Chapter 822: The Witness of Ice and Fire XII
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At 5:30 on March of the 22nd year of the Republic of China. www.biquge.info With the explosion of a thousand grenades in the north of Chaoyang City, the elusive Gu Changfeng and Yang Jiuxiao's nearly 10,000 soldiers suddenly started another Chaoyang raid.
This was the third attack by the Japanese invaders since they occupied Chaoyang, a strategically important area in western Liaoning, and the large-scale military operations in which they repeatedly attacked the same target in the enemy's hinterland seriously violated any principle of the art of war and combat conventions throughout the ages.
The sound of grenade explosions for more than a minute in a row is the masterpiece of 200 assault warriors, these officers and soldiers wearing white battle robes, each carrying 12 grenades, stepped on the corpses of Japanese sentries, and sneaked into the hinterland of the Japanese army in the north of the city along the drainage channel of the station that was still under construction in two ways. Rushing into the city without hesitation.
The sound of explosions has not stopped, the shouts of killing have resounded to the sky, and the sound of machine guns, pistols, submachine guns and the roars of more than 5,000 soldiers have converged to form an unstoppable Haofu momentum, which is enough to destroy any will of the enemy to resist.
The Japanese Kasawara Garrison Brigade in the city was a fully formed brigade of 1,100 men, and it had many tasks to guard the entrances to the roads outside the city and the highway bridges in the south of the city. Two of the squadrons have been dispersed to be responsible for the vigilance and protection of various key points, and a machine gun squadron of more than 170 people has also been divided into two units, which are stationed at the station under construction in the north of the city and the checkpost in the south of the city, and the officers and men of the various departments on the front line who are left behind to serve as logistics supply and transportation add up to less than 1,000 people, counting the 3,500 puppet troops in the camp in the east of the city, there are about 5,000 troops in the city, but most of them are resting after a day's fatigue, and this time period is also the most sleepy time of the day.
In the sudden round attack of the Anjia army, the machine gun squadron of the Japanese garrison brigade, like another infantry squadron, was attacked by countless grenades while still asleep, hundreds of Japanese soldiers did not wake up and their flesh was splashed and their bodies were lying on the beds, and the Japanese soldiers who had escaped the grenade attack had not yet made out their direction in the light of fire and gunsmoke, and a dense rain of bullets came from outside the broken windows and doors, and when the attackers rushed into the house to clear the remnants, there were almost no living people in the courtyards and barracks.
The headquarters of the Kasahara Brigade located in the government office in the city was already on fire, and the iron-blooded soldiers of Yang Jiuxiao's two battalions threw hundreds of grenades through the high wall of the courtyard, and at the same time blew up the courtyard wall with explosives packs, and swarmed in, hundreds of light machine guns and submachine guns fired fiercely at any moving objects in the courtyard, the door, and the household.
Most of the Japanese officers and men who woke up and tried in vain to take up arms to resist were beaten into honeycombs before they could take aim, and as soon as the north-facing windows on the second floor of the main building were opened, a string of firing flames erupted when they were fired back by three machine guns, followed by five or six grenades flying over more than 30 meters. Thrown into the window with unmistakable accuracy, the violent explosion knocked the roof out of a huge hole, shattering the window along with the broken bricks and tiles. Shot from the sky.
The high-rise buildings that shook frequently suddenly "boom." A sky-high fire burst out, and soon illuminated the entire courtyard filled with gunsmoke and the sound of killing.
At this time, the puppet army camp area in the east gate has been in chaos, the brothers of the second regiment of the temporary regiment, under the leadership of their respective commanders, directly rushed to the east and west two camp gates, a distance of 100 meters away rushed to the front dozens of brothers invariably opened fire, four puppet army sentries on duty, together with the newly built semi-enclosed guard box in front of the camp gate, were beaten to the point of blood scattered, sawdust splashed everywhere, a regiment and two battalions of 3,500 puppet soldiers who were awakened by the earth-shattering explosions and shouts of killing got up from the hot quilt in a panic. Too late to put on clothes, shoes and socks. He rushed to the neat gun rack inside the barracks gate. Attempt to grab a weapon and resist a sudden attack.
But the fatal thing is that the guns of the puppet army follow the management principles set for them by the Japanese army, and during the non-combat, duty and non-first-level combat readiness periods, the magazine must be emptied, and when the more than 3,000 puppet soldiers who collide with each other and are dizzy in panic and howl find the bullet bags. The bullets had smashed the doors and windows of the barracks, and the smoking grenades flew in the blink of an eye, exploding in the dense crowd and stretching endlessly.
