At half past ten, at the east end of the Longhai Railway Canal Bridge, Ge Zengfu and his party parked their motorcycles and immediately followed the north-south direction of the canal to scout for the enemy.
Ge Zengfu brought two of his guards, and the three of them ran along the river embankment. After running two kilometers, Ge Zengfu looked at the time and said: "We will stay here until twelve o'clock, waiting for the main force to arrive. Go back across the bridge."
The three people immediately found a place to ambush, took off their kettles, took out biscuits and started eating lunch.
Ge Zengfu was standing at the back. He was about to eat a piece of compressed biscuit and drank two sips of water. Suddenly, he heard Wu Dai at the front shout: "Battle seat, Japs."
"What." He quickly took off his telescope and looked in the direction of Wu Dai's finger.
A large group of Japanese soldiers appeared in his field of vision. There were so many Japanese soldiers that he could not clearly see the length of the group due to the cover of trees along the river bank. He was shocked and shouted quickly: "Withdraw, quickly, withdraw." Three. The man ran back along the way he came. Another soldier on the road asked: "Barracks, what do the Japanese troops want to do? Do they want to block our retreat?"
"I don't know. Maybe they want to use the Longhai Railway Bridge to cross the river and take the back route to Taierzhuang. No matter what, it is more serious to report the situation to Brigadier Liu as soon as possible."
When Liu Shurong and Huang Qiaosong received the latest order from the theater headquarters, Ge Zengfu had already led people out. He did not know that at this time, the officers and soldiers of the Overlord Brigade and the 27th Division had already divided into two groups, more than 20 kilometers southeast of the Canal Bridge. The place is lurking,
Li Zongren temporarily changed the order to ask the 27th Division and the Overlord Brigade not to cross the river for the time being. It had no special purpose. It was just a casual note. But now it seems that it was this stroke of genius that allowed Liu Shurong and Huang Qiaosong to avoid being returned by the Segu detachment. It was the bad luck that part of the Isoya Division was surrounded by the east of the bridge.
The latest enemy information detected by the scouts continued to be transmitted back to the Overlord Brigade headquarters, which made Liu Shurong call it a fluke. The place where the Overlord Brigade lurked was called Linhetan, and the 27th Division lurked directly into a village called Hancun. The two places were about five kilometers apart. Liu Shurong and Huang Qiaosong didn't know that two Japanese troops were approaching him. He immediately took a dozen people and went straight to Hancun, wanting to exchange views on the current situation with Huang Qiaosong and see if it was possible. sneak attack or ambush one of the Japs,
Under the west gate of Taierzhuang, Hosokawa Toyun stared closely at a grenade, trying to judge its impact from its flight trajectory. Suddenly, he saw something green shaking on the city wall more than ten meters high, and couldn't help but He asked in surprise: "What is that?" Suddenly a rope was thrown from the city wall, and another one... He immediately realized what happened, turned around and screamed: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, shooting, shooting .”
Hosokawa was the commander of the mortar squadron. His screams immediately attracted the attention of the nearby Japs. Many Japs lay on the ground and aimed their guns. Several Japs officers waved their pistols and led people to rush forward. They shouted loudly. It means that the Chinese people must not be allowed to complete the abseil.
On the city wall, Guo Zhengde wrapped his left hand with a strip of cloth while inspecting everyone. His eyes fell on the face of a soldier who looked like a child, and he suddenly smiled: "Boy Zuo, I'm scared."
Zuo Xiao's face was pale, with deep confusion in his eyes. A veteran next to him patted his shoulder and shouted: "What are you afraid of? We are all the same egg. Are we Chinese inferior to those in Japan?" It’s too small.”
Another veteran said seriously: "It's different, Xiao Zuozi's hair hasn't grown yet."
"Haha." Everyone burst into laughter,
Zuo Xiao was a recruit, the only recruit in Guo Zhengde's platoon. Guo Zhengde originally wanted to keep him, but Zuo Xiao refused. He thought it was looking down on him. Zuo Xiao blushed and shouted angrily: " I’m growing hairy.”
The crowd laughed even louder. Amidst the wild laughter, the bullets "shooed" over the city wall, and some bullets hit the battlements, making a sharp collision sound.
"Everything is ready." Guo Zhengde suddenly asked loudly,
"Ready." Everyone responded with a roar, and Zuo Xiao also roared, and then he felt that his breathing was much smoother.
Guo Zhengde held the cloth tightly with his left hand and raised his Wei Qing submachine gun with his right hand. He said to Zuo Xiao: "Xiao Zuo, you stay and help us watch the rope."
"I don't,."
"Obey, don't underestimate the rope job. It's very important. Someone is injured and we need your help to pull him up."
Several veterans looked at each other and said nothing in silence. They all knew that Guo Zhengde's words were a lie. After they went down, they would definitely have no chance to come back. A veteran patted Zuo Xiao on the shoulder and said, "The Japanese will definitely want to To snipe our actions, you can help us cover it from above."
Guo Zhengde glanced at everyone seriously and suddenly shouted loudly: "Brothers, fight to the death."
"Fight to the death."
