Chapter 165: Hand-to-hand combat
The sky is black, and the earth is emerald green and yellow.
The yellow is not only the land, but also the Japanese troops who retreat in an orderly manner. The green hills and forests were bombed into craters, the smoke from the explosion of the shells soared, and the strong smell of gunpowder wafted into the air.
Chen Yu watched the retreat of the Japanese army serving as the vanguard at the foot of the mountain, the gap between the two phases was too great, and after the Japanese army made a tentative attack, Lieutenant Cao began to organize a retreat. Knowing that they would not be able to capture the heights with this human and artillery support, they began to retreat.
The Japanese army organized an orderly retreat at first, and then ran a few steps and began to leave in a hurry. The armored tank that it relied on had long been scrapped, and black smoke slowly rose from its nest on the road, and the flames burned on the armored tank, which soon ignited the ammunition carried in the vehicle, and exploded again.
The forward Japanese army was destined not to break through the position, and it was difficult to even get close to the position.
These elite Japanese forces may be invincible in the rest of the country, but here they have to accept defeat. Leaving behind dozens of corpses, the Japanese fled within range of the defenders of the heights, and it was just a small battle.
Even if the Japanese army tempted the defenders of the heights, it was also a temptation of the defenders against the Japanese army.
Half an hour later, the young lieutenant from before came to the forward command fortifications and began to report the results of the battle and the casualties of our army to A Yi and Chen Yu.
"In this battle, two Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed, 43 Japanese soldiers were killed, and three wounded Japanese soldiers were captured. Twenty-eight of our troops were killed and thirty-five were wounded, including eighteen seriously wounded, who needed immediate medical treatment.
The three wounded Japanese soldiers were seriously wounded, almost blown up by the shells, and there was only one breath left. ”
After listening to this, Chen Yu pondered for a moment: "Do your best to save the three wounded Japanese soldiers, send a platoon to escort the seriously wounded and Japanese prisoners to the rear, don't bully them, give them good food and drink." ”
Ah Yi was puzzled and asked, "Hey, dead fish." You used to be prisoners of the Japanese, so why do you have to save them now? ”
"Why?"
Chen Yu sat on the ammunition box and said, "This person! When you reach an age, when you have a family, you will have a good heart, and you want to be compassionate. ”
"It's not like you."
"The living Japanese soldiers are worth more than the dead, take them to the division to report the good news and invite merit, what do you want? In the past, we didn't want to be taken prisoner, but we didn't have the conditions, but now we have the conditions, and if we don't ask for merit and rewards from the master's seat, our brains are broken, right? ”
Ah Yi looked at Chen Yu with strange eyes, and circled around him several times, and Chen Yu, who couldn't stand it, called the lieutenant.
"Find a wooden stake for the Japanese prisoners and hang them, and the Sichuan Army will not leave prisoners!" Chen Yu said angrily.
At this time, Ah Yi's eyes were normal.
The lieutenant said with a bitter face: "Sir, Dong Dao of the second battalion and his men have already hung up the Japanese prisoners, and the commander of the Ma Company has broken the hands and feet of the prisoners with a bayonet, and now it is estimated that the blood is bleeding clean."
I tried to persuade them, but they said that this was a rule set by you, sir, and that the corpses and prisoners of the Japanese officers were hanged, and that it was the rule that no one could come when they went abroad for the first time. ”
"Huh?"
Chen Yu and Ah Yi glanced at each other in a daze, and shrugged their shoulders helplessly: "That's okay, you go down." ”
At the beginning of the second battle after the Western Expedition, the Japanese army's small-scale tentative offensive ended in failure, and that was the attack that should have failed.
In the civil engineering fortifications half-buried underground, Chen Yu tried his best to stabilize his flustered mind, this was the first time he commanded a regiment-level battle, he had to be careful, he hated to cut his brain in half. Ah Yi looked at the forest in the distance, he didn't know what to see, and he was also nervous with his brows locked.
After so many years of fighting, everyone knows about the military operations of the Japanese army.
