The destruction of the Field United has become an irreversible fact!

The 21st Army poured out of the nest and threw in all its forces. However, the more it came to the point of destruction, the more ferocious the madness that came out of the county where the attacker came.

The Yue Army, which had lost its command, began to fight on its own, and Yokogaki became the main battle of the 21st Army's final settlement of the Field Wing at the junction of the Yue Army.

The important strategic location of the algae ditch is already an imperative contention.

Previously, the 148th Division had twice sent troops to attack Zaozigou, and once attacked Zaozigou. Yin Quanyou, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, who was responsible for leading the surprise attack, was a soldier with both civil and military skills, and he used a big knife to kill the devils in Zaozigou Town.

After the troops came back, they also called for a few more knives, and the devil was afraid of this.

Before attacking Zaozigou again, Battalion Commander Yin convened a meeting of all the officers of the battalion to make a life and death document for the raid on Zaozigou, and everyone stamped their handprints, indicating that they would share life and death and weal and woe, and would not retreat without orders and abide by them together. However, due to the complicated terrain of Zaozigou, our artillery erected on Xiaokouziling could not knock down the enemy's position, and once the devils who were suddenly attacked by our army came to their senses, they hid in their positions and formed a fire net with dense machine-gun fire to block the road of our army's assault.

As a result, both raids were unsuccessful, and instead there were many casualties. As a result, Yin Quanyou was given a major demerit, and another company commander was punished.

After the night attack, the devils strengthened the defense of Zaozigou, and the troops were successively gathered up about 400 people, and there were two cannons; Gun holes were cut into the brick walls of the garrison, new fortifications were constructed, and artillery positions and mule and horse pens were strengthened. Barbed wire and deer firewood were added outside the position.

In this case, the 23 Army was still ready to attack Zaozigou again. This task was still completed by the 148th Division.

In addition, on the left flank of the front, the 147th Regiment of the 926th Division was ordered to cooperate with the main attacking force on the right flank to attack in order to cut off the enemy's east-west connection. Acting regiment commander Ji Hande personally led the political trainer Hu Xiqing to reconnoiter behind enemy lines, selected the terrain of the key passes, and stationed a battalion in the key passes; The other two battalions returned to Stonewall Village as reserves.

The group army also sent a guerrilla operation of the 15th Brigade to cut off the enemy's reinforcements to Zaozigou.

In this way, Zaozigou is already surrounded by our army.

The attack mission was carried out by four battalions under the command of Regiment Commander Tan Fenghu of the 148th Division.

Tan Fenghu, a native of Puming Township, Mianyang, Sichuan, was a primary school teacher before joining the army.

After the task was implemented, the brigade commander summoned relevant personnel to climb the hill south of Zaozigou and look down on Zaozigou from the mountain to formulate a combat plan and attack route. The south of the ditch is the enemy's key defense area to the south, and the defense north of the ditch is weak. The direction of the main attack should be chosen in the north, and the south should be the assist, and it must be carried out in a surprise way, giving full play to the advantages of close combat, and the death squad should be dominated by broadswords and grenades, and avoid the advantage of the enemy's strong firepower. Although our army is outnumbered, the key to victory lies in covert approach and surprise attack.

Tan Fenghu took on the task of the main attack, and with the experience of the previous surprise attack, he also clearly knew that according to the comparison of strength, it was difficult to grasp the chance of victory in this attack, but he pinned his hopes on the speed of the surprise attack and attack. Victory is only possible if the enemy's command can be disrupted during the surprise attack and the enemy can penetrate the core before he has adjusted his firepower.

To this end, he selected more than 300 elite soldiers to form a death squad as a sharp knife team in the attack.

The night before, there was a sudden heavy snowfall. On 11 February, the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, who were the main contributors, all wore cotton clothes backwards, and the white cloth lining of the cotton clothes was covered outside, blending with the snow. In the middle of the night, after the brigade commander mobilized before the battle, everyone had a full meal, and under the leadership of the local villagers, two troops in white clothes quietly set off from their positions and disappeared into the snowy fields in the moonlight.

After the departure of the main attack force, Regiment Commander Tan Fenghu also entered the established command position north of Zaozigou with the reserve.

An hour before dawn, the deployment of troops was completed, and Tan Fenghu ordered the attack to begin. With a command, four heavy machine guns were fired at the same time, and mortar shells exploded at the pre-selected breakthrough, covering the attack of the two armies from the left and right flanks.

At the front of the enemy's position, there is an open field of crops about several hundred meters!

Groups of figures in cotton clothes flashed swiftly past their eyes, the snow on the ground rattled by the running footboards, and the commandos ran desperately forward in an attempt to cross the vast death zone when the enemy reacted.

Trained for war, he did not sleep much, and after a period of panic, he reacted quickly. Several flares rose in the sky, the earth was as clear as day, and the enemy's light and heavy firearms opened fire together, forming a dense net of fire in front of the attacking troops.

Red-green flare shells strafe back and forth, indicating targets to enemy artillery.

