Chapter 690: The Fall (Part II)
The Japanese fighters roared "buzzing ......" and pounced on the defense fortifications outside Jiashan! After a while, the bombs fell one by one! Bursts of explosions rang out on the battlefield!
"Boom, boom, boom......" The Japanese artillery was also constantly firing shells at the position, and the whole position shook the mountains! Countless fighters were bombarded on the battlefield like this!
......The heavy machine guns of the Japanese army are constantly roaring, providing cover for their own soldiers! And the 764 Shen Qian Regiment on the position refused to show weakness, and set up a crane gun to shoot at the Japanese army!
The battle between the two sides gradually entered a white-hot state, and the Japanese infantry crawled forward to a distance of 200 meters according to the tactical drill, and took out a grenadier to shoot at the position, which was a burst of "tom ......" at the position!
"Boom, boom, boom......" Several grenades exploded in the positions of the 764th Regiment, and more than a dozen fighters were brutally knocked down! The Japanese army then took this opportunity and stood up at once and killed the position!
"Assault!!" On the Japanese position, the commander was constantly directing, and the heavy machine gun was a wild sweep at the position! Dust is flying, shrapnel is flying! Brought up bursts of blood! Countless soldiers turned to the position, but more people still roared and stood up and fought with the Japanese soldiers who killed the position!
"! Lao Tzu chops you to death!! The Hunan Hunan dialect sounded on the battlefield, and those soldiers roared towards the Japanese army with bayonets and broadswords!
The tragic white-knuckle battle immediately began, and no one retreated from the position! They fought with their blood and fought with the Japanese army! But the bombardment just now, coupled with the Japanese artillery bombardment position, already suffered heavy losses!
At this time, the Japanese army came. The defensive forces organized on the positions were gradually weakened......
"Poof!" With a knife, a man covered in blood chopped over a Japanese devil who rushed up, and muttered fiercely: "Lao Tzu chopped you to death......"
But then, a few Japanese soldiers pounced! This man dodged left and right. The knife technique picked up and cut off an arm! A Japanese soldier who chopped over a low file, only to be stabbed in the ribs by another bayonet!
"Lao Tzu chopped ......" The man coughed up a mouthful of blood, and struggled to round the big knife and cut off half of the Japanese soldier's neck! But seeing that the Japanese soldier couldn't even scream, he covered his neck and fell to the ground......
There were a few "po......ofs", but a few bayonets stabbed into the man's body! The blood suddenly gushed out, and the man from Xiangjiang turned back with difficulty and grinned! But he pulled the grenade from his waist......
"Nani?!" Several Japanese soldiers widened their eyes in disbelief, but before they could escape, they heard "Boom!!" There was an explosion. These Japanese soldiers and a few Japanese soldiers on the side were caught off guard and were blown away!
No one grieves because they don't have time to grieve. Comrades are dead in battle, and they still have to fight! Either the enemy retreats, or he dies in battle. Otherwise. There will be no end...... This is war!
However, there are fewer and fewer Xiangjiang men on the battlefield. The superiority in strength and training occupied by the Japanese army is not covered, and they are of course superior to these men of Xiangjiang in the fight.
"Kill the!!" The commander of the 109th Division, Commander Li, led the Xiangtan men under his command to the position, and roared and pounced on those Japanese soldiers! The troops who were originally despairing. When they heard that the brothers were coming, their morale was shaken!
roared and threw up the last strength to pounce on the Japanese army, and the Japanese army, which was still tall, suddenly became shorter. The commander of the Japanese army was also very discerning, and knew that there was nothing to be gained by going on like this. So in a fit of rage, people withdrew.
Is the battle over?! No! After the Japanese withdrew, the shelling continued!
"Whoosh...... Rumble! Rumble!! Boom......" Countless artillery fires roared. It seems to tear this position apart! And no one on the battlefield retreated! Everyone held on, they knew that after the shelling, an even more brutal attack would follow!
Why is this force so resilient?! Are they the Central Army?! No. They are the children of Xiangxi Phoenix. A large part of them are the children of the Miao family.
June 1937. Feeling that a war with Japan would inevitably break out, Gu Jiaqi, the commander of the 128th Division, returned to his hometown of Phoenix to recruit more than 4,000 Miao children and prepare to go to Zhejiang to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance!
