Chapter 56 Bloody Battle at Dingjiaxiang
The old Japanese devil of Oshima captured the extremely tragic scene through the telescope. Seeing the last few Japanese soldiers who were still fighting in the trapped beasts were also destroyed by the Chinese, the old Japanese devil was finally completely angry and slapped the telescope to the ground, peeling off the general's uniform twice, revealing a straight white shirt.
Then, the old Japanese devil of Oshima took out a wiping of forehead and tied it to his head, and the words "Kamikaze" were embroidered on his forehead. The deputy captain Xiaotu Shiro was anxious when he saw it. The captain was going to lead the suicide squad to charge to the death! He immediately stepped forward and persuaded: "Captain, you are the commander, not the suicide squad leader, you can't..."
"Get out!" The old Japanese devil of Oshima pushed the thin little dog Shiro to the ground, then pulled out his sabre, turned his head and roared at the stunned squadron leader behind him, "Gather all the soldiers who can fight, rush over with one go, kill all the Chinese people on the opposite side, kill them, and kill them..."
The old Japanese devils of the island seem arrogant, but in fact they are very clear-headed.
If time permits, he is of course willing to launch an attack according to the standard offensive mode, with artillery bombarded, infantry rushing, artillery bombarded again after the infantry rushing, and artillery bombarded again after the infantry bombarded the infantry. This cycle is repeated until the ammunition and strength of the national army are exhausted, and the troops will break through the Sijing defense line without bloodshed.
However, the problem is that the old Japanese devils of the island have no time.
Nearly forty hours have passed since the 3rd Division landed from Zhang Huabin in the early morning yesterday. Such a long time has been enough for the top leaders of the National Army to make tactical adjustments. The reinforcements of the National Army may arrive at any time, so every extra minute of delay, the possibility of breaking through the Sijing defense line will be smaller.
In fact, the old Japanese devils of the Dadao are not unreasonable. Although the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Corps who came from Yangshupu was severely injured, nearly 2,000 people still rushed to the customs terminal. A battalion of the 87th Division was also advancing towards Xinshi District. At most, it would be able to arrive at Dingjia Lane in an hour.
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Although the Japanese army that broke into the position was completely wiped out, the Chinese military and civilians also paid an extremely heavy price. Their blood and courage could not make up for the huge gap in physical fitness and assassination skills between the two sides. The battle loss ratio between the enemy and us almost reached 5 to 1. After the hand-to-hand combat, only more than 300 people could still struggle to stand up, less than one fifth of the original ones.
The new recruit company that rushed to the front also suffered heavy casualties, with more than a dozen people left in more than a hundred people, and most of them were veterans. Almost all the new recruits who joined the 19th Brigade last time were killed. The war was so cruel. The Japanese would not show mercy just because you were a new recruit. On the battlefield, the fastest dead will always be the new recruits.
Yin Shangwen looked at the corpses all over the ground, smelling a strong smell of blood in his nose, and finally couldn't suppress the annoyance in his chest, and he fell to the ground and vomited. Many survivors also retching on the ground, but Shu Tongwen was indifferent to this. Although the scene in front of him was tragic, he could not compare with the Nanyuan Military Camp more than a month ago.
Xu Shijiu, Gao Shenxing, Ergua and others didn't even have time to sigh. They were busy collecting guns and ammunition from the dead Japanese army. The Japanese army on the opposite side did not immediately launch a retaliatory shelling after the offensive was setback. This was obviously abnormal. Xu Shijiu felt that the Japanese army might have planned to make a desperate bet next.
Xu Shijiu's intuition has always been very accurate, and this time is no exception.
Just as he had filled three branches and three eight large covers, Ergua shouted: "Captain, look!"
Including Xu Shijiu, Gao Shenxing, all the veterans, all the people who heard Ergua scream looked up and saw that teams of Japanese soldiers were already lined up from the pontoon bridge in an orderly queue. At the front of the queue was a Japanese officer, who was not wearing military uniforms and his shirt was also opened, revealing a dark chest hair.
Gao Shenxing knelt on one knee and shot the Japanese officer twice. Unfortunately, he missed the bullet and two balls of smoke and dust burst into the feet of the Japanese officer. The distance of one thousand meters was still a little far. However, the Japanese officer did not even blink his eyelids, and still striding forward with his sword. Behind him, more and more Japanese soldiers were driving from the floating bridge.
Judging from this posture, there are at least four or five hundred Japanese soldiers, and there are almost three squadrons!
There is no machine gun, just a rifle and a grenade that wants to block the Japanese group charge in the open terrain is a dream!
Looking back at the scattered military and civilians behind him, Xu Shijiu couldn't help feeling sad. It seemed that he really wanted to explain it to Shu Tongwen today. He turned around and said to Shu Tongwen: "Shu Tongwen, you will take the militia team and the civilian team will retreat to Yinxing Town." It is impossible to defend Dingjia Lane. The soldiers cannot retreat, but the people do not need to sacrifice themselves.
"Captain, I won't leave!" Shu Tongwen looked at Xu Shijiu calmly, as if he was chatting, and said, "Although I have only been joining the 19th Brigade for a few hours, I also know that the 19th Brigade is a tough brigade. Since the 19th Brigade was established, there has never been a coward who retreated in the last days!"
"Yes, if we don't leave, we are not afraid of death!"
"The Japanese want to go to Yinxing unless they step on me!"
"We must let Japan know that we Chinese are definitely not easy to bully!"
The more than 300 people who survived were also excited and all agreed loudly.
Xu Shijiu suddenly laughed. He remembered himself ten years ago. Ten years ago, the third company of the old company was surrounded by the Beiyang Army ten times more than his own on a small hill outside Nanchang City. The old commander Huang Hanting also asked him to lead the new recruits to break through, but he refused without hesitation. Even the reason for rejection at that time was exactly the same as Shu Tongwen now.
"Okay, then you can stay." Xu Shijiu patted Shu Tongwen's shoulder, then turned around and shouted, "Ergua, divide the grenades and grenades for the brothers, one for each!"
The only boxes of grenades left were quickly distributed.
Xu Shijiu didn't say it clearly, but everyone understood what he meant. The grenade was kept for the last moment. When asked clearly how to pull the strings, they untied their belts and tied the grenade to their waists.
Without the bold words before death, everyone was silently waiting for the arrival of the last moment.
The Japanese army soon approached within 500 meters. With his superb shooting skills, Gao Shenxing had shot more than a dozen Japanese soldiers. Unfortunately, he was unable to shoot the Japanese officer because there were always Japanese soldiers blocking him. Gao Shenxing killed one, and then added another one immediately. He was obviously an assistant!
At 400 meters, the support fire from both wings of the Japanese army began to fire violently, and the bullets of light and heavy machine guns were poured over like water. The Chinese military and civilians were pressed into trenches filled with water, and their heads could not be raised. From time to time, grenades fired from grenade launchers fell into the trenches. While blowing up water, they also brought Chinese military and civilians into the air.
At two hundred meters, more than a dozen veterans began to fight back with rifles, but the Japanese army's scattered line was very wide and they also made various tactical avoidance actions, so the hit rate was not high. Gao Shenxing and Xu Shijiu did not fail. However, the two were soon chased by the Japanese support firepower, and it was not easy to find a gap to shoot.
At 100 meters, the Japanese army pulled the bolts and pulled the bullets out of the barrel. The Japanese army had strict infantry exercises. The bullets must be withdrawn before hand-to-hand combat. Some said that this was to show their will to die and overwhelm the enemy mentally. Others said that this was because the penetration power of the 38th cover was too strong, and withdrawing the bullets could avoid accidentally hurting one's own people.
At fifty meters, the Japanese soldiers straightened their waists one by one and started their final sprint!
The footsteps of the Japanese army's sprint were clearly heard. Xu Shijiu turned around and reminded Ergua and Shu Tongwen behind him: "You two follow me later, don't run away." Xu Shijiu knew very well that this was almost a hand-to-hand battle, but he still wanted to do his best to protect Ergua and Shu Tongwen, just as Huang Hanting protected him ten years ago.
Twenty meters away, Xu Shijiu suddenly jumped up from the trench, holding a box cannon in his left hand and a bayonet in his right hand, roaring towards the trenches of Japanese soldiers rushing forward. The next moment, Gao Shenxing and more than a dozen veterans also jumped out of the trench with bayonets, and then more than 300 militiamen and civilians who fought for the rest of their lives.
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Liu Zhesheng, a national army pilot who had just returned from Wusongkou, witnessed this tragic scene with his own eyes.
Many years later, Liu Zhesheng, who had fled to Taiwan and was so destitute that he made a living by selling ice cream, could still clearly recall the tragic scene he saw from the sky.
"The situation at that time is really hard to describe in words."
"A dozen national troops led a hundred ordinary people to fight bayonets with hundreds of Japanese soldiers, but they could not beat them."
"I can't fight at all. Many ordinary people fell under the Japanese bayonet at one time when they met, and they couldn't fight."
"But those ordinary people are really bloody, and no one escaped in the end, and they were all red-eyed."
"A few colleagues and I were flying planes in the sky, but we wanted to help but couldn't. An officer in the uniform of a security team found us, waved to us desperately, and asked for a shot. I gave the order to shoot indiscriminately with tears... By the time the reinforcements arrived, there were few people left on the ground."
As he talked about this, the veteran, who was already in his seventies, burst into tears.
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General Liu Mantian, who was the colonel and commander of the 517th Regiment of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division of the National Army at that time, and later led his troops to revolt in Jiuquan, Gansu, also witnessed this tragic scene with his own eyes. He wrote in his memoir.
"When I took the 1st Battalion to Dingjia Lane, the Air Force had just withdrawn."
"The large cotton field in the north of the village has almost become a sea of blood, with corpses everywhere, including the Central Army wearing gray cloth uniforms, the security regiment in black cloth uniforms, and the Japanese devils in yellow cloth uniforms. However, more people wearing all kinds of clothes, so many of them are countless."
"The battle has not ended, and the enemy and our army are still killing each other for death."
"There are still thirty or forty Japanese left, and there are more than a dozen of them here, and we are fighting in a melee."
"A student in a dress was blocked between two Japanese soldiers and was hit by seven or eight consecutive stabs, one of which was even more pierced, but he still pulled the grenade before he died."
"A citizen cut two Japanese soldiers with a big hatchet, but was opened by a Japanese officer."
"There was a soldier wearing a grass-green military uniform that looked like he was from the Central Military Academy's teaching corps. He was surrounded by three Japanese soldiers, but he turned over two in a blink of an eye. The remaining Japanese soldier turned around and ran away, and he chased him and wiped his neck. The short sword he used seemed to be the Zhongzheng sword. That soldier was so fierce."
"And Xu Hanhun, covered in blood, like a bloody man, I almost recognized him."
Chapter completed!