Chapter 68
Zhou Zhai, command of the 44th Japanese Infantry Regiment.
From dawn to now, He Zhiying Er has been staying on the roof of the command center and has not been down. Even without the help of a telescope, he can clearly see the Wudoujing ahead with his naked eyes and the national military position on the West Line Bridge has been blown into a sea of fire, and even the vibration of the ground under his feet can be felt a few kilometers away.
It is completely unimaginable that the national army positions on Wudoujing and the West Front Bridge had been bombed into what they had been blown up. Imagining the miserable appearance of the national army being blown away by blood, He Zhiying Er couldn't help but show a hideous smile on his face. Yosi, after seeing the power of the heavy howitzer of the Great Japanese Empire, I wonder how much fighting spirit the Chinese can still have?
I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time. The hour hand was pointed at nine o'clock. The 11th Mountain Cannon Regiment and the 10th Independent Heavy Artillery Corps bombarded the National Army's positions for nearly an hour. The pitiful fortifications built by the Chinese army in a hurry were probably destroyed. Is it a serious casualty on the personnel?
He Zhiying Er believed that the national army at Wudoujing and West Front Bridge had no combat effectiveness.
However, even so, Hiroshi Yiphi Er still decided to invest enough troops. In addition to replenishing the 3rd Infantry Brigade, Hiroshi Yiphi Er also transferred Takahashi's 1st Infantry Brigade, and there was also a chariot team that attacked a small Wudoujing with such powerful forces. This is called Lion Botu.
He Zhiyinger did not want to leave any room for resistance for the national army.
Kinishi Hideyoshita went up to the roof again and reported to Kazuchieji: "The captain of the wing, Kondo Brigade and Takahashi Brigade have entered the attack position, and the 1st Tank Team is ready."
He Zhiying Er just nodded slightly to indicate that he knew.
Kinisha Hideyoshi hesitated for a moment and said, "The team leader, the division headquarters just called and said that the location of the Gu family home is very important. If the Chinese army occupy the Gu family home, they can directly threaten the traffic line between Luodian and the Lion Forest. The further forward can even threaten the Lion Forest forward base, so be sure to retake it before dark..."
He Zhiying Er frowned and said impatiently: "Call back to the division and regiment headquarters and said that Gu's house must be taken back before noon, and the Empire's rising sun flag can definitely be planted on the top of Jiading City before dark!"
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Gu Jiazhai, temporary command center of the 306th Regiment.
It was very wise for Qiu Weida not to set up his command center in the courtyard at the entrance of the village. Although the focus of the Japanese shelling was Wudoujing and the West Line Bridge, the sporadic artillery shells that fell into Gu's house still blew the entire Gu's house into a sea of fire. The courtyard at the entrance of the village was even more bombarded and had already turned into ruins.
If Qiu Weida really set up the command center in that courtyard, even if she doesn't die, she will be seriously injured.
Qiu Weida raised her head and looked at the shells flying over her head, and said to Xu Shijiu with self-deprecating words: "Fortunately, the weather is beautiful today, and there is a strong wind outside Wusong. Otherwise, in addition to large-caliber heavy artillery and ship gun groups, we would have to be bombarded by the Japanese aviation force, so there would be no way out."
Xu Shijiu said: "From the momentum of the explosion, in addition to the 75mm caliber mountain cannon, Japan seems to have also 150mm caliber heavy howitzers. If I was not wrong, the old Japanese Ishigen Matsui has turned its focus to Luodian. In other words, there may be tank troops to attack in the future."
"Tank?!" Qiu Weida felt a stern when she heard this. If the little Japanese really wanted to join the tank attack, the 1st and 2nd Battalions would be in trouble. The flesh and blood body could not stop the armored chariots. Although the 51st Division also has a division-based war defense artillery company, it is most likely still on the train. Do you know when it will arrive?
Xu Shijiu said: "Although this is just a guess, it must be guarded."
Qiu Weida nodded and said heavily: "You are right. There is no chance of luck in war. We must make the worst plan. Can Captain Xu have a good way to deal with Japanese tanks?"
Xu Shijiu said: "The most effective weapon against tanks is of course war defense artillery, but unfortunately we don't have them. Apart from war defense artillery, we can only dig anti-tank trenches and lay anti-tank mines."
Qiu Weida said: "Anti-tank trenches?Anti-tank mines?"
Qiu Weida couldn't help but look at Xu Shijiu with some admiration. Although this guy had never been to the Whampoa Military Academy, the military terms that broke out from his mouth made him, a top student in Huangpu. Qiu Weida didn't know that although Xu Shijiu had never been to the Whampoa Military Academy, he had read a large number of Chinese and foreign military works.
Qiu Weida couldn't help but feel excited and said to Xu Shijiu: "Captain Xu, let me tell you how to dig anti-tank trenches and what's going on with anti-tank rakes?"
Xu Shijiu said: "Time is tight, and it is impossible to dig anti-tank trenches on a large scale, but we can still use camouflage to enhance the effect. As for anti-tank mines, the 306th Regiment of Five-Dou Diameter and One Battle has taken over hundreds of shells? It can be allowed for engineers to convert these hundreds of shells into serial mines."
