In order to capture Baibi House, on the 23rd, the Japanese Eleventh Division blasted through tunnels and destroyed the position defended by the Eleventh Division.
This process was not smooth. Days of rain caused the soil to become soft. The tunnels excavated by the Japanese engineers not only collapsed, but also saw water. During the excavation process, they needed to continuously add water. Therefore, the Japanese army's excavation was also quite difficult.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese engineers carried a large amount of explosives into the tunnel and detonated it. In the huge explosion, the outer wall of the Baibi House collapsed and a gap appeared. The Japanese artillery immediately fired a large number of smoke bombs near the Baibi House to cover it up.
The vision of the national army.
The First Battalion of the 44th Regiment of the Japanese Army concentrated the strength of three squadrons, and coordinated with the Japanese tank squadron that had already assembled in Luodian Town, to attack from the gap outside the Baibi House and rush into the direction of the national army.
Under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the White Wall House was sacrificed by the Japanese army.
Starting from September 12, the Japanese army spent eleven days relying on tunnel blasting and tank cover to finally destroy the White Wall House.
As Baibizhijia was breached, the 11th Division's defense line was shaken. The Japanese First Battalion and the tank troops continued to attack southward, expanding their results. At the same time, the main force of the Japanese 44th Regiment also began to release smoke bombs to force the crossing of Dijing.
and successfully crossed the Dijing River.
As the 11th Division's defense line collapsed, the Japanese 44th Regiment made a large-scale advance, and the flanks of the 90th Division were also exposed to the guns of the 44th Regiment.
The entire defense line of the 90th Division was shaken. That night, the main force of the Japanese 43rd Regiment successfully crossed Dijing and occupied Jinjiacun, the forward position of the 90th Division.
The position of the newly formed company led by Xia Yuan was breached by the Japanese army, and a company reinforced by the 90th Division caused heavy casualties, and the entire position was surrounded by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army also discovered that the resistance of the national army on the east bank of the Dijing River was quite tenacious. From yesterday to today, they sent several squadrons to attack the east bank of the Dijing River. This unknown national army position suffered huge casualties.
From yesterday to now, there have been more than 400 casualties, and seven tanks have been lost.
Such casualties and losses forced the Japanese army to pay attention to the national soldiers on this position.
After investigation, it was found that the national army here was as large as a company, but it caused such huge casualties to the attacking Japanese army.
After capturing the west bank of the Dijing River, the Japanese army immediately surrounded the national army on the east bank of the Dijing River, attempting to encircle and annihilate them.
That night, Xia Yuan realized something was wrong. The fighting on the west bank had not stopped, but was intensifying. He immediately asked Er DuoZi to investigate, and he took his people to the front line to investigate. Then he received shocking news that the Japanese army had breached the Dijing River defense line.
, occupied the west bank of Dijing River.
In other words, their back has been occupied by the Japanese army.
Xia Yuan stood on the bank of the rolling Dijing River and stared at the west bank of the Dijing River. Sure enough, all the previous defenders had disappeared, leaving only a piece of fortifications.
"Company commander, where are the people?"
The idiot ran over and stared at the other side, his hands and feet feeling cold.
"It is estimated that other lines of defense have fallen, and the 90th Division has begun to retreat." Xia Yuan withdrew his gaze and said, "Let's go, let's retreat too!"
"We fought for one day and so many people died, so we fell!?"
"The Japs have defeated us!"
Everyone who received the news felt very uncomfortable. So many people died, but they still failed to hold the position.
September 24th.
night.
The newly formed company cooperated with the 1st Company of the 90th Division and began to retreat.
With only about 70 troops left and a dozen wounded, they planned to cross Dijing by force. Halfway across the river, the roar of Japanese mortars and the roar of heavy machine guns came from behind.
Several long and thick fire chains formed from the east bank whipped the river, and a muffled hum could be heard. Some people rolled with the river, made waves, and disappeared.
Crossing Dijing did not mean safety. The Japanese army still occupied the banks of the Dijing River, including the west bank they arrived at after crossing Dijing.
"Japs, Japs."
