Chapter 71: The Final Attack

The battle at Nantianmen was sent to China through the newspapers, especially the deployment of troops on both sides of the enemy, and the troops deployed on Nantianmen were only 700 warriors of our incomplete Sichuan Army, while the deployment of troops in the Japanese attack on Nantianmen was 5,000 people, a whole brigade.

In other words, the Sichuan Army faced a fierce attack by the Japanese army several times higher than its own, and under such circumstances, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army fought fiercely with the Japanese army for several days, and on the fifth day, the gunfire on the Nantian Gate was still fierce. The Nantianmen is still firmly in the hands of the Chinese.

At present, the Japanese army is like a swamp on the battlefield in China, and the situation in China is not good, especially after the defeat of the expeditionary force that has exhausted all the advanced weapons and equipment of the national army in the Dian-Burma battlefield, all the weapons and equipment are lost, and the national army has suffered heavy losses internally, and the resistance to the Japanese army also seems to be intentional and powerless.

And at that time, the country was in an underestimation.

A sensational news detonated in the country, and caused a wide range of public discussion, this explosive news can not hide the edge of the Sichuan Army, just because the disparity in this war is too great, the warriors of the 700 Sichuan Army are facing the attack of 5,000 murderous Japanese troops, in this case, they can still hold the Nantianmen for several days, and are still fighting fiercely with the Japanese army.

For a time, the admiration of the people in the country for the Sichuan Army reached an unprecedented climax, especially the commander of the Sichuan Army led a ten-man commando team to blow up the Japanese artillery position, and at this time they found that they had blown up a Japanese artillery position on the scale of a brigade and regiment.

The head of the Sichuan Legion is sacred, which has also caused extensive discussion among the people, followed by a news from within the national army, Xia Yuan, the head of the Sichuan Legion, is the commander of the 150th Regiment of the New First Army of the Expeditionary Force, who has been destroyed for many days, thinking that he has been 'sacrificed' for many days, but he did not expect that he not only did not die, but even pulled up a Sichuan Army to fight against the Japanese invaders.

This news once again aroused the people's curiosity, which regiment is the 150th regiment, and who is the head of the regiment, Xia Yuan.

At a time when the mood of the people in the country is rising, several factions within the national army have begun to send troops to Zenda.

At this time, a whole week had passed since the Japanese attack on Nantianmen, and the Japanese army's 2,000-strong army fought fiercely with the Sichuan Army for two days and two nights, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the first two positions of the third line of defense were lost.

In the next few days of fighting, the Japanese army became more frenzied, they organized batch after batch of daring to die, tied a large number of bombs to their bodies, and launched a fierce attack on the third line of defense guarded by the soldiers of the South Tianmen River Corps, and the Japanese planes began to patronize the Nantianmen position one after another, dropping shells one after another to bombard the Nantianmen defense line.

With the help of the cover of the aircraft, the Japanese bombs successfully exploded on the third line of defense of Nantianmen, and one after another fire points were destroyed under the Japanese bombs.

After a week of fighting, the Sichuan Army's resistance began to weaken, and similarly, the Japanese attack also began to weaken, the Japanese devils suffered more than 3,000 casualties on the Nantianmen, and the Sichuan Army only had one company of soldiers left, more than half of whom were wounded.

The rout soldiers of the containment station were lying dirty in the trenches, staring blankly at the sky shrouded in black smoke, the final tragedy of this battle was beyond imagination, and in the end, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army also went crazy, in order to resist the Japanese bombs, they threw away their weapons, and before the Japanese army pounced on them, they took the lead in pounced on the enemy, and rolled down the mountain with each other.

This is how the soldiers resisted the Japanese bombers' deadly attacks, but often, this way of fighting is undoubtedly the most tragic.

Even if Xia Yuan led the Sichuan Army to resist hard, such a situation often happens, his strength alone is really limited, especially in such a large-scale resistance battle, which is particularly obvious, the reinforcements of the Japanese rear are endless, the troops in the front are lost, and the rear continues to replenish, and the Sichuan Army is only 700 people, and a week of fighting leaves the Sichuan Army only one company of soldiers, and this company is still an incomplete remnant.

