Chapter 163 Battlefield (Part 1)

Because of an ambush outside the miscellaneous warehouse, many of the lost brothers were attracted by the gunfire in this direction. Not everyone could tell that it was their own people who were ambushing it, but they would still lean over to see what was going on-the-stop-they ran in the opposite direction when they heard the gunfire, but they were not. These soldiers who crossed the river all turned into war machines!

What they saw was a blue sky and white sun flag rising on the snow field! In an instant, those eyes hidden in the snow field, standing on the treetops, hiding in the forest suddenly shone with crystal tears...

Arrogant! Absolutely arrogance! The drunkard actually ordered his men to raise a blue sky and white sun flag they brought to the warehouse!

I haven't seen the Japanese here for two consecutive days. The signs of cavalry sent by the Japanese were Jiuguijiujiu. Even if the flag is raised, it is fine. The Japanese would not be a large army, at most a cavalry squad. Then come and send horses to grandpa!

Of course, they were also very cautious and sent people to stand on the roof. Once they found a plane in the distance, they quickly put away the flag. In this way, the brothers who gathered from all directions on this day actually made their team a battalion-level unit!

However, they still failed to discover Cao Xiaomin, their spiritual leader among the returning brothers!

Finally, they decided to leave behind the "drunk", "old bedbug" and ten soldiers went to the riverside to continue searching, and the others returned to Quanjiao from the road where the "drunk" and they came.

Quanjiao, under the command and arrangement of Li Tianhao, has now become an iron nail, firmly nailed on the battlefield in Chuxian County!

In his popular famous work, the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu wrote: "There are mountains around Chuxian... There are many mountains and monuments nearby. Although they are not high mountains and ridges, they are not easy to cross. Especially after the snow, once there are fierce fire in the originally dry and hard land, the blood melted by artillery fire will turn the battlefield into muddy; running on it is slippery and sticky, and it is not easy to run down the mountain or down the mountain.

The mountains in Quanjiao area were even more undulating. Although the height was absolutely not high, it was difficult for the infantry to fight in the attacking party. Although the north was high in the north and the south were low, it would be difficult for the enemy who came down from the north to climb the next mountain in the south between hills, and it would be difficult for the cannons to be transported up the mountain. If Li Tianhao's troops were not limited, he would have arranged a level of defense across the mountains, it would be difficult for the attacking party to capture this small city!

If the defensive troops have good gun skills, they can easily hit those slow-moving targets. Although the troops that are now sticking to Quanjiao cannot compare with the Japanese, most of them are veterans who have been on the battlefield and always have a considerable lethality. In order to improve the shooting hit rate, each unit has accurately measured the positions they stick to, and set a range measurement reference for the machine gunners - from Wangting to experience the long-distance short-range shooting points of the machine gun.

After the power of shooting and killing, Li Tianhao has become a commander with great experience in using heavy machine guns. Now he has many Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns in his hands. These guys who are spoiled and difficult to serve are just good guns for long-range strikes. Not only are they accurate but also fired from afar can reduce the harassment of dust caused by enemy firepower and reduce the machine gun failure rate; Kuomintang soldiers who are not very skilled in using Japanese equipment can also have a process of adaptation.

In Quanjiao County, it changed completely within two days. In order to prevent the infiltration of the enemy's troops and cause civil unrest, martial law was imposed in all key areas; there were not many defenders and few guns, and each level was guarded by Li Tianhao's guard company, one or two soldiers, and a group of Quanjiao security team members, guarding them. However, they could tell clearly who were coming and going, which unit came from or the local elders of Quanjiao.

"Captain Li does know how to use troops, so I have to accept it..." One of the regiments under house arrest, Mo, followed Li Tianhao, all day long. In order not to disrupt the morale of the army, Li Tianhao took him everywhere to patrol the positions, so that everyone could see that Lao Mo was still in charge of the troops, but the order had been issued by Li Tianhao himself.

In the name of observation and exchange, the six chief and deputy battalion commanders and other company commanders of Lao Mo were all gathered to observe with their regiment commanders; these officers who didn't know how to do this observation benefited a lot from this observation. After these officers returned to the army, Lao Mo began to grind again - he knew that Li Tianhao did not intend to destroy him like another regiment commander, and might use him when fighting, so he kept saying to Li Tianhao that he would hold on to Quanjiao and never retreat.

Although this person from Dongguan, Guangdong can speak vernacular and is very close to Li Tianhao, Li Tianhao still said: When the start is happening, Quanjiao is surrounded, so you will naturally let you go back; but if you don’t fight for a day, you can honestly accompany me to travel around the mountains and rivers!

Since a whole brigade of the 18th Division of the Japanese in the south was eaten by Li Tianhao with a poisonous trick, the Japanese in the south were no longer able to attack, and the war stopped for a whole day. Now the main direction of the battle is likely to turn to the north to deal with the Japanese in the south from Chu County. Li Tianhao took him to Zhang Jingyue's defense line to observe and inspect.

