"Attack... Attack..." More than two thousand commanders and soldiers, with the Second Battalion as the vanguard, formed a triangular attack formation. Amidst the loud charging horns, they quickly rushed towards the place that at this moment had been torn into ruins by artillery fire.
The Japanese army positions launched a lightning-fast attack.
Faced with the sharp offensive firepower and formation of Li Shengda's regiment, coupled with the latest combat order given by Lieutenant General Ikeda, commander of the Japanese 63rd Division before the war, to the Fourth Battalion: "After the troops have made appropriate resistance, they should voluntarily abandon their positions and fight while retreating."
, introduce the Chinese offensive troops deep into our battlefield, and then gather them together to annihilate them.
Including all artillery and heavy equipment, the attack by more than 2,000 commanders and combatants was almost overwhelming. In less than ten minutes, they successfully broke through the Japanese forward defense line.
However, in the subsequent attack, as the Japanese division commander Lieutenant General Ikeda said, faced with intensive firepower interception from three directions by the Japanese army on the battlefield, the troops' attack speed suddenly stagnated and slowly slowed down.
"Captain, something seems wrong..." On the battlefield where bullets were flying, he felt that more and more Japanese troops were gathering quickly around the troops, and the sound of gunfire became more and more intensive. The regiment chief of staff seemed to realize
What? He reminded Li Shengda next to him.
"I feel it too..."
"The breakthrough just now was so smooth. We didn't find many corpses of the little Japs on the position. Obviously, the little Japs who stood in front of us were not defeated by us, but took the initiative after making appropriate resistance.
Abandon the position and retreat...Don't these little devils know the importance of the forward position to them..."
"However, I don't think the little devils have any conspiracy. As long as we can quickly break through their defense line, the initiative will be completely in our hands."
"Correspondent, call me the second battalion commander immediately. I want to know the troops' attack speed and why it suddenly became so slow..." Li Shengda ordered with a solemn look.
"Attack, continue to attack..." Amidst the fierce shouts of killing, the entire army once again advanced less than fifty meters. The second battalion commander Zeng Caiwang', whose face was covered with gunpowder smoke, appeared in front of him.
In front of Li Shengda.
"Batalion Commander Zeng, what's going on? Why is the attack speed of the troops getting slower and slower? How did you become the battalion commander? If the battle continues to fail, I, Li Shengda, will just replace him. You know, the third battalion is still watching behind.
Looking at you...¨" Looking at the panting Zeng Wangcai in front of him, Li Shengda said angrily.
"Battal Commander Zeng, what's the situation up front? Let me explain it to the regiment commander first..." the regiment chief of staff said immediately after him.
"Regiment leader, political commissar... you don't know, little devil, the little devil in front of you is like crazy. He doesn't want to fight with us in a hard team. Instead, he uses all kinds of dirty methods and relies on his position.
They climbed into the intricate traffic trenches and continuously launched suicide bomb attacks on our second battalion..."
"Although our attack is very sharp and our firepower is very powerful. However, facing the ubiquitous Japanese suicide bombs, it can be said that it is impossible to guard against it... Now, we can only advance one meter and clear one meter to occupy the position.
In order to prepare for the attack of human bombs, all the little devils on the battlefield must be shot to make sure they are dead..."
"Conspiracy, Commander, this must be the conspiracy of the little devils... Seeing the performance of these Japanese troops, and thinking about the Japanese army's active retreat just now, I can be sure that the Japanese army must be planning a huge conspiracy against us..." Tuan
The chief of staff said affirmatively.
Sure enough, just as he finished speaking, the correspondent of the first battalion, who was serving as cover and rear guard on both sides, rushed towards his position panting...
"Report to the commander of the regiment, the chief of staff, and the battalion commander. About one infantry brigade of Japanese soldiers was galloping toward our rear along the communication trench. In addition, two Japanese brigade groups were rushing towards our two flanks.
Come on. At present, the Japanese troops gathered on our flanks have exceeded four infantry brigades..."
As soon as the correspondent finished speaking, Li Shengda and the chief of staff beside him quickly rushed to a nearby mound, braving the bullets flying around them, and began to observe the enemy's situation...
"There are more than four infantry brigades...the head of the regiment, plus a brigade of Japanese troops rushing towards our rear. The main force of the Japanese army gathered around us, there are definitely two infantry regiments...At present, it seems that our regiment has already
Caught in a heavy siege by two Japanese infantry regiments..." the regiment chief of staff said with a wry smile.
"Two infantry regiments..." Although Li Shengda had already made a plan before the war, after being besieged by the Japanese army, the troops did not need to take into account the Japanese troops on the wings and behind them. They only needed to move forward desperately under the cover of artillery.
