Chapter 208: The first victory of the small battle

After two days of hidden marching, the vanguard of the Third Infantry Division and the 5th Infantry Regiment reached the Wujiashan area less than 20 kilometers west of Jingzhou on October 6. Wujiashan is a strategic important town west of Jingzhou and a western division of Jingzhou. A strengthened infantry brigade of the Botian Detachment is stationed in Wujiashan...-/--Advertisement full text

During the two days of the troops marching, the aircraft of the Flight Brigade frequently took off to investigate the movements of the Japanese troops, so Zhang Yunfei was quite familiar with the movements of the Japanese troops. The day before yesterday, a Japanese reconnaissance plane took off from Wuhan Airport and headed to Yichang to investigate, and was successfully shot down by the Flight Brigade. After that, the Japanese reconnaissance plane no longer dared to fly over to investigate.

Since there were no Japanese reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, the troops' march was still relatively hidden. Until Zhang Yunfei's vanguard had reached less than two or three kilometers outside Wujiashan, the Japanese still did not realize that the ** team was already in the fortress.

This time, the Third Infantry Division alone had more than 20,000 people in the attack on Jingzhou. Together with tens of thousands of people from the 59th Army, the total number of troops reached a terrifying 60,000 to 70,000. Currently, the troops were divided into three groups to advance towards Jingzhou. The Third Infantry Division of the 36th Army launched an attack from the west of Jingzhou. The 180th Division of the 59th Army launched an attack from the north of Jingzhou. The remaining troops will launch an attack from the south of Jingzhou.

On the periphery of Wujiashan, the Japanese built several guardhouses, each with a height of more than ten meters, and the square guardhouses had a construction area of ​​more than hundreds of square meters. On the thick red brick walls on all sides, the Japanese also opened more than a dozen shooting holes, and there was a Type 92 heavy machine gun position on the top of each guardhouse.

Each guardhouse has at least half a team of Japanese soldiers. For troops without heavy weapons, the guardhouse is a difficult bone to crack.

Zhu Ming, the commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment, was lying in the grass, holding a telescope to observe the enemy situation in Wujiashan ahead. Wujiashan was just a small town. The Japanese built a large number of fortifications on the outskirts of the town, including guardhouses and trenches. It seems that there are at least thousands of Japanese Japanese in Wujiashan.

Behind Captain Zhu, in the grass, bushes, and in some small woods not far away, there were a large number of soldiers hidden. Because the soldiers were wearing camouflage uniforms, they were very concealed, and the Japanese devils hundreds of meters away were still unaware of it.

After observing the Japanese's position for a while, Commander Zhu turned to a correspondent next to him and said, "Send a report to the commander-in-chief that the 5th infantry regiment of the vanguard has entered the attack position and can launch an attack at any time...-/---Advertisement full text"

In Yichang City, Zhang Yunfei and Zhang Zizhong were looking at the military map in front of them together. Several combat staff were carefully marking the marching directions of each unit and the position they reached at this time on the map.

Zhang Zizhong looked at the map and said to Zhang Yunfei with a smile: "Brother, our vanguard should have entered the periphery of Wujiashan at this time. It seems that the Japanese are still unconscious and will suffer later."

At this time, a communication soldier walked in and reported loudly: "Commander-in-Chief, our vanguard, the 5th Infantry Regiment, has entered the attack position. Zhu Ming, the commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment, sent a telegram to ask for the next action."

"Send a report to the 5th Infantry Regiment, stay on site and order the artillery regiment to build the artillery position quickly. Starting at 10 a.m., the Japanese Japanese Wujiashan position will be bombarded. After capturing Wujiashan, all troops will attack Jingzhou quickly."

Zhang Yunfei planned to conquer Wujiashan as quickly as possible, and then the large army surrounded Jingzhou and quickly ate the Botian detachment.

Seeing that Zhang Yunfei issued a series of orders, Zhang Zizhong immediately ordered his troops to march quickly and pounce on Jingzhou. Now, it is no longer a big deal to expose the troops' whereabouts. The troops can immediately encircle Jingzhou. Even the Japanese reacted too late.

Less than five kilometers west of Wujiashan, the artillery regiment is speeding up to build an artillery position. 72 105mm howitzers have been untied from the towing truck, lined up in a few neat rows, with the black holes facing the direction of Wujiashan.

The artillery commander looked at the busy soldiers and looked at his watch again. It was less than an hour before ten o'clock in the morning. So the artillery commander shouted loudly at his artillery: "Comrades, everyone should make up their energy and strive to build a position within half an hour, and fire on time at ten o'clock."

"Okay, please don't worry, the regiment commander." The soldier next to him agreed with a loud bang.

Nearly ten o'clock, all the cannons were ready and could be fired at any time. The artillery commander looked at everyone with satisfaction, then looked at his watch, then walked to the artillery mirror at a high place, and looked over and over again. Only after seeing everything was correct, did he walk into his command center with satisfaction.

At the time of ten o'clock, the artillery commander issued an order to fire the artillery. 72 105mm howitzers roared at the same time. A large number of shells flew towards the Japanese Wujiashan position with sharp roars.

