Chapter 142: The Last Chance

The Eighth Division, which suffered setbacks in successive attacks on the positions of the 29th Army, can be said to be exhausted, and at the same time, the 6th Division of the 32nd Army that attacked Shang Zhenzhi did not make much progress, and Muto Nobuyoshi regretted at this moment that he chose the 29th Army's difficult bone as a breakthrough point, although the 29th Army was a miscellaneous card and had poor weapons and equipment, its fighting will was very tenacious, which was greatly unexpected by Muto Nobuyoshi.

How did Muto Nobuyoshi know that Song Zheyuan had been forced to a dead end at this moment, either he would fight to the death with the army, or he would disarm and return to the field, bury the prestige of the Northwest Army, and you forced Lao Tzu to let Lao Tzu die? Song Zheyuan, a man from the Northwest, how can he let Muto Xinyi be as happy as he wants, and everyone will die together! Temporarily have to pull a cushion back, which is Song Zheyuan's habit.

Therefore, Muto Nobuyoshi said that he was sad, the expected breakthrough point was as stable as Mount Tai Reef, and the army that lacked material support, especially sufficient artillery shells and air support, was really ruthless, but the rough northwest man, said that your mother and the big knife became the deepest memory of the Great Wall of the Yue army.

The only bright spot was that the 16th Division once again routed Wan Fulin's headquarters and surrounded the 120th Division of the Northeast Army.

Knowing the situation of the front-line battle, He Yingqin slammed his teapot to the ground, and he was incompetent and exhausted thousands of troops! The equipment of the Northeast Army is far better than that of the Northwest Army, and the soldiers on both sides are not ambiguous in their fighting, otherwise the two sides of the Central Plains War would not have formed such a deep hatred.

The senior generals have no will to fight, and who of the officers and soldiers below is willing to die? He Yingqin seems that the nearly 300,000 troops of the Northeast Frontier Army are urgently needed to be reorganized at present, and it is urgent to replace the generals.

The Chengde offensive and defensive battle was difficult to completely annihilate all the new first division of the Chinese defenders for a while, Muto Nobuyoshi made a painful and abnormal decision, that is, the whole army retreated, since the tactical purpose of attacking and harassing the [***] team along the Great Wall has been achieved, then there is no need for the Kwantung Army's offensive heat department to be too entangled in this issue that has become a foregone conclusion, the so-called can afford to be able to put it down, but he is a typical person who can afford to let go, in other words, Mandarin will not be able to lose.

After Muto Nobuyoshi's retreat order was issued, hundreds of desperate wounded soldiers were killed and wounded, and there were also a few radical Kwantung Army young Zhuang officers who tried to make their minds clear with their deaths, so that His Excellency the commander could change the wrong order, and he could fight to Beiping, why should he withdraw his troops?

Muto Nobuyoshi did not dare to explain to the grassroots officers below the attack on the Chaoyang Lalatun Logistics Base and the Kwantung Army Air Force, once the news spreads, the orderly retreat is likely to turn into a rout, and if it is pursued by [***], then the retreat will become a luxury.

In fact, except for other fanatical and irrational middle and low-ranking officers in the army, most people have long analyzed the number of support materials sent back to the rear supply base is likely to have a problem? In particular, logistics officers at the divisional, brigade, and wing levels, as well as officers of baggage units, are more aware of this.

Taking the Eighth Division as an example, the headquarters of the 29th Army of the Central [***] on the front line of the Great Wall did not receive any supplies except for a small amount of horse material and grain collected on the spot during the two-day attack? In particular, there is an extreme shortage of grenades of all kinds of 75 mm caliber.

The various units of the army along the Great Wall were retreating in an orderly manner, and Muto Nobuyoshi, who had arrived at the Chengde front to inspect, triggered a tsunami-like shout from the mountains and officers and soldiers?

