Chapter 406: Gunsmoke Spreads

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"it!" Xue Yue, who looked at himself as elegant, actually broke out in a low voice.

The "great news" broadcast said: "The Imperial Army reinforced Shahe Town near Ruichang in Jiangxi Province with four wings. Teragaku, Fujioka, and Ota have surrounded the enemy army of 100,000 people at the western foot of Lushan Mountain! ”

"Immediately order," Xue Yue said, "the 60th Division, the 4th Army, and the 64th Army of the Shahe Army of the 9th Army quickly retreat!" Strictly order the 74th Army to resolutely resist the detour of the enemy and cover the retreat of our Wu (Qiwei) group! ”

Xue Yue heard that Yu Ji's troops had lost Wangjiaban, Egongbao, and Zuoyunling in a row, and asked to retreat, and said sternly into the microphone: "If the troops on the front line of Shahe Town can't be withdrawn, I want you to take full responsibility!" Do you dare? ”

It is said that Yu Jishi was Chiang Kai-shek's nephew. Whether it was or not, his surname who was born with a cleft lip and was originally clumsy in tongue warfare, had the courage to argue with Xue Yue at this time. He said that the 51st Division had suffered heavy casualties, and that his 74th Army alone could not withstand the attack of the enemy's main division.

"What did you say?" Xue Yue waved his arms and gritted his teeth and roared, "If you retreat again, I will kill you!" ”

Zhao Zili, who was standing on the side, was the old department of the Northwest Army, and he was well aware of the intricacies within the [***] team. He looked at Xue Yue in horror, thinking to himself what happened to this "tiger boy"? He gestured to Xue Yue, meaning not to get angry, but Xue Yue ignored it at all, and just roared into the microphone.

Xue Yue was a little anxious. Three months ago, in the battle of eastern Henan, he used nearly 200,000 main forces to encircle the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan in a corner of Sanyiji in Kaocheng. Of course, Xue Yue knew that only the chairman of the committee and his cronies dared to disobey the military order and disobey the law, so he continued to yell on the phone: "I will do what I say this time!" I'll kill you, and then let the chairman kill me!" ”

He "Bang! "Buckle the microphone.

Yu Jishi is not a person who can slip like Huang Jie. The "one. 28 "In the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, as the division commander, he personally led his troops to launch a counteroffensive against the enemy, resulting in a bullet in the abdomen and a perforated stomach. He clutched his stomach and shouted until he conquered the enemy's position. If it weren't for the German doctor's means, he would have died long ago. At this moment, when he heard that the enemy in front of him was the 9th Division, his abdomen suddenly spasmed, and a sense of revenge and revenge arose spontaneously.

Whether it was a fierce military order or a personal vendetta, Yu Jishi issued an order: "Hold the original position with the 51st Division, and after the 58th Division arrives, cooperate to attack the enemy in front of you!" ”

This order made Wang Yaowu, who had devoted himself to studying "Jigong", stunned for a moment. It seems that it is time to fight hard, Wang Yaowu groaned slightly, looked up, and the familiar terrain made him unconsciously startled: Why is this ghost place again? 11 years ago, as the battalion commander, he led his troops to intercept He Long's team participating in the Nanchang Uprising here, and killed the corpses all over the green mountains, and the water was red. He hadn't been timid at that time, so how could he be frightened at this time?

Of course not. Wang Yaowu conveyed the orders of the military department to Zhou Zhidao, Brigade Commander Tang Shenghai, and regiment commanders Chen Chuanjun, Zhang Guoyou, and Zhang Lingfu.

The offensive of the Chinese army began, and the ultra-low-altitude bombing planes flew close to the treetops, and one incendiary bomb after another exploded, and the mountains within a radius of several dozen miles were in a sea of fire. The green mountains and green waters in the morning are black and boundless in a blink of an eye. From time to time there was the howl of beasts in the smoke and fire, and it sounded like the roar of a man. A hare that rushed out of the fire actually got into the legs of Chen Lianlai, the sergeant squad leader of the 1st Battalion of the 306th Regiment, and trembled

Because of the scorching heat and the flying charcoal, the two armies fighting were all fierce with black faces and white teeth. At that time, Wu Pimple, a 12-year-old boy from Fenglin Village, hid in a cave and heard about the fighting on Minshan Mountain. "What a fight! I've been fighting for two days and two nights! I hid in the hole and didn't dare to come out, when I heard the bayonet of Ping Pong."

