Chapter 167

November 21, early in the morning.

As soon as the first rays of sunlight fell on the earth, the armored vehicles roared.

Du Luming recalled that the enemy near Kunlun Pass had been routed by our Fifth Army and was retreating in the direction of Batang, and the 200 divisions continued to pursue and advance towards the remnants of the enemy, and captured the east-west line of Batang in one fell swoop.

The 2nd Regiment of the 1st Rong Division was temporarily under the command of Commander Dai of the 200th Division, and after quickly clearing the remnants of the enemy near Kuncang Pass, it was necessary to occupy Kuncang Pass and guard against the enemy's counterattack.

The units of the Fifth Army pressed to Kunlun Pass from the third, and the new 22nd Division and the left detachment were still blocking the Japanese Nakamura detachment and other reinforcements.

This time, just as Qiu Xiaoquan said, one by one "more energetic", in the bloody blockade, Li Zhen, the commander of the third battalion of the 64th regiment, was seriously wounded, and the position of the third battalion of Guliuling fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

Qiu Qingquan pinched the phone at the command post and scolded:

"Whoever dares to let go of a Japanese in the past, Lao Tzu will shoot whom"

In terms of the 200 divisions, the 598th Regiment sent by Dai Anlan finally occupied the Luotang Heights, and then lost it.

The 1st Regiment of the 600th Regiment fought until dark, and once approached 200 meters in front of Kunlun Pass, but due to the flank attacks of the enemy troops on both sides of the road, it could not stand and finally withdrew.

The 599th Regiment was able to defeat about a large group of Japanese troops on the high ground near the northeast of Jieshou.

On the side of the 1st Rong Division, in order to open up the communication between Qitang and Batang, the Japanese army of the brigade fought fiercely with the 1st Regiment of the 1st Rong Division at Banbi Caijin from dawn.

The main force of the 1st Rong Division turned to Jiutang to attack, and at about 19 o'clock, approaching the enemy's main position on the highlands northwest of Jiutang, the two sides began to fight fiercely.

The soldiers under his command grabbed a large piece of knife specially equipped for fighting in the mountains and jungles, and cut the first barbed wire fence in front of the position.

The officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the Rong Division bravely crossed the barbed wire fence first, but in the end, due to the enemy's dense firepower network and several barbed wire fences in the position, several assaults failed to work, and the soldiers fell in front of the barbed wire one after another......

On the side of the new 22nd Division: Due to the heavy casualties in the fierce battle with the superior reinforcements at Wutang and Liutang on the 20th, Du Yuming ordered the division to occupy positions on the front line of Ma'anshan, Chunhushan, Lincun, and Lumingshan to confront the old one. The Fifth Army attacked in the middle of the day, and after conquering some B Army positions on the outskirts of Kunlun Pass, it made no progress.

Both sides were fighting fiercely, and both the offensive and defensive sides looked tired.

Continuous hills, complex terrain, almost every hill has a position, there is an attack and defense, and there will be a white-knuckle battle with a primitive nature on both sides of the offensive and defensive sides of each position, which is a headache for Du Yuming.

The Fifth Army was a mechanized unit, and because the degree of mechanization of both the enemy and us was limited due to the destruction of communications, Du Yuming felt that he was not exactly a military commander, but also like a chieftain.

Du Yuming felt very nerve-wracking, and Wing Captain Miki Yoshinosuke was also nerve-wracking, and at 21:30 p.m., he sent a telegram to the commander of the Nakamura Masao Brigade, expressing his last-minute determination, telegram No. 126:

"Since the afternoon of this day, our unit has been surrounded and attacked by the enemy near Jiutang, and is now trapped in Jiutang with a small squad as a reserve. In the case of insufficient ammunition, they were determined to rely on bayonets to destroy the enemy: because of Kunlun Pass and Jiutang, although the combat effectiveness was extremely strong, the garrison on the northern heights relied entirely on bayonets and bamboo sharpened spears to fight, and the supply of ammunition, food, and straw relied entirely on airdrops by planes, but most of them fell on the positions of the Chongqing Army, and the enemy was now in embarrassment. ”

Miki Yoshinosuke's garrison in the northern highlands had used spears sharpened from bamboo, and he felt like his ancestors, holding primitive weapons.

