Chapter 368: Confrontation
The earth-shattering shouts of killing resounded in the night sky, and the remaining Japanese soldiers under the artillery bombardment looked in the direction from which the sound came from, and saw the Chinese soldiers all over the mountains and fields rushing towards them. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
The frightened Japanese soldier let out a terrible roar, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the louder explosion.
In the flames of the explosion, black shadows quickly rushed into the Japanese position.
The original strong trenches, layered fortifications and firing points of the Japanese positions were all completely wiped out by artillery fire, and many trenches were razed to the ground.
Most of the Japanese soldiers, who had been fierce and arrogant a few days ago, were blown to minced meat in this carpet shelling, charred corpses could be seen everywhere, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and scorching stench.
"Ahh There were wounded Japanese soldiers dragging bloody legs, and when they saw the Chinese soldiers rushing over, they struggled to grab the blown up rifles.
"Bang! Bang! ”
Several dazzling fires flashed, blood splattered, and several bloody holes appeared in the chest of the Japanese soldier, and countless pairs of feet were advancing through the slowly cold corpse.
"Dada-"
A Japanese bunker let out the roar of a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the hard bullets hit the ground with mud and dust, blocking the way of the assault troops.
"Kill him!"
An assault platoon commander roared loudly when he saw the Japanese firepower point that was constantly spewing tongues of fire.
A soldier holding a cluster grenade rolled forward, and soon reached the front of the Japanese bunker, where he thrust the smoking grenade into it.
"Boom!"
With an earth-shattering loud bang, the vaunting Japanese bunker turned into a sky full of mud and sand in an instant, and the entire bunker became a collapsed hole.
The soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army attacked fiercely, and they no longer rushed forward recklessly as they used to be, but quickly rushed forward in squads and platoons, and they rolled forward to smash grenades while shooting, and the speed of advance was amazing.
The Japanese forward positions were almost scorched by artillery fire, and the assault troops did not meet much resistance, but after advancing about two miles, they were confronted by a fresh Japanese force that had come from reinforcements.
There was an encounter between the two sides in the dark, and the commander of this group of Japanese troops saw a group of people running from the direction of the position, and thought it was a defeated unit.
"You cowards! Get back! Stop the people of China! The Japanese commander scolded in some anger.
The assault troops, who were rushing forward, heard the screams of chirping in the darkness, and their steps froze, and they found themselves crashing into the arms of the Japanese reinforcements.
"Fuck it, it's a devil!" Wang Meng, the commander of the assault company, reacted, and shouted while raising his gun to shoot: "Fight Lao Tzu!"
"Bang bang - da - "
The dense gunfire suddenly rang out, and the machine gun rifle bullets were as dense as locusts, and the oncoming devils were immediately overturned.
"It's a Shina man! It's a Shina man! The reinforcements had not yet figured out the situation, until the soldiers opened fire, and then suddenly found that the steel helmets they were wearing were different from theirs, and they scattered to fight back, and the two sides started a fierce battle in the dark night.
"A row! Outflank from the left! ”
"Second row, go around from the right and stab the little devil's ass!"
Company commander Wang Meng held a fierce flower machine gun, and rushed forward while rolling, and shouted orders to the rear.
The Japanese army was not good at stubble, and when they saw that there was a Chinese army rushing towards them, they organized a defense on the spot, and at the same time transferred two squads to outflank them, trying to annihilate this Chinese force.
The tactics of the commanders of both sides coincided, and the result was that the skirmishes grew larger and larger, and the battlefield gradually expanded, with black rumbling, gunfire everywhere, and battlefields everywhere.
"What's going on! You're an assault company commander! ”
The regiment commander Zhang Handuo led the troops of the second battalion to rush up from the flank, and when he saw that Wang Meng, the commander of the assault company of the third battalion, was pressed here and could not move, he was immediately a little annoyed.
"Report to the group! This devil is a hard bone, we can't even gnaw at it! ”
Wang Meng, the commander of the assault company, also said that the Japanese army they encountered had strong firepower and strong coordination ability, and he was pressed back several times.
In fact, what the assault company commander Wang Meng didn't know was that what he encountered was not a small group of Japanese troops, but two squadrons of five or six hundred elite Japanese troops.
