Chapter 180: Megatron (7)

On September 1, 1938, an ordinary day passed quietly, and no one knew what would happen on this unremarkable day, which shocked the entire anti-Japanese battlefield.

Katsuharu Imamura, the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, commanded the troops to attack from the flank, but they were discovered in a roundabout way, and fought fiercely for a day, but failed. Inaba Shiro was furious and ordered the 11th Brigade to launch an attack on the town of Take in front.

For a time, the Japanese army concentrated hundreds of cannons, more than 50 warships, and more than 100 planes to launch a frantic attack on Tianjia Town.

Bai Chongxi couldn't care about the battle on the northern front of Dabie Mountain, he didn't get Xue Ru's report, and he didn't know what was going on, he was originally attacking Qianshan Taihu Lake and threatening the rear of the 6th Division, but Xue Ru didn't move. It was only at her request that the 45th Independent Brigade be transferred out, but they did not receive a report on whether they went to Tongcheng or not. He had no choice but to command Li Yannian of the 11th Army, Tan Lianfang of the 84th Army, Zhang Yichun of the 48th Army, and Liu Ruming of the 68th Army to counterattack the Japanese army with all their might.

This shows the cleverness of Bai Chongxi's command, he did not withdraw the troops on the periphery to the front to block the attack like Tang Shengzhi, but took advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to break through a little and ordered the three armies on the periphery to attack behind the Japanese army.

Shiro Inaba had to cover the attack of the 11th Brigade with Mitsuru Ushijima's 36th Brigade and peripheral troops.

The fighting on the north bank of the Yangtze River was extremely fierce, and Chiang Kai-shek was also furious, and resolutely did not leave Wuhan, and no one listened. The small number of planes of the Air Force and the planes of the Soviet Air Volunteer Corps also took off to bomb the Japanese fleet on the Yangtze River.

Gangmura Ninji commanded the 101st Division and the 106th Division, and after repairing, they launched another attack. Xue Yue commanded the First Army Corps to also fight fiercely with the Japanese army, and the area around Wuhan was in full swing. From the sky to the ground, the flames of war were raging, and no army thought about whether it was victory or death, and some army commanders and division commanders came to the front line to supervise the battle.

Wuhan became a melting pot, melting the Japanese and Chinese armies together and turning them into ashes at the same time. Xue Ru, who had calmed down, no longer cared about this, she stood in front of Heishidu, looking at the 45th Brigade lurking forward in the dark night. The four regiments of the whole brigade, divided into two, approached Huoshan from two directions in the south and west.

The first to act were the sniper squad, more than 300 sharpshooters, all rifles, accompanied by heavy machine guns and light machine guns. This is another way of doing a reverse war, according to the conventional battlefield battle, the main firepower is heavy machine guns, but the 45th Brigade is not. The main attack in the south was the first regiment of Lan Xun Zhou and the fourth regiment Liu Dianwei.

In the darkness of the night, the troops carried machine guns and light machine guns, and when they entered 500 meters, they stopped and set up machine gun positions, and the 500 snipers continued to move forward, staring at the city wall. The Japanese army did not have a position outside the city, it was directly a walled position. They had too few troops, only one wing, less than 4,000 men, and it was impossible to arrange positions outside the city, but to defend the city.

The soldiers on the Japanese city finally spotted the approaching soldiers, and the battle began. It didn't take long for the war to start, and the Japanese found that their machine guns could not be effective, because the heavy machine guns outside the city were a powerful shooting machine, and the suppression of the infantry could not raise their heads, and the Japanese machine gunners were killed after not firing a few shots, why is this? But the cause could not be found in the dark.

In fact, it is very simple, the machine gun is in front of the cover sharpshooter. These are all soldiers with good marksmanship, at a distance of 200 meters, staring at the machine guns at the battlements of the Japanese army, as soon as the devil shoots, dozens of guns are immediately shot over, and the machine gunners are too late to be replaced. The grenadiers hit the city from above, and it was difficult to control the accuracy, and besides, these sharpshooters were scattered and constantly changing locations.

