Chapter 245: Bloody Battle Matsuyama III

The Guanshan position on the Songshanzi Heights was guarded by Captain Qian Yoshio, the leader of the 4th Infantry Squadron of the Japanese Army, and initially had more than 70 infantry and artillery personnel.

That morning, during the interval between the shelling of the Eighth Army, Ishida, a Japanese health soldier in the trench, was checking whether there were any wounded people, and saw Tokai Kuichi and other soldiers not far away blankly counting the shells that fell overhead, and when he counted to 2,000 rounds, he did not count any more.

There was not a single tree on the hill, the traffic trenches were blown down, and there was no place to hide, so the Japanese soldiers had to lie down in the potholes to take refuge.

On this day, Wei Lihuang, commander of the expeditionary force, and Song Xilian, commander of the 11th Group Army, rushed to Songshan to look at the heights of Songshan with several American generals and senior advisers at the Zhuzipo headquarters.

According to the "Documentary of the Demolition of Songshan" written by reporter Ma Zhihua in Kunming's "People's Daily" in September 1947: "The fire is scheduled to be lit at 9 o'clock on the hour. At 8:40, Commander He Shaozhou ordered the 3rd Regiment of Zhirong to quickly retreat back from the dangerous boundary of the blasting circle, and the sound of gunfire gradually fell silent.

Our troops on the entire battlefield were focused on Zi Fengfeng, looking forward to the outbreak of this miracle with the same nervousness......

"At 9 o'clock, nothing has changed. After telephone inquiries from the front, the attacking troops of the 3rd Regiment of Shi Xirong had not been evacuated at 9 o'clock and had not been ignited. “

It turned out that the "feint attack" of the troops of the 3rd Rong Regiment was so realistically that they were too close to the enemy to withdraw in time.

The firing position is located at the command post of the Rong 3rd Regiment under the northeast slope of the sub-highland, about 500 meters away from the sub-highland.

Cui Jisheng, captain and adjutant of the 3rd Rong Regiment, accompanied Major Wen Xiake, a liaison officer of the US military, to meet with regiment commander Zhao Fabi and Chen Zaijing, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the regiment, who had just returned from the Baoshan Airport.

The day of the enemy's raid on the Songshanzi Heights has been set, and it is time for the officers and men of the "Honor Regiment" to display their talents, and everyone's expressions are very excited, and the dull atmosphere of the setbacks of the past few days has been swept away. In the shelter department, there were 10 ignitions converted from telephones, and Chang Chengjiao, the commander of the military engineering battalion, stood aside and smoked silently.

Normally only one or two ignitions are needed for blasting, but today 10 are prepared in case of the unexpected.

Zhao Fabi, Cui Jisheng and others also walked to an ignition one after another and held the crank.

In addition to the shelter, a set of conventional fuse index detonation devices was also backed up. Luo Changqing, sergeant squad leader of the 1st platoon of the 2nd company of the military engineer battalion, was ordered to light the fire. He recalled: "It was a 150-centimeter-long slow-burning fuse, which burned one centimeter per second, which meant that after lighting the fire, I had two and a half minutes to run away from the ignition point, so I didn't panic."

Behind me is our company commander Zhu, he and He Shaozhou have been on the table, and every second is right.

I squatted in the tunnel, pinching the fuse with one hand and pressing the matchhead on the fuse, and pinching the matchbox with the other (the fuse can only be ignited by the energy of the instantaneous deflagration of the matchhead, and the open flame cannot be ignited).

As long as the company commander makes a gesture, I will snap to the ground and make the Japanese devils of the dog day turn into a pile of ashes! “

At 9:15, army commander He Shaozhou ordered over the phone at Zhuzipo: "Detonate!" “

Veteran Zhang Yufu saw that Chang Chengsui, the commander of the engineer battalion, took a few puffs of cigarette, then threw away the cigarette butt, his hand trembled a little, and he shook the detonator fiercely.

At the same time, the heads of the Rong 3rd Regiment, Zhao Fabi, Cui Jisheng and others also used all their strength to shake the handle.

Outside the shelter department, squad leader Luo Changqing also lit the fuse with the company commander's command, and then turned around and ran back.

Zhang Yufu, a veteran, said that at first there seemed to be no movement, but after a few seconds, the earth trembled a little, and then trembled a few times, a bit like an earthquake, and the wooden support of the shelter of the regimental command post "creaked" and shook.

