Chapter Twenty-Six: Guns Shoot Holes
Although Tang Enbo and Chiang Kai-shek were both from Zhejiang, he was not an officer of Whampoa, but he was among Chiang Kai-shek's descendants by virtue of his military exploits, so he was very arrogant. This time, he was violently beaten in public by a small deputy head www.biquge.info of the spy team, losing face, and feeling extremely aggrieved in his heart.
Speaking of which, this is also Lao Jiang's troublemaker behind his back. After the July 7 Incident, the Nationalist army lost first North China, then Shanghai and Nanjing, and several provinces and large swathes fell into the hands of the Japanese, and Chiang Kai-shek's prestige fell to the bottom in an instant, so that the Shanxi warlord Yan Xishan, the Shandong warlord Han Fuqu, and the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang plotted to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek had to kill the killer and arrest him on the pretext that Han Fuqu had abandoned Shandong.
The Guangxi warlords Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were Chiang Kai-shek's sworn enemies and were secretly plotting to overthrow him. If the Japanese army was defeated at Taierzhuang and a great victory was achieved, it would inevitably increase Li Zongren's prestige and threaten Chiang Kai-shek's position, and the talents of the two would be in stark contrast. When national interests and personal destiny were at odds, Chiang Kai-shek could not completely abandon his personal destiny. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek had to keep a hand and secretly ordered the Tang Enbo Department of the Central Army not to support Taierzhuang without his own handwritten order. He knew that the motley armies in those places alone would not be able to defeat the Japanese army. Holding Chiang Kai-shek's secret order, this is also Tang Enbo's hole card for daring to disobey Li Zongren's death order, after all, China is still the old Chiang Kai-shek's final say.
However, the sudden appearance of Long Xiaotian, a strange person, Tang Enbo had to re-examine Chiang Kai-shek's secret order. Long Xiaotian was able to quietly appear in the heavily guarded headquarters compound and easily defeat Zhang Hua and others, and he heard his cronie Chen Daqing say that Long Xiaotian easily defeated a guard platoon, which is enough to show that Long Xiaotian is absolutely extraordinary, and far surpasses everyone in martial arts. If Li Zongren's order was rejected at this time, it was conceivable that the last time Long Xiaotian appeared, it was by no means as simple as a slap in the face.
Therefore, Tang Enbo ignored Chiang Kai-shek's secret order and personally commanded tens of thousands of troops under him to attack the Japanese army in Taierzhuang as soon as possible.
When Li Zongren learned that Tang Enbo's army had entered the battle, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered his subordinate troops to launch a counterattack.
After learning that his own Sakamoto detachment could not be reinforced and the enemy's Tang Enbo army attacked, the Japanese Seya Kai detachment entrenched in the Taierzhuang area not only did not lose heart, but its morale increased greatly, and it was determined to independently defeat the encirclement of the Chinese army.
The Japanese army did have such confidence at this time. Since the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army has been almost invincible on the Chinese battlefield, has never suffered major setbacks and defeats, and believes that the Chinese army is vulnerable. Therefore, the morale of the Japanese army was extremely high.
As a result, in and around Taierzhuang, the Chinese army, which was five times larger than the Japanese army, surrounded the 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese troops in a fierce battle, and the two sides fell into a bitter battle, and no one could help anyone.
In the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, there is a pontoon bridge that connects the north and south banks of the canal. If the Japanese army occupies the pontoon bridge, it will cut off the transportation line of the national army's materials, and the national army in Taierzhuang will be in chaos without a fight. At this time, the Japanese army had already occupied the northwest corner and seriously threatened the pontoon bridge on the canal. The commander of the 31st Division, Chi Fengcheng, ordered the recapture of the northwest corner.
At night, the cold wind is biting, and a few torches are lit on the broken streets, illuminating a group of northwestern men.
Wang Fantang, the commander of the 7th Company, gathered the remaining 57 soldiers to form a death squad. The daredevils wore white towels around their heads, most of them were armed with long guns, large knives on their shoulders, grenades hung from their waists, some carried light machine guns on their shoulders, and some carried explosive bags.
"Brothers, this battle must be won, and we would rather die than retreat, and drive the devils out." Wang Fantang shouted loudly.
"You have to win, and you'd rather die than retreat. Must win, rather die than retreat! A group of Northwest men responded loudly and fiercely.
The corners of Wang Fantang's eyes were moist. He knew that since it was a death squad, it was a death squad that would only die if he did not complete the mission, and after a while, the 57 brothers who had been with him day and night did not know how many of them would survive, and the vast majority of them would die, leaving this world, their parents, their wives and children, what a miserable thing it must be.
"Let's go!" Wang Fantang ordered loudly, and then the first one walked into the darkness.
The daredevils followed closely behind the company commander and pounced on the enemy position.
