Along with the roar, artillery shells exploded on the forward position.
A large group of Japanese troops emerged from the woods and launched an attack on Nantianmen.
The figure on the tree jumped down, rolled on the ground, pointed a gun at the Japanese soldiers in the distance, and pulled the trigger. A Japanese sergeant fell to the ground. The Japanese soldiers behind stepped forward to check the sergeant's injury.
The one that was already dead could no longer die. The bullet hit its head accurately, penetrating his helmet and skull.
"Sniper, enemy sniper!"
There were Japanese soldiers in the Japanese army shouting, and bullets shot out from the forest. The branches were broken, the leaves fell, and the tree trunks were hit by bullets. The bullets whizzed without stopping.
Flying around.
Xia Yuan hid in the grass, holding a gun. After the Japanese army began to gather deep in the forest, he had time to go deep into the forest to observe the Japanese army. After such a long period of observation, he found that the Japanese army was in large numbers in the forest.
Assembled, there was already a brigade with about 5,000 people.
A force of 5,000 people was entangled to attack Nantianmen, which was defended by only 700 defeated troops. The Japanese army really valued Nantianmen.
"In such a hurry to tear open the Nantianmen, I guess they are starting to struggle with logistics."
Xia Yuan was right. Since the end of 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, invaded the Philippines, and fought in all directions. The already strenuous military force has become even more strenuous. The resources plundered through the war have been far unable to keep up with the consumption of the war.
In terms of resources, China is a big piece of cake. The Japanese army is eager to occupy China and use China as an ovary to incubate Japan.
As a result, the Japanese army accelerated its offensive, especially in the Myanmar-Burma War. The Japanese army was unstoppable. It quickly defeated the British army and the expeditionary force, and successfully occupied Burma. The Japanese army wanted to use this to quickly open the door to the China-Myanmar border and attack from behind China.
Enter.
At this time, China's rear areas, in addition to the local troops of the National Army, were basically composed of militia, guerrillas and the Red Party. Because the National Army received reinforcements from the Allies, its weapons and equipment were relatively superior, while the militia and guerrillas were very backward. They used
The weapons are all made in the border area. The only gun is an old sleeve left over from the Westernization Movement. It has been used so many times that it has low accuracy. It is made in Hanyang. The folding pistol made in the border area has a range of only more than ten meters. These homemade
The gun has a short range, a small amount of ammunition, very little power, and a large deviation in accuracy, and often fails to fire.
If the Japanese army successfully crossed the border and invaded China from the rear, it would be much smoother than from the front.
Therefore, guarding the Nujiang defense line is almost equivalent to guarding the whole of China.
Because of this, the Japanese army is eager to open the door to the Nujiang Defense Line. The Pacific War has broken out, and military supplies are beginning to be stretched. If they don't open the door to China, sooner or later, they will fail due to logistics. They have to seize the time to complete the attack on China.
Encirclement.
The Japanese troops had been gathering in the mountains and forests under Nantianmen for three days, hoarding 5,000 troops crazily, and all kinds of heavy equipment were pulled up to Nantianmen. Xia Yuan was well aware of the dangers of the Nantianmen blockade, but at this moment, the entire anti-war mood in China
Facing a serious test, and once he retreated to Zenda, let alone this group of defeated troops, Xia Yuan could not even guarantee whether he would survive.
The defeated soldiers will return to the scene they had in the shelter.
On the ridge, the defeated troops were quickly in position. Gunshots were everywhere in the jungle. Japanese artillery shells were raging over the Nantianmen. On the Yu regiment's defense line on the other side of the Nu River, Yu Xiaoqing observed the situation on the Nantianmen with a telescope: "Three
Damn it, the Japanese army has begun to attack! The defenders on Nantian Gate cannot hold out for long. The Japanese army used three days to accumulate a large number of troops. Their target is not just a mountain like Nantian."
After observing for a while, Yu Xiaoqing put down the telescope, turned around and shouted: "Zhang Lixian, how is the deployment of the defense line along the Nu River?"
Zhang Lixian immediately replied: "Except for the artillery, we are basically in place. With the help of the mountainous terrain and the Nu River, we can withstand the attack of a Japanese brigade!"
Yu Xiaoqing said: "This is still when the water level of the Nujiang River is rising. If the water level of the Nujiang River drops, we may not be able to withstand the attack of a Japanese brigade. Regardless of whether the Sichuan Army Corps remains on the other side of the river, they can greatly eliminate the Japanese army."
Strength, reduce the pressure on our rear, the price is..."
Yu Xiaoqing stopped talking and turned to look at the Nu River where the smoke was gradually rising.
