Chapter 378: Twenty Army
The Battle of Songhu was the largest battle on the Chinese battlefield with the largest number of participants.
The battle ended with a complete victory for the Japanese, and the Chinese army also accomplished its set goal, changing the strategic center of the Japanese, crushing the arrogant rhetoric of the death of China in March, and the massive industrial transfer, which also reserved the fire for the subsequent war of resistance.
In the same battle, the Chinese army suffered heavy losses, and there were no three out of ten elite troops, which laid the groundwork for the failure of the subsequent major battles.
Although the battle failed, but in the Battle of Songhu, the performance of the Chinese army is still remarkable, in the Luodian offensive and defensive battle, Hu Lian led a regiment and the Japanese bloody battle for several days and nights, casualties, the four lines of 800 warriors would rather die than give in, can sing and cry.
There are also Shanghai citizens, who enthusiastically supported the army, won a lot of time and valuable transfer space for the Battle of Songhu, and also let the world see that the Chinese may be defeated, but they must not be knocked down!
Although the battle is nearing its end, the city of Shanghai is still full of gunfire, all kinds of propaganda slogans can be seen everywhere, almost no one is making trouble, and the people in the area that have not yet lost are still constantly supporting, and a small number of Chinese troops have not yet retreated, which can be said to be the unity of the army and the people.
It's a pity that the retreat plan of the Chinese army was very chaotic and was bitten by the Japanese, so there was later Nanjing......
Yu Zhiqian and others walked on the streets, and Shanghai is now very prosperous, but its prosperity has been destroyed by the war, and all that can be seen everywhere is all kinds of construction waste, and the terrible air defense sirens are almost non-stop day and night, and Japanese bombers fly overhead from time to time, dropping a few aerial bombs.
"Boom!"
An aerial bomb landed on a building not far away, and the original three-story building was instantly turned into a ruin, and Yu Zhiqian and the others looked up and saw several Japanese bombers overhead, showing off their might and hovering in the air.
"Hey!"
Yu Zhiqian looked at the Japanese bombers and sighed, the saying that if you fall behind, you will be beaten is not a joke, the Chinese Air Force basically has no air supremacy in this era, and the air force units can still resist in the early stage, but as the Battle of Songhu comes to an end, problems such as insufficient pilots and insufficient number of planes begin to appear, and finally not a single Chinese plane can be seen in the sky over Shanghai.
"There's gunfire ahead, go over and take a look!"
At this time, there was a rush of gunfire not far away, all of which were the sound of old-fashioned bolt rifles, but they were very dense, and from a distance, you could see that Chinese troops in cyan military uniforms were retreating.
"Be careful, don't mistake our clothes for Japanese!"
Yu Zhiqian and others were dressed in camouflage uniforms, and although they were different from the Japanese military uniforms, they were also different from the Chinese army, and they could easily be regarded as enemy soldiers.
"Brother in front, which unit are you from!"
When Yu Zhiqian was still one or two hundred meters away, he opened his throat and shouted, and now he regrets a little, why didn't he bring a domestic loudspeaker.
"We are from the 20th Army!"
"20th Army?"
Yu Zhiqian immediately remembered this unit in his mind, the 20th Army is the Sichuan Army, which went out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese in September, and should have only recently joined the battlefield, Yu Zhiqian took a general look at this unit, the 20th Army is also a relatively well-equipped unit in the Sichuan Army, they have been reorganized, have received equipment, and there are about five or six thousand people.
Even if this group of well-equipped troops, Yu Zhiqian looked at them still wearing single clothes, the military uniforms on their bodies were tattered, some of them were barefoot, and their weapons were somewhat uniform, but they were also a little shabby, and he didn't know what the 43rd Army and the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army would look like.
"We belong to the 88th Division!" Yu Zhiqian responded, and also saw the Japanese army pursuing behind the group of Sichuan troops, a Japanese tank, followed by dozens of Japanese soldiers, slowly advancing along the road.
The Sichuan soldiers retreated while shooting, but the bullets had no effect on the tanks, and the Japanese soldiers were very arrogant, almost using the tanks as cover, shooting while moving forward.
The Japanese tank is the legendary Douding tank, the main armor thickness is only 25mm, in Europe or in the world except for any part of the Chinese battlefield, there are countless ways to easily penetrate, but in China, this thing has always been a nightmare for the Chinese army.
