Chapter 297: Counterattack, Counterattack! above
readx; Just at the opportunity of the fierce battle in Taierzhuang, a huge encirclement has been formed!
And the spirit of the Chinese defenders in Taierzhuang who fought to the death also shocked the Yue army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After receiving the support of the 10th Wing and the Sakamoto Detachment one after another, although the army captured most of Taierzhuang, the Chinese defenders of Taierzhuang still stuck to the battlefield centered on Nanguan and refused to retreat!
From the ferocious offensive at the beginning, to the tug-of-war, to the brutal war of attrition, the army gained nothing. So much so that the 10th Wing of the Japanese Army had to lament in the "Battle Details" on April 2:
"A review of the battles of the Chinese defenders in Taierzhuang is worthy of Chiang Kai-shek's great trust in them. They held the skirmish trenches and all of them resisted stubbornly until the end. They were in the narrow stragglers' trenches, overlapping each other, fighting and dying, although they were enemies, and they were also lamented by their heroic appearance. During the battle, he was persuaded by an interpreter to surrender, but no one responded. The spirit of fighting to the sea of corpses and blood is not unique to our army. Ignoring others, being self-absorbed, and planning for our military sake should be cautious about this. ”
On April 3, I launched attacks on the various armies of Taierzhuang's counter-encirclement.
In addition to the regular army, the martial arts team formed by the Yudong Red Gun Society also sneaked across the canal that night, attacked Hanzhuang Station with broadswords and shuttle darts, and once attacked the station.
The army attacking Taierzhuang seems to have had a premonition that the end is coming, and on the night of April 3, 1938, the Taierzhuang General Headquarters.
"Yes, understood!" Gao Fei, who had been fighting for a long time, replied in a voice that was still full of anger: "Fight back!" Yes, counterattack and recapture the lost position in Taierzhuang! Yes, the artillery will fully assist our Taierzhuang garrison troops! Don't worry, Commander-in-Chief Sun, I still have the strength to fight back! Yes, and the power to fight back! ”
Slowly put down the phone, Gao Fei's face was determined. He glanced at the officers around him and said word by word:
"On the orders of Commander-in-Chief Sun of the 2nd Group Army, our reinforcements from all walks of life have approached Taierzhuang. Gather all the forces of Taierzhuang and fight back! ”
At 8 o'clock in the evening of April 3, 1938, the city defense troops who had been holding Taierzhuang for a long time, after learning that the great encirclement had been formed, shocked the army and launched a counterattack!
In the pillars of flames, scorching waves of air swept through the fragments of the human body and weapon parts flying in the air, and soon turned into a torrential rain and sprinkled on the ground, and the entire position was soon shrouded in smoke and dust.
The whole earth trembled, and with every explosion, the position was left with craters like a lunar crater.
From time to time, a grenade landed accurately on the position, and in the fireball of the 70-millimeter grenade, several officers and soldiers flew into the sky screaming, and the sharp shrapnel that covered the space cut the fragile human body into flesh and blood in an instant.
Flying shrapnel, human flesh and blood, and all kinds of debris formed an impermeable curtain that swept the entire position.
The officers and men lying on the ground all opened their mouths wide and trembled unconsciously, and all the officers and soldiers were bearing this endless bombardment with the greatest courage!
"! These little devils will do this! ”
Crown Five slammed the ground in anger, dropping bloody human parts in front of him from time to time.
"Yaga!" Fukuei Shinpei roared and slapped the captain of the attached infantry brigade, Takumi Nakano, more than ten times.
In the assault just now, due to the poor protection of the infantry, four Type 95 light tanks were blown up by the death squads of the Chinese defenders.
"Bang Bang!" Takumi Nakano, who was about to be beaten into a pig's head, shouted "Hello! Perhaps tired, Fukuei Zhenping stopped.
In Fukuei Zhenhei's murderous eyes, Takumi Nakano said in a vague voice, "Your Excellency, the infantry will definitely protect the tank next time!" ”
After the artillery fire began to extend, Furong Zhenping's Type 97 command chariot fired the sound of attacking artillery.