Zhang Lixian said: "They will be left on Nantianmen by the Japanese army."
Yu Xiaoqing nodded, "I have to say that Xia Yuan is indeed a character. At the moment, there is no fighting spirit on the mountain, the troops are in retreat, the weapons and equipment of the ace army are lost, and the anti-Japanese sentiment has fallen to the bottom, but he still stood up. This is something I didn't do
Thought of it."
Yu Xiaoqing knew that she was used as a gun by Xia Yuan, but Xia Yuan wanted the Sichuan Army to be taken seriously and seen, and that is what he said in his heart. Their death could not be unknown. Without him, maybe the people on Nantianmen would have died.
No one can see this battle.
He Shuguang walked in from the outside, "The regiment, the people of Chanda and the newspaper wanted to come to the position. They said that the Sichuan Army was an anti-Japanese hero. They wanted to report the deeds of the Sichuan Army, but the people of Chanda brought a lot of trouble.
If we have few supplies, we should donate them to the frontline anti-Japanese warriors."
Yu Xiaoqing said: "Take me to see it."
At the foot of the mountain along the Nu River, the old mayor of Chanda, leaning on a cane, led the people of Chanda, carrying various fruits, food and other rich supplies. Newspaper staff followed closely behind him. When they saw Yu Xiaoqing's car arriving at the foot of the mountain, they hurriedly
Step forward.
The old mayor said: "Captain Yu, we would like to ask you to go to the position and take a look at the heroes who protect Chanda."
Yu Xiaoqing got out of the car, and the newspaper staff who followed the old mayor also said: "Captain Yu, China cannot live without heroes. Now the people across the country are paying attention to the war on the China-Myanmar border. I implore you to think carefully about the expedition."
The army was defeated in Burma, and now China is in mourning. They urgently need a hero!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Yu Xiaoqing looked at the people in front of him and said: "Defensive positions are military secrets. Once leaked, the Japanese army will use our army's defense research along the Zenda coast
We have to come up with a corresponding attack plan, so I can't take everyone to the position. However, Zhang Lixian, you can lead everyone to the mountain. From the mountain, we can observe the Nantianmen on the other side of the Nu River."
Zhang Lixian: "Yes!"
At this time, the rumbles on the Nantianmen were like thunder, and the people of Zenda stood on the mountain, watching from a distance. Looking at the mountains in the distance, the sounds of guns and cannons intertwined to form a wave.
It was a heroic movement, and the smoke floating in the sky gave this movement a strong ink color. They could not imagine how fierce the battle on the other side of Nantianmen was, but they could infer it just from the sound of gunfire.
A newspaper staff member asked: "Sir Zhang, do you know which troops are at Nantianmen, how many are there, and how many Japanese devils do they have to face?"
The others looked away from Nantianmen and turned to look at Zhang Lixian.
Zhang Lixian said: "According to the information from Nantianmen, the defenders stationed at Nantianmen only have two battalions of our Sichuan Army, about 700 people, while the attacking Japanese army has more than 5,000 people, one brigade,
And configure various heavy firepower."
The old mayor was speechless: "Seven hundred people versus five thousand people. When they stayed, they never thought about victory. What they thought about was how to keep the Japanese army on the other side of the Nu River."
Everyone was silent, and some people had sadness on their faces. They looked at the smoke coming from the Nantian Gate from a distance, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Zhang Lixian didn't say anything either. The latest intelligence brought back by the previously dispatched investigators who had forcibly crossed the Nu River showed that most of the remaining Sichuan regiments had no weapons and equipment and were seriously short of weapons and ammunition. They were a lone army. When they stayed,
He has put life and death aside.
The leader of the team was Xia Yuan, who had met once at the shelter. He recalled that when he was at the shelter, he once thought that Xia Yuan was a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death. Now he stayed at Nantianmen,
Zhang Lixian did not think he could accomplish such a feat in order to sacrifice his life for his country and awaken the determination of tens of millions of people in China to resist Japan.
The old mayor looked at the food in the hands of the people and said, "Mr. Zhang, can you find a way to give this food to the heroes? We have seen the soldiers in Zenda who have already eaten it at home."
There was no meal, and if they stayed on the other side of the river, they might not have anything to eat."
Zhang Lixian said: "We have long considered sending supplies to the other side, which is what we requested from the summit, but now the heavy rain in the upper reaches of the Nu River has caused the water level of the Nu River to rise, the river is turbulent, and Xingtiandu was bombed, it is difficult to supply supplies
In the past, even if a raft was used, all the people and bombs would be lost."
He comforted: "The river water will not rise for more than three days. If they can hold on for three days and the water in the Nu River eases, we will have a way to transport supplies to the other side of the river."
