Chapter 71 Chapter 67 Sino-Japanese Artillery Battle

Before the Spring Festival of the 29th year of the Republic of China came, the war began.The Fourth War Zone ordered that the troops be divided into three groups to counterattack Nanning: 4 divisions of the North Route Army attacked Kunlun Pass; Attack to Gaofeng Pass and block the enemy reinforcements from Nanning; the reserve team is the 99th Army. On December 18, the North Route Army launched a general attack on Kunlun Pass.Du Yuming, commander of the 5th Army, launched a general attack from the front of the Kunlun Pass with the honorary 1st Division, and attacked Wutang and Liutang with the newly formed 22nd Division, and detoured behind the Kunlun Pass.The next day, the West Route Army attacked Gaofeng Pass, Sitang, Xinxu, Wuxu and other places, and blocked enemy reinforcements; the East Route Army attacked Qinzhou, Xiaodong, Datang and other places to cooperate with the North Route Army.

The war broke out in full swing. Mu Liangfeng's division was ordered to attack a place called Gaofeng Pass, and the special task force was responsible for moving to the north of Gaofeng Pass.Gaofeng Pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is the same as Kunlun Pass as two natural barriers in Nanning. According to these two places, you can go straight to the important towns of Liuzhou and Guilin, and retreat to defend Nanning. In the words of the teacher, losing Kunlun Pass is equivalent to losing Nanning. If Nanning is lost, the international traffic line will be cut off, and the rear will no longer be safe. The Japanese invaders can drive straight in and attack wherever they want.The devil's strategic intention is exactly the same, so the Chinese army spent all its money to regain lost ground and drive the devil out of southern Guangxi completely.

When Mu Liangfeng walked out of the county town with his company, he was shocked by the scene in front of him: rows of tanks, full of soldiers, car convoys pulling artillery, infantry all over the mountains, occasionally with a huge roar overhead The fighter planes passing by were full of soldiers heading to the front line.He fought a lot of battles, but it was the first time for Mu Liangfeng to participate in such a large-scale battle.Seeing this situation, he finally knew what a crowd was. Dozens of trucks from the transportation company had been waiting for a long time. Head Liu, wearing a helmet and holding a pistol, stood beside the troops and ordered the soldiers to get on the trucks.Commander Liu called Mu Liangfeng aside, and said with a stern expression, "This battle is different from what you have fought in the past, you boy, show me how to be smart, don't let the dog bite you instead of hitting the dog."

Mu Liangfeng knew what the head of the group meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, group leader, I don't want to die yet." Head Liu glared at him, and cursed: "Stop being a slob, when you're on the battlefield, give me a pair of eyes." "yes!" After a day of turbulence, when the troops drove to a mountain not far from the peak pass in the evening, they encountered the vanguard of the devils.Fighting hand to hand, the devils discovered the secret service group immediately, so they made a pre-emptive attack. The mountain artillery and mortars were set up at once, and a volley was fired at the secret service group first.Before the secret service group entered the position, the devils fired a burst of fierce shelling. With the ear-piercing whistling sound, the devils' shells were densely covered, and the splashed sand, gravel and mud hit Mu Liangfeng's body indiscriminately. Wearing a steel helmet on his head, but the mud and small stones kicked up by the shells still hurt his body, especially the air waves of the explosion and the dust blowing on his face made people feel suffocated... Fortunately, Mu Liangfeng at this time Already accustomed to the ravages of the Devil's shells, as soon as the shells sounded, he ordered the brothers of the company to jump out of the car and look for cover nearby.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment, several vehicles of the transportation company were quickly overturned, and dozens of brothers in other companies who had time to jump out of the vehicles were blown to pieces by the artillery fire. "You son of a bitch, I lost a platoon before I fired a single shot." The usually gentle regiment leader Liu jumped up and cursed when he saw dozens of soldiers killed in battle. At this time, an order came from the division headquarters: on the opposite side was a whole-organized Japanese army unit, which was rushing to the Kunlun Pass for assistance.

"What? A devil from the regiment, I ask for reinforcements!" Commander Liu asked the division for help. The division headquarters issued a death order: "The three reinforcement regiments are rushing to your location, and your special agent regiment must stick to it for three hours." Commander Liu held a pistol and directed everyone to seize the nearby high ground, dig fortifications, carry ammunition, and set up machine gun positions. "Mu Liangfeng, Mu Liangfeng, quickly lead your people to outflank and occupy the hill on the right for me." Captain Liu pointed his pistol to the right.

Mu Liangfeng looked at the place, it was the highest mountain in the vicinity, condescending, and it was a natural barrier for the flank of the regiment headquarters.The leader gave this place to himself, no doubt letting him stare at it.He raised his sniper rifle and yelled: "One company, come with me!" Everyone just ran to the front of the mountain, and a group of little devils in yellow military uniforms were also moving there. "Brothers, hurry up, we can't let the little devils get ahead of us, or our spy team will suffer a big loss this time." Mu Liangfeng knew in his heart that he was the only one in the team right now. After the battle, the regiment was severely downsized. The actual number was only more than 1,600, but the devils had a full regiment of 3,800 people, and they carried heavy weapons. As long as they were not careful, the entire army might be wiped out.

