Chapter 21: The Bitter Battle of the 10th Division
6.21 The hard battle of the 10th Division
There were too many recruits for the 10th Division, and after the devil's artillery fire became accurate, the front of the 10th Division was obviously shaken. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Second Lieutenant Mitsui seized this good opportunity, and he asked Squadron Leader Maruyama to line up the grenadiers in the first line to blow up the light machine guns of the 10th Division, and after the machine gun fire of the 10th Division was suppressed, the recruits began to panic.
Soon, the first soldier who dropped his gun and sneaked away appeared, then the second, and then the third......
Lan Yundong felt that he had to start killing, if he didn't use some thunder means now, then the Pre-10th Division would soon fall apart.
Lan Yundong led the team to block in front of the deserters, and those deserters saw Lan Yundong, some turned around and ran to the position, and some fell to the ground and cried, in short, it was a miserable scene.
"Take a seat! The devil's artillery fire is so powerful, my class will live one of them! Raise your noble hand and let me go! ”
"It's all my own brothers! They are all their own brothers! Just leave us a way to live! ”
Lan Yundong's face became colder and colder, he took the guard's machine gun and shot it into the sky, and then said loudly to the deserters:
"I count to three! You're all back to your positions! If I'm done counting and there are still people here, then don't blame me for having someone with a black hand! ”
As soon as Lan Yundong's voice fell, the officers and soldiers of the supervising team raised their guns together.
"One! ... Two! ...”
"Don't bother! Blue ginseng! I'll help you! ”
A somewhat gloomy voice sounded from behind Lan Yundong, who turned around and saw an officer with the rank of colonel standing behind the overseer with a team of soldiers.
"Who are you? Which part? ”
Lan Yundong has maintained enough vigilance!
"What? Didn't Lan Shenza ask the headquarters for help? Brother, I'm here and I'm being treated like this by your pre-10th division! Good people can't do it these days! ”
The colonel's officer only cared about teasing, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, and then groped around his body, as if looking for something, and when the action was over, the major officer took the cigarette and asked Lan Yundong:
"Blue Ginseng! Borrow a fire! ”
Lan Yundong looked at the people who came, the color of the military uniform worn by the other party was green, which should belong to the Central Army, but the standard of clothing was very different from that of the Pre-10th Division, and there was only one unit equipped with this kind of military uniform in the Central Army, that is, Huang Haoran's 99th Army!
Could it be that in front of him is the legendary "Victorious Division"?
"Now the little devil is attacking very fiercely, I don't have time to play dumb riddles with you here! Which part of it are you? Give me a good word! ”
Although Lan Yundong had already guessed the identity of the other party, he still didn't dare to relax, you must know that this is an extraordinary time, and if you make a mistake, it will be fatal.
The colonel with the cigarette smiled, then snapped his fingers, and Lan Yundong's Overseer immediately pulled the bolt.
As a result, the colonel was just beckoning his subordinates to light a cigarette, and the colonel looked at Lan Yundong's troops while putting the cigarette on the fire, showing a hint of appreciation in his eyes.
The colonel took two puffs of his cigarette and then said in a loud voice:
"I am Xie Wendong, commander of the 99th Independent Brigade of the 47th Army! I was ordered to reinforce your 10th Division! Lan Shenza, we've met at the military meeting, but you don't know each other if you just change your skin? ”
Lan Yundong listened to Xie Wendong's report, and suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a person when he attended the combat meeting of the City Defense Headquarters, but the military uniform Xie Wendong was wearing at that time was not of this style.
In fact, this is not to blame Lan Yundong, there is no problem with his memory, the senior officers of the 99th Army have two sets of uniforms, one is American-style to wear in the 99th Army, and the other is the standard uniform of the Central Army, which is worn to participate in "foreign-related meetings", and this "foreign-related meeting" of course refers to meetings attended by people other than the 99th Army.
Lan Yundong also saw Xie Wendong dressed in American style for the first time today, so he couldn't recognize it at all, and they all said that the 99th Army was imported except for the people who were domestically produced, and now it seems that the rumors are really right!
After confirming Xie Wendong's identity, Lan Yundong immediately became polite, people are here to help the 10th Division, so they naturally have to treat it well.
