"Commander...Commander, what's wrong, all the brothers in the first battalion have been burned down! The whole battalion down to the battalion commander Yin Guohua has been burned out, and only one brother has come back alive." A regimental staff officer panicked. He ran to the group leader Pan Shuoduan in a panic and reported.
After hearing the news, Pan Shuoduan's fists clenched slightly, and a look of anger overflowed on his face: It was a deep sense of powerlessness. When the Yunnan Army first entered the battlefield, the officers and soldiers of a battalion, that But more than 500 to 600 people were all wiped out in one day. Even the well-equipped and well-trained Yunnan Army could not stop the Japanese army with such fierce fighting power.
Pan Shuoduan took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then said: "Order the headquarters of my 1081st Regiment to be ready for battle and be ready to counterattack Chen Wafang at any time! Order the headquarters of the Second Battalion to assemble immediately as a The first batch of troops to counterattack Chen Wafang tonight!"
"Yes! Commander!" The combat staff officer responded loudly, and then ran out.
There is no way. At this time, it is just when the troops have just entered the villages. The telephone lines set up by the communication battalions have not had enough time to set up the telephone lines to each regiment, let alone each battalion. Therefore, we can only rely on this relatively primitive method. to make notifications.
In the slightly gloomy headquarters of the 1081st Regiment, the regiment leader Pan Shuoduan gently clenched his fists and held back the tears that were about to fall from his eyes: Who knew that Yin Guohua was not only his subordinate, but also his life and death brother!
The brother of life and death died in front of his eyes, but he could only remain indifferent. This feeling of collapse may only be understood by the person involved.
At this time, the sun was slowly setting. Under the order of regiment commander Pan Shuoduan, the troops of the 2nd Battalion of the 1081st Regiment had begun to slowly assemble. They were only waiting for the commander's attack after dark. Ordered.
The 60th Army has been in existence for several years and has been training for several years. The brotherly feelings among them are far beyond what some of the newer units that have just been established can compare with.
After all, these units have only been established for a short period of time and have not been together for that long. The emotional foundation between them must be relatively weak.
Therefore, when the regiment commander Pan Shuoduan gave the order for the troops to assemble, there was a huge crowd. Everyone was very excited and rushed to say that they wanted to avenge all the brothers in the first battalion and recapture Chen Wafang.
It was night, before midnight, around ten o'clock, the Yunnan Army, dressed in dark blue military uniforms, launched a surprise counterattack against the Japanese troops in Chen Wafang.
The battle went smoothly and the Japanese troops were driven out of Chen Wafang.
But when the Japanese follow-up troops arrived with reinforcements, the pressure on the Yunnan Army suddenly became extremely huge.
The battle raged until dawn, and gunshots rang out all night long in the village of Chen Wafang. This was something no one expected.
Bullets flew overhead. Pan Shuoduan personally led the troops to reinforce Chen Wafang for a long time. The casualties on both sides were huge.
"Commander! Commander! Retreat quickly, we don't have many reserves left! If we continue to fight like this, our regiment will be wiped out!" the chief of staff ran to Pan Shuoduan's side and persuaded him.
"Can't withdraw, can't withdraw! Have you forgotten that our Yunnan troops left Yunnan to go north to fight against Japan?! If Chen Wafang fell like this, can we be worthy of our brothers who have sacrificed?!" Pan Shuoduan said very stubbornly .
Indeed, it's no wonder that the Chief of Staff is heartbroken. This entire company of troops died. How many troops in the Yunnan Army can afford such a squandering?
There are more than 45,000 people in total. It seems like a lot of people, but is it really that many people? With more than a thousand casualties a day, it wouldn't take long for them to be completely exhausted.
These troops were the troops they had worked so hard to train for four or five years. Who wouldn’t be heartbroken if they were all wiped out like this?
At this time, it was already eight o'clock in the morning the next day, which was April 23. The troops of the first regiment directly under the third theater of war were still spending this day in the train carriage and were heading to Kaifeng.
"Hey~~"
The scream of artillery shells piercing the air was heard in the distance. Pan Shuo wanted to shout for everyone to take cover, but it was already too late.
"Boom!!!"
"Boom!!!"
"Boom!!!"
The shell exploded in Chen Wafang, a small village. Mud was flying everywhere, and smoke columns were rising here.
War is often so cruel. No, because you are a commander, you will fire less artillery shells here. On the contrary, if you know better, you may fire a few more shells.
Japanese artillery fire shrouded the village of Chen Wafang, and there was a smell of death everywhere.
While the Japanese artillery was showing off its power, the Japanese mechanized troops also began to take action - about five or six thin-skinned small tanks were circling the sides and rear of the national army reinforcements, trying to cut off Chen Wafang's national army reinforcements.
Their goal is to once again annihilate the Yunnan troops on Chen Wafang, and then capture Chen Wafang to seize the strategic initiative in the area north of Lianfang Mountain!
It may be that the Japanese army was in a hurry and could not fully keep up with the material supplies for the follow-up troops, so the bombardment only lasted for about fifteen minutes before being suspended.
Of course, in these short fifteen minutes, hundreds of artillery shells had already rained down on the small village of Chen Wafang.
During the lull in artillery fire, Pan Shuoduan, commander of the 1081st Regiment, hurried to the front line because he knew that the Japanese army was about to launch a very violent attack. With the Japanese army's fighting method, it was impossible to let them attack at this time. Able to rest and adjust.
After the artillery fire ceases, what will usher in will inevitably be a fierce attack by the Japanese army!
Pan Shuoduan also knew that there were not many troops left in his unit, so he had to rush to the front line to see the situation for himself. What if the battalion commander died in the artillery fire?
Therefore, he was worried and had to rush to the front line to command the battle.
However, still like this, they still allowed the Japanese army to break through the front-line position, and a fierce close combat began again!
This time, the situation of the Yunnan Army was not so optimistic.
On this day, the regiments of the 183rd Division of the Yunnan Army were attacked by the Japanese army's overwhelming artillery fire and tank troops. The focus was especially on Chen Wafang. After fierce fighting for days, the casualties of the officers and soldiers of the 1081st Regiment actually reached In all likelihood, after the regiment leader Pan Shuoduan was injured, Chen Wafang fell into the hands of the enemy.
Xingjialou, Wushengtang and other villages were successively destroyed by enemy artillery fire...
The fighting was once very fierce, especially the Yunnan army's fighting will, but many Japanese soldiers were surprised. They thought that it had reached this level, and the national army in the fifth theater should not have much power to fight back.
But what the Japanese commanders never expected was that they actually hit an iron plate!
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PS: The first update is here.
In fact, many people think that the Battle of Xuzhou may not have much to do with the Battle of Lanfeng, but is this really the case?
The Battle of Lanfeng was actually a continuation of the Battle of Xuzhou. After the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of Xuzhou truly came to an end.
The progress of the protagonist needs to be written, but the historical process cannot be violated, so everyone just bear with it!
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