"The independent regiment has arrived somewhere, and our unit needs support!"
"Brother Liu, I beg you, please hurry up!"
"If you don't come back, you'll collect my body for me!"
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Since 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Army Lieutenant General had sent countless telegrams to Liu Lang's headquarters. Each one was more violent than the last.
Really, I couldn’t hold on any longer. I couldn’t hold on any longer! At first, the frontline headquarters in the three urban areas kept calling to ask for reinforcements. Later, the words “asking for reinforcements” no longer appeared on the phone.
Because the last guard platoons of the military and divisional headquarters companies have also been sent to the front line. If reinforcements are requested again, the corps commander, deputy commander and chief of staff will all go to the battlefield with pistols.
The army lieutenant general at the military headquarters had no way of knowing how many frontline officers and soldiers were killed, but the casualties reported one by one to the regiment and battalion commanders at the military headquarters not only made the army lieutenant general feel like he was in danger, but also made him feel that he was in danger.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the commander of the 152nd Regiment, Xie Guji, personally led the 4th Infantry Company to counterattack the position. He was hit by artillery fire and was killed, with no bones left. After that, two infantry battalion commanders led their troops into the counterattack, and two infantry battalion commanders were killed. Independence
Regiment Chief of Staff Yu Xiancheng, as the highest-ranking military officer in Xicheng District, took over as the supreme commander; company and platoon-level officer casualties cannot be counted due to the emergency situation on the front line.
At 3:40 p.m., the commander of the 154th Regiment, Colonel Wang Jun, was shot in the left chest by the Japanese from a long distance and died in the line of duty because he went to the front line to supervise the battle. Lieutenant Colonel Xie Boting, the deputy commander, took over as the frontline commander. An infantry battalion commander of the 154th Regiment died in the battle.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Colonel Hu Dang of the 156th Regiment personally led two infantry companies to reinforce Xicheng. He was injured by the shrapnel of a grenade grenade by the Japanese invaders. After being briefly wounded, he refused to leave the position and continued to fight on the front line.
Within one day, two colonel-level officers were killed. This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the 43rd Army, which had only two brigades and four regiments in total. The Army Lieutenant General was naturally heartbroken, but what worried him even more was the Songjiang position. He
He and the entire army have clearly sent a message to the whole country that they will not retreat. Whether or not they die is no longer important. What is important is that Songjiang cannot be lost. If Songjiang is lost, then the total of the 43rd Army, the Songjiang Security Group, and the local people of Songjiang will be 10,000.
Five thousand people would have died in vain.
At that time, the government would only remember that the 43rd Army lost Songjiang and caused heavy losses to the Songhu army, but not many people would remember that the entire Songjiang garrison lost 15,000 lives here. The winner is the king, the loser is.
Kou, an army lieutenant general who has served in the army for many years knows this truth very well.
No wonder the always stubborn Army Lieutenant General lowered his face and sent letter after letter to the Independence Regiment asking for help. In the end, he even began to curse directly in the message.
The Independent Regiment had completely gone into radio silence since the morning, and no one, including the Army Lieutenant General, knew their location.
Before entering the Songjiang area, the security department led by Xiao Fenghua had already investigated the area where the independent regiment was advancing based on the Huashang Group's early intelligence in the Songjiang area. Both Japanese and Chinese spies had been cleared out.
, Since the morning, the whereabouts of the Independent Regiment have disappeared from the intelligence systems of China and Japan. No one knows their location at this moment. Even the Japanese navy dispatched three waves of reconnaissance planes in succession, and they do not know the specific location of the Independent Regiment. It seems that
The huge independent regiment fleet just disappeared out of thin air.
Hisao Tani, who launched a mad attack on Matsue Castle, was cautious and left nearly 10,000 infantrymen and 12 105 howitzers to deal with the independent regiment who did not know when they would return, but he did not know when the independent regiment would arrive.
Where has the Independence Group gone?
In fact, by 4:30 pm, Liu Lang and the independent regiment had actually arrived at a location only 20 kilometers away from Songjiang. If they rushed from the highway, the entire army would be able to arrive outside Songjiang City in less than an hour, not to mention that they could immediately
Entering the city for reinforcements can at least frighten Hisao Tani so much that he withdraws some of his troops from the city.
However, the Independent Regiment did not rush towards Songjiang City as imagined. Instead, they hid the huge convoy in the woods in the fields. The two infantry battalions, the Police Reconnaissance Regiment and the Bayonet Battalion, were ordered to dispatch all of them to carry out raids within ten kilometers of the surrounding area.
We will conduct an inventory and detain all suspicious persons on the spot, and if there is evidence, they will be punished on the spot.
"The 43rd Army Headquarters sent a telegram for reinforcements. Two colonels and six battalion commanders were killed in the battle. We urge our troops to arrive at the battlefield quickly, otherwise Songjiang City will be lost." Regiment Deputy Zhang Ruhao held up the communications platoon leader.
The telegram that was delivered quickly was read with a solemn expression. "Commander, this is already the 8th telegram sent by Commander Guo. Do you see it?"
"The whole army continues to repair, and at the same time, it sends a telegram to the 67th Army to inquire where they are. After receiving the reply, they inform our army of its location and turn off the radio to prevent the Japanese army from detecting the approximate location of the radio." Liu Lang stood in the tree.
Xia looked into the distance and ordered without looking back.
"But what should we do with the 43rd Army? How can we reply to them?" Zhang Ruhao, the regimental deputy, was slightly surprised and asked.
Although he already knew Liu Lang's personality, Liu Lang's decision not only not to rush to rescue friendly forces but even to shut down the field radio again was somewhat surprising to Zhang Ruhao.
"No need to reply!" Liu Lang shook his head slightly and said softly: "Regiment deputy, you have to believe that the 26th Division and the 6th Division of the 43rd Army cannot survive them."
No one knew the expression on Liu Lang's face at this time.
There is perseverance, but more importantly, determination.
Yes, he believed in the 43rd Army. Not only because in the past time and space, they fought seven bloody battles with an infantry brigade of the Japanese invaders armed with heavy artillery and tanks in an undefended plain area, using old Hanyang-made hand grenades.
The glorious record of annihilating more than 4,000 enemies day and night, but is there a division-level unit in the world that has a battle damage rate as high as 90% and still launches a desperate counterattack to regain the position and hand it over to the defending friendly forces?
No, looking through the history of war at home and abroad, Liu Lang has never seen that army with such terrifying tenacity. Some of the entire army died in the battle, such as the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army in which the entire army was killed in the bloody battle in Teng County, and no one survived.
The army fought bloody battles for 47 days and nights without retreating, such as the Tenth Army guarding Hengyang, and the company of three red ice sculptures that lurked in the snow in Changjin Lake with only single clothes and turned into ice sculptures at a temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius...
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However, when he has suffered heavy losses and is on the verge of collapse, and friendly forces have arrived, and he can surrender the defensive position without any psychological burden, he still has to organize a counterattack to regain the lost position, and hand over the position he entered seven days ago to the friendly forces.
The army was actually the only thing Liu Lang saw in his life.
This unique honor belongs to the 26th Division of the 43rd Army of the Sichuan Army. It belongs to the only 600 officers and soldiers of the entire army who walked out of the battlefield on the former Songhu battlefield with their heads held high and their wounded comrades on their backs.
They didn't even have much chance to collect the remains of their comrades, because most of their comrades had become one with the mountains and rivers of the motherland because of the terrible heavy artillery of the Japanese army. The battlefield covering several square kilometers had been softened by the heavy artillery.
If you pinch the soil, you can pinch a piece of shrapnel.
How could Liu Lang not believe in such an army? I believe they will be able to carry it until the sun goes down and the Sixth Division will use up all their strength.
A pig that has exhausted all its strength will be drained of all its blood without any resistance when it encounters an extremely sharp knife, and becomes a dish on the table.
No one, including the Chinese Supreme Command, knew how ambitious Liu Lang was. From the very beginning when he asked for help in Songjiang, he did not want to defend Songjiang City, but to completely kill the Sixth Division, which had committed crimes in the capital.
The demon army that committed heinous crimes.
If it were another army, Liu Lang might not have such ambitions, but knowing that the 43rd Army was ordered to guard Songjiang, Liu Lang knew that his opportunity had come.
The 43rd Army's combat power may not be very strong, and its equipment is even more inferior. But in terms of toughness, it is second to none among all Chinese armies. Liu Lang believes that they will be able to work like a millstone.
, grinding all the energy and spirit of the Sixth Division into powder.
Liu Lang was not mistaken. Although they faced a situation that was even worse than before in time and space, and the 43rd Army's front was in danger several times, they still persevered.
Although, before sunset, about 50% of the entire city had been occupied by the Japanese army, the central area of the city and the northern city were still under the control of the 43rd Army.
The price was that two colonel commanders and fourteen battalion commanders of the 43rd Army were killed in the battle. Five of them died within half an hour before sunset. Because, their men
The company commanders had almost all their casualties, and some infantry companies were even in their fifth company commander, and that company commander was just an infantry squad leader a day ago.
At times like this, not to mention the battalion commanders, even the regimental commanders had to rush to the front line with their guns in hand. Then, these battalion commanders had no choice but to die in battle, before nightfall was about to fall and the Japanese army almost ran out of strength.
In fact, when he heard that the Japanese troops in Xicheng District had reached an area 50 meters away from the headquarters of the 152nd Regiment, the Army Lieutenant General had already put on his helmet and pulled out his pistol, preparing to lead the last fifteen people from the military headquarters to reinforce the 152nd Regiment, including two Army Lieutenant Generals.
, one Army major general, five school-level staff officers, six lieutenant-level communications officers, and one unranked war correspondent.
The entire 43rd Army headquarters had lost its guards an hour ago. Even the cooks and grooms had been sent to the battlefield, not to mention the brigade and regiment headquarters. Even the regiment commander went to the battlefield in person.
, let alone others!
As the sky gradually darkened and night fell, the sound of artillery and gunfire from the Japanese army finally stopped. Relying on the ruins of the walls, the Japanese army retreated to the distant neighborhoods.
Yang Silang, who was crawling among the ruins, breathed a sigh of relief, rolled over with his gun under a low wall that was only half a meter high, tremblingly took out the old squad leader's pipe that he had been carrying in his waist, and stuffed it into the
I lit the pungent local tobacco on the burning wood next to the wall and took a long puff.
Then, he coughed violently, and while coughing, Yang Silang was laughing.