"There are so many people in Wu County. No matter how powerful the Japanese are, they cannot defeat Wu County in one day." Li Yunlong said.
There were more than 5,000 people in Wu County. How could they be captured by 2,000 Japanese soldiers in less than two days?
No matter how powerful the Japs are, the Wu County defenders still have a geographical advantage, and they are not simply fighting a positional battle with the Japs.
It's really a positional battle with the Japanese. Let alone the Sichuan Army, even if they come, they won't be able to resist for long.
Around one o'clock in the afternoon, halfway up the mountain.
Zhao Ming and Jiang He found Chu Feng. The two of them had relatively good physical strength. They didn't rest along the way and kept rushing here.
The two of them had been sent by Li Jin to join Li Yunlong.
"Company Commander, we are here." Zhao Ming and Jiang He said to Li Jin in unison.
"Commander, are they here?" Li Jin nodded to them, and then asked about Li Yunlong's whereabouts.
"Well, here we come. The captain and the others are about three miles away from here now. We got here faster." Zhao Ming said.
They are moving much faster than the leader and the others. According to calculations, the current location of the leader and the others is not far from here.
"Are all the soldiers from the new regiment here?" Li Jin asked,
"No, there are more than a hundred soldiers still staying in the camp to rest because they are not accustomed to the acclimatization." Zhao Ming said.
"Is the situation serious for more than a hundred people?" Li Jin asked quickly.
He had expected that some people would be acclimatized, but the presence of hundreds of people was beyond expectation.
"The recovery is not bad, and we can fight in two days at most. Originally, the regiment leader did not plan to come to support so quickly.
But I saw a telegram saying that there were heavy casualties in Wu County, so I was worried. If we wait for two days, the gate of Wu County will be lost, so we rush over to provide support," Zhao Ming said.
If he hadn't been afraid that the Wu County gate would be lost, Li Yunlong wouldn't have come so quickly. At least he would have waited for the acclimatized warriors to recover before coming.
Hearing Zhao Ming's words, Li Jin nodded. The defenders of Wu County are indeed suffering heavy casualties now. If two more days pass, the gate of Wu County may be lost.
"Company Commander, what is the situation now?" Zhao Ming asked. He was still unclear about the current situation.
"The defenders of Wu County have suffered at least nearly 2,000 casualties so far. If the regiment commander does not go there, Wu County may change hands." Li Jin said.
Fortunately, Li Yunlong arrived quickly, otherwise Wu County would not be able to defend it in two days.
"Why are there so many casualties? Don't the Wu County defenders have the advantage of the city?" Zhao Ming said in surprise.
The Japanese are very powerful, but the Wu County defenders have a geographical advantage after all. No matter what, they will not have so many casualties in less than a day
"Weapons and equipment The gap is too big. In addition to light and heavy machine guns, there are not even mortars. When encountering the Japanese with powerful equipment, the city gate was not breached in one day.Very good.
The defenders in Wu County have very few light and heavy machine guns. At the East City Gate, there are only two heavy machine guns and only nine light machine guns.
This is far behind our new regiment. It's not that big, let alone a Japanese one. "Li Jin explained.
The new regiment now has several times the light and heavy machine guns of Wu County, and the mortars are similar to those of these Japs. The guns in their hands are almost all Japs' 38-inch ones.
It can be said that with the same number of people, the equipment of the new regiment is not much different from that of the Japanese, especially when they came to support this time, the brigade commander also provided a lot of weapons and mortars.
"Especially the weapons in their hands, which are all old Hanyang-made, with almost worn rifling, almost like fire sticks, that's why there were so many casualties. "Li Jin continued.
Zhao Ming's eyes were full of disbelief.
"No, isn't there a whole brigade of people from Wu County? Why is the equipment so poor?" Zhao Ming wondered.< /p>
The troops on the National Army side are in such a miserable state. They don’t have as much equipment as the Eighth Route Army Regiment. It’s not that bad. Look at Tang Zizheng’s troops. Compared to the two sides, they are completely different. Ah.
“You don’t understand. The Sichuan army is very unpopular in the national army. Because they are not direct descendants, the equipment they receive is extremely poor.
No Letting those Sichuan troops fight the Japanese with their bare hands is not bad. "Li Jin said.
There is a big gap between the weapons of the direct troops in the national army and the weapons of the collateral troops, and the weapons of the Sichuan army among the collateral troops can be said to be the worst.
"Tsk, I don't understand these. They are all Chinese. Why are they divided into direct and collateral lines? They are all for fighting Japanese invaders. They should be given the weapons they deserve. "Zhao Ming couldn't figure it out.
We are all fighting the Japanese together, why should we treat them differently? Unless that army is not brave enough to fight the Japanese, so the weapons they get are inferior.
