Hu Lian yawned and looked at the quiet position opposite. A soldier asked curiously, "Master, aren't we going to attack?"
Hu Lian knocked on his head and said, "What are you thinking about? There are still so many Japs out there, can we take them down? All listen to me. As long as we hold our position, the Japs will be unable to fly. That is the greatest victory."
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The soldiers and staff around him were all convinced. They couldn't help but feel that their division commander was worthy of being from Huangpu. He was indeed very powerful.
At this time, a shocking explosion came. Hu Lian looked and saw that his position was attacked by Japanese artillery fire.
Hu Lian's eyes lit up and he said, "Little devil, this is called, if there is a road to heaven, you don't take it, and if there is no door to hell, you break in. There is no way to break out, but you choose me here, so that brothers are ready and ready at any time."
fighting."
A staff officer said stupidly, "Master, how do you know that the Japs are about to attack?"
Hu Lian looked at him and said, "You can go down and be the platoon leader for me tomorrow. You don't even think about it. The Japanese are almost at the end of their rope now. They don't even have supplies. Artillery shells must be an extremely important material for them. It's absolutely useless."
It will be a waste. Now that we are bombing indiscriminately, it means that the Japanese are planning to make a big move against us. Forget it, I won’t tell you anymore, you’re stupid enough.”
The Japanese artillery did not last long. Within twenty minutes, the Japanese infantry began to attack. This made Hu Lian very dissatisfied. He shook his head and said, "This little devil is really in trouble, so he attacked."
20 minutes of artillery fire. Do you want Hu Lian’s defense to collapse with just this kind of artillery fire? You’re kidding!”
As he said that, several Japanese tanks appeared in Hu Lian's telescope. Hu Lian nodded and said, "Is this right? It will save me all my preparations in vain. I ordered the combat artillery team to prepare for me."
Hit it accurately, if anyone misses me within three rounds and loses his chain, I will stuff him into the muzzle."
Although Hu Lian's troops only numbered more than 10,000 people, because they were newly trained German weapon divisions, they were well equipped and even had five combat anti-cannons, which was extremely rare among the National Army at this time.
As the commander of the 33rd Brigade, Kei Setani personally led the troops to the front. Watching the last seven tanks of the division creaking forward, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. You know, in the end,
When it first sent out troops, the Third Division had more than thirty tanks, but now it only has a few tanks. I don't know if it can escort the troops out of this ghost place.
The five anti-tank guns slowly turned their muzzles, and a soldier looked at the monster that was spitting out black smoke and slowly turned towards himself. His whole hands were covered with sweat.
"Fire!" Finally, an order was given, and all five guns were fired. But to everyone's disappointment, only one artillery hit the target, while the other four missed the target more or less.
"Damn, what's going on?" Hu Lian yelled.
"Master, don't be angry. There's nothing we can do about it. These artillerymen are all new recruits and lack experience." A staff officer said comfortingly.
Hu Lian said angrily, "If this continues, we won't be able to survive even if we have a large family. Just watch, the little devil won't watch us slowly attack our tanks."
Of course, Kei Setani would not let the National Army continue the artillery fire. He hurriedly pulled the tank back and let the artillery fire.
The artillery shells soon fell near the combat defense artillery, but because Hu Lian had been prepared for defense from the beginning, the combat defense artillery was regarded as a top priority and extremely solid fortifications were built. The Japanese army
There were no heavy artillery. Except for one that was destroyed, nothing serious happened to the others. The National Army soldiers operating combat anti-aircraft guns kept firing at the Japanese tanks, but the hit rate was extremely low. Finally, they waited for the Japanese tanks.
When we retreated, there were still four chariots.
Hu Lian was almost angry. He didn't seize such a good opportunity. Hu Lian took out his pistol and was about to shoot the artillery team leader. The staff officer quickly stopped him and said, "Master, you can't do it. Brothers have tried their best. You
Look, our anti-tank artillery didn't stop firing when that little devil fired. This is really because of too little training."
