The Japanese finally attacked the bald heads, and their best practice of undeclared war was used not in Pearl Harbor but in Hankow, and the Second Battle of WH began on September 11, 1942.

The Japanese invested 21 divisions and regiments with a total of 820,000 people into this war, not only in terms of scale far exceeding any previous battle, but also in terms of weapons and equipment were the strongest and the latest, and even most of the soldiers were veterans who had been rotated from the battlefields of Southeast Asia and the Far East, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

Although the local bald defenders fought extremely stubbornly, they finally declared the loss of WH seventeen days later, and less than 7,000 of the more than 310,000 KMT troops were finally withdrawn from the battlefield.

However, at the end of September, when the Japanese were marching all the way to take the bald head through the Eiri River, the border area suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese from four different directions, and at the same time, the base areas in many places in the south also began to coordinate their pace and began to outflank the Japanese army in the center, forming a situation of encirclement.

Once again on the battlefield, the Japanese found that the Dohachiji, whom they had always looked down upon, had been replaced with equipment that was almost the same or even better than theirs, with a completely new method of warfare and a team of nearly 1.5 million men.

First of all, the Red Fourth Front Army in the EZ direction was like a sharp knife in the middle of the Japanese army's march route divided into two, and then the Red Seventh Front Army from the Huangshi direction grabbed the Japanese army in the neck with a knife, and then the Red Twelfth Army at the tail chased the Japanese from the butt to come to a set of combination punches, and finally the Red Nineteenth, which was stuck in the direction of the enemy's retreat, began to cooperate with the vanguard to fight a beautiful harvest battle.

The battle lasted until mid-October, when more than 800,000 devils were nailed to the junction of Hunan, Hunan, and Jiangxi, taking advantage of the geographical advantages here to constantly try to break through to the four front armies besieging them.

In the end, about 170,000 devils successfully rushed out of the encirclement, and then crossed half of Jiangxi all the way and began to retreat towards HZ, at this time it was almost November, and the whole war lasted for nearly two months, and the devils did not expect that this time it would be so hard, but what they didn't expect was still to come.

"Old Wu, you take your mountain division to march quickly and launch a surprise attack here, and the rest of the people must take Hangzhou completely before the enemy arrives." Commander Ye slapped a few times on the map: "I said above, there is no need to hide your strength anymore, this time pull all your good guys out and slip away!" ”

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! ”

In fact, the good things that Commander Ye said are actually not very good, but they are dozens of heavy artillery, more than 20 59 vehicles, and more than 50 armored vehicles and infantry fighting vehicles.

Now what they have to do is to turn the last 100 kilometers of the 170,000 devils' homecoming road into Huangquan Road.

Lao Wu led the order to kill the people, although the whole rapid march was a very big test for the team, but in the past two years, his people were well fed and clothed, and their physical fitness was good, and the rapid march of two hundred kilometers may be a test for them, but it was not incomplete, and it was expected to be completed in six to eight days, and according to the enemy's time, there would be a tragic encounter the next day after their arrival.

But the soldiers are not afraid at all, most of the mountain divisions of Lao Wu are people from NJ and Huai'an, and the hatred for devils is engraved in their bones, as soon as they heard that the devils they are going to do this time are basically the main force who went to NJ City at the beginning, these guys are crazy, and they began to rush to the front line with red eyes one by one, and the posture is desperate to go.

"Commander, why don't we drive tanks?"

During the march, Lao Wu's guard asked curiously: "Isn't the tank ours?" ”

"That thing must be for the main force, don't talk nonsense."

"Aren't we the main force?"

"We are the main force, but we are mountain divisions. Also, in the future, I will be called Lao Tzu Master! Lao Wu slapped the back of the guard's head: "Stop talking, I'll kill you later." ”

"Hey...... Got it, division commander. ”

After Lao Wu led people to kill the devil on the road, the whole division began to rest, watching such a large-scale battle for the first time in so many years, Lao Wu remembered that his palms were sweaty, and seeing the food and clothing of the cubs under his hands now, and then thinking of when they climbed the snowy mountains and crossed the grassland, how could they have such good luck.

Thinking of the comrades-in-arms who stayed on the snowy mountain meadow forever, Lao Wu couldn't help but sigh.