With 57 mm short-barreled guns and two machine guns, the two tanks were a walking fortress in the face of the Chinese army, which lacked armored troops and artillery, and it would cost dozens or more casualties to take out one of them.
By the time the Peewee Tank came out of the corner, it had already begun to turn its barrel and began to look for their target.
"Pay attention to the devil's tank, you withdraw, the tank is handed over to us!" After Yu Zhiqian finished speaking, he quickly put down his backpack, took out two grenades, stuffed them into the lower pendant, adjusted the ruler, and aimed at the Japanese Douding tank.
But at this time, the Japanese Douding tank had already fired, and a light machine gun on the side spewed tongues of fire and knocked several Sichuan soldiers to the ground, while more Sichuan soldiers still maintained a rapid retreat backwards, while turning back from time to time to fire two shots, trying to slow down the pace of Japanese pursuit.
"Fei Qi, you kill those Japanese soldiers, and hand over the tank to me!" Yu Zhiqian shouted, calculated the speed of the tank's movement, and finally slowly pulled the trigger, and a 40 mm grenade landed behind the Japanese tank.
After the explosion sounded, several Japanese soldiers around were directly killed, but the tanks were not killed, and the two Douding tanks were still firing unscrupulously, and several Sichuan soldiers fell to the ground.
There was a wide road around, and there was no cover around, and the Sichuan soldiers kept falling down while retreating.
"Run to the sides, run to the sides!" Yu Zhiqian shouted as he put the second grenade into his chamber, ready to adjust and blow up the Peanding tank.
However, at this time, Yu Zhiqian saw a wounded soldier of the Sichuan army, who had been shot in the leg and fell to the ground, moving slowly, holding two grenades with wooden handles in his hands, approaching the tank little by little, moving at a speed that was not fast, and he was afraid of being discovered by the Japanese.
When the Douding tank approached, the wounded soldier suddenly stood up from the ground, pulled the safety of the grenade, and then stuffed the grenade into the position of the tracks of the two tanks, and at this time the machine gunner on the tank also found the soldier, turned the muzzle, and in an instant more than a dozen bullets passed through the soldier's body.
But the unknown Sichuan soldier still stuffed the grenade in his hand under the tank's track at the last moment of falling.
"Boom!"
An explosion sounded again, and the Sichuan soldier and the tank's tracks were directly blown off and stopped in place.
"Grass!"
Yu Zhiqian's eyes were a little red, this was only a situation that would appear during the Anti-Japanese War, the equipment and weapons were backward, and if you wanted to kill the backward tanks like the Japanese, you could only fill them with human lives, this was a lucky time, and it normally took at least dozens of soldiers to replace a tank.
"Dog's day little devil!"
Yu Zhiqian spat out a mouthful of saliva, readjusted the landing point of the gun grenade, and pulled the trigger again, this time the gun grenade did not have any deviation, and fell directly on the Japanese Douding tank, the fragile armor of the Douding tank could not block the 40mm grenade at all, and instantly turned into a torch.
However, after the tank was blown up, the Japanese infantry behind them still did not stop moving forward, and continued to advance, and now these Japanese have gone crazy, and they don't care what the situation around them has become, as long as they see the Chinese army, they will bite it to death.
This situation did not only occur in Shanghai, this group of crazy Japanese, along the retreat route of the Chinese army, pursued all the way to Nanjing, if the commander surnamed Tang at that time in Nanjing did not retreat, Nanjing may be a different situation.
"Hit!"
On the other side, Yan Qi looked at the Japanese who had lost the cover of the tank and were still frantically pursuing, and immediately ordered to open fire, and the marksmanship of the six people was very exquisite, and at a distance of more than 100 meters, several Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were all shot and fell to the ground.
"Mao three hundred, shoot with point, our bullets are precious!"
Yan Qi reminded here, and at the same time killed a Japanese soldier who was aiming, this group of Japanese soldiers' marksmanship was very accurate, after falling a few people in a row, this group of Japanese soldiers also found Yu Zhiqian and others, although they were dressed very strangely, but they still turned their guns and shot at Yu Zhiqian and others.
"Hit!"
