Tomoko Maruyama carried a plate and kept walking through the corridors and beds of the temporary hospital. She felt exhausted these days. Countless wounded people were being transported in and out, making her so busy that she didn't even have time to rest.
The reason why Maruyama Tomoko came to China was because her brother Maruyama Nobita died in Nanjing, China. Her brother was a non-commissioned officer of the Yamada detachment. It was said that he died at Yijiangmen in Nanjing. It was said that he died bravely.
The person who sent the death notice to their family said so, and it was also written in the death report. Tomoko also firmly believed that her brother would be like this.
Maruyama Tomoko still remembered that many people came to their village to deliver death notices that day. Due to the characteristics of Japanese infantry service, many people in the village served in the Yamada detachment like her brother. But from that day on, Maruyama Tomoko knew that in the
All the people in the Yamada Detachment died because all their family members serving in the Yamada Detachment received death notices.
Maruyama Tomoko's parents died in her early years. It was her brother who raised her up. She loved her brother very much. She believed that her brother came to China to fight for the future of the Japanese Empire in order to be loyal to the emperor.
Since Tomoko had received medical training, she worked as a nurse in a clinic in the county town before coming to China. She missed her brother, so she asked to come to various dead Chinese to do something for the wounded soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. Although she
I am only eighteen today.
Tomoko was assigned to the 10th Division as an assistant to a medical officer. This medical officer was usually very amiable and always had a smile on his face. He even sawed off the broken bones of injured soldiers.
His face still had a smile on his face.
But Tomoko always felt that this kind of scene would make her feel sick and sick. Whenever she heard the medical officer using a saw to cut off the bones of the wounded soldiers, the "crack" sound made by the saw always made her feel tight and tight in the chest.
, she was so flustered that whenever this happened, she would always reach out and cover her chest, turning her head and trying not to look.
And the medical officer would always say to her:
"Miss Tomoko, look!"
Tomoko didn't want to turn around.
"Miss Tomoko, you want to see it!"
"No!"
“You have to see it!”
Tomoko felt that the medical officer's words were like an order. She reluctantly turned her head to look at the wounded soldier's leg. In the middle of the bloody flesh, there was a white bone, which looked like a thick white candle.
"This was caused by Chinese artillery shells!" the medical officer said.
The place where Zhizi was located was the place where Chinese artillery shells bombarded him. This place was called Taierzhuang.
The 40th Regiment of the Japanese Tenth Division fought for three consecutive days in Taierzhuang. Starting from the morning of March 23, they launched continuous attacks on the north gate of Taierzhuang with the cooperation of aircraft, artillery, and tanks.
attack.
At first, the Forty Regiment fought fiercely, but then one squadron broke into too deep and was completely annihilated by the Chinese army behind the Taishan Temple. Then they began to pay attention to the opponent in front of them. On March 24, the North Gate
After a section of the city wall was destroyed by artillery fire, the Third Battalion poured into the village through the gap, but the defenders in the village continued to launch counterattacks against the Japanese army.
The two sides continued to engage in gun battles and hand-to-hand combat in the streets. After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Japanese Third Battalion, which suffered heavy casualties, was beaten out. They built fortifications in nearby areas to prevent the Chinese defenders from counterattacking and waited for reinforcements during the year.
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At 16:20 p.m. on the 26th, reinforcements from the First Battalion led by Captain Hayato Mitengmoto of the 40th Regiment arrived, and together with the Third Battalion attacked, they launched a fierce attack and occupied the north gate of Taierzhuang.
The next day, the Japanese army launched its third attack on Taierzhuang with two infantry brigades, four attached brigades, one squadron, two squadrons, artillery, and tanks. The defenders used frontal resistance and two
Counterattack with a flank attack and bombarded the Japanese positions with intensive artillery fire.
In this counterattack, the Chinese army not only displayed amazing courage and dense rain of bullets, but what shocked the Japanese army most was that their counterattack artillery fire was extremely powerful.
Colonel Fujimoto Hayato discovered that the Chinese army's counterattack artillery fire turned out to be 155-caliber heavy howitzers, and the number was quite large. This discovery made Fujimoto Hayato's hands and feet start to feel cold.
The discovery that the Chinese actually had a 155-caliber heavy howitzer was enough to shock everyone, especially Hayato Fujimoto, who was the first to bear the brunt. He didn't know how to describe his mood.
Directing the battle in a temporary command post, he saw with his own eyes through the telescope that a squadron of 180 Imperial Japanese soldiers were covered by just one of these 155 howitzer groups during a charge.
, only less than 20 people came back ten minutes later. Moreover, these 20 people also included six seriously wounded and seven lightly wounded. In other words, the opponent's artillery fire only covered a squadron of soldiers from our own side.
This result made Colonel Fujimoto Hayato furious and terrified.
The frightened Colonel Hayato Fujimoto launched a fierce attack and ordered the artillery to immediately fire gas bombs into the village. For a while, the north gate was enveloped in bursts of yellow smoke.
