Hyakutake Haruyoshi's face was so gloomy that he could almost scrape frost off. This sudden change caught him off guard. However, the brigade leader Kawamura Dong was not there. When he thought of Kawamura Dong, Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly hit him with excitement.
During the Cold War, Lieutenant General Sasaki, Chief of Staff of the North China Front, is currently at Zhengding Railway Station!
At that moment, Hyakutake Harukichi asked sharply: "Have you been contacted at the train station?"
"Not yet." A major staff officer shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, Colonel, the telephone lines and transmission cables at the train station have all been cut off. Not only are the phone calls inaccessible, but even the radio signal has been interrupted!" The entire Zhengding
The county seat and Shimen City are all powered by power plants. The train station does not have a separate backup power supply, nor does it have a hand-operated generator dedicated to the radio station. Therefore, once the transmission cable is cut off, the radio station in the station will become useless.
Got the decorations!
"Hagagaru." Hyakutake Haruyoshi's heart suddenly hung up. If the train station was lost and Sasaki was in trouble, he would have no choice but to commit seppuku in front of the emperor's portrait. At that moment, Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi said sternly.
shouted, "Order, the 3rd Infantry Battalion stays at the headquarters, the 2nd Infantry Battalion rushes to the airport, and the 1st Infantry Battalion follows me to the train station!"
"Hai." The two major captains who were standing next to Momotake Haruyoshi suddenly lowered their heads and immediately took the order.
The current situation is extremely complicated. The brigade headquarters must be guarded by troops, because not only are non-infantry units such as field hospitals, communications teams, baggage teams, and artillery battalions stationed in the headquarters, but there is also a large military base.
It is absolutely impossible to maintain a small logistics warehouse without leaving troops to guard it.
In addition, Shimen Airport must be saved, as a flying brigade is stationed there!
At dawn tomorrow, this flying brigade will fly to Wuhan to provide air support to the frontline troops.
Although there are two squadrons of garrison troops at Shimen Airport, since the airport bypassed the Shimen garrison and directly called the brigade headquarters, it means that the situation at the airport is very bad and it is urgent to send troops to rescue.
"Takeuchi-kun, you stay at the headquarters, pay close attention to the battlefield situation, summarize the situation here and report it to the front army headquarters urgently, requesting emergency tactical guidance from the headquarters!" Hyakutake Haruyoshi said a few words to the captain of the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
, immediately led the 1st Infantry Brigade straight to the train station.
Zhengding Railway Station is built outside Zhengding City, located in the northwest corner of the county.
When Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi led the 1st Infantry Battalion to the North Gate in a hurry, the North Gate of Zhengding was actually occupied. Most of the infantry squad and the Imperial Alliance Army platoon guarding the North Gate were killed and wounded, and dozens of people were left.
They were relying on the buildings in the city to shoot at the unknown armed men who came for a sneak attack. The scene was extremely chaotic.
Time was running out, so Hyakutake Harukichi didn't even bother to test, and directly threw a squadron into the attack.
Under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, the unknown militants who had just occupied the North City Gate quickly collapsed. After leaving behind dozens of corpses, the remaining more than a hundred people dispersed like birds and beasts.
However, as soon as the 1st Infantry Brigade left the city gate, it was attacked by another group of armed men.
This group of militants numbered about a hundred people and were extremely poorly equipped. They only had a few rifles and shell guns. They roared and attacked from the north, west and east in a messy formation. The 1st Infantry Brigade, which had just left the city, had no time to start.
The battle formation immediately started a fierce hand-to-hand battle with this group of militants.
In less than five minutes, this group of more than a hundred armed militants was defeated.
Just when Hyakutake Haruyoshi was about to rectify his troops and reopen the road, the endless sound of killing sounded again all around. When he raised his head and looked around, Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi was horrified to find that another armed group was coming, and this time it was not the one who came.
One group, but several groups, numbering at least four to five hundred people!
"Bagagaru!" Hyakutake Haruyoshi quickly ordered the troops to deploy, set up machine guns and fired fiercely.
When dozens of light and heavy machine guns fired, the groups of militants who swarmed over immediately suffered heavy casualties. After leaving behind nearly a hundred corpses, the remaining militants dispersed and all retreated into the darkness.
Just when Hyakutake Haruyoshi was about to give the order to open the road again, a killing sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami sounded in the distance for the third time.
A flare suddenly rose into the sky, and the dazzling light illuminated hundreds of meters around the city gate as bright as day.
Using the dazzling light, Hyakutake Harukichi discovered to his horror that armed men were everywhere outside the city. They were so dark and dense, like a group of ants whose nests had been burned, and they were covering the mountains and plains to cover them up.
Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly took a breath of air and quickly ordered his troops to withdraw into the city.
This is because there are at least two to three thousand Chinese armed personnel coming from all directions. If so many armed personnel are allowed to rush forward and get mixed up, even if Momotake Haruyoshi's 1st Infantry Battalion can win a hand-to-hand battle, there will probably only be a few left in the end.
Now that I am alone, what will I do to rush to the rescue train station?
However, Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi soon regretted it.
