Chapter 150: Blood Red and Snow White (11)
As a "liberation fighter" of the Northeast Army, Gao Yucheng not only helped the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army do some local work, but also participated in battles, and he was shocked by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's courage and skill. Therefore, when he was in the second line of defense, his mood was still relatively stable, and the Japanese army wanted to rush through the first line of defense of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and it needed to pay a great price. When the second front is put into battle, I am afraid that it may not be possible to fight in the end.
As soon as the Japanese artillery attack ended, fierce gunfire rang out on the first front. After a single shot, the firing gradually stopped. There was a continuous sound of bolts and bullets on the position. It seems that the enemy's offensive has been contained. After a few more minutes, the earth-shattering shouts of "onboard" and "onboard" suddenly sounded outside the first front! The sound was like a tsunami from a mountain.
The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's side had switched to fighting back with bullets, but the intensity of the gunfire was much less than the first. On the contrary, shouts such as "the bolt of the gun is frozen" are constantly sounding. The density of the fire of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army decreased, but the Japanese fire showed no sign of abating, and with the dull sound characteristic of running in the snow, the Japanese rushed out of the first line of defense, shouting "onboard".
"Get on the bayonet! Charge! The commanders of the first line of defense shouted one after another. There was a clatter, and a moment later the sharp sound of the bayonets clashing, the screams of the warriors as they were thrust into the flesh with bayonets, and the shouts of rage in hand-to-hand combat.
Gao Yucheng poked his head out of the second line of defense, and under the dim sky, he vaguely saw that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in snow camouflage uniforms and the Japanese troops in black uniforms had begun a large-scale melee together. With the sound of rapid running, Gao Yucheng heard a sharp military horn sound. It was the charge of the bayonet battle. "Get on the bayonet!" The commander beside Gao Yucheng shouted.
It's not just one commander shouting this, all the commanders in Gao Yucheng's vicinity are issuing the same order. Gao Yucheng shuddered, he had also received a little training in bayonet hand-to-hand combat, but he didn't expect that the first hand-to-hand combat in his life would start like this. And the opponent turned out to be a tough Japanese soldier. At this moment, Gao Yucheng only felt as if a black mist had suddenly risen in front of him, and the sky, which was already very dim, was now almost completely dark.
The news of the bayonet battle carried out by the Japanese army after the Japanese army approached the positions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army with artillery bombardment soon reached the headquarters of the 18th Army. Mu Husan, commander of the 18th Army, was a little surprised. Mu Husan immediately figured it out, and the deployment of the 19th Division of the Japanese Army must not be said to have any problems. In the current situation, the 19th Division does not have any advantage over firepower and defensive positions. The choice of melee combat and bayonet combat is the best choice for the Japanese army to exert its combat effectiveness at the moment. Not to mention that in snowy weather, bayonet battles have a great advantage.
If not in the northeast, but in North and Central China, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had many ways to make its positions stronger. For example, landmines, such as various warning systems. However, the low temperature of minus 20 or 30 degrees in the northeast made it extremely difficult for the mines of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to work in this icy and snowy terrain. First, it was difficult to bury, and second, the mines carried by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were not designed for such cold weather, and the snow was several feet thick, and there was very cold weather. In such a situation, the mine failure rate exceeded 80 percent, and Mu Husan simply did not order the placement of mines this time. In the dim snow day, it was easier for the Japanese to act covertly. Summing up several circumstances, the plan of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army appeared to be inflexible. Moreover, before the war, the troops did not expect that the Japanese army would implement close combat so thoroughly.
"Order the troops, resolutely fight back! People are in the position! Mu Husan shouted a cold order into the phone.
"Commander, the Japanese devils are desperate, I have to personally lead the troops up, you hurry up and send reinforcements!" The commander of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Division on the phone hung up the phone after shouting.
Putting down the phone, the commander of the sixth regiment listened to the earth-shattering shouts not far away, and he shouted: "Guard company, get on the bayonet and follow me!" ”
The intensity and determination of the Japanese army this time were so strong that the regiment commander did not expect it at all. If it weren't for the northeast, a dozen machine guns would have been erected on the position to inflict a bloody massacre on the Japanese army. But this is the northeast, and the light machine gun units on the positions have not strafed. But the troops have been fighting for so long, and the supply of ammunition is very insufficient. The snowflakes were spent when they fell on the hot machine guns, and the ammunition was slightly not available, and it was not long before the snow froze into ice cubes, and the machine guns could easily fail.
Not only machine guns, but also rifles. The bolts could not be pulled apart when they frozen, and the Japanese, who seemed to have more combat experience in this area, preferred to endure the first wave of troops being knocked down by the fire of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, while the second wave was still in no hurry to shoot. When the workers and peasants stopped firing at the revolutionary army, and the weapons failed due to low temperatures, the shooting was greatly affected, and the second wave of Japanese troops converged with the remnants of the first wave of Japanese troops, and on the one hand, they fired fiercely, and on the other hand, they approached the defensive positions of the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army. After the Japanese fire suppressed the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, they did not stop firing, but rushed forward with bayonets.
