Chapter 185: Bloody Battle at Phoenix Tsui (18)
On the position of the second battalion of the 16th Regiment, the remaining officers and soldiers started together, digging a big pit in the position, and sending the brothers on their last journey......
The moonlight came out, and the tired brothers sat quietly on the position, drinking water with kettles in their hands, their eyes were blank, and they fought fiercely for an afternoon, tired and didn't want to move at all, the sadness in their hearts suppressed the hunger in their stomachs, no one spoke, knowing that the cooking class had delivered food to the battlefield;
"Come, eat! Hot multigrain cakes and soup! While it's still hot, come here, brothers! Absolutely full! The old king of the cooking class shouted vigorously,
Hearing the old king's shouting, and the steaming heat in the wooden barrels lined up, the brothers seemed to feel hungry, and one by one they came listlessly to receive the multigrain cakes and the wild vegetable soup, and the wild vegetables in the wild vegetable soup also became fewer, and a few sparse wild vegetables floated on the surface of the wooden barrel, as if they were distinguished from boiling water;
"Why are you so human! Let all the brethren come out! The old king looked at the sparse less than 300 people who came to receive food, and was still shouting hard,
"Don't shout, old king, all the brothers are here. Gone! Sheng Hai said in a deep voice,
"Ahh Why is it gone? "The old king was surprised, there were more than 1,000 people here yesterday,
"In the afternoon, there was a fierce battle with the devils, and even the regiment commander went to the position to fight bayonets with the devils. Ay! After Sheng Hai finished speaking, he sat on a mound of soil on the battlefield with multigrain cakes and hot soup and ate them with his head bored.
"Captain, eat something! Tomorrow you have to fight devils? It's not okay to be hungry! Zeng Da grabbed several multigrain cakes and handed them to He Jianye,
"That's right! I'm going to continue fighting devils tomorrow! Let's go, go back to the regimental headquarters! He Jianye stood up and strode towards the regiment headquarters,
"Commander, what about so much food? What to do! The old king shouted and asked,
"Stay here." He Jianye entered the regiment headquarters without looking back,
"Give me a battalion." He Jianye entered the regiment headquarters and directly ordered the signal troops,
"Commander, it's connected!" The communication soldier handed over the microphone of the phone to He Jianye in less than half a minute,
"I'm He Jianye, your first battalion is stationed in the second-line position tonight; The fortifications are ready-made, but they must not be neglected and must be reinforced! He Jianye ordered,
"Yes, Captain!" Zhu Yunhua answered the order loudly, and it was finally his turn;
He Jianye put down the phone, sat on the stool at the regiment headquarters and felt hungry, picked up the multigrain cake and wild vegetable soup that Zeng Da put next to him and started eating, just after a few bites, the communication soldier came,
"Regiment commander, brigade commander call!" The Signal Soldier said,
"Brigade commander, I'm He Jianye!" He Jianye hurriedly swallowed the multigrain cake in his mouth, picked up the phone and said,
"Well, how are your positional casualties today? Will you be able to resist tomorrow? Lai Chuanxiang asked,
"The casualties are not small, 7 more than 700 people have been killed and injured in the past two days, but I can still withstand it." He Jianye said,
"Okay, don't hold it up if you can't stand it, report it in time; The 18th Regiment behind you is always ready to support you! Do you understand? "Lai Chuanxiang knew that He Jianye was strong, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the hard support, and if the position was lost, it would be troublesome.
"The brigade commander can rest assured, the people are in the position." After He Jianye finished speaking, he put down the phone,
He Jianye, who put down the phone, didn't have the heart to eat, so he left the regiment headquarters again and walked towards the position......
The summer nights were cool, the moonlight shone on the positions, and the brethren, after eating, were searching for the weapons they could use, and in the final shelling, many of the brethren's rifles were destroyed by the shelling;
"Commander, this position is enough to choke tomorrow!" Sheng Hai frowned and said,
"What's wrong? I have ordered the first battalion to be stationed in the second line of positions in the rear, and we can retreat at any time tomorrow! He Jianye said,
"There are not many brothers, and the bunkers on our defensive line have reached the limit, the artillery fire of the devils has been too fierce these days, although the anti-artillery holes and bunkers we dug have been far from the surface, but the shelling of the devils has lowered the soil layer a lot, and the soil layer on many bunkers is now floating soil, and the solid soil is less than 50 centimeters, and even the 75mm shelling of the devils can't stop it." Sheng Hai said worriedly,
He Jianye didn't speak, and looked at Sheng Hai with a frown......
"And the rifles in the hands of the brothers were so badly damaged that there were not many guns, bullets, and grenades." Sheng Hai said helplessly,
"Then withdraw to the second-line position! After your second battalion broke the position, it withdrew directly to Jianshan. He Jianye said,
"Regiment commander, our second battalion can still fight!" Sheng Hai said,
"Back to Jianshan to rest, the first and third battalions are still there, and our positions cannot be lost; Go ahead! He Jianye patted Sheng Hai's shoulder, turned around and returned to the regimental headquarters, although there are many mounds, but the battle line is enough to set up two lanes, there are not many mounds that are enough to set up battlefields and bunkers, many small mounds have only one machine gun position or a squad of infantry on them, many small mounds next to the first-line position have been completely destroyed in the artillery fire, and the second-line position behind the main position is also the last line of defense of the Fenghuangzui position, and the regimental headquarters is also in the second-line position......
The Japanese 106th Division, the 147th Wing's attack this afternoon did not capture the position at Fenghuangzui, the atmosphere at the division headquarters was a little dull, and the officers of the division headquarters were cautious one by one, and they were all careful to keep their small movements in their busyness.
"Division commander, call from the headquarters." Chief of Staff Yoshitaka Akiyama handed over a telegram,
Junrokuro Matsuura took the telegram and slowly smiled on his face, and Yoshitaka Akiyama next to him breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that it was good news; I didn't dare to read the message, for fear that it was a message from the headquarters;
"Division commander, there is good news from the headquarters?" Yoshitaka Akiyama asked,
"Yo Si! Tomorrow morning the chariot wing of the 11th Army will have a brigade of chariots to support the attack of our division. Junrokuro Matsuura put down the telegram and said,
"Division commander, will you continue to attack Phoenix Tsui tomorrow? With the cover of the chariot, we will definitely be able to take the Phoenix Mouth. Yoshitaka Akiyama said happily,
"No, order the 145th Wing and the Cavalry Brigade to prepare, and tomorrow after the bombing of the air force, it will be equipped with the tank brigade to launch an attack on Nanchangpu, and the chariot is still best used in Nanchangpu; Ordered the 145th Wing to capture Nanchangpu; Junrokuro Matsuura ordered,
"Hello!"
Lin Weitao Brigade of the 159th Division defended in Nanchang in the past two days carrying the artillery fire of the devils in Nanchang to spread defense, these Guangdong soldiers have always been the main force of the National Revolutionary Army, and they were transferred down by Xue Yue from Lushan to fight the devils, so these Guangdong soldiers did not have fear in the Japanese artillery fire, but relied on the houses and a large number of fortifications to stick to the position, although many brothers were killed, but the casualties were not large, and they have been carefully waiting for the attack of the devil infantry, However, no one expected that the Japanese attack would be supported by tanks, after all, no tanks appeared in the nearby positions for the past two days.