Fighting to this extent, the remaining soldiers basically don't care about other things, the aunt is lying on a stone dirty, and continues to write the content of the battlefield record, just writing about the soldiers' heroic performance against the Japanese army, he has already recorded two books, these books were later sent out by Xia Yuan, and published in the newspaper, and the image of the Sichuan Army's heroic resistance to the Japanese army has become taller and taller in the hearts of the people.

"Wang Ba's lid is dropping, Xiao Dongyang is coming up again!!" Bu Lai, who was in charge of reconnaissance, suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, and the originally listless rout soldiers stood up in an instant, holding their guns, and quickly reached the combat position through the trenches and communication trenches.

From a distance, I saw that on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, the figure of a Japanese devil appeared on the position of Nantianmen, and the plaster flag fluttering in the wind was extremely conspicuous.

"Turtle son drop, the little devil has come out so many people this time, this is trying to kill Lao Tzu." To be numb scolded and said scoldingly.

"You can pull it down, people are trying to kill you? People want to kill the whole of China. Mi Long leaned on the bunker on the forward position with his machine gun in his hand, turned his head and said.

Yao Ma looked at the attacking little Japanese devil and said, "Then don't let them pass." ”

"Veterinarian Hao, come here to change the dressing!" Meng was annoyed and lay in the trench.

"The little devil came up, what medicine did you change? Look at this death. Long Wenwen looked at Meng Annoyed with a gun on the side.

"The last pair of medicines, it's changed." Meng is no longer angry when he is annoyed, the battle of Nantianmen has made them wear off their temperament, and he has grown too much for Annoyance.

Seven hundred against five thousand, to this extent, was already a great victory, and they died without regrets.

The Japanese devils rushed up, less than thirty meters away from the forward position, Xia Yuan controlled the heavy machine gun and shouted: "Fight!" ”

As soon as the heavy machine gun rang out, the Japanese soldiers in the front row were shot and fell to the ground, and the Japanese soldiers in the back row quickly lay on the ground after hearing the gunshots, and returned fire with guns to the defenders on the South Heavenly Gate, both sides have reached the peak of combat attrition, but the battle is becoming more and more intense, they all understand that whoever can't hold on first will be defeated by the other party.

Xia Yuan asked Yu Xiaoqing's artillery to come to reinforce it, and with the bombardment of the rear artillery, a round of Japanese attacks was routed by the defenders on the Nantianmen, and they retreated down the mountain.

Afternoon.

The commander of the Japanese brigade gathered the last thousand elite soldiers, and when the battle reached this point, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the three wings suffered huge casualties, leaving only more than a thousand Japanese elite soldiers.

They had been hampered like never before at the Nantenmen Gate, and it was the hardest battle they had ever fought that the brigade commander knew what his fate would be when he returned, and he would rather die on the battlefield than return to Japan with a group of remnants.

Therefore, at the final mobilization, he announced that he would live and die with the army.

After the mobilization was over, the brigade commander returned to the battalion headquarters, and a Japanese soldier hurriedly came in from outside, "Your Excellency the brigade commander, you should take a look at this information!" ”

"Huh?"

"It's about the information about the defenders on the South Heavenly Gate!"

"Nantianmen!" When the brigade commander heard this, his eyes were staring, he stood up and took the information, and said in his mouth: "The defenders on the Nantianmen are very strong in combat, they are real soldiers, and the deployment of troops is very tight, especially the third line of defense they built, which actually deceived the sight of the air force. ”

The brigade commander also firmly believed that the garrison stationed at Nantianmen was unprecedented, and that the commander of the Nantianmen was a talented general, and that every step was crucial, whether it was a night attack on an artillery position or a special deployment of Nantianmen.

It's just that when he opened the file and his eyes fell on the contents of the document, he was stunned for a moment.

He looked at the papers in his hand in disbelief, his eyes glazed.

I saw that the document clearly stated the situation of the defenders on the Nantianmen, which was a Sichuan army in the national army, with only more than 700 soldiers, while the attacking Japanese army had 5,000 people.

"There are only seven hundred people on the South Heavenly Gate?! No way! When pigs fly! The brigade commander stumbled on his hind legs, fell on the stool, raised his head and looked at the soldier who sent the document in disbelief, "Tell me, who wrote this document and who is it!?" ”

The soldier said, "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, please check the contents of the document bag. The document was sent from the Maritime Intelligence Service. ”

The brigade commander touched the document bag and found that it still contained things, he opened the document bag, and inside was a Chinese newspaper, which clearly recorded the basic process of the Nantianmen battle, from the Sichuan Corps' decision to garrison Nantianmen, to the Sichuan Corps' blowing up of the Japanese artillery position, and the Sichuan Corps' 700 people resisted the murderous attack of a Japanese brigade for a week.

