Chapter 147: Winning the Public House (5)
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In the smoke of the explosion of the grenades dropped like raindrops by the Japanese army, more than a dozen light machine guns accompanied them to cover more than a hundred suicide squad members and rushed to the slope. In front of the slope, the bodies of Chinese soldiers had piled into small hills. The subsequent blasting hands used the bodies of their comrades as cover to pile the scattered explosives toward the blasting pit that had been dug out under the slope.
In just one minute, nearly a hundred blasters fell down halfway. Park Changtian numbly placed the blood-stained explosive packs into the pit one by one, and several machine gunners with red eyes blocked Park Changtian with their bodies.
Whenever someone was shot and fell to the ground, someone next to him would immediately pick up the machine gun and continue to shoot at the Japanese army. The Japanese army, who was in defense, knew that if the inclined surface was blasted, it would be only a matter of time before the loss of the pass position was made. So dozens of Japanese soldiers covered in explosives were screaming and rolling down the slope. The smoke of continuous explosions completely blocked the pass.
After Huang Chao, the commander of the 379th Regiment, learned that all the first battalion were killed, he said to Chief Zhou next to him without hesitation: "Transfer the Third Battalion to replace the First Battalion and continue to blast! I will go to the Second Battalion, and today the whole regiment will fight all the troops, and I will tear the pass open to me." Chief Zhou, who has been working with Huang Chao for several years, naturally knew Huang Chao's character, and this time he might really fight all the battle! Chief Zhou waved his submachine gun and led the third battalion to the reinforcements and rushed directly to the left-wing pass.
Several war defense artillery were even dragged up to the mountain by artillery soldiers and attacked the Japanese army one by one. Zhou Fucheng did not agree with this practice of killing hostility and self-destruction, but now it is not only his 53rd Army, but the 20th Army has no way out.
Kill! You can only fight to a bloody road!
The fierce battle on the north slope attracted all the attention of the Japanese army. The Japanese army in the south slope continued to transport ammunition through tunnels to transport wounded people. The Tanabe Detachment, which served as the general reserve team, was very relaxed to move near the main tunnel entrance. Their task was to rush to the position at the most critical moment and destroy the Chinese! The management of the Japanese army was relatively relaxed in serving as the suicide squad.
Several times the Japanese army passed by the Chinese soldiers hiding in front of the grass. Chinese soldiers who had already lurked day and night were enduring mosquito bites,
Just when the fierce battle on the north slope was in a critical moment of heat, three red signal flares rose from the south slope, and the Chinese soldiers lurking under the Japanese nose suddenly attacked. Two commandos rushed to the left and right wing pass regardless of the Japanese interception.
The sudden attack caught the Japanese army off guard. Many Japanese soldiers were stabbed to the ground by Chinese soldiers who rushed up to the ground before they understood what was going on.
The left wing commanded by Zhang Tiansheng took the left wing position in just eleven minutes. The Chinese troops occupying the pass were redirected to suppress the right wing pass. On the other hand, they sent small troops to use blasting methods to try to close the dense Japanese tunnels.
Zhang Tiansheng was very lucky and was very accidental. Because the Tianbian Detachment had nearly 4,000 troops, almost all of them were concentrated on the right wing. The 54th Army and local commando hit the steel plate. Both sides were having fun fighting.
Although the Tanabe Detachment was very good at fighting and brave, the Japanese army's position had been disrupted. When the left wing succeeded, the Japanese army's right wing position was shot by the left wing position. The Japanese general Saito Masaji had already realized that the situation was very bad.
How did the Chinese army penetrate behind them? Saito Mushi looked at the defense map in a daze. Did these Chinese army fall from the sky?
"I have guarded the public housing pass of Gaoligong Mountain Dizhai with nearly 20,000 people. If I lose it, I will probably not escape the blame!"
Thinking of this terrible consequence, Saito Moriji suddenly shuddered. So he could only win but not lose. Because he really couldn't afford to lose.
