8.40 Killing "Pieces"

Chen Ruihe waited until the devil cavalry attacking on foot entered the last twenty meters before ordering the officers and soldiers of the 36th Division to open fire! At such a distance, the riflemen in the forefront position did not need to aim at all, and the Mauser rifle was almost fired at the chest of the devil soldier, and it was impossible to miss!

Under the crossfire of light and heavy machine guns stopped by the officers and men of the 36th Division, the devil soldiers who rushed to the front fell on their backs like straw cut by a sickle! In just two or three minutes, the front of the defensive position at Liuyuankou was filled with the corpses of the devil soldiers!

"Help me! I've been shot! ”

"Lie down! Hand grenade! ”

The shouts of terror sounded particularly harsh in the smoke of gunfire! After the ferocious first volley, the officers and men of the 36th Division began to throw a large number of grenades at the front of the position, and for the Chinese army, which was far inferior to the Japanese in terms of the number of heavy weapons, this tactic of intensive use of grenades was their heirloom!

Because the 36th Division used a variety of grenades, not only German long-handled, but also many made in Wuhan and Gongxian, the smoke screen produced after the grenade explosion was also colorful. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The faint white smoke screen came from the German long handle that used smokeless gunpowder, the thick black smoke screen that came out after the explosion made in Gongxian was made, and the hand grenade made in Wuhan produced a yellow smoke screen after the explosion because the explosives used were not pure. These smoke screens of different colors, thick or faint, reduced the visibility of the front line of the Liuyuankou defense line to a very low level, and while the view of the Chinese machine gunners was blocked, the devil soldiers of the 18th Cavalry Wing turned into the trenches of the 36th Division!

In the trenches, the officers and soldiers of both sides fought to the death!

After seeing the defensive firepower possessed by the Chinese army, Captain Yasuda Kaneto has realized that the defense line on the opposite side is not only undefended, but also has heavy troops!

It seems that the pleasant journey to regain Liuyuankou is now going to turn into a bitter battle!

"Rush forward! Kuroki Shaosa! Rush forward with your brigade! We are cavalry and do not have many heavy weapons, if we can't break into the defense line of the Chinese army now, then there will only be one result! Heavy machine guns, as well as mortars and grenadiers, all pushed to the front line! Half an hour later! I'm going to stand in the trench on the other side! ”

The order of the captain of the Yasuda Kaneto Wing was issued in a very timely manner, as the wing commander of the 18th Cavalry Wing, Yasuda Kaneto Nakasa was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the 18th Cavalry Wing!

Cavalry is definitely a weapon for slaughtering infantry in the field! But in the event of such a trench battle, the disadvantage of insufficient cavalry firepower will be immediately magnified! Now the 18th Cavalry Wing can only bite the bullet and go up! Let's see if we can get it in one hit!

The reason why such a "gambling tactic" was adopted was because the captain of the Yasuda Kaneto Wing clearly knew that with the pitiful 92 heavy machine guns and those light mortars of the 18th Cavalry Wing, it was simply a fool's dream to fight a tough battle! If he can't take advantage of the chaos now, then it will be difficult for his troops to get a chance to approach the Liuyuankou trench from the dense fire of the Chinese army!

The participation of the Kuroki Brigade tipped the scales on the forward positions of the 36th Division. Before the war, out of prudent considerations, Chen Ruihe, deputy commander of the 36th Division, only put two battalions of officers and soldiers on the first forward position.

"Grandma's! I command! The whole brigade launches a counterattack! The 87th and 88th Divisions, which will immediately return to the flank of the devils, will launch a coordinated attack! Little devil, this is a desperate gamble! As long as we can block this round of their attack, the victory will be ours! Brethren! Kill! ”

Seeing that Deputy Division Commander Chen Ruihe took the lead and overloaded the front, the thousands of officers and soldiers of the 36th Division were like being beaten with chicken blood, and their combat effectiveness rose to the extreme! The two sides started a melee at the front of the Liuyuankou defensive line!

In this contest, the devil cavalry who used the carbine had enough suffering! Because the length of the carbine rifle equipped by the Japanese cavalry was much shorter than the Type 38 rifle commonly used by the Japanese army, when facing the Chinese soldiers who still used ordinary Mauser rifles, the little devils fell behind in the stabbing for the first time! In addition, Japanese people are generally short in stature, which makes this difference in length even more obvious!

On the trenches, you can often see Chinese and Japanese soldiers stabbing each other with bayonets at the same time, and the bayonets of the Chinese soldiers have stabbed into the bodies of the devil soldiers, and the bayonets of the devil soldiers are still a big part away from the Chinese soldiers!

The firepower is not superior, the number is at a disadvantage, and when the hand-to-hand combat is in hand, it suffers a big loss in weapons! Under the combined effect of these factors, the 18th Cavalry Wing could only be defeated in the end!

Before the angry Captain of the Anmada Kaneto Wing could give a new order, the 88th Division and the 87th Division, which had returned to the flanks of the 18th Cavalry Wing, joined the battle group! Under the joint squeeze of the three "German divisions" of the 71st Army, the 18th Cavalry Wing was defeated! Captain Kaneto Yasuda pouted and leaned on his horse to look at his subordinates who were in chaos, and shouted hoarsely: "Retreat!" Hurry up and retreat! ”

"Boom!"

