Seeing those Japanese soldiers who remained in a lurking posture until the moment they died, even Sun Hao, who hated the Japanese army extremely, couldn't help but sigh at the Japanese army's perseverance and cursed: "Grandma, these little devils are like dogs."
I almost deceived them. We hit them all three times. Their losses were so heavy, but no one said a word. Our flares and searchlights swept over them, and they all gritted their teeth and showed no sign of anything.
Dongjing. We must learn from this. Although the little devils are hateful, we still have to learn their advantages and be better than them. Only in this way can we truly defeat them."
"Sir, now that the brothers of the Seventh Army have rushed over, do we want to follow them?" At this time, someone asked from the side.
Sun Hao turned around and looked around, and found that there were soldiers of the Seventh Army all around him for several kilometers. They were so densely packed that he didn’t know how many there were. He cursed in his heart, and said to the officer beside him in frustration: "Okay, tell me
Brothers, the whole regiment must withdraw its troops and return to the position."
"What... Tuanzu, are we not going to attack?" An officer on the side asked unwillingly: "Sir, the Japanese have been defeated. This is our best chance to drive them into Nanping City. Why are they retreating?
Where is it?"
"You know nothing!" Sun Hao scolded angrily: "Don't look at the fact that we are surrounded by brothers from the Seventh Army. Even if we go, we probably won't even be able to drink soup, so why bother?
What a waste of all this effort."
The officers next to them looked at the soldiers of the Seventh Army who were all over the mountains and plains rushing towards Nanping City, and then looked at the pitifully few soldiers behind them. Well, it can't be said that they were pitifully few. The commander of their regiment said that there were
There are several thousand people, but compared with the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Seventh Army within several square kilometers nearby, that is really not enough.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the 678th Regiment lost their motivation. They stopped one after another, and under the leadership of the officers, they started to clean up the battlefield. As the saying goes, Wu Dalang played like a night owl - whoever plays like a bird is like a bird. As the saying goes, in Su
Under the leadership of Rui, the soldiers of the Seventh Army are now becoming more and more demanding. When they are cleaning the battlefield, they are scrambling for Japanese weapons and equipment from other Japanese troops, such as Type 38 rifles and Type 92 heavy weapons.
Machine guns, grenade launchers and other things generally look down on them, but they like the sabers, watches and some rarer items worn by Japanese army officers. They pick and choose other things like rags.
Collect them.
As the saying goes, a defeat is like a mountain. This defeat of the Japanese army is a big deal. When they were bombarded last night, Kumagai Keiichi received a report from the Chief of Staff, Colonel Toshiyuki Sataka, saying that his latent troops were bombarded. Is it right?
The soldiers need to be ordered to withdraw temporarily.
Kumagai Keiichi's face was still expressionless as he said: "Judging from the shooting method of the attackers, they may have felt a little uneasy. It's not that they found anything wrong. Now immediately issue an order to the lurking troops to continue lurking.
The target is not allowed to be exposed, and those who dare to disobey orders will be dealt with according to military law!"
After the bombardment, when the searchlights and flares of the Sixty-Seventh Regiment illuminated the Japanese army's hiding place, the staff officers of the 15th Division were also extremely nervous. Only Kumagai Keiichi always believed that his soldiers would not be discovered. Sure enough, things passed.
Not long after, the various observation posts and frontline sentries of the 398th Division found no abnormality, and reported the situation to Cheng Sheng and the division headquarters, and they relaxed their vigilance. And the Japanese latent troops continued to lurk until
It was around three o'clock in the morning. It stands to reason that the Japanese army had made extreme preparations before the 398th Division launched an attack on the opposite side. However, just when they were about to sneak past and kill them, they accidentally detonated a mine through the mine array and launched a sneak attack.
The success was about to fail, and the sneak attack turned into an open attack. However, in the following battle, it was blocked by the powerful firepower of the 398th Division. After several hours of fierce fighting, it failed to break through the 398th Division's defense line. When the sky began to turn dark,
When the light came on, Kumagai Keiichi knew that his desperate move had failed.
"How could this happen? How could this happen?" Standing on the last line of defense of the Japanese army, Kumagai Keiichi looked at the Chinese soldiers rushing toward him. He had long lost the madness he had when commanding the charge last night, and his face had become unusually pale.
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Kumagai Keiichi was not an idiot. When he launched the night attack, he did not leave himself a way out. He only sent out three of the four regiments under his command, leaving one regiment distributed in various positions as the remaining troops.
, in this way, he could resist for a while even if the night attack failed. But what he didn't expect was that the Chinese army on the opposite side actually came for reinforcements, and there were more than ordinary troops. There were tens of thousands of troops pouring in overwhelmingly.
Coming over, the several dilapidated positions in front were quickly submerged, leaving only the last position still lingering.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we'd better leave quickly. The Japanese are about to kill us." Chief of Staff Sasaka Toshiyuki's expression was equally ugly. He was the first to propose the night attack plan, but in the end not only did it not succeed.
