This time the attack was no longer the first test attack, but an all-out attack. A large number of Japanese troops appeared on the left, center, and right at the same time.
In this attack, the Japanese army concentrated 10,000 infantry, 80 tanks, hundreds of artillery pieces and more than 40 aircraft. Only densely packed aircraft were seen pouring bombs on the defenders' positions, while the Japanese artillery and the Shanxi-Sui Army
The artillery regiment engaged in an artillery battle. The infantry continued to charge under the cover of the tanks. The 14th Army and the 9th Army continued to use machine guns and grenades to resist the Japanese attack. Facing the Japanese tanks, the anti-artillery was defeated by the Japanese artillery.
After all the aircraft and planes were wiped out, the defenders used cluster grenades and explosive packs to fight the steel tanks with their bodies. However, often a squad of death squads rushed forward, but they could not even touch the Japanese tanks. In just one day, Nanhuaihua
, Dabaishui Village and several other positions were lost one after another.
At night, the battlefield that had been fiercely fought for a day gradually became quiet. Several commanders also took this opportunity to get together and hold a combat meeting.
Li Mo'an's left wing was the worst hit today. He sighed, "The Japanese planes are so annoying. As soon as our firepower is exposed, they will come and take a shit. Dozens of my machine guns were knocked out."
If this continues, we will not be able to hold on."
Hao Mengling in the middle also said, "Yes, Commander Wei, we can survive the artillery, and we can use our lives to blow up the tanks, but the plane brothers really can't survive it. You must know that the soldiers below usually don't even see cars."
However, there are many people who saw an airplane for the first time. When the war just started, there were a few country bumpkins who knelt down and begged God for blessings when they saw the airplane. Tell me, what happened."
Wei Lihuang nodded at the table and said, "Stop talking about it. What can I do about the Japanese planes? We only have twenty or thirty planes, not even half of the Japanese ones. We can only give priority to protecting the safety of the artillery positions. If there is no artillery fire,
With the support, is this battle still necessary? Don’t mention the difficulties anymore, let’s talk about how to fight the subsequent battles.”
Fu Zuoyi, who had been silent, said, "After today's battle, I feel that although the Japanese are strong, they are not strong enough. Not only are their troops not as large as ours, but their firepower is also inferior in some aspects. I think we can fight back."
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Several other people looked at him in surprise. After all, since the war started, except for the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, there had never been any active attack. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army had only staged an ambush, not a true positional battle.
I only saw Fu Zuoyi continue to say, "Generals, please see, the Nanhuaihua position is completely covered by our artillery fire. Our army can attack Dabaishui Village, the Ninth Army and the Seventeenth Army from the 10th and 83rd Divisions."
Two groups are attacking Nan Huaihua Village. As long as we take advantage of the difficulty of attacking it at night, we can completely annihilate the regiment stationed here."
What a big deal. The result of wiping out a regiment has never been seen before. I heard that several other generals were excited. Hao Mengling was the first to say, "Okay, let's fight like this. I will personally lead the team to attack Nan Huaihua."
Wei Lihuang also nodded and said, "You can indeed give it a try. Soldiers are valuable and quick. We will take action tonight."
That night, the Japanese army's positions were being renovated. The fierce fighting yesterday was something they had never encountered before. In places they couldn't see, tens of thousands of Nationalist troops were creeping towards them.
A brigade of Japanese troops was stationed in Dabaishui Village. After a day of fighting, there were only more than 600 people left. Captain Matsusaka Jiro led a few guards to patrol the position. Looking at the stars in the sky, Matsusaka Jiro
I always wanted to say some poems to suit my mood, but after holding it back for a long time, I finally gave up. After all, I was just a farmer's son, so it was natural that I couldn't write poems. After comforting himself, Matsusaka Jiro waved and led others to continue.
As he walked forward, when he turned back, hundreds of pairs of bright eyes suddenly opened. The leading officer waved his hand, and the people behind him gritted their teeth and continued to crawl forward.
