Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (17)

Early in the morning, the military headquarters of the 48th Army was once again shrouded by the heaviness of the coming war, and He Weizhen, the commander of the 173rd Division, who returned to the 48th Army, sat around Liao Lei, the commander of the 138th Division, and Ou Shounian, the commander of the 176th Division, looking at the gloomy sky, full of worry.

"Yesterday we were lucky enough to win another day, but yesterday's cannon was a bit cost-sparing!" He Weizhen said that this classmate of Bai Chongxi in the third phase of Baoding, a native of Yongxin, Jiangxi, is one of the few people from other provinces in the Gui department, with a peaceful personality and a Confucian general's demeanor, and his 173rd Division, although all the people in the 31st Army who can still fight together, is only about 5,000 people, and in the 48th Army, it is the smallest division-level unit.

"The night before yesterday, Ling Jiannan collected almost all the * infantry artillery shells at Mo Di's place, there were 1,200 of them, and yesterday day, he killed more than half of them. It can be regarded as Ling Jiannan's last contribution to the 48th Army. Ou Shounian said.

"Hehe, do you mean that Wei Chengqing is invincible?" Zhou Yuan, deputy commander of the 173rd Division, asked with a smile, Ou Shounian nodded with a wry smile, he didn't know how to evaluate his subordinate, this attack on the train was completely unexpected by him, the effect was good, it was also beyond his expectations, the impact was great, and it was even more unexpected than him, he didn't know how to face this subordinate.

Zhou Yuan didn't notice Ou Shounian's embarrassment, but continued to himself: "I really want to see him once, this bold guy dares to directly overturn the Japanese military column." Thanks to him, our 173rd Division rested for one day the day before yesterday and another day yesterday, and if there are two more days today and tomorrow, our division's adjustment will be completely in place. My biggest hope now is that there is news that Wei Chengqing has overturned the Japanese train again. ”

Everyone laughed, and even Liao Lei couldn't help but smile and said, "I hope too!" The truce in the past few days has been too beneficial to our adjustment, the 172nd Division of the Seventh Army has already returned to its position, and if the enemy's 9th Division still fights us according to the old routine, Zhang Guangwei of the 172nd Division will definitely burn their tails. ”

At this moment, I saw the chief of staff of the 48th Army running over like a fly, shouting: "Telegraph telegram, telegram of the 1056th regiment, according to accurate information, at about 5 o'clock this morning, an attack occurred more than 10 kilometers southeast of Tuzhou, and the local armed forces blew up the railway bridge, causing the military train to capsize, and then causing a fire, because the special train was loaded with a large amount of fuel, causing the entire special train to burn down. Unbeatable. ”

Everyone looked at Zhou Yuan like a ghost, and no one was speechless for a while, and finally Liao Lei's laughter broke the silence: "Zhou Yuan Zhou Kaizhi, you don't have to be a general, change careers to become Mr. Bazi!" ”

"I don't know how this can happen." Zhou Yuan's face was flushed, and he couldn't speak.

"Do you guess it was Wei Chengqing last time?" Mo Dehong asked Ou Shounian.

"If it's not him, who else can it be!" Ou Shounian said with a wry smile: "It's just that this time it's not for supplies, it's completely to support our side in the war, with good intentions, and he doesn't hesitate to carry his notoriety." ”

"It's not him, whoever says it's him, definitely not him. I think that Wei Chengqing is still a battalion commander of the Central Army, and has nothing to do with our Gui Army. Liao Lei said with a smile.

Everyone replied in unison, "Yes." ”

It was unanimously agreed that the Japanese army would not attack again today, and the entire front immediately became loose, and the forward position of the 7th Army was only one regiment of Wei Haomin of the 170th Division, and the position of the 48th Army was only the 1052nd Regiment of Lu Dailong, and the position was very relaxed. Zhou Yuan, deputy commander of the 173rd Division, boldly began to integrate the scattered troops, how to place the soldiers transferred from the 174th and 135th Divisions, and how to unify the command, must be integrated, otherwise it is not as good as a group of militias.

