Chapter Seventy-One: Retreat from the Strong Enemy Again
Yuwang Mountain turned into a sea of fire again, the aircraft and artillery gathered fire and bombarded for a full hour, the Japanese troops in front of them regrouped and attacked again, and at this time, the artillery fire of the 60th Army that had been silent for a long time also sounded again, and the Japanese troops who charged up were blown up in a large area in time, and the soldiers hidden in the anti-artillery holes also rushed out to prepare to meet the attack when the cannon sounded!
Another pitched battle has begun!
The sound of artillery is much smaller than the valuable large-scale shelling, but it is still dense and violent, but it is not aerial bombs and heavy artillery, but some tank main guns, mortars, and hand guns. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the side of the 60th Army, there were mortars, anti-aircraft artillery, field artillery, and fierce suppression, and the whole battlefield was full of deafening loud noises, columns of smoke rose into the air, and the smell of gunpowder was everywhere.
Most of the Japanese death squads charged up in a neat queue, and in order to prove that they dared to die were facing artillery fire, at this time, in the position, a company commander stood up and said: "Brothers, the little devil's death squad is up, give me a hard beating"!
As soon as the words fell, light and heavy machine guns and grenades fired fiercely together, and the Japanese troops who had just rushed up fell in an instant, and the Japanese army's death squads were okay to deal with the poorly equipped Chinese army, but they were facing the 60th Army, and the elite equipment of the 60th Army surpassed the Central Army to a certain extent, especially the number of light and heavy machine guns in the army was even larger, that is, there were three Hatch Keys and more than 10 Czech light machine guns on the forward position, as well as 79 rifles and grenade mortars in the hands of soldiers on the defensive line, These hundreds of Japanese death squads were really like the death squads that the company commander said, and they fell in an instant, and they were killed and wounded in almost a few minutes.
In front of Hatch Cash, whose rate of fire reached 400 rounds per minute, this tactic was tantamount to sending him to death, that is, a cavalry brigade rushed over, and he was afraid that he would also hit his head in front of the 60th Army, not to mention the death squad that was trying to prove his courage?
Just when the Japanese death squad had been killed and wounded, the defenders at the front quickly withdrew to the second line under the command of several battalion commanders, and at this time, a shell fell on the previous position, if they did not withdraw they could imagine the consequences, half a month of continuous operations, the soldiers of the 60th Army have figured out the laws of the Japanese army's operations, as long as the Japanese army is hindered in the attack, or the enemy's firepower is exposed, they will use their artillery superiority to bombard fiercely, the soldiers of the previous 182 and 183 divisions have suffered no less, However, now they know how to evade artillery fire, and they do not fight and rush as hard as before, although the Japanese artillery fire is fierce, but if they want to massively kill and injure these soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery holes, they are beyond the reach of the whip.
Just when the soldiers of the first-line position hid in the hole, the soldiers of the second-line position also opened fire violently and shot at the soldiers who were about to rush to the forward position, and when the Japanese soldiers were suffering heavy casualties and transferred their firepower, the soldiers of the second-line position also transferred, and the soldiers of the first-line position took out of the cat's ear hole at this time, and shot fiercely at the Japanese troops only a few meters away with the breastwall of the second-line trench that had been prepared, and threw out grenades!
At this moment, a battle defense gun was also a tank that quickly loaded and locked the Japanese army and fired fiercely, and after firing three shells, the two Japanese tanks were also directly overturned to the ground, and when the Japanese army locked the position of the battle defense gun, the battle defense gun had indeed changed its position! And the mortars also opened fire fiercely, and the middle troops of the Japanese attack were constantly under the direct threat of the powerful 82 mortars.
This offensive and defensive battle lasted about an hour, and the front of the position was already densely packed with corpses, that is, two tanks were overturned, and the casualties of the 60th Army were not large, thanks to these flexible tactics, which effectively evaded the Japanese firepower, but made the Japanese army exhausted. There is a taste of applying guerrilla warfare to mountain defenses.
The Japanese casualties reached thousands, and finally began to retreat, but the Japanese did not retreat far, and seemed to be still preparing for a third attack, and the 60th Army had limited artillery shells and did not dare to do large-scale bombardment, and the two sides were at a stalemate for a while.
About half an hour later, artillery rang out again on the forward positions of the Japanese army, and the third wave of fierce attacks by the Japanese army was announced to have begun again, and the tanks rumbled and crushed again.
When the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, all the soldiers took a concealed state, and when the Japanese army came to a distance of dozens of meters, they opened fire fiercely, and bombarded with grenades at the dragging place, although the Japanese troops on the opposite side suffered heavy casualties, but they also charged wildly again and again, until they broke their faces in front of the Yuwang Mountain position, broke their teeth, and finally chose to retreat after four o'clock in the afternoon.
Yuwang Mountain was not captured again, but this 126-meter-high mountain became an insurmountable moat for the Japanese army, and the so-called people of the sun finally broke their heads here, and the so-called steel flower was finally blocked here and suffered a large number of casualties.