Climbing over the city wall, a stone house appeared in front of it. The Taierzhuang area is rich in boulders, and the people build houses with boulders, which also become a kind of bunker at this time, and the machine guns can't be broken, and the grenades can't be blown up, unless they are directly hit by heavy artillery, they can be blown up.
Under the cover of night, the daredevils quickly approached the enemy, touched into the pillboxes, first slashed with broadswords, and then blew them up with grenades, and quickly captured three or four pillboxes.
However, the enemy in the rear had already woken up, fired flares, and the night was like day, and then two light and heavy machine guns set up in the middle of a large pillbox opened fire together, and dozens of daredevils fell screaming.
"Explosives packed, machine gun cover!" Wang Fantang ordered loudly, and personally operated a machine gun to shoot desperately, and the bullets hit the stones and splashed strings of sparks.
Subsequently, a soldier of more than 20 people crawled forward with explosives bags, but the movement of dozens of meters was beaten into a sieve by the Japanese machine guns.
Then, two soldiers carrying bags of explosives were also killed.
The Japanese machine guns fired wildly, and some Japanese soldiers slipped out of the stone houses, set up grenadiers, and bang, several grenades exploded around the daredevils, killing and wounding more than a dozen people.
Wang Fantang's eyes were red, his muscles were up, and he shouted: "Give me the explosives bag, I'll get it!" "I grabbed a bag of explosives and was about to leave, when suddenly a hand was holding down on my shoulder.
He struggled a few times, to no avail, and shouted, "Who the fuck?" Looking back, it turned out to be a young colonel officer, who looked to be no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, with a cigar more than ten centimeters long in his mouth, a red cigarette butt, a smile on his face, and an M1 automatic rifle in his hand, with dozens of magazines and dozens of grenades hanging on his body. This person is, of course, Long Xiaotian.
"Why rush this little thing?" Long Xiaotian said with a grin.
Wang Fantang just wanted to get angry, but suddenly felt that it was inappropriate, because he was just a captain, and the other party was a colonel, several levels behind.
Wang Fantang suppressed his anger, raised his hand and saluted, and said, "Report to Colonel, I was ordered by Division Commander Chi to counterattack the enemy, may I ask who you are?" Strong suspicion flashed in his eyes, he became a colonel at the age of fifteen or sixteen, could it be that this person was a relative of Chairman Chiang?
"Leave it alone who I am, look at me." Long Xiaotian said, taking a sharp puff of his cigar, raising his rifle, aiming at the devil's grenadier, and pulling the trigger.
With a gunshot, the grenadier three hundred meters away was shot in the head, his skull was torn off, and a mist of blood flew up.
Long Xiaotian fired three shots in succession, killing three grenadiers. The devil exclaimed in surprise and hid in the bunker. Wang Fantang looked at Long Xiaotian in surprise.
The heavy machine guns in the pillboxes opened desperate fire.
Long Xiaotian aimed at the machine gun and pulled the trigger.
After a gunshot, the Japanese heavy machine guns suddenly stopped.
Wang Fantang and the daredevils were stunned, the enemy's shooting hole was only a few feet square, it was night, and the distance was three hundred meters, and they actually hit it with one blow, this person's shooting skills were too mysterious.
The enemy added another shooter, and was still killed by Long Xiaotian. Then a machine gun shooter was added, and the bullets came in like a splash of water.
Long Xiaotian was furious, spit out his cigar, took off a melon grenade made by a devil, pulled out the safety bolt, and rushed towards the bunker.
Wang Fantang and dozens of daredevils all widened their eyes, with an incredible look in their eyes, only to see that Long Xiaotian's movements were very fast, as if flying, and his body changed from side to side, and the devil's two machine guns couldn't catch up.
In the blink of an eye, Long Xiaotian was already within a hundred meters of the bunker. Long Xiaotian slammed the grenade to the ground, and then threw it out. The grenade flew into the bunker like an eye, and two seconds later exploded with a scream.
Wang Fantang and the others were stunned again. In fact, if it weren't for them being an eyesore, Long Xiaotian would still throw the grenade into the shooting hole two hundred meters away.
Wang Fantang shouted in surprise: "Brothers, rush me!" "Lead the daredevils to rush over, enter the bunker and fight hand-to-hand, and wipe out the devils inside.
Wang Fantang rushed out of the bunker again, and found that all the machine guns in the bunker in front of him had ceased fire, and they had obviously been killed by the mysterious young colonel.
The devils in the northwest corner were finally driven out. Only thirteen of the daredevils, including Wang Fantang, remained, and the remaining forty-four all died.
Wang Fantang glanced at the surviving brothers, and then looked around, hoping to see the mysterious young colonel. He knew that if there was no help from that person tonight, all of his men would be killed, and they might not complete the mission. Unfortunately, the night was dark around, and the person was nowhere to be seen.
Wang Fantang rubbed his eyes, scratched his scalp, and thought, what about people, come and go without a trace, could it be that he has bumped into a fairy.