Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen A Laugh From the Sea (1)

It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to move in a small mountainous area completely from the eyes of the Japanese reconnaissance planes. The headquarters of the Eleventh Army in Jiujiang was in a hurry. When the staff marked the trajectories and arrows on the map one by one, Okamura's heart had already been mentioned in the mid-air beyond Jiuxiaoyun. The dots are connected to form a line, but it is not the occupation line of the 106th Division, but the increasingly clear encirclement line of the Chinese army in Wanjialing. Quickly notify the 106th Division to quickly break through!

In fact, the 106th Division has entered a desperate situation ahead of schedule.When they set off from Mahuiling, they only brought six days' rations.Six days have passed, and there is no food and ammunition, so they can only rely on airdrops to maintain limited supplies like the Doihara Division during the Battle of Lanfeng. How many things can be transported by the plane, in the case of too many monks and too little food, many officers and soldiers are forced to rely on themselves and look for food everywhere.However, there are only a few small villages in Wanjialing. After the walls were cleared, the people all evacuated, and there was no food to eat in the villages.

There are not many acres of rice fields outside the village, but they have obviously been tidied up, but occasionally some ears of rice that will not be harvested in the future can be seen, and they are sparse and rare. These very hungry guys couldn't control much, and when they found them, they all felt like treasures. They pulled out the ears of rice and rubbed them in their helmets, rubbed off the husks and stuffed them in their mouths to satisfy their hunger. As for the oriental horses that transport the heavy cannon, people can't get enough to eat, so who can control them. Even if Okamura didn't say anything at this time, they themselves knew that they must break through immediately, otherwise there would be no way out.

Cheetah However, the head of the division, Matsuura, couldn't figure out where he should rush. In Wanjialing, there were killing sounds everywhere, and flags and banners were everywhere. Okamura immediately showed him the way, moving closer to the west, and the 27th Division can meet you. where is westhave no idea. The map became more and more confused, and even Zhongzuo Sakurai, who was sent by the 11th Army Command, became dizzy.In other places, it may be possible to correct the deviation of the map through reference objects, but here there is no obvious reference other than mountains and forests.

Someone reminded me, and quickly took out the compass. This compass is not used to look at Feng Shui, but it is actually a compass. If you get lost in the mountains, you can rely on it to determine your direction. What people didn't expect was that at the critical moment, the compass also failed, and the pointer moved to the left for a while, and then went to the right for a while. Apparently there is a strong magnetic field around the mountains, which interferes with the compass. Matsuura was dumbfounded, and his subordinates were like a swarm of messy flies, buzzing in the mountains, but they didn't know where to go.

On October 7, Xue Yue saw that the 106th Division had all entered Wanjialing, and his pocket formation was basically ready, so he issued a general attack order. This is a large siege on the battlefield, and it will be more exciting and thorough than the one during the Battle of Lanfeng. According to experts who study Yuan history, the Mongolian army that once swept across the Eurasian continent with iron hoofs, a large part of their military strategies came from their hunting experience. Beasts on the prairie are usually extremely sensitive and move extremely quickly. It is difficult for a hunter to catch them alone, but the group hunting of the Mongolians is different.

Instead of chasing and killing them directly at the beginning, they drove them slowly, and then narrowed the scope little by little until they drove all the wild beasts to a fixed hunting ground.In this way, it is possible to prevent any prey from escaping, even if it is a small target rabbit. Xue Yue's general attack is similar to this. He is also constantly shrinking the encirclement and driving the 106th Division to the preset hunting ground. But before that, he still needs to remove an obstacle, which is a mountain called Zhang Gushan (also known as Zhang Gufeng). The entire Wanjialing is covered with low mountains and jungles. These low mountains are generally not high. Zhang Gushan belongs to the general of the short people, a little shorter than the tallest one, and a little taller than the lowest one - a total of only 30 meters.

Although its appearance is not good, its location is very important. From here, it can be condescending, approaching the core position of the 106th Division, and the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although the head of the Matsuura division was completely confused about the direction, he was also familiar with the key points of offense and defense. Soon after he entered Wanjialing, he took the lead in controlling this important area. For the Wanjialing battle, Zhang Gushan's gains and losses are very critical.If you lose it, you will be screened outdoors by the 106th Division, if you get it, you can drive it to a dead end.

