Chapter 51, Failed Counteroffensive
The sun shines on the white snow, bright, old and dazzling, after looking at it for a long time, people are easy to get snow blindness. Because I knew it was going to snow when I looked at the sky before, there were a lot of sunglasses in that batch of airdropped supplies, and now they are wearing sunglasses one by one, just like the American GIs in Iraq, the color of their clothes and the guns on their hands.
Wearing boots, stepping on the frozen snow makes a creaking crunch. Because it thawed yesterday, the snow froze again after last night, causing the originally soft snow to become hard.
Because the Japanese army did not have a senior commander for the time being, it did not launch an attack on Nanchang, and the regiment stationed in Nanchang was also happy to be idle. The 32nd Army, the 49th Army, and the 74th Army of the Guo Army, as well as the 26th Division from the south to the north, immediately counterattacked the city occupied by the Japanese army after the snow stopped.
There are also a lot of artillery pieces in several divisions of the two armies, all of which were aided by Lu Qiang at the beginning, and they took them away when they retreated, and now they have become sharp weapons. The Japanese artillery was bombed by Lu Qiang, and now there are only some 92 guns and mortars, but compared with the 105mm, 130mm, and 152mm caliber artillery, it is completely scum.
The fruit soldiers also experienced the opportunity to smash people with cannons, and it was very refreshing to look at the churning dust.
The 32nd Army, which was sitting on artillery, attacked very smoothly, and the Japanese army was unable to give correct combat orders because there were no senior generals, resulting in the defeat and retreat of the blockade, and the Guo army successively captured Gao'an, Fengxin and other cities, as well as some county seats, approaching Nanchang step by step. The Japanese troops who retreated to Tujiabu had to come out again, because there was no command, and Okamura Ninji couldn't replenish them for a while, so they ordered them to fight separately, the wing commander or, just take the brigade commander alive, take the brigade as the combat unit, the wing commander alive, take the wing as the combat unit, the captain alive, take the brigade as the combat unit, and so on. In short, it is to stop the footsteps of the fruit army at all costs.
Several counties around Nanchang City were bursting with gunfire, but Nanchang, as the center of the battle, was quiet and peaceful, with patrol officers holding guns and stepping on creaking snow, step by step.
"I heard that the fruit army was beaten by the little devils, so I asked our division commander for help." One of the two soldiers patrolling the sentry said.
"They deserve it, they were asked to counterattack Nanchang before, how good we should be with each other, but they didn't do it, they all asked for it." The man next to him said.
"Then ~ did you say that the head of the regiment would go to support?"
"Who knows? I guess I'll go, but I'd like not to help. ”
"The 31st Army sent a telegram to our regiment, asking us to temporarily abandon Nanchang to support them, attack the Japanese army from behind, and flank them in front and back, what do you think?" Lu Qiang knocked on the telegram on the table, which was sent to him by Guo Jun, and then sent to him by a group of untouched words.
"Not supported." This time, except for Bai Yiren, who did not speak, everyone else disagreed.
"Then don't do it." Lu Qiang didn't ask the reason, everyone knew that they would not let go of Nanchang, but in order not to make too much trouble with the Guo army, they had to find some reason, this time the Guo army wanted a regiment to support, and a regiment could give a reason for insufficient troops and refuse to support, because once they helped the Guo army enter Nanchang, then Nanchang would inevitably be taken away by them. If they don't help them, if the Guo army wants to break through the Japanese defense line, it will definitely suffer heavy losses, even if it enters Nanchang, it will be staring at the Japanese army because of the lack of troops, and finally have to withdraw from Nanchang. So if you want to take Nanchang in your arms, you have to watch from the wall. Anyway, Guojun's request for help was deduced for various reasons.
Seeing that the army couldn't ask for help, he scolded the 250th Division as a traitor, and Xue Yue, the commander of the 31st Group Army, frowned at Lu Qiang's behavior of watching from the wall, and it could be seen from the fact that he sent troops to fight the Japanese army, but he just didn't understand why the other party didn't support them, although the troops in the city suffered heavy losses, but you can send some ordnance.
Sure enough, they came for weapons and equipment.
In the early stage of the counteroffensive war, the offensive momentum of the 31st Army was very high for a while, and under the opening of the artillery, it soon reached the edge of Nanchang, but at this time, they were blocked by the Japanese troops from Tujiabu, who fought completely without discipline, and all fought separately. Sometimes this messy play can lead to unexpected gains. The fruit army was already familiar with the Japanese army's style of play, and now the other party suddenly changed his way, not attacking head-on as before, but sneaking attacks with small soldiers, focusing on weak points, and this style of play suddenly made them confused.
The Japanese army was demoralized at first because of the death of its senior generals, but in the past few days, the commanders who attacked them were inspired, coupled with the legendary spirit of bushido, and the idea of avenging the division commander, to be loyal to the emperor, and these Japanese soldiers shouted and shouted to fight the fruit army. The 31st Group Army, which was pressed by the desperate posture of the Japanese army, originally they had been fighting a good fight, but when they encountered the attack of the Japanese army who was not afraid of death, they also had to retreat.