Fifteen minutes later, when the Japanese troops wearing gas masks launched another attack, to their surprise, the firepower of the defenders not only did not weaken, but became more ferocious, and the dense rain of bullets made the Japanese troops complain incessantly.
At this time, the Japanese army discovered that the Chinese army on the opposite side was actually equipped with gas masks, and their performance was no better than their own gas masks, or even better.
At this time, Colonel Fujimoto Hayato, who had used up all his magic weapons, had no choice but to ask his superiors for emergency combat guidance.
The commander of the Japanese North China Front, Juichi Terauchi, received the telegram from Colonel Fujimoto Hayato and immediately ordered the 111th Brigade of the 5th Division and the 106th Division still in Linyi to immediately go south to reinforce Taierzhuang. At the same time, he ordered the Third Flight
The division intensified its bombing of Taierzhuang, especially the bombing of the Chinese army's heavy artillery groups.
Under the bombardment of Japanese planes that had absolute air supremacy, the Chinese army's heavy artillery regiment also suffered certain damage. In four days, five of the sixteen heavy artillery were lost, and the remaining eleven heavy artillery were only
We can move positions frequently, but we no longer dare to provide continuous fire support like we did in the past few days.
On the afternoon of March 27, the 11th Division, which had been rushing to Taierzhuang for a long time, arrived at Taierzhuang and immediately launched an attack on the southeast corner of Taierzhuang under the order of Isotani Rensuke.
On the 28th, the southeast corner of Taierzhuang fell. The Japanese army used this as a stronghold and gradually occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang.
When the battle reached this stage, not only did the Japanese army suffer heavy casualties, but the 31st Division in Chifeng City also suffered more than half of its casualties. There were now less than 6,000 people left out of more than 12,000.
On the morning of the 29th, two regiments of the Setani Brigade of the 10th Division also arrived on the battlefield. As soon as this new force arrived, they launched a fierce attack on Taierzhuang, and soon occupied the south of Zhuangzi. For a time, Chifeng City
The 31st Division suddenly felt a huge pressure in Taierzhuang.
In the Guandi Temple, Chi Fengcheng shouted to the phone: "Sir Sun, our 31st Division has less than 4,000 brothers who can move, and there are still many people inside who are injured. Can you please help?"
Mercy, let us, the 31st Division, withdraw across the south bank of the canal to take a breather, and our brothers in the 31st Division should also hurry up for your great kindness!"
Soon, the voice of Sun Lianzhong came over the phone. The deputy commander-in-chief of the theater and commander of the Second Group Army who was always smiling on weekdays sounded really cold and ruthless at this moment: "Chifengcheng, I tell you, if the soldiers fight...
When it's all gone, just go ahead and fill it in yourself. Once you've filled it in, I'll fill it in. Anyone who dares to retreat across the canal will be killed without mercy!"
Chi Fengcheng put down the phone, and a burst of misery surged into his heart. After a while, he shouted to several staff officers around him: "Whatever you are looking at, go to the battlefield for me. Let me tell you, everyone is here today."
Don’t even think about getting out, let’s all die here!”
After saying that, Chi Chengfeng pulled out his pistol and strode outside to the roar of gunfire...
After Sun Lianzhong on the other end of the phone put down the phone, his face became very ugly. He quickly dialed another number and begged Li Zongren on the other end of the phone: "Sir, Chi Chengfeng is about to lose his strength in Taierzhuang.
Can you please let him withdraw and take a breather? Please do yourself a favor and leave some seeds for our Northwest Army!"
Chief Li had had contact with some Northwest Army generals in his early years and knew that these Northwest men were loyal and honest. Sun Lianzhong would not have spoken so sadly unless he had to. But Li Zongren expected that Tang Enbo's army would be able to reach the north of Taierzhuang tomorrow and the next day. The Second Army would now
If we give up Taierzhuang, we will miss the mark.
Therefore, Chief Li said to Sun Lianzhong: "The enemy and we have been fighting bloody battles in Taierzhuang for a week, and the outcome will be decided in the last five minutes. Reinforcements will arrive at noon tomorrow, and I will personally come to Taierzhuang tomorrow morning to supervise the battle. You must stay until dawn tomorrow.
I will send reinforcements to you right now. After the reinforcements arrive, you must work together to defend Taierzhuang."
Sun Lianzhong asked: "Sir, which reinforcements are you sending?"
A clear voice came from the other end of the phone: "Three Hundred Brigade!"
"Ring ring ring..."
A clear ringtone rang in the war room of the 300 Brigade, and Liang Zhi immediately picked up the phone.
"Hey...is it the 300 Brigade? Xu Zuyi, Chief of Staff of the Theater Command, now I am ordering you on the orders of the Theater Commander to immediately mobilize the entire 300 Brigade and quickly reinforce Taierzhuang!"
"Yes, the Three Hundred Brigade understands and will quickly reinforce Taierzhuang!"
"Snapped……"
After putting down the phone, Liang Zhi raised his head and looked at Su Rui beside him, and a sharp look flashed in their eyes at the same time...
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