Hu Lian struggled to break away, pointed in the direction of the combat artillery team and said, "Make a note for me. After the battle is over, the training volume of the combat artillery team will be doubled, no, twice. What the hell are they fighting for?"
The Japanese artillery fire plowed the National Army's anti-war artillery positions over and over again. The shells hit Kei Setani, and he felt distressed. Today's artillery shells have one less shot.
Kei Setani shouted, "Infantry attack, grenade cover, gentlemen, for the sake of the empire, charge forward!!"
The Japanese army began an all-out attack. They only saw a group of three or five Japanese troops, with light machine guns covering the back. Once a firepower point was discovered, the grenade launchers were immediately set up and fired, and they quickly reached the first line of defense.
Hu Lian looked at the Japanese attack and shouted, "Fight me and let the reserve team prepare. When the Japanese come up, fight for me. We must knock back the Japanese's energy and let General Tang seize the time to attack."
"Da da da" "bang bang" The battlefield was filled with the sound of gunfire. People were constantly shot and fell into the cold earth. Blood flowed out and dyed the land red.
The machine gunner of the National Army pressed the trigger crazily, and the bullets from the machine gun flew out like popcorn. It was at this time that the advantages of the Czech style were revealed. The burst fire of the Czech light machine gun was particularly accurate. Kei Setani saw it with his own eyes.
An army firepower point killed more than a dozen soldiers in just ten minutes, which made his eyes pop out.
Finally, a grenade hit the fire point. Setani Kei nodded with relief. Just when he wanted to look elsewhere, he found that the fire point rang again, and the fire point became even weirder.
After a few rounds, the bullets were moved to another place. The grenade was fired several times to no avail. Seeing Seya fire was terrible.
The owner of the machine gun was Hu Lian. When he came to the front line to supervise the battle, he happened to see this firepower point being knocked out. He immediately grabbed the gun and started firing. After all, he had only used it from a frontline regiment commander to a division commander.
Three months later, not a single division commander had awakened. After Hu Lian killed another Japanese, he turned around, threw the machine gun to the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time and said, "Did you see that? Just fight like this, the Japanese are cunning."
Very good."
The Japanese army suffered heavy losses under the firepower net set up by Hu Lian. Although Hu Lian's troops suffered heavy casualties, after a full day of Japanese attacks, Hu Lian's position only lost its first line of defense, and Hu Lian's
A total of three lines of defense were set up, one stronger than the other. From then on, Hu Lian's reputation for being a good defender spread throughout the country.
After Tang Enbo on the other side received Hu Lian's report, he immediately began to strengthen the offensive forces. His eyes were red with anxiety. If the Japanese army escaped, he, the frontline commander, would be in bad luck, and for Hu Lian,
He really didn't dare to be too reassured about Lian's defensive ability.
Tang Enbo shouted into the microphone, "Attack with all your strength, don't care about casualties, attack with the whole army!!!"
The soldiers who received the order picked up their steel guns, bent down, and started a general attack under the cover of artillery fire. Numata Takazo, who was on the front line of the defense, saw countless national troops rushing up and kicked him in a hurry.
He opened fire on the machine gunner next to him and started shooting at the Nationalist Army with his Type 92 heavy machine gun. The bullets of the heavy machine gun were very thick. Anyone who hit him would be killed or maimed. The Type 92 was very accurate and could hit them all at once.
More than a dozen charging National Army soldiers were killed.
"Damn, the Japs' machine guns are so powerful. Let me hit them with mortars!" A National Army company commander on the front line shouted anxiously when he saw that he couldn't rush forward.
The mortar soldiers who were following the attack quickly set up a position and took aim with their thumbs for a while. "Bang" a shell shot out of the barrel and hit a dozen meters next to the machine gun point.
"F*ck, do you ***** know how to fight? Fight again!" The company commander was furious when he saw that the machine gun had killed two more soldiers. These soldiers were from the Central Army.
The elite are not strong men, and training is not easy. I don’t know when I can replenish them.
The artilleryman swallowed his saliva, squinted his eyes and counted with his thumb for a long time, and then dropped another cannonball.
