Chapter 40: Besieged

"Whoosh"

"Whoosh"

A few red flares rushed into the sky to accompany the March of the Volunteers, exploding in the sky. www.biquge.infoImmediately after that, all the usable 82 mortars of the 182nd and 183rd divisions aimed at the Japanese positions opposite and launched the most fierce artillery bombardment of the 60th Army in the past few days. More than 10,000 soldiers of the Yunnan Army roared and sang the March of the Volunteers, launching the fiercest charge on the battlefield of resistance against Japan!

The Japanese troops in the opposite position did not expect that the 60th Army would choose this time to take the initiative to charge, they should have been holding on, and the Japanese troops who were supposed to attack were supposed to attack, but at this time they achieved a reversal. The defensive became offensive, and the offensive became defensive.

The Japanese soldiers at the front who reacted also hurriedly opened fire on the soldiers of the Yunnan Army who rushed on the opposite side, and at this moment, another round of mortar shells roared and smashed on the forward positions of the Japanese army.

At this moment, more than a dozen Hatch Keith heavy machine guns, which had already been set up on both sides, had already fired wildly at the forward positions of the Japanese army with the most intense firepower.

Under the dense bullets, Japanese soldiers were constantly beaten into sieves by light and heavy machine guns, and some Japanese soldiers were torn to pieces in artillery fire. But the most terrifying thing is that these more than 10,000 soldiers have already charged to a distance of only more than 100 meters from the Japanese position, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and the Japanese troops in front of the dense bullet rain could not raise their heads.

"Retreat"!

"Retreat"!

......

For a time, the surviving Japanese troops on the forward positions of the Japanese army began to retreat in a hurry, and those who failed to retreat in time were either killed by bullets or stabbed to death by a burst of bayonets by the rushing Yunnan soldiers.

At the rear of the battlefield, Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army were also outflanked to both sides, and the entire battlefield formed a huge pocket as previously envisaged, and in the pocket were the two divisions of the Japanese army, Itagaki Isoya, and more than 10,000 puppet troops. That's 80,000 horses!

Li Zongren also said: "The Japanese Army's training is excellent and its training is strong. It can be said that there is a rare match in the world, and when the troops are marched, from the generals to the non-commissioned officers, they all fight according to the principle of tactical combat, and there is no confusion, so that the enemy is not easy to take advantage of."

Facts have also proved that the Japanese army, which has a combined land and air force, can completely form a 1:5 battle loss with the Chinese army, and even the 60th Army, which is more elite in infantry and light weapons than the Central Army, has suffered heavy losses in the past few days when it suddenly encounters the Japanese army, and the Japanese air force and heavy artillery have killed and injured too many Chinese people and too many Yunnan children.

A frontal attack with 10,000 troops may be able to tear apart the Japanese defense line to a certain extent, but these are the two most elite divisions of the Japanese army, and the number is 60,000 or 70,000, if calculated according to the battle loss ratio, then the Chinese army besieging them should have 300,000, so that it can barely be equal, but now the attack is only more than 10,000 people in the 60th Army, more than 40,000 people in Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong's army.

No matter how you look at this battle, it is like eating a copper pea, and if you can't eat enough, you may break your teeth.

If Li Zongren really had enough troops to invest, and continued to invest troops to hit Itagaki and Isogu again, then the results of this Battle of Xuzhou would be far more brilliant than the first Taierzhuang victory. However, the Chinese strength of 70 divisions is still stretched thin against the elite divisions of the Japanese army, which is close to 300,000 troops, and what about the troops transferred in?

Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army also attacked on time according to Li Zongren, responsible for tightening the pockets. But what makes people helpless and sad is that Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army stagnated after being blocked by the Japanese army. The whole battle situation has completely changed its original nature.

When the Japanese army who stabilized their backs pulled out their hands, it was the end of the 60th Army, and it was the time when the blood of this honest Yunnan disciple flowed like a river.

The stagnation of Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong's corps was not known to the 60th Army, which was the main attacker, and even the army commander Lu Han did not know, and Li Zongren in the headquarters strictly ordered Tang Enbo's corps and Yu Xuezhong to attack, but on the other hand, he suppressed the news. The 60th Army, which did not know the situation of the battle, resolutely carried out the orders of the headquarters, sang the March of the Volunteers, and launched fierce charges again and again against the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

The Japanese army that pulled out its hand was also rapidly organizing a counterattack, and there was a brigade of Japanese troops in front of the 60th Army alone, plus the puppet army, which far exceeded the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Dian Army in number.

The charge continued, and after being repulsed, it was organized once, the sound of guns and cannons was not interrupted for a moment, and the majestic march of the volunteers sounded again and again, and they charged again and again. Many soldiers fell on the way to charge, and the hot blood flowed into the thick soil of the Lunan Plain, and they really used their flesh and blood to build a great wall of steel for our nation.

Sure enough, the Japanese side also felt that this was an excellent opportunity to completely defeat the 60th Army, and for a while, countless heavy artillery, mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, and even grenadiers opened fire on the charging Yunnan soldiers.

The whole plain suddenly turned into a sea of fire, and the wheat that had just budded was burned to ashes under the burning bombs, along with the fallen soldiers.

