Chapter 1265: Reinforcements Arrive

The commander of the Kwantung Defense Army, Toji Yasui, chose to resolutely recapture the Mukden Railway Station, and Vice Admiral Kobayashi, the commander of the garrison of the Lushun Fortress directly under the Japanese Kwantung Army, was also organizing troops to attack frantically to recapture the Lushun Railway Station, and the Japanese garrison in Dalian also wanted to recapture the Dalian Railway Station. From Lushun to Shenyang, several important cities on the South Manchurian Railway Line have all become a pot of porridge!

Zuo Ye, deputy commander of the 8th Column and commander of the 22nd Brigade who was holding on to the Lushun Railway Station, was most worried that the Japanese heavy artillery would detonate the ammunition that had just been unloaded from the military column; in that case, not only would the area around the Lushun Railway Station be flattened, but the 64th Regiment would suffer heavy losses from the 1st Battalion and the Fire Support Battalion in the area around the Lushun Railway Station with Zuo Ye, and perhaps there would be a tragic end in which the entire army would be annihilated. Fortunately, Zuolobe's worries did not materialize.

This Arthur fortress, when the Russian army occupied the fortifications, the fortifications built were extremely strong, every defensive point is based on the mountain, the combination of ground fortifications and underground fortifications, but the Russian army did not have time to build all the fortifications. After the little devil reoccupied Lushun, because of the important strategic position of the Lushun Fortress, the little devil operated for decades, and the fortifications of the Lushun Fortress were already very complete and had the conditions for long-term perseverance. For example, the warehouse at the Lushun railway station was combined with the air defense project, relying on caves to store supplies. In this way, the shelling of the little devils has no deterrent effect on the arms warehouse. In addition, the little devil thought that he could quickly recapture the railway station and eliminate the Eighth Route Army, which did not seem to have many troops that attacked the Lushun Railway Station, and he was very careful when he fired the artillery, and deliberately avoided the freight yard and warehouse. Without deliberate sabotage, the Japanese artillery bombardment that Zuo Ye was worried about detonating the munitions did not appear.

The devils in Lushun have a huge army, and the artillery fire is particularly powerful, and the defense of the left leaf is extremely difficult.

Lieutenant General Kobayashi, the commander of the garrison of the Japanese Lushun Fortress, was already red-eyed at this time.

At the very beginning of the battle. Lieutenant General Kobayashi thought that it was the infantry squadron of the Kwantung Defense Army's escort train that had staged a mutiny and mobilized the guard squadron of the fortress headquarters, a military police detachment, and an infantry brigade, but as a result, these troops stepped into the trap laid by the Eighth Route Army at the railway station, and all of them became corpses lying on the hill of Baiyushan and the railway station. These forces are already equivalent to one-sixth of the total strength of the army garrison on the scale of the brigade of Arthur Fortress, and the casualties are already extremely heavy. However, if you don't take back the Lushun Railway Station and completely pull out this sharp knife inserted into the heart. When the main forces of the Eighth Route Army arrived, the Lushun fortress would inevitably be lost, and what awaited Lieutenant General Kobayashi would either be killed, commit suicide by disembowelment, or be pushed onto the judgment table of the Chinese, and Lieutenant General Kobayashi would not even have the opportunity to return to Japan to be tried by military law. Therefore, Lieutenant General Kobayashi vetoed the request of the reinforced Second Infantry Garrison Brigade to attack the station immediately, ordered all the Marine Corps and the fortress garrison to reinforce the railway station, and ordered the heavy artillery brigade to destroy the row of wooden Russian-style buildings at the railway station and the garrison position of the Eighth Route Army in Baiyushan. As a result, the Japanese artillery bombardment was still underway, and the infantry units that reinforced the railway station were still being assembled. The Eighth Route Army, which was defending the station, took the initiative to attack the Japanese barracks at the east end of the railway station, and even expanded the occupied area and formed a confrontation with the Japanese army.

Time is slipping away by the minute.

Kobayashi knows. The Eighth Route Army, which captured the railway station, needed time and stood firm for reinforcements; He also needs time, and it is best to destroy the Eighth Route Army at the station as quickly as possible, so as to meet the possible arrival of the Eighth Route Army. Because he knew that once the Eighth Route Army arrived, no one would be able to save him. Part of the main force of the Kwantung Army entered the pass to support the North China Front Army in the operation, and most of them still maintained a posture of preparing for war against the Soviet Union, and they were all in the Far East and Mongolia, while the main force of the navy was advancing in the Pacific theater, and it was not possible to rush to the Arthur battlefield in three or five days. He had already seen the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. Much higher than his fortress garrison, he is a standard soldier of a hundred battles. Once the main force of the Eighth Route Army arrived, the Lushun fortress would not be able to hold it!

The Japanese army suffered from the fact that the distance of the troops from the battlefield was different, the arrival time was different, and the time to enter the battle was also different, which became a refueling tactic. Hit until now. It was impossible to form an effective breakthrough in the Eighth Route Army's defense zone.

Lieutenant General Kobayashi's eyes were so gloomy that he wanted to eat people, and called Major General Yokoji, the commander of the garrison of the fortress, and Noda Osa of the Marine Corps together, and asked the two of them to take command from the front, and be sure to urge the troops to break through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army and recapture the railway station.

Major General Yokoji's father once took off his pants when he lost at the gambling table, and he was a typical gambler. Major General Yokoji has the factor of a gambler's father in his blood, and naturally there is a gambler factor in his personality. Seeing that the attack of the troops was not going well, Major General Yokoji's gambler psychology exploded, and discussed with Noda Daisa, and the Marine Corps attacked head-on to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army, and he commanded the main force of the garrison to make a detour to the past, cut off the railway, attack from the west, and slam the back of the Eighth Route Army defense area, and the blow was bound to be successful.

