Chapter 175: The Battle Begins
The war is never transferred by the will of people, Murong Pei and their departure was at the right time, and the day after the front foot left, the news of the Japanese army crossing the river came from the Jiangbei front. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Huo Xiaoshan calculated, it was only less than half a month since they crossed the river to now joined Zheng Youjian's quartermaster department, and the Japanese army's movements were really fast enough
The Chuxian garrison has begun to load bullets in the surrounding positions, and they are ready to fight.
The military situation woke up the dreamer, Zheng Youjian panicked at this time, but he didn't know what to do, which was also the embarrassment of Zheng Youjian's listed quartermaster's office.
In peacetime, the upper peak of the Central Army also routinely informed him of the war situation through the radio, and it is estimated that it was still a routine matter for the upper peak to explain to the people below, and there was never an order for him to do what not to do.
Give the 31st Army what you can use? The 31st Army is from the Gui system, in other words, it is just a miscellaneous army. Don't say that Zheng Youjian is reluctant, even if he is willing to give, he dares to give the materials of the Central Army to the Gui troops without an order from the peak, this is a taboo!
Retreat and move away? There was no order.
His wartime quartermaster department also had some weapons and supplies, such as Maxim heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, medium rifles, flower traps, grenades, military luggage, military uniforms, and food.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that Zheng Youjian actually has two German-made PAK37 battle defense guns, you need to know that this is definitely a good thing, and it is a big killer weapon for fighting devil tanks!
Some people say that there are too few weapons in this Quartermaster Department, do you know that most of these belongings in the Quartermaster Department were not issued to him by Shangfeng, they were all brought by Zheng Youjian himself!
His superiors didn't know that Zheng Youjian would get these good things in the name of the Quartermaster Department of the Fifth Theater of the Central Army, otherwise, the notice would have come down a long time ago, and you would have to pull these things back to the Central Army for me first.
Zheng Youjian hesitated for a long time, and made up his mind that he still had to transport it away and not keep it for the Japanese army, but he decided that Chuxian County could not be defended.
Because although the Gui troops are known as the most effective in the miscellaneous army, how long can the strength of this regiment in Chuxian block the Japanese?
The Japanese beat President Jiang's descendant German mechanics in Nanjing to the point that they lost their armor and dismounted their armor, and the equipment was a regiment of the Gui Army, which was a big grade behind the German mechanics, and it was estimated that real resistance could only be ashes under the Japanese cannons.
Chuxian is just a few dozen kilometers away from the Yangtze River, and the Japanese army said that they could come over if they killed it.
Fortunately, Chuxian County has convenient transportation and is on the Jinpu line, so you can load all the ordnance and materials onto trucks and then load them onto military trains.
The decision has been made, and if you say luck, you will get luck, so Zheng Youjian began to assign work.
All kinds of guns and grenades, military luggage, military uniforms, and food can be loaded directly onto trucks, but the two German-made PAK37 anti-aircraft guns can't be loaded into trucks.
This has to talk about these two battle defense guns.
The tungsten-core armor-piercing shell of this type of gun actually penetrated only 500 mm of vertical armor when fired at 48 meters, but for the Chinese army this was quite enough.
Because the armor of Japanese tanks generally did not exceed 25 mm, and it has not been improved, the weak armor of Japanese small tanks could not withstand the fire of 37mm PAK anti-aircraft guns.
Another advantage of this anti-aircraft gun is that it is not heavy, it is less than 900 catties, and it is still rubber, so the soldiers of the previous squad can push and run.
The glorious task of transporting the anti-aircraft artillery was handed over to Huo Xiaoshan and these people.
Huo Xiaoshan proposed to push two cannons, and his dozen or so people were not enough, so he asked Zheng Youjian to allocate another shift to him.
Shen Chong was also present at the time, and he thought that Zheng Youjian's people were too lazy, so he said that if you let the reckless people from Hubei help push it.
Zheng Youjian glared at Shen Chong and said that after you have a lot of things, you also asked people to notify those Hubei people to help push the cannon together.
As for the location of the armory, Huo Xiaoshan knew it, because he had something to do and went there once. It's not far out of the county seat, and you can see it just by bypassing a hill.
The gun hangar was built in a mountain col and was originally a dilapidated temple that was used as a nest by local beggars.
Zheng Youjian fell in love with the relatively intact wall and requisitioned it, several monks' houses were used as military camps, and the relatively high Daxiong Treasure Hall was used as a warehouse.