Matsusaka Jiro felt something was wrong. He turned around suddenly, but only saw the dark wilderness. Matsusaka Jiro rolled his eyes and said, "You guys, go over and take a look."
Although he didn't understand, he saw three Japanese soldiers coming towards him with San Ba Da Gai, and knew that he could no longer hide it. The leader of the regiment yelled "fight" and only saw dozens of them that had been prepared.
The grenades flew towards the stunned Matsusaka Erlang. Matsusaka Erlang stared at the rain of grenades in stunned silence. Fortunately, he fainted first, followed by a series of explosions. Matsusaka Erlang and more than a dozen guards accompanied him.
One of the squadron leaders was sent back to his hometown by the 10th Division without even leaving any last words.
When other Japanese soldiers heard the explosion, they woke up suddenly and asked each other in a panic what happened. However, they only saw countless enemies with their faces painted black and rushing towards them with swords or bayonets.
The deputy captain who stayed at the headquarters was frightened by the raging offensive and quickly called the Nanhuaihua position nearby. After all, there was a regiment of troops stationed there. He finally got through, but only heard countless explosions. The deputy captain
The captain quickly looked towards the Nan Huaihua position and saw countless fireballs appearing on the position. Well, there was no need to ask for help. They should be lucky to themselves.
Itagaki Seishiro will never forget this night for the rest of his life. There were continuous night raid warnings, and he commanded the troops to rescue. Instead, they were ambushed by the Ninth Army, which was familiar with the terrain and had been prepared for it. When it finally dawned, he didn’t know if it was the land of China.
With the blessing of the gods, two Chinese fighter planes flying in the wrong direction actually found their station. Looking at the high antennas, the two planes naturally knew that this was a big fish. As the pride of the empire, Itagaki's guts were captured by the two
The bombs dropped by the Chinese aircraft chased them all over the mountains. Fortunately, the aircraft of this era did not carry much bombs, otherwise Itagaki Seishiro Hachi would have become the first division commander to be killed in action.
After finally extinguishing the fire at the headquarters, looking at the battle situation, Dabaishui Village has been reoccupied by the Chinese army, and a regiment in Nan Huaihua has been completely surrounded. It is being bombarded indiscriminately by more than 200 artillery pieces.
Itagaki Seishiro took a breath and didn't dare to neglect. Forget it about Dabaishui Village, Nanhuaihua had the regiment flag. If it was captured, he would commit seppuku. He quickly ordered the troops to attack desperately.
Hao Mengling looked at the crazy Japanese army, smiled and said to Li Xianzhou next to him, "Commander Li, it seems that we have indeed controlled the enemy's bloodline."
Li Xianzhou looked at the troops on the other side who were struggling to attack the enemy and said, "Normally the Japanese army only attacks, but I didn't expect the Japanese's defensive capabilities to be higher than their offensive capabilities."
Hao Mengling nodded and said, "Then it will be up to me to stop the Japanese attack, and the task of destroying the Japanese army will be left to Commander Li."
At this time, Li Xianzhou saw a cannonball suddenly falling next to the two of them, with red smoke rising. Li Xianzhou quickly pulled Hao Mengling and ran away. After a while, dozens of cannonballs exploded the place where the two were just before, causing the mountains and the ground to collapse.
Hao Mengling looked at it and said with lingering fear, "Thank you, Master Li, for saving your life." Li Xianzhou laughed and said, "Where, it should be." After saying that, the two of them separated to command the battle. The Japanese army's attack was sharp, and the defense was even better.
Every charge was blocked by the Japanese 92 heavy machine guns and grenades. Li Xianzhou was so angry that he went to the front line with a submachine gun. Seeing the division commander's desperate efforts, the soldiers below dared not spare their lives, so he quickly followed and charged upward.
