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Chapter 1325: Blood and Fire (1)

In fact, the news of the defeat of the entire army of the First Army reported by Liu Zhi to the Military Commission was not very accurate, as a number of generals under Feng Yuxiang, after defecting to Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Lianzhong was naturally not incompetent, he understood that if the first army was not left to resolutely resist and let the whole army rout, then the first army could really be wiped out in the endless pursuit of the Japanese army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

You must know that the Japanese army's ability to continue fighting and marching is outstanding, and with the assistance of mechanization, its combat mobility ability has been multiplied, and in the face of extremely tired divisions of the First Army, as long as they want, they can continue the battle until they are completely annihilated. In view of this, Sun Lianzhong reluctantly left the instructor directly under the corps formed by the main forces of his divisions in Yutian County, resolutely plugging the gap, as a support for the whole corps to retreat westward, and winning precious respite for the collection and rectification of the scattered troops of the whole corps.

When the first army encountered an air raid before, in order to avoid the aerial bombs that fell densely on the position like hail, the formation of each division was quickly chaotic, and when the Japanese tanks appeared from afar, raised the dust in the sky, and slowly forced towards the return to the hometown river, the soldiers who were originally tired and wanted to die did not know how to suddenly recover their energy, got up from the ground lifelessly, and ran wildly in the direction of Yutian County, thousands of soldiers used all their strength, and the only thought was to escape from this terrible place.

However, it is also fortunate that the soldiers have no fighting spirit, so as to avoid the disaster of killing, the army rigidly follows the regulations, always likes to carry out a round of artillery fire coverage before the offensive is launched, and when the Japanese shells fall on the beachhead on the north bank of the Huixiang River, there are only officers and soldiers who are killed and injured by the planes on the position, and most of the soldiers who survived are out of the scope of the artillery fire, and in the sound of the Japanese artillery bombardment, they pour into the south gate of Yutian County like a tide, through the city, and run towards the west gate.

Because the Japanese army still had a desire to preserve the places they once ruled, they did not bomb the county town with aerial bombs. The dense group of fighters flew over Yutian County in the sky above Yutian County and flew westward like locusts, and soon there were explosions in the distance, and I don't know which part of the men and horses were killed, and the soldiers of the command center of Sun Lianzhong's army and the instructor of a division stationed in the county town fortunately did not suffer losses.

Seeing that the divisions were unable to form an army, Sun Lianzhong could not be retracted at all, and after several attempts failed, he also gave up the idea of organizing the team on the spot to fight the Japanese army, and immediately told the instructor to divide a brigade as the rear team of the whole corps, desperately resist, and must buy as much respite time as possible for the corps.

"Commander, the strength of a brigade is too small, please let me stay with the instructor! It is still unknown how many troops the Japanese army has invested in the area around Yutian, and if only one brigade is left, I don't know how long it will be able to hold out, and if it is crushed at the first touch, it will not achieve the goal of stopping the enemy at all. Xiao Lun (Bai Ming Yi Zi) promised that as long as there was a breath, not a single soldier of the Japanese army would be released through Yutian County. "Major General Bai Mingyi, the instructor and teacher, decided to stay in person and vowed to live and die with Yutian County.

Bai Mingyi graduated from Baoding Military Academy, and later crossed to the east, and was admitted to the Army University. After returning to China after completing his studies, he served as an instructor at the Nanjing Central Military Academy, during which he was very interested in the lectures of the chief instructor An Yi.

In July 1932, when Sun Lianzhong's unit was encircling and suppressing the Red Army in Jiangxi, Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the 26th Route Army, Dong Zhentang, division commander, and brigade commanders Ji Zhentong and Huang Zhongyue, took Sun Lianzhong back to Nanjing for medical treatment, and led 17,000 officers and soldiers to stage the famous Ningdu Uprising. Chiang Kai-shek was very shocked by such a major incident under Sun Lianzhong's jurisdiction, and immediately allocated funds to rebuild the 26th Route Army. Bai Mingyi has always won Sun Lianzhong's respect because of his military training and excellent strategy.