But The Sichuan army was so fierce, but the weapons they got were still so poor, which made him confused.
Li Jin did not continue to explain to Zhao Ming. The things here were very complicated and needed to be explained. , it will take a long time to talk about it.
It is nothing more than a matter of interests. The word "interests" is easy to say, but it involves too many things.
At this time, Li Jin is far away. There were still about two miles here, so Li Yunlong asked the troops to wait where they were, and then took Staff Officer Zhong and several battalion commanders to find Li Jin.
Ten minutes later, Li Yunlong and the others arrived at Li Jin. At the foot of the mountain where Jin was.
After seeing Li Yunlong, the three platoons of soldiers on guard quickly stepped forward and saluted.
"Where is your company commander?" Li Yunlong said to them. The man nodded and asked.
"The company commander is on the mountain, I'll call him down. "The soldier said and wanted to turn around and go up the mountain.
"No, we can just go up. You continue to be vigilant." Li Yunlong asked the soldier to stay and be vigilant, and then led the people up the mountain.
Not long after, they were in the middle of the mountainYao met Li Jin, Xu Qingfeng and several platoon leaders.
Li Jin and the others saw Li Yunlong coming and ran over to salute several people.
"What is the situation in Wu County now?" Li Yunlong picked up the telescope and looked at Wuxian County.
On the position outside the city gate, there were still several spots of gunpowder smoke. The soldiers in the trenches were recuperating, and many of them could be seen wearing bandages.
Li Jin told Li Yunlong the situation one by one.
Hearing Li Jin's report, Li Yunlong frowned. He didn't expect that Wuxian's casualties would be so heavy, and he didn't expect that Wuxian's defenders' equipment would be so poor.
The entire brigade has more than 5,000 people, only a dozen light machine guns, and less than ten heavy machine guns, and the weapons in their hands are so worn out.
"Although the Sichuan Army is not popular, Wuxian County is so important, yet they are given such bad equipment.
What the higher-ups in the national army think, no matter how prejudiced it is, does not matter. As for this," Li Yunlong said, his tone full of dissatisfaction.
They asked the Sichuan Army to guard such an important city with such crappy weapons. What do you mean?
Originally, they asked the Sichuan Army to guard Wu County, just to make the Sichuan Army fight for their lives against the Japanese. , came to die, but in the end, even the equipment was so bad.
To put it bluntly, the Jinniushan bandits have better guns than the Sichuan army.
"It's not given to us anyway, so we can't control that much. At most, we will annihilate the Japs later and distribute more weapons to those Sichuan troops." Staff Officer Zhong said.
Annihilate this group of Japs, and then give most of the weapons to the Sichuan Army, so that they can continue to guard Wu County with good weapons.
"That's all. Wu County can't be lost so quickly." Li Yunlong nodded, this was also making friends with the Sichuan Army.
If there is a real fight in the future, there may be a chance for them to come to the eighth road.
"The artillery positions at the east and west gates of the Japanese are about two miles away from the county seat. If we need to take action, we can start now." Li Jin said.
He had already figured out the location of the Japanese artillery positions.
The total number of Japs in the two positions is one hundred and twenty.
"At about 1:50, we circled around to the rear of the Japanese. As for the Japanese artillery, we launched an attack at 1:55 and settled the battle in five minutes.
Then Adjust the muzzle of the gun, and when two o'clock comes, directly bombard the Japanese. After three rounds of bombing, we will stop bombing and we will launch an attack," Li Yunlong said.
"Yes" everyone nodded.
"Check the watch," Li Yunlong said, and everyone began to check the watch time. When the watch adjustment was almost consistent, Li Yunlong decisively gave the order, and several battalion commanders went back to lead the people.
Li Jin took people to the artillery position at Duandong City Gate, while Xu Qingfeng and Liu Changshun took people to the artillery position at Duanxi City Gate.
At 1:50, Li Jin led a hundred soldiers to the Lijiazi artillery position.Hidden in the woods about ten meters away.
The location selected for the Japs' artillery position is very open. There are only sixty Japs here, and they are all on standby in front of the mortars. It seems that they are planning to fire on the county town.
Li Jin glanced at his watch. It was almost 1:55.
"Get ready to fight." Li Jin ordered, and soon, the time was one fifty-five.
"Hit" Li Jin fired immediately, and he shot an artilleryman to death.
Bang bang bang
Da da da
For a while, other soldiers also opened fire. On the artillery position, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. There was no way. The place was very empty, and the Japanese didn't even have a bunker.
Many Japanese soldiers reacted and wanted to fight back, but Li Jin's firepower was too fierce, and the soldiers' marksmanship was also very accurate. Within 150 meters, their marksmanship was almost the same as that of the Japanese.
Not to mention that Li Jin and the others still had more than a dozen light machine guns firing, especially in the case of a sneak attack. In less than a minute, all sixty Japanese were killed.