Xue Yue still handed over the hardest bone to Yu Jishi's 74th Army to chew on. Although Yu Jishi is the veteran commander of the 74th Army, the reason why the 74th Army is famous is related to two other people.The first person was Wang Yaowu, who was the commander of the 51st Division at the time, and the other was his subordinate Zhang Lingfu. Zhang Lingfu also loves beauty in his life. The strand of hair hanging down his right forehead is said to be to cover up the scars of gunshot wounds The generals of the Kuomintang army, Zhang Lingfu ranked first in the evaluation of handsome men.What's more, he's great in other ways too.

There was a cross talk, and he said jokingly: I am from Peking University. Peking University, Peking University also. He looked him up and down: Tell me clearly, which university are you from? At the beginning, the funny man talked about him from left to right, and when he was forced to rush, he said: I am from Peking University, what's the matter, and there is no crime of beheading. But he finally admitted: I am from Daxing County, Beijing, referred to as "Peking University". This crosstalk tells us that Peking University is a very good unit.In fact, even if he didn't say it, we also know that it is difficult to enter the university, and the key points are even more difficult, and it is even more difficult to enter Peking University.

Going back 80 years, there are not many Peking University students in the whole of China.Zhang Lingfu was admitted to Peking University accidentally, and he was still in the Department of History. Going back 80 years, anyone who can read and break characters can probably read them with one hand.Zhang Lingfu's handwriting is not as simple as it seems, he has studied Wei Bei to a certain level, and even the calligraphy master Yu Youren admires it highly. Going back to the 80s, scholarly discussions on politics were very popular, with scholars eloquently eloquent and even paraded in the streets.Zhang Lingfu was not only a student athlete at Peking University, but also generous and enthusiastic until he dropped out of school halfway. Like Bill Gates, he went straight to his re-selected goal after only one year of study—but instead of starting a company, he applied for Whampoa. It is time to realize the "Ambition of Relief in Difficulties". From an elegant scholar to a fierce warrior, it seems that there is a long distance, but many people in the Republic of China stepped across it lightly.When not fighting, this person would live in the study room, read and write, sometimes so quiet that he didn't even make a sound, but when he picked up the gun, he was murderous, like a tiger or leopard, completely a professional soldier who "drunk on the battlefield, Lord Mo Xiao" . In fact, several years before the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Lingfu was already the head of the first regiment of Hu Zongnan's first division.Hu Zongnan's subordinates, there are a lot of Whampoa first and second phases, and Zhang Lingfu from the fourth phase can be promoted to this prominent position. Apart from his vision, of course it is inseparable from his own performance. It's a pity that such a good future was almost ruined by himself. This old man went back to visit relatives, and even killed his wife. This was the famous "Tuan Zhang Gucheng Wife Killing Case" during the Republic of China. The process of killing is very simple, but the reasons for killing are very complicated.Zhang Lingfu's own statement is that his wife stole the military documents he brought back and refused to hand them over. In a fit of rage, she accidentally beat him to death. No matter what the reason is, since ancient times, debt repayment, murder and life are all due righteousness.Zhang Shuai, a promising young man, was reduced to a prisoner on death row in a blink of an eye, waiting to be executed by Qiu Houwen. It is not known whether Zhang Lingfu's appeal in prison played a role, or for some other reason, but he was released after a year in prison. After all, it is the Republic of China. If you kill someone now, no matter how much your sentence is reduced, you will have to stay in prison for more than ten years.However, this experience was a good reminder to Zhang Lingfu. Originally, he was brave and courageous, but he was often accompanied by an impulsive side. After facing the wall in prison and thinking about his mistakes, he gradually began to calm down. It cannot be said that the good show of victory has nothing to do with this. After leaving the prison and seeing the sun again, Zhang Lingfu was dumbfounded again. The old chief Hu Zongnan didn't want him anymore. The No. 1 Division in the World, that is an awesome army, how can it accommodate a murderer who has been released after serving