This plan was supported by Lieutenant General Kobayashi. As a result, the Japanese army once again began to attack desperately.

As soon as Zuo Ye saw that the Japanese army attacking head-on was replaced by a marine, he immediately realized that the Japanese army was playing a new trick. Sure enough, the commander of the first battalion, Shen Shengli, reported that the main Japanese force had appeared to the west of the railway station.

Zuo Ye was happy when he heard it, and felt that the Japanese commander was an idiot, should he have fought like this a long time ago, but it has been delayed until now, this devil commander's head must have been kicked by a donkey!

This is a battlefield where the Japanese army has an absolute advantage, and only the veteran Red Army general of Zuo Yeyi, who has experienced a hundred battles, can be so calm, and he is in the mood to laugh at the lame command ability of the Japanese commander.

Although he laughed at the Japanese commander in his heart, Zuo Ye knew that our army was limited in strength, and it was really difficult for the Japanese army to implement wolf pack tactics like this. If the little devil had been prepared and fought like this as soon as he came up, maybe he would have compressed our army to the small hill of Baiyu Mountain and wiped it out with heavy artillery.

With a good left leaf, he immediately ordered the fire support battalion to be strengthened to the west flank, and all the bazookas, grenadiers, and light and heavy machine guns were fired, resolutely repelling the Japanese attack.

In order to boost morale, Zuo Ye ordered Shen Shengli to send a messenger to tell every soldier that the main force was about to arrive. Hold on for the last 10 minutes and win!

The soldiers landed at Huayuankou at 3 a.m., and then marched all the way to Lushun by train, and fought until this time. It was already sleepy, and the casualties were increasing. At this time, looking forward to reinforcements is like looking forward to Ganlin!

The fire support company of the 1st battalion defending Baiyushan suffered the greatest casualties under the intensive shelling of the Japanese heavy artillery brigade. Unfortunately, now the Japanese artillery has blown up the wooden buildings of the railway station and blocked the passage to Baiyushan, and if you send troops to reinforce it, it will inevitably become the target of the Japanese heavy artillery.

Baiyu Mountain is the commanding height of Lushun Railway Station. You have to hold on!

Wen Shengwu, the commander of the first battalion fire support company, was smoky with the Japanese artillery fire on his face, like a terrible ghost, crawling in a dark fort built by the Japanese army, staring at the little devils who were surging from the west towards Baiyu Mountain.

After the attack on the Lushun railway station, the Japanese army soon realized that the troops had no time to build fortifications, so they could only rely on the original fortifications of the Japanese army to fight. Originally, the surface fortifications of the Japanese army were all reinforced concrete. General small-caliber artillery fire does not work. It is a pity that the Japanese army in Arthur is a coastal defense fortress defense unit, except for having large-caliber coastal defense guns. There are also 105 heavy howitzers and cannons for infantry field operations. Needless to say, the coastal defense artillery was facing the Yellow Sea and guarding against warships, and the Japanese could not turn them around and bombard the railway station. The heavy artillery brigade of the Japanese army had already been transferred up, and the railway station and Baiyushan were blown up beyond recognition. The two firing points of a heavy machine gun squad of the 1st battalion fire support company were hit by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and all of them were killed.

The little devil is up!

This time, the little devil seemed to have learned well, and under the command of the officers, the devil soldiers strictly followed the regulations of the infantry drill code, and climbed for a while and lay down. The grenade was wrestled, and under the cover of the dust and mist from the grenade explosion, he leaped forward again. The fight was still decent, which was very different from the scene just now.

Wen Shengwu was secretly surprised, this little devil is making progress quite quickly. If it continues to develop like this, this group of recruits in front of you. I'm afraid it will soon be an elite. Because they are literate, they progress quickly, and they adapt to the battlefield quickly.

Wen Shengwu didn't dare to have any reservations, and ordered the two heavy machine gun platoons, grenadier platoons, and bazooka platoons to all go into battle.

The Eighth Route Army opened fire, and this time the little devil opened his eyes: the rockets roared and pounced, and one rocket was a 50-square-meter killing surface, and several rockets exploded at the same time, shrouding the attacking little devil in the smoke and dust of the explosion.

Major General Yokoji, who was holding a telescope and commanding in the back, saw that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so fierce, which inspired the ferocity, and organized a forward team, howling wave after wave to pounce towards Baiyushan and the railway station where the Eighth Route Army was guarded.

The devil artillery raised the hot air balloon and guided the artillery to strike accurately!

Fierce battles continue.

The fire support company of the first battalion on Baiyu Mountain was slowly weakened by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army.

Wen Shengwu's face was twitching, and he could see clearly from the binoculars that the heavy machine gun platoon had finished the heavy machine gun position of another squad, the grenadier canisters of the grenadier platoon were blown into scrap metal by the Japanese heavy artillery, and the platoon commander led the remaining soldiers to shoot in the trench with rifles. After the rockets in the bazooka platoon were gone, the soldiers also picked up their rifles and went into battle.

Major General Henglu also saw clearly from the binoculars that the Eighth Route Army on Baiyu Mountain was almost unable to hold on, and there were not many people left, so he immediately ordered another strong attack.

At this time, Major General Yokoji suddenly heard the sound of a train rushing, turned around and raised his binoculars to see that on the Luda railway line, a train was spewing white mist and was heading towards Lushun Railway Station. In the distance, it seems that there are at least two trains coming behind it.

Major General Yokoji's hand trembled, and the telescope fell to the ground!

The main force of the 22nd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has arrived!