From Egongbao, Xiaominshan to Zhangjiaping, the 51st Division resisted step by step, with more than 160 officers and more than 2,000 soldiers killed and wounded, but it still could not stop Maruyama's fierce attack. Finally, the 58th Division arrived. However, the planes and artillery of the Japanese army bombed even more violently. The 58th Division fought and retreated, and suffered more than 70 officers and more than 800 soldiers in one day. Xue Yue ordered the 4th Army, which had been withdrawn from Shahe, and Huang Wei's 18th Army on the western line of Minshan to intercept and kill. Until this moment, Maruyama Masao, who came like a frenzy, was finally blocked on the front line of Mahuiling, and the "great news" of Radio Tokyo only created a carnival of self-deception for a while.

This ending is very regrettable to Maruyama. He realized that he would not achieve much success if he continued to fight, so he handed over the territory he had laid over to Matsuura, and helplessly shook his fat head brain with white hair like snow, and led the headquarters with more than 1,000 casualties and hatred, and hatefully stepped back to Ruichang to return to the establishment.

Xue Yue was much more annoyed by the loss of the Minshan defense line than Maruyama. He felt that this had enabled the enemy's 106th Division to advance more than 20 kilometers and that it would have a great deal of potential to echo the 101st Division southeast of Lushan, and he deeply felt that the future operations would increase many difficulties. The root cause of this passive situation, he thought that it was due to the ineffective operation of the 74th Army in Yu Jishi.

"Nanxun will not punish a senior general who neglects his duties, I don't think I am sure!" When he ordered the headquarters to draft a review document for the operation, he asked the Military Commission to severely punish Yu Jishi.

Di Xingyu, a fourth-term student of Huangpu and chief of staff of a major general, said to Zhao Zili, a senior staff member and chief of the operations section of the major general who was in charge of writing: "There are also improprieties in our use of troops one by one, and we cannot blame all others. Now that Wu Qiwei's group army has been completely withdrawn, let's forget it! Zhao Zili also thought so, and interceded with Xue Yue together, and Xue Yue had no choice but to give up.

After Shiro Inaba's 6th Division captured Huangmei, more than 20 days passed in the blink of an eye. According to Inaba's inchworm tactics, every time you fight for a period of time, you will rest for a while. But these days, it's hard for the Inaba Division to have a minute of peace.

After Chiang Kai-shek inspected Songbu, Li Zongren ordered the Fifth Theater to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, especially on the line of the Qiantai Highway at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain, where Wei Yunsong's 31st Army and Zhang Ganzhi's 7th Army attacked and harassed at night, threatening Inaba's rear supply line. Han Deqin of the 24th Group Army did not make much move, and Chiang Kai-shek sent a special telegram on August 17 ordering him to "cut off traffic" and "enter and exit the riverbank." Inaba felt that his troops were insufficient, and with Okamura's consent, he established a riverside supply line at Koike on the other side of the Jiujiang River, and abandoned the Qiantai Road, so that he was able to gather his troops and begin to implement the battle order issued by the Central China Dispatch Army and the 11th Army on August 22.

Inaba attacked along the Huangmei and Guangji highways with the 36th Brigade of Ushijima Man, and the 11th Brigade of Katsuji Imamura assisted along the south of the road, both of which went hand in hand. With the 23rd Wing as the vanguard and the 13th Wing as the backbone, the Ox Brigade rushed to Meichuan Town, the county seat of Guangji County, on the morning of 30 August, when the sky was full of haze and mountains and rivers were overcast.

The chariots and horses are whistling, the dust is flying and the fog is obstructed, and the places where they pass can really be described as miserable.

After the 6th Division had the evil carnival in Nanjing, they were alienated like man-devouring beasts one by one, and they no longer had the slightest surname. Captain Tanaka Gunyoshi, squadron leader of the 45th Wing of the Ushijima Brigade, had already cut off 300 Chinese heads with his "Sukehiro" saber, so he became the "brave" representative of the 6th Division. The survivors of the Qiantai Road are still trembling when they mention this dark time.

