The Second Army of the South Zhejiang Province and the Second Army of the Japanese China Expeditionary Force have been facing each other across the Qiantang River for a long time. The two sides often come and go and have outpost battles. The result of the entangled exchanges is that the two sides are fighting against each other. The hydrological conditions of the embankments on both sides of the Qiantang River are clear at a glance, so the fortifications built are quite targeted. For example, the area centered on Lingqiao and Wa Village on the north bank is obviously not suitable for large troops to land. So it was deliberately given up by both parties,
Neither the Xuebing Army nor the Japanese Army deployed heavy troops to guard any place that was apparently not conducive to the landing of large troops. The Xuebing Army used the local Self-Defense Forces to establish a network of early warning outposts, while the Japanese Army used the local Peace Army to cooperate with the military police. Troops, the North Korean Communist Army established a security force based on squads,
After hearing Sheng Zhiyuan's call, Miao Hongtai asked the female soldier at the helm to steer the boat eastward. After deviating more than a hundred meters from the original route, and still about three hundred meters away from the north bank, he clearly saw the boat parked in the river. There were fishing boats and Japanese soldiers on guard on the river bank. He thought that the little Japanese had also planned to build a plank road to cross Chencang secretly. He did not dare to take it lightly and ordered to slow down. He picked up a telescope and carefully observed the other bank. He looked at it for nearly five minutes and only found that More than twenty Japanese were discovered at the designated landing site. He shouted to Sheng Zhiyuan: "Zhiyuan, all those ships have sunk."
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Miao Hongtai looked left and right again, drew his gun and fired a shot into the air, shouting: "Attack."
There are more than 20 Japanese soldiers with only one crooked machine gun and one grenade that can be considered as heavy weapons. The 201st Regiment always maintains more than three relay-type general-purpose machine guns to suppress its machine gun firepower. In this dense situation, In the face of machine gun fire, the Japs' machine guns became mere decorations, and the infantrymen did not dare to show their heads easily. They were kept suppressed and beaten, and they could not organize an effective defense. Only about ten minutes after the two sides entered each other's firing range, more than twenty Japs fell. Halfway through, Qia Sheng Zhiyuan and the others rushed into the river. The Japanese team leader noticed their intention and had an excuse to retreat, so he shouted to stop the enemy from burning the boat, and led the others to evacuate in embarrassment from this section of the river embankment which was less than 300 meters long. ,
The 201st Regiment completed the beach grab effortlessly. Miao Hongtai went to the top of the embankment and used binoculars to detect the large enemy troops coming from the direction of Fuyang County. He also carefully observed the surrounding terrain and found that it was not conducive to defense, so he sent a company to help Sheng Zhiyuan and the others. He sank the fishing boats hoarded by the Japanese soldiers in the river and ordered them to retreat immediately after completing their mission. Then, he took other people on board and let the Lingqiao Women's Self-Defense Force go westward, creating the illusion that they wanted to seize the beach again.
On the front line of Wenyan Town, as Xu Mengyu and other more than two hundred guards battalion students joined the battlefield, the Japanese offensive momentum was temporarily curbed. Zhang Rentian, who took over the command of the 204th Regiment from Xiao Shenghe, promptly ordered the 204th Regiment to outflank Guo Shida. and Liang Xisheng's two-wing Japanese army suppressed fire, which greatly reduced the pressure on Xu Mengyu's and Guo's and Liang's troops, allowing them to avoid being bitten by the Korean Communist Army, and they could fight and retreat, slowly retreating to Linjiang In the first trench,
This process is simple to describe, but it is not easy. Guo Shida is compassionate and always wants to get more villagers out of the clutches of the devil. Xu Mengyu is responsible for this, and Liang Xisheng wants to give the new owner a good impression. Naturally, he is the only one who follows his lead, and for this reason they The price paid was the sacrifice of more of his brothers,
At this point, the Japanese army's strategy of using the people of Hangzhou as hostages and forcing the defenders to surrender their forward positions failed. Although Miyazaki Nozo was very angry, he was not willing to fail. The little Japanese first ordered the Korean Communist Army to stick to Guo. Behind Liang's team, they then used about twenty mortars and more than fifty grenade launchers to suppress the 204th Regiment with firepower, hoping that the defenders would be unable to prevent the main force from landing.
