Chapter 297: A Chaotic Night
The commander of the 1st Division of the 14th Army came to see Wei Lihuang in tears, and he said pitifully while wiping his tears:
"It's not that our army doesn't work hard, it's that the enemy is too cunning, military seat, don't you know, the soldiers of the magical battalion are all night owls, and the guns are too accurate at night.
No matter whether our brothers are running or climbing, as long as they are within 100 meters of their position, there is no one who will not be bombed or shot.
The most important thing is that I don't know what method they used, and the more than a dozen pounds of cluster grenades were thrown more than 100 meters away. At night, our brothers couldn't have found the black grenade at all.
A lot of grenades were thrown under their feet, only to find that they were smoking. As for the shadow of the enemy, I can't even see half of it.
Our division risked death to attack three times, sacrificing a regiment commander, two battalion commanders, four company commanders, and more than 600 brothers who did not touch the other people's positions.
But there were only a few hundred of them, so why did they have so many machine guns? Why don't they just blow it up? ”
Listening to the report of the first division commander, Wei Lihuang couldn't help muttering, this magical battalion is so magical? Looks like it's not time to attack tonight.
Because he couldn't figure out how the Magical First Battalion could accurately attack his soldiers at night.
Attacking without knowing the enemy is not the work of a wise man. Although he could still guess the approximate way in which the Fantastic First Battalion would have avoided the shelling, it didn't matter.
Anyway, it was getting late, and it was not suitable to observe the position anymore, Wei Lihuang comforted the commander of the first division and asked them to withdraw to the rear to rest.
Tomorrow, after breakfast, let the men of the third division attack first. After all, they used to be a soldier, maybe their own people have a way to deal with their own people.
Now after a day of fighting, Commander Wei Lihuang has calmed down, anyway, the 19th Route Army can't find a boat on the seaside, and there are navy patrol boats in the sea, so it is difficult for them to fly with their wings.
Wei Lihuang was so sympathetic to his subordinates that he was grateful to the soldiers of the First Division, and while retreating to the station, everyone swore in their hearts that after dawn tomorrow, everyone would make persistent efforts to take half of the hill.
When the time comes, while attacking, he will indicate the direction of the shelling, and I don't believe that the bunnies of the 19th Route Army will not be killed.
After most of the night's attack, the 14th Army under the mountain was also tired, and everyone arranged a battalion of people under the mountain to be responsible for guarding, and then Wei Lihuang rested in the command post for a night.
The officers and officers of the various generals and colonels also know that tomorrow's battle is the real battle, so everyone should rest early, sleep well, and prepare to fight again tomorrow.
At this time, the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Regiment of the 2nd Division under the mountain had just dressed in single clothes and placed a few fires at the bottom of the mountain, chatting while roasting the fire, and everyone was laughing at the performance of the 1st Division during the day.
It is estimated that tomorrow will be the third division of Xintoucheng to take the lead, I heard that the soldiers of the third division are all recruits of the original 19th Route Army, and they will not resist the fight, and I don't know if the 3rd Division will be able to capture the magical battalion known as the ace army of the 19th Route Army tomorrow.
However, after today's daytime battle, the soldiers of the Second Division admired this magical battalion, it was really amazing, hundreds of people were crippled in three regiments.
There's a whole brigade of troops, and I've heard that they have very few casualties, don't you think that's amazing enough? This is even more magical than the Japanese army's attack on the Northeast Army.
At that time, the magic of the magical camp was still behind, and when the soldiers of this battalion were still chatting about the magical camp, I saw that more than 100 magical brothers had already assembled behind the mountain.
Regardless of the fatigue of the day's fighting, they prepared to steal the camp again tonight, although there was a battalion of the enemy guarding the hill. But they knew that as long as they climbed over a small cliff, there was a path that led to the bottom of the mountain.
There are still two hours left before dawn, and this is the time when human beings are at their most curly, and at this time, several soldiers of the Second Division who are responsible for guarding a key road under the mountain can't open their eyes, only to see a few soldiers dressed as the 19th Route Army suddenly come in the distance.
A soldier pulled down the bolt of his gun and shouted, "Password!" ”
I only heard the person on the other side say impatiently: "Fart, it's time to change shifts, you guys go back to sleep, right?" ”
As soon as they heard that they were here to change shifts, the soldiers who were already dying, did not investigate why the comer did not answer the password. Put away the gun and huff and go back.
Before they could take a few steps, several soldiers who had come to change shifts suddenly rushed from behind and put several people down, except for one who was covered in his mouth, and the others were killed by a knife.
Then, just as the soldier was in shock, a hideous face appeared in front of him, and the man covering his mouth asked in a vicious voice: "Password!" ”
"Yellow River!" The soldier of the 2nd Division replied reflexively.
Then I felt a pain in my neck, then a cold, and then my eyes fell into darkness.
The commander of the first company, who had just taken out the password, quietly told the people around him the password, and then everyone pulled the bodies of several guards to hide in the shadows.