Tan Heyi, the new commander of the 526th Brigade of the 176th Division, also seized the time to familiarize himself with his subordinates, Qin Zhenyuan, the commander of the 1055th Regiment, had three integrated battalions and a machine gun company directly under him. Although the commander of the 1056th Regiment was not there, the chief of staff Huang Tianhua and the two battalions with full strength were not weak, and in the battles of the past few days, they made great contributions with the best defense and the most in-place soil work, and the position of the 48th Army was inseparable from the work of the department. Both battalions were Japanese weapons, and the range of the 38 Dagai was superior to that of the Zhongzheng rifle, and they basically did not fall behind in the confrontation with the attacking Japanese army. Tan Heyi was very satisfied with this, and came to Huang Tianhua's station with the guard squad and signal troops.

"Traveler!" Huang Tianhua stood up and saluted.

"What are they doing?" Looking at the busy soldiers, carrying wooden boxes marked with Japanese, he asked. Tan Heyi is a native of Yulin, Guangxi, Yulin dialect is the most difficult to understand in Guangxi, and the official dialect of Yulin people is also different, with a strange tone, ups and downs, and a different style.

"They're sorting out the ammunition." Huang Tianhua said: "Our regiment, when fighting in Zhejiang, most of them use Japanese weapons, although some equipment changes have been carried out in Huizhou, but the three main battalions are still mainly Japanese weapons, and the bullets used by the armament department can not be supplemented by the division headquarters baggage department, so the regiment commander can only find a way, during this period of ammunition consumption is very large, our ammunition reserves are no longer enough for a base, no, early in the morning, the regiment commander arranged for people to send bullets over. With this batch of bullets, it can be fired for a few more days. In Huang Tianhua's words, there was a bit of pride, as a main group, it is a very proud thing to be self-sufficient.

"Or your regiment commander has the foresight to be able to reserve a large amount of ammunition, I heard from the commander of the 525th Brigade Qiu that the 1051st Regiment is about to run out of ammunition." Tan Heyi said: "I really want to meet the commander of the Mo Enemy Regiment soon, I heard of him when I was in the 171st Division, and he is a legend of our Gui Army, but he is sometimes too independent and not very gregarious." ”

"Our regimental commander thinks that it is more beneficial to the operation to do this." Huang Tianhua hurriedly explained: "What's more, this is also agreed by Shangfeng. ”

"Yes, yes, I didn't say that there was anything wrong with him doing this, it's just that the enemy is at present, and I'm afraid I can't let him continue to be free outside." Tan Heyi said: "When you contact him, tell him that I will find a time to meet him in the past two days, and if he is free, he can come back." ”

"Yes, I'll tell you." Huang Tianhua said.

Walking around the barracks with Tan Heyi, Tan Heyi was surprised by the number of grenadiers in Huang Tianhua's department, and asked them how they could be equipped with so many hand cannons. Huang Tianhua told him that the hand cannons were all captured in Zhejiang, there were no shells, and they had been taken back into storage two days ago, and today, the regiment commander's ammunition was replenished, so he took it out again and distributed it to each company, Tan Heyi asked how many hand cannons a company could be equipped with, Huang Tianhua said that it could be equipped with two guns in a squad, and each soldier had to carry four more shells for the hand cannon, and the weight increased a lot. Tan Heyi is an expert, and if you calculate it casually, you will know that the strike strength of the two battalions of the 1056 Regiment is far higher than the complete 1055 Regiment that you have seen before.

Just as Tan Heyi was about to leave Huang Tianhua's department and return to the brigade headquarters, he suddenly heard a dull explosion in the distance, and Huang Tianhua, who was seeing him off, changed his face and said softly: "The devil has attacked!" ”

Tan He Yi turned his head and flew into Huang Tianhua's war room, grabbing the phone, but heard a piercing ringing ringing from the phone. "Hey, I'm Tan Heyi."

"Brigade seat, I am the brigade staff, and the division headquarters has news that the devils have attacked. The 525th Regiment of Ma Weixin of the 1051st Brigade has already entered the first line, and we want our brigade to immediately enter the second-line position. The other party said eagerly.