Why? Nothing else, cover the demolition team. One by one, the soldiers climbed forward to the wall with the *bag, but did not explode, but put the *bag down, and the person retreated. As time went on, more and more bags piled up under the city gates.

For two or three hours, the devils in the city didn't understand, what the attacking troops were doing, did they have bullets and no place to use them? The personnel just don't attack, they just shoot at each other like this.

Wu Yuzhao finally raised his hand: "Charge."

The loud sound of the trumpet sounded, and the four regiments in two directions rushed forward with shouts. The Japanese were shaken in spirit, and the offensive finally began, and the reserves were immediately brought up. Grenadier canisters and mortars are set up, and against such a large charge, they can exert their power, because they are not in the front, and they are not worried about machine guns and *.

But the devil just felt a tremble under his feet, and then he heard a dull explosion, the south gate and the west gate exploded at the same time, this is a huge explosion, hundreds of kilograms* at once, its power is unimaginable. Within a distance of several tens of meters wide, the city wall collapsed, gunpowder smoke and dust filled the air, and the Japanese troops on it were not killed much, but many were buried.

The distance from which the charge was launched was not far away, that is, 500 meters away, which was difficult for Japanese machine guns to reach. This distance from the charge was only two or three minutes, and the devil soldiers who got up in the smoke and dust of gunpowder did not wait to prepare their firepower again, and were swept away by the charging light machine guns, covering the troops behind them into the city, and the more troops entered the two city gates, the more the Japanese army was not an opponent.

After receiving the report, Gu Xianjian Dazuo could react, he knew that he couldn't hold it, because the attacking troops were not only strong in combat, but also far more numerous than him.

Of course, the 45th Brigade received 10,000 people, and one of his wings was less than 4,000 people. What's more, the combat effectiveness of the attacking 45th Brigade was not lower than that of the Japanese army. The soldiers, who had been holding back for several months, burst out with strong combat effectiveness, and less than an hour after the start of the general attack, the 9th Wing completely collapsed, retreating and fleeing from the East City Gate in the direction of Lu'an, which was the direction of pursuit.

Wu Yuzhao can't help but admit that fighting with Xue Ru is a pleasure, not carrying a ladder to attack the city at all, this tactic of using * is very simple, but very effective.

Looking at the troops attacking Huoshan, even Wang Kun became respectful: "Miss Xue, please enter the city, right?" ”

Xue Ru shook his head: "Chief of Staff Wang, I'm going to rush back to the mall, and I'll hand it over to you and Brigade Commander Wu." Lu'an should not attack too fiercely, our target is the 13th Division, and we are ready to intercept them at any time. ”

"Don't worry, I'll understand." Wang Kun happily agreed.

After this battle, the 45th Brigade will become famous all over the world, and the Wu family will also rise. He is the chief of staff, and he has something to say to the old man, so he nodded again and again in agreement. Xue Ru did not enter the city, but left on horseback with the guards.

Song Xilian and Guo Jingchu, the headquarters of the 71st Army in the mall, stared at the phone in front of them, why haven't they moved yet? The deputy chief of staff said: "Army commander, chief of staff, don't worry, this is a battle without command, it is all an offensive war of small troops, and they have not reported it." ”

Not to mention Song Xilian, the entire command headquarters doesn't understand that as many as 20,000 people are fighting, and it is actually a commandless battle, so it's not chaotic? What kind of tactic is Xue Ru, how can the battle be fought like this? But at this time, it's useless to be anxious.

I can only keep looking at my watch, waiting for the report of the front-line observers. Guo Jingchu sent a lot of observers into the vicinity of Yejiaji to observe how this battle was fought.

There was no plan for the battle, only the more than 200 snow foxes transferred from the people knew it in their hearts. This is the tactic that the young lady personally explained, three principles, first, not afraid of casualties, second, not afraid of death, and third, play with life.

One by one, the teams approached Yejiaji, which was garrisoned by the Japanese army, from all sides. A division, with a full strength of more than 28,000 people, stretches for more than ten miles in Yejiaji, and tomorrow is the time for the Japanese army's general attack.

