Chapter 36 Chapter Thirty-Six

After a week of fierce fighting, the 30th Regiment of the 10th Reserve Division lost all casualties, and its combat power was unsustainable.Ge Xiancai then left the search company and engineering company of the division headquarters, and formed a company with the troops directly under the 30th regiment, barely making up three companies, commanded by the deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ruan Cheng. After setting up the position of the 30th regiment, Ge Xiancai rushed to the 29th regiment to learn about the battle situation. The tiger-shaped nest in the southwestern suburb of Hengyang is an independent highland with a circumference of about 400 meters. Like Zhangjiashan, it is also the key to the national army's position.It is about 200 meters away from Zhangjiashan in the southeast, about 150 meters away from Fanjiazhuang in the north, and a flat and open rice field about 200 meters away in the west.The highlands are densely forested, pine trees, maple trees, and camphor trees are lush and verdant, which is a paradise for all kinds of small animals.At this time, except for the 3rd company of the 29th Regiment of the 10th Division, there were no other animals. The war ruthlessly drove away cute little animals like squirrels and hares.

While attacking Zhangjiashan and other positions, the Japanese army also launched a fierce attack on the Tiger Nest position.However, after five consecutive days and nights of assault, nothing was achieved except for leaving a large number of corpses in front of the national army positions. Because the Japanese army had to rush through the more than 200 meters of open paddy fields in front of the position, in order to approach obstacles such as wooden fences, antlers, and barbed wire set up in front of the national army.This smooth journey is a great opportunity for the national army to display the firepower of light and heavy weapons, and it is also a death trap for the Japanese army.

The remaining enemies who can pass can only rush to the front edge of the cliff that was cut out in front of the formation only by continuing to pass through the obstacles of each layer.The Japanese army thought that this was a blind spot where they could avoid the flames of death.Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers of the national army were condescending, and the grenades came one after another like a torrential rain. The Japanese soldiers under the two cliffs were either killed or injured by the bombing. But the Japanese army did not stand still because of the heavy casualties in the previous two days.On the contrary, they continued to strengthen the artillery and air firepower in one area, and bombed and poisoned the National Army positions during the day. After dusk, they began to launch a series of attacks on the National Army positions in an attempt to open a breakthrough here.

On the nights of June 28, 29, and 30, the Japanese army launched seven assaults, each with more than 100 soldiers.However, under the tenacious blocking of the national army, the Japanese army was killed and wounded, and all of them were dead under the cliff. 30 midnight, the dark night sky not a single star.The air seemed to freeze, and it was suffocatingly dull.Suddenly, a long bolt of lightning in the sky pierced the dark and heavy night. In an instant, there was rumbling thunder, strong winds and heavy rain.In a short while, the rain in the trenches will be unpainted.With such bad weather, everyone thought that the devils should stop for a while.

However, the Japanese army still did not give up, and even sent a reinforced unit of more than 40 people to secretly pass through the breach of multi-layered obstacles and quietly enter the outer trench.Stepping on dead bodies like arhats, using people as ladders, they climbed the cut walls, suddenly invaded the southwest of the national army's position, and occupied three blockhouses. Captain Liang Yaohui, commander of the 3rd company of the 29th regiment of the garrison, commanded the officers and soldiers to fight.After repeated scrambles, they got involved with the Japanese army and a scuffle broke out.When the fight was inextricably linked, the battalion commander Lao Yao arrived with a reserve team.

"1st company commander, you lead people to occupy the protrusions on both sides of the position, and use firepower to block the enemy's follow-up troops. The rest of the people come with me, a battle group of three, aim at the devil soldiers who rushed into my position, and fight hard. He's a bitch!" the battalion commander ordered. "Yes. The left side of the first row, the right side of the second row, immediately occupy the position and block the enemy!" Liu Zhendong, the commander of the 1st machine gun company, said loudly.The national army acted according to the order, and soon suppressed the follow-up troops of the Japanese army under the wall, unable to advance or retreat.

The Japanese army that broke into the defensive position was swept trench by trench by a three-man assault group of the national army.First there were bursts of grenade explosions, and then there was a hand-to-hand battle with white knives in and red knives out.Shouts, screams and thunder and rain stirred each other, sweat, blood and rain mixed with each other, the battle was extremely tragic, and the night scene was very bleak.As if in hell on earth, in the lightning, people's faces were deformed and pale, extremely eerie. Before dawn, most of the defenders' positions were finally restored.

However, 9 Japanese troops seized a bunker in the defenders' formation in the melee and resisted stubbornly.The national army surrounded him. Company Commander Liang personally commanded, and originally wanted to capture these turtles in the urn.But until dawn, they called for surrender many times, but the Japanese army was stubborn and continued to shoot relentlessly. Liang Yaohui, the commander of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 29th Regiment, was unfortunately hit in the head by a bullet fired from the bunker while directing the attack and died heroically. After being besieged for a long time, the Japanese soldiers still did not surrender.Only the organization blasting team blasted continuously, sacrificed 7 blasters, and finally blew up the bunker, killing all the Japanese soldiers in the bunker.The fact that the national army was unable to capture a Japanese prisoner showed how stubborn the Japanese invaders were.

