Chapter Seventy-Three: Acquaintances are very red when they meet
6.73 Acquaintances are very red when they meet!
Xianhemen, Xu Liang, commander of the 535th Regiment of the 302nd Brigade of the 99th Division, led the troops to arrive at the permanent fortifications before they had time to put down their backpacks, and the Japanese 16th Division began to bombardment the mountains and seas, the permanent fortifications around Nanjing are not the defense line of Changshu, and the solidity has been reduced by more than one grade, and the trenches between the pillboxes and the pillboxes are not covered, and now the officers and soldiers of the 535th Regiment can only stay in some underground tunnels and cement permanent fortifications and wait for the Japanese artillery bombardment to stop. The 66th Regiment of the 478th Brigade of the 160th Division of the 66th Army, which was originally stationed here, did not have time to withdraw, and was also trapped on the position with the 535th Regiment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The loud noise overhead has lasted for more than ten minutes, and this round of shelling will last at least half an hour to see the posture of the devil artillery, Xu Liang, the commander of the 535th Regiment, leaned against the cement wall of the underground command post and lit a cigarette, and the personnel of the regiment headquarters are busy arranging this cement building of less than 20 square meters, and for a period of time from now on, this will be the brain of the 535th Regiment.
Before Xu Liang's 535 regiment broke away from the main force of the division, the division commander Shen Yuanlong rode a horse to Xu Liang, Shen Lao Er told Xu Liang that this battle must be clever, the task of the 535 regiment is to hold the Xianhe Gate, and before getting a new order, the 535 regiment must stick to the Xianhe Gate like a plaster, the configuration of firepower must be reasonable, and the permanent fortifications must be well utilized.
Xu Liang agreed very happily, but in his heart he still felt that Deputy Division Commander Shen looked down on his 535th Regiment, and a battalion of Wang Shankui's 139th Division dared to deal with a wing of devils alone in Changtang, and the 99th Division could not be as good as the 139th Division? If you want to say authentic, the 99th Division is Commander Huang's Royal Forest Army! The 535th regiment can't lose this person to the commander!
The 535th Regiment set off with all its strength, and Xu Liang had already had an idea, he must show his face to the 99th Division in Xianhemen! An ace master is an ace master! It's the best all the time!
The original owner of Xu Liang's command was Colonel Cai Rubai, the commander of the 956th Regiment, and the 535th Regiment came, and the 956th Regiment was ready to pull to the Baishui Bridge, but the devil's cannon suddenly fired, and the 956th Regiment was left behind, and now the head of Cai and his subordinates stayed in the tunnel not far from here to rest, Xu Liang asked his guards to invite the head of the Cai regiment to sit in his command post, and he planned to use the time of the devil's shelling to have a good chat with the head of the 956 regiment. After all, the 956th Regiment has also spent a lot of time in this fortification, and the ground snake always knows much more than Guo Jianglong.
Commander Cai was not surprised at Xu Liang's invitation, exchanges between friendly troops are a common thing on the battlefield, and this can allow the new troops to avoid making the same mistakes as the previous batch of troops, if it weren't for the 99th Division being the Central Army, Commander Cai would have taken the initiative to find Xu Liang a long time ago.
Local troops such as the 66th Army have always been apprehensive about the Central Army, and several local divisions on the Songhu battlefield that were smashed by the Japanese army were all dismantled and swallowed by the Central Army without exception.
Commander Cai and his guard platoon walked quickly in the tunnel, he was familiar with the road to the command post, he has been going back and forth on this road these days, the garrison headquarters has allocated a lot of masonry and cement to Xianhemen, and the 956th Regiment has been doing the work of engineers, and now it has finally benefited the 535th Regiment of the 99th Division. Although the Japanese artillery on the ground was very lively, it could not threaten the Chinese soldiers in the fortifications.
The fortified bunker originally designed to accommodate the soldiers of a regiment now has the 956th Regiment and the 535th Regiment in the two regiments, which are a little crowded, the men and horses of the 956th Regiment stay on the left side, and the men and horses of the 535th Regiment stay on the right side, and the officers and men of the 956th Regiment and the 535th Regiment look at each other through a one-wide aisle, from their clothing, weapons and equipment, as well as the physique and complexion of the officers and soldiers, all show that these are two completely different armies.
