Chapter 388: Dispatch of Troops
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In the afternoon, they changed the way they attacked. The infantry did not move for the time being, concentrated the mountain artillery and mortars to which his follow-up troops had been transferred, aimed at a trench or a pillbox of our army, and continued to bombard.
The planes that came to the aid of the sky also followed the bombardment according to the location where the shells fell, and waited until they thought that the fortifications were completely destroyed, and then concentrated bombing in another direction.
The soldiers of our army who were hidden in the fortifications were buried in the pile of rubble, and even the weapons and men were often sacrificed, and this style was not only the case in the position of the 151st Regiment, but also in other fronts.
The telephone line in Dagu Village was hindered and could not be heard clearly. The lock pillar and the political trainer Li Shuijin are very much looking forward to it. has made contact with the 151st Regiment, and Dagu Village has become a key point from the front line to Wuhan!
About half an hour, it turned out that the people who delivered the food had already returned. They arrived with three seriously wounded soldiers on the door panels, and a liaison soldier accompanied them back. That Matsumura this time, but let the enemy plane strafe him, killed him, and did not bring him down.
According to him, "In the past two hours, the enemy has only concentrated artillery fire and bombarded our pillboxes, and our pillboxes have been bombarded by artillery. Recently, the enemy has attacked twice, and some of the enemy has broken through to our position, and the company commander Feng Xiangdong resisted in the fortifications of the ruined trench, and there were two more colors on his body. When Platoon Commander Tang saw this, he took a reserve squad to command the operation on behalf of Company Commander Feng, and he thought that the position was destroyed, so he took this squad of brothers and a light machine gun, rushed into the enemy's position, and counterattacked two or three times. Every time I counterattacked, I pressed the enemy down. In the end, Tang Qiuquan was injured in his right hand, and he also fought with a rifle in his left hand, and the telephone had been crushed by the bunker, so there was no phone report. ”
When Li Shuijin heard this, he asked the lock post for instructions and made a temporary decision. It turned out that the transfer of front-line troops was determined by the supervisors. Suozhu nodded and said: "This company has really done its best, and soon the 151st regiment will have a core battle, so it's better for us to concentrate our forces." We can have the 6th Company hold this section of the established position. Hearing this, Li Shuijin hurriedly called a herald and turned the order around. As soon as he spoke, he called the division headquarters.
At this time, the enemy was already approaching Wuhan on three sides. The division commander Gao Fei, and then the intelligence from all sides, and the enemy's movements, are probably like this: Most of the enemy soldiers on the western road numbered more than 10,000 people, and the attack was very fierce, and the follow-up troops also followed to the west one after another. Judging from this situation, it is obvious that the enemy will immediately attack Wuhan.
Gao Fei transferred the artillery that claimed to be a regiment owed two battalions, as well as the anti-aircraft unit that claimed to be a company, but was actually only one platoon, to Wuhan City, and divided it into two gates, east and west. The infantry, which has three regimental numbers, is also concentrated on the application.
The whole of Wuhan is a backwater array that is put to death and then reborn. This is something that anyone with military common sense knows. Goofy is naturally ripe in the chest.
At this time, the phone rang, and it was Li Shuijin, the political training officer of the Reading Battalion, who called: "After the enemy attacked for a day and a night, and there was no progress at all, they changed their methods, concentrated all their artillery fire on the front line, and bombarded our fortifications one by one, in turn. However, after the destruction of our fortifications, the enemy switched to a dense charge. Twenty or thirty people in a team, the back team followed by a team, no matter how much the people in front suffered, the back still followed. Now we flank with machine guns, which can barely be contained. But the enemy will continue to use this method, our casualties are too great, please advise on the method. ”
Ma Debi listened and forwarded the words to the division commander. Gao Fei thought for a moment and said: "Resist behind the fortifications, this method can use the enemy's tactics of dense charge, called the wave array, and use mortars to destroy him." In addition, it can be assisted with a machine gun nest. ”
When he said this, he was putting aside the one-fifty-thousandth map that was folded in his hand, he got up from the small bed, picked up the paper cigarette case and matchbox on the small table next to him, calmly lit a cigarette and smoked it, puffed out a puff of smoke, and said with a smile: "Ma Debi, we don't say that there is no way, no matter what problem comes, we will solve him smoothly." ”
Complementing his smiling smile was the distant burst of heavy cannon and machine-gun fire. And the posture of this commander Ma Debi is just in contrast to the division commander, his lofty body, dark face, and two thick eyebrows, always with a calm look. He picked up the phone and said in a Sichuan dialect: "It doesn't matter, everything can be done, the enemy's dense charge is a wave formation, use mortars to destroy him, you can use the machine gun nest to cooperate with this operation." Oh! Got it, that's it. ”
It turned out that in front of the two armies, the telephone lines used by the enemy and us could not necessarily be removed with the movement of the troops, so that each side could hang the telephones on the remaining lines and eavesdrop on each other. When instructing operations on the phone, as long as the troops below can understand it, they should be as vague as possible.
