Section 8 Recovering Wuhan IX
A spring breeze enveloped the spring rain, turning the mountain roads into muddy, but it failed to blow away the ubiquitous gunpowder smoke and blood in the mountains. The sticky mud made the boots even heavier, the thin stream was stained a faint red, and the once verdant hills became bare.
The sound of artillery did not survive from morning to night, and after the drizzle, the Chinese Air Force also rushed to join in the fun. When the morning dawned, the roar of engines was heard in the sky, then a string of bombs fell, then low-flying strafing from planes, then artillery bombardment, and finally infantry onslaught.
This is exactly the way the Japanese army attacked six years ago, artillery bombardment + infantry impact, with these two moves, the Japanese army swept through most of China, all the way to Wuhan, but now it has been transferred, and the Chinese soldiers sit leisurely on the opposite hill, watching the Japanese army on the opposite side eat bombs.
Kanda stood under a mountain rock and listened intently, the caliber of the artillery was getting larger and larger, and the heavy artillery of the Shina Army, which had fallen behind some time ago, had already caught up. As time went on, the hope of a breakthrough became more and more slim.
The 58th Division was annihilated, and Jingshan was lost; 104th Division, abandoning the rescue and heading north; The troops in Jinzhong were dragged by the Ninth War Zone, and Kanda knew that he could only fight out by his own strength now, but now his strength was getting weaker and weaker.
In order to break out of the encirclement, he made a move to break through to Changshou, wanting to attract reinforcements from the Zhina Army in the area of Wangjia Mountain, but he did not expect that the Zhina Army would rather give up Changshou and transfer the troops of Wangjia Dashan, on the contrary, the 36th Group Army, which annihilated the 58th Division, rushed north, blocking the way he must break through the encirclement.
"Boom!" A shell exploded nearby, and stones fell. Kanda's body didn't move at all, and the encirclement marked on the map became tighter and tighter. Yesterday, the 17th Division, which undertook the task of breaking off the rear and fighting the four armies of the Chinese Army alone, had its ties with the divisions severed. The Chinese army that rushed out from Yangzi, after continuous assaults and heavy costs, occupied the line of Zhangjialing, Tongjiamiao, and Gaojiapo, and the 17th Division was divided to the east of Guanzhuang Lake, from Fengjiafang in the south to Camellia Ridge in the north; To the west to Guanzhuang Lake and to the east to the area of Doosan, the four Chinese armies surrounded the 17th Division and attacked day and night.
Kanda couldn't blame the 17th Division, and Hirabayashi Morito had already done his best, blocking the Shina Army for five days with less than 10,000 dead people, winning a chance for the main force of the army to break through. Kanda knew that he had to seize this opportunity, and once the Shina army annihilated Hirabayashi, he would never have a chance again.
"Report."
Kanda looked back and saw an officer, panting and standing under the rock, as if he had rolled out of a quagmire, his uniform barely visible in its original color, bloodstains, mud and gunsmoke, and the uniform was messy. The officer raised his hand in salute, and with this action, Kanda had already noticed that the officer's body was unnatural, and the dirty bandage on his shoulder was still oozing blood.
"Division commander, we are running out of ammunition, and the commander of the Ushijima Brigade ordered me to come and ask for reinforcements from the division." The officer tried to make his voice stronger, but unfortunately his voice was so pale and tired.
"Go back and tell Ushijima-kun, no, he must take the 147 heights, must, immediately!" Kanda's demeanor was very stern. The telephone contact between the Ushijima Brigade and the division headquarters was blown up by the bombing just now, and Ushijima had no choice but to send staff officers to urgently ask for help.
The ammunition in the division's reserves has long been basically exhausted, and there are only a few shells left, and Kanda will never use them until the critical time, and the baggage soldiers have already picked up their rifles and charged forward.
"Division Commander!" The officer's tone was pleading: "We, we.... ”
"The logistics have long been broken, and we can only rely on our will and the spirit of the samurai to fight our way out." Kanda glared at the officer with fierce eyes, as if he wanted to eat him.
"Hello!" The officer turned away in despair.
Kanda was silent, turned around and picked up the binoculars, climbed to the side of the mountain rock, and regardless of the dirt on the ground, threw himself there, looking at the other side.
There was no sound of artillery, no cover from the sky, there was also the dive strafing of the planes. Hundreds of Imperial soldiers, armed with guns, rushed to the opposite hill under the leadership of the officer.
The shells exploded around them, and Kanda could clearly see the fire spewing from the muzzles, and the Shina army knew that they had no shells, so they boldly placed the mortars on the top of the hill and opened fire on the attacking Imperial Army.
Constantly people were blown over by artillery fire and flew into the air, but the soldiers did not look back, as long as they were not killed, they immediately got up and continued to run forward.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, the Chinese army on the top of the hill opened fire, but only the machine fired, and the rifles and grenades did not move.
Gunfire rang out like beans, grenades and mortar shells continued to explode on the mountainside, Kanda could see that the firepower on the hill was not weak at all, and the attacking Japanese soldiers could no longer stand up, and they were all prostrate on the ground, struggling to climb up.