After the end of the First World War, more than 100 people from more than 30 families who did not flee were killed. Shi Jingfu, an octogenarian who now lives on Xiajie, witnessed the tragic scene of the Chen family's wife stripped naked and then hanged on a tree beside the road, and 16 young people were hacked to death on the river beach on Shangjie; Yan Gong'an's Yu Songfa's mother was 8 months pregnant, and the fetus was taken out by caesarean section and played with a bayonet; Lujialong's mother and daughter were put together at the same time and killed in turn. The old man He Ziliang said that the Jiang family of three, the male was killed at the entrance of the village, the wife was destroyed and died, the two-year-old daughter was fed to a wolf dog and 157 women were trampled in Song County, and none of the women in the city who escaped escaped the ravages of wild beasts. The old lady Pan Lianzhi of Gongnong Street recalled that four women, Chen, Li, Qi, and Jiang, were tortured to death by dozens of devils, and Jiang Daimei, who was only 12 years old, began to cry amazingly, but then there was no sound and died, and the devils still vented their animal surnames on the child one by one

Survivors Zhou Shaonan and Xie Bao never understood, "Why do you insist on not treating Chinese people as people, and they don't look like individuals?" ”

Not only Zhou and Xie, but this is a historical problem that the Chinese nation and its own nation have not yet solved but should be answered. Ushijima Mitsuru and his gods of "Yasukuni" in southern Kyushu, including the two Kagoshima natives Noda Iwa and Toshiaki Mukai, who are "famous" all over the world for their killing contests, if they are a kind of spiritual representative worthy of remembrance, either this eternally sleeping "lion" deserves to be slaughtered, or demons such as Noda, Mukai, and Tanaka do not care about the atomic bomb of justice and the solemn judgment at all.

"There is no need to do ideological work to fight devils."

This is the unanimous opinion of the whole army!

Wang Changxun, a student of the 11th Huangpu period and a staff officer of the Fifth Theater Army-Civilian Liaison Staff, has traveled all over the battlefields of Guangji, and in his eyes, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Theater's [***] team, "Except for individual cadres, it can be said that everyone is a hero!" Can't the Sichuan army fight? In that place of Jieling, it has been fighting for more than a month! The Northwest Army, the big knife of Liu Ruming's troops, which is now seen by the elderly villagers, cut down the devils all over the mountain! The Qianjun, He Shaozhou's troops, are all straw sandals, bitter, they can fight! Guangxi Army, 'Guangxi Monkey', even better"

"Guangxi Monkey" is Qin Lianfang's 84th Army. Although it was a newly formed unit of the militia group, when it was marching from Guangxi to the Wuhan battlefield, military training was carried out all the way, and the soldiers quickly mastered the basic skills of assassination, bomb throwing, and shooting. Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi always had different feelings for their hometown children, and they talked with the military commander many times, in addition to asking about personnel arrangements, they encouraged them to work hard to kill the enemy. Li and Bai were quite in the limelight on the battlefield, and they were inseparable from their own soldiers.

Wing Commander Sano Tora Taisa, the commander of the 23rd Wing of the Ushijima Manchurian Brigade Regiment, who was heading west along the highway, was five short in stature, with a horizontal face, riding a high-headed horse with dark clouds and snow, and the corners of his mouth were unstoppably pulled downward, a kind of arrogant attitude of the general leader of the underworld who was majestic and unstoppable.

Planes came out of the clouds and flew low, and the pilots extended their hands to greet the troops marching on the ground. Guns rang out from the south, and it seemed that a fierce battle had been raged. Sano turned his head to look at the rows of high ridges not far away, the heavy curves between heaven and earth, like ancient magma solidified there. He smiled coldly and looked aheadβ€”and at that moment, a blazing fire flashed on the opposite mountain beam, and black clouds grew. For a moment, the mountain was drowned in black fog by the belated sound of explosions. Sano drew his sword, raised it high, and reined in the horse. In the upright roar of the beast, he let out a long howl like a monster, and the troops surged away like a turbid wave.

625 Heights. Ushijima had already recognized it, and if he didn't take it, it wouldn't work; Qin Lianfang, commander of the 84th Army, and Ling Qianxi, commander of the 189th Division, also recognized it, and the rows of trenches reached the top of the mountain layer by layer. Ling Zhuxi put on a posture of fighting for every inch of land, and wanted the Dayangmiao Pass to become a glutton devouring the invaders.

The planes ploughed the ground and bombarded the hillside, and the three charges in the afternoon were all fired back by the "Guangxi monkeys" with intensive firepower. As night fell, the attack stopped.

When did it start to rain lightly in the sky, Ling Qianxi just felt that it was already muddy and watery, and his clothes were soaked. He had been lying on his stomach in the bushes outside the bunker on the hill, staring at the battlefield in two wars. "Brothers, what a fight!" In the light rain and darkness of the night, Ling Qianxi walked around the position, encouraging the "Guangxi monkeys" who killed the enemy on the front line, and explained to the regiment commanders Xie Zhendong, Huang Boming, and Bai Mianchu one by one: "The enemy may sneak attack tonight, you must be responsible at all levels, and there must be no negligence!" ”

The rain and the night are dark and deep, and I can't see my fingers. The "Guangxi monkeys" crouched with guns in the muddy trenches, just like the ancient relics of the deep-sea ditch.

