Chapter 243: Scuffle! Scrimmage!
Hyakutake Haruyoshi's face was so gloomy that he could almost scrape frost, this sudden change caught him off guard, but the brigade commander Kawamura Dong was not there, as soon as he thought of Kawamura Dong, Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly fought a cold war again, and the chief of staff of the North China Front, Lieutenant General Sasaki, was now at the Zhengding Railway Station!
At that moment, Baiwu Haruyoshi shouted and asked, "Has the train station been contacted?" ”
"Not yet." Staff Officer Youshao Zuo shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, the telephone lines and power transmission cables at the railway station have all been cut off, not only the phone can't get through, but even the radio signal has been interrupted!" "The entire Zhengding County and Shimen City are powered by the power plant, and the railway station does not have a separate backup power supply, nor does it have a special hand-cranked generator for the radio, so once the transmission cable is cut, the radio station in the station will become a decoration!
"Yagayalu." Hyakutake Haruyoshi's heart suddenly hung up, if the train station is lost, Sasaki will have a good time, then he can only apologize for seppuku in front of the emperor's portrait, and then Hyakutake Haruyoshi Dazuo shouted sharply, "Order, the 3rd Infantry Brigade stays at the headquarters, the 2nd Infantry Brigade gallops to the airport, and the 1st Infantry Brigade follows me to the train station!" ”
"Hello." The two Shaozuo captains standing in Baiwu Haruyoshi suddenly bowed their heads and immediately took the order.
The current situation is extremely complicated, and the brigade and regiment headquarters must be guarded by troops, because the headquarters is not only stationed in non-infantry units such as field hospitals, communications teams, baggage brigades, and artillery brigades, but also has a logistics warehouse that is not small in scale, and it is absolutely impossible to leave troops to guard it.
In addition, Shimen Airport must also be saved, and a flying brigade is stationed there!
At dawn tomorrow, this flying group will have to fly to Wuhan to provide air support to the front-line troops.
Although there are two squadrons of garrison troops at Shimen Airport, since the airport has crossed the Shimen garrison and directly made a phone call to the brigade headquarters, it shows that the situation at the airport is already very bad, and it is urgent to send troops to rescue them.
"Takeuchi-kun, you stay at the headquarters, pay close attention to the battlefield situation, summarize the situation here and urgently report to the front army headquarters, and request urgent tactical guidance from the headquarters!" Hyakutake Haruyoshi explained a few more words to the captain of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and immediately took the 1st Infantry Brigade straight to the railway station.
Zhengding Railway Station was built outside Zhengding City, located in the northwest corner of the county.
When Hyakutake Haruyoshi Osa hurried to the north gate with the 1st Infantry Brigade, the north gate of Zhengding had already been occupied, and most of the infantry squads guarding the north gate and a platoon of the Imperial Alliance Army were killed and wounded, and the remaining dozens of people were relying on the buildings in the city to shoot at the unknown armed elements who came to sneak attack, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
Time was pressing, and Hyakutake Haruyoshi didn't care about the temptation, so he directly threw himself into a squadron and launched a strong attack.
Under the fierce blows of the army, the unknown militants who had just occupied the north gate of the city soon collapsed, and after leaving behind dozens of corpses, the remaining hundred or so people scattered as birds and beasts.
However, as soon as the 1st Infantry Brigade left the city gates, it was attacked by another group of militants.
This group of militants numbered about 100 people, extremely poorly equipped, with only a small number of rifles and shell guns, and they roared and slaughtered in a messy formation from the north, west, and east.
In less than five minutes, the militants of more than 100 people were crushed.
When Hyakutake Haruyoshi was about to reorganize the troops and reopen the road, the sound of killing sounded around again, and when he looked up and looked around, Hyakutake Haruyoshi Dazuo was horrified to find that another militant had arrived, and this time it was not a group, but several groups, at least four or five hundred people!
"Yaga Yaru!" Hyakutake Haruyoshi hurriedly ordered the troops to deploy, set up machine guns and fired fiercely.
As soon as dozens of light and heavy machine guns rang out, the swarming groups of militants were immediately killed and wounded, and after leaving nearly 100 corpses, the remaining militants suddenly scattered and retreated into the darkness.
Hyakutake Haruyoshi was about to give the order to open the way again, but for the third time in the distance, the sound of a tsunami of killing sounded in the distance.
A flare suddenly rose into the air, and the dazzling bright light suddenly illuminated the city gate hundreds of meters as bright as day.
With the dazzling bright light, Hyakutake Haruyoshi was horrified to find that the outside of the city was full of militants, black and oppressive, like a swarm of ants that had burned their nests, and they were covering up all over the mountains.
Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly gasped and quickly ordered the troops to retreat back into the city.
Because, there are two or three thousand Chinese armed men who have been killed from all directions, and if so many armed men are allowed to rush to the front and make a mess, even if Hyakutake Haruyoshi's 1st Infantry Brigade can win the white-knuckle battle, it is estimated that there will be only a few people left in the end, and what will they do to rush to the rescue railway station when the time comes?
