Chapter 273: The Tragic First Battle

As soon as Mengzi led the team to the outside of Benxi Lake City, he did not rest, and sneaked into Benxi Lake City that afternoon.

Zhang Hu has quietly arranged the place where the team members lived, this time, Mengzi did not go home, and did not let Zhang Hu tell Xiaoxiao and his sister, after all, it was a big operation, and it could not leave a little clue for the little devil and traitor.

"Zhang Hu, did I do what I told you?"

"Don't worry, I haven't heard a word at all." Zhang Hu hurriedly said, at a critical time, he knows which is light and which is heavy.

"That's good, we have to scout the batch of arms that were shipped to Longjiang Province first. This time, the little devil is going to be ruthless against the anti-Japanese forces in Longjiang Province, and the Volunteer Army headquarters has come to order, let us try to destroy the little devil's batch of arms. Mengzi said with a solemn expression.

The reason why the Volunteer Army Headquarters issued such an order was because this time the anti-Japanese armed forces in Longjiang Province that the little devils wanted to encircle and suppress were none other than the team of General Ma Zhanshanma, the largest in that area.

After a period of recuperation, General Ma led his Northeast Army to make a comeback and return to the battlefield of resistance against Japan. This force is currently the most powerful anti-Japanese armed force in Manchuria.

As soon as winter began, Chief Ma joined forces with another anti-Japanese armed force, taking advantage of the lack of ammunition supply of the Japanese, from the south and north of the city, using powerful artillery fire, to capture the lost Qi City in two days. Qi City is General Ma's base camp, since the Japanese entered Manchuria, General Ma's Northeast Army, with Qi City as the center, has fought nearly 100 battles with the Kwantung Army, among which this is famous, is the Battle of Jiangqiao.

The Battle of Jiangqiao was the first largest and most tragic battle that General Ma led his men to fight with the little devils.

At that time, in order to open up the passage to Longjiang Province, the Kwantung Army was determined to take the Nenjiang Bridge.

Behind the Kwantung Army, Zhang Haipeng of the Imperial Allied Army took the lead, and with the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, they launched a surprise attack on the defenders of the Nenjiang Bridge.

General Ma defended Qi City, the capital of Longjiang Province, and resisted head-on, attacking the Kwantung Army head-on, and in the first attack, the Kwantung Army was defeated in a panic, and was ambushed by the Ma army's riverbank. The failure of this offensive was the first defeat of the Kwantung Army since it entered Manchuria. The Japanese did not expect that the vulnerable Northeast Army still had such a group of soldiers who were good at fighting.

The Kwantung Army was in a big rage, quickly dispatched troops and reinforcements, mobilized several Kwantung Army and Imperial Alliance Army to accompany the Ma Army, and attacked the Nenjiang Bridge the next day. After two days of bloody fighting, there was no trace on the riverbank, only the flesh and blood were blurred, and there were thousands of corpses.

In the following days, General Ma personally supervised the battle, and the battle was extremely fierce, with heavy casualties on both sides. In the end, the Japanese Kwantung Army actually used dozens of fighter planes, more than 40 artillery pieces and several ironclad vehicles to forcibly cross the river.

During the white-knuckle battle with the Kwantung Army, some team members bent their bayonets, and in the end, they ran out of ammunition and food, and in order to preserve their strength, General Ma ordered to withdraw to the three-room position.

Mengzi heard from the fifth uncle, at that time, the fifth uncle and Wang Ying's father were still under General Ma, Wang Ying's father was the regiment commander, and the fifth uncle was the company commander of the regimental guard company.

The fifth uncle took one of his companies and belonged to three rooms. This is a station on the railway line from Taonan to Pleiades, less than 70 miles away from the provincial capital Qiqihar in the north, and less than 60 miles away from the Nenjiang Bridge in the south.

Mengzi still remembers the scene with tears in his eyes when the fifth uncle told him about that battle:

"The brothers are ready to throw their lives there, we have been holding on for eleven or two days, I remember that on the morning of the twelfth day, more than 500 infantry cavalry of the vanguard of the little devils attacked our forward position in front of the official land, the rear official land, and Zhang Huayuan. Until the afternoon, the position was still occupied by the little devils, and the brigade commander retreated to our position with more than 600 people. The next morning, before dawn, the little devils gathered another 5 or 600 men and attacked our position with the cooperation of two planes.

We held out until noon. In the afternoon, the little devils repaired the bombed Nenjiang Bridge, and everyone knew that the Japanese were going to attack on a large scale. Sure enough, the commander of the Kwantung Army issued a reinforcement order: the remaining troops of the 2nd Division, the three infantry brigades mixed with the 39th Brigade, and the ambulance squad were sent to the vicinity of Daxing, and the commander of the 2nd Division was ordered to command the Nenjiang Detachment together. The little devils rushed three more flying squadrons from their base camp to Longjiang Province, and changed the 4th Mixed Brigade, which was preparing to land in Dalian, to Pusan, North Korea, and quickly arrived at Longjiang. In the afternoon, more than 3,000 Japanese infantry cavalry, with the cooperation of artillery, launched a fierce attack on Tangchi, Wunuotou, Xinlitun and our defensive line.

