Chapter 4: Turning to War (3)

The Japanese army attacking Guangde was worse than Xu Ping saw, the artillery brigade and the chariot brigade together with the logistics personnel totaled more than 1,300 people, and the real infantry brigade of the 23 brigade was only 3,000 people, it seems that during the Wuxing War, the loss was not only the Gui army, but also the Japanese army, in order to supplement the 23 brigade regiment of the insufficient troops, Ushijima Shichang also put the Northeast Manchurian troops in the Tibetan mountains to the 23 brigade, so that there were more than 4,000 people, together with 5,500 artillery and tank troops, which is all the strength of this attack on Guangde.

In the first battle of Si'an, although the battle was not long, it also suffered a dark loss, and four tanks had to stay in Si'an because they rushed too hard and their engines failed. The Sichuan Army was the poorly equipped unit on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, and it had just come out of Sichuan, and it had no experience in direct confrontation with the Japanese army, so it could not adapt to the opponent's attack method based on tanks and artillery, and the rudimentary trenches could not play a defensive role at all, and after being bombed for an hour, they threw down a large pile of corpses and fled back to Guangde. Guo Xunqi, the division commander who had retreated to Guangde, said to army commander Pan Wenhua that this kind of combat method had never been seen before, and it was difficult to cope with the fierceness of firepower and the advantages of steel. Pan Wenhua asked Guo Xunqi to organize his troops in Guangde, build fortifications, sum up experience, and prepare for another battle, and at the same time, ordered the 145th Division to resist the enemy at a location called Cishangang on the way between Si'an and Guangde.

After arriving in Si'an, the twelve Japanese vehicles immediately returned to Changxing to make up for the goods consumed in Si'an the previous day.

Early the next morning, the Japanese army set off in full gear, the target, Guangde.

As soon as the Japanese army left, Xu Ping breathed a sigh of relief, the next Si'an was his own, the Japanese army only left a squad as a guard, in addition to the staff of the logistics department, which was too light for the enemy, a team of more than 50 people, it was not enough to drink soup for themselves.

From Si'an to Guangde, there are more than 60 miles, get up early in the morning, and only arrive after noon, Xu Ping put the time to do it after noon, even in the process of moving, the Japanese troops left behind to pass the news to the front-line troops in Guangde, and it is not easy to return to save the driver. The most important thing is that Xu Le's troops can arrive at noon, and if someone helps, the chances of winning are greater.

Unexpectedly, at noon, the convoy of the Japanese army returning from Changxing arrived, and their opponent had another escort team. Xu Le could see it, and said that a sheep was also driven, and a group of sheep was also released, just a few more shots.

After Changxing's training and the Battle of Tashan, Xu Ping's spy company and Xu Le's spear company reached full strength, and more than 200 people packed up the two squads in Si'an, Xu Ping thought that there was enough ability. What moved him the most was that the twelve cars that arrived at noon, except for shells and gasoline, were all winter winter materials, including cotton tents and quilts, leather shoes and coats, and snatched them up and sold them to the 525 Brigade and the 176th Division, which could get a big price.

After a night and a morning of reconnaissance, Xu Ping knew the Japanese army in Si'an well, a few sentries, several mobile patrols, the number of guards battalions and the number of defender headquarters were well understood. At two o'clock in the afternoon, at the same time as the Japanese army was attacking the defense line of Cishan Gang in Guangde County, Xu Ping also started.

The 145th Division was nominally a division, but in fact there was only one brigade, and the brigade commander Meng Haoran had two regiments under his command, and the strength was really thin. With the strength of a brigade, it was a bit difficult to resist the frontal impact of the Japanese army.

Guo Xunqi, who was caught off guard in Si'an, brought back a shocking news, that is, the Japanese tank, the invincible tank. Dozens of tanks marched in unison, and that was a wall, a moving wall.

It was precisely in order to deal with the Japanese tanks that Rao Guohua placed the defense line on the ancestral hill, which is a low mountain, and a large road leads to Si'an, and digging deep and shallow trenches on the road is an important means to curb the speed of the tank. Two days ago, the Gui army had used a trench to trap two Japanese tanks in Tashan, and this time, it became Rao Guohua's primary goal to be able to prevent dozens of tanks from rushing to the position in one go.

