Chapter 253: The Final Counterattack in the Battle of Nanjing (Part II)
In the narrow alleys, there are crumbling rubble and raging fires everywhere, and the remains of Chinese and Chinese officers and soldiers show that not long ago, there was a fierce white-knuckle battle here, and the Chinese soldiers armed with a large number of submachine guns, light machine guns and Mauser pistols prepared a large number of grenades.
A large number of infantry responded to the rapid breakthrough of the Jackal light tank to counterattack the line of counterattack, the Jackal tank is an assault unit with three vehicles, and the infantry covering is mainly to prevent the surprise attack of the Molotov cocktail and human bombs of the army, and the rest is all handed over to the Jackal light tank and Hound armored vehicle.
The Type 95 light tank equipped by the Yue Army is now most afraid of the "Jackal" light tank equipped by the Rehe Corps, because the 37 mm and 40 times the body caliber of the 95 light tank equipped with the 95 mm tank gun cannot penetrate the front armor of the "Jackal" light tank even at zero fire distance, while the 50 mm and 60 times the body caliber tank gun of the "Jackal" light tank can easily penetrate the Type 95 tank.
For a time, the chariots of the Yue army were like lit bonfires, and the accompanying infantry suffered heavy casualties, which made Hao Wenbin and Qiu Qingquan very confused that according to normal speaking, the attack of the Yue army encountered a favorable counterattack, and the Yue army usually chose to temporarily retreat and regroup to fight, or attract the other party into their preset fire position.
However, today's person is as crazy as a chicken's blood, and he will not retreat from the desperate battle of screaming? It seems that the heavy artillery brigade of the army is shelling the firing position of the mobile artillery regiment just now? What am I for?
Soon, Hao Wenbin got a report that in addition to concentrating troops on several main roads with the 38-type 75-mm field artillery to counterattack frequently, the army also sent many small troops of dozens of people interspersed with them, as if they were looking for something?
The army did not hesitate to sacrifice to resist its own counterattack troops, and on the one hand, it sent small troops to find something? Hao Wenbin frowned, thought for a while, and suddenly realized, Xiao Yue shouldn't have lost the military flag again, right? When the 11th Brigade of the Assault Infantry was in the past, Hao Wenbin was very sorry that he failed to capture a flag of the army wing, God should not give himself another chance, right?
Hao Wenbin immediately ordered the 18 Dalians of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade to immediately disperse into the two flanks of the counterattack force to meet the search detachment of the Yue Army and search for the flag of the Yue Army Wing.
It can be said that the Rehe Army has been hit by himself in the past month, and when he was in Rehe, he was on guard against the Rehe Army, and he did not dare to patrol the Kwantung Army of the Chaoyang confrontation, for fear that the Rehe Army would take the opportunity to make trouble and fight over, where would he dare to brush his tiger whiskers?
In Nanjing, both in the air and on the ground, the defenders have been in a completely passive attrition defense for more than ten days, and the endless artillery fire was followed by a joint attack by the infantry and chariots, or a large-scale bombing by the bombers of the Japanese army or a strafing fire that was extremely annoying.
Many officers and soldiers were sacrificed under the unscrupulous strafing of the fighters of the army, so this counterattack, the Rehe Army headquarters that held their breath can be said that all the officers and soldiers are fighting bravely to be the first, Nanjing is the capital of China, if it falls easily, as a soldier, the first thing to be sorry for is his ancestors, followed by duty and mission.
The city of Nanjing shook in the scorching artillery fire, and it was said that the officers and soldiers of the two sides spoke different languages and had different wills, and fought together again, with the sound of fighting and shooting! Explosions! Screams! At this moment, it became a battlefield symphony composed with blood and life.
This is the will of the two nations colliding with each other, everyone understands that waiting for the loser will be a catastrophe, so in this war between nations and nations, countries and countries, no one can take a step back, especially China, which is at a disadvantage, a step back is an abyss, and what awaits the Chinese nation will be the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species.
Swear to die and not be a slave to the country! After the fierce shelling, Sun Guiming waved a Mauser rifle with a bayonet and rushed to the top of Niushou Mountain first, followed by the military flag of the Fifth Brigade of the Provisional First Mechanized Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and his blood began to gush at this moment.
