my bright sword career

Chapter 625 The final attack
The Japanese First Army Headquarters near the north gate in Taiyuan is the place where the two sides compete most fiercely. The 110th Regiment of the 139th Division of the Japanese Army, an engineering brigade and a garrison brigade assigned to them are responsible for defending this place, with a total strength of 5000. many people.

Prior to this, Neiji Okamura had already foreseen that this place would definitely become the focus of competition between the two sides, so he spent a lot of energy to strengthen all the commanding heights here for a round, and deployed a large number of firepower points.

It was the 49th Division of the Jinsui Army that attacked here. From September 9th to 17th, the two sides fought fiercely around this place.

The 49th Division of the Shanxi-Sui Army temporarily attacked the train station dozens of times, but each attack was repulsed by the fierce Japanese firepower. When the battle was at its most intense, the Japanese even let the wounded bind explosives on their bodies to attack the attacking troops. Make a countercharge.

On the 20th, before the attack, it was still full of staff, and more than half of the provisional 49th Division, which had a strength of over 49, had lost more than half. Wei Yukun, the division commander, even tearfully begged the Joint Index to show mercy in a phone call to Yang Aiyuan of the Joint Index. The temporary [-]th division was withdrawn to rest.

After another fierce battle

On a street that has been bombed into ruins more than 500 meters away from the headquarters of the Japanese First Army, there are countless corpses of soldiers killed on both sides scattered on the battlefield. Occasionally, some injured wounded can be heard wailing among the dead bodies. There were continuous bursts of painful groans in the pile.

"The first company and the second company defended on the spot, and the third company immediately searched for the wounded, and quickly sent the injured Jinsui army brothers down."

Yan Xiaofu, the commander of the Fifth Battalion of the Liantai Militia, who was carrying a submachine gun, shouted loudly facing the shocking battlefield. Looking at the only remaining soldiers of the Jinsui Army standing among the corpses, even Yan Xiaofu could be regarded as one who was killed in a sea of ​​blood. Can't help but feel a burst of shock.

A sergeant of the Jinsui Army covered in blood stood up and looked at the corpses in front of him, holding his head in pain and screaming. When he found that he was stepping on an arm that was blown away, tears could not stop flowing from his face. down.

"Sir...sir...rep... gun..." Intermittent groans came from the pile of corpses not far from him.

Following the voice, Yan Xiaofu walked to the pile of corpses, pushed away a dead body, and saw a Jinsui Army soldier whose waist was blown off, with white intestines protruding and dragged several meters away.

Seeing the soldier's miserable condition, the blood-covered Jinsui Army sergeant not far away ran over and tried to pick him up. As soon as he picked him up, he heard the comrade in his arms screaming in pain.

"Brother...give...give me..."

"This brother, give him two more injections of painkillers! It's hopeless." A health soldier from the Liantai militia saw this scene and came to him and reminded him kindly.

"Go away... the stretcher, hurry up and bring the stretcher, brother, brother, take you home, take you back to your hometown, let's go home."

The red-eyed sergeant turned his head and roared with murderous intent, hugging his comrade tightly in his arms and crying.

In this era when Mandarin is not popular, the Jinsui army is the same as most domestic warlords' armies. Most of the squads and platoons are fellow villagers who speak the same hometown dialect. The family relationship with the same villagers makes them rarely abandon themselves on the battlefield. brother behavior.

Yan Xiaofu heard the roar of the Jinsui army sergeant, sighed and said to the health soldier beside him: "Give him a stretcher, and bandage his wound by the way."

"Painkiller...painkiller."

The hygienist rummaged through the medicine box he carried with him for a while before finding a small box, and took out a painkiller needle like a small toothpaste tube from it.This one-time painkiller is actually a morphine injection, and every Liantai militia soldier has one in his first aid kit.

This kind of painkiller needle is actually the "Sillet Morphine Hypodermic Syringe" produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb.

This thing is like a mini tube of toothpaste.

There is 32 mg of morphine in it, the mouth of the tube is sealed, and a double-ended needle is installed in the front. When in use, press the needle to break the seal, and then inject it under the skin.

It's just that when the health soldier was about to give the wounded soldier an injection of morphine, he found that the wounded soldier had stopped breathing at some point.

"what……"

Looking at the soldier with livid face and eyes closed, the sergeant finally couldn't help crying out.

Looking at the sergeant who was crying bitterly, Yan Xiaofu comforted him: "Okay, don't be sad, brother, you have played very well these days, and the joint referee specially sent a report to praise your division. And Commander Yang also said, you go down to rest After that, they will give you priority to replenish your soldiers and supplies.

Leave the next battle to us, we will definitely avenge you! "

More than ten minutes later, watching the soldiers of the provisional 49th Division retreat from the battlefield step by step while supporting each other, Yan Xiaofu was in a very complicated mood.

The battle to regain Taiyuan has been going on for more than half a month. In order to compete for this most important city in Shanxi, the two sides have invested more than 20 troops.

In the past half a month, the coalition forces have suffered more than 3 casualties. Although the specific number of casualties of the Japanese army is unknown, the coalition command estimates that they are definitely no less than them.

It can be said that this battle has become a meat grinder, and both sides have continuously invested their vital forces into the city, causing thousands of casualties every day.

Such huge casualties not only made Gao Hongming, Yang Aiyuan, Master Liu and others eyelids twitch with distress, but even the Japanese couldn't bear it.

The Tokyo base camp directly transferred Neiji Okamura back to the mainland in the name of debriefing, and the command was temporarily handed over to Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teichi, commander of the First Army, and Anda 23, chief of staff of the North China Front Army.

But the two people who took over the command were not happy at all. In his opinion, the battle has now been fought like this, and the move by the headquarters is obviously to let them take the blame.

Ever since, Yoshimoto Sadaichi and Adachi 23 made a total calculation, and directly played a trick on the new commander of the North China Front Army, Naozaburo Okabe, who had just arrived in Peiping. In the past two days, they have done everything from small to small troop mobilization to operational command. , No matter what, ask Naozaburo Okabe for instructions.

Naozaburo Okabe was furious, even though his teeth were itching with hatred, but it was not easy to attack.

After all, on the surface, these two people did this to respect him as the commander. You can't get angry just because someone asked you for instructions, right?
Ever since, in the midst of asking for instructions, the Japanese army's territory became less and less, and the entire Taiyuan was about to fall into the hands of the coalition forces.

However, when the coalition forces attacked the Japanese army headquarters, they finally encountered crazy resistance from the Japanese army. The coalition forces fought for several days in a row but failed to take down the headquarters, and instead lost a lot of troops.

In the end, several bigwigs from the coalition headquarters discussed and withdrew the temporary 49th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, and let the 129th Brigade of the 386th Division and the three infantry battalions of the Liantai Militia Corps launch the final general attack on the Japanese Army Command.

(End of this chapter)