Chapter 698 Artillery Support
"His codename is 'Kappa,' his Chinese name is Liang Zicheng, and his Japanese name is Umomoto Kiyoshi."
Itauchi Yasuhide's face turned pale: "He was appointed by General Doihara and led directly by me. He spent a lot of energy and even sacrificed several outstanding agents of the empire to lurk around Li Zongren. What he has been hiding has been
He was very careful and delivered a lot of information to us, but now? He is about to be exposed."
"Unimaginable, unimaginable."
Koichi Hahara murmured: "Meng Shaoyuan has never even met the high-level latent spies we arranged with so much effort. One of them is in Shanghai and the other in Xuzhou. There is no chance for face-to-face interrogation, so he was exposed like this.
I said before that what Meng Shaoyuan possesses is not magic, but I am wrong now, what he possesses is magic!"
"This is magic based on knowledge." Kawamoto Kojiro said: "Real magic can be deciphered, but what about magic weaponized with knowledge? He clearly tells you what he wants to do and how he plans to do it, but sadly
Yes, but we have no choice but to watch helplessly and let our people be exposed!"
sorrow.
Nothing could be more sad than this.
Before he came to Shanghai, Itauchi Yasuhide had heard Meng Shaoyuan's name constantly, but to be honest, he didn't particularly care.
He always believed that it was these agents in Shanghai who were looking for excuses for their incompetence.
But, what now?
When he first arrived in Shanghai, Meng Shaoyuan gave him a warning.
Then, Meng Shaoyuan perfectly performed a "magic" in front of them.
"Your Excellency General."
Hahara Koichi was the first to cheer up from the defeat: "We and the military commander have already discussed the time and place for the exchange of prisoners. I request that I go and exchange them in person."
"Do you want to meet Meng Shaoyuan head-on?"
"Yes, he met me when we were in Nanjing, but I didn't know his true identity at that time." Koichi Hahara said calmly: "Now, it's time for us to meet again."
"I agree." Itauchi Yasuhide didn't hesitate too much: "Take a good look at him, have a good chat with him, and see what kind of person our biggest enemy is!"
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Meng Shaoyuan's face also looked a little ugly.
There was sweat all over his forehead.
Just a few minutes ago, Xuzhou called:
Liang Zicheng has been arrested and is being interrogated.
And in his dormitory, some information that he had hidden privately was discovered.
Meng Shaoyuan knew it was done this time.
It's not that he didn't have time to destroy this information.
He wanted to pass on the most useful information after analysis.
Liang Zicheng is the traitor!
He was tired as never before.
It is much more difficult than going to the scene to solve the case in person and interrogating a stubborn criminal face to face.
He had no way to identify the suspects, so he only relied on the radio to deliver information.
He must accurately capture useful information from each telegram, and then analyze and utilize it.
His brain never stopped working from the beginning of preparation.
When he was completely relaxed, he felt completely exhausted.
He closed his eyes and rested for a while. When he opened his eyes, he found that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes.
Surprise, shock, admiration...
I even ran out of words.
Apart from "miracle", Wu Jingyi, Yu Yanchu, or others, can't find any other words to describe them.
How did this man do it?
Miracles have been performed time and time again, and then, this time, the case was solved so neatly without anyone seeing it?
"Thank you."
This is the only thing Wu Jingyi can think of: "On behalf of my cousin, on behalf of those martyrs who died heroically for their country, and on behalf of those soldiers who are still fighting on the front line, thank you!"
Meng Shaoyuan stood up, all the fatigue came out at this moment, and he forced a smile:
"I'm tired. I want to take a good rest. Don't come to me if there's nothing particularly important!"
This time, he was really tired...
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The discovery of the Japanese senior spy "Kappa" also had great significance for the Battle of Xuzhou.
A large amount of weapons and ammunition gradually arrived at the critical Yunnan Army's positions as reinforcements, but all the Japanese troops were completely kept in the dark because they had lost their spies.
At this time, the firepower of the Yunnan Army on Yuwang Mountain was greatly enhanced.
Everything is done in secret.
The light infantry of the Yunnan Army used a forced march to rush to the frontal battlefield and quickly occupied Yuwang Mountain. However, their heavy weapons and the artillery battalion assigned to them by the Chairman's personal order had not arrived before.
On April 30, all heavy equipment including artillery arrived.
The Japanese army had no way of knowing the strength of the Chinese defenders at the Yuwangshan position, and even their tactics had undergone major changes!
A large number of machine guns were deployed in the front position of Yuwang Mountain. There were actually 14 light machine guns on the core position more than 100 meters away. At the same time, the infantry was divided into combat squads, so as not to put too many troops on the front line to prevent being heavily killed by the powerful Japanese artillery fire.
Since the commander of the Yunnan Army found that in the battle against the Japanese army, a large number of soldiers was of no use, but fierce firepower was more useful, so each soldier in the core position had 1 to 2 boxes of bullets and a large number of hand grenades.
At the same time, in the north of Yuwang Mountain, the Yunnan Army set up many legal mortars in places where Japanese artillery could not reach them.
The French are the originators of the Type 81 mortar. The 81 or 82 mortars used by all countries in World War II were all imitations of French products.
The accuracy and power of the French mortars were the best at the time, and they posed a great threat to the Japanese army in actual combat.
What's more important is that in the Battle of Yuwangshan, the Chinese army also used weapons aided by the Soviet Union!
Specifically allocated to the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army is the 16th Central Artillery Regiment of the National Army. They are equipped with 76mm field guns just aided by the Soviet Union.
