Chapter 955: Fierce Battle

The Gui troops on the outlying positions withstood the fierce shelling of more than 1,000 Japanese artillery, and the fierceness of the artillery fire was unprecedented for all the Gui soldiers.

After the shelling stopped, Honma Masaharu elegantly put down the binoculars, glanced at the senior generals who were still in shock, and said in a flat tone, "Nakagawa-kun, the first attack mission, just give your division, go, use the blood of the Shina soldiers to wash away the shame of the Takashima Wing," Nakagawa Keno's face was full, and a touch of spirit flowed out of his eyes, this is His Excellency the commander, give yourself a chance to regain your prestige.

"Hai, Your Excellency Commander, the Nakagawa Division, must be the first to storm Nanning City," At the same time, another division of the Japanese army that participated in the attack also began to act, Honma Masaharu looked at these silent senior generals, knowing how they were feeling now, and it was he who proposed to use all the artillery fire to destroy the local army in China.

This plan was almost unanimously opposed by Lieutenant General Kenji Iijima, the commander of the Fourth Army, except for his old friend, Lieutenant General Kenji Iijima, especially those officers of the Young Zhuang faction, who thought that to occupy Nanning, they only needed one charge and could have lunch in the city of Nanning. Why spend cannonballs to save some resources for the empire.

Honma Masaharu scoffed at the statements of these arrogant officers, whose courage was commendable and naïve, and His Excellency the Lieutenant General could not forget that in the North China region, the soldiers of the Imperial Army became a tragic scene of piles of broken ròu under the overwhelming bombardment of Tang Qiuli's troops, and after retreating from North China, Honma Masaharu equipped his troops with more than twice as many artillery as other Japanese troops, for which he was ridiculed by many colleagues.

Honma Masaharu disdained to argue with these officers who had never seen the world, he only said "We have no power, use the young lives of the Imperial soldiers to directly face the muzzles of the Shina soldiers," he brought these senior officers here, observed the effect of the shelling, and then convinces them with the facts, and now, Honma Masaharu's purpose has obviously been achieved, and anyone who sees such a spectacular shelling scene without being shocked is an idiot.

Major General Xia Guodong, commander of the 113th Division of the Ninth Army of the Gui Army, spit out the dust in his mouth, got up from the ground, and shook off the mud, the hidden department of this division headquarters is not bad, and it resisted the artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, but the roof was also blown up into a big hole, "**, the little devil's shells are really many, the chief of staff, the chief of staff, immediately count the number of casualties in the troops, order the troops, immediately enter the fortifications, the little devil is going to attack." ”

Xia Guodong issued a series of orders in his mouth, and his mood was not relaxed, judging from his experience, this time, the Japanese artillery bombardment, the casualties brought to the troops were not small, especially on some main positions, the anti-artillery dòng and the concealment department were prepared in accordance with the prevention of Japanese medium-caliber artillery fire, who knows, the little devil used so many heavy artillery.

The chief of staff walked in with a heavy face, and his body was also covered with mud, "Report to the division, the casualty figures have been counted, the casualties of the brothers are large, more than 1,500 casualties," Xia Guodong almost jumped up, "What?" In more than an hour, my troops lost one-sixth of their combat effectiveness," no wonder he was shocked, the 113th Division was small with 9,000 people, and when Wu Xiao came out, he took away more than 2,000 people from a regiment first, and there were more than 6,000 people.

The phone on the shell box rang urgently, Xia Guodong grabbed the phone, "Division commander, the little devil has begun to charge, there are still a lot of people, in front of our regiment, at least one wing," the commander of the 315th Regiment said hurriedly, and then there was a sound of gunfire from the earpiece, "Beat the little devil down, even if there is only one person left, he will die on the position, not a single step back, let the little devil taste the power of our Guangxi soldiers," Xia Guodong almost shouted.

After speaking, Xia Guodong threw down the phone, turned around and pounced on the lookout, in the telescope, a group of Japanese soldiers, lined up in a charging formation, steel helmets and bayonets, against the sun, revealing the luster of metal, with a coercion, step by step bī close to their position, and then, the Japanese soldiers accelerated the speed of the charge,

The soldiers of the Gui army came out of the soil, desperately striking, and a burst of gunfire suddenly broke out on the position, the Japanese soldiers continued to fall to the ground, but more Japanese soldiers rushed up, and the Japanese light and heavy machine guns that served as cover also roared wildly, and the dense bullets hit the trenches that could hardly see the original appearance, splashing small soil huā, and the soldiers who were shè were hit by machine gun bullets, their heads were tilted, lying on the trenches, motionless, and the Gui soldiers were pressed so that they could not raise their heads.