Kanda stretched out his hand behind him, and a staff officer handed him the phone, and Kanda grabbed the phone: "Yamaura-kun, do you see the mountain opposite?" Can you directly hit the mountain? ”
"Good! I order you, three shots, only three shots! All of them must be killed! Kanda hung up the phone after speaking, and then stretched out his head to continue observing.
The soldiers of the imperial army were still holding on, still slowly climbing up, the machine guns began to fire, and a few wisps of dirt splashed on the hill, but this weak firepower did not stop the China, and the China's firepower was not weak at all.
"Boom!" One shell exploded on the hilltop, and the hill's fire seemed to stop, followed by two more shells. The hill was suddenly a little chaotic, and the Japanese soldiers who were crawling on the mountainside took the opportunity to jump up, their swords flashing, and the Japanese rushed up the hill at once. Bursts of gunfire rang out from the top of the hill.
Kanda punched the rock excitedly and reached out to ask for the phone: "Ushijima-kun!" Rush up! Rush up now! Open the breakthrough, and I will lead the follow-up troops to follow up! ”
Putting down the phone, he grabbed the binoculars again and looked over, in the telescope, the sun flag had been planted on the mountain, but the fierce battle on the top of the mountain continued, and hundreds of soldiers rushed out from this side, led by the officer, and rushed to the top of the mountain.
At this moment, two P40s emerged from the clouds and swooped down, spewing several tongues of fire under the wings, and a series of dust rushed up from the ground, and more than a dozen soldiers fell to death on the road.
"Rush over! Rush over! Kanda couldn't help but scream when he saw the soldiers behind him lying on the ground.
After the strafing, the Japanese continued to charge upward, and at this moment, the sound of artillery rang out, and the shells rained down again, and the road of impact immediately became the road of death.
"Eight squares! Eight squares! Kanda was furious, and if the troops on the mountain did not receive reinforcements, they would probably be defeated again under the counterattack of the Shina army.
The smoke of gunpowder obscured the battlefield situation, and Kanda was extremely anxious.
When Kanda was in the group, Chen Dingxun was angry at Wang Hanxi of the 127th Division on the phone.
"King stick! Lao Tzu tells you! If you lose your position, don't blame Lao Tzu for not being emotional! That company commander, execute on the spot! Execute it immediately. Tell Li Mazi that he personally led the team and beat the little devil down for Lao Tzu! ”
After sending a fire, Chen Dingxun dropped the phone, but before he could turn around, the phone rang again, and the ringtone was so rapid that the microphone seemed to jump up on the chassis.
"Hey, I'm..."
"I'm Sun Zhen!" The voice in the microphone was louder and stronger, Chen Dingxun's heart tightened, and Sun Zhen seemed to rush out of the microphone: "Chen Dingxun, Kanda has chosen you for the breakthrough!" I tell you, I must be resisted, any officer who loses his position will be shot, and whoever retreats, die! ”
"Yes, retreater, die!" Chen Dingxun replied loudly.
"If you can't withstand it this time, the number of the 45th Army will not need to exist!"
Chen Dingxun put down the phone, wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked up at the officers around him, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone heard the commander's call, and told all the troops that the 45th Army had no order to retreat, and no matter who it was, anyone who retreated would be executed on the spot." ”
The order was immediately delivered, and the battle immediately became more intense and brutal. The soldiers of both armies had no way to retreat, and the Japanese knew that only by killing a bloody road could they escape; The Chinese soldiers knew that they would either die in battle or be punished by military law.
After a fierce artillery bombardment, Li Shuhua, the commander of the 380 Brigade, led the supervision team to supervise the battle at the front, and Wang Zhen, the commander of the 776 Regiment, personally led the charge and transferred more than 100 daredevils from the whole regiment to the foot of the mountain under artillery fire.
All the daredevils, each armed with a Type 39 semi-automatic rifle, with magazines and grenades on their chests, half of them topless.
Shi Benrong, the company commander who led the death squad, was the company commander who made two meritorious contributions in the Battle of Jinpu Road and the Battle of Wuhan, and he smoked silently, quietly listened to the sound of artillery, and observed the smoke on the mountain.
The top of the hill was completely covered in smoke, and it was impossible to see what was inside, and the whole mountain was swaying under artillery fire, and the earth was undulating like a boat in a strong wind.
Shi Benrong threw away the cigarette in his hand, waved his hand, and walked towards the mountain in the lead.
The artillery fire continued, and the shock wave set off by the bombs, from time to time, the soldiers who were walking in front were overturned by the shock wave of the artillery fire and rolled down the hillside. When he reached the halfway point of the mountain, Shi Benrong made a gesture, and the whole team of soldiers prostrated on the ground. The shell exploded not far ahead, and the splashed stones hit the body, hurting and hurting.
"Boom!"
A deviating shell exploded in the ranks, and the figures of six or seven soldiers rose into the air, but the members of the death squad did not move, and these death squad members were all veterans who had participated in the Battle of Wuhan and had been soldiers for more than three years, and they already had rich battlefield experience.
As soon as the shelling stopped, Shi Benrong roared, jumped up from the ground, and rushed towards the mountain. The players behind him followed him and rushed upward.
When they rushed to a place that was only more than ten meters away from the mountain, some of the Japanese soldiers who had come to their senses rushed to the trench that had been blown up and attacked the oncoming people.
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