As a result, Rao Guohua was still tragic, he prevented the Japanese tanks, but he didn't expect that the Japanese army's rifles were far above the Sichuan army, and the Sichuan army also used a large number of old-fashioned *, that is, to load a bullet to shoot a shot, and Japan's Arisaka can already hold five bullets, so even if it is a confrontation between infantry, the Sichuan army is not the opponent of the Japanese army, what is annoying is that the main attack on Rao Guohua is not the Japanese, but the Yuzang Mountain in the northeast.

There was no agreement, it was a complete coincidence, it was the common perception of military personnel on military factors, the battle of Ancestral Hill had just started, and Xu Ping also began to act. Unlike the ancestral hill, the ancestral hill is in full swing, but here it is quiet. First of all, a man who picked firewood accidentally ran into a Japanese patrol patrolling in Si'an City, and the two sides had a fierce quarrel, and in the process of the quarrel between the two sides, a large group of people gathered around after a while. When the interpreter was found, the Chinese in a circle revealed the sharp knife on the wrist, and the eighteen people patrol and the interpreter were quickly dragged away by eighteen people, like nine drunkards who did not wake up, and unlike drunkards, some blood stains were dragged out from time to time under the feet of the drunkards.Chinese

At the end of the patrol, several long-awaited crossbow arrows were fired at the Japanese barracks and logistics warehouses, after which a group of men in civilian clothes rushed into the warehouse with Toyo-made Nanbu 14, while another group with 38 large covers surrounded the barracks.

After the small school building of Si'an Primary School became a temporary barracks for the Japanese garrison, after 200 * were thrown into two batches, the primary school was unrecognizable, the school building collapsed, the smoke and dust billowed in the wall, and the Japanese ran around like headless flies in the smoke and dust, and at this time, a series of gunshots rang out from the wall.

Xu Le was holding a Mauser M712 in his hand, looking inside from the corner of the wall, and there were a few guys beside him, holding * in his hand, ready to throw it in at any time.

The smoke gradually cleared, and the Japanese soldiers inside were all lying on the ground, dead and alive, and they knew that as soon as they came up, they would be greeted by the Arisaka bullets produced by the Empire. Xu Le had a few * thrown in, blowing up a few living Japanese, and a few gunshots rang out and turned into dead bodies. Throwing more than a dozen *, I didn't see the Japanese get up again, it was estimated that they were almost dead, Xu Le waved his hand, and his subordinates rushed in, cleaning up the results and cleaning the battlefield.

There are a total of ninety-six corpses, and the two squads, except for those who are sentry and patrol outside, are basically here, collecting and taking away the devil's rifles, machine guns, pistols, grenadiers, bullets, leather shoes, belts, steel helmets, and flashlights, and the others are not unwanted, but they are really blown up to pieces, and they are too disgusting.

Back in the warehouse, Xu Ping and his gang had already finished the battle and were smoking, there were not many people in the warehouse, and the managers were the opponents of Xu Ping and his gang, and they died in a daze. Seeing Xu Le coming in, Xu Ping said: "I still have to work hard for you, go to Si'an to be on guard all around, and tell me as soon as possible if there is a situation, so that you can retreat." In three hours, you left on your own as planned, and you didn't have to come to Si'an to gather again. ”

Xu Le agreed and took people away.

Xu Ping asked all the twelve cars of the devil to be filled and drove to Anji first, the Japanese army's 60 mortars became the first choice, Li Baicheng said, if there are twenty mortars, the artillery company will be in order, and the 70 infantry guns are perfect. Leather shoes, belts, guns and ammunition are collected by themselves, and they can't all be cheapened by the 525 brigade. The 1056th Regiment has four companies outside the establishment, and the food and salary are all self-raised, and the whole 48th Army knows it. There is no way to increase the number of 1056 regiments alone, and they are unwilling to let this group of people wander out of the army, so they are not yin or yang, their combat capture is theirs, whoever wants to give money, the 525 brigade paid a lot of money for this before, of course, the money was directly allocated by the 176 division. Xu Ping calculated the twelve carts of things, if he could make a move, the brothers of the spy company, the spear company, the artillery company and the engineer company would be able to have a fat year this year.

