Ge Youcai was injured in the last battle in Chengnan a month ago.
The scene of "a lieutenant general and a division commander shirtless going into battle to kill Japanese soldiers" that was once exaggerated by newspapers was really staged.
It was not that Ge Youcai wanted to boost morale, but that as the 10th battle to recapture Zhangjiashan began, he no longer had any available troops.
The 4 infantry regiments under the 10th Division and the 3 main regiments, 28th Regiment, 30th Regiment, and 31st Regiment, have all been disabled. The only supplementary regiment, the 29th Regiment, had less than one infantry company as early as the 10th. The guard company directly under the regiment headquarters
There was less than one guard platoon, and it was still on the front line of the Tiger Nest.
The main position of Zhangjiashan was lost 9 times and retaken 9 times. The top of the mountain was already covered with corpses of both China and Japan. This was one of the reasons why the Pre-10th Division suffered such heavy casualties.
Zhangjiashan cannot be lost. If it is lost, the entire southern position with Zhangjiashan as the core will be breached. Huangchaling, which hangs alone outside the main position, will no longer have the protection of its rear wing and will become an isolated island.
There are hundreds of elite soldiers from the Four Lines Regiment there!
Although the Pre-10th Division received permission from the headquarters to withdraw to Hengyang City at any time, Ge Youcai looked at the smoke-filled Huangcha Ridge and finally decided to seize Zhangjiashan again.
It's just that that time, he no longer had regiment commanders or battalion commanders to send. Of the three main regiment commanders under his command, one was seriously injured and two died. Nine battalion commanders, six were killed, one was seriously injured, and two were killed.
People in Wugui Ridge and Tiger Nest.
In fact, the headquarters of the Preliminary 10th Division is already empty because the infantry regiment is extremely short of officers, and all officers above the rank of lieutenant in the division headquarters have been filled into the front-line units.
His men only had the remnants of two infantry companies who had retreated from Zhangjiashan, and the last 60 people from his division, including signal corps, cooks, maintenance corps, grooms, etc.
"Damn it, scholars really don't have any good things. I will take care of the things that don't happen. Now it's better. I really want to go into battle shirtless this time."
The army lieutenant general took off his general uniform, tied up his armed belt, inserted two pistols into his waist, inserted a large knife into his back, and picked up a submachine gun, and then vomited on the ground in front of the soldiers who were in their early 200s.
Phlegm in the mouth.
"Let's go, I, the lieutenant general and company commander, take back the position!"
"Yes!" Under the moonlight, the whole army was solemn.
Dozens of large and small cannons in Hengyang City focused on Zhangjiashan, blowing up the position that once belonged to Chinese soldiers into a sea of flames.
The Japanese troops hiding in the ruins of the remaining trenches were also numb!
This kind of scene has been staged almost every two days in the past 20 days. Either the Japanese bombed or the Chinese bombed. Anyway, as long as there are opponents on this hill, artillery shells are frequent visitors on this hill. This is not
There were at least 50,000 shells falling on the big hill.
At this time, any talk about fortifications or lack of fortifications is simply a joke. Any permanent fortifications under this kind of artillery fire are nonsense. Even the trenches are reduced to one section or a section in front of this kind of artillery fire. It is impossible to be coherent at all. There are countless
The huge crater is a good place to hide.
More than 200 Chinese soldiers rushed to the top of the mountain amid artillery fire, using rifles, submachine guns, pistols, grenades, bayonets and machetes to kill all enemies in different military uniforms.
Repeat position!
But only 90 people can survive!
Ge Youcai, commander of the 10th Preliminary Division, was shot in the chest and was seriously injured until death!
The injury was so serious that he didn't even have time to be transported to a field hospital. Tantai Mingyue personally took three military doctors to the Yanhuifeng air-raid shelter and performed surgery on him in the simple air-raid shelter, saving his life.
The first thing he asked after waking up was: "How many troops do we have left in our unit?"
No one dared to answer his question, for fear of irritating the dying man, who would die not only from Japanese bullets, but from a burst wound.