All the soldiers knew this important relationship, and followed Mu Liangfeng to rush up the hillside, and finally occupied the highest point before the devils did. Before they had time to deploy troops and positions, they launched an attack on the devils on the spot.Before the war, the regiment added a platoon of recruits to the first company, most of whom had been on the battlefield, but when the guns fired, these recruits panicked, ran around on the battlefield, and some even shot blindly. "You idiots don't want to live anymore. What I taught you during the training, I will get down on the ground, aim at the devils and shoot." When Mengzi saw these recruits, he came to fire. During the training, they were all dumbfounded, pretending, and fighting When the battle came, everyone panicked.

Mu Liangfeng told the recruits: "Everyone, don't panic, get down on the ground, treat it as normal training, the devils on the opposite side are all targets, aim and shoot one after another." A silly recruit asked him: "Company commander, I heard that devils are invulnerable, is it useful for us to fight like this?" Xiao Wu almost vomited blood when he heard this, and he slapped the recruit on the face: "You idiot, country bumpkin, devils are human beings, just like us, a shot will still leave a hole in it." He fired a shot at the beginning, and the devil who rushed to the front fell to the ground.

"Did the bumpkins see it? Are the devils invulnerable?" The recruits saw how awesome the platoon was!He raised his hand and killed a devil. Encouraged, they all lay down on the ground and shot according to the usual training methods.The first company is full of personnel, but the firepower has not increased. The recruits are all old Chinese official rifles, and all the good guns are in the hands of the veterans. Seeing that the hill ahead was occupied by the Chinese army, the devil retreated after failing to charge twice.Immediately afterwards, the shelling began, and it seemed that they shifted the focus of their attack here.