Although the heavy artillery group in Jiangbei had previously carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on the peak of Niushou Mountain, because the 11th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade of the Yue Army exposed its firing position because of the shelling of Zhonghua Gate, the two heavy artillery brigades in Jiangbei hurriedly transferred their firepower and carried out a fire suppression counterattack against the heavy artillery brigade of the Yue Army that penetrated deep into the city wall of Nanjing.
Under the condition that the artillery fire was not fully prepared, Sun Guiming led 1,500 remnants to rush to the position of the main peak of Niushou Mountain under the rain of bullets of the army, Sun Guiming bravely inserted the bayonet into the chest of a young commander of the army, and the blood sprayed Sun Guiming's face.
Sun Guiming, who wiped his face, knew that the blood of the little devil who was originally said by the dog was also hot? It's just as fucking fishy as Wang Baxue.
The Chinese soldiers, tormented by hunger and thirst, were like demons crawling out of hell, even though their stomachs were pierced by the bayonets of the Yue army, they still pounced on them, tore the throats of the soldiers with all their might, and gulped down the blood sprayed.
At this moment, the army completely collapsed, under the counterattack of the Chinese soldiers who put them to death, the army abandoned their weapons and fled, which is a rare situation for the army, you must know that the infantry of the army listed weapons as the second life of soldiers, and the army was defeated for hundreds of years, and the living soldiers would take away the weapons of their fallen comrades, and when they could not carry it, they would also be destroyed, and buried and disposed of, so that the enemy army would never have the possibility of using it.
Therefore, it is often [***] to defeat a Chinese army unit and annihilate more than 300 enemies, but at most 20 or 30 rifles are captured.
After occupying the main peak of Niushou Mountain, Sun Guiming fired three green signal flares in the direction of Jiangjun Mountain, which was the contact signal set with Ye Yunfei before, and Sun Guiming felt a pain in his waist at this time and fell to the ground.
The soldiers on the side anxiously shouted for the conscripts, holding on to their brigade seats, and found that in the hand-to-hand combat just now, the medical soldiers and the lightly wounded who participated in the attack with rifles had all been sacrificed and martyred, and Sun Guiming's waist was cut by the command knife of the army for half a foot, and blood was constantly flowing.
Sun Guiming glanced at the direction of General Mountain a little weakly and said, "Brother Ye, brother, I tried my best, and the journey went smoothly!" ”
The rumbling cannon sound is the artillery of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress tilting the last shells in the direction of Yuhuatai, which will be the last roar of the Jiangjun Mountain Fortress.
Ye Yunfei, who was standing on the General Mountain and was organizing the troops to start attacking in the direction of Yuhuatai, solemnly saluted in the direction of Niushou Mountain, Ye Yunfei knew very well that Sun Guiming and his more than 1,000 remnants were using their lives to win a glimmer of life for the defenders of General Mountain.
Ye Yunfei, who was wearing a steel helmet and holding a P-30 submachine gun, pulled the handle and loaded it with a bang, and roared: "Brothers! Now we are no longer divided into artillery, infantry, what Rehe Corps, what teaching corps, we have a unified name, that is, the Chinese [***] people, our lives are fought for us by the brothers on the other side, the military flag is in front, I am behind the military flag, the whole army is behind me, to Yuhuatai to carry out the attack and advance, if it is not successful, it will become benevolent, and the moment of loyalty to the country has come, and there is only one death in the ages! Come on! ”
When the defenders of Jiangjun Mountain broke through, the commander of the 11th Division of the Army, Yamamuro Zongwu, learned the news that the main peak of Niushou Mountain was successfully counterattacked by the Zhong [***], and this news immediately scared Yamamuro Zongwu out of a cold sweat, because Nanjing's Zhong [***] launched a counterattack on the whole front, and the entire division was asking for tactical guidance everywhere? It can be said that the command system of the entire division and even the Central Branch Dispatch Army seems to have fallen into confusion as it thinks? The information that is difficult to distinguish between true and false makes Yamamuro Munetake dare not use the reserve team easily.
