readx; At this time, the periphery of Wuhan finally ushered in the army!

After the 13th Division and the 109th Wing of the 16th Division captured Luoshan, the troops pointed directly to Diantu Mountain, ten miles to the east, and joined the Yue army attacking Diantu Mountain, attacking Wuhan in a roundabout way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe direction of Diantu Mountain has become a barrier to the west of Wuhan at this time.

On 22 August, the enemy troops in the direction of the Diantushan position suddenly increased by 3,000 to 4,000 men, concentrated more than 10 large and small artillery pieces, and continuously bombarded the defensive fortifications of the 170 th Regiment; after the artillery array, they adopted the tactics of a whole platoon of a whole company of dense wave charges to launch a fierce attack on our position; the 2nd Battalion of the 170 th Regiment, under the leadership of Battalion Commander Yuan, waged a desperate struggle with the enemy, repeatedly fighting, and the whole battalion suffered nearly two-thirds of the casualties of more than 500 people, but it still held its position and remained unmoved.

Parallel to the Diantu Mountain position is the Loess Mountain position, which is located to the north of Diantu Mountain, and there is only a small river between the two positions. Loess Mountain guards the northwest gate of Wuhan, but it belongs to the defense area of the first battalion of the 151st Regiment of Gao Fei.

The enemy's 16th Division was originally the main attack force in Wuhan arranged by King Minoru of the East Pavilion, so since the start of the war, King Minoru of the East Castle has avoided this division from confronting [***] head-on in order to preserve the strength of this division, until this moment, the enemy's main force is fully revealed, and he intends to take Wuhan in one fell swoop with the momentum of Guanhong.

The enemy's 16th Division was divided into two routes at this time, and its 120th Wing mainly attacked Diantu Mountain, preparing to take it and attack the west gate of Wuhan; The 109th Wing from Luoshan was the elite division of this division, responsible for attacking the Loess Mountain north of Diantu Mountain, and then attacking the north gate of Wuhan. At this time, the enemy's 109th Wing became a frontal enemy of the 151st Regiment of the 26th Division.

Guarding the position in the Loess Mountain was the first battalion of the 151st Regiment, that is, the battalion commanded by Rong Guang.

Gao Fei's three battalions, in addition to the first battalion of Rongguang arranged in the Loess Mountain position, Liu Sihai's second battalion guarded the North Gate position, and Ma Wang's third battalion was mobile at any time. At this time, the first battalion first engaged the enemy, and the battle was extremely fierce, and Goofy called, and Glory promised him that he would hold on to the end and not let the enemy advance half a step. However, listening to the rumbling artillery in the northwest direction, Gao Fei was still a little relieved, and handed over the defense of the north gate to Liu Sihai and Ma Wang, and he rushed to Loess Mountain with the guard Wei Lengzi and a staff officer, and he wanted to personally command the retreat of the enemy.

Less than ten miles west of the north gate, you can reach the Loess Mountain.

Before reaching the Loess Mountain, Gao Fei and his party were shaken by the enemy's fierce artillery fire, and there were still a lot of shells falling on his side along the way, which was full of dangers, which really made Wei Lengzi sweat.

Goofy, however, knew that once the enemy's artillery fire stopped, it would mean the beginning of a large-scale enemy charge.

When Gao Fei came to the headquarters of the first battalion of Loess Mountain, the enemy's shelling had stopped, and Rong Guang could not explain much to him, so he led the soldiers of the first battalion to drill out of the strong cement fortifications, and sure enough, the enemy began to attack.

On the hill, a battalion occupied an excellent position, four mortars were mounted on the top of the hill, and they bombarded the devils who climbed up the mountain road, and the shells exploded in the middle of the dense enemy, and in the blink of an eye, the enemy was in the hundreds.

"This is their fourth charge!" Rong Guang told Gao Fei: "Our fortifications have also been bombed by them four times, hehe, if they come two more times, these fortifications will not be used!" ”

"How many casualties do you have?" This is a matter of great concern to Goofy.

While commanding the companies to defend the position, Rong Guang said: "The casualties are not too big, hehe, five hundred people, there are more than 100 casualties, but, do you see, the enemy has left more corpses here, three or four times as many as us!" ”

Gao Fei stood behind a boulder on the top of the mountain, raised his binoculars, and looked at the enemy charging slope on the opposite side, and sure enough, as Rong Guang said, the enemy's corpses were lying there horizontally, there were more than three or four hundred bodies, and at this time, the number of enemies also made him frown, there should be thousands of people on the charging surface alone, more than twice the number of a battalion.