The artillery bombardment of the Japanese army just now, knocked out a lot of the original firepower points, the gunfire of the Gui army returning fire was not very intensive, almost in a short time, the Japanese soldiers had rushed into the fortifications, the soldiers of the Gui army jumped up and started a ròu fight with the Japanese soldiers, Xia Guodong "groaned" in his heart, threw away the binoculars, the little devil was the first charge, and he fought ròu, which is not a good phenomenon.

He grabbed the submachine gun on the shell box, turned around and rushed out of the concealment department, "Order the division headquarters to guard the battalion, immediately follow me to the position of the 315th Regiment, and beat the little devil back, quickly" Xia Guodong's fierce order arrived, the guard hurriedly picked up a steel helmet and put it on his head, there were fierce gunshots everywhere, and mortar shells exploded around him from time to time.

When Xia Guodong led the guard battalion to the position of the 315th Regiment, the position was already precarious, the casualties of this regiment were too great, and the firepower point was destroyed a lot by the Japanese artillery fire, and it was in the prominent part of the whole division, and it was the first to withstand the attack of the Japanese army.

Xia Guodong came at the right time, the division headquarters guard battalion, equipped with almost a Qingyi sè submachine gun and barge gun, after joining the battle, played the role of automatic weapons, especially Xia Guodong personally participated in the battle, for the soldiers of the 315th Regiment, the morale of the encouragement, limitless, burst out of great combat power.

The first charge of the Japanese army was repulsed, but the defending Gui army troops also paid a great price, Xia Guodong returned to the concealment department, threw the submachine gun "Bang Dang" on the shell box, panting heavily, the major general's uniform was stained with bright red blood, and on his left arm, he made an exception and made a big hole to sort out a deep wound on his arm.

Xia Guodong participated in the ròu battle, if it weren't for the guard's quick eyes and quick hands, he killed the Japanese soldiers who attacked the division commander with one shot, and the dignified division commander, at this moment, eighty percent became a corpse, and a transparent hole would be left on the xiōng chamber, "Order all regiments, immediately enter the anti-artillery dòng and concealment department, the little devil is going to shell again, **, without these damn cannons, Lao Tzu can pinch out the eggs of the little devil." He ordered with a roar.

Repelled the first charge of the Japanese army, Xia Guodong didn't feel good, this is just the beginning, the 113th Division has exhausted all its strength, and the division headquarters guard battalion as a reserve has been used, and then, after the little devil shelling, the troops will be reduced, the second charge, whether it can be carried or not, Xia Guodong is really bottomless in his heart.

Another overwhelming artillery bombardment, this time, the time and intensity of the shelling, far more than the first time, the Japanese commander was obviously angered by the tenacious combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Gui army, almost overturned on the position, there are still soldiers resisting, under such a fierce artillery fire of the imperial army, can still survive, is it unreasonable?

Those high-ranking officers of the Japanese army who shouted that they could solve the soldiers of China and occupy the city of Nanning with a single charge did not say a word anymore, and they all saw the battle scene just now, how could there be no artillery tactics of His Excellency the commander, and they believed that not many of the soldiers of the imperial army who participated in the attack for the first time could come back.

The combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Gui Army gave them a great shock, and they put themselves in their shoes, if so many shells were poured on the heads of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, would the soldiers of the Imperial Army still have such tenacious combat effectiveness? The answer is that it's hard to say, looking at Honma Masaharu's gaze, there is a lot of admiration, but Honma Masaharu himself is still so indifferent, he has no illusion that a bombardment and a charge can solve the Nanning Campaign, and even, he is mentally prepared for the arduous journey of the battle.

After the shelling stopped, the Japanese army attacked on a large scale again, and almost all the places where the fighting broke out, almost all the ròu battles took place, and even a few positions were broken through by the Japanese army.

In the evening, after repelling the last attack of the Japanese army, the battlefield that had been fighting spasmodically for a day finally fell silent, the remnant sun was like blood, the smell of gunpowder had not dissipated, the embers of the war in many places were still floating with green smoke, the corpses of Japanese soldiers and Gui soldiers were everywhere, and the craters everywhere, the pungent smell of blood, made people suffocate.

On the first day of the defense of Nanning, the outlying positions of the Gui army, under the intensive artillery fire of the Japanese army, relied on the tenacious combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Gui army to withstand five attacks on the scale of the Japanese division.

The casualties of the Gui army troops were more than those of the Japanese army, and the large logarithmic casualties were caused by the Japanese artillery fire, and the lives of thousands of Gui soldiers were used to block the frantic attack of the Japanese army.

That night, in Guangzhou, at the headquarters of Ma Chaoyang's corps, Tang Qiuli looked at the special operations detachment with a frown, and gave full play to the information about the battle situation on the first day of the Nanning Defense Battle, judging from these information, he had a premonition that Nanning City could not hold out for three days, and he must inform Bai Chongxi of the cruel reality, but Bai Chongxi had not yet sent a telegram, and Tang Qiuli could only wait patiently.