625. Before the Storm
Complaining is complaining, the battle still has to be fought, and the imminent problem has to be solved, Lao Duan and Lao Tan are now burning their butts.
Since the devil changed his offensive tactics, he fought steadily for the battalion step by step, and beat the old section of their eighth company without the slightest temper, not only the position of the eighth company, but also the position of the entire northern mountainside of Yuwang Mountain, which is a little lower.
The 1085th Regiment had to shrink its strength and order the three battalions and other positions to retreat as a whole.
On the battlefield, the fate of the low-level soldiers is in the thoughts of the senior commander, and sometimes the commander has to look again before making the final decision, and in such a little time, how many soldiers die because of this.
This is not one general who is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, but one general who is incompetent and kills the three armies.
But then again, the battle must be fought like this, and the commander's overall consideration and overall departure are all pressure from the commander.
It is only within the limits of what you can to protect the lives of soldiers to the greatest extent possible, and at the same time you can win the war or inevitably lose it.
As long as he is a chief, it is impossible to joke with his subordinates, nor will he joke with his fate, but some of them are incompetent, which is too frightening to the people below.
Of course, the soldiers below will not know this, and they have no way to intuitively judge where this commander can reach.
But the officers at the bottom know very well, but they can't talk about it, so they can only pay more attention in peacetime and form their own set of methods for fighting and saving their lives.
Commander Yang of the 1085th Regiment is still a relatively competent and capable regiment commander, and he has been decisive and resolute in his orders at several critical times, avoiding greater losses, and this time is the same.
The devils did not give an inch, the defenders took a step back, they took a step forward, and used the trenches in front of the defenders, although the eighth company in the retreat, the bunker and the tunnel were blown down, but the devils still repaired it, and it will be used.
It is estimated that after reaching the halfway point of the mountain, the various weapon projections of the devils have reached a limit, and now only the planes and artillery are left to have lethal power against the main positions of the defenders.
And because the positions of the two sides are too close to each other, the aircraft artillery does not dare to be too wreatheless, otherwise it will accidentally blow up their own people, those small cannons and even infantry guns, even if they can hit the elevation angle, but this kind of artillery is also deployed in the main position of the 184th Division on the mountainside.
Among them, the 1085th Regiment Machine Gun Company is deployed here, and after half a month of excavation and operation, the artillery tunnel bunkers of the main position have been relatively perfect.
The Japanese planes and artillery came to bomb, and these large and small cannons were hidden in the mountain tunnels, and as soon as the aircraft cannons passed, as long as they saw that the devil's artillery was approaching to fight, the small artillery on this side would be pulled out and the devil's small cannon would be condescendingly hit.
In the devil's position in front of the eighth company's position, two infantry guns have been killed by Lao Mu's machine gun company, and the devil still wants to replicate the previous success, what big artillery, small artillery, tank heavy machine are all together.
As a result, it will not work when it reaches the position above the mountainside, and the tanks at the foot of the mountain, the defenders are helpless all of a sudden, but if the devil dares to pull the infantry cannon up the mountain, it will be unkind.
It's you who hit, Lao Mu's machine gun company measured the devil's gun position, and after a mortar went down, it smashed the devil's two infantry guns.
Without the support of heavy firepower, it is really very difficult for the devils to rely on the charge of the infantry alone to succeed in attacking in front of the defenders' positions that have been operating for a long time.
What's more, now the defenders' small artillery is beginning to exert power, if you don't do it, you can't do it, and then let the devils rush up, even the artillery positions are almost gone, and the mountain peaks seem to be high, but they are not suitable as artillery arrays, and they are taken care of by the devil's aircraft and cannons.
The little devil can only strengthen the trenches now and wait for reinforcements, but the forward defenders like the Eighth Company can't let the devils live in peace, and throw grenades into the devils' trenches from time to time.
Nearly 100 meters apart, if you are on flat ground, it is difficult to throw grenades, but it is different in the mountains, you can throw them far from above.
Therefore, the devil was blown up by the grenade and had to hide in a slightly repaired bunker, and sent grenadiers to fight against the defenders who had the upper hand.
The two sides can only beat each other weakly like this, since the last time the Eighth Company created that night attack with no danger, the main combat team has temporarily banned this kind of desperate fighting method of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves.
I can't afford it, the loss of personnel is very serious, the 184th Division has now lost nearly half of its personnel, and I don't know how long this Yuwang Mountain will be defended.
Although the other two divisions of the 60th Army on the left and right are also approaching, ready to replicate the success of Taierzhuang, it seems that there is little hope now, and without the support of other large armies, the 60th Army is too weak to fight alone.
Moreover, now the five theaters are retreating, and a large number of troops are withdrawing from the theater in the west and southwest, leaving only a few armies as the queen of the palace, and the 60th Army is one of them.
Therefore, in this context, the commander of the 184th Division, Zhang, knows very well what to do at present, that is, to preserve his strength, so that in the final retreat, he can afford to fight hard, and only then can he bring everyone out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.
Otherwise, I'll fight all the devils now, and what will I take to retreat from the retreat order that may come later? It's not killing everyone, now you just need to suck and drag the devil.
The defenders thought so, but the devils didn't think so, they thought that the sooner they could take Yuwang Mountain, the better, being dragged here, waiting for the Chinese five theaters to retreat calmly, watching hundreds of thousands of mobile troops slip away from their mouths, it must be very unpleasant.
Although in the Huai River area of the southern line, the Japanese army advancing north was desperately advancing and fighting fiercely with the Gui army in the Huai River area, but it was also advancing slowly and gradually approaching the Xuzhou area.
The Japanese troops from the north and south are now fighting in the area of Yuwang Mountain, but they can't fight anymore, and they are always going around in place here, and the Japanese army is extremely unhappy.
The area of Henan in the west is also fighting, because the west is the main direction of the retreat, and the Japanese army sent a large number of troops to intercept it.
And China will not let the devils block it so easily, and also send other troops to counter the interception, and the two sides will fight together in Henan.
Here is the situation of the fierce battle between the 74th Army of Sangou and the Tufei Yuan Division in the Lanfeng area, and it will be described later, so I will not show it for the time being.
The current Yuwang Mountain, it seems to be calm, but in fact, the undercurrent is tumbling, and the old section of the eighth company also feels that something is wrong, although the devil is still attacking, but compared with before, there is a lot less full attack.
Is it the devil who deliberately stays hard? Or is there a lack of troops? Still don't want to fight hard? Probably neither, maybe the cunning devil is coming up with something bad again.
Lao Duan's eighth company is now not far from the machine gun company, so he often goes to the machine gun company elder Mu, this is the real brother, in case there is any trouble, the machine gun company's shot is extraordinary.
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