Guo Zhengde grabbed a rope with his left hand and suddenly showed his head. He raised his gun in his right hand and fired wildly. Then he climbed up the wall and stamped on it. Then he disappeared from Zuo Xiao's sight in a flash.
"Brothers, come on." More and more people turned out, and the gunshots unique to Sanba Gate outside the city suddenly became intensive. Zuo Xiao saw a veteran being hit by a bullet just as he climbed onto the wall and stomped on it. He pierced the heart and fell down the city wall with a scream. He yelled and rushed forward with a gun in both hands. "You little devil, go to hell." He shouted, holding a gun in both hands and pointing at the densest group of people below. The devils were shooting,
The Japs' mortar positions were set up very strangely. They used the soil dug out from the trenches to build a barrier more than two meters high. This way they could avoid being shot by fire from the city wall. Guo Da asked Guo Zhengde to line up a vertical rope and leave the city for an assault. There is no other way,
Guo Zhengde and the others descended very quickly, but even so, because the target was too obvious and they were directly facing the Japanese guns, only half of a platoon of soldiers could actually descend to the city.
"Fight, fight." Zuo Xiao watched from above as one big brother fell to the ground one after another, shouting in grief and anger, and pulled the trigger hard. He was condescending. Although he only had one shot per person, he suppressed it greatly. The Japanese counterattack saw two groups of Japanese soldiers rush out of the trenches and then be beaten down again. This bought Guo Zhengde and the others valuable time.
Seeing one brother after another fall into a pool of blood, Guo Zhengde was filled with rage. After he fired all the bullets in his gun, he held the backpack behind him in his arms and rushed towards the mound in front of him. Less than thirty meters away from the city wall, he quickly rushed to a place less than five meters away from the mound. Just as he was about to pull the fuse, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ribs and fell heavily. , "Damn, it hurts." He gasped for air, suddenly stood up through gritted teeth, roared and rushed up to the mound, then pulled the fuse on his backpack,
With a "squeaking" sound, he climbed over the mound and fell heavily in front of Hosokawa Toyun. He was dizzy from the fall, but he vaguely saw the frightened expressions of several Japanese soldiers and the mortars and ammunition around them. Box, he grinned,
"Kill him, kill him." Hosokawa Toyoun saw the backpack in his arms creaking and emitting white smoke. He was so frightened that he screamed and backed away. Several Japanese soldiers raised their guns and fired bullets continuously. Hitting the backpack, the explosive package inside was immediately detonated, making a loud "boom" sound, and a huge fireball rose up. The violent explosion completely engulfed a nearby trench more than 20 meters long, and scattered mud and shrapnel. Flying, the two-meter-high mound of soil exploded into a big hole...
"Platoon leader, platoon leader." Zuo Xiao witnessed all this. He watched helplessly as Guo Zhengde was engulfed by fireworks and disappeared into thin air the next moment. His heart ached and he couldn't help but shed tears.
Ikeda Okata was stunned by the courage of the defenders to die generously. Suddenly, he screamed: "Shoot, kill them, protect the artillery team." He jumped out of the trench and led hundreds of Japanese soldiers to rush forward. The mounds of earth that were used to avoid the firepower in the city have now become natural shields for the commandos. The Japanese soldiers fired with their guns, but the effect was extremely limited. Another commando climbed over the mound, and his body was just on the mound. When he appeared, several Japanese soldiers with sharp eyes and quick hands concentrated their fire on him, but he was not afraid. When he rolled down the trench, he jumped towards a mortar.
The devils there screamed and fled, and then violent explosions followed and lifted them into the air.
One after another, the commandos climbed over the mound. At the cost of their own lives, they turned Ikeda Oka Katasen's "masterful skill" in breaking through the west gate into a pile of scrap metal.
Another commando climbed over the mound, and then he was surprised to see a group of Japanese soldiers. He didn't expect that there were so many Japanese soldiers here, and he shouted in his heart: "What a profit." He hugged the backpack tightly in his arms. rush over,
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers looked at him in horror, shouting strangely and pounced on him. The Japanese soldiers nearby were stunned. They looked at the pile of ammunition boxes behind the group of Japanese soldiers with extremely frightened expressions on their faces. Ammunition boxes are a special thing. They contain poison gas bombs. If they are detonated, the consequences will be disastrous.
These shells were originally going to be fired into the city, but because of the northwest wind, Hosokawa Toyoun was worried that he would endanger himself by stealing the chicken but losing the rice, so he delayed issuing the launch order. Now it's fine, Isotani Rensuke The Ximen Japs will have to pay a heavy price for this accident.
With a loud "boom", the commando team and a dozen of the Japs around them were all lifted up by the air waves and torn into pieces in mid-air. The other Japs nearby stared blankly at first, then suddenly turned around and ran away with a strange scream. ,,After the continuous "rumbling" explosions, a thick yellow smoke quickly enveloped the entire trench. The next moment it was blown by the wind and floated in the direction where Ikeda Okata was standing.
"Retreat, retreat." Ikeda was shocked at first, then he smelled a sweet smell and was so frightened that he shouted and gave the order to retreat.
Zuo Xiao didn't know what the yellow smoke was. He had no bullets on him. All the brothers in the platoon were gone in the blink of an eye. He sat down on the ground and let his tears flow.