319. Reinforcements to Chunhua Town

Both sides are fresh forces, and as soon as they make contact, they fight fiercely, and the three dogs on their side, all of them are so tired that they are paralyzed on the ground, and there is also a huge relaxation that survived, and they all fell to the ground and had no strength to stand up.

After taking a breath of relief, the three dogs shouted to several platoon commanders to count their numbers, and after a while, everyone slowly started to count the number of people.

A few people were stunned, and they called several times before they came back to their senses, watching the two armies not far away fighting, as if they had nothing to do with themselves, and watched blankly.

After this kind of cruel and cruel zero-distance fighting, it is a great destruction for the psychology of the soldiers, and even after the war, for a long time, they will feel that there is no joy in life and no sorrow in death.

I can't get up for anything, I feel that I can do anything, I can live, and it doesn't matter if I die; But as a commander, you have to be emotionally strong to count the number of people and heal the wounded.

In fact, everyone is more or less injured, but the severity is different, those who can walk will walk by themselves, and those who can't walk will be picked up and walked together.

This time the 7th Company suffered heavy losses, and almost half of the men of the two platoons were sacrificed, and only more than thirty people survived, including a few seriously wounded.

I didn't have the time or energy to count the number of devils, I just hurried to get some weapons and ammunition, and the guns and rifles on the position were almost all broken and broken, and I could only pick up some grenades and bullets on the dead bodies of devils.

Visually, the devil should have died a lot, if you count the attack of machine guns and grenades at the beginning, the devil died even more, it is estimated that there are more than a hundred people, and the corpses are all over the mountain.

Unconsciously, it was almost dark, and the devil was reluctant to fight at night, and it was estimated that he was tired, and before more reinforcements arrived, he hurriedly withdrew, although it was a bit difficult to retreat in hand-to-hand combat, but he had to withdraw, otherwise the casualties would be greater.

More than 30 of them, under the cover of Xiucai's first platoon and the 301st Battalion of the 301st Regiment, returned to the 306th Regiment a little rear to rest and replenish.

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The next day, large forces of the Japanese army arrived, the 9th Division reached the forward position of Chunhua Town, the 114th Division reached Hushu Town, and the 6th Division reached the forward position of Niushou Mountain, which was defended by the 58th Division.

After the start of the Battle of Songhu, the Yangtze River, which leads to the Nanjing waterway, was also attacked by Japanese naval forces, mainly on the Jiangyin fortress.

At the Jiangyin Fortress, the battle lasted for more than three months, and the Chinese navy and the fortified troops fought fiercely with the Japanese navy and the Japanese naval aviation, and the two sides continued to bomb indiscriminately.

In the end, after the Chinese navy and fortresses ran out of ammunition and food, except for a few capital ships that were sunk, all the warships sank into the Yangtze River with the desolate whistle.

If the Japanese army fought in Shanghai for nearly three months, the Shanghai Dispatch Army suffered heavy losses and fatigue, while the Japanese 10th Army, which landed in Hangzhou Bay, suffered no losses and was gaining momentum.

The 6th, 18th, and 114th Divisions of the Japanese 10th Army, as well as the Kunisaki Detachment, marched up from Guangde, Yixing, Liyang, and Lishui to attack the Chinese defenders.

The 144th, 145th, and 146th divisions of the 23rd Group Army of the Sichuan Army stationed in Guangde and Si'an, armed with inferior weapons and equipment, wore straw sandals in the winter, and fought with the Japanese army, and the commander of the 145th Division, General Rao Guohua, died heroically.

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At present, 450,000 people from 23 divisions and regiments of the Japanese army have attacked the defense area of the 74th Army, and have used aircraft, artillery, and tanks to carry out a fierce attack on the position on the line from Chunhua Town to Niushou Mountain, and the officers and men of the 74th Army can only use rifles, machine guns, grenades, bayonets, and other rudimentary weapons to confront.

The Japanese army spent a lot of money and attacked for three days and three nights, but they still couldn't break through the Great Wall of flesh and blood composed of 74 military flesh.

On the afternoon of December 6, Tangshui Town in the 66th Army Defense Area of the Guangdong Army on the left flank of the 51st Division was lost, and Chunhua Town became a salient area, and it was even more attacked by the Japanese army.

On December 7, the Japanese 114th Division advanced north from Hushu, attacked the positions of Songshu and Xiawangshu of the 51st Division from Xianshu and Lishu, and made a detour to Fangshan to contact the 302nd Regiment.

