readx;? Chen Yi, commander of a detachment of the New Fourth Army, sent Wang Weikuan, commander of the special service battalion, to the Jing County headquarters to ask Wang Haitao what combat tasks he wanted to give to the New Fourth Army. Wang Haitao could feel the sincerity of the New Fourth Army www.biquge.info, but this time Wang Haitao was not prepared to let the New Fourth Army participate in the defensive operations in Jing County.

First, Wang Haitao wanted to take the opportunity to temper the two newly joined brigades so that they could mature as soon as possible; second, this time, with more than 10,000 troops, there was no need for the help of the New Fourth Army. Therefore, Wang Haitao asked Wang Weikuan to tell Commander Chen Yi that he wanted the New Fourth Army to strengthen the surveillance of the Japanese troops in the direction of Hangzhou and prevent the Japanese army from attacking Jingde County.

Three days later, the Japanese finally made a move, first a wing of the 21st Division, with the cooperation of a tank squad, moved towards Nanling County, and again launched an attack on the defenders' positions west of the Qingyi River Bridge here in Yijiang Town. The difference between this time and the last time was that the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 570th Regiment of the 278th Brigade were guarding Yijiang Town, and the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of the 568th Regiment were on the positions outside the town.

In order to strengthen the defense, Brigade Commander Mu Suzhong also transferred the mountain artillery battalion to Yijiang Town after learning that no Japanese troops were found in other directions in Nanling County. On the position west of the Qingyi River Bridge, Jia Shaoyi, commander of the first battalion of the 570th Regiment, although he also had combat experience, was the first time he had faced the Japanese army. Invisibly, the person in charge of the position became Li Mingshan, the commander of the third company.

Li Mingshan has been following Wang Haitao's old man since the Longzhou Security Regiment, and he fought all the way from the Battle of Shanghai to Liyang and then to Nanjing, accumulating merit and being promoted to lieutenant and company commander, and he can be said to have rich experience in fighting against the Japanese army. As soon as the Japanese army opened up in front of the position, Li Mingshan immediately asked all the officers and men to withdraw into the anti-artillery hole, leaving only a few observation posts behind the bunker and sandbag fortifications on the position.

Listening to the continuous explosion of shells on the position in the anti-artillery hole, the officers and men of the Sichuan army were all shocked. Jia Shaoyi, the commander of the first battalion, said to Li Mingshan: "Company Commander Li, when you asked our whole battalion to dig anti-artillery holes, I didn't understand your intentions, but now I know that these turtle sons of little Japan are really fucking fierce." If it weren't for this anti-artillery hole, our battalion would not have suffered fewer casualties under the fire of this Bang turtle son. ”

Li Mingshan smiled and said: "This is just the artillery fire of a wing of Little Japan, and there are not even a few mountain artillery, which is trivial." You have never experienced that on the battlefield in Shanghai, the heavy artillery of Little Japan hit the position, and the anti-artillery hole could not be dug deeply, and as a result, many soldiers were shocked to death in the anti-artillery hole. That artillery fire is called ferocious. ”

Jia Shaoyi, who listened to Li Mingshan's words, was stunned. Ten minutes later, the sound of artillery on the position stopped, and Li Mingshan said: "Battalion Commander Jia, the artillery of Little Japan has stopped, and the infantry is about to come up, so quickly give the order to enter the position." Jia Shaoyi hurriedly shouted into the anti-artillery hole: "Little Japan is coming, brothers are about to enter the position." ”

At this time, Li Mingshan and the soldiers of the third company had passed through the anti-artillery hole and entered the position skillfully and quickly, while the Sichuan troops of the first battalion were obviously slower than the soldiers of the third company. Because of the large number of people in this defense, Liu Yuzhu, the commander of the 570th Regiment, deliberately asked the veterans of the third company to lead these recruits from one belt and one battalion, so there was a platoon of the third company and a company of the first battalion on the front-line position for defense.

Although it has also gone through nearly a month of training, the training is still different from actual combat, and the Sichuan army of this company, including the company commander, is a little nervous, as if they are those recruits who are going to the battlefield for the first time. The platoon commander of the third company said loudly to the company commander of the Sichuan army and these soldiers: "Don't be nervous, fire after hearing the order, first hide yourself and prepare for battle." ”

The veteran of this platoon of the third company did not need orders at all, calmly prepared everything, and the observation post reported the distance of the Japanese army: "Three hundred meters." The calmness of these veterans also drove the soldiers of the Sichuan Army, and a new soldier saw that the veterans around him also took out a cigarette to light at this time, and couldn't help asking: "Big brother, little Japan has come up, why are you still smoking?"

The veteran glanced at the questioner obliquely, took a deep breath of cigarette, and said: "Hurry up, didn't you hear the observation post announcing the distance? It takes five minutes to fire from 300 to 100 meters, which is enough for smoking." As he spoke, the observation post reported: "Two hundred and fifty meters." The recruit looked out of the position and was pulled down by the veteran.

The recruit looked at the veteran in puzzlement, and saw the veteran glaring at him and scolding: "You kid don't want to fucking die? Little Japan can shoot when he reaches 200 meters, and the little Japanese marksmanship is accurate, don't you go to die if you stick out half of your body like this?" As he was talking, the observation post reported: "Two hundred meters!" At the same time, the bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers screamed and swept over the position.