The state soldiers were still very confident, and the 71st Army on the opposite side was very strong, but it fought with the 3rd Division for several days in a row, and the losses were not small. Tomorrow, the 3rd Division will attack from the flank, and with its own heavy artillery wing and heavy machine gun brigade, plus air force aircraft, it will definitely be able to capture the Fujin Mountain position in one fell swoop. This battle includes Chen Linzi Town, Jianghuage and Houchong Village, multi-point attack, four wings, I see how the Chinese army defends, Song Xilian is not very advantageous?

But it had just been dark for a short time, and I received reports from the surrounding area that a small group of Chinese troops were attacking. The state soldiers were not in a hurry, and the harassment and attack of the Chinese army was just that, he continued to fall and breathe. But more than an hour later, Chief of Staff Yoshihara Okosa came: "Your Excellency Division Commander, the situation does not seem to be right, and all wings report that they have been attacked by no less than dozens of troops, and the casualties are not small. ”

The state soldiers were stunned, how could this be? said: "Let the wings report the details. ”

"Hi" Yoshihara Okosa hurriedly went out and gave orders to the various wings to report the situation, and the state soldiers also got up and entered the war room. But as soon as he arrived, he was stunned by the situation, the chief of staff had a stack of telegrams in his hand, and the telephone rang incessantly, and the headquarters was in chaos.

Soon, the state soldiers figured it out, and roughly counted the small forces attacking, no less than hundred, and they attacked bravely, rushing and killing in all directions, and the Japanese army was difficult to deal with. This made the state soldiers very angry, was the Imperial Japanese Army so incompetent? What about hundreds? If you are a concentrated garrison, and the opponent's forces are scattered, won't the wing commander and the group commander command the battle?

But what about anger? Chief of Staff Yoshihara Ju Dazuo said: "Division commander, our forces are also scattered, and we were originally scheduled to attack tomorrow, so if we withdraw our troops and concentrate on the Ye family, if we continue like this, we will suffer great losses." ”

The state soldiers didn't know why the Chinese army suddenly became stronger, so they had to say: "Order, the four wings are concentrated here at the headquarters of the Ye Jiaji Division, form a dense formation, block and hold out until dawn, and order the air force to dispatch to find out the situation." ”

Yoshihara hurriedly agreed and gave orders to the wings. The state soldiers and Yoshihara did not know that at this time, the four wings of the Japanese army could be described as suffering heavy casualties, and they had never seen the Chinese army have such a way of fighting, and they suffered heavy losses for a while.

Why did these Snow Fox command soldiers bring so many*? That's where the hell comes in, and there are only five bullets in each gun. The squad dispersed and entered the Japanese position, that is, they quietly crawled forward, as long as the Japanese army did not find it, crawled forward.

The number of people was small, and when it was more than ten meters, the Japanese army found out. They were greeted by *, more than ten meters, more than twenty meters, and the two sides were standing together. There were only one or two hundred people attacking, and the devils couldn't imagine that they would dare to attack.

Who doesn't know that in the face of hundreds or thousands of people, one or two hundred people attacking is looking for death. But how did the devil know that it was a death squad.

Xue Ru's order to the death squad was one sentence: "Die together, pull a cushion on the back" A division of the Japanese army has 28,000 people, and the attacking death squad has about 20,000 people, that is, one to one, and there are not many devils left. What's more, this kind of fatal tactics cannot be one-to-one, putting them to death and then resurrecting, fighting against the water, this kind of desperate attack is quite terrifying, and the Japanese army is strong in combat with this bushido spirit.

Xue Ru didn't have time to train a group of death squads, she had to sacrifice more than two hundred snow foxes to lead them, which was one of the reasons why it was difficult for her to make up her mind, and finally endured her distress and gave the order.

It would be easy for someone to take the lead, and the commander who rushed into the Japanese position ordered that as long as each squad eliminated more devils than his own squad, he could retreat, otherwise, even if he was all killed in battle, he could not retreat, and in order to survive, he could only kill the Japanese.