On the morning of the fourteenth day, they stormed our position under the cover of two planes and heavy artillery, but were repulsed by our troops. At noon, more than 2,000 devils, divided into two armies and mounted on foot, adopted the tactics of a large encirclement, attacked us from the left and right, and fought fiercely until the evening when the Japanese had reached the front of our position.

General Ma had already ordered the two cavalry regiments to quietly outflank the two wings of the little devil, and with an order, everyone rushed into their position together, and the cavalry regiment roared from the two wings, and the little devil retreated in a hurry.

This was our only win in this battle. The brothers thought that the little devil would retreat, but they didn't expect that the large-scale reinforcements would force us to the desperate point again.

The next morning, the main forces of the 2nd Division of the little devils arrived at the Daxing front. With the support of dozens of planes, heavy artillery, and tanks, and more than 4,000 little devil infantry and cavalry, they launched a fierce attack on Xinlitun, Sanjiazi, and us. Although we fought hard and repelled the little devils. But our troops suffered heavy casualties.

The time for the decisive battle finally came, and when the little devils saw that the three houses could not be captured for a long time, their army chief of staff personally ordered that they should capture the three houses at any cost, and capture the provincial capital to Qiqihar.

The little devils were really anxious, and these bastards attacked from three directions: more than 30 planes, more than 40 tanks, and nearly 10,000 infantry launched the most fierce attack on the three houses. Under the command of the brigade commander, although we were exhausted from several days of fighting, we still resisted to the death in the face of several times stronger enemies, and repelled more than ten Japanese attacks. By the early morning of the next day, most of our trenches had been destroyed, and the positions of the regiments and battalions had been cut off in dozens of places, making it difficult to hold them, so we retreated to the second line of defense.

The little devils were so fucking ruthless, they increased the number of people attacking, and I don't know that more than 3,000 people were transferred from there to join the battle from the west side of the three rooms of our position. And with the little devils who attack head-on, they are full of flanking. Later, dozens of planes and tanks and more than 30 artillery pieces were added, and all our trenches were destroyed with heavy artillery fire.

At that time, we had not eaten or drunk for two days and two nights, and we had no food and no reinforcements. Our grain storage place was blown up by the little devil's plane, and the weapons and ammunition were almost gone, although the brothers fought an empty stomach, but in the face of several times our little devils had no fear, and fought to the death with the enemy, the sound of killing was earth-shattering, and the brothers' eyes were all red. The fighting of our positions continued throughout the night.

Eventually, the brigade commander ordered us to break off and cover the rest of the brothers to withdraw from their positions.

After completing the covering mission, I took the dozen or so brothers who were still left in the company, and when I retreated, a few shells hit us, and I died in one fell swoop.

Pity the dozen or so brothers, they all ended up, and they still couldn't hold on.

If it weren't for Wang Ying's father, my own brother, maybe I would have gone with those brothers.

That night, my brother and his men, taking advantage of the little devil's evacuation, lurked on the battlefield to find me and my brothers.

My life was also given to me by my brothers.

At the time of the explosion, I was knocked down by two brothers in the company, and I was not killed, but I was physically injured and could not move. The bodies of the two brothers who saved me were blown off their feet.

At that time, I was lying there, thinking that I was going to die. I don't know how long it took, I fainted again, and when I woke up again, I had been rescued by my brother" When he said this, the fifth uncle couldn't control his feelings.

It was precisely because of hearing about the fifth uncle's experience that Mengzi understood why the headquarters asked Wang Ying to do his best to destroy this batch of military supplies. Tracing back to the roots, his team is in the same vein as General Ma.

This time, in order to regain the territory occupied by General Ma and other armed forces in Longjiang, the Kwantung Army transported a large number of arms from China, and in addition to transporting some of them from the road, according to the internal report, recently, there was also a batch of arms that will be transported to Longjiang from the inland river wharf of Benxi Lake through Xinjing.

Mengzi understands in his heart that it is not too difficult for him to kill a traitor, grab a material, blow up a convoy or something, but the arsenal, which is the key defense place of the little devil, can be said to be the lifeblood of the Kwantung Army. What's more, in the heavy munitions area, the little devil can't wait to defend all his troops there, and it is almost impossible to enter the arsenal directly.

What's even more difficult to do, even if you succeed and are lucky enough to enter the arsenal, after the detonation, how to escape and save yourself is still a big problem. What Mengzi disapproves of the most is the burning of jade. If you can't save yourself, you will lose more and more of the ability to fight the little devils, and this method will not outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Mengzi left this task to himself, and he asked Song Feng to go to Renxian County to assassinate two big traitors and a Japanese profiteer.

The fierce son did not bring all the more than fifty people into the city.

It's an extraordinary time, and the little devils are guarding the city gate and checking it very strictly. Besides, with so many people coming into town, it's hard not to be discovered.

Mengzi arranged most of the team members to go to the mountains on the road outside the city and set up camp on the mountains. He only took five or six people to the residence arranged by Zhang Hu.

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