Chapter 172: Serving the Country with Loyalty (3)

Hengshan Yongbai gave Fang Jing and Lu Qingfu a piece of military exploits, but he suffered a dumb loss, and he couldn't spare his troops to play a feint, so he attacked Changsha with all his might, making Lu Qingyang fall into a cluster of devils.

Lu Qingyang waved his troops and approached Yiyang.

Yiyang is only more than 100 kilometers away from Changde, Lu Qingmeng's vanguard regiment rushed to Yiyang City in a day and night rapid march, 3 Tianyu Flying Thunder and dozens of single-shot meteor Flying Thunder burst into a fierce bombardment, less than half an hour to break through the periphery of the devil, directly into the city.

There is a heavy wing of devils in Yiyang City, but one part of the troops is divided to garrison the Yuanjiang River, and another part is sent to the front line to deliver supplies, and the remaining little troops are really not enough for Lu Qingmeng to draw a regiment, and in less than a day, Lu Qingmeng controlled the Yiyang city and most of the peripheral positions.

Lu Qingyang led the team to rest and make up for a while in Yiyang, leaving Lu Qingmeng to garrison Yiyang, and the main force went straight to the front line of Xiangyin and Miluo.

The devil's combat method is often a way of fighting without regard for the front and the back because of the limitation of troops, that is, concentrating troops to fight on the front line, and concentrating on breaking through, breaking through, and breaking through again, while the second line is relatively empty, and only a few troops guarantee the transportation line.

The devil's ** force is still useful, and when the Luqing Yang Department arrived at the Xiangjiang ferry south of Xiangyin, the two wings of the devil had firmly controlled the ferry.

The devil's blocking force is a baggage wing on the second line and a cavalry wing for emergency reinforcements, and the three brigades of the baggage wing have more than 200 trucks to transport more than 2,000 people, and the devils in a hurry have used all the equipment transported to the front line, so there are more than 70 heavy machine guns, more than 20 mortars and even 16 mountain guns, so the firepower is very powerful. The cavalry wing also has 1 tank brigade, 18 tanks, 18 armored vehicles, more than 40 trucks, more than 30 anti-aircraft guns, more than 30 anti-aircraft machine guns, 2 cavalry brigades, more than 800 war horses, and dozens of light and heavy machine guns, dozens of infantry guns, mountain artillery, plus an artillery brigade, 12 105mm howitzers, such a powerful troop configuration, it can be seen that the devil's intelligence is accurate and attaches great importance to the instructor!

Lu Qingwei's vanguard regiment was bombarded by the devils and lost half of their men and horses, so they had to retreat urgently, but the devil cavalry actually crossed the river to chase and kill.

Although Lu Qingwei's regiment suffered heavy losses, the troops that had been in battle formations for a long time and were strictly trained did not disperse, and the troops still retreated in an orderly manner by rescuing the wounded, gathering equipment, and covering the fire of various units. Therefore, the devil cavalry that caught up was hit by the light and heavy machine guns of Lu Qingwei's department, the rain and thunder, and the meteor thunder, and more than 100 devil cavalry were killed and wounded in vain.

Lu Qingyang got the report, and hurriedly ordered the Lu Qingbao Regiment and the firepower troops under the personal command of Lu Qingsheng to go up, and the Lu Qingwei Regiment withdrew to Yiyang to transfer with the Lu Qingmeng Regiment, and the field hospital under the direct regiment was transferred back to Yiyang to establish a rear hospital; At the same time, a telegram was sent to Chennault requesting air support.

Lu Qingyang commanded the artillery regiment to carry out a covering bombardment of the devil's position on the opposite shore of the 10 8-mounted Foguang Flying Thunder, and the dense flying thunder bombed the defensive position of the devil on the opposite bank into a sea of fire, and 20 4-mounted Foguang Flying Thunder took advantage of the devil's self-care and unclear vision to go out 4 kilometers to bomb the devil's second-line artillery position, and the Tianyu Flying Thunder advanced another 3 kilometers, and bombed all positions against the devil with 20 8-combined Tianyu Flying Thunder, and 40 4-pack Tianyu Flying Thunder carried out fire surveillance on the devil.