Ghosts and wolves howled in the barracks. The screams were endless, "The puppet army who rushed out of the door in panic became the best live target." The well-trained and tacit cooperation of the officers and soldiers of the An family had long been waiting thirty or forty meters outside the house, and they could easily kill anyone who escaped with their pistols, not to mention the ruthless fire of the submachine guns and light machine guns in the hands of the veterans.
Almost at the same time as the explosion in the north of the city was heard, dense gunfire also rang out around the airport under construction 3.5 kilometers south of the city.
The snipers accurately killed the sentries at the north and south towers and the two entrances, Ni Zhiqiang jumped up, led the soldiers to lift the wooden ladders and door panels prepared in advance, and quickly set up the barbed wire.
The attacking company from three directions felt that the passage paved with wooden ladders and door panels was too narrow, and simply blew up the barbed wire piles with several grenades and rushed in. In the blink of an eye, the Japanese engineer barracks and puppet military barracks distributed in the east, south, and west directions surrounded and attacked fiercely.
Ni Zhiqiang had long been familiar with the layout of the airport, and personally led a platoon of guards to rush to the rows of simple shacks on the bank of the Daling River on the north side of the airport. More than 6,000 civilians who had been captured by the Japanese army with bayonets and leather whips lived there.
The camp of the Japanese transport brigade was set up in the Guandi Temple in the southeast of the city, which Gu Changfeng and his brothers were very familiar with, and more than 300 elites led by Gu Changfeng attacked in the north of the city. Fly your hands. By the time gunfire and roars thundered at the airport across the river to the south, more than 50 special forces who could drive had already opened the doors of their cars under the lanterns hung high, brought out buckets of hot water, poured them into the empty water tanks of the Japanese troops, and then worked in groups of twos and twos. Shake the cooled truck with difficulty.
At this time, Qin Zifeng, the chief of the guard, smiled and handed a Japanese captain's knife to Gu Changfeng. Gu Changfeng didn't even look at it, so he asked him to call the second captain over.
Ten minutes later, three rumbling trucks loaded with a dozen heavy oil drums and more than 70 soldiers of the second detachment left the camp. Drove into the south gate of Chaoyang, which was burning with raging fires, and drove out of the north of the city where the city wall had been demolished along the nine-meter-wide north-south street. Along the bumpy newly built road, we turned into the newly built supply warehouse of the Japanese army.
Yang Er: The captain of the group stepped on the bloody water that was flowing all over the ground and gradually frozen, and he had a ... The material warehouse full of mud was inspected, and when he saw the truck delivering gasoline stopped, and the captain of the second detachment of the special brigade jumped down to convey Gu Changfeng's order to "burn everything", Yang Jiuxiao's face suddenly twisted in pain, and he didn't let the special forces of the second detachment immediately carry out the task.
Yang Jiuxiao was so anxious that he turned around in place a few times. After weighing it up a little, he shouted for a quick assembly and ordered the brethren to remove as much ammunition as possible from the row of warehouses to the east.
The brothers in the second detachment were helpless. The three brothers on the ground quickly followed, opened the lid of the oil drums, poured oil everywhere, and when they were finished, they carried the remaining half barrels into the warehouse and put them over. Let the pungent gasoline rush out and soak the ground.
Six o'clock in the morning, Jinzhou, front command of the Kwantung Army.
Commander Muto Nobuyoshi, who was woken up by his subordinates, strode into the headquarters, raised his hand to fasten the last button, and stared angrily at the small alum country Showa and a group of generals. Suppress anger. Almost word for word:
。 Last night, the monarchs also judged in unison. It is impossible for the stubborn enemy to flee to the northeast under the encirclement and interception of all units of our Kwantung Army, and almost all of them advocated ordering the three pursuing brigades to tightly seal off the Xiaoshan area east of Lingyuan and west of Karaqin. Trap this desperate enemy to death, starve to death, and blow it up with a plane!
"But now, this stubborn enemy has once again attacked Chaoyang City, where our army's rear forces are extremely weak, attacking this strategic hub, which has in fact become a material transit base for our army's troops on the north route and the south route and west front, and attacking this strategic rear strategic place that all the monarchs agree is already very safe, and can be connected to trains and planes can be taken off and landed within a week.
。 But what is the result? Now you have told me that Chaoyang City was suddenly attacked, and the Linghe Railway Bridge, which was about to be completed, was blown up by the enemy again. And it's an urgent report from the garrison squadron of Daban Town, which is more than ten kilometers to the east, you, this is a serious dereliction of duty."
