Dignity is always achieved with fists, not with words.
Although this was an offensive and defensive battle, and the Chinese took advantage of the terrain and held on tenaciously for eight days, the Chinese defenders still gained the respect of Matsuda Kunizo. At least he was not sure that he could command a brigade to withstand more than a dozen heavy artillery and dozens of
The position was bombarded by mountain artillery, and attacked by tens of thousands of infantry.
Facing such a group of terrifying Chinese, if it loses the advantage of artillery, what else does the Eighth Division have? The remaining 6,000 infantry? Or the few remaining tanks of the tank brigade? Or the nearly 10,000 soldiers?
Soldier?
Neither can, the Chinese's intensive artillery fire and machine guns with terrifying rates of fire can crush them into pieces.
Although Matsuda Kunisan wanted to get rid of the humiliating thoughts that appeared in his mind one by one, he still had to admit rationally that he was really scared and timid.
If the commander of the other side knows that something unexpected happened to the division commander and our artillery is successfully attacked again, then...
Through a series of seemingly unrelated but fatal attacks by the Chinese from afternoon to night, Matsuda Kunisan would be as stupid as a pig if he didn't know that the damn fat man Liu Lang used a trick to fake death.
Already.
"Retreat and return to support the heavy artillery battalion." Matsuda Kunizan finally gritted his teeth and issued the military order. "At the same time, inform Chief of Staff Tanibe that our 11th Brigade will return to support the heavy artillery battalion and the 8th Artillery Regiment and the entire army will retreat.
To Baishigou, thirty miles away."
After hearing the news that Nishi Giichi was seriously injured, Tanibe Terube, who was still repairing ten miles away, issued the order to retreat one step earlier than Matsuda Kunizo.
This battle has actually been lost so far. Nishiyoshi is just trying to support his own future. Terube Tanibe has long realized this. More than half of the division's infantry has been casualties. Even if they break through the pass and step into the hinterland of northern China,
Their seemingly strong army is actually strong on the outside but capable on the inside.
If the two artillery units are successfully attacked by the Chinese again, and the nearly 20,000 imperial troops who have lost fire support encounter a Chinese army of the same level, they will definitely be defeated. If they encounter another Chinese army with the same combat power as the one in front of them,
Is it similar? Terube Tanibe simply couldn’t imagine the terrible consequences.
Retreating is the most important thing to do now.
The two men with the highest rank in the Japanese army issued the order to retreat almost at the same time. How could the Japanese army, which had been frightened, not retreat?
The Japanese troops of more than one infantry brigade, who hurriedly protected the division headquarters and the seriously injured officers and officers of the headquarters, retreated without even taking a look at the heavy artillery brigade ten miles away, which was still in the dark, even though there were still fierce gunshots and gunfire from time to time.
The explosion shows that the battle is still going on.
But that was the matter of Major General Matsuda Kunisan. The military order had already stated that Major General Matsuda would return to support the heavy artillery brigade and the 8th Artillery Regiment. The Japanese troops, who strictly abided by the military order, withdrew very quickly, not even the hills that were re-occupied by the Chinese.
The Chinese who stopped firing artillery shells did not care, even though the artillery shells that seriously injured Lieutenant General Nishi Yiyi came from exactly where they were.
However, Matsuda Kunisan did not carry out his military orders. It was not that he did not want to, but that he could not.
When the Japanese army began to retreat, Liu Lang keenly discovered that not only the Japanese army in front of the position was actively retreating, but also the Japanese army ten miles away were also lighting up torches. This was extremely rare for the Japanese army, which had always been highly disciplined.
of.
Although it is impossible to determine what the Japanese army wants to do, the Japanese heavy artillery has not fired a single shell so far. It is obvious that Cheng Yuanshan and the others succeeded at least temporarily.
The independent regiment, however, had about a dozen mountain cannons and mortars that far exceeded the number of Japanese troops. For the first time, it actually had an advantage in heavy firepower.
"Want to run?" Liu Lang's mouth revealed a hint of sarcasm.
With cannons supporting you at any time, you are naturally entitled to come and go as you please, but now, you don't have that benefit.
"Order the whole army to rush out of the position and fight them out for me. The distance should be kept at 400 meters. The artillery will be ready for orders to beat them at any time according to the signal given by the observer." Liu Lang punched the stone hard, his eyes full.
