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Chapter 1270 Fire King Kong

In the mournful whistling, more than a dozen Kawasaki Type 93 single-fire light blast planes swept by from a low altitude and dropped a string of bombs, at this time a Chinese Air Force A26 fighter arrived at the tail, the nose of the plane continuously sprayed tongues of fire, two Japanese bombers exploded in volley, and the rest of the Kawasaki fighters quickly scattered. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

High in the air, Chinese and Japanese fighter planes of various types were entangled with each other, and from time to time planes were shot, and thick smoke hung on their buttocks and planted on the ground. However, due to the superiority of the Japanese fighters in numbers, the fighters of the Central Air Force gradually ran out of fighters and began to retreat southward in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the threat was eliminated, the Japanese light bombers made a comeback and continued to pour bombs downward, and the Nankou Station in the south of Juyongguan in the northeast of Beiping was constantly trembling in the smoke of gunpowder, and the dense sound of gunfire drowned out all the screams and groans, and the three-kilometer-long railway and roadbed were already covered with corpses.

"Kill!"

In the loud shouting of killing, nearly 1,000 ** soldiers, under the leadership of their respective company platoon commanders, braved the bombs of the planes and the artillery shells flying from the rear of the Japanese positions on the opposite side, and rushed to the Japanese positions fearlessly in the huge explosions.

In a carefully constructed bunker behind the Japanese position, Suzuki Shigeyasu, the commander of the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Infantry with a command knife on his waist, stood in front of the observation post, his eyes flashed with bloodthirsty light, and when the squadron rushed to more than 400 meters in front of the position, he gently waved his white-gloved hand, and the staff officer standing on the side immediately shouted, "Shoot!" Suddenly, the entire Japanese defense line resounded with the characteristic sound of a dense Type 38 rifle.

The Japanese soldiers' marksmanship was accurate and ruthless, almost every shot would take the life of a Chinese officer and soldier, and the mortars and grenadiers of the infantry wing guarding the front position tilted all kinds of bombs to the front of the position as if they were not paying for money, and the Chinese soldiers in the charge fell in rows.

However, with a breath of blood, there were still five or six hundred warriors who rushed to the front of the Japanese position. At this time, the light and heavy machine guns that the Japanese had endured for a long time opened fire in unison, forming a dense network of fire, and with the accurate and perverted strikes of the Type 38 rifles, the Chinese officers and men fell like wheat harvesting, and at the last 50 meters or so, there was no longer a standing figure.

"Yo Xi!"

For the backward tactics of the squadron, Suzuki Shigeyasu was relieved, and when he saw that the front of the position suddenly became empty, he nodded with satisfaction, took off his gloves, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the drops of sweat oozing from his forehead.

On the land of more than 1,000 meters in the middle of the defense line of the Chinese and Japanese troops, the ashes of the dead grass after burning were flying all over the sky, and the trees were rapidly withering and burning under the long-term heat flow, like a blazing torch. On the scorched earth full of craters, the officers and men with mutilated limbs struggled and rolled in vain, and soon attracted the fire of the Japanese Type 38 rifle, and they fell to death in an instant, and the blood that flowed stained the charred and blackened gravel, and the whole battlefield was like hell.

The third charge launched by the 14th Army of the squadron was repulsed again, and thousands of corpses of Chinese officers and soldiers were left on the ground hundreds of meters in front of the Japanese position.

In the bunker at 3.5 kilometers behind the position, Wei Lihuang, commander of the 14th Army, silently watched the battlefield ahead through a telescope, feeling extremely heavy. The strong combat effectiveness and technical and tactical literacy displayed by the 11th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had already suffered more than half of the casualties, made him extremely angry, but he was helpless.

In the direction of Changling in the north, after two and a half hours of fierce fighting, the 13th Army of Tang Enbo, which suddenly joined the battle group, had successfully defeated the 7th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army that had rushed to the battle, and achieved an excellent record of destroying more than 3,000 enemies, but the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, which galloped into the battlefield from Huairou at high speed, stabilized its position, resisted the attack launched by the 13th Army on the left flank, successfully met the remnants of the 7th Mixed Brigade that had retreated in a hurry, and reconnected with the 11th Independent Infantry Brigade on the front line of Nankou. With the support of superior air fighters, in the face of the brave attack of the five divisions of the 13th Army and the 14th Army, he was not afraid at all, and seemed to be completely indifferent to the three-sided encirclement of the squadron twice his size.

"Military seat, it's not a way to fight like this, the consumption of shells is too great, the inventory is almost empty, and the Air Force has also withdrawn, so it's not okay to hold on like this!"

Amid the rumbling artillery, Bai Zhaocong, the former tactical instructor of the Whampoa Military Academy and the current chief of staff of the 14th Army, who had given a lecture to An Yi, approached Wei Lihuang and shouted loudly.

