Chapter Ninety-Four: Breaking Out of the Encirclement
4.94 Break out of the encirclement
Huang Haoran and Shen Lao Er are getting closer and closer to Xiaoshiqiao with the 531st Regiment, and they are now standing behind the 34th Wing of Hachiro Tanajo. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The 3rd Cavalry Wing saw that Huang Haoran's troops suddenly stopped advancing, and a fierce battle broke out at Xiaoshiqiao, thinking that the 34th Wing was blocking the way of the Chinese army, and Xingshan Dalang Nakasa immediately ordered to start attacking.
The Japanese cavalry chose the distance that was most suitable for them to charge, and arranged a shock formation, intending to complete the battle until the 531st Regiment was killed.
Zhang Hao, the commander of the 3rd battalion after the break, found that all the Japanese cavalry that were originally cruising behind him had disappeared, and he understood that this was a prelude to a large-scale attack by the Japanese cavalry.
Zhang Hao asked his subordinates to dig as many foxholes and bury more mines as much as possible, and these are the capital of the 3rd battalion to save their lives, the soldiers are very hard, and the position they chose is not bad, and a few ravines in front of the position can slow down the impact of the Japanese cavalry, but even so, Zhang Hao's heart is still bottomless.
Because the 531st Regiment was a long-distance attack, the equipment they carried was very simple, and bulky weapons like Makqin were all left behind, and Zhang Hao's 3rd Battalion's main firepower now was that each squad of the 99th Division had 1 Czech light machine gun.
Don't look at the difference between light machine guns and heavy machine guns, the power between them can be said to be very different.
Especially when fighting a defensive battle, the range that can be defended by one Maxim may not be blocked by three Czechs, not to mention that the 3rd Battalion is still facing cavalry known for its speed, and the current firepower density is really insufficient.
Zhang Hao could only do his best, if he had known that the Japanese were moving so fast, he would have brought the heavy machine gun captured from the devils, and it was so crisp when it was blown up just now, and now he regrets it.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world.
Huang Haoran and Shen Lao Er observed the battle that was taking place at Xiaoshiqiao, and the 34th Wing of the Japanese Army did not stop attacking after being severely taught a lesson by the guard battalion, but took turns to charge one brigade after another.
The crowd tactic is not new at all, but it works.
Hachiro Tanakami is going to rely on the advantage of more people to tear apart the defense line of the 99th Army at Xiaoshiqiao!
In fact, the troops in Fan Jie's hands did not have much disadvantage in terms of numbers, but since the main body of Fan Jie's troops were engineers, the actual number of people who could fight had to be greatly discounted.
Generally speaking, 2-3 sappers are worth a regular infantry, so when converted, the 34th Wing really has the upper hand.
Fortunately, there was a guard battalion fighting with the engineer regiment, so it could still fight a dozen.
Fan Kai led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army, and no one took advantage of the other party for a while.
The 34th Wing did not notice the arrival of the 531st Regiment, the defense behind the Japanese was weak, and Hachiro Tanakami devoted all his energy to the battle for the small stone bridge.
"Brigade Commander Shen, this is a good opportunity, you lead all 3 battalions to attack from behind the Japanese army, if you do it well, you can connect with Chief of Staff Fan in one go, and when the time comes, we will break the bridge, and the devil will have no choice!" Huang Haoran saw such a heaven-sent opportunity in front of him, and immediately gave Shen Lao Er an order:
"Without further ado! Do it now! ”
Shen Lao Er pounced with the 1st and 4th battalions, and Huang Haoran followed behind with the 2nd battalion.
Tagami Hachiro Dazuo didn't expect Huang Haoran and Shen Lao Er to grow old so quickly, and he was a little flustered.
The 34th Wing, which was suddenly stabbed in the back, revealed a big gap, and the road leading to the small stone bridge was so open in front of the 531st Regiment, Shen Lao Er led the troops to rush violently, desperately moving closer to Fan Jie's troops.