"Division, if only artillery came over to fight!" The way that glory also endures.

Gao Fei nodded, but said helplessly: "Our artillery battalion has gone to defend the west, and the enemy on their side is two wings, with two or three thousand people, which is much more than your side, and their casualties are much more serious than yours." ”

"I know!" Rong Guang said: "I talked to their battalion commander Yuan on the phone, we are their flank, and I also know that if they can't withstand it, our position will be over, so I didn't ask for artillery support." ”

Gao Fei thought for a while and said, "I also have a heavy artillery platoon left, and there are three heavy guns, which can be transferred!" As he spoke, he turned back to the battalion headquarters and personally called the 151st Regiment headquarters to mobilize the only heavy artillery platoon of the 151st Regiment at this time.

On the Loess Mountain position, the enemy's charge was already close in front of him, and seeing that they were already within the range of machine gun fire, Glory gave the order to fire.

The armament of the Goofy Regiment was the best among the [***] units, and the Glorious First Battalion had three infantry companies, a heavy machine gun company, and a mortar platoon. It stands to reason that an infantry company has nine light machine guns, a heavy machine gun company has six heavy machine guns, and a mortar platoon has two eighty-two-mm mortars. But because Gao Fei's regiment was somewhat special, because of his personal means and relationships, his infantry company had twelve light machine guns, the heavy machine gun company had nine heavy machine guns, and the mortar platoon had four mortars, and the firepower was the most powerful in the 26th Division.

At this time, although the mortars had lost the ability to attack at close range, the powerful firepower network composed of nine heavy machine guns and thirty-six light machine guns blocked the entire enemy's charging surface. Even some devils who rushed through the fire net were aimed at by their rifles and died before they could reach the trenches.

Gao Fei's soldiers have two specialties that are incomparable to other divisions, first of all, the marksmanship is generally higher than that of other regiments, and many people can compete with devils, which are all trained by Gao Fei himself; The second is the super ability to fight stabs, and in this regard, I have to thank that Matsushita Yasujiro. On the whole, Gao Fei's soldiers are on par with these devil soldiers, but if it is a single soldier, there may be a significant gap.

The first wave of the enemy was knocked down the mountain, leaving only a pile of corpses, but the second wave rushed up immediately, and at this time, the heavy artillery platoon arrived, and the three heavy artillery shells poured out from the position of [***] from six miles away, and exploded in the crowd of enemies, only to see flesh and blood flying, crying and crying together, and the corpses of devils on the battlefield suddenly increased.

Gao Fei looked at the map of Wuhan with a deep face, at this time, the enemy had appeared in the west, east and north of Wuhan, and the fighting was particularly fierce in the direction of Diantu Mountain and Loess Mountain in the west, where the fortifications were strong and should be able to withstand for a day or two. And across a river to the south is Huangwang Town, which is also the southern gateway of Wuhan, and the enemy's 68th Division only needs to walk another 60 miles west along the river to reach Huangwang Town. Don't think about it, the army will definitely occupy Deshan, if Deshan is lost at this time, then Wuhan's only channel to contact the outside world will be blocked, and Wuhan will really become a besieged lonely city.

At this time, as the supreme general protecting Wuhan, Gao Fei felt the weight of the burden on his shoulders. The instructions of the commission have clearly required that the 26th Division should live and die with Wuhan City, that is to say, if Wuhan City is lost, then he can only take the road of Chengren. He suddenly remembered that Tai'er Zhuanglai had also given a death order, but in the end they all did it, and won the final victory in the battle. And today, it's so similar to the last time.

The telegraph operator walked in with a telegram from the commander of the war zone, and the content of the telegram asked him how long he could hold Wuhan, and it seemed that in Li Zongren's eyes, Wuhan could not be defended, so he sent such a telegram. Gao Fei hesitated for a moment, and immediately drafted a call back, telling Li Zongren that as long as he Gao Fei was alive, he would definitely fight to the last moment with the 26th Division, and if he didn't succeed, he would become Ren.

