Chapter 98 Chapter 98: Enmity and Enmity 2

However, walking, walking, the closer to the front, the more intense the bloody smell.Suddenly, there was another disgusting and vomiting smell.Zhang Lingfu knew it was the stench of corpses.He frowned, stopped in his tracks and asked, "What's wrong? Is this the brother's, or is it that the little devil's body was too late to bury?" Cai Renjie gritted his teeth, silently staring into his eyes without speaking. Zhang Lingfu had a premonition that something was wrong, so he poked his head out cautiously to look out, and was immediately stunned: a thigh that was wearing leggings, but the leggings had been stained black with blood, swollen and deformed, was right under his nose.Looking further ahead, in the flat wilderness, under the shining of the sun, it is like a purgatory on earth—there are blown-off tree trunks everywhere, and gray and yellow mutilated corpses everywhere, among them are those wearing gray cloth military uniforms. There are many soldiers of the national army, densely packed, countless, and there are more than a dozen enemy tanks far and near, which have been blown up and down, emitting black smoke.

"You can't fight recklessly, you can't fight recklessly!" Zhang Lingfu was in great pain, and he stuck his fist in the trench.While talking, there was a sharp whistling sound from a distance, and the two of them quickly lay down, and a burst of earth-shattering shelling exploded in front, back, left, and right, which lasted for more than ten minutes before stopping. "This is the enemy's naval gun. It has a large caliber and is powerful. When a shell hits it, it's bigger than a basketball court!" Cai Renjie told Zhang Lingfu after wiping his face covered with dirt.

"Man, tell me, how is this battle going to be played?" Zhang Lingfu asked sincerely. "Don't you have an idea?" Cai Renjie saw that Zhang Lingfu called him "buddy", so he learned Shaanxi dialect and replied: "You can't fight recklessly, you can't fight recklessly!" "Hahaha, you Hankow kidnapper! You're on your way!" Zhang Lingfu understood and punched him friendly on the shoulder. "Go, let's find the teacher!" Luodian has been destroyed by the fighting that lasted for several weeks, and there is not a single intact building in the town.The division headquarter of the 51st Division is located in an underground bunker outside the town. Wang Yaowu, the commander of the division, has a beard and red eyes. He is lying on the map to study the combat deployment with Zhou Zhidao, the commander of the 151st brigade, and Li Tianxia, ​​the deputy commander of the brigade. After Zhang Lingfu and Cai Renjie came to report and presented the clever plan of "surrounding the spot to fight for aid", they couldn't help but cheer up and applauded: "Wow, great plan! I just want to sleep, so you send me a high pillow!"

In the afternoon of the next day, the military department officially issued a siege and aid plan, which was originally scheduled to be implemented three days later, so that the newly arrived 305th regiment would be familiar with the terrain.But that night, the Japanese army, which seldom fought night battles, launched a night storm under the cover of tanks in order to recapture Luodian. The 151st Brigade defending Luodian gradually felt overwhelmed.Upon seeing this, Wang Yaowu decided to implement the plan immediately to ensure the safety of Luodian, a transportation hub. In the middle of the night, the sound of urgent assembly trumpets hastily shattered the dreams of the soldiers.The brothers of the 305th regiment rushed into battle, but they had no complaints.All the brothers in the national army had a white towel tied on their left arm.Zhang Lingfu and Cai Renjie shook hands silently to bid farewell, and each led two teams to disappear into the vast night.

Zhang Lingfu took on the most dangerous task: to sneak five kilometers behind the enemy along the Nantang River, and with two battalions of troops, pretend to attack Shijiabang, the enemy's heavy camp, to attract the main force of the Japanese attacking Luodian to return to defense.This is a dangerous move. If he is not careful, he will be surrounded and make dumplings for the superior Japanese army.Cai Renjie led a battalion assigned to the 306th regiment, and set up an ambush at Caowangmiao between Luodian and Shijiabang, preparing for another beautiful ambush. When assigning tasks, Wang Yao said, "Will you draw lots?"

