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Volume 3, Chapter 650: The enemy advances and we retreat

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    On the morning of August 26, the Japanese Sixth Division occupied Xikou. Immediately, the commander of the Sixth Division, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro, ordered the infantry to attack the Huangjiawu, Liuquanwu and Linjiawu lines held by the New Second Army two kilometers away.  Launch a tentative attack.  After entering the mouth of the river, the mountain suddenly became steep. Except for the river in the center of the canyon and the roads on both sides of the river, the rest were steep cliffs. In addition, it was late summer and the trees were lush and the mountains were full of thorns. The Japanese army wanted to  It is very difficult to capture the high ground on both sides of the canyon.  After receiving the attack mission, Colonel Minao Iwasaki, captain of the 47th Infantry Regiment, immediately ordered a brigade to attack the Huangjiawu Highlands on the west bank of Fangcun Creek.  When the Japanese infantry moved towards the Huangjiawu Highlands, they frequently hit mines. By the time the troops rushed to the foot of the mountain, the Ogawa Brigade, which was ordered to attack, had already lost more than a hundred soldiers.  Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were blown to pieces and the soldiers who were holding their injured parts and wailing, Captain Ogawa looked extremely ugly.  The New Second Army on the opposite side has deployed a large number of mines at the front of the position as always, and the 6th Engineer Regiment of the division is repairing simple passages to the highlands on the left and right wings of Xikou in order to send artillery to the top of the mountain to suppress Huangjiawu opposite.  There was artillery fire from the New Second Army on the mountain, so the Ogawa Brigade was not assigned engineers.  In desperation, Major Ogawa could only ask the Japanese soldiers under his command to widen the distance between each other to prevent one person from triggering a thunderstorm and causing many people to suffer.  The attack continues.  The Japanese soldiers crawling on the gentle slope carefully used the bayonets they carried to detect mines and moved forward step by step.  More than 20 meters behind, Japanese soldiers were lying in the grass in panic. They waited until the front moved a few meters before moving forward, but soon they could only wait patiently.  Even with such caution, the Japanese soldiers who lacked professional demining skills still hit mines one after another. Those Japanese soldiers who were ordered to take over the task of exploring the road turned pale and trembled when they saw the bloody corpses of their comrades.  Several soldiers even disobeyed orders and were killed by Major Ogawa with a saber.  Outside a small village at the foot of the northern foothills of Mount Aeon, Colonel Iwasaki Minao saw through his telescope that the Ogawa Brigade was making slow progress and suffering extremely heavy casualties. He was furious and immediately sent his staff to reprimand.  Faced with the questioning of the commander, Captain Ogawa had to explain through the radio: "The New Second Army has undergone professional minelaying training, and there are no rules in minelaying techniques and burial locations. In addition, they have many types of mines, and all mines  They are all accompanied by booby traps. It is extremely difficult and dangerous for our officers and soldiers to clear mines. "Nani?" Iwasaki Minao picked up the telescope again when he heard it. It seemed that another soldier hit the mine. After a loud bang,  A column of smoke rose dozens of meters high.  To deal with this kind of randomly laid landmines, it is best to send out professional engineers, or use artillery groups to carry out covering shelling in order to trigger all the mines.  Colonel Iwasaki was not the kind of traditional officer who regarded the lives of soldiers as trivial. He hesitated for a while before giving the order to stop the attack.  When the news reached the headquarters of the Sixth Division, Inaba Shiro decided to give priority to sending the infantry artillery to the front line, and concentrated all the infantry artillery to cover the hills ahead and clear an attack channel.  By the time the Japanese army delivered sixteen infantry guns and a basic number of artillery shells, and then aimed a blast at the top of the mountain, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.  From the beginning to the end, the Japanese army did not find anyone moving on the mountain in front.  After sending dozens of top soldiers to confirm that there was no danger, Major Ogawa pulled out his saber, made a false chop to the top of the mountain, and shouted loudly: "Kill him!" Under the leadership of the Japanese Army Sergeant, Ogawa's brigade set up an offensive formation, and the Japanese army  The soldiers quickly dispersed into skirmish lines and launched an upward attack on the opposite hill.  Due to the steepness of the mountain and the deliberate destruction by the engineers of the New Second Army, the road for the Japanese troops to pass was very narrow. Even if the skirmishers dispersed, the Japanese troops were still very dense. The heavy machine gun squadron following the troops did not find suitable terrain.  