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Volume 3, Chapter 507: Taking the initiative

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    On July 23, just as the New Second Division occupied Yiwu City in the evening, Colonel Guitao led the first battalion of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment and rushed there. Also arriving were the artillery brigade and logistics troops led by Zhang Dongning. With air defense  Strength, now Luo Yuming can finally rest assured.  Soon, Zhang Dongning placed all the 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns of the First Battalion of the Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment and the millimeter Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns of the anti-aircraft artillery companies of each artillery regiment at strategic points inside and outside Yiwu City to prevent Japanese aircraft from dropping poison gas bombs again.  The people of Yiwu are very bloody. When the Japanese pirates invaded the southeast coast in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Yiwu people actively joined the Qi army and killed the Japanese pirates everywhere.  This is even more true now. After being attacked by gas bombs by the Japanese army and the subsequent massacre that dehumanized everyone, almost every family in Yiwu has mourned.  Yiwu people wiped away their tears and packed up the bodies of their relatives. The first thing they thought about was to kill the enemy and serve the country.  A large number of young people in Yiwu approached Zhang Dongning, chief of staff of the New Second Army, and wanted to join the army to fight the Japanese and avenge their relatives.  Zhang Dongning did not refuse, and immediately organized these young people from Yiwu into a militia group to help transport the wounded, weapons and ammunition.  A regiment of the 34th Division temporarily staying in Yiwu City also took the initiative to contact Luo Yuming, commander of the New Second Division, hoping to fight the Japanese with the New Second Army.  Luo Yuming arranged this regiment to the Kushan line in the southwest of Yiwu to guard against possible Japanese attacks from Dongyang, bypassing Hengdian, passing through Huashui and Chi'an to Yiting, and thus threatening the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.  The remaining officers and soldiers of the temporary 34th Division are very grateful to Luo Yuming for this arrangement. This means that the New Second Division leaves the most difficult defensive battles to themselves and allows the troops to temporarily stay away from the threat of war. After all, there are no sound roads in this era.  Network, detouring all the way over so many mountains will be a severe test for the Japanese army's logistical supplies, and the possibility of the Japanese army choosing this path is almost zero.  The reason why Luo Yuming arranged this was more to preserve friendly troops and avoid getting the bad reputation of "capturing people as cannon fodder."  Prior to this, Fan Daoquan, the second brigade commander of the New Second Division, after inspecting the Maxiang Mountain defense line, believed that this hill with an altitude of only more than 110 meters was not enough to protect the safety of the north and south wings of the defense line.  If you defend the enemy in the plains, the casualties of the troops will be very heavy.  After Fan Daoquan reported to the division commander Luo Yuming, Luo Yuming synthesized all aspects of intelligence and finally decided to rely on Yiwu city defense, with Niushanjian and Jilongshan as supports in the south, the Yiwu River more than 200 meters wide in the middle as a barrier, and Zhugongyan and Baiheshan in the north.  Establish auxiliary positions and form a strict defense system.  Subsequently, the New Second Division began to build defensive positions around these key points, and at the same time secretly accumulated strength, preparing to give the Japanese army a head-on attack, letting them know that the New Second Army was not only good at defense, but also extremely sharp in attack. That evening, the Japanese Army's second  Lieutenant General Imamura Jun, commander of the fifth division, led the 21st Infantry Brigade and the main force of the division to rush to the front line of Baiyun Mountain in the east of Yiwu, where it confronts Ma Xiangshan.  Looking at the mournful commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade and Major General Kawahara No. 7, Imamura suppressed the anger in his heart and ordered them to seize the time to gather the defeated troops. Then he ordered the 21st Infantry Brigade, the 5th Cavalry Regiment, and the 5th Engineer Regiment.  The regiment, with the help of the 5th Field Artillery Regiment, conducted a tentative attack on the Maxiangshan position. Naturally, the barrier in the southeast of Yiwu was easily recovered.  