Volume 1: Red Star Shines on China] Chapter 1057 Bloodstained Han Water (1)——

Chapter 1057 Bloodstained Han Water (1)

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The murderous aura made a cloud at three o'clock, and the cold sound spread all night.

It is very appropriate to use these two poems in the Tang Dynasty Biansai School poet Gao Shi's "Yan Ge Xing" to describe the battlefield of Zaoyi at this time.

Lieutenant General Kazuichiro Sonobe, commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, was a career officer who went from the Army Infant School to the Army University, and learned a lot of combat command knowledge. Now, thinking that he had attracted the attention of the squadron by launching a feint attack on the Ninth Theater of Operations, he could make a killer move, and Kazuichiro Sonobe, who was full of ambition, immediately ordered the 3rd Division of the Right Wing, which had long been ready to attack, to launch an attack from Xinyang to Miyang on May 1, and break through the front of our 2nd Army on the same day; The next day, the 13th Division of the Japanese left flank launched an attack from Zhongxiang along the east bank of the Han River and directly broke through the front of our 33rd Group Army. After the breakthrough of the two Japanese troops, they marched north with all their might, pointing directly at Zaoyang. After the main force of our Second Army pursued the Japanese Third Division, the 33rd Army pursued the 13th Division and waited for an opportunity to ambush it. On May 4, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army launched an attack from the Central Front and immediately broke through the frontal defense line of our Central Group 1 and Group Army.

After our army ascertained the movements and strength of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Li Zongren on May 5, pointing out that the Japanese troops of all routes were "only three divisions in total, and all of them were pieced together from other quarters, so as to be distributed on the vast fronts of Pinghan, Xinnan, Xianghua, Jingzhong, and Hanyi." Its strength on each road is no more than one brigade and up to one division. The strength is very limited, and there is no active and very great intention, which can be inferred...... It is time for our army to understand the enemy's situation thoroughly and seize the opportunity...... Regardless of everything, we will fight hard and deal a fatal blow to the enemy. ”

On the same day, the Fifth Theater adjusted its deployment in response to the Japanese situation: the 29th Group Army was appointed as a guerrilla operation in Dahongshan, and flanked the Japanese troops on the two routes of Jingzhong and Xianghua; Sun Lianzhong of the left group commanded the 1st Guerrilla Column to serve as a guerrilla operation in Tongbai Mountain, and attacked the Japanese army on Xianghua Road to the southwest flank; In addition to the original task, the Jiang Defense Army should cross the river and march eastward with strong troops, attack in the direction of Sooshi and Lianshan, threaten the rear of the Japanese army, and fight in response to the right group; The right group still held the west bank of the Xiang River with one division, and the main force was in the area east of the Xiang River, and coordinated with the central group to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army that went north from Zhongxiang; The Central Group should block and delay the westward advance of the Japanese army from its current position, and when it had to do so, it should resist one by one east of Zaoyang for the purpose of securing Xiang and Fan, and then coordinate with the Right Group and the Dahongshan guerrilla army north of Zaoyang to attack the flank of the Japanese army, and the main force should be transferred to the west of the Tang River and the Baihe River; The 2nd and 31st Armies and the 92nd Army should encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops advancing west in the area east of Tongbai and Miyang, and move west of the Tang River as a last resort.

The Japanese army's fighting style is the same as the deployment of the Suizao Campaign, and the deployment is also the same as the Suizao Campaign. However, this time, the Japanese 11th Army was ruthless, concentrated three elite permanent divisions, and strengthened its troops from the 6th Division, the 10th Division, and the 10th and 6th Divisions. Therefore, the speed of the Japanese army's attack was very fast, advancing 30 to 40 kilometers a day, and the battlefield situation was repeated several times a day, and Ma Shan in the Fifth Theater felt the pressure increase.

In the sky, groups of Japanese troops were bombing and strafing, and on the ground, Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were guiding the infantry to attack. Artillery shells are exploding, machine guns are strafing, and the beautiful Jianghan Plain in northwest Hubei is filled with gunsmoke, which has become a killing ground for the Chinese and Japanese armies.

Zhong Yi, commander of the 173rd Division of the 84th Army of the 11th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was a native of Changsha Village, Funan, Guangxi, and graduated from the Third Provincial Normal School of Guangxi Province and the Shaoguan Jiangwutang.

The current commander of the 11th Group Army is Huang Qixiang, under the jurisdiction of Qin Lianfang's 84th Army and Li Xianzhou's 92nd Army ().

Li Xianzhou's 92nd Army is the Central Army, which is ready to be sent to Shandong to support Yu Xuezhong's department in the Sulu Theater, but as a result, Li Xianzhou's department has not yet been opened, and Yu Xuezhong's department broke through from Shandong when the Japanese army was heavily swept. Li Xianzhou's department was incorporated into the 11th Group Army and stationed in the vicinity of Xiangyang and Fancheng.