Due to poor preparation, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was taken by surprise. No one expected that the Japanese army would not engage in fire reconnaissance, but directly sent a large force to launch a decisive attack regardless of life or death. The defensive positions forged by the ice and snow were built for counter-fire, and the time constraints did not make them an effective obstacle to the bayonet battles of the infantry. Not to mention that after the snow, the once smooth defensive surface also has a lot of things to borrow.
The regiment commander was a native of northern Jiangsu, who enlisted in the army in 1910 and had fought some battles, but he never imagined that he would be able to see bayonet battles on a regimental scale and above. Today, when hot weapons completely dominate the war, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has no choice but to engage in hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons in this icy and snowy land.
"Am I going to be honored here today?" A hint of foreboding crossed the mind of the sixth regiment leader. But at this time, the whole of the 6th Regiment had already fallen into hand-to-hand combat, and the Japanese army's charge regardless of life and death did achieve its goal. The regiment commander had no other way than to lead his troops to meet the battle.
The regimental commander arrived at the right time, and as soon as he rushed to the second line of defense with the guard company, he saw that a Japanese army had broken through the line. The Japanese soldier led by the Japanese sword slashed at a soldier on the opposite side, and the soldier obviously had no fighting spirit, but raised his rifle tremblingly to block it. The Japanese soldier was very strong, and the soldier was cowering and his body was not in the right position, and he was hit by such a blow, plus his feet slipped, and he actually fell to the ground. The head of the regiment scolded in his heart, "Bad seed! With a single shot, he knocked the Japanese soldier who had raised his Japanese sword to the ground for the final blow to the slippery soldier.
"Kill!" The regimental commander waved his pistol and rushed forward with the guard company.
Gao Yucheng didn't expect the Japanese army to charge so quickly, he just stood up and rushed forward with his comrades, and met a large group of enemies. The Japanese troops led by them did not use bayonets, but danced Japanese swords. In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, Japanese swords are better than bayonets. Or maybe it was because of the superb swordsmanship of the Japanese soldiers who used Japanese swords in front of them, they actually cut down several fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in a row and broke through the battle line. Because of the delay, Gao Yucheng became the last resistant.
In fact, he couldn't see anything clearly under the dim sky, and with Gao Yucheng being scared in his heart, the darkness in front of him seemed to be thicker. He could barely see the enemy's slashing movements, and almost instinctively blocked it with his rifle. A strong force came from his arm, and Gao Yucheng's feet slipped and he fell to the ground. At this moment, the darkness in front of Gao Yucheng's eyes became even thicker, and everything around him was almost impossible to see. The only thing that could be seen was the silhouette of the Japanese soldier raising his Japanese sword again.
"It's over!" Gao Yucheng thought in his heart. But in such a situation, he felt as if his body had been immobilized, and he couldn't move at all. At this moment, a gunshot rang out, and the Japanese soldier fell in response. Then, Gao Yucheng seemed to hear a burst of angry shouts of "killing", and then a group of soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army rushed up from behind to join the battle group.
Gao Yucheng was not sure where the sound of "killing" came from, the Chinese soldiers shouted "kill", and the Japanese soldiers shouted "kill urgently". Chinese soldiers shouted "Die! The Japanese soldier was "Sinkid". In this time of life and death, the voice is greatly gone, so it becomes an indescribable voice.
But it didn't matter what you shouted, the collision of bayonets with bayonets, the impact of butts and barrels, the sound of shooting mixed in, and even the loud sound and fire of grenade explosions. In the gloomy dawn, all Gao Yucheng could see clearly was that the barely white figure and the black figure were violently attacking each other, shaking. There were screams and falls, but the front line was like a giant beast devouring people, and no matter how many people fell, the first and second lines of defense were always full of shaking figures.
Although his eyes couldn't see clearly, Gao Yucheng could smell the strong gunsmoke and bloody breath. You can clearly hear all kinds of collisions, shots, roars and screams. You can feel the slight tingling sensation of the snow flakes hitting your face. But he just couldn't see everything around him. In this terrible whirlpool of war, Gao Yucheng suddenly couldn't help but kneel on the ground and cry.
But the cry was so insignificant compared to the sounds that filled the battlefield that it couldn't even attract anyone's attention.
The commander of the 19th Division looked solemnly at the far south, although his gaze could not see the real battlefield at all. However, the division commander still looked to the south. He racked his brains to finalize the plan of attack, and the Miyazaki Brigade took on the task of charging, and fought the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army in a brutal hand-to-hand combat.