"It's time to make up your mind!" Wei Lihuang saw the Japanese army's rock-like defensive line, shook his head slightly, put down his binoculars, turned to Bai Zhaocong, and continued: "Tell Li Mo'an and Liu Huan that the last charge will be launched in three minutes, and only by defeating the Japanese army in front can the current stalemate be broken!" Tell them that this is the last charge, concentrate all the light and heavy firepower, and all division and brigade commanders must take the lead and advance with indomitable momentum and step on the nodes of the shells...... Transfer the direct guard brigade to the middle lane for me, and the success or failure is here! ”

Bai Zhaocong's heart sank, but seeing that Wei Lihuang had made up his mind, he had to nod his head and say "yes", and then went to arrange the arrangement.

Soon, a large number of ** officers and soldiers gathered on the forward position again, most of them were lying on the position, looking at the Japanese defense line angrily, the commander of the 10th Division Li Mo'an, and the commander of the 83rd Division Liu Jian summoned the generals and colonels of each brigade and regiment to carefully advise on specific attack tactics.

A quarter of an hour later, the loud military horns sounded one after another, the blue sky and the red military flag was waving in the wind, and the roar shook the sky again, and Li Mo'an, who had killed the red-eyed, personally led the 8,000 soldiers of the 10th Division, with the support of the light and heavy machine guns and mountain artillery and field artillery of the department, and under the cover of the sharpshooters who were dispatched, the roar was like thunder, and they launched a decisive charge.

Liu Huan, who had been warned by Wei Lihuang twice, also led the surviving 5,300 officers and men of the 83rd Division to jump out of cover and frantically rush towards the enemy under the full artillery support of the heavy artillery regiment of the 14th Army.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the military flag is flying, the wind and clouds change color, because it has endured too much artillery fire and light and heavy machine gun blows for a time, suppressed so that the Japanese army can not shoot freely, how can a short distance of more than 1,000 meters withstand the rapid assault of the Chinese ** people who are fighting to the death?

Soon, the Japanese defense line was broken, and countless soldiers who regarded death as if they were at home rushed through the smoke and crashed into the enemy line like a tide, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat finally began.

At this time, the Japanese bombers had already returned, and the Japanese fighters chasing the Chinese fighters returned to the battlefield again, but at this time, they could only circle in the sky in vain, looking down at the extremely chaotic fighting scene on the ground, helpless.

Just when the Japanese planes were constantly circling and adjusting, trying to find the target of the attack, the 22 Chinese Air Force planes in the southwestern sky formed five formations, and once again hit at high speed, almost one of them broke up the Japanese plane group and shot down three Japanese planes, one of which exploded in the air like fireworks, and the sound shook all over the field, and the other two tail planes emitted billowing smoke, plunging headlong into the earth with a loud sound of killing.

The contest between China and Japan has once again entered a white-hot stage of life and death, and the entire battlefield has been fought from the sky to the ground, until the sky is dark, and the sun and moon are dark.

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At 11:10 a.m., the headquarters of the Tianjin garrison army.

"Report to the general, Major General Sakai of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade sent an urgent telegram that more than half of the 7th and 11th brigades had suffered casualties, and more than 40,000 men of the 13th and 14th armies of China had unexpectedly launched a general attack on the whole front, and under the sharp turn of the war situation, the second, fifth, and ninth brigades of the aviation regiment were once again entangled by more than 40 advanced fighters of the China Air Force, and the losses had already exceeded half, and most of the fighters had been running out of fuel due to the long time they had been in the air. General Sakai asked for tactical guidance. Hashimoto, chief of staff of the North China Garrison Army, said that it was extremely dry.

Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji's face was gloomy, and his eyes were slightly closed: "Where has the Ishikawa Brigade arrived at the moment?" ”

"About eleven kilometers east of Huairou, there are still more than two hours away from the Nankou battlefield...... Commander, whether to fight or retreat must be decided as soon as possible, if the situation in North China takes a sharp turn for the worse because of the shattering of all the three brigades, the base camp will be held accountable. Ozawa, the head of the operations section, bowed his head and replied.

Seeing that Kiyoji Kazuki was still looking at the map, Hashimoto thought about it and strode forward, standing upright: "General, please give an order, let Sakai and them retreat to the north immediately, in addition, the riverside brigade on the line from Fengtai to Wanping must also be withdrawn as soon as possible, otherwise they will soon be surrounded by the squadron." ”

"Hmm...... The 1st, 7th, and 11th Brigades were ordered to retreat north and join up with the reinforced Ishikawa Brigade as soon as possible. In addition, he ordered the riverside Dazuo to immediately shrink the defensive line, gather forces and retreat in an orderly manner, and strive to break through before the 37th Division and the Independent Division of the Chinese Army cut off the road east of Wanping! Kazuki Kiyoji greedily looked at several strategic points on the map, and finally made up his mind - at this time, no matter what, no matter what, once the fighter plane is delayed, the three brigades in the north of Beiping will be wiped out, not to mention, more than 17,000 people of the riverside garrison brigade adapted from the original North China garrison army will also fall into the encirclement of several times the number of their own squadron.