Soon, the two regiments of the 525 Brigade entered Si'an, these guys were very prepared, some pushed wheelbarrows, some pulled big carts, and the most unfortunate ones also got a flat pole and two rosso, which was easy to pick and carry, and those from peasant backgrounds knew it.

Ma Weixin, the two regiment commanders of Lu Dailong and Bao Quangang, the chief of staff of the 525 Brigade, just saw this mountain-like warehouse, and the people became a little sluggish, and asked Xu Ping vigorously, these are all ours?

Xu Ping told them that what could be taken was theirs, and everything that could not be taken would be burned.

The 525 Brigade is crazy, if you can pick a hundred catties, you will never pick eighty, and the wheelbarrow can pull two hundred catties directly on two hundred and five, first cotton clothes and quilts, then canned grain, and finally weapons and ammunition, the 525 Brigade is a national armament, and the Arisaka bullets are not attractive to them, but they took a lot of grenadiers and * They took a lot.

The problem is that there are no leather shoes, and this in-demand thing has already been taken away by Xu Ping's people.

When the Gui army fully withdrew with the fruits of victory, the Japanese army also fully withdrew from the ancestral hill, which made Rao Guohua, who was extremely difficult to defend, puzzled but greatly relieved. After the Japanese troops withdrew from the battle formation, they set up camp at a distance of five kilometers, and twenty tanks turned around and rushed towards Si'an at the highest speed, and they already knew that someone had raided their nest in Si'an. At the same time, Wu Xing's reinforcements also drove to Si'an at the fastest speed.

Xu Le finally left and retreated to the mountains around Xinfeng. As soon as they left, the Japanese troops who had returned to the ancestral hill to help arrived in Si'an, and the two sides seemed to discuss it, and the people in the Si'an area were full of interest.

Rao Guohua sat on the ground with his buttocks, and there was no strength in his whole body, and he was shot in his left leg before, and the pain came out at this time. The sudden halt of the Japanese attack gave him a chance to breathe and the possibility of changing his defense. Meng Haoran told him that the whole brigade suffered heavy casualties and could no longer defend it, and if it attacked like before, the 145th Division would die in an hour at most.

Rao Guohua asked people to connect the phone of the military department and report the situation, Pan Wenhua knew that the 145th Division had done its best, and asked Liu Zhaoqui's 146th Division to replace the 145th Division. The 145th Division retreated to Guangde Airport, and due to the heavy casualties of Meng Haoran's brigade, the military headquarters decided to return it to the 145th Division Tong Yi Brigade directly under the military headquarters, which made the 145th Division somewhat popular.

The Japanese troops who returned from the ancestral hill and the devils who reinforced from Wuxing arrived in Si'an successively, and the situation here made them angry, the supplies were robbed at all, and no one was left, and some local people were arrested to understand the situation, only to know that it was a group of bandits who did not wear military uniforms.

This is impossible, the devils unanimously believe that no bandit can get so many supplies at one time, it can only be the regular army, and the most likely is the Gui army that was defeated in Wuxing. The people told them that it could not be Gui Jun, who spoke Cantonese, and these people did not speak Cantonese, but spoke something closer to Sichuan. The common people are telling the truth, they are not deceiving devils, but they don't know that the army in Guangxi in Guinan speaks Cantonese, Guibei speaks official dialect, and Guiliu official dialect sounds similar to Sichuan dialect.

The devil understood, no wonder the Sichuan army collapsed without a fight in yesterday's battle of Si'an, it turned out to be to lure the king into the urn and put the logistics base in, the purpose was to rob today. It is no wonder that compared with yesterday's Sichuan army, which had no combat power, today's Sichuan army is judged to be two people, and would rather die than retreat, just to hold the imperial army so that Si'an can calmly rob.

"The conscience of the Sichuan people is greatly broken, and they are dead!" The Japanese screamed wildly, and the commander of the 23rd Brigade, Yamashita Chongwu, was so angry that he almost fainted, and he did not fall to the ground because of the support of the saber in his hand.

The telegraph flew to Wuxing, to Shanghai, to Tokyo. The commander of the 10th Army, Yanagawa Heisuke, was furious and demanded that the 18th Division of Ushijima Minoru attack with all its might, and the planes taking off from Shanghai tomorrow morning would make every effort to assist.

Liu Zhaoqui's 146th Division of the Sichuan Army will face an even more tragic attack by the Japanese.