.Seeing the soldiers in front being knocked down one by one, even the cooks and coolies behind were so infected that they rushed forward to pick up the guns of the fallen soldiers and rushed up the mountain. However, such an impact was not really a big threat to the Japanese army, and they fought for a long time.
It hasn't been completely defeated either.
Seeing that he could not attack for a while, Wei Lihuang concentrated his artillery fire on Nan Huaihua and began to bombard him. He allowed the army to advance under the cover of artillery fire. However, at this time, the artillery of the Jinsui Army could not fully achieve the coordination of infantry and artillery.
Many soldiers of the 17th Army who rushed too fast died under their own artillery fire, but even so, the soldiers did not flinch at all, because their division commander accompanied them on the front line. Every soldier who wanted to retreat would
The officer next to him scolded him, "The master is in front, is your life more valuable than his?" The retreating soldier looked at it, stamped his feet, and shouted, "If a man dies, a bird will look up to the sky, but he will not die for eternity."
The slogan is to rush forward with your eyes closed.
After a day of bloody fighting, the Japanese army had not yet broken through the defensive positions of the Ninth Army, but the Nan Huaihua position had been broken by the 17th Army.
Because the Japanese army's defense was too strong, Hao Mengling and Li Xianzhou came to the offensive position to discuss countermeasures. While watching the battle, Li Xianzhou suddenly felt his chest tremble. He touched it and felt nothing, so he continued to observe the battle.
Hao Mengling, who was following behind, saw Li Xianzhou's back slowly turning red and said in fright, "Mr. Li, you have been shot!"
Only then did Li Xianzhou feel something. He touched his chest and found that there was indeed a hole, but it didn't seem to be serious. He smiled and said, "It's nothing. It just hit something. It should be a flesh wound."
Hao Mengling said anxiously, "You said it's nothing? The bullets have all gone through." He and several guards quickly brought Li Xianzhou down, gave him Yunnan Baiyao, and then urgently dragged him to the rear hospital. After taking off his clothes, he saw that the bullets were there.
Passing straight through, Li Xianzhou had lost too much blood. At this time, Li Xianzhou felt dizzy and quickly found the brigade commander of his subordinate regiment and said, "The command will be taken over by the deputy division commander. After the death of the deputy division commander, the brigade commander will take over. Our 17th Army is here."
We escaped Pingxingguan once, and that time we had friendly forces as an excuse for not helping, but now Commander Hao is sincerely fighting against Japan, you must not embarrass our 17th Army." After saying that, he fainted, and I have to say that at this time, the 38th Army
The penetrating injury helped a lot. After being transported to the hospital behind, Li Xianzhou was fine after taking penicillin and blood transfusions.
The Japanese troops on the other side were not so lucky. Mauser guns were already very powerful. Since the Chinese army's marksmanship was generally inaccurate, they no longer pursued killing an enemy within a few hundred meters. Instead, they simply moved closer and used them again.
The stone rubbed the bullet twice. This time it was good. Even if a bullet did not hit, once it hit, there would be a small hole in the front and a fist-sized hole in the back due to the rolling of the bullet. There was no way to save it. This made China on the battlefield
Here in Japan there are more casualties than casualties, but in Japan there are more casualties than casualties.
The Japanese army, who later learned about this incident, took this incident as irrefutable proof that the 38-year-old Gai was weak in lethality.
In order to cooperate with the frontal battlefield, Pingxing Pass and Yanmen Pass were also full of killings at this time. The 115th Division and the 120th Division conducted ambushes and raids on two logistics lines at the same time, especially the 115th Division. Since a large number of machine guns and artillery were captured in the first two ambush battles,
This time, they simply surrounded and attacked the logistics troops who were stationed for rest. The Japanese commander of the logistics troops even wanted to cry. He had clearly promised that he would only be attacked by the cunning Chinese army in dangerous areas such as canyons. Why did he still attack by force now?
, Lin Sanhu looked at the Japanese logistics team that was in a sea of fire by his own artillery team with his binoculars, and said with a smile, "It looks like there will be one more machine gun company."
