Chapter 97: Battle of Mukden 15
The sky is gray, these days, the cannon has blown up the southeast of Fengtian City with dust, and this rain can be regarded as timely.
"It's raining, it's raining!" Tao Jinquan and other Japanese soldiers came out of the anti-artillery hole, stepping on the muddy muddy water and cheering irrepressibly. At this time, falling in the encirclement of the Mukden defenders, death will come at any time, but as long as the rain in the sky does not stop, there is no need to worry about the damned aircraft group of the Shina Army falling on the head at any time to drop bombs, these days, how many people have died from the bombing of the Shina Air Force? If it weren't for the planes of the Shina Army, how could the Kwantung Army fall to such a point?
"It's raining, the gray sky, the rainy jungle in the distance, this scene is really similar to my hometown on the outskirts of Kyoto." When Xiao Jin Dasan stretched out his hand, the gloves that should have been white were covered with mud and blood at this time, because of the injury to his left arm, when he stretched out his hand, his hand was trembling slightly.
"Yes, it's true, since we came to the northeast of China, we haven't been back for a long time, the grass in our hometown, the drizzle, the cherry blossoms, maybe after this battle, we don't have to worry about this problem anymore." Matsushita Kiyoshi said with a wry smile, as an infantry captain, he naturally would not be as blindly optimistic as those ordinary soldiers, at this time he had lost contact with the wing headquarters and the division headquarters, and there was no sign of reinforcements coming in from outside.
Matsushita Kiyomi knows very well what this means, the Kwantung Army has indeed suffered a crushing defeat, their Japanese army has been surrounded, and there may be other friendly forces that have fallen into the encirclement of the Shina Army, but it doesn't matter, the main force of the Kwantung Army is not in this battle, from Lushun, Dalian there are no troops to adjust for the time being, and it will take time to gather troops in the country. It was raining at this time, and although the planes of the Chinese army could not be used for a while, it also meant that it was more difficult for reinforcements from North Korea to arrive in Mukden in a short time and rescue them from the encirclement.
At this time, they had almost reached the point of exhaustion when they were trapped in the encirclement.
Boom boom... The shells kept falling in the muddy water, and even in the rain, the artillery of the Chinese army did not stop, intermittently firing several shells at the Japanese positions. Let the Japanese army not rest, and in addition, it also plays a deterrent role, for this scene, Matsushita Kiyoshi is no longer surprised. Even the rest of the Japanese army had become accustomed to it for a few days, and most of the wounded and sick had to hide in muddy artillery holes.
The wounded were grunting and screaming in pain and eating away at the morale of the other soldiers, and the clothes on their bodies were so wet that they could wring out water. In late September, the cold air in Fengtian was already relatively heavy, and the north wind was blowing in gusts, and the relatively musty anti-artillery hole was still a little warmer.
Matsushita Kiyoshi waded through the muddy mud in the trench, and plunged into the anti-artillery hole of the trench, and the eyes were pitch black, and there were a few numb and desperate faces, it was hard to imagine that a few days ago, these people had an expression of excitement and fanaticism on their faces, and they came with a posture of conquering everything, and the cold and cruel truth ruthlessly slapped them in the face several times. The pungent fishy smell penetrates the nostrils,
There are inflamed wounds, and there is excrement from staying in the trenches all day.
Kill!
The Chinese army in the distance rushed over in the rain with high morale, tom tom, as always, in the formation that looked a little lame, a series of shells came over, the shells of the Chinese army were the same as not asking for money, Matsushita Kiyomi when he became a soldier, the instructor who taught him told them to save every bullet in their hands, try to eliminate an enemy with one bullet, because Japan's resources are poor, as a soldier, you must learn to save ammunition. But the Japanese troops on the other side didn't seem to have this worry at all, and even their shells could be wasted wantonly.
Hearing the shouts of the Chinese army, the Japanese troops drilled out of the anti-artillery holes and prepared to block the attack. There are still most of the bullet chains on the machine guns, but the ammunition boxes are empty, although they are saving ammunition, but under the consumption of the war, especially in the fierce battles like yesterday, the contact with the lost regimental headquarters was lost, and the logistics team was also scattered, and they unfortunately no longer had any ammunition sources, and even some soldiers picked up the Liao-made rifles of the Chinese army to fight back.
Looking at the attack formation of the Shina Army in the distance, and the poor infantry and artillery coordination, it was almost difficult for the Japanese army such as Matsushita Kiyomi to accept the fact that they were defeated in the hands of such a group of soldiers. If you give them some more ammunition,
With enough artillery fire, they could easily take out the army in front of them.
Bang, bang....The Japanese shooters calmly returned fire at the approaching Shina army, and the superb shooting of the soldiers was taking the lives of the Shina soldiers. But the artillery fire of the opposite side of the attack soon poured in. Three artillery shots, will just shoot the two soldiers,
There was also a military trough for reinforcements, and the lives of two corporals were erased, and that military trough was still a small fellow villager of Matsushita Kiyoyu. Matsushita Kiyoyu can feel that the artillery of the Shina Army is growing up under this kind of ammunition feeding.
"Hurry up, monkey cubs, can't you use a machine gun in your hand?
See if it's not, from which direction the bullet just now came from, more than 300 meters,
Under the cover of machine guns, the infantry rushed more than forty meters and lay down! ”
Guo Youde's voice was almost hoarse,
If there were no old bones and blood of the 7th Brigade in the battalion, Guo Youde even doubted whether he could continue to fight with the Japanese army with these rookies. Guo Youde didn't understand why he pulled up these guys who had filled the 2nd Provincial Defense Brigade to feed the Japanese army, but it cannot be denied that under the constant stimulation of blood and death, the survival skills and will of these soldiers are also growing rapidly.
The soldiers of the 7th Brigade naturally did not withdraw to the second line at this time to rest, but to perform more important tasks,
One was led by Zhou Dafu, and pursued and attacked the less than 1,400 remnants of the army led by Ben Fanzhuang, and annihilated as many enemy troops as possible. THE TROOPS OF ANOTHER REGIMENT WITH A 75MM MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY COMPANY, A 75MM FIELD ARTILLERY COMPANY, AND A 150MM MORTAR COMPANY ARE RUSHING TO LIAOYANG TO MAKE THE FINAL DEPLOYMENT FOR JIANG LI TO HOLD Fengtian City in the next few months. It was extremely convenient to move troops south by train.
At the same time that the Japanese positions in the encirclement were gradually shrinking, in the sound of continuous rain, through the car window, Liaoyang County was already in sight, the huge tobacco brine was an oil mill recently set up by Japan, since the Russo-Japanese War, Japan in the northeast, especially in Mukden, all over the real estate, set up factories, but after the defeat of the Kwantung Army, all this is facing an unprecedented crisis.