Chapter 44: Preparing to Evacuate
With a round of artillery shells, the Japanese army pressed the charging soldiers to the front of the position, and immediately followed by the devils, they launched a counter-charge from the armored vehicles to the defensive positions of our army.
Xing Baoshan lay down before the first shell fell, and his excellent military qualities allowed him to crawl to the ground like a conditioned reflex while hearing the scream of the shell, and the officers and men of the German armor division who charged with him fell to the front of the position almost at the same time. The devil armored car is coming!
Looking at the iron-clad monster that Galagala was speeding in, Xing Baoshan quickly rolled into the crater next to him, and he couldn't penetrate the iron shell of the armored car with his rifle.
"Machine gun, shoot me!" Seeing the armored vehicles rampage at the front of the position, while the soldiers of our army charging were killed and wounded under the blows of the devil's armored vehicles, Li San's face immediately turned iron blue. He had seen this kind of Iron King Eight more than once on the battlefield, and he had never seen any other effective way to deal with this thing except to make people rush up with grenades and blow up the tracks.
Of course, other troops could send soldiers to rush forward with cluster grenades to blow up, but Li San couldn't do it here. He is a supplementary company, and the soldiers are inexperienced supplementary soldiers. It's okay for these people to climb to the position and shoot at the devils, to blow up armored vehicles? It's better to save it, I'm afraid that the soldiers sent out are more likely to become deserters directly!
The heavy machine guns seemed to have an effect on the devil's thin-skinned armored car, and the two Makqin heavy machine guns were aimed at an armored vehicle and fired at it with concentrated firepower, and the armored car shook twice, and immediately retreated in panic.
There are doors, and armored vehicles are also afraid of heavy machine guns! The devil's Iron King Ba finally found his nemesis and slapped Li San on the thigh happily!
However, the good times didn't last long, and before the joy on Li San's side had passed, the devil suddenly started firing artillery again, and this time the shells were still evil, and they were specially aimed at the heavy machine gun position!
Due to the lack of precautions in advance, the heavy machine-gun position of the supplementary company was destroyed in an instant. The three Makqin heavy machine guns of the whole company, and dozens of officers and soldiers on the machine gun position in the company shook their hands and dealt a fatal blow in this shelling! Three heavy machine gun squads were wiped out, and more than 40 soldiers were martyred collectively!
Without a heavy machine gun, what if the devil's armored car comes up again? Li San couldn't think of a good solution, so he quickly reported the situation here to Hu Fei. If there is an abnormal situation on the battlefield, you must report it to your superiors at any time, this is not a special case of cavalry brigades, this is the rule of all armies. If you don't report a problem, and your superiors give the wrong combat order because they don't know, isn't that a delay in the fighter!
Xing Baoshan and others on the battlefield hurriedly ran back to their positions by taking advantage of the devil's artillery bombardment and transfer. Li San didn't care about reprimanding them for not following the order and acting without authorization, and after the shelling was over, the devil really sent a chariot to charge. It's just that in addition to the three armored vehicles from the last time, there are two more taller tanks with half-barrels in the charge!
Did the devils dispatch the tanks? After receiving the report, Hu Fei smiled, this time he has a big killer against tanks, and Wang Jichang's anti-aircraft gun is a special killing tool against tanks!
When the battle defense artillery was pulled in front of the two armies, the devil's tank was covering the infantry to storm our position. Quickly set up the cannon, Wang Jichang shouted: "Open the cannon!" With a loud "boom", a puff of black smoke came out of the invincible tank on the battlefield, which instantly turned into a pile of scrap metal.
"Wow!" Seeing that the devil's tank was blown up by a single shot, our soldiers on the battlefield broke out into cheers, and their morale instantly soared!
Due to the sudden entry of the anti-aircraft artillery into the battle, the devil tanks and armored vehicles on the position were bombed one after another. In the end, the devils simply didn't send chariots to cover them, and they directly rushed up with the infantry. Of course, it may also be that their tanks have been blown up too much, and the devils can no longer send tanks that can provide cover for the infantry.
The devils who did not have chariots came up with their old methods again, bombing planes, shelling artillery, and infantry rushing. Just these three things over and over again. Although the tactics were simple, our army was defeated after all because of the large gap in firepower and the fact that the number of people was too small compared to the devils. After all, there are too few sharpshooters like Xing Baoshan.
In the rounds of bombardment by the devils and the charging of infantry clusters like waves, the outer positions of our army outside Lanfeng City fell piece by piece. The war has finally entered the stage of brutal street fighting.
From this moment on, Lan Feng City was completely plunged into a full-scale war. Every street had to be fought over and over again, and every house was the focus of the battle between the two sides. Lan Feng City has become a large meat grinder, and in this city, soldiers on both sides die every moment!
Hu Fei's headquarters is located in a three-story concrete building in the northwest corner of the city, where the medical team, the confidential section, and various functional departments of the headquarters are located. The battle has been going on until now, and if a large number of reinforcements are not involved, it will be a matter of time before Lan Feng City is lost.
Hu Fei was standing in front of the radio station, and was dictating to General Gui Yongqing, the commander of the 27th Army, to report on the current situation of the Lan blockade.
"Frank Zhen Commander: After a day of hard fighting, the staff annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers. However, due to the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, the battle has now entered the stage of street fighting, and our brigade may be martyred at any time! If Gui Junzuo can't immediately send superior reinforcements to participate in the battle, the city will be ruined and people will die! Hope for reinforcements as soon as possible! 23:30 on June 3, the 27th year of the Republic of China. ”
An hour after Hu Fei's telegram for help was sent, he finally waited for General Gui's reply message. It's rare, it's already early in the morning, and Gui Yongqing hasn't slept yet. In the message, General Gui expressed his affirmation and appreciation for Hu Fei's insistence on Lanfeng, and expressed his indignation at Long Muhan's unauthorized escape.
On the issue of reinforcements, General Gui emphasized that the road conditions were not easy to walk, and there were various external factors such as harassment by the Japanese puppet army along the way. The internal factor is that there are many troops participating in this battle, and the unified dispatch of various armies is more complicated, and if reinforcements are sent, he needs to report to the commander-in-chief Xue Yue. Luo Luo is a lot of ramblings, and the comprehensive meaning is just one sentence: there are no reinforcements! You can do Lan Feng's affairs yourself!
Hu Fei looked at it, wow, you don't care? You don't care, I don't care! He ordered Wang Jichang to use all the shells, blow up all four 37 anti-aircraft guns, and prepare to evacuate! At the same time, the companies were ordered to be ready to retreat at any time. At this point in the battle, if he doesn't want to die with the city, he has to prepare to retreat!
Fortunately, Hu Fei had made sufficient preparations before the battle began, and he could leave at any time. To retreat, you have to have a name. Hu Fei asked Xu Yajun to send another telegram to Gui Yongqing, telling Commander Gui that the Independent Cavalry Brigade had suffered all casualties, and only a few remnants were making the last resistance. In order to leave a useful body to kill and injure more Japanese soldiers on the battlefield in the future, Hu Fei decided to lead the remnants of the army to withdraw from Lanfeng City that night!