Chapter 394: Hunting (Part 1)

(...The sentence "I die if my country survives" has made the Sichuan Army famous for a lifetime, but how many people have thought about what kind of sacrifice this sentence was called by the anti-Japanese war officers and soldiers for eight years!... Excerpted from "My Anti-Japanese War Memories - Cao Xiaomin")

On the northern front of the Anqing battlefield, the Kuomintang and the Communist armies joined forces to fight, but the exhausted Japanese 3rd Division broke through the Lujiang defense line due to conflicts and plots between the two parties. Most of the 26th Army retreated eastward (it turned out that Xu Yuanquan's troops had withdrawn long ago in history, and the Lujiang defense line was guarded by Yang Sen's 27th Army). The remaining troops retreated south to Tongcheng, but at this time the southern battlefield was always implementing smoothly according to **'s strategic concept and tactics...

The Japanese southern combat troops, dominated by the navy, advanced westward from Wuhu, and the entire advance plan was full of twists and turns: when the troops gathered in Wuhu, they were repeatedly injured and suffered heavy casualties. A large number of combat ships were blown up in Wuhu Port, and the Japanese army had to increase troops many times. Because of this, the Japanese army was quite afraid of the air force of the air. This time, Nishi Okamura was afraid that a single ship would be hit and paid too much sacrifice and dared not use too many armed merchant ships to transport infantry, and only small ships were used to no more than two squadrons per ship. In this way, the Japanese fleet seemed dense and huge, but such a small boat had another fatal point: the troop transport ship's resistance to strike was too weak, whether it was shore artillery or air strike, once it was hit, it could paralyze a ship on the river surface.

In view of this, the Japanese army did not dare to go too deep on the river. Their first landing point was Tongyang, northeast of Anqing. They planned to continue to advance westward after landing in Tongyang, and advance directly along the river and water and land to take Anqing directly.

The landing in Tongyang was very smooth. The 27th Group Army was about to collapse and fled (In history, the 27th Group stubbornly blocked in Tongyang, and the Japanese army could not land.), but soon the Japanese army discovered that the process was wrong. Part of the 106th Division of the Japanese army landed in Tongyang not only could not occupy Tongyang County but also could not protect itself!

The 106th Division was a third-class division established on the basis of the 6th Division reserves (most of the Japanese army's numbers were directly expanded by permanent division reserves, such as the 101th Division corresponding to the 14th Division, and the 114th Division corresponding to the 14th Division, etc.). Because the upper class of the Japanese army always favors troops from wealthy areas, the 6th Division from Kyushu Kumamoto region has always been a relatively despised permanent division, let alone the 106th Division expanded by its reserves?

The 106th Division, which had only three corps members, was also poorly equipped, and its heavy weapons were far inferior to the 3rd Division on the North Line. When they landed in Tongyang with only one corps, they immediately became the first prey locked by the 27th Army in accordance with the "Cao Family Tactics"!

The officers and soldiers of the 106th Division were relatively old, basically over 30 years old. These officers and soldiers basically had families and their fighting will be far inferior to those of the hot-blooded corps near the age of 20. However, these officers and soldiers like to disturb the people the most, and are especially enthusiastic about plundering property. As soon as they landed on the 106th Division, they began to go deep into the people to plunder as before when they saw ** retreating. However, the people in Tongyang area basically moved, and all the beast soldiers were empty. The hateful beast soldiers later learned that ** had left some supplies in the city gate area of ​​Tongyang Town, and the city gate was abandoned, so they rushed into Tongyang County...

At the gate of Tongyang City, there was a rush of beasts. The sound of gunfires behind the dense beast soldiers seemed to be in a carnival. Some people used bayonets to pick up pink blouses, while others wrapped some women's underwear on their heads and danced around! So many women's clothes? The newly arrived beast soldiers became wild in an instant, and more and more troops gathered. The riots were very dissatisfied with the troops fighting in front: Why haven't that small street been taken down yet?

The carnival team of the beasts continued to the forefront and was the battlefield. After the old city gate was taken down, the small town of Tongyang (it was just a town at that time, and some ancient city ruins) seemed to be in danger, but the defenders still fought with the Japanese to fight for the house and refused to retreat lightly!

When the 106th Division landed, they did not encounter any obstacles at all. This was actually a cover. First, they implemented the "Cao Tactics" to lure the enemy into deep deviating from the route of progress, and second, they also avoided the power of Japanese naval guns and deliberately showed weakness. However, the troops facing the Japanese head-on with the Japanese could almost be said to be the strongest regiment of the 27th Army!

The 804th Regiment of the 402nd Brigade of the 134th Division of the Sichuan Army was the most fierce and famous Sichuan Army in the Battle of Shanghai. The regiment produced a great hero: General Xiang Wenbin, who was promoted from a lieutenant colonel to a colonel and then promoted to at least general within three hours (real historical figures and events, another general who fought with the Japanese army many times during the War of Resistance). Now Xiang Wenbin is the deputy brigade commander of the 402nd Brigade and the commander of the 804th Regiment. Xiang Wenbin, who had always been jealous of the Japanese devils, would he easily let the Japanese landing ashore without any plans! (Real history, the defensive section of the 134th Division resisted the enemy's landing attack against the Japanese navy, army and air force, forcing him to change the landing location.)

