Chapter 458: The City of Glory (6)
Wu Linsheng saw the devil's search team coming to the side of the No. 34 Heights, and the dead horse was a live horse doctor, and his purpose was to provoke the Japanese commander on the top of the slope, although the shot just now did not hit the Japanese commander, but his goal was achieved, and the angry He Er Jilong immediately shouted and gave the order to attack after wiping away the blood stains sprayed on his face.
It was not that He Erjilong had not suspected that there would be an ambush by the Chinese army on the hillside covered by verdant greenery, otherwise he would not have sent a search team, but the shot just now made him mistakenly think that there were just a few remnants of soldiers who didn't know whether they were alive or dead and secretly shooting cold guns there, and judging from the shot just now, it showed that his current position was within the killing range, if there was really a large-scale Chinese defender, I am afraid that he would have already become a ghost under the gun.
It was with this inference that Heljilong gave the order to attack.
Wu Linsheng's crooked shot actually achieved an unexpected result, this really has a lucky element, if it was the commander who was killed just now, maybe the devil who lost his command would not dare to come to attack, now it's okay, the search team of more than a dozen devils is in front, and at least one squadron of devils is behind, killing Wu Linsheng and their hidden No. 34 heights.
The time came to avenge the first battalion and the soldiers of the 417th Regiment who had just died, Wu Linsheng told the commander of the second battalion to find more than a dozen soldiers with good marksmanship, and he was ready to use a rifle to solve the devil's search team, lure the devil's brigade up, and then give a devastating blow.
Things are indeed going according to the course he envisioned, and the devil search team is very vigilant, because after all, a cold shot has just been fired from this mountain, which fully shows that there are Chinese soldiers hidden here, but it is not clear how many are there. No one wants to be shot, no one wants to be killed on this barren mountain, even if the search party itself is dangerous, but who doesn't want to be able to escape unharmed.
Wu Linsheng calculated the distance of the devil search team, and also carefully observed the devil's expression, if those devil soldiers found the bunker hidden in the bushes and grass, then they had to shoot. He wanted the devil brigade that was following behind to come up a little more before firing, if it weren't for that, the dozen or so devils of the search team would have been killed a long time ago. If you want to achieve the desired victory, how can it be so easy to get it without taking some risks.
"Commander, we can't let them go any further, these devils are only a few dozen meters away from us." The second battalion commander was a little anxious, he saw that Wu Linsheng had no intention of shooting until now, so he couldn't help but urge.
"Wait a little longer, the devils in the back haven't all come up yet." Wu Linsheng, the dozen or so devil soldiers of the search team, was not worried at all, in his eyes, these people were already a corpse, and what he was concerned about now was the devil brigade following behind the search team, and it was at least a devil above the squadron. Wu Linsheng's requirements are not high, and this wave of devils who killed this squadron to comfort the souls of the sacrificed brothers in the sky.
The opposite hillside covered with greenery has not moved since a cold shot, seeing that the search party and a squadron that went to attack have gone up to that hillside, but the expected battle still did not happen, which made Er Kiron feel very strange, if there were no Chinese defenders on it, he would not believe it, because as a commander, he could clearly judge that the gentle terrain behind the hillside full of verdant green, It is definitely the best supplement and auxiliary to the bombed Chinese defenders' position in front.
Why hasn't there been any movement over there until now? Did you misestimate yourself? Or maybe the cold shot just now was really the personal act of the fish that slipped through the net? A few question marks popped up in his mind, and he habitually raised the telescope in his hand.
Through the binoculars, in addition to seeing the verdant eyes, Er Kiron was his own slowly moving soldiers.
Maybe there was really only one Chinese soldier who secretly fired a cold gun, and Erjilong shook his head and slowly put down the telescope in his hand. But at the moment when he put it down, a light suddenly reflected in his eyes from a bush.
Not good? He Erjilong is an old soldier, he knows very well what the fleeting reflection just now is, his heart suddenly rose to his throat, on the opposite slope, there is more than one Chinese soldier hidden, there may be another hell, another Shura field.
"Forced 撃砲と後天の準備!" (Mortars and grenadiers ready!) After seeing the reflection, Erquillon's telescope was not lowered, and he carefully observed everything on the hillside hidden by greenery and shrubs, and gave orders to an officer beside him.