The sky at the end of September was already slightly chilly, and the river was bitingly cold. Everyone was shivering from the cold. When they climbed ashore, their hearts sank when they saw the situation on the other side.
A group of Japanese soldiers came quickly along the river bank. They discovered the newly formed company and the 1st Company of the 90th Division that had just climbed up the river bank. The two sides started a fierce battle again.
After more than ten minutes, the battle was over and all Japanese troops were wiped out.
"Walk!"
Xia Yuan didn't care about cleaning the battlefield, let alone checking the casualties, and ordered the living people to take the wounded and evacuate quickly.
The 90th Division's defense line was defeated. On the way back, they encountered three groups of Japanese troops one after another, and fierce battles broke out. The Japanese army realized the terrifying fighting power of this defeated army, leaving dozens of corpses behind and fled in panic.
Among the ruins.
They had run for several kilometers and stopped in a ruins.
After making sure that the surrounding area was safe, Xia Yuan arranged for a night watchman and a place for the wounded to rest.
After running away all the way, I was finally able to take a breath.
Some people didn't care about their wet clothes, just lying on a stone slab with their guns in their arms.
After a day of fighting and an escape at night, I was so tired that I fell asleep while lying down.
Not many people escaped, only about thirty people, and more than forty people fell on the road, and some broke away from the team.
Xia Yuan also felt physically and mentally tired. He lay on the ground to rest for a long time, thought for a long time, and sighed.
"Company Commander." The second idiot ran over and said, "The monkey is gone."
"Monkey?" Xia Yuan raised his head unexpectedly, his eyes moved slightly: "I understand."
"He might..."
"Everyone has his own destiny."
Xia Yuan glanced at the gray sky.
The sky is dark, but you can still distinguish the dark fog and the flickering light of artillery fire, like lightning, accompanied by bursts of dull roars.
"Company commander, where should we go next?" Er Lengzi crossed his arms and sat next to Xia Yuan, looking at the sky in the distance.
The new company withdrew from the front line, many people died, and Xia Yuan was a little confused for a while.
He thought about the system mission, but at this moment, Xia Yuan suddenly felt that the mission had become optional. So many people had died in the Songhu Society, would he still take them to die on the battlefield? No matter what the process was.
In this way, the result is always a loss.
He looked at the soldiers lying on the ground in a mess, with deep fatigue on their faces.
Xia Yuan looked at it, his eyes lost in thought.
In late September, the entire town of Luodian had been reduced to scorched earth, with corpses scattered across the ruins, but the Japanese 11th Division did not give up its attack on Luodian.
With the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the focus of the Japanese attack also shifted and began to shift towards the vicinity of Liu Hang.
The Japanese attack was just like that of the 51st Division, using a cannibalistic approach to advance the front line step by step.
The Chinese army took advantage of Hehan to withstand the Japanese attack step by step. The defense line was still moving backward step by step. General Chen came to Liu Xing to take command. In order to fight for a long time, he decided to shift positions in time and fight against the Japanese army one by one.
If we regard the Japanese as a flood, we must dig deep trenches and build dikes layer by layer on the road where the flood spreads.
But Baldhead still ordered to ‘defend Liu Xing’.
During the Songhu Battle, the conditions of the national army were quite difficult. The national army controlled the army with military pay and paid the troops. However, during the war, neither ordinary soldiers nor commanding generals received any pay. Secondly, there was the problem of food.
, some troops did not receive logistical supplies for a week in a row, and had no money or food. Under such circumstances, it was very difficult for the troops to maintain high-intensity operations and fight against the Japanese.
But even in this context, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the National Army still fought against the Japanese army to the end.
Reinforcement troops from all over the country are rushing to Shanghai.
The focus of the Japanese attack shifted and fell on Liu Xing.
The day after Hu Zongnan's First Army arrived in Songhu, it engaged in a bloody battle near Liu Xing. The First Army was the ace army of the national army. When it arrived on the battlefield, it did not lose its ace demeanor. Its combat morale was quite strong and it could fight the enemy every inch of the way.
The battle was fought hard in every house for more than a week, but the position was still firmly in hand.
