Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (32)

Motonosuke Kotani didn't believe his eyes at all, only two rounds, all of his infantry guns, half mortars and almost all of the grenadiers served the emperor, and then, he really could only fight infantry with the other side, this is not Motonosuke Kotani's combat method, his own infantry manual, it is clearly stated that the artillery attack is the mainstay, supplemented by infantry cooperation. Shizuoka retreated, disgraced, two attacks were fruitless, and nearly a hundred corpses were thrown in vain, and his already gloomy face was even more gloomy and dripping. Motonosuke Kotani discussed countermeasures with several captains, and today's opponent is not ordinary cunning, but great cunning.

The Japanese army retreated, Xiaojiawan returned to calm, except for the pine trees on the pass have been burned, only a small army of remnants of trees is still burning and exploding, the open flames have basically been blown out, and the smoke has faded a lot. The pass did not collapse because the pine trees were burned, but the sand and stones became harder because of the burning. The division's engineer battalion used sacks of mud to repair some damaged fortifications, and it was not long before the dark but not broken pass appeared in front of the Japanese again.

Motonosuke Kotani has a completely different view of this ancient pass, originally in a valley, because with this pass, he has become a lot more passive, if he can't solve this passivity, it will be difficult for him to break through this pass.

"Ask for tactical guidance from above!" Shizuoka said.

Motonosuke Kotani knows that Shizuoka-kun is a stubborn person who will not ask his superiors for help until he has no choice. Motonosuke Kotani nodded and said, "Okay! ”

After the situation was reported, it didn't take long for the call back to be received, and the superiors asked them to be on guard first and rest in place. The army aviation brigade that carried out the bombing mission from Chongqing has already returned to its home and can arrange reinforcements, and if there are any specific requests, it will reply as soon as possible. Otani Motonosuke was overjoyed, and immediately reported the coordinates of the pass, and at the same time emphasized that Huang Zhiguo's office on the right side wanted the air force to throw * on this mountain forest and burn the ambush troops on the flank.

The Japanese army fought and did not fight, retreated and did not retreat, Ma Bacui was a little incomprehensible. In this battle, he didn't think about taking the initiative to attack, he blindly wanted to defend, once the other party didn't attack, he didn't know what to do! The telegrams to the military department and Liao Han's Ministry of Enemies have been sent, but so far, no reply has been received from anyone, Ma Bacui is a little annoyed, and it is understandable that Liao Han's Ministry of State has gone deep behind enemy lines and cannot reply in time, and the Ministry of Enemies has not replied, which is a bit unreasonable.

He didn't know that at this moment, Mo Di was walking on the road to meet Liao Han's national department, and it was Jin Tongxuan of Luo Tian who received the telegram from the 172nd Division.

"Not bad! This Ma Gao Shen. Jin Tongxuan said: "Being able to use the pass to calculate the Japanese army's artillery fire is unexpected, very surprising!" ”

Wu Tinghuan nodded and said: "As a staff officer, he can be fearless in the face of danger, and in the face of a strong enemy, he can accumulate advantages through resourcefulness, and this Ma Ba Cui is a talent." ”

Zhong Dingnai asked with a smile: "In the opinion of Director Wu, which of the four divisions of our 21st Group Army is the strongest?" ”

Wu Tinghuan thought for a while and said, "From the current point of view, I'm afraid that I still have to be at the top of the rankings." I have seen these four chiefs of staff, and you should have seen Colonel Li Shang, the chief of staff of our 176th Division, he is a good old man, because of his good relationship with Zheng Cangrong's division, he squeezed out Zhou Xiong, the commander of the 528th regiment, to serve as the chief of staff. Cui Jian, chief of staff of the 138th Division, has not yet shown his edge, but his guide is a master, that is, Lai Gang, the former chief of staff of the 138th Division. Lai Gang was a top student of the second phase of Huangpu, transferred from the 138th Division, and was originally going to be appointed as the commander of the Anhui security department, but because of the seniority problem, he gave it to Yan Renyi of the second phase of Baoding, and he retreated to the second place to serve as the lieutenant general of the Anhui Provincial Security Department. Chief of Staff Cui Jian was single-handedly promoted by him, hoping to take over his class. ”