Lu Qingyang's 10 8-mounted Foguang Flying Thunder and 20 4-mounted Foguang Flying Thunder are equivalent to 160 heavy artillery pieces of the devil, covering a bombing area of nearly one million square meters at one time, and a bombing area of several million square meters for many times.

Before the devil's doom came to an end, Chennault's flying team also arrived, which made the devil's artillery wing worse, Lu Qingyang hurriedly contacted the flying team to stop the bombing, and used the saved ammunition for the devil's other artillery units.

The devil is not a vegetarian either, and in the artillery battle with the instructor, he also destroyed the instructor's 3 4-mounted Foguang Flying Thunder launchers and 9 4-mounted Tianyu Flying Thunder launchers. Lu Qingyang ordered the troops to quickly sort out the formation and equipment to cross the Xiangjiang River.

Just when the troops crossed the river, the devil planes arrived, braving the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the Wu Mu Army, bombing and diving strafing, and after paying the price of nine planes, they also destroyed Lu Qingyang's two eight-pack Foguang Flying Mine launchers, three four-pack Foguang Flying Mine launchers, 11 eight-pack Tianyu Flying Mine launchers, and a batch of ammunition and soldiers.

The casualties of Lu Qingyang's instructor were nearly one-fifth, and with the non-combat attrition, only three-fifths of the troops remained, but Lu Qingyang's troops advanced without retreating, and still fought all the way to the east, rushing to Pingjiang according to the established plan.

Lu Qingyang seized 152 trucks and more than 7 armored vehicles of the devils when he forcibly crossed the Xiangjiang River, Lu Qingyang divided 70 trucks to transport the wounded, and loaded 7 armored vehicles with 4 combined Buddha light flying mines, with the Lu Qingbao regiment and 802 trucks missing a battalion to search and advance south along the Xiangjiang River, striking at the rear transportation lines of the devils, hospitals, supply stations, **, and traffic command posts are all targets to eliminate, as well as collecting gasoline and diesel; The main forces advanced to Pingjiang and joined up with the ** troops there.

After discovering that the instructor had divided his troops, he thought that the troops to the south were the main force, so he sent planes to carry out non-stop tailgating bombing, and at the same time dispatched two infantry wings and two field artillery brigades from the outskirts of Changsha to lay traps for Lu Qingbao.

The bombing of the devil plane caused a lot of losses to Lu Qingbao, more than 200 casualties, damaged 3 armored vehicles equipped with Foguang flying mines, 11 trucks, and the Lu Qingbao regiment also shot down 3 devil planes. In the face of the ghostly devil plane, Lu Qingbao planned to speed up the march and advance to get rid of the bombing of the devil plane, but unexpectedly plunged into the devil's ambush circle.

Lu Qingbao saw that he was ambushed by the devils, and while reporting to Lu Qingyang, he gathered his troops to defend on the spot: two infantry battalions defended the east and west, and the fire battalion and armored vehicle Foguang Feilei prepared fire reinforcements.

The devil's reconnaissance plane clearly saw Lu Qingbao's troop deployment and used its planes to bomb the firepower unit in the center again, causing great losses to the firepower unit.

At this time, Lu Qingyang called, the reinforcements were blocked, and the terrain was not conducive to marching and rescue, so he ordered Lu Qingbao to break through in the direction of Changsha and join the defenders of Changsha.

Lu Qingbao saw that the devil's plane was eyeing his Buddha light flying thunder, and the target of the flying thunder was too big, and he couldn't avoid the devil's plane anyway, so it was better to try his best to give full play to the power of the Buddha light flying thunder, and fight with the devil to break the net, so he ordered Lu Qingcai to command the remaining 2 Buddha light flying thunder to attack all the way to the south, and the Buddha light flying thunder used up all the ammunition as soon as possible.

