Chapter 33 The foundation cannot be shaken, and the war will inevitably fail
After thinking about it, Xia Yuan could not judge where they were now. It was normal to lose their way on the battlefield, but one thing could be judged. The direction of the Japanese attack was on their side, which proved that their direction was
There is no error.
But I just don’t know whether this direction is to the west or east.
Going west is okay, as you can reach the hinterland of China all the way, but if you go east, you will only reach the war zone between China and Japan, and the direction of deviation will become farther and farther.
"We only have two roads now, one is to go through it, but I don't know exactly how many Japanese troops are on this road, but I am sure that as the national army advances the front, this will become a war zone.
We will also be in danger. Of course, we may also get through before the national army arrives."
"The other way is to wait for the arrival of the national army. We return to the ranks of the national army. This is the safest way, because the national army will eventually push over. We just need to wait calmly and wait until they arrive to assist.
They just need to attack the Japanese positions."
Xia Yuan analyzed the current battlefield situation.
It was too late for them to retreat now. The general offensive had been launched for a while. The national army's front line was advancing all the way and had not yet reached the Japanese front line. A fierce battle broke out in the buffer zone between the two sides, only a hundred meters away from them.
Xia Yuan immediately judged that it was too late to retreat.
In fact, retreating conflicts with his mission, but as long as he does not leave the Songhu battlefield, it will not be judged as a mission failure.
"In addition to these two methods, there is another method, which is to become deserters and find a place to hide. When the national army advances, you will have a chance to escape."
Xia Yuan withdrew his gaze, squatted on the ground, and scanned the five people.
Platoon leader Zhao said firmly: "I will not become a deserter, not even if I die. I don't want to be poked in the spine for the rest of my life!"
Niu Hai said: "Brother Xia, I am just a dead person. Without you, how can I avenge my mother and father? I am determined to follow you. Anyway, all my relatives are dead. I may die one day."
Well, it’s better to make your death more valuable as you told Brother Chen."
The scholar said: "Brother Xia, I followed you when I came out, and I will follow you now. I don't deserve to be a deserter."
Xu Liu smiled bitterly and said: "You all have a choice, and I have no choice. I have been so seriously injured. When I return to the military camp, I will be a bad person. Either I will be beaten to death by the officers, or I will starve to death."
I have no choice."
Xu Liu said quite sadly. As a veteran, he had suffered injustice in the military camp. It can be seen that other recruits are often served with sticks. If you doze off at night, if you are caught, you will be served with sticks. If you are beaten with ten sticks, you can be beaten.
His butt was spanked until the flesh was raw, and he was tortured. If you survive, you are considered lucky. If you continue to exploit you, if you don't survive, that is your fate.
Feudal superstition is common in the army. Many soldiers who have suffered oppression and exploitation believe in their bones that the reason why they live like this is because their ancestors have no good deeds and no blessings. The reason why those officers can become officers is because their ancestors have good deeds.
, there are blessings, so life does not need to be so difficult in this life.
Therefore, even if these soldiers were exploited and oppressed, they had no idea of resistance. This concept has been deeply ingrained in their bones.
Zheng Dayong said: "We will go wherever the platoon leader goes, and we will follow the platoon leader."
Everyone's opinions were surprisingly unanimous, which was somewhat unexpected by Xia Yuan. He squatted on the ground and thought for a while. He didn't make a decision until the Japanese were approaching.
"Okay, then let's fight with the Japanese devils. They are all human beings. If we kill one, we won't lose. If we kill two, we will make a profit. If we kill more, we will make more money."
many."
Xia Yuan slapped his head, led them into the ruins, and asked everyone to lie down together with the corpses on the ground.
The Japanese soldiers came running over without even looking at it. They found a house that was still intact and got inside.
Dark clouds are gathering in the sky and the rain is getting heavier. Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night for the national army.
The one attacking the right wing was the 3rd Battalion of the 401st Regiment of the National Army. More than 400 troops were divided into three directions to attack the blocking Japanese army. The one closest to Xia Yuan's direction was the 120th Battalion of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion.
The remaining people, in platoon units, divided into three groups to attack the houses occupied by the Japanese army. The two sides fought fiercely in the alleys, repeatedly fighting for the houses occupied by the Japanese army.
