Chapter 16 Difficult to advance

At the same time that the 58th Division was attacking Luowang Station, the 51st Division was cooperating with the friendly army to attack the periphery of Sanyi Village. At 4 o'clock in the morning on May 25th, the 151st Brigade first made a breakthrough, captured Chailou in one fell swoop, and continued to advance in depth relying on Chailou. At five o'clock, the Japanese army launched a counterattack.Ji Hongru, head of the 302nd Regiment of the 151st Brigade, led his troops with bayonets and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. If you want to fight the Japanese soldiers on the plain with bayonets, the Chinese soldiers will generally suffer.You may have just made an assassination move, and the opponent's blade is already close to the chest, and although the Japanese soldiers are generally not tall, they are thick and strong, and they are stronger than the Chinese soldiers, so that they can't pull away when they are stabbing. bayonet.On the battlefield of Lanfeng, a soldier who was born as a student was extremely heroic. The Japanese soldier's bayonet pierced his chest through his back first, but when he was dying, his bayonet also pierced into the Japanese soldier's back at the same time. belly.When cleaning the battlefield, the comrades found that the bayonets of both sides had been left on each other.

Experienced veterans know that their guns are short, and generally they will not fight face to face like this, but will use evasive movements reasonably.The dodge will not happen so coincidentally that when the bayonet swings past the elbow, the point of the knife can easily cut the flesh. Pain is inevitable, but you have to endure it, otherwise it will be more than just pain.The important thing is to do the following action: After avoiding the thrust, or turn sideways to his side, stab him to death with a knife, or simply sweep across with the butt of the gun and smash his head! Of course, the Japanese soldier is not stupid, and his reaction may be faster than yours.When you smash it with the butt, he catches your gun and tugs hard, and you have to hold down hard on your side.If the physical strength is similar, the two will fall to the ground at the same time when they lose their center of gravity—even if they twist into a ball on the ground, they cannot let go. At this time, both fists and heads can be used as weapons, as long as they are enough to kill each other.

What kind of person is a warrior?Such a person deserves to be called a warrior.Some machine gunners rely on their own strength, and simply swing the machine gun and shoot from left to right, which can also smash the enemy's brains. After a hand-to-hand battle, the 302nd Regiment defeated the Japanese attack.By nine o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army's outer defense line collapsed and gradually retreated to the inside of the village. On May 27, the 51st Division conquered the last line of defense on the periphery of Sanyi Village.The ministries seized the time to conduct field reconnaissance and prepare to take down Sanyi Village.

Unexpectedly, the situation changed the next day. All the Japanese troops who had escaped from Luowangzhai and other encircled villages entered Sanyi Village, and the strength of the Japanese troops in the village increased greatly.At the same time, a large number of reinforcements from the Chinese army also arrived one after another, encircling Sanyizhai on three sides. As one of the main offensive forces, the 51st Division was divided into two groups. Among them, Ji Hongru's 302nd Regiment was responsible for the frontal attack, and Zhang Lingfu's 305th Regiment was responsible for assisting.When the 302nd Regiment advanced to the Japanese security position in front of the gate of Sanyizhai, the battle became quite fierce. Under the tenacious resistance of the Japanese army, the troops were unable to advance an inch.

Sticking to the edge of the gate like this, with the fierce Japanese firepower, there is a possibility of being wiped out.Therefore, Ji Hongru and the officers and soldiers rushed into the village despite the danger.They once rushed into the village, but were beaten out again after being counterattacked by the Japanese army. After the two regiments organized their teams, they launched another onslaught.Ji Hongru took the lead and rushed to the front. Unfortunately, he was seriously injured and died on the spot. That night, Wang Yaowu replicated the night attack tactics he used when attacking Maogu Village, and sent Li Tianxia to lead a commando team to climb up the wall of the village and enter the village in the dark.It's a pity that no follow-up troops came in to respond, and the commando had to withdraw from the original route.

On May 29, the offensive still failed to make any progress.On the one hand, it is due to the lack of sufficient weapons and firepower to attack fortified positions; on the other hand, although the Chinese army is large in number, it lacks elite main forces like the Seventy-Fourth Army, and a considerable part of it is a new army that hastily formed after the Nanjing Defense War Many soldiers, even newly captured young men, ran back as soon as they heard the sound of the Japanese cannons. At that time, apart from Sanyi Village, the Japanese army also occupied Quxing Village.China's first-line troops are no more than a hundred meters away from the village, and the distance is no more than two or three hundred meters.The front-line commander called his superiors and said that as long as he added some more troops, he could take Quxingzhai.

The boss only smiled bitterly when he heard it on the phone: "Your suggestion is good, but how can I have troops to give you? The rest of the troops were scared away by a few shells from the Japanese army, and they were defeated. Only our regiment is available in the whole division." .You want reinforcements, so you have to wait outside to send them.” The Japanese army gathered in Sanyi Village was much more numerous and stronger than that in Quxing Village.At the critical moment, if some of the attacking troops here in Sanyi Village were sent to attack Quxing Village, wouldn't it be even more blind?

Despite this, some senior staff members of the rear headquarters still have hopes for the capture of Sanyi Village and Quxing Village.Gong Mengtao, who was then the deputy director of the staff office of the Commander-in-Chief of the First War Zone and chief of the combat section, observed that the Japanese army had already dropped food and bombs by air, which clearly showed that their supplies had encountered difficulties.If the siege continues for another three to five days, it is entirely possible to wipe out the 14th Division of the Japanese Army. At this moment, the phone on his desk suddenly rang.Gong Mengtao picked up the microphone and listened. It was a long-distance call from Hankou, and the other party was the chief guard in Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room, asking Gong Mengtao to record important combat orders.

After the order was recorded, he was stunned.