Chapter 674: Infiltration
The armies under the command of General Xue Yue fought fiercely on the southern front and the divisions of the 11th Army under the command of Okamura Ninji from June until October, and both sides repeatedly fought on the southern front throughout the summer.
Although the Chinese army on the southern front successfully broke Okamura Ninji's 11th Army's plan to cut off the Guangdong-Hankou Railway and implement a strategic encirclement of Wuhan.
However, the Chinese army, which has been fighting fiercely for several months, has reached its limit, both mentally and physically.
Among the troops besieging the 106th Division of Wanjialing, not only did they lack weapons and equipment to attack the fortifications, but they were all tired divisions that had been fighting for several months, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.
In the misty mountainous areas, many of the officers and soldiers who lacked logistical supplies were hungry and gritting their teeth to fight the remaining little devils.
The mountainous terrain caused great trouble for the exhausted attacking troops, and most of the devil's fortified trenches were built on high ground.
Although the number of devils is getting smaller and smaller, they condescendingly occupy a geographical advantage, and the Chinese officers and soldiers do not have good equipment for attacking fortifications.
They had to rely on the brothers of the demolition team to gnaw on the mountains with explosives bags and grenades, not only slowly, but also had to withstand the bombing of the devil planes in the sky, and the casualties were very large.
Sometimes, when the troops were about to attack the hill occupied by the devils, several devil planes swooped down and strafed for a while, and the exposed Chinese officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses and had to withdraw, and then the previous achievements were wasted.
Sometimes, it took more than half a day to take a hill guarded by only a dozen devils, and before they could gain a foothold, the bombardment came, leaving the brothers in disarray.
After the devils put poison gas in the mountains, the air flow in the mountains was not smooth, and many places were covered with long-lasting poison gas, which made the exhausted Chinese officers and soldiers suffer a lot.
Although there were many difficulties, in order to win, the Chinese officers and men still rushed forward one after another, advancing meter by meter, and it was only a matter of time before the Songpu Division was completely annihilated.
"Hold on for the last five minutes, and you will definitely be able to completely annihilate the Matsuura Division!"
The commanders also knew that the troops had been fighting for several months, and they were almost unable to hold on to fighting tough battles in the mountains with their tired bodies, so they kept cheering up the troops.
Now it is not only the weapons and equipment and the number of people on both sides that are fighting, but more often than not, the will to fight of the soldiers on both sides.
Yang Ling and the others took over the area under the responsibility of the 6th Pre-Division that was moving south to block the attack, because of the poisonous gas in the mountains, they had a short retraction and rest on the night of the 8th.
Many of the brothers in the regiment were scattered in the battle, and it is not known whether they died or were lost in the mountains, but in short, the brothers in the regiment were again reduced a lot.
Yang Ling also followed the troops to fight with the devil several times, and the dirt and smoke mixed with sweat were so dirty that he couldn't see his true face clearly, but he still insisted on fighting on the front line.
Before attacking the devil again, Yang Ling gathered the battalion and company commanders who were still able to fight and readjusted the deployment.
However, most of the battalion and company commanders who were able to attend this brief battlefield meeting were reduced, and most of them were wounded in the battle.
Junko, the acting commander of one of the battalions, was shot by a devil skirmish hiding in the bushes, and the bullet pierced his left shoulder and was sent down.
Chen Ming, the commander of the second battalion, led people to be stabbed in the thigh when they surrounded and suppressed a squad of devils, and now they have lost their combat effectiveness.
The third battalion commander Liu Yidao and the death squad have no news since they entered the mountain, and their life and death are unknown at the moment, and they don't know where they fought.
Looking at these ragged officers who came around, Yang Ling's heart was not a taste, but war is a battlefield, there is no mercy and sympathy at all, and it is the greatest luck to be alive.
"I don't say much nonsense, the battle has come to this point, we have no way to retreat, otherwise I will be sorry for those brothers who shed blood and sacrificed, I know that everyone is tired of fighting continuously, but I grit my teeth and hold on, the devil is dying."
In fact, there is no need for Yang Ling to say, they all understand that the little devil is not good, if it weren't for the little devil who put poison gas, maybe the devil would be finished now.
"Tuanza, believe us, we can continue to fight!" The deputy battalion commander Qin Shou was already red-eyed, and patted his chest murderously and said.
Yang Ling's gaze looked around the faces of the rest of the officers, none of them spoke, but their eyes had already told Yang Ling that they would not take half a step back.
The Chinese army is lucky to have such a large number of officers and soldiers who dare to die and dare to fight, at least the little devils will no longer attack cities and seize land as easily as before, they have to pay something.
"Our attack can't be stopped, the little devils have airdrops, once they get the supply of ammunition and materials, then the battle will be even more difficult to fight, I will personally bring the brothers with gas masks in to continue fighting, you wait for the poison gas to disperse ......and keep up."
Every devil is equipped with a gas mask, and it was premeditated for them to shoot poison gas bombs at the Chinese army, but they did not expect that they would be surrounded and annihilated here, and they would be beaten so badly.
Yang Ling and the others collected a lot of gas masks from the corpses of devils on the battlefield covered in black smoke, most of which were shattered in the close-range slashing and slashing, and were pierced by bullets.
There are only more than 200 bodies that can be used when put together, but they are enough, and after this night, the poisonous gas is almost dispersed, and the last barrier of the devil will be wiped out at that time.
"Tuanza, let me bring someone in, you stay."
The remnants of the devils were crowded in a few square kilometers, and the more the troops fought inside, the more stubborn the devils resisted, Qin Shou was worried about Yang Ling's safety and rushed to go.
"Tuanza, I'll take the brothers in......" Company Commander Su Er also opened his mouth.
And Luo Youcai, Zhang Heizi and others are also eager to try, and they don't want Yang Ling, the big master, to take risks.
"Don't say it, this matter is settled, you have a full meal, sleep well, and then we will destroy the devils in one go, and the remaining devils still have to rely on you." Yang Ling rejected the kindness of the brothers.
The brothers had been fighting for a few days, barely getting a good night's sleep, and Yang Ling knew that it was better to let them rest for a night and recharge their energy if they continued to let them fight against fatigue and devils.
Soon the brothers in the cooking class brought up the cold steamed buns from behind, and Yang Ling and the brothers who attacked hurriedly ate dinner and set off wearing gas masks.
The battlefield was full of flames and black smoke, and the poisonous gas released by the devils made the battlefield dangerous.
Yang Ling and his more than 200 brothers opened up the attack formation, carefully passed through the weak area of the poisonous gas, and under the cover of night, quietly drilled into the last defensive area of the devils.
"Tuanza, there are devils in front, do you want to fight?"
The devils redeployed a lot of troops in the dangerous area, and Yang Ling and the others didn't go far before they collided.
"Go around, let's only fight the devil's headquarters."
Although Yang Ling and his two hundred or so people said that it would not take much to take a position of devils, as soon as the gunshots rang out, the nearby devils would become alert, and it would not be so easy to continue fighting.
The main purpose of Yang Ling personally leading the team in this time is to behead, eliminate the command headquarters of the devils one by one, paralyze their command system, and see how the little devils fight, and this is Yang Ling's forte.