"大佐、何といいますか?部下は了解していない." (Osa, what did you say?) The subordinates didn't understand. The officer was confused by the sudden order.
"Forced 撃砲弾と不発弾でその丘を砲撃する.! また亀田少佐に知らせて、彼の部隊に突撃し、目標はそこだ。 (Command mortars and grenadiers to prepare to bombard that hill!) Then inform Kameda Shaosa and let his troops prepare to charge, and the target is there. He didn't get angry, but pointed with his left hand to the hill in front of him, which was being climbed by his own soldiers, and repeated his command.
"Osa、あの丘を攻撃する?そこはあって......" (Osa, attack that hill?) Isn't there a ...... there? Before the devil officer could finish his words, suddenly, a gunshot rang out on the small hill that was pointed by Erjilon, which was the sound of the regular rifle used by the national army, and it was exactly the same as the gunfire of the cold gun before.
This gunshot was followed by another neat row of guns, as if it were the sound of a salute in later generations, very neat, if not loud, as if it were only one shot.
The telescope that he had grasped in his right hand had not been lowered, and he could clearly see that the dozen or so soldiers of the search party had been knocked to the ground at the same time, apparently hit by a shot at close range, and could not survive.
Of the dozen or so people in the search team, he was ready to lose them, but the squadron sent later, he didn't plan to bury them all like this. That's why he gave the order to prepare mortars and grenadiers, and Kameda Shaosa with his troops to continue preparing for the attack.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, the first reaction of the ghost soldiers who originally climbed slowly up the mountain was to lie down, but after the array of guns in Sidu, there was no movement, and several bold ghost soldiers stood up first, and even fired a few shots upward, but there was still no movement on the slope. This made the devil soldiers lying on the ground stand up again, and at this time, on the top of the 33rd high ground, the mortars and grenadiers organized by Erjilong also began to bombard, but they did not dare to cover the bombardment intensively, because the devils of that squadron were still on the hillside, and Erjilong didn't want to bombard his own soldiers with his own artillery.
Wu Linsheng had long expected that as soon as the gun rang out, the devils of these chicken thieves would fall down, so he only fired a row of guns and stopped shooting, he would rather endure the enemy's random guns and bombardment, but also give the devils a fatal blow.
It's good news that the devil soldiers are lying on their stomachs again, but the even better news is that Wu Linsheng saw more devil soldiers emerging from the bottom and side of the No. 33 high ground, and they were all running towards where he was quickly, obviously the devil head on the opposite side was worried that the previous troops were not enough, so he sent reinforcements.
"Great! Grandpa asked you to drink a pot! Wu Linsheng is looking forward to this moment, all his reliance now is on these four reinforced concrete bunkers, whether the 417th Regiment is a hero or a bear, it also depends on this wave of defense. He believed that although he did not report, the division commander Wang Heng must have sensed that the No. 33 Heights had been lost, and according to his fighting style, Wu Linsheng could accurately judge that a certain regiment of the 139th Division was ready to come up to replace him at any time. As a soldier, especially a soldier like Wu Linsheng, who regards honor as more important than life, this is more cruel than killing him, but he can't resist, so all hopes are pinned on the upcoming battle.
Fortunately, the arrogance of the devil and the anger of the devil commander who was aroused by that cold shot allowed him to get his wish. Even without these four sturdy and abnormal bunkers, he was confident that he would clean up the devils, let alone have them now.
After a short burst of mortar and grenadier bombardment, the Devil Soldiers, who had stayed where they were, began to move up the slope again. The bright bayonets reflected the dazzling light, and the bright red menstrual flags also stimulated the nerves of the soldiers of the 417th Regiment. This is a life-and-death battle, not only to hold on to the ground under your feet, but more importantly, to avenge the sacrifices of the brethren. Almost every warrior was holding his breath; Almost everyone pricked up their ears; Almost every remaining warrior of the 417th Regiment was determined to die, and they were all waiting for Wu Linsheng's first gunshot, and they were all waiting for the first signal to kill the enemy.
