Chapter 279: Defend to the death (Part 1)

(......... Many times we win a battle and then lose everything. Later people always say that we are proud of our achievements. It's so unfair. Later people didn't know that the supplies we brought to the front line were actually enough to fight a battle... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

"Why? The Japanese are fighting so quickly!?" General Lu Han just finished the meeting in Xuzhou, and even the defense handover documents behind him had not been completed. Military information had already been heard from the front line. Gao Yinhuai's troops in the 183rd Division fought against the Japanese!

The battle between Gao Yinhuai's troops and the Japanese was a complete encounter, because when the Sixty Army arrived, the 51st Army, which had been fighting and retreating on the edge of the war zone, and the 9th Cavalry Division, which belonged to the 20th Army, concealed the news of the collapse of the front line. When they saw reinforcements arrived, they fled south privately! (Historical facts, although these two troops fought well in Taierzhuang First War, in the second counterattack of the Japanese army, that is, the Second Taierzhuang Battle, which was almost not mentioned in history, the two armies did not inform the military information that the Japanese army had just arrived to the Sixty Army for their own safety, so that the latter was stuck as soon as they came up, and fought fiercely...)

"The enemy is here! Expand quickly!" With various orders that were not very standardized, Gao Yinhuai's troops quickly expanded to seize the strategic high points, water sources and other places along the way... The Forward Battalion of the May 41st Brigade who arrived in Chenwafang was the first unit to exchange fire with the Japanese army. The news of their encounter with the Japanese search troops had just been sent to the regiment headquarters. The troops from the Xing family and the Five Saint Temples also encountered the enemy's vanguard!

"Should resolutely! You can't take a step back!" Gao Yinhuai was shocked and quickly ordered after receiving the news. However, he only thought that he would not let the Japanese suppress the disaster and other troops, including the 51st Army's broken rear troops and the 9th Cavalry Division, which concealed the defeated military situation!

The troops behind were hurriedly building field fortifications on the ground they were seized, and the troops in front had already launched a fierce attack against the Japanese. The officers and soldiers of the Sixty Army still felt that since the Japanese came did not let friendly troops discover it, they must be small troops coming through the ***, and there were not many people. As long as they actively counterattacked, they would repel them; but the officers and soldiers of the Sixty Army did not know that they were facing the Japanese Kwantung Army's main vanguard troops going south!

Without the experience of cooperating with other northern troops, the officers and soldiers of the Sixty Army were not clear about the characteristics of various friendly forces. These troops could only fight a tough battle. The casualties and material consumption could cause the iron army, which was majestic not long ago, to collapse after the war. They only knew that the Japanese army would dare to counterattack if they dared to come!

"Roll!..." A large group of *** soldiers who looked relatively thin in the streets and alleys of Chen Wafang rushed to the enemy in the rain of bullets. Like countless battles that met on narrow roads, such a battle was more than the will of the two armies! Almost just shooting face to face, those who could hold on could continue to pounce in front of the enemy and stab them with two bayonets... The air in front of him was dyed red by the blood mist splashing, and the smell of blood and the smell of gunpowder mixed into the stimulant of the veterans. In just a blink of an eye, the officers and soldiers were red in their eyes!

The Japanese army was a little caught off guard. They had become accustomed to chasing and retreating ***s for several days. When the group of black and thin-looking men with strange helmets like rain hats appeared in front of them (the helmets of the Yunnan Army were French, which looked very similar to the helmets of the Vietnamese army later.), the Japanese really didn't take them seriously.

However, as soon as the Japanese fought, they found that the troops were actually very brave. They adopted the counterattack tactics after just one encounter, and did not retreat and defend at all. The Japanese vanguard's vanguard was forced to block the streets with the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army and could only fight for the rude fighting style of life for life.

This is not cost-effective! The Japanese began to retreat after the chaos at the beginning. Only by setting a distance can they better play the advantages of marksmanship and tactical cooperation. But this time they made a mistake. There are two things in the Yunnan Army that are among the best in the ***: one is to run long distances on the mountain road, and the other is marksmanship!

Faced with the Japanese soldiers who took the initiative to reveal their backs to them, they were ecstatic, and many people began to slaughter... On the long street, the corpses of the Japanese corpses lay all over the ground. The Japanese who were originally escaping quickly behind the team stood firm and looked back and were frightened. Only then did they realize that their opponents were basically biting their flesh, and they were so lucky that they could escape back!

Under the leadership of the battalion, the Forward Battalion quickly occupied the entire Chenwafang, but in the telescope of the lookout post, there was a situation that surprised the officers and soldiers: the gang of Japanese soldiers was clearly led by eight tanks! If it were a small detour, how could there be so many Japanese soldiers?... The shells fell to Chenwafang like raindrops in doubt...

Just as the May 41st Brigade's vanguard battle was in Chenwafang, the 542nd Brigade of the Yunnan Army also encountered the Japanese in Xingjialou and Wushengtang. Because the May 41st Brigade's encounter was first fought, the 542nd Brigade was vigilant. They occupied these two locations in advance in front of the Japanese, and finally avoided the tragic scene of Chenziji Lane. But they were also forced to fight with the Japanese when they were not yet stable. For a moment, smoke suddenly spread along the north bank of the canal east of Taierzhuang.

