Chapter Seventy-Three: The 52nd Army

The attacking unit was a battalion of the 10th Regiment of the 20th Brigade, and Zhang Wei followed them with an independent company. On the periphery of Qingshan, there is the area of Shagou and Liguoyi, and now the situation is unknown, what they have to do is to find out the situation in this area, and at the same time collect and search for the rout.

The first was the troops of the 20th Regiment, Zhang Wei walked on the right rear with the independent company, walked seven or eight miles, did not encounter the enemy, and the rout gathered thirty or forty troops, all of which were handed over to the people of the 20th Regiment to be collected in a unified manner.

When the troops walked to the area of the sand ditch, the gunfire suddenly sounded like bursting beans in front, and everyone immediately fell to the ground, ready to fight. It's no wonder that there are few soldiers in this area of Shagou, and the joint author is fighting, so I can only hope that the number of devils is not much.

Through the binoculars, Zhang Wei saw not the Japanese army, but the national army, wearing a German-style steel helmet and holding a Zhongzheng rifle, was attacking a dry trench, and the Japanese army occupying the dry trench took advantage of the geographical advantage to give the national army heavy casualties, and the national army did not adopt outflanking tactics, because the dry trench has a wide field of vision, and the firing range of the machine gun can be said to have no dead angle at all.

The strength of the national army, judging from the scale of the attack, was at least the battalion level, and there were other troops, which showed that it was a regimental unit that was blocked by the Japanese army.

Zhang Wei climbed to the side of the battalion commander of the 20th regiment, and the two decided to attack, and now the position of the troops is just behind the side, although the Japanese machine gun fire range is wide, but as long as their own people charge, four or five hundred people rush over, they can't stop it at all, it can be said that it is a simple and only way.

"Let's go first, and the friendly forces will follow." The battalion commander of the 20th regiment said, Zhang Wei nodded, this battalion commander is also good enough, firstly, he has implemented the instructions to take care of friendly troops, on the other hand, hum, this dry trench can't hold many people, and he can still get a total annihilation when he reports his merits.

Zhang Wei did not object, and the two of them organized their troops to deploy on the spot and prepare to charge.

"Battalion commander, the Japanese are too firepower, and the terrain is good. The brethren can't take it. The battalion commander who had just retired reported to his regiment commander that they were the 150th Regiment of the 75th Brigade of the 25th Division of the 52nd Army that had only arrived recently. The 150th Regiment first fought with some small units of the Japanese army, but as a result, it encountered a group of devils in this ghost place, and occupied the dry trench and withstood four or five attacks by the 150th Regiment, suffering nearly 300 casualties.

"What are you doing to eat, I'll let the mortar company cover you again, if you can't beat it, go eat the gun, the boat capsized in the gutter, this spread, not to mention Commander Guan, even Division Commander Zhang and Brigade Commander Dai can't spare me." Not to mention you. ”

"Then organize the attack."

The battalion commander ran back to gather the troops and decided to fight again, if he couldn't beat it this time, it was estimated that his nickname would be really over.

The problem is that there is less than a squadron of Japanese troops in the trenches, more than 100 people, and they can only rely on the terrain and a reinforced heavy machine gun to resist, and the 150th regiment organized several charges under the cover of mortars before, although they were all beaten back, but the Japanese army's vital strength was almost consumed, and there were only more than 50 combatable soldiers left.

More than a dozen mortar shells hit the vicinity of the dry trench, the 150th regiment launched a new round of charge, the soldiers of the national army after the heavy machine gun fire, with rifles, rushed to the firing distance, the Japanese opened fire as usual, the national soldiers were knocked down a large area, the rest either lay down and fired, or desperately advanced.

"Kill!" There was a shout of killing from the side, and Zhang Wei and they attacked, to be precise. Rushing to the front were the people of the 20th Regiment, Zhang Wei's men were firing grenades to cover, and the grenades hit the dry trenches, causing a panic for the Japanese army, plus the charging infantry, they were even more overwhelmed, and they could only resist the frontal and flank rushing national troops at the same time.

In the end, of course, it was impossible to prevent anything, and both sides rushed into the dry trench almost simultaneously, drowning the Japanese troops, and then settled the battle with hand-to-hand combat and bullets, and the 20th regiment suffered more than 30 casualties, and the battalion of the 150th regiment was slightly more. But I finally took it down.

Zhang Wei ran to the dry trench with his people, and the battalion commander of the 20th Regiment was talking to the battalion commander of the 150th Regiment, and Zhang Wei leaned over. The battalion commander of the 20th Regiment patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and said to the battalion commander of the 150th Regiment: "This is the company commander of the independent company of the 200th Division, fighting with us, and the grenadier just now is theirs."

The battalion commander of the 150th regiment was naturally full of smiles, after all, he helped him take the position and saved his life by the way.

"Thank you, this group of devils is difficult, and the place chosen is too tricky."

Zhang Wei said: "You're welcome, by the way, have you seen the rout, and the officers, we lost a lot of people in the breakout of Yixian yesterday."

"Router? We have gathered a lot of people, the regiment headquarters has it, and we have picked up a few officers in the morning, as well as the regiment commander.

Zhang Wei and the battalion commander of the 20th Regiment glanced at each other, and the two knew that it was estimated that it was the soldiers of the 23rd Regiment who broke through, and eighty percent of the regiment commander was Chen Chunyi.

"Can you take us to see it?"

Of course, this little favor is to help, the battalion commander of the 150th Regiment enthusiastically took Zhang Wei and the battalion commander of the 20th Regiment to their regimental headquarters, Zhang Wei's independent company and other troops cleaned up the battlefield together, in fact, the Japanese army has a total of less than one squadron of troops, Dong Erli and those grenadier groups took the opportunity to draw a lot of ammunition, of course, they have become accustomed to this.

Zhang Wei walked to the regiment headquarters and learned that this was a regiment of the 25th Division, and in the temporary command post, the battalion commander of the 150th Regiment took Zhang Wei and the two of them to meet the regiment commander Gao Peng, Gao Peng inquired about the battle situation and expressed his gratitude to Zhang Wei and the two.

"Thanks to you, this group of devils has been blocking us for a long time, I thought there would be two hundred people, but I didn't expect it to be only one squadron." Gao Peng sighed. Indeed, the devils of a squadron blocked the 150th regiment for almost half a day, and finally paid several times the casualties to kill them, which is indeed emotional.

"Sir, after all, did you kill them, besides, we are gathering stragglers, I heard that you have gathered some, and there are officers, I wonder if you can let us take a look?" Zhang Wei asked.

"No problem, it's in the back, let the orderlies take you there." Zhang Wei and the two went to the back of the regiment headquarters under the leadership of the orderlys, only to see a group of ragged stragglers, with "4D" written on the number stamp on their arms

It was indeed a soldier of the 4th Division, and the officer in the middle was Chen Chunyi, who had many injuries on his body and was wrapped in gauze.

Chen Chunyi was also very excited when he saw Zhang Wei, and hurriedly stood up and waved his hand: "Zhang Wei." "The two have lost contact since they hit Yi County, and now they are very happy to meet, after all, they have fought side by side together.

walked up to Chen Chunyi, Zhang Wei talked to him, and then he knew that Chen Chunyi and the regiment broke through last night, which can only be described as dangerous and chaotic, of course, Chen Chunyi is also fateful. After all, added up, nearly 1,500 people broke through in Yixian County, Qingshan was closed, plus Chen Chunyi's side, there were only more than 900 people in total, less than 1,000 people, and the remaining more than 400 people, I am afraid most of them were martyred.