Chapter 1089: Japanese Night Attack

handed over the night command and duty tasks of the first division to the deputy division commander Scarface, Liu Yidao had dinner and went to bed early, Jiang Haidong was not there, he was the commander of the first column of more than 100,000 troops.

As a high-ranking general commanding an army of more than 100,000 troops, he naturally could no longer do everything himself, and he had to rest well, because what he needed to consider and face was the situation of more than 100,000 troops in the entire direction of the Yalu River and the enemy's reaction.

The headquarters of the 1st Division was located in a wooded area less than three kilometers from the forward position, which was just outside the effective range of the Japanese artillery, and unless the little devils pushed the infantry artillery to the river and opened fire, they would not be able to hit it at all.

And pushing the cannon to the edge of the river, this is simply impossible, if the little devils really do this, it is estimated that before they can set up the cannon, they will be blown into a pile of scrap metal by the artillery of the first division of the first column of Longya on the opposite bank.

Because Liu Yidao is Scarface's eldest brother, and he is also the deputy commander of the column, and now he is temporarily replacing Jiang Haidong in charge of the entire first column of Longya, and he has no time to manage the first division at all, so the deputy division commander of Scarface is actually the actual commander of the first division.

Scarface followed Liu Yidao, as one of the earliest veterans to follow Qiao Youhua to resist Japan, he has participated in many battles so far, and he is very brave in every battle, and he is one of the rare generals in the Dragon Tooth Column.

However, this guy also has a bad problem that can't be changed.

That is, he likes to drink, because he fought too smoothly on the battlefield in the northeast, this guy took tens of thousands of partial divisions, and it took less than half a month to sweep the Liaodong Peninsula and successfully recover Dalian, Lushun, Yingkou and other important places on the peninsula.

Now the devil has been beaten like a lost dog and fled into the Goryeo Peninsula in a hurry, so Scarface is inevitably a little proud, feeling that the devil has completely lost his combat power, if it wasn't for the refusal of his superiors, he would have led the troops to fight the Yalu River, and drove the little devil to the sea to feed the fish.

Therefore, this guy handed over the two regiment commanders and several divisional combat staff officers to the division command post tonight, let the cooking squad fry a few dishes, and then took the lead in eating and drinking.

In the middle of the night, Scarface and the others were all very drunk.

In the entire first division, only Li Mingshan, the commander of the third regiment, was left, because the third regiment had to be responsible for night guarding and patrolling, so he did not go to drink. The other major commanders were all very drunk and unconscious.

Because the expansion of the troops is too fast, the divisions and regiments under the four columns of the Longya Corps have not yet sent political commissars, and at most there are a few staff officers, and many divisions are carried by division commanders and chiefs of staff on both shoulders.

Cheng Cai, the former commander of the Third Regiment of the First Division and concurrently the political commissar and chief of staff of the division, is now the political commissar of the first column and the commander of the third division.

That night, the wind was high and the night was dark, and the moonlight was dim, which was a good opportunity for a night attack.

At about one o'clock in the morning, on the Japanese position on the other side of the Yalu River, an elite Japanese army of about 3,000 people quietly completed the assembly, and then went all the way up the opposite bank, under the leadership of a local native, quietly crossed the Yalu River from a shallow place upstream, and made a detour towards the 1st Division.

It turned out that the devils' active provocation and sniper shooting during the day were all deliberate, in order to make the dragon's tooth corps on the other side relax their vigilance so that they could surprise the night attack at night.

The purpose of the devil is very clear, at any cost, he gathered the few remaining elites, and in the direction of the Yalu River, he hurt the Longya Corps and attracted more troops of the Longya Corps to come over, so that it would have no time to look south, so that the Japanese army could shrink its forces in South China and Central China and carry out strategic operations to capture the Indochina Peninsula.

These 3,000 Japanese troops were the few remaining elite troops of the Kwantung Army, and most of the members were well-trained elite soldiers, and in order to achieve the maximum effect of this night attack, the Japanese commanders equipped them with as many equipment as possible, such as light machine guns and mortars.

They directly bypassed the 1st Division's positions along the river in the front, and instead pounced on the hinterland and rear of the 1st Division's position.

Because he killed a lot of devils during the day, the sharpshooters of the first regiment were in a very good mood tonight, and they were so excited that they couldn't sleep, but the comrades around him fell asleep one after another, and the tent was snoring like thunder, so Wang Erbao put on his military uniform and walked out with his semi-automatic rifle.

He was going to go out for a walk, and as soon as he walked out of the tent, Wang Erbao looked up at the sky and said with some disappointment: "Why is the moon so dark?" I don't have to look at the stars and the moon. ”

Because the 3rd Regiment was on duty tonight, the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment were resting and sleeping in the rear, and most of the officers and men were already asleep at this moment.

In the vicinity of their camp, only a small number of sentries were on duty.

Wang Erbao came to a dirt slope with a semi-automatic rifle on his back, sat on the dirt slope and began to smoke, July and August are the hottest times in the local area, especially near the river, it is hot and humid, and the fire from the cigarette butts attracts a lot of mosquitoes to buzz and fly.

Wang Erbao took two puffs, then kept waving his hand to drive away mosquitoes, and complained: "Alas, so many insects, it's really fucking ruined." ”

So he took two puffs, then stood up, threw the rest of the cigarette at his feet, extinguished it, and walked in the direction of the tent.

However, after only two steps, he suddenly seemed to notice something.

He immediately turned his head to look at the place where the sentry was standing guard just now, but was surprised to find that the sentry who was still on duty there with a gun on his back just now was gone.

Wang Erbao stood in the dark, a little unconvinced, rubbed his eyes and looked again, made sure that the person was really gone, immediately lay down, quietly took off the semi-automatic rifle and held it in his hand, raised the gun and aimed it in the direction where the sentry was standing.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Wang Erbao, who had already adapted to the dark night, to find a few black shadows sneaking towards the camp.

Wang Erbao immediately pulled the bolt, aimed at one of the black shadows, and shouted: "Stop!" ”

The black shadows were obviously stunned, but immediately a dense roar of machine guns rang out, and several devil soldiers armed with crooked light machine guns opened fire fiercely at Wang Erbao's side.

Because it was not clear where Wang Erbao was located, most of their bullets were empty.

Wang Erbao immediately pulled the trigger and shot one of the devil machine gunners on the spot, only to see a machine gun that was still firing flames falling straight backwards, and quickly fell silent.

This time, the flames of his own guns exposed Wang Erbao's location, and several devil soldiers and a large number of Japanese infantry behind them opened fire one after another.

Da Da Da ...... The sound of gunfire resounded in the night sky, and a dense rain of bullets whizzed towards the place where Wang Erbao was lying.