On July 29, the 128th Division stationed in Ningbo was ordered to go to the front line in Jiaxing to block the Japanese invaders. At that time, most of the 7,000 soldiers of the 128th Division were children of the Phoenix Miao tribe. In the eyes of the Central Army, they are nothing more than a bunch of "miscellaneous cards". If you can hold on for three days, you will burn high incense.
And the entire 128th Division, from the division commander Gu Jiaqi to the soldiers below, all gritted their teeth and wanted to fight a beautiful battle to show Nanjing! Although our weapons are inferior to yours, we have a lot of ambition and the heart to fight to the death!
Subsequently, the 128th Division engaged the Japanese army in Jiashan County, Jiaxing City! Since ancient times, the Phoenix Pole Soldiers have been skilled in night combat, melee combat, and white-knuckle combat, and the warriors have taken advantage of these advantages to engage in life-and-death battles with their enemies.
In order to block the Japanese army's plan to raid Shanghai and gain precious time for Shanghai and Zhejiang to prepare for the war, the soldiers resisted to the death. The battle lasted for three days and three nights, and by 6 p.m., the fortifications of Jiashan City had been destroyed in many places, and more than half of the officers and men of the 128th Division had been killed or wounded, leaving less than 3,000 people left.
The pole soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, but in the whole war, there was no one who flinched! Neither the bombers of the Japanese army, nor their artillery! Didn't let this newly recruited army take half a step back!
"Sudden Sudden ......" When the cannon fell, the Japanese troops began to charge again! Rumbling ......" tanks became their vanguard, and the infantry followed. The only thing to be thankful for is that the Japanese army here uses old-fashioned ** tanks.
"Assault!!" With a strange cry from the Japanese commander, the heavy machine gun "Sudden ......" began to shoot! The follow-up Japanese units began to charge with the tanks! The position was again filled with gunsmoke......
On this day, the Japanese army dropped more than 900 bombs and thousands of shells on the position! Launched more than 20 charges, and then no one took half a step back! The position is still in my hands!
August 11th
"To Nanjing Military Telegram": "The front of the highway and railway. Our 128th Division fought a battle with the enemy, charging back and forth no less than dozens of times, and the battle was fierce, especially at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The division's front was shaken several times, but fortunately, our officers and men bravely resisted, and the enemy did not succeed......"
In the wee hours of the morning, the battle was even more intense! The Japanese army thought that the night attack was effective, and they tried to take it by storming their forces! I never thought that the pole soldiers were originally good at night fighting! As a result, the Japanese army suffered a great loss.
Although they took advantage of the position at the beginning and advanced to Lujiabang, the Gu Division's 763 Shu Regiment and 767 Chen Regiment immediately fought back stubbornly after relieving themselves, and regained their positions again in the shouts and battles of white-knuckle warfare.
The officers and men of the Chen regiment repeatedly charged on the open and barrier-free flat ground. Multiple hand-to-hand fights. Until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army broke through to increase its strength, dozens of Japanese planes dived and fired, and the infantry set off smoke screens to carry out a strong attack!
"Boom...... Sudden ......" was the sound of gunfire on the position. Division Commander Gu Jiaqi looked at the crumbling position with a blue face, his lips trembled, and he was speechless.
These pole soldiers, these men in Xiangxi are all his old family! It was he who led them step by step from their hometown and threw themselves into this killing field! How many people will be able to go back?! Gu Jiaqi's lips trembled, he didn't dare to think about it......
"Order the Guards, and immediately go into battle!" Gu Jiaqi put down the binoculars. He said in a deep voice to the adjutant beside him: "The position, there is no room for loss!" ”
"Divisional commander! What's going on with those bastards?! Tell us to keep it for three days, four days at most! But what time is it today?! What time is it today?! What about reinforcements?! Where are you?! ”
The adjutant cried, and those who died on the battlefield had his own brother!
"Soldiers died on the battlefield. The Horse Leather Shroud is duty! Gu Jiaqi said loudly to the adjutant: "Obey the order!" Get the guards on! Don't take a step back!! ”
"Yes~~" The adjutant whimpered, wiped the corners of his eyes and said to the captain of the guard behind him: "Follow me!" ”
Crumbling positions. Finally, after the adjutant led the guards to kill, he withstood it. The Japanese army has never been able to advance an inch, and the two sides have been fighting for a long time in order to be able to fight even a trench!
