Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Key Offenses

It was sunset again, and the river after the fierce battle was extremely turbid, flowing slowly northward with blood foam and other sundries. The beacon smoke gradually dissipated, and there were some faint clouds floating in the sky.One or two cold shots broke the silence between the battles from time to time.Suddenly, a folk song, sometimes high-pitched and sometimes low-pitched, floated not far away: In the spring and March, the wind is graceful, and the river is flat like a palm, and the fish are jumping; the sound of thousands of boats, and the people are full of fishermen. The fisherman's family lives by the Hejiang River, and the Hejiang River is divided into clear and turbid; the turbid flow and mud flow into the clear flow, and the clear flow around the city is reflected again.

A stone ladder hangs from the top of the dense twig, leading the group to grab it in the secluded pool; cutting bamboo and giving bait like floating retting, and cormorants scattered all over the place to grope deeply. The giant scales and wings of the poplar fins come, and it is difficult to win over the waves; it is nothing to sit and watch, and the Kunpeng is the only one to be plundered. Listening to this melodious fisherman's song, people seem to have forgotten that it was a fierce battlefield and an unprecedented battle just now.As if returning to the peaceful age, seeing the moving scene of river breeze, fishing fire and fishing boat singing late.

"Who is singing? Are you singing a child's song?" Major Zhou Jianzhong, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 570th Regiment, asked with interest. "It's a fellow from Hengyang, Mr. Liu, a former migrant worker, is singing." Company Commander Zhi Chuande quickly replied. "Uncle Liu, what kind of song are you singing?" the branch company commander asked in Changsha accent. The old man Liu Bingxiang couldn't help singing when he was happy for a moment when he saw his soldiers winning the battle. He was a little embarrassed when he heard the company commander's question. "My family lives in Changhu Town. When I was young, I liked to go to the riverside to watch adults fishing; when I grew up, I went down the river to catch fish by myself. Just now, on a whim, I sang the "Song of Stone Drum Fishing"! risk?"

"Sing well! Sing well! Go on, go on." Commander Zhou encouraged with a Shaoxing accent. "Don't be ridiculous, I'll continue singing it, okay?" Uncle Liu acted like coaxing a child. "Okay, okay, sing quickly, sing quickly!" All the officers and soldiers smiled happily, and whoever took the lead applauded. Uncle Liu became even more energetic now, he let go of his throat and sang loudly: The number of Kunpeng was swallowed by big fish, and when it came out of the abyss, it was suddenly abused by it; the poor pot was cooked and fried, and the abalone was hurt and turned into dry rope.

The old man who stopped the hook played his flute horizontally, singing clouds and stone drums as usual as yesterday; seeing Han Wengong in Changli, writing articles on sea to drive away whales and crocodiles. Today, whales and crocodiles are all over the rivers and lakes, so why is the evil stream called evil?Duke Han of Changli cannot do... "Dinner is ready, dinner is ready!" The long fisherman's song was interrupted by the shout of the cooking squad leader.All the officers and soldiers hurriedly fucked the guy to eat, and they were already hungry!Because of the fisherman's song, I forgot for a while, and my stomach naturally croaked every time I screamed.

Due to the defeat, the Japanese army's position was lifeless.Hear the resounding fisherman's song here, their "netting ditty" I don't think I can sing.Although the fisherman's song can't be sung, the feeling of homesickness must be the same. Changsha, the headquarters of the Japanese Eleventh Army. Heng Shanyong was ruthless in his heart, and became even more restless. He kept walking up and down in the office, and his bald and shiny brain was also spinning non-stop. It has been ten days since the encounter with the Hengyang garrison troops of the Chinese Army on June 23.It was thought that for this first general attack, it would be enough to capture the glory of Changsha in one day, and then go down to Hengyang in one day, at least three days would be enough, so the troops only brought enough supplies for a week.Unexpectedly, after fighting for ten days, apart from occupying Gaoling in the south of the city and the two advanced strongholds of Tingbingshan and several outlying positions on the northwest line, such as Waziping, Jushendu, Wangchengao, and Laiyanta, the opponent's first The line position stands firm and unmoving.

The 68th Division of the siege force is a Type C Division with more than 15,000 people, and the 116th Division is a Type B Division composed of more than 20,000 people, plus more than 6,000 people from the Independent Fifth Infantry Brigade , with a total of more than 40,000 general offensive troops, facing A dilapidated Chinese army with less than 20,000 soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The average number of remaining officers and soldiers in each infantry squadron it belonged to was less than 20. In total, the 86 infantry squadrons in our front line suffered more than 16,000 casualties.The middle- and lower-level officers suffered all casualties, countless soldiers died in battle, and the remains of imperial soldiers who died in battle are everywhere in the mountains and plains.It's really piled up like a mountain of corpses, bleeding and floating!In such a hot weather, the corpse decomposes quickly, and its smell is incomparable.Every two or three days, the imperial officers and soldiers who died in battle had to be cremated. The smell was unbearable;

The casualties of the Chinese army are estimated to be less than one-third of the maximum, and when there are more than 4,000 people, their combat power has not been seriously injured.The war data of the imperial army has always maintained a psychological balance and boosted morale with a casualty ratio of 1:20 with the Chinese army.The imperial army has reported this ratio in all previous battles, but the announcement of the casualties in the Hengyang battle this time has indeed caused the military to deliberate over and over again, racking their brains and racking their brains.How to explain to the people of the empire!These two main attacking divisions can be composed of people from Osaka and Kyoto respectively, and they are famous for being able to attack well-fortified cities.Hey, God fails to fulfill one's wishes!