After taking the bridgehead to attack Yiwu, Imamura was finally relieved and ordered the troops to guard the defense line and launch an attack on Yiwu City after a night's rest.  In the dead of night, Jilong Mountain is south of Maxiang Mountain.  Six companies of elite officers and soldiers drawn from the three brigades of the New Second Division, together with the Sharp Knife Battalion directly under the First Brigade, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mo Mingqi, deputy commander of the First Brigade, attacked from the mountains south of Yiwu City into the newly occupied area by the Japanese.  Maxiang Mountain was unexpected. Although the Japanese army stationed heavy troops on the side facing Yiwu City, they did not send any guard posts on the mountains to the south, causing the troops to quickly advance to the gate of the Japanese military camp in Shaxi Village at the southern foot of Maxiang Mountain.  At midnight, most people fall asleep.  "Bang bang¡ª¡ª" A burst of clear gunshots suddenly rang out. The eight Japanese sentries standing at the gate of the camp fell to the ground without any reaction. At the same time, the 16 gates and 8 soldiers located at Nanshankeng and the top of Mount Huangshan were  As soon as the mortars started firing, the tents with faint lights became the best targets. Among them, Captain Moto Sakata, captain of the 42nd Infantry Regiment, was checking the map in a tent in the middle of the camp, and fired at the entrance of the camp.  The moment the sound rang out, Colonel Sakata fell down on the spot. Before he could turn out the lantern, he heard the familiar sound of flying artillery shells.  "The enemy attack is hidden" Colonel Sakata shouted, rushed out of the tent, jumped into a ditch in front of the tent, and then pressed his whole body to the bottom of the ditch.  "Boom¡ª¡ª" Continuous explosions sounded, and Osaka Sakata watched with fear as his tent was instantly torn to pieces by the violent shock wave.    Half of the more than twenty tents with lights were hit by 81 mm grenades. The Japanese soldiers inside went to see Amaterasu without any reaction.  From those tents that had no lights or were not hit, Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly rushed out one after another. They were disheveled, holding guns and shouting in panic.  With the light from the explosion, in a dense forest south of the camp, thirty-two crooked machine guns and twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns fired desperately at the unobstructed Japanese troops. The dense tongues of flames formed a huge wall of death.  The net knocked the Japanese to the ground piece by piece.  The more than 300 Japanese soldiers who were the first to rush out of the tent were hit with rows of bullets at high speed without any mental preparation, and they screamed again and again. The blood splattered all over the sky like water mist beside a waterfall.  Long lasting.  "Baga, fight back" "Health soldiers, we need treatment here" "No, it's the New Second China Army" "We need support" The Japanese troops who rushed out then fully learned the experience and lessons of the dead soldiers in frontØ­Hunched  Scattered around, found a temporary hiding place, and began to shout hoarsely. The Fifth Division is indeed the ace division of the Japanese army. The quality of its officers and soldiers was fully demonstrated at this critical juncture. Most of the soldiers held up their 38-guns and headed west.  Shooting desperately where flames flashed on the southern mountains, buying extremely precious time for the unfolding heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and even mortars and infantry artillery.  On several raised mounds outside the camp, snipers led by Xiaochunzi fired accurately at the Japanese camp in the distance.  Those Japanese soldiers who operate heavy weapons are the first targets of snipers. Any Japanese who dares to get close to the eight Type 92 infantry cannons, more than 30 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 20 grenades in the camp will all become  A cold corpse.  Without heavy fire support, the Japanese soldiers in the camp could only be beaten passively for the time being. The continuous rain of bullets fired by the more than 40 light and heavy machine guns owned by the New Second Army's night attack force was like an iron curtain that could never be overcome.  , all Japanese soldiers who tried to stand up and fight back would be torn into pieces by the dense rain of machine gun bullets. Just when the sound of gunfire was loud at the Japanese 42nd Regiment camp in the southeast of Maxiang Mountain, to the west in the direction of the South Gate of Yiwu,  There was a heavy shelling.  