"Blue Ginseng! Where are you playing? ”
Xie Wendong took a few steps forward and stood in front of the deserters of the Pre-10th Division, of course he couldn't have known what happened to the Pre-10th Division, but he was also unwilling to directly say Lan Yundong's "family ugliness".
Hearing Xie Wendong ask this question, Lan Yundong's face was a little unbearable, he had such a big appearance in front of friendly troops, how could the pre-10th Division mix in the Central Army in the future?
Lan Yundong glared at the deserters in front of him fiercely, he even had the heart to kill people!
The deserters recognized Xie Wendong's military rank and knew that he was a senior official on the same level as Lan Yundong, and Xie Wendong didn't look as serious as Lan Yundong, and the deserters felt that they had found someone to talk to.
"This sir! We're all wounded soldiers, and now we're going to retreat to the rear, look at us, but we don't have any guns and ammunition with us! Let's get there! ”
The deserters' eyes were open and they were talking nonsense, which made Lan Yundong angry for a while, but he really couldn't say that the people in front of him were all deserters from the 10th Division, so he could only repeat angrily:
"You guys! You guys! ......”
Xie Wendong looked at the hundreds of deserters in front of him with a smile, and there were still soldiers running here in twos and threes in the distance, it seemed that the interception location chosen by Lan Yundong was really good.
"Oh! Are you all wounded soldiers? That's all the heroes of the country! I, Xie Wendong, admire the patriotic officers and soldiers the most! Come, come, show me all your injuries! I'm going to report to the commander and give you a reward!" ”
"It's... The "wounded soldiers" who took the lead suddenly stammered, and they began to move back secretly in the crowd, but their small movements did not escape Xie Wendong's eyes, Xie Wendong picked a few of the deserters who avoided his eyes, and the soldiers of his independent 47th Brigade "invited" these people over.
Peeling off his shirt and looking, without exception, unscathed, Xie Wendong circled back and forth in front of these deserters, knowing that his voice was extremely gloomy......
There was a lieutenant among the deserters who jumped out, he saw the expression on Xie Wendong's face and knew that the situation was not good, this new commander was not a good talker, if he continued to talk nonsense, he was afraid that there would be no good results, so the lieutenant hugged Xie Wendong's thigh, and cried with snot and tears:
"Sir! Sir! I'm guilty! I lied! We are not wounded soldiers, we are scared by the Japanese, and we want to find a way to survive! ”
Xie Wendong used the handle of the horsewhip in his hand to prop up the chin of the lieutenant platoon commander, and he asked with a smile: "Oh! I just like honest people! You look up! Let me ask you, what is your position in the army? ”
"I'm a company mate! 3 companies of the 3rd battalion of the 9th regiment, I'm not a coward! Our company was bombarded by the artillery of the little devils, more than half of the casualties were killed, and the reinforcements never came up, so I retreated in order to leave a few seeds in the company, sir! I'm not lying! Among these are my soldiers! I dragged them all down! The lieutenant and the lieutenant were very excited, and in order to prove that he was not lying, he got up from the ground and ran into the deserters to pull his men out one by one, and the soldiers who were pulled out all bowed their heads and did not say a word.
"So you did save a lot of people! Why aren't these people happy? Is it because I lost my position? ”
Xie Wendong continued to smile and ask, but this time his face was towards the remaining officers and soldiers of the 9th Company.
"Nope! Our company's position has not been lost! ......”
A corporal with a bandage on his head bowed his head and whispered:
"Didn't lose it? Aren't you all here? Could it be that this position is guarded by ghosts? Xie Wendong's voice suddenly rose, and the corporal was so frightened that he was shocked!
"Don't fuck talk! Sir! Listen to me......"
The lieutenant sensed that there was something wrong with Xie Wendong's question, and he quickly jumped up to stop his subordinates from speaking, but his movements were a step slower, and the horsewhip in Xie Wendong's hand stopped on top of his head.
If the lieutenant and the deputy still can't stop talking, Xie Wendong doesn't mind beating him with his skin and flesh!
Seeing that Xie Wendong had subdued his immediate boss, the corporal took a deep breath and continued:
"Xiong Lian deputy saw that there were many people dead on the position, he was afraid, he took a few squad leaders with good personal relations and dragged more than 30 people down, Lian was killed by the devil, Xiong Lian deputy ran the position in chaos, I was also scared, so I dropped the gun and climbed out of the trench, when I left, there were not many people left on the position, I saw the third platoon commander with more than a dozen people dying on the position, and now I don't know if I am still ......"
