Chapter 149: Attacking Sanguanpo (Part I)
Division Commander Hong Xing led the new 39th Division to attack Sanguanpo.
Due to the heavy casualties of the reinforced regiment of the new 39th Division in the battle of entering and leaving Hongmushu, there were not many officers and men left in the unit, in order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the attacking troops, the commander of the Hong Division merged the troops in front of the formation and unified them under the command of the 116th Regiment.
Regiment Commander Zhu Daoyuan led the death squad to launch two attacks on the Japanese army, and once occupied the Japanese position, but due to the Japanese army's frantic counterattack, the position was lost again.
The war was at a stalemate.
When the situation of the battle reached Hong Xing, he was in a hurry. He had been observing the battle in the command shed, believing that against this complex terrain, strong fortress and stubborn enemy, it was necessary to fight skillfully, and a tactic was brewed in the mind of Commander Hong. He couldn't wait to brave the rain of bullets and come to the front of the position in person, tell Regiment Commander Zhu how to use it, how to fight, and ask the 116th Regiment to carry out simulated training.
The newly appointed deputy regiment commander Wang Mazi concentrated the light and heavy machine guns of the whole regiment on the front line...... Wang Mazi fought with the Japanese army and knew that the Japanese army was accustomed to judging the number of enemy machine guns to guess the size of the enemy, so Wang Mazi put as many machine guns as possible in the front, but even so, because a platoon of the engineer regiment only had one machine gun, the number of machine guns was still not enough, so he had to use some firecrackers to light in the iron barrel to fill the number.
Not to mention, firecrackers are really similar to machine guns when they explode like this, I don't know if the devil is scared, anyway, Wang Mazi is scared, at this time, he has long forgotten what mosquitoes and poisonous insects, and he only lies tightly on the ground and doesn't dare to come out.
Of course, a feint is not just a few hits, it is enough to shoot and set off firecrackers, someone must also rush up...... The devils are all veterans who have fought on the battlefield, and it is impossible for them to shoot indiscriminately when they are frightened by the sound of gunfire and artillery.
Therefore, the engineer regiment arranged a company in each direction to charge the devil's position in a straggler formation, and with the dense gunfire in the jungle, it really looked like it was trying to take back the position.
This forced the Japanese to shoot back, and a fierce battle ensued near the position.
In this way, they took turns to feint at the forward positions of the Japanese army, which caused a high degree of tension among the Japanese army. Such a real and false attack paralyzed the Japanese army for several days in a row.
On the 24th, before the 116th Regiment began to sleep at night, Regiment Commander Zhu received another notice that all the combatants of the 7th Company, with weapons and ammunition, were ready to attack the devils on the opposite side at night with the 8th Company.
Hearing the news, everyone was overjoyed, and the operation was led and commanded by the deputy regiment commander.
The assault team consisting of the 7th and 8th companies, after dark, took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and crawled forward.
The weather at the end of August is still a little hot in Longling, but it is still very comfortable in the evening breeze.
Everyone crawled carefully, trying not to make a sound, so they climbed very slowly, Wang Mazi and them could not be seen in the distance in the dark night, and in the near distance, these hundreds of people slowly crawled forward, looking weird and terrifying.
Wang Mazi felt that he and everyone were like a group of life-seeking ghosts, crawling in the dark night, and hundreds of life-seeking ghosts slowly approached the front of the Japanese army's position.
Perhaps it is too contemptuous of the Chinese army, or perhaps it is numbed by the recent frequent attacks by the Chinese army. The Japanese had only two sentries on the position, and they were still sitting there back to back, dozing off.
The Japanese army may think that a new Chinese unit is coming from the opposite position, and they resolutely dare not come over in the middle of the night to sneak attack, or it may be that they are too tired from fighting with the new 39th Division in the past few days.
I fought day and night for several days, and finally seized a chance to rest, and I didn't have a good night's sleep, and the devil is also a human being, so he also has to sleep.
To despise the Chinese army is certain, Wang Mazi turned over the trench of the devil's position, and he knew that such a kneeling trench could only protect against rifle and machine gun bullets, but not artillery shells.
However, they calculated that the Chinese army did not have a few cannons, and even if there were, there was no way to transport them.
Almost at the same time, the commander of the 7th company beside Wang Mazi, one took off, stepped forward with his left hand to cover the mouth of the enemy sentry, pulled back, the enemy's neck was naturally exposed, and the right hand holding the dagger, with a flash of the knife, cut the major artery and trachea of the enemy's neck.
The ghost sentry reflexively grabbed and covered his neck with both hands, but it was already too late, and the blood sprayed out could not be stopped.
Moreover, the trachea that made the sound was also severed, and even if he tried his best to shout, he could only make a hissing sound of air, not to mention that the left hand of the commander of the 7th Company had not been put down, and even if he fell to the ground, he was still so dead that he covered the mouth of the enemy sentry, and almost no sound came out.
Bleeding profusely in an instant, causing the enemy sentry to slowly lose strength, began to weaken his hands and feet, his whole body convulsed, and finally only his hands were left, and he grabbed the sky indiscriminately, as if he was going to grasp some life-saving straw, and made a hopeless last effort.
Even if these are in ordinary training, Wang Mazi often does such actions, but they are just drills, this is the first time I have seen a living person, in an instant, being killed silently like a pig.
A fresh life, in a quick hopeless struggle, spent the last few seconds of life, fresh hot blood with the spray, a few meters can smell the sweet smell of blood, Wang Mazi's stomach suddenly turned over, and the undigested dinner almost spewed out.
Another devil's sentry, who was also half-asleep, was cut by Wang Mazi's neck, and was pressed into the trench by several people, slowly bleeding until he was completely dead, unable to make any sound.
Wang Mazi made a gesture to the large army behind him, and it was done. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Liu Zhenwu, the company commander of the 8th Company, stood up even more excitedly, showed his bayonet, waved, and commanded everyone to hurry up and rush into the devil's tent, and then perform the feat of cutting off the devil's head in the middle of the night of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War.
Because of his excitement, he took the lead and rushed to the devil's tent area, and everyone was rushing forward, when suddenly, a "pop" gunshot, and Company Commander Liu Zhenwu stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Dark Whistle! Get down! Ox, kill the sentry for me. ”
Hu Hao lay down, and at the same time gave several orders, and immediately a few brothers came over with a row of guns, and Niu Gu took out the shell gun, and also hit a shuttle in the direction of the dark whistle gun just now.
The bull rushed forward as he struck, and when he had finished his blow, he immediately threw himself on the ground, with an extra grenade in his hand, and when he raised it, he pulled the string and threw it into the position of the secret whistle.
In fact, after the enemy's secret sentry gun, the tent camp area of the Japanese army was already a mess.