Assault, with rapid attack speed, quickly penetrated the depth of the Japanese defense.
However, after hearing the report from the Second Battalion Commander and seeing more and more Japs gathering around him, Li Shengda was determined to fight out. However, he was very rational and knew that even if he tried his best to break out of the Japanese encirclement,
Penetrating the depth of the Japanese defense, even a reinforced regiment in your hands will be depleted...
Obviously, this exceeded my expectations and went against my original intention...
There was silence, just when Li Shengda frowned and thought about specific countermeasures... The chief of staff exclaimed, 'Two regiments,' attracted his attention.
"Chief of Staff, you said that we have been fighting for so long, how many combatable soldiers are left in the Japanese 63rd Division..." Li Shengda followed closely and asked with a puzzled look on his face...
"On the first line of defense, one brigade was wiped out, and on the second line of defense, one infantry regiment... plus the casualties our army inflicted on the Japanese in the attack just now, preliminary statistics show that there are only two Japanese Sixty-third Divisions left.
The strength of the regiment..."
Having said this, a look of sudden realization flashed across the face of the chief of staff. Facing Li Shengda in front of him, he once again exclaimed: "Commander, you mean that the Sixty-third Division of the Japanese Army has nothing left in its hands."
Excluding the Japanese troops on our flanks and behind us, the Japanese troops standing in front of us only have one infantry brigade at most...¨"
Indeed, all of this is the conspiracy of Commander Ikeda. In order to completely annihilate Li Shengda's regiment, boost the morale of the troops through a complete victory, and undermine the high morale of the East China Field Army, Lieutenant General Ikeda did not hesitate to mobilize all the remaining reserve teams in his hands.
Join this long-planned battle of annihilation...
However, his premeditation can be said to have no flaws at all.
The regimental chief of staff's answer clearly reflected what Li Shengda was thinking.
"Chief of Staff, you are right. Even a kid from the infantry brigade, even if he is made of iron, will be torn into pieces under the attack of our army's powerful artillery fire." Li Shengda said with a proud look on his face.
Immediately, without the slightest hesitation, he decisively ordered to the staff around him:
"Inform Battalion Commander Yang of the First Battalion to immediately report the coordinates of the Japanese troop gathering areas around the unit via the radio to the rear artillery headquarters and request artillery strikes. Use intensive artillery fire to create a fire zone around us and completely cut off the Japanese attack on us.
The department’s line... In my name, send a telegram to Commander Chen, hoping that Commander Chen can provide our department with at least fifteen minutes of intensive artillery support..."
"Communications staff officer, please immediately notify the rear air force headquarters through the radio and ask Commander Wang of the Air Force to immediately dispatch at least one brigade of bombers to carry out ten minutes of saturation bombing on the Japanese position directly in front of our second battalion, completely razing the Japanese position.
For a flat earth…”
"Go and deliver the order right away..."
Less than two minutes after the order "Yes, commander..." was given, the roar of a row of artillery shells across the sky reached the ears of all the commanders and soldiers on the battlefield.
Accompanied by a burst of ground-shaking explosions, there was a sound from the left wing of the army. About a hundred meters away from the first battalion and company on the left wing, the Japanese position, which was more than 300 meters long, was blown up by a neat row of artillery shells and filled with smoke...
Dense artillery shells came one after another. In less than two minutes, this Japanese position, which was more than 300 meters long and less than 20 meters wide, was blown alive, creating a large trench with a depth of two meters. As for the entire
The sky above the ditch was shrouded with almost no flying shell fragments. The Japanese troops who were behind the fire zone had no way to start, faced with an attack that was tantamount to suicide, and could only look at the river and sigh...
"Captain, our artillery is really powerful. In less than two minutes, the little Japs who were looking at us from across the fire couldn't do anything to us..." Seeing the little Japs blocked behind the fire barrier, the regiment chief of staff
He said with excitement...
"Well, the artillerymen under Commander Chen are all veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time. Every one of them is a treasure in our army... To make a long story short, has there been any reply from Commander Wang? When will the Air Force reinforcements arrive..." Li Shengda
Open your mouth and say.
"In two minutes, in two minutes, a bomber brigade will rush to the battlefield to participate in the attack. It can be defeated by any means. After several years of development, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Army has already surpassed that of his Kwantung Army.
.In the face of real strength, any conspiracy and trickery are incomparable..." With the chief of staff's affirmative answer, Li Shengda no longer had any worries and said with a heroic face...
"Captain, you are just rubbing salt into this kid's wound... If Ikeda knew it, it was because he had drained all his reserves that he helped us break through his defenses and go straight to the Kwantung Army's high command.
, he was so angry that he vomited blood..." the regiment chief of staff said with a smile on his face.
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