"Boom!!" After an orange ball of fire, the firepower point that suppressed the National Army for a long time was finally knocked out.
"This is a good fight, brothers, come here. One kid's head is five dollars, it's money!" The company commander shouted loudly, taking the lead and continuing to charge forward.
At this time, all the artillery of the Japanese army was transferred to the northeast, so that the Japanese army could only use grenades at this time. This made Tang Enbo, who was holding the mortar, feel proud. In less than an hour, he won the first victory.
A line of defense.
"Okay, keep attacking!!" Tang Enbo seemed to be flying when he saw Agent Jiang praising him.
——Tenth Division Headquarters
"What? The first line of defense has been breached?" Isotani Rensuke looked at the Japanese soldiers who were charred and covered in blood in shock.
When he looked again, he saw that there was still a person lying on the stretcher. When he looked at it, he saw that there was still a lot of bleeding in the field.
Isotani Rensuke crouched down quickly, looked at the speechless Numata Takazo and asked, "What on earth is going on? Why is Numata-kun like this?"
The soldier cried and said, "The commander saw that the situation was too dangerous, so he went to the front line and started fighting with a machine gun. The commander killed more than a dozen Chinese people, but was hit by a Chinese mortar. Wuwuwu
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"Bang!" An explosion came from not far away, and a communications soldier hurriedly came in and said, "Report, division commander, the Chinese troops have reached the second line of defense. Their artillery is all forward and can hit our core.
We’re in position.”
Isotani Rensuke quickly came out to take a look, and sure enough, artillery shells fell into the core position from time to time. Isotani Rensuke looked to the northeast, "Why hasn't it been broken yet? Is the Chinese army's defense so strong?"
——Xuzhou
Li Zongren nodded and said, "Yes, Tang Enbo did a good job this time, but the Japanese will not survive this time."
Li Pinxian looked at the map and said, "Hu Lian did a good job in defense. It's been a day, but the Japanese army has been unable to break out. De Lin, I think you can contact the Air Force and ask the Air Force bombers to dispatch."
Li Zongren took a breath and said, "Okay, but the life and death of Gao Zhihang of the Air Force is unknown, and the losses of our army in the two major air battles are not small. I don't know if the Chairman is still willing to dispatch the Air Force."
——Wuhan
Jiang Jie closed his eyes and thought about it. The air force fought well these two times, but the Soviet Air Force's surprise attack effect has been lost. The Japanese army has begun to equip a large number of new fighters. If it is dispatched on a large scale, the air force will probably suffer excessive losses.
The Japanese army's aircraft are easy to supplement, but the National Army's air force is difficult. After all, Lunan is a small bureau, and the big stage of Wuhan needs the air force to support it.
Jiang Jiajun said to Bai Chongxi, "The order is that Tang Enbo's troops must overcome all difficulties, not be afraid of sacrifice, and resolutely launch a final blow against the Japanese army. Tell him how many people have been lost. As long as this battle is won, I will give him twice the number of troops."
, In addition, Li Zongren, the power generator, said that the air force was too depleted and could not be dispatched for the time being, and asked him to use the spirit of Ge Ming to attack the enemy. "
——Xuzhou
Li Zongren sighed and said, "Our chairman is unwilling to send out his precious air force to see. It seems that he is really relieved about us."
Li Pinxian shook his head and said, "That won't be easy to fight."
Li Zongren closed his eyes and said, "In this way, he ordered Tang Enbo and Sun Lianzhong to mobilize twenty regiments and deploy them as quickly as possible along the Japanese retreat line. This task must be completed within 48 hours. Do not bring heavy equipment. Then let Hu Lian
Open your mouth and let the rest of the troops pursue you along the way. It is difficult to fight the Japanese in the position, but it is easy to fight when they come out. You must pay attention to the play. We must not let the Japanese army think that we have been prepared for a long time. We must let him think that these troops along the line
It's all hard work to catch up, otherwise if he turns around, we won't be able to stop him. Let Sun Yuanliang and Liao Yaoxiang be in charge, and when the 10th Division approaches Linyi, Zhang Zizhong's troops will resolutely attack the 5th Division.