At the end of the day, the corporal had tears in his eyes and several ditches were flushed out of his dirty face.
Xie Wendong turned around slowly, staring at the lieutenant and the lieutenant company, and he jumped out word by word from between his teeth:
"Deputy Xiong Lian! Your soldiers are telling the truth, aren't they? Do you want to confront each other again? ”
Xiong Lian glanced at the other people he knew in the crowd, and he noticed that these people looked at him as if they were crossing the domain barrier.
There is no need to humiliate himself anymore, Xiong Lian sat on the ground, and he said a little blankly:
"I am old and young, I can't die in this Lishui County! Little devils are not people! Killed so many and rushing forward, they are simply beasts! I saw with my own eyes that the company commander was stabbed through the neck with a bayonet by a devil, and my face was covered with blood, and I couldn't stand it! ”
Xie Wendong bent down, hooked Xiong Lian's neck with his arm, and whispered in his ear:
"You're too afraid of death, keeping you will only shake the morale of the army, since you don't want to fight the little devil anymore, I'll borrow your head to use it....."
As soon as Xie Wendong finished speaking, he pulled out his saber from his waist, and then stabbed it into Xiong Lian's neck, and the sword blade and the neck bone rubbed and made a piercing sound, which made the deserters creepy......
"Turn around! Bear! One step forward! Die! ”
Xie Wendong pushed the dead Xiong Lian aside and then stood up and said loudly:
"Each and every one of you, the headquarters has registered, and now this list has been sent to Chongqing! Commander Huang asked me to tell you that all the brothers who died on the battlefield in Nanjing will be given double pensions! The extra one, Commander Huang for the Ministry of Military Affairs! I promise to send you a lot of money to your home! Your family will never suffer! As long as there is Commander Huang for one day, there will be the peace of your family! ”
"Sir! People are doing it, and the sky is watching! Don't scold us! The deserters still didn't dare to believe Xie Wendong's words, and they had seen too much of the commander who demolished the bridge after crossing the river......
Xie Wendong pulled a soldier of the 47th Independent Brigade from behind him, and then shouted loudly:
"You tell them! Has Commander Huang ever left his soldiers behind?"
"Nope!"
"You tell them! Has Commander Huang ever abandoned any of the wounded?"
"Nope!"
"You tell them! Has Commander Huang ever deducted a penny of military pay and pension? ”
"Nope!"
"You tell them! What promise did Commander Huang make to those of us who were soldiers? ”
"If you are sick, there will be a doctor! If you hurt someone, someone will be treated! Dead and buried! ”
The soldier of the 47th Independent Brigade shouted the last sentence with almost all his strength, and all the deserters were shocked by his fanaticism!
If you are sick, there is a doctor! If you hurt someone, someone will be treated! Dead and buried! Isn't that what they've been expecting? Unexpectedly, there was really a general who did it!
Commander Huang? Is that the "winning general" Huang Haoran? Wasn't he assassinated? A few days ago, Japanese planes scattered propaganda paper everywhere, talking about the assassination of General Huang.
"If General Huang said it, we would like to believe it! But the Japanese said that General Huang had already been assassinated, and if he was gone, who would go to our pension? ”
Finally, a deserter soldier expressed the doubt in his heart, Xie Wendong looked up to the sky and laughed, and he said to the soldier:
"That's a smoke screen set off by the Japanese! Little devils, this is afraid of our Commander Huang! Hahaha....."
The deserters also let out a burst of laughter, and Lan Yundong saw that the atmosphere had completely changed, and also stood up and shouted:
"Brethren! Commander Huang let us hold out until the evening! Brigade Commander Xie is the reinforcement sent to us by the 99th Army! Brothers! Don't let Commander Huang look down on us! Kill the devil! ”
The deserters were so provoked by Lan Yundong that they all screamed and turned around and pounced on the position, and Lan Yundong hurriedly asked a battalion commander to follow behind with a company.
