The Red War God of Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 249 The Bloody Battle in Teng County 4

However, this seemingly evenly matched state did not last long.With powerful firepower and precise shooting, the Japanese army gradually gained the upper hand. The machine gunners of the national army were killed one by one by the Japanese army, and the Hanyang construction of the national army was no match for Sanba Dagai. In about half an hour, the Japanese army, including At first, only more than 80 people were killed or injured by the machine gun raid of the national army, but the national army has lost more than 180 people.

"Lao She, you go to the regiment headquarters to ask for reinforcements, we may not last long!" Li Xiangyun watched the soldiers in the trenches die one by one under the guns of the Japanese army. The number of soldiers on his side was getting smaller and smaller, as long as the Japanese army came to charge again , the position will definitely be breached.And what he said was obviously to leave the chance of life to Xie Bochang, the commander of the 2nd company.

"No, Lao Li, you go. You are better at fighting than I am, so leave a useful body to fight the devils!" Xie Bochang was unmoved. After speaking, he grabbed a machine gun and ran a few steps towards the Japanese army, " Come on, little devil, come here!"

"Soldier hook!" Xie Bochang hadn't finished firing the bullets before he was shot by the devil in the abdomen. Obviously, the guy who fired the shot was hiding deeply, and the sky was already very dark, so Xie Bochang had no defense.

"Old Xie—" Li Xiangyun yelled in shock, flew forward and threw Xie Bochang into the trench.

"Company commander—" The few remaining soldiers of the 2nd company saw that the company commander was shot, and rushed forward one after another...

"Look, the devils have retreated..." At this moment, a soldier with good eyesight saw the devils lying on the ground retreating one after another, and at this time there was no sound of "soldier hook" from the devils. Only the crooked machine gun is still roaring.

"Company commander, are you chasing?" Li Yiqian, the platoon leader of the 4th company and 1st platoon, had an idea when he saw the devils retreating.

"Don't chase, the devils have not been seriously injured. And today, it was just their tentative attack." After a little analysis, Li Xiangyun knew the Japanese army's plan.

In this small confrontation outside Teng County, the Japanese army killed more than 30 people and injured nearly 50 people; while the Chinese side killed more than 80 people and injured nearly 100 people, including 2 platoon leaders among the dead.If you do not consider the effective killing of the Japanese army after the adjustment of the machine gun position, the casualty ratio between the enemy and the enemy will be greater.

Perhaps, some people will feel that the casualties of the national army are less, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has not yet been reflected.However, we must pay attention to the fact that in wars, under normal circumstances, the sacrifice of the offensive side is greater than that of the defensive side, because the defensive side has a favorable location anyway and always has some advantages.

Moreover, the Japanese army did not use their heavy artillery and tanks in this small tentative attack. It was a complete company-level confrontation. Then, in this small battle, it is hard to say how many people from the two companies of the national army can survive.

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The Japanese army is pressing down on the border this time, and the attack point is definitely not just the county seat of Tengxian County. In fact, the combat mission of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army is to defeat or annihilate Deng Xihou’s 22nd Army, take Tengxian County, and then follow Weishan , Lincheng direction, join forces with the 108th Division and 110th Division in the Taierzhuang area, and then join the Japanese 3rd Army of Yamashita Fengwen to wipe out the main force of the national army in the Xuzhou area.

Deng Xihou, a native of Yingshan, Sichuan, was previously one of the four major warlords in Sichuan (Liu Xiang, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao). After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, his unit was reorganized into the 22nd Army and led his troops out of Sichuan to fight against Japan.

第22集团军下辖41军、45军两个军，邓锡侯担任集团军司令并兼45军军长，孙震担任副司令并兼任41军军长。

Historically, Deng Xihou and Liu Xiang rushed to aid Shanxi, but in parallel time and space Shanxi was not invaded by the Japanese army on a large scale, so Deng Xihou's 22nd Army was sent to southern Shandong, and the headquarters of the group army was located in Lincheng (by the Weishan Lake).

In this battle, the 41nd and 122rd divisions under the jurisdiction of the 123st Army were responsible for defending Tengxian County and its west side to Dushan Lake, while the 45th Army was responsible for defending the Shahe and Sangcun lines in the west of Tengxian County. more than one kilometer.

Therefore, if the 20th Division of the Japanese Army wants to cross this line of defense, Tengxian County, defended by Wang Mingzhang's 122nd Division, must be the focus of its attack. As long as it breaks through the defense of Tengxian County, the defense line of the national army will be truncated into left and right sections. , so that it cannot form a whole, and the various departments of the 22nd Army will fall into a situation of fighting on their own.

对于第五战区司令长官李宗仁要求第22集团军在滕县一线阻敌5天的任务（真实的历史上坚持了3天），不只是邓锡侯没有信心，就是孙震、王铭章这些高级将领同样没有信心。别看第22集团军差不多有5万人，而日军20师团只有第22集团军的一半，但日军的装备却是第22集团军拍马也追不上的。

If the central army of the national army, such as Tang Enbo's 20th Army, came to guard, the situation might be better; however, the 20th Army is the trump card army of the Nationalist government. It may be the first to send the ace unit to the battlefield. This is not a question of the commander wanting to preserve his strength, but the embodiment of Tian Ji's "horse racing tactics" on the battlefield.

