Chapter 273: Fighting

(...Behind every bloody battle, countless people are waving flags and shouting and silently supporting, but there are also some people who are slapping cold guns at us behind their backs, so that we had to put our faces down and completely turn against them... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The bloody battle to encircle and annihilate the 6th Division began. The troops of Cao Xiaomin and Li Tianhao on the southern front were the first to attack. The fire exchange at the beginning was not noticeable, because the arrangement of this attack was to sneak attack before it was noticed and not alarm the Japanese. Therefore, there was no firepower test or cover when it was launched, and it looked like an ordinary infiltration force encounter.

However, as more and more points of war started, the Japanese were shocked to realize that this was the latest offensive mode, a full-line attack that was broken into pieces!

The dark red machine guns and bullets cut through the night sky like locusts. No matter which direction the soldiers on the battlefield look in, they feel a daze in front of them, with dazzling muzzle flames everywhere.

Although the battle for several consecutive days has consumed a lot of ammunition from the Sixth Division, it is obvious that this battle may be a battle that will cost them their lives. The Japanese were not stingy at all and showed all the strongest firepower. Not only were the shooting of various light and heavy artillery fire and guns, but the Japanese on the front line also kept throwing grenades into the water without any trace of the enemy - who knew whether the Japanese would send suicide squads to dive in the dark to attack nearby?

The crazy consumption of the Japanese has brought about their stable position. Indeed, after the grenades they threw at at all costs in those dark dead corners, the suicide squadrons who were snorted in the water would occasionally be shaken to death and float up.

The attacking officers and soldiers were like the Japanese in front, and in order to speed up the movement, they all turned naked. They were naked except for spare ammunition, and after their death, they went naked.

Cao Xiaomin's troops also had one weapon, which was the big crossbow arrows. Under the cover of darkness and rain and fog, they pushed these big crossbow arrows to a place closer to the Japanese and set them up in the water to fire; because there was no muzzle flame, the heavy firepower of the Japanese in the distance could not be discovered, and these local weapons often caused great casualties to the Japanese in the frontier.

But these "bridge cannon" shooters also suffered heavy casualties - they had to fight in places without any shelter. Once the target was exposed, they could also give them great damage; not to mention that they were fighting in the water, and when they encountered a water-exploding grenade, they would fall down. There were heavy casualties! The second echelon was quickly forced to press on, and then they charged, then rushed to the crossbows filled with corpses to load explosives...

"Boom!" "Boom!" Suddenly, a series of explosions were exploded on the Japanese defense line, and a team of suicide squad members of a combat team successfully sneaked into the Japanese attack like a crocodile, and suddenly attacked like a crocodile, using a grenade to drop the Japanese machine gun position! More suicide squad members rushed towards the gap regardless of everything... and broke through! The white bodies of the following troops behind were particularly conspicuous in the flares and the fire of war. The bullets hit the top and splashed blood. The remaining officers and soldiers in the blood and flesh flew up to the position with difficulty. Although they could not advance in depth and could not expand horizontally, they at least occupied a gap!

Follow the back and break through! Without the command from the superior, everyone seemed to have heard the order. Everyone was commanded by the mission shouting in their hearts, rushing towards bullets!

Yes, the sir is right. There is no paddy field swamp in front of you. As long as everyone attacks desperately, they will definitely be able to win Baoying! The 89th Army on the northern line killed one after another and the red-eyed Su Bei's children could not see the tragic fall of their comrades in the dark. They only knew to stare at the direction of the Japanese gunfire!

In the street fighting where ammunition is very serious, the soldiers with only thirty bullets per person have the only function of bayonets left. However, they still strive forward bravely. They also have the cheapest grenades, which can be exploded as long as they rush up!

Because the excessive consumption of the weather in front affected the supply, the Japanese on the Baoying battlefield were almost exhausted. They did not have so many grenade launchers to attack those who gathered on the second line, so that every charge of the *** can form a powerful impact force.

"Be loyal to the Emperor! Cut the board!..." The large group of Japanese soldiers with white cloth wrapped around their heads, shirtless and full of grenades appeared on the streets of narrow alleys to charge forward!

"I will die in Guocun! Brothers fight with me!" The death-death squad members who were also desperate seemed to be trying to gamble and bumped into each other head-on. In an instant, all the streets of Baoying were filled with smoke and fires soared into the sky.

No one would think how heroic the warriors were, they just disappeared, and behind them were more people ready to rush into the smoke and then disappear...

What could not be seen in the distance was the flames that kept blooming in the darkness, and bursts of thunder-like explosions in my ears. So many brothers who disappeared in the darkness finally succeeded. It was obvious that many battles started behind the enemy! Zhang Zizhong finally put down his hanging heart a little. At least this time the bet would not be deducted...