Yang Jinji, lieutenant and deputy company commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Rong 3rd Regiment, who was standing outside, saw that a force rose to the sky, lifting the entire large pillbox of the main peak for several meters and planting it on the top of the mountain crookedly.

At the same time, a thick column of smoke rises from the sub-high ground, and a hat is worn on the head of the smoke column, much like the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb explosion seen in the movie many years later.

In the thick smoke, Japanese corpses, tree trunks, gasoline drums, guns, and countless military supplies and equipment could be seen flying all over the sky. The column of smoke was one or two hundred meters high, staying in mid-air for a long time. When the sound came, it was not as loud as expected, and it was not as deafening as the bombs dropped by planes, a bit like the muffled sound of thunder in the clouds in the distance.

Cui Jisheng said: At this time, the officers and men inside and outside the shelter department erupted in exciting slogans: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" Open up the Yunnan-Burma Highway! Go back to your hometown! Regain all the lost territory of the Motherland! The final victory is ours! Long live China's victory! ......Everyone hugged each other tightly, and everyone had tears on their faces.

According to Yang Jinji, lieutenant and deputy company commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Rong Regiment, according to the reservation plan, the Rong 3rd Regiment served as the main attack that day, and the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion (battalion commander Chen Yuefeng) was the assault team, which had entered the starting line and was on standby, and the 4th Company followed up; The 3rd Battalion (Battalion Commander Chen Zaijing) is in reserve. Before the explosion fell, the officers and men of the 2nd Company, regardless of the smoke and poisonous gas, jumped up with the sound of the trumpet of the charge, rushed to the main peak with a shout, and planted the national flag with a blue sky and a red sky on the sub-high ground.

At that time, the smoke and dust were billowing and the sky was dark, and although the sun had only come out a bamboo pole high, the flying dust covered the sky and the sun, as after dusk.

The soil on the top of the hill was soft, with many large cracks, and in many places the soil was still falling, and there was no trace of the enemy.

A few minutes later, the Japanese troops who had been bombed recovered and the Japanese troops in the bunker on the northwest side began to shoot desperately.

Tomio Ishida, a surviving Japanese soldier, said that after the explosion, some of the people who were not killed fled desperately, and were reprimanded by the lieutenant of the wing, who said: "I am lying on a stretcher, and I still have to command you to fight!" ”

As a result, these Japanese soldiers had no choice but to turn around and counterattack on the sub-high ground, and the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Rong Regiment engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy, and defeated it after about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

While the 3rd Regiment of Rong launched an assault on the sub-high ground after the blasting, the troops in the south also launched a strategic attack at the same time.

The 245th Regiment assaulted the high ground and was blocked by heavy enemy fire on the anti-slope of the high ground; Another assault on the Chen Heights was blocked by crossfire from the high ground and the unnamed high ground at noon and in the middle of the day, and the infantry suffered heavy casualties and did not achieve results.

The 307th Regiment attacked the Xiaosonglin Heights at the gate of Dazhai, but due to the back-attack and heavy fire from the enemy's side, it only occupied one enemy artillery magazine between Xin and Wei Heights.

The 308th Regiment advanced to the heights, and by noon it had completely occupied the Japanese positions in the area to the left of the artillery carriage road, destroying many enemies and capturing 1 light machine gun and 10 rifles.

But there was a fort at the southern end of the heights, and after being burned by our army with flamethrowers, there was no enemy.

However, according to the "History of the Eighth Army's Siege of Songshan": A few days later, most of those who passed through this place were shot.

After a close search, it was found that there were 4 tunnel-type shelters on the lower floor of the fortress, 5 enemies, and 1 light machine gun to defend it, so they concentrated their firepower to kill the Songshan battle, so it was so difficult, because most of the Japanese troops were these "ground rats" who resisted to the end and could not be killed.

The stubborn resistance of the Japanese army allowed Zhang Ziwen to see the madness of the Japanese army again, and this sick madness was exchanged for huge casualties among the soldiers of the Eighth Army.

Just now, Wang Jingyuan was almost attacked when he stepped on the position, but fortunately, the stone reacted quickly and killed the devil.

Think back to the devil who committed suicide by being captured yesterday, and then look at the crazy behavior in the Japanese army's Chaoyang Daily.

The phrase "mad before you want to perish" doesn't seem appropriate, they have always been mad.