It cannot be deployed at all, and fire support is naturally out of the question.  Iwasaki Minao held the binoculars and frowned when he saw such a dense offensive formation of the Ogawa Brigade.  However, the bottom-up attack is so helpless, and many places are simply inaccessible. This cannot be reversed by human power. ?? Iwasaki Minao couldn't imagine that this was just the second mountain range and it was already so steep. It must be that the deeper you go into the hinterland of the Qianli Gang Mountains, the more rugged the terrain will be. How will this battle be sustained without the support of heavy firepower and equipment?  At the main peak position of Huangjiawu, Major Peng Yue, commander of the 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the Duer Division, who was responsible for the defense of the line, calmly observed the Japanese offensive formation.  The fortifications and bunkers that were built as early as two years ago were mostly covered by bushes at this time, and the reinforced concrete surface was covered with a thick layer of moss, so the Japanese army attacked them from bottom to top.?Nothing is gained, but looking down from above, everything is clear.  At this time, in the fortifications next to Peng Yue, all the light and heavy machine guns were waiting for his firing order.  When the Japs climbed to less than 150 meters away from the main peak of Huangjiawu, more than a dozen Japs sergeants rushing in front shouted at the same time and climbed up to the top of the mountain using their hands and feet.  Looking at the swarming Japs, Major Peng Yue picked up the phone and shouted: "Shoot at the first, fourth, seventh and tenth firepower points! Keep silent at other firepower points!" "Yes!" As the order was conveyed, he was located in the windward position.  The three fire support points on the slope of the line began to spray out tongues of flame, and for a while the sound of gunshots like exploding beans resounded throughout the mountains.  The next scene was very spectacular, like dominoes being toppled, and the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground one row after another from front to back.  Under the huge impact of the bullets, the Japanese soldiers who were shot rolled down the mountain one after another along the rugged mountain road, killing countless people.  The Japanese army did not resist, but it was awkward to shoot from the bottom up. In addition, the enemy's fortifications were hidden in the bushes, and they could not see anything except the tongues of flames. As a result, the Japanese army could only passively be beaten.  .  In such a steep place, it is only necessary to seal a few points to prevent the Japanese army from moving. Then the rifleman only needs to point at the Japanese army and fire, almost accurately.  In less than an hour, the Japanese army paid a heavy price with more than 400 casualties. Even Captain Ogawa, who was supervising the battle at the foot of the mountain, was hit in the arm and had to be sent to the field hospital at Daqiaotou in the rear for emergency treatment.  Captain Iwasaki, who saw the entire attack process of the Ogawa Battalion with his own eyes, knew that launching another wave of attacks would not make any progress. Seeing that it was getting late, he decided to rest for a night before launching the attack.  In order to ensure the absolute safety of the camp and avoid the tragedy of the Fifth Division outside Yiwu City, Iwasaki Minao stretched the cordon wide, dug trenches around the camp, and laid a large number of mines. As a result, the New Second Army was  There was no movement.  The next morning, the Japanese aviation force stationed at Quzhou Airport dispatched more than ten bombers to conduct violent bombing on the main peak of Huangjiawu.  "However, due to concerns about the defenders' anti-aircraft firepower, the Japanese aircraft did not dare to lower their altitude and hastily dropped bombs at an altitude of more than a thousand meters. The accuracy was poor and the effect was not obvious.  Of course, the bombing still achieved some results. For example, after the bushes were bombed, many bunkers and fortifications were revealed. Seeing the long buildings like the Great Wall, Colonel Iwasaki was shocked. To overcome such difficulties, the sacrifice must be huge.  .  In the following week, the Iwasaki Regiment launched several attacks without success. In the end, they could only resort to civil engineering work and dig trenches to approach the main peak.  However, due to geological conditions, the Japanese trenches encountered rock layers as soon as they were dug to 50 or 60 centimeters, and their concealment effect was relatively limited.  At the same time, the defenders¡¯ firepower point on the top of the mountain alternately fired to suppress the Japanese troops. At the same time, grenades and explosive packets slid down the hillside from time to time and fell into the trenches dug by the Japanese troops, killing Japanese troops involved in civil engineering operations!  As time passed, no Japanese army dared to build trenches despite the gunfire from the top of the mountain, and the war was in a stalemate.  