Although Sun Lianzhong was a little reluctant in his heart, in the face of the grim situation in front of him, only Bai Mingyi could take on this important task among the generals in the army, so after a little silence, he agreed to Bai Mingyi's request. Patted him on the shoulder encouragingly:

"Brother Xiao, I won't say anything grateful, the situation is critical, the Japanese artillery fire has gradually thinned out, and the next step will definitely be to attack Yutian County with all its might. Although I don't know what method you use to block the Japanese attack, I hope you can buy at least a day for the legion, and more importantly, I hope to see you again, take care! ”

Bai Mingyi nodded, gave a solemn military salute to Sun Lianzhong, and turned to leave.

Sun Lianzhong looked at Bai Ming Yi Wei'an's figure, gritted his teeth, and immediately ordered the corps headquarters to evacuate the county seat, take a "big leopard" off-road vehicle and more than ten military trucks belonging to the corps headquarters, and rush to the Shangzhuang line, which is more than ten kilometers west of Yutian County, before the rout, and use the narrow mountain road to gather the troops and set up a blocking position on the spot.

At present, the artillery regiment directly under the First Army Corps is stranded on the front line of Baishan Village, and Sun Lianzhong still does not know whether the artillery regiment has suffered a catastrophe of annihilation in the wave of air raids just now, and if it survives, it must transfer the artillery to Shangzhuang as soon as possible and arrange it on the hills more than 200 meters high on both sides of the position to build an air defense bunker and assist the troops in defense.

Sun Lianzhong understood that in order to prevent the entire army from being compressed into living space, it was necessary to set up layers of blocking positions to delay the Japanese offensive.

Sun Lianzhong handed over all the inventory of the arms warehouse of the Legion Headquarters to the instructor, and then hurriedly evacuated from the west gate of Yutian County.

At eleven o'clock, the first tank unit crossed the Huixiang River with the help of the engineers, covered a large number of Japanese troops, and killed the city of Yutian County, seeing that the battle flag on the city wall was still flying high, and the squadron set up a position at the mouth of the city wall, and waited for the battlement, the Japanese commander was crazy, and he could no longer care whether he would destroy the city he had worked so hard to build, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the south gate of Yutian County!

"Boom, boom—"

The large-caliber heavy artillery placed in the rear of the Japanese army was the first to attack! The entire county was immediately enveloped in a violent explosion and thick smoke, and the frightened people dragged their families and fled to the west of the city. On the city heads on both sides of the south gate, pieces of stumps and broken arms flew out from time to time, and fragments of broken clothes flew everywhere.

After the five-minute artillery bombardment was over, the Japanese army immediately sent out its trump card, and the Japanese tank group rushed towards the city gate with great vigour, and soon the thick city gate covered with iron sheet was shattered under the direct fire of the tank guns. Japanese tanks lined up in a long queue, crossed the stone bridge over the moat, and rushed towards the gate hole.

Just when the Japanese tanks drilled into the city gate hole, suddenly several crisp cannon sounds came, and the tanks led by them were attacked by the anti-artillery shells of the 37th Battle, and they caught fire and burned in the violent explosion, blocking the direction of the brigade's tanks at once. The two Japanese soldiers in the tank hurriedly pushed open the roof and climbed out, and before their feet touched the ground, they were hit by a dense rain of bullets from the city ***, and fell to the ground and died.

Just when the commander of the tank unit was surprised that the squadron was equipped with anti-tank weapons, the eight-meter-long stone bridge at the city gate suddenly exploded violently, and the thick gunpowder smoke that rose into the sky was mixed with broken stones, and it was shot in all directions.

"Eight Tooth Road!"

The commander of the Japanese army, who was commanding the operation in the rear, saw all this through the telescope, and he almost went crazy, and what he thought was an easy pursuit and annihilation battle actually ran into a hard nail, which made the commander of the Japanese division who boasted about Haikou in front of his colleagues furious, and immediately decided to devote more troops to attack.

Soon, the Japanese army sent its mountain artillery and field artillery units to a place more than 1,000 meters away from the city wall, attacking with all their might, countless shells smashed on the city wall one after another, and the huge explosive force blew the stones on the outside of the wall in all directions, peeling off layer by layer, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled.

Among them, there were several direct mountain cannons aimed at the gatehouse on the city gate, and soon the antique cornices and arches and bulging battlements were blown apart by the cannonballs, and the flames were raging, converging into thick smoke and steaming, mixed with pieces of blood and flesh, swaying in all directions.

In this round of intensive shelling, a large number of sacrifices appeared on the city walls again!