Muto Nobuyoshi, who had always been heavy and calm, and his mood was invisible, he couldn't go on, he clenched the scabbard of his long knife, his face was flushed with the anger of the departure, and his eyes that could almost breathe fire were dead, staring at the group of generals who were standing with their heads down, and took a few deep breaths in succession before giving the order:
"Immediately remove Itabato Uemon from the post of division commander of the 6th Division, remove Yoshira Sasaki, chief of staff of the 6th Division, from his post, and appoint Sato Osa, head of the Operations Division of the Headquarters, as his deputy; He ordered General Nishiyoshi, commander of the 8th Division, to capture Pingquan within three hours and completely block the retreat of this stubborn enemy, otherwise, let him die on his own."
"Hi Yi Yiyi.
A group of generals replied almost desperately.
Major General Alum Guozhao, who was full of shame, stepped forward and bowed his head to ask for instructions: "General, this stubborn enemy will inevitably flee west from Chaoyang through Qingshan Town, and it is likely to break through at the junction of our north and south lines." I implore the general to give him a chance to atone for his sins, and command the 1st Division of the 8th Division and the 33rd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Northern Route Army stationed in Jianping to quickly annihilate the stubborn enemy of the Anjia Army who fled westward, and completely wash away the shame suffered by the whole of our Kwantung Army! ”
Muto Nobuyoshi exhaled slowly, took another deep breath, and waved his hand vigorously:. No! Inadequate! Such strength is not enough to show the determination of our Kwantung Army, plus the First Cavalry Brigade of the Northern Route Army! No, plus an air team! Give everything I have. We must leave this stubborn enemy outside the gate and scatter the ashes! ”
"Hey!"
At seven o'clock in the morning, an earth-shattering and violent explosion suddenly sounded in the newly built station reservoir area in the north of Chaoyang City, and in the blink of an eye, the sky shook and the earth shook, and the huge black mushroom-shaped smoke rushed straight into the nine heavens in the blazing flame impact. Thousands of people and nearly 10,000 people who fled to the south of the city were shocked to the ground, dizzy and tinnitus, and many of them fell to the ground in fright, their faces were pale, and they were terrified when they looked at the fierce black clouds of flames that roared up and rolled violently in the sky.
Immediately afterward, a thunderbolt-like explosion sounded again, and the column of fire at the ammunition depot carried the ammunition fragments and broken beams and masonry flying in the sky, covering most of the northern sky, and the hot air flow mixed with the suffocating thick smoke of gunpowder rushed to the face. This kind of hellish and tragic scene, which has not been seen for a hundred years, frightened thousands of people into weak hands and feet, and cried in all directions, and in the blink of an eye, exclamations and cries rang out.
From this moment on, since 918 onwards. The western Liaoning region has once again begun to see a wave of refugees rolling southward. For more than 100 years, he has recommended the poor people who have survived and wandered outside the gates. Flee back to Kannai in order to survive.
On the high ground five kilometers northwest of the city, all the soldiers stopped and looked back, looking extremely moved. Until the last thick cloud of smoke drifted away in the north wind. The long line continued westward.
On horseback, Yang Jiuxiao looked behind him, bowed his head and said to Gu Changfeng, who was silent and full of pain: "Tiger head, there is really no way, we can only do this, it seems that this explosion will not reach the city and the south of the city, take 10,000 steps back and say, if the entire Chaoyang City is really destroyed, it is also a last resort, this is a life-and-death struggle between countries, otherwise it is not enough to drag the southward pace of the Japanese invaders." ”
Gu Changfeng nodded and sighed: "Yes!" This is your life-and-death war! There is no way back. If the Japanese army could not be kept out of the Great Wall, I don't know how many innocent people would have died
In the slowly moving truck, the grandson of the old man Zhai snuggled up to his father tightly, and saw that his father's cracked and swollen hands were still bleeding, so he hurriedly stuffed his father's hands into his arms, stared at his father's messy and tangled head and dull eyes, and couldn't help but cry again:
"Dad, where's my mother? Why can't I find my mother? I've been in the factory for five or six days, and I look forward to it every day, but my mother doesn't have a shadow, "Dad, why don't you take my mother with you?" Daddy, Daddy".
Two horizontal tears welled up in Teacher Zhai's purple eyes: "Child." Your mother went home to accompany your grandfather, "Child, are you afraid?" ”
The child looked at the wounded people covered in blood in the carriage again: "I'm afraid," Dad, the uncles are all fighting devils like this
"Kid, do you want to be a soldier?"
The child was stunned for a moment, and suddenly threw himself into his father's arms. Howling and crying: "I am not a soldier" I want my mother! Yu "I want to go home"
。 Kid, we don't have a home