"Quickly, clean the battlefield, and the others will adjust the muzzle with me." Li Jin hurriedly ordered, and he took 25 people to adjust the muzzle in front of the mortar.
Not long after, Li Jin adjusted the muzzle of the gun and faced the woods where the Japanese were preparing for battle.
After Li Jin annihilated the Japs, Xu Qingfeng and the others also successfully annihilated all the Japs in the artillery position, and at the same time adjusted the muzzle of the mortar.
Li Yunlong and the others have also gone around to the rear of the Japanese.
There were still many wounded Japs in the Japs camp. Li Yunlong sent forty people to keep an eye on the Japs camp. Once the wounded in the Japs camp came out with guns, they would annihilate them as soon as possible.
Li Yunlong lay on the grass, raised his hand and glanced at his watch, it read: 1:55.
"Send the order and prepare to attack"
Li Yunlong ordered that Li Jin's side should quickly relieve the Japanese in the artillery position. As long as Li Jin's side shells the Japanese, their forces will Cannons will also bombard, and others are ready to charge.
At this moment, Li Yunlong and the others were less than two hundred meters away from the Japanese.
This group of Japs, like the Japs in the artillery position, had no defense against the rear at all.
After all, it is impossible for the defenders of Wu County to run to the rear, and it is impossible for Wu County to have reinforcements to support them. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the superiors to send these people to attack Wu County.
In the woods, the Japanese lieutenant colonel was still using binoculars to check the situation in Wu County. Now they were waiting for the artillery to bomb Wu County so that they could attack again.
At the artillery position, Li Jin looked at the time. There were still more than ten seconds left before two o'clock.
"Prepare to fire" at one or two o'clock, Li Jin directly ordered the firing.
Bang bang bang
咻咻咻咻
The shells rose into the sky and went straight to the Japanese in the woods.
Boom, boom, boom
"Ah"
For a moment, there were constant explosions in the woods, and the devil was directly blinded by the explosion.They had already gathered together, and at this moment the shells fell into the crowd, directly killing a bunch of Japanese.
"What's going on in Baga? What is the artillery position doing? Why are they bombing us?" the Japanese lieutenant colonel yelled directly.
What happened to the artillery position? The muzzle adjustment is wrong
"Hurry and hide!" the Japanese Lieutenant Colonel shouted, and he hurriedly hid.
At this time, the Sichuan troops on the other side of the county were also stunned. They thought the Japs were going to blow them up, but who knew, the Japs were actually blowing up themselves
"What's going on?" City Wall On the corridor, Zhao Chengxu was also stunned. Seeing the Japanese soldiers being blown away by the shells and running away, dead and injured, he was also a little confused.
"Brigade, it couldn't be that the Japanese artillery adjusted the wrong muzzle and blew up the Japanese." Some soldiers guessed.
"It is impossible that the Japanese artillery muzzles have been adjusted a long time ago. Even if the muzzles need to be adjusted, it is to adjust the position of bombing our position.
No matter how outrageous it is, it is impossible to adjust the muzzles. My own people were blown up," Zhao Chengxu said.
The Japanese artillery has undergone strict training and it is impossible for them to make such a stupid move.
"If not, then why were the Japanese bombarded by their own artillery?" The soldier wondered. The direction in which these shells were fired was indeed from the Japanese artillery position.
Zhao Chengxu frowned. For a moment, he thought of the possibility that reinforcements were coming, but he quickly denied it. If there were reinforcements, they would have arrived long ago, and it was impossible to wait until now.
And if there are reinforcements, the Japanese side cannot be unprepared. Compared with the Japanese intelligence personnel, the intelligence personnel of the national army are still much worse.
If someone is sent from above, they will definitely be detected by the Japanese.
But the current situation made him confused. Could it be that the Japanese artillerymen had drunk too much and had adjusted the muzzle wrong?
The explosions continued. After one round of bombing, a second round followed, and then a third.
Boom Boom Boom
The Japanese in the woods were bombed and were running around. There really was no place to hide in this ghost place. They didn’t want to be in the trenches pressed by the county town, but they could still avoid the shells. In one moment, three people After rounds of bombing, the Japanese were directly killed and more than two hundred people were killed.
"Fight" At this moment, Li Yunlong gave the order directly. Before the Japs could react, the soldiers rushed towards the Japs.
Bang bang bang
Da da da da
For a moment, there was a loud sound of gunfire in the woods, and the Japanese fell down one after another.
Although they were sneak attacked, the Japanese in the woods responded quickly and fired back quickly.
"Damn it, Wu County actually had reinforcements and came around behind us." The Japanese Lieutenant Colonel hid behind a tree. He was disgraced. At this moment, he finally understood why the artillery position bombed them.