Chapter Eighty-Nine: Officers and Soldiers on the Front Line

6.89 Officers and soldiers fighting on the front line

"Commander, Matsui is ruthless, Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying's first company have been attacked by the Japanese army several times above the brigade level, Lan Yundong's pre-10th division and Song Xilian's 36th division are under considerable pressure, and Xie Wendong's independent 47th brigade has also been put into operation, do you see, do you want He Daru's special service group to go up and support it?"

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, often a small spark can set off a fire, Huang Haoran in order to buy Nanjing citizens a few more hours to evacuate this all-out attack was finally counterattacked by the Japanese army! Matsui Ishine was really scheming, and this blow of the Japanese Central China Front suddenly put Huang Haoran in a dilemma. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying must be saved, and the feint attack of the Nanjing garrison must also have an end, but how can the troops thrown into the battle be able to withdraw in a moment? Originally, Huang Haoran planned to use the time when the Japanese army was confused in the early stage to destroy a large number of Japanese army's communication facilities and logistics to prepare for the retreat of the Nanjing garrison to gain time, but because Matsui Shigen's reaction was too fast, the Japanese army pierced the gate and backyard to death in the first time, so none of the results Huang Haoran envisioned could be achieved.......

This also means that if the Nanjing garrison takes the initiative to retreat now, it will definitely be pursued by the Japanese army, and Huang Haoran himself has no bottom in his heart whether the weak second-line defense troops behind the attacking troops can stop the pace of the Japanese army's pursuit.

The Japanese army focused its attention on Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying, which was both a bad thing and a good thing, and it was said that it was a bad thing mainly because the Nanjing garrison was relatively weak in this area, and it was possible that the Japanese army would take advantage of it; It is said that it is a good thing because if the Japanese army bet heavily on Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying, it will give the Nanjing garrison troops from all walks of life a chance to retreat.

Now it will be up to us to see how the war develops......

"Chief of Staff Fan." Huang Haoran finally opened his mouth: "The current situation is very complicated, if you are not careful, it is very likely that you will lose everything, and now we can't increase troops to Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying, we have to let the devils see the hope of entering Nanjing, maybe the situation will change somewhat..... Only then will the attacking troops have a chance to retreat, let He Daru's troops go to Guanghuamen to standby, and tell Song Xilian that he must spend time with the devils, as long as he can attract the Japanese army to Gaoloumen and Tangjiaying, I will ask for credit for him and the 36th Division! ”

Huang Haoran's order suddenly pushed Song Xilian's 36th Division into a sizzling oil pot, originally Song Xilian thought that his troops would have a chance to breathe as long as they pushed up to reinforcements, but now it seems that the 36th Division still needs to hold out for a while.

Every hour of holding out on the battlefield under artillery fire often meant that the troops had to pay a heavy price, and the 36th Division faced the increasingly frantic attacks of the Japanese army, and the troops began to suffer a large number of attritions.

Without artillery support, the Japanese army's bean chariots dared to run dozens of meters away from the position of the 36th Division to spread wildness, if it weren't for Song Xilian organizing several waves of death squads to rush up with cluster grenades and overturn the two Iron King Ba, the little devil could drive the chariot to Song Xilian's division headquarters!

In fact, most of the time, Song Xilian's soldiers can't catch up with the devil's bean chariot even if they spread their feet and run fast, this kind of the world's most rubbish chariot has taken advantage of the Chinese army, and many veterans and squad platoon leaders under Song Xilian died under the machine gun fire of the bean chariot.

Battle defense artillery! As long as there is a company of anti-aircraft artillery Song Xilian can turn these bean chariots into burning coffins, but the 36th Division does not even have a single anti-aircraft gun in its hands now, and several artillery units directly under the Nanjing Garrison have already left Nanjing.

The 36th Division can only continue to exchange human lives for the broken copper and iron of the devil! Thinking of this, Song Xilian's eyes were on fire!

"Pick up the 108th Brigade Headquarters! Feed! Brigadier Liu? I'm Song Xilian! The devil's tactic is obvious, that is, to use artillery and chariots to clear the way for the infantry, you organize more death squads, and you must block the devil's chariot no matter what! ”

The sound on the other end of the phone was very noisy, the Japanese army's large-caliber shells kept falling around the brigade headquarters of Liu Ying, the commander of the 108th Brigade, and the huge explosion sound continued to reach Song Xilian's ears through the telephone receiver, Liu Ying almost spoke into the microphone in a roaring way:

"Throne! There are too many devils coming up! The chariot rushed to the front, I can't lose all the veterans and squad and platoon leaders in my hands, right? Throne! Hurry up and get reinforcements up! The veterans are gone, and the recruits are overwhelmed by the devils! I, Liu Ying, don't want to be a sinner of the 36th Division......"