The two Foguang flying mines commanded by Lu Qingcai gathered more than 20 times more ammunition because other flying mine launchers were destroyed, so they only bombarded indiscriminately in the direction where the devils were concentrated, and even disregarded the casualties caused to the friendly troops, and killed a bloody road, and attacked directly to the Laodao River less than 3 kilometers north of Changsha, and the two armored vehicles were blown up by the devil artillery at the same time; Lu Qingcai was red-eyed, and ordered the infantry to set up the naked bullets of the Buddha Light Flying Thunder with rocks, trees, and ridges, ignite them by hand, and continue to fire the flying thunder at the devils, and must rush across the Laodao River and enter Changsha.

On the north bank of the Laodao River, Lu Qingcai was blown up by a cannonball, all the flying thunders were fired, and only 7 soldiers remained in the infantry of 1 company.

When Lu Qingbao learned that the ninth brother was killed, he did not mess up, and transferred Lu Qingxian to command the fire battalion to open the road and forcibly cross the Laodao River.

Lu Qingxian commanded the flying thunder of the fire battalion to quickly break through the defense line of the Laodao River of the devils, destroyed the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions of the two brigade levels of the devils, and covered the infantry to rush across the Laodao River, and then were divided by the devil's troops and infantry on the north and south banks of the Laodao River......

At this time, Changsha had been captured, and Lu Qingbao was surrounded by devils.

Lu Qingxian commanded the guards to block the encircled devil infantry with shell guns, and still provided fire support to Lu Qingbao's infantry across the river, until the devils broke through the position, Lu Qingxian detonated all the flying thunders and died with the devils!

Lu Qingbao heard the explosion on the other side of the Laodao River, and knew that his brother had no chance of surviving, and just issued an order to all the remaining personnel to fight to the end, he was strafed by the devil plane, and was hit by 19 bullets.

The Luqing Leopard Regiment was wiped out!

Lu Qingyang learned that the second brother's whole regiment was gone, and he had no time to grieve and be angry, so he calmly judged the situation, the ghost reconnaissance plane was tracking endlessly, and he was unable to get rid of it, and he was trapped in the rear of the devil, it was impossible to go to Pingjiang, so it was better to take advantage of the fact that the devil's plane could not come out at night, kill back to Yiyang overnight, and meet Lu Qingmeng's troops.

Lu Qingyang's decision saved the instructor, dodged the combined attack of the two brigades of the devil, and returned to Yiyang smoothly.

Lu Qingfu and Fang Jing established a deep trust, so Fang Jing sent a large number of men to transport Yiyang's wounded back to Changde, and at the same time transported a large amount of ammunition for supplies.

Fang Jing learned that the Lu brothers lost 3 people in the first battle, and sent a message of condolences to Lu Qingyang. Lu Qingyang learned from Lu Qingfu that he had a relationship with Fang Jing, so he called Fang Jing back to thank him, and made a reluctant request, asking the 66th Army to send a unit to garrison Yiyang as the rear base of the instructor.

Fang Jing readily agreed and sent two regiments to Yiyang.

At this time, Changsha was lost, and the devils attacked Hengyang non-stop. At this time, the instructor was assigned to the Ninth War Zone, and Xue Yue learned that the instructor had suffered heavy losses, and although the troops were tight, he still ordered the instructor to go to Loudi for training.

Lu Qingyang reported to Xue Yue that although the instructor fought continuously and suffered heavy casualties, the troops were well-trained, well-equipped, and well-supplied, and they could still fight again and serve the country!

Xue Yue deeply felt the strength of the instructor's combat effectiveness, and instructed him to maneuver and fight west of the Xiangjiang River and choose his own fighters!

Lu Qingyang received contact from the logistics base in Zhuzhou in Yiyang, and the sideline battalion had sent most of the supplies to the Wumu Group Army under the condition that Jing Yukun was friendly and cameo as the commander-in-chief, and the troops had retreated to the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in Xiangtan under the leadership of General Jing Yukun.