"The enemy army invested a large number of tanks in the three battlefields, and countless mountain artillery. Before we could get the battle, our army was seriously injured and the enemy's attacks did not slow down. It was definitely not a small detour army. Please give instructions from the military headquarters..." Lu Han knew about the confrontation there, and then Gao Yinhuai's constant telegrams flew toward like snowflakes...

"Damn it! Isn't this obviously harmful to my 60th Army?" Lu Han was so angry that he cursed. From Bai Chongxi, Sun Lianzhong to Yu Xuezhong, they were all scolded. It was these people who kept telling him that the front line was stable, so there was no need to worry... But at this time, not only the 20th Army, but also the Guangxi troops in Xuzhou, Sun Lianzhong's starting troops, the 42nd Army and the 51st Army were all withdrawn! (In history, the three heroes of Taierzhuang leaders were withdrawing.

However, the military was deliberately concealed the situation of the war, and almost sold out the Yunnan Army, who had just arrived on the battlefield, and if it weren't for the high fighting spirit of the Yunnan Army, they fought to the death with the main force of the Japanese army, they were afraid that the defense line would be completely defeated! Also: The information in the introduction of Baidu's Battle of Taierzhuang was seriously wrong. In the second group of troops participating in the battle, the Forty-Two Army was not the Forty-Three Army. The former was Sun Lianzhong's old army and the latter was the Jin army. Who went up to correct the mistake?)

"I inform all divisions to be launched on the spot, and don't advance north again; at present, our army has encountered the entire Japanese army, and the war is about to begin. The entire army is ready for combat!" General Lu Han cursed and quickly ordered the entire army to prepare for the war immediately. At the same time, he jumped over Gao Yinhuai to order the 541st Brigade and the 542nd Brigade: No retreat is allowed in half a step, and must be defended until the subsequent troops complete the fortification construction...

The old mountain cannons kept declaring their existence in the gaps of the explosion of heavy Japanese artillery. The shells were intermittent but always landed in the Japanese offensive team. Faced with an astonishing number of mortars and grenade launchers, the officers and soldiers of the Yunnan army found that a group of backward ponytail grenades they brought with them were useful: in this battlefield where stones were everywhere, the trigger ponytail grenades that could fly far could actually threaten the Japanese grenade launchers!

The oldest weapon, the eliminated weapon, the vanguard officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army used these weapons to fight with two infantry regiments with the Japanese in the encounter, more than twenty tanks and more than thirty cannons, fighting with a bloody battle without retreating!

All buildings in Chenwafang, Xingjialou and Wushengtang are in danger of being in danger of artillery fire, and the people in it seem to be suffering in the blood and fire hell; but the officers and soldiers are still full of fighting spirit, shouting, singing and resisting the Japanese charges...

The sound of killing gradually dissipated with the smoke of gunpowder. Battalion Commander Yin Guohua, who was guarding Chen Wafang, had forgotten how many hand-to-hand combat this was. Anyway, they had defeated the Japanese many times. Recently, the Japanese sent them a generous gift: two tanks were destroyed at the entrance and exit of the north of the town, blocking the middle of the road. The next time the Japanese tanks could not be rushed in!

Countless officers and soldiers rushed over and lay directly on the tank and reached in with pistols to open fire. Yin Guohua couldn't forget it. Because there were no special anti-tank weapons, the Forward Battalion did not carry enough explosives. The officers and soldiers of the Yunnan Army used this method that would be joked by Western military strategists to launch a decisive attack on the Japanese tanks, and forced two Japanese tanks to paralyze with flesh and blood! The flames burned by the fire on their bodies were whistled, and there were streets with corpses stacked on both sides of the waste tank. The two tanks reduced the Forward Battalion by at least one-third!

"Report to the battalion commander! The Japanese have detoured the way behind the scenes to attack Xiaozhuang. Regiment Commander Pan led his troops to fight to the death. He ordered us to not retreat in half a step..." The report of the messenger pulled Yin Guohua back from his thoughts. This was a heartless order, and he was not allowed to retreat, which means that all the people in their battalion were going to die in Chen Wafang!

"If you receive the order to break through at the last moment, even if there is only one person left, you must take these out!" Yin Guohua turned around and searched through his luggage for a while, and took out a large stack of things. They were banners given by people from all over the country that they received along the way.

When each banner was taken out of the box, it was immediately covered with a thick layer of dust. Captain Yin shook it several times but it didn't shake it clean. He had to give up. He solemnly handed them to the clerk and said, "This is the honor of our sixty army, the honor of every soldier!"

"...Yunnan is the hometown of the Sixty Army, and the Sixty Army is the armed forces to defend China!..." The war song rang again, and the singing was hoarse and heroic! No one in the camp had ever thought about why there was an encounter, and no one had the concept of "betraying friendly troops" in his heart. These simple mountain people who like to sing sang the army very loudly at the last moment...
Chapter completed!