On the Wujiashan position of the Japanese Japanese, many Japanese heard the whistling sound from the sky. Many experienced Japanese Japanese immediately changed their faces when they heard the familiar whistling sound. It was not good, it was a large-scale shelling.

Several Japanese soldiers standing guard at the top of the guardhouse also heard the whistling sound and were immediately scared and stood there in a blanket. A shell happened to hit the guardhouse, blowing the Japanese soldiers to pieces and blowing a piece of the entire roof of the guardhouse.

In Wujiashan Town, the Japanese captain also heard the howling sound of the sky and immediately asked anxiously: "Where are firing fires, where are firing fires."

The Japanese soldiers next to them were silent and could not answer the questions of their captain. The Japanese soldiers' captain saw that they had asked a few times but failed. They immediately left their command center, held the telescope, and climbed up to the observation post next to the command center, which was more than 20 meters high, and held the telescope and looked anxiously.

I saw that the frontier position in the distance was hit by a series of artillery shells, making a sound of deafening explosions. In the telescope, the Japanese captain saw the situation of the Japanese frontier position clearly. Seeing a large number of Japanese devils killed, the Japanese captain was so angry that his face turned pale.

On the positions of the artillery regiment, all the artillery soldiers seemed extremely excited and happy, and quickly loaded and fired the cannons. Ten minutes later, all the artillery stopped shooting. As soon as the cannon stopped, everyone cheered.

Within ten minutes, each cannon fired 20 shells, and 72 cannons fired a total of nearly 1,500 shells, repeatedly plowing the Japanese's hundreds of people's positions several times.

"Comrades, pack up your equipment immediately and head towards Jingzhou immediately." Seeing that Zhang Yunfei successfully completed the 10-minute shelling mission issued by Zhang Yunfei, the artillery regiment commanded the troops to set off immediately.

At this time, the soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Third Infantry Division were all lying on the ground, looking at the spectacular artillery attack not far away, and were full of enthusiasm and excitement. Many soldiers were a little impatient and wanted to rush to the Japanese's position immediately and eliminate the Japanese.

On the Japanese's positions, the guardhouses had already been blown into piles of ruins. The trenches built before were basically flattened. There were large pits on the positions, with broken scenes everywhere, with blue smoke and fire everywhere.

Suddenly, a loud charge sounded on the position of the 5th Infantry Regiment. As soon as the charge sounded, the commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment immediately stood up and shouted: "Comrades, rush!"

Suddenly, the position of the 5th Infantry Regiment issued a rush of shouts, and more than 2,000 soldiers rushed towards the Japanese position hundreds of meters away.

When everyone rushed to the Japanese position, the resistance they encountered was very weak. There were only seven or eight hundred Japanese on the Japanese position. Most of the Japanese were killed in the artillery bombardment just now. After the artillery bombardment, there were less than two hundred Japanese who could breathe. Such a Japanese could not organize any effective resistance in front of more than two thousand soldiers holding AK-47 rifles.

All the Japanese who tried to fight back were taken seriously by several soldiers and were almost beaten into sieves. The Japanese Japanese who were seriously injured were also shot by the soldiers and sent to see them.

In Wujiashan Town, the Japanese brigade captain who was looking into the distance was held on the lookout post. When he saw hundreds of his soldiers being wiped out immediately, he looked at the Chinese soldiers rushing into the town like a tide in the distance, and then looked at the three or four hundred soldiers left, the white-faced Japanese brigade captain who was very desperate and helpless, because there were only three or four hundred Japanese soldiers and nearly a hundred non-combatants.

The Japanese brigade captain had a blue face and got off the lookout post in a furious manner. He rushed into his command center and said anxiously to several Japanese correspondents: "Hurry up, report to Mr. Hotan Shinichi, who was attacked by thousands of Chinese teams, and this Chinese team was equipped with a large number of heavy artillery to ask for tactical guidance."

The Japanese correspondent soldier immediately looked hurried after hearing this, and sent a report to Hatan Shigeichi from Jingzhou, asking for tactical guidance.

Just after sending the telegram, the unique gunshots of the ak-47 rifle "da, da, da" sounded in Wujia Town, and the gunshots became increasingly dense. The Third Infantry Division had already engaged in fire with the Japanese in the town.

There were only three or four hundred Japanese in the town, most of whom were holding Type 38 rifles. Facing Chinese soldiers who were almost ten times more powerful than themselves, the Japanese were almost unable to raise their heads by the fierce firepower of the Chinese team. Not long after, all Japanese in the town were basically wiped out, and dozens of Japanese in the remaining Japanese were all huddled in the Japanese command center.

The commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment looked at the small Japanese command center. All the Japanese were hiding in it and preparing to fight stubbornly. In order to reduce casualties, the commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment did not order the soldiers to attack in, but shouted loudly: "Comrades, bombard me with a mortar."

Immediately, the soldiers set up more than a dozen 60mm mortars, and a company commander personally directed the soldiers to prepare to shell the Japanese command center. The company commander repeatedly gestured the distance and asked the soldiers to adjust the shooting angle before he shouted: "Fire the gun!"
Chapter completed!