In this way, each squad found the Japanese army for a while, and rushed up with a burst of bayonets, one by one like crazy. They can only retreat if they kill the same number of devils, and being brave and not afraid of death does not mean that they want to die. The organization of the death squad has made it clear that there are nine deaths for one life, but everyone wants that life and doesn't want to be the nine deaths.

Kill, kill, kill, is a kill, the four infantry wings of the Japanese army, engineers, cavalry, artillery, light and heavy soldiers, a total of eight wings, a total of 30,000 people, of course, is not a small number, but it was attacked by hundreds of commandos on all sides, and it was impossible to concentrate troops to encircle and suppress it for a while.

The fierce Japanese army was also inspired to be afraid of death, and the two sides engaged in extremely fierce tactics of killing and fighting to the death. You stab me, and you have to return the knife when you die, and when you see that there are more than a dozen people together with the devil, no matter how far away, even if it is five meters away, it is a * flying over, and you can't kill yourself to tell your fortune.

It was a life-for-life kill, more tragic than any battle, and the battle began at night and continued until midnight, with both sides dwindling in numbers.

The Japanese casualties were far greater than those of the attacking Chinese troops, because they were unprepared, and when they wanted to kill them, it was too late.

In the second half of the night, the battle was not so fierce, because there were not so many people, and they had to look for each other to find each other, but as soon as they met, they fought to the death. There are also some tasks completed by the squad, and they don't have to play with their lives at first, guerrilla operations to fight devils, waiting for dawn.

Xue Ru's war horse finally rushed into the mall, and as soon as he entered the headquarters, he shouted: "Commander Song, order the seventy-first, seventy-seventh, and fifty-first, and the three armies will immediately dispatch to attack the Japanese army and completely annihilate the 13th Division." ”

This night, Song Xilian didn't know what the battle situation was, he might as well get the state soldiers. Seeing Xue Ru's sweaty appearance, he was out of breath when he spoke, and he didn't have time to ask anything else, so he said, "Give orders to all troops." ”

Before dawn, there were less than 20,000 troops left in the three armies of Fujin Mountain, Chen Lin Town, Honghua Village, Houchong Village, Xilinling, and Bashugou, all of which left their positions and attacked the Japanese Ye Jiaji.

The state soldier was pale, he already knew the situation, at this time his troops casualties were definitely more than 20,000, but this was only one night, according to the report, the Chinese army casualties were also quite large, but there were many Chinese, and the number of troops was also more than the Japanese army, so the Japanese army could not fight.

"Report, the commander telegraphed, the 45th Independent Brigade of the Chinese Army has captured Huoshan and has moved forward to encircle Lu'an, and our retreat has been cut off." The chief of staff's report sent shivers through the hearts of the state-owned soldiers. In fact, he was not afraid, and ordered to retreat because the Chinese army suffered a lot of losses in this battle, and he still had the 3rd Division on the side, so it was impossible to be afraid of the Chinese army.

"The report shows that the Chinese army abandoned the front blocking position and launched a full-front attack on Yejiaji." The staff officer's re-report made the state soldier breathe.

Who commanded the operation, it was too fierce, and it was intended to abandon the frontal position and have to completely annihilate his own division. But there was no way back, he thought for a while and said: "Break through in the direction of Gushi, join the 3rd Division, hold on and wait for reinforcements, and report to the headquarters." ”

The three army units that attacked Ye Jiaji looked at the battlefield in a daze, what kind of battlefield is this, it's terrifying. Song Shulian understood why he let Xue Ru come, she was a little afraid. It's so cruel, what kind of night fight is this?

The state troops reacted very quickly, and did not retreat to Lu'an, but moved forward to join the 3rd Division and held on to Gushi County, where there were no soldiers to defend it, and the Japanese army combined the remnants of the 13th Division and the 3rd Division to hold Gushi. The Chinese army began to clean up the battlefield.

In the mall headquarters, Xue Ru's face was a little pale, and she didn't feel happy at all when she heard Song Xilian and their somewhat excited narration.