Lu Qingyang replied, waiting to join the main force.

Lu Qingyang ordered Lu Qingsheng to be the acting head of the regiment to re-establish the Lu Qingbao Regiment, the Lu Qingfu battalion was the backbone of the Lu Qingbao Regiment, and Lu Qingfu was the deputy head of the regiment.

After the troops rested, they marched to the west flank of Ningxiang and Changsha, with the Lu Qingmeng Regiment as the vanguard, and the Lu Qingwei Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, the directly subordinate regiment, and the Lu Qingbao Regiment followed in turn.

The devil in Ningxiang knew that he was not the opponent of the instructor, so he retreated into Changsha without firing a shot.

Lu Qingyang arrived at Yuelu Mountain, the commanding heights of the west wing of Changsha, at this time Changsha and Yuelu Mountain have been lost for many days, but there are still many ** stragglers and small units of troops and devils insist on tug-of-war, which makes Lu Qingyang very surprised, so he called Lu Qingfu and asked him to sneak into Yuelu Mountain, rescue, collect the ** stragglers who insist on fighting, and fill the newly built Lu Qingbao Regiment, such soldiers are exactly what the instructor wants!

After Lu Qingfu gathered the stragglers in Yuelu Mountain to the outside of the mountain, Lu Qingyang ordered all the Buddha Light Flying Thunder to fire together, and after three rounds of volleys, the three infantry regiments of the instructor rushed into Yuelu Mountain together, cleared the remnants of the enemy, occupied important places, and arranged fire points.

Lu Qingyang ordered Lu Qingsheng and Lu Qingfu to command Lu Qingbao's regiment to guard Yuelu Mountain and wait for other troops to take over.

Lu Qingfu organized the stragglers into each company, and arranged the mountain artillery, infantry artillery, mortar, and anti-aircraft artillery captured in the early stage of the battle in each advantageous position at one time. Flat-fire artillery is a direct-aim firepower, which is convenient for the best work, and more recruits are arranged to be accommodated, and the direct team infiltrates the periphery of Changsha City as an artillery observer to provide artillery target parameters for mortars, infantry guns, and mountain artillery on Yuelu Mountain.

Lu Qingfu is now a small number of soldiers and artillery, 17 105mm, 75mm mountain artillery, 21 90mm, 120mm, 150mm mortars, 25 70mm 92 infantry guns, 11 flat-fire snipers, 13 anti-aircraft automatic guns, a total of 87 artillery, new and old soldiers together is more than 800 people, and there are plenty of shells, so the infantry can not touch the artillery in peacetime, now everyone fights in a different way, anti-aircraft automatic guns, flat-fire snipers are large rifles, machine guns, Just aim and shoot; Infantry artillery can also be used as a flat-fire gun; The mortar has to calculate the angle of fire and distance, which is more troublesome, but it takes more shells to master it; The large-caliber mountain artillery is technically difficult, and it is necessary to use the artillery team mirror to measure the range, observe and sight, and draw a map on the map, and cooperate with the artillery observers, but everyone is still in high spirits, and they are stunned to hold on to it for 2 months under the repeated siege of the devils and the bombing of aircraft, and only lose more than 100 people and 11 artillery pieces.

Lu Qingyang led the instructor to advance all the way to the south, and found the sideline team led by Jing Yukun and more than 2,000 workers on the periphery of Xiangtan, Lu Qingyang decisively forcibly incorporated the workers into the army, supplemented the personnel loss of the troops, and sent people to escort Jing Yukun out of the battlefield.

The devils on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River are weak, and they were defeated by Lu Qingyang all the way to beat rabbits and defeat several small groups of devils, and they sheltered thousands of stragglers, and the troops expanded to more than 20,000 people, but the troops were mixed with too many stragglers and recruits composed of ordinary people from other troops, and the combat effectiveness dropped sharply, and the supply of ammunition was also seriously insufficient, and at this time, the Lu Qingbao regiment led by Lu Qingfu was besieged by the devils on Yuelu Mountain, Lu Qingyang decided to transfer the veterans and fierce soldiers in the stragglers to make up for the instructor, and the other troops were lightly wounded by the instructor, The main force once again crossed the Xiangjiang River eastward and attacked the front line of Liling and Pingxiang to cut off the back route of the devil's southward troops.