But Zhang Lingfu said: "Grab the ball! Whoever is the head of the regiment dies first, Shi Jiabang counts on me." The expression on his face was so natural and sincere, without a trace of femininity, Cai Renjie was so moved that he couldn't speak for a long time . "Quick! Keep up! Don't make any noise on the road!" Zhang Lingfu stood on the side of the road, urging each soldier who was running forward one by one in a low voice.The artillery fire in the direction of Luodian reflected half of the night sky red.In the faint light of the flames, the figures of the soldiers passed by one by one.

After a month of painstaking training, the 305 regiment has been well-trained.After the two battalions and nearly 700 officers and soldiers assembled in an emergency, none of them did not follow the regulations to assemble ammunition, guns, and bayonets on their bodies. Running last was Xiao Yuncheng, the leader of the machine gun platoon, carrying a Czech-style light machine gun weighing more than ten kilograms on his shoulders, with magazines hanging on his waist, and he was still walking like flying.This baby is a good piece of steel.Zhang Lingfu turned around and followed him, marching side by side.

Xiao Yuncheng turned his head and smiled naively when he saw the head of the team running beside him.There is no distinction between the heights of the two, and Zhang Lingfu's first impression of him was very good.A month ago, the 74th Army recruited troops in Hankou.One afternoon, at the recruitment office at the entrance of the military gate, Zhang Lingfu and Cai Renjie were busy receiving and registering. Perhaps because they heard Cai Renjie speak a pure Wuhan accent, the tall and big Xiao Yuncheng squeezed in and shouted at him. He said, "Kippler, I want to be a soldier too!"

"What kind of kidnapper? Are you a kidnapper? Could it be that serving as a soldier is kidnapping and buying people?" Zhang Lingfu looked at Cai Renjie curiously and asked.Zhang Lingfu was born in Guanzhong, the "Eight Hundred Li Qinchuan Emperor State". Many Guanzhong people look down on Henan, Guangdong, and Sichuan people, and call them "Kuzi", "Barbarian" and "Abductee".The so-called "kidnapping" means human traffickers, and it refers to the crimes committed by people in Sichuan who mainly kidnap people.Therefore, Zhang Lingfu felt very strange when someone called Cai Renjie a kidnapper.

"Hey, hey, look at what you said, how did it involve human trafficking? This is our catchphrase here, just like you like to call people 'dude'. 'Dude' means a good friend, and 'kidnapper' means Big Brother, Boss means." Cai Renjie didn't know the meaning of kidnapper in Shaanxi dialect at the time.However, his explanation of "the kidnapper is the big brother" made Zhang Lingfu feel good about the young man in front of him. He stood up and patted him on the shoulder, complimenting him, "Good figure!" Eh?It seemed that there was a hard callus on the right shoulder, and then he patted the left shoulder, and if there was no callus on the left shoulder, it was concluded that he had served as a soldier before.If there are calluses on the left and right, it is because of carrying a shoulder pole and changing shoulders frequently.

