Xu Dalong stepped forward to greet him. At this time, his identity was the Japanese Army's Shaozuo. He respectfully saluted the Japanese Army's Center Zuo and said hello to him.
The Japanese center left was very confused and asked: "Who are you and why are you here? Where is Tanaka?" It was obvious that the Japanese center left was familiar with this bridge guarding force, and the Tanaka he mentioned should be the Japanese bridge guard.
The squadron leader of the army.
Xu Dalong knew that the lake could not be cleared, so he was too lazy to talk nonsense to him. He waved his hand, and a group of special operations team members disguised as Japanese troops pointed their guns at the Japanese army's center left and his officers and soldiers.
The center left of the Japanese army realized that the people in front of him were not Japanese officers and soldiers, but enemy soldiers pretending to be soldiers. He immediately reached for his gun.
Xu Dalong took a step forward and punched him on the head. The devil was knocked to the left and fainted immediately.
The special forces members also took action to disarm the Japanese troops. However, the Japanese troops were very tenacious. They still resisted in the face of so many guns pointed at them.
A special operations team member had no choice but to fire a shot, killing a Japanese soldier who was stabbing him with a bayonet.
Just at this moment, a truck full of Japanese soldiers drove over. They saw what was happening on the bridge. The Japanese commander in the truck knew that there was something wrong with the bridge and immediately ordered the truck to stop and ordered the Japanese officers and soldiers to get off the bridge.
fighting.
Monk Wei, who had been monitoring this group of Japanese troops, knew that he could no longer hide it, and immediately ordered to open fire on the Japanese troops to eliminate the group of Japanese troops in front of him.
The special operations team members set up a Type 92 heavy machine gun and two crooked machine guns left behind by the Japanese bridge guarding troops, plus seven or eight light machine guns they brought with them, and fired fiercely at the Japanese troops.
The Japanese officers and soldiers had just jumped out of the truck and before they could stand still, they were hit by bullets one after another. The Japanese soldiers who had not yet got out of the truck lay on the truck and shot at the guerrillas.
Monk Wei took out a grenade and threw it towards the Japanese truck.
The grenade fell into the carriage and exploded violently, directly wiping out the Japanese soldiers in the carriage.
The guerrillas rushed over quickly and completely wiped out the remaining soldiers.
While a fierce battle was taking place at the bridgehead, Xu Dalong observed the situation on the highway.
He could clearly see that a Japanese truck stopped more than two hundred meters away, then quickly turned around and returned to the original route.
Xu Dalong knew that the Japanese troops in the car must have seen the fighting on the bridge and they had been exposed.
He didn't know how long it would take for the Japanese reinforcements to reach the bridge, so he ordered all the team members to enter the position and prepare to repel the Japanese counterattack.
Lin Xueying sent a telegram to Cui Zhenyue, asking when they would arrive at the Liangzhou River Bridge.
In Cui Zhenyue's tank, the radio station was kept on, and he quickly sent a telegram back to Lin Xueying, saying that they were traveling at high speed and were still about half an hour away from the Liangzhou River Bridge.
Twenty minutes later, four Japanese trucks appeared on the road at the south end of the bridge, loaded with Japanese soldiers. Behind them, there was a puppet army on foot, heading towards the bridge.
A few minutes later, the Japanese army arrived about 200 meters away from the bridge. The Japanese officers and soldiers began to get out of the car, set up artillery on the ground, and formed an attack formation, preparing to attack the bridge.
Xu Dalong saw the Japanese army standing in line and setting up artillery there. He decided to take a preemptive strike and ordered the guerrilla artillery to bombard the Japanese army.
Under the command of Xu Dalong, the guerrilla artillery fired very accurately and directly killed the Japanese artillery.
Then the artillery shells kept falling among the enemy groups, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army. The Japanese army was forced to disperse their formation and was unable to organize an effective attack for a while.
Xu Dalong ordered the artillery to continue firing artillery shells at the Japanese army to delay the Japanese attack as much as possible.
At this time, Japanese troops suddenly appeared on the north side of the bridge. It was obvious that troops from the Japanese 37th Division had received the report and came for reinforcements.
The Japanese troops who came for reinforcements were riding in at least 20 vehicles, with hundreds of Japanese officers and soldiers. They also got off the vehicle about 200 meters away.
Wang Pao, who was guarding this end of the bridge, also adopted preemptive tactics. He ordered the artillerymen behind him to fire artillery shells at the Japanese army. Although their shooting was not as accurate as Xu Dalong's, the Japanese army was still numerous and dense in formation, so they still suffered a lot.
of casualties.
