inspire-indiana Chapter 205: Battle of Jingbo Lake (1)
Chapter 205: Battle of Jingbo Lake (1)
The whole New Year's Eve,
The machine guns were firing almost constantly, once an hour at first, then once every half an hour.
The key is not to fire at the sky, but to really shoot at the tent. You have no choice but to pay attention to it. When the Japanese soldiers rushed out of the tent and rushed towards the place where the shooting was taking place, Yin Xinjun had already run away without a trace.
This night,
The Japanese soldiers were harassed so much that they could hardly sleep.
More than thirty people were killed or injured!
As soon as day broke, Saito couldn't wait to give the order to attack!
This time, the Japanese army first concentrated six Type 92 infantry guns and launched a fierce bombardment on the Heixiazi tribe!
The bombardment lasted for thirty minutes. The walls of the entire tribe collapsed, and the bunkers and the buildings inside almost collapsed.
Hundreds of Japanese soldiers rushed forward, howling and holding bayonets!
As they charged, they encountered no resistance until they entered the tribe.
In the ruins, bursts of counterattack gunfire were heard.
Gao Yang only had more than 80 people under his command. The reinforcements brought by Zeng Hongyu last night later took away another 20 people. After all, there is a shortage of people everywhere now.
Gao Yang, who had fought with the Japanese army for many years, knew very well that he would not gain any advantage in competing with the Japs in firepower. It would be better to let the enemy in to fight, which would offset some of the enemy's artillery advantage.
When the bombardment occurred, many soldiers hid in the cellars. They came out only after the bombardment stopped.
Moreover, they took the initiative to give up the outer defense.
After the Japanese troops came in,
Gao Yang and his men launched a fierce attack, and then used grenades. At this time, the grenade launchers and heavy machine guns behind the Japanese army could not see the target clearly and were helpless!
Because, the tribe is full of smoke,
It was almost pitch dark.
The Japanese army was confused about the actual situation and suffered dozens of casualties, so they quickly retreated.
Then, after another round of fierce artillery fire, the Japanese army launched another attack.
Machine gunner Xia Min and his assistant gunner knelt behind a broken wall. He opened a brick in the wall and made a shooting hole!
His position gave him an excellent view and he could directly see the north gate. When the Japanese army charged, Xia Min pulled the trigger and fired continuously, killing and wounding more than a dozen Japanese soldiers!
A Japanese soldier discovered his position and threw a grenade at him. In the explosion, the deputy gunner died on the spot and Xia Min's legs were hit by multiple shrapnel. When he struggled to hold the machine gun again, a Japanese soldier came behind the wall and stabbed his chest with a bayonet!
In the tribe, the two sides fought hand-to-hand, and even had many hand-to-hand fights.
Gu Yanzang's brigade was once ambushed by Yin Xinjun's artillery, resulting in more than 200 inexplicable casualties. Before going on the expedition, the brigade recruited a group of people from overseas Chinese and even Koreans to fill the vacancies.
The brutal hand-to-hand combat and the splattering blood caused the reinforcements in the Japanese army to collapse first. They began to retreat screaming, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat as well!
A series of failures,
The Japanese battalion commander, Gu Yanzang, who was in charge of the attack, judged that the enemy had a large number of troops and that their main force must be here.
The garrison's artillery is now all concentrated, a total of 8 infantry guns.
Another 10 minutes of rapid fire!
Then, the Japanese army divided into two groups and launched another attack. This time, Gu Yanzang personally rushed forward with a sword in hand!
Gao Yang's command center was in a sunken cellar on the south side of the tribe. He looked at the time and it was only 10:20 in the morning. He would definitely not be able to complete today's mission.
There were still many seriously wounded soldiers on the battlefield who had no one to take care of them. They were lying on the ground and were only given simple bandages. A grenade was stuffed in the hands of each wounded soldier!
The Japanese army launched the third attack, and Gao Yang had only a dozen soldiers who could still fight!
The area they defend is getting smaller and smaller.
During the fierce battle, a grenade fired by the Japanese army fell into the cellar. The scattered shrapnel made Gao Yang fall heavily to the ground. He endured the pain and opened his blurry eyes.
A bearded Japanese captain knocked down two soldiers in succession with a saber, jumped into the cellar, saw Gao Yang lying on the ground, and stabbed him in the chest with his knife. Gao Yang suddenly used his last bit of strength to detonate the grenade.
With a loud bang, the entire cellar was engulfed in smoke!
After the Japanese army captured the Heixiazi tribe, they stopped for a while and then began to advance deep into the territory!
If you walk more than 1 kilometer south from the Heixiazi tribe, you will come out of the Heixiazi Valley. After exiting the valley, continue walking for another meters and you will see the long and narrow Jingpo Lake in the west.
Yin Xinjun did not set up any ambush position at the entrance of Heixiazi Valley, because this time, the purpose was to lure the enemy deeper!
He lay in the woods near the mouth of the ravine, watching through binoculars the rows of enemy troops below the mountain, slowly advancing towards the town of Jingpo Lake.
He sighed in his heart. He originally wanted to use the 92 heavy machine gun to cover the retreat of Gao Yang and his group. In the end, he didn't see a single person retreating!
This is what war is like, especially the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The vast majority of Chinese soldiers would not see the day of victory, but they continued to advance, one after another, towards death!
Major Gu Yanzang did not have any joy, he still rushed to the front, his brigade had lost more than 300 people! He also counted the bodies of Chinese people at the scene, 247! But a considerable number of them should be civilians.
From the perspective of casualties, the two sides were tied at 1:1. The attacking side had the advantage to begin with, but it turned out like this!
And Gu Yanzang clearly remembered that even last year, when they were fighting against the Anti-Japanese United Army, the casualty ratio was generally 1 to 4!
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Saito ordered all troops to have lunch and take a short break!
The dry rations that the Japanese soldiers ate were two rice balls and a can of fish per person. There were a few words on the can: Fish and Yamato Cook!
As for beef Yamato canned food, since all the beef is imported from the United States, a large amount of foreign exchange must be consumed.
After the Battle of Wuhan, Japan's foreign exchange reserves began to decline sharply.
Therefore, starting from 1939, canned beef was now only supplied to the front-line field troops, and second-line troops like the Saito Garrison were not eligible to enjoy it!
After eating the dry food, the Japanese army split into two groups and continued to advance forward, one group went along the western bank of Jingpo Lake, and the other group went along the mountain forest trail in the east!
The Japanese troops in the west were led by Saito himself.
Including two battalions of Japanese troops and a cavalry regiment of the puppet army!
The first to set off were the Japanese scouts, a small team of about 20 people, skiing with ski poles, and each person was leading a wolfhound!
Such scout troops are also specially trained for winter attacks on the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces!
They move very quickly, with the wolfhounds pulling the ski poles, and the sliding speed can reach 10 kilometers per hour!
After running for about 20 minutes, the scout team saw Jingpo Lake Town which had been reduced to ruins. This was also a place that received special attention from the bombers!