"Division commander, the military headquarters sent a message that they had arrived at the intended location, and our mission goal was to stop the Japanese army at all costs for five to seven days."

Lao Wu took the cigarette roll from his mouth: "A division of 15,000 people, to fight 170,000 devils, really gave me a difficult bone to gnaw." ”

As soon as it was dawn the next day, the scouts came back and informed the enemy's location, and Lao Wu's side was also prepared, their equipment was the most sophisticated in the entire base area, and the soldiers were also the oldest and most experienced in combat, in Commander Ye's words, if he couldn't take this task, he Lao Wu should not go back to see him.

Lao Wu is actually not afraid, but a little worried, after all, this time is a major battle related to whether or not he can win HZ, and he can't miss it at all.

Therefore, Lao Wu, who has always been slamming the door, also let go this time, and his artillery battalion was given a death order by him, that is, the artillery is not allowed to stop until the artillery is broken, and the bullet is not finished. These boys in the artillery battalion usually detain and search for training, when have they fought such a rich battle, their eyes are red, and they are waiting for the front line to order them to send firepower to the coordinates that have been predetermined a long time ago.

Now they have a lot of artillery, 24 105-mm light towed howitzers, 8 155-mm light towed howitzers, 31 81-mm mortars, 50 60-mm mortars, and 3 fast self-propelled howitzers, just waiting for the day when the shells can be empty.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the vanguard of the devils entered the ambush circle, Lao Wu did not rush to fight, but just put in a group of devils, and then waited until about two hours later, when the devil army began to appear in their field of vision, Lao Wu lit a cigarette at this time.

"Division commander, it's almost there, the brothers in the artillery battalion are about to cry."

"What's the hurry, how many people have just passed." Lao Wu leaned against the trench and took out a can of canned luncheon meat and pried it open with a knife: "I'll be early first." ”

When they finished eating, the devil army had already passed in front of them, and Lao Wu wiped his mouth and said, "It's time to fire!" ”

As a signal flare rose into the air, the boys of the artillery battalion, who were scratching their ears and cheeks, saw it, and one by one they began to sound the first rays of the morning sunshine.

Howitzers, mortars, rocket artillery, after the first salvo was fired, the whole world changed color, and the earth shook. Lao Wu leaned on the edge of the trench and covered his ears with his mouth open, and the soil next to him poured into his mouth, and the huge explosion shook Lao Wu's brain.

After the first round of shelling, the devils didn't have time to prepare, and then the machine guns and long and short rifles that were ambushed around began to pour water on their heads, and the devil commander thought it was his mother's German allies who turned their guns, when had they ever seen such a terrifying firepower outpour, in previous years, their equipment in this territory was considered a bully, but now they were overwhelmed and couldn't raise their heads.

It's a pleasure to beat the reservoir dogs, these devils themselves broke through from the front line, they didn't have heavy firepower to fight back at all, they relied purely on their bodies to resist shells, and with the kind of deadly fighting style of the ambush circle around them, they couldn't even breathe well now.

Although a small force had reached the edge of the mountain, they were greeted by a dense grenadier attack.

In this way, in the sound of the devil crying wolf, the first day of the battle came to an end, after counting the battle damage, Lao Wu was distressed and was about to cry, this was the first day, the loss of their ammunition exceeded 30%, these rabbit cubs really don't care about money, and when they heard that the traction cannon was damaged twice, Lao Wu hammered his thigh and sat there scolding his mother.

However, this first round went relatively smoothly because the devils were defenseless, and the battle on the second day began to burn, the devils' combat effectiveness and numbers were there, and the pressure on Lao Wu increased sharply, after repelling the devils in the third round of breakthroughs, Lao Wu panted and leaned in the trench and said to the commander of the machine gun company next to him: "Can you still hold on?" ”

"Commander, it's so difficult. Five guns have been damaged, the devil's marksmanship is still accurate, and our losses are not small. ”

"It's hard to top, it's hard to top, and it's absolutely not allowed to let a devil pass through our defense area in the next few days!"

In the next few days, although the devil suffered heavy casualties, Lao Wu's side was not optimistic, and the team of more than 10,000 people was also defeated, leaving less than 7,000 people, and the devil conservatively estimated that there were about 100,000, almost on the verge of running out of ammunition and food.