In the night, the New Second Division concentrated more than 30 artillery pieces and carried out indiscriminate bombing on the main position of Maxiang Mountain held by the Japanese army.  The Japanese army did not expect to be attacked suddenly. The Japanese troops on the position who were preparing to return for reinforcements suffered heavy casualties. Major General Shun Sakamoto, commander of the 21st Infantry Brigade, was shocked and uncertain. He did not know whether the New Second Army on the opposite side was going to launch a night attack, so he had to  Order the Japanese troops to continue to defend the defense line, and then report the situation to the division headquarters.  In Baiyun Village at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, about four kilometers away from the 42nd Regiment, Lieutenant General Jun Imamura, commander of the Japanese 5th Division, heard the fierce sound of gunfire in the night sky. He jumped out of bed and simply put on his military uniform.  He rushed out of the bedroom and asked loudly to the communications staff who came to report: "Where is the fighting going on?" The communications staff quickly replied: "Report to the general, the first attack was on the 42nd Regiment camp southeast of Maxiang Mountain. China  The army suddenly rushed out from the mountains to the south and attacked our camp with powerful firepower. The commander of the Sakamoto Brigade was preparing to mobilize troops from the front position of Ma Xiangshan to return reinforcements. Suddenly, there was a loud sound of artillery from the direction of Yiwu, and the Chinese army concentrated artillery fire on our defense line in the dark.  The 21st Brigade suffered heavy losses due to the bombing. At the same time, it was worried that the Chinese army would be attacked from both front and rear. Once the defense line was withdrawn, the consequences would be unimaginable, so it had to stand still. "" General Sakamoto called, saying that the 21st Brigade was no longer able to mobilize troops, and asked the general to report to the police as soon as possible.  The camp of the 42nd Regiment sent reinforcements ""Baga"". Imamura was so angry that he drew out his saber and cut the wooden table in front of him in half.  He never expected that the New Second Army would be so difficult to deal with that they would launch a sneak attack on his headquarters overnight.  No wonder the Kunisaki detachment, which was previously formed by troops from the Fifth Division, suffered a disastrous defeat in front of the New Second Division. It turned out that the opponent was really not an easy person to deal with.  At the same time, Imamura was secretly glad that he had placed the fifth field artillery regiment and the fifth heavy baggage regiment in the rear, and at the same time intentionally strengthened the alert, otherwise the situation would be unimaginable.  "Order Colonel Kazuo Sugimoto, captain of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, to immediately lead his troops to the camp of the 42nd Regiment for reinforcements. Order and Major General Kawahara No. 7 to strengthen the protection of the field artillery and heavy infantry regiment camps. If anything unexpected happens, please call  He performed a caesarean section to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor." After Imamura finished his instructions, he thought for a moment and then added: "Call the commander of the Fourth Division, Sawada Shigeru, and ask him to lead his troops to move closer to me as soon as possible They have been resting in Dongyang for two days and two nights.  No matter how tired the troops are, they should have had enough rest." "Hai¡ª¡ª" The communications staff officer took the order and left. Chief of Staff Sakurada Takeshi, who came after hearing the news, said worriedly: "The Fourth Division has a bad reputation. Every time we encounter  They will use various excuses to delay tough battlesI think this time theyThey were also afraid of a head-on fight with the New Second Army, so they tried to pass the buck in every possible way.  I very much doubt whether they will obey the general's arrangements." Imamura Jun was also very helpless: "A year and a half ago, the Fourth Division was attacked by China's New Second Division to flood the Seventh Army in the area east of Lin'an. A regiment  Almost all of them were reimbursed, which cast a shadow over the entire Fourth Division. However, General Sawada Shigeru is a famous general in the empire. I hope he can overwhelm the cowards of the Fourth Division and move closer to our headquarters as soon as possible." "I hope so.  "Yeah." Sakurada Takeshi listened to the huge noise coming from the northern night sky, and his mood was extremely heavy for a moment.
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