Chapter five hundred and eighteen the little devil of the dog day
Chapter 518: The bastard little devil
In Baishan County, with the efforts of nearly 10,000 Manchurian Army soldiers, after more than a month of construction, it was finally re-shown to the world with a brand new look.
Looking at the county town that has been renewed under his command. Looking at his main division that lost three-quarters of its troops. After a month of replenishment, it has once again returned to the size of three infantry regiments. Division Commander
Lieutenant General Yoshimoto's mood can be said to be very good.
At this moment, when a fierce battle was taking place and the outpost position dozens of kilometers outside the city had fallen. The division commander, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto, was walking on the street with the chief of staff and several important subordinate officers, very leisurely.
I admire my achievements over the past month.
However, at this moment, a very disappointing sound wiped away all the elegance of everyone. A communications staff officer, panting, rushed to Lieutenant General Yoshimoto from the direction of the division headquarters and shouted loudly
reported.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the forward position reported that our army's outpost position was suddenly violently attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the outpost position has changed hands. At present, the Second Infantry Brigade, relying on the permanent fortifications on the forward position, is resolutely resisting the Eighth Route Army's attack.
Second Battalion, please provide tactical guidance."
Lieutenant General Gibbon's face was immediately shrouded in anger, and he roared loudly at the communications staff officer reporting in front of him: "Bagya Road, the damn Eighth Route Army, which has been inactive for less than a month, has once again provoked
War started. Do they really think that our Kwantung Army is so easy to bully?"
"Let's go, we'll be with the headquarters soon. In addition, inform every unit of the 27th Division to assemble immediately and get ready for battle." After saying that, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto, with an angry look on his face, angrily walked not far away.
The division headquarters at the headquarters walked over.
Rushing into the division headquarters, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto immediately frowned when he saw the officers at all levels in chaos before him. However, in the face of the urgent military situation, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto still suppressed his inner thoughts.
Dissatisfied, he asked the deputy chief of staff of the division running towards him in front of him.
"Deputy Chief of Staff, how is the situation on the front line now? How many heavy weapons and troops must the Eighth Route Army have deployed in this battle? What is their strategic purpose?"
"Division Commander, the specific situation is still unclear. At present, the Second Battalion has successfully repelled two attacks by the Eighth Route Army's forward troops. The enemy and our armies are in a confrontation. If nothing goes wrong, the Eighth Route Army must be waiting for them.
Reinforcements and artillery support." The deputy chief of staff quickly blurted out all the information he knew.
"Asshole, what kind of battle is this? We have been fighting for such a long time, and we don't even know the enemy's troop deployment and strategic purpose. But the enemy knows our situation clearly. It's just a bastard..."
Lieutenant General Gibbon clenched his fists and said angrily.
"Division commander, what should we do next?" asked the chief of staff who followed closely.
"Immediately report all the situation to the Commander-in-Chief of Changchun. Please ask the Kwantung Army Headquarters to immediately send air forces to reinforce our department. At the same time, conduct aerial reconnaissance of the enemy's strength and heavy firepower equipment. In addition, inform the second officer outside the city.
Brigade, you must stick to your position. No one is allowed to retreat into the county without my order..." Lieutenant General Yoshimoto gave a decisive order.
In the Kwantung Army's Supreme Headquarters, the commander, General Umezu Mijiro, was happy with the results achieved in various places since the implementation of martial law in Manchuria in the past two days. A frizzy communications staff officer rushed in blankly.
Office, Umezu Mijiro woke up from his dream.
Looking at the little-known major officer in front of him, General Umezu Mijiro, he showed no mercy and roared loudly. "Baga, what happened? How can you be so flustered..."
Hearing the roar of the commander in front of him, and thinking about his recklessness just now, large beads of sweat immediately appeared on the forehead of the major staff officer. He quickly replied, trying to divert the attention of the commander in front of him.
"Report to the commander, the commander of the Yoshimoto Division of the 27th Division of Baishan County has an urgent message."
"Baishan County, Kwantung Army 27th Division, is this a telegram from Lieutenant General Yoshimoto?" Sure enough, upon hearing the word "urgent telegram," the commander's face was immediately enveloped in a serious look, and he quickly asked.
"Hai, the commander of the Gibbon Division reported that Baishan County was suddenly attacked by the Eighth Route Army and requested the headquarters to send air support." As he spoke, the communications staff officer had already handed the telegram in his hand to the commander in front of him.
After quickly reading the telegram in his hand, the serious look on Mijiro Umezu's face was once again shrouded in anger. After ruthlessly tearing the telegram into pieces, the unbearable General Mijiro Umezu finally began to shout loudly.
Roaring to vent the anger in your heart.
"Assholes, the cunning Eighth Route Army, what do they want to do? Can't they just let my Manchuria rest for a while?"
However, after a brief moment of anger, the commander's face was once again shrouded in seriousness. He gave a loud order to the communications staff officer who was motionless in front of him, fearing that the anger in his heart would be drawn to him.
