At two o'clock in the afternoon, An Yi's urgent telegram was sent to Gu Changfeng. After burying the 341 brothers who died of serious injuries, Gu Changfeng, Yang Jiuxiao and other generals felt heavy and sat around the open ground beside the frozen stream.
Say nothing.
At the edge of the forest, thousands of soldiers indiscriminately swallowed a few pieces of boiled horsemeat without salt, and fell asleep leaning against the roots of the trees with their backs exhausted.
In the lee of the upper reaches of the frozen creek, dozens of women and a group of children whose faces were wrapped in homespun cloth could no longer be seen. They used sticks to fish out the horse meat from the twelve army cauldrons and threw them on the snow.
Tie them up with torn strips of cloth and carefully put them into their arms, because they have been told that the Japanese army is chasing closely. If they cannot escape to the west of Daming Tower tonight, no one will survive. Therefore, the twelve
The marching pot cannot be taken away. No one will be able to eat before sunset tomorrow. You can bring as much as you can.
Gu Changfeng handed the telegram to Yang Jiuxiao, Tong Zhiqiang and others for circulation. After the brothers passed the telegram, they returned it to Gu Changfeng. Gu Changfeng asked Tong Zhiqiang, took the small tobacco pipe, and skillfully filled half the pot of shredded tobacco.
He took out his American lighter and lit it, and took five or six puffs of it. He wiped his mouth and handed the one-foot-long pipe to the old smoker Tong Zhiqiang, and continued to smoke. He exhaled the spicy smoke in his lungs for a long time, closed his eyes comfortably, and
The brothers around him, including Liang Zhenyu, shook their heads.
As of three days ago, all the brothers in the division had exhausted their last cigarettes. Gu Changfeng, who was becoming more and more addicted to smoking, could only roll a trumpet and smoke a pipe like Yang Jiuxiao and others. If it were delayed for another two days, he might lose his pipe.
There is no need to fight anymore.
Qi Xiuping, captain of the Special Forces Battalion with his right arm hanging, hurried over, half-knelt on the snow, and reported in a deep voice: "The enemy in the south has appeared on the Ningcheng line. It seems that the line from Jianping to Ningcheng is already full of Japanese troops. To the north
Taiping Town, which is nine kilometers to the northwest, and Xizi Town, which is eight kilometers to the northwest, are full of Japanese troops. The reconnaissance team also saw two Japanese patrol teams with military dogs. The Japanese troop of more than 500 riders to the east has been keeping up with us.
At a distance of about five kilometers, it is estimated that they are waiting for the main force of the Japanese infantry behind them. No Japanese troops were seen during the siege of Erlong Town to the west, which is a bit unusual, so my subordinates asked the brothers of the fourth detachment to keep an eye on them."
Gu Changfeng slowly opened his eyes: "We are surrounded again. We are running on a mountain trail, and there are hundreds of injured brothers and hundreds of women and children who need to be taken care of. Little Japan is running on a wide carriage road, and the speed is definitely faster than us.
Much faster. The commander and others have fully considered these factors and just sent an urgent message, suggesting that we break out to the west immediately. Only by forcefully breaking through one or two points can we break out of the enemy's encirclement.
"The commander and his colleagues have the same idea as us, but the commander is bolder and more ruthless. He asked us to gather the main force to attack Erlong Town, and before the Japanese troops from the north and south strengthen the encirclement force, we should fight our way out and escape into the Jiulong Mountain area.
, and two battalions will escort the wounded, women and children to break out from Chijiaqiao, south of Erlong Town, and our aviation brigade will do its best to provide assistance."
"Then hurry up! A minute earlier is enough to break through! We have no artillery, and almost all the mortars are buried. In order to meet the ammunition needs of the light machine guns, the heavy machine guns are basically dismantled, and all the parts are thrown into deep trenches along the way.
If you don't leave the canyon at this time, you won't be able to leave until all the Japanese artillery comes up!" Qi Xiuping expressed his opinion anxiously.
Gu Changfeng nodded: "What do you think?"
