The bad news finally came in the early morning, on the day of the attack on the headquarters of the 200th Division, the chief of staff Zhou Zhi was seriously wounded again, and the commander of the division was hit by two bullets in the body.
This news is like a bolt from the blue for Song Yuhang, he clearly remembers that the historical Dai Anchen was ambushed and injured by the Japanese army on the way back to China, and on May 18, due to the deterioration of wound infection, the early sacrifice of General Dai Anchen who died for the country means what the familiar history has undergone unpredictable changes, Song Yuhang does not know, and does not dare to think.
At this time, the ancient city of Tonggu had been occupied by two-thirds of the Japanese army, and more than 30,000 Japanese troops entered the city, and the gunfire of the main position on the 131 heights did not stop all night, and it was estimated that it would not last long.
The remnants of the 200th Division, plus the Gendarmerie Regiment and the 1st Battalion of Mechanized Cavalry, had no more than 2,000 men left in the effective combat force, and in the Reserve Bank building, there were more than 1,000 wounded who had difficulty moving.
Yesterday he executed a battalion commander who had talked to him about a way out, and now Song Yuhang is surrounded by a deep loneliness, where should this team go Song Yuhang clearly remembered that the only thing in the history of anti-Japanese resistance that can be compared with the Tonggu defense at this moment was the 57th Division of the Tiger Ben that occurred at the end of 1943 in the aftermath of the Changde Defense War "Surrender" Song Yuhang's dictionary does not have these 2 words, even if he Song Yuhang wants to surrender, I am afraid that the soldiers below will not agree, what kind of goods are the Japanese, these veterans who have fought with the Japanese for several years know best, which of them does not have a few little devils' lives in their hands, and now their best choice is to die in a glorious battle.
The lonely city was held for 15 days, three days more than in history, and the Japanese army increased its troops three times, with a total strength of two divisions and three wings.
From a purely tactical point of view, Song Yuhang believes that the so-called perfection has been achieved At 16:25, the artillery sound of the heavy artillery battalion supporting the 131 heights finally stopped, even at the most critical juncture of the central core fortifications, Song Yuhang was even ready to use one-fifth of the general reserves, but he did not summon the support of artillery fire, because he knew that the artillery battalion was running out of shells, and leaving it to the 131 heights could relieve Zheng Tingqi a little pressure.
As the sun sets, the hot temperature drops slightly, and Iida Shoji, who is sitting alone in the headquarters, is silently wiping his katana, and now Tonggu is no longer a low-hanging fruit, and the feeling of swallowing it is like stuffing a soldering iron into his mouth, and he can't swallow it and can't spit it out, even if he swallows it reluctantly, he is the one who hurts the most A telegram with top secret inscriptions on the table lay quietly there, and Iida Shoji knew the contents even if he didn't read it, and what made him uneasy was that the casualties of the 15th Army had exceeded 12,000 people, whether the combat strength of the Chinese had increased or the combat strength of the imperial army had declined What annoyed Shoji Iida the most was that until now, they learned that the 200th Division of the Chongqing Army in the city was not more than 10,000 people, but nearly 20,000 people after being strengthened.
Iida Shoji, whose brain was in chaos with "Yaga", suddenly burst out, twisted his waist with both hands, and split the table in front of him in half, and the guard officer who heard the movement pulled the door open a gap, knowing that the chief was venting, the guard officer who was afraid of touching the moldy head hurriedly bowed quickly, and quickly pushed the door shut.
Iida Shoji, who calmed down, spread out the intelligence file, read it for a while, and put a key number under Song Yuhang's name with a red pen, hesitated for a moment, and then wrote a question mark.
Because this morning, during his trip to Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito summoned the chief of staff, Sugiyama Moto, and the chief of the military command department, Nagano Shusei, and was very angry at Tonggu, who had been unable to capture Tonggu for a long time with more than two divisions and only one Chinese division, and ordered that Tonggu must be occupied within two days, otherwise those useless generals would be shot.
In March 1942, the world battlefield was relatively calm and extremely tragic, and even the Japanese shouted for the unprecedented and tragic battle to defend Tonggu, which naturally attracted the attention of the whole world.
On April 4, under the urging of the emperor to capture Tonggu within two days, the Japanese attack had no so-called priority and fell into a state of madness.
The war itself was extremely cruel, according to the previous experience of the Japanese army, the city defense was also breached, and the Chinese army should have broken up or broken through the siege a long time ago, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other cities were all like this, but unfortunately Tonggu became an accident.