A cannonball just landed at the foot of the war horse of the captain of the Wing Captain Kaneto Yasuda, and Kuroki Shaosa, who led the remnants to retreat from the front, was fortunate enough to witness the scene of the captain of the Captain Kaneto Yasuda flying out of the horse, and His Excellency the Captain of the Wing Captain would never accuse him again!

Half an hour after the battle, Qiu Qingquan led the 200th Division Tank Battalion out from behind the 18th Cavalry Wing! They became the last straw that crushed the 18th Cavalry Wing!

When the gunfire at Liuyuankou gradually stopped, intensive gunfire rang out at the same time in Chenliukou in the west and Hongmiao and Dingzhai in the south! So far, all the chess pieces lurking in the hinterland of the Chinese army have fallen into the encirclement of the Chinese army! Hu Zongnan's 1st Army, Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Xu Zilong's guard regiment are busy reaping the fruits of victory at the moment!

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The 14th Division, which had turned back to fight with the pursuers, suddenly found that there was no target in front of them after defeating several medium-sized Chinese pursuers one after another!

Immediately after that, several brigades left in the hinterland of the Chinese army sent telegrams that they had been ambushed! tells the tragic experience of them when they encountered the main force of the Chinese army! This series of accidents made Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara's emotions go to the bottom! He never imagined that the battle situation, which had seemed extremely optimistic just two hours ago, would suddenly become pessimistic!

"Your Excellency, Division Commander! Our vanguard ran into the strong line of defense of the Chinese army! Huang Haoran doesn't seem to have been hit! The front line of Lanfeng and Sanyizhai has now been operated by the Chinese army like an iron barrel! The troops in the city may have been annihilated by Huang Haoran! There is no one who can cooperate with us in launching a counteroffensive......! ”

The commander of the 50th Infantry Wing, Toyama Nobusa, is now like a mourning crow, constantly passing one bad news after another to Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara! The chief of staff, Tadayoshi Sano, who was standing on the side, rubbed his hands anxiously, and his flickering eyes revealed the uneasiness in his heart.

"Does anyone have any good advice?"

If Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, who has always been conceited, can say such lowly words, one can imagine how bad the situation of the 14th Division has become!?

In order to realize the battle plan this time, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara planted four infantry brigades and another cavalry wing "ambush" in several strongholds such as Sanyi Village, Lanfeng, and Dingzhai! The total strength of these troops has accounted for about forty percent of the remaining strength of the 14th Division after a series of hard battles! Once these forty percent of the troops are lost, where will the 14th Division still have the ability to fight again?

And if you can't take Liuyuankou and Chenliukou with strange soldiers, even if you can break the Chinese army besieging Lanfeng and Sanyizhai, what is the use? At most, it's just to rescue the trapped troops, and then flee in a hurry! It is quite possible that by the end of breaking the encirclement, more troops will be lost than rescued!

"Withdraw! Your Excellency, Division Commander! Go and rendezvous with the 16th Division, and then come back for revenge! ”

Chief of Staff Tadayoshi Sano finally played a role this time, and he spoke his mind for Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara.

"Yes! Your Excellency, Division Commander! The Lanfeng war has been eroded! It's useless for us to rush back! Huang Haoran is a very powerful character, since he has seen through your plan as the division commander, he must have arranged a killing move! Those troops who remained in Huang Haoran's hinterland couldn't be saved! It is better to take advantage of the time when Huang Haoran is besieging Yasuda Nakasa, break through the Guide defense line, and then come back to counter-encircle the Shina after joining up with the 16th Division and the 5th Division! Perhaps, Yasuda Nakasa they can support about 24 hours......"

The words of Major General Takashi Sakai, commander of the 28th Brigade, became quieter and quieter the more he spoke, and it may be that even he could not be persuaded by the reasons he came up with...... Although everyone knows that this is an excuse to cover up shame, this one that Major General Sakai Takashi came up with is really a bit too far-fetched! Not to mention the front army headquarters, even these officers of the 14th Division headquarters are difficult to accept!

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara swept the faces of the officers, but only reaped disappointment! This Lanfeng battle started from the moment Huang Haoran arrived, and everything had changed the tone! The 14th Division won first and then lost, and he still fell behind in the end!

"Nope! We must not leave the Emperor's warriors behind! ”

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, who was depressed, suddenly became excited again! He shouted loudly to rescue the troops surrounded by Huang Haoran, which made the Japanese officers on the side look a little nervous!

Chief of Staff Tadayoshi Sano had just wanted to say something to dissuade Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, but he heard Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara continue to say, "I order! The troops directly under the 28th Brigade and the Division immediately turned to attack Guide! Pick up the 16th and 5th Divisions! The rescue of Lanfeng and Sanyi Village will be carried out by the 27th Brigade! Send electricity to the command of the Front! The 14th Division will definitely do its best to rescue the trapped troops! Commander Hope Temple Shouichi ordered the main force of the North China Front to march towards Lanfeng! Fight to the death with Huang Haoran's Chinese elite! (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.) )