Chapter Seven: The Battle of Songhu A disastrous victory
The Japanese began to slowly retreat, and the huge numerical disadvantage made the Japanese casualties continue to increase, and the Japanese, who could not see any hope, began to slowly collapse. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The two squadrons of Japanese soldiers resisted for nearly two hours under the frantic attack of a Kuomintang regiment, and they finally began to slowly retreat.
The Japanese left behind about a hundred corpses, alternately covering each other and withdrawing from the outlying positions of Luodian, leaving behind a batch of mortars without shells and some rifles, with pitiful few bullets.
The battlefield was littered with corpses of people, dressed in washed white blue uniforms, as well as some yellow Japanese corpses.
A company of flags fluttered over the Japanese position, announcing that the position had changed hands.
The commander of the second battalion led the second company to pursue the Japanese and retreated back in embarrassment in less than a mile, and the Japanese had an undoubted advantage in marksmanship in the mobile warfare, and after chasing less than 500 meters, more than 20 soldiers of the second company were shot and killed, almost all of them were shot in the head by Japanese veterans, and the soldiers of the second company were frightened and did not dare to come forward.
The commander of the second battalion was a little discouraged, and when he came back, he sat alone on the edge of the trench and did not speak, smoking cigarettes all the time, one after another.
The sun began to radiate scorching energy towards the ruined land, and the rolling heat began to sweep over the main area, the coolness of the morning was gone, and the anger of the soldiers had been ignited by the Japanese.
The position was littered with wailing wounds, medics and corpse collectors collecting memorial plates.
There were too many corpses, and it was too late to collect and bury them, so they could only cut off the identity tag on their chests in a hurry, collect them again, and issue a death notice by the division headquarters in a unified manner.
Hu Lian came to the front-line position from the regimental command post, his brows furrowed, the Japanese are too strange today.
The Japanese have strong combat effectiveness and firm will to fight, and Hu Lian once knew that they would retreat so quickly today, and the firepower configuration of the position was not right.
"Staff Officer Xu, don't you think the Japanese are a little strange today?"
"Tuanza, my subordinates are also thinking about this problem, why the Japanese naval guns and planes did not come to support today, and they just quietly resisted and dropped their positions and retreated, and their subordinates were also very puzzled!"
"Here's the problem, the Japanese are very abnormal, and their proud artillery superiority is gone? Could it be that the Japanese are out of shells? If so, I prefer to believe that the Japanese artillery are on vacation today! ”
"Tuanza, could it be that the Japanese have adjusted the direction of their attack? Luodian is no longer a key offensive area? ”
Hu Lian shook his head: "Impossible, as long as the Japanese get through Hengdian, they will be able to drive straight in, there is no need to change the target now!" And in the entire Shanghai area, there is no location more important than Luodian, Luodian is in, Shanghai is in, Luodian is lost, Shanghai is not guaranteed! ”
When Hu Lian fell into deep thought, the Kuomintang soldiers had already begun to celebrate the victory, but this victory was a bit tragic for them.
The Kuomintang army suffered more than 500 casualties, 82 seriously wounded, and more than 700 lightly wounded, a not strong battle, nearly half of the soldiers of the 60th Regiment were killed or wounded, while the Japanese lost less than 100 people.
The iron pillar was nervous, and the mood of fear gradually quieted down as the guns and cannons on the battlefield were extinguished, and many people began
Tie Zhu and Shun Yu supported each other to find the company, and found the deputy company commander on the edge of a trench: "Company Vice, Li Tiezhu, Wang Shunyu is back!"
The deputy company commander turned his head, and there were blood stains and two clearly visible tears on his face: "Good, good, good, just come back, just come back."
"Deputy Lian, what's wrong with you? What about the brothers in Lianli? ”
When the company deputy heard Tie Zhu's words, he suddenly wailed: "Company commander, company commander, he sacrificed, there are less than thirty people in the company plus you, and the rest of the brothers have sacrificed!"
The deputy company commander couldn't hold on any longer, and the whole person knelt on the ground and hammered the ground desperately, his head was dead on the ground, and the whole person was convulsed.
The surviving soldiers of the first company crawled out of the trenches and grabbed the deputy company commander, but their eyes were a little hollow, and they lost their former divine light.
This was the first hard battle that a company had ever fought, and it was also the most difficult, in the past, on the domestic battlefield, as soon as the cannon sounded, the enemy would run away, and they only had to follow the enemy behind.
Before today, they thought that the Japanese were like that, everyone carried a head on two shoulders, who was afraid of whom? The Japanese are not fleshy? Can you really become a devil?
During the meal, the company was still talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
But when the trumpet blew and the soldiers of the company approached the Japanese position, they realized that they were wrong, and they were outrageously wrong.
The Japanese were not frightened by the artillery, and even less retreated, and the company of soldiers was greeted not by empty positions, but by a rain of death composed of bullets.
In the first wave of the charge, half of the soldiers of the company were killed, and the remaining soldiers searched for various hiding bunkers, and like iron pillars, hid in some places on the battlefield, shivering.
The Japanese marksmanship inflicted heavy losses on the second company, and the Kuomintang troops within 150 meters of the Japanese position were named by the Japanese soldiers one by one, so that the remaining soldiers of the first company were almost killed.
The Japanese retreated, but the war was not over yet, and before Tiezhu and Shunyo had time to catch their breath, the task of the superiors came down, holding their positions and blocking the enemy's attack.
It's always easier to defend than to attack, but if you want to defend easily, you must learn to dig a trench!
Tie Zhu and Shun Yu didn't have time to mourn, the liaison officer in the battalion ran over, and the task of the first company came, to build a position not far away to prevent the Japanese counterattack.
Due to the heavy casualties in the battle just now, the area that needed to be defended was located near the town in Luodian, relying on a small river, and the area that needed to be defended was not very large, and the battalion commander promised that after the reserve came in the evening, he would give them reinforcements for a platoon.
"Brother Shunyo, will the two of us also die?" Tie Zhu was a little absent-mindedly repairing his business, and a sentence suddenly came out of his mouth.
Shunyo stopped the shovel and grinned: "You stupid boy, what do you want to die, I have to wait for the war to win, go home and marry a daughter-in-law, don't say frustrating words, when the time comes, you come to block the door, brother, I will give you more candy."
"But the company commander, the second son, and the old man are all dead, and I haven't even seen them for the last time!"
Shun slapped him on the head: "Don't think about it, dig the trenches well, otherwise the Japanese will make you feel better with a bomb."
"Brother Shunyo, you beat me again! I'll be stupid if I hit me again. ”
“……”
At eleven o'clock, the 66th Regiment was urgently repairing the fortifications, and there was a low sound like thunder in the sky, and one by one the points appeared from the sky.
"Air raids! Planes of the Japanese! Take cover! ”
The deputy company commander who was the first to react, and now the acting company commander Zhang Biao, jumped out and shouted at the soldiers of the second company.