When Yamamuro Sowu learned that the Chinese defenders of Yuhuatai did not counterattack to Jiangjun Mountain, it was the group of marmots hiding in the tunnel that succeeded in counterattacking the main peak? Moreover, the Chinese defenders of Jiangjun Mountain also took the opportunity to break through and were attacking the butt of the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division of the 16th Division, Nakajima Imasa, who was attacking Yuhuatai, and as a result, the angry Nakajima Imago was like a defeated rooster who was eager to find an excuse to shirk responsibility.
Yamamuro Somu is naturally not a person who can be easily shirked by Nakajima Imasago Imasa, after choking Nakajima Imago in a few words, Nakajima Imago hung up the phone very ungracefully, but as soon as he turned around, Yamamuro Sotakeshi became angry, because Yamamuro Somu had already regarded Niushou Mountain and the Chinese defenders on General Mountain as a big meal on the plate of the 11th Division, because Yamamuro Somu estimated that there would be at least two Shina generals on Niushou Mountain and General Mountain, and as a result, the boiled duck ran away? Who will be able to accept this?
And the position in his own defense zone was recaptured by the remnants of the [***]? Even this person Yamamuro Sotake couldn't afford to lose, but Yamamuro Sotake, who has always been known for his flexible mind, quickly came up with a perfect solution.
Yamamuro Zongwu personally adjusted the deployment, striving to quickly annihilate the remnants of the middle [***] on the top of Niushou Mountain, and then reported to the Central Branch that he had completely eliminated and defeated the Chinese defenders of Niushou Mountain and Jiangjun Mountain, and conquered the two key positions of Niushou Mountain and Jiangjun Mountain.
The trick of turning defeat into victory Yamamuro Sotakeshi has been played more than once, and it is the same as tactical guidance, but it is just another way of saying it, and Yamamuro Sotake is familiar with this.
In the face of the frenzied attack of the Yue army, Sun Guiming commanded more than 1,500 remnants of the Fifth Brigade of the Rehe Army, still holding on to the main peak of the Niushou Mountain Fortress, Sun Guiming, who was shot in the abdomen, gritted his teeth and said to his adjutant: "Take Lao Tzu's clean military uniform, Lao Tzu will be a clean man, and he will leave cleanly." ”
The 43rd Infantry Wing and the 44th Infantry Wing under the command of Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade under the 11th Division, lined up in a neat straggler line and began to fiercely attack the main peak position of Niushou Mountain.
The position of the main peak of Niushoushan was occupied by Zhong[***], which was a heavy blow to the arrogant Yue army, especially at the critical moment when it was about to break through the position in the direction of the Nanjing city wall. Moreover, the central [***] headquarters of Jiangjun Mountain also broke through at the same time and attacked the flank of the 16th Division attacking Yuhuatai.
Wave after wave of officers and soldiers shouted the spirit of dedication for His Majesty the Emperor, and launched another wave of new onslaught against the middle [***] team on the main peak of Niushou Mountain in a dense attack formation.
Under the personal supervision of the division commander, more than 7,000 troops of the 43rd Infantry Wing and the 44th Infantry Wing under the command of Major General Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa, commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade of the 11th Division, frantically launched a siege on Niushou Mountain.
Bayonet to bayonet, muzzle to muzzle! Carrying explosives bags or blasting canisters to rush into the crowd of the Chinese army, the wounded soldiers made the army frightened, and the two armies abandoned the corpses on the main peak of Niushou Mountain, and the Chinese army knew that the Chinese defenders had no ammunition, so they simply retreated dozens of meters after being defeated for recuperation.
Sun Guiming, who was covered in blood, leaned against a boulder with a rifle, and instructed the communication soldiers: "Clear code telegram, the Fifth Brigade of the Vocational Department has taken over the position of Niushou Mountain since May 11, 26th of the Republic of China, and the army launched an attack in the early morning of the 25th. All the officers and soldiers of the department should live and die together with the position, and wish the final victory of the war of resistance against the Japanese, and the restoration of the land in the north and the south! ”
After the telegram was sent, the telegram immediately burned the codebook and smashed the radio station, and the officers and soldiers in the vicinity were silently watching, because everyone knew very well that they would usher in the final moment of the Fifth Brigade.
Suddenly, a group of red, red, green, and red signal flares were launched in the direction of Yuhuatai in the distance, Sun Guiming knew that it was the 88th Division asking about the situation in the direction of Niushoushan, so he ordered to launch signal flares to return to the position and still in our hands, but only one red signal flare was found?