It also sent a division to attack Shangzhuang, trying to attack from the left flank and threaten Chunhua's flank, while the 9th Division bombarded Chunhua's frontal defensive position with artillery fire and planes for several days.

The entire Chunhua town was blown up, there were broken walls and ruins everywhere, the flames of war were raging in all directions, the Japanese army continued to attack like a tide, and Chunhua town was in danger.

The 301st Regiment was almost unable to hold on, Chunhua Town had already been captured by the Japanese army, and the division headquarters originally wanted to stay up until the evening, and then send the 306th Regiment of the reserve to recapture the position in one fell swoop.

But now, I'm afraid I can't stand it anymore, and the position is gradually being eroded, and once the position is knocked out, even at night, it will not be so easy to recapture.

Moreover, the devils have a large number of flares at night, just like the previous two nights, the devils also keep firing flares, while fearing that the defenders will launch a night attack, they also send a small force to carry out infiltration operations, even at night, which shows the madness and anxiety of the devils.

The night is brighter than the day, and now the entire town of Chunhua is shrouded in thick gunsmoke during the day anyway, so it is better to send a reserve team during the day and rush at it.

Therefore, the 306th Regiment received the order to immediately go into battle, replace the 301st Regiment, and defend Chunhua Town. Therefore, the commander of the 306th regiment Qiu suggested reinforcements, and the division headquarters agreed with Qiu Weida's opinion.

The third battalion and seven companies of the 306th Regiment of Sangou had just returned to construction the night before yesterday, and the loss of personnel and equipment was quite large, but it was the tradition of all troops to strengthen the troops that had made meritorious contributions to the battle.

The Seventh Company has been replenished in terms of personnel, weapons and ammunition, and the personnel have not only been replenished, but also a platoon has been added, and now there are four platoons, and Sangou has asked bamboo poles and big potatoes to be the chief and deputy platoon commanders of the fourth platoon.

The fourth platoon was characterized as a machine gun platoon, and the commander of the third battalion boldly took a mortar and a heavy machine gun to the seventh company, and the three dogs put these two weapons together and organized them into a machine gun platoon.

The bamboo pole is responsible for one mortar and two grenadiers, and the big potato is responsible for one heavy machine gun and two light machine guns; A few veterans were assigned to each of them to specialize in the operation, and the others were assistant shooters and ammunition soldiers.

The bamboo pole pointed to Zhang Zhiguang and Wu Dingli's names to operate the mortar, which is also the meaning of Sangou, Sangou also put Xia Chen next to him to a row, to be Xiucai's deputy, named the trainee officer, and also told Xiucai to take good care of it, this is also a treasure talent.

With this configuration, the Seventh Company has returned to the previous sequence of reinforced companies, with more than 170 people in four platoons plus the company headquarters, and the weapons are also medium and formal rifles, plus light and heavy machine guns and mortars with 2 base ammunition.

This is not the equipment that only the Central Army or its descendants, but all the troops defending Nanjing have, because when the original Jinling Arms Factory in Nanjing was moved, all the guns and ammunition in the warehouse were left, and only the machine tools and raw materials were removed.

There are also their own ammunition reserves of the Nanjing garrison troops, teaching teams, military academies, police stations, etc., especially the ammunition depots of the Nanjing garrison troops, which are piled up like mountains.

The Japanese army is about to hit the door, why don't you hurry up and send these to the guards army, will it be impossible for the troops on the periphery to run out of ammunition and food, and wait for the city to be broken and sent to the Japanese army? As a result, the three dogs they got almost everything they needed.

According to Sangou's idea, it is better not to have a heavy machine gun, but a few more light machine guns and mortars, which is not successful, and it is already very good to have a mortar.

The machine gun company of the entire battalion has only two mortars, and the other companies don't even have a mortar's fart, and one of them is already a big face, and there is also the credit won by the deputy battalion commander Niu Gu, who originally didn't even have a mortar.

The heavy machine gun is the equipment that Big Potato dreams of, as a veteran of a pure light machine gun shooter, it is indeed a very much looking forward to being able to hit a heavy machine gun, although the operation of the two guns is a little different, but in the hands of experts, in half a day, it has been skilled.

Sangou had to let Da Potato get some more steel core heavy bullets from the Makqin Water Machine Gun, and looking at Da Tu's happy appearance, Sangou had to sigh secretly.