Chapter Twenty-Five: Blockade on the Heights
Today's six broke out even more, begging the officials to be happy. Bring flowers or something.
"Woo! Woo! "The Japanese fighter jets spun around and landed on the ground with smoke in their tails. The Chinese fighter triumphantly fired a few shots at the Japanese battlefield and then left.
The next battle was obviously not as simple as it was at the beginning, and the defense of the soldiers in China was getting stronger and stronger, and it was impossible to march as fast as the start.
The front line was under heavy artillery fire, and the Chinese soldiers held on to the 327 heights, allowing the Japanese army to fight bloodily, but they couldn't get closer.
Gu Shoufu's injuries were not yet healed, but he began to go out with illness, and he hated that it was not Liu Yuan who led the troops on the southern front, but Li Zongren, which made Gu Shoufu feel a huge sense of shame.
Is he no longer worthy of being Liu Yuan's enemy, the Japanese have a natural sense of submission to the strong, and those who are defeated by Liu Yuan do not disrespect him.
When Matsui Ishine left the headquarters, he made a farewell speech to the generals under his command, "Liu Yuan is not the enemy of all of you, but the enemy of the Japanese Empire. ”
He believed that the reason for the heavy losses of the empire in the last defense of Nanjing was related to his own wrong command, so he had to atone for the empire.
The shelling ended, and the horn of the charge sounded.
The warriors of the empire formed a torrent of yellow and rushed towards the 327 heights like fierce tigers, and several machine guns suddenly appeared on the high ground, forming crossfire points.
The soldiers in steel helmets began to shoot wildly at the Japanese troops who were climbing the high ground, and the torrent of Japanese troops was instantly stopped.
Gu Shoufu didn't understand how the troops on the 333 Heights had been cut off by 6 meters with artillery fire, and why did their soldiers have the courage to continue to fight with the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire.
"Fujino-kun, this time we failed again, please organize the twelfth attack." Gu Shoufu put away the binoculars, for why they were so strong, why they insisted on five days without retreating. This force has changed so much.
"Yes, General." Saito bowed to Tani and said.
Gu Shoufu's face was serious and said, "I don't want to see the thirteenth attack, the shame of the Central Chinese Front. ”
After recuperation, the combat effectiveness of Gu Shoufu's troops recovered quickly, and this time from Nanjing, the imperial troops fought very bravely, breaking through several lines of defense in a row, and a similar scene occurred in the Battle of Taiyuan, that is, retreating without a fight.
Gu Shoufu once thought that the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing had destroyed the bloody nature of the Chinese, so they could not do it.
The commander of the Central China Front sent all the telegrams of the vulnerable troops of the Central China Central China Army to the Japanese base camp, but in front of a small 327 height, he stopped moving.
Although the Japanese intelligence department worked very hard, it was still impossible to penetrate Liu Yuan's Fifth Theater Command, and they only learned about it by collecting intelligence on the 11th Group Army.
The fact that the offensive went smoothly some time ago was simply a deliberate illusion made by the Chinese troops, and the real phenomenon was that they were shrinking their forces and preparing to deal with the people later.
Now the Japanese troops are attacking frantically, like a swordsman, stabbing out the sharp sword, and China has finally found the offensive line of the Japanese troops and began to prepare for defense.
However, Tatara (tian) Shunroku was not a weak person, and when he learned that his march route had been detected by Shina, he immediately changed his marching route.
Toshiroku Hata divided the original troops into three routes, the first road is the sixth division Gu Shoufu, they will go south along the Jinpu Road, the second road is the ninth division, they need to attack Chuzhou, then Dingyuan, and then conquer Mingguang, the author train, take Fengyang, and then surround Bengbu.
The third road is the 106th Division, Changfeng, Fengtai, and Huaiyuan, surrounding Bengbu.
According to the needs of Shunroku Hatata, although the 6th Division was the main attack, it was responsible for attracting the Chinese defenders and providing opportunities for the roundabout troops.