In the "boom, boom, boom, ......boom" trenches and bomb-blown holes, battalion commander Zhang Jinghua led the remaining Xiangxi disciples around him to bomb desperately by enemy planes and artillery. But no one said a word.
More than 600 bombs fell in one day, and they still held their positions and did not retreat!
"Assault!!" The cannon fell, and the Japanese attack began again! Zhang Jinghua roared with red eyes: "Kill!" Kill it!! ”
A group of men and tigers jumped out and roared angrily and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the position! The Japanese soldiers were stunned, they didn't expect that there were still living people on this position......
"Kill the devil!!" A terrible roar exploded in the air, like thunder! Less than twenty people jumped up from their positions and pounced on the Japanese with rifles in hand! Both sides are in a mess! The Japanese army began to be a little timid, although they were numerous, they reluctantly fought with these more than ten men, and more they wanted to withdraw......
Gu Jiaqi's guards finally caught up, and these Japanese troops also withdrew their positions......
Looking at this miserable scene, the adjutant of the Japanese army who drove down cried!
Only 16 men remained in the first battalion. The battalion commander Zhang Jinghua was wounded, and the company commander and platoon commander were all dead. Just these 16 people actually climbed out of the trench and fought hand-to-hand with the enemy until the arrival of reinforcements!
Seeing the adjutant, Zhang Jinghua's eyes lit up, but the next words made the adjutant even more sour.
"Is there anything to eat?! We've been hungry for days......" The adjutant wiped his tears and told him to take out all the food he had. Unfortunately, few people have food on them.
There was only one guard, with a small piece of bread. The adjutant grabbed it and gave it to Zhang Jinghua.
Zhang Jinghua pinched the dough, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, but handed it to a thin man next to him and whispered: "Baby, you eat!" You're still young! Who's tall......"
"I don't eat! Battalion commander, you ...... eat" The baby pushed the cake over again, and Zhang Jinghua grinned: "I'm such a big man!" You won't die if you don't eat it, your baby is small! Eat! ”
As he spoke, Zhang Jinghua turned away from letting people see the saliva he swallowed. Shouting loudly for everyone to go back to the trench, he knew that in a few moments the Japanese would have to shell again.
On the same day, the Ouyang Lie Regiment of the 13th Independent Brigade from Jiangxi rushed to participate in the battle. With the support of the Ouyang regiment, after many tug-of-war battles, the 128th Division finally pushed the enemy back to the east of Lujiabang.
What equipment does the 128th Division have?! The platoon has 3 Czech-style light aircraft, and the battalion has 1 heavy aircraft company. Equipped with 6 sets of 30 water-cooled heavy machines. The artillery battalion had only 81 mortars and 12 guns; No anti-aircraft artillery, no flat-fire guns, higher artillery!
Yes, it's just the blood of a boy in Xiangxi!
"You can't fight like this!" Gu Jiaqi came to the position and said to these men from Xiangxi: "Take people with you at night." Hack him in the past! ”
Several regiment commanders were tied with bandages and nodded fiercely! The pole soldiers are already good at night battles, how can this trick be done if you don't sing it to the Japanese army!
That night, the troops were dominated by pole soldiers! Armed with broadswords and short guns! **Wearing the upper body, anyone who touches the clothes will be directly chopped to death!
At night, the Japanese positions were calm. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army already knew that the night attack did not seem to have an effect on the 128th Division. So the troops were ordered to rest, and even if the planes were dispatched at night, the combat effect was not good.
But at this time, the men of Xiangxi who were dressed in pot ashes slowly touched the position of the Japanese army! Due to the need for the Japanese to charge. There are no mines on the positions at all! And the pole soldiers, who are good at night attacks and hand-to-hand combat, suddenly touched the defensive corners of the Japanese army with their own feelings!
A few knives cut off the guards, and these Xiangxi men roared and slaughtered into the camp of the Japanese army! The Japanese garrison on those heights was naturally solved, and the pole soldiers were rampage through the camp!
"Lao Tzu chops you to death!!" The roar with a Xiangxi accent kept ringing in the camp of the Japanese army! Everywhere there were panicked Japanese troops. They didn't expect that the target of their night attack would actually fight back against them!
