Chapter 12 fierce battle loess mountain

The Bushang Troop, Heer Troop, and Kurose Troop of the 116th Division received an order from Yan Yongwang: "Enter the northwest area of ​​Changde and prepare to attack from the north gate." So I set off from Zou City on the night of the 21st, passed through deserted cottages, mountains and fields, and arrived at Zhangjiadian at 3:00 am on the 22nd.Because the sky was cloudy and moonless, the whole land was pitch black. The 109th Regiment, which was walking ahead of the cloth, found a fierce man and horse rushing towards them, and immediately became nervous. In an instant, I realized that it was my 1st brigade. The 1st Brigade was ordered to chase after Li County without stopping.

Captain Suzuki ran over to salute and report to Bu Shang. Wuminghuo came from nowhere on the cloth, raised his hand and slapped Suzuki twice.Suzuki still stood there motionless.After the fight, Bu Shang regretted again, what happened to him?But he didn't know how to comfort his favorite captain, so he walked towards the field next to him without saying a word.It was foggy time, and the grass was covered with dew, which wet his leather boots and trousers, and he felt a chill spread from bottom to top. "Regimental Captain, Commander Iwan Yongwang ordered you to see him." Lieutenant Tahara Hiroo, his staff officer, ran over and called him.

Yan Yongwang reined in his horse on a high ground in Zhangjiadian. He jumped down, handed the reins to his attendants, sniffed hard with his nose and said, "Well, I smell the water of Yuanjiang." Chief of Staff Shanyin Dazuo said in a daze, "No way, Zhangjiadian is still 30 kilometers away from Yuanjiang." "No, it must be the smell of Yuanjiang water, very sweet and fragrant." Yan Yongwang said stubbornly.After the other divisions started in Changde's east, west, and south directions, only Yan Yongwang kept sneakingly concealing his main attack intention according to his own careful planning.He really did his tricks this time. He designed himself to be the most important role, and the most important role often appeared last in order to reflect its grandeur.He imagined that every attack of his division must be the sharpest and most fruitful.For now, none of the other divisions captured the enemy's position in one battle during the siege, and he was about to annihilate the enemy in front of Huangtu Mountain in one fell swoop and knock on the door of Changde.

His self-confidence made him have an advanced imagination, and he smelled the smell of Yuanjiang water, which symbolized that he had success in his hands. "Please come, Mr. Bu Shang!" he ordered. After a while, Bu Shangzhao's slender figure stood beside his horse, waiting for orders. A combatant illuminated the topographic map with a military flashlight like a firefly, Yan Yongwang pointed to the south side of Wuligang and said: "Mr. Bushang, you lead the 109th regiment to enter the place at 11:00 in the morning to grasp the terrain and scout the terrain. After that, the attack must be launched in the afternoon, and the area must be occupied before 17:00."

"Hayi!" Bu Shangzhao replied. In the darkness, the faces of both parties could not be seen clearly, but Yan Yongwang felt that the tone of Bu Shang's answer was not high-spirited. "Funogami-kun, you still take the lead this time. Do you remember what I said in front of the Sixth General Hata Toshi, Marshal Sugiyama, and Hideki Tojo? If the 116th Division is a sharp blade, then the 109th Regiment It's the blade-" "The tip of a sharp blade." Bu Shang Zhaoyi replied. "You haven't forgotten, very good. Wait for your good news." Yan Yongwang stretched out his hand to pat the shoulder on the cloth, but he couldn't measure the distance accurately in the dark, so he just wiped the military uniform on the cloth with his fingers.

Putting on the cloth, he stood at attention, answered "Hai", then quickly turned around and left. "Bushang-kun, work hard!" Yan Yongwang shouted behind him again. On the way back to his team, Bu Shang suddenly and involuntarily sang a Japanese military song that was popular when he was a lieutenant: The topography of the northern suburbs of Changde is completely different from that in the west. They are all plains, and rivers of varying sizes and lengths divide the plains into countless areas.On both sides of these large and small rivers, with the degree of water volume during floods, rivers and dams are sandwiched.Looking around from the top of the river ridge, the horizon is full of cobweb-like circles drawn by causeways.Some trees are planted on the embankment, and some are bare. There are large stone bridges and wooden bridges between the embankments.The paddy field under the embankment is dry in winter, and the rice roots several inches long are neatly arranged in the field. From a distance, these densely packed dots match the winding embankment line, forming a unique winter scene picture.

Long Izumo marched on the causeway.After he returned to the division headquarters of the Central Bank from the western front, he received information that the 116th Division had entered the attack site and was preparing to attack the Deng Hongjun Camp of Sun Jinxian's 170th Regiment in Huangtu Mountain.The enemy was coming fiercely, and Master Yu immediately asked a staff officer from the staff office to go to Dengying to supervise the battle, but Long Chuyun suggested that he should go.Although Master Yu persuaded him to stay at the division headquarters for a while on the grounds that he had just returned from the frontier, Long Chuyun still felt worried about the northern line after thinking about it, so he insisted that he go in person.Master Yu wanted to send him an entourage, but he didn't want it either. He knew very well that once the battle line was opened, everyone would have a heavy responsibility on their shoulders.He stopped and walked on the embankment, looking at the beautiful lake and mountain scenery in front of him, he could not help admiring it for a moment. He thought that if in the Taiping period, people would eat fish and rice in this kind of place in winter when they harvested enough food, would they be happy? How to live happily.