The Japanese troops of the 37th Regiment were worthy of being field troops. Their reaction speed was faster than that of the Japanese troops of the 33rd Division guarding the south of the bridge. Soon they began to set up artillery and launched a counterattack. Then the Japanese officers and soldiers of the brigade moved towards
Rushed over from the direction of the bridge.
The officers and soldiers of Wang Pao's motorcycle squadron set up machine guns and fired fiercely at the Japanese troops. Their firepower was very fierce. There was an open field near the bridgehead, and the Japanese officers and soldiers were exposed in the open area and had nothing to exploit.
The terrain and features suffered heavy casualties under the fierce firepower, and the attack had to be temporarily suspended.
Based on the enemy's firepower on the bridge and the number of guerrillas he saw, the Japanese commander knew that there were many enemy troops and it would be difficult to capture the bridge with just his few men.
So while he sent a telegram to his superiors for help, he ordered his troops to build fortifications on the spot to prevent the enemy troops on the bridge from escaping, and waited for the large troops to arrive and annihilate the enemies.
Seeing that half an hour was up, the troops led by Wang Chengzhu, Cui Zhenyue and Li Zhendong had not arrived yet. Another ten minutes passed, and still no trace of them was seen.
Xu Dalong guessed that they might have been intercepted by the enemy, so he asked Lin Xueying to send a telegram to ask them what happened there.
Just as Lin Xueying's telegram was sent, a telegram from Sun Desheng was sent, saying that they had also been intercepted by the enemy on the road.
The troops led by Sun Desheng, Li Zhendong and others included thousands of troops. It was difficult for such a large army to hide their whereabouts. Especially Cui Zhenyue's chariot troops, which shook the earth when they moved, and it was impossible to hide them from the eyes and ears of the Japanese army.
Around the marching road, the Japanese and puppet troops discovered such a large anti-Japanese armed team and hurriedly reported it to their superiors.
The nearby Japanese troops rushed over and intercepted them. The two sides had already started a fierce battle. However, Sun Desheng said that because the Japanese troops were not prepared in advance, not many troops arrived. They were now attacking the Japanese troops and soon
The enemy can be defeated quickly, and it won't take long to reach the Liangzhou River Bridge.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Xu Dalong quickly told the special forces members the news and asked them to hold on for 20 minutes, and the reinforcements would definitely arrive.
At this time, the Japanese troops on both sides of the bridge began to attack. Apparently, the Japanese commanders were notified that enemy reinforcements were coming and asked them to recapture the bridge as soon as possible.
The Japanese commanders also knew the seriousness of the problem, so they launched a frantic attack on the bridge regardless of casualties.
Although the number of special operations team members is far less than that of the Japanese army, they are well-equipped and carry a large number of machine guns and artillery. In addition, the captured Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked machine guns of the Japanese bridge guarding troops have great firepower.
has a great advantage.
The Japanese officers and soldiers launched a charge in the open area, but made no progress apart from throwing down pieces of corpses. They had no choice but to fire artillery shells in the direction of the bridge.
For the guerrillas guarding the bridge, the power of the artillery shells was the most damaging to them. Except for the two bunkers on the bridge, everyone else was exposed to open-air defensive positions built with sandbags, making it basically impossible to avoid enemy fire.
Attack. Under the fierce artillery attack of the Japanese army, the guerrillas soon suffered a lot of casualties.
The special operations team members used artillery to fight back against the Japanese army. At this time, Xu Dalong showed his power as a master gunner and personally operated a Type 92 infantry cannon, specifically to attack the enemy's artillery. Every shell fired was able to destroy almost all of them.
An enemy artillery piece.
After a fierce artillery battle, the Japanese artillery was basically destroyed. The enemy's artillery shells hit less and less. The guerrillas breathed a sigh of relief and expressed admiration for the captain, the master artilleryman.
look.
At this moment, a burst of cheers came from the Japanese position. The guerrillas saw the Japanese officers and soldiers ducking aside, and two tanks and several armored vehicles drove over from behind. It turned out that their reinforcements had arrived again.
The Japanese commander knew that enemy reinforcements were also coming here, so he ordered the troops to attack without hesitation.
Two Japanese tanks and several armored vehicles opened the way in front, and a large number of Japanese officers and soldiers followed them and rushed over. The terrain here is flat and open, which is very suitable for tanks and armored vehicles to maneuver.
They were moving very fast, and in a moment they were less than 100 meters away from the bridge. The guerrillas' machine guns and rifles were unable to deal with the enemy tanks, and they could only watch helplessly as they rushed over.
At this critical moment, Xu Dalong played a role.
He personally controlled the Type 92 infantry gun, aimed at the enemy tank, and fired one shot at the tank's turret.
