Chapter Twenty-Three: The First Victory in Defending the City
There weren't a few guns in the warehouse at Mt. Guard, and Kono's arsenal was filled with dozens of brand-new 38 rifles. These guns are still much worse, if you have a shot, you can also deal with it with a little big sword, spear, iron slingshot, and you can use it.
After taking these guns, Ren Laifeng was about to leave, but Yusuke Kono stopped him. "Ren Jun, what's going on in the city? Why do you say that the Japanese army will slaughter the city? ”
Ren Laifeng looked Kono up and down, pouted and smiled, "Isn't what I said wrong?" Didn't you Japanese slaughter the city? In 1937, you killed 300,000 people in Nanjing, and in Lushun in 1937, only 36 people survived in the whole city. Is there a lie to what I said? ”
"This, this is all a legend, a rumor!" Kono was left to the wind when it came to other things, but he didn't intend to give in to the slaughter of the city. He is also a member of the Japanese army, and if the Japanese army is said to be too undecent, his face is not good-looking.
"I'll kill you now, but I won't admit it. When people ask me, I say it's fake. Do you think this is true or is it a rumor? Ren Laifeng smiled and patted Kono's shoulder, "I said Kono, don't think so much, if there is any accident, you can report it to me in time." When it's time for you to go out, I'll tell you, if I don't speak, you stay in the barracks and don't go anywhere. This is for your safety. Okay, let's go. ”
After saying that, he left, and the remaining Kono was stunned.
The battle reports from the front line were delivered to Ren Laifeng like snowflakes. Gu Dafeng, Yao Wenlong, and Fu Erchong got together, and the three troops went up together to beat the Japanese Third Independent Brigade that attacked Taipingchuan to half-cripples. The devil threw down more than 200 corpses and fled in confusion.
Fu Erchong's second detachment lost half of its men, the number of casualties increased, and the wounded accounted for 40 percent of the entire detachment. Although this casualty figure is staggering, it is not so unacceptable compared to Gu Dafeng's team.
Although the large number of casualties made Ren Laifeng feel distressed, they were basically within his acceptable range, and the losses in other aspects made him unbearable. The Flying Tiger Battalion, which has just been resurrected, has lost more than half of its trucks! What a mechanized battalion was brutally destroyed by the devil's four cannons!
Ren is so angry that he wants to kill! How much effort did he put into it for these dozens of trucks? It's so easy to be gone? Where is he going to get so many motor vehicles in the future?
Huang Tian and Li Lishan, the troops of these two people were also attacked by different enemies, Zhou Lin took the fourth detachment in the Northeast Lingshan, but the devil did not go there for the time being.
When the news that the cavalry detachment encountered the enemy and the artillery detachment opened artillery to support came over, Ren Laifeng knew that the devil's army had arrived outside Qinggang County. Do you abandon the city or hold on? Ren Laifeng thought about this question for a while, and finally decided to try it first.
Ren Laifeng went to the Japanese barracks again, found Kono Nakasa, and told him: You lead the people to go to the backing mountain tun sixty miles northwest of the county seat, where there is a group of bearded people who often rob houses. You go and beat them away, and then report to the higher authorities that they have exterminated the guerrillas, and see if the Kwantung Army will win and collect their troops?
Okay! Kono received the order, gathered his troops in a hurry, and went straight to the northwest from the north gate! The feeling of being in the barracks for two days was so uncomfortable, and it was really nice to be able to go out and have a good time. Especially let the tone of the wind come, the battle of the backing mountain is not difficult to fight, Kono is even happier, this trip is just to travel and relax.
The devil left in a hurry, and Ren Laifeng didn't care about him. The cavalry detachment and the baggage brigade escorted the artillery detachment to the direction of the county seat. Ren Laifeng is now thinking about his cannon. The trucks have been lost, but the artillery must not be lost again.
Fortunately, because Cai Gaofeng hung the cannon behind the cart pulling the baggage early, they didn't run slowly. In addition, Rakesh led the cavalry brigade to carry out small-scale and rapid attacks on the devils constantly, so that the devils could not catch up, and these three troops finally returned to Qinggang County safely.
The Japanese army that followed followed, and the battle to defend the city began. The Japanese army stormed the east gate, and Ren Laifeng personally led the sixth detachment and the baggage brigade to jointly defend the city; ordered the cavalry brigade to go out of the south gate and attack behind the Japanese flank; The artillery detachment was supported by artillery fire in hidden places in the city.
The devil first sent a group of soldiers to try to approach the city gate, and my soldiers guarding the city beat them with a volley of guns and ran away. The cannonballs of the devils are coming! The density of the artillery fire was not large, but it was accurate. Two shells came, and half of the city gate building collapsed. After a half-minute pause, two more shells hit the city wall, and the two-zhang high city wall collapsed half on the spot.
Let the wind take a look, will this work? Let the little devils fight like this, and the city wall will become a pile of bricks sooner or later. Let's not talk about the defensive ability of the city wall, just say that the cultural relics and monuments of many years have been destroyed by the cannons of the little devils, and it is distressing to watch.
What did Cai Gaofeng's artillery eat? Why not fight back? Ren Laifeng took out a pen and wrote a note in his notebook, ordered the herald to ride to Cai Gaofeng, and ordered him to immediately open artillery to reinforce the East City Gate!
The artillery detachment began to return fire. The density of our army's artillery fire was significantly higher than that of the devils outside the city, and when a round of shells smashed over, the devils were stunned on the spot outside the city. At this moment, Rakesh came with his cavalry, and charging from the side with a platoon of guns was tantamount to sticking another knife in the wounded heart of the devil. The incomplete brigade of the devils finally withdrew, and the Qinggang defense battle achieved its first victory.
As soon as Ren Laifeng breathed a sigh of relief, he received Zhou Lin's report, and the devil troops had been bypassing their Lingshan defense line and heading towards Qinggang County. Zhou Linzheng led the troops to chase after him, but he didn't know if he could catch up before the devil ran to the county seat. The meaning of his telegram is to remind Ren Laifeng that a group of devils are coming, you should be more careful!
Lingshan is in the northeast, and since the devil is coming from that direction, Ren Laifeng will shift the focus of defense to the northeast. Send the sixth detachment out of the east gate, plant mines, dig barricades, and set up defensive positions on the main road into the city in the east, and he wants to keep the enemy outside the city gate!
Four hours later, the devil came. Ren Laifeng hid behind the rock mass and watched a team of devils running along the road. Among them, there were a few devil officers on horseback who were running happily with the team. Ren Laifeng regretted it a little, if Fu Erchong was here and killed the devil officers one by one with one shot, wouldn't this battle save a lot of trouble?
"Commander-in-chief, let me knock down the devil on horseback, right?"
Hey, who is this? Let the wind go smoothly and look at the voice.