Needless to say, even our own position was breached by the Chinese army. Although the person who made the final decision was Kumagai Keiichi, as the chief of staff of the division, he also had an unshirkable responsibility.
It's just that it's too late to say this now. Seeing the overwhelming influx of Chinese soldiers and the deafening shouts of killing, Saotaka Toshiyuki had no choice but to look at the front. He said to the division commander Kumagai Keiichi behind him: "Your Excellency, division commander,
us
It’s better to retreat to Nanping City first, we can’t hold it here anymore!”
Kumagai Keiichi let out a long sigh. As a division commander of a Japanese field division, how could he not know that the situation was over now? This peripheral position must not be able to be defended. He nodded helplessly: "Okay, order
The forward troops immediately retracted and retreated to Nanping City under alternate cover."
"Hai!"
In this way, when Kumagai Keiichi led the remaining Japanese troops to retreat to Nanping City in embarrassment under the pursuit of countless Chinese troops. When Kumagai Keiichi ordered his men to count the number of people, it was discovered that in just one night, the number of people in his fifteenth division had
It has shrunk by more than half, from the original more than 20,000 people to only more than 10,000 people now. Including the 63rd Division originally stationed in the city, they now only have more than 20,000 people left. Facing
With the Chinese army outside, he kept praying that reinforcements from the Kwantung Army would arrive as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to resist the Chinese army, which had an absolute advantage in both military strength and firepower.
Just as Kumagai Kei couldn't help praying for the arrival of Kwantung Army reinforcements, with the arrival of an ugly-looking J-52 Junkers transport plane, a man also arrived at a temporary location more than two hundred miles outside Nanping City.
Field airfield.
When the plane was taxiing slowly on the earthen runway, dozens of generals and officers who had been waiting by the runway for a long time also stood at the door of the cabin waiting as soon as the cabin was opened.
The hatch slowly opened, and a general in his forty-six or seventeen years old, wearing the rank of Army General, slowly walked out. This general was of medium build, with a Chinese character face, and two thick eyebrows that added to his majesty.
It made people look in awe. When he stepped off the gangway of the plane, a lieutenant general who had been in front of him immediately walked up, saluted and said loudly: "The 400th Army of the Seventh Group of the National Revolutionary Army"
Army Commander Bai Jingran was ordered to report to Commander Bai, Sir, thank you for your hard work coming all the way!"
The man who got off the plane was General Bai Chongxi, then the Minister of Military Training of the Nationalist Army and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Revolutionary Army. Since Su Rui and Liang Zhi decided to invite Bai Chongxi to command the battle in Fujian,
, he immediately submitted an application to the National Government. He originally thought that Chairman Chiang would take the opportunity to make things difficult. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Military Affairs and Government quickly agreed to Su Rui’s request, but appended to the telegram of agreement
One condition is to let Su Rui provide another batch of Wildcat fighter spare parts and a batch of new fighters to the Central Air Force, and this time the National Government no longer wants the Wildcat fighters that have been eliminated by the Seventh Group Army, but the ones that
A new type of P-47 fighter aircraft is in service, but this time the National Government is not as big as the lion, and only wants twenty. Looking at the telegram in his hand, Suri felt like he was laughing or crying at the time, and he was very happy without thinking.
I quickly agreed.
Bai Chongxi, who had just got off the plane, first looked at Bai Jingran quietly in front of him, then suddenly pointed at him with a smile and said: "Bai Jingran, I know you, aren't you the instructor from the teaching corps? I was in ** for twenty-five years.
I saw the drills you commanded when I was in the teaching corps, and you are a very capable officer!"
Seeing Bai Chongxi telling her origins, Bai Jingran couldn't help but feel happy, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he said loudly: "Thank you for the compliment, sir, I'm not worthy of it!"
Although Bai Jingran was already a lieutenant general at this time, he couldn't help but feel a little excited when faced with the praise of the Guangxi giant who had been famous in China for decades. After all, Bai Chongxi's nickname of "Little Zhuge" was not blown out.
, but it took more than 20 years to build it step by step.
Seeing that Bai Jingran was still standing motionless in front of him, Bai Chongxi couldn't help but joked: "Why, Commander Bai, you are a little bit unwelcome when you see an old guy like me coming, or are you a little unhappy that I took away your command right as soon as I came?"
?”
Although Bai Chongxi said it in a joking tone, Bai Jingran was still taken aback and quickly said with a grimace: "Sir, the words are serious, please don't say that. You are a well-known pillar of the party and the country. The ministry can
It’s a blessing to have the tail fin attached, so why not be unhappy about it!”
"Hahaha..." Bai Chongxi couldn't help laughing, pointing at Bai Jingran and saying: "Commander Bai, if you say this, your Commander Su will be unhappy if he hears it."