The new 38th Division is not the Central Army, the troops are in the three-three system, with ten people in one squad and thirty people in one squad, and a division has a total of more than 8,000 people. Due to the years of war in the Yimeng Mountain area, and the Japanese poisonous bomb attack not long ago,
Only more than 7,000 people were left. This time, when the Japanese and puppet troops attacked heavily, two regiments were lost in less than a day. Moreover, the Japanese and puppet troops surrounded each other in many places, obviously trying to wipe out the troops. Commander Ma was anxious and went to the scene one after another.
The superior sent an emergency telegram for help. If the commission had not given a dead order to hold his position, he would have ordered to break through and escape while the enemy's encirclement had not been formed.
Looking at the telegram from the commissioner to ensure the safety of the interview team, Commander Ma smiled bitterly: "The enemy's heavy troops are approaching. Once all defense lines are broken, I will be unable to protect myself if I cross the river. How can I still have the ability to deal with these burdens?"
The Chief of Staff comforted him: "The interview team is both a burden and a life-saving talisman. There are so many Chinese and foreign journalists here, and the Chairman will never sit idly by."
Commander Ma nodded, hoping that the top of the mountain would send a powerful Central Army unit to rescue the siege. He had no confidence in other troops. Compared with the Central Army, the weapons and equipment and soldiers' combat effectiveness were more than one level different from that of the Central Army.
Due to the different treatment of the chairman, the weapons and weapons of non-central troops are often not supplemented in time by the government. The war loss is mainly borne by the troops themselves. Once the troops are defeated and the remaining personnel will be dispersed to other troops after they are defeated.
.This is also one of the important reasons why the warlords often retreated without fighting during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the coordinated combat between the troops was not bad. If a miscellaneous unit was sent to reinforce, Commander Ma had sufficient reason to believe that the reinforcements were definitely slowing down all the way.
If you encounter obstacles, you will stop moving forward and even retreat by excuses, because he has done this before.
Before hearing the reinforcements, the Japanese and puppet troops' attacks became more and more fierce, and they launched attacks from multiple directions. The three brigades of Commander Ma were all engaged in the battle, and there was only one battalion's reserve team left by his side.
and a guard battalion.
The regiment that had defended on the front line was beaten to only one battalion, and then retreated to the mountain for several hours to repair. After replenishing ammunition, it found that a position in the northwest corner was about to be broken through by the enemy, so it was immediately blocked. The light and heavy weapons opened fire together.
Still unable to stop the attacks of the Japanese, and seeing that the position was about to be lost again, the regiment commander was a Shandong man, and his eyes were red. He picked up the bayonet and yelled: "Grandma's fight with the Japanese, and avenges the dead brothers.
!” He personally led the team out of the trenches to fight with the Japanese.
The regiment commander and the soldiers roared and rushed into the enemy formation, but the strength of the enemy and us was very different. The Japanese army had excellent skills in the slaughter battle. Only two or three national soldiers could knock down one Japanese devil. The Japanese had the advantage of the number of people, and the soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
The soldier was stabbed several times, hugged the Japanese and pulled the grenade on his body, and died with the enemy. In order to protect the regiment commander, the guards were stabbed into a blood gourd by the Japanese. The regiment commander smashed a Japanese man's face with a spoil, and he returned his hand to a knife.
The Japanese stabbed into the chest of the guards. Before he could pull out the bayonet, two Japanese guns stabbed into his chest and abdomen at the same time.
Fortunately, the two battalions sent by the regiment commander Xie arrived in time, and hundreds of long and short weapons were approaching the Japanese army to shoot, and then they once again repelled the enemy and saved their positions.
The smoke of gunpowder has not yet dissipated, and both sides began to transport their own bodies and seriously injured people. At first, the two armies still had a tacit understanding and did not open fire at each other's corpse transport troops. A seriously injured Japanese soldier refused to be carried away and took the lead in shooting at the national army.
This tacit understanding made the corpse transport troops on both sides fight into a regiment immediately, and dozens of corpses were added to the position. The seriously injured Japanese soldier was shot dead by his commander.
Major General Kimura was confused and paid the price of nearly a thousand casualties from the Japanese and Imperial Army. The defense line of the National Military Advisor, which was not strong in firepower, was not broken by the entire line, and the enemy did not escape according to the route he expected. He adjusted his combat plan,
Temporarily stop the charge of the troops, use superior artillery fire to intensively bombard the enemy's exposed fire points.
There was no enemy charge in front of the position. Some of the soldiers of the National Army repaired fortifications, some jumped out of the trenches and collected weapons and ammunition in front of the position. Some soldiers who were tired were lying on the ground smoking on their backs, enjoying the rare peace.
Suddenly, the Japanese artillery shells made a terrifying roar, and the explosions were shocking. Fires on the national military positions soared into the sky, thick smoke rolled, and corpses and mudstones flew into the air one after another.
Commander Xie's troops have rich combat experience, strong and hidden fortifications, and there are few casualties in offensive and defensive battles. However, although the fortifications are not afraid of the attacks of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, they cannot withstand the bombing of Japanese large-caliber howitzers, most of which are exposed.
The firepower point was destroyed, and the soldiers' casualties were instantly hundreds of. The soil in the collapsed fortifications was dyed red by blood, and more than a dozen light and heavy machine gunners and their weapons were blown into pieces.
The tents set up by temporary hospitals were crowded, and the wounded were wailing and moaning on the grass outside on the stretcher outside.
The phone ringing and telegram ticking in the command post of the division headquarters, and the angrily scolding of Commander Ma was a mess.
Most of the Chinese and foreign journalists interviewed the group were so scared that they hid in a cave near the division headquarters. A small number of bold and dedicated journalists either used telescopes to observe the battle situation in the shelter, or used telephoto lenses to shoot bloody battlefield scenes.
Wu Li grew up in an army environment. She was not as scared as her timid colleagues so much that she hid in the cave. She also kept taking pictures with tears in the shelter with her father's imported camera. The first time she was doing it.
He witnessed the tragic war scene with his own eyes and was heartbroken for the large number of casualties of the national army soldiers.
British war correspondent Wells saw the bodies of national soldiers all over the mountains and the broken positions from the telescope, and said to the officers of the new 38th Division: "The power gap between the enemy and us is too great, and your troops are commendable in combat, but whether it is firepower,
Military qualities, including soldiers' stinging skills, are not on the same level as the Japanese army, and their military strength is also at a disadvantage. Let your superiors give up meaningless resistance and surrender to reduce unnecessary sacrifices."
He believes that the outcome of this battle is no suspense, and he just wants to contact this interview as soon as possible. Whoever wins and loses in the army of China and Japan does not pose a threat to his life. After all, no national army dares to publicly kill foreign journalists.
What he was afraid of was killed by invisible stray bullets during the chaos.
The accompanying officer looked embarrassed. Wu Li stood up and said indignantly: "Mr. Wells, I dare not agree with your point of view. First, the crimes of the Japanese army's violating the Geneva Convention and slaughtering prisoners of war are known to everyone. Surrender is equivalent to sending the troops to
The Japanese army was under the butcher knife; second, the battle has not yet ended, and the winner has not been decided. I guess if nothing unexpected happens, the Chinese reinforcements will arrive immediately. Let us, as war correspondents, wait and see what the changes are going on!"