Chapter 255: Breaking the Enemy (2)
"Your Excellency, the forward position can no longer be held!" A seriously wounded Japanese corporal ran to the side of Kawashima, the supreme commander of the position, and the front line was broken through by the Chinese army, and he fell into a melee, Kawashima sent almost all the available forces at hand, but in the face of the tide of Chinese troops, he was really powerless.
The Chinese troops who rushed in had not yet been resolved, and there was a shout of killing from the front, hundreds of Chinese troops came over, adding up to nearly a thousand Chinese troops rushed into the position, Kawashima looked at the bigger and bigger breakthroughs, and fewer and fewer of his own positions, Kawashima couldn't come up with an effective way at all, but the quality of a professional officer still calmed him down, he knew that he had miscalculated the combat effectiveness and tactical level of the Chinese army, not to mention anything else, with a battle defense artillery to attack closely, he never expected.
"Order, everyone throws in a counterattack, infantry artillery squads, open fire near the breach."
"Captain, our soldiers are still fighting the enemy, if we open fire......"
"There is no choice but to make them loyal! Hurry up and deliver the order! Kawashima yelled.
In the fierce fighting, the Chinese troops broke through their positions, the telephone line from the command post on Kawashima to the infantry artillery was blown up by grenades, and the communication between the various positions was interrupted.
Kawashima ordered the infantry artillery to shoot indiscriminately near the breach, hoping to play a role in stopping the Chinese army, but it was only hoped that he had fought so many battles, and it was naturally clear that the position had been torn apart, at this time, it was basically impossible to recover the lost ones, there were too many people in the Chinese army, as long as there was a breakthrough, they could rush inside, what Kawashima did was more like the final struggle of a dying man, early death and late death, but he had to do it.
The friendly charge of the two battalions soon converged with the officers and men of the preparatory battalion who were fighting in front, which made the breakthrough surface of the preparatory battalion on the Japanese position even larger, and the Japanese troops who were fighting with the preparatory battalion would almost be attacked by three or four Chinese soldiers at the same time, and no matter how high the quality of individual soldiers was, they could not withstand four people attacking one person at the same time, and the Japanese soldiers in front were bayoneted one after another.
"Boom!" The Japanese infantry artillery fired indiscriminately at the area where the hand-to-hand combat was fighting, the shells exploded, blowing up the dense crowd, the flesh and soil were blown into the sky, and the shells that did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy turned the people near the breakthrough on their backs, whether it was the Japanese army or the national army, the flesh and blood were blurred by the shells at this moment, and there was a rare brief silence on the position, but in the next moment, the follow-up Chinese troops poured into the position again......
The indiscriminate fire of the infantry artillery did not play any other role except to bombard a small number of Chinese troops in a short period of time, and nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers rushed to the Japanese position, rushing from the foxhole to the depth of the position, and the surviving Japanese troops in the forward position had no ability to continue to resist in the face of the tide of Chinese troops.
Stop and shoot down a Chinese soldier, and the next second dozens of Chinese soldiers will step on his body, and the soldiers of the preparatory battalion at the front of the charge will open the way with machine guns and grenades, and shoot forward without fatality, expanding the breakthrough.
The sound of explosions, gunfire, and the painful screams of bayonets penetrating into the flesh filled the front of the position, and the desperate attack of nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers completely broke the Japanese defense line.
The Japanese troops on the position all retreated, Kawashima strictly ordered not to retreat, he held an eleven-year-old light machine gun, with the assistance of the soldiers around him, continued to strafe, after each strafing, several Chinese soldiers fell under the gun, Kawashima almost frenzied pull the trigger, as the highest commander of the upper rank, he commanded most of a brigade to defend the position, failed to block the attack of a thousand Chinese troops in front and behind, the complete collapse of the position made him almost crazy.
Kawashima howled and fired frantically, watching as the Chinese troops were hit by themselves and fell, bullets passing past him, and the Chinese soldiers rushed forward, getting closer and closer.
"Boom!" Several grenades landed on Kawashima's side and exploded, and Kawashima, whose flesh and blood were blurred, fell to the ground along with the surrounding soldiers, his eyes widened and he looked at the sky unwillingly, until the charging Chinese soldiers stepped on his body......
The battlefield situation has completely fallen to Zhang Wei, more than 1,000 people rushed to the Japanese position, the Japanese army could not prevent effective resistance to repel the national army, the entire defense line has completely collapsed, the Chinese soldiers who killed in the continuous charge, the Japanese army in the position all crushed down, in this irreparable situation, the Japanese army could only choose to retreat, and the Japanese army in the position had to quickly withdraw from the position.
"Don't fall in love, chase with fire!" Zhang Wei rushed all the way forward after the friendly troops came up and rushed to Qiu Wei's position.
The battlefield was a pot of porridge, the Japanese army was gone, the preparation battalion rushed to the front, Zhang Wei drove the Japanese army out and immediately contracted the troops, and ordered Qiu Wei and Mu Chao to carry out a fire pursuit, and the two friendly battalions behind the preparation battalion also stagnated.
Now that it was getting dark, it was difficult to guarantee that the Japanese army would not take the opportunity to engage in firepower raids and counterattacks, so the two wisely stopped the troops according to Zhang Wei's orders and ordered a firepower pursuit.
The soldiers of the preparatory battalion who stopped at the "Da Da Da" shot at the retreating Japanese troops, and the Japanese soldiers at the tail of the squadron were hit by the bullets that followed and fell to the side, and the Japanese troops were now retreating, and no one cared about the people who were hit by the tail chasing fire, as long as they were shot, they lost the possibility of retreating alive.
The smoke cleared, and the position that had been fought for with his life was in disarray, the position was littered with the remains of the two armies, all kinds of guns, bayonets and equipment, the wreckage of the fortress position in the distance was still burning, and the logs made a snorting sound while burning, and thick black smoke came out.
After a short tail chase shooting, the soldiers on the position died down, the gunfire gradually stopped, Zhang Wei threw away the rifle in his hand, sat on the trench of the Japanese army, the position under his feet, now theirs, Zhang Wei desperately took this position.
Not far away, two Japanese Type 92 infantry guns fell to the ground crookedly, shells and artillery clearing tools were scattered all over the ground, as well as discarded artillery ammunition boxes and several dead gunners' corpses, which was a standard 92 infantry artillery squad firing position. The artillery was not destroyed, it was twisted upside down, and you can see how embarrassed the retreat of the Japanese army was.
The excited soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of friendly forces shook their weapons and cheered for victory, while the soldiers of the prepared battalion, most of whom were silent, swept the battlefield and rested in place.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, when the sky was just dark, the assault column prepared battalion, equipped with a company of the assault column combat anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and the 1st battalion, 2nd battalion of the 276th regiment of the 138th brigade of the 46th division, and a platoon of mortars. Conquer the main defense line of the 1st Brigade of the 59th Wing of the Japanese Army, destroy all its pillboxes, kill more than 120 people under the enemy's Captain Kawashima, break the corpses, wound the enemy without counting, and severely damage the enemy.