Volume 1: The Battle of Songhu Chapter 24 The Last Pawn

Han Keqiang didn't know that the military headquarters of the Fourth Army was actually in Baofeng Town.

General Ou Zhen was influenced by his father since he was a child, he was good at poetry and writing, and he did not leave this hobby after joining the army, as long as he stole a moment of leisure, he would splash ink or chant poems as Bin, Songhu was defeated, and the national army lost the opportunity to retreat because of the unrealistic illusions of the old Chiang on the Western powers, and finally caused a great rout.

At this moment, General Ou Zhen is writing his seven-law poem - retreat feeling.

The wind on the lake is bleak and the moon is gone, and the long causeway is far away and the tree road is long.

The three armies were indignant, and the people were in tears.

The state affairs have been too long to rest, and the future is not to ask how difficult it is.

The sacrifice is a man's son's chronicle, and the blood is not empty, and the bones are not cold.

The title of General Ou Zhen's Confucian General is not obtained in vain, and this Seven Laws is quite effective.

However, a sudden burst of gunfire broke General Ou Zhen's good interest, the general put the brush on the table, and then turned out of the study, outside is the war room of the Fourth Army, several staff officers on duty in the war room were also alarmed by the gunfire just now, this will be you look at me, I look at you, completely confused.

Soon, the gunfire from the front became more intense, and there was a faint sound of grenade explosions, and the chief of staff of the Fourth Army, two division commanders, and four brigade commanders also rushed to the military headquarters, and Zhang Deneng, the commander of the 59th Division, was experienced, and quickly judged that the gunfire came from the direction of Longtouling.

"Longtou Ridge?" Ou Zhen strode to the map, and it took a lot of effort to find Longtouling from the map, and the map used by the national army was also the original version of the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang's surveying and mapping, which was crudely printed and full of errors, but the basic orientation could still be identified.

"No, how can there be a little Japan in Longtouling?" Ou Zhen was puzzled.

Judging from the map, Longtouling is deep in the southwest of De'an, separated by nearly a hundred miles, and it is even farther away from the front-line battlefields of the Ruiwu Highway and the Nanxun Railway.

"Maybe it's a small group of Japanese troops who are disturbing in a roundabout way." Zhang Deneng analyzed, "Trying to mess with our army's heart? ”

"Impossible, Jiujiang and De'an gathered hundreds of thousands of my troops, and Okamura Ninji is not a fool, he can't be naΓ―ve enough to think that only a small group of Japanese troops can mess with our army's heart, there must be an article in this." Ou Zhen immediately issued an order, "Pass my order, and the special service company of the military headquarters will immediately march in the direction of Longtouling, and be sure to find out the ins and outs of this little Japan for me." ”

Ou Zhen's sense of smell on the battlefield is still very keen, and he already has a premonition that this matter is definitely not trivial.

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"Yaga, Yaga Yalu" received the news that the captain of the L13th Wing, Kenten Iino, sent back the news, Matsuura Junrokuro was so angry that he slapped the communication soldier several times with his bow left and right, and the communication soldier's face swelled in an instant, but he could only turn his head again and again, and let Matsuura Junrokuro continue to slap him.

Chief of Staff Yoshitaka Akiyama stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "Division commander, the whereabouts of our division have been exposed, I am afraid that we will not be able to stay here any longer, whether to return the same way, or attack and advance in the direction of De'an or disturb the first division, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"Baga, of course it's attacking in the direction of De'an, do you still need to consider this?" Junrokuro Matsuura viciously reprimanded Akiyama Yoshitaka, and then turned back and instructed the communications staff officer behind him, "Order, all wings immediately change the direction of the march and move towards Wanjialing, and the L13th Infantry Wing is the vanguard, and immediately launch an attack in the direction of Longtouling." ”

Although the whereabouts of the Japanese army have been exposed, Matsuura Junrokuro has not given up, even if the national army finds that the 10th Pei Regiment has passed through the middle gap of the outer figure-eight formation, it is impossible to mobilize too many troops to encircle it in a hurry, and the 10th Pei Regiment only needs one day at most, and it is possible to take De'an in one go.

