Chapter 341 The mopping up of the 30th Infantry Brigade
Author: Entertainment Cat
Chapter 341 The mopping up of the 30th Infantry Brigade
When the commanders of the Sixth Division and the Sixteenth Division issued orders to intensify the raids on Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai and other places, including accelerating the offensive operations against Zhonghua Gate, the Japanese army also redeployed a brigade of aircraft.
, carry out bombing operations. At the same time, carry out direct artillery bombardment from the left and right sides to the hiding place of the remaining teaching team in Zijin Mountain.
In addition to the heavy artillery bombardment of Zijin Mountain, the Japanese army also dispatched another heavy artillery regiment to assist the various artillery units in the Zhonghuamen area, as well as the aerial bombardment of the Japanese aircraft group, and together they carried out comprehensive artillery fire coverage and bombing baptism operations.
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Suddenly, both the last defensive position of Purple Mountain and the defensive position around Zhonghua Gate were bombarded by heavy artillery shells flying all over the sky. Fires shot into the sky, rocks flew into the sky, miserable howls, voices of the dead, and cries were everywhere.
Howling sounds are everywhere.
"Hold on! You must hold on! The Zhonghua Gate side has not fallen yet. As long as we hold on for a few hours, reinforcements will come to support our battle!"
"As soon as the reinforcements arrive, we can continue to regain the lost territory of Zijin Mountain and drive out all these damn Japanese troops!"
Li Kaixi, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Teaching Corps, was shouting commands at the air defense trench at the top of his lungs.
At the same time, there were dozens of remnants beside him, shaking the dirt, sand and gravel off their heads and bodies, while preparing to fight to the death with the incoming Japanese mopping up troops.
Even the last hidden position where they are now, which was bombed by the Japanese heavy artillery group, is full of charred ruins, corpses everywhere, and thick gunpowder smoke everywhere.
But they still persisted until the last moment,
"Captain!"
"It's not good! In the entire teaching corps, we are the only ones who have not surrendered to the Japanese's mopping up troops, or have not escaped. Now the Japanese's mopping up troops are attacking us from both front and rear. We are responsible for the brothers in the rear.
, there are less than 30 brothers left, what should we do now?"
Just as the regiment leader Li Kaixi was trying his best to direct the front, the troops were getting smaller and smaller, and they were tenaciously resisting the Japanese artillery bombing and the Japanese infantry who were about to launch another attack.
Li Ziyang, the communications soldier under his command, also looked frightened and disgraced, and ran up to him to report on the emergency situation.
"What a bloody devil! I'll call the brigade commander right away and ask him to send some reinforcements to support us!"
After hearing this,
The regiment leader Li Kaixi was also shocked. He immediately picked up the field phone next to him irritably and started shaking it desperately. However, no matter how he called, there was still no one at the brigade headquarters to answer the phone.
Regarding this, he also had a bad premonition in his heart.
But at this moment, his phone call suddenly came through.
"Brigadier! Brigadier! I'm asking for support! I'm asking for support!"
"We are about to kill all the brothers here. Please support us in the battle. As long as we can get to the Zhonghua Gate to dispatch reinforcements, my mother will be able to continue to hold on to Purple Mountain and even drive out all the Japanese troops!"
As soon as the call was connected, the regiment leader Li Kaixi desperately shouted for reinforcements.
"The brigade commander and the others have escaped a long time ago. Now I am the only one left here, preparing to pull grenades and wipe out the Japanese troops to kill them all!"
"So you wish yourselves the best of luck! There will be no reinforcements!"
But for the leader Li Kaixi, who complained every day and was unresponsive, the reply he got was the bad news that his superior had already escaped without notifying him.
"Damn it! How could they escape at such a critical moment of combat?"
"We are the teaching team, we are the elite!"
"Purple Mountain cannot fail. Once this place is completely occupied, not only the Zhonghua Gate will be in danger, but even the entire city will be in danger!"