Just when Iwasaki Minao was exhausted, the work of the Sixth Engineer Regiment was finally completed. The Sixth Division finally mounted its heavy artillery to the top of the mountain on the left and right sides of Xikou and began to bombard the defenders' defense lines indiscriminately. ? ###### ? Fangcun, the headquarters of the New Second Army.  Since the New Second Army retreated to Maoliangwu, Fangcun has begun to relocate. All factories and enterprises have stopped working, and all machinery and equipment have been transported to Maoliangwu, Kaihua and other places for reconstruction.  Fangcun is mostly machine factories and chemical plants relocated from Shanghai, with more than 20,000 workers, their families and service personnel.  After more than half a month of continuous relocation, Fangcun was almost emptied.  In the war room, Wu Ming looked at the map and wondered whether the Japanese heavy artillery troops were in place and whether the defenders on the second line of defense in front of Fangcun Creek should withdraw.  "Military seat, the chief of staff is here!" Zhang Ying, chief of the operations section, reminded in a low voice.  "Oh?" Wu Ming turned his head and saw Zhang Dongning walking into the door. His face was pale, his hair was messy, and his eyes were bloodshot.  Wu Ming hurried forward and said with concern: "Dongning, pay attention to your health, I don't want you to collapse from exhaustion!" Zhang Dongning felt warm in his heart, swallowed his saliva, and said with a wry smile: "Military seat, don't hurry up.  No! Once the upper reaches of Fangcun Creek are blasted, the entire Fangcun and downstream areas will become a swamp. If you are tired now, you will not be sad in the future!¡± Since the completion of the Maoliangwu Reservoir, in order to ensure the industrial and domestic water supply in Fangcun, the New Second Army  Engineers also built in the area around Dongmenkou in the upper reaches of Fangcun Creek.??A reservoir.  In order to prevent Japanese fighter planes from dropping bombs and blowing up the dam, a camouflage net was pulled up over the reservoir. From the sky, it looks exactly like the surrounding mountains. You would never have guessed that there is a hidden reservoir.  In order to completely eliminate the Japanese army, when formulating the battle plan, the General Staff Office fully considered the reservoir and decided to fortify the front layer at all levels, purposefully attracting the Japanese army to Fangcun, and then blasting the reservoir to repeat the last scene of the Lin'an flood that flooded the Seventh Army.  However, the water this time was much stronger than last time. I am afraid that the waves dozens of meters high would hit them and the Japanese would be gone.  Zhang Dongning reported the entire relocation situation to Wu Ming, and finally said: "Junzuo, this morning I met **** and Ruhua at the entrance of Maoliangwu Town. They pestered me to tell your story.  "What nonsense are you talking about?" Wu Ming's face darkened.  "Military Commander, you blame me for talking too much" Zhang Dongning was not annoyed and continued: "Fangcun is only fifteen kilometers away from Maoliangwu. The children haven't seen you for months. They miss you so much! You'd better go back.  Look at them! Even give them a hug!" Wu Ming's stern face softened.  As a father, the concern for his children touches the softest side of his heart.  But now that the war has spread to the doorstep of his home, and the soldiers are fighting bloody battles on the front line, how can Wu Ming abandon everything for the sake of his family?  Wu Ming snorted: "Don't just talk about me. Haven't you met your one-year-old son a few times? The war situation is tense now, so you don't care about so much!" Zhang Dongning shook his head and sighed, and was about to speak.  Chief Du Pingzhang rushed in: "Military seat, the Japanese heavy artillery has been transported to the highlands on both sides of Xikou and is launching a saturation bombardment on our second-line position in front of Fangcun River!" Wu Ming took the telegram and read it, raised his head to look at the map, and passed  After a while he asked: "Is there anything unusual in other places?" Du Pingzhang replied: "After the 101st Division captured Guchongkou, it was encountered tenaciously by the Second Brigade of our Independent Division on the line between Dawukou and Shuangxikou.  Block! Since the Japanese heavy artillery could not keep up, our army occupied a favorable position and waited for work. Even after suffering heavy casualties, the 101st Division still failed to achieve a breakthrough! " "In addition, the Japanese army is now relatively passive in its feints and fires a few shots during the attack!  We retreated with empty guns, nothing unusual happened." "Okay!" Wu Ming's eyes lit up: "Order the 4th Brigade of the Duer Division to retreat northward to the line of Kengwu, Chishan and Gaoshan Temple under the cover of darknessthe front line of Xikou.  It took the Japanese army a full week to send the artillery up the mountain. Now the terrain of the second line of defense is more dangerous. It is nothing more than a dream for them to send large-caliber heavy artillery up the mountain in a short time. When their infantry loses their artillery advantage, look.  How can they fight with us?"
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