Since the Battle of Songhu was in Dachang and in the Saizaobang area, Chiang Kai-shek used the Yang Sen army as a role model to mobilize the enthusiasm of local troops to resist the war, and arranged the 27th Army as the first priority in the subsequent reorganization (historical facts, although my country's historical comments always say that Chiang Kai-shek used the war to eliminate local troops, when checking the military history, it will be found that any local troops with huge losses in combat will be listed as priority by Chiang Kai-shek, and the order of reorganization is mostly before the main force of the Central Army.), because at this time

China obtained a lot of foreign aid from the war of resistance. At this time, as the first batch of troops to be reorganized after retreating from the Songhu battlefield, the 27th Army had almost a complete set of standard equipment from the former Central Army: civilian 24th machine guns, Czech light machine guns, and formal rifles. In addition, the income from harassing the Japanese army on the periphery of the Xuzhou Battle, the quantity and quality of light weapons of the 27th Army was better than that of the 106th Division at that time. Even after being strengthened by a Central Army Artillery Corps, if the entire firepower of the army was concentrated, the artillery would not be less than that of the opponent!

Xiang Wenbin, who was strong and powerful, was different from Yang Sen, who immediately asked Cao Xiaomin to arrange a way out when he saw the enemy attack. He also thought there were too few Japanese soldiers coming! He deliberately arranged some abandoned supplies in Tongyang, including a large number of women's clothes to attract the enemy; at the same time, he also arranged a street battle with the Japanese army based on the house, with the purpose of blocking the enemy and letting the Japanese army gather in large numbers before the small town of Tongyang...

"Bang!" "Bang!"... Recently, the kind of explosion that was frequently seen on the battlefield of Anqing North Line frequently exploded, and the explosion spots that spread like rain clouds and spread in large numbers, and the Japanese began to use poison gas to attack again!

"Retreat!" With the order, the combatants in the houses, who were wearing tightly and practically wrapped around the head and face with canvas on their heads and faces pulled down the transparent rubber and even covered their faces. They quickly retreated through the pre-digged indoor passage. Some officers and soldiers wearing chemical protective suits modified with military raincoats immediately put on gas masks to enter the next combat stage.

"Kill me!" Under the leadership of a group of Japanese soldiers in white clothes, the Japanese army wearing yellow long clothes and gas masks broke through the street fighting line like a tide...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Along the long street, a dusty wall suddenly exploded. From a distance, it looked like a guillotine slashing the Tongyang Gate in half! The street blasting ambush preset by the 804th Regiment was launched. The Japanese vanguard troops who were planning to break through the defense line and rob and ruin Miss Hua's ghost were immediately covered by the explosion when they approached a brigade...

"Boom! Boom!..." The Japanese troops gathered in front of the gate of Tongyang City suddenly faced the overwhelming rain of shells. Fourteen Soviet-made 76.2 field cannons and more than forty 82mm mortars seized from the Japanese army's eighteenth-year-old mortars, and sixteen Type 97 mortars were all fired at an extremely fast speed!

"The Turtle Son wants to fight Tongyang in one regiment? Fuck me, I look down on me, I will fuck you to death!" Xiang Wenbin stood by the lake and watched the battlefield with a telescope. His reserve team was all on the edge of the long river behind Tongyang (the Liancheng Lake marked on the map now), with a scent of backwater formation. The artillery was scattered behind the lakes and rivers. Even if the Japanese army wanted to attack in a roundabout way or the small troops could not break through, so that all infantry soldiers would be liberated without escorting the rear, and the entire army was ready to go to the battle to annihilate the enemy.

"Appoint all assault troops to launch all the lines, and most of the enemy must be annihilated, but not to annihilate them all..." Xiang Wenbin was one of the new generals who participated in Cao Xiaomin's rally. He was already bold and meticulous, and dared to imagine and dared to fight a tough battle. After being inspired by Cao Xiaomin, he actually formulated an unimaginable plan for his war zone to strengthen the brigade and fight a brigade of the Japanese army!

"Let the Turtle son get weak when he hears Sichuan dialect! Brothers rushed forward!" Various ambush soldiers rushed from the Japanese from lurking like tides. These commandos were all equipped with big swords and Mauser pistols, and each platoon was equipped with two "flower mechanisms". They came here to fight with the Japanese!

After the training of the bloody battle in Songhu and the guerrilla war in Jiangnan, and strong equipment, the 27th Army had long been transformed! The cunning Sichuan Army soldiers arranged a group of brothers who used cold weapons such as red tassels and big swords in front of the stormtrooper to confuse their opponents. When the Japanese army thought they would face a group of brave but poorly equipped local troops and were used to line up to prepare for rifle shooting, the Hua Machine behind suddenly suddenly rushed to the front and fired wildly, turning the first round of contact war into a massacre of the Japanese army. The Japanese army caught off guard immediately broke through the periphery by a commando equipped with a large number of pistols. In hand-to-hand combat, the Mauser pistol beat the Japanese bayonet formation to pieces!

"I will die if my country survives!"... The tragic cry sounded again! The equipment was ready, but the Sichuan Army's fighting spirit was not lost! When encountering the Japanese army's tenacious blockade, the suicide squad members in the commando would be covered with grenades and reappear the heroic spirit of their predecessors, and quickly pounced on the enemy to remove the firepower points of the enemy who were delayed from our army's attack. The brother's broken bones made the latecomers' eyes red, and the 106th Division's Japanese soldiers were facing a group of evil ghosts who had left Sichuan!

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Chapter completed!