Section 41

Shi rushed to the periphery of Maogu Village with a battalion, he originally thought that he could rest for a while in Neihuang, but he didn't expect that only one night later, the regiment commander Ji Hongru was 100,000 anxious to order him to be transferred to the battlefield, fortunately, the distance between the two places is not far, about fifteen miles apart, for those of them who are used to running the road, they don't feel any fatigue.

Ji Hongru took the chief of staff Lin Xiufeng out of the position, and looked at the stone walking at the forefront with weapons on his back like other soldiers from a distance, and the two of them suddenly showed a trace of joy on their suspicious faces, it is no wonder that the combat power of the first battalion has been undoubtedly shown in the previous battles, whether it is Dangshan or the previous Neihuang, several beautiful victories were fought by a battalion, one battalion is missing, in the current state, the 302nd regiment is basically equal to half of the combat strength, and now the battle is about to begin, and they can come in time, is undoubtedly an extremely exciting thing, which can be seen from the expression on Ji Hongru's face.

"Tuanzao, a battalion was ordered to rush to report." Although the stone is already attached to the group, it may be because it has risen too fast, and he can't change the role a little, as soon as he saw the two of them, he immediately stood up and saluted respectfully, and Liu Wenfeng and the others who were attached to him immediately stood up with him.

Ji Hongru is nothing, Lin Xiufeng on the side is embarrassed, the stone is now attached to the group, and the official position is one level higher than him, facing such a situation, he can only raise his hand with a wry smile, so that he is not embarrassed.

"How's the rest going? The wounded are all settled. Ji Hongru didn't dwell too much on these things, obviously knowing that his appearance could not be changed all at once, and after returning a military salute, he directly cared about the situation of the first battalion.

Shi nodded and replied: "The regimental seat has already been arranged, yesterday the first battalion killed thirty-three brothers, and one hundred and four people were wounded, including thirty-seven seriously wounded, basically lost their ability to fight, and they could only stay behind to recuperate. ”

Looking at the stone and saying this, his expression was a little gloomy, Ji Hongru also sighed and said: "It is inevitable that there will be deaths and injuries in war, and a person's life is only a few decades. ”

Shi nodded, took a deep breath and said, "What Tuanza said is that I am too short-sighted. ”

"I can't say that, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and the thing hurts it, looking at these robed brothers can no longer get up, sad and sad is also human nature, to be honest, I am not sad, how can I not be sad, but the fact has been made, vain grief is just a cowardly approach, as a commander, how to take other brothers to live better, is what we need to do at the moment, we must not cause more brothers to fall because of cranky thinking." Ji Hongru walked over and reached out and patted Shishi's shoulder, and said quite affectionately, at this moment, his body is less majestic and more generous, just like a brother, which makes people feel quite kind.

Lin Xiufeng couldn't help but remind softly on the side: "Tuanzao, the general attack may be about to start, do you want to hurry up and make arrangements?" ”

Ji Hongru looked up at the sky, it was already afternoon at this time, the sunlight was obviously much weaker than before, and it seemed that it was not long before dusk, he muttered for a while and said: "Not long ago, I just got an order from the division headquarters, let us capture the Maogu Village in front of us at all costs, and defeat the right column of the Japanese army at the fastest speed, and the brigade seat also pointed out that let our regiment fight the vanguard." ”

Lin Xiufeng on the side seemed to be afraid that the stone would not understand the current state at this time, so he couldn't help but interject and said: "There is unconfirmed news that the 46th, 36th, 61st, 106th divisions and other friendly troops have suffered great losses in the confrontation with the main force of the Japanese army, not only the plan to encircle has completely failed, but even the Luowang Station and others have been occupied by the Japanese invaders, and the Longhai Railway has been cut off again, and Lanfeng in the west is also in the situation of being attacked by the Japanese army on both sides at this moment, the situation is very bad, and even Kaifeng is under the condition of being attacked by the Japanese army." ”

Ji Hongru was not dissatisfied with his interjection, and only after he finished speaking, did he say: "These news have not been verified, and there is no order from above, the order we get now is to take Maoguzhai first, and then talk about it, and other things will naturally be headaches for the chiefs." ”

"Tuanzuo, you just give the order, our first battalion is willing to take the lead again, and see what is the difference between the devils here and the devils in Neihuang." Shi also gritted his teeth quite simply at this time and said, he knew that since he had arrived here, he would naturally not watch it, since this was the case, it was better to simply ask for his life.