However, Hyakutake Harumichi Daisa soon regretted it.
If there is only a group of poorly equipped militants outside the city, then of course Hyakutake Haruyoshi's decision is correct, with the help of the strong fortifications, the militants outside the city are only two or three thousand, even if there are twenty or thirty thousand people, they will still be beaten by the 1st Infantry Brigade to the slag.
But the point is that the militants outside the city are actually not badly equipped, they even have artillery!
In fact, Hyakutake Haruyoshi Daisa has indeed made a mistake, and it is an unforgivable fatal mistake!
The stupid Hyakutake Haruyoshi Daisa did not realize that although the Chinese armed forces that were killing from all directions were numerous, they were all fighting on their own, and there was no unified and effective command at all, and the army only needed to launch a large-scale counterattack to defeat the Chinese armed forces several times their own in one fell swoop!
It's a pity that Hyakutake Haruyoshi Daisa didn't find out about this.
When the first shell landed accurately on the head of the city, Hyakutake Haruyoshi Osa knew that he was in trouble, and what happened next made him unable to believe his eyes, and in less than fifteen minutes, a mortar group actually appeared outside the north gate, and more than ten mortars launched a fierce shelling of the north gate at the same time.
Artillery, always the trump card of land warfare! Its power is unquestionable.
Even the most elite field division of the Yue Army will also collapse under the fierce shelling, let alone a garrison brigade like the 4th Brigade? After several rounds of shelling, the fire of more than a dozen machine guns on the gate tower was completely muted, and the closed gate was also blown open by Chinese militants who took the opportunity to use explosives packs to get close.
As soon as the city gate opened, dozens of militants rushed into the city gate with a roar.
Inside the north city gate, two Type 92 heavy machine guns and six crooked handles have already built a fan-shaped fire blockade circle, and as soon as the dozens of militants rushed out of the door, they were beaten into a sieve by the fierce crossfire, and Baiwu Qingji, who was hiding behind the circular barricade, suddenly laughed fiercely: "Rush, stupid Chi Na pig, continue to rush inside!" ”
But soon, the smile on Hyakutake Haruyoshi's face suddenly froze!
A 37mm battle defense gun suddenly appeared in the city gate hole, and the two Type 92 heavy machine guns that were just in the firing range suddenly opened fire violently, but only the shield of the battle defense gun was sounded, and then the muzzle of the battle defense gun burst into a dazzling red light, and in an instant, the Type 92 heavy machine gun facing the city gate hole had been overturned to the ground.
"War defense artillery!?" Baiwu Qingji suddenly gasped, this is a big killer!
If it doesn't try to kill this battle defense artillery, it can eliminate more than a dozen firepower points of the army inside the city gate one by one, and then this battle will not be fought! At that moment, Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly pulled out his saber and raised it forward, and immediately roared hoarsely: "4th squadron, attack!" Knock out the Chinese's defense artillery! ”
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Zhengding Railway Station.
After leaving behind more than 20 corpses, the army retreated into the station building, trying to resist stubbornly with the sturdy building, and Pang Hu's team had already taken control of all the platforms.
"Brothers, hurry up, withdraw!"
Pang Hu didn't know if the two grenades just now had made a meritorious service, but he didn't have time to verify it, there was such a big movement here, and the little devil's reinforcements would definitely arrive soon, and when the big army of the little devil arrived, his special combat team might only have the end of the entire army.
"Ang ......" Pang Hu's voice fell, and a loud whistle suddenly came from afar.
When Pang Hu and all the special combat team members turned their heads sharply to look, they saw that a train with a black front had already driven towards the station, Pang Hu looked at the train that was coming straight over, and then looked at the armored train parked on platform No. 1, and immediately gasped and shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" ”
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It was one of the two special military trains transporting ammunition supplies that came in front of us!
Due to the huge amount of ammunition transported, the Kwantung Army sent a squadron of armed escorts, and at this time, the conductor of the military special train, Shoji Sato, had already discovered that the situation was wrong, and five minutes ago, the radio signal at the Zhengding Railway Station was suddenly interrupted, and when he asked the Baoding and Beiping station offices, they also said that they could not contact the Zhengding Railway Station.
Shoji Sato immediately decided not to stop at Zhengding Railway Station again!
Shoji Sato's decision is undoubtedly wise, the train is full of 5,000 tons of ammunition supplies, and it is decided that it cannot be stopped in the field, and at the moment the situation at the Zhengding Railway Station is unknown, for the sake of insurance, of course, it can no longer stop, but fortunately, the remaining coal on the train is enough to train to the torture station!
As a result, the special train, which was loaded with 5,000 tons of ammunition, did not slow down in the slightest, and crashed straight into the armored train parked on platform No. 1.
The unabated speed of the special train continued to slide forward against the wreckage of the armored train, until the wreckage of the armored train squeezed the rails into twisted deformation, the special train got out of the track, and slid forward several hundred meters close to the ground, before finally stopping.
(To be continued)