Chapter 782: The Decisive Battle of Taihang Mountain (4)

The 100,000 Japanese troops on the front line have completely opened up the position, and in the Japanese army's three-way army, Hu Guoshan's division faced about 70,000 Japanese troops, and the remaining 30,000 people united with the Japanese army in the Suiyuan area to contain Li Weimin's division on the front line of the Great Wall, so that Li Weimin was unable to divide troops to support Hu Guoshan's troops.

Hu Guoshan also set up his own position, although he did not send all his troops to the front line, but the most elite troops of their division had been fighting the Japanese army on the forward position for a day, and the Japanese offensive momentum showed no signs of weakening. Hu Guoshan was restrained and went to the mouth of the Zhanghe River, and at this time he was looking at the black and oppressive little devil on the other side of the Zhanghe River with a telescope.

"Damn, Lao Tzu's division has more than 50,000 people, how can it look like this, how can 40,000 little devils look so much!" Hu Guoshan gasped as he looked at the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river, and his head hurt from the whirring northwest wind.

Sometimes a large number of people in a battle is not desperate, and a large number of people will give the enemy an invisible pressure, and the black pressure is visually shocking. However, the New 33rd Army has never seen any scenes, and they have grown up from adversity.

"Division commander, according to the scout's report, the first batch to cross the river was the Seventh Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army!"

In order to keep abreast of the situation of the Japanese troops on the other side of the river, the battalion commander sent a squad of soldiers to lurk on the other side of the Zhanghe River to keep abreast of the movements of the Japanese troops on the other side.

"It seems that the Japanese army doesn't want to send them to death, so they arrange for the puppet army to come to the mines! In this case, we can't take care of it so much, so let's send these traitors who have forgotten their ancestors to the bottom of the river today! ”

Although Hu Guoshan knew that many people in the puppet army were forced to be helpless, but now it was their enemies who were carrying guns to fight them, and being soft on the enemy was cruel to their own soldiers.

Sure enough, the first to cross the river was the puppet army, the weather was cold, the river had already been frozen over, and a truck walked freely on it. The strength of a regiment of the puppet army, without any cover, began to storm across the river.

"Shoot first!" The battalion commander saw that the puppet army had reached the middle of the river, and it would take another half an hour to complete the crossing of the river.

"Battalion commander, why don't we let the puppet army cross the river first? And then wait for the little devils to cross the river and then bomb the river? The company commander asked his battalion commander.

"The little devil is not so stupid, the puppet army can be cannon fodder, or it can be a tool to drag us, if the puppet army builds a beachhead on the riverbank, the Japanese army can use the cover of the beachhead to cross the river unscrupulously, if it is a small group of Japanese troops, it will be fine, so many Japanese troops will force us to cross the river!"

The battalion commander knows very well that this is not a small-scale battle, and a small-scale battle can concentrate firepower to eliminate the reinforcements in the rear, and finally come to close the door and fight the dogs, and wipe out the troops in front, but this is a large-scale battle, in the face of ten times more than a few enemies, what they can do is to block step by step, and leave a glimmer of hope for the enemy, lest the enemy really jump over the wall in a hurry and break the net.

The puppet army did not stop after hearing the gunshots, they knew that there might be a way to survive, the Japanese army had already set up machine guns on the river bank behind them, and if they dared to take a step back, they would die on the cold river.

"Let the artillerymen open fire, and remember to shift positions as soon as you finish the battle! The artillery of the Japanese army was not an amateur! Hu Guoshan gave the final order to open fire.

Shells rained down on the river, hard ice flew like bullets, Hu Guoshan looked at the landing point of the shells, the fog and gunpowder smoke rose, and the screams came from the river, or the puppet army just ran frantically to the other side of the river with shrapnel flying everywhere, they knew that there was only a dead end left on the ice, and the only hope was to rush across the river as soon as possible to the shore to hide.

However, how could Hu Guoshan give them a way to survive at this time, tons of shells poured down, blocking the front road of the Imperial Army, the ice was blown open a huge opening, and the puppet army fell into the icy river water one after another, and it would not last ten minutes if they fell into the icy river water in such weather, and the cold river water would quickly take away people's body temperature and turn people into ice sculptures.

"Boom Boom"

* Roar, the Japanese commander on the other side of the Zhanghe River also looked at the same scene, there was not the slightest expression on his face, these puppet troops were supposed to give them a way, and he could guess how many artillery pieces there were on the opposite bank by the intensity of artillery fire.

Fifteen minutes of shelling, dozens of tons of * enough to blow up all the ice surface of the Zhanghe River, the dark red river quietly began to surge downstream, and many puppet soldiers were not killed, but drowned or frozen to death by the icy river.

"Is our artillery ready?" The commander of the little devil no longer looked at the corpses floating on the river, and asked if his artillery had been arranged.

"Report, the artillery has found the artillery positions of the Chinese army!"