However, how did Gu Shoufu think that a 327 Heights would become a place where the Japanese army was broken, and he could not take a step forward no matter what, and how to complete the characters left by Shunroku Hatata, Gu Shoufu felt a lot of pressure.
After an hour of fierce fighting, the attacking Japanese troops came down from the battlefield, and the two captains who were in charge of fighting with illness were covered in blood, "Sir, our way of attacking is wrong, we should call for artillery support and air strikes, our brigade has lost more than seventy percent, most of them are college students who have just graduated from school, please don't let them continue to go to the battlefield, okay?" ”
"Smack!" Saito directly shot the captain who begged for mercy for him, and then personally led the team forward to attack.
On the other side of the heights, He Yun, commander of the 117th Division, was listening carefully to the report of the chief of staff, "Since the start of the war today, our army has lost a total of 2,000 troops, including 1,000 on the left flank of the position and 800 on the right flank. ”
"Order the reserves." Although He Yun was dripping blood in his heart, he still insisted on letting the troops come forward to fight.
You must know that Lu Dao is only a division of B, all 12,500 people, and now he has lost more than 5,000 people, which has hurt the vitality of the troops, but the order from above is to resist for a week, this battle is too fucking difficult to fight. The information given to them by the theater command was that the commander on the opposite side was Lieutenant General Tani Shofu, so they didn't think about whether they could hold on to it.
But although He Yun scolded Liu Yuan a thousand times in his heart, he did not dare to obey the slightest intention, the second-level general of the party-state, said that he would be caught, and now he does not know the way of life and death, originally everyone thought that Chiang Kai-shek would stand up and relieve Han Fuqu, but there was a way to know that Chiang Kai-shek heard that Liu Yuan had arrested Han Fuqu, and happily ran to the university to give a speech saying that it was good to catch it.
Who dares to be disobedient at this moment, a general and a commander of the group army can be arrested, and there is no problem for them, lieutenant generals and division commanders, to be killed.
Military law is like a knife hanging in the sky, who dares to be disobedient, of course He Yun does not dare, after sending the reserve team up, he immediately said, "Ask for help from the military department, it is not good not to point at the army commander and his old man." ”
He Yunshi's predecessor was a unit of the Northeast Army, and since the Xi'an Incident, the Northeast Army began to decline, and the treatment was only a little better than that of the Red Party.
Especially when I followed Song Zheyuan, life was really not very easy. But then I finally looked forward to a good person, General Zhang Zizhong. General Zhang Zizhong is a general who Commander Liu Yuan specially wanted to come back from Chiang Kai-shek, not to mention that he can fight, this 327 highland is what he chosen, and the people are very good, and he specially asked for a large number of materials from the logistics department.
"Report, the commander called back."
He Yun held the telegram in his hand, and several staff officers stood nervously aside.
"Receiving a telegram from General Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Southern Front, the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army is looking for an opportunity to outflank Bengbu, and the characters of our unit are delaying the marching speed of the Japanese army.
He Yun's eyes lit up and shouted to the staff officers around him, "Yes, it's not a matter to defend to the death, listen to my orders, the whole army will withdraw from the blocking position, all the reserves will be redressed, and all our treasures will be taken out, Lao Tzu will take you to play tonight." ”
"Division commander, do you want to hide some mines in some places to leave some thoughts for the little devils." The chief of staff suggested on the sidelines.
"You can do whatever you want, but it has to be fast." He Yun shouted.
The Chinese finally retreated, and it seems that their losses were also very heavy, and there were troops there that could withstand the thirteen attacks of the Great Japanese Empire? Gu Shoufu originally wanted to take the opportunity to pursue, but the cunning Chinese once again established a defensive line not far from the high ground, and after the Japanese army got the high ground, the strength to support them had been completely lost, and there was no strength to continue fighting, and in desperation, Gu Shoufu could only give up and let the troops continue to attack.
The whole army rested for one night and continued the offensive tomorrow, this was the idea of Tanisoo before he went to sleep.