Hu Zongnan fought really hard. During the day, the Japanese planes, tanks and artillery fought fiercely. He ordered his troops to retreat while fighting, blocking the enemy at all levels and wearing down the enemy's strength. At night, he resolutely launched a fierce raid and rushed to the Japanese position.
Engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese troops.
In this way, the Japanese artillery and aircraft will be useless. If you rush in front of the Japanese, you can still fight with the Japanese with bayonets to reduce casualties.
In this way, the positions occupied by the Japanese during the day were recaptured by the First Army at night. The First Army was forced into a stalemate with the Japanese army, which had comprehensive advantages in land, sea and air. Some positions were fought over dozens of times, and corpses were accumulated layer by layer.
During the day, the Japanese artillery shells fell, and what was rolled up after the explosion was not black soil, but bright red blood mist.
The result of such tenacious fighting was heavy casualties. Liu Chaohuan, commander of the 1st brigade, and Wang Yingzun, commander of the 1st regiment, were injured. Yang Jie, commander of the 2nd regiment, and Li Youmei, commander of the 4th regiment, were killed. 100% of the casualties among officers and soldiers below the battalion commander of the 1st division were killed.
Over eighty, all company commanders in the division, except the communications company commander, were replaced due to casualties, while the 78th Division only had one battalion commander left.
At the end of September, Gu Zhutong withdrew Hu Zongnan's First Army and took it to Kunshan for reinforcements.
After seven days of bloody fighting, the First Army was completely crippled and withdrew from the ranks of the ace army.
If the ace army is like this, what about the casualties of the miscellaneous armies from those places?
A division was engaged in the Battle of Songhu for three days, and there were many casualties in the division with only one battalion left, and in some cases the entire division was killed.
The Battle of Songhu, which lasted three days for one division, is not an exaggeration, but is supported by data.
The Sixty-seventh Division stood firm in Luodian and fought dozens of bloody battles with the Japanese. After Li Shusen was seriously injured and retired, Huang Wei, who had just returned from Germany, took over the command. From the 25th to the 30th, the Japanese troops attacked the Sixty-seventh Division.
The division was responsible for launching a fierce attack on the positions in charge of the division. Huang Wei led the soldiers of the 67th Division in a bloody battle with the Japanese army. When the battle was at its most intense, only guards, telegraph operators, cooks and civilian staff were left around him.
Huang Wei led them to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army, and almost all of them died that day.
After more than a week of bloody fighting, one of the three regiment commanders of the 67th Division was killed and two were seriously wounded. Almost all the officers and soldiers of the battalion, company, and platoon were killed. The total number of survivors in the entire division was less than one regiment.
On the streets of Luodian Town, corpses were piled up layer by layer, and the stench could not be covered up by gunpowder smoke.
The casualties of the Sixty-seventh Division were considered good among all the troops participating in the Songhu Battle.
End of September.
Troops from various localities arrived in Songhu one after another.
The Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Northeastern and Northwest armies arrived in Songhu one after another. They put aside their past grievances, shared the same hatred of the enemy, and faced the national disaster together.
Tao Zhiyue's 8th Division is a Central Army adapted from the old Hunan Army. Its equipment is extremely poor. It uses Hanyang products made in the 1920s. The entire division does not have mortars, heavy machine guns, and even bayonets cannot be equipped for everyone.
All they have is the pride of fighting for the national calamity together and facing the enemy generously.
Facing the aircraft, tanks, artillery, and light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese Ninth Division, they refused to retreat and fought bloody battles with the Japanese army. They used their flesh and blood to resist the Japanese army's strong ships and artillery. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army's aircraft and heavy artillery, the eighth
The division's officers and men were determined not to retreat, clinging to their positions and fighting tenaciously against the Japanese troops.
The Japanese army did not expect that such a force with backward weapons and equipment could resist their attack. As a last resort, the Japanese army had to divide its forces and attack the Dunwu Temple next to the National Army Peng Songling's 16th Division.
As a result, the combat morale over there was no worse than here. In just one night, they launched ten counterattacks, causing huge casualties to the Japanese 9th Division. They requested reinforcements from the front line several times for fire support before they captured Dunwu Temple.