It's a pity that Kazuki Kiyoji's decision is still a little late! At this time, the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Riverside Brigade stationed in Changxindian had already been violently attacked by 36 howitzers of the Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Anjia Army, and the saturated shelling lasted for 10 minutes, destroying all the Japanese barracks along the Changxindian Railway.

The tremendous destructive force produced by the dense artillery shells far exceeded the expectations of the Japanese officers and men, and one after another seemingly incomparably strong fortifications rose into the air and were instantly torn apart, and the solid warehouses made of concrete also collapsed and overturned in the huge explosion, and more than 300 Japanese officers and soldiers flew in the steaming dust.

The sound of artillery has not stopped, the loud charge and the earth-shattering shouts of killing have suddenly sounded, the 8,000 soldiers of the new 2nd Brigade of the independent division easily occupied Changxindian with just one charge, and the new 3rd Brigade has tacitly passed around the town, chasing the more than 100 Japanese troops who fled all the way to the rout, and quickly killed Fengtai.

The 10,000 officers and men of the 37th Division, under the personal command of Feng Zhi'an, commander of the 77th Army, penetrated directly into the west of Wanping City, and its vanguard had already exchanged fierce fire with the Japanese troops on the positions outside the city, but the follow-up troops ignored it, quickly bypassed from two kilometers to the west, and flew north in the smoke of the explosion of shells fired by the Japanese army.

At the same time, the Independent Brigade of the Independent Division, under the command of Zhang Lingyun, chief of staff of the 77th Army, and Lu Xiong, commander of the Independent Brigade, rushed to the predetermined position east of Wanping, and soon encountered the First Wing of the Riverside Brigade, which had been ordered to withdraw from Wanping County.

Before the Japanese troops who had fled eastward had time to form a battle formation, dozens of mortar shells had already fallen into the enemy group with a sharp whistling sound. Just when the Japanese were suddenly attacked and the formation was in chaos, the storm of machine-gun bullets then tilted into the crowd of Japanese soldiers who were looking for a place to return fire on the spot, forcing the 1st Wing, which had no fortifications to rely on, to abandon its attempt to flee eastward and retreat to Wanping City like a tide.

What puzzled the Japanese was that the regiments of the Independent Brigade not only did not take advantage of the victory to launch a pursuit, but took the initiative to retreat three kilometers to the east, and more than 8,000 officers and men quickly arranged in a north-south line, took out the engineering shovels they carried with them, and built a blocking position on the spot, apparently intending to cut off the retreat of the riverside brigade in one fell swoop.

In the direction of Nanyuan, the 132nd Division of the 77th Army, under the leadership of the new major general Yu Changhai, with full of anger and grief, launched a fierce attack on the second wing of the Japanese riverside brigade.

An infantry brigade, a cavalry squadron, and an engineer squadron of the Japanese army in Fengtai had lost the opportunity to retreat back to Wanping under the fierce attack of the two brigades of the independent division, and the fierce battle on the front line of Fengtai began. The Japanese army occupies favorable terrain and has an extremely excellent quality of individual soldiers, and is often able to rely on its powerful basic skills, tactics, and combat effectiveness to deal with opponents several times its own, but this time it encountered two brigades of the Independent Division of the Anjia Army, whose marksmanship was similar to its own, whose firepower was more ferocious than its own, and whose number of people were several times more than its own, and finally it was no longer in a rut, and the positions were captured everywhere, and the strongholds were uprooted one by one, and it was only a matter of time before they saw defeat.

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At one o'clock at noon, after receiving the early warning, Tang Enbo's 14th Army, which had won a great victory at Nankou, immediately turned around and headed north, successfully occupied Changping City, and confronted the 21st Independent Brigade of the Japanese army Ishikawa Koichi who had rushed to reinforce it. Under the calm command of Wei Lihuang, Li Mo'an led the 1st Division of the 10th Division to quickly go north and make a move to bypass the flank of the Ishikawa Brigade.

Seeing that the general trend was gone, Ishikawa Koichi did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered a retreat to the north, and escaped from another ambush circle carefully set up by Wei Lihuang and Tang Enbo without danger.

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Baoding, headquarters of the Fifth Army Corps.

"Report to the Commander, the great victory at Nanguchi-"

The excited voice of Fang Pengxiang, the chief of operations, shook the huge house of the command headquarters, and the applause and cheers suddenly rang out, and the generals and colonels of the Fifth Army Headquarters and the generals and colonels directly under An Yi around him were overjoyed and hugged each other, and their excitement was even greater than when they received the victory in the Battle of Langfang.

