Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (18)

"Come on, come closer." Zhou Xianfu, commander of the artillery battalion of the 176th Division, said this, and the artillery battalion of the 176th Division had only 8 Krubers when they left Guangxi, and they basically did not use it when they hit Shanghai, not because they didn't want to use it, but they didn't dare to use it, because there were too few shells, and there were only a few shells at the bottom of the box, and once they were finished, they could only live with empty guns every day, how embarrassing it would be. It was not until in Xuling that because of the successful ambush, not only destroyed the enemy's thirteen tanks, but also collected the twelve 70 infantry guns that the Japanese had no time to pull away. It wasn't until Ling Qianxi pulled back a large number of shells from Centipede Mountain that this artillery battalion really came alive, let go of its hands and feet, and made great contributions in the first battle yesterday, and once again showed its power today.

The artillery position is less than 300 meters away from the back of the second line of defense, Zhou Xianfu asked people to pull the eight Kruber away first, the shelling just now, Kruber's shells were all gone, and there was no other use for placing them here except for eye-catching, leaving only twelve * infantry guns. Zhou Xianfu asked the artillerymen to flatten the barrel, the biggest advantage of this small cannon of the Japanese is not that it is light, but that it can adjust the angle of fire from minus 10 degrees to plus 80 degrees, not only to hit high, but also to low, and at close range, it can directly aim at the target. Artillery shooters passed through the barrels and aimed directly at the Japanese tanks in front of the defensive line. At such a close distance, the 4.8-kilogram * artillery shell should be able to play a certain role in the Japanese army's bean chariots, how many can be knocked out, and try to reduce the difficulty of the infantry brothers' operations, Zhou Xianfu thought.

With Zhou Xianfu's shout, the twelve guns each chose their own objects and fired at the same time, Huang Tianhua only felt a cool breeze passing overhead, and saw a heavy explosion from the Japanese tank formation about 500 meters in front of the position. Several tanks were blown up to the point of jumping on the spot, and then they were crooked to the side.

On the position of the national army, there was immediately an earth-shattering cheer.

The neat tank formation of the Japanese army revealed several huge gaps, and soon other tanks made up for it, the speed did not decrease, and the direction remained the same.

Tan Heyi's face is so gloomy that he wants to drip, and the Japanese have to work hard, I'm afraid that we won't be able to fall well! Come on, fight it, go all the way from Japan to China to fight hard, Lao Tzu doesn't accompany you, it seems that you are not righteous enough. Tan Heyi, who usually has a smiling face and greets everyone with a smile, subconsciously came out of his dog temper, pulled out a small Browning pistol from his waist, and aimed the crosshair at the Japanese tank.

"My day, a few more rounds like this, Lao Tzu can scrap all these bunch of iron cars!" Zhou Xianfu danced happily, and soon, the loaded infantry guns were once again aimed at the Japanese tanks, this time, the tanks were closer.

"Put!" Shells flew by.

A few more tanks stopped their advance, emitted white smoke, which turned into open flames.

Just when the morale of the positions of the national army was high and they shouted: "Ask for credit for the artillery brothers", from the southeast, a group of planes flew into everyone's field of vision.

The Japanese land-based bombers flying from Nanjing, dragging a devilish scream, rushed to the defense line of the Chinese army. In order to leave a sufficiently wide bombing area for the aircraft, the Japanese tanks stopped advancing.

"Regardless of the plane, let's hurry up and pack up the tanks first." Zhou Xianfu's shout was particularly harsh, he knew that this was the last time to open artillery, and the plane would unload * on the top of the artillery position as soon as possible.

Just as the third round of shells came out of the chamber, the plane's aerial shells also fell on the artillery positions.

"Ignore the guns, run." This was the last sentence Zhou Xianfu said in his life, a bomb happened to fall on his head, exploding, and there were no bones left. Some people say that he is worth it, yesterday, he packed up six tanks of the Japanese army, and today, he actually packed twenty-seven tanks of the Japanese army. The 176th Division applied for the Baoding Medal for him, but there has been no follow-up, which is a later story.