"Wasn't there another Anhui native Chen Dare who served as the chief of staff of the 138th Division halfway?" Jin Tongxuan said: "How is this person? ”

Wu Tinghuan shook his head and said: "Chen Dang is a graduate of the third special class of the Army University, and then he was promoted to deputy division commander, the purpose is to be promoted and transferred to the deputy commander of the Anhui Provincial Military Administrative Region. Tongxuan is also from Anhui, this is a good road, with the rank of colonel, the worst can go to a county in Anhui to be a county magistrate, if you can mix with Jiangxing, you can be the county magistrate of a first-class county, Anhui people govern Anhui, sooner or later. ”

Jin Tongxuan smiled, the county system of the Republic of China, the county is divided into six classes, with a population of more than one million, combined with the financial situation, it can be designated as a specific county, and then a first-class county, a second-class county, a third-class county, a fourth-class county, a fifth-class county, and a sixth-class county. The promotion of the county magistrate of the sixth-class county can only be promoted to the county magistrate of the fifth-class county, and the promotion of the first-class county magistrate is directly at the prefectural and department level. It's just that he doesn't want to do this, and the mayor and governor can't raise their interest.

Listening to Wu Tinghuan's introduction of the four chiefs of staff of the 21st Group Army, Jin Tongxuan also basically agreed with Wu Tinghuan's opinion, if the tallest one is chosen among the shorts, he should also choose Ma Baozhu. At least he can be fearless in the absence of the chief and deputy chief officer, dare to fight, this shows that there is no problem with this person's character, as for whether he fights well or not, it is a matter of ability, ability can be improved, and character cannot be improved, from the current point of view, Ma Bacui's ability is not bad.

After a little noon, Mo Di called, he had already arrived at the lame pass, and joined Liao Hanguo, everything was fine, Liao Hanguo's morale was good, and he could fight a battle.

Seeing Mo Di, Liao Hanguo, like Kotani Gennosuke, couldn't believe his eyes at all, blinked and blinked, wiped and wiped, and finally made sure that it was not an illusion, rushed over, hugged Mo Di, and said with a smile: "When people are lucky, what do you want, I have been thinking about you, but I don't want to think about you!" Mo Die laughed: "Then the Japanese are not what you want to come?" Liao Hanguo hurriedly shook his head: "That's not what I wanted to come!" ”

"What do you want from me?" Mo Di asked with a smile. Liao Hanguo told him that Li Ruiquan was in charge of the logistics stall for the wounded in Hepu, and Li Feng went to the other side of the river, and he didn't even have a discussion about something here. Everything, I always think about what I would do if Mo Di was here, what would I do, but I didn't expect it, and after thinking about it again, I actually thought about the living people. Invincible laughed.

After walking for a long time, a little tired and hungry, Liao Hanguo asked someone to prepare food, and after a while, a bunch of black flour buns were sent, Mo Di picked one up, and ate a bite, coarse, quite coarse, so thick that it was difficult to swallow, and finally swallowed what was in his mouth, and asked with a bitter face: "Brother Hanguo, you just eat this thing as a meal?" Liao Hanguo said with a smile: "We are lurking here, we can't make a fire, we can't make a noise, we don't eat this, and we still want to open a hot pot?" "Mo Enemy thinks about it.

Liao Hanguo sent Ma Bacui's telegram to Mo Di, and after Mo Di read it, he nodded and said: "Chief of Staff Ma fought very well, Huang Zhiguo fought very skillfully, it seems that it will not take too long for the Japanese army to be repulsed." We have to step up our preparations, there is not much time, we have to get in and out quickly, and we will leave after snatching up the medicine, food, and ammunition of the Japanese army, and I don't want to eat this black flour bun again. Liao Hanguo said angrily: "You think I love to eat this thing!" ”

At this time, a shout came from outside: "Airplanes, Japanese planes." Then came a series of shouts: "Hide, don't speak!" "Dumbfounded, this plane can still hear you speak. Walking outside the tent, standing under the pine tree, through the crack in the pine branches, I saw twelve light critters, flying along the valley of the Ba River, the planes did not fly high, and I was standing on the top of the mountain, and I could even see the machine gun muzzles on the planes clearly.

