klisemfg Chapter 644: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (7) The Supplementary Brigade Replaces the Central Arm
Chapter 644: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (7) The Supplementary Brigade Replaces the Central Arm
The happiness that Yoshitani wanted in his heart suddenly came.
The position of the 80th Army of the National Army on the opposite side suddenly became chaotic.
In the telescope of Division Commander Yoshitani, an officer's head appeared first.
No one knew what he shouted, but countless Nationalist soldiers stood up from the opposite trenches.
Watching the retreat of more than 10,000 National Army soldiers, even the Japanese forgot to shoot.
Could it be that the Kuomintang troops on the other side were feigning a retreat? But their retreat was too realistic, wasn't it?
This was just the beginning. Due to the magnification of the telescope, he couldn't see clearly.
All I know is that behind us, the Kuomintang soldiers in the second and third trenches were also running away.
They didn't have time to take away the heavy machine guns in the trenches of the 9th Company.
Not only here, but also further south, the Kuomintang soldiers in the 98th Army’s positions were also fleeing.
The 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Gannan Guerrilla Division was transferred to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain because of its close distance.
They received the order yesterday afternoon and boarded the truck to Zhongtiao Mountain.
The car ran out of gas on the way, so the 75mm mountain cannon was put down on the spot and handed over to the nearby Shanxi-Suiyuan Army for safekeeping.
He then disassembled the ten Type 92 infantry guns, carried them up and ran without falling behind.
They marched quickly for most of the night before arriving at Dengbeihou in Dayu Valley.
General Deng is worthy of being a famous general of the Sichuan Army. He has foresight and asked the people in the kitchen company to boil water and make steamed buns.
When the Third Brigade of the Third Guerrilla Division arrived, he immediately gave the cars and horse-drawn carriages of the three Sichuan Army divisions to the reinforcements for transportation.
In this way, the soldiers of the Third Brigade ate steamed buns while sitting in the car.
Some soldiers fell asleep while eating, and some soldiers from the artillery battalion never woke up again after falling asleep.
In order to support the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line, they carried the dismantled Type 92 infantry guns and marched quickly with the main force.
After running on the mountain road for nearly eight hours, several soldiers from the artillery battalion were exhausted to death!
They finally arrived at the 80th Army's position before eight o'clock.
Before he could finish his words, he was stunned by the 80th Army's extraordinary actions.
An officer suddenly shouted: "Brothers, the troops to support us are here, quickly retreat to the rear (escape)."
After this shout, the soldiers in the position began to follow their officers, jumping out of the trenches and running back.
The commander of the 80th Army opened his mouth, still thinking about saying something to the brigade commander of the guerrilla division.
Before he could say anything, he was carried out by his chief of staff and the captain of the guard company, one on each side.
The one who came to replace the guard this time was from the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Gannan Guerrilla, Deputy Brigade Commander Fang Zhixiao!
Now each guerrilla division in Shanxi is composed of four brigades.
However, they were afraid of scaring their "friends" outside, so they announced that they only had three brigades.
The deputy brigade commander of the third brigade of all guerrilla divisions will lead a supplementary brigade on his own.
On the surface, this supplementary brigade is responsible for training reserve officers and recruits.
There is also a special independent department where the wounded soldiers receive restorative training after recovery.
In fact, every army unit has this kind of department, but in other national army units, no one is as serious as the guerrilla division.
In other words, in the national army, this kind of department has long been simplified.
What if the new men can't fight? They want to go to the baggage corps to carry ammunition.
Whenever there are casualties in the front, we will select people from among them to supplement the troops.
It's not that you are not allowed to go to the battlefield after training. If I had extra guns and bullets, I would have given them to the veterans long ago.
Fang knew that the deputy brigade commander's supplementary brigade was not weak in strength.
It doesn't even have much to do with the word "supplement".
Half of their reinforcement brigade was composed of veterans of the guerrilla division.
Nearly a quarter of the soldiers in the brigade are members of the Lianzhuang Team who have been tested in raiding battles.
Another quarter of the soldiers are veterans who came from Longshui in Gannan.
As for how many of them were sent from the Hengshan base, it is unknown.
Deputy Brigade Commander Fang was no longer surprised by the actions of the national army.
The only thing that made him angry was that the work done by the Central Army troops was too rough.
Not only were the trenches dug to an inadequate depth, but even the anti-artillery holes were not dug.
He no longer had time to care about the affairs of the 80th Army and quickly asked the soldiers to dig explosion-proof holes first.
The excavated soil was put into sacks and placed in the trenches to form partitions to prevent the shock waves caused by the explosion of artillery shells.
Less than ten minutes later, they had just dug out a simple fortification.
The Japanese artillery shells were already firing in a hurry.
Perhaps it was because the Japanese had already seen that the Nationalist troops in the trenches had retreated.
They had been shelling their position for less than five minutes when they launched a full-scale attack.
The troops of the Yoshitani Division have spent three days here.
We finally waited until the Nationalist army began to flee, and now it is finally the season for harvesting prey.
Under the command of their superiors, they stood up and began to charge.
They had to charge. After only three minutes of bombardment by the Japanese artillery, the Nationalist army fled even faster.
The Japanese regiment commander looked at the soldiers of his first regiment.
The Japanese soldiers all fought bravely, and the regiment commander was very proud of this.
They rushed to the Kuomintang trenches, less than a hundred meters away.
No one noticed that there were still living people in the trenches of the National Army.
In the trenches, the soldiers of the replenishment brigade rushed down with guns in their hands.
They were waiting for their superior officers to give the order to attack the Japanese army.
"One hundred and twenty meters, one hundred is also ten meters, the Japanese started to charge.
The Japanese are already within a hundred meters. Blow the whistle, and everyone open fire."
"beep……"
As the company commanders came, their sharp whistles rang out.
With a "swish" sound, the soldiers turned over and lay on the trench.
The rifles in their hands were all aimed at the Japanese soldiers who were charging not far away.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The dense gunfire rang out like popping beans, and the unprepared Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground by rows of bullets.
The Japanese squadron leader shouted from behind: "Baga, grenade thrower, quickly fire the grenade thrower, quickly destroy the Kuomintang machine guns for me."
The Japanese grenade thrower was already panicked by his squadron leader.
Where do you want me to fire the grenade launcher? There are more than a hundred light machine guns in front of him. How can I fire?
Before the Japanese figured out who to attack, he and his squadron leader were beaten all over by the soldiers of the replenishment brigade.
In fact, the soldiers of the guerrilla division's supplementary brigade did not have so many light machine guns.
The main reason was that the Japanese were not well-informed and they didn't even know the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle.
The Japanese devils highly praised their Type 38 rifle, which was also to save those limited energy sources.
These are also their ordinary soldiers who don't know much about the advanced weapons of various countries.
Of course, the Nationalist army didn't know about this either. They were also satisfied as long as they had guns to use.
The results of this battle were good. Relying solely on the semi-automatic rifles in their hands, the supplementary brigade knocked down more than 500 Japanese devils.
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