At the same time, countless shells flew over the city wall and flew into the county town, the flames soared into the sky, the thunder rumbled, and the bungalows after being hit immediately collapsed and burned, and a large number of two-story, three-story, and even four-story buildings built by the Japanese puppet government with great energy in the past few years were also blown up in the shelling, and they were crumbling.

Bai Mingyi, who was directing the battle in the four-story government building built by the Japanese puppet government, saw that the wall of the South Gate was crumbling, and knew that something was wrong, and was about to order the troops to withdraw, when the Japanese artillery fire actually stopped.

"Kill, give!"

The Japanese commander brandished his command knife, and suddenly countless Japanese soldiers mixed with sappers holding siege ladders howled and surged up. Rushing to the side of the moat, the sappers quickly put the ladder horizontally, and a large number of Japanese troops crossed the moat and rushed under the city wall, waiting for the sappers to continue to build siege ladders.

The Japanese troops at the city gate rushed frantically towards the city through the gap in the tanks.

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At the same time, the Tianqi Temple in the west of Yanjiao Town, the headquarters of the Fifth Army Corps.

In front of the large map on the wall on one side of the war room, the colonel of the Fifth Army surrounded the map and carefully examined it, and Hu Jialin calmly analyzed the current battle situation while comparing the information, and the joy he felt when he received the message that the commander had been found safely was now gone.

Although this wave of sudden attacks by the Japanese army had been expected by Hu Jialin and the generals of the Fifth Army Corps, they did not expect that the losses would be so large, especially the huge losses of the Central Air Force, which was very surprising.

In the last air battle in Baoding, the radar unit suffered heavy losses, and now there is only one radar vehicle left in the radar regiment, and the radar vehicle that is urgently dispatched to the north has not yet arrived, and the surveillance of the airspace over North China has been greatly weakened, but the airspace of the airports is still under the protection of the radar.

The moment the Japanese fighter group appeared on the radar electronic screen, the information was fed back to the airfields in time, and if they took off in time to meet or evade the situation, the current situation would definitely not occur, and all the generals and colonels had a suspicion in their hearts: something was wrong in some links.

"There's nothing to say, there must be a traitor who deliberately intercepted or deliberately delayed the delivery of the telegram, in fact, the commander's accident has already sounded the alarm for us, but it has not attracted enough attention from us, this is a tragic lesson!"

Lu Yixuan made a comparison on the map, casually threw down the short pencil tip in his hand, and came to a conclusion without hesitation.

"In ancient times, there were Qin Hui, Wu Sangui, now there are Qi Xieyuan, Wang Kemin, and there will be no shortage of latecomers in the future. If I am asked to find out these people, I will have to pick up the skin and cramp, and our nation will have to kill this unhealthy trend! ”

Zhang Chengzhu's face was angry and helpless.

"Don't be angry, in fact, not only China, but all countries in the world have spies, *** Isn't there also a daily rape?"

Huang Zhi comforted: "Yesterday afternoon, didn't the part of the Japanese army that strongly requested to join the squadron, especially the Anjia Army, be transported to Baoding by train for reorganization?" In the future, they will become a useful help in dealing with the Japanese army, and now our corps headquarters still has a special team of about 200 people, these are all talents who are 'progressive in thinking and outstanding in performance'! ”

"That's right, these people are very eager to make meritorious contributions, and they themselves understand that only by completely defeating the Japanese army can they return to their hometown as heroes!"

Director of Intelligence Liu Zongyu shook his head: "Sometimes it's really difficult to understand the thinking of *** people, they worship the strong and the winners, and disdain the weak and losers, the more you pretend to be pitiful, the more he thinks you are a bully, the more he wants to beat you, but if you beat him, he thinks you are worth following...... The Einsatzgruppen followed the action of the *** division that played the vanguard, they were very familiar with the Japanese army's marching formation, and with their help, we will soon obtain the number of the Japanese army unit arranged in Bangjun Town. ”

Hu Jialin sighed a little: "There is really nothing to say about the organizational ability of *** people, such a big stroke at once, a front of thousands of kilometers from south to north, launched at the same time, and I have nothing in front of the military, this cannot but be said to be a miracle." According to the monitoring of today's Japanese mobilization by our high-altitude reconnaissance planes, the Japanese army has hoarded at least 10 divisions and regiments on the eastern Hebei front, four to six divisions on the Chahar front, and at least three to five divisions in Tianjin. ”

"So we have to move fast!"

