Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (25)

The battle of Kangwangzhai was divided into two places, one at Dishui Cliff and one at Pass. The battle of Dishui Cliff was not fierce, after a row of shots, the Japanese army killed more than a dozen people, and there were not many wounded, the living Japanese soldiers began to look for a hiding place in the valley, the area in the valley is not small, the rocks pierce the roots of the old trees, it is not difficult to find a hiding place. * Can't go far, the gun can't turn, as long as it's hidden, it's safe for a while. Qi Daozheng couldn't think of any quick solution to the problem, so he could only order the troops and monitor them closely. The Japanese army knew that it was impossible to rush to the cliff, and the only thing they could leave was the valley mouth when they entered, and they also knew that the opponent would definitely not relax their guard against the valley mouth, and it would not be easy to rush out of the valley mouth. Sure enough, two death squads were organized to rush to the mouth of the valley, but they were both beaten back by the troops organized by the head of Chen Kairong, and none of the two waves of death squads died. The casualties were too great, and the Japanese army did not dare to organize death squads to rush to the exit, although they said that they dared to die, but if it was the road to death, no one would want to go no matter how dare to die.

The pass gate is still fighting the fire here, once the pine trees on the mountain are on fire, it is not easy to extinguish them for a while, there are not many pine trees in this place, and there are other wild miscellaneous trees, which can not be easily burned, and it is easy to burn and not extinguished. The Japanese saved the day for a long time, and the fire was reduced. When the fire is completely extinguished, you can't walk through the hot land, and when the land slowly cools down, it's already dark. The Japanese army did not dare to march in the dark, and the telegram contacted and learned that the front of the Japanese army caught in the encirclement had not been hit fiercely, and it was estimated that the strike capability of the Chinese army was limited. Through telegrams, Koizumi Masatoshi decided to return to Kangwangzhai first, ask his superiors for tactical guidance, and make plans tomorrow.

Tired for a long time, extinguishing the mountain fire for half a day, but the Japanese army retreated, Cao Maocong breathed a sigh of relief, arranged the monitoring of the Japanese army, and asked Xiao Xiangyang to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army in Haokang Wangzhai, so as not to let the Japanese army kill at night and cause passivity. When he came to the mouth of the Dishui Cliff passage, Wang Weicang was waiting for him at the fork in the road, and after a while, Qi Daozheng also came.

At night, the mountain breeze was a little cool, and in the valley, the leaders of the 511th Regiment were cooking, the pine firewood made a loud noise, and the red stove fire accompanied by black smoke rose into the air. The three of them found a flat stone and sat down, and a soldier sent spring water, and the stone became a coffee table, Cao Maocong took a sip of water and said with a smile: "We are downstream, the Japanese are upstream, these dogs won't pee upstream!" Wang Weicang smiled: "This is not accurate. Qi Daozheng said: "If you want to pull it, you can pull it today, and after tomorrow, I'm afraid that I won't be able to pull it out if I want to." Seeing the inquiring eyes of the two, Qi Daozheng continued: "I took a look at this group of Japanese soldiers, they are all pursuing lightly, except for the weapons and backpacks on their bodies, they don't bring anything else, it is estimated that they can still have some food today, and they will be hungry from tomorrow, I plan to take turns in three regiments to defend the valley and starve this group of Japanese soldiers to death in this." ”

After Cao Maocong and Wang Weicang laughed together, Cao Maocong said: "Shizao, the Japanese army in the valley is easy to deal with, there are three regiments, it is completely possible to trap them to death, but the situation outside is not very good. ”

Qi Daozheng asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cao Maocong said: "The Japanese army has three infantry brigades and an artillery team, and the two infantry brigades trapped inside should be two infantry brigades, and there is also an infantry brigade and an artillery team outside. There is only one 513 regiment, and I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand the blows of the Japanese army outside. ”

Once the Japanese army breaks through the 513th Regiment and attacks the passage with the Japanese army in the valley, it will be able to rescue the enemy in the valley, and the game that he has finally laid down will be wasted.

What to do? After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Weicang came up with an idea, and each drew a battalion from the 512th Regiment and the Field Supplement Regiment on the top of the cliff to supply the 513th Regiment to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the 513th Regiment, as for the 511th Regiment guarding the valley, Wang Weicang did not recommend pumping people, this place is too important, once the Japanese troops in the valley go crazy and rush out together, there will be fewer people, and it will be too late to load the bullets.