The devil's shells fell like rain, which was more violent than any shelling Mu Liangfeng had ever experienced. He felt as if he was submerged in a stormy sea, and the oncoming airflow and thick smoke hit him hard His chest was so heavy that he couldn't breathe, and his ears were full of "buzzing" sounds. "Get down, don't waste bullets!" He saw a few recruits stupidly squatting and shooting at the devils from a distance, and roared angrily. "Everyone who doesn't want to die gets down." In this world full of gunpowder smoke and flying rocks and soil, the only thing they can do is to curl up as much as possible and stick to the soil as much as possible-that is the closest place to them.Apart from this, they could do nothing, and the soldiers' flesh and blood and light weapons seemed very small under the heavy shelling. After a while, the Artillery Battalion of the Secret Service Regiment also began shelling the devils. It seemed that Commander Liu was worried about the safety of the company and wanted to use shelling to suppress the devils' artillery.The devil's artillery was attacked, and immediately shifted its focus to the artillery positions of the Special Service Regiment. The sound of shells gradually faded away, half of Mu Liangfeng's body was buried in the soil, and his body was covered with soil. Agui and another brother quickly dug him out. Mu Liangfeng stood up and looked around, there were already twenty or thirty brothers lying in a pool of blood, and a recruit not far from him was even motionless, sitting on the spot. "Go, give this kid a chili to refresh him." When he came out, fearing that the soldiers would be cold at night, Mu Liangfeng bought a few kilograms of dried chili from the county.Agui picked up a chili pepper and stuffed it into the recruit's mouth, but he still didn't move. Agui shook him, and with a thud, the recruit fell to the ground with blood flowing from his ears—he was hit by a shell. Alive and dead.This poor recruit fell down forever without even seeing what the devil looked like. Mu Liangfeng grabbed a few red peppers and stuffed them into his mouth, gritted his teeth and roared, "Everyone who doesn't want to die, dig a foxhole for me. In today's battle, either we or the little devil will die. Cheer me up and fight with the little devils." Mengzi said: "This foxhole is an extra shovel of soil, and a piece of meat will be lost at that time. The devils may bombard them later. Everyone, hurry up." Everyone who has a shovel uses a shovel, and those who don't have a shovel use a bayonet to dig foxholes in a hurry.But before the foxholes were dug, the devils rushed up. "Brothers, drive the devils away. Our land is a treasure land of geomantic omen, and the devils have taken a fancy to it." Xiao Wu roared: "Since they have taken a fancy to this treasure land of geomantic omen, we will bury them here." The soldiers' guns were already loaded, and after the round of shelling just now, the recruits had gradually adapted to the battlefield environment. In the eyes of Mu Liangfeng and the others, hundreds of devils charged three or four hundred meters at a close range, they were undoubtedly living targets, so even with good marksmanship, the killing was joyous. , Mengzi was even more red-eyed, and within a short while, he brought down seven devils, and the machine gunners in the company were all good players. After a burst of bursts, the devils fell down one after another.Because of the favorable terrain, the devil's two charges were repelled, but the casualties were not small. The devil left dozens of corpses on the hillside, turned around and retreated, preparing for the next round of attack.I saw four or five devils and wounded soldiers yelling, and a small group of devils counterattacked and wanted to take the wounded soldiers away.This is all right, Mu Liangfeng gave an order: "The devils who specialize in beating and robbing people, I want their wounded soldiers to stay here and give back to my brothers." The devils who snatched the wounded were immediately reimbursed one by one in front of the position, and the remaining seven or eight people couldn't care less, turned around and fled.After a while, several devil planes appeared roaringly, and a series of positions of Chong Mu Liangfeng rushed over. Several planes swooped down one by one at low altitude, dropping bombs and strafing on the position in turn... "Lie down!" Mu Liangfeng yelled, and buried his body in a "semi-finished" foxhole.The 20 or 30 brothers were unable to dodge in time, and were covered by artillery fire one after another... for a while, blood and flesh flew everywhere, which was horrible.Seeing this situation, several recruits were so frightened that they burst into tears.The sound of the plane's engine hadn't disappeared yet, and the shells slammed down again. After a long time, Mu Liangfeng and the others couldn't lift their heads.The air waves from the explosion, the flying earth and rocks, and the broken limbs all made Mu Liangfeng feel that this round of artillery fire was more intensive and fierce than before.Apparently it was the little devil's revenge on Mu Liangfeng for preventing them from taking away the wounded soldiers. The shelling finally stopped. Mu Liangfeng picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the regiment headquarters. The gunpowder smoke filled the air, and there was also a bloody battle over there, and the casualties were estimated to be heavy. "Damn it, if you don't come for reinforcements, our regiment will be wiped out." As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, the devils took advantage of the aftermath of the shelling to push towards a company of positions and launched a third charge.The brothers didn't care to shake off the dirt on their bodies, leaned out from the trench, and searched for the khaki target with their guns.Rows of bullets shot out of the gun, leaving bloody holes in the devil's body.The brothers in the machine gun company also got busy, Maxim, Czech-style spewed tongues of flame.The continuous firepower and the splashed mud on the ground and the hatred for the devils lifted everyone's spirits and resisted desperately.The fire net formed by various tongues of flames became an insurmountable barrier for the devils. The devils fell in pieces, and the devils behind stepped on the corpses of their comrades and continued to rush forward. Those who escaped the machine gun bullets by chance did not rush forward. After a few steps, he was pierced through by a rifle bullet. kill!kill! The devil's wounded soldiers began to howl loudly, Mu Liangfeng looked at his own soldiers, then at the wounded devil soldiers moaning on the ground, and closed his eyes.If this was a fair war, Mu Liangfeng thought he would let them go, but this is not a fair war, it is a naked aggression, they are ruthless, well-equipped, well-trained, hundreds of them Thousands of innocent Chinese civilians and soldiers were brutally murdered by these beasts, and he will not forgive them. The devil hidden in the depths of human nature appeared at this time. The soldiers of the first company of the national army who had lost their comrades in arms began to shoot at the devils and wounded soldiers. One was out of hatred, and the other was because they didn't want to hear these things that touched the good side of their hearts. Moaning, they just want to end the devil's life and end the suffering of the devil's wounded soldiers. Mu Liangfeng kept his eyes closed. He knew what his soldiers were doing at this moment. A group of Chinese soldiers who had been bullied and humiliated to the limit were shooting at their wounded enemies.This is what Mu Liangfeng doesn't want to see. Reinforcements were long overdue, and three reorganized infantry regiments and an artillery regiment were pulled to the position of the secret service regiment. The Chinese opened up their posture and wanted to fight a good battle with a regiment of devils here. The secret service group could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the whole group was replaced, and all of them were dragged to the position of Mu Liangfeng's company. One of them was responsible for holding on to the hill, and the other four groups came to rescue. The two sides started the artillery battle again. The artillery regiments transferred by the national army this time were all m1-155mm howitzers and m1-155mm field guns that had just been pulled from Uncle Sam. He became the grandson of the Type 99 105mm mountain gun for a while, and was so overwhelmed that he couldn't hold his head up. When Mu Liangfeng saw Commander Liu leading the whole regiment into his position, he stared at the Japanese army formation a thousand meters away and said, "Tuan Zuo, I request a mission?" "What mission?" "I'll lead a company to outflank and kill his artillery." "I want to die!" Captain Liu yelled at him. He looked at the positions of the company. More than half of the new recruits who came in were casualties, and dozens of veterans were also casualties. "Tuan Zuo, just let me go! Most of my brothers were killed by artillery, and I have to settle this account with their artillery." "You can't settle this account now, leave it to the artillery!" Commander Liu obviously didn't want him to go into danger alone. "I can't fucking swallow this breath!" All the corpses of soldiers were on the battlefield, many of them were good brothers who went in and out with him and died.Mu Liangfeng couldn't help it any longer as he said that, he sat down on the ground, his eyes were red. "Tuan Zuo, just agree that we go with the company commander! If you don't beat this group of devil artillery to death, if we die, we will have no face to see the brothers below!" When the soldiers of the company saw the company commander like this, they were all heartbroken, and there was a turmoil in the crowd, and they all challenged the commander Liu to fight. Seeing this, head Liu had no choice but to sigh and agree.The sky is getting dark, and the winter night is coming.The moon is dark and the wind is high, it is time to kill! Mu Liangfeng led a company of a hundred or so veterans into the woods behind...