Soon after, the telegraph operator received Li Zongren's telegram back, telling him that the theater was being deployed, and reinforcements from all walks of life were coming, and that as long as the 26 th Division could hold out for another 10 days and attract the enemy's main force under the city of Wuhan, then all units in the theater would be able to deploy in place to form a counter-encirclement of the enemy, and then they would be able to join forces with the 26 th Division to gather and annihilate the enemy in Wuhan and its vicinity, so as to realize the counterattack plan drawn up before the war. Gao Fei once again drew up a telegram and told Commander Li that he should rest assured that the 26th Division would resolutely complete this task.

The telephone rang eagerly, Gao Fei took the phone in the operator's hand, and a phone from Yu Wenzheng, the commander of the 152nd Regiment at the south gate, came from inside, but told him a very bad news, the enemy's 68th Division had arrived at Huangwang Town, and was fighting fiercely with the 188th Regiment of the 63rd Division of the 100th Army stationed here, and the 188th Regiment was transferred to the 26th Division at this time according to the order of the commander of the theater. The 188th Regiment could not resist the enemy's attack, and the regiment commander Deng Guang was not a high-flying person in the end, and he did not want his troops to be wiped out, so he decided to withdraw from Deshan without authorization.

As soon as Gao Fei heard the news, he immediately became angry, when is it, how can there be people who are so selfish, if the 26th Division is finished, then what will be lost will be the entire battle situation. And the loss of Deshan means that the 26th Division has been cut off. At that moment, he urgently ordered Yu Wenzheng to send a battalion across the river to Deshan to take over the defense, but he was still not relieved, and called the regimental headquarters of the 151st Regiment at the north gate, but Lao Hei was not at the regimental headquarters at this time, so he directly dispatched the mobile Mawang's 3rd Battalion and 8th Company to Deshan, in order to be able to take advantage of the strong fortifications done before to delay the enemy's rapid encirclement. So, Ma Wang personally led the eighth company to increase the troops in Deshan.

It was not until these generals were sent down that he telegraphed Deng Guang, the commander of the 188th Regiment, that he must defend Deshan to ensure the safety of the south of Wuhan, otherwise the military will be punished. Unbeknownst to him, this regiment commander Deng did not accept his set, and called back to say that he had led his troops to turn to the direction of Doumu Lake in the west of Deshan, preparing to get closer to the 100th Army. Gao Fei was so angry that he almost smashed the table, and telegraphed to Chief Li that the 188th Regiment had abandoned Deshan without permission, and Wuhan was already surrounded by the enemy.

It was not until the evening that Gao Fei received news from Mawang that the 8th Company of the 151st Regiment and the 2nd Battalion of the 52nd Regiment had taken Deshan and driven the enemy forward out of the town. However, it is clear that the enemy's continuous reinforcement of troops from behind has begun to tug at Deshan.

On 23 August, early in the morning, the enemy launched an attack on the position on the Loess Mountain, and the artillery fire was still fierce, followed by the charge of the infantry, and the old-fashioned tactics were the simplest and most effective combat methods.

Relatively speaking, the devils have not had a higher tactics in recent years, and the tanks used in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War were much less, because of limited resources, even sporadic tanks could only be scattered among the infantry, and there was basically no effect; At the same time, for China, due to the assistance of the US military, there has been a breakthrough in combat weapons, and tanks have also appeared in the troops of [***], but like himself, due to the limited number, they can only be regarded as auxiliary to the infantry. In terms of military mechanization, he said that he had not made progress, but was very arrogant in biological and chemical weapons, and it was obvious that the enemy had entered a paranoid extreme.

As the day before, the first battalion of Glory fought back, repulsing the enemy's charges again and again, the entire hill was red, and the enemy's corpses were displayed in thousands, but the reinforcements behind them also continued to arrive, and for a while, the Loess Mountain position was overwhelmed, and the casualties began to increase sharply, and only half of the five hundred people were left.

Gao Fei knew that it would be difficult to defend it any longer, and the fortifications on the mountain were also blown up by the enemy's artillery fire, and he lost his ability to defend himself, and if the enemy shelled it twice, he was afraid that there would be no hiding place on the mountain. At this time, there was not much ammunition left on the positions of the first battalion.

