[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 231: The First Line of Defense Lost (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

The battle for the defense of Pengze was very fierce, and the two sides fought from August 4 to the afternoon of the 6th, and the battle line was entangled in Shanglingbao, Shuangfengjian and Nanshan, and the Japanese army did not take a step forward.

During this period, the Japanese army dispatched aircraft, artillery and chariot troops, and even shamelessly used tear gas and poison gas bombs, but these were useless. Despite the onslaught of the Japanese attack, the defenders remained unmoved like a rock in a storm.

Of course, there is a price to be paid for standing still, and in three full days, the four regiments belonging to the 155th Division were basically wiped out, especially the two regiments arranged in Shanglingbao, less than 1,000 of more than 5,000 people remained, and the rest were all gone.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of August 6, the headquarters of the 11th Army again sent a telegram to the 27th Division on the front, ordering them to break through the enemy in front of them and take the county town of Pengze before dark, no matter what.

Although he knew that there was little hope, Honma Masaharu organized his troops to attack again. The result was not much different from what Honma Masaharu had expected, and the three successive attacks of the headquarters were all repulsed by the defenders of Shina on the opposite side, and there was nothing to be gained except for the corpses left behind.

After three days of attacking, the 27th Division suffered extremely heavy losses, and had no choice but to stop the attack.

For three consecutive days, he did not break through the defense line on the periphery of Pengzawa, and not only Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma felt depressed, but even Okamura Ninji felt very surprised. Compared with Xue Yue's understanding of him, Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji didn't know anything about his opponent, let alone knowing himself and knowing that he would not be defeated in a hundred battles.

On the 7th, Lieutenant Commander Masaharu Honma will continue to command the troops to storm the positions on the outskirts of Pengzawa, and in the eyes of the defenders, the tricks of the little devils are the same as in previous days, which are still aircraft cannons and chariots. The same infantry group charged.

It's just that the defenders didn't find that there were a group of strange Japanese soldiers mixed in the charging Japanese army, these people were not only different from ordinary Japanese soldiers in military uniforms, but also different weapons and equipment.

In the melee. This group of less than 300 devil soldiers suddenly rushed to the front of the army from behind, and then used the powerful automatic fire of submachine guns to hold down the defenders, and then the thousands of devil soldiers who followed behind jumped into the defenders' trenches.

Seeing that the Japanese army actually rushed into the trenches, some officers and soldiers of the 155th Division and the 90th Division immediately launched a counter-attack, and the two sides repeatedly rushed and killed, tug-of-war and battle, and fought until dusk, and the defenders were forced to withdraw from the first-line positions and retreat to the gate of Pengze County. And this is also the last line of defense outside Pengze City.

In the dead of night, the 155th Division suffered heavy losses in the afternoon's battle, and the four regiments on the front were basically gone. Originally, Xue Yue was going to withdraw the 155th Division outside the city, which could be regarded as leaving a seed for this heroic army, and it would be better to replenish it after the war. But this proposal was rejected by Li Hansoul, in his words, the war has already been fought to this extent, and only by completely repelling the Japanese attack can the dead brothers be at ease, and the rest will be talked about later!

In view of the heavy losses during the day and the loss of front-line positions. Li Hanxun decided to adjust the deployment and reorganize the remaining troops into a commando team along with his guard battalion. It was planned to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese planes and warships could not exert their might in the dark, and take advantage of the unstable foothold of the landed Japanese troops to carry out a counterattack and recapture the positions on the opposite side.

In order to ensure the success rate of the assault, Li Hansoul handed over all the dozens of light machine guns under his command to the assault team, and even applied to Xue Yue for thirty submachine guns.

Interestingly, it is the same as Li Han's soul. Honma Masaharu was also very dissatisfied with the performance of his headquarters during the day, and if it weren't for the help of the spearhead squadron sent by the front army, I am afraid that he would not have taken the front-line position by now. Therefore, he also prepared to take advantage of the darkness to launch a night attack on the second line of defense of the defenders.

