Chapter 63: Bayonet Battalion
Dawn finally came, and the sky finally dawned.
In order to prevent the Baoshan regiment from disrupting the battle, the main force of the Kunisaki detachment directly withdrew to the offensive launch line five days ago, and the three fortification groups occupied were all abandoned, in fact, it didn't matter whether to give up or not, because the high-explosive planted by the Baoshan regiment had already blown up all the tunnels, and almost all the fortifications were destroyed.
The Yanagida Brigade stationed in the fortifications suffered heavy losses, and the captain Yanagida Nakasa was killed on the spot!
The five infantry brigades on both sides of the assembly road waiting for the start of the general attack also suffered heavy casualties, and the exact casualty figures have not yet been counted, but according to Yasuda Daisa's estimates, the total number of casualties is more than 1,000 at least! When the Chinese began the shelling, five infantry brigades were assembled and on standby, and the personnel were quite concentrated, so how small could the casualties be?
But that's not the point, one or two thousand casualties are not enough for the Kunisaki detachment.
The key is...... The mountain artillery wing has been wiped out! Although the Kimura squadron rushed to the position of the 3rd Artillery Brigade in time, they could not change the outcome of the destruction of the 3rd Artillery Group.
By the time the Kimura squadron arrived, the squadron [***] had already occupied the artillery position.
However, the Kimura squadron was worthy of being the most elite motorized infantry squadron in the Kunisaki detachment, and a counterattack crushed the small group [***] that occupied the position, and took advantage of the situation to recapture the artillery position, but soon, [***] gathered more forces to counterattack, and about two hundred [***] rushed to the position and launched a tragic white-knuckle stab with the Kimura squadron.
With a one-to-one comparison of troops, Major General Noboru Kunisaki thought that the Kimura squadron would win easily!
But the final result was completely beyond the expectations of Major General Noboru Kunisaki, nearly two hundred warriors of the Imperial Army in the Kimura squadron were completely wiped out by the squadron of less than two hundred people! And it's the white-knuckle stabbing method that the Imperial Army is best at! Until now, Major General Kunizaki Noboru seems to have the cold light of the large Chinese knives flickering in front of him.
At this moment, Major General Kunisaki's mood was unprecedentedly heavy, without the artillery support of the Mountain Artillery Wing, the next battle would not be easy to fight, however, Major General Kunisaki Noboru still firmly believed that his Kunisaki detachment would definitely have the last laugh, but the price to be paid would be much heavier than he expected!
………… Baoshan regimental headquarters, tunnels.
The 5th Battalion has returned, but only about 500 of the more than 500 people who came back alive when they went out on the expedition!
It was fifty or so bloody men, each drenched from head to toe soaked in blood, as if they had just crawled out of a pool of blood, and wherever they passed, rows of blood-dripping footprints were left on the ground, and in the light of the morning sun, these footprints reflected a palpitating bright red.
Li Yulong limped and walked at the front of the queue, his expression was like iron, and his eyes were like torches.
Li Yulong's face has two wounds cut open with a bayonet, deep to the bone, the open skin and flesh are like an open fish mouth, ugly and hideous, the large knife on the shoulder makes him a little more murderous, Li Yulong's face is full of blood, there are his own, more are the enemy's, this morning's battle, he chopped twenty-eight devils alive!
"Tuanza, the little devil's artillery has all died balls." Li Yulong stepped in front of Yue Weihan step by step, and suddenly straightened his waist and said proudly, "We also fought out an infantry squadron of little devils." ”
Yue Weihan nodded silently, he also witnessed the white-knuckle battle on the devil's artillery position through the artillery mirror!
To be honest, Yue Weihan really didn't expect that the bayonet of the 5th battalion of the Sichuan Army would be so powerful, less than two hundred remnants, and it was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of physical strength, just like this, he actually fought out nearly two hundred elite infantry with full physical strength, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, Yue Weihan couldn't believe that it was straight.
When did the Sichuan army's stabbing become so powerful?
I've heard that the Northwest Army's broadsword team is very powerful, but I've never heard that the Sichuan Army is so powerful in fighting bayonets!?
Yue Weihan didn't know that this regiment (5th battalion) was not an ordinary Sichuan regiment, from the regiment commander Li Yulin to ordinary soldiers, they were all soldiers from Baishi Village in eastern Sichuan!
The people in the eastern and western regions of Sichuan and Xiangxi have been fierce since ancient times, and the mountain people who live in the mountains have always been half-people and half-bandits, and many of the men in the village have been practicing martial arts since childhood, and when they grow up, they are practicing at night, practicing kung fu hard, and they may not be able to get on the stage on the marching army, but when it comes to white-knuckle warfare, they will not necessarily lose to the devils.
Yue Weihan's gaze swept over the more than fifty officers and soldiers one by one, and he changed color slightly: "What about Deputy Li Tuan?" ”
Li Yulong turned his head and made a move, two soldiers had already stepped forward with a stretcher, and then lifted the white cloth covering the stretcher, and there were two bloody fingers on it, Li Yulong said gloomily: "Tuanza, my eldest brother was blown up completely, we searched for it several times, but we only found such a little fragment." ”
After speaking, Li Yulong carefully wrapped the two fingers with a white cloth and said, "Big brother, when I finish fighting the devil, I will take you home to ......."
Yue Weihan's face sank like water, and he was silent.
Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng and other officers next to him were also full of pain, Liu Xin even covered his little mouth, but war correspondent Zhao Xinyi pressed the camera shutter again and again, freezing this extremely tragic but suffocating picture forever, Zhao Xinyi instantly thought of a name for this photo: Brother, I'll take you home.
"Smack!" Yue Weihan suddenly stood upright and saluted "Li Yulin" with a military salute that had reached the extreme standard.
Behind him, Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng and other officers also followed and saluted, and the soldiers of the regimental guard company also raised their guns to salute.
"Rite over!" Yue Weihan suddenly put down his right hand, strode to the queue of more than fifty remnants, and then suddenly stood upright.
In an instant, more than fifty pairs of indifferent eyes gathered on Yue Weihan, and the eyes of all the officers and soldiers of the regimental headquarters guard company also gathered on Yue Weihan, and the war correspondent Zhao Xinyi quickly put down the camera, and took out his notebook, Yue Weihan was about to start talking!
"I've heard for a long time that little devils are very good at fighting bayonets."
"In Jingjiang, we have also learned the little devil's stabbing, it is indeed very powerful, the guard company has more than 180 people fighting more than 60 people, and the strength advantage of three to one is a draw!"
"However, today, the 5th battalion gave us the face of the commander of the Baoshan regiment!"
"Less than 200 people fight more than 200 little devils, in terms of numbers, we don't have an advantage, in terms of physical strength, we have run dozens of miles and have fought several times, but the little devils came on a motorcycle, and they have been recuperating for a long time, just like this, our 5th battalion still took the little devils down!"
"The brothers of the 5th battalion are all good, heroes, heroes, and men who stand up to the sky!"
"From today onwards, our Baoshan Regiment will not have the establishment of the 5th Battalion, and it will never have it again in the future!"
"However, from today onwards, there will be one more hero battalion in the battle sequence of our Baoshan Regiment, and the name of this battalion is - Bayonet Battalion!"
"Li Yulong!"
"Yes!"
"Do you dare to take on my difficult task here?"
"Lao Tzu is not afraid of death, what other tasks are there that he dare not take?"
"Okay, from now on, you are the lieutenant colonel battalion commander of the bayonet battalion of the Baoshan Regiment!"
Li Yulong stood up suddenly, raised his hand and saluted: "Regimental seat, Li Yulong, commander of the bayonet battalion, leads 56 officers and soldiers of the battalion to report to you, please instruct!" ”
Yue Weihan raised his hand to return the salute and said coldly: "Take a break." ”
"Yes." Li Yulong brushed the ground and put down his right hand and skimmed his feet for a while.
"Li Yulong, listen to me!" Yue Weihan took two steps forward, personally buttoned the style and discipline buckle of Li Yulong's tweed military uniform, and then shouted coldly, "I'll hand over the bayonet battalion to you, you must bring it to me, if you bring this ace battalion of white-knuckle combat to me, I will shoot you!" ”
Li Yulong replied sharply: "As long as I, Li Yulong, am here, the bayonet battalion will always be the trump card in the hands of the regiment!" ”
"Okay, let's all go down and rest." Yue Weihan waved his hand and said, "If you are injured, don't brace yourself, hurry up and go to the hospital." ”
After that, Yue Weihan turned around and entered the command headquarters, and several regimental deputies and battalion commanders also followed, and Liu Yi, deputy of the regiment, said: "Tuanza, the forward observation post has just sent back the news, and a lot of corpses have been found in several artillery shelling points in the artillery battalion, it can be seen that the judgment of the regimental seat is very accurate, and the little devil really plans to launch a general attack this morning, if it weren't for the artillery battalion's artillery bombardment disrupting the opponent's deployment, the little devil and the infantry of a brigade and regiment pressed up, we really couldn't parry." ”
Niu Dagen next to him flattened his mouth and said, "If this is the case, then my artillery battalion will not die unjustly." ”
Niu Dagen's artillery battalion is completely finished, not only the sixteen 75 mountain cannons are finished, but most of the more than 400 people in the entire artillery battalion have died heroically, these artillery are all good, until the little devil's shells fall on their heads, they didn't think about turning around and running away, until they were dying, all they wanted was to fire a few more cannons and kill a few more little devils!
Yue Weihan waved his hand, and said worriedly: "The Guozaki detachment has suffered such a big loss, and it will definitely not give up, but this morning they will definitely not be able to organize an effective merit, but in the afternoon, I think there will definitely be a fierce battle, all battalions must not be negligent, and also, each battalion has suffered a lot of casualties, Zhang Zhongyi's 3rd battalion must be transferred back immediately, as for the defense of Pukou, it will be handed over to Liu Fengsheng's security regiment, at most a platoon will be transferred from the 3rd battalion to assist them." ”
Liu Yi, the deputy of the regiment, nodded and said, "I'll call Zhang Zhongyi now." ”
Under the persuasion of war correspondent Zhao Xinyi and the mobilization of several county magistrates and town mayors of the National People's Political Axe, the security teams of several counties and towns have all been assembled in Pukou, and there are more than 2,000 people in total.
Seeing Liu Yi turn around and leave, Yue Weihan said to Liu Xin next to him: "Captain Liu Xin, immediately telegraph to the garrison headquarters that our regiment launched a counteroffensive at 5:50 a.m. today, destroying the 3rd Mountain Artillery Wing of Reading Li under the Guosaki Detachment in one fell swoop, killing and wounding more than 2,000 people in the Yue Army. ”
(To be continued)