readx;? After Wang Haitao and Guo Rudong left, the officers and men of the 26 th Division were divided into dozens of groups, and the soldiers of the New 90 th Division explained the methods of using various weapons, precautions, and maintenance methods. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the quietest afternoon for the officers and soldiers of the 26th Division, and all the officers and soldiers are quietly listening to the explanation. Two hours later, the lecture ended, and all the officers and men of the 26 th Division came to the shooting range to begin the live-fire training.

Several hours passed, and the division commander Guo Rudong returned to the 26th Division, and the training of these officers and men came to an end. Guo Rudong gathered all the officers of the division and above, and Guo Rudong asked: "How about everyone, is the new weapon easy to use?" The officers below replied in a big way: "It's really too good." One of the company commanders asked, "Shizao, have you really given us so many weapons?" ”

Guo Rudong waved his hand, waited for everyone to calm down, and then said: "It turns out that our 26th Division looks down on us when we go to that place, isn't it because the guys in our hands are too bad? Now the guys in the hands of our 26th Division are no worse than others, and there are still new weapons that others don't have, not to mention dozens of mortars that we couldn't think of before. This is all supported by the New 90th Division.

We Sichuan people all talk about revenge and revenge, and kindness to repay kindness. People treat us like this, after the work comes down tomorrow, it will be time for us to repay the favor, and if anyone pretends to be a turtle grandson, don't blame me Guo Rudong for not being emotional. The people under him shouted one after another: "Master, don't worry, if anyone pretends to be a turtle grandson tomorrow, you will kill him with your own hands." Guo Rudong said loudly: "Okay! That's what I want." The three regiment commanders and the commander of the guard battalion stayed, and the others went back to prepare, and the next morning the meeting will be conveyed by the commander. ”

With the exception of the three regiment commanders and the commander of the guard battalion, the others left while talking. There were only Guo Rudong and the three regiment commanders and a guard battalion commander in the room, and then Guo Rudong spoke. "Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to say that Wang Haitao, the commander of the new 90th Division, although he is not very old, he is indeed a character. I, Guo Rudong, have also fought for decades, but I have never met an officer who can take out the equipment of thousands of people at once to help others. It's not a small amount of these guns and equipment to be sold casually, but they all gave it to us, and there was no mention of money at all, which is not something that ordinary people can do. ”

At this time, the battalion commander of the guard battalion, Guo Rudong's cousin Guo Ruhuai, took over and said: "Big brother, the new weapons for our guard battalion are all newly developed by Germany, and even the guys in the hands of the Central Army can't compare. The rifle could fire ten rounds in a row after pressing ten bullets, fast and accurate. The submachine gun, one hundred and fifty meters away, swept away. And that light machine gun, a hundred rounds of drums, within 400 meters to shoot anywhere, that firepower is really strong!"

Another regiment commander spoke: "I also saw the heavy machine gun, good fellow, with a chain of 250 rounds, no one will want to rush up within 600 meters." It was more than a little stronger than the Japanese-style Type 92 heavy machine gun, with a fast rate of fire, a steady muzzle, and fierce firepower. Another regiment commander said: "I also tried that grenade, but the shrapnel can cover a range of seven meters, but it is not comparable to the kind of grenade we made in Sichuan that explodes a few petals." ”

When everyone said this, Guo Rudong spoke. "You're all happy with the new weapon, aren't you?" said several of them nodded their heads. Guo Rudong also said: "The people are full of sincerity, and the affairs have also come down, tomorrow our division will be stationed in a three-kilometer-long position from Gucun in the west to Yanghang in the east, and take over the defense of the 544th Regiment of the new 90th Division there." This line of positions was built along a small river only a few meters wide, and it was the duty of our 26th Division to hold it and not allow a single Japanese devil to pass through our lines.

My division headquarters is located in this Zhujiazhai village. As for the highway bridge of the Wu family's house, which is to be guarded, the first regiment and the guard battalion will jointly guard it, and the guard will be changed at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Do you understand?" Guo Ruhuai, the commander of the guard battalion, said: "Big brother, the guard battalion should stay at the command center, they all go up, who will guard the command center? ”

Guo Rudong said: "Good steel is used on the blade, the highway bridge of Wu's house will be the focus of the Japanese devil's attack, Brother Wang has repeatedly told not to take it lightly, so your guard battalion is there, I can rest assured, as for the command headquarters, just put the underage babies in the army into a unit here." Guo Ruhuai was about to say more, Guo Rudong glared and shouted: "What are you talking about? If the Japanese devils rush past the Wu family's house, will I still have the face to see Brother Wang?"

Guo Ruhuai and the three regiment commanders didn't say anything more, and went down to prepare. At 8 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the 544th Regiment was ordered to withdraw from its position and hand over its position to the 26th Division, which had come to change its defense. On the highway bridge position of Wu's house, Wei Hai, commander of the 544th Regiment, specially explained the use of the fortifications of Guo Rudong, the commander of the 26th Division, and the method of arranging the firing points before leaving.