What Ma Debi said, others don't understand. But Li Shuijin, who answered the phone, knew what it meant. The two mortars transferred from the city had already arrived at the front line in the morning, and he immediately called the herald to inform the artillery platoon commander to move the artillery to the side of the road in Dagu Village and set up a position behind the small hillside.
At the same time, he smiled at the lock post and said, "Now there is a new thing, to build a bird's nest fortification in the tree." Originally, the division commander instructed that if the enemy took advantage of the uneven terrain to attack, we could choose tall trees and build machine gun nests on them. In this way, we must see the enemy's actions clearly. As for ourselves, as long as we are well camouflaged, it is not easy for the enemy to find out. But we haven't tried this method. ”
The lock pillar nodded and said, "It's not difficult, I'll go find this kind of suitable place, and I can call a group of sappers to follow me." He said go, got up and walked out of the bunker.
The engineer squad was waiting for orders, but when he was ordered by the battalion commander, he took the men with his brothers and went with the lock posts. The lock post selected a few high ground to observe the forest near Dagu Village. Even if there is a clump of trees growing in some places, it is not too short, that is, not enough to shelter it.
After observing for a long time, there is a small village in the northwest of Yangong Temple, and there is a holly tree standing in the air, which is about a mile away. In the vicinity of this holly tree, there are also some miscellaneous forests. He thought it was quite agreeable, and immediately ran there. There are only three or five houses here, all of them are closed, and there is no movement. That big tree grows against the wall of people's courtyards. The underneath was covered with evergreen trees, and it was eerie, and even the foot of the wall of the house on the ground was covered with moss.
In order to understand the horizon of the tree, he first climbed up the wall, and even more so he picked up the small table-thick pole from the wall, tore the branches and leaves, and climbed straight up to the treetops. The middle of the tree is where the evergreen leaves are thick, and it is not easy to see other companions in the same tree. Then he parted the branches and leaves in front of him and looked outside. Just looking at the side of Gaowanpo, his position is very clearly in front of him.
The enemy's artillery positions shot out white smoke one after another, and the arrows that looked at the white smoke shot at our position one after another, and on our position, there was also a bush of dust and smoke on the left and one on the right, and dust and smoke poured into the air. Behind this smoke and dust, a few figures can also be revealed in the gaps, and rush towards my stragglers. On this flank, however, the enemy was twenty or thirty in groups, advancing one after the other, and in the skirmishers in front of us, it seemed that they had discovered that this was the enemy who was holding us back and consuming me, so that in our position, although the enemy approached, there was no movement at all.
The pillar was looking a little distracted, and with a bang, a white smoke shot out at the enemy near the high bay slope, which was a rare occurrence in our small arms position. This is recognizable by the firing of mortar shells. The trajectory made a whirring sound in the air. At this moment, a puff of smoke and dust rose from the first enemy formation that saw the wave-like offensive. The lock pillar felt happier than if he bought a lottery ticket and won the prize, standing in the middle of the tree fork, clapping his hands, and couldn't help but shout hello!
He forgot that he was standing on a tree branch high in the sky, clapping his hands and planting the man forward. There was a horizontal branch in front of Xingxi, blocking him, and his body was lying on the horizontal branch, and he quickly grabbed the branch with both hands, and before his body could stand still, the mortar over there was booming again.
When I opened my eyes, it was another cannonball, and it fell in the wave of attack. Although there is only this one mortar here, it is rare to have four or five guns in a row, all of which are in the enemy's attacking force. His team of wave attacks, the target is very large, the cannonball is fired, and it is always around there.
The enemy, perhaps always expecting that there would be no artillery in our position, paid little attention to the matter, and therefore fired seven or eight shells in succession, causing the densely advancing troops to stir quite a little. Some of the first two teams stood upright and flashed to each side, each looking for shelter. In this way, the target was found, and a row of bullets was already firing from the machine-gun emplacements on our side. Those who exposed their targets fell one after another. Although this is a one-shot shot, it really plays a role in liaison.