Hu Lian's troops should not participate in the pursuit battle. Instead, run to Linyi to stop the Fifth Division. Isn't he good at running and defending? Let him show off his skills this time."
Two days later, Isotani Rensuke's second line of defense was almost broken by the National Army. Especially the attacks from all directions scattered his troops. He wanted to attack Hu Lian's troops with the main force to create a gap. The entire battle situation was already in danger.
, Isotani Rensuke couldn't help but consider whether to suspend the attack and defend with all his strength. You must know that in the past four days, his troops have lost more than 10,000 people. Of course, the National Army, as the attacker, has lost more than 10,000 people.
Thirty thousand people, this is because three to four thousand of these ten thousand Japanese troops died on Hu Lian's defensive position.
"It's broken, it's broken. The defense line has been broken by us." Kei Setani came in excitedly and said.
Isotani Rensuke said happily, "Really? Really? Hurry, retreat immediately!!"
Hu Lian looked at the Japanese soldiers running everywhere like ducks, shook his head and said, "Damn it, let's go to the front and wait for them, let's go!!"
Isotani Rensuke led the troops to run for more than ten miles, but most of them had no strength. Isotani Rensuke looked back and said, "How much of our heavy equipment do we have left?"
Tsubujaki said helplessly, "They should all be gone. After running for so long, the Chinese troops probably won't be able to catch up."
Before he finished speaking, a burst of shouting and killing sounds accompanied by gunfire came from not far away.
Isotani Rensuke glared at Tsutsumi Fuzaki angrily, waved his hand and said, "Get out!!"
After running for another dozen miles, there were only more than 10,000 Japanese troops beside Isotani Rensuke. Thanks to the elite Japanese army, Isotani Rensuke stopped and said, "Wait, take a rest, and order the troops to gather together.
We are transferring, not rout!!"
Tsubasa Taka was about to praise him when another burst of shouts and gunshots came. Isotani Rensuke took a look with a telescope and saw the blue sky and white flag. He stamped his feet angrily and said, "How did you come so fast?
withdraw!!"
Along the way, Isoya Rensuke was attacked every time he wanted to stop. For two days and two nights, the Japanese army did not get any rest. For more than 140 miles, the Japanese army lost everything they could. Isoya Rensuke
Jie's eyes were bloodshot, and when he looked back at his chief of staff, he looked the same, in a state of panic.
Isotani Rensuke stopped with tears in his eyes and asked, "How many more of us are there?"
Tsubukkaki sent an order to go down and count the number of people. He came back twenty minutes later and said, "Division commander, there are less than 7,000 left. The others either ran away or were killed in battle."
Isotani Rensuke nodded and looked to the north and said, "After that mountain pass is Linyi. You go and tell His Majesty the Emperor that I am incompetent. I hope the great cause of the empire will be accomplished soon."
Tsubuta Rensuke wanted to persuade him again, but Isotani Rensuke shook his head and said, "The commander of the fifth division is my old classmate. I have no shame to meet him, so that's it. Please do a ceremony for me."
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On the mountain pass, Sun Yuanliang looked at it with a telescope and said, "Isn't that little devil trying to commit suicide?"
Liao Yaoxiang next to him looked at it and said, "It really looks like it. Let's attack quickly. Otherwise, if the Japanese commit suicide, won't our achievements be lost?"
When Sun Yuanliang heard that his credit was about to be lost, he immediately said in a hurry, "Quick! Fire the cannon!!"
Isotani Rensuke was taking off his clothes and preparing to commit suicide. A shell fell not far away from him. Tsubasa Takaki covered him with his body. Isotani Rensuke broke away and stopped committing suicide. He shouted: "
Hurry, hurry up and take cover, order the front to react immediately and counter-attack."
But how could Sun Yuanliang and Liao Yaoxiang, who were occupying the ground, be so easy to fight? Moreover, there were hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops behind the Tenth Division.