As for Lao Wu himself, one of his ears was blown out by a bullet, and his body was also scraped by shrapnel, but he still did not retreat half a step.

"Comrades! If you insist on persevering, you will be able to avenge NJ! Lao Wu shouted in a hoarse voice: "We can't let the old family look down on us!" Fight with the devils! All, on the bayonet! ”

Not a single person in the trenches made a sound, only the click of a bayonet.

It's the sixth day, but he hasn't received an order to retreat, so he's still stuck here, only now the ammunition is gone, the supplies are gone, there's nothing. The rest is life, but even if you have the rest of your life, it's okay, fight this rotten life, kill one to save the capital, kill two to earn one!

"Trumpeter, trumpet!"

At this moment a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old with a childish face stood up, one of his arms was gone, but he still took the trumpet from his waist, stood up, took a deep breath, and blew the horn of attack.

As soon as the trumpet sounded, all the fighters jumped out of the trenches and rushed out in the enemy's fire net, those with bayonets and those without bayonets took machetes, and even the cooking squad rushed forward with kitchen knives.

When the devil saw this scene, the striker immediately withdrew and began to engage, and almost in a blink of an eye, it changed from a hot weapon battle to a bayonet cold weapon war.

The shouts of killing all over the mountains resounded in this small place.

The machete in Lao Wu's hand was stuffed to himself by his old squad leader before he sacrificed, but today he also cut the blade, he didn't know how much it hurt anyway, and he couldn't count how many holes there were in his body, but he clearly knew that he had cut seventeen devils alive, and when he fell to the ground, he only felt happy.

But just when the mountain division was about to be wiped out, a rumbling sound suddenly came from a distance, and Lao Wu, who was lying on the ground, turned his head sideways with difficulty to look in the direction where the sound came from, and then saw a tank car printed with a five-pointed star appear in his field of vision, followed by the second and third......

Behind the body of the tank are murderous support units.

", the big army is coming......" Lao Wu scolded with a smile, and then lost all his strength.

He didn't die, he was already in the hospital when he woke up, surrounded by nurses in white clothes who were busy, and lying on the bed next to him was the battalion commander of his subordinate artillery battalion, this kid was lightly injured, only two toes were lost, and he was leaning on the hospital bed while eating canned sugar water while bragging to the nurse who gave him an infusion how many devils he had killed.

"Old Wu!"

At this time, someone outside shouted at him, Lao Wu turned his head sideways and found that it was his political commissar standing there, and the political commissar ran to him panting: "You kid, I'll just say you can't die." ”

The political commissar did not participate in this battle because he was a high-achieving student of Huangpu, and was transferred to the staff department by Commander Ye to be the chief of staff, and after he was stationed in HZ, he had been inquiring about the news of Lao Wu's troops, but he heard that the fight was very miserable, and he almost knocked out the number, so he asked all the way, and only then did he learn that Lao Wu, the division commander, did not die.

"I'll tell you, it's a big loss that you didn't go this time." Lao Wu wanted to raise his hand but found that his arm was missing: "Damn, where is my hand?" ”

"Don't scold your mother, it's great to be able to save your life, you've been in a coma for more than forty days."

Lao Wu found that the political commissar was carrying a kettle and some toiletries, and seeing that he had changed from summer clothes to autumn clothes, Lao Wu realized that he had really been lying down for a long time.

"How's my team?"

Hearing Lao Wu mention his team, the political commissar's eyes darkened: "Only less than three hundred people survived, if it weren't for Commander Ye, our team's number would not have been saved." ”

Lao Wu sighed, the silence at the moment was deafening.

But fortunately, the number is still there. As long as the number is still there, the flag is still there, and the brothers are not unjustly killed, all of them are men, and they can be regarded as avenging their families and hometowns.

"Good news for you." The political commissar poured water on Lao Wu: "In this general battle of the five front armies, we annihilated nearly one million enemies, including the puppet army and the local security regiment, there were about 1.4 million, and the entire battle situation was completely reversed. At present, the border area is beginning to gradually move southward from Hebei and Shandong. Just wait for the good news. ”

Lao Wu leaned there and smiled: "Can my brothers go up the monument to enter the martyr's cemetery?" ”

(End of chapter)