Chapter 66: The name of the bloody lonely city withers the flower on the nameless mountain

Murakami Taro was very confident in the poison gas bomb named special smoke within the Japanese army, and Murakami Taro witnessed the power of this chemical weapon many times during the encirclement and suppression of the Anti-Japanese Union in Northeast China. At the same time, several of his classmates are now serving in Unit 731, a secret unit of the Kwantung Army, so he knows a lot about poison gas bombs.

After years of experiments and wars, the Japanese army has made a major breakthrough in chemical weapons, even compared with Europe and the United States at the same time. Taro Murakami believed that even if the special smoke of the Great Japanese Empire was put on the European battlefield, it would definitely create a new miracle of war, not to mention the backward ones who didn't even know what rubber was.

Therefore, after using poison gas bombs, Taro Murakami directly ordered the Japanese army to charge, he wanted to take the position in the shortest possible time, and he wanted to let the entire Chahar Dispatch Army Command know that he Murakami Taro Osa was a capable commander.

When they put on their biochemical combat suits and gas masks, the Japanese soldiers knew what had happened. The vast majority of the soldiers of the Chahar Dispatch Corps were from the Kwantung Army, and the use of poison gas bombs was no secret to these soldiers.

At the same time, all the Japanese soldiers were secretly relieved in their hearts, they had the same idea as Taro Murakami, who was too superstitious about the power of poison gas bombs.

Six hundred Japanese soldiers cautiously approached the position of the first battalion, although none of them believed that the Chinese army would have much resistance under such heavy artillery fire and special smoke. However, many combat experiences have taught them that even if they shell for several hours, even if they use poison gas bombs, it is difficult to completely wipe out a fully formed army, and there are still survivors in a powerful attack on the enemy. If these people go crazy, they are likely to cause them casualties.

200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters, 50 meters

It was getting closer and closer to the position of the Shina army, but the enemy on the opposite side did not move at all, and slowly all the Japanese troops relaxed their minds, and it seemed that the Shina army was completely finished this time.

However, when they approached less than thirty meters from the position, a crisp gunfire suddenly sounded from the position of the Chinese defenders, and then after a burst of breaking through the air, a large number of grenades suddenly flew from the positions of the Chinese defenders.

"Boom, boom, boom" The power of the volley explosion of these grenades, which were thrown by the Chinese army with a delayed explosion, made it impossible for those Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground at the first time to be spared, and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses due to the attack without dead ends.

Before the other Japanese troops could react, the defenders' positions rang out with rapid gunfire, and the Japanese soldiers were knocked down one by one in the sound of 'da-da-da', and the quiet battlefield instantly turned into Shura hell.

By 4 p.m., there were less than 300 men left in the 1st regiment and 1st battalion of the garrison brigade, and the Japanese vanguard also suffered heavy losses, with less than 4,000 men left.

On the Xinghe side, Abe Norihide's department has also reached the last moment of destruction, and more than 5,000 Japanese troops are now only less than 1,000 remnants of the defeated and retreated to the top of the nameless hill, and all around are the Chinese troops who are frantically attacking, and there are more than a dozen large fireballs burning on the positions on both sides, which are produced by the most backward Japanese reinforcement aircraft.

Norihide Abe looked at the exhausted officers around him, and his heart couldn't help but feel gloomy, thinking about how confident he was when he was appointed as the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade and invaded Shina with almost a three-unit division, but it was only less than three months before he and his troops were at the end of their rope and their destruction was imminent.

"Gentlemen, a very bad news, just now His Excellency Hideki Tojo called, the reinforcements encountered the stubborn resistance of the Shina army, and stopped at Xinhei Fort. The temporary aviation units of the North China Front suffered heavy losses and were temporarily unable to reinforce our army, which means that we became a lone army. ”

Seeing that no one spoke, Abe Norihide sighed and said, "As a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire, a true Yamato warrior, I think each of us should hold our chests high, even if we die in the next moment, we can't fall into the majesty of the samurai." Ladies and gentlemen, allow me now to give the last order, and in ten minutes the whole army will assault, and all the officers and assistants, including me, will join the stormtroopers and launch a mortal counterattack against the Chinese army. It's good to be able to break through, but even if we can't, we should die on the way to the charge. ”

"Hay!"

After writing a farewell message to the dispatch headquarters, Lieutenant General Norihide Abe stood up, gently straightened out his lieutenant general's uniform, then took out the saber that had been wiped countless times, carefully wiped it with a white handkerchief, walked up to the telegraph operator, Second Lieutenant Fukuyama, and stabbed the command knife into his chest amid the frightened eyes of Second Lieutenant Fukuyama.

"Fukuyama, you are the radio operator of the brigade headquarters, and you have all the radio passwords of the imperial army, in order to ensure that these passwords are not obtained by the Zhina, so you must die!"