The Japanese army did not have heavy tanks, and the front armor of the Type 97 medium tank was only 28 centimeters. The overall structure of the tank was not strong enough. It could not withstand a direct hit from the Type 92 infantry gun shells.
Although the shell did not penetrate the armor of the enemy tank, the violent explosion stunned the crew inside the tank. The electrical wiring and fuel pipelines on the tank also failed, and the tank that was hit was immediately paralyzed.
Xu Dalong aimed at another tank at a very fast speed and fired a shot 80 meters away from the tank.
This shot hit the tank driver's position. The armor here was only about two centimeters thick. Although it was still not penetrated, the violent explosion of the shell directly killed the Japanese driver. This tank
It stopped all of a sudden.
When the Japanese officers and soldiers saw that the tank could no longer drive, they simply jumped over the tank and continued to rush towards the guerrilla position.
At this time, they were only a few dozen meters away from the guerrilla position. Under the fierce machine gun fire of the guerrillas, they fell one by one.
They knew this was in vain, so they hid behind the remaining three armored vehicles and continued to charge forward.
Unfortunately, the area that the three armored vehicles could cover was too small. The exposed Japanese infantry were killed one after another, leaving only the Japanese soldiers behind the three armored vehicles to follow.
The guerrillas' defensive position was relatively wide. As the armored vehicle got closer, the Japanese behind the armored vehicle were also exposed. The guerrillas on both sides of the position fired fiercely at the Japanese behind the armored vehicle.
The Japanese soldiers were killed one after another, and the rest also retreated.
The Japanese soldiers in the three armored vehicles did not notice this situation at all. They continued to rush over and rushed directly into the guerrilla position. The Japanese soldiers in the armored vehicles fired fiercely at the guerrillas. Those who were exposed outside
The guerrillas were shot and fell one after another.
Because the distance was too close, using artillery to destroy the armored vehicle would easily injure one's own people when the shell exploded. However, Xu Dalong could not care so much and controlled the Type 92 infantry gun to fire directly less than 10 meters away from the armored vehicle.
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Most of the armor of the Japanese armored vehicles is only 8mm thick, which can only resist machine gun bullets. Where it can withstand the shells of the Type 92 infantry gun, the armored vehicle will be blown to pieces with one shot.
Because the distance was too close, many guerrillas were accidentally injured by the fragments of the shell explosion. Even Xu Dalong's leg was scratched by shrapnel one after another.
The Japanese soldiers on the other armored vehicles also noticed Xu Dalong, and they concentrated their fire on Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong hurriedly hid behind the sandbag to avoid being hit.
Many of the special forces members wanted to use grenades to blow up the enemy's armored vehicles, but the armored vehicles were bare and the grenades would bounce away immediately if thrown over them. There was no place to put the grenades.
Fortunately, the guerrilla artillerymen saw how the captain dealt with the Japanese armored vehicles, and they also fired at the armored vehicles with artillery.
At this time, the farthest they were from the enemy's armored vehicle was only twenty or thirty meters. At such a close distance, they could directly hit the enemy's armored vehicle without much aiming.
Soon after, the remaining two armored vehicles were also destroyed, finally repelling the Japanese attack.
When the Japanese commander saw the guerrillas busy dealing with the armored vehicles, he immediately organized his troops and rushed towards the bridge.
Knowing that the situation was critical, he issued a death order this time. No one was allowed to retreat. They must rush into the enemy's defensive positions and recapture the bridge.
The Japanese army invested enough troops this time to include an infantry brigade. They used a large number of machine guns to suppress the firepower of the guerrillas and covered the infantry as they rushed towards the bridge.
The guerrillas were so anxious that they didn't bother to dodge the bullets fired by the enemy. They just pointed their guns at the charging Japanese troops and kept pulling the triggers.
The only troops Xu Dalong brought this time were Wei Monk's special operations squadron and Wang Pao's motorcycle squadron, with a total strength of no more than 400. They defended both ends of the bridge, with only more than 100 people at each end. After a period of fighting just now,
, there were a total of seventy or eighty casualties, with only about 100 people left at each end of the bridge.
Facing thousands of Japanese troops charging at the same time, they were unable to defeat them. They watched as the Japanese soldiers rushed to the front of the position.
The Japanese soldiers were charging while preparing to throw grenades. As long as they rushed to a distance of 30 meters, the Japanese soldiers threw grenades together, and the guerrillas simply couldn't resist it.
Just when the Japanese soldiers rushed about 60 meters to the guerrillas' defensive position, fierce gunfire and the loud sound of the guerrillas' charging horns suddenly sounded from behind the Japanese soldiers.