All the brothers agreed with Qi Xiuping's opinion. Yang Jiuxiao sighed and said: "Actually, everyone has the same idea, but no one wants to say it first. Now it seems that it is impossible not to make a decision. No matter how tired or difficult it is, we have to start running.
, otherwise there is only a dead end. I suggest that the Third Regiment should escort the wounded, women and children quietly to Chijiaqiao on the east bank of the Heili River. The other departments will inventory the equipment and concentrate the machine guns for use in the assault camp. There are also two mortars and eight mortars.
A cannonball? It is also attached to the assault battalion. Erlong Town is a monolith, so we have to break a big hole!"
Gu Changfeng glanced around, nodded silently, looked at his watch and turned around to tell Gao Yunlin to send a report to the headquarters: Agree with the headquarters' opinion, the headquarters will divide the troops into two groups at 3:20, and make an all-out breakthrough in the direction of Erlong Town, Chijiaqiao.
Gao Yunlin turned to the radio station in the woods behind and started to send a report. Gu Changfeng also stood up and issued a series of orders. The generals around him disappeared in an instant, and the originally extremely quiet temporary camp suddenly became excited.
At 3:20 in the afternoon, the breakout battle finally started. Gu Changfeng commanded a temporary regiment of two thousand soldiers to follow closely behind the assault battalion and launch a fierce attack on the south ferry of Erlong Town blocked by a Japanese infantry regiment.
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The brothers of the assault battalion and the temporary regiment took advantage of the preemptive firepower and rushed to the east bank of the ferry with just one charge, suppressing the hastily constructed positions and firepower points of the Japanese army. The suicide squad brothers of a company of the assault battalion rushed across the slippery ice surface at all costs.
, approaching the Japanese fortifications on the West Bank at the cost of most of the casualties, and used machine guns and submachine guns to suppress the Japanese light and heavy machine guns within a distance of more than 100 meters.
Seeing that the firepower of the Japanese army was suppressed, the soldiers of the First Regiment immediately launched a charge. Under the hail of bullets and grenade launchers from the Japanese army, they rushed to the first blocking position of the Japanese army at the cost of one-third of their casualties. The follow-up troops
He quickly followed across the river and began to attack the second Japanese position.
Seeing this, Gu Changfeng decisively ordered all the soldiers to charge, and quickly entered the Japanese army's first position with an indomitable momentum. Together with his brothers in the Jianyi Regiment, they launched the most powerful attack on the enemy.
This desperate and fast attack was very effective. The Japanese artillery brigade located two kilometers north of the town had just set up to shoot at Zhu Yuan, when they saw that thousands of officers and soldiers of the two armies were already fighting together, and the carefully prepared artillery fire suddenly lost its effect.
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The commander of the 15th Japanese Infantry Regiment, Colonel Gambo Shitaro, who was located on the high ground in the town, was very surprised. He did not expect that the Anjia Army, which had been on the run for several days and had just suffered heavy losses, could launch such a rapid and violent attack when they were running out of ammunition and food and on the verge of a death struggle.
attack, the reserve team was urgently ordered to reinforce the 3,000 Japanese troops on the second line of defense to block the enemy, and an urgent battle report was sent to Lieutenant General Sato Konosuke, asking the surrounding friendly forces to immediately rush to Erlong Town from all directions to attack the main force of the Anjia Army, which was trying its best to break through.
The troops launched an encirclement and annihilation campaign.
Gambo Jutaro was still uneasy. Without waiting for Sato's telegram reply, he resolutely rushed down to the high ground and led an engineering squadron and a baggage squadron to rush to the front line of the battle. He wanted to stop the hateful Anjiajun enemy in front of him at all costs. As long as he could
After holding on for half an hour, the Japanese regiments from the north and south and the cavalry regiment from the east will arrive. By then, thousands of remnants of the Anjia Army will never be able to escape again even if they have wings.
In the south of Erlong Town, gunshots and explosions were heard endlessly, and smoke and fire were billowing. Under the heavy firepower of the well-prepared Japanese army, the two regiments of Gu Changfeng's department were unable to break through the Japanese army at the cost of nearly half of their casualties.