If what comes outside the city is just a group of poorly equipped militants, then of course Hyakutake Haruyoshi's decision is correct. With the help of the solid city wall fortifications, there are only two or three thousand militants outside the city, even if there are twenty or thirty thousand people.
They will still be beaten to a pulp by the 1st Infantry Battalion.
But the key point is that the armed elements outside the city are not bad in equipment. They even have artillery!
In fact, Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi has indeed made a mistake, and it is an unforgivable fatal mistake!
The stupid Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi did not realize that although the Chinese armed forces coming from all directions were large in number, they were all fighting on their own. There was no unified and effective command at all. The Japanese army only needed to launch a large-scale counterattack.
Able to defeat more with less and defeat Chinese armed forces several times larger than our own in one fell swoop!
It is a pity that Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi did not realize this.
When the first artillery shell accurately landed on the top of the city, Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi knew that he was in trouble. What happened next made him unable to believe his eyes. In less than fifteen minutes, the north gate
A group of mortars appeared outside, and more than ten mortars launched a fierce bombardment on the North City Gate at the same time.
Artillery is always the trump card in land warfare! Its power is unquestionable.
Even the most elite field division of the Japanese army will fall apart under the fierce bombardment, let alone an independent garrison brigade like the 4th Brigade? After several rounds of shelling, more than a dozen people on the city gate tower
The machine gun fire was completely muted, and the closed city gate was taken advantage of by Chinese militants who used explosive packs to approach and blow open the city gate.
As soon as the city gate opened, dozens of armed men rushed into the city gate hole, shouting and shouting.
Inside the North City Gate, two Type 92 heavy machine guns and six crooked handles had formed a fan-shaped fire blockade. As soon as the dozens of militants rushed out of the door, they were beaten into pieces by fierce crossfire.
Momotake Haruyoshi, who was hiding behind the circular barricade, suddenly laughed ferociously: "Come on, you stupid China pig, keep rushing in!"
But soon, the smile on Colonel Hyakutake Haruyoshi's face suddenly solidified!
A 37mm anti-tank gun suddenly appeared in the city gate. Two Type 92 heavy machine guns that were just within the firing range suddenly opened fire violently, but they only made the shields of the anti-tank cannon clang.
A dazzling red light burst out from the muzzle, and in an instant, the Type 92 heavy machine gun facing the city gate had been overturned to the ground.
"Anti-defense artillery!?" Momotake Haruyoshi suddenly gasped, this is a big killer!
If we don't try to kill this anti-war artillery, it will be able to clear out more than a dozen Japanese firepower points inside the city gate one by one, and then this battle will be impossible to fight! At that moment, Hyakutake Haruyoshi suddenly drew out his saber and raised it forward, and immediately
He roared at the top of his lungs: "Squadron 4, attack! Knock out the Chinese anti-aircraft artillery!"
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Zhengding Railway Station.
The Japanese army retreated into the station building after abandoning more than 20 corpses, trying to resist with the help of the strong building. Pang Hu's team had controlled all the stations.
"Brothers, retreat quickly!"
Pang Hu didn't know whether the two grenades just now had any merit, but he had no time to verify it. There was such a big commotion here, and the reinforcements of the little devil would definitely arrive soon. When the large army of the little devil arrived,
At this point, his special forces team may only end up being wiped out.
"Ang..." Pang Hu had just finished speaking when a loud whistle suddenly sounded in the distance.
When Pang Hu and all the special forces team members turned around to look, they saw a train with billowing black smoke on the front, which was already "plop-plop-plop" coming towards the station. Pang Hu looked at the train that was driving straight towards him.
Then he looked at the armored train parked on platform No. 1. He suddenly took a breath of air and shouted sternly: "Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly!"
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What was approaching was one of the two military trains transporting ammunition and supplies!
Due to the huge amount of ammunition transported, the Kwantung Army sent a squadron to escort it. At this time, Sato Shoji, the conductor of the military train, had already discovered that something was wrong. Five minutes ago, the radio signal at Zhengding Railway Station was suddenly interrupted and asked Baoding and Peiping.
The station office also said that they could not contact Zhengding Railway Station.
Sato Shoji immediately decided not to stop at Zhengding Railway Station!
Sato Shoji's decision is undoubtedly a wise one. The train is fully loaded with 5,000 tons of ammunition and supplies. It is decided not to stop in the wild. And the situation at Zhengding Railway Station is unclear at the moment. For the sake of safety, of course it cannot stop anymore.
, Fortunately, there is enough coal left on the train to drive to Xingtai Station!
As a result, the special train loaded with 5,000 tons of ammunition and supplies did not slow down at all, and ran straight into the armored train parked on platform No. 1. The two cars collided, and there was an earth-shattering noise.
Car No. 2 of the train collapsed violently at the same time and turned into a wrinkled iron pimple.
The special train, which was still speeding, continued to slide forward against the wreckage of the armored train. It was not until the wreckage of the armored train squeezed the rails that they twisted and deformed. The special train came off the track and slid forward for several hundred meters close to the ground before finally stopping.
When we got down, the entire Zhengding Railway Station was already filled with smoke and dust and littered everywhere.