And He Long from Yanmen Pass held his pipe, looked at a convoy marching in the drizzle at dusk, and said, "Attack!"
In an instant, there was a loud sound of gunfire at Yanmen Pass, grenades fell like raindrops, and the driving truck swayed. The Japanese army couldn't see the firepower points on the mountain clearly in the rain. The usual precision shooting was greatly reduced at this time. He Long kept doing it.
The troops were divided to fight for reinforcements. In a day and night of fighting, more than 30 trucks and more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops were destroyed.
Itagaki Seishiro saw that the elusive Eighth Route Army began to attack his logistics line again, so he had no choice but to order the troops to concentrate more than two brigades for each transportation, and to conduct fire reconnaissance and aircraft escort along the way.
Lin Sanhu and He Long saw that the transportation team had turned into hedgehogs. Without saying a word, they turned their guns and started destroying railways and highways. The Japanese army can protect your transportation team with heavy troops, but you can't surround the entire railways and highways.
The Ninth Brigade, who came for reinforcements, faced such a miserable situation. They stopped and repaired all the way. Since the troops used trucks for rapid reinforcements, looking at the dug roads, the trucks had not yet
If you walk fast, you can see it from a high altitude. The 115th and 120th divisions dug holes everywhere around the two highways, and used message trees to pass messages to each other. The Japanese transport troops kept filling the holes in the middle. Soon after filling, God knows.
Wherever the Eighth Route Army emerged, they dug out and continued to block the next batch of Japanese troops.
Kunisaki Noboru spent three days building the road like this. In the end, he got so angry that he took his ancestral samurai sword and slashed at the trees next to him. Before he could finish cutting, a burst of gunfire came, and a Japanese soldier who was building the road covered his chest and fell down.
, the Japanese army nervously took the machine gun and fired at the place where the gunshots came from, but they couldn't hit it. It turned out that after digging the road for a day, Lin Sanhu suddenly thought of the Sparrow War mentioned in the books about the Anti-Japanese War.
, simply sent out dozens of the best marksmen in the army, wearing camouflage uniforms, carrying enough ammunition and dry food, and started a sparrow battle, not seeking to kill the enemy, but just to delay the Japanese reinforcements.
Kunisaki Noboru was completely overwhelmed. Do you want to ignore such small casualties and advance quickly? The road is impassable. Do you want to build roads? From time to time, they are shot coldly, which makes everyone in the engineering unit feel in danger, and people are deployed all around.
To protect the engineers, every time they were retrieved, they would find that a few were missing. When they found the corpses again, there were 100% booby traps under them. Noboru Kunisaki had no choice but to let the cavalry troops patrol in front, hoping to use the mobility of the cavalry to ensure that there would be no booby traps in the front.
Someone dug the road, but the target of the cavalry was bigger. Every time, several people were hit by sharpshooters. The Eighth Route Army was not found, and nearly a hundred cavalry died. In the end, Kunizaki Noboru simply ignored it and led the main force with pack horses.
To carry ammunition and move forward on foot to make the truck lighter, everyone must carry a sack of dirt on their backs and throw it down to fill the road when they reach the dug place. Then take it out after walking. Indeed, a brigade of more than 10,000 people
Neither Lin Sanhu nor He Long dared to touch the regiment, but the engineering troops who stayed to build the road? Haha, the two of them together, on a dark and windy night, scared the repairman who was as scared as a girl.
The road troops were completely devoured. Looking at the engineering brigade being besieged by tens of thousands of troops, Lin Sanhu was eating soybeans and He Long was smoking his pipe, feeling quite proud.
Later, when Seishiro Itagaki learned about the situation, he angrily slapped Kunisaki Noboru seven or eight times and cursed, "Baga, Baga." Finally, he had no choice but to order the troops to be divided into four teams. Two teams went to the front to build the road, and one team protected in the middle.
