Chapter 1178 - Not Forgotten

The 20th Division, as a permanent division of Class A, is equipped with about 180 vehicles, and most of these vehicles are assigned to the 20th Baggage Wing.

It's just that even Liu Lang didn't think that there was such a beautiful thing, the Japanese would not blow up the truck and fuel in desperation, when he stepped into the county, Liu Dazhu, with a look of ecstasy, pulled him to the open space in Dongcheng There are 160 trucks neatly arranged.

It was really the firepower of the firepower that fired on the "Hitler chainsaw" that was too fierce, sweeping away the corpses of nearly 500 hastily armed Japanese stretcher soldiers, and at the same time completely chilling the hearts of the defenders of the East Gate. lest you run fast enough to be overtaken by the Chinese's terrible machine guns, where can you bother to blow up cars and fuel?

In fact, the squadron leader of the Japanese baggage squadron responsible for guarding the east gate really ordered several soldiers to blow up the cars and stored fuel under the leadership of a platoon commander, but he did not expect that the moment he gave the order to retreat to the city, the last trace of fighting spirit of the entire baggage squad had been thrown back to the main island of Japan.

At the moment when he heard the Chinese blow the trumpet, the captain who led the team and several soldiers did not even enter the parking lot, and directly chose to run away. Even if disobedience to military orders will be punished with capital punishment, then you must be eligible to live until that time, not to mention that the squadron leader may not be able to survive such a fierce offensive by the Chinese!

While the Japanese army made a wise choice, they also left a whole 160 trucks to the Chinese.

With this thing, it is much stronger than Liu Lang thought before to rely on three jumpers to operate a group of people to Shimen. The maneuverability of the three jumpers on the mountain road is stronger than that of the Japanese army's large truck with a loading capacity of five tons, but it is worse on the road, and more importantly, in addition to the head of the Japanese lieutenant general Kawagishi Bunzaburo in Shimen, Liu Tuanzuo is quite yearning, and the most important thing is the materials stored in Shimen.

As the base camp of the entire 20th Division, it must be even fatter than Jingcheng County! Liu Tuanzuo, who has already decided that "people have no windfall and no wealth, and horses have no night grass and no fat", is already full of thoughts about robbing homes at this time.

There are more than 100 large trucks, which can properly load hundreds of tons of materials and go home, so that the Japanese can only go home with their bare butts to find Ma Ma.

Truck drivers don't have to worry about it, all the officers and men of the independent regiment, in the past few years of training, an important training content is to be proficient in driving three jumpers. Three jumpers on three wheels can be driven, let alone a four-wheeled truck with similar principles? During this period, there were no police officers who set up cards to check driver's licenses?

The officers and men of the bayonet battalion who were driving without a license started the trucks one after another, and after a simple operation, Liu Lang was sure that they would not fall into the ravine with their personnel weapons and equipment, and ordered the red troops, who had been assembled in place five minutes in advance, to get into the car.

Of course, Liu Lang still strictly stipulates the speed, and the speed of each truck must not exceed 20 yards per hour. He didn't want the elite Red Army to be lost in a car accident.

However, the departure time of the troops participating in the Battle of Shimen was finally postponed by half an hour, and at the suggestion of the always cautious political commissar Deng, the 686th Regiment and the 343rd Brigade Headquarters Guard Company were all reequipped.

The infantry was all reequipped with pure Japanese-style equipment, and each infantry company was equipped with 12 light machine guns with the previous Czech light machine guns, and the heavy machine guns that were previously only available in infantry battalions were now decentralized to each infantry company, and the heavy machine gun company directly under the battalion headquarters had 8 heavy machine guns, and the heavy machine guns of an infantry battalion were as high as 11, comparable to an infantry brigade of the Japanese army. The grenadiers were also issued to each infantry squad one, and a platoon reached three grenadiers, that is, the grenadier operation was not very proficient, otherwise, the firepower of an infantry platoon with 3 light machine guns and 3 grenadiers would definitely hang an infantry squad of the Japanese army.

