"There are roughly two roads now, one is the mountain road on the right, and the other is the main road on the left." Takahashi Masatake said, "The Chinese army fled after attacking our unit. Can Mr. Sakata lead your unit? If we want to explore in the direction of the mountain road, how about our 104th Regiment and the 58th Regiment search along the main road?"
"Yes. But can Mr. Takahashi tell me how many enemy troops there are?" Sakata Yuzo asked.
"Sakata-kun, it is precisely because this enemy force is quite large and very tenacious that our 104th Regiment teamed up with the 58th Regiment to conduct a search. Your Excellency also saw it. Our Thirteenth Division What were the casualties of the regiment headquarters in the battle against Jiangyin Fortress? Just now, one of the forward brigade of our 104th Regiment was annihilated here. The burning cars and armored vehicles here are the remains of the troops of our forward brigade. It only took less than twenty minutes for this enemy group to annihilate my advancing group. The Sixth Division is the elite of the imperial army's standing divisions, and its combat power is stronger than our Thirteenth Division. So please understand, Mr. Sakata!" After saying that, Masatake Takahashi stood at attention and lowered his head to express his request.
"Yo Xi." Yuzo Sakata nodded and said, "Takahashi-kun, don't say these depressing words. The Thirteenth Regiment is the ace unit of the Sixth Division. In addition, our unit is attacking Zijin." Yamatoki has not been placed on the front line, so it is natural that he will take on more difficult and dangerous tasks. Please rest assured, Takahashi-kun and Soeda-kun!"
"The martial arts will last forever!" Masatake Takahashi gave a military salute to Soeda Uki and Sakata Yuzo.
"Martial arts will last forever!!" Soeda Uki and Sakata Yuzo immediately responded with a military salute.
Under the arrangement of Masaru Takahashi, the fully-loaded 13th Regiment of the Japanese Army, with more than 3,300 Japanese troops, began to advance rapidly towards the Niushou Mountain Trail. The formation was not generally scary.
On the other side, the remnants of the 56th Regiment of the Japanese Army, more than 1,500 people, were heading towards Chunhua Town at full speed under the leadership of Regiment Captain Watanabe Iiya!
More than 5,000 Japanese troops are moving towards Chunhua Town at full speed. If we include the more than 12,000 troops of the 13th Division, nearly 20,000 Japanese troops are about to gather in the direction of Chunhua Town!
The clouds of war once again shrouded the land south of Nanjing!
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Wei He and others could guess the gathering of Japanese troops, but what they could not guess was that this time the Japanese troops actually gathered nearly 20,000 troops and rushed towards them!
"Okay, let's see if there are so many grenades. After all, four hundred grenades is not a small amount. We should be able to put it together." As the commander of the temporary first battalion, Wei He has the right to make this decision There are still some.
At this moment, a soldier ran over and said: "Sir, our Second Company discovered an arsenal that the Japanese army will not have time to destroy."
After hearing the news, Wei He and the other four looked at each other in shock. Finally, Wei He made the final decision and said: "Let's go, let's see what good things are in this arsenal hoarded by the Japanese army, and we have to be fast!"
After Wei He finished speaking, he quickly asked the soldier to take them to the arsenal to check the specific situation. The three company commanders followed Wei He.
In fact, the soldier reported that it was an arsenal, and it was not a separate arsenal, but an arsenal made up of three tents.
When he came here, he saw that the three tents were filled with boxes of munitions. Wei He seemed to understand: these were the supply munitions of the Japanese army. Before they could be distributed to the squadrons, the brigade was overrun by the penetration regiment. The officers and soldiers were wiped out.
"Come here and pry these things open immediately!" Wei He opened the tent and shouted.
Soon, seven or eight powerful soldiers walked in. Wei He pointed to the crowbars piled in the corner, and then said to them: "Take the crowbars and take out all the boxes of stuff." Pry it open and be careful, I don't know what's in here, if it's a grenade shell, it'll be over."
"Yes, sir!" These soldiers quickly picked up the crowbar and started working carefully. Since they couldn't tell which of the people here was the battalion commander, they just called them "sir" anyway.
Two of these soldiers carried a wooden box down. They listened to Wei He's words. After all, if these things exploded, everyone would die, and there would be absolutely no chance of survival.
After opening the first box, I saw that it was full of yellow-orange bullets, and they were slightly reflective. It looked like they were the bullets equipped with the 38-type rifle.
The second box is full of cantaloupe grenades equipped by the Japanese army, namely Type 97 grenades; the third box is the shells used by grenades; and the fourth box is strips of bullet belts. These are the bullets used by heavy machine guns.
"Very good, we have everything we need to equip next. Third company commander, take your people and come over immediately to count how many cantaloupe grenades there are. Use them all!" Wei He said to the third company commander. .
"Yes, battalion commander!" The third company commander responded and hurried out.
"Two company commanders." After the third company commander left, Wei He said to the two company commanders, "I plan to equip all the officers and soldiers of the third company with this melon grenade used by the Japanese army. After all, it is now the third company. The company is fighting alone outside, and is responsible for the task of attacking the Japanese army's flank. This task is the most dangerous. If there are not enough grenades or grenade support, I estimate that the situation of the third company will be quite dangerous. In terms of light and heavy machine guns, you two Everyone can equip them first, but we can’t treat our brothers badly with grenades.”
The second company commander nodded and said: "Captain Wei, we both understand what you said. These grenades must be equipped by the third company first, even if they take them all. We also understand what Captain Zhang did. The long meaning is that we want to protect these thousands of people. We are not afraid of sacrifice, but we are afraid of sacrificing in vain. This time our rearguard battle is for our thousands of brothers who want to survive, and for the thousands of people. , this battle must be fought to the end!”
"Yes, even if our first battalion is wiped out, we still have to hold these little devils for three hours! These little Japanese killed so many brothers of my 87th Division on the front line. We should ask them for this debt. Otherwise, even if we die, we will have no face to face those brothers who died in the battle under the spring!" The first company commander also agreed. They are all officers who graduated from the Central Military Academy and have been on the Songhu battlefield. They are already familiar with things like death. It's commonplace. So many brothers on the front line have died, so why can't they die?
If you ask why they appeared on the riverside, it's because the troops have long lost their command, and they don't want to make unnecessary sacrifices!
They are not afraid of death. What they are afraid of is that they will die inexplicably and be betrayed by their superiors or friendly forces.
This time it was different. They were fighting to cover the thousands of brothers and people who broke out of the encirclement. Just like what Commander Zhang said before setting off: "When our hometown was attacked by the Japanese army, Do we also hope that our friendly brothers in the national army can save them? If we don’t save them, no one will be able to save them.”
Fighting with Commander Zhang would be a futile fight, and you might lose the battle, but following Captain Zhang behind him to fight against Japan is different. It would be a blast, but just look at the corpses of Japanese soldiers all over the ground. Got it - this is already a successful and victorious raid.
In short, as the saying goes, they are both born and raised by their parents, and they both carry one head on their shoulders. Who is afraid of whom? Killing one is enough to earn money, killing two is enough to earn one. Tonight, even if the first battalion is wiped out, it will never let these little Japanese have an easy time!
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