Chapter 624: The Battle of Wanjialing (8)
Although Junrokuro Matsuura's 106th Division suffered two defeats in a row on the battlefield of northern Jiangxi, it would be a big mistake to say that they were weak.
Seeing that they were encircled by the Chinese army in the Wanjialing area, their strong combat effectiveness in order to survive made people's hearts palpitate.
On the front line of Changling alone, one of their 113 Wing wiped out a fully manned main division of 10,000 people under the command of General Feng Shengfa, which shows its strong strength.
General Xue Yue transferred the 66th Army of the Cantonese Army in Lushan to the battlefield, and with the 4th Army with strong combat effectiveness, he turned from defense to attack and launched a tentative attack on the Songpu Division.
Both the 4th Army and the 66th Army were the most capable troops in Guangdong, and they were also the troops that General Xue Yue trusted.
At this moment, although the 74th Army has begun to emerge in a series of combat effectiveness, compared with these veteran units in Guangdong, its combat effectiveness remains to be seen, so it still carries out the task of defense and interception.
Junrokuro Matsuura was very clear about the combat effectiveness of the 66th Army and the 4th Army in the intelligence as early as in the intelligence, and he suffered losses at the hands of the 4th Army on the Nanxun Line.
Therefore, when he saw the troops of these two armies attacking, he knew that he could not defeat them, so he ordered the two wings to block the attack while dispatching elite troops to launch a fierce attack on the new breakthrough point Zhang Gushan.
The final result was that the 66th Army and the 4th Army were clinging to the Songpu Division, while the main force of the Songpu Division was the 58th Division, which was pressed to Zhanggushan with all its strength and blocked by the Changling line.
The troops of the 58th Division suffered losses in a bloody battle for two days and two nights, and even the division commander, General Feng Shengfa, personally carried a gun to the front line to participate in the battle.
Fortunately, the situation on the battlefield gradually became clearer, and General Xue Yue saw that the 58th Division was really unable to bear it, so he transferred the reserve mobile force.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
From time to time, mortar shells fell on the battlefield on the front line of Changling, blowing up the stacks of corpses and setting off bursts of blood.
All the positions on the front line of Changling were obscured by thick black gunsmoke, and it was gray as if it was evening.
The brimstone incendiary bombs burned the weeds and forests, and the blackened wooden stakes were still smoking.
On the hillside strewn with corpses, the devil soldiers with bayonets pulled the straggler line alternately covered and searched and leaped towards the defenders' positions.
Although the direction of the breakthrough of the main force of the devils has shifted to Zhang Gushan, the 113th Wing of the devils, who are in charge of Changling, did not stop moving, but pinned down the Chinese army with an offensive posture.
In the huge crater opened by a bombshell, more than a dozen scrawny Chinese officers and soldiers were gathered, the only remaining defenders of the position.
The two days and two nights of unclosed fighting made each of them look unkempt, their eyes bloodshot, and exhausted, but they still managed not to close their eyes.
"Lian Deput, the devil is up again." A short brother shrank his head back from the rim of the crater and said in a low voice.
After hearing the report, the only remaining deputy company commander in this position looked back at the more than a dozen scarred brothers, his face full of bitterness.
They were tired from two days and two nights of fierce fighting, and now that there was no more gunfire in the surrounding positions, they did not know whether they were dead or withdrew.
There are at least a few thousand brothers in the nearby position, how can they have died in only two days, they must have withdrawn, but why didn't they notify us when they retreated? The deputy company commander was very puzzled.
But without the order to retreat, they had to hold on to their positions, nailed to them like nails, and could not take half a step back.
"And the bullets are even out of each other, ready to fight." The devil's chattering voice was already clearly audible, and the deputy company commander gave orders in a hoarse voice.
A brother with a dark red blood stain on his head shook his head in grief and said, "Even Vice, we have no bullets, not a single one."
The brothers groped each other, but they were disappointed, and after two days and two nights of fighting, they had lost all their bullets, and now there was not a single bullet.
"Grenades, and grenades?" The deputy company commander is in a hurry, the devil is coming, how can he do without bullets.
As if remembering something, a brother hurriedly climbed to the side and overturned a corpse, revealing an ammunition box.
"There's still here, and a couple of grenades."
The five remaining grenades lay quietly at the bottom of the mud-filled ammunition box, giving hope to the more than a dozen remaining brothers.
The deputy company commander took out the grenade, took one for himself, and stuffed one into the hands of one of the other four brothers.
He turned around and said calmly: "Wait for them to go out one by one, don't be served by others, and use bayonets if you don't have grenades."
The remaining ten or so brothers all knew what the deputy company commander meant, they were going to fight hard, but they didn't want to die in their hearts, but in this lonely position, they had no choice but to retreat, and they lost contact with the friendly forces on the upper peak, so they could only carry it to the end.
"I'll go first, and you'll follow."
The deputy company commander took one last look at the dozen or so brothers who had fought side by side to the end, grabbed the grenade and carefully climbed out of the crater, crawled towards the devil, and hid sideways behind a blackened rock.
The search for this group of devil soldiers was very slow, and they covered each other and moved cautiously.
They had launched nearly 20 attacks on this position in two days, and in the face of those Chinese officers and soldiers who were fighting to the death and did not retreat, they were really afraid in their hearts, and only the weapons in their hands could give them a sense of security.
"Kill!" The deputy company commander pulled the fuse of the grenade, burst into a shout, and suddenly burst out from behind the rocks and pounced on the devil who was close at hand.
The moment he saw the body of the deputy company commander rushing out, the other brothers who were still in the crater had tears in their eyes, and another brother took advantage of the devil's attention to be attracted and quietly grabbed a grenade and crawled out.
"Poof! Burst! The ghost soldier's reaction speed was very fast, and when he saw someone rushing over, he subconsciously raised his gun and shot.
The bullet pierced the body of the deputy company commander, bursting into a cloud of blood mist, and his body was stunned, but he did not fall, but waved his arm vigorously and threw the smoking grenade at the ghost soldier.
"Boom!"
The earth-shattering explosion sounded, and shrapnel flew sideways under the sweep of the air waves, and immediately four devils were blown over in a pool of blood, screaming and convulsing.
"Eight Ga Ya Road!" The lieutenant led by the devil hurriedly fell down in anger, and the rest of the devils also dodged and beat the deputy company commander into a blood gourd.
The lieutenant company commander's thin body swayed, and finally he fell into the scorched earth, and before the devil could get up from the ground, another brother grabbed a grenade and rushed forward.
"Boom!"
The devil who was lying on the ground wanted to grab the gun and move, but the brother pounced on him and hugged him tightly, and the devil was so anxious that he sweated profusely and tried to break free, but with a loud bang, both of them were blown into the sky full of minced meat.
"Kill the devil!"
Another brother grabbed a grenade and rushed forward, and when the devil saw the smoking grenade, he was so frightened that he turned around and stumbled away.
On the tragic battlefield, nearly 100 devils were chased by a brother, and the scene was chaotic for a while, and with a booming explosion, everything returned to dust and dust.