Most of the officers and soldiers of the 956 regiment are wearing new cotton clothes that the garrison headquarters has just issued to them not long ago, these Guangdong soldiers are still not used to wearing the uniforms of the Central Army, some of them put the old military uniforms of the Guangdong army on the outside of the cotton clothes, some people deliberately wear the new military uniforms, and some people directly criticize the various clothes that have been stripped off the dead people, at a glance, the entire 956 regiment is like a variety of clothing exhibition halls, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, which country's goods are used. All of this is very different from the 535th regiment.
The first impression left by the officers and men of the 535th Regiment on the 956th Regiment was that it was clean! They had never seen such a clean army, everyone's uniforms were washed cleanly, every soldier's face seemed to be shaved, as well as those black German steel helmets and shiny weapons, Commander Cai also saw the cotton gloves equipped by the heavy machine gunners of the 535th Regiment and the large rain cloth covered with machine guns and ammunition boxes, and these things are all expensive goods that need to spend a lot of money, Commander Huang is really willing to spend blood on his 99th Division!
After Xu Liang saw the head of Cai, he immediately ordered the guards to open two boxes of canned beef, these cans were produced by Huang Haoran's family in the canning factory opened in Chongqing, and the technology and capital came from a company in the United States, in fact, the big boss behind the American company is Huang Haoran himself, in the United States, the reputation of this company has become more and more famous, and more and more fields and industries are involved, these are all things that Huang Haoran handed over to Yu Lianjun to do, and Yu Damei has done it very well.
Commander Cai didn't go around the bend with Xu Liang, he said to Xu Liang straight to the point after tasting two pieces of canned beef: "Commander Xu, we are all our own people, you don't have to be so polite, to be honest, I really envy you, these equipment of your regiment are really amazing, if our Chinese army can use these guys, even ten Japan will also be beaten down!" The brother has no ability, so he can only talk to Captain Xu about some of the details of this Xianhemen position, and I hope that Captain Xu will not dislike it! ”
What Xu Liang wants is this sentence of Captain Cai, he understands that these experiences can allow him to sacrifice a lot of subordinates, every word of Captain Cai is valuable, where would he dislike it?
The conversation between Xu Liang and Commander Cai lasted until the end of the artillery bombardment of the 16th Division, and Commander Cai, who was originally going to get up and leave, received a new order, and the original plan of the 956th Regiment to move towards Baishui Bridge was cancelled, and now their task is to cooperate with the 535th Regiment to guard Xianhemen.
"Looks like we're going to fight together! Commander Cai, thank you for what you just said, my 535th Regiment can't get anything good, I know that the brothers of the 956th Regiment are tired enough to do the fortifications these days, this mere twenty boxes of canned food is a thank you gift to your regiment, and I hope that Commander Cai will not shirk. ”
Xu Liang said very politely, twenty boxes of canned food is not a "mediocre" gift, you must know that these things are now sky-high prices on the black market, and the 956 regiment has never received such a large number of good things!
It is beneficial to have a good relationship with the 99th Division, Commander Cai thought in his heart, his harvest from this trip is not small, and he exchanged twenty boxes of canned food in a few words, such a deal is really necessary!
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The 16th Division invested two squadrons in the first round of attack on Xianhemen, and after discovering that the Nanjing garrison had hoarded heavy troops at Xianhemen, the 16th Division dismissed its plan to succeed easily.
The effect of this round of artillery bombardment just now is obviously not very good, in the face of the cement permanent fortifications, the Japanese artillery is not strong, the commander of Nakajima Imasa's division got the news of the failure of the first attack after waiting for fifteen minutes, and the 38th Wing of the Sukegawa Shizuji Osaku reported to Nakajima Imago that the machine gunners of the Chinese army are like suddenly emerging from the ground, and the accurate mortar shells will hit almost every shot, which has given huge damage to the two infantry squadrons in the attack, and the Chinese army on the opposite side is obviously a strong force!
Is it to teach the Corps or the 99th Army? This is the first question that the commander of Nakajima's division thought of, and the trump card of facing the Chinese army again made the commander of Nakajima's division feel very excited! His 16th Division once conquered the defense line of the 99th Army in Changshu, (in fact, when the 16th Division broke through Changshu, the 99th Army had already been in a position.) , but Nakajima insisted that he defeated Huang Haoran's 99th Army), and this time the 16th Division was going to repeat this glory again!
The second wave of the 16th Division's attack came quickly, this time Nakajima Imago directly threw in his chariot troops, and a brigade of the 38th Wing followed closely behind the chariots, and Nakajima Imago expected to make progress soon.