The trucks were loaded with baggage, and a team guarded the rear. This carefulness prevented the 115th Division and the 120th Division from having another chance to attack. However, the logistics supply speed was more than a little slow, especially the artillery troops could no longer pour firepower into the defenders at will.
The position is up.
While Itagaki Seishiro and Wei Lihuang were fighting to the death at Xinkou, Xu Qianqian, the deputy commander of the 129th Division, led the 385th Brigade towards Seishiro Itagaki's rear.
Zhao Chongde is the commander of the third battalion of the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade. At this time, he was leading his troops to rest outside a village. The people in the village looked at the Eighth Route Army dressed as the National Army and thought it was the Shanxi-Sui Army or the Central Army.
Fearing that the army would rush into the village to buy, sell or recruit young men, everyone took whatever things they could move and hid in the mountains outside the village.
Zhao Chongde and his guards searched the entire village but could not find anyone, let alone food. Zhao Chongde couldn't help but feel troubled. Although everyone brought field rations such as compressed biscuits, everyone knew how precious these things were.
We are not in Yan'an now, where supplies are very inconvenient. In the words of several leaders, field rations must not be eaten unless it is absolutely necessary or if you are about to starve to death.
At this time, a guard suddenly turned around and found a cellar. He quickly shouted, "Batalion Commander, there is something here."
Zhao Chongde walked over and opened the cellar and found that it was full of sweet potatoes and potatoes. He said happily, "Great, I finally found it."
The guard next to him said, "But there is no one, what should we do?"
Zhao Chongde also became embarrassed. According to discipline, no one could take this person. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly, "Folks, we are the Eighth Route Army fighting the Japanese. Can you hear me? We are here to buy food. Can you please come out?
ah."
The farmer who was peeping next to him burst into tears when he saw that Zhao Chongde had found the grain that could not be moved away from the village. A young man next to him wanted to rush out and grab it back, but he stopped him.
The young farmer said anxiously, "Uncle, that's our food. It's been stolen by these soldiers. What should we do? Besides, didn't he say he came to buy it? I asked him for money."
The uncle slapped him hard in the face and cursed, "What's more important, food or life. If he says give money, just give him money. Why are you so stupid? When the time comes, I'll shoot you. Who will take care of your mother? Be honest."
Leave me alone."
Zhao Chongde saw that no one was there for a long time, so he thought about it and said, "I will take the responsibility for moving."
Seeing the food that the village had finally accumulated being moved away, several farmers shed tears. It was not until Zhao Chongde and his people left the village that everyone came back weakly.
The young man opened it and saw that it was indeed empty. He was about to curse, but found that there was a cloth bag left. The young man picked it up and touched it. It was hard, and when he picked it up, there was a clanking sound. The young man quickly opened it, only to find that it was a cloth bag.
Silver dollars and a letter.
The young man crawled out and said to an old man wearing a robe and glasses, "Second Master, you have read a book. Take a look. These are the letters and money left by the soldiers just now."
The second master took the letter and read it: "This headquarters is the 129th Division, 385th Brigade and 769th Regiment of the 18th Group Army. There is a shortage of food on the anti-Japanese march. I wanted to buy food from your place, but no one responded. The military situation is urgent. The headquarters will leave 80 yuan in silver dollars."
, bought twenty-five bags of potatoes and twenty bags of sweet potatoes. If there is any loss, please use this letter to find any one of our Eighteenth Army, or wait until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to make up for the difference with Zhao Chongde, the commander of the third battalion of the 769th Regiment."
After hearing this letter, everyone looked at each other in shock. When will the army pay for things? The young man quickly bit the silver dollar hard and said in surprise, "Really, this is a real silver dollar. What kind of army is this? It's unexpected."
Really pay for it.”
The old man slowly put down the letter and said, "I know that the Eighteenth Army Group, also known as the Eighth Route Army, was the unit that fought against the Japanese at Pingxingguan. Zhao Guan, you go find this unit immediately. You must find it!"
