Chapter 57: Entering the Position

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Qin Yuan was awakened by the sound of cannons. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info early in the morning the devils began artillery preparations, and it is estimated that the attack will be launched soon.

He hurriedly got up from the bed, because he was also a regiment leader, Zhang Chi specially arranged a single room for him, and also built a small stove in the house.

The stove emitted a faint heat, struggling to withstand the cold outside.

Qin Yuan sorted out the internal affairs, and he was going to wake up his brothers, so that he might be sent to the battlefield today.

As soon as I went out, a cold wind blew in my face, and there were scattered snowflakes in the sky.

After calculating the time, it seems that today is November 5th, and it is almost time for snow in the Northeast.

"I hope this snow won't fall too much", Qin Yuan prayed silently in his heart.

After all, once it snows heavily, it will be a big crime for the brothers on the front line, and it is not a comfortable thing to lie down in the snow to fight.

Moreover, there is a big gap between the enemy and us in terms of logistical supplies, and even if it snows, the devils can eat hot meals every day, but Ma Zhanshan rarely dares to cook because of the bombing of enemy planes.

Once an open flame is fired, it will be a live target for enemy aircraft.

As soon as he went out, Zhang Chi happened to come over.

Sure enough, he came to give Qin Yuan and the others a battle order.

It turned out that in the early morning of 4 November, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command sent Yoshihide Hayashi and Japanese Secretary Hayasaki to meet with Ma Zhanshan and suggest that the representatives of the two sides discuss ways to avoid conflict between the two armies.

Ma Zhanshan ordered his secretary Han Shuye to be the plenipotentiary representative, and Lin Yixiu and Hayazaki took a car to Angangxi, and together with Shi Lanbin, the commander of the middle section of the provincial defense army, he inspected the front line.

According to the agreement between the two sides, Shi Lanbin and Lin Yixiu respectively admonished the soldiers of the two countries who entered the position, and they must strictly observe discipline and avoid conflicts.

However, when Shi Lanbin gathered his troops and was about to give a lecture, Lin Yixiu forced Shi Lanbin to issue an order to withdraw his troops and forced him to execute it immediately.

It turned out that the so-called strict observance of "discipline" meant unconditionally withdrawing from the Daxing station in accordance with the Japanese side's ultimatum.

Shi Lanbin immediately refused on the grounds that he was the chief of staff of the Third Infantry Brigade and had no right to give an order.

At this time, the battle on the left flank of Jiangqiao was raging, and the front of Jiangqiao, which Shi Lanbin was in charge of, was also engaged in the battle, and Lin Yixiu saw that the purpose of forcing us to withdraw his troops had not been achieved, so he angrily asked the representatives of both sides to return to the provincial capital by special car, while Ma Zhanshan drove head-on to the main position of Daxing Station by car.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yixiu refused to give up and asked the representatives of both sides to go to the front again, and the car passed by Daxing Station, just as the Japanese army began to attack the position of our Daxing Station. The Japanese plane, who was not knowing who was in the car, actually dropped a bomb on the special car, and the car was overturned, shaking the representatives of both sides out of the car and lying on the ground in a faint, only to wake up after half a day, and the Japanese adjutant was sent to the provincial hospital.

In the afternoon, the Japanese army pressed on our Daxing position with several times the scale of the previous day's attack.

With the cooperation of field artillery, 500 marines of the Japanese army held high the sun flag and attacked the left flank position of our army 4 or 5 miles away from Daxing Station, pinning down our flank troops, and formed a dense phalanx with the main force to storm the main position of our Daxing Station in an attempt to break through in the center and crush our army.