"Have you ever carried a gun before?" he asked. Xiao Yuncheng replied: "Yes, I worked in the militia for several years in my hometown and fought against the Red Army." Zhang Lingfu became more interested: "Did I win more or lose more when fighting the Red Army?" "Losing a lot, but there are times when we win." Zhang Lingfu was very satisfied with Xiao Yuncheng's frank words, accepted him immediately, and promoted him to be the platoon leader of the machine gun platoon a month later. After leaving Jiading, a few miles to the east is the Nantang River, which flows from south to north and flows into the Huangpu River near Baoshan.The river is wide and the water is not deep.The brothers crawling along the river, by the light of the fire in the distance, could clearly see the figure of the devil sentry walking back and forth on the river embankment on both sides, each of them was so nervous that their hearts were pounding.This is a risky move.Once the target is exposed, the enemy is condescending on the embankment, attacking from both sides, and the national army has no way out.However, since ancient times, the road in Huashan can only be taken by surprise, and Zhang Lingfu's bold suggestion was finally adopted by the military. In fact, Zhang Lingfu learned this trick from the Red Army. In the winter of 1934, in the Dabie Mountains, one of his regiments pushed the Red 25th Army into a small basin called Lishugou.That night, the Red Army attempted to break out of the siege, and gunshots continued from behind the mountain.But at dawn the next day, there was no one at the bottom of the mountain, and the Red Army got out of the encirclement from nowhere.It wasn't until I asked the villagers that it turned out that the famous senior Red Army generals such as Wu Huanxian and Xu Haidong led their troops out of the icy river ditch in the dark after swaying a few shots in the back mountain.It was a failure, which made him very regretful. This time Zhang Lingfu frowned, wanting to repeat the old tricks of the Red Army.Sure enough, the enemy was in the open, we were in the dark, and there were corpses scattered around the river bank as cover, and the intensive gunfire from the direction of Luodian distracted the enemy's attention.The Japanese army never expected that the national army of the two battalions would slip under their noses. Lu Xing, the battalion commander of the first battalion, led the sharp knife squad to explore the way at the front.Fortunately, I had rehearsed in advance and asked fellow villagers to understand the topography so that I would not lose my way.Two hours later, a four-hole stone bridge finally appeared on the river. Lu Xing made a move, and the brothers of the sharp knife squad touched the embankment, and successively killed three or four devil guards on the embankment and the bridge.After a few "croaking" signals from the frogs, the large troops quickly crossed the bridge.In order to ensure the retreat, Zhang Lingfu not only deployed a company here, but also left a platoon of troops at each of the two key intersections he had passed before. After getting off the bridge and going forward for a few hundred meters, you will see Shijiabang, which was heavily fortified by the Japanese army.Shijiabang was originally a prosperous small market town, but now it has become a logistics base for the Japanese invaders after they landed at Wusongkou.Zhang Lingfu tried his best to keep his eyes wide open and looked ahead. He saw that in the night, on the rice field, there were black cars, tanks and tents covered with canvas. Rows of spear stabs reflected a little bit of cold light. Can't wait any longer.The first battalion is on the left, the second battalion is on the right, the troops directly under the regiment are on guard on both sides, and the machine gun company is hidden in the mass graves, and the layout is ready.Zhang Lingfu, who was lying on the roadside ridge, raised his pistol, and with a "bang", a red signal flare flew into the air with a long tail.There was a sudden burst of gunfire in Siye. Xiao Yuncheng's light machine gun first aimed at the devil patrol, and he pulled the trigger fiercely. In the flashing fire, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers screamed and were shot; at the same time, six mortars fired together. Fire violently.The rapid mass artillery fire, the cannonballs condensed with hatred, vented out to their heart's content, all smashing on the top of the devil's head and the ammunition depot. Ghosts and wolves howled in Shijiabang. The sound of explosions became more violent and the flames more brilliant each time. Cars were lifted into the night sky, watchtowers were torn apart, and even tens of tons of tanks were overturned to the ground by strong air waves. The little Japanese devil ran around in and out of the village with his head in his arms, and was stunned all of a sudden. He didn't return a shot for a full twenty minutes.It wasn't until twenty minutes later that the remnant enemy, who escaped by chance and was still in shock, managed to gather two small teams and organize a reluctant counterattack. The result was not enough to fill the gap between Xiao Yuncheng's teeth. There are a few survivors left. Half an hour later, in order to destroy the position of our machine gun company, which was the most threatening, about one squadron of Japanese soldiers howled and rushed along the road desperately, only to be caught in the middle by the first and second battalions, and beat them hard , The crossfire in all directions made the little devils never return. "Wow! Good fight!" Zhang Lingfu stood up on the spur of the moment, and shouted, "Come on, brothers, catch the living ones! Catch the living ones!" Zhang Yuan. Hearing the exciting call from the head of the regiment, the officers and soldiers became even more motivated and rushed onto the road one after another. Xiao Yuncheng also rushed up with a machine gun, and excited voices were everywhere: "Catch the alive! Catch the alive!" For a while What a delight.