Chen Yu turned to the lieutenant herald behind him and said, "Hurry up and repair the fortifications, the Japanese army will attack again within half an hour." Inform the friendly neighbor Hai Zhengchong regiment, keep a close eye on the movements of the Japanese army, and notify immediately if there is any abnormality.
Cluster artillery fire provided artillery support at any time, and reserves began to assemble, ready to pull up at any moment. ”
The lieutenant saluted and said, "Yes!" ”
This is a tough battle, as the dead and dead said, there is no chance to steal and play tricks, only by withstanding the Japanese attack head-on and guarding the high ground can we ensure that the road is not lost. Only the road was not lost, and the tens of thousands of people besieging near Longling continued to receive support.
The Japanese army wanted to close the door and fight the dogs, hold the high ground of the road, and trap tens of thousands of people on the west road in Longling. This would be a rout, the first expedition was to cross the Savage Mountains, and this time there would be no choice but to climb over the Gaoligong Mountains at an altitude of several thousand meters.
There were already other divisions to block the Japanese army in Mangshi, and the operational plan of the commander's headquarters of the Western Yunnan Expeditionary Force was to besiege Longling from the east, south, and north, capture the Longling communication artery, and isolate the Japanese army in northern Burma. But now that the Japanese army has abandoned Tengchong and northern Burma and chose to keep Longling, both sides are throwing troops into the battlefield to see who has more troops and occupies a good advantageous position, and who can win this victory.
Ah Yi looked at the forest for a long time, sat on the empty ammunition box, and gestured for Chen Yu to sit down, his eyes were shining. For a moment, Chen Yu thought that Ah Yi was crying again, but found that his eyes were really shining.
"Will we fight such a battle in the annals of history?"
Chen Yu was dumbfounded for a moment, and then said slowly, "Will it?" It should be, definitely. ”
"That's good, it's going down in history."
"Most of China is still in the hands of the Japanese, and at this time you want to go down in history?"
Ah Yi was speechless by Chen Yu, so he could only lean against the wall depressedly.
A small-caliber mortar shell whistled, opening the first position at the foot of the hill, followed by more and more shells. Hearing the unusual whistling sound of shells, Chen Yu squatted behind the artillery team mirror to observe, and Ah Yi, who had been fighting for almost two years, also reacted.
Then Chen Yu saw the high-explosive grenade fired by the mortar exploding on the No. 1 position, and he snorted in his mouth, and his tightly knit brows slowly opened. Before, he had been wondering if this elite Japanese army wanted to capture the high ground with a few armored tanks and a few brigade guns after a rapid march, but now everything suddenly became clear.
The Japanese army was crazy and good at gambling. Once they blocked the national fortune and fought the Sino-Japanese War with the Qing Dynasty, and won a complete victory. After that, they gambled again and again, gambled bankruptly, and became addicted to gambling.
It turned out that they relied on a large number of mortars that could be carried by infantry. The reinforced mixed brigade was reinforced with a large number of mortars and grenadiers, in order to approach the small-caliber artillery fire with absolute numerical superiority to cover the charge.
Chen Yu turned to the lieutenant herald and said, "The second position joins the battle, the first position listens to my orders and conducts white-edged battles at any time, and the reserve is ready to launch a charge to cover." Ignore the battle on the high ground, rush into the forest ahead, and crush the Japanese mortar positions for me.
Inform Hai Zhengchong's regiment that when our army launches a counter-charge, he will also have to give me a counter-charge. Cluster fire is always ready to extend the fire, regardless of ammunition consumption. Three flares, the whole army began to charge! ”
The lieutenant looked at Chen Yu in surprise: "Yes, sir." ”
Seeing the herald immediately, Chen Yu jumped excitedly in the command headquarters. Keeping the No. 2 position stable before was to confuse the Japanese army into thinking that there were only so many people on the position, and it was a classic move to learn from death.
The Japanese army charged, and our army counter-charged, which means that the Japanese army did not charge. The Japanese artillery hiding in the forest could not adjust the firing angle, and with the huge numerical advantage, they pushed in waves, either you die or I die.
can only say that Dead Dead is a good teacher, and this kind of thing has to be done in his style.