Chapter 33: The Great War Begins

Rationally speaking, Gao Jian's suggestion was not a good way to not only fight the Japanese army, but also preserve its strength. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

But the key is that the military order Li Han received was to hold Jianping County for at least three days, and the military order was like a mountain, and it was not something that Li Han could leave if he wanted to.

Moreover, as the only regular army defending Jianping County, if he didn't let go of a shot, he would give up the county seat, how could he explain to hundreds of thousands of people in Jianping, even Li Han himself couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.

"No, if you don't let go of a shot, you will give up the county seat, I, Hu Zhike, can't afford to lose that person, and there is nothing to be afraid of devils, will there be fewer devils in our hands during this time?"

Hearing Gao Jian's words, Hu Zhi, who had a reckless personality, immediately jumped up and shouted.

"Hu Zhi, if you don't say a word, no one will treat you as a dumb person. Battalion Commander Gao, don't mind, Company Commander Hu is a stunned seed, don't be like him. ”

Li Han glared at Hu Zhi, who immediately sat down stupidly.

Li Han continued: "I myself very much agree with your proposal, Battalion Commander Gao, but the contemptible people received a military order that they must hold Jianping County for three days, and this military order was issued by Deputy Commander Tang himself, so we must defend Jianping County for more than three days. ”

Gao Jian didn't know that there was this military order, and he was still kept in the dark. He also wondered why the regimental commander had suddenly been so kind to him, not only replenishing their battalion with rifles, but also paying them several months at once.

The feeling is to let them be cannon fodder, and it is estimated that in the eyes of the regiment commander, Gao Jian's trip is basically no different from sending him to death.

Hearing Hu Zhi's words, Gao Jian's face flushed, as if he had done something wrong, and after sitting down, he didn't say a word.

At this moment, he was in a state of confusion, thinking that before he set off, the regiment commander had specially gone to the second battalion to hold a mobilization meeting, and he didn't tell himself about it, Gao Jian's heart suddenly cooled in half.

I didn't expect that the head of the regiment, who has always behaved as approachable, would come to this hand at a critical time, I really know people and faces, but I don't know my heart.

In fact, even if the regiment commander had an open and honest conversation with him, Gao Jian would not refuse, because the purpose of his participation in the Northeast Volunteer Army was to fight devils, but the regiment commander's actions this time really hurt his heart.

Li Han didn't care too much about Gao Jian's situation, after all, there wasn't much time left for him, and he had to make combat arrangements immediately.

"Since there are no objections, let me talk about the battle plan."

In fact, Li Han's previous words have sealed all the retreats, and everyone also knows that there is no retreat except for the bloody battle with the devils, unless they don't want to do it anymore in the Northeast Army.

"Wang Dazhu!"

"Here!" Wang Dazhu quickly stood up and replied loudly.

"Your cavalry company is highly mobile, but it is inferior to the infantry in defending the city, so you are responsible for harassing the enemy outside, focusing on attacking their transport lines, hospitals, wounded soldiers and other places where the devil's defense is weak. Time is urgent, you guys go now! ”

"Yes!"

Wang Dazhu gave Li Han a military salute, then turned around and walked out of the venue and went to prepare.

"Lin Youzhi, Hu Zhi, Wang Wei!" After Wang Dazhu left, Li Han continued to roll call.

"Here!" As soon as Li Han's words fell, the three of them immediately stood up and said in unison.

"The three of you are responsible for guarding the front-line positions outside the city, my minimum requirement is to hold on for at least one day, Wang Wei, your heavy machine gun company left four heavy machine guns on the city gate tower, and all the others are arranged on the first-line positions."

"Yes!"

"Battalion Commander Gao Jian, you are responsible for guarding the county seat, the commander of the Mountain Tiger Company, and the company commander Zhao Gang, as the second echelon, are ready to support the front-line positions at any time, and at the same time guard against the detour of the devils, and your company in Huangshan is a reserve."

"Yes!" All the officers shouted loudly.

On February 27, 1933, the 13th Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, under the leadership of Wing Commander Yoshio Nagano, slaughtered Jianping County with great momentum. In addition to a large number of devils in this operation, there were also thousands of puppet troops who followed the devils to attack together.

It is worth mentioning that there was not a single devil who started the attack, and all of them were puppet soldiers who were responsible for the attack. This time the puppet army dispatched a whole division, and there are so many coolies who don't need it, isn't it stupid? Anyway, no matter how many losses the puppet army has, not all of them die in China, so Yoshio Nagano won't care.

For Li Han, his first goal is to hold on to this place for three days, the Japanese army will attack with the puppet army, of course Li Han is happy, although it seems that the puppet army is more than the Japanese army, but the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, hum! It would be nice to have a tenth of the Japanese army.

The troops of the Manchu and Mongolian armies, the puppet army division responsible for attacking Li Han, will not be polite to Li Han of the Manchu and Mongolian armies, these people are different from the imperial alliance army after the official outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, most of them are willing to be traitors.

The Imperial Allied Army was formed after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, when the Nationalist Government lost a large area of North China, East China, and Central China within a year, and more than half of China's cities were occupied by the Japanese army.