In the plan formulated by Ye Zhao, for the safety of the hostages, he originally intended to abandon the forward position along the river. After Zhang Rentian saw through the Japanese army's intentions, he had a premonition that it would be difficult to avoid heavy casualties if he risked small artillery bombardment for sniping. After Hu Tong and the Peace Army withdrew into the first trench, they decisively ordered the troops to disperse towards the rear trenches, leaving only Zhang Yijian's sniper squad to snipe at important targets to prevent the North Korean Communist Army from clinging to the retreating troops.
But as for Liang Xisheng, after he withdrew into the first trench under the guard of his brothers, he suddenly found that his brother and his men had been made dumplings by the Japanese. Without saying a word, he organized a short-guess team of more than a hundred people and rushed out of the trench. The Korean Communist Army rushed over to rescue Liang Xilong.
Guo Shida was talking to Xu Mengyu at this time, but unexpectedly he rushed out with his men. Xu Mengyu didn't know about the bad blood between the two Liang brothers, so he was very moved when he saw it, and felt obligated to help Liang Xisheng rescue his brothers. , said hello to the brothers and wanted to lead others to rush up. Guo Shida quickly stopped him and whispered in his ear: "Don't go up, those people are not on the same page as us."
Xu Mengyu was puzzled, and Guo Shida couldn't explain clearly in a few words. He thought for a while and said: "Let the unarmed people withdraw first. We will hold on here for a while and help Brigadier Liang hold the retreat."
Xu Mengyu thought for a while and felt that this was indeed the safest way, so he called the Peace Army and Hutong outside personnel who had no weapons and asked them to retreat to the back along the traffic trench. Then he divided his brothers into three parts, two of whom One group sniped at the Japs on the east and west sides respectively to relieve the pressure on the Liang brothers. Another group defended the river beach facing the Liang brothers to prevent the North Korean Communist Army from cutting off their retreat.
Zhang Rentian saw this scene from behind. The guard camp did not withdraw according to his order. He naturally thought it was because of Guo Shida's persistence. He complained in his heart that Guo Shida was ignorant of the general situation. At the same time, he also admired Liang Xisheng's courage in not abandoning a brother. He took the When he got up, Mai called Agricultural School Shi, the platoon leader of the 204th Regiment's motorcycle platoon, and said to him: "Small farmer, I am Zhang Rentian. Bring your people up. I have a mission."
The Xuebing Army is now rich and powerful. Officers above the regimental commander level are equipped with light armored off-road vehicles. In addition, the command vehicle of the staff department and the reconnaissance company's reconnaissance off-road vehicles can form a light armored vehicle company. Because it is a light armored vehicle, or even an unarmored armed off-road vehicle, it cannot withstand the Japs' mountain artillery, light artillery such as field artillery, and sniper rifles, so the commander will not use it under normal circumstances. But now, in order to take Liang's After his brother was rescued, Zhang Rentian had no other option except dispatching this mobile armored unit.
There was a battle going on, and Agricultural School Shi was in high spirits. He soon led three Great Wall brand armored vehicles, three armored off-road vehicles and three armed off-road vehicles to appear not far behind Zhang Rentian.
When the Xue Bing Army was building the Wenyan frontline position, motor vehicle passages were left between the trenches. Zhang Rentian and other agricultural school officials came over and pointed at the Liang brothers who were fighting fiercely with the Japanese soldiers: "Your task is to cover them. Do you have the confidence to withdraw?"
After listening to the sound of the cannon, the history of the agricultural school nodded and said: "The little devil didn't use the mountain cannon, no problem."