An Yi smiled with a smile on his face, took the detailed battle report sent by Tang Enbo, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the heart that had been hanging before could only be let go.

The excellent record of annihilating more than 7,500 enemies and capturing more than 300 Japanese prisoners in the Nankou Battle is undoubtedly the best encouragement and encouragement for the whole army in the whole country, and the great significance of this battle lies in the fact that as long as we unite as one, the squadron outside the Anjia Army can also win the victory in the war against Japan, and this defeat completely shattered the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army and dealt a great blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. What is particularly important is that with the recovery of Changping City, Beiping City, which has important symbolic and political significance, was finally safely controlled by the squadron.

Hu Jialin comfortably lit a cigarette, stood up again, came to the large map of Pingjin, and set his eyes on the direction of Huairou where the Japanese army fled on the North Road.

Hu Jialin knew very well in his heart that the 1st, 7th, and 11th brigades of the Japanese army, which still had more than 17,000 officers and men, would soon join forces with the powerful Ishikawa Brigade, and the line from Nankou to Shunyi would not be long before the flames of war would be ignited again, and the situation still did not allow for optimism.

However, Hu Jialin no longer has anything to worry about at this moment, as long as the independent division and the 77th Army join forces to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the riverside brigade that fled to Wanping County, the deep front south and west of Beiping will be completely connected and firmly in the hands of Feng Zhi'an's 77th Army. After that, the squadron could support the Nankou battlefield at any time through the convenient road and railway network, and the independent division could also draw its hands and quickly drive to the eastern front, effectively supporting the eastern front battlefield in Langfang commanded by Lu Yixuan.

"The north and west sides of Beiping are fighting so lively, I don't know what is happening on the front line in Langfang?" An Yi came to Hu Jialin's side and asked lightly.

"In addition to the four rounds of air raids, there is no large-scale build-up of Japanese troops at present, and it seems that the Japanese Fifth Division and the Kwantung Army's three independent mixed brigades have not yet taken the initiative to attack, but the 17th and 40th Divisions have dismantled the seven-kilometer-long railroad tracks overnight and day out, and it is estimated that all of them have been used to strengthen the defensive positions on the front line. At this time, the Pingjin Railway was completely paralyzed, and even if the Japanese army wanted to transfer troops, it was not as convenient and fast as before. Hu Jialin replied proudly.

An Yi nodded with great satisfaction: "Good job, it seems that I can go to Jinghai with confidence." ”

"Before you leave, do you need to call the committee and the military commission to submit a war report?" Hu Jialin asked with a smile.

"There is no need for this, even if General Wei Lihuang of the 14th Army does not call the commission in time, Tang Enbo will report to Nanjing as soon as possible. As for the battle report from Fengtai to Wanping, it has to be reported by General Feng Zhi'an, no matter how he says it, he has full command. An Yi replied with a smile.

"Huh! I almost forgot if you didn't mention it. ”

Hu Jialin immediately remembered Tang Enbo's style over the years, and was extremely impressed by this guy who always reported his merits to Chiang Kai-shek before friendly troops. Tang Enbo was still an ordinary military instructor at the Central Military Academy in 28, and it was precisely in the previous few years of the anti-communist operations that he constantly took shortcuts to make meritorious contributions to the old Chiang Kai-shek and rose step by step.

An Yi didn't talk about it again, bent down to pick up the baton, and pointed to Tangshan in the upper right corner of the map: "What I'm worried about is that the Japanese Twentieth Division and the 109th Division have made a comeback, and now the Seventeenth Army has become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, and the next target of the Japanese army's key attack is likely to be on the line from Langfang to Wuqing, therefore, the Seventeenth Army will be under great pressure, and the friendly forces currently stationed on the front line of Shijiazhuang should quickly contact and strive to be transferred to the flank of the Seventeenth Army as soon as possible. But you can't take a passive defense on all fronts because of this, and you need to worry more about that.

"After I arrive in Jinghai, I will negotiate well with the two generals Wan Fulin and Pang Bingxun, and after rest and replenishment, they have basically recovered their combat strength, and I will strive to transfer Shang Zhen's 32nd Army or one or two divisions under Liu Zhi's command, once the Japanese army gathers forces to attack the line from Langfang to Wuqing, we will go from Jinghai to the Machang line, and once again storm Tianjin to the north, how to fight a tug-of-war. At present, the Japanese army has begun to use its brains on the front line of Songhu, and many divisions are loading ships to Shanghai, and my mentor, Mr. Wen Bai, wants to strike first, and has obtained the consent of the commission and General Bai, we have to help them well. ”

"Got it!" Hu Jialin said with a smile: "I wonder how Nanjing will react at this moment?" ”

"Don't guess, turn on the radio and you can hear the cheers of the crooked-mouthed beauty of the Central News Agency."

"Haha......"