Chapter 121: The First Day of the War (2)
Chen Leshan took the division headquarters to throw off the troops by boat and arrived in Huzhou early in the morning, Chen Leshan studied at the Japanese Military Academy in his early years, and he was also an officer who climbed up from the bottom. The first thing he did after arriving in Huzhou was to visit the governor of Huzhou and settle down at the division headquarters and set up a radio station to contact the troops. The governor of Huzhou was the first governor in Zhejiang to join the Fujin Party, and he heard that Chen Leshan had already mentioned his voice when he came to visit him.
As the supreme commander of the Fourth Division, Chen Leshan visited the governor of the garrison and asked Huzhou whether it was difficult to arrange for the 13,000 troops of the Fourth Division to be garrisoned, whether the allocation of military camps was in place, and other matters concerning the stationing of troops.
The governor replied one by one, but his heart was fluttering, and there were a few guests from Jiangsu sitting at home, and he sighed that life is like acting. When answering Chen Leshan's relationship with the movements of Jiangsu during this period, the governor acted according to the pre-rehearsed version of the play, and after thinking about it, he pretended not to know how to do it.
"Master Chen, the ten-point statement read on the radio makes me feel inexplicable, what does Jiangsu want to do? Although the economy has been doing well in the past two years, it will not be arrogant enough to take action against Zhejiang. ”
"I don't understand what's going on, but nine times out of ten, it's certain that Jiangsu is not capable of attacking us, and we can't attack Jiangsu, but if you want to attack us, it's a fantasy. What are the abnormal situations in Jiangsu during this period? ”
"I just wonder about this, it's no different from usual, it's just that there are planes passing by."
"I also encountered the plane, and I scattered some leaflets, and I didn't do anything."
Chen Leshan was in a hurry to return to the division headquarters without staying too long, and accepted the banquet held by the governor for him in the evening.
At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Leyu, a soldier of the first battalion, was half-kneeling in the bunker on the side of the mountain, and from a distance, his body merged with the surrounding grass, and the grass-green camouflage uniform could not be found in the grass until he walked about three meters. The Type 20 rifle mounted on the bunker was lifted and lowered several times by him. The M35 steel helmet on the head was covered on the top of the head, and I felt that my scalp was itchy, and I didn't dare to take it off, and the military regulations were very strict, so I had to be found by the squad leader, so I had to go back to squatting and confinement. The bunkers smelled of decay and severed rhizomes, and ants crawled on camouflage uniforms in the mountains.
The squad leader at the other end of the bunker was using gestures to inform the other party that it was coming, Zhang Leyu opened the Type 20 rifle safety and aimed at the empty road in front of him in a three-point-one-line posture. The Zhejiang army came in a bustling marching formation, carrying a Japanese-made 6.5 mm long burning stick with a length of nearly one meter, a large cap, a gray military uniform, cloth shoes, and leggings.
Zhang Leyu aimed the muzzle of the gun at the officer with a gold trim on the big cap, and according to the operating specifications, the aiming part was the chest, which was larger than the head and easy to hit. When I saw the soldiers on the dirt road, I heard a bang, and it was the anti-infantry* that had been detonated. From time to time, there was a sound peculiar to the Type 20 rifle, and Zhang Leyu pulled the trigger and the 7.92 mm bullet spun and shot out at high speed, and the recoil of the gun body hit his shoulder, and the officer clutched his chest and fell unwillingly. Pulling the bolt and throwing out a bullet on top of the shell to find the target, the vanguard of the Fourth Division quickly faded, and dozens of soldiers who had been hit were lying on the dirt road rolling*.
There was a muffled sound in the distance, followed by a tremor under his feet, and small pumice stones fell down the mountain along with the mud and sand. When Zhang Leyu shook off the dirt on his body, he heard the voice of his companion* beside him, and he was hit by a stray bullet in his arm, and half of his arm was red with blood. Instinctively, he took out a first-aid kit to help him bandage it, and then knocked on the other party's steel helmet, and whispered that he would lie in the bunker and not show his head.