In the following day, the 200 divisions and the 1st Rong Division, under the command of Dai Anlan and Zheng Dongguo, launched a car ** battle with the Japanese army, attacking in turn.

Although the Chinese soldiers were extremely brave, the enemy still held their strongholds at Kunlun Pass and Jiutang, and with the help of favorable terrain, they blocked the attacks of the 200 divisions and the Rong 1st division again and again, and the attacks of the two divisions did not make progress.

Each attack is only a little bit short, and as long as the air force supports it, it can break through, but the promised hundred planes, nothing can be seen.

"Why don't you come to our air force, isn't it a coordinated operation? Damn it! ”

Du Luming threw away the steel helmet and scolded the sky.

Du Yuming was also strange that he received a report from Zhang Fakui, the commander of the Guilin camp and the war zone:

The telegram said that air reinforcements were coming, and the national air force would also go to bomb the Japanese fleet in Qinzhou Bay.

It's long overdue, why didn't the sky move at all.

The officers and men of the Fifth Army eagerly awaited the arrival of their planes.

Where the hell did the plane go?

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 21 December, nine Chinese CB light bombers, led by Soviet adviser Fagin, took off from Guilin to Qinzhou Bay to bomb the Japanese fleet.

Due to the fog and getting lost, the group hovered over the sea of Xiying in Guangzhou Bay, and the pilots could not find the Japanese target for attack, so they had no choice but to do so, so they ordered the brigade to throw 36 100-kilogram bombs and 18 15-kilogram bombs into the sea and return home.

On the way back, the fleet ran out of fuel due to getting lost again, and all nine planes were forced to land halfway.

Three planes of various types and nine E15 destroyers of the three major groups of the Chinese Air Force took off from Liuzhou Airport at 7:25 a.m. and flew over Kunlun Pass to cover the infantry attack of the Fifth Army.

Because many positions were intertwined with the enemy and us, and the attacking troops, who were fighting inextricably, did not lay signal cloth on the ground, fearing that our troops would be injured by mistake, the Third Flying Group circled over Kunlun Pass and returned at 9:45 a.m.

Shortly after the plane landed in Liuzhou, the air raid report suddenly sounded, and 18 Japanese bombers came to bomb the headquarters of Commander Zhang Fakui and the destroyers of the 3rd and 4th Battalions, risking the danger of dive, strafing, and bombing by enemy planes.

After forcing the enemy into the skies over the guests, the Chinese aircraft returned home.

At 12:50 p.m. on the same day, when the officers and men of the Fifth Army were eagerly looking forward to their planes, 10 615 destroyers of the Fourth Brigade of the Kuomintang Air Force flew over Kunlun Pass, continuously dived the Japanese ground troops, and returned at 14:28.

It's a pity that all the fighters who saw the plane had already died on the ground.

After another day of hard fighting.

On December 23, at dusk, the remnants of the sun were like blood.

Every hill, every swamp, every river, and almost every piece of land around Kunlun Pass has the blood of soldiers.

Everyone's eyes were red, as if spilling out of fresh, chariots, horses, artillery carriages, military uniforms, and more or less there were patches of blood.

Some people say that there are two kinds of military uniforms for soldiers, one is the honor guard style and the other is called the Hanako style. At this time, the Fifth Army on the front line of Kunlun Pass, probably the general uniform on the army commander Du Yuming still looked a little bit, including the military uniforms of Zheng Dongguo, Dai Tanlan, Qiu Qingquan and others, which was not much stronger than that of Huazi.

Qiu Qingquan was in the trench outside the bunker while observing the position, and shouted behind him:

"Go and get me a pair of pants, the Japanese bomb made me wear open crotch pants"