Hearing the Czech-style crisp cheers behind the Japanese army, Chief of Staff Fan knew that the 531st Regiment had arrived, and he was very alert to seize this opportunity, and rushed out of the position with the guard battalion to start a counterattack, Fan Jie's doing this was actually very risky, if the Japanese army could react quickly and attack again, then it would be difficult for the engineer regiment to block the 34th Wing.
Chief of Staff Fan knew that now was the best opportunity, and the sudden strength of the 531st Regiment had thrown the Japanese troops attacking Xiaoshiqiao into chaos, and it would be difficult to let the 531st Regiment fight again with its own strength if he missed this opportunity.
You must know that there is a whole Japanese cavalry wing behind the 531st Regiment, and these executioners will not let the 531st Regiment carry out the attack smoothly.
At that time, the Japanese troops at Xiaoshiqiao and the Japanese cavalry chasing the 531st Regiment were attacked in two ways, and the military seat was more than lucky.
So Fan Jie can only make an all-in bet now!
Luckily, Chief of Staff Fan got the bet!
Tanakami Hachiro Osa couldn't tell how many Chinese troops had been killed for a while, so he ordered all squadrons of the 34th Wing to defend on the spot and see the opponent clearly.
The 34th Wing's defensive line was filled with countless tiny gaps.
For Shen Yuanlong, these gaps are big enough!
Shen Lao Er took advantage of the chaos of the 34th Wing to rush to the side of the small stone bridge, and Hu Yide, the deputy battalion commander who led the guard battalion to attack, saw Brigade Commander Shen and immediately led troops to come to respond, and when he saw Shen Lao Er, Hu Yide's first words were: "Brigade Commander Shen!" What about our military seats? ”
Shen Lao Er gasped and said: "The military seat is in the back, I am the first echelon, Battalion Commander Hu, you take the troops to pick up the military seat and the broken troops!" ”
Before Hu Yide could leave, Chen Shanhe, the commander of the 2nd battalion, rushed over with his troops, but Huang Haoran was nowhere to be seen in the team.
Shen Lao Er grabbed Chen Shanhe's collar and asked loudly: "Chen Shanhe!" What about my eldest brother? Where did you leave our military seat? ”
Chen Shanhe's face flushed and explained to his brigade commander:
"Brigade seat, just now when the military seat and we crossed the line of fire together, suddenly killed a small devil, the troops were disrupted, the military seat and I lost contact, I took 2 companies to rush and kill twice in the pile, and found that the military seat and Wu Guangrong's 3 companies were intercepted by devils, I wanted to go back to save the military seat, but there were too many enemies, I rushed a few times and failed to kill it, and then I saw the military seat retreat back with the 3rd company, it should be to find the commander of the 3rd battalion Zhang......."
"Brigade seat, you give me another battalion, and I'll go back to find the military seat again!"
In the end, Chen Shanhe had already cried.
"Your grandma's! My eldest brother isn't dead yet! What are you howling here! Brothers, there is a kind of follow me Shen Lao Er to fight back and take the military seat out! ”
The officers and men of the surrounding 531st Regiment suddenly agreed, and they all turned around and began to prepare to attack the Japanese army.
"Brigadier Shen! Is the military seat with you? "The person who ran over from the bridge from afar was Fan Jie, Chief of Staff Fan didn't see Huang Haoran in the crowd, he was a little anxious.
Shen Lao Er puffed out his cheeks and did not answer, as soon as he beckoned, the officers and soldiers of the 531st Regiment who had just rushed from the line of fire began to rush back to kill the same way.
"Second Shen! What are you doing? Don't tell me you lost your throne! ”
Fan Jie's voice turned into the sound of a chicken cub, and when he saw Shen Lao Er go crazy and command the troops to start turning back, Chief of Staff Fan immediately realized that something was wrong!
"Fanjie, you crow's mouth! What are you yelling about? Lao Tzu will go back and rescue my eldest brother, you guard the back road for me, and take my eldest brother well! I, Shen Yuanlong, thank you here in advance! ”
Fan Jie was stunned, Huang Haoran was actually trapped in the encirclement of the Japanese army, is there a worse situation than this?