After hearing such bad news that he couldn't accept,
The head of the regiment leader Li Kaixi was buzzing like five thunders.
His thoughts were confused and he cursed with disbelief on his face.
But there was only one sound from the phone in his hand, a deafening explosion "Boom!"!
That was the sound of a grenade exploding.
But in the end, after he came to his senses, he quickly hung up the phone and took the remaining troops around him to confront those comrades who had died thousands of times.
The few remaining officers and soldiers quickly evacuated the Zijin Mountain position.
And at this time,
After observing the Zijinshan Mountain position where he was shelling and bombing, and the last hiding place where the remaining troops of the teaching corps were holding fast, such an unusual behavior occurred,
Major General Sasaki, the elite Japs ace of the mopping up force this time, also held up military binoculars and constantly observed the direction in which the regiment leader Li Kaixi and the others were leaving.
Major General Sasaki is the brigade commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division.
Originally, he had led his elite Japanese troops to sweep the Purple Mountain for two days, but they still had not completely occupied the place. There were still some tenacious troops from the teaching corps who were resisting their sweep attack.
Although they also killed a lot of surrendered officers and soldiers of the teaching corps, or officers and soldiers who resisted tenaciously, they were still a little short of being able to complete the combat mission assigned to them by Commander Matsui Iwane.
"Hey! What are the remaining troops of the China Training Corps doing?"
"Their main position on the Zhonghua Gate side has not been completely captured yet, but why did they flee while they were holding on here?"
"What's going on? Are you really covered in fire from our heavy artillery group and are you frightened?"
Seeing that their side had been fighting for a long time and was still unable to attack the remaining troops of the teaching corps, the hidden positions held by them all fled under their heavy artillery bombardment.
Seeing this,
Major General Sasaki muttered in confusion.
"Forget it! Send me a reconnaissance force immediately to investigate what is going on. Now is the most critical moment for us to attack the last defensive line of the China Army. We must not lose face to our commander-in-chief!"
"Be sure to be careful of these cunning Chinese troops. They are deceitful and cannot be ambushed by them!"
But after some observation,
Major General Sasaki still gave the order immediately to dispatch reconnaissance troops to attack the battlefield.
"Hai!"
The Japs officer Xingtian Xingtai of the reconnaissance force beside him quickly nodded in agreement.
Then, he followed the order and left in a hurry.
"Are our heavy mortar units ready?"
Then, Major General Sasaki asked Miyano Mamoru, another Japanese officer beside him.
"It's ready! You can attack at any time!"
Japs officer Miyano Mamoru responded.
"Okay! Now I am dispatching your heavy mortar brigade to carry out support operations. Without heavy artillery attacks, all the Chinese Army positions in Zijin Mountain that stubbornly resist us will be insurmountable, let alone the various city gates of the Chinese Army!"
"In addition, the 33rd Regiment is also cooperating with you in the mopping up operations. It must fully occupy this place after the sun goes down today, and assist the troops on the front line to defeat the Zhonghua Gate side as well!"
"Your Highness, you are absolutely unwilling to give up your first-class achievement of breaching the city gate of the China Army to the rest of the army!"
"So our Sixteenth Division must fulfill his expectations for our first achievement!"
Major General Sasaki's eyes narrowed and he gave the final combat order to the Japanese officer Miyano Mamoru.
"Hai!"
Japanese officer Miyano Mamoru responded and left.
Major General Sasaki continued to raise the military telescope in his hand and continued to observe the mopping up operations on the front line.
At this time, there were still many remaining officers and soldiers of the teaching corps, but they continued to rush out from Zijin Mountain, preparing to tear a gap in the 30th Japanese Infantry Brigade and fight their way out of the encirclement.
At the same time, the small number of Sichuan troops deployed by He Feiyang in Zijin Mountain were also watching the battle in front of Zijin Mountain, which was increasingly at a disadvantage, and they were holding on to the weapons and equipment in their hands, ready to kill the Japanese at any time.