombing lasted directly for half an hour, and the Japanese army's forward and deep positions were rained with shells, and the Japanese offensive was directly beaten back, and the casualties were extremely heavy.
While the shelling was still bombing, the troops of the 3rd Battalion had already penetrated into the center of the Japanese army.
"It's only a few hundred meters away from the Japanese headquarters!" Mu Yuanliang said.
"But the Japanese army here is not a small number, and the defense is very tight, if we attack, it is impossible to occupy it quickly, it is very likely that the Japanese army will make dumplings, if we don't attack, we will come in vain!" Li Fan frowned.
"And what are you going to do?" Mu Yuanliang asked.
"The old way, a small axe cuts down a big tree, and you send out a platoon of elite veterans to lurk in with me!" (To be continued.) )