Chapter 24 The Last Pawn
Han Keqiang didn't know that the Fourth Army's headquarters was actually in Baofeng Town.
General Ou Zhen was influenced by his father since childhood and was good at poetry and prose. After joining the army, he did not leave this hobby. As long as he had a moment of leisure, he would write ink or recite poems. He was defeated in the Battle of Songhu. The Kuomintang army lost the opportunity to retreat because Chiang Kai-shek had unrealistic fantasies about the Western powers, and eventually led to a great defeat. Ou Zhen was deeply moved and wrote a poem of seven poems.
At this moment, General Ou Zhen is writing his seven-character poem - writing about retreat.
The wind on the lake is sad and the moon is deserted, and the road is long and the trees are long.
The three armies were indignant and angry, and the people burst into tears in panic.
The country is already in a long way, so don’t ask how difficult the future is.
Sacrifice is a man’s ambition, and his blood is not empty and his bones are not cold.
The title of General Ou Zhen as a Confucian general is not for nothing, but this seven-character poem shows great skills.
However, a sudden gunfire broke General Ou Zhen's interest. The general put his brush on the table and turned out of the study. Outside was the combat room of the Fourth Army. Several staff officers on duty were also alarmed by the gunfire just now. This was just a matter of looking at me, and I was completely confused.
Soon, the gunshots from the front became even more intense, with a faint sound of grenade explosion. The Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army, two division commanders and four brigade commanders also rushed to the military headquarters. It was Zhang Deneng, the commander of the 59th Division, and it was Zhang Deneng, who was very experienced and quickly determined that the gunshots came from the direction of Longtouling.
"Longtouling?" Ou Zhen strode to the map and took great effort to find Longtouling from the map. The map used by the Kuomintang army was also the original version of the surveying and mapping sent by the Beiyang warlord Sun Chuanfang. The printing was rough and there were many errors, but the basic direction could still be identified.
"No, how could there be a little Japanese in Longtouling?" Ou Zhen was puzzled.
From the map, the depth of Longtouling is southwest of De'an, nearly 100 miles apart, and is even further away from the Ruiwu Highway and the front-line battlefield of the Nanxun Railway. How could Japan suddenly appear here?
"Maybe it was a small group of Japanese troops who were rushing around." Zhang Deneng analyzed, "Attempt to disrupt our morale?"
"Impossible, Jiujiang, De'an gathered my hundreds of thousands of troops, and Okamura Yanji is not a fool. He could not be so naive that he thought that a small group of Japanese troops could disrupt our morale. There must be articles in it." Ou Zhen immediately issued an order, "Transfer to me the order, and the military secret service company immediately headed towards Longtouling, and be sure to find out the ins and outs of this little Japanese for me."
Ou Zhen's sense of smell on the battlefield is still very keen, and he already had a premonition that this matter was absolutely extraordinary.
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"Baga, Bagayalu" received the news from the 113th Regiment captain Kento Iino, Matsuura Junroro was furious and slapped the communications soldiers several times. The communications soldiers' faces became swollen in an instant, but they could only turn their heads over again and again, and let Matsuura Junrororo continue to slap him.
Chief of Staff Yoshitaka Akiyama came forward and said in a deep voice: "Second Commander, the whereabouts of my division have been exposed. I am afraid that I can't stay here anymore. Should I return the same way, or attack and advance in De'an or disturb the First Division, please make sure to make a decision as soon as possible."
"Baga, of course, attacking towards De'an. Do you still need to consider this?" Junjiro Matsuura scolded Akiyama Yoshitaka and turned around to instruct the communication staff behind him. "Order the registrars to immediately change the direction of the march and rush to the Wanjialing direction. The infantry 113th Regiment is the vanguard and immediately launch an attack towards Longtouling."
Although the whereabouts of the Japanese army have been exposed, Junroro Matsuura has not given up yet. Even though the National Army discovered that the 10th Pei Regiment had passed through the middle gap of the outer eight-character formation, it was impossible to mobilize too many troops to encircle it in an urgent manner. The 10th Pei Regiment only takes one day at most, and it is possible to take De'an in one go.
