544. Withdraw to Taierzhuang
After Commander Huo rebuilt the 184th Regiment, he wanted to fight a few more hard battles with the devils in order to bring back the bloody nature of the old 184th Regiment, and everyone from the battalion commander to the company commander to the soldiers had this idea.
Although the devil should not be underestimated, it is not as terrible as the legend, the 184th regiment actually fought very well a few days ago, but in the end, under the absolute disadvantage of numbers and weapons, it was defeated and withdrew from Beiluo.
Although the other fraternal troops didn't talk about it, the people of the 184th Regiment always felt that others looked at them strangely, after all, on the battlefield, the victory or defeat was there, and any other reason was an excuse.
Maybe the brother troops didn't think it was anything in their eyes, but the people of the 184th Regiment felt very ashamed, and they got up from there where they fell, and they wanted to find the devil to be ashamed.
For example, when a student asks a question in class, the teacher can't answer, and the teacher says two words, and the other students estimate that they will forget about it after class, and even if they do, they will not take it seriously, and this student will always remember it, and some will even remember it for a lifetime.
Regiment Commander Huo asked his superiors to ask for war and asked to put the troops in the closest place to the Japanese army, and the superiors, especially Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division, were very happy.
His old subordinates for many years, brought it out single-handedly, have a very good temperament, and Commander Chi not only reinstated the commander of the Huo regiment, but also brought some supplementary soldiers to the 184 regiment directly.
Maybe other regiments or troops will be a little unconvinced, why give such a good treatment to a defeated unit? But after seeing the layout of Taierzhuang's city defense forces, he was silent.
The 184th Regiment was placed in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang to resist the incoming enemy from the northwest, due west, and north, and it was also the first line position of the Japanese army to attack Taierzhuang in the south.
Moreover, this location is backed by the canal, which can be said to be the death place of the last battle, and it is only connected to the central position of Taierzhuang in the east.
Lao Qin's platoon supplemented some recruits to come in, and he was also the platoon commander of the first platoon of the Ninth Company, and together with Lao Han's third battalion, he was responsible for guarding the three pillboxes in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang and more than a dozen stone houses on the side of the pillboxes.
Each company guarded a pillbox, and the ninth company put the three platoons of the reserve and some excellent shooters in the pillbox, but instead distributed the strength of the first and second platoons of the main force in the stone houses around the pillbox.
Almost a squad is divided into two groups, with the principal and deputy squad leaders serving as team leaders, each group is responsible for a stone house, and Lao Qin's row is also responsible for guarding six stone houses.
The people in Taierzhuang are almost all gone, and there is no one left. In this way, there are no fetters, and the soldiers are allowed to use the houses and daily necessities of the villagers, but they are not allowed to damage or take them away.
Another point is that it is not allowed to cook on the stoves of the villagers, and there are no open fires and smoke to rise, because of the need for war concealment. All food and drink are provided by the cooking class.
In fact, Lao Qin and they have no time to engage in these complicated affairs, as soon as they arrive at the defense area, they immediately dig a position, although this Zhuangzi was designed well in order to prevent theft and bandits in the past.
Most of them are stone walls and bunkers, and each house is also a small free-standing stone bunker. Later, the 31st Division came over and connected the entire Zhuangzi wall, widened and reinforced it with stones, and made some gun hole holes or something.
Several trenches were dug behind the stone walls, some of which extended into the Zhuangzi and even through some of the houses.
Outside the stone walls, except for the southwest corner where the canal flows, deep and wide tank trenches have been dug and even the canal water has been channeled into the circle.
I feel that the 31st Division is going to turn this Zhuangzi into a permanent national defense fortification, and the devil is fighting to the end, and the south bank of the canal in the southwest corner is the 30th Division of the 30th Army, the brother troops, and they are responsible for guarding the back and the blood vessels of supply.
However, the 31st Division itself dug several large bunkers under the central position of Zhuangzi to serve as warehouses for storing ammunition and grain.
Counting up, Zhuangzi had already done a good job before the 184th Regiment came, but after Commander Huo came, he was not idle, commanding the troops to pick up tools and dig the ground with his life.
Their regiment had seen the terrifying firepower of the devil's mechanized troops, and all the shelters and obstacles on the ground were unreliable and could not be trusted, and only under the deep soil layer could they have a little confidence to resist the devil's heavy artillery shells.
Two infantry wings (10th Chishiba Wing, 63rd Fukuei Wing) and one artillery wing of the Seya Detachment (33rd Brigade) of the Japanese 10th Isoya Division.
Now it has quickly moved south, and it has reached the position of Eryizhuang and Wanjiazhuang in the north-northwest of Taierzhuang, where it has already connected with the outer defense troops of the 31st Division.
Lao Guo's Ninth Company is in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, and now they can hear the gunfire on the side of Eryizhuang: "The gunfire is a life-urging charm, if you want to live, just before the gunfire comes, hurry up and dig the fortifications." ”
Ninth Company Elder Guo shouted while anxiously inspecting the positions of the Ninth Company.
According to Lao Qin's ideal, it was necessary to hollow out the six houses in a row of defense areas, and even connect them underground, but unfortunately it was too late.
According to the speed of the devil's advance, it is estimated that it will reach the front position of Taierzhuang tonight, and at the latest, it will be there tomorrow morning, and the offensive should be launched tomorrow morning.
However, there were already two or three houses hollowed out and connected to each other, and Lao Qin hurriedly found Lao Guo to get enough food and ammunition and hid them underground.
This time it feels really different, Lao Qin felt it from the deployment of troops, a few days ago in Beiluo, they had a 184 regiment on the defensive, and the requirement was to hold it for a day.
And now Taierzhuang, such a small Zhuangzi, has arranged a division of tens of thousands of people in it, and there are 30 divisions behind it, and the 27th division of the 30th Army is arranged in the east as a mobile reserve.
I heard that there was still the 75th Army in the east, the 20th Army (13th, 52nd, and 85th Army) in Lunan in the northeast, and the 22nd Army and the 55th Army in the west.
The slogan of the division headquarters is to live and die with Taierzhuang, it seems that it is to defend Taierzhuang, with the support of so many troops, Lao Qin's 184th regiment is different from the lonely army of Beiluo, and has more confidence and toughness.
What is even more confident is that I heard that the tank defense artillery company of the 10th Artillery Regiment will also come over, and the 37th battle defense artillery Lao Qin was fortunate to have a few glances on the Songhu battlefield, which was a few combat defense guns of the 88th Division, the most elite of the Central Army.
In the urban area of Shanghai, these small cannons directly bombard the devil's bean chariot, which is too enjoyable, if the army is equipped with a large number of this kind of artillery, where is the arrogance of the little devil, but unfortunately this kind of high-end weapon, there are only very few.
This time even this is coming, it seems that there is enough devils to drink a pot in Taierzhuang, Lao Qin Guang feels inexplicably excited when he thinks about it.
Many other comrades-in-arms have never seen a battle defense gun, and Lao Qin can only explain to them a kind of gun similar to a devil tank gun, but it is not mounted on the tank, but used independently, with two wheels, and a few people can walk with it.
THIS KIND OF GUN HAS A CALIBER OF 37MM, HOW TO SAY IT, IT IS AS THICK AS A SMALL WRIST, AND IT HAS ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS, HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELLS, TRACER BULLETS AND OTHER WARHEADS, WHICH IS VERY GOOD FOR FIGHTING TANKS.