This is also a way that there is no way, Qi Daozheng and Cao Maocong both nodded in agreement.

Today is a day of arson, a fire was set on the north road, and Liao Yaoguo also set a fire on the south road.

The next day, there was no fighting on the southern route, and early in the morning on the northern front, the flames of war were ignited. It was not Kangwangzhai that ignited the flames of war, nor did it pass the pass, nor in the valley of Dishui Cliff, but from above the nine heavens, and it was the plane from the Xinyang Airport of the Japanese army that joined in the fun.

Under the guidance of the Japanese troops in the valley under the Dishui Cliff, the plane carried out a frantic strafing of the 171st Division waiting on the cliff, and the soldiers on the peak were caught off guard, and there were many casualties, but fortunately, the Japanese troops in the valley could not rush up, except for cheering and shouting at the bottom of the valley, they did not take action to threaten the top of the valley. The plane turned around a few times in the place where the valley mouth was blocked, and could not find Chen Kairong's 511 regiment in the dense forest, so it threw a few * on the giant trees stacked in the valley, and blew up a few giant trees, blocking the valley mouth more solidly. The plane's bullets swept at the mouth of the valley, the Chinese troops did not dare to show their faces, and the Japanese troops in the valley did not dare to come out, and there was no effect. After going around a few times, the plane had limited fuel and left.

Qi Daozheng ordered the 512th Regiment and the Field Supplement Regiment on the top of the cliff to do a good job of air defense fortifications and not be damaged in the next air raids. However, there is no way to undo the damage that has been done, and it is difficult to send the units that were decided to be sent to support the 513th Regiment last night.

As soon as the plane left, Koizumi Zhengmin of Kangwangzhai also rushed to the direction of Dishui Cliff with his troops.

Cao Maocong and Xiao Xiangyang set up a hard-fought position on the way through which the Japanese army must pass, and decided to fight the Japanese army to the death here. With a series of explosions, the huge pine trees in the middle of the mountain were put down and fell on the path in the valley, Xiao Xiangyang's purpose in doing this was not to block people, but to block the horses, in his opinion, blocking the horses, the Japanese artillery had lost its effect, and the Japanese infantry brigade without artillery wanted to pass through the position he had arranged in front of the valley in a group, which was quite difficult.

However, this time, Xiao Xiangyang miscalculated a little, and the fallen giant tree only stayed in the Japanese army for a little time, but it did not stop the advance of the Japanese army, and even the artillery team did not stop it. Seeing the obstacle in front of them, the Japanese army did not say a word, the infantry passed first, and after the infantry passed, they were on guard in place, and the artillery untied the cannon from their horses and carried it with manpower. By noon, both the infantry and artillery threw the obstacles behind them, except for the pack horses. The trees were too big, there were too many branches, and the pack horses couldn't be killed, so Koizumi Masatoshi had to leave all the pack horses and disperse some of the food into the soldiers' backpacks, as for the cannonballs, how many could the artillerymen carry, and if they couldn't carry them, they were temporarily put together with the pack horses, and the pack horses also stayed here, leaving an infantry squad to be responsible for security guards.

Xiao Xiangyang knew that the next battle would be difficult to fight. After Cao Maocong asked Qi Daozheng to transfer the special service battalion of the troops directly under the division, there were more than 300 more people in the entire sub-position. According to Cao Maocong, with these 300 people, at least they can block for half a day. In his opinion, the Japanese army, which had run out of food in the valley, was hungry for a day yesterday and would be hungry for another day today, and at most in the evening, they would definitely rush out wildly.

At noon, Cao Maocong's hopes were dashed.

A group of planes flew from the sky, and just as the national army on the cliff was rushing and wolfing, looking for a place to hide from the plane, they found that the plane did not bird them, but swept over the top of the cliff and threw a parachute to the bottom of the valley.

Throwing food with an airplane, the Japanese actually have this trick.

Seeing the parachute floating to the bottom of the valley, Qi Daozheng's mood also sank to the bottom, with this way of supplementing, it is estimated that the Japanese troops in the valley will not starve to death for a while and a half, and the encirclement and annihilation battle will become a protracted war. And the 513 regiment outside the valley can withstand for how long.

After discussing with Meng Peiqiong and Li Fangxi, the only way to keep the time of rotation monitoring was tighter, and each regiment had to squeeze out a battalion to support the 513th Regiment. Although Meng Peiqiong and Li Fangxi were embarrassed, for the sake of the overall situation, they could only grit their teeth and agree, transfer one of their battalions, led by Xie Yao, deputy commander of the 512th Regiment, and immediately rush to the downstream valley mouth.

The battle there has been heated up.

The Japanese attack was completely a life-sacrificing attack, as soon as they crossed the big tree barrier, the Japanese army began to run and advance, and after a while, they reached Xiao Xiangyang's position. The narrow valley mouth is flanked by high mountains, in the middle is a small stream, a huge stone stands in the middle of the valley, dividing the already narrow valley mouth in two, the road and the small stream in the valley, are on the left side of the stone, the passage on this side, is still full of big trees, a company of soldiers, leaning on the trees, has been ready for battle. The right side of the stone is relatively narrow, with a low wall stacked with stones, two Czech and one Min-24 water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns are eyeing each other, and three machine guns are flanked to cooperate with the frontal road combat, with a wider firing area and wider fan.

The first wave of charging Japanese troops, under the blows of the frontal troops of the 513 regiment and the machine guns on the side, came quickly and retreated faster. However, before the Chinese troops could relax a little, shells from Type 81 mortars fell on the positions. The two Czechs saw the opportunity early, withdrew behind the big rocks, and escaped a catastrophe, but the 49-kilogram Min 24 water-cooled Makqin heavy machine gun could not be transported, and was hit by a *, which immediately disintegrated and fell apart.

This time, Xiao Xiangyang was angry, the Min 24 water-cooled Makqin heavy machine gun was his treasure, a regiment only had one machine gun company, and there was only one heavy machine gun platoon, and a platoon only had three Min 24 water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns, and this one fell, one-third. He was reluctant to put the other two on them, but let the machine gun platoon build a bunker out of wood on the side of the valley, leaving only a gun hole to strafe the Japanese troops on the opposite road. As for the right side of the boulder, a Czech style has been added. The firepower of the Czech type of 20-round magazine is much worse than that of the Min-24 water-cooled Maxim heavy machine gun, and there is a magazine inserted in the center of the machine gun, which brings great trouble to the shooter's aiming.

Cao Maocong told Xiao Xiangyang that he couldn't hard-top, he could only play hide and seek with the Japanese army, and we would hide when the Japanese army fired artillery, and when the Japanese infantry came up, we would fight. However, theoretically it worked, and in practice under the bombardment of Japanese mortars and grenadiers, the casualties of the brothers of the 513th regiment on the position were still not small.

Half a day, in the attack and defense of both sides to spend, the Japanese army can not cross the valley, the defense of the 513 regiment is also extremely passive, under the blow of artillery fire, the casualties are very great, a company basically stay in the front for half an hour, will lose nearly half, most of the day, the 513 regiment sacrificed nearly 300 people, nearly 400 wounded, and there is little ammunition left.

At this time, under the leadership of Xie Yao, deputy commander of the 512th Regiment, reinforcements from the 512th Regiment and the Field Supplement Regiment came over. Cao Maocong was overjoyed and ordered them to bypass the position from the side, go around to the side of the Japanese army, and kill them in one fell swoop.

Xie Yao knew that this was the most powerful means of attack, and despite the difficulty of the steep mountain road, he led his troops around the side of the mountain where there was no road at all, until he saw the Japanese artillery position under the valley, and after firing a dense row of bullets, he all charged. Xiao Xiangyang, the colonel of the 513th regiment, also ordered a battalion, a few people counted as a few people, to kill from the valley.

Attacked from both sides, Koizumi Masatoshi was defeated.

It was getting late, and Koizumi Masatoshi didn't dare to spend the night in the field, preparing to return to Kangwangzhai again. He led his troops to climb over the tree obstacles that he had come over in the morning, only to find a terrible situation, the infantry squad and the pack horse team members who were on guard here were dead all over the place, and the pack horses were gone, and the supplies left behind were also gone. Koizumi Masatoshi secretly shouted: Bitter! There are no supplies, no shells, how to spend tonight, how to attack tomorrow!