Chapter 22: The Mainstay

The bombing of the planes caused great damage to the squadron gathered in the northern suburbs of Taiyuan, and the casualties were secondary, and the most important thing was a blow to morale and morale.

Originally, on the Xinkou front, although the battle was a little harder, it still resisted the attack of the little devils to the death. The soldiers used their own flesh and blood to drag the little devil to the Xinkou position, and the soldiers were all holding back their strength in their hearts, and they wanted to fight to the end with the little devil. How do you know that there was an order from above, and after working hard to defend the position for almost a month, he gave up when he said he would give up. Changing positions, and then fighting with the little devils, it is said that it is nothing, but, at the risk of being followed and pursued by the little devils, I rushed to this battlefield, what did I see? What I saw was a big scene in chaos, the division couldn't find the regiment, the company couldn't find the battalion, and then the little devil plane came to bomb, how could the soldiers not panic?

The outlying troops, who first arrived at the battlefield, were in disarray. After being bombed by the little devil's plane, on the battlefield of Xinkou, the soldiers who fought with the devil for two decades and did not show weakness panicked. There is no clear command, no unified deployment, and even less favorable terrain and intact fortifications. The vast majority of troops did not know who would attack and who would cover, and the commanders of each unit thought that the troops next to them would come to support them, and every division commander and brigade commander thought that their position was not the main direction, and the devils would not attack them first. When the devil really comes, the rout becomes an inevitable trend.

The devils of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army were really violent, chasing all the way to the end, and all the troops of the squadron had not yet fully entered the battlefield, and the devils came after the plane flew away for more than ten minutes!

It's a disaster, an absolute disaster. The troops, who did not even have time to dig individual bunkers, were quickly defeated under the attack of the elite divisions of the Japanese army. A brigade, a division, retreated. One army follows another, like a plague contagious, and what was a heroic division of steel a few days ago has now become a shameful remnant of the defeated army that was defeated by the devil in a single rush.

The troops who arrived early in the early stage had already set up defensive positions, but it was their own troops who rushed in front, so they couldn't shoot at them, right? After letting these comrades pass, their own positions were also impacted, and the little devil then followed.

Commander-in-Chief Wei's orders are now not carried out. The various units were rushed by their own rout, and the organization was completely confused, and the heralds of the former enemy's general headquarters could not find the specific location of the various units at all. Commander-in-Chief Wei talked on the phone with the commanders of various units, and those army commanders and division commanders couldn't tell their specific location now, in short, they were either other units of their own army around them, or little devils.

Gao Quan's situation was not much stronger than that of other troops, and there were many of his own troops rushing towards him. The soldiers of the 256th Regiment aimed their guns at the routs that rushed towards them, shouting for them to detour from somewhere else. The routs could see that the murderous aura in the eyes of this group of people was coming down from the battlefield, who didn't know what was going on?

The routs hid on both sides with great interest. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people at the scene, even if there are few soldiers in front of the 256th Regiment, there are always tens of thousands of people, right? How can Gao Quan's thousands of people stop so many people? There are routs next to the rout, and there are other troops next to one unit. The various forces were fleeing in a panic. They didn't want to deliberately rush to the position of the 256th Regiment that was beginning to take shape, but the troops next to them were squeezing them, and there was no way out if they didn't go this way.

A soldier who has been on the battlefield is not the same as any other soldier. The soldiers of the 256th Regiment decisively opened fire when the warning was ineffective! Their guns are aimed at their own brothers!

"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang! A row of bullets shot out, a row of people fell, and the chaotic crowd in front of them "hula" and flashed to both sides, vacating the positions of the 256th Regiment.

"Get into position and get ready for battle!" Gao Quan gritted his teeth and gave an order. Now he didn't dare to look at the corpses of the dozens of soldiers at the front of the position, all of whom were anti-Japanese heroes who had been withdrawn from the Xinkou battlefield. They did not fall under the artillery of the Japanese aircraft, but fell under their own guns.

With the demonstration effect of these dozens of people, no one in the retreating troops behind them approached Gao Quan's position anymore. The 256th Regiment is like a stubborn stone in the torrent, chopping the waves and standing proudly on the spot.

Of course, with so many routs, Gao Quan will not let them go in vain. Liu Qi and Zhang Erxiao each led a team to contain the rout around the position. Now as long as it is a small unit smaller than a battalion, all of them are the objects of Gaoquan's containment, and it no longer matters whether they have guns or not, except for the seriously injured who cannot take care of themselves, all the lightly wounded are also the objects of Gaoquan's needs. In this way, the 256th Regiment was like blowing up a balloon, growing rapidly. Two hours later, his army had grown to 2,500 men, and Gao Quan believed that if he was given time, he was completely sure that he would be able to assemble a division.

The devil won't give him a chance. The defeated troops are not over yet, and the devils are following these troops and killing them! It is not an exaggeration to describe the scene in front of you with wolves chasing the sheep, countless troops in this kind of rout, they can't organize an effective counterattack at all, everyone just runs in the direction of Taiyuan City behind, the devil's chariot is crushed, machine gun fire, and the devil's brigade soldiers are behind the chariot, shooting wantonly with the rifles in their hands.

"Fire!" Seeing this tragedy, Gao Quan's eyes turned red, and he raised his rifle "Smack!" Suddenly, one of the fastest devil soldiers fell in response.

"Bang Bang!" Officers and men on our positions opened heavy fire. The over-the-top devils who are chasing have died. The thunderous means started by the 256th Regiment played the best role at this time, in the direction where the fighters shot at the devils, not a single soldier of our army blocked the sight, and every bullet of the fighters was directed towards the devils.

Our soldiers are running unobstructed, and the devils chasing behind are also uncovered. Although the position of the 256th Regiment was not large, it also caused hundreds of casualties in an instant. The devils poured a large piece of wheat like harvested wheat, and the soldiers vented their bullets to the group of devils in front of them.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The devil's chariot came, the kind of armored truck with a thin layer of steel plates and a small cannon and a machine gun on it. The light chariots of the three devils fired a few shells, and a bunker at the front of the position of the 256th Regiment was blown open, and the soldiers in the bunker were blown to pieces. The fighters next to the bunker climbed into the trenches and continued to shoot at the devil infantry without being affected at all. Some soldiers threw out the grenades with all their might, but only made the devil's chariot pause slightly, and continued to fire with machine guns as they drove forward.

"Who went blow it up for me?" Gao Quan shouted loudly.