"Order the 1055th Regiment to enter positions." Tan Heyi shouted: "Notify the brigade guard company and the baggage logistics department, organize a combat battalion, led by the commander of the guard company, and immediately rush to the 1056 regiment station, I will wait for them here." ”

"Yes!"

He Weizhen and Zhou Yuan, who were being reorganized, were also in a hurry all of a sudden, not to say that the Japanese military column had been overturned again, how could they still attack, and what kind of oil would be used to drive their armored vehicles and tanks.

The Japanese were using the last spare oil, and they were completely enraged, and it was unbearable to destroy their lines of communication again and again. For the first time, Nanjing's Hata Shunroku lost his mind and smashed the blue and white porcelain vase on the table, which was his favorite antiquity since coming to China, the blue and white plum vase of the Yuan Dynasty, which was priceless. He kept scolding: "Despicable, indecent, shameless, you will use this kind of indiscriminate means, not a samurai, not a hero." Angry shouted: "Attack, attack!" Attack, attack, get the air force to support, blow the battlefield of the Chinese army to pieces. ”

The 9th Division received the order, and Yoshiju Ryosuke, who was in a hurry to attack the army column again, shouted like a madman: "Attack, attack with all your might." ”

Although the fuel stock of the Japanese tank brigade is not much, it is by no means the Chinese military imagined nothing, because yesterday six tanks were destroyed, the Japanese offensive was ended early, this move saved a lot of fuel, plus the last bit of stock in the warehouse, although it could not support them for another long day of strangulation, but an effective attack was completely competent.

It seems that the top management of the Gui army miscalculated!

Sixty tanks, today's offensive completely changed its approach, they abandoned the positions of the 7th Army and concentrated on rushing towards the positions of the 48th Army. The soot stirred up by sixty tanks obscured the sky and the sun, and on the positions of the 525 brigade, the infantry following the tanks was completely visible.

When the tanks were still 300 meters away from the first line of positions, the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns began to concentrate on the positions of the 525th Brigade, and in an instant, pieces of shells exploded on the positions of the 525th Brigade, blowing up clumps of dirt and the flesh and blood of the soldiers of the Gui Army. This time, it lasted much longer than usual, and the soldiers in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches felt longer and shook their scalps. Fortunately, this trench was strengthened by Huang Tianhua's two battalions, which was deep and large enough, and there were a large number of anti-artillery holes, unless the shells happened to explode in the anti-artillery holes, they would not pose danger to the soldiers in the holes.

Finally, the explosion of the shells stopped, and the fighters came out of the anti-run holes, immediately lay down in the battered fortifications, and pointed their guns in front.

On the buttocks of the tanks, thick clouds of black smoke came out, and the sound was noticeable, and sixty tanks also began their charge.

On top of the tank, a Type 92 heavy machine gun spewed out tongues of fire and condescendingly swept the bullets towards the positions of the 525 Brigade.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind. "Hit!" With the shouts of Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Xianfu, commander of the 176th Division's artillery battalion, 12 Japanese-style 92-type infantry guns and 8 German-style Kruber mountain guns were fired at all and smashed into the Japanese offensive formation. A tank was hit by a Kruber shell, which caught fire on the spot.

The two sides exchanged guns and bullets, and a fierce battle ensued. In less than an hour, the 525 Brigade suffered heavy losses, could not resist, and retreated to the first line of positions. The Japanese threw down a corpse and eleven tanks in front of the position, and continued to attack the second line of positions.

"The Japanese are going to fight hard today, they only lost six tanks yesterday, and they stopped the attack, and today they have lost eleven tanks, and they are still desperate to rush over, I am afraid that this battle will be difficult to fight today." Huang Tianhua said to Tan Heyi.

Tan Heyi organized a battalion of the brigade headquarters guard company and logistics troops, supplemented them in the Huang Tianhua department, and formed a complete regiment.

The second-line position is a position that has not been used these days, because of Huang Tianhua's insistence, this position is built exactly like the first line, which can be called the best position in the history of the Gui army, and this is the first time that this position has met the enemy.

Enemy tanks appeared, and the battle was about to begin.