The national army first blocked and consumed the main force of the Japanese army with miscellaneous troops, and when the miscellaneous troops were exhausted and unable to fight again, and the main force of the devils was exhausted, the national army then attacked with the main force in order to defeat or annihilate the Japanese army.

Such a tactic cannot be said to be wrong.However, even if the national army uses the main force to confront the devils, it may not be able to achieve the planned strategic victory.To put it bluntly, it is still the gap in the overall national strength of China and Japan.

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A tentative battle in the evening caused the 122nd Division to suffer heavy losses, and it also made these Sichuan Army brothers feel the strength of the Japanese army for the first time, and felt the difference between the national war and the civil war.In a national war, even if the army is finished, it is not allowed to take a step back; in a national war, it means bloodshed and sacrifice!As soon as Wang Mingzhang received the task of defending Tengxian County, he knew that in the entire 22nd Army, the 122nd Division had the most difficult task and the greatest sacrifice.

However, there is no one who survives a war. Since you are a soldier, you must have the consciousness of "buying loyal bones everywhere in the green hills, so why return them wrapped in horse leather".Wang Mingzhang himself, as a man of the Sichuan Army, was also ready to sacrifice.

After dark, Wang Mingzhang went to the ambulance station to visit the injured soldiers. Although there were junior officers like Li Xiangyun who could fight, the huge casualties still made him feel a little heavy.

"Report to the division commander, someone is looking for it." Just as Wang Mingzhang returned to the division command post, the adjutant said suddenly.

"Someone is looking, who?" Wang Mingzhang instinctively believed that some of his brigade and regiment commanders could not bear the pressure of the tragic battlefield and wanted to "ask for leave".Pull your hair out, this battle hasn't started yet!

"Tell him to come in!" Wang Mingzhang said in a bad tone, he wanted to see which bastard wanted to get away.

"Colonel Xu, please come in!" The adjutant shouted politely to the door.

"Colonel Xu? How can there be a Colonel Xu in the 122nd division?" Wang Mingzhang was a little confused.

"Report to General Wang. I am Xu Jingye, Colonel and Captain of the 2nd Brigade of the Lightning Force of the National Defense Forces. I am here to report to you under the order of General Wu Aihua, Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Forces!"

"National Defense Forces? Lightning Troops? Xu Jingye?" Wang Mingzhang was startled, but asked coldly, "What are you doing here? This is a battlefield!"

"General Wang, these are weapons and ammunition approved by Commander-in-Chief Wu for your ministry." Xu Jingye was not angry because of Wang Mingzhang's indifference, but took out a "gift list" that he had prepared long ago.

"75 8mm German Krupp mountain guns, 37 12mm Japanese anti-aircraft guns, 60 24mm guns, 200 submachine guns, and 3 base ammunition for each weapon..." Wang Mingzhang read word by word, and finished reading Then he glanced at Xu Jingye and said, "On behalf of the 22nd Army, I would like to thank Commander-in-Chief Wu!" Then he said to the adjutant, "Adjutant, send these weapons to the army headquarters!"

Among these weapons, squad machine guns are not included.A few days ago, the squad machine gun was still a secret weapon of the National Defense Forces. Although a small amount may have fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, Wu Aihua still did not include the squad machine gun in the list of weapons traded or given away.

Xu Jingye looked at Wang Mingzhang's arrangement, and said again: "General Wang, General Deng Xihou, we have another gift list, which is specially given to the 122nd Division."

"Another gift list?" Wang Mingzhang was silent, what is Wu Aihua going to do, is he trying to win over me or the Sichuan Army?If so, should these things be necessary or not, but if not, these things are the nemesis of devils!

Wang Mingzhang fell into a dilemma and remained silent for a while.

This time, Xu Jingye and Chen Dajun, the captain of the 3rd brigade, led nearly 400 people from the two brigades into the 5th theater. Sending weapons to the Sichuan army was only one of the small tasks.

These weapons are the result of the "Amorous Customs Bureau"'s national layout in the past two years, especially in areas that the Japanese army may occupy. For collections, if they are asked to transport the 75mm mountain cannon directly from the south to Lunan, it would be an overkill to kill a chicken.

The real task of the two special warfare brigades was the same as the previous task on the Shanghai-Nanjing front line. It was to cooperate with the intelligence officers of the Customs Bureau to find out the location of the Japanese army's baggage, artillery and armored units, and then provide the information to the air force at the northern base of the National Defense Forces.

The strategy the Air Force will adopt is still on-site night bombing.Because at night, it is easy to lock the target.If the target is bombed during the day, there is a time lag between the intelligence and the arrival of the aircraft, and the target can move at any time, and the Air Force is more likely to lose the target.At night, the devils are generally in a stable overnight stay, and the planes are bombed one by one.

By the way, the devil thinks that the aircraft can be launched into the air at night by installing radar, but in fact this is just a fantasy.At present, even the Air Force of the National Defense Forces can only bomb at night, and it also needs to be guided by the fire at the location; Performance will also be greatly reduced.