"Seven hundred, seven hundred."

The brigade commander fell on his chair and looked at the documents in his hand tremblingly, he knew that the sky had fallen, and his incompetence had been known to the superiors.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, there is a telegram for you here!" The soldier took out another telegram from his satchel and handed it to the brigade commander, who took it, tore it open and checked it, the content of the telegram was that his superiors were unusually angry at the incompetence he had shown, and that he was leading an army of 5,000 men, and was actually held back by a Sichuan army of only 700 men in front of the Nantian Gate for a full week.

Even the only fully equipped artillery group of the Japanese army in the Dian-Burma battlefield was blown up by the enemy, and the superiors were extremely disappointed in him, and they had already relieved him of his position as brigade commander and let him wait in place, and the Japanese 54th Division had taken over the offensive responsibility of Nantianmen.

The brigade commander put down the document in his hand, his eyes were a little blank, he knew that he was finished this time.

"Seven hundred, only seven hundred, how is this possible!?" The battle-hardened brigade commander muttered in disbelief, and he felt incredulous and stunned that only seven hundred people dared to garrison Nantianmen.

He could not accept what was on the document.

One of his own brigades, and, most importantly, the artillery group used to tear apart the Nu River defense line was routed by a branch of the Chinese army, which was not even a regiment.

"I will apologize to His Majesty the Emperor!" After the brigade commander said this, his whole body seemed to drain all his strength, and he softened on the stool: "I will also hand over the command of the army." ”

"Yes!"

On the Nantianmen, the battle of the Sichuan Army was basically near the end stage, after the Japanese attacking troops were repelled by them, they did not attack Nantianmen again for several hours, which made the routs have a rare time to rest, they lay in the trenches, enjoying the short daylight, they had an illusion, an unbelievable illusion, the battle to this extent, the Nantianmen was still firmly in their hands, and the Japanese attack in the Nantianmen was seriously hindered.

Those who survived survived, while others remained on the Nantian Gate.

In the afternoon, Yu Xiaoqing's Yu regiment came, it was a reconnaissance platoon of the Yu regiment, they brought rich supplies at the same time, but also took the situation on the Nantianmen to conduct a field investigation, Long Wenwen and Xia Yuan personally received them, the attitude is still to do a do, this is also for the follow-up withdrawal of Chanda to do a good job in advance.

Meng was annoyed and leaned on Veterinarian Hao, looked at the reconnaissance platoon that was reconnoitering the terrain of Nantianmen in the distance, and said, "Looking at the appearance of this group of guys, I know that they don't have a good heart. ”

Bu Spicy leaned over and asked, "Annoying, what did you find again?" ”

Meng was annoyed and said, "Look, this is preparing to take over our defense of Nantianmen." ”

Bu Spicy raised his head, "Wang Ba lid drop, let's beat Xiao Dongyang away, this group of guys will come over like a dog smelling shit." ”

"Who's to say it's not, they have smart noses." ”

Kang Ya was a little angry: "How can they do this, isn't it robbing us of all the credit." ”

Meng was annoyed and said: "No, no, we are already disabled, such a big thing as Nantianmen has been in the newspapers, the head of the regiment is right, we can't swallow this credit alone, at least we have to give Yu Xiaoqing some, so that we can return to Chanda safely, otherwise, people may not know how to clean up themselves when they go back." ”

Meng Yuan was annoyed and thought of what Xia Yuan said, Xia Yuan thought about the future fate of the Sichuan Legion, and at this moment, Meng Yuan also began to think about the future fate of the Sichuan Legion, no wonder Xia Yuan wanted to disband the Sichuan Legion, disbanding the Sichuan Legion was actually the right choice, at least to make their group of people stable.

After this battle, the reputation of the Sichuan Army was completely opened in the country, and the future of the Sichuan Army will be greeted by endless battles.

Once the Sichuan Army, which was pinned on by the people, ushered in a defeat, no one could predict the final fate of the Sichuan Army.

As the saying goes, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it.

(End of chapter)