Chapter 54 Chapter 51: Pushing the Battle Ladder Behind the Sword Attack

When he arrived at Dagaoshan Lane, he saw Squad Leader Liu and seven brothers still guarding the trenches, and each of them had a gun in his hand.Squad Leader Liu said: "In the alley where we fought over there, we found seven usable 38-type rifles. Except for one each of the brothers in this squad, the rest were sent to other places for use." Wang Biao carried the hoe, and said with a straight chest: "Report to the squad leader, it's okay, I will kill the enemy without a gun." Seeing that he was very brave, squad leader Liu felt that he was the one who didn't have a gun among the nine people. He took the grenade he brought and gave him one.At this time, at the north end of Gaoshan Lane, another group of people was transferred, led by a company commander, to support the two strongholds from the south to Zhongshan East Road and the north to the Martyr's Shrine.Commander Yu Chengwan inspected the defense lines of the two northeast cities before dawn, and hurried back to the division headquarters in order to command and resist the enemy's dawn attack.As soon as I sat down in the command room, eighteen enemy planes were already in the air.They have long known that the central bank is the nerve center of Changde, and they also know that the central bank is a building made of blue bricks and some steel and concrete, and ordinary bombs will not be effective.Right before, around, and around this command post, incendiary ammunition was piled up in disorder, and the mortars on the periphery of the street fighting, and the mountain cannons on the periphery of the street fighting, fired at the target of the flames.On this circle of houses of the Central Bank, the fighting was turned upside down, and the fire was flying in clusters.Even the spy company, which is famous for fighting fires, couldn't beat it.

But after the 26th, Commander Yu knew that he would use fire to attack, and two fire alleys had been dismantled around the command post. Since the twenty-seventh day, the enemy has bombed and burned every day, and the fire alley has only been widened day by day.Therefore, the artillery fire ring attack on the core on the 10th and 20th will not shake the command post. The division commander immediately issued an order: "Instruct the secret service battalion and the officers and soldiers directly under the division headquarters to ignore the artillery fire outside. If the shells fall on the division headquarters, the flames should be extinguished immediately." There was a lot of commotion outside, but he still sat quietly on the small bed, by the kerosene lamp on the small table, took out a fountain pen, and drafted orders on grid paper.

At around 8 o'clock, Cheng Jianren called from Dagaoshan Alley, East Zhongshan Road, saying: "Commander Chai and Deputy Commander Gao are all in the trenches directing brothers to fight. The enemy is now firing mortars straight across the street. They bombarded section by section, and the fortifications were also destroyed section by section. Although the brethren did not retreat, there were too many casualties. Please ask for instructions." The commander then asked the division commander for instructions. Yu Chengwan then said on the phone: "Since the enemy's main force invades on the way, we can distribute our troops on the left and right wings of Zhongshan East Road. On the Zhongshan East Road stronghold, we only need to use a small number of troops to resist. When the enemy approaches, command On the left and right wings, copy the enemy's rear, and try to get close to hand-to-hand combat, so that their heavy weapons cannot be used. Tell the brothers, our reinforcements can arrive at any time, and we must buy time to complete the task of protecting Changde. This is the 57th Division The glory, I must strive for."

Cheng Jianren promised to pass it on to the brothers.He made a phone call from Zhongshan East Road at the mouth of Dagaoshan Lane, to the third bunker to the east.Putting down the telephone line, he saw that the head of the regiment, Chai Yixin, was walking in from the trench with a short gun.What followed him was the shells of the flat-firing gun. Outside the bunker, sand and gravel sprayed and flames rushed, and the whole bunker seemed to be shaking. Head Chai was about to pick up the phone to make a call when Cheng Jianren relayed the teacher's order to him.He said: "This method is very good. We have to let the enemy come and fight him hand-to-hand. Move inside Big Alpine Lane.Because Qiaojia Lane on the south side is covered by the south wall, but part of the enemy has been attacking Mercury Building outside the south wall for two days and nights.