The enemy's artillery bombarded the open ground with air-blown submunitions, which were extremely lethal shells, which exploded above the ground and sprayed steel balls and fragments on the ground to strike at our attacking troops.

Regardless of life and death, our assault troops rushed forward, and people were shot and fell in the open field, leaving dozens of corpses in the snow, and pools of blood stained white cotton clothes and white earth.

Chen Shijun, commander of the first battalion on the left flank, led his troops to take the lead in blowing up the deer firewood on the periphery, cutting the barbed wire, approaching the enemy's forward position, and after a storm of grenades and broadswords, he tore a gap in the enemy's forward position and attacked the town. Immediately afterwards, the second battalion, under the leadership of the battalion commander Chen Longguang, also attacked the town from the right flank, and even the auxiliary troops in Gounan also took advantage of the chaos to attack from the south. The 3rd Battalion of the Reserve also sent a company to follow the 1st Battalion into the formation.

God, it's dawn. At this time, more than 760 troops had entered the enemy's position, and the vanguard troops were close to each other and engaged in street battles with the enemy. In hand-to-hand combat, the devil's 38 guns were obviously inferior to our army's broadswords and grenades, and the devils were defeated and retreated, and a large number of devil corpses lay on the streets.

In a short time, our army had already captured two tall masonry houses in Zaozigou and used them as a stronghold to charge the recalcitrant enemy on the street, and the offensive was extremely rapid. Sure enough, the attacking forces soon approached the enemy's core positions.

But here in the core position, the speed of the exchange of broadswords, grenades and blood has weakened, and the momentum of the offensive has been stopped by bullets.

The core position of the devils is set in a deep house compound in the algae ditch, surrounded by fortifications and barbed wire, and the surrounding houses have been torn down into open fields, and several slightly protruding houses have been doused with gasoline by the devils and set on fire, and are burning. There is no hiding place in the open field, no dead spots for firepower. From inside the fortifications, from the bullet holes on the walls and from the rooftops, the devils concentrated all the light and heavy firearms to cross fire, weaving an almost airtight web of fire.

Our troops did not have artillery to attack the enemy's forward fortresses, nor did they have light machine guns to cover the charge of the troops, only enemy archers hiding in the fortifications were allowed to fire wildly.

The long tongues of fire spewed from the muzzles of the devil's machine guns shook back and forth, and the attacking troops suffered heavy casualties here, and the battlefield became a terrible slaughter.

Tan Fenghu ordered three companies of death squads to rush out in waves, but the soldiers were all killed in the open field by merciless bullets piercing their bodies. Blood soaked the way forward, corpses were piled up, and those who charged behind stepped on the corpses of the martyrs. The soldiers of the death squad set up their rifles in the back, carrying only grenades and broadswords, the first team charged, and the second team prepared, looking at death as if they were home!

In the end, our death squad was almost completely dead, and the high morale and the spirit of seeing death as if they were at home were outnumbered by superior weapons. Under the enemy's powerful firepower, the remaining 200 people of our army were gradually compressed into the two brick and stone houses, and with the strong houses and courtyard walls against the enemy, the victory and defeat of the battlefield were reversed.

At 3 p.m., the remnants of more than 300 field wings desperately broke through to the perimeter of Zaozigou, and were in the midst of a fierce battle with the third battalion and the covering force that served as reserves, and the sound of guns and artillery could be heard. At about 5 o'clock, some reinforcements from the Yue army had already entered the Zaozi ditch and joined forces with the Yue army there.

The enemy troops were reinforced and their morale was greatly boosted, and they continued to attack our entrenched troops.

They surrounded the two houses, easily destroying the tall masonry walls with artillery fire, and swarming with bayonets. The soldiers who stuck to the houses returned fire with grenades, repelling the devil's charge again and again, and the few devils who rushed into the gap became dead ghosts under the big blade.

However, the situation is in a state of collapse due to irreversible depletion of combatants and ammunition in civilian homes.

It was supported until the middle of the night, seeing that the general trend was no longer possible, the commander of the regiment Tan Fenghu, who commanded the battle, sighed, mixed grief and indignation, and ordered a retreat.

The soldiers in the town broke through a bloody road and fought their way out of the siege by night under the leadership of company commanders Wu Qinming, Deng Maozhi, Li Yinchuan, and platoon commander Zhou Zhaoguo, with only 250 survivors.

Ancient soldiers firmly believed that "when two armies meet, the brave wins", but this is not necessarily the case on the modern battlefield. In this battle of Zaozigou, although the soldiers used their lives and did not care about life and death, due to the huge disparity in weapons, the well-planned attack still ended in failure when they had the advantage and the devils no longer had any supplies.

Although this was the last madness of the Field Wing, it still exposed the serious shortcomings of the 23rd Army.

But such a gap cannot be made up in a day or two, but the time in front of the 23 Army is running out, and on a field wing, the 23 Army has already consumed a lot of time and troops.

There is also a main Kunisaki Noboru Brigade, which is watching every possible opportunity.

Time has become the most precious thing in the 23rd Army!

(To be continued)