When the officers and soldiers of the 10th Division were farther away, Lan Yundong said gratefully to Xie Wendong:
"Thank you, Brigadier Commander! Or do you have a way! First Liwei, and then make a promise, the mentality of these deserters is all mastered by you! He is worthy of being a general in the 99th Army! There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals! I've seen Brigade Commander Xie's methods! ”
"What? Lan Sam thinks I'm coaxing these officers and soldiers? Check it out! Commander Huang's announcement just came out! ”
Lan Yundong took the letter paper that Xie Wendong gave him, and sure enough, some of what Xie Wendong said was clearly written on the paper!
"What! Did Commander Huang really make this announcement? There are 200,000 defenders in Nanjing, how can Commander Huang take out such a large sum of money?
Lan Yundong's face had changed color, it was the first time he had seen such an announcement issued by the Supreme Commander, and Lan Yundong couldn't help but suspect that Huang Haoran was releasing a balloon.
Xie Wendong glanced at Lan Yundong, he turned around and beckoned the troops behind him to continue to advance, and spoke with his back to Lan Yundong:
"Commander Huang has always done what he says, since he said that there must be a way, by the way, Lan Shenzao, why did you expect that Nanjing's 200,000 army would be the end of the total annihilation? My independent 47th Brigade was ordered to fight a war of annihilation! ”
A war of annihilation?
Hearing Xie Wendong's words, Lan Yundong was completely stunned!
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After coming back to his senses, Lan Yundong read Huang Haoran's order three times on the radio, and every position of the 10th Pre-Division was thunderous!
The officers and men of the 10th Division, whose morale was greatly boosted, did not give the 150th Wing any more chance, and Lan Yundong used the tactics of adding fuel and the commander of the Yamamoto Shigeprovincial Wing until nightfall, and the 150th Wing attacked more than ten times throughout the day, and failed to break through the defensive line of the 10th Division near Lishui.
The voices of Major General Obaof, commander of the 128th Infantry Brigade, and Saburo Isata, chief of staff of the 114th Division, came out of the radio one after another, and Yamamoto Shigetsu could only answer one after another in the face of the accusations of the two superiors: "Hai! Hail! ”
Chief of Staff Saburo Isoda told Yamamoto Shigetsu that if he couldn't take Lishui County before 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, then let the 115th Infantry Wing take over the position of the 150th Wing, and the division commander, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, was no longer impatient! If the 114th Division wasted too much time in Lishui, then the first Japanese division to enter Nanjing would definitely not be the 114th Division!
The head of the division Shigeru Suematsu is now full of Nanjing! If anyone makes him unhappy at this juncture, then His Excellency the division commander will make him unhappy for the rest of his life!
Yamamoto Shigetsu listened to the words of Chief of Staff Isoda Saburo and broke out in a cold sweat, his immediate boss Okupaul Brigade Commander did not say much, but every word was very weighty, Okupaul Brigade Commander suggested that Yamamoto Shigetsu use the night time to step up the attack, and he also transferred a brigade of reinforcements to the 150th Wing, and the nearby cavalry brigade and artillery brigade were also assigned to Yamamoto Shigeto.
Shigetsu Yamamoto understands that success or failure is tonight! If the 10th Division could not be defeated in one night, then the hours of the day tomorrow would not be meaningful, at most it would give the colleagues some more time to laugh at the 150th Wing.
Tetsuzo Komuro who knew that he had become a subordinate of Yamamoto Shigeprovince was very unhappy! Now that Yamamoto Shigetsu has the power to shout in front of him, the first order that Tetsuzo Komuro received from the 150 Wing Headquarters was to let him personally go to the front line to command his field artillery brigade to launch a covering shot at the position of the 10th Division, when Tetsuzo Komuro asked Yamamoto Shigetsu how many shells he needed to fire, Yamamoto Shigetsu actually said that he should let Tetsuzo Komuro use all the shells!
This layman!
If all the shells are used up in one attack, then what else is the artillery brigade to do?
Do you all take up their rifles and join the ranks of the infantry?
Ignorant Yamamoto Shigetsu!
With a sense of schadenfreude, Tetsuzo Komuro ordered his artillery brigade to use up all the shells according to the requirements of the 150th Wing, and after the high-intensity shelling, the tired gunners gathered together to cook with a fire in a steel helmet.
The artillery without shells has all become decorations, and now the Japanese soldiers in the field artillery brigade have nothing else to do except eat.
There was a shout of killing in the night wind, and at that time, the captain of Yamamoto Shigeprovincial Co., Ltd. brandished his sword and went into battle himself......
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