But things often do not develop according to people's assumptions, just when the 16th Division's chariot was about to approach the 535 regiment position, the 535 regiment position burst out of a few fires, and then the front several bean chariots were shot and caught fire, and experienced Japanese veterans immediately found that the Chinese army was using the Japanese army's commonly used Type 92 infantry guns, which can be regarded as a typical example of "using Japan to control Japan"!
So the bean chariot with very thin armor immediately began to reverse, they gave way to the medium chariot behind the attack channel, the caliber of the 92-type infantry gun is too small, there is no way to take these big Japanese Iron King Ba, Commander Cai was in a hurry, ready to organize a death squad to go up to blow up the expensive chariot, Xu Liang hurriedly stopped him, and the 99th Division was transferred to the east of the city with the 10th Artillery Regiment, at this time it was time for those German-made 150 howitzers to appear, Xu Liang's phone quickly attracted the artillery fire of the 10th Artillery Regiment, The Japanese army, which was still menacing just now, completely lost its courage under the ravages of 150 howitzers, Xu Liang saw that a Japanese medium tank was directly hit by a 150 howitzer shell and caught fire, and none of the devil charioteers inside climbed out, and they all became cooked meat in this iron can.
The sudden appearance of the 10th Artillery Regiment made the 16th Division suffer a big loss, and Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa quickly let the Japanese troops suffering under artillery fire withdraw, and after two consecutive battles, the 38th Wing did not even see what the Chinese on the opposite side looked like, all of which reminded him of the days in Changshu.
The same style of play, the same fierce firepower and accurate infantry artillery coordination, all this shows that the current opponent of the 16th Division is none other than the 99th Army they fought in Changshu! Huang Haoran's unit left a deep impression on Sukegawa Jingji Dazuo, several infantry wings of the 16th Division suffered heavy casualties in Changshu, especially the 9th Wing, if it hadn't been supplemented by the Central China Front later, I'm afraid that the 19th Brigade would now have only one infantry wing left!
Although the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasa, insisted that the 16th Division had already defeated the 99th Army in Changshu, the captains of the Wing Commanders of Sukegawa Shizuji Osaku knew very well that the opponent they defeated later was by no means the 99th Army that gave them great pain at the beginning, and everyone in the front-line combat units knew this truth, but the division commander, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago had always refused to admit it!
Now Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa once again experienced the feeling of powerlessness in front of the defense line in the Changshu section, and he understood that the old enemy of the 99th Army, the 16th Division, was here again!
The 16th Division will face a tough battle at Xianhe Gate!
Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa reported his discovery to the division commander, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasa, Nakajima Imago was unwilling to accept Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa's report, he insisted that it could not be the 99th Army that fought with his 16th Division at Senzurumon, and Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa was making excuses for the defeat of the 38th Wing! This is a coward's performance!
Regarding the extremely strong combat effectiveness of the Xianhemen defenders, the explanation given by Nakajima Imago is that it must be the team of the teaching corps, and he asked his chief of staff, Nakazawa Sanfu Daisa, to sit directly in the wing headquarters of the 38th Wing to supervise the battle! Nakajima Imago doesn't need any explanation, he just needs the Crane Gate!
So Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa launched a third attack after simply gathering the troops, this time the morale of the Japanese troops of the 38th Wing was obviously affected, and there were some discordant pictures among the Japanese soldiers who charged, and as soon as the machine guns of the 535th Regiment rang out, the two incomplete Japanese squadrons immediately retreated, judging from their performance, the attack just now was just a performance to deal with the chief of staff, Mitsuo Nakazawa.
Chief of Staff Nakazawa Sanfu is much more rational than the head of Nakajima's division, and he has also objected to Nakajima's insistence that the 16th Division has defeated the 99th Army in Changshu, but in order to maintain a harmonious relationship with the division commander, Chief of Staff Nakazawa has never said in front of Nakajima that he disagrees with Nakajima's opinion, and the following wing commanders have always regarded Nakazawa Sanfu's ten very kind superiors, So often, that one would say something in front of Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa that they didn't dare to say to the commander of Nakajima's Imasa Division.
After the third attack ended hastily, Sukegawa Shizuji Daisa came to the front of Chief of Staff of Nakazawa Sanfu, and he expressed his concerns to Chief of Staff of Nakazawa Sanfu, if the defenders of Xianhemen are really the 99th Army, then the 16th Division is simply sending to death in this way now! A change has to be made!
Chief of Staff Mitsuo Nakazawa adopted the advice of Shizuji Sukegawa, and he recruited helpers for the 38th Wing, the 33rd Infantry Wing......
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