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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 104: Brother Pao¡¯s Family

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    Brigadier Zhang walked down the front line from the trenches with his brothers with their heads held high. He was not seriously injured. His brigade suffered more than a thousand casualties and was almost back to the size it was when it left Sichuan.  But no one laughed at them, because there were several times as many little Japs lying in front of their position.

    When he first came to Peiping City, Brigadier Zhang also wondered why the hundreds of thousands of troops nearby were so arrogant that the 29th Army and the 17th Army were competing with each other. After seeing such troops, Brigadier Zhang often looked at them after they passed by.  Then he said to the people around him in Sichuan dialect: "There is nothing to be proud of."

    But now that they are coming down from the position, Brigadier Zhang and his brothers are unconsciously infected with this arrogance.  We were not defeated, we were defeated by defeating the Japanese.  If you don't accept it, go and see the corpses of the little devils on the ground in front of you. We beat them.

    The newly replaced brigade of Fan Shaozeng, the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army Training Division, Fan Shaozeng also personally came to the front line to supervise the formation. Every time Fan Shaozeng walked through a section, he said: "Everyone saw how the 1st, 2nd and 2nd Division hammered just now.  , what I, Paoge, are saying."

    The people below all said in unison: "Brother Pao will never have diarrhea."

    Fan Shaozeng took a gun and a hat and said: "Okay, what I want is this sentence - the man is in the position."

    Fan Shaozeng's troops were waiting left and right, but before the Japanese came, the cooking soldiers from the division headquarters arrived.  "People are like iron, and rice is like steel. If you don't eat one meal, you'll get hungry. Mr. Fan, which one do you want, canned braised pork or canned twice-cooked pork?"

    "Why don't I eat all of it?" Fan Shaozeng grabbed two open cans and took a bite of each.  On the other hand, the cook, who was a cook, took out a handful of chili peppers and sprinkled them into the can like a magic trick: "Teacher, you have to eat it this way to have a good taste."

    The biscuits and cans shipped to Chengde by the Peking Military and Political Department this month are a bit small. The cooking team has been idle and has been diverted to transportation. The canned biscuits and hot water will be transported up from behind at meal time.

    The soldiers of the Sichuan Army did not eat anything spicy, so they invented a way to eat spicy food with two biscuits sandwiched between them.  As for canned food, considering the taste of the Sichuan army, most of the food shipped was canned Sichuan food.  However, since Sichuan chili peppers were not used, everyone still felt that it was not satisfying, so they still used chili peppers and ate them in cans.

    There was a rare moment of silence on the front line, and Wang Mingzhang also returned to the city to visit Brigadier Zhang who had just retreated.  Wang Mingzhang took off his hat and walked to Brigadier Zhang and said: "Old Zhang, you are right, I am sorry for you and my brothers."

    "Commander, stop talking. If you hadn't insisted on us holding on for the last five minutes, our brigade would have collapsed. How could it be like this Besides, you didn't send me all the guard battalions. If you didn't  The little devils who rushed up with their submachine guns could die so quickly."

    Wang Mingzhang grasped his hat tightly with his right hand and said: "I am guilty. I owe everyone their military pay. The most I owe is fourteen months. Normally, I only pay half of the military pay at most."

    Brigadier Zhang comforted him and said, "Commander, please be more open-minded. Who in the Sichuan Army does not owe pay?"

    Wang Mingzhang gave himself a slap in the face, and then said: "Old Zhang, our Sichuan Army has been beating ourselves for more than 20 years. It's a shame. Look at how those people looked at us when we entered Peking. They looked at us like country bumpkins.  Ah, our Sichuan Army won¡¯t be able to turn over without fighting a few tough battles. We can¡¯t lose our lives for the rest of our lives, Lao Zhang.¡±

    "Commander, I understand. I, Lao Zhang, will not regret following you."

    While the two were talking, the sound of artillery outside the city rang out again.  Wang Mingzhang put on his hat and immediately rushed to the former enemy command post.

    Wang Mingzhang arrived at the command post and asked the staff: "Are the Japanese coming up?"

    The staff member who observed the artillery scope said: "Not yet. The preparation time for the Japanese artillery is a bit long this time"

    As soon as the words fell, the 150mm heavy mortar of the ** Company also started to speak.  The 150mm caliber mortar is already a powerful defensive weapon. Whether it is range or power, it can completely defeat all infantry guns with a caliber of less than 100 mm.

    Seeing that the little artillery piece that was finally collected was turned into scrap metal, the Japanese commander Yanagawa Heisukemitsu's calculated infantry and artillery coordination plan came to nothing again.  The heavy artillery on the opposite side was a curved cannon, and it was placed at an angle, making it impossible to hit it.  If you have air supremacy, you can also consider sending planes to blow up the opponent's artillery positions, but now the air supremacy is in the hands of Peiping.

    Yanagawa Heisuke looked at the artillery position that had turned into ashes, and smiled sinisterly: "It is a mistake to think that this can stop our imperial army's attack. There are not enough artillery shells for the people, so use the cavalry regiment as the lead to charge for me."

    This time Yanagawa Heisuke assembled three cavalry regiments and three infantry regiments to charge together at once. The role of the cavalry regiment is to use people and war horses to cover the infantry regiment. If there is a chance, it is also good to disrupt the opponent's defense line.  .

    The positions of the cavalry regiments that have suffered losses should be much spread out, and they have not yet run away.Halfway through, he drew out his sharp saber and started to accelerate.  Light and heavy mortars from behind the front-line positions fell from time to time among the horses. Then the Japanese soldiers turned on their backs, and the horses from behind rushed over the bodies of people and horses.

    When the cavalry entered the position of four to five hundred meters, the momentum of thousands of horses galloping faintly came from the front line. Wang Mingzhang finally lost his composure and ordered to fire almost at the same time as Fan Shaozeng.

    Fan Shaozeng's fourth reorganized division was trained earlier, and its combat effectiveness is also higher than that of the first, second and second divisions.  A hail of bullets knocked over all the Japanese troops, but the cavalry charge was too fast. Despite the desperate charge of six to seven hundred men from three cavalry regiments, a small number of cavalry rushed to the position.

    "At this time, Fan Shaozeng's eighteen martial arts skills were all used. Some jumped on their horses and took the little devil down. Several others killed the little devil together.  Or use long and short guns to hit people and horses. Fan Shaozeng took a red tassel gun and shot two times to make a hole in the belly of a war horse. The little Japanese man on top was also knocked off his horse and was nailed to the throat by Fan Shaozeng.

    When Fan Shaozeng jumped back into the trench, the cook said: "Beautiful, Mr. Fan is as heroic as he was before."

    Fan Shaozeng stuck the red tassel gun at his feet with a bang: "Stop talking nonsense, the Japs are here again. What do we, brothers, have to say?"

    Everyone said in unison: "Brother Pao will never have diarrhea."

    "I want it, I want it."

    The Japanese infantrymen braved artillery fire and rushed forward, but were knocked down and continued to rush forward.  The ** Company's 150mm heavy mortar hit the barrel almost red but did not dampen the Japanese's arrogance.  Fortunately, the steel quality of the 150 mortar passed the standard, and the barrel did not explode after being red-painted.

    Wang Mingzhang had to admit at this time that artillery was sometimes not omnipotent.

    In order to maintain the defense line, Fan Shaozeng mobilized his brothers from the fourth division into the front-line positions in batches to block the Japanese's crazy attack. Wang Mingzhang's guard battalion also stepped in early.  Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and parts of the defense line changed hands many times but were always in the hands of the Sichuan Army.

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