Ma Zhanshan, who commanded in front of the formation, immediately replied: "The enemy is attacking our position in a dense formation, which is exposing his weakness of underestimating the enemy, and we must make full use of the enemy's weakness and annihilate it in one go!" In accordance with the orders given in the morning, wait for the enemy to enter within 100 meters before firing a volley. Your heavy gunfire is the signal for an attack on all fronts, and the gunfire is about to start, and the onslaught begins, so don't act in advance! ”

According to Ma Zhanshan's order, the defenders of the position did not fire a single bullet, staring at the Japanese troops who were advancing towards our army.

The vanguard of the Japanese army was divided into several formations, advancing each other, with a very low posture, and the artillery fire behind the hall was very fierce, which made it difficult for our troops to raise their heads for a while.

Then, the follow-up large forces of the Japanese army still swarmed up in a dense formation, and when they entered the extremely effective range of our army, Xu Baozhen waved his gun and shouted: "Fight!" ”

In an instant, the soldiers of the whole line, who were holding back their strength, pulled the bolt and fired tens of millions of bullets, and the left flank position took advantage of the situation to counterattack, forming an iron pincer to flank the enemy.

Suddenly, the Japanese army was in chaos. However, although the Japanese army, which had suffered a heavy setback, did not turn back and fled. Seeing this, Xu Baozhen ordered the trumpeters to blow the trumpet of the charge, and the warriors of our army jumped out of the trenches, rushed into the enemy army, and started a white-knuckle battle.

Outside the Daxing position, shouting to kill the heavens, the sword flashed, blood flowed all over the ground, and the melee lasted for a long time.

At this time, even though the Japanese army had more than 10 planes with low spins, more than 40 artillery pieces had been loaded, and many ironclad vehicles were already useless, and the two armies fell into a real flesh-and-blood struggle.

The Japanese finally retreated to the river bridge.

On the day of the 4th, the Japanese troops participating in the battle were three brigades of the 16th Infantry Wing of the Duomen Division, several brigades of the South Manchurian Railway garrison, plus the attached aircraft and light and heavy artillery, totaling more than 6,000 people, with more than 1,000 casualties.

On the Chinese defenders' side, only the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the Guards Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Company, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Heilongjiang Provincial Defense Army participated in the battle, with a total of more than 2,700 men and more than 300 casualties.

Regarding the battle situation on this day, the report of the League of Nations Investigation Team headed by Lyton reads: "In this battle, according to the Japanese report to the League of Nations Investigation Committee, after the two sides opened fire, the position of the 16th Infantry Wing Commander Hamamoto Osami was extremely difficult, so he sent all the troops occupied by him to reinforcements, and after some rapid reconnaissance, he was convinced that a frontal attack was really impossible on this low and humid ground, and that the Japanese army wanted to get out of the difficult position they were in, and there was little other way to do it than to take an encirclement situation on the left flank. He then summoned his reserves and attacked the Chinese left flank, but because of the small number of men and the inability of the artillery to advance closely, he occupied the place until half past eight o'clock in the afternoon, and could not advance any further the day after. ”

In order to meet the larger-scale attack of the Japanese army, Ma Zhanshan made adjustments and deployments to the defenders of the whole line: the provisional 1st Brigade of Chonggu (i.e., Xing'an Tunken Army) arrived at Daxing Station before the 6th; Cheng Zhiyuan's Second Cavalry Brigade, Zhu Fengyang's Regiment, and Tu Quansheng's Regiment hurried to Angangxi to assemble.

Ordered all the troops stationed in Qiqihar to go to the front line, and requisitioned 800 migrant workers to the front line to assist in repairing the fortifications.

At the same time, Qin Yuan's troops were also sent by Ma Zhanshan to the Daxing station position at the suggestion of Zhang Chi.

In fact, in Ma Zhanshan's heart, he didn't have any expectations for Qin Yuan's troops. But at this time, the battle situation is tight, and more manpower means more strength.

Moreover, in Zhang Chi's words, Qin Yuan's more than 400 people seem to have a certain amount of combat effectiveness, and some of them have experience in fighting devils, and they may be able to work wonders at a critical moment if they are sent to Daxing Station.