"Order, the Air Force will immediately send a group of mixed fighter planes to reinforce Baishan County. Also, have the Chief of Staff come to see me, as soon as possible."
"Hai, your Excellency, Commander..." After saying that, the communications staff officer quickly left the office.
On the frontier position dozens of kilometers outside Baishan County, a few rising smoke indicates that a fierce battle has just occurred here.
Facing the forward position defended by more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops, the avant-garde regiment, with the support of the regiment's artillery company, once attacked less than thirty meters away from the Japanese position. However, the final result was
They all retreated helplessly under the counterattack of a grenade fired by the Japanese army. The two attacks not only failed to achieve any results, but also left almost a hundred corpses of soldiers in front of the Japanese army's position.
The regiment and the company, as the main company of the entire regiment, also suffered heavy losses in the two attacks. Almost twenty soldiers fell on the battlefield forever.
In the temporary headquarters of the vanguard regiment, the regiment leader Zhang Yong was frowning, holding up a telescope, looking motionless a few hundred meters away, letting himself be surrounded by the Japanese army's forward positions that had been repeatedly frustrated, and fell into thinking.
At this moment, the voice of Zhou Kang, commander of the main first company, reached his ears: "Captain, let us charge again as a company. I don't believe it. The Japs' position is impregnable."
The regiment leader Zhang Yong, who had long been filled with anger, heard Zhou Kang's words without any hesitation and immediately ordered decisively: "Okay, then let's charge again. The main force still has twenty
We can rush here in minutes. We will use the twenty minutes to rush again. Now I give the order."
"The first company, as the spearhead of the whole regiment, carried out the main attack from the front. The second and third companies followed up. The second and third battalions carried out cover attacks on both wings. The heavy machine gun company and the artillery company provided fire cover. Five minutes later, the attack started on time.
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"Yes, commander..." All company and battalion commanders replied in unison.
Roaring explosions and intensive heavy machine gun fire rang out again on the battlefield. The remaining 80 or so soldiers of the company held out their rifles with bayonets in their hands. Under the restraints of commanders at all levels around them
, taking pictures of the loose triangle attack formation, once again appeared within the little devil's field of vision.
Li Shengda, the platoon leader of the regiment's main platoon, also had no surprises. He led the remaining 28 people in the platoon and rushed to the front of the entire triangle formation.
Looking at the Japanese forward position in front of him, where there were constant explosions of artillery shells, but no sound of counterattack, platoon leader Li Shengda did not feel any relief in his heart. Because, from the previous two failed attacks, Li Shengda could clearly feel it.
The artillery fire in front of us could not do much damage to the Japanese soldiers on the ground.
And the little Japs on the battlefield may be lurking in the trenches at this moment, waiting for him to walk in front of them, and then launch the most fatal blow to him.
Thinking of this, Li Shengda's loud orders began to ring back and forth in the middle of the loose offensive formation: "Comrades, hold on tight. Don't be anxious, advance slowly... Everyone bend down and take cover."
Don’t let your body be called upon by the Japs’ sharpshooters... Machine gunners, provide fire cover at any time.”
As expected, just when everyone rushed to only a hundred meters away from the Japanese position. On the position that was silent just now, countless black holes suddenly appeared.
Seeing the scorching tongues of flames, they quickly shot towards him. Platoon leader Li Shengda quickly ordered: "Get down, everyone get down, the machine gunners will cover you, the rest of you, crawl forward with me..."
Although crawling forward has greatly reduced the number of casualties of the troops, it also slows down the advance of the troops. In the middle of the slowly advancing team, faced with the precise shooting of Japanese riflemen, there are constantly crawling soldiers, bulging their heads.
Lying on the ground, he lost his life in an instant.
However, the shooting of the little Japanese sharpshooters and the sacrifice of their comrades did not stop the soldiers from advancing. After losing more than thirty soldiers, the row at the sharp knife position finally crawled forward to a position forty meters away from the Japanese position.
Location.
The distance of forty meters relied on the difference between the throwing distance of the wooden handle grenade and the grenade. When the Japanese army entered the throwing distance of their own grenade, but they were outside the throwing distance of the Japanese army's grenade, Platoon Commander Li Shengda decisively issued the order
The order to drop the bomb: "Brothers, throw grenades and kill these stupid little devils..."
"Huh huh..." More than twenty grenades with green smoke were thrown into the sky by the soldiers in an instant. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty grenades had already appeared in the sky above the Japanese positions.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Whether it exploded in the air or exploded after landing. In less than three seconds, more than twenty grenades turned into countless shrapnel, killing those in front of them at a very high speed.
All Japanese and puppet troops.
Looking at the Japanese position that had been completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke, Li Shengda did not let go of this advantageous fact. He quickly jumped up from the ground, brandished the shell gun in his hand, and was the first to charge towards the nearby Japanese position.
"Brothers, charge with me... kill all the little devils, kill them..."
Facing the swarming of more than a hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers, after the explosion of more than twenty grenades, less than a hundred people survived. The Japanese soldiers who had been influenced by the Bushido spirit for a long time also had no fear and raised their hands.