A few of the pole soldiers roared "Click! Chop off the panicked heads of the Japanese soldiers, and blood suddenly sprayed them! The anger that was suppressed and beaten during the day was vented at this moment!
The half-naked pole soldiers jumped and split a bloody storm in the crowd of Japanese soldiers!
"Poof!" With a knife, a pole soldier cracked his mouth and smiled and chopped over a Japanese soldier who had just gotten up from bed and didn't know anything about the situation!
Then he saw that the big knife in his hand danced like a windmill. Suddenly, the hands, feet, and torsos of several Japanese soldiers were cut! A large area of bloody blood suddenly gushed out, and the screams of the Japanese army resounded throughout the camp!
"Boom, boom, boom......" The others were also unable to show weakness, grabbed the grenade on their waists and threw it towards the temporary barracks of the Japanese army! The bomb is a person on his back!
The Miao pole soldiers are afraid to die, each holding a saber from their hometown! The handle is about two palms wide and long. The blade is slightly shorter than a normal sabre, but the blade is about three inches wide! Chop off heads, hands and feet. Extremely sharp!
After slashing for a while, it is estimated that the Japanese army will wake up! The poles whistled. All of them withdrew from the Japanese camp at once, and disappeared into the night in three or two clicks.
What was left for the Japanese army was nothing more than corpses and blood all over the ground. The Japanese commander wanted to cry without tears, so he could only order to strengthen the vigilance.
Knowing that the pole soldiers returned victorious, Gu Jiaqi cracked his shriveled lips and smiled extremely happily. Then a meeting of several regiment commanders was called, and the Japanese planes and artillery were powerful! It's definitely impossible to hold on to it.
The regiment commander Shen Quan hung the injured arm, muttered for a while, and said to the division commander Gu Jiaqi: "Division commander, our advantage lies in hand-to-hand combat!" It's definitely unbearable to fight like this. Otherwise, we'll take out some uniforms and put a scarecrow on the battlefield! Bomb it up for the Japanese, and our brethren are in ambush on both sides! When they come up, we'll kill them!" ”
"Force them into hand-to-hand combat and neutralize their firepower! So we can withstand it for a while......"
Shen Quan's words aroused unanimous approval, and Gu Jiaqi also felt that it was feasible to do so! So he ordered the troops to go down and let the troops set up straw men overnight and put on their military uniforms! Put on a military hat and let the straw man climb on the position, and he is ambushed on both sides!
Gu Jiaqi's request was just a trivial matter for the soldiers below. They themselves are from peasant families, and there are many straw men to catch birds. This thing is familiar with it!
In just three or two clicks, hundreds of straw men put on military uniforms and were placed on the position. Gu Jiaqi took a few regiment commanders to take a look, and it really looked like that at more than 100 meters. Only then did I go back and wait for tomorrow's battle.
"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! "Early the next morning, the Japanese army really launched a large-scale attack on the position!...... As the Japanese army used to be, first artillery shelling and aircraft bombardment, and then heavy offensive by ground forces!
Looking at the messy scarecrows that were bombed, the pole soldiers on both sides couldn't help but sigh that the division commander's head was hard to get! This method has been figured out, and the Japanese cub has wasted the shell.
The Japanese army launched a charge towards the position of the 128th Division in accordance with the previous tactical regulations. When the killing reached two hundred meters, there was a roar from both sides of the position! But I saw those pole soldiers wielding rifles and broadswords, and they killed them!
Caught off guard, the Japanese army was once again forced into hand-to-hand combat! Compared with the pole soldiers who are good at hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army is a step behind. The sudden attack and the tragic hand-to-hand combat obviously dealt a great blow to the morale of the Japanese army.
After holding out for a while, the Japanese army retreated. The cheering polemen dragged their booty and hurried towards their positions. Those Japanese soldiers may not have food with them. That's what the Pole Soldiers want most right now.
"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! "Bombardment...... "just retreated for more than half an hour, and the Japanese launched an artillery bombardment again! Under the opening of the tank, the strange roar of "rumbling ......" came towards the position!
