As a Category A permanent division, the 20th Division is assigned about 180 vehicles, and most of these vehicles are assigned to the 20th Baggage Regiment.
However, even Liu Lang never thought that there would be such a beautiful thing, and whether the Japanese would blow up the trucks and oil in desperation. As soon as he set foot in the county town, Liu Dazhu, with a look of ecstasy, pulled him to Dongcheng Kong.
There are 160 trucks neatly arranged on the ground.
The fire platoon's "Hitler's Chainsaw" was so powerful that it swept away nearly 500 Japanese stretcher bearers who had been hastily armed. It also completely chilled the hearts of the East Gate defenders. They were afraid of running away.
If they are not caught up quickly enough by the Chinese's terrifying machine guns, how can they bother to blow up cars and oil?
In fact, the captain of the Japanese baggage squadron responsible for guarding the east gate actually ordered several soldiers, led by a corps commander, to blow up the cars and stored oil. But he did not expect that the moment he gave the order to retreat to the city,
The last vestige of fighting spirit of the entire baggage team had been thrown back to the main island of Japan.
The moment they heard the Chinese blowing the charge horn, the team leader and several soldiers did not even enter the parking lot and chose to run away. Even if disobeying military orders will be punished by death, it still has to be
Only those who are qualified to survive until that time, not to mention that the squadron leader may not be able to survive such a fierce Chinese offensive!
The Japanese army made a very wise choice and at the same time left a full 160 trucks to the Chinese.
With this thing, it is much better than Liu Lang's previous thought of relying on three bungs to transport the regiment to Shimen. The maneuverability of the three bungs on the mountain road is stronger than that of the Japanese army's large trucks with a loading capacity of five tons.
But things are a little worse on the highway. More importantly, in addition to the head of Japanese Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo, Liu Tuanzuo is quite yearning for Shimen. The most important thing is the supplies stored in Shimen.
As the base camp of the entire 20th Division, it must be fatter than Jingxing County! Liu Tuanzuo, who has already determined that "a man will not be rich without windfall, and a horse will not be fat without night grass", is pretending at this moment that he has already
It's full of thoughts of robbing one's own family.
There are more than 100 large trucks, which can carry hundreds of tons of supplies home, so that the Japanese invaders can only go home naked to look for Mom.
Truck drivers don’t need to worry. In the past few years of training for all officers and soldiers of the independent regiment, an important training content is to skillfully drive a three-wheeler. The three-wheeled three-wheeler can drive away, not to mention the principles are similar.
Four-wheel truck? At this time, there were no police checking driver’s licenses?
The officers and soldiers of the Bayonet Battalion, who were driving without a license, started the trucks one after another. After a simple operation, Liu Lang confirmed that they would not fall into the ravine with their personnel, weapons and equipment, and ordered the red troops who had been assembled five minutes in advance to get on the truck.
Of course, Liu Lang still strictly stipulated the speed, and the speed of each truck should not exceed 20 yards per hour. He did not want the elite red troops to be lost in a car accident.
However, the departure time of the troops participating in the Battle of Shimen was eventually delayed by half an hour. At the suggestion of the always cautious political commissar Deng, the 686th Regiment and the 343rd Brigade Headquarters Guard Company all changed their equipment.
All the infantry were equipped with pure Japanese equipment. Each infantry company added the previous Czech light machine guns, and the number of light machine guns it equipped reached 12. The heavy machine guns that were previously only available in the infantry battalion were now assigned to one in each infantry company.
Well, the heavy machine gun company directly under the battalion headquarters even has 8 heavy machine guns. An infantry battalion has as many as 11 heavy machine guns, which is comparable to an infantry brigade of the Japanese army. Grenades are also issued to each infantry squad, and one platoon has up to 11 heavy machine guns.
3 grenade launchers, which means that the grenade launchers are not yet proficient in operating them. Otherwise, the firepower of an infantry platoon with 3 light machine guns and 3 grenade launchers would definitely overwhelm a Japanese infantry squad.