The 59th Army finally saw the response of the infiltration troops in half a night. The commanders on the fronts on all sides finally breathed a sigh of relief, just like General Zhang, these commanders were almost all injured. When the 59th Army retreated from the battle in the Linyi area of ​​the northern line, there was no officer under the regiment commander; but when they faced the beast army of the Sixth Division, no one was thinking about whether they would wipe out the troops and whether they would die in battle. They were as prepared as General Zhang Zizhong!

Although the Northwest Army's big swords were wrapped with straw ropes and covered with mud when they set off, the cold light reappeared when they pounced on the Japanese positions, and the rain and fog still shone brightly under the firelight from time to time. The big swords were obliquely on the shoulder straps, cross-cut, and vertically... When the Japanese in the distance were not clear about the situation of the battle, many Japanese on the positions had been cut into pieces. If it was during the day, you could see that the water on the entire battlefield was red...

The water was red invisible, but every soldier's eyes were already full of blood. So many of their brothers had fallen down. Will they retreat after they suddenly entered?? The answer is no! Never! You have to die on the east coast!

The 171st Division of the Gui Army was a unit that had not been on the battle before the entire battle. Seeing that other brothers had made military achievements, the officers and soldiers of the 171st Division felt that their old brigade could not raise their heads in front of other fellow villagers. Now they finally climbed the east shore of Gaoyou Lake, and they would never return to the water!

Although it was rainy and foggy, it was impossible to land without being discovered at all, because they were one division attacking rather than a few scouts. When the 171st Division approached the shore and had not yet a raft rushed to the shore, they were already exposed. The alert Japanese dropped a lot of hidden stakes, and a forced landing war began immediately.

Because it was in the wild, although the Japanese sentry were many but the troops were not many, the 171st Division quickly succeeded in rushing to the beach, and then rushed east and northward in the rain of bullets. Although they had the least experience in fighting the Japanese in various departments of the Gui army, the 171st Division was originally a unit dominated by veterans, and their tactics were mature. In such a vague vision, they were just ruthless in fighting encounters, and they were just desperate!

What Guangxi people lack the most is cruelty, but they are desperate for life! The landing of the 171st Division is very messy, but they all know what they will do after they get ashore before they get ashore; there are still very messy troops, and there are still no troops larger than the company-level organization that can gather; but the troops that should go east will go east, and the troops that should go north will go north!

The soldiers are very fast and do not gather at all. The 171st Division started attacking and advancing as soon as it landed. The Gui army was good at disrupting wars. After two hours of bloody battle, a long corpse was left along the coast. The Japanese guards, which were not large enough, were wiped out by most of the Japanese reinforcements and blocked them along the coast. The troops of the 171st Division were already chaoticly advancing towards their own attack. Others were disrupted, and they were advancing towards the battle place, and the more they fought, they became more and more army!

"Now is a chaotic war and a good time for us to advance. As long as we take advantage of the two sides' life and death on the line of fire, it will not be difficult for us to travel through. When we arrive at the Kuomintang-controlled area, we can develop the base. Remember, you must not participate in any battles along the way, and you will quickly get rid of the Japanese when you encounter a ghost..." A military officer at all levels of the army spoke before making a final departure to the army.

This is the East Advance Detachment urgently established by the New Fourth Army. Because all the underground forces and armed forces in northern Jiangsu were wiped out by Cao Xiaomin, the CCP had to find a way to rebuild the power of that area. It was a risky and an opportunity to mobilize the elite of the New Fourth Army to enter while the two armies exchanged fire. Judging from Cao Xiaomin's attitude, once the battle ended, it was impossible for him to let the New Fourth Army advance eastward, so he could only urgently form an army to enter northern Jiangsu while the chaos was in progress.

At the same time, the meeting of the Communist Party Leadership Group of the 57th Army also conveyed a telegram under the auspices of the Commander Chang Endo:... Your unit should preserve its strength in the battle and force the stubborn unit to consume it in the battle with the Japanese army, and to recruit troops to revolt at the right time to establish our Haidong detachment, so that our northern Jiangsu forces can be restored, and that our northern Jiangsu has a large base...

"This is the task given to us by the Party Central Committee and the trust of the Party Central Committee in us! The important task of establishing the Haidong Detachment is in our hands. In order to successfully revolt, we must eliminate the stubborn forces in the 57th Army through this battle. Everyone should study and see how to make arrangements..."

Just as the front-line officers and soldiers were fighting bloody battles with the 6th Division, no one knew that behind them was a bloody blade quietly lifted up...
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