Liu Ying is telling the truth, the 36th Division is no longer the "German Armament Division" that rushed to Shanghai from Xi'an Starry Night to participate in the war, from Shanghai to Suzhou to the National Defense Line and Nanjing, Song Xilian's soldiers have changed nearly seventy percent, and the squad platoon leader has almost changed, and the current 36th Division is supported by the three or four thousand old foundations of the previous "German Armament Division", once the veterans are exhausted, the 36th Division may not be much stronger than the ordinary reserve division.

Song Xilian also wanted reinforcements, but Huang Haoran didn't give them! Since the battle has been fought so far, which unit has not barely supported it? After the 36th Division arrived in Nanjing, it has received priority compensation from Huang Haoran many times, and Song Xilian owes Huang Haoran a favor! Let's pay it back today!

"Brigade Commander Liu, the 47th Independent Brigade can't all be put into operation now, the reinforcements of the 99th Division are about to arrive at Guanghuamen, I hope the 108th Brigade can hold on! Until the new troops take over you, the 108th Brigade will not retreat at all! Behind you is Guanghuamen, which is Nanjing! I don't want to say you know the severity too! Brigadier Liu! Please! ”

Song Xilian gritted his teeth and gave Liu Ying a death order, and Liu Ying on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment before he spoke:

"Since the military seat can give up the family of the 36th Division, what else does my Lao Liu have to say? Fight the light, eighteen years later, he is a good man again! , rest assured, the 108th Brigade will be glued to the door of the high-rise building, I promise to fight until the last person! ”

Liu Ying did not say that he would hold on until the reinforcements arrived or until the retreat order was issued, Song Xilian knew that his old subordinates had already made up their minds to die generously, and it seemed that the situation on the position of the 108th Brigade was even worse than Song Xilian imagined!

After putting down the phone, Song Xilian sent two battalions to Liu Ying from Li Qinruo's supplementary brigade, after so many days of continuous blood drawing, the 36th Division Supplementary Brigade, which was already dissatisfied, was left with only an empty shelf, after sending away the last two battalions, Li Qinruo, the commander of the supplementary brigade, simply moved to Song Xilian's military headquarters with several of his staff officers to accompany Song Xilian, Li Qinruo organized the personnel and logistics officers and soldiers in his brigade headquarters into two companies, which was the last reserve in Song Xilian's hands.

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"Two dogs! Your donkey day! Get some grenades until now! I thought you died on the road! ”

The person who shouted at the top of his voice was Lin Gensheng, the commander of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Independent Regiment, this young man who came out of the mountainous area of southern Anhui had already followed the 99th Division to many battlefields, and after the first battle of Lishui, due to the fact that the company platoon commander at the grassroots level of the 47th Independent Brigade was almost killed and wounded, Fan Jie, chief of staff of the 99th Army, transferred a group of combat backbones from the 139th Division and the 99th Division to Xie Wendong, and Lin Gensheng was the company commander of the Independent 47th Brigade at this time.

The right flank of the Tangjiaying position has been completely handed over to Xie Wendong's independent 47th brigade, after withstanding the two rounds of onslaught of the devils, there are no decent fortifications on the position of the independent 47th brigade, the Japanese army has been shelling in this area for several days before today, all the buildings above the ground have been blown into rubble by the devils, Xie Wendong's soldiers can only lie in the trenches full of dead bodies and ammunition boxes to resist the Japanese attack, five minutes ago the Japanese army began a new round of shelling, and now the artillery fire has begun to extend, The officers and men of the 47th Independent Brigade began to emerge from the mud one by one.

Lin Gensheng used to be a squad leader in the 99th Division, but now when he arrived at the 47th Independent Brigade, he suddenly jumped four levels and became a company commander, it stands to reason that this kid should be very happy, but Lin Gensheng did not feel happy.

The status of the 99th Division in the 99th Army is transcendent, all the officers and soldiers of the 99th Army know that the 99th Division is Huang Haoran's basic unit, and Lin Gensheng is also very happy that he was able to enter the 99th Division through layers of screening, and he likes to be envied.