Our army's supply line was too long, and it was intercepted by the Chinese Air Force, which almost made it impossible to continue.This battle can't be fought like this!Judging from the current situation of both the enemy and the enemy, our army should change its strategy and change the offensive across the board to focus on the offensive.Yes, focus on the attack, concentrate your forces, break through a little first, then expand the breakthrough, and concentrate your forces and firepower to tear the opening to be effective. I don't believe it: your little Hengyang City is that one, that copper pea that can't be disguised, chewed, hammered, or melted!Yokoyama, who still has a little foundation in Chinese culture, was proud of himself when he suddenly thought of this famous line.

Heng Shanyong, who had already made up his mind, said majestically to the staff: "Order the troops on the front line to select an attack point and implement a key breakthrough! It is hot during the day, and it is easy to expose the attack line. Instead, attack at night and strive to break through the city as soon as possible!" "Yes! General!" The staff officer wrote it down, and hurriedly took it to send a report. At about 4:00 p.m. on July 4, the Japanese army made a desperate move and pushed more than 10 field heavy artillery to a distance of less than 500 meters from our Zhangjiashan and Tiger Nest positions, aiming and firing directly at our army.The heavy shelling made the defenders unable to raise their heads.

"Military Department, Military Department, I am Commander Ge Xiancai of the 10th Reserve Division. The Japanese army violently bombarded my Zhangjiashan and Tiger Nest positions. Ask for artillery support, ask for artillery support!" "Army seat, the 10th Division requests artillery support." The staff officer reported to Fang Xianjue. "Notify the 2nd Company of the Field Artillery of the 48th Division to support the infantry in combat and suppress the Japanese artillery fire!" Commander Fang ordered. "Yes, inform the 2nd company of the artillery, suppress the fire!" The staff officer responded. "Receive the 2nd company of artillery. Order to support Zhangjiashan and Tiger Nest positions, and suppress the enemy's artillery fire!" After a while, a series of commands came from the artillery position I was hiding in Qingquan Road: "Attention all companies, the target is due south, the distance is 2000 meters, the four artillery pieces are firing rapidly, ready to launch!" "One shot is ready!" "The Second Artillery is ready!" "Three cannons and four cannons are ready!" "Get ready, let go! Get ready, let go! Get ready, let go!" As Li Zhongqi, the commander of the No. 2 Artillery Company, issued an order, our artillery group roared; shells fell accurately on the enemy artillery positions.Destroying two enemy cannons relieved the pressure on the front of our army's position.But it exposed its artillery position. The Japanese artillery group found that our artillery fire was coming, and fought back with all their strength; at the same time, they recruited Japanese artillery groups from other directions to carry out a rapid fire attack and counter-suppression.The retaliatory shelling of the Japanese 105mm heavy artillery and 75mm American mountain artillery group quickly overwhelmed them.The fierce artillery battle between the two sides lasted for nearly an hour, which was unprecedented. But seeing the swarms of cannonballs whizzing over, the cannonballs from here flew past again.The explosion of the shells was deafening, and the air seemed to be warmed up, so hot. Firstly, our army has few cannons, and we also have few shells, so we have to use them sparingly.Helpless, our army had to quickly shift the artillery position.But it was already a step too late.During the transfer, the company commander, Captain Li Zhongqi, and the 1st platoon leader, Second Lieutenant Zhang Qingxiu, fell to the ground with serious injuries, and one of the four cannons of the artillery company 2 was destroyed by the enemy. Not long after the artillery battle ended, dusk fell.The Japanese infantry began to launch a key attack on our Zhangjiashan and Tiger-shaped Nest positions.The Japanese army launched a wave-like charge with 200 people in one wave, continuously launching uninterrupted attacks on our army's positions, in an attempt to complete Isamu Yokoyama's new tactics of focusing on attacking, pointing to blossom, and breaking through in one fell swoop.For the Zhangjiashan position alone, five consecutive charges were launched overnight.It is a posture of desperately trying to complete the task assigned by his superior at all costs.Apart from other things, the professionalism of the Japanese army is undoubtedly remarkable. In order to ensure the Zhangjiashan position, in addition to personally sitting in the Xiaojiashan command post, Commander Ge Xiancai also promptly instructed the 30th Regiment Commander Chen Debi to assign Deputy Commander Ruan Cheng to sit in Zhangjiashan.Deputy regiment commander Ruan commanded the troops directly under the division to cooperate with the officers and soldiers defending the position, first blasting the shock wave of the Japanese attack with dense grenades; then using crossfire to sweep down most of the enemy troops; down position. After fighting all night, the Zhangjiashan position was firmly in the hands of our army.The Japanese army had nothing to gain except leaving dead bodies everywhere in front of our army's position, and retreated down the mountain in embarrassment. In the tiger nest position, our army successfully repelled the two waves of Japanese attacks in the first half of the night.After midnight, the Japanese army launched a third, more ferocious charge.A large group of Japanese troops broke into the position and started a battle of forts and trenches with our army; the follow-up troops of the Japanese army continued to pour in, and gradually occupied the two protrusions on the west and south of the position, and soon the tiger-shaped nest position was captured by the Japanese army by a third. Seeing that its key attacks were gradually taking effect, the captain of the Japanese army brandished his command knife, yelling non-stop, sending reinforcements to strengthen and expand the breakthrough. The situation is extremely critical!