At noon, Zhou Wei's headquarters was still more than 40 miles away from Changzhou.
However, at this moment, I received a call from Commander Huo of the 112th Division. It turned out that he already knew about the reinforcements.
Commander Huo requested reinforcements from the headquarters. The Japanese Fifth Division was already at war with a regiment of the 112th Division and a regiment of the 103rd Division in the Womachuan area, and the enemy's 23rd Regiment was preparing to bypass Womachuan. area, conducting roundabout operations against Baijia Town.
Once Baijia Town is lost, not to mention the Womachuan area, even Changzhou City will become a desperate and dead place.
Therefore, Commander Huo sent a battalion to support Baijia Town and requested reinforcements from the headquarters.
The command's response was that reinforcements had left the city earlier and should be on their way. So Master Huo quickly contacted Zhou Weiguo to go to Baijia Town to support and defend Baijia Town.
Zhou Weiguo looked at the telegram and frowned slightly, because what he was most worried about had happened.
This powerful force mobilized from all over during the Dragon Boat Festival is actually for fighting mobile warfare, which is to strengthen one's own troops through constant movement on the battlefield and inflict heavy damage on multiple enemy targets.
But before this powerful force arrived in Changzhou City, they were ordered to defend Baijia Town.
But this order cannot be refused, because once Baijia Town is occupied by the Japanese army, it will directly affect the entire Changzhou defense line operations.
"Change route, target Baijia Town."
"yes!"
Zhou Weiguo ordered the convoy to turn around and rush to Baijia Town.
But at the same time, the battle between Baijia Town and the Japanese has begun.
But this battle was not the Japanese army attacking Baijia Town, but the fierce exchange of fire between the Japanese vanguard troops and the defenders at the outer positions of Baijia Town.
The little Japanese were still extremely arrogant, taking advantage of their firepower advantage to carry out crazy bombardments on the defenders' positions.
A company of the Baijia garrison suffered heavy losses under the cover of Japanese artillery fire. Although they built fortifications, they were only temporary ones. The trenches in many places were less than one meter long, and there were few communication trenches, not to mention bomb holes, and no foxholes.
Therefore, people hiding in trenches can only avoid enemy bullets, but Japanese artillery fire, then haha.
This is also a common problem among many local troops. During the battle, they are not willing to take the effort to dig trenches. Even before the battle starts, they are ready to retreat early.
So under the Japanese artillery bombardment, half of the defenders' platoon was destroyed.
The officers of the garrison were quite brave and were not frightened by the gunfire from the little Japs so much that they peed their pants. But in the subsequent Japanese attack, they were still restrained everywhere.
The defenders are just local troops. Although they are regular troops, they are not much stronger than the security regiment.
The soldiers heard that the little devil was very good at fighting with a bayonet, and they scared the enemy so much that they opened fire before they even got close. But two hundred meters away, the bullets flew away, and none of the little devils were hit.
But the well-trained Japs are different. Their hit rate can reach nearly 80% when shooting from 200 meters. This is why on the Chinese battlefield, many Japs rush to the position and find that there are no people on the Chinese position. People.
The reason is here. The Chinese soldiers used their own shortcomings to compete with the Japs' strengths, causing a large number of casualties to themselves. As a result, the Japs did not die many people.
These soldiers and officers outside Baijia Town also made the same mistake, so the battle only lasted less than an hour and ended.
The Japanese army rushed into the position, and there were no survivors in the entire company except for some thirty wounded soldiers who were captured.
They were surrounded in a depression in a position, and the little devils stood on the trenches and laughed at the Chinese people as the sick men of East Asia.
The Japanese officer asked in unskilled Chinese: "How many defenders are there in Baijia Town and the weapon ratio? Tell me everything."
The wounded soldiers stared angrily. Although many of them were timid, and some even had their legs shaking with fear, they were mentally prepared for this battle.
They leaned closely together, and no one spoke out the secret that the little devil wanted to know.
The Japanese officer was very angry: "Baga, your conscience is greatly damaged, you will all die!"
"Little devil, I'll fight you!"
A wounded soldier talked about the rifle in his hand and rushed to the trench to fight the Japanese.
boom! Bang bang!
The Japanese opened fire and killed the wounded soldier directly. But this became the trigger for a massacre.
The Japanese set up machine guns above the trenches and shot at the wounded soldiers in the trenches with more than fifty Japanese soldiers.
The wounded soldiers roared angrily and tried to fight the Japanese with the only weapons in their hands, but they could not cross the gap in front of them and were shot to death by the Japanese.
The entire outer positions of Baijia Town fell, and the first brigade of the Japanese army continued to advance towards Baijia Town.
The defenders of Baijia Town have received the final message that their position has fallen. More than a hundred warriors stained the battlefield with blood, making the defenders in Baijia Town extremely angry.
Li Guoqiang, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 672nd Regiment of the 112th Division, and Battalion Commander Wang of the Baijiazhen garrison battalion are urgently discussing how to fight this battle when the Japanese are approaching the city.
Li Guoqiang said: "We are facing the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army. This division has suffered a lot of blood debt and killed many innocent people. Therefore, the top priority is to evacuate the people. Otherwise, once the Japanese army enters the city, the consequences will be disastrous."
Battalion Commander Wang said: "This matter is already underway, but there are many elderly people who are unwilling to leave, and especially the old patriarch of Baijia Town, he doesn't listen to anything, even if he says that the emperor has been changed, How many little Japanese devils can do to him?"
Li Guoqiang said speechlessly: "What can the devils do? They can kill people. People must be sent out of the city, otherwise once the devils come in, why don't they just wait to die? This fifth division is not made up to deceive children. Moreover, Our soldiers also told them that they must not fall into the hands of these devils, otherwise their lives would be worse than death."
Battalion Commander Wang sighed and said, "Then I'll go there myself. Let's talk about it. Can we, with less than 800 people, be able to defend Baijia Town?"
Li Guoqiang said: "Don't worry, the commander has already asked Nanjing for help. The reinforcements will definitely arrive."
"hope so!"
Battalion Commander Wang said his wish and was about to leave the headquarters, but at this moment, a communications soldier ran in and reported: "Report to the camp, there is a call from Zhou Weiguo's headquarters. They will arrive within two hours." Baijia Town will provide support, and we hope that our troops will stand firm and wait for assistance."
"Very good!"
Battalion Commander Wang clenched his fists and almost jumped. Because the reinforcements arrived just in time. A brigade of the Japanese army had just arrived at the city, and reinforcements were about to arrive, catching the Japanese army by surprise.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese army had already deciphered the original code. When Baijiazhen received the message, the Japanese military communications department also sent the intercepted message to the Henglao Japanese.
Ban Heng smiled slightly: "Order the 23rd Regiment to send a brigade to bypass Baijia Town to intercept the support soldiers. Hum hum hum, I'm afraid the Chinese people can't even dream of it? We have deciphered their secret code! ... ..."