The Japanese had to face a difficult breakout battle, and the commander of the 19th Division determined that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had arranged a defensive position with a length of nearly seven kilometers and a width of up to five kilometers. No matter how this position was built, even if it was made of pure snow, if it was based on normal tactics, it would have caused terrible losses to the Japanese army. The only way to win was to take advantage of the defect of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's use of relatively scarce troops to defend such a vast area.
Having accepted the wounded of the 20th Division, the commander of the 19th Division had to be sure of one thing, despite the unhappiness in his heart. The Chinese army he faced was a well-equipped, technically and tactically sophisticated, and tenacious will to fight. There is little chance of defeating them in ordinary hot weapon engagements. The only chance to win is hand-to-hand combat.
Therefore, after arranging suspicious troops in several places, the commander of the 19th Division threw half of the division's Miyazaki Brigade into one point. As long as it was able to break through this point, the Japanese army would take advantage of the situation to break through the defensive position of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. At that time, it will be possible to converge with the troops receiving from the opposite side. If this could be done, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which had been divided in two, would suffer a devastating blow. So no matter how much sacrifice is made, it is worthwhile.
The reports that have come back so far prove that the tactical tension was very successful, and the Japanese army broke through the positions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army as they wished. Now is the climax of the fierce hand-to-hand combat. The commander of the 19th Division did not think that such a successful raid would bring a devastating victory. If this could have been done, then the 20th Division would not have been completely annihilated under the attack of the workers' and peasants' revolution in front of it.
"Gentlemen! Work hard! The division commander prayed silently in his heart.
“MB! How many Japanese people are here! The regimental commander yelled angrily. He had already finished firing three magazines, and had made preliminary contact with the commanders of the three battalion commanders. And the battalion that was placed at the forefront should now be the whole army killed. At least no one met the commanders of the 1st battalion at all levels.
The three battalions on the liaison also suffered heavy casualties, and the battalion commanders and political commissars were fighting desperately on the front line. The commander of the third battalion, the deputy battalion commander, and the political commissar closest to the regiment commander have all died honorably, and the commander of the third battalion and the first company has temporarily assumed command, and the troops he can command are only the remnants of the first company, the second company, and the third company, and the fourth company has all been exhausted. The situation was similar with the 2nd and 4th battalions.
After a rough calculation, there were 1800 people in the sixth regiment, and less than half of them were left at this time. And the large group of Japanese troops that rushed over at the beginning were basically dead at this time. The forces are rapidly redeploying in an attempt to redeploy on a second front.
But the Japanese army did not give the Sixth Regiment this opportunity at all. On the opposite side, the Japanese soldiers in black uniforms crossed the white and black corpses all over the place, and continued to swarm towards the remaining less than 1,000 people of the Sixth Regiment.
The regimental commander pulled the trigger again on the Japanese soldiers who rushed in front, but the pistol did not go off. He snapped it a few times, but the pistol still didn't go off. The regiment commander did not hesitate, he threw the pistol at the head of the Japanese army, and at this time the sky was a little brighter, and the Japanese army saw a black thing flying from a distance, and instinctively turned his head sideways to dodge. At this moment, a soldier at the front of the guard company stepped forward and plunged a bayonet into the chest of the Japanese soldier.
The guard company was the last force to launch a counter-charge, and at this time more than half of it was also damaged. Hand-to-hand combat is like this, life or death can be separated in less than a minute. Even if you don't die at the hands of your opponent, God knows what kind of enemy will rush at you. As soon as the soldiers of the guard company drew their bayonets from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, they saw the Japanese soldiers rushing from the opposite side shouting "Onboard! "Onboard!" In a moment, he rushed to the front.
The regimental commander casually picked up a rifle from the ground, then turned to the trumpeter behind him and shouted, "Blow the trumpet!" ”
The sharp sound of ticking trumpets temporarily pierced the shouts of killing on the position, and unmistakably transmitted the signal to the troops of the 6th Regiment of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. After less than half an hour of bloody fighting, the fighters had already consumed a lot of physical strength at this time. The white mist spit out by everyone's heavy breath instantly condensed into a white mist in the cold, and these white mist stuck to the eyebrows and mustaches, as if they had grown white eyebrows and mustaches. And the Japanese army on the opposite side is probably the same, although the color of the uniforms is very different, but the soldiers of the two armies are all white.
As the trumpet sounded, some of the commanders and fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army tried to shoot again, but the guns that could be fired were very limited. The Japanese did not make such an effort at all, and they rushed forward with bayonets howling. Some of them didn't pay attention and tripped over the corpses all over the ground, which slowed the Japanese down a little.
"Comrades! Take off your coat! "I don't know who shouted first, but in this highly group battlefield, such a shout has a group effect. Someone was the first to throw off his thick coat, and after a moment almost all the fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army threw off their coats. Brutal and fierce hand-to-hand combat resumed.