"Boom, boom!" Amid the volley of 37-mm tank guns, accompanied by more than 500 officers and men, 71 Type 95 light tanks roared and pounced on the Chinese defenders' positions filled with gunsmoke.
"The little devil is here!" At the roar of officers at all levels, the soldiers who were still alive pulled out all kinds of weapons from the mounds of flesh and blood!
"Demoman prepare!" Amid the roar of a major covered in blood, more than a hundred daredevils strapped to the first line of defense marched forward to the first line of defense under the sad gaze of the officers and soldiers.
Death squads can only be organized to block the advance of the tanks, and most of these death squads are lieutenant-level officers.
Amid the roar, more than 10 vehicles carrying the bodies of Chinese officers and soldiers killed in battle drove past the position, and more than 500 officers and men accompanying the battle spread out behind the tanks, and riflemen and light machine gunners entered the gap between the tanks.
With the slight movement of the telescope, Wang Guanwu saw that more than a hundred daredevils had crawled out of the position close to the ground.
"Attention, target devil infantry!" Officers of all ranks reminded the nervous soldiers.
The infantry of the Yue Army, who was covering the Type 95 tank, soon spotted the Chinese daredevils, and Takumi Nakano waved his command knife, "Shoot!" ”
More than 500 38 rifles and crooked-handled machine guns spit out bullets to form a barrage of bullets to cover the daredevils.
"Whoosh!" Locust-like bullets swept past the bodies of the daredevils, and in the muffled snort, blood mist rose from the bodies of the daredevils, and the still alive daredevils rolled into the crater.
"Fire!" With a roar, the rain of counter-bullets on the Chinese defense line also began to harvest the blood and lives of the infantry exposed to the tanks.
In the flash of blood, one by one the officers and soldiers fell to the ground screaming, and the infantry of the Yue army who received the death order did not seem to see the screaming rain of bullets, and firmly stepped on the corpses of their comrades.
The 37-mm tank guns that locked onto the firing points on the Chinese defense line continued to bombard, and a series of crazy Czech light guns and Mack heavy machine guns flew into the air under the direct fire of the Japanese tanks.
The 7.7 mm vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun, which was coaxial with the tank gun, also rolled a chain of fire into the Chinese defense line. The rain of bullets created a mist of blood on the defensive line, and the Chinese officers and soldiers who were desperately pulling the bolts of the Chinese rifles fell one by one in a pool of blood.
The Chinese defenders had the numerical superiority, the Chinese army had the superiority in firepower, and the officers and men of the Chinese army who were shooting with red eyes fell one by one.
Li Zhihua is an ordinary machine gunner of the 186th Regiment, and his experience in many bloody battles with the Yue army has made him quickly roll over to another position without finishing a magazine in one place.
Under Li Zhihua's elusive and precise point shots, one after another the officers and soldiers turned into lifeless corpses. However, the disappearance of other firing points one by one forced Li Zhihua to shoot in the same position for longer and longer periods of time.
When Li Zhihua, who had once again finished firing a magazine in one position, was about to transfer, the two Type 95 light tanks had already aimed their guns at the cunning firepower of the Chinese defense line.
"Boom!" In the sound of grenade ejections, two 37-mm grenades hit Li Zhihua's position almost simultaneously.
After the two explosions, Li Zhihua's flesh and blood were mixed with the dirt and sand, and turned into a rain of blood and fell to the ground.
When he saw nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers howling and rushing towards the bloody battlefield, Wang Guanwu, who commanded the mortars, gritted his teeth and gave the order to open fire.
The gunners, who knew what this meant, loaded the 60mm grenades into the canisters with trembling hands, and in the roar of the 32 grenades screamed and pounced on the 71 Type 95 light tanks that were raging on the first front.
The ammunition men in line stuffed 60-mm grenades into the barrels in turn, and then quickly left the firing position, and the counterattack fire of the army would fall at any time.
Four fifts of thirty-two 60-millimeter grenades screamed and exploded one after another among the clusters of Japanese tanks.
In the explosion, the clods of earth and gunpowder that rose into the air covered the cluster of the Type 95 light tanks, and the countless shrapnel slammed into the steel plates of the Type 95 light tanks, and sparks flew everywhere with a loud bang, and even some grenades fell directly on the heads of several Type 95 light tanks.
