Chapter 165: Luring the Enemy Deep (I)
According to the operational thinking of Commander Xue Yue of the Ninth Theater, the only role of the Third Division in leaving Shahe Town was to introduce the rampant Japanese 106th Division into the mountains and forests around the Lion Rock at the southern foot of Lushan; Then, taking advantage of the fact that the heavy equipment of the Japanese army in the mountainous area could not play its full role, it carried out a key attack on the living forces of the Japanese army.
"Ding, ding......" The phone of the division headquarters rang, and the signal soldier quickly reported after picking it up,
"Division commander, the commander of the thirteenth regiment is calling."
"Wang Zhaohua, I'm Zhao Xitian." Zhao Xitian rubbed his forehead and said,
"Division commander, you quickly withdraw with the division headquarters! The strength of more than one wing of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army has already crossed Qili Lake and is heading towards the Shahe River, and one of our regiments will not be able to withstand it for long. Wang Zhaohua said directly,
"Don't panic, remember our mission; If the 106th Division can be introduced into the mountains, let alone you Wang Zhaohua, even if I Zhao Xitian dies here, it is okay. Zhao Xitian said,
"Commander, I understand; You withdraw first, don't worry, I will definitely lead the devil to Jinguan Bridge; Getting there was the work of the 16th Regiment and the 155th Division. Wang Zhaohua roared,
"Well, you remember, you can't resist, but you also have to beat the devils, you must let them go to Jinguan Bridge, and you can't let them go south to De'an along the railway line." Zhao Xitian emphasized,
"But Commander, the devil won't listen to me no matter how he goes! I said why don't you order the troops behind you to rip up the railroad tracks from Shahe to De'an! In this way, the devil can't help it! Wang Zhaohua roared,
"Well, you can think about it; Go ahead and prepare! Meet at Lion Rock behind the Jinguan Bridge at night; Do you understand? Zhao Xitian said,
"Yes, Commander!" After Wang Zhaohua finished speaking, he hung up the phone and hurriedly entered the forward position, the Japanese army was menacing, and he had bait to lure the enemy, and no one would come to support, so he could only stare at the brothers;
"The commander of the first battalion, there is only one company left in the front line, and all of them enter the town behind, and we will have a chaotic battle with the devils; Engineer company, wait for the devils to shell it, lay mines on the forward positions, and then we will withdraw to the town. The second battalion will build a defensive line on the Caicun Heights, two kilometers to the rear immediately, and prepare to meet us! "Wang Zhaohua asked the heralds to quickly convey their orders in the forward position, the Japanese drama is menacing, beyond the previous plan, we must change the method, otherwise the 13th Regiment will be planted here today;
The 147th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for the attack, did not have the slightest intention of underestimating the enemy, since suffering the loss of the Eighth Army at Yaque Mountain, seeing that the opposite side was the Eighth Army, these devils who had suffered losses would have a little more spirit to face it;
"Give me the field artillery wing mother bag Junzhongzuo;" At a distance of two kilometers from Shahe Town, the 147th Wing Yoshio Sonoda directly ordered the troops to start preparations before the attack, this time Yoshio Sonoda was not going to use the mountain artillery squadron to shell, but was ready to let the infantry artillery of the mountain artillery squadron follow the infantry to attack, and destroy the fire point of only that person at close range; Take the Sand River as fast as you can;
"Sonoda Daisa, I'm the mother bag Jun;" The voice of the commander of the artillery wing came from the phone, this old boy was not killed in the Yaque Mountain last time, he ran fast, and now he has made up the personnel and equipment and is back;
"Mother bag Jun Zhongzuo, according to my scout report, on the opposite side is the troops of the Eighth Army of the China Army that we met in Yaque Mountain, and I hope that Your Excellency can wipe out this town with artillery fire and kill all the people inside!" Yoshio Sonoda didn't want his soldiers to get bogged down in a chaotic battle, especially in a small town full of houses, which would cause him heavy casualties;
"Damn the Eighth Army! Sonoda Daisa, my artillery position is still being constructed, and the artillery bombardment will be launched in about an hour. As you wish! I will pour out the wrath of the Imperial Army with cannonballs! Mother bag Jun Zhongzuo gritted his teeth on the phone and said that since the landing in China, the artillery of the wing was the first to be basically wiped out, and this shame must be washed away with the flesh and blood of the Eighth Army;
"Commander, what do you think the devil is doing? Where it doesn't move, and there is no shelling and no attack! The commander of the first battalion held a telescope and said to Wang Zhaohua,
"Hehe, the devil is suffocating! Wait for their artillery to shell it! You're not familiar with this set yet! Wang Zhaohua said,
"Oh!" The commander of the first battalion understood, and slapped the brothers on the shoulders along the trench to tell them to pay attention to the shells......
"Boom, boom ......" The Japanese field artillery wing began to shell, which was different from the time in Yaque Mountain, that after the reconstruction of the Japanese field artillery 106 wing, it was equipped with 36 75mm field guns and 6 120mm howitzers; The movement of 120mm howitzers bombarding the town can only be described as earth-shattering......
A 120mm grenade hit a house in Shahe Township, a sturdy house made of earth and wood that had been built by locals for generations......
"Commander, it's not right to listen to this movement! This is the heavy artillery of the little devil! If you don't bombard our frontier, why did they all go to the town? A battalion squatted in the trench and said suspiciously,
"It seems that the little devil wants to take down the entire Shahe in one go, and he has no intention of fighting us; Do you have bunkers and fortifications in both companies in town? Wang Zhaohua remembered something and asked nervously,
"It's not specially built, but there are a lot of residents' cellars or something, so it shouldn't be a big problem!" The commander of the first battalion stammered,
Shahe Town was trembling violently, there were collapsed houses everywhere, and the whole town was no longer the same as before, and from the sky, it was a mud mist wrapped in smoke and slowly rising into the sky......
Inside the town, the humble dwellings were hit by shells and burst open, and the planks and thatch flew into the air and fell to the ground, causing gas to catch fire......
The strange thing is that there was no scream from such a fierce shelling, and as long as the house where the two companies were hiding was hit by a shell, they had no chance to scream, and they were directly killed in the sharp and disorderly shrapnel, and then they were lifted by the air wave and fell to the ground.......
"Squat! Don't lie on your stomach! Find your own cellar and hide it! The two company commanders were screaming violently, but the sound was quickly drowned out by the violent explosions, and could not be heard at all, and the ears of the brothers were full of roar, and nothing could be heard, and the mud and sand flying everywhere made the remaining brothers bloodstained all over their bodies, some of them their own, and many of them were the blood sprayed by the fallen brothers.
In the face of the massive shelling, the humble houses were reduced to dust, and the flesh and blood of the emaciated brothers of the 13th Regiment were torn to pieces. The recruits were screaming in terror, running in fear and then being swept into the air by the air of the cannonballs, falling to the ground, the veterans were much more clever, after countless baptisms on the battlefield, they knew what to do now without the need for the commander's explanation, and the cellar became the best place for the brothers to rush in, and they really couldn't run, so they found a heavy artillery crater nearby and curled up in it......
The shells of the field artillery wing of the 106th Division of the Japanese army continued to explode in the town of Shahe, the 120mm heavy artillery continued to pour shells, and the 75mm field artillery was unwilling to continue to roar violently.