The bullets intertwined in the torrential rain, shattering the walls and bricks with a roaring sound. From time to time, they let out a muffled groan. From time to time, swaying figures were seen falling to the ground. Between the torrential rain, the Japanese soldiers
The wall of the two-story house was opened, and the muzzle flash of the machine gun flickered in the dark night.
The explosion spread among the mud. Since the mud had been soaked and washed away by heavy rain, it was already muddy, and the power of the grenade was greatly reduced.
Such weather was even more unfavorable to the attacking national army.
The commander of the seventh company was named Sun Tian. He was tall and thick, with a bulging belly. He often exploited and exploited the soldiers under his command. He hid among the ruins and used binoculars to observe the battle ahead. The deputy company commander ran back with a disgraced face.
"Old Sun, the situation is not good. The Japanese army's firepower is fierce and the brothers can't fight." The deputy company commander was relatively concerned about the life and death of the underground brothers. He stretched out his hand and wiped his wet face, which made the already dark face appear on the spot.
Turned into a painted face.
"Let's retreat and keep fighting. The Seventh Company will be wiped out."
Sun Tian cursed: "Grandma, you damn Xiong Ridan, retreat. You tell me how to retreat. The officers who are fighting behind are all staring at us. If you retreat, the muzzle of the gun will be directly pressed against your head."
The deputy company commander cried sadly and said, "What should we do, company commander? All our brothers are going to be beaten."
"What can we do if we light up the light? Keep recruiting new recruits after lightening the light." Sun Tian glared at the deputy company commander, used a telescope to observe the Japanese light machine gun muzzle on the second floor, and cursed: "I saw the Japanese machine gun muzzle.
No, let someone blow it up and our brothers can rush over."
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"What are you doing standing still? Go quickly!" Sun Tian scolded the deputy company commander again.
The deputy company commander stumbled away feeling desperate. He glanced at the platoon commanders waiting for orders in the distance and said through gritted teeth: "What are you doing standing still? The company commander's order has been issued. Let's continue attacking the Japanese firepower points.
It is necessary to open the road blocked by the Japanese with firepower points in the shortest possible time.
Attacking the Japanese enemy's firepower point is a completely fatal act.
The second platoon leader stared at the Japanese firepower point in the distance and said: "Deputy company commander, there are still many Japanese soldiers around the Japanese firepower point. If we rush over like this, we are completely committing suicide."
"Then you go tell the company commander what to do. I was just scolded by the company commander, so I hurriedly issued an order. If it was delayed, you will all be sent to a military court!"
The deputy company commander vented his anger on Sun Tian to several platoon leaders.
The three platoon commanders had no choice but to issue the order to continue the attack, using their flesh and blood to open a gap for the main force attacking from behind.
Sun Tian used a telescope to observe the Japanese firepower, and couldn't help cursing: "That bunch of damn trash in the new barracks, they didn't even resist, they lost all the occupied positions, so that the Japanese set up their firepower
So close to our defense line."
Sun Tian believes that all the fault lies with the new barracks responsible for attracting Japanese firepower.
Before the general attack was launched, he heard from the battalion commander that the commander had transferred a group of former recruits and sent them to the battlefield to consume the Japanese bullets and artillery shells before they launched the general attack on the Japanese positions. Unexpectedly, this
A group of new soldiers arrived on the battlefield and retreated very quickly. Not only did they lose the positions they had previously occupied, they even allowed the Japanese to advance a certain distance.
Relying on the advantage of the terrain, the Japanese army occupied many houses and set up many machine gun fire points, which had a great impact on the attacking National Army. A Japanese army occupying a house in one unit can resist a platoon of National Army, or even
A company attack.
Under such circumstances, the national army advanced the front a lot at great sacrifices.
Just as Sun Tian was cursing and scolding the new barracks, behind the Japanese army, Xia Yuan and six people quietly approached the Japanese machine gun fire points. Platoon leader Zhao went to investigate and ran back after a while, cursing
:
"Grandma, the firepower of the Japanese is really fierce. The bullets are like free money. The gun keeps ringing. It was already ringing when we came here, and it is still ringing now."
"Look, that open space, yes, it's right there." Xia Yuan pointed out the position to the scholar, and then asked: "How are the attacking national army brothers doing?"
"What else can we do? The casualties are heavy, and the firepower of the Japanese is really fierce. They can't break through the fire blockade of the Japanese. I guess even if we get in, it will be very difficult."
