Chapter 313: The War of Resistance Breaks Out
Dong Ku traveled in the starry night, but Ulabaatar could not rush back to Harbin in a day, even if his horse was fast.
Just when he was hurrying in the starry night, Shunzi Lao Zhao's troops were digging the Japanese army's defensive cards in the tactics of adding oil, and the Japanese army mobilized fighters to prepare to pull out their artillery positions, the Japanese battles in Wanping, Tianjin, Dagu, and Langfang broke out violently again.
Tianjin had already been lost, but there was still nearly a regiment of troops retreated, stubbornly resisting the Japanese with street fighting, and after a few hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese temporarily retreated, giving the defenders, who were already less than two battalions in strength and short of bullets, a chance to breathe. But they didn't last long, before the reinforcements arrived, the Japanese launched a fierce attack on that block at ten o'clock, in the dense rain of bullets, under the machine gun fire of the tanks, in just an hour, the Japanese army attacked that block, after the tragic white-knuckle battle, the whole regiment of the defenders was killed, so far, Tianjin fell.
After the fall of Tianjin, Terauchi Shou ordered Wanping to be attacked.
Subsequently, at eleven o'clock, a large number of planes flew to Wanping, and under the bombardment of tanks and planes, they launched a fierce attack on Wanping.
Wanping's defenders fought to the death, and launched a tug-of-war with the Japanese army at Lugou Bridge, and in the rain of blood, a tragic chapter of resistance against Japan soaked in blood was composed.
The fierce battle lasted until the early hours of the morning, and finally because he was outnumbered, a seriously wounded company commander sounded the grenade that he could not throw in his arms, and the moment he died with more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who surrounded him, all the officers and soldiers of the 218th Regiment and the 219th Regiment were killed, and Wanping was lost.
After taking Wanping, Terauchi Shou ordered a division and two mixed brigades to launch an attack on Nanyuan, Beiyuan, and Xiyuan on the outskirts of Beijing.
When the morning sun rose on the 29th, the South Garden, the North Garden, and the West Garden were fiercely attacked by the Japanese army at the same time.
In order to open up the situation as soon as possible and avoid long nights, Terauchi Shouichi sent one hundred and fifty bombers and attack planes to launch fierce attacks on the defenders in three places.
Lao Chiang's anti-aircraft artillery had just arrived. There was no anti-aircraft artillery in Beijing, and the Japanese planes became the kings of the battlefield, and the defenders suffered heavy losses under the rage of irresistible aircraft. In the fierce battle, Tong Linge, the deputy commander of the 29th Army, fought to the death. Zhao Dengyu, commander of the 132nd Division, was killed in battle. At night, Song Zheyuan withdrew from Beiping.
At this point, the trajectory of history seems to be back to square one, but the process has changed a lot.
When Beiping was in danger, the Central Committee of the Dang, which had just arrived in the Soviet area and was still standing on its heels, sent a telegram to the whole country, calling for the war of resistance of the whole people, and put forward the slogan of not allowing Japan to occupy China and shedding blood for the defense of the country.
After Lao Jiang received Song Zheyuan's request for help. In addition to asking Yan Laoxi to speed up his approach to Beijing, he also made the policy and instructions of not yielding, not expanding, not seeking war, and fighting the war.
Their actions kicked off the prelude to the national resistance against Japan, and the War of Resistance officially broke out.
On the way, Dong Ku did not have time to listen to the message in order to hurry as soon as possible. He ran almost non-stop, all the way to Harbin.
And Shunzi and Lao Zhao have already discovered a phenomenon in their favor. That is, after a few rounds of effective fire, the resistance of the charging team to machine gun interception is reduced, and in the opposite position, the density of machine gun fire is significantly reduced, if it were not for the continuous support of the Japanese long-range artillery, mortars and 92 infantry guns constantly set up positions for artillery coverage. After the transfer, it was really difficult to block the offensive line of more than 200 meters with a few machine guns alone.
Thousands of fighters were killed in front and back, and Junko, seeing hope, divided the artillery into two groups. A group of twenty guns carried out positional bombardment, and a group of ten carried out the destruction of the positions of mortars and 92 infantry guns.
As the shells fell, the fighters of a company of only 100 meters away from the craters and corpses, where there was no barbed wire and mines, did not stand up and rush, but spread out and approached the position with the help of the craters.
The Japanese mortars had just dropped shells, and the ensuing round of blows had silenced the few mortars, and the tongues of fire that had just appeared in the distance could not take care of all the attack routes, and more than a hundred soldiers were about to get close to them for 300 meters, and in a minute, they could destroy the machine guns that sprayed tongues of fire.
The shells did not fall unexpectedly at this moment, and the shelling was no longer outside the original barbed wire, but directly bombarded that piece of space, so that the soldiers who were charging close had to hide in the craters to avoid the shelling. But they were already close, and there were relatively few shells falling around them, which also gave them a chance to continue in the explosion, so that they would not all be left there.
At this moment, there was a roar of engines in the sky, and then the air defense group gave a warning of the attack of enemy aircraft.
With the altitude given by the listening group, the anti-aircraft cannon began to roar.
At an altitude of about 2,000 meters, the Japanese Nakajima light bombers steadily approached Junko's artillery position, and the smoke of the shell explosion had appeared in front of their eyes, but the pilot still did not turn around, and still flew towards the area.