"Organize the troops immediately! Retake the left wing pass and put the reserves to counterattack the Chinese army on the south slope!" After Saito Moriji gave the order, he sat back on the chair with a squeaking sound of the chair in conjunction with the swaying light stand that was bombarded and swayed. All this seemed to be a sign of the end of Saito Moriji and the Saito Public Fortress he commanded.
While the Tanabe Detachment was fighting repeatedly with the 54th Army assault troops, Japanese troops hiding in the mountain tunnel swarmed out, and the north and south slopes fell into a melee. The Takahashi Brigade commanded by Saito Masaji even cut off the contact between the main force of Zhang Tiansheng Brigade and the peak left-wing position for a while.
The unprecedented melee was beyond everyone's expectations, especially the Japanese army, who were attacked from both sides, chose to counterattack rather than retreat. At this moment, artillery suppression had completely lost its effect. More than 50,000 Chinese and Japanese armies fought around the Zhai Public House. The small Zhai Public House became the most tragic place of bleeding since the counterattack.
As the battle situation became more and more tragic, Wei Lihuang, commander of the Expeditionary Force, directly rushed into the 53rd Army Command of Zhou Fucheng, and inquired about the battle situation.
Huo Kuizhang looked at the inquiry telegram from Wei Lihuang sent by Zhou Fucheng. Wei Lihuang's so-called inquiry telegram was actually supervising the war. He did not send it directly to Huo Kuizhang but sent it to the 53rd Army, in order to save some face for Huo Kuizhang. The telegram was sent to Wei Lihuang, who ordered the 20th Army to break through the front line of Zhai Public House today and launch a general attack on Tengchong County before October 2. The Supreme Military Commission ordered the First Mechanized Army to participate in the Tengchong attack and recapture within three days!
Huo Kuizhang turned around and looked at the sound of gunfire that stirred up in the sky, and said to Zhou Fucheng: "Put into all the reserve teams, and be sure to defeat the Japanese army and occupy the front line of Zhai Public Housing before the evening."
"Yes!" Zhou Fucheng stood at attention, and Zhou Fucheng, who was bitter in his heart, was very helpless. As the commander, he only had a so-called reserve team in his hand. According to the feint attack mode in front of him, the normal enemy and us forces must be at least 5:1 or even 10:1 to quickly fight and break through at all costs. However, the enemy and us forces in front of him forced a breakthrough under 2:1, and Zhou Fucheng didn't even dare to think about it.
Zhou Fucheng faithfully implemented the order to the end and mobilized all the 53rd Army. The military guard battalion, communication battalion, combat department staff, groom, and wife were in hand with a rifle, following the reinforcements to the most intense battles in Zhai Public House.
The passionate Song Yuhang and his subordinates who were asking for battle were unexpectedly rejected by Huo Kuizhang. Huo Kuizhang listed two items: "First. The First Mechanized Army is not within the scope of the 20th Army. Its command is within the Supreme Military Commission. Even if Wei Lihuang wants to use the army, he has to ask for instructions again and again. Second, it is a task for the 20th Army to capture Zhai Public House to open the pass to Tengchong. The cooperation of the mountain infantry brigade of the First Mechanized Army has made the brothers of the 20th Army within the fifth!"
Song Yuhang knew that Huo Kuizhang probably had his own difficulties, and the pride of soldiers did not allow others to interfere.
Song Yuhang realized that the Japanese army that was guarding the public housing in Zhai seemed to have made a tactical and conscious mistake. The Japanese army fought in Impal, seeking to stand by the opportunity to defend, dispose of soldiers everywhere, and defend everywhere, intending to stop the offensive of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. When the dust of Impal was settled, then gathered heavy troops to strike and attack the Chinese Expeditionary Force and threatened Chongqing with the situation. It is precisely because of this that the Japanese army gave the expeditionary force the opportunity to defeat each. However, if the expeditionary force failed to break through the Japanese defense line before the Japanese army captured Impal, thus threatening the security of the Japanese rear wing, then the expeditionary force would be in danger.
In the past, our army defended against the Japanese attack, but now the situation of the enemy and us has changed. When we encounter difficult bones, our army also suffered heavy casualties.