There were sporadic gunshots in the distance, and here there was a brief silence as the sappers blasted through the mountain ahead. Zhang Dafa squatted behind a big tree halfway up the mountain to observe the battlefield through a telescope, and when a burst of smoke and dust rose in the distance, he knew that the opponent's retreat had been blocked.
"Signal, attack on the front."
Two red flares rose over the valley, two Maxim heavy machine guns erupted metal chains from bunkers halfway up the mountain, and soldiers bulged out from the front of the fourth division and went soft like straw. Soon the chaotic situation of the 4th Division was brought under control, and the regiment of guards that rushed up behind left the dirt road in the valley and went into the woods on both sides of the mountain. The soldiers, armed with guns, leaned against the cover of trees and approached the position.
The position was cut diagonally across the mountainside, and the two Maxims could not provide support due to the influence of their field of view and angle, and continued to strafe the soldiers on the road. The fire of seven or eight light machine guns hit the charging soldiers in front of them hiding behind trees or lying on the ground, but the complete lethality of the guard regiment made the defensive line precarious.
In the sky, grenades slammed into the position in smoke and smashed into the position, and two light machine guns were suddenly dumbfounded. The company commander shouted and threw grenades, and the high-powered defensive grenades produced by the Tianfen factory were thrown into the woods, and the steel marbles were rapidly fired in all directions under the pressure of high-explosive ammunition.
"The communicator called the artillerymen, and the TMD did not support a single shell." The company commander was shooting on his knees with a Type 20 rifle, and he was completely unaware of the fact that the shrapnel of the grenade was cut open by shrapnel in his back.
The sound of mortar Tong Tong and the shells fell one after another in the woods and bushes in front of the bunker. As soon as the mortars stopped, the other side launched a dense formation charge, and the grenades on both sides flew alternately in the air, and the Soviet troops in the bunker obviously had the advantage, and as long as they did not fall into the bunker, they would not cause damage to the soldiers, on the contrary, the Zhejiang army was all exposed to the range of damage except for relying on not too thick trees for limited cover.
No matter how advanced the Soviet weapons were, they could not offset the opponent's numerical superiority, and soon the Zhejiang army arrived in front of the bunker. The Type 20 rifle had to pull the bolt again once and the firing speed could not keep up, and the position was about to be broken through.
"Get down, get down on cover!" The company commander pressed the * in his hand.
More than a dozen anti-infantry mines ejected from more than 10 meters in front of the bunker to 7 or 8 meters in the air, and each mine burst out hundreds of steel balls. The Soviets took out their M1911 pistols from their waists and fired continuously at the retreating Zhejiang troops. The melee M1911 has excellent burst performance, and seven bullets are fired instantly, and the left hand is coherently replaced with a magazine.
The guard regiment of the Zhejiang army saw this kind of fire blow, and retreated one after another, regardless of the officers behind to supervise the battle. It's running, not retreating, it's running all over the mountains.
The first battalion never thought about it, but did not expect to encounter this scene, fleeing from the mountains and wilderness. The two armored vehicles that had been hiding in the rear were used in advance to pursue the fleeing Zhejiang.
"They are all their own brothers, and they are given preferential treatment for surrendering guns."
"Our military salary is much higher than yours, and we don't deduct our salary, come and be a soldier, it's the same to be a soldier there, isn't it just a change of head."
"If you put down the gun, you can live, if you put down the gun, you can escape, and if you take the gun, you will be killed."
The appearance of armored vehicles was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and as the Zhejiang troops with guns were killed one after another, more Zhejiang troops threw away their guns, untied the grenades on their waists, raised their hands, and the act of surrender spread like an infectious disease, and groups of soldiers disarmed in formations under the watchful eyes of armored vehicles and machine guns.