his sentence. Since then, I have changed my mind and changed my mind. Is it not enough to reform a new life? no. In desperation, Zhang Lingfu turned to Wang Yaowu and started his new life. However, when the Seventy-Fourth Army first entered the Songhu battlefield, Zhang Lingfu was only a senior member of Wang Yaowu's division. official. High ginseng high ginseng, what is there to participate in, how can it be fun to fight in battle. Wang Yaowu could also see Zhang Lingfu's depression. There is a security regiment in Shaanxi that has been reorganized into a supplementary regiment, and it will soon come to Songhu to be under the command of the 74th Army. By then, brother, you will be the regiment leader. The head of the First Division in the World can only be the head of the small supplementary group now, which is really cheap, but Zhang Lingfu doesn't care, as long as he has a battle to fight. So the morning also looked forward to the future and the evening also thought, just waiting for the supplementary group to arrive in Shanghai. finally come. Everyone knows what the quality of the security team is, and it is slightly better than the police to maintain local law and order at ordinary times. However, the combat capability of this security group after entering the battle is surprising.They not only blocked the Japanese attack in the defense zone, but also launched night attacks on the opponent many times. It makes sense for the main force to do a good job, and it's the most amazing thing that a rookie regiment can do the same. Before Wang Yaowu was willing to take in Zhang Lingfu, it was simply because the latter had the experience of being the head of the "No. 1 Division in the World". Zhang Lingfu's first appearance in the Seventy-Fourth Army immediately made Wang Yaowu look at this high-ranking officer who took the initiative to ask for the grassroots with admiration. After going to the battlefield, Zhang Lingfu, who can write good calligraphy, immediately became a cheetah with fierce eyes and joy at the sight of battle. When the battle was tense, he would even jump out of the trench and take the lead in the charge. The Corps was originally a flock of sheep, but gradually transformed into a flock of wolves. When the Seventy-Fourth Army participated in the battle to defend the outskirts of Nanjing, Wang Yaowu's original main force was almost wiped out, and the frontline regiments were reimbursed. Seeing that the commanders of the regiments were all brought back on stretchers, Wang Yaowu knew that he could not hold on, so he hurriedly The order was to withdraw from the entire line of defense. But at this time, you can't withdraw immediately if you want to. The Japanese army will follow closely behind. Just as the brigade of Japanese troops passed through the empty main defensive position, a small force suddenly shot out from the diagonal stabbing. At first, the Japanese commanders didn't pay much attention to them: You alone are not enough to fill my teeth. But as soon as he bit into his mouth, he realized that something was wrong. Not only could he not fill the gap between his teeth, but he almost broke his front teeth. Those who came were none other than Zhang Lingfu's recruits. Following Zhang Lingfu all the way from Shanghai, the Xinbing regiment was no longer the Xinbing regiment, it was a pack of wolves led by a lion. Zhang Lingfu told his "wolf soldiers" that only when you think about dying in battle can you survive every step of the way. This is called survival from a desperate situation. Whether it is a dead end or a sea of ​​flames and a cliff, there is no choice, it is better to boil and have a good time, even if they are destroyed together, it is not in vain for a hero to go through the world. The officers and soldiers of the Recruit Corps are crazy. If you bite him, he will immediately give you back. It is as crazy as you want. The Japanese army didn’t mean that they couldn’t do anything about them, but that they were anxious to go to Nanjing. They were suddenly hugged by their thighs, kicked and punched to no avail, and they couldn’t move a step. They were really annoyed to the extreme. Not caring about chasing after Wang Yaowu's large troops, the Japanese army focused on the recruits. Zhang Lingfu saw clearly from behind, jumped up suddenly, threw off his upper body military uniform, picked up the portable machine gun, led the death squad in a dash and killed. There was a hail of bullets in front of me, I wouldn't say that you are a handsome guy and I won't greet you, Zhang Lingfu was also hit by a bullet, and his left arm was severely injured. His subordinates wanted to carry him down and cross the Yangtze River with the wounded soldiers, but Zhang Lingfu refused and was furious. In the old days when Xiang