Therefore, only a group of people were left in Qiao's Lane as support on the north side.There were only a dozen or so people left inside and outside the bunker on Zhongshan East Road. Head Chai and deputy head Gao each held a light machine gun. Each was assisted by a soldier with a rifle.On the road or in the foxholes on both sides, and under the broken walls, there is only one soldier or a company platoon leader.The enemy is attacking from the ground, but we are instead defending from the point.As long as this point exists, the enemy will not be able to come over.Although the enemy knows that the number of people in the 57th Division has decreased during the Vietnam War, but because we have used broken walls, piles of rubble, dilapidated houses, bomb craters, and shell craters, there are people resisting every shooting blind spot. He is not sure how strong it is .In the middle of the morning, he changed his tactics again, bombarding the brick walls and dilapidated houses on both sides of the street with mortars in turn.In the middle of the road, the flat-fire guns were still aimed at the bunker.Because of the order of the division commander, the defenders are not allowed to change their positions under any circumstances.Because of this, the brothers who did some defensive work were buried in the soil, including their men and their guns.

At twelve o'clock, the blockhouses and overhangs on Zhongshan East Road were completely destroyed by flat-fire guns.Head Chai asked the division commander for instructions, and the division commander ordered him to turn into Loach Lane on Zhongshan East Road.There is a blockhouse at the entrance of this alley. The skirmisher is connected to the Mercury Building in the south and the library in the north, and a horizontal line is drawn behind it. There are two blockhouses on Zhongshan South Road in Chunshen Tomb as the second line of defense, but they are relatively strong.Commander Chai and Deputy Commander Gao received the order to go all the way with Cheng Jianren, taking only twelve surviving brothers and retreating to the mouth of Niachang.

The enemy bombarded the front for two or three hours. Seeing that the guards in front of us did not fight back, they organized a wave of troops and rushed towards us with loud shouts.Their cries gave us a notice to our left and right flanks. The troops in Dagaoshan Lane on the north side and the troops in Qiaojia Lane on the south side are holding weapons, waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the enemy's two wave teams, After rushing through the alley, the troops on both sides of the alley threw grenades on Zhongshan East Road from both sides.The enemy's formation was chaotic, and then they jumped out to fight melee.Most of the soldiers who came out for hand-to-hand combat were non-firing weapons.Slashing with knives, hitting with spears, piercing with spears and guns, everyone is entangled in one place.Our soldiers were all reckless. In only ten minutes, the enemy left twenty or thirty corpses and retreated.So naturally our team is still scattered to the left and right wings.After this kind of contact, the enemy knew that they could not rush through, so they changed the direction of their artillery fire and fired at the left and right wings of Zhongshan East Road.At the same time, the people in the north pounced on the library where our army was stationed, and the enemies in the south pounced on the Mercury Building four times in the middle of the morning. Peng Youcheng, the third battalion of the 170th Regiment, personally took a A light machine gun fired on the battlements.

Chen Shaoxiang, the platoon leader of the 3rd Battalion, led a row of people on the city wall of Xiananmen, flanking the enemy's left flank. The enemy used thick bamboo poles to tie up sixteen long ladders and hid them in dilapidated houses on Hejie. Machine guns and mortars fired upwards towards the city.Platoon Leader Chen crouched inside the fortifications and remained motionless. After half an hour the enemy fired their guns on their backs, they swarmed out the sixteen bamboo ladders and put them on the city wall. Each ladder had a person scrambling to climb up. .Platoon leader Chen still guarded calmly until the enemy had climbed more than half of the ladder, then he jumped out of the trench and brought the whole platoon up, pushing down the ladder one by one.There were only two grenades left on each of them, and only a few grenades were lost, so everyone saved their use. Each of them picked up a big brick, climbed to the edge of the city, aimed at the enemy below the city, and smashed it down with a big stone.From grenades to boulders, he killed twelve enemies.It's just that he was eager to seek merit, so he exposed his target on the edge of the city, and was shot by the enemy's machine gun fired upwards, and he died in the line of duty.The enemy could not climb up this section of the city wall, but dozens of people rushed to the city foundation on the east side of Mercury Tower.

Battalion Commander Peng put down his light machine gun, led his brothers to jump out of the trench, and swooped down from the slope to fight hand-to-hand. The enemy stood on the slope and couldn't stand.After we bombarded with grenades for a while, a row of bayonets flew down, and the enemy retreated.As a result, in addition to killing seventeen or eighteen enemies, six rifles and two light machine guns were also captured.In this way, the battle situation in the southeast corner has stabilized for the time being.