The Devil Mentor reappeared on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River and sent a mixed brigade to meet the attack, in an attempt to defeat the elite troops of this ** army in one fell swoop.

Lu Qingyang's Lu Qingwei regiment and the two brigades of the devil crossing the Xiangjiang River to the west met unexpectedly. With the intelligence support of the reconnaissance plane, the devils took the lead in discovering the movements of Lu Qingwei's regiment and set up an ambush on the front line of Sanmen in advance.

Lu Qingwei found out that he was in an ambush and was in danger, and commanded one battalion to block the attack, and the other two battalions violently counterattacked a brigade of devils in the north with the support of the fire battalion. Three mortars bombarded the Devil's infantry artillery and mortars, and 30 single-shot meteor flying mines were combined with the infantry to assault the Devil's heavy machine gun position, quickly occupied a commanding height, and immediately built a ring defensive position to hold on to the reinforcements.

Lu Qingwei deployed 3 mortars and 3 Tianyu flying mines on the top of the hill to provide fire support for the troops on all sides, 3 flat-fire guns and 3 infantry guns were behind the peripheral infantry positions to attack the guerrilla heavy machine gun positions, and the single-shot meteor flying mines were allocated to each infantry company to hit the devil's firepower points and prevent the devil's chariot troops from attacking.

The rain and thunder changed their position from time to time, causing a lot of casualties to the swarming devils, and the mortars also suppressed the devil artillery in time, and the devils were difficult to bite the hedgehog of the Lu Qingwei regiment, so they had to ask the aircraft to provide air fire support on the one hand, and on the other hand mobilize the artillery behind to bomb the firepower point of the Lu Qingwei regiment.

The addition of the devil's artillery brigade greatly increased the pressure on Lu Qingwei's department, and most of the mortars and Tianyu Flying Thunder were destroyed, and only 2 Tianyu Flying Thunder remained, Lu Qingwei regretted that he had invested in mortars and Tianyu Flying Thunder too early, exposing his strength, and simply withdrew Tianyu Flying Thunder to the bottom of the mountain to hide.

Lu Qingyang learned that the Lu Qingwei regiment in front of him had encountered the main force of the devil, and decisively ordered the Lu Qingwei regiment to hold on, and led the Lu Qingmeng regiment and the directly subordinate regiment to bypass the war group and cross the Xiangjiang River to the east and directly into the devil's flank.

The devil bit the Lu Qingwei regiment, as if he had seen a bloody wolf, and attacked fiercely, but the main force of Lu Qingyang killed from the side, and the Buddha light and thunder of the artillery regiment flew overwhelmingly to the position of the devil artillery brigade, and the infantry carried a single meteor flying thunder to the devil chariot that was crossing the river, and blew up the pontoon bridge, so that the devils could not care about each other for a while.

The devil's strength on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River was stronger than that of the Luqing Yang Division, but the heavy firepower was far inferior to the instructor who was equipped with dozens of flying thunders, and the devil's flesh and blood could not withstand the overwhelming shrapnel after all, and after losing thousands of people, the devil had to change from offensive to defensive.

Lu Qingyang saw that the devils were unable to attack, and the ammunition of his own heavy firepower troops was also going to bottom out, so he gathered his troops and advanced in the direction of Liling to find a foothold to rest.

Xue Yue had already withdrawn to the mountainous area on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, and after getting in touch with Lu Qingyang, he ordered him to go to the mountainous area of Xiangdong for training.