At this time, Gu Jiaqi, who was observing the battlefield, received a fatal news: due to the slow march and resistance, there was no progress so far, and the Japanese army ordered its reinforcements of about 2,000 people to invade Nanxiang Fudang by steamboat. Attempt to outflank from the northwest!
Fortunately, the two regiments of the Zhao Division of the 109th Division heard the news and immediately deployed to the northwest of the county, which can be regarded as temporarily withstanding the Japanese army's attack! But Gu Jiaqi also knew that this was only temporary!
"Boom, boom, boom......" There was a roar of cannons from the east of the city, and suddenly the poles on those positions found that the air had turned green!
"Poison gas!! Immediately find water, wet the cloth, and cover your mouth and nose! Fast!! The well-informed Shen Quan immediately recognized it. It's poison gas! Immediately let everyone have water to make a wet cloth with water, and use urine if there is no water!
"Send someone to inform the division commander! These Japanese mongrels are gassed!! ”
The roar of "buzzing ......" planes was heard, and the Japanese bombing began again! It was also a prelude to the Japanese army's imminent attack, and Shen Quan's face became ugly in vain! Damn Japanese mongrel!
Due to the use of poison gas, most of the pole soldiers in the entire position collapsed! I watched the Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks smiling and killing the position. Slit his throat with a bayonet......
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army invaded outside the north gate!
"I'll chop your whole family's little Japan!!" Gu Jiaqi red-eyed, a regiment of the reserve of the 28th Division, and a newly arrived regiment of the 109th Division, launched a bloody battle against the Japanese troops who rushed up!
The soldiers looked at those brothers who were killed by the Japanese army alive, and their eyes were red! Follow your own division commander and kill the past with a roar! The Japanese army was also unbearable, and screamed to kill the 128th Division and the 109th Division!
Fight for half a day. More than half of the soldiers and a regiment of the 109th Division were sacrificed, and after all, the Japanese army was repelled to Zhujiawei, five miles north of the city. Solstice day. The battlefield is already facing battles on both the east and the north......
August 15th
"To Nanjing Military Telegram": "The enemy who entered from Nanxiangfu was very rampant. After dawn, the enemy's main force attacked the position of our Gu division with the main force along the road and railway.
The enemy carried out extremely fierce attacks on the left side of the railway for several days. Our 128th and 109th Divisions suffered heavy casualties, and from dawn today, the enemy's attack was particularly fierce, and the concentrated machine guns bombed the whole day, destroying all positions...... Retreat to the area around Qixingqiao Station in Sandian Town to continue to resist...... All the officers and men of our 128th Division are determined to die when they are all shot! Fight with Kou, and never retreat without a military order......"
After sending this telegram, Gu Jiaqi lowered his head and kept sobbing. On this day, the major of the 763rd Regiment attached to Mi Dachang was killed, the commander of the 764th Regiment Shen Quan and the battalion commander Zhang Jian were wounded again, and the companies and platoons of each regiment suffered dozens of casualties......
In the early morning of the 16th, the Japanese army attacked fiercely again! After several hours of bloody fighting, Shu Anqing, the commander of the 763rd Regiment, was wounded; Deputy Regiment Commander Yang Zhengyin, Battalion Commander Luo Anye, and Deputy Regiment Commander Yang Feiteng of the 764th Regiment were killed, and most of the company-platoon-level officers and Zuo of the division were killed or wounded.
After Gu Jiaqi telegraphed to Liu Jianxu, commander of the group army, he again led the company directly under him and the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 767th Regiment with a total of about 500 people to support the front line, and launched a feint attack on the enemy near the bus station to cover the withdrawal of the officers and men of the front line to a favorable position.
On the night of the 16th, all the remaining officers and soldiers successfully passed the No. 67 bridge, and then blew up the bridge and withdrew to Linping overnight.
In the first battle, the four regiments of the 2nd Brigade and the 4th Regiment of the 128th Division were all wounded, three of the four regiments were killed and one was wounded, seven of the 12 battalion commanders were killed and five were wounded, and two-thirds of the company platoon commanders were killed and one-third were wounded. 1,655 killed. Japanese casualties, comparable to mine.
Jiashan blocked the attack for seven days and nights, and the Japanese army paid heavy casualties step by step, and advanced 7 kilometers from Fengjing to the county seat. After that, the Japanese army gradually occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )