Chapter 6: Fighting and Killing (17)

More than 7,000 people from the two brigades of the 174th Division quickly left, and the place immediately seemed much empty.

Qin Xing stood in front of Wei Yunsong, looking obedient, Wei Yunsong spoke very loudly before, and when it came to the end, he didn't have much to do, so he had to set his sights on Mo Enemy.

Mo Di didn't want to speak, but under Wei Yunsong's majestic gaze, he had to say his thoughts, after all, this former commander of the 48th Army was his old boss. More importantly, during the 48th Army, he was not thin on himself, and in front of him, he had to be obedient.

"As soon as they left, the attack of the Japanese Third Division was about to begin. The purpose of the commotion of the Japanese troops in the north was to divert the defenders of the southern front and let the commander of the third division drive straight in, and the purpose was achieved. Mo Die's first sentence made Wei Yunsong stay on the spot. I actually fell for the trick again! Not only himself, but also the Fifth Theater and the General Staff of the Military Commission fell for the Japanese army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!

Mo Di didn't give him much time to think, and continued to say to himself: "After the Bengbu Iron Bridge was blown up, it was not easy to cross the river from Huaishang to Xiaobegbu, and the best way was to cross the river in Huaiyuan by the previous Ninth Division and the Thirteenth Division. The Huaiyuan Huai River is divided into two, the south flow is the Huai River, the north flow is the vortex river, the water flow is relatively small, now it is the dry season, the speed and difficulty of the sappers to build the pontoon bridge is not great, the third division is a highly mechanized troops, must have a pontoon bridge to cross the river. Shangfeng also saw this, so he placed the 135th Division in Huaiyuan. ”

Wei Yunsong and Qin Xing both looked at Mo Di fixedly, Wei Yunsong once called Mo Di the little Zhuge of the 48th Army, but he didn't really see where he Zhuge was, this time he really realized Mo Die's thinking. Qin Xing was the first to understand Mo Di's analysis, and he really realized that Zhang Guangwei dared to let Mo Di act as the chief of staff.

"When I marched through Huaiyuan before, I asked our engineer battalion commander how long it would take to get two pontoon bridges to cross the Huai River and the Whirlpool River, and the engineer battalion commander told me that if it was us, it would take two hours, and if it was the third division, it would be estimated to be one hour. If my estimate is correct, the 135th Division is estimated to come into contact with the enemy in an hour, and with his 10,000 men, it is impossible to hold back the 28,000-strong 3rd Division. Mo Di said: "At most, at noon, we will see the vanguard of the Japanese army." ”

"Brigade Commander Mo, can you explain to me why the Japanese army built the pontoon bridge in so much less time, we built the pontoon bridge without the interference of the other side, and the 135th Division will not let them build the pontoon bridge in peace." Qin Xing said.

"They are fast because they carry a large number of bridge plates, put the ship together, tie the cables, and put the bridge board up, which is the pontoon bridge, and the Japanese Type 94 tanks and cars can pass through at will." Mo Di said: "As for the interference of the 135th Division, you can ignore it, as long as the Japanese army sets up field artillery on the other side of the river, shoots straight at it, and hits a no-man's land." ”

Qin Xing understood and was frightened, and after a while, he asked Wei Yunsong: "Junzao, what should we do?" ”

"Tianzhong, what should we do?" Wei Yunsong transferred the words to Mo Di.

"Let's dig the road first!" Mo Di said: "Concentrate the engineer units of the 174th Division and the engineer units of the 31st Army, together with the engineer battalion of the 526 Brigade, to cut off the road first, so that the Japanese tanks will not pass too easily." Then all the artillery units were handed over to form three artillery formations, and bombarded the tanks that were stopped on the road because of the broken road, and if we could let the Japanese tanks block their way, we would have won the first game. ”

"And a second game?" Qin Xing asked.

"Don't interrupt! Listen to the heavens. Wei Yunsong pulled Qin Xing.

"The second game is when the Japanese artillery counterattacks our artillery array, so the artillery array must be quickly transferred to the second artillery position after the first formation. After hitting the artillery positions of our troops, the Japanese artillery will be transferred to our front-line positions, and if there are not good enough anti-artillery holes, our fighters will die tragically under the shells. Mo Di said: "The sappers must build the fortifications, and the sappers of our 526 Brigade have been digging the fortifications since the morning, I don't know how the fortifications of the 174th Division are prepared?" ”

Qin Xing ran out in a frenzied manner, his engineer battalion was still playing big cards in the barracks, in their opinion, the Japanese were still far away, as for the fortifications, just dig a small pit.

Wei Yunsong also felt the importance of the problem, took a look at the previous defense plan, and said to the adjutant behind him: "Gather all the fighters in the military headquarters, let the military engineer battalion come over immediately, and take over the defense area of the 520 Brigade, and the 174th Division is directly responsible for the defense area of the 522 Brigade." Immediately go to the 526th Brigade to learn how to build fortifications, and the fortifications must be repaired before the arrival of the Japanese army. ”

Qin Xing, who had finished arranging the work, walked in, and he brought in the commanders of all the units directly under the 174th Division, including the guard battalion, the baggage battalion, the artillery battalion, etc., and by total, about 2,000 people could participate in the battle. The engineer battalion has gone to the defense area, the chief of staff, He Weihao, has opened the gun hangar of the baggage battalion, and everyone has been issued with a handful of Hanyang-made, bullets* are taken, and the 174th Division headquarters is in a tense atmosphere.

Similarly, the military headquarters of the 31st Army also entered a tense atmosphere, and the chief of staff reported to Wei Yunsong that the troops directly under the military headquarters were ready for battle.

Wei Yunsong ordered that all the engineers should be led by Wei Zhigao of the 526 Brigade Engineer Battalion, and all the artillery should be commanded by Li Baicheng, commander of the 526 Brigade Artillery Battalion. Qin Xing is the front-line commander, Mo Di is the chief of staff of operations, and everyone must obey the arrangement, otherwise military law will be involved. Sitting in the headquarters of the 174th Division, Wei Yunsong slapped the small pistol on the table in front of him, with a serious face.

The telegram predicting the war situation had been sent a long time ago, but there was no reply, the 31st Army was subordinate to the 11th Group Army, and the commander of the 11th Group Army, Li Pinxian, unlike Liao Lei, the commander of the 21st Group Army, liked to solicit the opinions of the higher authorities before issuing orders. After receiving the telegram from the 31st Army, it immediately reported it to the Fifth Theater, and the Fifth Theater did not dare to slack off and immediately reported it to the General Staff of the Military Commission. This time, even the Wuhan Military Commission Staff Department thought that the 31st Army was wrong, not only wrong, but also very wrong, more than ten days ago, the 9th Division and the 13th Division broke through the defense line of the 7th Army in Huaiyuan Huaiwu Lianghe, and it took a whole day, this time there was only one division, and the opponent was Su Zuxin's 135th Division, which was known for its good defense, if it really wanted to break through within an hour as the 31st Army's telegram said, wouldn't it be a big joke.

Even Director Liu Fei kept shaking his head, thinking that either Wei Yunsong was wrong, or he had listened to other people's misdirection!

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the morning that the operation of the Third Division began, and everyone turned their attention to the Wanghuai Tower in Huaiyuan.

A gas boat from the lower reaches of the Huai River pulled a string of small boats to the Huai River waterway in front of the Wanghuai Tower, and the Japanese sappers lined up the small boats in a straight line, tied them with cables at equal distances, and drove several large trucks from the land, all of which were long thick wooden planks, which were reinforced with iron nails and could be up to six meters long. As soon as the bridge is built on the boat, and the two ends are docked, it is a solid pontoon bridge, and the whole bridge construction process takes less than half an hour. The first to pass was the armored units of the 3rd Division, and the tanks passed over the pontoons, followed by the cars and the heavy field guns pulled behind the butts of the cars, and in less than an hour, the tank vanguard reached the south bank of the vortex river.

The position of the 135th Division was on the north bank of the vortex river, and it could be seen clearly across the river.

Nearly 200 field artillery mountain guns and large-caliber mortars formed a steel artillery array on the south bank of the vortex river. Even if the fortifications of the 135th Division were the best in the Gui army, they could not withstand such intensive bombardment, and there were no more living people in the bomb landing area.

The previous gas boat dragged a small boat to appear on the south bank of the vortex river, in the sound of artillery fire, the erection of the pontoon bridge was carried out in an orderly manner, the flow of the vortex river was slightly smaller than that of the Huai River, and there was no difficulty in erecting the bridge. As soon as the small artillery array in the north fired a cannon at the small boat in the river, the artillery array was plowed by the artillery fire on the south bank, and all the 20 Kruber mountain guns of the small artillery battalion of the 135th Division were scrapped.

Until the pontoon bridge was erected, the artillery fire on the south bank did not stop, until the first tank reached the opposite bank, and thirty tanks established a beachhead on the north bank, the artillery fire did not stop, and the third division, led by tank armored vehicles, rolled towards the trench of the 135th division less than one meter deep in a combat mode of advancing as a whole like a steel barrier.

The gun can't be pierced, the cannon can't be fired, the bullet hits the tank, making a crisp sound, and on top of the tank, a heavy machine gun, spewing out tongues of fire, harvesting the lives of Chinese soldiers. The armored car that followed was like a moving fortress, and the fortress was full of crutches, and the bullets were like a torrential rain.

Fighting the steel monster with his flesh and blood, Su Zuxin felt a sense of powerlessness, and when the tank overwhelmed his third line of defense, he had no choice but to order a retreat.

The defense line that thought it was impregnable and the vortex river only lasted less than two hours in total, and the time from the beginning of the 3rd Division's bridge building to the smooth passage of the 135th Division's defense area was exactly three hours. It was noon, the sun was in the middle of the sky, and the weather was very good today, cloudless, and the sky was very deep and blue.

The Wuhan General Staff Department was dead, and the Fifth War Zone was also dead, and Li Pinxian didn't dare to speak, only Wei Yunsong had a look of Qi on his face, and said to Mo Di: "Tianzong, you are right, you are right." I immediately telegraphed Zhang Guangwei to run and turn back wherever he went. ”

Zhang Guangwei was the most depressed one, his main force passed through Shuangduiji, passed Nanping, and was in a hurry, and soon arrived at Liutai, when he suddenly received a notice from the Fifth War Zone that the Ninth Division attacking Liutai was a feint, and after throwing a few shells at Ji Xingwen's position, it disappeared without a trace.

Qin Jing and Liu Qingfan looked at each other, they knew that they had been fooled. That little man Mo Tianzong really has three points of ability, and he can accurately foresee the attack of the Japanese army, which should not be underestimated.

"Hurry back, return quickly." Zhang Guangwei, who is usually very calm, couldn't control his excitement, he knew that if the Japanese army entered the big camp at this time, even if the whole army was desperate, it would not be able to stop the pace of the Japanese army's northward advance.

Qin Jing and Liu Qingfan walked up to Zhang Guangwei and said in embarrassment that the brothers had trotted all the way here, and they were already tired, and if they trotted back, they would be exhausted to death without the Japanese army.

Rest in place and eat sharply. Knowing that the Japanese army had marched to the camp, but he was powerless, Zhang Guangwei had been in the army for so many years, and for the first time he knew what a nest was, one general was incompetent, tired of the three armies, and one commander was incompetent, and tired of the national army. The ancients did not deceive me.

"Chief Wei, you always sit here slowly, I'm going to the 526 Brigade!" Mo Di walked up to Wei Yunsong and said respectfully.

"Don't get out of here." Wei Yunsong shouted, grabbing Mo Dou's hand.

"Hehe, sir, according to the infantry regulations, my post is not here." Mo Di smiled, he knew that with his own brigade plus the headquarters of the 174th Division and the military headquarters of the 31st Army, it was impossible to block the attack of the Japanese army, so he could only retreat strategically after making a scene, but he couldn't say this to Wei Yunsong, who knows if this guy is a guy who admits death.

Wei Yunsong scolded: "Fuck the infantry regulations, those above are all pigs!" Tianzhong, you are here to say, can we withstand it? ”

"It depends on how long it takes, I estimate that we can top for an hour at most, and after an hour, we will be buried under the tracks of Japanese tanks." Mo Di smiled bitterly.

"Why?" Qin Xing still has one word: ask.

"I don't know yet! We can only win the first round, and the second round will start, and we will die if we don't get out! Wei Yunsong shouted, he looked at Qin Xing and looked at Mo Enemy, this person is really more dead than people, and he can only throw it around.

The phone rang, it was a telegram from the 526 Brigade, and Li Songde told Mo that according to the news from the reconnaissance company Luo Wei, the Japanese army had passed Gaojiazhuang, and the distance was less than 50 miles.

Mo Di stood up and said sternly: Prepare for battle! Wei Yunsong and Qin Xing replied in unison: Yes!

The staff in the command are stupid, who is superior and who is subordinate, is it confused!