With the end of the first wave of bombing by the planes, the Japanese tank finally exerted its power, without the threat of infantry artillery, the tank became an invincible existence, it stopped at a distance of 100 meters from the national defense line, in addition to the 92 heavy machine gun equipped on the tank, but also put the infantry's crooked handle on the tank, bullets, the wind poured towards the national defense line.

Huang Tianhua's department was beaten so that he couldn't raise his head, not only did he not have the strength to fight back, but he didn't even have the space to fight back.

"It's not good! Brigade seat" Huang Tianhua said: "The Japanese army did this, either waiting for heavy artillery to come, or waiting for planes to come, our artillery is gone, if we don't want to find a way to fight into the enemy line from the flank, we can only sit and wait for death." ”

Tan Heyi, a veteran of the battle formation, completely agreed with Huang Tianhua's opinion, and immediately connected the phone to the headquarters of the 176th Division to explain the situation. If the enemy tore through the defense line of the 526th Brigade, there would be no more obstacles, and on the flat ground where there were no fortifications, fighting with the tanks and looking for death were assured. The commander of the 176th Division, Ou Shounian, immediately reported to the military headquarters of the 48th Army, and General Liao Lei ordered the 412th Brigade of the 138th Division to support the 526th Brigade from the flank, and the 414th Brigade quietly entered the first line of defense that had been destroyed at the fastest speed to outflank the enemy.

The 412 Brigade has not yet arrived, the Japanese planes flew over the 526 Brigade again, this time, with the cooperation of tanks and machine guns, they adopted an ultra-low-altitude bombing method, because the tanks and machine guns pressed the 526 Brigade in the fortifications so that they could not raise their heads, and the planes calmly threw the aerial bombs into the trenches of the 526 Brigade accurately.

The plane flew away, and the Japanese army attacked fiercely towards the completely destroyed defense line, and Qin Zhenyuan and Huang Tianhua led their troops to fight to the death, not giving an inch, and used their flesh and blood to fight to the death with the steel of the Japanese. Li Shiqi, commander of the second battalion of the 1056th Regiment, was killed, and Huang Tianhua was wounded. At the last moment, Li Benyi, deputy commander of the 412 Brigade and commander of the 1026 Regiment, led his troops to enter the Japanese army from the side, and at the same time, Zhong Yi, the commander of the 414 Brigade, led his troops to kill from the rear.

At this time, Zhang Guangwei led the 172nd Division to appear in Taiping Village, the division headquarters of the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army, from the rear, and launched a fierce attack on the division headquarters. In order to quickly return to the rescue division headquarters and get rid of the entanglement with the 138th Division, the Japanese main force did not hesitate to let the tanks run over their infantry positions, and pressed Zhong Yi's 414 Brigade with a desperate momentum.

After almost four hours of fighting, today's battle ended with no winners on either side.

Carrying Tan Heyi's stretcher, he was sent to the division hospital as soon as possible, and saw a sword-shaped shrapnel, inserted from his back and exposed from his chest, the military doctor was also a little panicked, took out the shrapnel, wrapped it with thick gauze, and watched the blood quickly soaked through the gauze, the military doctor had nothing to do, and Tan Heyi at this time had already fainted.

Huang Tianhua's telegram was invincible, and the losses were enormous, with 160 dead, 202 seriously injured, the rest were lightly wounded, and only one person was intact, that is, the telegraph operator.

Mo Di received the telegram and was shocked, so that the whole battalion of He Degui's third battalion immediately rushed back to replenish his strength. At the same time, Zhao Guolong's guard platoon escorted Zhang Suhe and other medical personnel, brought the necessary medicines and equipment, and rushed to the war zone at the greatest speed.