The Japanese army was stunned by their indiscriminate beating, and the night was pitch black, which allowed Wang Meng to take advantage of them, if it was daytime, they didn't know how they died.
"What about your Deputy Head Yang!" The head of the regiment, Zhang Handuo, asked loudly.
Wang Meng, the commander of the assault company, looked left and right, and in addition to his dozens of brothers, there were people from the third battalion there, and he replied: "Report to the regimental seat, dispersed."
The scale of the battlefield is expanding dramatically, and all the troops are advancing in a surprise attack, Yang Ling and they also followed the assault company to attack forward at the beginning, but the assault company attacked too quickly, and they were strangled together by more than 100 Japanese troops who rushed over in the oblique stab.
When the main force of their battalion wiped out more than 100 Japanese troops, and then went to chase the assault company, in the dark night of the war, even the shadow of the assault company could not be seen, and the battlefield was disrupted, and they had to attack forward on their own.
"Second Battalion Commander!" Seeing that Wang Meng, the commander of the third battalion assault company with only a few dozen brothers left, the regiment commander Zhang Handuo also knew that he could not be blamed for this, so he hurriedly called over to the second battalion commander.
Chen Ming, the commander of the second battalion, was also covered in blood and hurriedly ran over.
The regiment commander Zhang Handuo pointed to the temporary position of the Japanese army in front and said, "Give you ten minutes!" Break through the Japanese positions ahead! ”
"Yes!" Chen Ming, the commander of the second battalion, did not hesitate at all, he clicked and put the rifle he picked up on fire, and shouted: "First company, follow me!" Shouting, he rushed towards the position established by the Japanese army.
The troops of the Japanese 14th Division suffered a ferocious blow, and the units of the National Revolutionary Army attacking from all directions took advantage of the night to advance forward, and the area within a radius of hundreds of miles was turned into a burning battlefield.
"Commander of the Reporting Division! Our unit was attacked by the main force of the Chinese army! All the outer positions were lost, and they asked to shrink and retreat! ”
The commander of the Sakai detachment shook the phone of the 14th Division headquarters and hurriedly reported the latest situation.
"Have you figured out the number of the Chinese Army?" The division commander, Kenji Dohihara, asked loudly.
"We were confronted by the 74th and 7th armies of the Chinese army, and they attacked fiercely! The casualties of the troops are very large, Your Excellency the division commander, our department requests to retreat! ”
Hearing the hurried voice of the captain of the Jiujin detachment on the other side of the phone, the division commander Kenji Dohihara pondered for a moment and said, "Permission to retreat twenty miles and rebuild the position!" Your troops must block the Chinese army in the area east of Neihuang. ”
As soon as Kenji Dohihara hung up the phone of the commander of the Sakai detachment, the commander of the 28th Brigade sent another telegram saying that their 28th Brigade had been attacked by the 64th Army of the Chinese army and asked for support.
The urgent telegram flew into the headquarters of the 14th Division like snowflakes, which made the division commander Kenji Dohihara feel that something was wrong.
He walked quickly to the map, looked at the dense drawings drawn by red and blue lines, and quickly understood the combat attempt of General Xue Yue, the commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, to encircle and annihilate his division.
Their 14th Division had rushed lightly all the way and had already crashed into the encirclement of Xue Yue's headquarters, while the 9th and 13th Divisions, which were closest to them, were also separated by several days.
After the division commander Kenji Dohihara guessed the Chinese army's combat intentions, he snorted disdainfully, wanting to eat his 14th division, how could it be so easy.
Their plan to encircle and annihilate the 600,000 Chinese troops in Xuzhou has gone bankrupt with the active withdrawal of the Chinese army, and now it would be good if they could encircle and annihilate the 100,000-strong Yudong Corps.
"Pass my order, all departments stop the attack, shrink the defense, and block the offensive of the Chinese army!" Kenji Dohihara continued: "Report to the North China and Central China Front that our 14th Division has successfully dragged the Henan Eastern Corps of the China Army near Lanfeng, and I ask all the divisions and regiments of the friendly forces to quickly move closer and work together to annihilate it."