"Let the Chinese taste the power of our shells! Fire! ”

The Japanese artillery began to fire on the other side of the river, and the deafening sound of artillery seemed to tear apart the positions on the other bank. The artillery of the little devil showed no mercy, and directly aimed at the artillery position on the other side of the river, and the position was bombed everywhere.

Hu Guoshan had long expected that the Japanese army would do this, fortunately he had arranged for the artillery to withdraw from the position after firing the shells, and the Japanese bombed nothing, and they successfully saved their artillery.

"How can you calculate the location of the Japanese artillery positions?" Hu Guoshan asked the artillery company commander beside him.

"It has been calculated, their artillery positions are in this position!" The company commander pointed to the map and said to Hu Guoshan.

"Okay, you can go and rest!"

"Division commander, let me lead the troops to action tonight!" The battalion commander of the guard battalion stepped forward and said to Hu Guoshan.

", this is the solution that Lao Tzu came up with!"

When Hu Guoshan came to Zhanghekou with his troops, he was already thinking about the strategy of breaking the enemy, Okamura Ningji did not use his hole cards, and he would not show all his troops and let Okamura Ningji chase after him. Then in the face of an enemy that was twice as large as himself, Hu Guoshan had to try his best, and this was the best way.

"Report to the division commander, the Japanese army is already preparing to forcibly cross the Zhanghe River!" The soldiers ran into the headquarters to report to Hu Guoshan.

"Got it, tell you battalion commander, no matter how many Japanese soldiers there are, you can't let them step on the riverbank!"

The Japanese army only used one regiment of puppet troops to let the Chinese soldiers blow up the frozen river, which was really an advantage for the Japanese army, in the eyes of the Japanese army, those puppet soldiers were worthless, and they could use their lives to make the Chinese army waste some ammunition and blow up the frozen river, which had achieved the goal of the Japanese army.

The little devils had already prepared rubber boats and boats on the bank of the river, and instead of using these tools to save the puppet army struggling in the icy water, under the cover of artillery, they began to attack on the other side of the river.

The soldiers of the New 33rd Army were clinging to the trenches, their eyes were fixed on the wide water surface of the Zhanghe River, and the guns in their hands were already full of bullets.

"Division commander, the Japanese army has already crossed half of the river, and it will be on the river bank in ten minutes!"

"Wait, wait!" Hu Guoshan clenched his fists nervously.

The Japanese army will definitely not put all their hopes on the first wave of forced crossings, they must have prepared for the second wave of forced crossings, and what Hu Guoshan wants is for the Japanese army to sink the first wave of forced crossings in the Zhanghe River before the second wave of forced crossings.

The artillery of the little devil did not stop bombing, and the artillery fire continued to extend from the forward position and bombed in depth, and the headquarters where Hu Guoshan was waiting was constantly shaken and dusted.

"Division commander, the Japanese army is still more than twenty meters away from the river bank!"

"Hit!"

With Hu Guoshan's order, the pillboxes and fortifications erected on the north bank of the Zhanghe River sprayed out merciless tongues of fire, and with the sound of gunfire, the Japanese soldiers on the ship fell into the water one after another, and the bullets hit the river and made a violent explosion.

The little devil rowed the oars hard, and the Japanese soldiers on the boat also began to shoot at the opposite bank, but the boat was bumpy on the river, and it could not aim at the target at all, and it did not play any role at all.

Just as the first wave of Japanese troops was approaching the riverbank, the troops of the second wave of Japanese charges also boarded the boats and began to sail to the other side of the river.

"Order the artillery to aim at the second wave of Japanese troops and bomb me!"

Just as the Japanese army was charging on the opposite bank, the artillery of the New 33rd Army once again set up artillery positions and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on the troops of the second wave of Japanese charge.

The Japanese did not expect that the Chinese artillery still existed and was not blown up by their artillery, and that it was aimed at their second wave of forced troops. The Japanese soldiers were shocked and watched as the leaf-like boats on the river kept spinning in the river, throwing the soldiers on board into the icy water.

The shells did not have to hit the boats in the river directly, as soon as the shells exploded nearby, the dinghy boat lost control, and the oars alone did not have any effect.

The boat swirled in the river, unable to move a single step forward. The troops of the first wave of charging were suppressed by the Chinese soldiers on the beachhead, there was no cover on the beachhead, and the little devils who waited on the river bank could not fight back at all, and became a live target for the Chinese soldiers.

"Support! I want to support! "The little devil kept asking for support from the troops in the rear by radio.

The Japanese artillery did not care about the artillery positions of the Chinese army at all, and could only support the troops on the beachhead with shells, constantly bombarding the beachhead of the Chinese army. And the shells of the Chinese soldiers kept falling into the river, setting off huge waves.

The Japanese troops lying on the beachhead began to attack the Chinese positions under the cover of artillery fire, but even with the cover of artillery fire, there was no cover, and the Japanese soldiers were knocked down by the machine guns in the bunker as soon as they got up.

The small beachhead was covered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the second wave of the Japanese landing force was slow to come up with support!