The five hundred and fifteenth chapter of the two cities of flesh and blood (nine)
Zhuang Si Xun's change of tactics brought a lot of trouble to the defenders. [Especially the combination of frontal and flank attack tactics, which put a lot of pressure on Wang Deyao. The Thirteenth Regiment only had two people on the front line of Zhang Zheng's shack.
The strength of a battalion, and the front of the defense is equivalent to the entire southeast direction of Shuangcheng County. Although the depth of the defense is not large, the front is very wide.
In addition, in order to rescue the Kong family shack, two companies were forced to fight. In fact, Wang Deyao only had more than one battalion of troops at this time. To defend such a large position, the number of troops seemed somewhat insufficient. Especially on the flank Sujiayao
The front line is under great pressure.
A fierce battle lasted from noon to midnight. Although Wang Deyao held the second-line position, the first-line position had to be abandoned due to serious casualties. Zhang Zheng's shack, the main defensive support point of the 13th Regiment, also suffered from excessive troop losses.
However, with the consent of Ma Fengqi, they voluntarily gave up. The two 75mm field guns previously captured by the 13th Regiment at Shuangcheng Station were also destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the artillery battle.
After arriving at Zhang Zheng's shack, which was already within easy reach of the county seat, the 25th Division's artillery fire had already begun to fall into Shuangcheng County. In order to facilitate the next step in the battle, the Japanese army used artillery to carry out a heavy attack on the east wall of Shuangcheng.
Large-scale destruction. During the fierce battle, the Chengxu Gate, the large-scale east gate of the twin cities built in the seventh year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, was completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. The entire city tower was reduced to rubble by the intensive Japanese artillery fire.
The two squadrons of 120mm Meiji 36-type howitzers equipped by the 25th Division have a range of only more than 5,000 meters and are already obsolete products, but their power is still considerable. The Shuangcheng City Wall is different from other weapons in the Northeast.
The city wall is the same as the county seat, except that it is wrapped with a layer of blue bricks on the outside and made of rammed earth on the inside. Under the bombardment of the Japanese army regardless of artillery shells, the entire city wall was blown to pieces.
Suzuki Teiichi's wishful thinking was very clear, which was to destroy the city wall that the defenders could best rely on as a defensive position. So that they could not use the city wall as fortifications. After breaking through the outer defense line of the twin cities, he could directly enter the street fighting without having to climb.
Those walls are four or five meters high.
At the same time, in order to cut off possible reinforcements, the Japanese army used long-range artillery fire to blockade Shuangcheng Station. A squadron of Japanese Type 92 105 cannons with a range of more than 18,000 meters, and a squadron of Type 91 105 field guns
With the cooperation of the police, Shuangcheng Railway Station was completely destroyed.
Since the Japanese army had the most accurate Shuangcheng map, the artillery shells fired by the Japanese long-range artillery were extremely accurate. When the first batch of artillery shells landed at Shuangcheng Station, a train that had just entered the station to transfer people was immediately hit and destroyed.
The trains blocked the entire Shuangcheng Station.
At the same time, as the Japanese army's subsequent artillery fire continued to fall, the Shuangcheng Railway Station, which was originally responsible for the largest evacuation work, was completely blocked. At this time, there were still more than 2,000 people in the city and the station who had not yet been evacuated. In other words, these last two
It is no longer possible for thousands of people to evacuate.
When Japanese artillery shells fell into Shuangcheng County, these former political workers urged them no matter what, and even resorted to forced relocation. The people who would rather hide and seek with the troops than evacuate began to become anxious. But at this time, the train
The station had been blocked by Japanese artillery fire, and it was too late to retreat via the railway.
In desperation, Ma Fengqi could only find a blind spot to settle them down. As for when to retreat, it would only depend on the progress of the war. These people stayed behind, holding on to the old and weak who would die at home, and voluntarily stayed.
Less than one-third of the young adults came down to protect their homes.
Looking at these crowds of mostly old and weak people who suddenly appeared from nowhere, Ma Fengqi, who originally thought that there were only a few hundred people left and some students who asked to join the army, could not help but feel his head grow bigger. Damn it, these people
I hid somewhere before. In order to ensure that no one was left behind, the evacuation personnel almost scraped the ground within three feet of the county town. How could so many people be left behind?
It was just that they had a big headache, but these people had to make a safe arrangement no matter what the headache was. In desperation, he organized about 600 young and middle-aged people among the people left behind and sent out an emergency platoon.
Conduct military training for them so that they can fight from the front when necessary.
Didn't I tell you not to leave at the beginning? My good man's troops are fighting fiercely and the soldiers are nervous. You can just stay to fill your teeth. These more than 600 people are enough to temporarily form a battalion. Although it is a little short, the training effect of sharpening guns in battle is also good.
It's not better than nothing. But in Ma Fengqi's opinion, it's better than nothing if these people hide in fortifications and fire guns.
As for those old men and women who could not leave now even if they wanted to, and who could not replenish the troops and had to be taken care of by someone, Ma Fengqi placed them in an Orthodox church, which is the strongest building in the city. This Orthodox church has
It was built with a whole strip of large rocks, so at least it wouldn't be a big problem to block the Japanese 75mm field artillery bombardment.