After the Sichuan soldiers saw that the Japanese tanks had been killed, their morale was also greatly boosted, especially when one of their commanders found that although Yu Zhiqian and others had six or seven people, they had already killed more than 10 Japanese soldiers, and immediately lay down excitedly behind a bunker, took out a pistol and shot at a Japanese soldier while shouting.
After the rest of the soldiers heard the order, they immediately looked for a simple cover nearby and counterattacked the Japanese.
"Withdraw!"
After killing more than 30 Japanese soldiers, a small Japanese soldier Cao finally felt that something was wrong, and he might be wiped out if he continued to fight like this, and ordered a retreat.
The Japanese soldiers began to retreat to the back, and Yu Zhiqian rushed out from behind the bunker: "Pursue two hundred meters forward, brothers of the Sichuan army, everyone pick up the Japanese weapons, don't waste them!" ”
"Hahaha, thank you, sir!"
The speed of the Japanese retreat was very fast, very orderly, Yu Zhiqian and others stopped the pursuit after chasing to the corner, the contact battle just now, although it was only a few minutes, but the Sichuan soldiers sacrificed nearly 30 people, and the Japanese were also killed 36 people, but most of the Sichuan soldiers were killed by tanks, otherwise the casualties would be lower.
"Hello sir, I am Du Haifeng, deputy company commander of the third company of the 804th Regiment of the Twentieth Army!"
"Eighty-eighth Division, Colonel Staff Officer, Yu Zhiqian, where are your troops?" Yu Zhiqian returned a military salute and looked at Du Haifeng in front of him, who was not tall and wounded, but he was full of capable aura.
"Sir, it's all gone, our people were responsible for guarding the defense line of the Yunzaobang River before, some time ago our defense line was broken through, the regiment commander died, our brothers later regained the defense line, and were beaten back by the devil!"
Speaking of this, this sturdy man suddenly cried, and Yu Zhiqian also patted him lightly on the shoulder, the Yunzaobang River defense line was the first shot of the Sichuan army on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and it was also a battle commanded by Yang Sen, the commander of the 20th Army.
Yang Sen fought very fiercely in the civil war, but he performed more brilliantly on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, he thought that he was the descendant of Yang Jiye, the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army had many brothers and nephews of Yang Sen's same ancestor, and the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army had "Yang Family General, Guang'an Soldiers".
Yang Sen once famously said: Our 20th Army is the most glorious when it is transferred to Shanghai to fight against Japan. It is worth sacrificing for the country!
The 20th Army fought very fiercely in the Yunzao Binhe Defense Line, and basically it can be said that the entire army was directly exhausted, but it was always at the last moment, when all the surrounding positions were lost, and the defense line had no value, it withdrew from the position.
It is said that at the most tragic time, the Sichuan soldiers used the corpses of their comrades as bunkers to continue fighting, under the artillery fire, the only sandbags and bunkers in front of the Sichuan army's position were tracked and beaten by the Japanese artillery fire.
Sichuan people are good at homesickness, love and righteousness, Songhu Battle participated in the Sichuan Army, not villagers, or old friends, so with the remains of brothers as a cover, it can be seen that the Sichuan officers and soldiers were unyielding in bloody battles, their eyes were spitting fire, and they did not hesitate to kill the morale, and at that time the Sichuan Army should be long-term malnutrition, weak body, and Japanese soldiers when fighting, melee stabbing, Sichuan soldiers are not Japanese opponents, but Sichuan people are strong, strong.
As soon as the Japanese army entered the position, once the Sichuan soldiers failed to shoot at close range, they would pull and burn the grenades and die with the Japanese army, in addition, more Sichuan officers and soldiers held explosive bags to attack the Japanese tanks close to the trenches, and this was how they resisted the Japanese planes and tank charges, and completed the tasks assigned by the commander.
"You guys withdraw now, now all the troops have received the order to retreat, you go all the way to the west, if you encounter a large army, inform them, you must leave the troops behind, you can't bite the tail of the Japanese, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!"
After hearing Yu Zhiqian's words, Du Haifeng was stunned for a moment: "Sir, you withdraw, let's cover you, although our brothers' marksmanship is not as good as yours, but you can rest assured, if the devils want to chase over, they must step over our corpses, sir, we didn't run away just now, the brothers still have an ambush circle behind, ready to attract the devils over, but I didn't expect that these devils have tanks, and many brothers died, but it's worth it!" ”
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