After the 26th Division took over the position, it was impressed by the fortifications repaired by the 544th Regiment at a glance. Guo Ruhuai and the commander of the first regiment arranged the firepower points according to Wei Hai's teaching, and said: "Such fortifications, with the current weapons, no matter how many Japanese devils come, there is no need to be afraid!" Guo Rudong was also impressed by the construction of the 544th regiment.

After the 544th Regiment withdrew from its position, it was ordered to come to the rear of the 543rd Regiment one kilometer and build second-line field fortifications along the nearly four-kilometer route from Xiaosuzhai to Qifangzhai to Gucun. This is also a decision made by Wang Haitao after repeated thinking, the purpose is to add a deep fortification for the 543rd Regiment. At this time, Wang Haitao was relieved and refocused his attention on several places where fierce battles were taking place.

The defensive battle of Luodian has entered the sixth day, and the Japanese Ninth Division, with the assistance of heavy artillery and aircraft, has captured the three lines of defense outside the defender's Luodian Town, and the city wall of Luodian Town is already close at hand. The second battalion of the 545th Regiment guarding the outer defense line of Luodian Town was only one third company, which was relatively complete, and the other two companies together were less than 40 people.

In the attack of the Japanese Ninth Division in the past few days, it lost a total of three wings, including the 9th Mountain Artillery Wing. The number of dead and wounded has reached nearly eight thousand. The division commander, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, hated and was anxious, and his officers were constantly scolded by him. Once under the walls of Luodian, the Ninth Division's attack on the fourth line of defense outside the defender's town was even more difficult.

This line of defense was completely covered by heavy machine-gun fire from the city walls, and the condescending heavy machine-gun fire made it difficult for the Japanese to move an inch in the path of the attack. The Japanese tanks were even more destroyed when they went up. After losing ten tanks, the Fifth Tank Brigade that assisted did not dare to send any more tanks to assist, and Yoshizumi Ryosuke saw the loss of the Fifth Tank Brigade, so it was not easy to blame more.

The Japanese army's 150 howitzers had limited destructive power to the city walls of Luodian Town, and the assistance of the aircraft only dared to drop bombs at high altitudes, and the accuracy was really pitiful. Only the 150 cannon heavy howitzers of the 10th Wing of the Independent Heavy Artillery could threaten the walls of Luodian Town. However, the 10th Heavy Artillery Wing was far away in Yuepu, and the accuracy of the shelling was also very poor, and the wall of Luodian was only blown down less than 10 meters in a few days.

More than 100 soldiers of the 2nd Battalion and 3rd Company were stationed on the fourth line of defense under the city walls, and 300 meters in front was the third line of defense, which had been occupied by the Japanese. Chinese and Japanese soldiers faced each other 300 meters apart. At this time, the commander of the 36th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, Wasakizaka Jiro Osa, who had just been replaced, was in the third line of defense, observing the defenders' lines with binoculars, and at the same time mentally thinking about how to attack the defenders' positions.

Wakisaka Jiro Osa was lying in front of an observation port in a sandbag fortification, and he didn't dare to stick his head out easily. During the day's confrontation, both sides were firing cold guns at each other, and the Japanese did not dare to stick their heads out of the trenches easily after being killed by cold shots of several officers and soldiers. The Chinese defenders had the upper hand in the cold-gun battle, but they were suppressed by the Japanese artillery fire and could not make a big move.

Every time the defenders killed a Japanese soldier with a cold gun, the Japanese retaliatory artillery fire would last for several minutes. In one day, twenty soldiers were killed and wounded under Japanese artillery fire. On the morning of the seventh day, the Japanese concentrated more than 100 guns of the size of the 12th Heavy Artillery Wing, the 10th Independent Heavy Artillery Wing, the 1st Independent Siege Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the 36th Infantry Wing of the 9th Division, and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the defenders' fourth line of defense and the walls of Luodian Town.

After 10 minutes of shelling, more than 20 planes flew at low altitude to Luodian town to bomb the defenders, ignoring the threat of ground fire. The intensity of the bombardment was unprecedented, as if it were the 12 240 mm heavy howitzers of the 1st Siege Heavy Artillery Brigade used by the Japanese army for the first time. This kind of heavy artillery, which weighs 185 kilograms with a single shell, brings great destructive power.

The five Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine guns on the city wall were all destroyed by Japanese artillery fire after shooting down six and injuring four Japanese planes, and at the same time, the city wall east of Luodian was also blown down in a section of more than 100 meters. The fourth line of defense is even more unrecognizable. After an hour of wanton bombardment, the soldiers of the two Japanese brigades in the third line of defense rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards Luodian Town.

This time, when the Japanese troops rushed straight to less than 100 meters away from the fourth line of defense, only two light machine guns and more than a dozen rifles and submachine guns began to fire on the fourth line of defense. In the face of more than 2,000 Japanese troops in two brigades, such firepower was too thin. Regardless of the casualties, the Japanese pressed the defenders with light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, while charging forward under the command of officers.

After the defenders' fourth line of defense was breached, the Japanese did not stop and continued to charge towards the collapsed city wall. Soon the Japanese approached the collapsed walls, but the attack was met with little resistance. Just as the Japanese army was about to cross the collapsed city wall and enter the town of Luodian, a large number of bullets were fired head-on, and the sound of submachine guns and light machine guns also rang out.