Fan Jie's constant transfer order transferred Lin Gensheng to the Independent 47th Brigade, although he did not leave the 99th Army and was promoted, but Lin Gensheng always felt that he was exiled, in his eyes, the Independent 47th Brigade could not be compared with the 99th Division, let alone let him be a company commander, even a battalion commander Lin Gensheng is not uncommon!

The commander of Lin Gensheng's 3rd battalion and the commander of the 2nd Regiment knew that Lin Gensheng wanted to return to the 99th Division, and for Lin Gensheng, the backbone of the 99th Division, the independent 47th Brigade was naturally reluctant to let go as a baby, and the commander of the 3rd Battalion talked to Lin Gensheng before the 9th Company drove to the Tangjia Battalion position, but the 3rd Battalion Commander was bouted and Lin Gensheng still wanted to return to the 99th Division, and finally the commander of the 2nd Regiment said to Lin Gensheng in a fit of anger that as long as the 9th Company could stay in the position until dawn, it would meet Lin Gensheng's requirements. As a result, Lin Gensheng took the 9th Company to the position for three hours, and the other companies all asked for reinforcements, but only the 9th Company did not ask for anything!

Xie Wendong knew that he had trained the commander of the 2nd Regiment in the future, how could the regiment commander say such things to his company commander? Xie Wendong asked the commander of the 2nd Regiment to immediately take back his previous words, at first the commander of the 2nd Regiment was a little reluctant, but later the commander of the 2nd Regiment reacted under the reminder of the commander of the 3rd Battalion. That's why he deliberately asked the commander of the 2nd Independent Regiment to retract what he had said, since what he said didn't count, then Lin Gensheng didn't want to leave the 47th Independent Brigade.

Poor 9th company commander Lin Gensheng, he still doesn't know that he has been calculated by Xie Wendong, now Lin Gensheng's attention is focused on the Japanese tank a few hundred meters away, although the little devil's hand is a little old-fashioned, but the effect is very good, the officers and soldiers of the 9th company fell in front of the Japanese tank far exceeded the total number of dead and wounded in the battle with the Japanese infantry, in the last round of Japanese attacks, Lin Gensheng took the three squad leaders under his command to solve a devil's bean chariot.

"One... Two... Three.... It's clear that you're going to bully us! If Lao Tzu is still in the 99th Division! A battle defense cannon will send you all to the western sky! Two dogs! How many grenades did you bring back? ”

Lin Gensheng counted the number of devil chariots, and now he began to calculate how many bundles of cluster grenades his family could prepare, solve the problem of the bean chariot in front of him 9 companies and put two boxes of grenades, and finally the 2nd squad leader rolled into the bottom of the track of the bean chariot with the cluster grenades before he lit the little devil's iron king eight.

Blowing up a chariot is a grenade-consuming activity.

"Company commander! Only got back three boxes of grenades plus a box of heavy machine gun bullets, Wang Mazi of the 7th Company took a step forward and removed more than half of the grenades from the battalion headquarters, and on the way back, two brothers were shot, and one was blown up by the devil's cannon and broke his leg. Wang Dafu and I can only get back so many ......"

The soldier called Ergou threw the ammunition box on his shoulder in the trench and sat on the ground panting heavily, it is not an easy job to get supplies through the blockade line of the devil to the battalion headquarters, go out five, come back two, Ergou and Wang Dafu originally wanted to resist all the grenades, but they thought that even the Makqin shooters inside were almost out of bullets, and as long as the heavy machine gun was lying on the back in the defensive battle, even the gods could not stop the little devils like locusts, So Ergou and Wang Dafu finally chose to return to the trenches of the 9th Company with three boxes of grenades and one box of heavy machine gun shells.

"Three boxes!? That top bird! Didn't you see those three kings? They are all big eaters! Take another class to the battalion headquarters! Get me back everything that can explode! ”

Lin Gen is in a hurry, the only thing he can use to deal with the devil's chariot now is cluster grenades, once the supply is cut off, he can only open the door and let the devils in, without grenades there is no position!

"Company commander, which squad should I take to?" Ergou asked:

"1 squad leader! 1 squad leader! 3 squad leaders! What you hear squeaks Lao Tzu! Move closer to me! Lin Gensheng put down the telescope in his hand and said, the devil's chariot was getting closer and closer, and in the smoke and dust rolled up by the chariot tracks, the devil infantry of the brigade had been exposed, and the Japanese army had invested at least one squadron in this wave of attacks!