He ordered murderously.
If we say that before the Battle of the Great Wall, his biggest purpose was to guard the pass, use every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood to alert the Chinese people, and use sacrifice to declare to the world that the Chinese people will not retreat in the face of humiliation. But now, he is trapped in a tight siege.
Not only can we not retreat, but we must advance.
Not only the lives of the entire army, but more importantly, the sacrifice of the entire army will become a trophy for the Japanese invaders to show off.
China has suffered too many failures, and those failures even make people start to doubt themselves. Liu Lang must use a big victory to tell the people that the Japanese will be nothing if not defeated.
So, he has to go in.
If you want to advance, you have to defeat the Japanese army in front of you, even if they still have thousands of people, even if you only have 1,500 people.
But they had no cannons, and they still had. This was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Under Liu Lang's order, Chinese soldiers from the entire defense line came out in full force, not even a single person was left on the position. Anyone who could hold a gun and walk easily went to the battlefield with a gun.
Gou Defu, the temporary squad leader of the regiment's cooking squad, also rushed in front of Liu Lang with a cannon in one hand and a cannon on one arm. He has now removed his temporary title and became the official squad leader. However, his subordinates can no longer
One soldier was gone, and a total of 8 recruits were lost. In the last two days of fierce fighting, more than half were lost. Only two were left, one with only one arm and the other with only one leg, becoming the legendary Tiancan.
Di Que was taken away by Ji Yanxue.
Gou Defu, who was just promoted to a first-class soldier yesterday, has become a polished commander, a polished squad leader with red eyes, what a bullshit young master of the Gou family, what a bullshit brother-in-law, now Gou Defu has no time to think about it, he just wants to
Kill a few more Japanese imps to avenge your subordinates and fellow countrymen.
That's right, those 8 recruits were all soldiers from Tongguan. Gou Defu spent a full 5,000 yuan in military expenses before he succeeded in "bribing" Major Liang Wenzhong, who was in charge of logistics, and assigned them to him. That will be what he will help when Gou Defu returns to his hometown.
Eight microphones for his success! He Gou Defu is no longer a playboy, but a sergeant squad leader of the Central Army's Independent Regiment. He has only been in the army for half a year! This promotion speed is not as fast as that of the captain and company commander Gou Chengshou in the clan.
Bad!
But now, everything is gone. How can one be rich without being jealous?
Of course, what Gou Defu was thinking more about at the moment was the look in the eyes of the eight recruits when they handed the relics to him before going to the battlefield. It was a sign of nostalgia and reluctance for his family. How would he face those family members from his hometown in the future?
?Is it the white cash pension or the worthless medals awarded by the officials of the National Government?
No, none of these are possible. He can only bring a number, the number of Japanese he killed. The blood debt can only be paid with blood.
Gou Defu, whose brain was already congested, risked his life for the first time and rushed in front of the regimental commander who was so powerful in combat. Liu Lang thought that his charm was too high, and the dandy young man even took the initiative to block his gun.
Although there were several times when he had to be kicked down by this guy to avoid Japanese machine gun fire.
Zhao Ergou, who had been beaten to the point of madness, did not care about the shells for the first time. The cannon was about to be blown up, so why did he need the shells?
The artillery shells, carrying the artillery company's artillerymen's heart-bloody fury, crazily hit the Japanese soldiers who were tightly clinging to the independent regiment, and they continued to explode around them.
It was so explosive that not only Matsuda Kunisan's eyes were cold, but he was almost in tears.
Bagaya Road, you don’t regard bean bags as solid food! Even if they don’t have artillery, when has the Imperial Japanese Army, whose combat effectiveness has always been so great, ever been so underestimated? Three to four thousand people were chased and beaten by more than a thousand Chinese?
But the imperial warriors with their explosive combat power were really about to be beaten this time. Machine gun bullets from hundreds of meters away came like pouring water. They wanted to organize a counterattack to attack the arrogance of the Chinese. All the warriors had to pay was their precious time.
life.
The most abominable thing is the Chinese cannons. Are the shells free of charge? Is it necessary to keep bombing them from east to west?
This is really free, from cannons to shells, everything is for grabs from the Fourth Brigade.