Just as Shen Lao Er was crazy and began to charge, several figures suddenly appeared in the smoke in the distance, only to see the 3rd company commander Wu Guangrong carrying a person on his back, Wu Guangrong ran fast, several soldiers behind him kept turning around and shooting, it seemed that there were still devils chasing behind him.
Wu Guangrong saw that there were his own people in front of him, so he hurriedly opened his throat and shouted:
"Brothers, help me stop the little devil! The military seat is wounded, and here I am! ”
"Chief of Staff Fan! Brigadier Shen! Fast! ”
Seeing Huang Haoran motionless on Wu Guangrong's back, Shen Laoer's blood suddenly surged on the top of his head, he shouted loudly and took the lead in rushing out:
"It's all with Lao Tzu! 99 Division! Get on the bayonet! ”
"99th Division! ~Get on the bayonet! ”
The furious shouts were particularly bloody in the smoke of gunpowder, and the 531st Regiment and the guard battalion followed Shen Lao Er like a tiger and swept towards the Japanese army!
Huang Haoran is on the forbidden heel of the 99th Army, and he can't touch it!
Seeing that their own military seats were wounded, the officers and soldiers of the 99th Division went berserk!
The dense skirmish line collided with the Japanese army like a wave, stirring up debris and spray everywhere.
The bayonets are like a forest, and the murderous spirit is straight to the sky!
The Japanese troops of the 34th Wing did not understand how the 99th Division suddenly became like a hungry wolf, and it was simply a deadly way of fighting.
The Japanese army often killed a Chinese with difficulty, and the soldiers of the 4 or 5 99th Divisions next to them pounced.
After being pierced by bayonets, the officers and men of the 99th Division pulled the grenades on their bodies and died with the devils, and the officers and men of the 99th Division bit out the intestines of the Japanese soldiers with their own teeth.
The unknown life and death of Huang Haoran has made the officers and soldiers of the 99th Division crazy, and they now only have their enemies in their eyes, and they only want to kill their enemies!
Mauser rifles, forward!
Czech, forward!
Sapper shovel, forward!
Kill! Kill!! Kill!!!
Hachiro Tanakami is scared! The 34th Wing is scared! They didn't know what was going on with the Chinese army, they cried and retreated, and the hellish scene of Shura crushed the spirit of the Japanese army.
The spirit of bushido at this time is like a military flag under their feet, just a rag!
The 531st Regiment, which was less than half of the Japanese army, drove the 34th Wing of Hachiro Tanakami back more than a mile before stopping.
Zhang Hao, the commander of the 3rd battalion, found that an avenue had appeared in front of him and Xiaoshiqiao, and the Japanese army ran so fast that even weapons and military flags began to be discarded.
The 3rd Battalion suffered heavy losses in the confrontation with the 3rd Wing of the Japanese Cavalry, and the bayonets were always invincible to the sabre, and the 3 officers and men fell under the butcher's knives of the Japanese cavalry one by one.
He Jin, the commander of the 2nd company, was red-eyed, rushed to the Japanese cavalry with the explosives bag, and then hugged the neck of an Oriental horse and pulled the fuse, and the Japanese cavalry on the horse inserted a knife into He Jin's neck, but He Company Commander just didn't let go, and insisted on pulling 7 or 8 Japanese cavalrymen on the road.
Zhang Hao, who burst into tears, ordered the use of grenades and explosives packs on his position, and the flames of the explosion burned one by one with fresh lives, and the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion inflicted heavy losses on the 3rd Wing of the Japanese Cavalry with their own flesh and blood.
Taking advantage of the retreat of the Japanese cavalry, Zhang Hao and his subordinates began to break through.
Shen Laoer's madness not only rescued Wu Guangrong and Huang Haoran on his back, but also rescued the broken Zhang Hao and the remaining more than 200 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, and the 531st Regiment finally crossed the small stone bridge.
