Chapter 4: Breakthrough (12)
Suddenly there was a loud gunfire in front of him, Ouyang Yun was taken aback, and hurriedly sent someone to ask.
Liu Zheliang was ordered to run forward, but before he could get far, he ran into a staff officer of the Seventh Brigade who was ordered to report on the battle situation. Ouyang Yun learned from this staff officer that a small group of elite Japanese troops appeared in Wangfu Lane, intercepted the retreat, and did not dare to be careless, and personally took Liu Kui and a battalion of guards towards Wangfu Lane.
When I arrived at a street near Wangfu Lane, I encountered Xie Changan in the transfer of troops to continue to press. Xie Changan saw Ouyang Yun and hurriedly greeted him and said, "Commander, I'm sorry, the medical team was ambushed by the Japanese army, I'm afraid, I'm afraid-"
"What?" Ouyang Yun was anxious when he heard this, and shouted, "Isn't there only a small team of devils? How many men did you send to guard Jodiean? β
Jodiean's real name. Jacquaming, a Jew, was a highly skilled surgeon in the Cadet Army field hospital system. This time when he came to Nanjing, Ouyang Yun didn't want to bring it out, but Jiang Shuren was worried that he would be injured, so they plugged Qiu Diean in. When arranging tactics on a daily basis, Ouyang Yun emphasized more than once that he wanted to protect the safety of the doctors, especially Qiu Die'an, but he didn't expect that when he withdrew from Nanjing, he would even let this Jew encounter an accident.
Xie Changan didn't expect that the Japanese army would set up an ambush here, so in addition to the original strength of the field hospital, he did not send more manpower at all. Outcome...... He lowered his head, not daring to meet Ouyang Yun's eyes.
After the anger, Ouyang Yun calmed down, glared at Xie Changan, and said to himself, "Where did the Japanese come in?" Ambush, did they sneak into Nanjing a long time ago? β
Liu Kui said: "Commander, could it be the little devil's standing team?" β
The Japanese stand up is equivalent to the presence of wolf teeth and broadswords. Ouyang Yun had encountered it when he was in Xifengkou, and when he heard it, he felt that it was possible. He turned around, glanced at the soldiers of the guard battalion behind him, and said to Liu Kui: "Liu Kui, I don't care what method you use, within a quarter of an hour, open this passage!" β
Liu Kui saluted and shouted "yes", then turned around and shouted loudly to the soldiers of the first guard battalion: "Brothers, haven't you always wanted to fight? Now here's your chance, rush with me! β
"Rush!" The soldiers roared angrily and followed Liu Kui into Wangfu Alley.
Ouyang Yun was so anxious, not only because Qiu Di'an had encountered an accident, but also because the 114th Division and the 26th Division had already completed the meeting with the 3rd Division, and now the large army was only about ten minutes away from Wangfu Lane. The three divisions of the third sequence completed the rendezvous, and similarly, the pursuing Japanese army was also successful. In this way, the defenders did not have a numerical advantage, but because of the combined forces and the improper disposal of one, the whole army could be surrounded by the Japanese army.
After giving the order to Liu Kui, Ouyang Yun asked for a Weiqing-style sniper step from a personal guard, and was about to step forward in person, when suddenly the army staff sent a telegram to him, this telegram was sent by Cai Xing in the name of himself and Wang Jun, the telegram said: Lin Baiyin refused to implement the original plan of the headquarters and wanted to evacuate with the whole division, and in order to ensure that the Pukou wharf did not fall into the hands of the Japanese army, Wang Juntuan decided to stay alone. Cai Xing also mentioned a point at the end of the telegram, Cai Xing asked the commander-in-chief to start the third series of evacuation as soon as possible, because the Japanese landing ships appeared at the Xiaguan wharf, and the Japanese army was very likely to land on Jiangpu, and then capture the Pukou wharf and cut off the retreat route across the river.
The staff officer who sent this telegram had already read the contents of the telegram, so his face was quite ugly, and there was even a hint of despair in his grief and indignation. This staff officer is also an old man in the Cadet Army, Ouyang Yun's expression became solemn when he saw his face, and after reading this telegram, he only felt a loud "boom" in his mind, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and his whole body couldn't help shaking, and he almost fainted.
There is an ancient Chinese saying that goes like this: eat a trench to grow wisdom, and what complements this is: cup bow snake shadow. During the Second Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Ouyang Yun suffered a big loss from someone, so since he decided to stay in Nanjing, what he was most worried about was that he might be plotted by someone again at a critical moment. Yes, the traverser's luck is always too good to be perverted, but he can't believe that good luck will be on his side every time.
Since Liu Zheliang learned that there were Japanese troops blocking Wangfu Lane, he was worried about Ouyang Yun's safety, and he didn't leave an inch left and right, so he quickly stretched out his hand to help him and said, "Commander, what's wrong with you?" β
Ouyang Yun was supported by him, and when he knew that he was not acting rashly, he took two deep breaths to stabilize his mind, and he said to the staff officer: "The matter of the telegram, stop here, and you will talk to the telegraph operator who deciphered this telegram later." β
"Yes."
"Zheliang, you go back the same way, let Liu Yuqing and Fang Shuhong come to see me quickly, let He Zhengchuan be in charge of the palace, and tell him that even if the guard regiment is exhausted, the current defense line must be guarded."
"Yes."
"Woo-" Several Japanese planes swooped down from the southeast, and when they were about three or four thousand meters above Ouyang Yun's head, they began to diveβthe sound of "hooping" bombs bursting the air sounded, and a few minutes later, several violent explosions were heard from behind him.