Although it could not completely destroy the target, it shook the Type 95 light tank violently, accompanied by a piercing metal impact, and the officers and men inside were dizzy, their ears numb, and their hearts were numb.
The more than 200 officers and men who were still alive were scattered on the ground by shrapnel, heads, steel helmets, broken knives, and bullets.
In the midst of the panic, the drivers of the Type 95 light tanks also made mistakes, some of them moved forward, some reversed, and the whole formation was in chaos.
Takumi Nakano, broken knee-high, howled and crawled through the pile of minced meat, trying to avoid the approaching tracks. "Poof!" With the cracking sound of the grits cracking, the multi-ton Type 95 light tank ran over the screaming Takumi Nakano, leaving only a bloody meatloaf on the ground.
"Yamamoto-kun, did you hear anything?" The commander, who vaguely heard the screaming outside, asked the gunner next to him strangely.
I didn't expect that there was such a fierce artillery fire on the [***] team, and in the howl of the commander of the annoyed artillery brigade, the artillery fire of the twenty-second infantry guns counterattacked and covered the mortar positions of the Chinese defenders.
In just one minute, more than 100 shells fell within a radius of less than 100 meters, and the continuous explosions and rolling waves of air carefully plowed the land from end to end.
When the artillery fire was transferred, the mortar positions were full of dense craters that were connected to each other, and the flesh and blood that fell from the air with the rain of blood were the more than 60 officers and men who were still holding on to the positions at the end, and the twisted 32 mortars fell into a pool of blood with green smoke.
A Venus crossed a parabola in the sky and fell into a bloodied crater with a "ding dong".
More than 50 daredevils who were suppressed by death in the crater swarmed up, and the Type 95 light tank of the Yue Army in the chaos found a figure in the smoke of gunpowder.
The 7.7mm vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun launched a frantic interception fire, and in the midst of the flying flesh, fifteen bloodied daredevils rushed to a distance of five meters.
"Concentrated blasting!" In the smoke of gunfire, a daredevil, who could vaguely see the rank of major, was the first to pull off the cluster grenade on his body.
The three of the daredevils pounced on the three Type 95 light tanks that were reversing frantically, and several tanks on the side were shooting rapidly, and the 7.7mm bullets collided with one tank after penetrating the bodies of the four daredevils.
"Yamamoto-kun, hurry up!" In two huge explosions in succession, the Type 95 light tank was shaken back by a meter by a huge shock wave.
The 12-millimeter steel armor was torn apart in an instant, and the kinetic energy that continued to transmit turned the armor on the inner wall of the tank into a deadly jet of metal, and the three tank soldiers were torn to pieces before they could scream with their mouths wide open in fear, and the splattered blood sizzled in the flames.
The other three groups of daredevils also disappeared into the world in the earth-shattering explosion, and the result of the simultaneous detonation of nearly 300 grenades was that all the grenades inside the three Type 95 light tanks were detonated, and the scorching shock wave broke through the 12 mm thick steel armor at once, and the fragments of the human body flew in the blood mist in the flames that burst out with an unstoppable momentum.
The crown five in the rear watched the battle with trembling hands and binoculars, and the officers and mortar gunners of the front line created surprise opportunities for the daredevils with their own sacrifices. The telescopes blurred with tears were densely packed with the corpses of Chinese officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers on the front line were almost completely lost.
The Type 95 light tank, which had retreated 20 meters, pressed hard against the shattered Chinese defense line in the roar of Furong Zhenping.
"Commander, what should I do?" Between the corpses, a young soldier covered in blood screamed anxiously at a colonel leaning on the corpse.
"Ahem, ahem!" In the violent cough, the colonel spat out clumps of blood and smiled miserably, "What else can I do!" Fight with the little devils! ”
"Wow", spat out the blood again, and the colonel, who saw the young soldier sobbing, roared angrily, "What are you crying for? Isn't it just death? ”
The young soldier wiped away his tears, "Commander, I'm not afraid of death!" I think my daughter, when I leave the house, she won't call me? At the end the young soldier burst into tears.
"Daughter?!" There was a sting in his heart, the colonel's resolute face trembled sharply, tears flowed down, and his daughter, who was still stumbling at home, also appeared in front of him.