"Seven hundred people are facing an attack by 5,000 people. Can they hold on for three days?"
Someone asked about their worries.
Zhang Lixian stopped talking and looked calmly at the Nantianmen on the other side of the Nu River. He was praying in his heart, silently praying that the Sichuan Army could hold on to the Nantianmen for three days.
After the Nantianmen Shangchuan Corps left behind to fight against the Japanese and the heroic and fearless performance of the expeditionary force in Burma was published by newspapers, many students in major cities paraded and people organized themselves, shouting "Down with Japanese imperialism" and vowed to fight to the death.
With the slogan "Be a slave to the subjugation of the country", the determination of the people across the country to resist Japan has once again increased. Shangfeng, who had no intention of fighting at first, is also paying attention to this matter.
After learning that this army was a lone army without any number, and that this lone army was none other than Xia Yuan, the former commander of the 150th Regiment of the New First Army, they immediately ordered Yu Xiaoqing to give the Sichuan Army's serial number to Nantianmen
The superiors attached great importance to this lone army. If the Sichuan Army successfully blocked the Japanese army at Nantianmen, the image of the national army in the hearts of the people would change.
At this time, the national army was also using that note to carry out vigorous propaganda. Although the expeditionary force was defeated, the soldiers fought bravely and their fearless spirit of life and death still shines on the Chinese people. This note can greatly
Change the war-fearing performance of the national army on the battlefield, and therefore, the Sichuan Army Corps led by Xia Yuan will be taken seriously by the top.
This has never been the case.
At this time, at Nantianmen, Xia Yuan was hiding on the first line of defense and was shooting at the crazy attacking Japanese. The bullets whizzed across the battlefield and accurately hit the Japanese sergeant among the charging Japanese soldiers.
Japanese army with cartridges.
"Hurry up, move faster, press a bullet with such ink marks, if you delay for a few seconds, the Japanese troops will rush up!"
The minefields arranged on the first line of defense resisted the first wave of Japanese attacks. However, after the minefields were dispersed by the first wave of Japanese attacks, the second wave of Japanese attacks followed, accompanied by Japanese poison gas bombs.
, is not a poison gas bomb, but a kind of mustard gas that cannot make people breathe. This kind of mustard gas can choke people to death.
"Poison gas, poison gas!"
"Cough, cough, cough."
The position was filled with the shouts of defeated soldiers. Xia Yuan shouted: "Don't panic, use the method I gave you earlier, hurry!"
They seized a large number of marching kettles from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. Xia Yuan had long considered that the Japanese army would use poison gas bombs, so he filled everyone's kettles with river water before the war, and they also used their spare helmets to fill a lot of them.
of water.
But Xia Yuan quickly took out a piece of cloth, put some soil on the cloth, sprinkled water on the soil, then wrapped it with cloth and put it on his mouth and nose like a mask. The soil wrapped in cloth has certain properties.
It is breathable, but can greatly block the poison gas of the Japanese army. This method was used to deal with the poison gas bombs of the Korean army during Shangganling. The effect was very significant. At least in the tunnel where he was, no soldiers died due to the poison gas of the US military.
.
The only bad thing is that breathing becomes heavier. After all, if you want to block a ball of mud wrapped in a cloth in front of your mouth and nose and try to breathe like before, the result can be imagined.
Faced with the mustard gas dropped by the Japanese army, the soldiers of the Sichuan Army also reacted very quickly. After all, Xia Yuan and his defeated soldiers had already demonstrated this kind of cooking a few days ago, and basically everyone was able to cook it very quickly.
, in this misty fog, Japanese soldiers wearing poison masks showed their ferocious figures in the thick fog.
Whoosh, a bullet shot past, and a Japanese soldier fell to the ground.
"The Chinese are not dead yet, please stay hidden!"
The voice of the Japanese military sergeant came from the mist. Xia Yuan used the sound to identify his position and fired at the source of the sound. The gunshot rang out and only a soft groan was heard. Xia Yuan clearly heard someone falling to the ground.
Although the mustard gas released by the Japanese army seriously affected the sight of the soldiers, Xia Yuan still caused heavy losses to the Japanese army by relying on the sound to identify his position. As the Japanese army approached the forward position, their figures appeared in the misty fog, and the defeated soldiers quickly fired back.
The sound of light machine guns echoed in the valley, and the Japanese soldiers in the front row fell one by one.
The Japanese troops in the back row rushed forward and charged desperately, but the fortifications on the front line were already very strong after several previous constructions. Moreover, after the defeated soldiers actually came into close combat with the Japanese army, their combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the Japanese army.