In order to ensure that these people, who are not young, and the youngest is over fifty years old, do not have any accidents due to being frightened, Ma Fengqi specially dispatched a doctor from the brigade health team to lead an intensive care class. Although he trained it himself
He had two knives, and except for morphine and aspirin, the rest of the emergency medicine was pitiful. But it was better than nothing.
When watching Ma Fengqi arrange all this, he muttered something in his mouth and didn't know what he was talking about. On the other side, the political commissar of the Second Independent Brigade, Huang Shengbin, who served as the political commissar of the detachment in the Fourth Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region before being transferred from Guannai to the Northeast, did not listen.
Clearly, but I can roughly guess what this guy is talking about.
Huang Shengbin knew that Ma Fengqi was expressing his dissatisfaction with so many people slipping through the net after the evacuation, but he couldn't say it out loud. He could only mutter a few words to himself as a way to vent his dissatisfaction. In fact, not only was he very dissatisfied,
It was Ma Fengqi. Huang Shengbin, who single-handedly conducted the evacuation work, was also very dissatisfied with such a large-scale evacuation operation.
It's just that this is a new area after all, not an old base like Guannai. The mass base is almost the same, but the time is also too hasty to do the work too carefully. This resulted in an evacuation that should have been quick with modern transportation tools.
The operation was delayed for most of the day and has not yet been completed.
However, dissatisfaction is not dissatisfaction, but after all, Huang Shengbin is a veteran party member who joined the party during the Great Revolution and is a veteran political worker. Although he is dissatisfied, he did not express it. Regarding Ma Fengqi's somewhat unusual venting, Huang Shengbin could only smile bitterly and said:
"Say, Lao Ma, what are you mumbling about?"
"I know you feel sorry for the soldiers who are fighting for every inch of territory in the front, and I feel sorry for myself too. Don't I know that every minute the evacuation time is delayed, how many soldiers will fall under the fire of the Japanese army. But what can China do?
There has always been a saying that people should never leave their hometown without leaving home. As long as there is some way to survive, few people are willing to leave their homes. Especially in a rich land like the Northeast."
"You let people leave their homes and careers and just leave. Is there such an easy thing there? Mass work has always been a big problem and it is not easy to do. This is a newly liberated area. We have no way to improve the ideological consciousness of the masses in a short period of time.
It will be raised to the same level as the old base area within time.”
"In just half a day, we were able to evacuate 90% of the people, and we were barely qualified. You know, this kind of evacuation is usually impossible to succeed in two or three days. These people, ordinary people, do not obey all orders.
The army. And this is a big move of tens of thousands of people, not three to five hundred."
Hearing Huang Shengbin's emotion, he saw a big bump on his head that was knocked out by the incomprehensible people with crutches because he personally did the evacuation work. Although Ma Fengqi also knew the truth of the matter, he still said with some resentment: "Old man
Huang, I’m not complaining that you are slow. But I really don’t understand.”
"You said these people, we are not trying to rob their property. We are evacuating to ensure their lives and safety in the war. Let's not talk about whether they are conscious or not, but they should stay away from the war.
Understand. At the very least, you should know what it means to rebel. Our soldiers know whether you are Chinese, but do they know the guns and bullets? Do the little devils regard the Chinese as human beings?"
Having said this, Ma Fengqi angrily slammed his fist on the table in front of him and said: "Our soldiers originally didn't have to fight for every warning position on the front line, but it was just to buy them time to retreat.
, our soldiers have to fight for almost every village repeatedly regardless of whether it has defensive value. This is not for anything else, but to gain as much as possible every minute."
"At the Kong family shack, in order to complete the task I assigned, I delayed the forty Japanese regiment for four hours. With the strength of a reinforced company, I fought hard with one Japanese regiment. At the cost of the entire army being destroyed, I barely managed to win.
I have been here for four hours. Gou Zaiquan, who was my best battalion commander and the most promising battalion commander in our brigade, died like this."
"In order to reinforce the Kong family's shack, the Thirteenth Regiment also spent two entire companies. At the Sui family's shack, one company only had less than three of the youngest lightly wounded soldiers left in the company because their company commander wanted to retain
Only a few seeds were removed, and the rest were all sacrificed.”
"Some of these soldiers survived the first phase of the battle, and some are veterans who have just recovered from the hospital before we set off. These people are all old bones. They have fought so many battles and have not been sacrificed. Now they are fighting for this
Several hours were sacrificed here in vain."
"Old Huang, you don't know. When I received Gou Zaiquan's farewell call, my heart hurt like a knife. Ever since I joined the Anti-Japanese Alliance in 34 years ago, this is the first time that I have knowingly allowed my soldiers to die in vain.
, I still need to give the order. I have never fought such a cowardly battle in my life."
"I used to persuade you repeatedly that I would not leave until I died. You can use force and hide and seek with you. But now it's better. The Japanese army's long-range artillery fire blocked the train station. I couldn't leave until I thought about leaving. But in this world
Is there anything that goes as they wish whether they advance or retreat?"
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