There was a sound at the bottom of the mountain, and there was a rumbling sound like a heavenly sound

"The devil is comingβ€”" This terrifying scream was terrifying in the silent barren mountain and rainy night. In an instant, the sound of gunfire, stabbing sounds, and grenade explosions 625 was boiling.

The voice of the army gradually thinned out and became more and more distant. When the dawn of the East first appeared, the voice of the army had completely disappeared.

seemed to have exhausted all his passion to complete a heroic movement that touched the heavens and the earth and wept ghosts and gods, and Ling Zhuxi only felt dizzy and almost fell.

Ushijima is full of the saying: stealing chickens does not make a handful of rice.

Inaba calculated that there would be a tough battle on the Huangguang Highway, but he never thought that the Imamura Brigade, which relied on strong assists, went to Dafengzhai of Zhenggong Tower, and actually encountered a strong opponent: Liu Ruming's 68th Army.

Regardless of how heroic Yan Zhao has been since ancient times, these soldiers who fell because of their hometown have an unforgettable hatred for Yue Kou. When the Nakano Yingguang United, who were in a disarray, but left traces of wild beasts in the local area, attacked Dafeng Village, they found that the fire on this hill was even more fierce than that of the Beacon Volcano.

Imamura learned to be obedient, gave full play to its industrial advantages, and airplanes and artillery covered Dafeng Village again and again. In the flames of the explosion, Nakano occupied half of the mountain beam of Dafengzhai.

"Kick the devil down!" Liu Ruming ordered Li Jintian, commander of the 119th Division.

Li Jintian organized death squads.

"Me!"

"I'm one!"

"I'm one!"

Announce a name, pat your chest violently, and then undress.

More than 400 daredevils, each holding a gleaming white machete. With a bare back, a chest held up, and a solemn expression. Liu Ruming's 68th soldier has a lot of weapons - big knives. His broadsword team was famous as early as the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, and the newspaper once exclaimed: "The divine power of Liu Ruming's broadsword team has almost covered up all the modern sophisticated weapons!" ”

In the midst of the darkness of heaven and earth, the broadsword team touched the enemy formation. Approaching the roar of the valley, a golden spine roared and rolled like a raging thunder fire in the bushes, and came to the sky.

The descendants of the pirates of Southern Kyushu, who are proud of their samurai family, think that hand-to-hand combat is their own skill, and now they can have a good time. Instead, they stopped shooting, and one by one they laughed wildly, and took off their shirts, waiting to show off their skills.

Pieces of broadswords cut out lightning-like white light, and a pair of bronze figures were particularly dazzling in the dark green, and the flesh and blood were flying, and the victory or defeat was immediate: more than 300 southern Kyushu samurai lay on the hillside and the martial luck was broken. The broadsword team rushed to kill, and the army threw away their armor and retreated.

Imamura's personality couldn't be more despicable, and he ordered the poison gas to be used on the Dafengzhai and the positions of the squadron. For a time, all a battalion of the defenders on Dafengzhai Mountain were killed. More than 100 wounded officers and soldiers in the Huangyan Mountain position who had not had time to transfer fell into the hands of the enemy. The "samurai" who were cut down by the broadsword team were quite energetic at this time, and forced the wounded with bayonets. The wounded stared at the wolves, either with a sarcastic smile or a look of anger in their eyes. "Porphyry!" A bayonet. "Who surrendered?" No. "Porphyry!" There were more than 100 wounded with a bayonet, and no one said a word, only the blood flowed loudly, seeping into this rich and barren land

Ushijima attacked the 625 heights in the west of Lingqi for four days and four nights, climbing up one trench after another, climbing one level and two retreats, but he could not climb to the top. In desperation, he had to bombard the 188th Division with planes and artillery on the one hand, and attack the position of the 188th Division on the other.

The same "Guangxi monkey", the 188th Division held for two days, and then reported that it could not hold on, and before Qin Lianfang sent a reserve, the 188th Division retreated.

Although the division commander Liu Ren has a Lu University education, he has always been engaged in education work, and the first time he led his troops to fight, he was so frightened by the planes and artillery of the army that he hid in the headquarters and did not dare to show his head!

(To be continued)