"Onboard, onboard~~" The Japanese army shouted the famous Banzai charge, repeatedly launched an attack on the position of the fruit army, there was originally artillery support, but not long ago it was blown up by a squadron of the Japanese army, although the squadron of the Japanese army was all annihilated, but the artillery was only half small, the 152mm howitzer because the barrel was too thick, became the focus of the Japanese army, resulting in no 152mm howitzer left, 130mm cannon is also left, and the rest are 105mm howitzers. Because of the fear of being attacked by the Japanese platoon again, the remaining artillery pieces were hidden in the snow.
Without artillery support, the fighting was even more difficult. But fortunately, there are still a few armored vehicles, all of which are domestically produced four-wheeled combat vehicles, which are modified from the chassis of the imported American GMC3/4 "Dodge" medium jeep by scraping the people/party/government/government, and are equipped with 2 to 3 7.62mm light machine guns. However, the thin-skinned armor still can't resist the grenadiers of the Japanese army, several armored vehicles just entered the battlefield, the vehicle-mounted machine guns suddenly spit out tongues of fire, and the Japanese soldiers cried and shouted for their mothers, and they were in the limelight for a while, but they were not majestic for long, they were destroyed by the Japanese grenadiers, and they were all placed there as scrap metal.
Although the Japanese army's pig attack suffered a lot of casualties, it also brought huge damage to the Guo army, and the spirit of not being afraid of death also made the Guo army frightened. In front of the position, there were a large number of corpses of the fruit army, and the blood stained the snow red, and then melted into red snow water, flowing to a low place, gathering together, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a river of blood.
Originally, the Japanese army was the defender, but as they fought, the Japanese army became the attacker, constantly charging the fruit army, without stopping, every time it was a squad and a squad on it, like a wheel battle.
"Quack, quack!!" Stepping on the dark red mud soaked in blood and snow, making a croaking sound, the Guo army finally launched an attack, and the artillery hidden in the snow was also pulled out again, and bombarded the Japanese army.
After the Japanese army was bombed by the fruit army, some of them were weak, and in the face of the sea of soldiers, the crooked handle did not have much effect, because the crooked handle was two or three shots at a point, and it was necessary to shoot slowly, and if it was too fast, the barrel would overheat, and then it would be scrapped. The only useful thing is the Type 92 heavy machine gun, because it was hit by a cannon fire, many heavy machine guns were blown up, and there were only 3 left that could be called.
"Brother, rush! After beating the little devils, go home and eat meat buns. A battalion commander-like officer of the Guojun Army shouted loudly, waving a box of Wang Ba that he had picked up from nowhere.
Meat buns for these all day to drink thin, even a dry meal can not be seen, and not to mention the meat of the soldiers, very lethal, these fooled soldiers with all kinds of rifles such as the formal (the most formal loads), screaming rushed up, looking about to rush to the Japanese position, then the Japanese suddenly smashed out a batch of grenades, "boom boom boom ~ ~" The unprepared fruit army was bombed on their backs, after the Japanese army threw a batch of grenades, immediately put bayonets on the 38 cover, and then rushed out, and the fruit army fought bayonets.
The Japanese army is much stronger than the fruit army that pulls up like a strong man, and the morale is also sufficient, and the physical fitness and tactical training are much stronger than the fruit army that eats thin every day and goes to the battlefield after a few bullets.
"Snort" the sound of the bayonet stabbing into the body, the blood began to flow out along the blood grooves on both sides of the knife, pulled out the bayonet, and the blood sprayed out instantly poured the Japanese soldier on the opposite side, the Japanese soldier ignored the blood on his body, held the bayonet, and went to find the next target.
The fruit army was frightened by the momentum of the Japanese army, and at the beginning of the grenade was eaten, and now the morale dropped to the freezing point, suddenly a fruit army soldier was poured with the blood of the compatriots next to him, and then looked at the Japanese soldier with a hideous smile, his heart collapsed, and he collapsed directly, and then screamed, dropped his weapon and turned around and ran, his run was the beginning, some people who wanted to run and did not dare to run saw him run, and they ran with him, and those who were still fighting with the Japanese army saw their companions run away, and hurriedly dropped their weapons and ran, for fear of being left behind.
For a while, the Guo army staged a big rout, and one of them wished that their father and mother had fewer legs, weapons and helmets or something, and threw away all the things that had some weight, and ran with their legs.
The Fruit army retreated, the Japanese army immediately took the opportunity to counterattack, and ran behind the Fruit army, these retreating Fruit troops directly messed up their own defense line, and the Japanese army following behind effortlessly rushed to the position of the Guo army, with bayonets, broke through their defense line, and then expanded the results from here and spread to the periphery.
The fruit troops who were originally fighting a tailwind battle here suffered heavy casualties in the face of the Japanese army's pig attack that was not afraid of death, and in order to preserve a little strength, these fruit troops retreated one after another. It's all on the edge of Nanchang, as long as you work harder, you can attack it, but because of your selfishness, you want to save some strength, so you give up.