Several people began to pretend to perform the duty of standing guard for the 14th Army, and then, I saw the second company commander, the third company commander, and Jin Sanpang each passing through this post with a small team of more than 20 people, and everyone rushed to their own goals.
Battalion Commander Liu's strategy for everyone was to disguise themselves as patrols and search in the barracks, first select a few spare targets, and after 20 minutes, whether or not they found the command post of the 14th Army, they would launch an attack and create chaos.
And Battalion Commander Liu's strategy was very successful, he took advantage of the fact that the 14th Army had just reorganized a part of the soldiers of the 19th Route Army during the day, and the soldiers on both sides were not familiar with each other and were wary of each other, and he pretended to be the soldiers of the Third Division who had just surrendered to the city, so it was not seamless?
Plus, everyone got the patrol password for tonight. Several company commanders naturally felt like no one in Wei Lihuang's camp.
The team led by the second company commander Wang Zehui reached the door of the headquarters very smoothly along the way, but this Wei Lihuang is well versed in the art of war after all, so his command is not only tightly defended, but also guarded by all the soldiers of his own guard battalion, and even the password is different from the patrol outside.
So when the second company commander Wang Zehui was about to reach the time limit, he secretly made all the preparations for battle, and then he walked towards Wei Lihuang's headquarters.
When they were about to arrive at the headquarters, the soldiers of the guard battalion in charge of the guards shouted in the dark: "Who is it? Password! ”
Wang Zehui, who knew that this password must not be the "Yellow River", shouted:
"Mom, you don't even know who Lao Tzu is? Can you protect the Commander? Also, look at what you say, and don't speak clearly, do you know that your password is wrong? ”
Then, taking advantage of the moment when the guards were scolded, he immediately pulled out the box cannon on his waist and fired at the guard battalion soldiers in front of the command department, and at the same time, the two dozen soldiers around him also quickly pulled out the guns behind their backs and began to rush towards the various rooms of the headquarters.
More than a dozen grenades were thrown at the headquarters by the commander of the second company, only to hear a few loud rumbling sounds, the temporary headquarters collapsed, and at the same time, the 14th Army's station, there were earth-shattering shouts of killing in several directions.
"The captain of the guard has been killed, everyone flee quickly." The second company commander shouted loudly first.
"The Third Division has rebelled, quickly kill the people of the Third Division." Several other fighters began to spread rumors loudly.
"Brothers of the Third Division, Commander Cai has come to save us." There were many places in the dark night where this inexplicable shouting sounded.
"Kill the minions of the Fourteenth Army." This is to hear that the people of the Third Division have really rebelled.
Everywhere there were gunshots, explosions, all kinds of shouts of confusion at the headquarters of the Fourteenth Army, and soon this confusion spread like a plague throughout the night.
I don't know if the second division of the 14th Army, which was in charge of defense, attacked the third division first, or the brothers of the third division attacked the second division first, anyway, the garrisons of the second and third divisions were the first to be in chaos.
The soldiers on both sides beat me, I beat you, and even the commanders of the troops were confused. The Second Division thought that the Third Division and the 19th Route Army were in harmony with each other, while the Third Division thought that Wei Lihuang was going back on his word and wanted to take advantage of the night to clean up these men and horses of the Third Division who had just surrendered.
The commander of the 3rd Division was even more like a frightened bird, he was the first to lead the troops to retreat to the rear, and the direction of their retreat happened to pass by the station of the 1st Division, and as a result, the 1st Division of course had to intercept the 3rd Division that had left the battlefield without receiving an order.
So the soldiers of the Third Division strengthened Wei Lihuang's idea of wanting to kill people and kill people. So the officers and men of the 3rd Division first attacked the camp of the 1st Division.
However, because the 1st Division lost nearly a brigade of men and horses in broad daylight, it did not dare to take the initiative to attack the 3rd Division, which had fled inland, and could only organize a defense on the spot to resist the 3rd Division's breakthrough into the interior. As a result, the two sides fought fiercely in the dark night.
At this time, the 2nd Division, which received the 3rd Division's attack on the 1st Division's station, finally believed that the 3rd Division had finally rebelled, so they chased the 3rd Division from behind, and finally the 3rd Division was attacked by the 1st and 2nd Divisions, and all of them abandoned their weapons and surrendered before dawn.
At this time, the headquarters of the 14th Army had already been in a mess, with small detachments of four or five groups of more than 20 people killing people everywhere and setting fires, the material depot was set on fire, the combat readiness depot was blown up, and even the hundreds of pack horses used to carry them were let go, causing hundreds of frightened pack horses to run rampant all over the camp, and the sound was even more chaotic.
When the entire headquarters of the 14th Army was in a sea of fire, these small detachments began to shout loudly the slogan of chasing and killing the rebels, smoothly ran out of the garrison of the 14th Army, and then returned to the defensive position halfway up the mountain with large bags and small bags on their backs.