The forward attack position of the Yue Army was less than 200 meters away from the Chengde Girls' Middle School of the Chinese defenders, and Zhang Xuewu's command was after the light and heavy machine gun range of the Yue Army, but the field artillery wing of the 10th Division of the Yue Army was destroyed by the sortie of the newly formed 1st Division Mechanized Regiment, and then all the remaining shells were transferred to the headquarters of the 8th Division, so even if the 10th Division advanced to such a distance, there were no shells to block Zhang Xuewu.

For the 38-type small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the 38-type anti-aircraft guns with low accuracy, the distance was too far to hit, and the distance was close and they were attacked by the mortars, and the steel-core bullets of the Maxine heavy machine gun could easily penetrate the shield of the 38-type anti-aircraft guns.

Just when the Yue army scolded someone for coming up with the bad idea of using a damaged tank as a fixed firing point, they probably didn't know that Zhang Xuewu's inspiration was inspired by the Yue army's garrison when he was stationed in Jinghai.

Maitlin looked at the direction of the army position in the night in amazement, frowned, and said, "Zhang! What happened to me? What festival are they going to celebrate today? ”

Zhang Xuewu said disdainfully: "It is estimated that there are senior generals who have personally arrived at the front line to inspect, so Xiao said that one by one is like a chicken blood, Beiping sent information that the army began to retreat from the passes of the Great Wall, and the 29th Army, the 32nd Army, and the 17th Army asked whether to pursue, it is estimated that tomorrow may be the most difficult day for us, maybe I will be desperate." ”

Zhang Tianpeng, the commander of the artillery regiment standing beside Meitlin, said a little depressedly: "I knew that I would have left a base number of shells, even if it was half a base!" This will hit a bunch of big turtle bastards! Zhang Tianpeng unwillingly measured the coordinates with his fingers and sighed slightly.

As if he suddenly thought of something, Maitlin said, "Zhang, you should also go and comfort the troops!" Boost morale! ”

Zhang Xuewu glanced at Maitlin with strange eyes and said: "I basically have to go down and walk five or six times a day, where there are pits in the forward position, where there are unevenness, I can walk in the dark without a torch flashlight, what can I motivate if I go?" Let our officers and soldiers also shout as loudly as the group of mentally retarded people opposite? And then go and use the tactics of crowds to plug the gun holes and fill the artillery craters? I don't do it! A true commander would not use the lives of his subordinates as a bargaining chip for his advancement. ”

It can be said that since the defense of Chengde City was in danger, Zhang Tianpeng has been looking for such and such excuses to rely on Zhang Xuewu almost every day, because Zhang Tianpeng knows very well that the artillery regiment is the only last reserve that can be used by the new First Division, but the training of artillery is different from that of infantry, and one year or six months of intensive training may be able to train a cannon fodder infantry, but compared with the artillery of the technical arms, without three to five years of solid training and a large number of live artillery shells, it is simply impossible to train a qualified artilleryman. Not to mention the artillery squad leader and commander.

The Northeast Army is the only local faction in China that can produce its own 75-mm field artillery shells, which also determines that the artillery of the Northeast Army has a unique advantage.

The old foundation of the artillery regiment of the newly formed First Division was the expansion of the artillery battalion of the 7th Infantry Brigade of the National Defense Brigade of the Northeast Frontier Army, and Zhang Tianpeng was really reluctant to go to the front line to fight bayonets with him, so he, the regiment commander, naturally needed to constantly explore the situation at the front.

Zhang Xuewu was more reluctant than Zhang Tianpeng, so even if the city walls were tight, Zhang Xuewu put the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion on top, and he was stunned that he didn't transfer a single soldier from the artillery regiment.

Muto Nobuyoshi's buttocks, who had inspected the frontier, were followed by a large number of followers, and in a solid full-coverage underground artillery observation post, Muto Nobuyoshi stood under the artillery mirror with interest, and Chengde, which was full of ruins, was in front of him, but the middle [***] in the city was endlessly like a dead and unclean!

Tomorrow is your last chance!