, and began to outflank the Eighth Division's flanks.
The Eighth Division didn't care whether you were outflanking or not. It would be beaten when it came. It continued to resist tenaciously and contained the Japanese Ninth Division. It persisted until October 10th, when it retreated from the front line.
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In the battles from Rozaobang to Zoumatang, the national army suffered an average of 5,000 casualties every day.
Due to the intense fighting on the front line in Zozaobang, the First Army, which had been reorganizing in Kunshan for a few days, was once again dragged to the battlefield. This time, many of the troops were new recruits. Many of these recruits were strong men who had been dragged to the battlefield.
On the battlefield, we are in close combat, and we have to fight even if we don't fight. The strong man will still be alive.
When a soldier arrives in Songhu, his life begins to countdown. This is no exaggeration at all.
October.
The weather is starting to get cooler.
Songhu is like a huge furnace, swallowing up the lives of the soldiers who entered Songhu.
Even if the situation of the national army is like this, the Japanese army is also not feeling well.
The first two divisions to go into battle were the Japanese 9th Division and the Japanese 101st Division. The Japanese 9th Division attacked Zozaobama. According to the 9th Division's Kanazawa Infantry 7th Regiment,
According to records, during the forty-day attack, 90% of the squad leaders were killed or injured.
In two weeks of fighting, this infantry regiment of 2,500 Japanese soldiers suffered 450 deaths and 900 injuries. The casualty rate of the soldiers was as high as 53%. Such battle losses
For example, since the September 18th Incident, it has been almost unheard of in Japanese military war reports.
The Hazaobang River is not wide, and the natural barrier is not very effective. How long can the Chinese army hold on under the bombardment of Japanese tanks, aircraft, heavy artillery, and even naval guns?
During several days of blocking, the corpses of both the Chinese and Japanese sides accumulated layer by layer along the coast of the Zozaobang position. Later, they even had to use the corpses as bunkers to continue the bitter battle.
From the end of September to the beginning of October, China and Japan fought repeatedly for each village in the land that was no more than 50 kilometers long in Zozaobang. Some villages could change hands five times a day. Even the most powerful Japanese unit could occupy a village.
The time in position will not exceed five hours.
Jihad is very important to the Japanese. The island countries are short of supplies and want to find a way out. They need to expand externally, win the jihad, occupy China, and replace the Chinese. This is the idea of the Japanese.
Japanese battlefield reporters took a large number of photos of the jihad and published them in Japan's "Illustrated Chinese Incident". The Japanese soldiers in the newspaper were neatly dressed and had high morale, as if they were all unstoppable.
However, the fact is that during the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese Ninth Division and the 101st Division encountered fierce resistance from the National Army in Zhaizaobang, and suffered heavy casualties.
, most of them were killed or wounded in battle, and the strength of the troops was reduced to half of its original size. The momentum of the entire Japanese army was sluggish, and it had long lost the high morale it had when fighting abroad and participating in the holy war.
Coupled with the recent heavy rain, aircraft were unable to carry out air strikes for three or four days in a row, and artillerymen were unable to fire because their ammunition was soaked in water.
Even some recruits who came out of Japan truly felt the cruelty of the battlefield, could not bear the mental pressure, and knew their own lives with bayonets.
In the Battle of Hazaobang, the Ghana Regiment of the 101st Division was basically annihilated, and the entire 101st Division was also crippled, reducing its strength by two-thirds.
The 101st Division is more like a cannon fodder division. Its role is to consume the strength of the Chinese army for the Ninth and Thirteenth Divisions. After the Battle of Hazaobang, the Japanese Thirteenth Division just entered the battlefield.
Early October.
Xia Yuan led the remaining troops southward along Luodian, passed by Liuhang, and participated in the Liuhang battle. He fought fiercely with the Japanese Ninth Division.
Stop and go.
After experiencing battle after battle, Xia Yuan's own skills continued to improve.
The throwing skill's experience is almost at full level, and camouflage, night vision, and eagle eye have all been greatly improved.
