Chapter 316: No matter the cost
During the suffocating waiting, about a thousand Japanese soldiers lined up the mountainside like a tide, soaking up from the hillside down to the hillside.
"Battleman, the Japanese are coming up!" Behind a huge rock, a soldier turned his head and shouted loudly at Liang Yigang.
"Everyone is ready to fight!" Liang Yimang pulled out his gun and shouted coldly.
For a moment, the mixed army in the trench flipped the steel guns in their hands and aimed at the targets. With Liang Yigang's gunshots, the soldiers pulled the trigger almost at the same time. In an instant, dense gunfire sounded throughout the mountains and fields.
"Papapapapapapapapapadadadadadada..." Dozens of general-purpose machine guns assigned to the officers and soldiers of the former special operations camp began to roar one after another, and hot flames crossed and roared towards the Japanese head like deadly sickles.
A dense rain of bullets came, but the bullets were basically shot. Although the veterans of the Special Forces Battalion were accurate in shooting, the Japanese could easily avoid it because of the trees and stones on the hillside, and the hit rate was also very low.
In the first wave of shooting, there were very few Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground.
After being attacked, the Japanese soldiers also began to shoot and fight back. While relying on the trees beside them, they shot and fired at the mountainside with huge rocks, while quickly rushing upwards.
Similarly, most of the Japanese shootings lost their accuracy. Although most of the Japanese soldiers were well-trained and accurate shooters, the Japanese's accuracy would inevitably decline in such a battlefield with rugged rocks and steep hillsides.
Baodugang, which had been silent for many years, was heard for a while, and the sound of gunfire was loud. Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, mountain cannons, field cannons, and guns and cannons of all caliber, were clearly heard for more than ten miles away.
All the birds and beasts that originally lived in Baodugang were frightened and flew away from this habitat with wings.
At the same time, a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces emerged in Zaozhuang, Lincheng and other places. These anti-Japanese armed forces set up attacks on the Japanese in major traffic roads and forts. The strongholds not only paralyzed the Japanese's traffic, but also cut off the retreat of more than 100,000 Japanese troops who fled from the Xuzhou battlefield through Zaozhuang and Lincheng retreated to the northwest.
It directly supported the campaign of the Hu Ben Army and other ** units to pursue and annihilate the Japanese army.
Especially near Weishan Lake, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were blocked from the south bank of the Grand Canal. Behind them, the main force of the First Division of the Hu Ben Army, with the assistance of local anti-Japanese armed forces and the people, launched a fierce pursuit of the Japanese.
The panicked Japanese fled in scattered and the entire battlefield situation quickly lost control. The Japanese command systems at all levels directly lost the effect. The squad leader could not find the squadron leader, the squadron leader could not find the squadron leader, and the brigade headquarters lost contact with the corps headquarters.
Tens of thousands of Japanese troops were like a piece of loose sand, and they were in a dangerous situation where they fought for their own battles without a leader.
The Japanese fled and became in chaos, and the ** also pursued the chaos, and most of the commanders of various troops lost contact with the grassroots troops.
The battlefield on the south bank of the canal was intertwined, and wars were raging. As the Japanese army continued to flee, the scope of the battlefield continued to expand.
Xuzhou City, Tiger Ben Army Headquarters.
With the support of Liang Jiahan and others, Qiao Anbang welcomed Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth War Zone, and chief of staff from Kaifeng, who rushed from Kaifeng, Xu Zuyi, and Bai Chongxi, the current chief of staff of the National Revolutionary Army.
"Yes!" Yali responded with her chest outstretched, turned around and walked into the headquarters compound.
Watching Yali leave, a roar of a car prompted Qiao Anbang to withdraw his sight
Turning around, Qiao Anbang saw three military cars racing from the west at a glance. Soon the three military cars came from far away and roared.
The three cars stopped abruptly, and a group of elite guns with live ammunition quickly jumped out from behind the carriages of the two trucks in front and back and then quickly spread out, alerting them around the car.