Lockpost grabbed the branch with both hands, nodded his head incessantly, and muttered to himself again and again: "This is good, very good! ”
The engineer squad leader in the back shouted and asked, "Battalion commander, are we going to build fortifications here?" ”
As he spoke, he had climbed halfway up to the middle of the tree. Only then did the lock pillar come to his senses, nodded and said, "You come up, I'll tell you how to start." Finally, he repeated: "Look how well our troops are fighting!" ”
The engineer squad leader climbed up to the tree, hid in the middle of the branches and leaves, and looked ahead, just as the machine guns were in pursuit from our position. I happened to see a group of figures moving, and immediately fell down.
So the spectators were so excited that he called some of the brothers to go up to the tree, and cut them with axes, and saws with wooden saws, and set up a frame for a false building at the place of the big fork of the tree.
The fork of the tree was cut into a bolt, and the sections of wood were embedded or nailed in the fork. These segments of the tree were found by sappers on the ground and hung up the tree with ropes.
There is no shortage of dead branches in the village, and the bottom of this false building is flattened, and then the large and small branches are supplied from the ground, which imitates the form of a bird's nest, and follows the posture of the big branches, stacked layer by layer, and makes a gap in the spear in the aspect of attacking the enemy obliquely, and from a distance, this is clearly a big bird's nest.
Fearing that some of the signs would be revealed, he cut down a lot of the branches of a big tree, with their trunks and leaves, and piled them up around the nest. Their work was very fast, and in less than an hour, the Bird's Nest was completed. At this time, the sound of guns and cannons in the west was certainly more and more intense, and even the guns and cannons in the Loess Mountains in the north were also fierce and tight. Standing on this big tree and hearing where the machine gun is and where the mortar is sounding very clear.
Although Suozhu saw his army winning victory after victory, he also saw the pressure of the enemy increase again and again, and if the enemy from the north rushed through the flank of the northwestern suburbs from the Loess Mountain, it would be completely exposed. The position in the western suburbs is too prominent.
With such a pimple in his heart, he felt that he had to ask the division commander for instructions, and at that time, he hurriedly returned to the battalion headquarters with the sappers, picked up the telephone, and talked to the division commander Gao Fei.
Gao Fei said on the phone: "I completely understand the situation in Dagu Village, you command very well, and the brothers are also very loyal and brave, so I can really praise it." At once you go to the permanent camp, which is now under your command, and you will arrive before six o'clock in the afternoon. ”
Suozhu just wanted to report the situation in the northern suburbs to the division commander in detail, and he didn't want to hold back a dumb riddle in his heart, so as soon as he picked up the telephone, he let people guess. Listening to the tone of the division commander on the phone, he still calmly spoke on the phone as usual, which symbolizes that the division commander did not feel any danger in his mind.
In this way, I will be much more courageous. After putting down the phone, because he told Li Shuijin that he had a new mission to leave here, he discussed with him about the battle plan of the entire Dagu Village for a while, which called Cui Si to follow and go east from Dagu Village Avenue. Arrive at Wangjia Bridge, and then follow the embankment of a small river and turn to the northern suburbs.
The topography here is different from that of the West Road, which is completely plain, with rivers of different sizes and lengths, dividing the plain into countless areas. On both sides of these large and small rivers, small embankments are built between the rivers according to the degree of water volume during the heavy water. I opened my eyes on the high embankment, but I saw that on the horizon, the causeway was full of spider webs and drew circles of size.
Some of the causeway was planted with trees, and some of it was bare. But every is in front of the pavement. Between the two, there are also large stone bridges and wooden plank bridges along the river. In the paddy fields under the embankment, rice stumps that have dried up several inches long are neatly arranged in the fields. From a distance, its dense layers of points and the winding embankment form a beautiful picture. In this beautiful picture, there are scattered villages, with forked woods, scattered all over the place. Although the branches had lost their leaves, the branches of its size were so dense that it seemed to be pouring out a thin cloud of smoke on the top of the tree.
For a while, the weather was always sunny and rainy, forming a gray canopy. The colors up and down are quite similar to Mi Xiangyang's light ink paintings. Suozhu was thinking in his heart again, what a beautiful lake and mountain! If in the Taiping years, this kind of place of eating fish and rice rice, how can the common people live happily in the winter when they have enough grain.
(To be continued)