Lu Qingyang gained a firm foothold in the mountains and inspected his troops: Lu Qingfu's Lu Qingbao regiment remained in Yuelu Mountain; The regiments that followed him were quite complete, and there was a supplementary regiment with more than 2,000 people, but there was not much ammunition left for flying mines, only 9 trucks left, and there was little fuel left, and there were few people in the mountains here, and the supply was difficult to last, so Lu Qingyang reported to Xue Yue that all the flying mine launchers and the remaining ammunition, vehicles, heavy equipment, and wounded were left to Xue Yue for arrangement, and he led the lightly armed instructor to move in the direction of Hengyang.

At this time, Hengyang was surrounded by devils, and a large number of ** troops moved to the periphery of Hengyang, and only Fang Xianjue's tenth army held Hengyang for more than ten days.

Lu Qingyang learned from the war report that ** had sent many troops to reinforce Hengyang, but there were 2 divisions of devils on the periphery of Hengyang, and the water could not be splashed, so ** multiple reinforcements returned in vain, and Lu Qingyang decided to try his luck again and help the Tenth Army.

Lu Qingyang led the team to bypass the devil's army, crossed the Xiangjiang River to the west again, assembled from the south of Hengyang, and adjusted the troop establishment while marching along the way: integrate weapons and equipment, concentrate all artillery, meteor flying mines, and light and heavy machine guns to the artillery regiment, and collect weapons and equipment, food supplies, medicine and equipment along the way, and the whole division will concentrate its strength to give it a go, and must break into Hengyang City to support the Tenth Army.

After several days of preparation, the instructor raised dozens of carts of food, medicine, guns and ammunition, which were escorted by the infantry regiment and led by the artillery regiment, and set off for Hengyang.

Without waiting for the instructor to approach Hengyang, the outer troops of the devil killed the instructor to prevent the instructor from approaching. Lu Qingyang's artillery regiment attacked the devil head-on with dozens of mortars and infantry guns, and then launched a counterattack with a single meteor flying thunder and a mobile heavy machine gun position pushed by a cart.

Fang Xianjue expressed his deep appreciation for the rescue of Lu Qingyang's troops to break through the encirclement, and expressed his gratitude for the materials brought by Lu Qingyang, but believed that the area of Hengyang City Defense Area was limited, and the excessive concentration of troops would increase the difficulty of supplying supplies in the city, and would also increase the casualty rate, so it was recommended that Lu Qingyang leave a batch of supplies and materials to break through, and it was best to take away a group of wounded to ensure that the troops in the city had enough food and food to worry about the future.

Lu Qingyang thought that Fang Xianjue's suggestion was very reasonable, so in addition to leaving the food, medicine, guns and ammunition brought in, he left dozens of heavy machine guns, more than a dozen mortars, and infantry guns of the instructor to the Tenth Army, and at the same time left more than 2,000 veterans to supplement Fang Xianjue, and he used 100 vehicles to carry a group of seriously wounded, and organized the lightly wounded into 3 teams to be escorted by each regiment.

In order to highlight Hengyang, Lu Qingyang asked Fang Xianjue to use artillery to concentrate firepower to carry out a fire assault on the east of the city to attract devil troops, and he himself opened the way with meteor flying thunder, javelin flying thunder and light machine guns to break through from the north of the city.

Although the instructor deserves to be an elite unit, although it has no heavy firepower, it still closely cooperates with concentrated meteor flying mines, javelin flying mines, light machine guns, and submachine guns, forming an invincible local firepower superiority, tearing apart the encirclement of the devils layer by layer, and covering the large army to rush into the Hengshan Mountains.

After the reinforcement of Hengyang, the instructor was seriously injured, and the troops of more than 10,000 people were replenished to the Tenth Army and suffered combat casualties, and when they arrived in Hengshan, there were less than 3,000 people with combat ability, but they brought great support to the Tenth Army and rescued more than 3,000 wounded.

In the end, due to the unfavorable reinforcements, Hengyang still fell, and Fang Xianjue was forced to surrender to the devil in order to protect the soldiers and civilians of Hengyang, who had lost their ability to resist. (To be continued.) )