Huang Zhi pointed to the map: "If the Japanese army strengthens the defense of the Bangjun line, the fighters we rescued from the Second Army will be lost." Fortunately, the Japanese army did not expect that, in order to respond to our action of going deep into eastern Hebei to mobilize the people's propaganda team to the south, our unit had already advanced to Yanjiao, which was only more than 30 kilometers away from Bangjun Town, and our unit could launch an attack on the enemy of Bangjun in a few hours. ”

Operational staff officer Wen Junhao suggested: "With the firepower of our department, there should be no problem in penetrating the defense line of the Japanese army in Bangjun Town, but the next trouble is not small, we have to withstand the impact of at least more than 100,000 defeated soldiers, if there is no solid defense line, I am worried that the Japanese army will break through in one fell swoop, it is said that the second division of General Zheng Dongguo, who was in charge of the defense of Bangjun Town, was inexplicably defeated." ”

Hu Jialin nodded: "Yes, this must be taken into account, and we have transferred manpower from various divisions to the propaganda team to mobilize the masses to evacuate in the eastern Hebei region, now that the situation is so chaotic, how can we do our best to protect them?" Do you have any good suggestions? ”

"Now Ying Wu in Baoding I don't know how anxious, in order to avoid the central government's infiltration of our army, the first of the first department is selected by us to send to the central school for further study and then return to the ministry, it can be said that the propaganda team is Ying Wu trained by the cadres, if it is lost all of a sudden, the blow to the first department is very big!" Zhang Chengzhu said worriedly.

"The situation is not necessarily so bad, now the Japanese army is bent on annihilating the Second Army, and most of the troops are concentrated in towns and transportation arteries, and we can't take care of the propaganda team that goes deep into the countryside for a while, and it is not a big problem to withdraw safely, and now I just don't know if their work has achieved results." Huang Zhi calmly analyzed.

Lu Yixuan said suddenly: "In my opinion, there is no need for Suikang's 170th Division to follow the main force, they are an expanded unit of the engineer regiment directly under the army, and they are good at building trenches." According to the current situation, the area east of Yanjiao is not guarded by major rivers and the terrain is not advantageous, and it is not wise to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese mechanized troops and superior forces under such circumstances, and I think that the 170th Division stationed in the rear of the Yanjiao Gong Guard should be immediately transferred across the Chaobai River, relying on the natural danger of the Chaobai River, and rejecting the Japanese army on the ground east of the Chaobai River. As long as we stabilize our position, the war in Pingjin will not deteriorate sharply! ”

Hu Jialin carefully looked at the situation along the Chaobai River on the map, and decisively ordered: "Not only the 170th Division, but also the engineer battalions of the rest of the divisions except the *** Division must all be transferred to the area west of the Chaobai River to build fortifications, and the local people must also be mobilized to strive to build the trenches all the way to the canal west of the Xianghe River, and connect them with the North Canal and Qinglong River defense lines built by our army before." We must seize all the time, build permanent fortifications, do not be afraid to consume more steel and cement, such a scale of decisive battle, build an additional anti-artillery hole, can save the lives of many soldiers! ”

The chief of operations, Wen Junhao, quickly recorded Hu Jialin's order and turned to leave.

Qin Zhenbang, director of the communications department, hurriedly entered: "Commander, the headquarters of the *** division has been stationed in Sanhe County, and the new brigade that came out of the front line defeated a regiment of the puppet army that was rushing to repair the fortifications on the front line of Tiejialing. ”

"Oh? The Japanese army moved so fast, it has already taken the defense line to Tiejialing, it is estimated that several security brigades directly under the theater stationed in Liujiading, Xitazhuang and other places in the south have fled, it seems that this time our 17th Army is going to fight alone! ”

Lu Yixuan's face changed, and he quickly marked the movements of the Japanese army on the map, touched his chin and whispered.

Hu Jialin immediately ordered: "Let the 17th and 40th Divisions speed up the march, send the reconnaissance troops as far away as possible, discover the Japanese air strike force in advance, and pay attention to covert protection." The anti-aircraft artillery battalions of each division cheered me up, and if there was no way to avoid it, give me a hard *** mother! ”

"Yes!"

Qin Zhenbang took the order and left.