Sun Guiming shook his head helplessly and said, "Launch!" They will be able to know what it means! ”
The communications officer of the 88th Division put down his binoculars in confusion and said, "What does a red flare mean?" ”
Ye Yunfei, who was standing on the side, also put down the binoculars, took a deep breath and said, "The ammunition is exhausted, but the position is still in our hands." ”
The last moment of the Fifth Infantry Brigade of the First Mechanized Division of the Rehe Army has finally arrived, and Yamamuro Somu personally entered the front line, and the spirit of fighting to the end in the middle [***] of running out of ammunition and food made Yamamuro Munetake extremely shocked, if each of the [***] in the middle of the resistance to the end as if they were so dead? So when will the Imperial Army occupy the whole of China? What is the price to pay?
Major General Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu, the commander of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, personally led the two brigades of the army to march in a neat formation to the main peak of Niushou Mountain, twenty meters away from the front of the Chinese defenders' position, the tall and meaty Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu slowly pulled out his katana, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu glanced at the position of the main peak of Niushou Mountain in the dark night and said: "We say that the imperial army of this empire has never been defeated by any enemy from the front, and today we want to let these recalcitrant [***] see what the Yamato samurai soul is, What is the spirit of bushido, all of them have a bullet to retreat! ”
The magazine of the Type 38 rifle equipped by the soldiers of the Yue Army is fixed, and the bolt must be pulled repeatedly to withdraw the bullet, because the penetration force of the Type 38 rifle is very large, so it is easy to cause accidental injury when shooting in hand-to-hand combat, and the Yue Army has always been proud of the means of victory in white-knuckle combat.
However, when facing the [***] elite troops such as the Rehe Army and the Teaching Corps, the army rarely used this tactic of hand-to-hand combat, and this time the main reason was that the Chinese defenders had run out of ammunition and food, so Heiyan Yoshikatsu was unscrupulous to completely crush the resistance spirit and will of the [***] through white-knuckle combat.
Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's arrogant behavior stimulated all the Chinese defenders, and many officers and soldiers stared at a three-cornered star on the big yellow background on Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's shoulder with red eyes, which was the symbol of the generals! Why didn't you save one more bullet?
Wang Huaizhong is a corporal squad deputy belonging to the reconnaissance company of the 10th Regiment of the Fifth Brigade, a native of Jinzhou, Liaoning Province in northeast China, Wang Huaizhong has a very bad habit, that is, he loves to hide things, whether it is food or ammunition, he is willing to hide a little by himself, everyone is out of ammunition and food, but Wang Huaizhong still hides a P-18G submachine gun magazine.
It just so happened that Heiyan Yoshikatsu was standing not far from Wang's arms, and by the light of the burning fire, Wang found this big fish in his arms!
Come on! Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu waved his katana, and the rows of soldiers suddenly rushed to the defenders' positions like a sea of mountains, and Wang Huaizhong also roared and rushed out of the trench, at this moment there was only one person in his eyes, and after knocking over the two soldiers with the butt of his gun in a row, Wang Huaizhong was already deep into the enemy formation, and he was only five meters away from Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu, who was still standing in place.
The army also discovered the intention of the Chinese soldier who rushed straight to the commander of the Kuroiwa Yisheng Brigade with a submachine gun, and a Shao Zuo hurriedly pulled out a southern-style pistol and shot desperately at Wang's arms, and two staff officers of the Yue army also stood in front of Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu and pulled out a southern-style pistol.
Wang Huaizhong also pulled the trigger the moment he was hit, da! Dada! The two staff officers of the Yue army shot at each other at a distance almost from the muzzle of the gun in Wang's arms, and immediately blood flew everywhere, and he did not expect that a Chinese soldier still had a whole magazine of bullets.
The stubborn resistance of the army staff officer failed to save Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's surname in the end, and after Wang Huaizhong, who was shot more than a dozen times, fell to the ground with a satisfied smile on his face, Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu, who was hit by five bullets, also fell to the ground with an unbelievable expression, because before this, Maeda Daisa also commanded the troops to carry out many attacks, confirming that Naka[***] was indeed running out of ammunition, so Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu took the risk to reach the front line in person, in order to leave an impression of bravery to the division commander Yamamuro Sotake.
(To be continued)