Platoon leader Zhao was lying on the collapsed window. In addition to seeing the fierce machine gun fire of the Japanese army, he also saw the attacking figure of the Chinese army. They relied on the terrain to attack the houses occupied by the Japanese army. Under the flickering artillery fire, they could be seen.
There were also corpses of national army brothers lying on the muddy ground.
Their casualties were huge.
Throughout the Songhu battlefield, the Chinese army made huge mistakes in their offensive methods, which ultimately led to not only a disastrous defeat in this battle, but most importantly, the defeat of several main army groups of the Chinese army.
Not only was it embarrassing, there was almost no hope of victory in this war. The Japanese army mobilized the whole country to invade China. The residents of the Japanese land even provided people if they could, and if they didn't have people, they provided money to build airplanes, cannons, and tanks.
Build warships.
In contrast, the Baldheads have adopted a policy of non-resistance since the September 18th Incident in 1931, handing over the three eastern provinces to each other and passively resisting the Japanese. But can we say that the National Army soldiers passively resisted the Japanese? No, passively resisting the Japanese is
Baldhead, not a soldier of the national army.
It was also after the July 7th Incident in 1937 that Baldhead was forced to start the war of resistance. However, even during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Baldhead did not stop pursuing the underground gangs, even though these underground gangs had been obtaining Japanese military intelligence and making preparations for the anti-Japanese war.
made a huge contribution.
Secondly, Baldhead’s policy of resisting the war was based on the fantasy that the great powers would intervene. In the early stages of the war, they implemented a purely defensive policy of fortification everywhere, resistance at every step, and hard-fought positions. The Japanese army had aircraft, artillery, tanks, and warships.
In positional warfare, the Chinese army was no match for the Japanese army, but even so, Baldhead still organized a series of battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Jinling, the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Taiyuan, etc. They could not win and could not defend.
A battle of attrition in which both people and land are lost.
The most fatal point is that the bald-headed war of attrition did not mobilize the people of the country. The army was unable to obtain sufficient supplies and manpower, and it did not exert any home field advantage in terms of intelligence.
Looking back at the three major battles of the People's Liberation Army, the masses were mobilized. During the three major battles of the People's Liberation Army, ordinary people pushed carts and carried burdens to deliver food, drink, and money to the soldiers fighting on the front line.
Money was provided, people were sent, and the masses went deep into the enemy-occupied areas to pass on information to the People's Liberation Army. Wherever the reactionaries went and what they did, they were all firmly controlled by the People's Liberation Army.
Can a bald man mobilize the masses? No, if you want to gain public support, you must mobilize the people. Farmers are exploited, soldiers are beaten and scolded, bureaucratic corruption, autocratic dictatorship and a series of social problems must be solved. If these problems are not solved, we will talk about it.
How to mobilize the masses.
Solving these problems would change the basis for the bald elite to govern the country. Therefore, he did not solve these problems. These problems are the foundation for his footing. The foundation cannot be shaken, and the war will inevitably fail.
The continuous adoption of such a bad strategy ruined the soldiers' patriotic enthusiasm and flesh and blood. In three years, one million troops were destroyed, and half a million of them simply became puppet troops.
Throughout the battles initiated by the bald men, the soldiers of the national army fought bloody and bloody battles, fighting for every inch of territory and holding on to their positions to the death, building a high wall with their own flesh and blood. They never lost in the cause of national justice.
What is really rotten is the ruling class of the national army. Beating with military sticks, scraping people alive, and drinking human soup are common occurrences in the military camps. During training in the recruit camp, people are often hung up and beaten with whips. In such and other horrific situations,
Under the management, there is no one to say that the officers embezzled the military pay. Whether the soldiers can see the military pay depends on luck.
On this basis, officers will also take short quotas, that is, falsely report the number of soldiers, and then pretend to receive the salaries of these non-existent soldiers, and the vacant quotas will also be used by junior officers to bribe superior officers. There are records that a commander of the national army can
There are 800 to 1,000 vacancies, and the company commander can usually take about ten vacancies.
Take the 60th Army of the National Army as an example. After the 60th Army surrendered, statistics from political cadres showed that the actual strength of the 60th Army was only two-thirds of what was previously reported to their commanders, and the other one-third was taken over by companies at all levels.
The commander, battalion commander, and regimental commander exploited each other to take advantage of the vacancies.