Taking into account the particularity of the Battle of Shimen, the Japanese army may put up a stubborn resistance and engage in brutal street fighting to defend the division headquarters. The 343rd Brigade Guard Company changed its equipment to submachine guns and shell guns focusing on close combat. The guard company has 150 people and has
It has 80 submachine guns, 50 rifles, and 60 shell guns. Its close combat firepower within 100 meters far exceeds that of a Japanese infantry squadron.
In addition to gun reloading, the artillery battalion of the independent regiment, which was again divided into two along with the infantry, carried 4 mountain guns, 4 infantry guns, 8 82-meter mortars, and 1 37mm rapid-fire gun, for a total of 17 guns.
With this cannon, not to mention more, it is no problem to defeat two infantry brigades. This does not include the 20mm machine gun, which is mainly used for air defense. And the Japanese army has two infantry brigades in Shimen? Obviously not
of.
Not to mention the bayonet battalion. The semi-automatic rifles and Somi submachine guns were able to defeat the Japanese army in field battles and street battles. They only needed to replenish ammunition.
In addition to the 150 rounds of ammunition carried by each soldier, a baggage company following them carried a full 200,000 rounds of various machine rifle bullets, 400 rounds of 92 infantry artillery shells, 1,000 mortar shells, and 300 mountain artillery shells.
There were 100 rounds of 37mm rapid-fire cannon shells and 3,000 rounds of 20mm machine gun shells. Just loading them on trucks took ten trucks.
According to Brigadier Chen, who was very proud of knowing that his troops were about to change their equipment, with his current equipment, he would not dare to touch the headquarters of the North China Expeditionary Army of the Japanese invaders in Peiping, let alone attack Shimen.
The bad luck of Shouichi in the temple.
Not to mention the fierceness, it stimulated another Brigadier Chen to almost rob the arsenal himself. The future military god had to use 16 heavy machine guns and 24 light machine guns to calm him down.
Half of the heavy firearms seized in the entire Jingxing County were lost in this way. However, they are all smart people. Liu Lang basically ignored the behavior of these old seniors who were afraid of poverty and "built plank roads in the open and secretly used them in Chen Cang".
Turn a blind eye.
Of course he knew that these generals were not trying to take advantage of Liu Lang. The independent regiment had its own equipment system. Except for bullets, he had no use for this batch of Japanese equipment. The 129th Division had already considered all parties after the war.
The issue of benefit distribution.
There are up to 100,000 Chinese troops on the front line in eastern Shanxi. In addition to the 129th Division and the 17th Division, there are also the 22nd Army of the Sichuan Army, which is part of the independent regiment, and has arrived at the front line today. Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army, which is affiliated with the Central Army, and the Northwest Army
Sun Lianzhong's 26th Route Army, Feng Qinzai's 27th Route Army.
If this battle is successful, no one, whether it is the Independent Regiment or the 129th Division, can take all the credit. Anyone who wants to take it all will be targeted.
During the war, if they were not forced to a certain extent, I am afraid that everyone would not be so active in facing the Japanese artillery fire and risking their lives, but when it came to sharing the credit, the generals were still able to go into battle shirtless. Who dared to touch his
If you get a portion of cheese, people will risk their lives.
That thing is not just some supplies or seizures, but a name and face. Everyone wants to be a victorious general rather than a defeated general, right? Of course, in the battle of Jindong, these national army generals were
No one dropped the chain either.
Regardless of the current time and space or the time and space of the past, whether it is the Central Army, the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, or the Red Army, they are still fighting to the death despite heavy casualties. To be honest, there is no heavy defense on the southern front, and there is no Niangziguan front.
The defense line was stubbornly resisting. Without the huge sacrifices made by the Seventeenth Division to lure the enemy, Liu Lang would not have been able to fight such a glorious battle even if Zhuge was still alive.
In other words, the victory in this battle was really not achieved by the two independent regiments and the 129th Division. It was also the result of the 100,000 troops on the eastern Shanxi front. Even if most of them were still in the dark,
Little did he know that he would win just by lying down.