On July 1, night gradually fell, and the tiger-shaped nest of the national army in the afterglow of the sunset looked like a strong and mighty South China tiger, lying quietly and quietly near Hengyang West Bus Station, making the attacking Japanese army daunting . Another hot day passed.The Japanese army's attempt to break through the national army's position was shattered again. On June 29, the 6th day after the start of the battle, the senior staff officer of the Japanese 11th Army, Osamu Kanshima, wrote in his diary: "The resistance of the enemy troops in Hengyang was unexpectedly tenacious."

The enemy chief Yokoyama became more and more anxious and became more and more irrational.The pressure from home could not allow him to sympathize with his poor officers and soldiers.In recent days, more and more people have been killed in battle, and the bones of thousands of dead people are burned almost every day... However, Operation One is a matter of life and death for the Empire.If we do not continue to attack and capture Hengyang, not only will the No. 1 battle plan not be achieved, but even the imperial officers and soldiers who have already died in battle will die in vain and become worthless.

The imperial army is invincible! Attack, attack, only non-stop attack is the only way out! In this way, Yokoyama encouraged his frontline commanders, ordered, and put pressure on them. Seeing that the battle lines of the enemy and us on the combat map still stay on the outer line of the outskirts of Hengyang, Yokoyama is puzzled.The Imperial Japanese Army, which swept across thousands of miles and defeated thousands of troops, was invincible; but the battle that was progressing smoothly stopped when it hit Hengyang, a small city with a population of less than 300,000?What exactly went wrong? Out of gear?No, infantry artillery, tanks, and aircraft have all modern weapons, and even chemical weapons that are banned internationally are used, but it still doesn't work. Bad morale?Nor is it.Over the past few days, despite the heavy casualties, the warrior spirit of the imperial soldiers has not diminished in the slightest. They have fought all the spiritual battles and used the "meat bomb tactics"!The officers and soldiers would rather commit suicide by caesarean section, and no one is willing to become a prisoner, which shows the high fighting spirit.But why can't they attack a few small mountain cubs! The enemy is strong?Not to mention it!Although the 10th Army is one of the few units in the Chinese Army that can fight.But compared with my well-trained and well-equipped Great Japanese Imperial Army, they are still too far behind.They have no tanks, no heavy artillery, and of course no chemical weapons.Moreover, a few months ago, the army was on the outskirts of Changde, and it was not long after it was defeated by the superior force of two divisions of our imperial army, and it has not been well trained and replenished... Unfavorable terrain?That's even more bullshit!There is almost no danger under the city of Hengyang.In a small city with a rectangle of less than two square kilometers, our imperial army can shoot a single shot from a three-eighth big cover, and the bullets can traverse across the city. From the south of the city, the north of the city can be defeated, let alone from the west to the east of the city. What is the reason for that!The more Yokoyama thought about it, the more confused he became, as if it was a mess, and the more he reasoned, the more confused he became.As a professional soldier, how did he know that the monster of war, since the day it was born, is not just a purely military issue.It is a competition of comprehensive strength among countries and nations; in fact, the outcome of a war is often the result of the combined effects of various factors such as economics, politics, diplomacy, culture, religion, and morality. There is a saying: If you are right, you will get more help, but if you are wrong, you will get little help.Just wars always win in the end unjust wars. Why did Yokoyama think so much and think so deeply.At this time, he was like a wild bull rushing into the sea of ​​flames, and he only recognized one death principle: soldiers take obedience as their bounden duty. Since the military headquarters of the base camp asked to go forward to open up the mainland communication line, then we, as the China dispatch army, can only go forward Go, go, go!Rush up, go beat your opponent, go beat your opponent!Defend the inherent honor of my Great Japanese Imperial Army! At night, the Japanese army launched a new attack.The Japanese army was like a mindless bison, with red eyes, rushing endlessly.It was the "Human Sea Tactic" again. The formation was as dense as sea water under a typhoon. In the sea of ​​fire intertwined with the guns and bullets of the Qian Guojun, they were running east and west, exhausted.The whole battlefield is like a boiled pot of porridge: the roar of shells, the scream of bullets, the shouts of officers, the screams of being shot, the groans of wounded, the cries for help... All these sounds seem to be broadcast through a loudspeaker. It seems to be enlarged, spread out, and the sound becomes one piece, the noise is extremely noisy, and it is endless. At midnight, the Japanese commandos broke through the defense lines of the national army in many places and penetrated into the positions of the national army, and the two armies fought again.A steady stream of Japanese reinforcements came up.The national army suffered more than half of the casualties, the grenades were almost unsustainable, and most of the positions were taken by the Japanese. The command post of Lao Yao's civilian battalion only held on to the northeast corner of the position, fighting bloody battles, and was in danger. "Hey, hello, the 1st Battalion is calling the regiment headquarters, and the 1st Battalion is calling the regiment headquarters. The situation is critical, please reinforce quickly! The situation is critical, please reinforce quickly!"