Unexpectedly, when he was thinking like this, he lost his way.At first, outside the smoky bushes in the north, a burst of fire flashed out, and a "rumbling" sound broke his contemplative fantasy.Then, the sound of machine guns from the southeast, like a sudden storm attack, came clattering in mid-air.Later, the sound of guns and guns from the west rumbled every few seconds, as if people were walking downwind, blowing the waterfall a few miles away with the wind intermittently, sometimes lightly and sometimes heavily.He was walking in the direction where the gunfire started, but gunfire sounded from all directions. He walked for a while and then turned back, walked for a while and then turned back, and stopped panting heavily.It seems that it is not enough to use the sound of firefighting as the guide.He calmed down and carefully observed the surrounding terrain and weather. Suddenly, he understood that Changde was now surrounded by Japanese troops, and battles had begun in all directions.Niubitan and Deshan in the eastern suburbs, meandering from Shuanggang Bridge in the northeast, Huangda Mountain and Limu Bridge in the north, Gangshi in the northwest and Hefu in the back, all are fighting fiercely, and the entire outskirts of Changde City are in chaos In the sound of machine gun shelling.

Relying on the determination of the direction of the sunset, he walked about 2 kilometers and finally touched the headquarters of the 2nd Battalion in Zhugentan. Battalion Commander Deng Hongjun was holding the phone and shouting: "No matter what, rush up and get it back!" Long Chuyun saw that his face was red and his lips were parched and chapped. He put down the phone, saluted Long Chuyun, and reported in a hoarse voice: "From 3 o'clock, the enemy will attack with dense troops. Twenty or thirty There were four or five teams when there were few, and eight teams at the most. The 5th company in the Huangtu Mountain position blocked the enemy's pounce 6 times. At 3:30, the enemy With more than a dozen large and small cannons, 4 planes assisted in the battle, bombarded the position of Huangtu Mountain indiscriminately, all the fortifications were destroyed, and we had to resist outside the fortifications. Later, the enemy charged with dense troops for the seventh time, and the fifth company The leader Wang Zhenfang was seriously injured, and the platoon leader Zhu Kexiu was furious. He took a group of brothers with more than half of the casualties, and violently counterattacked the charging enemy, using hand grenades and bayonets. Although the enemy's offensive was temporarily stopped, the platoon leader Zhu And the brothers who rushed up, none of them came back."

Long Chuyun asked: "Didn't we use artillery here to deal with the enemy's wave formation?" Before Battalion Commander Deng could answer, he heard two gunshots "dongdong" not far away. "The guns are used, but there are two guns in total, and they can't suppress the enemy." Battalion Commander Deng said anxiously and helplessly. They walked out of the bunker of the battalion headquarters. When the two artillery shells from the national army fell into the enemy's line, the Japanese army on the opposite side fell silent for a few minutes.However, the artillery observation post of the Japanese army determined the position of the mortar positions here.In an instant, more than a dozen cannons were fired towards here, from east to west, on the horizon, about two or three miles long, bursts of red light flashed.The enemy is firing mountain cannons without limit, and the rumbling sound is like continuous thunder.The trajectory of the ballistic brought out streaks of flames in the leaden sky, shooting here in a parabola.Some were shot grenades, bursting out countless rays of light in the sky, like the god of war, stretching out his claws and tearing at the defenders' positions.At this time, a strange whistling sound came through the air, and Long Chuyun and Battalion Commander Deng immediately saw a violent bullet flying towards their heads, and they immediately fell down on the spot. His movements were as fast as his movements, and there was a loud bang, and the embankment below him trembled.The flames and mud suddenly rose from the dry rice fields, stirring up several feet high.

Battalion Commander Deng desperately got up and rushed to the battalion command post, because he heard the phone ringing in a hurry.He picked up the receiver, but he couldn't hear the other party talking, only the sound of machine gun "boo boo boo". "Hey, hello, hello, Company Commander Wang?" He yelled into the microphone and slapped him. "Report to the battalion commander," said company commander Wang Zhenfang, "the enemy bombarded our position with seven or eight cannons, and all the fortifications were destroyed. Report to the battalion commander, I and a few... several... brothers died here, and we will never come down ..." Battalion Commander Deng called: "Good brother, it doesn't matter, I will come, you have stabilized your position, what do you think now?" The other side of the phone replied: "Now..." There were only the last two words, and the phone stopped ringing. Battalion Commander Deng squatted on the ground, held the earphones, and fed him a few times, but there was still no reply.At the same time, the gunfire from the Huangtu Mountain position gradually faded away, and stopped completely after a few minutes. Long Chuyun next to him looked at his watch, and it was around 4:40 pm.Battalion Commander Deng snapped the phone receiver and put it back on the phone cradle. There is only one explanation, the Huangtu Mountain position has fallen. Bu Shangzhaoyi lived up to Yan Yongwang's high hopes for him, and won the first stronghold of the national army defending the Changde North Line in one fell swoop. He became a little hesitant. He felt that the god of death was simply a ridiculous thing. You fear it, it It will firmly control you, but if you defeat it, it will stay away.He also thought that the Chinese army is really vulnerable. It is said that it is still a "huben" army, and it will collapse when it is rushed by his artillery and infantry.He even thought that it would be very interesting if the commander of the Chinese defenders who fought against him would meet with him, and he would definitely ridicule him mercilessly, such as: Yours, the real soldier's? !Tactics greatly do not understand!In fact, to put it bluntly, the commander who fought against him was Battalion Commander Deng Hongjun.Bu Shangzhao had thought of everything, but he didn't expect that he would die in the hands of this Deng Hongjun.