Sun Zhen's order finally made Wang Mingzhang make up his final determination to defend Teng County. He first said to Zhang Xuanwu: "Commander Zhang! You immediately tell all the officers and soldiers in the city: We have decided to defend Tengcheng. Together with everyone, the city Survive and survive, the city perishes and perishes!”
"Yes! Master!" Zhang Xuanwu stood at attention and saluted.
Wang Mingzhang nodded and added: "By the way, you immediately lead your troops to block the south and north city gates. The east and west city gates temporarily leave traffic roads and close them at any time. You can post notices at the four gates to inform them. All officers and soldiers, no one is allowed to leave the city without an order from the division commander, and any violator will be punished on the spot!"
"Yes. I am here to carry out the division commander's order." After saying that, Zhang Xuanwu put on his military cap and strode out of the temporary office of the City Defense Headquarters.
The lights in the private house where Teng County's temporary city defense headquarters was located were dim. Under the dim lights, Wang Mingzhang's face was very gloomy. He ordered Luo Jiaxin, the deputy commander of the division beside him: "Immediately move the division command post and the units directly under the division." Move into the city!”
"Yes, division commander." After receiving Wang Mingzhang's order, Luo Jia began to leave the temporary city defense headquarters office, and then went to the division command post still at the Xiguan Electric Light Factory.
At this time, Chen Liyin, commander of the 127th Division of the 45th Army, was fighting in the Longshan and Puyang Mountain areas, and there was no plan to move his troops into the city to defend. Therefore, after Master Chen asked Sun Zhen for instructions, he went with his command post to command his troops in combat.
But what Chen Li never expected was that when he was only three or four miles away from Tengcheng, he was attacked by an enemy armored vehicle, causing his right leg to be seriously injured.
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The camera turned to Lincheng, the headquarters of the 22nd Army.
At this time, Sun Zhen was sitting on the chair in the office, holding the phone in his hand, and waiting for the call.
That's right, the place Sun Zhen wanted to attack this time was none other than Wang Zhonglian's 85th Army Headquarters where Tang Enbo's Army was headed.
"Hello, is this Commander Wang? I'm Sun Zhen from the 22nd Army." After the call was connected, Sun Zhen got straight to the point.
"Yes, I am Wang Zhonglian. Hello, Commander-in-Chief Sun." Wang Zhonglian's very serious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"It's like this. I'm calling you this time because I hope your department can send reinforcements to Tengcheng as soon as possible. The headquarters of Commander Wang of the 122nd Division in Teng County has become a lone army. "There are not so many polite words. This time the war is already urgent, so Sun Zhen can speak directly.
"Commander Sun, the leading troops of our 85th Army have already arrived at a brigade this time, but our Tang Army Commander also said that the leading troops will have to wait until the corps headquarters arrives before commanding the battle." Wang Zhonglian's The voice was a little troubled.
"If that's the case, can Commander Wang consider that we are both anti-Japanese troops and send some troops to support Teng County first?" Sun Zhen's voice already contained a pleading tone.
"Of course this is possible. Let's do this, Commander-in-Chief Sun. Our army will first send out a regiment of the vanguard to quickly carry out support operations against Teng County. Adding more troops will be beyond my capabilities. After all, The commander of the Tang Army has already spoken out, so I can't disobey his military orders." Wang Zhonglian said bluntly.
"That's fine, then please ask Commander Wang to send support troops quickly! The 122nd Division headquarters in Teng County is up to you." Sun Zhen said in a deep voice.
"Okay, I will send troops to march towards Teng County. Commander Sun, don't worry!" Wang Zhonglian said.
After hanging up the phone, Sun Zhen let out a long sigh: Tang Enbo has reached this point and is still calculating these small calculations to preserve his strength. He doesn't know why the chairman of the committee wants to use this person so highly?
Sun Zhen had long heard that Tang Enbo was a person with high eyesight and did not pay attention to the motley crew. When he saw it today, it turned out to be true...
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The enemy artillery that occupied Dongsha River began to attack at 8:00 a.m. on March 16. The artillery fired for two hours. More than 3,000 artillery shells were dropped in Dongguan, the city, and Xiguan Railway Station. It can really be said that bullets are raining down like rain.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, the enemy artillery suddenly stopped firing, and the enemy planes dispersed at the same time. Because the Sichuan Army's security troops in the villages in the eastern suburbs had withdrawn to Dongguan, the gunfire also stopped at the same time, and the surrounding battlefield suddenly fell into silence.
About half an hour later, the enemy's artillery fire suddenly concentrated on one point and launched a violent bombardment on the protruding part of the southern half of our Dongguan wall. In less than a quarter of an hour (that is, fifteen minutes), this section of the wall was bombed. A gap about one or two meters wide was opened.
Just after this section of the wall was blown down, the Japanese army concentrated dozens of light and heavy machine guns, organized powerful firepower and fired fiercely at the gap to cover the advance of their infantry.
"Tu tu tu tu..."
"Tu tu tu tu..."
"Ta-ta-ta..."
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The bullets from the light and heavy machine guns hit the gap like a dense meteor shower. The bullets hit the stone bricks and immediately caused sparks and puffs of smoke.
Not to mention humans, even a dog passing by here would be beaten into a sieve immediately!
Fortunately, the Sichuan Army commander commanded the battle effectively. When the enemy's shooting stopped, the soldiers ambushing on both sides quickly blocked the gap. As soon as the diffuse smoke disappeared, fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers jumped from the gap in the wall. Entered the trench within the village wall.
Unfortunately, what awaited this group of Japanese soldiers were two to three hundred grenades. After a series of explosions, there were more than fifty enemy corpses and less than ten survivors.
In the following battle, the Japanese army organized more powerful firepower and more violent attacks around this collapsed wall, but unfortunately they all failed.
On the battlefield in this area alone, the Japanese army lost more than 400 people, while the Sichuan army suffered even greater casualties. The battle was not very fierce.
On March 16th alone, about 10,000 Japanese artillery shells fell on Dongguan, Chengnei and Xiguan railway stations in Teng County, and there were shell craters all around.
On the same day, the telephone line from the city defense headquarters to the battalion headquarters of Dongguan Commander Yan Yi, which was less than a mile away, was cut off twenty-five times. It is conceivable that the enemy's artillery fire was really effective. How violent.
The enemy's aircraft have not stopped circling, bombing and strafing over Tengxian County since eight o'clock in the morning. The largest batch included eighteen aircraft!
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PS: The second update is here!
I just came back from overseas, and I was exhausted. I originally wanted to finish this paragraph in two chapters, but I couldn't make it in time, so I could only write three chapters.
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