Fan Kai ordered the mortars to shoot all the shells, and all the defenders covering the north of the bridge withdrew to the south of the bridge, and then the sappers detonated the explosives hanging under the bridge, and the flying rubble and fragments of the bridge fell into the river like raindrops, and Hoshizen Daro Nakasa and Tanakami Hachiro Osa looked at the churning river, they knew that the time to destroy these Chinese troops had been missed.
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Huang Haoran was shot in the shoulder, and a 38-style bullet pierced his left shoulder, but fortunately, the bullet didn't get stuck in the bone, so it was just bleeding too much, and there was no need for surgery, Shen Lao Er looked at the pale face of the eldest brother, and tears had begun to roll in his eyes.
Wu Guangrong told Fan Jie and Shen Lao Er the story of how they lost contact with Camp Commander Chen.
The 3rd Company encountered the looting of the Japanese army, and lost more than half of its troops at that time, and Huang Haoran commanded the troops to try to get closer to the small stone bridge. However, after several times of being beaten back, more and more Japanese troops surrounded him, and the 3rd Company had to fight and retreat.
Huang Haoran saw that Chen Shanhe wanted to return to meet him, but there were too many Japanese troops between Chen Shanhe and him, and if he continued to fight like this, he would be in danger of being annihilated, so he asked Wu Guangrong, the commander of the 3rd company, to shoot a red signal flare into the sky, and then quickly began to transfer with his troops to find other gaps in the Japanese defense line.
The smoke on the battlefield was too great, and Chen Shanhe didn't notice Wu Guangrong's signal flare, but he saw the 3rd Company in the distance, and thought that the military seat was going to join Zhang Hao's 3rd Battalion.
In this way, isn't the military seat getting deeper and deeper in the encirclement of devils?
Battalion Commander Chen, who had insufficient troops in his hands, decided to quickly tell Brigade Commander Shen the whereabouts of the military seat, and then asked Brigade Commander Shen to organize troops to save the military seat.
So Chen Shanhe began to desperately break through.
Huang Haoran led the troops for a short distance and turned back, by this time the Japanese army had regained their composure and began to assemble towards the defensive gap near the small stone bridge, Huang Haoran and they didn't go far before they almost collided head-on with a squadron of devils.
Huang Haoran found that Chen Shanhe's breakthrough attracted the attention of the Japanese army, so he decided to follow behind the Japanese army and pass quietly.
Huang Haoran's plan almost succeeded, but what he didn't expect was that the actions of the 3rd Company were watched by a few devils behind a crooked light machine gun not far away.
A shuttle of bullets flew, and 3 soldiers fell, and what was even worse was that the Japanese troops in front also turned around and found 3 companies.
The matter has come to this, only fight!
The officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company all rushed forward against the devil, Huang Haoran stood up and fired two shots with a pistol, and a stray bullet hit him in the left shoulder.
Wu Guangrong hurriedly pressed Huang Haoran's wound with a bandage, picked up his military seat and began to break through, and the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company automatically formed a circle to protect their commander.
Everyone knows what happened after that, Chen Shanhe's troops took away a large number of Japanese troops, and the 3rd Company fought with all the casualties and finally rushed through this last distance.
Huang Haoran escaped death!
Commander Huang was carried back to the military headquarters of the 99th Army and began to fall into a coma due to excessive blood loss.
Chen Cixiu, who rushed to hear the news, looked at Huang Haoran lying on the marching bed and the 99 officers and soldiers covered in gunpowder outside the room, and he knew that he owed Huang Haoran a great favor.
In order to encircle Huang Haoran, the 3rd Division mobilized 3 wings, and the 11th Division also dispatched more than 2,000 devils, and the Japanese army that blocked the 18th Army was greatly weakened.
Luo Zhuoying finally gave Vice Chief Chen a sigh of relief, he seized the fighter, and the 11th and 14th Divisions fought to the death, breaking through the defense line of the 3rd Division and the 22nd Brigade and arriving at Dachang.