Immediately afterwards, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and Xu Zuyi, who were sitting in the military jeep in the middle, pushed the door and walked down one after another.
Qiao Anbang quickly smiled and went up to meet him. After facing him, both sides saluted each other almost at the same time. Qiao Anbang said, "Thank you for your hard work, two commanders."
"General Qiao is the real hard work. General Qiao has made great contributions to the great victory in Xuzhou!" Bai Chongxi said with a calm smile.
"Jiansheng is right. Xuzhou's victory was a turning point in our country's war of resistance against Japan. General Qiao alone is enough to be famous in history!" Li Zongren nodded in agreement.
"The two commanders, Miao Zan!" Qiao Anbang smiled and turned around and said, "Please!"
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were not polite, and immediately walked towards the headquarters.
However, Xu Zuyi deliberately fell behind one step and walked behind Qiao Anbang. Although Xu Zuyi was nominally the chief of staff of the War Zone Command, his official position was still above Qiao Anbang.
But in fact, this is not the case with Xu Zuyi's military rank at this time, and Qiao Anbang was already a second-level army general of the National Government. Judging from the military rank alone, there are not many people in the entire China that can compare with it.
Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, the two leaders of the Guangxi clan, and the current veterans of the National Government, have higher qualifications and military ranks than Qiao Anbang, so they can naturally be ahead of Qiao Anbang.
Therefore, it can be seen that Xu Zuyi is well versed in the officialdom and knows how to advance and retreat.
After entering the courtyard, the group walked straight towards the headquarters. After entering the house, Qiao Anbang did not invite Li Zongren and others to sit down, but directly led them to the giant map hanging on the walls of the headquarters.
When he walked into his war zone headquarters, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi and others felt something strange.
However, without letting them think too much, Qiao Anbang's voice brought them back to reality: "Two officers, please see..."
On the south bank of the Grand Canal, there is a small village.
In a not-so-large yard, Li Yifeng, the commander of the First Infantry Division of the Hu Ben Army, was carrying his hands in the yard, and his brows were frowning. Due to the changes in the battlefield situation, he had basically lost contact with his grassroots troops at all levels, and only those regiment commanders could be contacted.
He couldn't take notice for a while and hurriedly asked Qiao Anbang for advice. After all, Li Yifeng had never encountered such a chaotic battle since he joined the army.
In fact, not only Li Yifeng, but even the long-time generals like Zhang Yichun and Wei Yunsong who have been on the battlefield for decades have never fought such a chaotic pursuit.
Because at this time, the tactical command of many ** generals in China was still very dull and backward.
The reason why several division commanders of the Hu Ben Army were able to grow rapidly from a grass-roots to a commander of a division or regiment was because Qiao Anbang, a commander from later generations, influenced and changed them.
Back to the point, just when Li Yifeng was extremely anxious, Sun Hai, who is currently the chief of staff of the First Division, quickly walked out of the house with a telegram.
Before he could stand at attention, Sun Hai said to Li Yifeng: "Master, the chief officer has called back!"
"Oh? What do you think of the chief officer?" Li Yifeng stopped quickly after hearing this, turned around and asked urgently.
"The chief commander ordered us to use company squads as a unit to let grassroots troops pursue themselves without having to worry too much, and to chase and annihilate all enemies in front of us at all costs!" Sun Hai said.
"Yeah!" Li Yifeng nodded silently when he heard this, then raised his head and said solemnly: "Chief of Staff, immediately let the Communications Company try every means to transmit this order to the regiments and battalions, and let them convey the order to the company squads and other grassroots troops!"
"Yes!" Sun Hai responded with a slap, then turned around and walked into the house.
ps: I've been busy all this time and I won't complain anymore. I have time today, and I stole the time a few days ago and wrote some things. I've finished this big chapter. Let's watch it first.
On August 12th, everything is expected to be stable on August 16th, and it will be updated stably and quickly.
My mother-in-law will be back in two days. I hope she can pass the test smoothly. God bless you...
Chapter completed!