At this moment, in the Tonggu City, in addition to the Chinese troops who were sticking to the Reserve Bank, the Chinese troops scattered in the Tonggu City were no longer organized, and they were all three or five people who were temporarily gathered together, and they fought separately, taking advantage of the gaps in the Japanese troops to repeatedly intersperse, and if they were lucky, they went around and attacked the Japanese rear, and moved closer to the position of the Reserve Bank.
The defenders of Tonggu resisted and persisted minute by minute in the midst of the Japanese artillery bombardment, bombardment, gunning, poison gas and the enemy's fire again and again, and as long as the gunfire in the direction of the reserve bank in the main position did not stop, there was still a glimmer of hope.
On the main position of the Reserve Bank, the defenders no longer have the so-called complete formation, the scattered personnel plus the miscellaneous service personnel were directly reorganized on the spot, all the lightly wounded who could move were mobilized to the position, the seriously wounded in the hospital were also organized, the canvas bullets of the heavy machine guns were pressurized, and Song Yuhang gave every nurse, including the female soldiers, a precious grenade The radio station next door was still ticking and ticking, Du Yuming, the Chongqing Military and Political Department, the chairman of the National People's Congress personally inquired, the Allied Command, the new 22nd Division, the 96th Division, and the condolence messages from all walks of life across the country like snowflakes.
All this has no practical effect in Song Yuhang's view, the Japanese army today conquered the water tower in the north, cut off the water source of the defenders, in the hot summer, the loss of water is equivalent to the loss of vitality, food is only enough to eat for 3 days, today there have been wounded refusal to eat, asking for food to be left for the brothers who can fight.
Fortunately, the ammunition was quite sufficient, and Song Yuhang comforted himself helplessly The periphery of the position was densely packed with the abandoned corpses of the Japanese army, and in the hot summer, under the exposure of the sun, the corpses began to emit a foul smell in just two days.
Red-headed flies buzzed around the corpses, and crows took advantage of the crest to jump around the corpses, specifically pecking at the eyes of the dead.
Dozens of corpses in cyan uniforms were particularly glaring in the pile of yellow military uniforms everywhere, and two days ago, a joint British and American airdrop of supplies, because the area controlled by the defenders was too small, the only airdrop boxes that fell into the bank compound were filled with English magazines and newspapers Song Yuhang, who had already realized the shortage of food, organized 37 capable veterans to take advantage of the night to drag back the drop boxes that had fallen in the middle of the firefighting between the two sides.
The result is naturally self-evident, Song Yuhang clearly remembers the figure of the last veteran running fast against the drop box, and several grenades fired by the Type 89 grenadier exploded next to the veteran With the help of the firelight of the explosion, Song Yuhang saw hundreds of British cool hats falling in the night sky with flames Song Yuhang, who couldn't control himself, scolded the British army liaison officer on the radio: "What do you mean by giving Lao Tzu a cool hat?"
The British and American air forces were also bitter in the face of the Japanese army's absolute superiority in the zero fighter group, and the speed of the transport planes themselves was not fast, and if they were full of supplies, once they were discovered by the Japanese army, there was almost no possibility of survival.
However, the battle to defend Tonggu has attracted the attention of the whole world, and it doesn't make sense not to support it, so it can only transport some light things, and Song Yuhang, who was fighting in a bloody battle in the encirclement, obviously can't accept this kind of face-saving assistance from Britain and the United States, and sent more than a dozen telegrams in a row, scolding the British to the point that they are indecent, and also alluding to the British army stealing and selling American aid to China, and the British First Division retreating without a fight, exposing the flanks of the Chinese army, etc., a large basin of dirty water made Song Yuhang splash on the British, if Tonggu is lost, the British are the culprits.
Stilwell couldn't sit still, a small lieutenant colonel could go directly to heaven by crossing several levels, which was extremely unbelievable in Stilwell's opinion, and when he learned from Du Yuming that Song Yuhang, the actual commander of Tonggu, was a relative of Song Meiling, Stilwell showed an expression like this.
Stilwell's opinion that the Chinese army's apparatus has reached a dangerous edge, but this time it seems to be an exception, and Song Yuhang seems to be very capable, and it seems that the nickname of Peanut Rice in Chongqing has also gone away While Stilwell was secretly slandering himself, Song Yuhang, who was covered in dust and smoke, crawled in front of a destroyed bunker with a Mauser sniper rifle.