The red generals knew this very well, so they divided the heavy firepower equipment into seven or eight in order to continue fighting with increased firepower. By then, even if the heads of the frontline headquarters had objections, who would
Can we still recover these weapons?
Anyway, until now, at the suggestion of the future military god, the results of the two armies throughout the day and most of the night have not been reported to the East Shanxi Frontline Headquarters. Perhaps by the time tomorrow dawns, all the battles will have become clear, and the 20th Division will start from the division commander.
The small soldiers are already doomed, and only when a full-scale counterattack is needed will the battle report be reported to the headquarters.
At 2:15 in the morning, Liu Lang led the guard platoon and the bayonet battalion, still driving three bungalows. Two miles away from the rear, Brigadier Chen led his 343 brigade guard company and the 2,200 people of the 686 regiment, all with 30
More than 70 trucks were loaded onto one car, and the baggage company personnel loaded 10 trucks with all kinds of baggage and heavy equipment. More than 40 trucks were left empty, and a total of 130 trucks drove from the highway to Shimen.
Another unit led by Zhang Ruhao, who was responsible for sneaking into the Japanese artillery regiment's defense line, did not cover up their whereabouts as expected. The two young men's battalion companies were actually the first and second squadrons of the Blue Army, all with Japanese military uniforms and equipment.
Carrying five trucks of cans, five trucks of various supplies, and three trucks carrying some personnel, a total of twelve trucks, accompanied by infantrymen, drove swaggering along the road to the Niangziguan front line.
An extremely standard marching method for the Japanese army's baggage troops.
Comrade Koizumi, the deputy secretary-general of the "Anti-War Alliance", was wearing a Japanese second lieutenant uniform and sitting in the cab of the first truck with high spirits. He spent several years in the Imperial Japanese Army before becoming a first-class soldier. Unexpectedly, as soon as he joined the Chinese army, he would
Putting on the second lieutenant uniform, although it is still a fake now. But Liu Tuanzuo promised that after this battle, his military rank will be the second lieutenant of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, and he will personally award him the title.
The future general will lead an infantry regiment and three infantry battalions to follow closely. All heavy equipment will be transported by the remaining eighteen trucks. They will reach thirty miles away on the forty-mile mountain road in four hours, and then
Abandoning all kinds of baggage and going into the mountains, they waited for the friendly forces, all of which were dressed in Japanese military uniforms and looked like Japanese troops, to open a gap in the Japanese defense line and attack the Japanese artillery regiment's defense line with all their troops.
When he heard that Liu Lang had formed a blue army three years ago that was similar to the Japanese army from clothing to equipment to language and behavior, the future general was speechless.
They have been plotting against the Japanese since three years ago. If they can't win the war even with this level of precautionary measures, then it would be a fool.
The bright car lights made the entire huge convoy look like a living dragon, winding along the mountain road.
The future military god who is in charge of the overall command of Jingxing County is standing on the main peak of Snowflake Mountain, six miles outside Jingxing County. It is also the top of the mountain where the fifth company of the 17th Division was completely wiped out. Looking at this scene, he can't help but burst into tears.
,Emotionally.
They performed a solemn red military salute at the location of the artillery-proof cave where most of the bodies of the 5th Company of the 17th Division had been found by the engineers, and composed a poem:
“Ten thousand troops fought in a bloody battle at Niangzi Pass, amid thunderous artillery fire and smoke;
The heroic spirits of the martyrs still stop to watch their children return to the mountains and rivers."
This poem was engraved decades later on the main peak of Snowflake Mountain behind the 17th Division Anti-Japanese War Memorial.
After the death of Zhao Shoushan, the commander of the 17th Division, he requested that he be buried on the main peak of Fululing. He could not only accompany thousands of his soldiers who died in Fululing, but also view the main peak of Snowflake Mountain from a distance. Decades later, he became an octogenarian.
Every time I look at the watermelon, I will burst into tears.
His brothers have not been forgotten after all, not just his children.
The Republic will never forget, and neither will the Chinese nation.