As long as De'an City is taken, the tactical purpose of the 10th Pei Regiment will be achieved, and then it is only necessary to wait for reinforcements, waiting for the collapse of the national army on the front of Ruiwu Road and Nanxun Line, and Matsuura Junrokuro will never believe that the national army will be able to eat the main force of his 10th Pei Regiment before it collapses.

If the Japanese army wants to take De'an, the Longtou Ridge and Changling in front are the only way to go.

The 10th Infantry Wing of the 13th Pei Regiment of Little Japan, under the leadership of Wing Commander Kenten Iino, launched a fierce attack on the Longtouling position controlled by the 348th Regiment.

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The L13th Infantry Wing of the Little Japanese Infantry attacked with all its might, but the progress has not been smooth.

Han Keqiang's 348th Regiment relied on favorable terrain to cause great trouble to Little Japan, and the fierce battle lasted until noon, and the 348th Regiment finally lost its strength because of too many casualties, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, more than 2,500 officers and soldiers of the 348th Regiment had fought to less than 200 people, and the defensive position was also compressed to a small hill in Zuihou.

But even so, Han Keqiang still did not order a retreat.

"Boom ......" An artillery shell landed not far from Han Keqiang's side and exploded violently.

When Adjutant Chen Feng rushed up to dig Han Keqiang out of the scorched earth, he saw that Han Keqiang's face was covered with gunsmoke marks, his chest and abdomen were blurred with blood, and his right leg was also blown off from his knee.

"Tuanza, Tuanza?" Chen Feng was dumbfounded and roared.

"Fengzi, tell ...... Brothers...... They ...... "Han Keqiang is no longer good, but his consciousness is still sober, and he roared to Chen Feng word by word, "You can't retreat, hold your position, even if you fight to Zuihou, you must not take half a step back, this group of little Japanese people is not good, you must not let them pass, you can't ......"

Before he finished speaking, Han Keqiang had already died with a crooked head.

"Tuanza, Tuanza" Chen Feng held Han Keqiang's shoulder and roared twice, but Han Keqiang didn't react anymore, Chen Feng stretched out his black hands and wiped the tears on his cheeks, then stood up and yelled at the remaining more than 100 recruits around him, "Brothers, Tuanza has also been martyred, fight with Little Japan, fight with Little Japan on Dog Day"

"Fight, fight" Zuihou's more than two hundred remnants suddenly roared like beasts.

The next moment, Chen Feng was like an angry lion, rushing down the hill with a bayonet.

Without the slightest hesitation, more than 200 remnants of soldiers also rushed down with bayonets.

For the vast majority of recruits in the 348 regiment, this is their first time on the battlefield, and many recruits are still stunned as if they are stepping on cotton until now, but when they saw that several company commanders and battalion commanders were martyred one after another, and even the regiment commander was killed in battle, the blood on their bodies suddenly boiled violently.

People die in the sky, they don't die for thousands of years, people who are officials don't hesitate to die, what else do we big-headed soldiers say, so, fight to the death with little Japan.

Seeing the national army roaring and rushing down from the mountain, little Japan was also stimulated to be ferocious, one by one pulled the bolt of the gun to unload the bullets, and then rushed up the slope with bayonets, and collided head-on on the mountainside in two strokes, starting a tragic white-knives battle, and in an instant, the sound of bayonets colliding, the sound of sharp blades entering the body and the screams and roars of the soldiers on both sides were intertwined.

Kenten Iino looked into the distance with his hand, and was watching the white-knuckle battle scene here from a few hundred meters away, seeing that the national army was desperate for death, fighting with the Japanese army, many soldiers of the national army were obviously thin and weak, and it was not possible to stab Jishu, but they all pulled grenades before dying and chose to die with the Japanese army, seeing this, Iino Kenten couldn't help but shudder.

For the first time, Kenten Iino wavered about the future of the Japanese army, which was clearly a new army, but had already shown a formidable will to die, and this was only one of the huge national armies, and in the face of such an army, it was really possible for the Japanese army to win? In the face of such a country, is it really possible for Japan to conquer?