The temple is not large, but fortunately, Zheng Youjian's wartime quartermaster office does not have a lot of supplies.
The armoury of all the troops, also called ammunition depots, is generally located in the suburbs, because the depots are stocked with guns, ammunition, grenades, and even ******* explosives, which are located at a certain distance from residential areas for security reasons.
The Quartermaster Department had a total of three military trucks, one went to deliver Murong Pei to them, and the remaining two pulled these people who were responsible for transporting supplies to the railway station and drove towards the suburbs.
If you want to say that Zheng Youjian is definitely a good hand, but in terms of managing the troops, it is too far behind.
He first sat in the cab himself, and let his old soldiers scramble to climb into the back of the truck, just because it was easier to ride in the car than to walk.
And Huo Xiaoshan's group and the reckless people from Hubei were thrown under the car and could only go on foot.
Fortunately, the road in Chuzhou is not easy to walk, and the car is not much faster, and Huo Xiaoshan's team are all really devils, and they are not so squeamish, so they trotted all the way, but they didn't let the truck fall far.
When Huo Xiaoshan led the team out of the county seat of Chuxian County, he saw that the fortifications of the county town had been built, which were nothing more than temporary blockhouses used as blockhouses, machine gun bunkers made of sandbags on the roadside, and barricades made of wood.
But the weapons and equipment in the hands of the soldiers are only average, except for a few Czech-made light machine guns, many soldiers do not even have a formal middle school, only use old sleeves or Hanyang-made.
Huo Xiaoshan knew that the 31st Army belonged to the Gui troops, that is, the Guangxi soldiers, and they were generally not tall, and the soldiers looked like they were ready for battle, but in Huo Xiaoshan's opinion, such fortifications and weapons would definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the Japanese army, just the Japanese army's armored vehicles and grenadiers were enough to destroy these fortifications, not to mention those infantry guns.
Shen Chong naturally saw all this in his eyes, and when they went back to the city, the fortifications had just begun to be built.
He didn't think about anything else, just looked at the soldiers of the 31st Army, who were generally very short, smiled, and said to the dung balls beside him while trotting: "I said dung balls, are you the wrong child, according to your height, you should also be from the 31st Army."
Dung Qiuzi naturally understood the meaning of Shen Chong's words, and smiled: "I'm not with them, if I'm with them, won't it be cheap for you?" ā
Shen Chong didn't understand what he said, and asked, "Why are you involved with us?" Why are we cheaper? ā
"Hehe, with them are all on one side, and the devils will lower the muzzle of the gun when they fight, so I'm not in danger?" The dung ball returns.
Shen Chong suddenly realized that the meaning of the dung ball was that with a person who was taller than him like himself, the devil would naturally aim at the tall person first, and then the dung ball would have a better chance of survival.
"Damn, you dead monkey!" Shen Chong stretched out his hand as he ran, and slapped the back of the dung ball on the back of his head.
Dung Ball and Shen Chong had long been used to making trouble, and they didn't care, just laughing as they ran.
Shen Chong didn't notice that when he said the dead monkey himself, the Gui soldiers who were standing a few meters away from him glared at him in unison.
Everyone knows that Guangxi soldiers are short, and if you say that a short person is a dead monkey in front of others, isn't that just a short talk in front of a lame man? So it's strange if the people of the 31st Army are willing to listen?
The soldiers of the 31st Army are responsible for garrisoning here, and naturally they also know that there is such a group of old soldiers of the Central Army in the city, who usually dress well and eat well.
There are still people who have fought with this group of old soldiers whose nostrils are always facing the sky, and they have suffered a small loss, but the commander of the army strictly ordered them not to provoke these masters of the Central Army, so they are usually not less angry with Zheng Youjian's men, but they have to accept the order, otherwise they will definitely let them see the power of the Gui army.
Huo Xiaoshan didn't notice the scene just now, there was a small hill not far from the county seat, and when he turned over the mountain, he could see the gun hangar in the col, he saw that the car in front of him turned over the hill and couldn't see a trace, so he unconsciously quickened his pace, and the people behind saw that he was fast and hurriedly followed, although he was not out of breath but he didn't have time to idle nonsense.
But just when Huo Xiaoshan and the others were still sixty or seventy meters away from that hill, they heard an explosion from the other side of the mountain, followed by a dense machine gun sound!
"Oh no, they collided with the devils! Wrong! Arsenal! Huo Xiaoshan judged instantly. (To be continued.) )