Several recruits on the position were hit by Japanese bullets and fell down screaming, and the medical soldiers rushed to provide ambulance. At this time, not only bullets, but also grenades fired from grenadiers and mortar shells also exploded on the position, and shrapnel flew everywhere on the position, and from time to time some unlucky eggs were hit by shrapnel and let out a miserable scream.

The shouts of "One hundred and fifty meters!" were heard at the observation post, and the soldiers of the Sichuan Army on the position, led by the veterans, were all ready for battle, and the muzzles of their guns with bullets stretched out from the positions, and each soldier lay close to the side of the fortifications and aimed the muzzles of their guns at the infantry in the distance. In the bunker, a Mark heavy machine gun and a Type 57 heavy machine gun were also pressed into the chain.

At the same time as the observation post reported the sound of "100 meters!", Jia Shaoyi's shout: "Fire!" also resounded throughout the position. The heavy machine guns in the bunker, the light machine guns behind the sandbags, the rifles and submachine guns in the trenches were fired almost simultaneously, and the attacking Japanese soldiers fell a dozen people at once, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers bent their waists lower, shooting while attacking forward.

At this time, you can see the difference between veterans and recruits, although the veterans of a platoon use semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, they are not in a hurry to aim first and then shoot, and at a distance of 100 meters, there are basically no bullets, guns bite meat. And only a few of the recruits of the Sichuan army can do what they did in training, aiming first and then shooting. Most of the recruits don't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, they shoot the bullets first, and then they don't care if they can hit the enemy.

That is, there are veterans of this platoon who are playing the role of pillars, and the firepower on the position is indeed fierce, plus this is originally a tentative attack by the Japanese army, so after firing at each other for a while, the Japanese army saw that they could not charge forward, so they retreated. When Li Mingshan saw that the Japanese army was withdrawing, he hurriedly asked Jia Shaoyi to order all the troops to withdraw to the anti-artillery holes.

As soon as the soldiers entered the anti-artillery hole with their front feet, the shells fell on the position, which shocked the Sichuan officers and men into a cold sweat. On the wall of Yijiang Town, Liu Yuzhu, the commander of the 570th Regiment, watched the whole process with a telescope, and couldn't help but be surprised by the ferocity of the Japanese artillery. When the Sichuan army was fighting a civil war, it would be a great thing if any unit had two mortars, and when had it ever seen such intensive shelling.

Liu Xiayu, the battalion commander of the mountain artillery battalion, originally wanted to knock out the Japanese artillery position with the mountain artillery in his hand, but as soon as the observer measured, the Japanese artillery position was just outside the longest range of the mountain artillery. It turned out that during the last attack, the Japanese army was unprepared, and the defenders also had mortars, so they were caught off guard and let the defenders put their artillery positions at once.

This time, the Japanese army learned wisely and set the artillery position at the maximum firing range, so that the defenders, neither mountain artillery nor heavy mortars, could reach the Japanese artillery position. Fortunately, this time the artillery of the Japanese wing was only 75 caliber mountain guns, and the number was not large, and it was not difficult to deal with it on the position.

If Yijiang Town is just a small fight here, then the Japanese army in Yangliu Town has really moved. The Japanese army set up a heavy artillery position outside Xuancheng City, and it was not a problem to cover the entire Yangliu Town with the maximum range of 11.9 kilometers of heavy artillery. This brigade of 12 150 howitzers was the first artillery to shell the Yangliu Town position, and in order to carry out more accurate shelling, the Japanese army also raised observation balloons.

The power of the heavy artillery shells was amazing, and the veterans of the 2nd Battalion and 2nd Company of the 568th Regiment were quite calm, but the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 572nd Regiment were shocked. The explosion of the heavy artillery shells made the whole ground tremble, and the dust on the roof of the anti-artillery hole fell even more, and many officers and men of the first battalion were shocked and blood flowed from their ears and noses. The column of smoke that exploded on the position could even be seen clearly on the new second position in Gaoqiao Township behind.

The shelling lasted twenty minutes, and as soon as it stopped, the commander of the first battalion, Wu Yuan, ordered the soldiers to enter the position. At this time, only the veterans of the second company were acting as usual, and the Sichuan brothers of the first battalion had not yet recovered from the shelling just now. The second company came out of the anti-artillery hole and saw that more than half of the repaired positions had been destroyed in this shelling, and even the newly repaired wall had been blown open a gap more than ten meters wide, and the Japanese troops were moving towards this gap.

The commander of the second company hurriedly ordered the soldiers of the second company to enter the position, and the soldiers were accustomed to such a bombed position, and without saying a word, they entered all the terrain conducive to battle. The soldiers of the second company entered the position, and the soldiers of the first battalion appeared on the position, and they were stunned in the face of the position that was almost in ruins.

The commander of the second company whispered to himself when he saw this: "Damn, what are you doing at this time? What a bunch of raw melons and eggs!" The commander of the second company jumped out of the hidden position while talking to himself, and shouted to the officers and soldiers of the first battalion: "What the hell are you stunned, hurry up and find a place to hide, little Japan is about to attack." ”

Wu Yuan, the commander of the first battalion, also came to his senses at this time, and even kicked and scolded his soldiers into the fortifications. The wall that could be relied on was still intact, so naturally some people went up to defend it, and some soldiers set up machine guns at the base of the wall in the section that collapsed, and dozens of other soldiers lay down at the base of the wall and set up their rifles against the Japanese soldiers outside the town.