Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 221

The corporal stayed at last.

With the lieutenant general's promise, the mental state of the upper class soldier has also improved a lot.

The injuries on his body looked miserable, but in fact, most of them were scratches from crawling hard on the ground, and the most serious injuries were still on his feet.

Tantai Mingyue brought wound medicine to wrap up his wound, and then put on the Japanese-style big-toed military boots brought to him by Tang Dao.

Tang Dao and Tantai Mingyue also learned about the general situation of the battle in Jinshan County from him.

The 367th Regiment received an order to stop the enemy on the morning of the 5th. Tinglin, 20 kilometers away from Jinshan County, supported the Jinshanwei tidal flat position. .

After more than three hours of fierce fighting, the two artillery companies and a security battalion stationed in the tidal flat position were basically killed by the bombing of the Japanese large-caliber naval guns and sky planes.

Long-distance observation shows that the number of Japanese troops landing on the tidal flats has reached thousands, which is close to the size of an infantry brigade. If the 367th regiment goes to the tidal flat positions that are already undefended, it will only be futile moths.

The colonel and head of the 367 regiment made a decisive decision to abandon the tidal flat position and guard Jinshan County.

Compared with Songjiang, Jinshan County is the place where the Japanese army must pass through.Because Jinshan County is too small, the main road in the city is actually the road from Jinshan to the outside.

To put it bluntly, if Jinshan County was not conquered, the Japanese army would have to march in the mountains and fields. Men and horses could walk, but trucks and artillery could not.

The 367th Regiment who arrived in Jinshan County knew this. How could the Japanese army, who had been investigating the terrain in this area since August and September, not know?
After thoroughly clearing the tidal flat positions, about two Japanese infantry regiments rushed towards Jinshan County.

The two infantry regiments are 7000 people in size, Tantai Mingyue doesn't understand, but the two lieutenant generals at the side have awe-inspiring eyes.

The 67th Army fought against the 6th Division in Tianjin, and the 43rd Army also fought against the 9th Division in Dachang Town, Songhu. Naturally, they know how powerful the Japanese army is.

A Japanese regiment, even without the cooperation of additional artillery units from its divisions, has 4 mountain cannons, 10 infantry cannons, 4 rapid-fire guns, and 36 heavy machine guns. Its heavy firepower is stronger than that of a Chinese infantry division.

The 43th Division of the 26rd Army persisted in Dachang Town for a week and nearly wiped out the entire army. There is nothing to say about their heroism, but the real reason that allowed them to persist for a week was that their opponent was just an infantry regiment of the Japanese army.

Three for one is already an extremely rare battle loss ratio on the Songhu battlefield.

Like the Battle of the Four Lines Warehouse, the 36th Infantry Regiment was beaten like a dog by a reinforced battalion relying on hard warehouses and concessions. It was the result of a combination of factors such as timing, location, and harmony, and it was almost impossible to replicate. up.

The 367 regiment, an ordinary infantry regiment, chose to defend to the death in the face of the Japanese army, which could easily eat up one of their infantry divisions. This in itself required great courage.

If they had given up before that and abandoned the city and fled, they would actually still have a chance.

The Tenth Army of the Japanese Army needed to go straight down to Songjiang at the fastest speed, and then the soldiers pointed directly at Huxi. Their target was the hundreds of thousands of elite Chinese troops. Would they take the thousands of Chinese routs in their eyes?

"How many people are there in your 367 regiment?" Tantai Mingyue asked.

"Originally there were 1800, but after three months of fighting, there are still 800." Sadness flashed through the eyes of the corporal.

1800, now he is the only one left.

"You can leave. If you don't want to violate the order, you can retreat to Songjiang City and form a second line of defense." Wang Gongyu, who had finished handling affairs from the outside and entered the headquarters, couldn't help but sigh slightly when he heard this.

"The group said, we can retreat from Jinshan, then we can also retreat from Songjiang, and we can also retreat from Jinling, so where should we retreat in the future? Don't look at the sea here, but as long as we retreat, the Japanese will eventually attack We went to our hometown." The private first class repeated the exact words of his regiment commander sonorously and forcefully. "So, we can't retreat."

"This is your leader." Tang Dao gave a thumbs up sincerely.

It is said that the people in southern Hunan are barbaric, but such Hunan barbarians are really admirable, so they are 'unable to retreat'.

Talking about the battle of Jinshan County that broke out in the afternoon, the spirit of the senior soldier fell into a trance again, because it was too tragic, and every time he recalled a picture in his mind, it was a knife in his heart.

Perhaps, the German war correspondent Fred who followed the Tenth Army of the Japanese Army landed and published in the European Times three days later the "China Battlefield Field Experience" can reproduce the attack and defense that broke out on the afternoon of November 11 more realistically. war.

In other words, it cannot be called an offensive and defensive battle, but should be called an artillery battle.

Maybe he didn't think that the small town in front of him could become an obstacle to his progress. Although the Japanese army had as many as 7000 infantry, very few were involved in the attack, because they had a large number of artillery and naval gun support from various cruisers on the sea.

Reporter Fred’s original text is as follows: From the very first day of the war, I have followed the Japanese North China Front Army, and I have seen the North China Army flee without fighting, and I have also seen them fight to the death without retreating, but without exception , their final outcome is failure and failure.

It took the Japanese North China Front Army less than three months to occupy the fertile land of China's vast North China Plain.

This time I followed the newly formed Tenth Army of Japan to the southeast of China. I thought it was just a repeat of the North China War.The 700,000 Chinese army is already crumbling against the 200,000 Japanese army. With the addition of this [-] new force, is there any need to talk about the ending?

Unexpectedly, I may have guessed only the ending rather than the beginning.

In the Battle of the Tidal Flats, the Chinese had no more than a thousand people at most, but they stranded thousands of Japanese troops with naval gun support for more than four hours.

Even if fighter planes from the aircraft carrier dozens of kilometers away came to help out, the crazy aerial bombs even set the woods near the tidal flat on fire, and there were still gunfire coming from inside.

Since then, I have realized that this is a different group of Chinese soldiers.

But I was wrong again.

The Chinese soldiers I saw on the morning of November 11 were just a group of them.

The commanders of the Japanese army were well aware of the importance of the speed of soldiers. Facing the dilapidated town that the Chinese were defending, they used more than 30 light artillery pieces and ten Several large-caliber naval guns more than ten kilometers away bombarded the small town.

Although these Japanese commanders had no humanitarian spirit and ignored the existence of civilians, from a purely military point of view, they were undoubtedly correct.Only by quickly annihilating the Chinese defenders in the small city, can they complete their previous strategic deployment of moving troops south, cut and encircle the Chinese main force in the panic in western Huxi in one fell swoop, and win the attack.

It took only a few months to defeat a behemoth with an area of ​​nearly ten million square kilometers. Looking at the entire history of mankind, it may be a jaw-dropping feat.

The shelling lasted half an hour.

The area of ​​a small Chinese city will never exceed 0.7 square kilometers. Under such a degree of bombardment, no matter whether it is a person or an object, it can only be turned into powder.

But a jaw-dropping miracle happened. When the Japanese infantry planned to reap the fruits of victory without any casualties, Chinese figures appeared in the ruins.

God knows how they survived, and how they had the courage to shoot at thousands of Japanese infantry after encountering such high-intensity shelling.

But they did get out, when the Japanese advanced to a distance of 100 meters from the city.

The Japanese infantry not only had a large number of troops, but they were also exceptionally good. Although their equipment was much inferior to that of the empire, it was more than enough to deal with the Chinese. Machine guns and grenades were used to suppress the infantry.

However, they were still repelled.

The Chinese are like crazy, even if you have already entered their position, what greets the Japanese is a terrible self-destruction, and the Japanese have no way of knowing which of the dead bodies are living and which are dead.
But once the Japanese withdraw from the position because of the wounded soldiers who may appear at any time, the new Chinese will reoccupy there, and then, it will repeat itself like a nightmare.

How to describe it!It's like grass, which withers in winter, but when spring comes, they will reappear, stubble after stubble, and it seems that they will never disappear.

It was a horrific experience.

Especially for me who have personally experienced the battlefield, I have never seen a soldier who is so indifferent to his own life, as if the purpose of everyone's fighting is not to live, but to die.

Moreover, it is not one person or dozens of people, it may be hundreds or even thousands of people.

The Japanese were actually used by the Chinese to use this method of warfare. It took five hours until the evening, when the sky was full of sunset.

The Japanese finally cleared away all the rebels in the ruins, approaching a corner of the ruins, where at least [-] Chinese soldiers' remains lay, and that was also the area where the Chinese resistance was the most intense.

Everyone knows that it should be their headquarters.

I also saw the tenacious commander for the first time, and perhaps, the last time.

However, I know that in my life, I will never forget this Chinese soldier who cannot see his face clearly.

He was sitting on a broken wooden box, surrounded by seven or eight seriously wounded Chinese soldiers, and he was smiling as he watched the Japanese slowly approaching with bayonets.

Yes, I could see him smiling, though his face was blurred by the smoke and blood.

Grinning, showing blood red teeth.

It's like a beast that has eaten its flesh and blood.

Yes, he can be proud. Under the complete disadvantage, he has achieved the excellence that human beings can imagine.

Major Ikeda of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army has already ordered that if he is alive, he needs a senior Chinese officer captured to appease the anger of the major general brigade commander sitting one kilometer away.

The Japanese not only killed more than 130 people here, but also lost up to five hours of precious time here, and even had to slow down the pace of the entire army because of the coming of night.

Facts have proved that his decision was a mistake. How can a commander who has nearly a thousand subordinates who ignore death be afraid of death?
As the cigarette in his hand fell gently, the flames suddenly appeared, and the blast wave sent him and the wounded soldiers to heaven, and also sent a small group of Japanese infantry to meet their Amaterasu.

In the words of the Chinese, this wave of exchanges will not lose money.

Major Ikeda's roar was very desperate, but I was shocked again when I was knocked down by the air wave dozens of meters away and fell into the dust.

If the Chinese are fighting like this, let alone the Japanese, even if the empire comes here, can they win the final victory?
This is also the first time since I came to China that I associate Chinese failure with victory. The loser may win the final victory, which is really a strange feeling.

I do not know the name of the Chinese commander who has been smashed to pieces, but there is no doubt that he and his subordinates have gained my respect.

It suddenly occurred to me to commemorate them in verse, to use what their ancestors left behind, and perhaps better express my homage, the homage of a Germanic people from the far west.

After I consulted my teacher at the consulate in Pingjing, he taught me an ancient Chinese verse, so let me use this verse that I don’t quite understand the meaning of, as the end of the whole article!

At that time, the bright moon was there, and it once returned home according to the colorful clouds!
That was also the time when Qiang Sanwa, who was hiding in the woods three miles outside the small town and looked at his own position with tears in his eyes, heard the last loud bang.

At that time, under the blue sky, colorful clouds were still there, and the sky was full of red clouds!
On the ground, the blood of the Hunan Army has been shed!
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PS: I would like to recommend the books of two friends, both of whom are military masters!"My Spy Years" by the pig-headed seven masters who transferred from sports competitions has achieved very good results, and Fengyue is very envious.The fifth-level author Mingzhi's "Big Wei Chun" is a historical novel written on the military channel.

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