The troops in the rear could not be rescued due to the heavy artillery blockade, and the troops in the front charge were completely left alone without support. The rest of the ending is either a heroic death or surrender.

An all-out attack has evolved into a lone attack by the 60th Army, and a lone army is sent to death!

"Arise, arise, you who do not want to be slaves... In the desperate situation, the majestic tune of the March of the Volunteers sounded at one time, and these soldiers who had been bombarded by artillery fire, the soldiers who had been bombarded with tarnish faces, under the leadership of many officers, once again sang the March of the Volunteers, straightened their bayonets, roared angrily, and launched the last desperate charge towards the Japanese position!

After several days of fighting, the Japanese army no longer dared to fight with the Yunnan army with bayonets, because the Yunnan army was better at fighting bayonets than them, and in the face of the charging Yunnan soldiers, the Japanese army's light and heavy machine guns opened fire in unison.

These Yunnan disciples fell down one by one, and those behind were still charging, rushing forward and continuing until they were strangled with the Japanese army on the opposite side.

Soldiers covered with grenades burrowed under the Japanese tanks and died together with the Japanese tanks, and the heavy machine gun positions of the devils, and the soldiers of the Yunnan Army with bayonets and the Japanese troops several times their own fought to the death on the position. When the bayonet is bent, use the Burmese knife that is privately equipped on the body, and when the Burmese knife is gone, use your fists and teeth until you kill your opponent until you fall!

It was at this time that Zhang Chong observed the tragic situation of the forward position for a long time through the telescope, his eyes were red, and he said: "Wang Bingzhang, you lead the 1087 regiment to feint from the left side, and I will take the 1088 regiment to take the opportunity to open the Japanese blockade, otherwise they will be all finished"!

"Yes"! Wang Bingzhang answered.

"Division commander, the scouts in front have found the field artillery positions of the two devils"! A correspondent said with a letter in his hand.

"Where"? Zhang Chong said happily.

"It's only seven kilometers to the left of here." The correspondent said.

"Seven kilometers is within the range of our mortars, tell them to quickly pass the coordinates of the artillery position"! Zhang Chong ordered.

"The coordinates have been delivered, and here they are". As he spoke, the messenger handed the envelope to Zhang Chong's hand.

Seeing that the letter had been stained with blood, Zhang Chong opened the envelope, but saw a simple hand-drawn map drawn on it, which marked the artillery positions of the two Japanese troops, and wrote several coordinates with a pencil, Zhang Chong said happily: "Okay, this time there is help"!

"Pass the order, concentrate all the mortars of the whole brigade, and I personally led the 1088 regiment to advance two kilometers along the wheat field"!

"Yes"!

On the forward position, the fierce fighting continued, there was no way to retreat, and the remnants of the 182nd and 183rd Divisions, whose attack was blocked, were strangled with the Japanese army at this time. In the face of the Japanese army, which had an absolute advantage, they kept falling, but not a single soldier retreated, and not a single soldier surrendered. Their casualties are further mounted.

Half an hour later, Zhang Chong's entire regiment was deployed in the wheat field, and the mortars of the whole brigade were concentrated in the wheat field, and began to correct Zhu Yuan according to the coordinates on the envelope.

"After a while, the Japanese artillery blockade stopped and I was able to attack on all fronts, so I must rescue them." Zhang Chong ordered.

"Artillery ready"! Signal Soldier Road.

"Fire with all your might"! Zhang Chong ordered.

"Yes"!

"Fire"!

"Boom... Boom... Boom..."A series of cannon shots rang out in the wheat field, and hundreds of mortar shells whizzed, flying into the air with vengeful rage and firing at the two Japanese field artillery positions hidden in the distance.

In the distance, the two Japanese positions that had just opened fire suddenly sounded a sharp sound of breaking the sky, and before these Japanese troops could react, the two Japanese artillery positions instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the explosion of mortar shells triggered the explosion of many shells around the area.

After a while, sure enough, the artillery fire of the Japanese army that had originally blocked the rescue force was reduced, and Zhang Chong ordered: "Once we rescue them, the mortars will fire with all their strength to suppress the Japanese army, and the brothers will charge me"!

As soon as the words fell, more than 2,500 people of the 1088th Regiment, which had been ambushed in the vast wheat fields, suddenly got up and charged, aiming directly at the Japanese positions in front of which they were fiercely fighting.

At the same time, the 1087th Regiment also began to attack from one side, and more than 5,000 people were once again engaged in the battle.

The 1087 and 1088 regiments, which had already gained a lot of momentum, were personally led by Brigade Commander Wang Bingzhang, straightened their bayonets and rushed towards the Japanese positions opposite, and the Japanese army had no decent resistance because they were strangled with the previous soldiers of the Yunnan Army, so the whole 544 Brigade rushed into the battle group.

For a while, a larger-scale bayonet battle began to unfold, as the brigade commander Wang Bingzhang, personally held a bayonet to kill a Japanese soldier with a katana, but saw that his long beard was fluttering, and his face was so red that he really had a bit of Guan Gong's aura...