Chapter 291 Fighting at Bajialing (3) [For Xufeng 8/10]
The time was around 8:30 a.m. on June 26, 1944.
Regarding the control of Hengyang Airport, the importance to this offensive and defensive battle was clearly recognized and seen by the commanders of both sides.
On the Japanese side, in order to create more favorable conditions for the Songshan detachment to seize the airport.
The 68th Division and the 116th Division, which they had arrived earlier, immediately launched attacks in two directions in Hengyang City; such an attack was not a containment one.
After dispatching a large number of tanks and artillery, they launched a powerful attack on many peripheral positions outside Hengyang City.
At the same time, the air force took off from military airports in Star City and Yueyang and began to compete for air superiority.
The 10th Army, on the other hand, desperately blocked the enemy in many peripheral positions. While the artillery launched a counterattack, many P4O fighter jets taking off from Zhijiang Airport also met the Japanese plane.
The two sides immediately started a fierce fight in the sky above Hengyang City.
Because if the Japanese planes were not driven away, the few bombers at Hengyang Airport would simply not dare to take off for combat.
Suddenly a fierce battle broke out from the air to the ground, starting on the morning of the 26th.
For a time, Bajialing, which was the defense point of Hengyang Airport, became extremely important.
So there was no need for Hu Biao and others to ask for help. General Fang of the 10th Army noticed a strategic point like Bajialing that he had ignored before.
Immediately came the Yan Yan 190th Division to reinforce Bajia Ridge.
However, the strength of the 190th Division was far from recovered. Facing the attack of an independent Japanese brigade, it was very difficult to resist.
After receiving the order, they managed to squeeze out a reinforced company of troops and moved in the direction of Bajia Ridge.
At 9:31, a Japanese plane that was fighting fiercely over Hengyang Airport discovered the appearance of such a support force on the ground.
He immediately passed the radio and relayed the news and coordinates to the Japanese command headquarters on the ground.
3 minutes later, six Japanese Type 92 105mm heavy cannons were fired. Of course, the Guojun's mouths were even more heavy artillery. The artillery battle with the Guojun was temporarily suspended.
After adjusting the direction, a round of three-round covering fire came.
When the smoke from the shell explosion subsided, the reinforced company reinforcements that had been advancing without protection suffered heavy casualties for a while.
Except for a small number of personnel who retreated with the wounded, there were 17 reinforcements in total who had arrived at Bajia Ridge intact.
Subsequently, the 190th Division gathered some clerks, guards, and even cooks from the division headquarters, totaling 153 people.
This was considered the second batch of reinforcements. Under the full suppression of our own artillery fire, they once again provided support towards Bajia Ridge.
However, these people were encountered by two Japanese fighter jets from the air midway. Regardless of the fact that they were being chased by Flying Tigers fighter jets behind them, they fired wildly at the ground.
In the end, a Japanese fighter jet was blown up on the spot.
This second batch of reinforcements had already suffered an astonishing loss; in the end, there were only 12 people in total who supported Bajialing.
Looking at the reinforcements twice before and after, the total number of reinforcements was less than 30 people, Hu Biao was quite dumbfounded.
With such a small number of reinforcements, even their consumption in the battle was far more than replenished.
We can only hope that the reinforcements in the future will be more powerful, and they can arrive at least a hundred people at a time. The problem is that what Hu Biao doesn't know is that this is all the reinforcements he can get during the whole day.
At 11:09 in the morning, General Fang received reinforcements but suffered heavy losses halfway.
And when the current 190th Division couldn't squeeze out any reinforcements, it sighed heavily.
Finally, I made a very helpless decision:
"Inform the 10th Preliminary Division Engineer Company to dispatch, but instead of supporting the Bajialing battlefield, they will install explosive devices at the airport and prepare to destroy the airport facilities immediately after receiving the order."
Such a statement actually means that General Fang is ready to abandon the airport out of helplessness.
After all, the troops he has at hand are very limited, and there is no need to consume a large number of these troops on these peripheral battlefields.
He had promised Baldhead to stay in Hengyang for at least 10 days.
So even if I feel a little helpless, I can only do this.
******
"Lao Hu, my mother, the barrel of my M2 is almost red. Replacing the barrel of this thing is very troublesome. Find a way quickly, otherwise~"
The white elephant of Dayang Ma Bai Xiang, who was holding the handle of the gun with both hands, was wildly shooting at the Japanese in front of the position, and at the same time, he was yelling like this.
The ocean horse's roar was not completed successfully.
It was when she felt the urgency of a huge danger that she dropped her head tightly.
As for the temporary deputy shooter beside her, it was too late to inform him verbally at this time, so why should he hesitate?
The criminal who was delivering the bullet chain was immediately kicked to the ground by a big foot wearing a size 48 military boot.
Good guy! The sinner who fell to the ground looked confused at that time.
If he hadn't asked himself, there was no way he could defeat a tough girl like White Elephant, so he would have decided to step forward and kick her twice, and then continue fighting.
Fortunately, he soon realized that he had misunderstood the other party.
At most one second later, a Type 91 grenade flew out of the grenade. After flying over a distance of more than 200 meters, it landed about six or seven meters away from the white elephant and the two men.
Under the power of the grenade explosion, large expanses of blown up sand mixed with deadly shrapnel enveloped the surrounding area.
Thanks to his prompt reaction, he fell to the ground in time, or was kicked to the ground.
Although the faces of White Elephant and Sinner were hurt by the splashing sand, at least they were not hit by fatal shrapnel at this moment.
But another Guojun platoon leader was not so lucky. A few seconds ago, he took over a Type 99 light machine gun that stalled after the shooter was shot in the head.
He fired three bursts of fire at the Japanese outside the position.
Then, he was hit by a shrapnel in the throat after surviving the grenade explosion.
In an instant, he was covering his neck, lying on the ground limply, unable to even utter a simple word like 'doctor'.
‘Fuck~’ After he cursed such a sentence, Bai Xiang got up from the ground and was not treated. The poor Guojun platoon leader was destined to be hopeless.
Among the reinforcements that arrived for the first time, there were already very few people left.
With a groan in her mouth, she ignored the heat of the M2 Browning heavy machine gun with her hands, lifted it up again, and fired again.
Her target this time was the Japanese grenade operator who had his head buried under a rock more than 200 meters away.
This devilish devil, when he saw the white elephant holding up the heavy machine gun, he buried his head like a chicken thief to avoid the blow from behind.
But this Japs is probably still a bit lacking in the power of 12.7mm caliber bullets.
Under the fire of a series of crazy fire snakes, the stone he was hiding in was first chewed off in large pieces, and then directly smashed to pieces.
So much so that it was already too late for the Japanese who felt bad to change places.
The large-caliber bullets that continued to fire at him left bowl-sized wounds on his chest and abdomen in the blink of an eye. After several wounds appeared, his chest and abdomen were already a mess.
Unfortunately, at this time, I saw the red barrel of the M2 Browning heavy machine gun, which was so red that it was a bit scary.
I was thinking that if I fired another thirty or fifty rounds of bullets, the barrel of the gun might explode, so I didn't dare to fire anymore.
After releasing the gun, Bai Xiang reluctantly picked up the 100-type submachine gun he was carrying, pointed at the three Japanese soldiers more than 100 meters away, and started to greet them.
And after Bai Xiang's M2 stalled, the firepower on the position suddenly weakened a lot...