Yu was defeated at Gaixia, he refused to cross the Wujiang River until his death. Who is Zhang, who dared to cross the river because of a mere injury? As I said, you have to die at any time in order to survive every step of the way. Now you should lead the kings to fight the Japanese barbarians to the death! Zhang Lingfu tied up the wound, wrapped it up and fought again. Under his leadership, the Xinbing Corps finally blocked the Japanese army in the southeast direction, and retreated into the city after completing the blocking task. When Army Commander Yu Jishi saw Zhang Lingfu in Nanjing, the latter was already pale and his whole body was limp.Yu Jishi immediately resigned from his post as head of the regiment and forced him to cross the river with the ship, only to save Zhang Lingfu's life. Sitting on a riverboat full of wounded, one can imagine the sadness in this professional soldier's heart as he watched the ancient city drift away.After fighting for so many years, whether Nanjing can be held or not, he can't be sure. So many brothers who have been together day and night, I will never see them again.Revenge was the word Zhang Lingfu kept chanting even while lying on the hospital bed. Before his arm injury healed, he rushed back to the army ahead of time. The battle of Zhang Gushan became an important stop on the journey of revenge. what is horror In the Seventy-Fourth Army, Wang Yaowu's 51st Division was the absolute main force, and it was their only choice to capture Zhang Gushan, but even as brave as Wang Yaowu, he hesitated in this battle. In Zhang Gushan's terrain, he had to attack from his back.However, if there is not enough heavy artillery to cooperate and only rely on light weapons to attack, the casualties will definitely not be small, and most of the troops that may participate in the attack will be reimbursed.Who should assign this drudgery? Zhang Lingfu immediately stood up from among the brigade leaders: I'll go! Wang Yaowu was not surprised by Zhang Lingfu's initiative to invite Ying. It would be a surprise if he didn't stand up at this time. At this time, handsome Zhang has been promoted to brigade commander.In the Seventy-Fourth Army where there are many students in Huangpu, this kind of promotion speed is quite fast, even a bit extraordinary.Some people are from the third phase of Whampoa, and they are classmates with Wang Yaowu, but they can only be the team leader under Zhang Lingfu. But none of you should be jealous, Wang Yaowu's generals are known for their bravery, but no one can beat Zhang Lingfu.As soon as he was on the battlefield, this man seemed to be desperate for Saburo, and the more difficult the battle, the more excited he was.His military exploits and official titles were really piled up from the numerous gunshot wounds on his body. What Brigadier Zhang said next surprised Wang Yaowu. I want to go back, but I don't want to face bullets, that's tantamount to death. Wang Yaowu was a little confused. According to what you said, how should Zhang Gushan play?Just because you are handsome, Matsuura can't just give it up. Zhang Lingfu didn't tell him how to play, he was talking about the Three Kingdoms. At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang Wei, the general of Shu, guarded the Jiange, and 100,000 Wei soldiers were blocked by him from the dangerous pass, helpless.However, Wei general Deng Ai sneaked across the Yinping dangerous road, crossed Motianling, went down Jiangyou and took Chengdu directly, thus destroying Shu in one fell swoop. Think about it, when Deng Ai suddenly appeared in front of the monarchs and ministers of Shu, didn't it feel particularly frightening?This is called taking the enemy by surprise. Wang Yaowu understands a little bit, are you going to play the modern version of Deng Ai? Zhang Lingfu smiled, of course. I have been to the vicinity of Zhang Gushan to observe many times, the front is heavily guarded, and the attack is really difficult, but I have already discovered the "Yin Ping Dangerous Road". This road is on the back mountain cliff of Zhang Gushan, where the Japanese army was unprepared. The more Wang Yaowu listened, the more interested he became, and he talked about how to fight. Zhang Lingfu had already had a plan in mind, so he calmly and eloquently spoke. On the front, I will not "attack from the back", but "feint attack". Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army being attracted by the firepower, I organize commandos to detour to the back mountain, reach the top of the mountain, and attack it from behind.When the assault team succeeds, they will switch from "fake attack" to "real attack" head-on. In this way, they will surely get twice the result with half the effort. Good boy, look at this cleverness.Wang Yaowu praised him greatly, and sent another group on the spot to help Zhang Lingfu succeed immediately.The 74th Army has one brigade and two regiments, which means that Wang Yaowu has handed over half of his divisions to his subordinates. According to Xue Yue's general offensive order, the general offensive was scheduled to start at 4 pm on October 7, but Zhang Lingfu did not act as scheduled. This was a large-scale attack. The Japanese army had planes from the Navy and Air Force to help out, and the Chinese army lacked air defense equipment. Fighting during the day would definitely bring many unnecessary casualties.At the same time, you have to take care of the commandos who went around the back mountain. Once the Japanese army on the mountain finds out, all previous efforts will be wasted. Not during the day, but at night. Zhang Lingfu's first target was not Zhang Gushan. No matter how good a pole pole player is, he must find a suitable support point for his pole. Only with this support point can he jump over. Zhang Lingfu also had to choose a support point, which was the Changling beside Zhang Gushan. There are more than 600 Japanese soldiers here, but they did not expect that the opponent would launch a sudden night attack. After a day of hard work, after dinner, they went to the camp to sleep, leaving only a few guards outside. Changling is not high, so you don't need to play tricks such as siege attacks, just complete the fatal blow from the front. When the Japanese army came to their senses, the Changling was covered with Chinese troops. According to Okamura's rules of comparison of combat power, a regiment of the Japanese army can defeat a division of the Central Army, and if pushed down, a brigade can beat a brigade. But the regiment that Okamura mentioned actually refers to the Kumamoto Division, the Kanazawa Division, etc., and does not include the "weak divisions" such as the 106th Division.Zhang Lingfu fought the strongest against the weakest, and launched a surprise attack without the help of special forces and Japanese aircraft. The result can be imagined. The 600 Japanese troops were wiped out, and Zhang Lingfu successfully captured Changling in the first half of the night. In the second half of the night, he had to concentrate on dealing with Zhang Gushan. The fierce gunfire from Changling had already frightened Zhang Gushan's Japanese army.After occupying Changling, Zhang Lingfu's most proud main force went to the foot of the mountain, doing a strong mountaineering pose, and even attracted all the attention on the mountain. Zhang Gushan had more Japanese troops than Changling, there were more than 800 people in total, but they never expected that there would be a commando team composed of elite soldiers climbing up the rock and climbing up from the back mountain. I suddenly felt a chill in my chest, what's going on?Looking down, a sharp bayonet had passed through the chest from the back. The Japanese army suddenly became a mess and had to turn around and fight against it.Just at the time of turning around, the frontal troops also took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them.Under the attack from both sides, the 800 Japanese troops quickly collapsed. Since then, Zhang Lingfu has firmly controlled this famous mountain. Just like the large hunting organized by the Mongols, no soldier of the 106th Division can escape from here. In vain. The barren land of Zhanggushan District is full of ammunition boxes, bayonets, belts and other items left by the Japanese army after the war, and even gas masks and gas bombs. This shows the suddenness of the attack and the brutality of the hand-to-hand combat. The Chinese Army firmly controls Zhang Gushan After the Wanjialing battle, people gave Zhang Lingfu the nickname: Meng Zhang Fei.Later, Tian Han went to the front line to interview Zhang Lingfu twice, and based on the battle of Zhang Gushan, he wrote the drama "De'an Great Victory".In this drama, Zhang Lingfu's real name and surname were used. After the performance, he became famous all over the world. Zhang Lingfu is only a banner of the 74th Army.In fact, an important reason why this army is particularly capable of fighting is that every officer can give up his life and take the lead in charging and killing.In Wang Yaowu's 51st Division alone, the four regiments suffered a total of five regiment commanders (including acting regiment commanders) and seven battalion commanders, most of whom were seriously injured. When the battle was at its most intense, Yu Jishi sent all the guard battalions of the military headquarters to the front line, and as a bare-handed army commander, he also went to the front line to hold the line in person, thus turning the southern defense line guarded by the 74th Army into an iron gate .