The rifle with the bayonet in his hand launched a counter-charge towards the Eighth Route Army soldiers who were within easy reach. He wanted to use his good stabbing skills to suppress the Eighth Route Army charging in front of him.
However, just when the two armies were completely caught in a melee and engaged in the most brutal assassination, the second and third companies following Yi Lian, an effective force of more than 200 soldiers, joined the battlefield in time.
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Time passed minute by second, relying on the advantage of numbers. Under the pressure of hundreds of soldiers, the little Japs, who numbered less than a hundred, continued to reduce their numbers and shrink the defense line. In the end, more than 30 Japs remained.
The soldiers, under the command of a captain, retreated to a corner of the position and fell into a situation where the entire army could be destroyed at any time.
Inside the Japanese army's forward position headquarters, they saw that the first line of defense of their forward position had been breached. The captain waited with a pair of eyes that could almost spit out fire, and gave a loud order.
"Baga, Noda-kun is so stupid. More than a hundred elite Imperial Army soldiers cannot even stop the Eighth Route Army of several hundred people. It is simply a shame for the Kwantung Army, Baga Road. Order the infantry artillery squad, mortars
The squadron immediately launched an artillery bombardment, covering the entire forward position with artillery fire..."
"But, captain, there are still more than thirty surviving imperial soldiers on the first line of defense..." Facing the captain's order, the deputy captain asked hesitantly.
"Asshole, which one is more important is the forward position or the more than 30 Imperial Army warriors. More than 30 warriors are exchanged for more than 300 Eighth Route Army soldiers. Even if Mr. Noda knows about it, he will feel very honored. Stop talking, now.
Fire." The captain ordered decisively.
"Hai..."
"Boom, boom, boom..." Just when three infantry companies and hundreds of soldiers were surrounding more than thirty little Japs and preparing for the final battle, a dense roar reached everyone's ears.
Just before everyone could react from the shock, more than a dozen artillery shells of various calibers had appeared above their heads.
"No, the little devil's artillery fire...get down quickly...boom boom boom..." The three company commanders who noticed that the danger was coming over their heads had just given orders to the soldiers around them. More than a dozen shells had already landed accurately.
An explosion occurred around everyone, causing a shower of blood.
The first line of defense of the Japanese forward position was immediately plunged into a sea of fire under the continuous bombardment of more than a dozen infantry artillery and mortars. Whether it was a little devil or a heroic Eighth Route Army soldier, in front of the flying pieces, all
They were all treated equally, and they fell into a pool of blood in droves.
"Damn it, are you crazy? Why did you blow up one of your own people..." Amidst the flying artillery fire, angry curses began to sound on the battlefield.
Li Shengda, the platoon leader, looked at the intensive artillery fire around him and saw that in the artillery fire, each and every heroic soldier was turned into a bloody corpse. He had a full understanding of the character of the Japanese army.
Li Shengda couldn't help but shook his head and said.
"The little Jaap is not crazy. He wants to use the more than 30 Japs left on the battlefield in exchange for our 300 lives. No matter how you calculate this account, it is a very cost-effective deal..."
"Platoon leader, what should we do next? Are we just going to lie here and wait for death?" As soon as Li Shengda finished speaking, the squad leader lying next to him asked.
"Of course I lie down here. With such dense artillery fire, as long as I stand up, I will definitely not survive for five seconds. Now I can only look at the regiment commander. As long as the artillery company at the regiment headquarters can suppress the Japanese artillery fire,
We can take the opportunity to retreat and get out of the Japs' position." Li Shengda ordered loudly.
Just as Li Shengda finished speaking, the regiment leader Zhang Yong, who also discovered that there were three hundred soldiers on the battlefield and could be wiped out at any time, was shocked and immediately ordered the regiment's nine mortars to fight back.
The nine mortars joined the battle in time and immediately attracted most of the Japanese artillery fire. Seeing that the density of artillery fire around him had reduced, Li Shengda did not hesitate and immediately commanded the rest of his platoon.
The troops retreated. As for other troops, they also quickly withdrew from the battlefield under the command of commanders at all levels.
Ten minutes passed quickly. As the artillery units of both the enemy and ours suffered serious losses during the exchange of fire, the artillery battle on the battlefield finally stopped. However, the regiment leader Zhang Yong felt lustful.
The one who cried without tears was the main battalion responsible for the frontal attack, with more than 300 soldiers. At this moment, only less than half of the troops who had successfully evacuated the Japanese positions were left.
As for Li Shengda's company, because it was at the forefront of the entire army, it could be said to bear the brunt. There were nearly a hundred soldiers in a company, but only 48 people were left who could continue to fight. More importantly, the entire company, except for
Li Shengda alone, with the exception of Li Shengda, managed to retreat due to minor injuries. All the remaining company and platoon commanders fell under the gunfire of the Japs.
"You bastard, you bastard little devil, you are worse than a beast, you won't even spare your own people." After hearing the losses of the first battalion, the regiment leader Zhang Yong clenched his fists and cursed fiercely.