Just when the three traitors Wang and the puppets thought they had a plan to make a fortune by acting as peacemakers between the Japanese army and the cadet army, a tragic battle broke out at the Lion Gate in Shibu Township, Xinjian County, Jiangxi, across the Ganjiang River from Nanchang. The battle is going on,
The attacking side is the 213th Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Brigade under the 33rd Division. The commander is Colonel Masao Iida, the commander of the regiment. The defending side is naturally the First Guerrilla Division led by Xu Zhi. However, the unit now only has one third guerrilla brigade left in Lions Gate, and its commander has been changed to the brigade commander Zhang Quanyou.
Xu Zhi received the alarm from Guo Huizhang and led his troops to evacuate to Xishan, thirty kilometers away from Nanchang. Jiang Tietou, who was scouting along the Jiujiang route, sent back intelligence that about a regiment of Japanese troops had appeared in De'an and were heading towards Nanchang. march, but in the past few minutes, Niu Dawa, who was responsible for reconnaissance in the direction of Duchang, also received intelligence, saying that a Japanese army had come out of Duchang City. It was seen that the direction of its advance was Nanchang, and Jiang Tiezhang was still stationed in Nanchang City. If the Japanese troops came from the direction of De'an alone, Chu Tiange could send the third division out to snipe. But now that the Japanese troops also came from the direction of Duchang, he was worried that a certain group of Japanese troops would break through and attack Nanchang. The First Division was likely to be encircled, so they made a prompt decision and asked Jiang Tiezhang to lead the 7th and 8th guerrilla brigades to Changyi Township to prepare for sniping the invading enemies from the direction of Duchang. At the same time, he ordered Xu Zhi to leave behind a The brigade sniped the 33rd Division in the Lions Gate area, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The other two brigades marched towards Yongxiu County in an effort to snipe the Japanese troops coming out of De'an in Yongxiu, so as to buy time for Feng Lanshan's troops to withdraw to Nanchang.
Originally, Chu Tiange had another option, which was to abandon Nanchang, withdraw the entire army southward, and then wait for the Japanese troops to disperse, then wait for an opportunity to defeat them one by one or simply bypass their heavily stationed strongholds, break them up into pieces, and go deep behind enemy lines. However, as Ouyang Yun decided to personally lead six divisions to fight in Jiangxi, he could not afford to lose the strategic point of Nanchang.
The battlefield situation is ever-changing and treacherous. On the Jiangxi battlefield, Xue Yue's main force of the Central Army in the Ninth Theater was the absolute protagonist. Chu Tiange's troops were just here to take advantage of the situation. However, as the Japanese army changed the focus of their strategy, the Central Army withdrew. After leaving the high-security battlefield, Ouyang Yun had to change his established strategy for the sake of his own safety, and let Chu Tiange and the others play the leading role.
Major General Naoki Araki was killed, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese army of the 33rd Division. The 213th Regiment, led by Colonel Masao Iida, came with the mentality of avenging the Araki Brigade Commander. After entering the battlefield Immediately launched a tidal wave of offensive against the Lions Gate Cadet Army position,
Because they had been chased by the division, the students of the Third Guerrilla Brigade were unable to engage in their own characteristic operations, so they suffered heavy casualties at the beginning. They were accustomed to using landmines to demoralize the enemy first, and then taking advantage of the situation to launch an attack. Then they relied on the advantage of the terrain to hold on. Now, without the assistance of the mine array, the "bandits" felt very uncomfortable at first.
Iida Masao stood on a rock about five hundred meters away from the Lion Gate Heights, waving his command sword to encourage his subordinates: "The Chinese who killed Chief Araki are on that hill. Warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, take out your Come with bravery, let the Chinese people tremble under our bayonets."
Under his drum, the Japanese from the two brigades did not even check the terrain carefully. They held the 38 big cover and rushed towards the Lion Gate Highlands under the cover of nearly ten mortars.
When the Japanese army launched the first round of offensive, many students of the third brigade were following conventional combat methods and using the rocks and trees on the mountain to repair defensive positions. Many people took it for granted that the mine array would snipe the Japanese. What happened, but they forgot about it, because the Japs were so hard at work that they didn’t have time to lay the mine array.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Quanyou was so anxious that he shouted: "Mom, what are you doing? The Japanese are coming. Throw away the stones in your hands and prepare to fight." "Three boys, hide quickly."...
"Uuuu..." The sound of grenades piercing the air sounded, and mushroom clouds exploded above the Lion Gate. "Boom." In the deafening explosion, many cadets fell down covered in blood. Some of them fell down. When he died, he still held the stone he had finally dug out from the ground in his hands.
"Get down, get down." More officers shouted. Some bandits rushed forward and kicked those who were still busy repairing fortifications on the buttocks or the crook of their legs. Many trainees escaped as a result. A calamity, but five minutes of mortar fire from the Japs. Still, more than fifty students from the third brigade and one regiment fell.
Onlookers clearly saw that the cadets of the Second Regiment and the Third Regiment lying on the hillside halfway to the east looked anxiously, "What's wrong with the brothers of the First Regiment? The little Japs don't know how to hide when they are firing cannons. Isn't this a way to die?" "A few "bandits" were discussing and were immediately reprimanded by the superior: "Don't talk about others, just lie down first." A group of "bandits" became silent and lay down obediently without looking up. ,, out of sight but out of mind,
The salvos of the three mortar teams achieved good results, which made Iida Masao's momentum become more and more fierce. He raised his command knife towards the mountain and shouted: "Attack, attack."
Under the shouts of a group of Japanese officers, the Japanese from the two brigades became stronger on their feet. They quickly approached the top of the mountain. Among them, the Japanese who rushed forward lay down on some raised rocks, or leaned on them. The tree trunks began to fire,
When the Japanese troops at the forefront were only fifty meters away from the top of the mountain, Zhang Quanyou finally smoothed out the order of the troops. Zhang Quanyou was the only brigade commander in the first division who was not a "bandit". He had participated in the Battle of Nanjing and knew the position well. The key point of the battle was that when he saw that many "bandits" were no longer anxious to repair the fortifications, but were eager to shoot, he shouted loudly: "Wait before you shoot. Pay attention to my orders."
"Boom." Suddenly, a bullet almost missed his shoulder and hit the stone wall behind him, making a crisp collision sound.
His guard platoon leader Wang Raptor became anxious and shouted: "The passenger seat is in danger." Then he rushed up and tried to drag him down.
Zhang Quanyou glared at him and shouted: "I can't die." Then he continued to shout: "Stay steady, stay still."
The leader of the first regiment, Chang Ning, ran over and said: "Brigade, I will take command from here, you should go down below."
Zhang Quanyou ignored him, but shouted loudly: "Fifty meters, forty meters." Then he grabbed one by one, pulled Chang Ning and Wang Raptor down, and shouted: "Beat."
In an instant, the gunshots of the Wei Qing-style assault rifle and the anti-pathology general-purpose machine gun rang out. At the same time, at least three bullets almost hit his helmet and hit the stone wall behind him. For a moment, sparks popped up, "Boom!" "The sound continued, and then another string of bullets came over, all of them hitting the stone wall. The stone wall immediately made a "pop-pop" sound, and stone powder flew up.
The three of them were covered in stone powder and coughed violently as they moved to the battlefield.
And just as they turned behind the rock, the explosion of grenades rang out. The attack method that the guerrilla army students are best at finally showed its power at this time.