Considering the particularity of the Battle of Shimen, in order to defend the division and regimental headquarters, the Japanese army may resist stubbornly and there will be brutal street fighting, and the 343 Brigade Guard Company is reequipped with submachine guns and shell guns based on melee combat, with 150 guard companies, 80 flower machine guns, 50 rifles, and 60 shell guns, and the melee firepower within 100 meters far exceeds that of an infantry squadron of the Japanese army.

In addition to the rearmament of the guns, the artillery battalion of the separate regiment, which was divided into two again with the infantry, carried 4 mountain guns, 4 infantry guns, 82 mortars, and 1 37-mm rapid-fire gun, for a total of 17 guns. With this artillery, not to mention much, it is no problem to hang two infantry brigades. And that's not even counting the 20-mm guns, which are mainly used for air defense. And the Japanese army is in Shimen, are there still two infantry brigades? Apparently not.

The bayonet battalion is naturally not to mention, semi-automatic rifles and Suomi submachine guns are the presence of the Japanese in both field and street battles, and they only need to replenish ammunition.

In addition to the 150 rounds of ammunition carried by each soldier himself, a baggage company that followed them carried 200,000 rounds of various machine rifle shells, 400 rounds of 92 infantry artillery shells, 1,000 mortar shells, 300 rounds of mountain artillery shells, 100 rounds of 37-mm rapid-fire gun shells, 3,000 rounds of 20-mm machine gun shells, and 10 trucks just loaded into trucks.

According to Brigade Commander Chen, who was full of ambition when he learned that his troops were about to change their clothes, with his current equipment, let alone let him go to Shimen, that is, the North China Dispatch Army Headquarters of the Beiping Japanese Army, he dared to touch the moldy head of Shouichi in the temple.

Don't mention that squeath, it was so exciting that another brigade commander Chen almost snatched the arsenal by himself. The future god of war had to use 16 heavy machine guns and 24 light machine guns to pacify him.

Half of the heavy firearms seized in the entire Jingcheng County have gone like this, but they are all smart people, and Liu Lang is basically blind to the behavior of these poor and scared old-timers who "Ming Xiu Plank Road Dark Chen Cang" You sing red face and I sing white face to take advantage.

Of course, he knew that these generals didn't want to take advantage of him Liu Lang, the independent regiment had its own equipment system, and he couldn't use this batch of Japanese-style equipment at all except for bullets. The 129th Division has already taken into account the issue of the distribution of interests of the parties after the war.

In addition to the 129th Division and the 17th Division, there are also the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army, which has arrived at the front line today, the Third Army of Zeng Wanzhong, which belongs to the Central Army, the 26th Route Army of Sun Lianzhong of the Northwest Army, and the 27th Route Army of Feng Qinya.

If this battle is successful, no one can take this credit alone, whether it is the Independent Regiment or the 129th Division. Those who want to monopolize will become the target of public criticism.

When fighting, if it wasn't forced to a certain extent, I'm afraid that the big guys would not be so active in facing the Japanese artillery fire and fighting for their lives, but when the credit is shared, the generals are still very able to go into battle shirtless. Whoever dares to touch his share of cheese will dare to fight hard.

That thing is not just a material or a seizure, but a name and face, everyone is willing to be a victorious general rather than a defeated general, right? Of course, in the first battle of Jindong, no one in these generals of the national army dropped the chain.

Whether it is the current time and space or the time and space, whether it is the Central Army or the Northwest Army or the Sichuan Army or the Jin Sui Army or the Red Army, even if they have suffered heavy casualties, they are still fighting to the death. To tell the truth, without the heavy defense of the southern front, without the frontal defense line of Niangziguan to resist the death, and without the huge sacrifices made by the 17th Division to lure the enemy, Liu Lang would not have been able to fight such a brilliant battle even if Zhuge was alive.