Qiu Weida slapped the table heavily and shouted: "Adminton Zhang!"
Adjutant Zhang walked into the regiment headquarters and stood up and said, "Yes!"
Qiu Weida said: "Order the 1st and 2nd Battalions to be nailed to me in Wudoujing and the West Line Bridge. Without my order, you must not take a step back. Then call platoon leader Liu of the engineer platoon and go quickly."
"Yes!" Adjutant Zhang saluted and turned around.
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The Japanese artillery bombardment finally stopped. Liu Zhenwu raised his head, which was shocked and shook hard, and then threw off the dust and mud all over the ground. He didn't care that the sound of cannons was still echoing in his ears. Liu Zhenwu jumped up and ran towards the position while roaring hysterically again: "Go back to the position quickly, the little Japanese is going to attack..."
Hiding in the reed marsh, in the cotton field, and in the bamboo forest, the officers and soldiers of the 1st battalion also got up one after another, and quickly returned to the position with the cover of guns and ammunition. They then checked the gun bolts and pushed the bullets into loads, then unzipped the caps of the grenades, and then pulled out the fuse and placed it on the edge of the trench.
The wind blew, and the smoke on the position became a little diluted, but the smell of gunpowder was still very choking.
Liu Zhenwu covered his nose and coughed twice, then raised his telescope and looked around. There were already dark things in his left field of view, but he couldn't see clearly. When Liu Zhenwu rubbed his eyes and looked closely, his heart sank immediately. The four Japanese tanks appeared in the telescope's field of view!
These four Japanese tanks did not come from the north bank of Wudoujing, but were detoured from Luodian, so they could directly crush the position of the 1st Battalion without any obstacles. The four Japanese tanks lined up, with each two tanks being about twenty meters apart, followed by black Japanese infantry.
Almost at the same time, Japanese troops also appeared on the north bank of Wudoujing.
Liu Zhenwu's expression was still cold, but he was smiling bitterly in his heart. The little Japanese really looked down on him. He invested such a huge force for the sake of a small Wudoujing, and there were four iron turtles. It seems that he would probably have to explain it here today. Unfortunately, his baby is only three months old, but he is about to lose his father. Alas...
The 1st Company and the 2nd Company were placed in front soon caught fire with the Japanese army.
The 1st Company only had to deal with the attack of the Japanese infantry, and the situation was pretty good, but the 2nd Company soon fell into a tough battle. The 4 light and heavy machine guns of the 2nd Company plus the two captured crooked machine guns, the bullets hit the Japanese tanks like water, and the sound of the Japanese tanks was jingling, but they could not stop the progress of the Japanese tanks.
At five hundred meters away, Japanese tanks began to fire violently. Four tanks and four 7.7mm caliber front-fired machine guns on board fired at the same time, making the two officers and soldiers unable to lift their heads. The four 37mm caliber main guns were even more brutal, and almost one shot hit every two shells. The Japanese tank soldiers were indeed well-trained.
In less than a moment, all six machine guns from the 2nd Company were stopped.
This won’t work. The second company commander used a box cannon to push the helmet, bit his back groove and shouted: “Plane 1, send a few people to blow up these turtles for me!”
The 1st platoon leader panted and turned his head and roared: "Vanguard, come on!"
The three vanguards leaped out of the trench with bundles of grenades, and then quickly approached the Japanese tanks rumbled forward with the cover of the trench between the cotton ground. However, the little Japanese were not blind, nor were they fools. The three vanguards were soon blocked by the firepower of the Japanese infantry.
The four front-firing machine guns on the Japanese tank also turned the guns and opened fire frantically at the gutter.
The three vanguards finally failed to break through the Japanese fire blockade. Two fell fifty meters away, and the last vanguard also fell twenty meters away from the Japanese tanks, and failed.
The 1st platoon leader took off his helmet and slapped it on the ground, turned his head and roared again: "Grenade!"
"Platform leader, I'll go!" A veteran untied eight grenades on his waist and wrapped them with leggings and hung them around his neck. Then a fish jumped into the ditch and crawled forward fifty meters. The veteran held up the corpse of a vanguard with tears in his eyes, and then used the corpse of the vanguard as a flesh shield and rushed forward at full speed.
The front-fired machine guns on the Japanese tanks, the light and heavy machine guns covering the infantry and the grenade launchers turned one after another, and bullets of various caliber were poured onto the vanguard's corpses like water. In just a moment, the vanguard's corpses were beaten into sieves, and the veteran hiding behind was beaten into a blood sieve and fell down dejectedly.
"Damn it!" The platoon leader punched the ground with a bitter punch, then turned his head and yelled, "I heard it all, everyone went together and fought with the little Japanese!"
After saying that, the platoon leader leaped out of the trench with a bundle of grenades.
Seeing that the platoon leader had all arrived, the dozen remaining veterans in the platoon were all red in their eyes. They all rushed out of the trench with tied grenades and launched a decisive charge towards the Japanese tanks in front. At this moment, the big-headed soldiers had only one idea left in their minds, blowing up the tanks, blowing up the tanks, blowing up the tanks...
Chapter completed!