As soon as He Degui and Zhao Guolong left, Mo Di still felt that something was wrong, so he called Qin Jishi, Jiang Chunyang, Gong Qingyuan, and the commanders of the four brigade companies, and said: "The brigade commander was seriously injured, Chief of Staff Huang was slightly injured, Li Shiqi was killed in battle, and the first and second battalions were either killed or wounded, and it has reached the most urgent juncture over there." We are part of the 48th Army, and if the 48th Army has any strengths and weaknesses, it is useless for us to be strong. I will rush back to the brigade headquarters immediately, and everyone in the artillery company and engineer company will go with me, including all the equipment and reserves of the artillery company and the equipment of the engineer company. Director Jiang is responsible for the management of the troops, Director Gong is also responsible for the staff work, Lao Qin is in charge of the logistics work, Xu Ping is in charge of the military affairs, the assault company has the heaviest task, and Chen Zhengxin is responsible for the vigilance and safety of the entire base. Don't make any mistakes, don't take the initiative to attack for the time being, even if there is an enemy attack, avoid it. ”

"Yes!" Everyone knows that this is an extraordinary time, and there is absolutely no room for dissenting opinions, and today's last battle of the Ninth Division has brought unprecedented blows to the 526 Brigade, and the situation is not optimistic.

Twelve Type 92 70 infantry guns and 22 70 mortars are all the belongings of Li Baicheng's company, and Wei Zhigao's engineer company has all kinds of tools and materials.

Qin Jishi put a war horse in the saddle and let the invincible ride it, from here, to the brigade headquarters, nearly a hundred miles away, there is a foot strength, at least he can think about problems while marching.

The old horse staggered, and Mo Wei was in a hurry, and walked to the front of the group. He did not urge the speed of the march, but only ordered that no matter how late it was today, he must rush to the brigade headquarters and not rest halfway. Riding on a war horse, the enemy's mood is like a tide, the Japanese Ninth Division is a large division of 28,000 people, after the Battle of Songhu, the personnel have been reduced, after replenishment, still maintain about 24,000 people, there are armored car squadrons, there are field artillery wings, the strength is not weak, these days, with their own division, and the Gui Army's 7th, 31st, 48th Army, not only did not fall behind, but also disabled a 31st Army, defeated a 48th Army. If it weren't for Zhou Zuhuang's 7th Army, Cheng Shufen's 172nd Division, and Zhang Guangwei's division, which took advantage of the situation today, to enter the nest of the 9th Division, the next situation would have been even more unfavorable to the national army. Look at your own side again, the three divisions of the 7th Army, the 170th Division Xu Qiming, as the deputy commander of the 7th Army, is dual-purpose, and the military affairs are mainly in charge of the deputy division commander Luo Huo, Luo Huo, Lu Chuanren, Bai Chongxi's old department when he was the commander of the Guangxi Model Battalion, was born in martial arts, did not read much, lack of righteousness, more than evil spirit, quite scheming, and full of tricks, therefore, the 170th Division is also like its people, opportunistic, and incapable of fighting. Yang Junchang, the commander of the 171st Division, was an old man, and the deputy division commander Qin Shouqiao made the 171st Division like an old battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, without a trace of life, and after the death of Qin Lin, the commander of the 511th Brigade on the Songhu battlefield, this unit was even more scattered, slow, and unusable. Cheng Shufen, commander of the 172nd Division, a native of Huanggang, Hubei, graduated from Baoding in the sixth phase, one of the only few people in charge of other provinces in the Gui Department, with a complicated resume, he was Li Mingrui's chief of staff, and he did not get much attention from Li Baihuang, and the real head of the 172nd Division was Zhang Guangwei, the deputy division commander. For this guide who led himself into the army, Mo Di's evaluation is not too high, he is knowledgeable but does not know how to fight, he is a good person, but he is not a good soldier. The reason why the 7th Army still has the strength to fight a war is only because he is the eldest son of the Guangxi Army, fully equipped and has a rich foundation. What's more, in every fierce battle, there are other troops to protect him, before the 31st Army, then the 48th Army, if the 48th Army is defeated, the 7th Army will not be far away. Look at the 48th Army where you are located, the 135th Division is too tender, the 173rd Division is disabled, and only the 176th Division can have the strength to fight, after this battle, the strength of the 176th Division will also be greatly reduced, and you must return to the building as soon as possible with the greatest combat power, and strive to ensure that the 48th Army still has the strength to fight, so that the 7th Army, which is the banner of the Gui Army, will not fall, and can maintain the balance in this area.

The sky is gradually getting dark, and the remnant sun in the west shines on the sweaty face, and also shines on the heart of Mo Di, and the journey is not far away.