Chapter 18: The Battle (7)
On the evening of October 27, in the tent of the division headquarters of the 9th Division, the division commander, Lieutenant General Yoshika Ryosuke, frowned and asked, "On the other side is the branch of the Chinese Army?" How can you hold the front after a day of onslaught? Is there any news on the special high class? ”
"Division commander, according to the information of the special high class, on the opposite side is the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the elite National Revolutionary Army in the German Division of the Shina Army, which is the culprit who caused the destruction of our 35th Wing in Fuzaobang!" Chief of Staff Kosa Nakagawa reported;
"Shout, order: Major General Jing Shuxuanshi, commander of the 18th Infantry Brigade, give you the last two chariots tomorrow, and after the artillery fire is prepared, take the opposite position in one wave; the 7th Wing of the 6th Brigade, which was responsible for outflanking from the right flank; We must destroy all the trump cards of the Chinese army! Ryosuke Yoshika slammed his fist on the table,
"Hello!"
The cold drizzle fell on the Xinjiaqiao position at more than 11 o'clock in the evening, and the cold autumn wind swept through this uncovered field; In order to avoid the shelling of the Japanese army, He Jianye ordered the brothers not to light fires, leaving the necessary observation posts and patrol posts, and the remaining brothers hid in the artillery holes and shrank to resist the cold......
He Jianye moved his tired body, looked at the brothers who had fought for a day with only 2 multigrain cakes, dragged the bamboo basket containing the multigrain cakes and threw them down, and walked into the field alone, half an hour later, He Jianye came back with two frames of beef jerky, and instructed Yang Xiaoshi and Zeng Da to distribute them to the brothers one by one to deal with the cold weather......
He Jianye fought with his eyelids, but he was afraid that the brothers were not alert, and it would be over when he fell asleep at night and was touched by the devil, He Jianye sat in the trench full of rain and blood, and practiced the breathing method by himself, hoping to quickly relieve fatigue, 1 hour later, He Jianye, who felt relieved, inspected the trenches and found that many sentries were asleep in the single bunker, He Jianye looked at these soldiers who accompanied him to death, did not wake them up, and a person carried a sniper rifle on his back, walked through the trench in the fog, and found a crater, Lying down, he took on the role of a scout.......
At 5 o'clock in the morning of October 28, in the last darkness before dawn, He Jianye felt a large number of troops marching behind, and a spirit got up and blew the whistle on his neck vigorously....... Embattled......
He Jianye ran back to the trench and shouted all the way, "Leng Qi, half of the brothers in the organization are staring at the front of the defense line, and the other brothers are back with their guns back, I estimate that the Japanese devils will come up from behind......."
The footsteps of "Boom, Boom, Boom....." came into his ears with the sound of kicking, He Jianye understood that the team was close to 400 meters, and suddenly a person's head came out from the front of the trench, the fog was filled, and he couldn't see the outfit clearly, but He Jianye vaguely saw that it seemed to be an M35 steel helmet, and He Jianye habitually was a shot, hitting in front of the comer.....
"Don't shoot, I'm a liaison soldier sent by Commander Zhou......." The visitor crawled on the ground and shouted,
"Crawl here!" He Jianye shouted,
"Commander He, fortunately, the position is still there, and Commander Zhou will arrive immediately with reinforcements and ammunition behind. You don't need to send someone to watch over here, I came from Dachang, and I haven't found the infiltrated Japanese army here. A young soldier reported to He Jianye,
"Everyone, keep resting!" He Jianye ordered,
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the sky was about to dawn, Zhou Zhixiang finally arrived with reinforcements and supplies, He Jianye looked at the large number of soldiers pouring into the trenches, the tense nerves finally eased, and a Gollum sat in the trenches, staring at the corpses behind the trenches, those brothers who had died in battle in order to defend this position.......
"Captain He, I'm sorry, I'm late! What's going on now? Zhou Zhixiang didn't know what to come to He Jianye's side, lit a cigarette, and handed it to He Jianye;
He Jianye waved his hand, signaled that he would not smoke, opened his mouth and said, "There are more than 3,000 brothers, and there are less than 1,400 people left who can fight, and the ammunition is basically exhausted!" If you don't come again, I'm ready to die for my country! ”
"It's okay, didn't I bring reinforcements? To tell you the truth, the 26th Division in Dachang suffered heavy casualties, and now it was suppressed in the trenches east of Dachang for defense, and the 57th Division north of Dachang and the 8th Brigade of the 18th Division west of Dachang were attacked by the 101st Division in several ways in the past few days, and the days were not easy, and the artillery units that had been arranged in advance were now no longer in the presence of Japanese aircraft; The 36th Regiment of the 212th Division of the Reserve had already risen to the positions of the 26th Division, where it was facing a full-scale onslaught by the Shigedo detachment; Except for the 3,000 reinforcements I brought, there are no reinforcements in the short term,......." Zhou Zhixiang said.
"I have brought a lot of ammunition, which I have distributed to the brethren; Mortars brought 4 guns, a lot of shells; With the addition of our remaining 6 doors, it should be able to top for a long time; The commander of the anti-aircraft artillery division gave two guns and 20 shells, which was the last heavy weapons aid; In the future, we will be replenished with bullets every night......" Zhou Qingxiang was briefing on the situation;
"By the way, where did you get these 3,000 reinforcements?" He Jianye didn't understand where this support was for a long time,
"Hey! It was the 18th Division's rout, who rested for a day in the field, and after distributing guns and ammunition, an additional team of superintendents was dispatched...... Their division commander Zhu Yaohua also came, and Shangfeng said that if they were defeated again, they would all be shot! So you can rest assured, there will be no problem. Zhou Qingxiang said,
"In this way, you have been fighting for so long, and the frontal position will be handed over to the 18th Division, and I will stay here to supervise the battle! You take the men of the 9th Brigade to the left flank to guard against the outflanking of the Japanese army! The right flank is the Zoumatang River, and I just let my guard company go to monitor it! Zhou Qingxiang patted He Jianye's shoulder and left.......
"Brethren, go. Let's go to the right wing! He Jianye roared and took more than 1,000 soldiers to the right flank to set up defenses, and as for the wounded soldiers, they didn't need to go to the battlefield, so that the lightly wounded carried the seriously wounded back to the field.......
At 8 o'clock in the morning of October 28, He Jianye had just led his troops to finish arranging the defensive line on the right flank, widening the trenches, and arranging anti-artillery holes behind the trenches.......
"Commander, about 1,000 devils have come from there!" Yang Xiaoshi, the commander of the reconnaissance company, came over and reported,
"Fucking little devil, it's quite cunning, such a detour route? Thankfully, the Labor Scouts were far away...... Otherwise, I will only know when you touch the front of the position," He Jianye muttered and cursed,
"Brethren, pay attention to the movement on our right, the devil has come up. The old rule, use weeds, first yin a wave of these devils, do not enter 100 meters, no shooting! He Jianye advised,
He Jianye held a telescope and looked at the devil infantry who bent over and touched it, and found that this was probably a brigade, already building mortar positions and heavy machine gun positions, and about a squadron of devils was searching and advancing, "Damn, these devils are smart!" ”
"Zeng Da, you take a platoon of brothers, bring all our mortar shells and two mortars, touch it from the left, as soon as you shoot here, you will open fire directly, and kill the mortar positions and heavy machine gun positions of the devils. Remember, you only have two mortars, and you have a chance to take charge of the mortar position on the opposite side and then have a chance to dry the heavy machine gun position. Be careful! The devil chases it out and comes back! ”
"Yes, Commander, then I'll go." Yang Xiaoshi quickly took two mortars and touched forward.......