Qin Lianfang's 84th Army was all Guangxi soldiers, which were formed into an army when the Gui Army was expanded after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and the first army commander was concurrently served by Xia Wei, a famous general of the Gui Department, under the jurisdiction of Lin Cixi's 131st Division, Liu Ren's 188th Division, and Lingzhuo's 189th Division. At the beginning of last year, when the structure was adjusted, Qin Lianfang, who was also a famous general of the Gui family, took over as army commander, and Lin Cixi's 131st Division and Liu Ren's 188th Division were ordered to be reassigned to the 31st Army. In addition, He Weizhen's 173rd Division and Zhang Guangwei's 174th Division of the 31st Army were reassigned to the 84th Army, and the 84th Army was under the jurisdiction of He Weizhen's 173rd Division, Zhang Guangwei's 174th Division, and Lingwei's 189th Division.

If the unit structure was not adjusted, Zhong Yi was transferred to the commander of the 173rd Division due to his military exploits, replacing He Weizhen.

According to the operational plan of the Fifth Theater, the three divisions of the 84th Army deployed their positions on the first line of Suixian and Zaoyang on the Xianghua Line to block the Japanese 16th Division advancing to Zaoyang with the tactics of breaking through the center.

The position was an established position, but unfortunately no matter how strong the position was, it could not withstand the bombardment of aircraft and artillery, and could not withstand the attack of Japanese tanks.

After the Japanese 16th Division launched an attack yesterday, the front-line positions of the 84th Army were broken through and began to move into the stage of successive resistance.

On the morning of 5 May, the Japanese army went crazy and stormed the positions of the 84th Army, and the casualties of the troops increased significantly. In order to preserve his strength, Commander Huang Qixiang of the 11th Group Army urgently ordered the main force of the 84th Army to assemble in Zaoyang, and ordered Zhong Yi's 173rd Division to retreat to Zaoyang after the palace.

After the main force retreated, the 173rd Division, which was responsible for the task of blocking the rear of the palace, was stuck by the devils, and all regiments fell into a bitter battle.

Zhong Yi was in the command post, holding a telescope to observe the movement of the battlefield.

The situation is very bad, the devil's firepower is too fierce, after the bombing of the planes, followed by heavy artillery shelling, this Jianghan Plain is fertile for thousands of miles, there is no danger to defend, and the positions built are fragmented under the bombardment of Japanese aerial bombs and heavy artillery.

Zhong Yi couldn't help but scold, "Lose that mother!" If it is in Guangxi, Lao Tzu drills into the mountains, so that the devil can't find it, staring at the two eyes and being shot, one hit and one accurate! ”

The Japanese attacked again, with tanks in the head, artillery fire covering, followed by the Japanese infantry charging from the group.

Seeing that the devil was coming fiercely, Zhong Yi's heart tightened, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately ordered the reserve team to dispatch and resolutely remove the ghost!

After giving the order, Zhou Yi ordered the deputy division commander Zhou Yuan to stay in command at the headquarters, grabbed a medium rifle himself, and took a guard squad out of the division headquarters shelter and ran towards the forward position.

Bagui's children are the best in the world!

The position facing the devil's attack arrow has long been destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, and there are no more people alive.

A devil tank roared, rushed to the position, turned the turret, and with a "boom", it opened fire on the second-line positions behind.

At that moment, a short, dark, thin soldier crawled out of the pile of dead men of the Chinese defenders next to the tank, who seemed to be stunned by the cannon, squirming on the ground and staring around with confused eyes. When he arrived at the tank that was firing artillery next to him, the Chinese soldier seemed to be sober, shook his head vigorously, shook off the dust, grabbed a **bag in the trench, pulled the lead, climbed to the side of the tank, and sent the **bag under the tank. Boom, the dust and fog from the explosion shook the tank a few times, and then it caught fire and burned.

The Japanese soldier who was following the tank came to his senses and pounced viciously, stabbing the Chinese soldier in the back with several bayonets at the same time.

As soon as a devil soldier drew his bayonet, he found that his feet could not move. As soon as he looked down, a Chinese soldier who had broken his leg and was covered in blood hugged him deadly, and there was still green smoke in his arms. The devil was frightened, screaming and screaming, and the bayonet in his hand also stabbed down on the back of the Chinese soldier, and the bright red blood spurted out at once. At this time, the grenade in the arms of the Chinese soldier exploded.

An officer climbed up from the trench that had been blown up by the Japanese army, and opened it with a machine gun towards the devil infantry who rushed to him, turning his head and shouting as he fought: "Whoever is alive is out of Lao Tzu, fight!" ”

The brethren who were lucky enough to be alive were firing, desperately with rifles, grenades and devils.

Seeing that the devils stepped over the position and tore a hole in the defense line of the 173rd Division, the reserves rushed up, and machine guns and rifles flew out in rows of grenades from the devil infantry on both sides of the tank, and a patch of dust and mist was raised in the devil charge formation.

Zhou Yuan, the deputy division commander in the command post, ordered the mortars to open fire and cover the counterattack of the reserves.

The 173rd Division does not have anti-tank anti-tank anti-aircraft guns, and the only way to encounter devil tanks and armored vehicles is to blow up ** bags and cluster grenades, which are exchanged for the lives of the brothers, and ten lives are not necessarily exchanged for a tank or armored car.