"Boom!" The sound of a violent explosion woke the colonel, and the group's Type 95 light tanks rushed to a distance of twenty meters, and the gunfire of the counterattack in the defensive line was very sparse.
"Good brother, don't cry! Our daughters will remember us! The colonel struggled to his feet and roared, "Now, for the sake of my daughter, rush with me!" With that, he grabbed a bundle of grenades and rushed towards the tank cluster.
The young soldier was stunned and burst into tears, and immediately picked up a few grenades and said "For my daughter!" He also rushed forward in the roar.
The roar of "For the sake of my daughter" sounded everywhere on the first front, and more than a hundred officers and soldiers who were still alive launched a suicidal assault on the tank cluster with grenades tied together.
The red-eyed tank crews poured a storm of 30-millimeter grenades and 7.7-millimeter bullets into the formation of Chinese officers and soldiers who were dying to the death.
Nearly 1,000 officers and men of a large group of the 10th Infantry Wing, which had caught up, also shrouded the airtight barrage in the rain of artillery fire.
Without the slightest chance, the colonel, the young soldiers, and more than a hundred officers and soldiers fell on the charging route with a deep attachment to their daughters and families.
After the last soldier whose body was splattered with blood and fell with a roar of "For the sake of his daughter", the battlefield with the roar of guns and cannons miraculously fell silent.
"For my daughter!" The officers and soldiers who could understand Chinese muttered, "For my daughter!" More than a thousand Chinese officers and soldiers who were still alive muttered to themselves.
"Boom!" Amid the explosion of a 37-mm grenade, the fierce gunfire and artillery once again became the main theme of the battlefield. Silently chanting, "I want to go back to see my daughter alive!" The officers and soldiers of this said silently, "I can't let my daughter be bullied by devils!" The Chinese officers and soldiers have clung to their beliefs with their blood and lives.
When the second front was overwhelmed by the locust-like army, Crown Five, whose eyes were cracked, picked up his submachine gun and roared majestically, "Brothers, today, for the sake of our daughters and families, we will fight to the death!" ”
When the last line of defense "For the sake of our daughter, for the sake of our family, we fought to the death!" When the roar resounded in the sky, the officers and soldiers who had long been shocked by the spirit of this group of [***] people who were not afraid of death also went crazy, "Kill all the Chinese!" A young man howled beyond the cluster of 95 light tanks.
The completely exposed Shaozuo was shot into a sieve in an instant by the angry rain of bullets on the Chinese defense line. It's in Fukuei Mahei's "Crazy! Lunatic! In the midst of the howl, more officers and soldiers rushed through the tank cluster like crazy.
More than 400 officers and men on the third line of defense, which had no way out, launched a counterattack against the rising tide of the Japanese army under the leadership of Wang Guanwu.
The two Chinese troops with the heart of death slammed into each other, and the screams, snorts, tearing, and wheezing echoed in this land that should have been peaceful for a long time.
"Be careful!" At the sound of a voice, a figure threw Wang Guanwu, who had shot down three soldiers in a row, to the ground, and before Guanwu could react, a grenade exploded at close range
At this time, behind Wang Guanwu, an earth-shattering cry suddenly sounded:
"Counterattack! Counterattack! ”
Countless Chinese officers and soldiers rushed up, and countless battle flags flew in the night!
On the front banner, there are two dazzling characters:
"Tiger Ben"!
The military name is Tiger, and all battles are won!
Countless Chinese soldiers rushed up, and countless battle flags swore the military heart of the [***] people at this moment!
The crown sat on the ground
Counterattack? Counterattack!
It's been here, it's finally here. Taierzhuang, which was condensed with the blood of so many brothers, has finally waited for this moment!
On the night of April 3, 1938, Gao Fei, the commander-in-chief of Taierzhuang City Defense in China's Fifth Theater, finally invested all the troops he could use to launch a counteroffensive!
The sound of guns and cannons was loud in Taierzhuang, and in every trench, loyal Chinese soldiers jumped out; In every house and stronghold, there were loyal and brave Chinese soldiers.
The great counteroffensive begins on this night!
(To be continued)