"Good!" Ji Hongru raised his voice and said, obviously very satisfied with the attitude of the stone, but he changed his mouth and said: "However, I didn't call you here to take the lead, yesterday I attacked Neihuang, your battalion suffered a lot of losses, it is better to rest and replenish for the time being, the second battalion and the third battalion are now considered to be strong and strong, and the morale is strong, let them go first in this battle, and your first battalion will stay behind as a regimental reserve." ”

Stone is different from the second battalion commander Hu Liqun, the battle exploits are meaningless to him at all, what he thinks in his mind is to be able to sacrifice a few brothers less, and it is naturally the best not to fight, of course, he can't say this, he can only be stuffy in his heart, and now when he heard the regiment commander say this, he immediately nodded and said: "Everything listen to the orders of the regiment." ”

The 51st Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division, under the leadership of their respective commanders, frantically launched a fierce attack on the right column of the Japanese army, I don't know if it was because the emergency military situation in Lanfeng was in danger stimulated everyone's nerves, or the Japanese army left behind there were not many troops, after the battle began, a team of national soldiers rushed into the opponent's fortifications, and launched a bloody battle for every inch of land.

The Japanese troops stationed in Maogu Village were a brigade led by the commander of the 59th Wing, Nasu Yukio, more than 1,000, but in the face of the national army several times their size, there was no fear and evasion, this wing commander even personally took a squadron as a death squad, whenever the front position was broken, it was fearless to die with the cover of the chariot to rush out.

Although the 302nd Regiment was able to defeat the enemy's counterattack every time with the advantage of numbers, there was such a long delay, and the scattered troops of the Japanese army reorganized a new round of defense line, relying on the advantages of fortifications to continuously consume the attacking troops and delay their attack.

Several artillery pieces of the 51st Division had consumed a large number of shells in the previous Neihuang, and at this time, it was difficult to exert the power of the artillery without ammunition replenishment, and with the cooperation of the Japanese army and armored vehicles, the troops of four or five thousand people besieged Maogu Village, and actually attacked for five hours.

After losing three or four hundred people, even Ji Hongru rushed to the front line, and then planted the blue sky and white sun flag to the highest point of Maogu Village.

However, what made them disappointed was that at such a cost, they did not completely annihilate the Japanese army, and after a brief sweep of the battlefield, they found that in addition to the loss of 5 tanks, the Japanese casualties were only more than 200 people, and the rest of the troops were waved away after breaking through the western defense line, but what slightly balanced their hearts was that the battle was quite captured, and the Japanese army may have been in too much of a hurry before, and many things were too late to be destroyed, in addition to dropping more than 20 light and heavy machine guns everywhere in the position, In addition, four artillery pieces remained intact on the artillery position, which greatly excited the soldiers of the national army, who were extremely scarce in heavy firepower.

The conquest of Dongximaogu Village and the recovery of Dongxigangtou and other villages made the Japanese army's troops between Lanfeng and Neihuang compressed into a thin line, and it seemed that it could collapse at any time.

However, the situation of Lanfeng did not improve because of this, the Japanese army who captured Luowang Station launched an attack on Lanfeng in the early morning after resting for a night, and the dense artillery fire submerged Lanfeng for a while, and the fortifications of each section collapsed in the smoke of artillery fire.

But when the tank was not far from the city, more than ten Japanese planes appeared in the sky, and countless shells fell down, which immediately inflicted heavy losses on the tank battalion, in addition to the loss of 3 Vesk tanks, the CV-33 tank also lost as many as 6 vehicles, and in this bombardment, the armored battalion and reconnaissance battalion of the 200th Division that reinforced the front-line battle of Lanfeng were almost wiped out.

In the face of the onslaught of Lanfeng, in order to protect the hub in Longhai, the surrounding garrisons also came in reinforcements.

Kenji Dohihara, the commander of the 14th Division, known as the "China expert", seemed to be waiting for such a transfer, and after the shells bombarded wildly for nearly an hour, he did not put infantry on the frontal battlefield to attack, but instead swung his troops straight up and went straight to Sanyi Village north of Lanfeng.

This made the Chinese army unable to respond, and the troops left here were only a cavalry team of the 142nd Division, where could they reach the tens of thousands of Japanese troops, and immediately withdrew without a fight, giving way to the Japanese army's road to the Yellow River.

With the loss of Sanyi Village, Chenliukou and other places, using the powerful Zhouqiao troops, the 14th Division seemed to be quite easy to get in touch with the north bank of the Yellow River, and also regained supplies, with the assistance of the absolute superiority of slow and continuous logistics supply and air firepower, the Japanese 14th Division at this time was almost invincible, which made the original encirclement plan a joke.