The Japanese army began to attack, and field artillery and mortars fiercely threw shells at the Japanese army.
The Japanese army, which had not been bombarded before, was caught off guard!
Relying on this relatively successful defense method, the Yunnan Army actually persisted for a long time.
However, the fighting became extremely fierce.
Almost every inch of Yuwang Mountain is in fierce fighting.
The Yunnan Army suffered so many casualties that even the battalion and regimental commanders went to the front lines to take out guns and participate in hand-to-hand combat.
During the fierce battle, the commander of the Yunnan Army, Mo Zhongxuan, the regiment leader Chen Haoru, and the regiment commander Yan Jiaxun successively died for their country.
In one battle, so many regiment-level cadres in a unit died. This is extremely rare in the history of war!
Among them, Captain Mo Zhaoheng was seriously injured in the battle, but he was unwilling to leave the front line. Finally, he was forcibly removed from the position under the order of the brigade commander.
On the way to the rear, he was determined not to pass the Grand Canal and demanded to return to the front and die fighting with the Yunnan soldiers.
On the way, Captain Mo dipped his blood coat in blood and wrote on the stone beside the road:
"Death before the ambition is fulfilled will make the hero burst into tears."
After that, he died for his country with anger and hatred!
The Yunnan army suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. So far, the Japanese army had suffered thousands of casualties.
A Japanese brigade once broke into the main position of Yuwang Mountain alone, and was attacked by the Yunnan Army with concentrated firepower, machine gun fire, and hand grenade smashing. They were completely wiped out, and the rest fled in panic.
After the failure of this battle, the Japanese army did not dare to penetrate deeply into Yuwang Mountain at will, and the two armies fell into a tug-of-war.
The strength of the Japanese army attacking Yuwang Mountain gradually increased to 30,000, and there were more than 5,000 puppet troops. The Yunnan Army used all its reserves and concentrated the remaining 30,000 people on the front line of Yuwang Mountain to defend it.
Since the North Route Japanese Army was the main force used by the Japanese Army to annihilate the Nationalist Army in the Xuzhou area, they were ordered to capture Taierzhuang within a short period of time, so they used all their strength to storm Yuwang Mountain, and the artillery attack was so fierce that it could not be intensified.
After the battle, we conducted a survey and found that the height of Yuwang Mountain was actually reduced by 5 meters due to Japanese artillery fire. This shows the intensity of the battle.
The Yunnan Army and the Japanese Army fought fiercely in and around Yuwang Mountain for 8 days and 8 nights. The Japanese army fired thousands of artillery shells at Yuwang Mountain every day and made several charges, but they were never able to break through the Yunnan Army's defense line.
During this period, a section of the Japanese army once rushed to the top of Yuwang Mountain. Yang Hongyuan, commander of the 1083rd Regiment of the 183rd Division, ordered the commander of the 3rd Infantry Company to lead his troops to immediately recapture the top of the mountain.
Company commander Li Zuo led the entire company of 286 people to attack the top of the mountain occupied by the Japanese in three platoon units.
When the Japanese army discovered the Yunnan Army's charge, they immediately concentrated their light and heavy machine guns and fired downwards.
Captain Li Zuo led the 3rd platoon to charge at the front. Yunnan soldiers were constantly shot and fell, but they still charged desperately. When Captain Li Zuo led a squad and was about to rush to the top of the mountain, a stray grenade bomb suddenly hit him and knocked him down.
There were five or six people around him.
Li Zuo Company continued to charge with teeth gritted. The third platoon was almost wiped out, but no one retreated. They finally rushed to the top of the mountain, and then the follow-up troops also rushed up. After fierce fighting, the Japanese troops on the top of the mountain were wiped out.
The two vanguard platoons led by Li Zuo suffered more than 100 casualties among more than 130 people, and only more than 30 people survived.
And then there was new bad news:
Later in the fierce battle, the regiment leader Yang Hongyuan was hit by a Japanese rifle bullet and died...
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"What makes me feel sad is that so many battalion commanders and regimental commanders died in Yuwangshan."
"Don't be sad."
"How can I not be sad or distressed?" Meng Shaoyuan sat there in a daze: "According to normal warfare, the casualties of senior officers should be minimal, but the frontline battle reports I have received now all show that the battalion commander died for his country, and the regiment commander died for his country.
. If the fight continues like this, all the cadres at the regimental level of the 60th Battalion of the Yunnan Army will be killed. But they have no choice, there really is no choice."
Meng Shaoyuan looked at his wife:
"I arrested a few spies in Shanghai and solved a few cases, so I was said to be great. But compared with these frontline soldiers, I am nothing! No, I am not even a piece of shit. I am nothing."
Why do you still have the nerve to rest at home?"
Meng Shaoyuan kept saying "fuck" and "fart", but Cai Xuefei and Zhu Yanni didn't think their men were vulgar at all.
"Go." Cai Xuefei held her man's hand: "Go and do what you want to do. We are at home, so don't worry about it!"
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(Yesterday, my father passed away. Spider had long been mentally prepared. The exact cause of the disease has not been identified. In this extraordinary period, the best doctors have all gone to fight the epidemic. They cannot do any breathing tests, otherwise they will
Seal the entire ward. The night before I left, the doctor told me that there was a super bug in the old man’s body that was resistant to almost all drugs. Although I was not particularly satisfied with this explanation, I could understand it, and I, too
not regret.
The old man was always very humorous when he was alive. Maybe God is planning to give the old man an extraordinary ending in his ordinary life. Maybe I should write on the old man’s tombstone:
"I am the super germ carrier!"
Chapter completed!