In Wangfu Lane, Liu Kui took the lead, just emerged, a few bullets flew over, he pounced, pounced into a house, and then probed out and shouted: "There are devils on the roof, snipers kill them!" β
The guard regiment that is specifically responsible for the security of Ouyang Yun and the military department, except for some of the special forces who were directly eliminated by the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade halfway, are also some elites who have been strictly selected. The battalion led by Liu Kui is the elite of the guard regiment, it can be said that almost everyone is a sharpshooter, and the snipers selected by these sharpshooters are almost better than those special forces.
At this time, in Wangfu Lane, nearly a battalion of officers and soldiers of the 7th Brigade and two company-sized field hospitals, plus about a battalion of wounded soldiers and stretchers, were almost completely lost. The dozens of surviving soldiers were either pressed by their fallen comrades and escaped, or they were suppressed by Japanese firepower in a dead end, and they couldn't even lift their heads.
Of the more than 50 Japanese soldiers, only 10 were killed.
The Japanese army almost had three guns, some of which were short guns, one long gun and one submachine gun, some long and short guns plus light machine guns, and some long and short guns plus a grenadier canister. And each of them was equipped with a staggering twelve. With such a firepower configuration, it is no wonder that the Cadet Army suffered such heavy losses against the unsuspecting doctors and wounded soldiers of the Seventh Brigade and the Field Hospital.
Wangfu Lane is about 1,500 meters long and 12 meters wide, and on this length of more than 1,000 meters, the blood of the soldiers of the Xuebing Army almost merged into a river, dyeing the entire street red.
The 1st Guard Battalion consisted of three companies, each with a platoon-sized sniper. After the sniper platoon of the first company entered Wangfu Lane under the cover of their comrades, they were immediately shocked by the miserable scene in front of them. Everyone looked at each other and saw the blazing anger in each other's eyes. Platoon commander Li Xiaochuan's eyes were red, and he made a gesture with his left hand to Zhang Cheng behind him, who gritted his teeth firmly, and suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the opposite side. As soon as his body moved, half of the steel helmet poked out from the roof opposite, and only one eye was visible under the steel helmet, and at the same time, a Type 38 sniper rifle pointed at him. After Li Xiaochuan finished making the gesture, he held the gun with his left hand, and at this moment, he suddenly leaned back, his eyes narrowed, his right hand pulled the trigger, and he fired a shot, and then rolled down the eaves, and on the opposite roof, the sound of heavy objects rolling over the tiles immediately sounded. Almost at the same time, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet fell from a high place, hitting the place where Li Xiaochuan was lying on his back just now.
In the first round of the battle between the snipers of the two sides, the cadets won.
"Boom", "boom", the gunfire rang out again, but this time it was a sniper from the 1st Battalion of Guards who was shot in the helmet. His arched body immediately fell to the ground, and even if the bullet failed to penetrate the helmet, he fainted from the blow to the head.
After the gunfire of the "......" was loud and the snipers were at a disadvantage, the devils in the Japanese lanes began to suppress the fire with the submachine guns in their hands.
Liu Kui leaned against the door and shouted, "Come to the yard and go to the roof!" β
Bai Geling, the company commander of the first company of guards, beckoned: "Rush with me!" "Burst into the alley with a dozen people, and while firing fiercely, he rushed to the courtyard where Liu Kui was.
"The people behind suppress it with fire!" Liu Kui shouted again.
The light machine gunners of several guard battalions flashed out of the alley where they were hiding, stood at the intersection of Wangfu Lane, and fired wildly at the Japanese troops, while more than a dozen people threw out more than a dozen grenades.
Whether you can get through Wangfu Lane in a quarter of an hour, the key is to exterminate the devils on the roof.
Just as Bai Geling led people into the alley, the officers and soldiers of the second and third companies began to think about the wall from the two alleys adjacent to Wangfu Lane.
At the same time, more than a dozen troop carrier landing ships of the Japanese Third Fleet divided into two groups and approached the embankment about three kilometers away from the Shimonoseki Pier and the Pukou Pier.
A large number of Japanese ships appeared on the surface of the Shimonoseki water, and not only Cai Xing and them paid attention to it, but they also paid attention to the single man at the Xiaguan wharf. However, Shan Renxiong thought that Ouyang Yun would definitely notice this, so he did not send someone to report to the headquarters. After the previous commotion, the 1st Jiangsu Security Division has undergone violent integration of single heroes, and now only the size of one brigade remains. What makes a single person a big man is that this brigade actually has six regiments under its jurisdiction, and the strength is uneven, including one regiment, the regiment commander does not know where he ran away, and the highest level of the remaining officers and soldiers is a deputy company commander, and the total number of officers and soldiers is only more than 100 people. The quality of the soldiers is even more unreliable, among them, there are even "old people" in their fifties and thirteen or fourteen-year-old hairy children.
Seeing that nearly more than 2,000 devils landed from a place three kilometers away from the Xiaguan wharf, and the main force of the defenders on the wharf turned out to be a battalion of the air defense force, although the single male knew that the first division of Jiangsu Security could not take out the man, but he had to go into battle, for this reason, he viciously shouted to the miscellaneous army that had just been integrated: "Everyone, I won't talk about the big truth, if we want to survive, we have only one way, that is, to repel the attack of the little devils and ensure the safety of the waterway across the river!" Ladies and gentlemen, whatever you used to be, now you are all soldiers, and your mission is to pick up your guns and fight! β