"I plan to deal with the Japanese like this..." Zhang Jingyue immediately came up to offer treasures when he saw them because he had been carefully preparing for a long time.

"After the Japanese occupy Chu County, they will definitely send a partial division as quickly as possible; in their opinion, Quanjiao's defenders should have had problems with our army's contact or the main force deliberately left us to restrain them from advancing westward, and they will not use the main force to go south. Brother Li beat the 18th Division last night, and I don't think the Japanese in the 13th Division will be alert, on the contrary, they will underestimate the enemy very much..."

Hearing this, Lao Mo was stunned: "Why? If I were a Japanese, I would definitely be alert..."

Zhang Jingyue smiled: "The 18th Division is an army affiliated to the 10th Army, and the 13th Division is a subordinate of the 11th Army. For the sake of face, I guess the 18th Division will blow the number of annihilation of us to the sky, and maybe the three of us will add up to the top! Do you think the 13th Division will seriously regard us as opponents? To be honest, if it weren't for the inside story, even I wouldn't believe that the Kuomintang army could pull more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers with two hundred men, let alone Japanese soldiers themselves! The 18th Division originally had an offensive route from Shanghai, but the troops going north were not enough, so they transferred a corps to come over. It is estimated that the 13th Division's Japanese would think that they stopped and wanted to save their strength and go back, so the 13th Division would not take us seriously..."

The analysis was so clear that Lao Mo admired him, but he still had some doubts: Why did Zhang Jingyue be so familiar with the situation of the various Japanese troops? He had a dark look at him when asked!

Cao Xiaomin and his elder brothers were not familiar with the Japanese troops who participated in the Nanjing Battle. However, in order to create the "Ghost City Massacre Order", he memorized all the information he obtained from the Japanese; his brothers naturally knew the Japanese numbers and subordinates! This is an advantage that the lower-level officers in other troops cannot match.

"Brother Li beat the 18th Division and I also wanted to kill him with a 13th Division... They are all Japanese deeds in Nanjing who are heavily in debt..." Zhang Jingyue told his plan and made a request: to transfer half of the machine guns of another company regiment.

The plan is feasible! Li Tianhao immediately agreed and immediately sent someone to do it with his own warrant. Not only did he carry the machine gun over, but he borrowed it directly with the machine gun team, which was equivalent to adding a lot of reinforcements to Zhang Jingyue.

"Hey, the regiment commander is here!" Before the northern line started, the soldiers who strengthened the fortifications on the position were excited to see the three regiment commanders coming together. Li Tianhao stretched out his hand, but the soldiers did not dare to hand over his hands and hold it!

Li Tianhao understood why: these soldiers were trying hard to sniff their stinky feet with their hands the moment before!

Because the weather is cold, the Kuomintang soldiers who cannot eat are even colder. Basically, everyone has frostbite on their feet. As long as they take off their shoes, they can see that their feet are red and white, frozen and deformed, and some begin to ulcer. It is painful and itchy. Many people will take off their shoes to rub their feet and scratch those itchy areas when they are idle... They dare to hand such hands to the superior!?

Everyone in the inspector felt a sense of grief: Which trench soldier in the entire Quanjiao battlefield was not like this? Which soldier was not more or less sick!?

The red faces were cracked by the north wind in front of them, and many people's lips and even the cracked openings were bleeding a lot, making people think he had just eaten some living things. After the rain and snow, we could see that almost every soldier's ears were frostbite: at first, there were frostbite, and in just two days the outer edge of the ears frostbite turned brown, and then began to wither - everyone's ears shrank in a circle within two days!

There is no way! It was summer when the battle started in Shanghai, and now it was winter. It was impossible to repair it all the way to Nanjing. Finally, I reorganized in Jiangbei and finally got a thin cotton coat, but there were no cotton hats and shoes. In this way, the soldiers began to fight on the snow... Who wouldn't feel sorry for the commanders? Seeing his soldiers' snot flowing down, they were all unconscious, and they flowed until the blood from the cracked lips oozed out of their lips formed a blur on their mouths; looking at the pair of silent but unhappy eyes on their faces... The commanders were moved silently with sorrow: they couldn't even let these loyal and brave soldiers eat!

Soldiers were frozen and hungry in the trenches every day, and frostbite all over their bodies, looking no different from beggars; but they were wearing military uniforms, carrying the dignity and future of this country and nation! Perhaps these soldiers were portrayals of this country and nation during this period: they looked terrible, but they refused to fall tenaciously!

The three commanders Li Tianhao, Zhang Jingyue and Lao Mo walked through the trenches and shook hands with every soldier they saw, because they knew that these hands might only be able to hold them this time, and this face might only be able to see them this time...
Chapter completed!