The first thing Zhang Dafa did when he came out of the command post was to find the other party's existing highest-ranking officer and deputy brigade commander to negotiate with the transfer of personnel to rescue the wounded and clean up the bodies of the dead. Regardless of whether the Soviet army or the Zhejiang army were wounded, they were treated equally, and the bodies of the dead were uniformly packed in the body bags of the first battalion. The surviving soldiers, under the watchful eye of the machine guns on both sides, sat on the ground and waited for the rear troops to accept it.
Zhang Dafa was shocked when he counted the casualties on his side, with 127 killed in battle, 16 seriously wounded, and 178 lightly wounded. The casualties were almost halfway through, and the battalion staff officer said on the side that the brigade headquarters had asked us to block, and the battalion commander, you might as well turn the blocking battle into a war of annihilation at the instigation of several company commanders.
When the Yanyang military camp received the battle report, Li Manqiang's eyes almost fell to the ground, is it a mistake to ask for the right staff officer, is it a bit crazy that a battalion actually annihilates a brigade. After getting a call back from the front to confirm the authenticity, Li Manqiang stomped his feet excitedly: "If you give him a regiment and kick the Fourth Division, will most of the First Brigade arrive in Deqing?" ”
"Report that the 1st Brigade had arrived in Deqing an hour ago and was forming an encirclement of the 4th Division."
"Order the Longwangmiao airfield plane to take off, and the 1st Brigade to guide the bombing. Ordered the special forces in Huzhou to cooperate with the militia to attack the headquarters of the Fourth Division and capture Chen Leshan alive. ”
Wang Hongguo, who had just arrived in Deqing, received a telegram from the 1st Battalion and asked him to block the attack and turn it into the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Division. Let him Zhang Dafa make such a dozen actually turn the first brigade into a blocking battle, a regiment rushed to Yueyingqiao Village to build a position, which will prevent the fourth division from fleeing eastward, and the rest of the first brigade advanced at full speed, striving to reach Jimaling before noon, blocking the retreat of the fourth division.
Longwangmiao airport ground staff in the Sparrow plane before take-off for the final inspection, as the tower on the red flag raised, a modified Sparrow bomber on the cement runway to accelerate take-off, the leader of the plane is just from the Cangzhou front line back Diao Yuanjun Nantong native, after graduating from high school, in the Tianfen factory as a period of management after joining the Fujin Party recommended to Longwangmiao to participate in pilot training. This young man has a very good sense of direction in the sky, as long as he marks the location on the map, he can always find the target. In Cangzhou, the air support effect of the heavy armored regiment was significantly higher than that of his companions, and he was promoted to the captain of the Longwang Temple Flying Brigade with the approval of Hu Wenkai.
Sixteen bombers circled over the Longwang Temple and formed a formation and flew straight to the direction of Huzhou, and after the formation passed through the Yangtze River, they found the direction of Jiading's unique oil refinery repair and flew directly to Huzhou, Diao Yuanjun shouted loudly through the walkie-talkie: "Lower the altitude to 800 meters, this mountain has not exceeded 300 meters all the way to Huzhou." The co-pilot pays attention to the guidance signs on the ground. ”
In the sky above Wujiang County, the co-pilot found an arrow pattern on the ground paved with a large red cloth.
"Captain Diao, find the sign right ahead."
"See, please call me Captain Diao in the future, you deliberately called me Captain Diao, right?" The 48 people in the formation could hear it clearly and desperately held back laughter.
"No, don't wronged me, I'm going to call you the captain of the crane, aren't we becoming the captain? I'm not going to do it. The team finally couldn't help but laugh.
"Wang Quede, you kid remember to transfer you to the transport squadron when you go back."
"Don't, Captain Diao, I really didn't mean to."
"Don't laugh, pay attention to the bomb handles in your hands when you bomb for a while, and don't drop them all at once. Don't let me concentrate on bombs in small teams and areas, do you understand? Diao Yuanjun no longer paid attention to the laughter, because he was about to arrive in Huzhou.
"There's a sign in front of the captain."