When Zhong Yi arrived, the reserves had already been strangled with the Japanese army. Zhou Yi yelled: "Lose that mother!" If you don't live, kill", the Zhongzheng rifle in his hand opened fire, knocking a devil with a hideous face who was stabbing a bayonet in the body of a brother!

The lieutenant general and division commander personally went into battle to fight, and the ruthlessness of Guangxi's soldiers who did not want to die was completely aroused! The brothers stepped on the corpses of their comrades-in-arms and the corpses of devils, surging upwards like a tide, blowing up with grenades, ** bags, guns, and bayonets, and the whole became a group of hungry wolves that did not want to die!

The devil was frightened, the tanks and armored vehicles reversed, covering the infantry to retreat.

As soon as the devil retreated, Zhong Yi ordered the brothers to retreat to prevent the devil's artillery from shelling!

In just a few moments, the devil's shells fell, first hitting the mortar position, and then launching artillery interception at the retreating defenders, trying to keep the 173rd Division.

The counterattack just now was fought very heroically, but the casualties of the troops were too great, and the reserve of a regiment was withdrawn, and only one and a half regiments were left ().

Zhou Yuan sent someone to inform Zhong Yi that the army commander ordered the 173rd Division to retreat to Zaoyang.

Zhong Yi knew the battle plan of the Fifth Theater of Operations, and knew that Commander Li was going to gather and annihilate the Japanese army around Zaoyang, and their blocking was just to delay the devils, cover the transfer of the main force to the outer line, and let the devils drill into the encirclement. Therefore, after receiving the order to retreat from Zhou Yuan, Zhong Yi immediately ordered each regiment to take cover alternately and retreat quickly.

On the Great Plains, at a glance. As soon as they saw the retreat of the squadron that was blocking the attack, the Japanese immediately chased after them, and used tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles to quickly intersperse to divide and encircle the 173rd Division.

One side wants to successfully break through, the other side is relentless, and the vast Jianghan Plain witnesses the unyielding of the Chinese people and the bloody killing of the Japanese army.

By the next day, the Japanese army was still in pursuit, but the 173rd Division lost contact with the military headquarters, the group army headquarters, and the commander's headquarters, and the radio failed!

By this time, the losses of the 173rd Division, which had been fiercely fought for three consecutive days, were already very large, and the formation was disrupted. After Zhong Yi sorted out his troops, he judged that the main force of the Japanese army would attack Zaoyang directly, so his troops divided into two routes and assembled to the north of Luyanyi. Zhou Yuan led all the way, and he led the left wing column and the troops directly under the division into the Taiping Town and Cangtai north of Zaoyang.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the left flank detachment led by Zhong Yi and the main force of the Japanese army were caught up by the Japanese army at Taiping Town and Cangtai on the Tang River.

Facing the strong enemy that came up, Zhong Yi knew that there was only one way to break through desperately.

The Czech machine guns were concentrated, Zhong Yi picked up a machine gun and opened the way in front, leading the troops to break through the bloody road.

At this time, the Japanese army has turned Zhong Yi and them into prey, where will they succeed in breaking through!

Zhong Yi couldn't tell how many magazines he had changed, but he only knew that the barrel of the machine gun was red, and he had replaced it with a rifle. When the rifle runs out of bullets, he holds a pistol in one hand and a grenade in the other, and he fights while charging ().

The devil's cavalry troops came up, the cavalry laughed wildly on their horses, the sabers were waved wildly, and in an instant, blood flowed like a river!

Zhong Yi commanded the remaining brothers to form a prototype defense circle, shooting desperately at the devils, trying to repel the devil cavalry.

On the Great Plains, when infantry meets cavalry, they are inherently at a disadvantage. Coupled with the firepower of the infantry units caught up by the devils, the situation became more and more critical.

Bagui's disciples, those are the masters who will not retreat from the battle, whether it is the Eighth Road or the devil, they have never been killed.

The position was broken through by the Japanese army and then broken through, cut and cut, and the heroic and unyielding lives bloomed with loyal flowers and incomparable beauty on this Jianghan Plain.

At the end of the battle, Zhong Yi only had 40 soldiers left by his side.

With a dark and thin face, and the devil cavalry of the Japanese cavalry on the periphery, Zhong Yi calmed down, simply sat down, asked for a cigarette from a brother, lit it, and slowly smoked it.

It seemed that he was stunned by the calmness of the lieutenant ** officer, and the cavalry of the devil actually stopped the pursuit, stopped at the horse, held the war knife, and coldly looked at this group of Chinese soldiers who were exhausted.

After smoking the cigarette and throwing away the cigarette butt, Zhong Yi squinted at the devil, sneered twice, and said in a low voice: "Devil, if Lao Tzu has planes, artillery and tanks, he will be better than you!" What kind of majesty are you playing! ”

After that, Zhong Yi turned his head and shouted at the brothers: "Swear to death and not be taken prisoner!" I am revolutionary, and I will never be insulted by the Japanese invaders! ”

After shouting, Zhong Yi pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger on his temple!

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