In other words, the victory in this battle was really not something that could be won by the two troops of the Independent Regiment and the 129th Division, but also the result of the 100,000 troops on the Jindong Front. Even if most of them are still in the dark, they don't know that they have won by lying down like this.

The red generals are well aware of this, so they use the excuse of strengthening firepower to continue the battle, and divide the heavy firepower equipment into seven, seven, eight, and eight first.

Anyway, until now, at the suggestion of the future god of war, the results of the two armies in one day and most of the night have not been reported to the Jindong Front Command, perhaps until tomorrow dawn all the battles have become clear, and the 20th Division, from the division commander to the small soldiers, is already in a catastrophe, and when a major counteroffensive on the whole front is needed, the battle report will be reported to the headquarters.

At 2:15 a.m., Liu Lang led the guard platoon and the bayonet battalion to start with three jumpers, and the rear was separated by a two-mile road, and Brigade Commander Chen led his 343 Brigade Guard Company and 2,200 people of the 686th Regiment to sit on more than 70 trucks with the specifications of a car for 30 people, and the personnel of the baggage company and various types of baggage loaded 10 vehicles, more than 40 empty, a total of 130 trucks drove from the highway to Shimen.

The other unit led by Zhang Ruhao was responsible for infiltrating the defense line of the Japanese artillery wing, but did not conceal its whereabouts as imagined, the two Zhuangding battalion companies were actually the first and second squadrons of the Blue Army, all Japanese-style military uniforms and equipment, with five trucks of canned food and five trucks of various supplies plus three trucks for some personnel, a total of twelve trucks swaggered along the highway to the front line of Niangziguan accompanied by the infantry.

Extremely standard way of marching for the Japanese army's baggage troops.

Comrade Koizumi, deputy secretary general of the "Anti-War League," sat in the cab of the first truck in the uniform of a Japanese second lieutenant and in high spirits. But Liu Tuanzuo promised that after this battle, his military rank would be second lieutenant of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, and he would personally confer the title on him.

The future general led an infantry regiment and three infantry battalions to follow, all the heavy equipment was transported by the remaining eighteen trucks, forty miles of mountain road, they would arrive thirty miles away in four hours, and then abandon all kinds of baggage into the mountain, just waiting for the friendly army, all dressed in Japanese uniforms, just like the Japanese army, to open the gap in the Japanese defense line, and the whole army went straight to the defense line of the Japanese artillery wing.

When he heard that Liu Lang had formed a blue army unit similar to the Japanese army in terms of clothing, equipment, language and behavior imitation three years ago, the future generals had nothing to say.

I started calculating the Japanese three years ago, and if I can't win the battle with this level of precaution, then I really see what hell I am.

Bright headlights hold the entire huge convoy like a living dragon, winding along the mountain road.

The future military god who is in charge of the commander-in-chief of Jingcheng County Standing on the main peak of Xuehua Mountain six miles outside Jingcheng County, which is also the mountain where the fifth company of the 17th Division was wiped out, looking at this scene, he couldn't help but have tears in his eyes and his heart was surging.

A solemn red military salute was given to the location of the anti-artillery hole where most of the remains of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Company of the 17th Division were buried, which was found by the sappers, and a poem was written:

"The bloody battle of the army is at Niangzi Pass, and the artillery is thundering and the smoke is in the smoke;

The martyrs and heroes also stopped to watch the children recovering the rivers and mountains. ”

This poem, decades later, was engraved behind the Monument to the Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War of the 17th Division on the main peak of Xuehua Mountain.

After the death of Zhao Shoushan, the commander of the 17th Division, he asked to be buried on the main peak of the Lack of Donkey Ridge, where he could not only accompany the thousands of people who died in battle in the Lack of Donkey Ridge, but also watch the main peak of Xuehua Mountain from afar. And decades later, the watermelon that has entered its old age will burst into tears every time I look at it.

His brothers, after all, have not been forgotten, not only his babies.

The Republic will not forget, and neither will the Chinese nation.