"It's another trick!" Liao Hanguo said: "Apart from aircraft, tanks, and artillery, little Japan has no other tricks. ”

"With airplanes, tanks, and artillery, we really don't have any tricks." Mo Di said: "With the help of the plane, Chief of Staff Ma is only afraid that it will be a little troublesome." ”

The attack from heaven brought Ma Baichuang not only trouble, but also a catastrophe. Under the instructions of the underground troops, the twelve planes threw * on the position of the 516th regiment, Huang Zhiguo was unimpressed at first, thinking that the plane could not hide himself in the trench, but he did not expect that the * where the plane fell did not explode, but burned all the hillside. Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and if he didn't leave, it would become barbecue, Huang Zhiguo led people to climb out of the trench and retreated to the back mountain.

Seeing that the 516th Regiment was repelled by fire, Motonosuke Kotani transferred the last six remaining mortars, counted the remaining grenadiers, and eleven more could be used, but the people who operated the grenadiers were all dead, and they could only send people to learn, it was not difficult to learn to fight, it was not so easy to hit accurately, there was no way, and they could only drive the ducks to the shelves, and one more grenadier would increase the strength. This time, instead of shelling first and then charging, Motonosuke Kotani killed the infantry under the cover of heavy machine guns.

"Ready, ready to fight." Li Jiao, the colonel of the 515th regiment, shouted and took the lead in the position.

Just as the 515th Regiment entered the pass, several * shots came and landed in the bunker of the 515th Regiment, and the 515th Regiment suffered its first casualties since the beginning of the war. However, at this time, even if they died, they could not retreat, because the Japanese infantry was approaching like a pack of wolves, and could only withstand the sparse shells above their heads and fight fiercely with the Japanese army.

It's a war of attrition. There were heavy casualties on both sides, and in less than an hour, the 515th Regiment retreated, and was taken over by the Field Replenishment Regiment.

The 1st Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army was also replaced by the 2nd Infantry Brigade.

On the battlefield, the sound of gunfire shook the sky, bullets flew indiscriminately, and the Japanese army was advancing step by step.

After holding out for another hour, Huang Zhiguo's 516th Regiment, which had returned from the back mountain, took over the field supplementary regiment.

And the Japanese army, there is no new army to send!

Ma Bacui sat in the command headquarters, very nervous, his hands were shaking all the time, shaking so much that he couldn't light a match, until Huang Zhiguo's 516th Regiment had the upper hand, he breathed a sigh of relief, struck the match in his hand, and lit the cigarette.

However, the next explosion shook the smoke from his mouth, and he heard the observer shouting: "Planes, planes, Japanese planes are here again, this time, it is our pass that is completely bombed." ”

"Has the 516th Regiment been withdrawn?" Ma Bacui asked

"No, there was no time to retreat, the Japanese planes arrived."

"Report! The 516th regiment was tight, the head of Huang Zhiguo was seriously injured, and the deputy of Liu Yuejian's regiment did not retreat. ”

"Report! The Japanese planes left, and the commander of the 515th regiment, Li Tuan, went up with his brothers. ”

"Report! The Japanese heavy machine gun positions had been erected on either side of us, and we could not get to the pass. ”

"Report! The Japanese offensive began again. Captain Lu Ming also went up! ”

The match in Ma Bacui's hand fell to the ground.

"Retreat, Retreat!" Li Jiao's face rushed in from outside the door.

"No!" Ma Bacui suddenly rushed to the newspaper operator and shouted, "Inform Liao Hanguo and let them hurry up." ”

Turning to Li Jiao, he said, "Let's go, I'll go with you to guard this pass." ”

Take a step ahead and walk towards the pass where the bullets are flying.