At the same time that the first plane was hit and out of control, the listening group suddenly heard the sound of an engine, and then a group of fifteen fighters drilled out of the clouds and swooped down on the artillery position.
Seeing the group of planes appearing in the sky in the distance, the anti-aircraft machine gun immediately locked on the direction in which the plane was flying and carried out a preset interception, and the bomb company divided the sky into several pieces, as long as the Japanese plane did not turn in advance, it would be guaranteed to get into the metal net woven by unrequited love.
Everything seems to have been mastered by the air defense of the advance army, and I am afraid that the air raid by the Japanese aircraft this time will not be effective.
But at this moment, the mutation protruded, and in the violent explosion, the listeners did not hear that there were still planes approaching, and they were not far away.
When a fighter in charge of guarding the airspace suddenly saw the figure of the plane, he shouted: "Quick!! There are planes over there!! ”
But everything was too late, the flamingos flying at low altitudes at high speed had already made it difficult for the anti-aircraft machine guns with their muzzles raised to turn their muzzles for pre-firing interception, and at the moment when the anti-aircraft guns and machine guns were turned, they were whistling, and the trajectory of bullets rushed to the artillery position, and then, the blood on the position was flying, and the soldiers who had no time to dodge were shot by large-caliber aircraft bullets, so that the ground was ploughed out by bullets and covered with corpses.
"Grass Mud Horse !!"
Heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft gunners shouted, and chasing the flamingos that swept by them was a wild fire.
After successfully strafing the artillery position, the five flamingos raised their noses, quickly climbed and flipped over, and only one of the chasing shells hit the tail fin, shook and lost control, and flew straight into the sky.
At the moment when everyone's attention was all attracted, the scream of an aerial bomb came from the sky.
"Watch for secrecy!!"
In a shout, the bomb fell.
The loud bang on the artillery position, constantly sounded around, and in the dust and smoke in the sky, two 150 howitzers were overturned to the ground.
Before the fighters on the position could transport the shells, the group of attack planes that had been flying slowly before also came into range. Although three aircraft were lost as a result of the interception, their nose was already in an air defense position.
In the roar of the machine gun, there was a boom, and an anti-aircraft gun truck was hit and caught fire.
While the wood chips were flying, three anti-aircraft machine guns pulled by horse-drawn carriages were hit by bullets, and none of the machine gunners on them were spared.
In the sudden change, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers who reacted roared one after another, and the twelve attack planes that flew down from the clouds were the moment they swept over the position, and five planes were hit, lost control, and fell out of the position in smoke.
The planes flew by, and everyone put out the fire and rescued, while preparing to defend against the second wave of attacks.
At the moment when Junko discovered the failure of the air defense of the artillery position from a distance, in addition to ordering the machine gunners to assist in the air defense, he urgently ordered his family to transfer 30 anti-aircraft machine guns, 20 machine guns, and 10 additional anti-aircraft guns, and rushed to the artillery position to assist in air defense.
He didn't dare to transfer too much, in case the position was empty and the defensive line was heavily damaged by the Japanese army, it would also be a big trouble, who would dare to guarantee that the Japanese army would not attack if it made a defensive posture?
After a round of strafing and bombing by Japanese planes, the planes circled, made a mistake, and swooped down again on the air defense position.
This time, they obviously overestimated the results of the battle just now, and when they saw the anti-aircraft guns on fire and the machine guns falling apart, they thought that this round of attacks would completely destroy the air defense force here.
In the roaring explosion, the planes that flipped and circled were hit one after another, dragging thick smoke to the ground, and one after another being hit by artillery shells, directly exploding brilliant fireworks in the air.
The remaining four flamingos were intercepted, and only two of them were lucky to be hit in the fuselage and wings, but the bullet was Depp's 7.62 instead of a heavy machine gun bullet, allowing them to escape the airspace wounded.
Looking at the four planes that drilled like clouds, everyone sighed depressedly, but they were helpless.
On the position, at this time, two cannons were crooked, four cannons were damaged by bullets hitting the firing device, and the rest was fine. And the anti-aircraft artillery, in addition to relying on you to set the truck on fire, the engines of two other trucks were hit, and it was a foregone conclusion that they broke down.
The losses of the anti-aircraft guns were not very large, and only three heavy machine guns were damaged, and the strength of the anti-aircraft was still there.
But with this delay, the mortars in front have left all the soldiers who are approaching, and this may have shifted their positions.
"Playing air raids?!"
Shunzi learned that the loss was not big, and muttered a sentence while informing Lao Zhao.
Cleaned up the wreckage on the position, attacked, and started again.
But soon, Junko found that the enemy's machine guns were dense again, and the charge was not as smooth as before, and at a distance of three or four hundred meters from the position, it was intercepted by the machine guns, and then, the shells flew over.
To his surprise, after two rounds of shelling, the shells of the enemy flew much faster than before, and as soon as the charging team approached the edge of the barbed wire, the shells fell.
How?
Junzi keenly found that these shells seemed to have preset the travel position in advance, and the shells were fired in advance, otherwise they would not fly so quickly, after all, the 20-kilometer shells would also fly...... (To be continued......)