As long as you take down De'an City, the tactical purpose of the 10th Pei Regiment's roundabout interlude this time will be achieved. Next, you only need to stick to the aid and wait for Ruiwu Road and the national army on the front of the Nanxun Line to collapse. Junroro Matsuura never believes that the national army can eat his main force of the 10th Pei Regiment before collapse.
If the Japanese army wants to take De'an, Longtouling and Changling are the only way to go.
The 113th infantry registrar of the 10th Peace Regiment of the Little Japan, led by the regiment leader Kento Iino, launched a fierce attack on the Longtouling position controlled by the 348th Regiment. Although the Matsuura Division did not carry heavy equipment, it was impossible for the 92 infantry artillery and light mortars to be left without it. Before the infantry attacked, rows of shells roared over.
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The 113th Regiment of the Little Japanese Infantry attacked with all its might, but the progress was not smooth.
Relying on the favorable terrain, Han Keqiang's 348th Regiment caused great trouble to Japan. The fierce battle lasted until noon. The 348th Regiment finally gradually lost due to the great casualties. At 2:00 pm, more than 2,500 officers and soldiers of the 348th Regiment had already fought less than 200 people, and the defensive position was compressed to the last hill.
But even so, Han Keqiang still did not order a retreat.
"Boom..." A shell landed not far away near Han Keqiang and exploded with a bang.
The air waves caused by the explosion overturned Han Keqiang to the ground. When the adjutant Chen Feng rushed up to dig Han Keqiang out of the scorched earth, Han Keqiang's face was covered with smoke marks of gunpowder, his chest and abdomen were covered in blood and blood. His right leg was also broken from his knees. Only a skin was left in the broken calf, and he was only breathless.
"Clutch, group seat?" Chen Feng was stunned and hissed.
"Fengzi, tell...brothers......" Han Keqiang's strong man was no longer able to do it, but his consciousness was still awake. He roared to Chen Feng word by word, "You can't retreat, hold the position, even if you fight to the last soldier, you must not take a step back. This group of Japanese visitors are not good, so you must not let them go, you cannot..."
Before he finished speaking, Han Keqiang had already tilted his head and died.
"Room, Raider" Chen Feng held Han Keqiang's shoulder and roared twice, but Han Keqiang no longer responded. Chen Feng stretched out his dark hands to wipe the tears from his cheeks, then stood up and yelled at the last hundred recruits left beside him, "Brothers, Raider has also died for his country, fight with the little Japanese, fight with the little Japanese,"
"Fight, fight." The last two hundred remaining soldiers immediately roared like wild animals.
The next moment, Chen Feng rushed down the hillside like a furious lion.
More than 200 remaining soldiers rushed down without any hesitation.
For most of the recruits of the 348th Regiment, this is the first time they have been on the battlefield. Many recruits are still as if they are stepping on cotton until now, and are confused. However, when they saw several company commanders, the battalion commanders died one after another, and in the end, even the regiment commanders died in battle, their blood suddenly boiled violently.
If a person dies, his eggs will be on the sky, and he will not die for thousands of years. If an official is a man, he will spare his life. What else can we say? He will fight to the Japanese to the death.
Seeing the Kuomintang army rushing down from the mountain, the little Japanese were also irritated. They pulled the bolts and pulled the bullets back, then rushed up the uphill with bayonets. The two collided head-on on the hillside, and launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat. In an instant, the sound of the bayonet hitting, the sound of the sharp blade entering the body, and the screams and roars of the soldiers on both sides were intertwined.
Kento Iino looked into the distance with his hands and swordsmanship from hundreds of meters away. Seeing that the Kuomintang army was fighting with the Japanese army regardless of death, many soldiers of the Kuomintang were obviously thin and had no skills in thorn fighting, but they all pulled grenades before they died and chose to die with the Japanese army. Seeing this, Kento Iino could not help but shivered.
Chapter completed!