The vast majority of Chinese were under the iron rule of the Japanese army, and the people from the occupied areas were forced to become traitors in order to beg for food, or to save their lives, or they were directly arrested and forced to become traitors.

Although their behavior is equally despicable, Li Han believes that these people are still excusable, after all, it is the government that loses the war, but it is the people in these occupied areas who really suffer.

If the government can win the war, who would want to be a traitor who will be poked in the backbone by future generations.

Of course, Li Han does not mean that the national government is incompetent or does not resist, and it can be seen that the army is still doing its best to resist the invasion of the devils, but the national strength is not as good as others, and the gap between China's national strength and Japan during the Republic of China is still very large.

For example, steel production, which was the most important part of the war, during World War II, the production of steel could almost represent a country's national strength.

In 1933, during the period of the Nationalist Government, China's steel output was 30,000 tons, while Japan's output reached 3.09 million tons, not even one percent of the others.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this ratio became even more unbearable. In the seven years from 1937 to 1944, the iron and steel output of the Kuomintang region never exceeded 10,000 tons, while the iron and steel output of the three provinces of Koto in Japan exceeded 1.7 million tons, and the national steel output exceeded 6 million tons per year on average.

It's a bit far, let's talk about Li Han's side, followed by Yoshio Nagano is a Manchukuo army division under Zhang Haipeng, these puppet army equipment is not bad, and there are even four 75mm mountain guns.

This made Li Han very jealous, and they were also equipped with a lot of light and heavy machine guns, it was obvious that these puppet armies must have surrendered to the devils in formation before, otherwise the devils would not have had the luxury of equipping these puppet armies with artillery.

Although Li Han can't look down on the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, but he can't stand the number of people, Li Han observed that the number of these puppet troops is at least more than 5,000 people, although the light weapons are not as good as the four battalions, but there is not much difference, in addition to the four mountain guns, both sides have no advantage in weapons.

"Strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy." This is what the great man said, and of course Li Han would not make such a mistake.

The battle soon began, and most of the puppet army was adapted from the previous small warlord troops in the Northeast, with low combat effectiveness and no tactics to speak of.

Of course, this is a frontal siege, and the defenders are determined to defend it, even if Zhuge Liang is alive, he doesn't need any tricks.

You don't see that even if Zhuge Liang went out in person, he was not blocked by Hao Zhao in the city for more than 20 days, and finally returned in vain. Therefore, in a real war, where there is such a strategy, the determination of the soldiers to die is the core force of defending the city.

After a routine burst of shelling, large swaths of puppet troops in yellow uniforms and large caps flocked to the front-line positions like ants.

The heavy machine gun, which had been waiting impatiently for a long time, immediately clicked after the sound of the devil's cannon stopped, and the gunfire of the heavy machine gun seemed to be a signal, and for a time the gunfire on the position was loud, and rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and mortars fired at the same time, and the bullets and shells poured down the puppet army like raindrops.

In order to avoid the heavy damage caused by the artillery bombardment of the devils, Li Han deliberately built a lot of anticline positions in the first-line positions, so the first round of artillery bombardment of the puppet army was very small for our army. Moreover, whether it is the puppet army or the Japanese army, if they want to rely on artillery bombardment to inflict heavy damage on our army, they must at least wait for the position to be blown up.

The puppet army that was charging was suddenly attacked, unobstructed everywhere, and fell a large piece in an instant, and the remaining puppet army was so frightened that they lay directly on the ground, buried their heads in the soil, and still put their guns in their hands.

When the puppet army officer saw this, he was immediately furious, and kept scolding, the imperial army was watching from behind, if the imperial army masters were unhappy, they wanted to have a good day.

Under the coercion of the puppet army officers, the puppet army had to continue to rush forward, and seeing that it was about to enter the distance of the grenade, Hu Zhi, who was at the forefront of the position, gave an order.

A black oppressive grenade, like a swarm of mosquitoes after the rain, flew towards the puppet army rushing forward, and the explosion and artillery coverage were comparable, among which the grenade thrown by Hu Zhi was thrown the farthest, and the number of devils killed was the largest.

After Hu Zhi threw a grenade, he was about to see his results when someone suddenly pushed him, causing him to almost fall upside down. Hu Zhi was furious, and just as he was about to curse, he saw the guard fall on the bomb drop he had just placed.

Hu Zhi's heart suddenly burst out, and he pulled the guard over, and saw that there was an extra blood hole on his body! Hu Zhi quickly stretched out a finger and probed the guard's nose and mouth, but he was already out of breath.

Hu Zhi only felt the burning discomfort in his eyes, and the discomfort in his heart that he couldn't speak.

"Huzi!"

Hu Zhi screamed hoarsely, but unfortunately no one answered. Hu Zhi didn't speak, and gently closed Huzi's eyes, but the bomb throwing movement became faster and faster.

Probably didn't expect the defenders on the opposite side to have such fierce firepower, the puppet army suffered heavy losses in the first round of attacks, and after adding their weak will to fight, and leaving hundreds of corpses behind, they retreated back in embarrassment.

However, there were too many puppet troops in charge of the attack this time, and the loss of hundreds of people was far from breaking their muscles and bones.