0403 Caught in a desperate situation

Wang Liang's yellow-green military uniform was so easy to find that he was immediately carried out.

He Xuanrong, who took over the West City Gate, saw that Wang Liang was injured, and hurriedly ordered the military doctor who accompanied the team to bandage: "Treat Captain Wang's wound!" ”

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Wang Liang, who had lost too much blood, had a dark eye in his eyes and fainted.

He Xuanrong arranged for a few soldiers to send away the deputy division commander and Wang Liang and the seriously wounded, and then came back with guns to supervise the battle.

The gates were crowded with unarmed skirmishers, while others armed with guns exchanged fire with the enemy under the command of the company and platoon commanders.

At this time, the devils who occupied the east gate tower captured the corner of the northeast city wall, and then stormed the north city tower on the city wall.

The casualties of the defenders of Beichenglou increased sharply, because they could no longer support it because of their weak strength.

At this time, the strategic intentions of the devils were completely exposed, and the Japanese occupying the city wall were not in a hurry to lower the wall to avoid street fighting, but focused their attack on capturing the city wall.

In this way, a lot of the preparations that the Sichuan army had made for the street fighting were in vain.

I have to admit that this move of the Japanese army is really vicious.

When the Japanese army completes the four walls, the remnants of the defenders in the city will immediately be in a desperate situation.

Lu Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division, also came to the West City Gate, and he immediately gathered dozens of people including the remnants and personally led them to rush up to the North City Tower.

and repelled the devils attacking from the eastern city wall.

and assigned soldiers to seize fortifications to resist the enemy.

At this time, the enemy's machine-gun fire on the eastern, southern, and western walls concentrated on the northern wall.

A gust of windy bullets came from several directions at the same time, and many officers and men were knocked to the ground.

It was at this time that Lu Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division, was shot twice in the head.

One pierced through his forehead and shot out from the left side of his nose.

The other pierced through the right cheek and shot out from the base of the left ear.

Seriously injured, Lu Kang fell unconscious.

Captain and staff officer Ji Wendian, who was fighting next to Lu Kang, was seriously wounded, and Luo Yiwei, chief of staff of the brigade, was killed.

The situation inside the East City Gate has become more and more one-sided, with more and more devils pouring in, and the casualties of the Sichuan army are getting heavier and heavier.

At this time, the devils bombarded the eastern city with incendiary bombs, and the wounded soldiers of the Sichuan army were all burned to wisps of ashes.

The wails were endless.

Brigade Commander Wang Zhiyuan and Regiment Commander Zhang Xuanwu, who commanded the operation, were both wounded and rushed out of the battlefield, and were transferred to the rear by a stretcher team organized by Zhou Tong, the magistrate of Tengxian County.

At this point, there is no command system in the entire county, and it has become a state of self-defeat.

Seeing that the situation was in a state of complete despair, Chief of Staff Zhao Weibin said to Wang Mingzhang: "The troops outside the city can no longer be transferred in, the ammunition controlled by the command headquarters has been exhausted, and the troops in the city can no longer be commanded. We've done our job and we've done our best. Now, it would be better for the command headquarters to be transferred to Zeng Suyuan of the 372nd Brigade and accommodate some more troops to continue to read and command operations. ”

Wang Mingzhang thought about it for a while and felt that this was the best choice at the moment.

Subsequently, Wang Mingzhang made a telephone call to Xiong Shunyi, battalion commander of the 122nd Division, and Zeng Suyuan, commander of the 372nd Brigade of the 124th Division, who were fighting at the railway station outside the Xicheng Gate, to explain this intention.

Wang Liang said: "This is the last phone call made by General Wang Mingzhang in the city, and it is also the last phone call in his life. ”

After Xiong Shunyi answered the phone, Wang Mingzhang wanted to talk to Zeng Suyuan, Xiong Shunyi hurriedly handed over the phone to the brigade commander, the enemy began to charge the station again, and Xiong Shunyi immediately went out to command the battle again.

The guard platoon protected Wang Mingzhang and the others and rushed to the West City Gate, but what they didn't expect was that the situation at the West City Gate had been completely reversed.

The Japanese army occupied the city wall south of the West Castle Tower and then occupied the West Castle Tower, and the North Castle Tower was also captured by the enemy and was pressing westward.

Machine gun bullets were pouring in the face like splashing water, and the last passage out of the city was choked.

Now, only the city wall north of the West City Gate is still in the hands of the Sichuan army.

Wu Jingwen, the commander of the 10th Company of Lu Gaoxuan's battalion, led the last eleven soldiers of the company to use the sandbags on the city wall to form fortifications and exchange fire with the enemy occupying the north city wall, and held on to the corner of the northwest city wall.

The remnants of Zhang Chunshan, the commander of the 11th Company of Lu Gaoxuan's battalion, held the northern section of the west city wall and fought fiercely with the enemy in the west city tower.

There was a ramp on the northwest city wall last controlled by the Sichuan army to go up and down, and the chief of staff, Zhao Weibin, commanded the guards to retreat here.

At this time, Wang Mingzhang saw that the whole city was blocked by the Japanese army, and he had no intention of moving out again, and decided to die with the city here.

Wang Mingzhang said that he would not go up the city wall and take the ramp to evacuate.

Zhao Weibin glanced at the guards, and the two guards comprehended.

Set up the division commander and then gathered to cover and went to the head of the city.

Wang Liang said with tears in his eyes: "But this ramp is only more than 100 meters away from the city tower occupied by the Japanese army, and the Japanese devils in the city tower can observe this team with an unusual identity without binoculars." ”

The Japanese devils in the castle tower howled.

"Attention! Northwest city wall. ”

"The pistols are concentrated, the costumes are different, it must be the command organ of the Chinese!"

"Concentrate machine guns and artillery fire together, shoot!"

It was at this time that General Wang Mingzhang, who had gone up to the city wall under the forcible support of the guards, turned around and finally glanced at the ancient city.

I saw that the whole city was already in ruins, and the streets were filled with the corpses of Sichuan soldiers wearing gray cloth uniforms.

From privates to generals, they abound.

Japanese artillery shells and incendiary bombs continued to explode in the city, machine gun bullets flew all over the sky with screams, and raging fires burned everywhere, and countless plumes of smoke and dust gathered into a huge column of smoke and rose into the sky.

The four city walls in the southeast, northwest, and northwest have been occupied by the Japanese army, and they will be completely encircled.

The Japanese devils on the city walls were running back and forth, constantly chasing the targets below the city and firing fire, and the hideous sun flag was constantly waving at the head of the city, indicating the occupied areas.

Wang Mingzhang was unwilling, he ordered the last guard platoon around him: "Go, charge south, recapture the Xicheng Tower, and protect this passage." ”

The general thought that he could take some more remnants out of the city.

General Wang Mingzhang's guard platoon was armed with all Mauser pistols.

Dozens of pistolmen received orders from the division commander, picked up broadswords and pistols, jumped out of the sandbag fortifications and charged towards the tower.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese troops occupying the city wall had already paid attention to them, and after a firefight, dozens of Sichuan soldiers in the guard platoon were all knocked down at the head of the city under the crazy strafing fire of the devil's machine guns, and they were martyred.

Immediately after, another burst of machine-gun fire and shells came.

A shell exploded in the vicinity, after the flash of fire.

Several officers and soldiers fell to the ground, and General Wang Mingzhang covered his stomach with his hands and slowly fell down.

Li Shaokun, the chief of the guard, hurriedly hugged the fallen Wang Mingzhang and lifted his military uniform.

I saw that the division commander's abdomen was cut open by shrapnel twice, and blood spurted out like fountain water.