After the afternoon's battle, Honma Masaharu was very optimistic about these hundreds of front elites, although the role of these more than 300 people in the battle was really limited. But if in a night attack, then these more than 300 people played no less role than a whole infantry brigade.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, two carefully selected commandos from China and Japan set off in unison. In order to conceal the situation, Li Hansoul ordered Zhang Xueshan, who led the team, to detour to the right position of Shanglingbao from the right side of the position, and then attack the Japanese from the flank of the Japanese army. Honma Masaharu ordered Hasegawa Daisa, who led the team, to bypass the heavily defended frontal positions of the Chinese defenders and launch an assault from the right side of Kamirybo, so that the two armies met each other on the same road, one east and one west.

No one could have imagined that the two commandos would suddenly meet on the march and engage in a fierce encounter. At first, Zhang Xueshan thought that he had fallen into the trap of the devil, but after playing Zhang Xueshan, he found that the Japanese army on the opposite side did not seem to be prepared at all, and the rules and regulations were very chaotic, not like they were specially trapped, and eighty percent of them had the same idea.

Mao Daijun, who figured it out, immediately organized troops to fight back, and he saw that the commando team he led had an advantage in numbers, and the Japanese army on the opposite side was only more than 450 people, while he had nearly 600 people in his hands. In addition, Zhang Xueshan led the absolute elite of the 155th Division, not only Li Hansoul's guards, but also the rest are all strong men who came out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and the combat effectiveness is naturally not a problem.

Zhang Xueshan thought that since it had been discovered, there would be no point in sneak attacking, and if this Japanese army team could be annihilated at the moment, it would be a big result, so Zhang Xueshan decided to annihilate this Japanese commando on the spot.

This time the Japanese thought of the Chinese again, and the leader of the team, Hasegawa Kiosa, also felt that the fighter plane had been lost as soon as the guns rang out, and the only thing that could be done now was to annihilate the Zhina commando in front, so he ordered the troops to attack with all their might.

The battle was fierce, and there was hardly any weak firepower of rifles on either side, except for light machine guns, submachine guns, or twenty-round shell guns. The battle began to heat up, with neither side carrying artillery, not even the most common mortars.

Across a small hill, thousands of people on both sides confronted each other. The firepower of both assault teams was very fierce, and they both wanted to fight quickly and annihilate the enemy on the opposite side as soon as possible. However, this time both sides miscalculated, and the two sides exchanged fire for nearly an hour, and the army suffered heavy casualties, but neither side could achieve the expected results. The two forces then simply launched a direct charge, preparing to end the battle with hand-to-hand combat.

At the same time that the assault team was engaged in the battle on the ridge, whether it was Xue Yue or Honma Masaharu, they all unanimously ordered the troops in front to launch an attack to cooperate with the assault team's attack.

However, due to lack of preparation and hasty response, both sides once again fell into a stalemate and bitter battle, and did not achieve the expected tactical objectives until dawn, so they had to temporarily suspend the fighting.

When the battle on the front line of Peng Ze was stalemate, Ma Zheng, who was at the mouth of the lake, was not idle. When fighting Peng Ze, the Duqi Division suffered heavy casualties, and it is needless to say that those who died in the battle can be dug a pit and bury it, but the injured cannot be ignored. But now on the battlefield, almost everything is lacking, especially expensive medicines are scarce.

Although Ma Zheng had already sent a telegram to the headquarters of the theater commander, hoping that a batch of medicines could be allocated for the wounded of the Seventh Division, and the Military Commission agreed, Ma Zheng's heart was half cold when the cart carrying the medicines arrived. Nuo's big car was only loaded with less than half of the cart's things, of which bandages and gauze accounted for more than half, and the rest were just some medical alcohol and the like, and the real medicine was only two boxes.

At that time, Ma Zheng was angry, there were four or five thousand of his wounded, how many people were in two boxes of medicines, how many people could be saved? The angry Ma Zheng sent the telegram directly to the Ninth Theater Command and the Military Commission, and he didn't believe that Chen Cheng and Lao Jiang would treat his heroic unit badly in such a trivial matter.

However, the answer I got was that there was a shortage of medicines in the entire theater, and the things sent to the Duqi Division were also specially approved by Chen Cheng, and the other troops did not even have this. Even Chen Cheng personally called Ma Zheng to explain that Ma Zheng really had no choice now, knowing that it might indeed be the case. Seeing the wounded fall one by one and he couldn't do anything, Ma Zheng couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness. (To be continued.) )