It wasn't until Tang Dao came to see him a week later that he told him the number that made him silent for two days.
Today, the Army Lieutenant General, who was able to sit up after drinking some rice porridge, finally asked his superior: "When will the reinforcements arrive?"
"My guard Yu Ying, the one known as Silly Bird, is also dead. He was not killed by the Japanese. He didn't want to live anymore because there is no one alive in my guard platoon!" Ge You
Then he murmured.
After Ge Youcai was seriously injured and fell into coma, his guard platoon withdrew from Zhangjiashan and handed over the position to the infantry battalion that came to support from other positions. However, within two days, Xichan Temple was in emergency and served as the last reserve team of the division. However,
The 30-man guard platoon of the 10th Preliminary Division pushed forward again.
But this time, they never came back.
Yu Ying is a soldier Ge Youcai picked up three years ago. He is tall and powerful, but there seems to be something wrong with his brain. When he saw the large army marching, he walked in on his own initiative. The military regulations of the 10th Division were very strict, so that was not the case.
Kicked him out and almost didn't execute him on the spot.
Ge Youcai, who happened to be the leader of the regiment, saw him and called him over, intending to get this stupid guy away with a steamed bun. However, when Yu Ying saw the steamed bun, he refused to leave and followed the army.
Twenty meters to the side, he rested when the army rested and walked away when the army left. Ge Youcai had no choice but to call him over and ask him what he would do.
The stupid big man didn't say much. He hugged his arms and directly carried a heavy machine gun and walked around for a long time. And this was without having a full meal. Ge Youcai was so happy. He is stupid.
It didn't matter, he was strong enough to help him, the leader of the regiment, carry things, so he took in the idiot soldier he sent to his door on the spot.
Unexpectedly, this idiot soldier, who was later called Silly Bird, relied on his own strength to develop a special trait. He could throw grenades far and accurately, just like a human mortar, so he was released.
He became Ge Youcai's bodyguard when he arrived at the guard line, and followed Ge Youcai through life and death on the battlefield several times.
As a result, Ge Youcai was seriously injured this time, and the guard platoon was ordered to defend the Xichan Temple position. After the Japanese army could not attack for a long time, they actually used 105 howitzers to bombard the position.
Silly Bird was stunned. When he woke up, he found that he was almost buried in the floating soil raised by the shells. There was no one around him, and the Japanese army on the opposite side had already begun to charge.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The stupid bird jumped into the trench, grabbed two boxes of grenades and started throwing them. He threw 40 in one go. He relied on these 40 grenades to defeat the Japanese army.
The charge was repulsed.
Until an infantry platoon comes back to support him, he can leave after completing his defensive mission.
But when the supporting infantry platoon searched everywhere, they found out that the Japanese 105 howitzer was too terrifying. All three anti-gun holes hidden by the guard platoon were hit, except for the idiot who was counting his own grenades in the rear trench.
, all the others died in the battle.
The stupid bird cried loudly and refused to leave the position, even if a major battalion commander who came to the position later persuaded him to do so.
In the end, Silly Bird fought on that position for a day and a night, and the reinforcements were replaced three times, but he did not leave.
Until finally, the defenders on the Saizenji position were ordered to evacuate, but the idiot, whose leg was blown off, refused to leave. His only request was to give him a grenade.
This famously idiot guard of the Pre-10th Division obtained the last two boxes of grenades on the position.
The explosion of grenades lasted for a full 10 minutes, until finally, there was thick smoke and a loud boom in the distance.
No one saw how Silly Bird died in the end, but everyone could guess how he died. There were six grenades tied to his waist.
If there weren't so many grenades, there would never have been such a high smoke column.
"Sir, all my brothers are almost dead! They are almost dead! Dog Day's reinforcements are turtles, they must have crawled over in the past three months!"
Speaking of this, the tears in the eyes of an army lieutenant general ran unscrupulously on his face!
Fang Xianjue held the cold hands of his trusted subordinate and was speechless for a long time.
He also wanted to ask this question, but he was completely tired of what the man had been repeating for the past 50 days: "Reinforcements will arrive tomorrow!"
Reinforcements are far away.
Does the Hengyang garrison still have a way to survive?
Is it really like what the young army colonel said with great certainty: "Yes! If you fight to the end, you can survive?"
But they have been fighting bloody battles in this city for 90 days. The more than 20,000 troops now have less than 4,000 fighting troops. 50,000 young men have added nearly 15,000 troops. Most of them died in the battle. The number of wounded in the city alone is as high as 16,000.
, and the number of wounded people dying every day even exceeds those who died on the front line. Doesn’t this count as a bloody battle to the end?
So what is a bloody battle to the end?
Do you want everyone in this city to die?
Can the city of Hengyang alone bury so many corpses?
Fang Xianjue joined the army 20 years ago and has experienced countless hard and bloody battles. When he thinks of these 90 days of bloody battles, his heart is shaken and his eyes are filled with bitterness.
In fact, at this point in the war, it was not just the Chinese commander Fang Xianjue who was suffering.
The commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Yokoyama Isamu, was in the trench less than 1,800 meters away from Fang Xianjue.
Under the dim moonlight, the Japanese army lieutenant general, wearing an ordinary Japanese infantry uniform, looked at the battle ahead with solemn eyes.
Although the 11th Army launched a large-scale siege and attack, it does not mean that the Japanese army has already occupied all the victory points.
In fact, the air forces of China and the United States still firmly control the air, regularly bombing the Japanese military garrison outside Hengyang City, and even hovering at low altitudes to strafe exposed Japanese infantry.
All the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of the 11th Army were exhausted in the long anti-air battle, and there was almost no ability to fight back against the air.
Therefore, during the day, except for the infantry who entered Hengyang City to fight for the neighborhoods, the rest of the officers and soldiers basically hid in the sweltering trenches, fortifications or dug individual soldier anti-aircraft holes, enduring the nauseating strong corpse odor.
Yes, Hengyang City and the surrounding areas are so smelly that a gust of wind can make people faint.
One month before the Hengyang War started, China and Japan worked hard to get the remains of their own people back and bury them deeply. By the second month, there were not many living people left, so who could care about the dead?
By the third month, everyone has become accustomed to death, so just die! Anyway, maybe you will be next, and the Japanese army has completely given up on collecting the corpses.
As for the Chinese who were on the defensive, more and more people lost this ability, which also led to more corpses in the city.
As the flares went up, Isamu Yokoyama, who quietly arrived at the front line, could clearly see the scene in the trenches in the block ahead.
Corpses in military uniforms of different colors lay scattered in the wide trench. If the Japanese infantry wanted to pass through this trench, they had to crawl in the trench, which meant crawling on the rotten corpses. Wherever they passed, the Japanese
The Army Lieutenant General's ears even heard the "pop" sound of the swollen rotting corpse being squeezed by heavy objects, which was horrifying.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to crawl. You can walk over these corpses with your waist hunched, but the price is that you may be hit by a Chinese sniper ambushing in the corner.
After a month of urban offensive and defensive battles, a large number of Chinese snipers hiding in this ruined city caused extremely serious damage to the 11th Army.
It was as if they had suddenly evolved, and their marksmanship was terrifying. Even at night when vision was extremely poor, they could accurately hit the enemy 200 meters away, even if the light was fleeting.
What's even worse is that the entire city has a huge underground tunnel system, and they can increase troops or retreat from a block at any time.
Even if the 11th Army used tanks and artillery to clear the way during the day and captured this block at the expense of a large number of infantry losses, the Chinese would organize a counterattack at night and even throw grenades next to sleeping soldiers.
The terrifying troop transport ability and precise marksmanship have caused the current predicament of the 11th Army. Hengyang City, right in front of you, has become a hot potato that you can't swallow again and again. You want to give up! The 80,000 casualties invested in the early stage are just
It was all wasted, and the Battle of Hengyang was a complete defeat.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not to mention that Isamu Yokoyama cannot bear this responsibility, even the sixth general Tian Jun, who has resigned, cannot bear it, so Isamu Yokoyama is still gritting his teeth and persisting.
However, after he arrived at the scene in person today, the tragic battlefield made this Japanese veteran couldn't help but his eyes sparkling.
Hiding in the trench where he would not face the front line of fire, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General saw with his own eyes a soldier who had finally climbed out of the trench full of corpses and just picked up his gun and planned to rush to a place no more than 70 centimeters away.
Continue forward behind the low wall.
But the distance of only 6 meters prevented the Japanese infantryman from reaching his destination. A bullet accurately shot into his chest, and the Japanese infantryman fell to the ground rolling and groaning in pain.
Although the ground was covered with blood, the Japanese soldier was obviously not dead yet. He was still moaning loudly and his hands and feet were still twitching.
But no one came to save him!
"He's not dead yet, why don't you save him!" Yokoyama Yong growled angrily.
"There is no way to save it. The Chinese have more than one sniper. They are waiting for anyone who dares to show up and then turn the place into a cemetery for the imperial army." A middle-aged man also wearing a Japanese infantry uniform explained with bitter eyes.
That was the major captain in charge of this neighborhood. Such things had happened no less than ten times before his eyes. From the first anger to the bitter calmness later, it cost the lives of dozens of imperial infantrymen.
The Chinese soldiers who were forced into a desperate situation far surpassed the imperial infantry not only in street fighting tactics! Their strength seemed endless.
Every night, no less than the number of Chinese soldiers from the previous night would return to the streets from the tunnels to attack the Japanese troops. No matter how many they killed, it would still be the same the next day.
It would be easier to explain if this was just one block, but in fact, this is the case in dozens of blocks.
I am afraid that they were deceived from the beginning. There are definitely more than 20,000 Chinese in the city. The exact number cannot be guessed, but it is definitely a number that can make any Japanese commander's mentality collapse.
If the entire 11th Army is filled in, I don't know if it will be enough to fight with an unknown number of Chinese people.
In fact, there is a subtext that the Japanese Army Major did not say. If he had to choose between injury and death, the Japanese superior soldier who was shot in the chest would most likely choose the latter.
Just as the Chinese defenders of Hengyang regarded their field hospital as a dangerous place, the soldiers of the Japanese 11th Army also regarded their field hospital in the northern suburbs of Hengyang as a 'hell'.
Any Japanese soldier who has been to a field hospital will know what kind of place he is going to. In the Japanese field hospital, there is also no medicine or food.
The weak logistics of the Japanese army is inherently weak. It can ensure the ammunition and food for front-line soldiers. The Chinese dispatched army headquarters has tried its best. They can't even take care of the medicines used in field hospitals, let alone the influx of tens of thousands of wounded soldiers.
That was far beyond what the Japanese army's logistics could bear.
Moreover, when a large number of patients gather together, without adequate disinfectants, epidemic diseases such as dysentery and cholera are most likely to breed. Even normal people can get these diseases, and the mortality rate is not low, not to mention the weak and injured?
Since the war started again on July 9, as many as 8,000 Japanese wounded soldiers have died in field hospitals alone!
Rather than rotting away in a hellish hospital, it would be better to die on the battlefield, where the pain would be less.
In front of the Lieutenant General Commander of the 11th Army, the Japanese superior soldier who was shot in the chest gradually returned to calm.
But he was by no means alone. Before he died, two more Japanese soldiers were hit. One died on the spot, and the other was also twitching constantly. It was probably a matter of time before he came to drink tea with Amaterasu.
Yokoyama Yong lowered his head severely.
However, there was more sadness in his eyes than pain.
Perhaps only this Japanese Army Lieutenant General knew that the word defeat came to his mind for the first time.
Although he quickly dismissed these two words from his mind, he was already over sixty years old and knew that some thoughts would surge at any time like the waves of the ocean.
