Chapter 89: The Longest Night (5)
The unexpected onslaught of the army made Zhang Xuewu also a little uncertain, his plan was to hold Chengde for at least twenty days or a month, so that Beiping could mobilize enough troops to use the passes along the Great Wall to put the Yue army in to fight a war of annihilation, but this was only the first day of the battle, and the new first regiment of the main force he relied on Xu Guohui's department was almost disabled, and two of the four battalions of the main force were pulled down and reorganized as reserves, and the remaining troops could not even make up a battalion?
Under extremely favorable conditions of firepower and terrain, the battle was fought like this? Zhang Xuewu shuddered a little, saying that he was ready to fight himself! If the army insists on attacking the three support points on its periphery, then the defense it has arranged in the city will not play any role.
Never give up! In an instant, Zhang Xuewu drove this thought out of his mind, if he gave up the outside support point, how much artillery fire could Chengde City in the land of projectiles withstand? Zhang Xuewu estimated that the newly formed First Regiment had lost at least 1,500 people in the Laohugou position, and about 700 light and serious wounded were successively concentrated in the field hospital of the girls' middle school.
Zhang Xuewu doesn't believe that the soldiers are made of iron and copper? They don't have fatigue, they don't have fear? Play hard with Lao Tzu! Zhang Xuewu hesitated for a moment and said: "Order the two mechanized companies under the deputy commander of the mechanized regiment Tang Ziqiang to launch vehicles and counterattack troops into the position, and the counteroffensive originally scheduled for six o'clock in the morning was advanced to five o'clock, and the task of the mechanized company is to destroy the field artillery positions in the rear of the Chinese army at all costs." ”
After Tang Ziqiang, who was standing on the Venera armored car, received the order, he looked at the Venenera armored car and the Renault FT17 tank that were ready to go, his arm drew a few circles in the air, signaled all the vehicles to start, and looked at the infantry who were ready to follow the vehicle Tang Ziqiang's heart had a slight bottom, the combat vehicle that lost the protection of the infantry was very easy to be destroyed by the opponent's individual soldiers, so at the beginning of the training, Zhang Xuewu transferred a group of infantry and tanks to train together.
The joke of the long-distance march has made the mechanized regiment hold its breath from top to bottom, and the people are high-spirited and angry, but the Renault FT17 tank is not shallow, and three tanks cannot be started, so angry that the crew squatted next to the tank to wipe their tears, and the infantry who coordinated the operation were annoyed and kicked and beat the tank, and the result was secretly injured.
Tang Ziqiang had no choice but to order the maintenance battalion to tow the three tanks to the corner of the old street in Beikou, dig a pit and bury them, and build a ring fortress with bluestone to serve as a crossfire point.
Is he alone on the front line in Chengde? Zhang Xuewu decided that Lao Tzu didn't have anything to sleep, so I'm sorry for the big men in Beiping and Nanjing, can't we desperately sleep in front of the battle after you shout in the rear, right?
So, Zhang Xuewu immediately drafted a telegram, since the order to stick to Chengde, the ministry did not dare to slack off, every time they reinforced, hoarded ammunition, now said that more than 40,000 people besieged the city to attack, said that Kou Xue night siege city without any offensive intermission? One-third of the casualties of the staff are intended, and the intention is to give the living force of the Kou to kill and shrink the defense! The soldiers of the lone division of the department, when they use their flesh and blood to block the 200,000 army of the Kou, will fight to the last soldier and a bullet, and all the officers and soldiers of the new division of the first division of the department will swear to live and die with Chengde! Please also defend the Great Wall with strong troops to prepare for the enemy!
After Zhang Xuewu sent the telegram, he immediately led a guard company to the front line of Laohugou, which was the most fierce battle, and the front line of Laohugou, which was killed in the dark, has become a purgatory on earth, in front of the position about 300 meters long and 200 meters wide, the heavy snow has long been melted by the shells, and all that remains is layers of corpses, and the soldiers of the army are stepping on the corpses wave after wave and constantly shouting and screaming and rushing up! There were even a few officers of the army who stripped off their arms and charged forward brandishing their command knives, which made the Chinese soldiers seem to have an illusion in the bitterly cold early morning of minus 30 degrees?
Hu Dahai, Qi Jingyi, and Gu Peng, who were in the back-up firepower, can be said to be very lucky, almost all of the back-hitting firepower points were found and destroyed by the Yue army, and their firepower point was not detected by the Yue army because it was located next to a tree root, and more importantly, Hu Dahai did not use Czech-made light machine guns and submachine guns, but used two Mauser rifles to shoot unhurriedly alternately.
Of course, it was not without danger, and the two soldiers of the Yue Army who tried to stuff grenades into the firing point were killed by Gu Peng with a submachine gun and fell on the firing point, becoming the last camouflage.
"Your grandmother, just strip naked?" Hu Dahai scolded, and with the help of the flash of the explosion, he put the fierce commander of the army into the crosshairs, and with a bang, the commander of the army fell to the ground in response, Hu Dahai grinned and kicked Qi Jingyi, who was pressing the bullet, and said: "Kill an official, that is, strip naked, remember!" ”
Because he was dissatisfied that he could only suppress the bullet for Hu Dahai, Qi Jingyi said angrily: "How do you know that you are an official?" If you take off your shirt, you can't tell the difference, understand? It is said that the commander of the army and the military cao are equipped with sabers, for the sake of rigor, I can only give you one suspected officer, or one military cao! Take your pick! ”
Only then did Hu Dahai find out that this scholar who had drunk ink really couldn't be offended, otherwise you wouldn't have to pick the hour to wear small shoes, a Cao Chang is only a few oceans, and how many is an officer? In desperation, I had to discuss while fighting: "I said Brother Qi! Why don't you take a few shots? I'll help you press the bullets? ”
Qi Jingyi glanced at Hu Dahai and said: "Don't do it, my gun is not as accurate as yours, which is equivalent to cheapening Xiao Yueben!" ”
You! You! Hu Dahai didn't come out of you in the end, and in the end he could only vent all his anger on his head, and Hu Dahai, who shot the black gun from behind, was almost addicted, and he made up for his clumsiness with diligence!
Compared with Hu Dahai's situation, Zhanyang is much more miserable, although his position is also very good, but at the beginning he used Czech light machine guns and submachine guns, and the army fell to the ground piece by piece like cutting wheat, but the good times did not last long, the long muzzle flame of the Czech-made light machine gun exposed their location, and a ** grenade was stuffed by a dying soldier, and the two recruits pounced on the grenade one after another, and Zhanyang was also stunned.
When Zhanyang woke up, he found that the blood had already been frozen on his face, and his headache was like a crack, and his two bloody subordinates had already died for a long time, and he took out a desperate letter from the pocket of one of the soldiers, and the envelope of the desperate letter stained red with blood was written on the mother's honor.
Zhanyang's heart suddenly chuckled, it couldn't be small glasses, right? This batch of student soldiers recruited in Tianjin is the lifeblood of the division, and he obviously left his small glasses, when did he enter the firepower point with him? Little Glasses' mother made a maid pulp wash for him to study, and even sold her ancestral house in order to let him go to college! He once patted his chest and promised his mother, who was full of silver-haired glasses, that he would definitely bring his son back safely......