The success of the 18th Army was mainly due to Huang Haoran's efforts to put the 22nd Brigade into command confusion, and as a result, coordination with the 3rd Division failed, and the 22nd Brigade, which made continuous mistakes, was equivalent to helping the 18th Army in turn.
The 18th Army is safe, Luo Zhuoying is fine, and Vice Minister Chen is going to return the favor.
Chen Cixiu sent a request to the highest authorities at the military headquarters of the 99th Army to transfer the 99th Army to the rear for repair.
The highest authorities were naturally happy to do this, and he not only immediately approved Vice Minister Chen's suggestion, but also sent his personal doctor to send Huang Haoran a special Western medicine.
Huang Haoran, a tiger general, and Chen Cixiu, a favorite general, will not be treated badly by the highest authorities.
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Tokyo, Japanese military headquarters.
The news of Huang Haoran's escape from death was sent back to the mainland by Japanese spies, and the culprit who killed the commander of the Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu Brigade finally surfaced.
Within a month, two Japanese major generals died at the hands of Huang Haoran, which had to allow the Japanese Army to begin to raise Huang Haoran's 99th Army to a new height.
The intelligence department opened a separate file for Huang Haoran and his 99th Army, and Huang Haoran's identity, background, and even blood type have become the key targets of investigation by the Japanese special services in China.
The Japanese want to see what is so special about Huang Haoran, who has made the imperial army suffer!
The fact that Rear Admiral Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa was killed by the 99th Army finally brought the supreme commanders of the Japanese Army and Navy, who had been arguing all night, to an agreement.
They believed that the situation in Shanghai was already very serious, and decided to stop the preparations of the Japanese army in North China to fight in Qingdao and transfer the troops used in Qingdao to Shanghai.
The Japanese General Staff Headquarters issued an order to immediately turn the Tiangu Detachment (an infantry wing, attached to the 1st Mountain Artillery Brigade), which was being transported from Qingdao to Dalian, to Shanghai and put it under the command of the commander of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army."
The Central Headquarters of the Japanese Navy also issued an order to place the Mine Combat Squadron of the 2nd Fleet, the "Long Whale" ship, and the other two special marines of the Sasebo Town Guard Prefecture under the command of the commander of the 3rd Fleet, and immediately sail from Lushun to Shanghai.
The surprise attack of the 99th Army at Yuepu caused a chain reaction, and the siege of Dachang was resolved, and the supreme authorities, who were bent on expanding the results of the battle, transferred three divisions to the Songhu battlefield.
He is looking forward to the appearance of the second and third 99th Army!
The highest authorities are looking forward to his "great victory"!
As a result, before the supreme authorities had time to act, Matsui Ishine made the first move!
The next day, the Asama detachment of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army", with the support of Japanese naval firepower, stormed the Lion Forest Battery.
The positions of the 1st Battalion of the 588th Regiment of the 88th Division, which was defending the stronghold, were all destroyed, and the fort was finally captured at about 14 o'clock because it was outnumbered and suffered too many casualties.
When the Japanese army advanced southward again, it was met with a strong counterattack by the 36th Division, and the attack was frustrated and stopped in the Yangjiazhai area.
On the same day, at a meeting of the provisional cabinet, the Japanese Government decided to change the name of the so-called "North China Incident" to the "China Incident" and expand the war against China.
On the same day, the Tiangu detachment transferred from Qingdao in North China by the Japanese "Shanghai Dispatch Army" arrived in Shanghai and landed at Wusong.
In order to forcefully counter the attack on the 22nd Brigade of the Shina Army and quickly complete the land communication between the 11th Division and the main force of the army, Matsui Ishine ordered the Tiangu Detachment to advance along the Wusongzhen-Yuepu-Luodian highway area and attack the flank of the 51st Division near Luodian Town.
As a new offensive unfolded, the short-lived unfavorable situation of the Japanese army ended, and the Chinese army once again moved to the full-scale defense.
Huang Haoran's 99th Army also marched on this day and retreated towards Changshu.
The 99th Army really needs to be trimmed......
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