The Zhai Public House in front of me took more than ten days to ate the public housing in Tengchong County. The mountain, Feifeng Mountain, Guanyin Hall, and Laifeng Mountain were blocked on three sides. In history, there was no mountain peak that the soldiers had fought hard to capture after several battles. Then, in the street fighting in Tengchong, Song Yuhang was very optimistic about regaining Tengchong County on January 5 before the deadline.
The Wei Lihuang supervising force made Song Yuhang realize that it was likely that the war in Impal was intensified and the Allied forces put pressure on Chongqing's highest military committee member.
During this time, the battle in the public housing in Sai Yuhang had already reached a fever pitch. He realized that if the southern slope was succeeded by the Chinese army, most of the Japanese troops defending would be blocked in the tunnel, and the outcome was naturally self-evident. So Saito Masaji ordered the internal team of the tunnel to counterattack, he retreated to the right-wing pass through the tunnel and began to organize the Tanabe Detachment to meet the troops that counterattacked in the tunnel.
For a time, the Japanese army was like mountain rats, drilling out from the entire north and south slopes. Under the tree holes, the cracks of rocks, under the gentle slopes, and in the bushes, there were authentic Japanese spare exports everywhere, and many of them were even next to Chinese soldiers.
On the left wing of the southern slope, the Chinese officers and soldiers of the mountain infantry brigade were like blocking a mouse hole, and Japanese soldiers rushed wherever they appeared. First, they fired submachine guns, and then greeted the grenades. At the large tunnel entrance, after suppressing their vitality, they directly sprayed them with a fierce blow, and they beat them with rules and regulations.
The 54th Army on the right wing and the 53rd Army on the north slope are no longer possible. Their soldiers and officers have not received relevant training in tunnel warfare, and the rapid firepower of the weapons in their hands is almost the same as that of the Japanese army, so several major tunnel exits have been stabilized by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army that has been rushing out are trying to expand their stable positions.
Because the two sides were close, the battle turned white and fierce from the beginning, and soldiers from both sides fought and fought everywhere. On the ancient battlefield that had been silent for hundreds of years, the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting in a dim and dark place.
After thoroughly clearing the remaining enemies at the left wing pass, Zhang Tiansheng commanded his mountain infantry brigade to support the right wing battle, and turned the eight-gate 90 7mm field cannons arranged by the Japanese army on the left wing pass, and began to bombard the right wing pass under the operation of the mountain artillery camp directly under the brigade.
Boom! Boom! All eight grenades in the first round fell accurately on the Japanese positions at the pass. With the violent explosion of the straits, the remaining limbs of Japanese soldiers flew into the air in the smoke pillars. The Japanese garrison commander Takahashi Shigehiro Nakasa, who was defending the right wing pass, wanted to strangle Saito Shuji, a bastard who was arrogant and commanding, to death.
Originally, the eight 75mm rapid-fire field guns were arranged in a group of four on the two wings, and the ground was able to complement each other's firing angles and shooting boundaries and provide support and cover for the two wings. However, the stubborn Saito Momoji stubbornly believed that artillery firepower should be used in a concentrated manner to achieve the maximum effect, so all the eight 75mm rapid-fire field guns were concentrated under the command of Yukio Yayata on the left wing.
Yukio Yasuda is self-evident, of course, a close confidant brought by Saito Moriji, but the first person to lose his position was Yasuda. The left wing pass of Saito Public House is nearly a hundred meters higher than the right wing pass, so the fierce artillery fire at the position at the left wing pass made the right wing pass unrestrained and fell on the brink of collapse. Takahashi Shigehiro hoped that Yukio Yasuda would still be alive, and then see how the ignorant and stupid guy Saito Moriji explained to the front army.
More than ten minutes later, three grenades hit the cover where Shirohiro Takahashi was, who was determined to be a joke, almost at the same time! Shirohiro Takahashi fell into a pool of blood with unwillingness on his face. After losing command, the Japanese defending troops on the right wing began to retreat subconsciously to avoid artillery fire from the left wing pass.
Chapter completed!