In every battle, Xia Yuan tried his best to use his skills and try his best to eliminate the Japanese army. As a result, every battle in which he participated caused huge casualties to the Japanese army. Within a few days, the name of the God of War was shaken in the battle in Songhu.
All the national troops participating in the war knew that it would be very difficult for the Japanese army to break into a battle with this man participating, and it would require huge casualties and costs.
The new company was crippled and moved to the rear to rest. Xia Yuan was a restless leader, so he handed over the new company to the local troops and left the station with his two idiots.
Hazao Bang.
In early October, the Japanese 101st Division launched a large-scale attack on Hazaobang.
After several days of continuous offensive, they only advanced a few kilometers.
Xia Yuan and his two idiots, carrying a gun, followed the group of defeated troops and retreated from Yanghang to the direction of Hezaobang. The Japanese came from the east and attacked Yanghang and Hezaobang. Many soldiers were
Run to the south, there are still resisting troops in the south.
To the south is Rozaobang.
There were also Hunan troops who had just come out of the train station, forming a long and winding queue along the road, to support the people in Zhongzaobang.
"Company Commander, we won't be treated as deserters and killed, right?"
Blended into the group of broken soldiers, their appearance is no different from that of broken soldiers. They have been running and fighting continuously. Their clothes no longer look like military uniforms. The blood clots are very thick and dark. Their clothes are ragged and their cheeks are in tatters.
It was also covered with a thick layer of dust.
Xia Yuan fought many Japanese soldiers, and the blood on his face was like calluses. After a battle, it often felt like he had been soaked in blood for a long time.
The second fool is still alive. As a communications soldier, he did not go to the front line to fight the Japanese. Instead, he used a rifle to shoot at the Japanese from behind. There was no need to consider whether he could hit the Japanese. They had the same number of bullets.
Remarkably, a lot of bullets can be found from the corpses of Japanese soldiers.
Along the road, there were many corpses, some died of illness, some were injured on the road, but no one collected the corpses. There were many new graves in the fields on the roadside, and some soldiers were digging holes to bury the bodies of the fallen soldiers.
earth.
A long line of reinforcements came over from the path in the other direction, mixed with the broken troops, but they were clearly distinct.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Erlunzi’s worries were not unfounded. Along the way, they encountered many soldiers being killed. Some officers shot some soldiers on the spot indiscriminately.
Many times, it all depends on the mood of the commander. The battle is tense in the front, but the rear is very chaotic, and the troops are broken into groups.
If it is not handled well and these defeated soldiers enter the mountains, they are bandits.
"I heard that a god of war came out of the north."
"It's amazing. I've killed hundreds of little devils in the past few days, and beat them so hard that they didn't even dare to show their heads."
"Do you think this person has three heads and six arms? It sounds so scary."
Along the way, I heard someone discussing Yang Xing, the God of War. A soldier who knew about this matter raised his voice and said: "The God of War Yang Xing came from Luodian. It is said that he was a lone army. The army was annihilated by the Japanese. He led
Holding the remaining troops, they were unwilling to retreat to the rear and wanted to avenge their troops, so they kept fighting at Luodian. They beat many little Japanese soldiers and even made it into the newspapers. Later, they went all the way to Yanghang and fought with the Japanese.
The Japanese beat him again and again, and the name Yang Xing, the God of War, came up again."
"That's really awesome."
"How powerful is the God of War? It is said that he wiped out a thousand Japanese troops by himself. I don't know if it's true or not."
"It's true. Our company commander said that this incident has alarmed our commander. I guess it won't be long before this incident will be published in the newspapers again."
The defeated soldiers also like to chat about gossip, and the one they talk about the most is undoubtedly Yang Xing, the god of war who has been in full swing recently. With his own strength, he defeated a Japanese regiment and stayed in place for several days. The position has been firmly controlled.
In my own hands, many of the deeds of Yang Xing, the God of War, were passed down by word of mouth, but there is not much research into whether they are true or not.
"Company Commander, I'm talking about you." Er Lunzi was very happy to hear this.
"Don't talk."
Xia Yuan glanced at the gray sky ahead.
As we approached Rozaobang, it started to rain lightly again, making the defeated soldiers wet and cold.