The strong rancid smell in the bunker was so strong that Song Yuhang had to wrap his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, but it didn't work, the bunker he was in had been hit by direct fire from the Japanese army three times, and most of it collapsed, and more than 30 Chinese soldiers shed blood here.
After removing a severed hand that had begun to rot and stink, Song Yuhang took advantage of the gap in the rubble of the ruins to firmly trap the crosshairs of the scope on the steel helmet of a Japanese soldier who was hiding in the ruins to observe, and he was waiting for an opportunity.
Finally, the Japanese Shaozo decided to leave, and Song Yuhang determined that the other party was an artillery observer from the large magnification telescope carried by the Japanese Shaozo and the large leather bag on his left shoulder.
When the Japanese Shaozo quickly passed through the street intersection between the two ruins, Song Yuhang, who was 300 meters away, fired decisively, and the bullet hit the crotch of the Japanese Shaozo.
Song Yuhang's guess was not correct at all, at the moment when the Chinese army Shaozuo was shot, the three Japanese soldiers grabbed out almost at the same time, and after three gunshots with an interval of two seconds, the three Japanese soldiers who refused to give up the rescue target were shot one after another and fell near Shaozuo.
After killing three Japanese soldiers, Song Yuhang pulled open the chamber with a bang, retreated the last bullet, and quickly pressed a whole row of five bullets into it, and then shifted his position.
Realizing that there were snipers, the Japanese soldiers did not attack rashly, but found a stick, stuck to the ground and stretched it out, and the Japanese soldier Shaozuo, who had a painful expression on his face, struggled sideways to grab the stick.
The little tricks of the Japanese made Song Yuhang look very ridiculous, and he now admired the Japanese thinking and creative ability more and more, probably because the stick was not long enough, and a Japanese soldier could only poke half of his body out of the ruins.
There was a dull gunshot, and the Japanese soldier Cao Ying fell down the rescued Japanese soldier Shaozo seemed to be in a hurry, covering his wounds, screaming desperately, and waving his hands Song Yuhang knew that the Japanese were about to jump off the wall in a hurry, so he put two Zhongzheng rifles with bullets next to him and prepared Sure enough, dozens of Japanese soldiers swarmed out, dozens of light and heavy machine guns, together with tank defense guns, and so on, fired aimlessly at the same time, and even the two new firepower points hidden by the Japanese army 100 meters away opened fire For a while, the barrage was like rain, and the dark fort where Song Yuhang had just hid and shot was hit by the overwhelming grenades, which shook Song Yuhang's eardrums.
But these did not affect Song Yuhang's hunting at all, after firing the four bullets in the chamber, Song Yuhang, who had no time to change the bullets, picked up the Zhongzheng rifle beside him, floated the ruler, and shot quickly.
When passing through the traffic trench, Song Yuhang found that some soldiers, under the organization of officers, had put the bodies of their comrades in the shape of shooting, and at the main gate, the remains of some sacrificed soldiers were reinforced into fortifications and bunkers as materials, forming a veritable Great Wall of flesh and blood.
Song Yuhang did not stop this behavior, he even hoped that after he died in battle, he could also be added to the fortifications, which seemed to him to be a high honor.
What Song Yuhang didn't know was that his acquiescence had become an eternal resounding even in China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression After the Japanese attack lasted for 12 hours, it stopped for one hour and again kicked off with the roar of heavy artillery, and six fully equipped Japanese infantry brigades stood by the attack position, and the two mountain artillery brigades received the death order to transport the artillery to a distance of 200 meters from the Chinese army at all costs, and destroy the hidden fire points of the Chinese army by means of direct fire. 200 meters was a nightmare distance for the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery, as they would be directly exposed to the range of the heavy machine gun fire of the Chinese defenders, at a distance that the Type 24 heavy machine guns could easily penetrate the shields of all types of anti-aircraft guns equipped by the Japanese army.
The Japanese Kiya Brigade was the first to attack, and the murderous Kiya Nao, wielding a command knife, led more than 500 infantry divided into four waves, stepping on the corpses of his companions to cover the artillery advance.
At the same time as the Kiya brigade launched the attack, as the next wave of attacks, the Hattori brigade entered the position one after another, which was an abnormal situation, which attracted the attention of Song Yuhang, and the Japanese were going to fight hard, so they ordered to put the last reserve that had been hidden in the basement, two heavy machine gun companies belonging to the mechanized cavalry regiment, into battle, and he wanted to do everything possible to give the Japanese the greatest damage
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