Standing behind a boulder on the mountain, Gao Fei raised the telescope again, but saw that after the enemy charging team, there was a devil Dazuo who was standing on an armored car, looking at this side with a telescope. He estimated the distance, it was 800 meters away, which was beyond the effective range of ordinary rifles, but he also had a German-made Mauser 98 rifle that could hit targets a kilometer away, and now he was trying it out.

This sniper rifle was obtained by Gao Fei when he went to Wuhan to carry out an assassination mission, but at that time, this gun was sawed by Gao Fei to the back of the wooden support for ease of carrying, but after Gao Fei came back, he found a carpenter to connect the sawn wooden support with the best boxwood wood, and brushed it with tung oil. He always carried this gun with him, almost never leaving it, but he did not hold it himself, but his own henchman carried it for him. It was Xiong Sanwa who originally maintained this gun, but now it is Wei Lengzi.

Taking over his sniper rifle with a six-fold scope from Wei Lengzi's hand, Gao Fei found a very suitable position, which was the downwind direction, and the clear head of the devil Dazuo could be seen from the scope.

Wei Lengzi held Goofy's telescope and saw the devil Dazuo from inside, and he asked with some disbelief: "Master, can you hit him?" "He hadn't seen Goofy's methods yet, that's why he asked.

"Senior Commander Gao is the sharpshooter among us [***]!" Glory came from behind and told him so.

He raised the binoculars, and also saw the devil's Dazuo, and couldn't help shouting: "Shizao, that guy is the enemy's wing commander, and he has been in command for the past two days, and I paid attention to him yesterday." ”

Goofy had already concentrated his energy and didn't pay attention to the questions and answers of the two people around him, at this moment, he needed to make himself one and the other. Only a moment later, with a "bang", he fired a shot, which was inconspicuous mixed with the deafening gunfire on both sides. However, after Rong Guang and Wei Lengzi saw the gunfire of the military Dazuo from the telescope, they fell down from the car.

A lieutenant of the army hurriedly prepared to help the big boy, but when he heard Gao Fei "bang" again, the lieutenant of the army also fell to the ground.

At first, the devil thought that the gun happened to hit his officer, until the second person fell to the ground again, and then he knew that the other party had ambushed the sniper, and there was a big chaos for a while.

The devils began to retreat, as swift as their charge.

It wasn't until later that Gao Fei learned that the person he killed was the wing commander of the 109th Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and that lieutenant was his combat staff officer Hiroo Tahara.

When King Minoru Higashikunomiya heard that the 16th Division of the main attack suffered heavy casualties, and even the wing commander of the 109th Wing was killed by the snipers of the opponent, the anger can be imagined, and he scolded the commander of the 116th Division, Iwa Yongwang, for his incompetence in command, and immediately decided to go to the city of Wuhan in person, directly command the four wings, and surround them on all sides to attack the lonely city.

After noon on the 23rd, the enemy dispatched 12 bombers to bomb the position on Diantu Mountain, scorching many places. The 120th Wing of the enemy's 116th Division attacked the second battalion stationed in Diantu Mountain, and the second battalion under the leadership of Battalion Commander Yuan used mortars and light and heavy machine guns to kill and wound a large number of enemy troops, and repelled the enemy's ten attacks, but finally ran out of ammunition and food, so in the face of the enemy, launched a suicidal counter-charge, threw grenades at the enemy position, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and Battalion Commander Yuan was unfortunately martyred when fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy. The reinforcements were also blocked outside the west gate, and in desperation, Gao Fei gave the order to retreat, but at this time, the five hundred brothers of the second battalion retreated, and only more than 30 people were left in the retreat. However, it was precisely because of this battle that the 16th Division, which was the enemy's main attacker, suffered heavy losses, and there were thousands of corpses in this formation.

The Diantu Mountain position was broken through by the enemy, and the Loess Mountain position was also in danger.

Goofy understands the unfavorable situation very well, and if he does not retreat, he and the glorious battalion will be surrounded by the enemy. After consulting Gao Fei, he could only withdraw from the Loess Mountain in the end.

When Gao Fei was retreating, in order to avoid being bitten by the enemy, he set up defenses layer by layer on the line of Yanqiaozi and Zhugentan, and the enemy's pursuing troops made a cone assault in a dense formation, rushed and killed six times, and finally broke through the defense line. Gao Fei and Rongguang retreated to the front line of Zhuo'an Bridge, Banpu City and Shagang, and once again set up defenses, dragging the enemy into the night.

(To be continued)