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The 139th Division easily entered Hengyang City, which made Sun Yumin's already vigilant heart even more vigilant, and there was already a lot of intelligence showing that Yokoyama Yong was playing a big game of chess, and the target was the living force of the National Army in the Ninth Theater, so he would deploy heavy troops around Hengyang. On the one hand, he wanted to use Hengyang City as bait to lure the troops of the national army to come to the rescue, and then concentrate his forces to gather and annihilate it, and on the other hand, because the battle of Hengyang was related to whether the entire Chinese battlefield and the Southeast Asian battlefield could be connected, and whether the Guangdong-Han line and the Hunan-Guizhou line could be opened, he was eager to capture this thousand-year-old city. On the one hand, he wanted to encircle the point to send reinforcements, and on the other hand, he was eager to break through the city, which seemed to be a contradictory thing, and he had been bothering Yokoyama Yong, but he didn't expect that the defenders of Hengyang City would be so heroic, so that his two siege troops, the 68th Division and the 116th Division, suffered a lot, and he didn't think about it. The problems that originally plagued him were solved by the tenacity of the defenders of Hengyang. He can now report openly to the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army in Wuhan, Shunroku Hatata, not that he does not want to capture Hengyang City, but that the Chinese defenders are sworn to defend it to the death, so that the warriors of the Imperial Army cannot complete the task of breaking the city in a short time.
Out of gratitude to Xue Yue, Sun Yumin sent him a private telegram, reminding him that the Japanese army might have the intention of encircling and sending reinforcements, but because since the Japanese army attacked Hunan, a series of defeats in the Ninth War Zone made Xue Yue like a gambler who was in a hurry to lose.
Sun Yumin's worries happened, under the dispatch and urging of Lao Jiang and Xue Yue, the Ninth War Zone and the various units of the national army transferred reinforcements from elsewhere began to approach Hengyang, among them were forced to come to the grinding of foreign workers, and there were also troops who really wanted to come to the rescue, while the fierce battle in Hengyang City, a big war began to break out in the surrounding areas.
At this time, around Hengyang, there were the 72nd Army, the 58th Army, and the 26th Army commanded by Wang Lingji, the 20th Army and the 44th Army commanded by Yang Sen, the 37th Army and the Temporary 2nd Army commanded by Ou Zhen, and the 73rd, 79th, 99th, and 100th Armies commanded by Wang Yaowu, who was deeply valued by the old Jiang, and the 74th Army was also on standby on the Hunan and Chongqing borders, ready to go south to help the war at any time. However, the 12 armies on the periphery, under the resistance of the Japanese troops in the east and west, had no way to advance at all, and some troops could not even hold on, and kept retreating, where could they still have the ability to come to help in the battle to relieve the siege of Hengyang.
Under the personal supervision of Li Yutang, the 62nd Army, which was transferred from elsewhere to Huang Tao, who was under the command of the Ninth Theater, approached Hengyang in a bloody battle.
This is undoubtedly a very good signal, the national army troops on the east road can't be counted on, Lao Jiang and Xue Yue pinned their hopes on the national army troops in the west, because there is both the 62nd Army that is approaching Hengyang under the unified command of Li Yutang on this side, and Fang Xianjue's 10th Army in the city is also his old army, and it is impossible for him not to go all out to save it; Moreover, the 24th Group Army commanded by Wang Yaowu was all in this direction, although Lao Jiang was worried that the Japanese army would take the opportunity to attack Xiangxi and pose a threat to Chongqing, so he replaced the 74th Army with the 99th Army, but Wang Yaowu, who had 4 armies, would definitely not let others poke his backbone; The most important thing is that the Japanese army on the west road only has the 40th Division of Aoki Chengichi, which is a unit that was packed up badly by Sun Yumin in Yiyang, Ningxiang and Xiangxiang.
Lao Jiang and Xue Yue's ideas are beautiful, but the reality is so cruel. The mistakes made in the Second Battle of Changsha were once again revealed without warning. All the telegrams and telegrams of the Nationalist Army, whether they were issued by Lao Chiang to the Ninth Theater or to the combat troops issued by the Ninth Theater, were all deciphered by Japanese intelligence officers, so Yokoyama was actually invincible.
After summarizing the information, Yokoyama immediately ordered Aoki Seiichi's 40th Division to move closer to Hengyang's 68th and 116th Divisions, and immediately occupy the high point of Qili Mountain, Yumu Mountain, Ertang, Chengkou Market, Banqiao, and Sayamachong in the southwest, west, and northwest of Hengyang, and intercept and block the Chinese troops coming from the west.
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