"Company commander! My squad leader was hit by shrapnel from the devil's shell, and it's no longer good! He... Can't go......"

A crying voice sounded in the left rear of Lin Gensheng, and Lin Gensheng immediately asked, "Who was shot?" 1 squad leader or 3 squad leader? ”

"The two of them were in a trench, my squad leader was hit in the head, and the 1st squad leader was buried directly in the soil, and it hasn't been dug out yet, company commander! What are we going to do......? ”

There are two less squad platoon commanders in the 9th company, if the casualties of the soldiers are pumping the blood of the 9th company, then the loss of the squad leader is to remove the bones of the 9th company! Lin Gensheng hurriedly promoted two veterans to be squad leaders among the soldiers in squad 1 and squad 3, and then he said to Ergou:

"You can do it yourself! If you meet someone alive, you will be called to go! If you can't come back with something within twenty minutes, you can ask the regimental commander to come back with the reserves to seize the position! ”

Ergou stood up and saluted Lin Gensheng, and then disappeared into the depths of the traffic trench with Wang Dafu and a few soldiers......

"Are there any living squad platoon leaders around? Those who can move come to Lao Tzu! There are tasks to be assigned! ”

Soon Lin Gensheng saw a few familiar faces, except for the 1st platoon commander or the original 1st platoon leader, the rest of these positions had changed their heads.

"The devil is coming up soon! This time they have three tanks! If we had cleaned up the Iron King, the Eight Devil Soldiers would have rushed into the trenches a long time ago! Each of your squad and platoon commanders brought a machine gun to find a shell crater and lie in, and waited for the devil's chariot to pass and fight the infantry behind! As long as the devil's infantry can't come up, the position will still be in our hands! Isn't it just a chariot? I'll show you my hand in a moment! ”

Lin Gensheng's voice was relaxed, as if it was a no-brainer to solve the three Japanese tanks. In fact, he was cheering up his subordinates, more than half of these squad and platoon leaders were soldiers a few hours ago, and they needed Lin Gensheng to give them some confidence and strength.

After assigning the task, the squad and platoon leaders scattered in twos and threes, Lin Gensheng distributed the grenades to the daredevils, and then found a corner, leaning on the trench alone, lighting a cigarette, the sound of the devil's chariot crawlers pressing on the ground between the clouds and spitting fog was clearly visible, Lin Gensheng took the last few puffs, and then threw the cigarette butt out of the trench, he smiled and began to talk to himself:

"Damn! It seems that Lao Tzu can't go back this time......"

The three bean chariots lined up in a zigzag and rushed to a distance of about thirty meters in front of the position of the 9th company and stopped, the devil's charioteers knew very well how fragile their light chariots were, so even if there was no anti-tank trench in front of the position of the 9th company, the three bean chariots did not mean to rush up.

This distance of thirty meters is the purgatory of the 9th company of daredevils!

None of the first daredevils who broke out of the trench were able to run the thirty-meter distance before they all fell, and the impatient fighters had already pulled off the fuse of the cluster grenade during the sortie, so a huge explosion occurred in front of the bean chariot.

It may be that the devil charioteers were frightened, and the bean chariots, which had been basically stopped, began to start again, they wandered back and forth in front of the position of the 9th Company, and the small-caliber guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns on the chariot turret kept spitting tongues of fire, which was increasing the difficulty for the daredevils of the 9th Company.

The first sortie had almost lost a box of grenades, and Lin Gensheng's fist slammed hard against the wall of the trench, and he needed to vent his emotions.

The devil has learned well, these Japanese no longer intend to directly use the tank to occupy the position of the Nanjing garrison, now the Japanese army's use of the tank has been on a new level, the small cannon on the bean chariot is basically a deterrent shooting, its role is more like a nailed in front of the Nanjing garrison position of the active firepower point, as long as the Japanese army encountered a machine gun interception, the bean chariot will quickly run over as a shield, and use the vehicle-mounted machine gun and the Nanjing garrison machine gun fire point to fire, Most of these unequal encounters were won by the Japanese army.

These three bean chariots can't be allowed to roam any longer, they must be destroyed! Lin Gensheng waved his hand, and the second wave of daredevils with cluster grenades rushed forward again!

It is unrealistic to rely on the machine guns in the hands of several squad platoon commanders to suppress an entire squadron of devil infantry, and it is the best time to start during the period when the Japanese tanks are not covered by the follow-up infantry! Once you miss it, the 9th company is really over today! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )