Chapter 0351 Whoever shares blood with me today is my brother!
The news of the fall of Yushan undoubtedly made things worse for the entire Wu-Fu line battle situation.
The defenders of the Wufu Line were struggling to hold on and did not want Yushan to fall again.
Although this news is only known to the top brass, there is no airtight wall.
Because the worries of the senior officers were written on their faces.
But this news was a stimulant for the Japanese army.
Once a hole is opened in Yushan, the Japanese army can cut off the retreat of the Changshu defenders within four hours. Within six to eight hours, the defenders in Xiejiaqiao and Fushan areas have no way to retreat, and they are all driven away
Go inside the Yangtze River.
The situation was so serious that except for the Dragon Boat Festival, Commander Liao wanted to eat Liu Yingsheng.
Damn it, when the special commissioner was there, the two Japanese brigades failed to capture Yushan. As soon as the special commissioner left, Yushan was lost. And the defenders resisted for less than half an hour. You, Liu Ying, grew up eating Xiang
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But Liu Ying was also aggrieved. He still didn't know how so many Japanese soldiers got into the Yushan position.
When he arrived at Yushan, the Japanese had already retreated and had set up warning posts. There were also defenders on the position. But the Japanese suddenly appeared on Yushan. If he hadn't run so fast, he would have become a prisoner of the Japanese.
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In the end, it was Yan Wushuang who gave him the idea to pin the blame for the fall of Yushan on Duanwu.
And originally, even if the 32nd Division retreated, it should have reached Sanchakou to cover the retreat of the 44th Division, 98th Division, and 13th Division. But Yan Wushuang said: If it arrived at Sanchakou at this time, it would be better to recapture the Yushan position. Because Sanchakou
There is no danger of guarding the fork.
Liu Ying thought so and fled in embarrassment with her people.
Of course, Commander Liao naturally thought that once Yushan was lost, the 44th Division, the 98th Division, and the 13th Division would be surrounded by the enemy. So he sent ten orders to Liu Ying in a row, asking him to immediately rush to Sanchakou to cover
The 44th Division, the 98th Division, and the 13th Division retreated.
But I don’t know why, but all the ten orders fell into place.
Of course, this was not because Liu Ying dared to disobey orders, but because the radio station of the 32nd Division broke down inexplicably after it sent out the news of the fall of Yushan and detained a shit basin during the Dragon Boat Festival.
As a result, the 32nd Division fled. Commander Liao urgently contacted the commanders of the 44th Division, the 98th Division, and the 13th Division and ordered them to withdraw from the battle as soon as possible, otherwise they would be in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army.
But the Japanese army also received the news early. How easy is it for the 44th Division, 98th Division, and 13th Division to withdraw?
If the temporary brigade sent by Dragon Boat Festival and the reinforcements from the 174th Division had not arrived in time, the 44th Division, the 98th Division, and the 13th Division would have suffered heavy losses even if they had withdrawn.
Fortunately, everyone retreated and everyone turned towards the three-way intersection.
"Brother, which unit do you belong to? There shouldn't be any reinforcements nearby?"
The commander of the 44th Division, Chen Yong, asked the reinforcements on the side as he ran. The reinforcements said: "We are from the 174th Division."
Chen Yong was surprised: "Isn't the 174th Division guarding Yushan? Is it because you withdrew that Yushan fell?"
The soldiers of the 174th Division quickly denied it: "The fall of Yushan had nothing to do with our 174th Division! It was the 32nd Division that switched defenses with us.
When we walked to Sanchakou, we found Japanese troops, so the special commissioner ordered us to come and meet you. The special commissioner is leading people to guard at Sanchakou in case the Japanese army has follow-up troops arriving, cutting off your 44th Division, 98th Division, and 13th Division.
The retreat of the three divisions."
"Ah? Special correspondent? Hahaha! It turns out to be a special correspondent. He hasn't forgotten me, Old Chen, hahaha!"
Chen Yong laughed heartily and said, who is so kind to send someone to take care of him at this time? It turned out to be the special commissioner.
Chen Yong burst into tears of gratitude, as if he had a lot to say to Dragon Boat Festival.
But at this time, I am afraid that Dragon Boat Festival does not have this time. Dragon Boat Festival is leading the independent regiment to block the two Japanese brigades coming from the direction of Yushan.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, he scolded Liu Ying for being such a bastard.
Why did Liu Ying have to be scolded during the Dragon Boat Festival? It was not just Liu Ying who lost the Yushan position.
Losing the Yushan position can only show that Liu Ying is incompetent. But he has no military knowledge at all. If he loses Yushan and does not guard the Sanchakou, he would be stupid.
The retreat routes of the 44th Division, the 98th Division, and the 13th Division are all three forks. Once the Japanese army cuts off the three forks here, the three divisions will be surrounded by the Japanese army.
But the most annoying thing is that Duanwu didn't expect Liu Ying to be so stupid. He didn't come to Sanchakou to build fortifications, but just ran away.
The Dragon Boat Festival fortifications were built to block the Japs from the direction of Mocheng Town and Changshu. The Japanese troops came from the flanks and their fortifications were almost reduced to decorations.
Fortunately, Dragon Boat Festival responded quickly enough and relied on the flanking woods to deal with the Japanese army.
The Japanese army used more than 20 mortars to bombard the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment in the forest.
The soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Duanwu really wanted them to withdraw. But once the Japanese army occupied this forest, the entire independent regiment would be driven into the unobstructed wilderness by the Japanese army.
"Old Sun, let your people spread out, don't gather, and reduce casualties. I will lead the people to fight the Japanese artillery. If it succeeds, we will repel the Japanese. If not, we brothers will all explain here today.
Already."
Duanwu patted Sun Shiyu on the shoulder and joked, but at this time Sun Shiyu wanted to cry.
Of course, he was definitely not crying because he was afraid of death. It was because he was worried about the safety of the Dragon Boat Festival.
"Commander, don't take risks. None of our Sichuan Army brothers are cowards. We can defend this place."
Sun Shiyu begged Duanwu to stay.
Duanwu patted Sun Shiyu on the shoulder again and said: "Don't be stupid, the Independent Regiment can still fight less than 500 people. And in the battle of Yushan, the Sichuan Army brothers suffered the most casualties. I can't let all the Sichuan Army brothers die here."
"Group seat?"
Sun Shiyu cried directly.
"Excuting an order!"
Duanwu shouted loudly. Sun Shiyu wiped his tears fiercely, turned around and ran away.
At this time, Duanwu called Xie Jinyuan and said: "Old Xie, take the second battalion to pretend to attack the Japanese left wing. Remember not to really charge up. There are not many people in the second battalion. If you charge hard, the casualties will be great. Do you understand?
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"I understand, but regiment leader, let me go to fight the Japanese artillery! Our independent regiment can't live without you?"
Xie Jinyuan begged, but Duanwu smiled at this time: "Do you believe that I can come back alive? Hahaha!"
Looking at Duanwu's smile, Xie Jinyuan also shed tears, hugged Duanwu, turned around and left. He went to find Zhu Shengzhong to prepare a feint attack on the Japanese left wing.
At the same time, after watching Xie Jinyuan's back, Duan Wu shouted loudly: "Old Zhou, Lao Snoring, Lao Xu."
"exist!"
The three secret agent company commanders all hunched over and quickly ran to Duanwu's side, forming a half circle around him.
Duanwu said: "We brothers, we don't talk about love, we talk about money. Come with me to go around to the right wing of the Japanese to fight the Japanese artillery. In this battle, we will almost die. For the brothers who come with me, each of the brothers who come with me will receive a settlement allowance of fifty yuan. If you are willing,
Did you go?"
Lao Snoring smiled and said: "Go, of course. How can we not go for such a good thing? Fifty dollars is enough for us to go home and marry a wife for the rest of our lives."
Xu Dazhuang also giggled: "Hehe, that's right!"
But at this moment, Zhou Dabang said in surprise: "I didn't expect that I would be there too, hahaha! This time I am prosperous and I have to die?"
Duanwu looked at the three old money fans, hugged them, and whispered in their ears: "Come back alive."
"Don't worry, everyone, we all care about our lives!"
The three people showed sly smiles at the same time, as if they would run away if something bad happened.
But can they really run?
Maybe they would have in the past, but they won't today. Because there is a commander they like the most, admire the most, and don't want to lose the most, who is taking risks with them.
After a near-death battle, the only ones who came back alive were brothers. Although Duan Wu said he would not talk about feelings with them, do we still need to use words to talk about the feelings between brothers?
They all seemed to remember the sentence in the play at this moment: Whoever bleeds with me today, he is my brother!
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In the fierce battles with the Japanese army, people died all the time, and the enemy shelled the woods where the independent regiment was located all the time.
The independent regiment naturally has mortars, but they don't have a good location to place them.
The independent group was all in the woods at this time. There was indeed a large open space fifty meters behind them, as big as two football fields.
But it is a pity that the mortars at this position cannot hit the Japanese positions at all.
Because there is a tall tree crown blocking it, if you want to hit the shell from the top of the tree, the shooting angle of the mortar needs to be at least 70 degrees.
This is simply a joke. At an elevation angle of 70 degrees, can the artillery shell be fired 20 meters?
Sun Shiyu also tried to set up mortars at the edge of the forest, which is the forward position. However, before the cannon was set up, it was discovered by the Japanese machine gunners. Two excellent artillerymen died under the Japanese machine guns.
Therefore, the independent group is in a very awkward position at this time. It is also very passive.
Of course, this was not Duanwu's command error, but Duanwu never thought that Yushan would fall.
The Dragon Boat Festival was a trench dug along the road at Sanchakou. Its purpose was to block Japanese raids from the direction of Mocheng Town.
Because before that, Duanwu had already led his men to annihilate a Japanese team that had infiltrated here. Therefore, Duanwu determined that if there were still Japanese troops coming to stop the attack at Sanchakou, they would definitely be in the direction of Mo Town.
But who would have thought that Yushan would be lost.
When Dragon Boat Festival was in Yushan, they first wiped out the Chongteng detachment, and then severely damaged the Botian detachment. Only 4,000 people of the Botian detachment fled. The 32nd Division had nearly 6,000 people.
Just think about it, even if the Botian detachment comes back again and again to capture Yushan, it will be impossible!
Four thousand people fight six thousand people. Even if the mountains are full of pigs, the Japanese will still have to kill them for a while, right?
But who would have thought that Liu Ying was so incompetent that he lost Yushan just after nightfall. And just after ten o'clock at night, the Japanese army had already reached Sanchakou.
Thanks to the Dragon Boat Festival alert, hidden sentries were posted along the four directions of the Sanchakou, otherwise the independent group would definitely suffer a big loss this time.
Because there were two brigades of Japanese troops, totaling at least 1,800 people, which was three times the strength of the independent regiment.
If this was a surprise attack by the Japanese army, the independent regiment would have been wiped out long ago.
But even so, the Independent Regiment suffered heavy casualties. First, there were many Japanese soldiers, and secondly, the Japanese artillery fire was fierce.
Although they did not have favorable geographical conditions and relied only on the forest across the road. However, they had a large number of people, and the Japanese machine gunners consolidated an artillery position for the artillery along the edge of the forest.
Sun Shiyu's battalion tried several times to rush over and kill the Japanese artillery. However, due to the distance, the large number of Japanese soldiers and the fierce firepower, they were all beaten back.
Therefore, there is only one way to capture the Japanese artillery positions, which is to conduct a roundabout sneak attack from the Japanese flanks.
Xie Jinyuan led the Second Battalion to detour from the left, but he didn't expect the little devil to think the same way. One of the little devil's squadron wanted to detour to the side and rear of the Independent Regiment to launch a sneak attack, but did not want to collide with Xie Jinyuan.
There was a fierce exchange of fire in the woods.
When Duanwu heard the gunfire, he frowned again, because it wasn't time for the Second Battalion to launch an attack yet.
Just imagine, although the second battalion is a feint attack, it must coordinate very well at this time.
A fight broke out at the Second Battalion, attracting the Japs' attention. Dragon Boat Festival led three special agent companies to sneak attack on the Japanese right wing, destroying the Japanese artillery position. Then both sides blocked the Japs from two directions to ensure the safety of Sanchakou.
But at this time, if a fight breaks out on Xie Jinyuan's side, the Japanese will inevitably be alarmed after being briefly distracted. Then the Dragon Boat Festival sneak attack will lose its suddenness.
Therefore, if the previous sneak attack on the Dragon Boat Festival was a narrow escape, then launching a sneak attack now would be a narrow escape.
But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Duanwu could only turn around and fight Zhou Dazhuang and Lao Snoring. Xu Dazhuang said helplessly: "Brothers, I don't want to lie to you. It will be difficult for us to come back alive from this battle. If you want to quit, I won't stop you."
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There was an air of determination in Duanwu's helpless eyes. He was ready to die. But he didn't know if the veterans behind him had this final awakening. Because he didn't want anyone to turn around while charging.
If you run away, it will affect the morale of this battle.
Perhaps this battle was a life-and-death battle, but he didn't want the little devil to see the Chinese joke.
But what Duanwu never expected was that those deserters and cowards who were once timid and fearful of death would be extremely calm at this time.
They showed cunning, honest, indifferent, and even vulgar smiles, and did not regard this life and death as the same thing at all.
Are they afraid of death?
They are afraid. They were once more afraid than anyone else. But since they met the Dragon Boat Festival, they are no longer afraid.
Because that young man who was much younger than them was admired by veterans like them.
Following him seemed to allow them to regain their lost youth and forgotten passion.
They feel that they are young again, and they have become full-blooded young men! ...