For several hours, the Japanese army did not attack, but retreated farther and farther, and the soldiers of Yuwangshan finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to repair and work together, collect the wounded, and bury those brothers who could never return.
Buried in a wheat field at the foot of the mountain, the bodies of many soldiers could only be piled up in these pits and then buried in the ground, 70 years later, in an interview with a television station, an old man pointed to his cotton field and said: "There is a mass grave down here, and it is full of corpses from Yunnan."
The reporter asked how many, and the old man replied: "There are thousands, all of them are from Yunnan"!
And the Yuwang Mountain position still exists, and it is the largest position site left over from the War of Resistance Against Japan, now the mountain peak has grown shrubs, the once scorched earth has become fertile soil, but those crushed rocks and the remaining trenches, are still telling, 70 years ago here was a living hell, is a meat grinder!
While the Battle of Xuzhou was tense, Yunnan was still living and working in peace and contentment as before, and they were in the southwest border without war, but as a Chinese, they did not choose to live in a corner, and they were also actively supporting this national battle for survival.
Long Yun, known as the king of Yunnan, dispatched 5,000 people to set off on foot to replenish the losses of the 60th Army when the 60th Army suffered heavy casualties, and after doing this. Long Yun also realized that this war of resistance was not as simple as imagined, and perhaps it was really as Zhu De, an old classmate on the plane, said, this war must be an unprecedented, protracted war.
So Long Yun raised funds again to form the second expeditionary unit in Yunnan, Long Yun changed his previous cautious attitude, took out the equipment that was not in stock, and the few elite soldiers in his hands were also withdrawn, but this was far from enough, so the retired soldiers in Yunnan were once again requisitioned to the front line, and began to recruit new soldiers.
At this time, the battlefield of Yuwang Mountain has been silent, a day of combat has made all the soldiers tired, almost every day is a fierce battle, every day has to pass by the grim reaper, in the middle of the night except for the sentry soldiers have seized the time to rest.
At a distance of more than ten kilometers from Yuwang Mountain, Lu Hai and several people were quietly lurking in a wheat field outside the Japanese army's barracks at this time, but the so-called lurking was not necessarily true, the soldiers at this time were almost running all day long, and they slept only a few hours in the past few days, so most of the soldiers quietly fell asleep in the wheat field for about an hour.
Lu Hai didn't bother looking at these sleeping soldiers, he really had a strong fighting spirit and closely watched the movements of the Japanese military camp, but at this time, Li Fan touched it, lowered a captured Japanese can, and said: "You eat something and sleep for a while, I will guard here"!
Lu Hai took the canned food and ate it and whispered, "How many days do we have enough supplies"?
"The seizure is limited, we can only hold out for a day, if we don't go back, we can only go to the enemy camp to find food, this is not the point, the point is that the brothers are already exhausted from running around for days, and we need to repair"!
Lu Hai smiled bitterly and said: "I also know, but this is the rear of the Japanese army, so I can only insist on it."
Li Fan took Lu Hai's binoculars and observed the Japanese barracks for a long time and said, "How do I feel that the Japanese army is a little wrong here."
"You say"! Lu Hai perked up.
"The Japanese army also knows that we have heavy artillery, and besides, they suffered the loss of our heavy artillery last night, and now they do not escape the range of our heavy artillery, but camp within the range of this heavy artillery, so they are not afraid that we will mark their coordinates and let the heavy artillery bombard?"
Lu Hai frowned and thought about it, but said with a smile: "You didn't look at the map, there is a mountain in front of you, which just blocked our heavy artillery, and it is not surprising that all of them are stationed here"!
"Where are the mountains, how can I not see them"? Li Fan asked while holding the binoculars and looking at them.
"It's too hard and dark now, and of course you can't see it without the moon, and besides, it's normal that you can't see it when we came with us when it's dark." Lu Hai said with a smile.
At this moment, Hai Zhizhi touched it and said: "His uncle, these devils sleep comfortably, and the little master sleeps in the open air, the key is that it's April, why is the weather still so cold, and I'm freezing to death."
"Xiaohai, do we have any specific actions that we have"? Umi Jiji saw that he answered every day and asked again.
"No, we don't have a mission for the time being, just monitor the Japanese army, you go to sleep, we will withdraw after five o'clock." Lu Hai said.
Hai Zhizhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, and was about to turn around and climb back, but at this moment, Li Fan slapped Lu Haidao suddenly: "Look, the Japanese army is moving"!
Lu Hai hurriedly took the binoculars and looked, but saw that the Japanese soldiers in the dark were fully armed and walked out in a neat queue, followed by tanks and cars, and the cars did not turn on the lights, and rushed in the direction of Yuwang Mountain.
"These devils are really unwilling, this is going to launch a night attack!" Li Fan whispered.
"Quickly send a report and inform the division commander"!