After saying that, Abe Norihide took out the brigade flag he was carrying, set it on fire along with all the confidential documents, and gave the order to charge.

When Abe's department launched a suicidal counterattack, a battalion of Xinpei Fort was again attacked by hundreds of Japanese troops. Twenty minutes earlier, the Japanese reinforcements had met in front of Fort Sinpin, and then under the command of the commander of the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, they launched another fierce attack on the position of the 1st Battalion.

From 10 o'clock in the morning to now, the soldiers of the first battalion have been fighting for seven hours, and the casualties of the troops have exceeded 70 percent, and the battalion commander Wang Zihan has also fallen into a coma half an hour ago, and now the first battalion deputy commander and first company commander Li Xuezhong is commanding the battle.

Although he was exhausted, not a single soldier had the heart to retreat when he thought of the 8-hour blocking mission of the division. As the officers and soldiers of the first battalion of the garrison brigade, they have their own pride, just as the battalion commander Wang Zihan said, the first battalion only has heroes who died in battle, and there are absolutely no fleeing bears.

The seriously wounded have all been carried into the makeshift bandaging facility in the center of the town, including Wang Zihan, the commander of the first battalion. And all the lightly wounded returned to combat positions after a little bandaging. After sending the few but all of them to the companies, Li Xuezhong gave almost the same order as Abe Norihide, and after running out of ammunition, he launched the most rear-end charge against the Japanese army.

"Boom Boom"

The battle was going on, and at half past three in the afternoon, Abe's headquarters were completely annihilated on the nameless hill, and none of the officials, including Abe, escaped the net, and Lieutenant General Abe was seriously wounded and captured, and died on the way to the hospital.

There was no time to clean up the battlefield, Chen Feng ordered the cavalry regiment and the cavalry regiment of the garrison brigade newly allocated to the 222nd Division by the headquarters of the Second World War Zone to immediately reinforce Xinpingbao, and at the same time reported to the headquarters of the Seventh Army, the headquarters of the Second War Zone and the military and political department of the Nationalist Government.

In the forward position of Xinpingbao, the Japanese attack became more and more frenzied, but the guns of the defenders became more and more sparse. The anti-aircraft machine gunners had just blown up the remaining three-stop anti-aircraft machine guns, and everyone had found a Mauser rifle to prepare for the worst battle with the Japanese.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick!" The trumpet of the charge finally sounded, and all the warriors braved the enemy's artillery fire to launch the most rear-end charge. It is clear to everyone that in the face of an enemy dozens of times their size, exhausted, they have embarked on a point of no return, but no one regrets it.

Seeing that the defenders of Shina on the position stupidly launched a counter-charge against the imperial army, Major General Seiichiro Yuhara curled the corners of his mouth and sneered: "Stupid Shina people, the Great Japanese Imperial Army is invincible, use your heads and blood today to pay tribute to those heroic souls who died in battle!" ”

However, before Major General Seiichiro Yuhara could be proud for even a minute, Taro Murakami hurriedly came over and said, "Your Excellency General, the commander is in a hurry!" ”

"Don't read it, you send a report directly to the commander, just say that our army has eliminated the defenders of Xinpingbao, and we will be able to reach the battlefield in half an hour." Major General Seiichiro Yuhara thought it was another telegram urging reinforcements to move forward quickly, so he simply interrupted Taro Murakami's words.

"Your Excellency, Commander Tojo has called to say that His Excellency Abe has been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor for ten minutes, and all the Imperial soldiers in his department have collectively broken jade, and the flower of the famous general has withered on the nameless mountain. His Excellency the Commander also said that the reconnaissance planes had detected that a large number of Chinese troops were rushing towards Xinpingpu, and that if our troops did not retreat, it was very likely that they would be attacked by the two armies of the north and south, so His Excellency the Commander ordered our troops to withdraw immediately. ”

"Baga Baba Road"

Although there are thousands of unwillingness in his heart, Major General Seiichiro Yuhara and Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo of Zhilu Province think very reasonably, although the defenders of Tianzhen have suffered heavy losses, but after receiving reinforcements from the Seventh Army of China, their combat effectiveness has recovered a lot. In addition, this huge army in the north has just annihilated more than 20,000 imperial armies and imperial alliances, and it is normal for the two armies to attack his army back and forth.

Without much thought, Major General Seiichiro Yuhara gave the order to retreat.

Li Xuezhong, Li Haiping and others on the way to the charge had already made up their minds to die, but to their surprise, the Japanese army, which had already occupied an absolute advantage, actually withdrew, and did not drag the mud and water at all, and even did not leave the troops behind the palace, and after blocking the charge of a battalion with a mortar, nearly 30,000 Japanese puppet troops retreated south with lightning speed.

(ps: I just returned to Hohhot from Wuchuan today, and returned to Baotou by car from Hohhot, just entered the house, don't say it, the code word goes, it has been broken for a change, and today I can't break it anymore.) )