At the defense line, the brave soldiers of the Juyi Regiment twice entered the Japanese army's positions and engaged in hand-to-hand combat, but were repelled by the timely reinforcements of the Japanese army.
The brothers of Jiuyi Regiment suffered heavy casualties, with only two out of ten left. Countless soldiers fought to the last breath and refused to retreat. The soldiers who fell in a pool of blood one by one fired the last grenade on their body, for the bloody spirit of the Chinese soldiers and for the sake of settling down.
The honor of the army will perish together with the enemy.
The battlefield was filled with blood and roaring sounds, and the red-eyed Anjia Army soldiers rushed forward one after another, howling and charging towards the enemy's muzzles and bayonets.
"Where's the plane? Where's the plane—"
Gu Changfeng on the west bank looked at the sky and howled. Three guards immediately rushed up and hugged Gu Changfeng tightly who was about to go crazy.
"Look! The plane is coming, our plane is coming -"
Four silver fighter planes roared and swooped down from south to north, dropping a series of bombs on the Japanese positions. Then they quickly climbed up in the northern airspace, turned quickly, opened fire while accelerating to meet the enemy, and aimed at the Japanese troops who had been pursuing them.
Six Japanese fighter planes crashed into him without fear of death.
The silver fighter plane in second place was hit by two Japanese fighter planes at the same time. In the blink of an eye, a dazzling spark flashed in the air and an earth-shattering explosion was heard. The first fighter plane hit the rapidly turning Japanese fighter plane like lightning, with an earth-shattering sound.
A violent explosion shook the earth, and clouds of flames filled the sky, scattering like flowers scattered by a goddess. The whole Erlong Town was shaken, and the smoke was billowing and flames were raging, just like a hell on earth.
Gu Changfeng knelt heavily on the ice. A piece of aircraft debris hit the ice more than ten meters in front of him with burning flames. The flying ice shards hit Gu Changfeng with a "puff" sound.
With a loud sound, the flames embedded in the large pieces of debris on the ice extinguished briefly, then suddenly burned again, emitting a squeaking mist of water around them.
Looking up at the sky, Gu Changfeng, with tearful eyes, suddenly didn't know that at this moment, no words could express the heavy grief and anger in his heart, nor could he relieve the agitation and guilt in his heart.
Looking at the only two fighter planes left in the sky still swooping down and insisting on dropping bombs and strafing despite being chased by five Japanese aircraft, Gu Changfeng realized that it was not his aviation group that delayed the fighter planes, causing heavy casualties to his brothers and making it difficult to move, but the aviation group.
The brothers were intercepted and pursued by superior Japanese aircraft in the air. The brothers of the aviation brigade broke out of the encirclement for the sake of the soldiers on the ground, and died together with the superior Japanese aircraft in such a way. How heroic is this? What kind of friendship!
Liang Zhenyu, whose head was dripping with blood and whose helmet had long since disappeared, rushed over quickly, picked up Gu Changfeng, who was kneeling on the ice and looking up to the sky, and shouted in his hoarse voice at the top of his lungs:
"You idiot, you still won't help? Hurry! Set up the teacher's stand and retreat quickly. The vanguard brothers have already rushed out halfway, retreat quickly——"
"let go!"
Gu Changfeng turned to Liang Zhenyu and asked coldly: "How about the direction of Chijiaqiao?"
"Almost everyone evacuated safely, which is much smoother than ours. Our planes bombed all the way from Chijiaqiao. Brother Zhiqiang and Xiuping have led their brothers to send the wounded soldiers, women and children to the mountainous area to the west. Hurry up.
Get out, Master, we are the only one hundred and eighty brothers left here!" Liang Zhenyu hurriedly covered Gu Changfeng's hand.
"Okay! Brothers, fight with me, kill gods when you meet, kill ghosts when you meet, kill -"
"kill--"
The brothers shouted in unison, followed closely beside Gu Changfeng, who was like a wounded tiger, and rushed into the smoke and flames like flying...