For such a result, at other times, the chairman of the committee would definitely commend it as a great victory. The regiment headquarters has reported the result through the radio, and there has been no reply for the time being.

Even so, the losses for the reserve regiment were quite heavy. They lost about one-fifth of their strength in one encounter. Although the results were great, holding the enemy back for three days was not worth the gain compared to the strategic goal to be accomplished. It was only one

In about an hour, the troops suffered such heavy losses. These are all treasures and veterans of the Northeast Army.

The regiment began to maneuver backwards. It was not necessary to fight head-on to stay behind the enemy. The person supervising the team did not express any objection. Instead, they were greatly touched by the tactics of the first regiment. The troops behind the 526 regiment began to cooperate with the treatment of the wounded and

Go first and then go back.

The Japs did not enter this time.

It's past eleven o'clock.

The Japanese infantry began to gather at the entrance. The sound of engines came from behind the Japs. The Japs tanks came up. It seemed that they were preparing to use the chariots to clear the way and capture the Chinese army's position in one fell swoop.

The Japanese chariots should actually run at the front. The Japanese chariots consumed too much fuel and ammunition when they attacked Taicang. After replenishing the fuel and ammunition, the roads were so bad that they stopped and fell behind. The only blame is that the infantry fought too hard.

Quick, a tank emerged from the mouth of the pass. The number behind it was unknown. After a while, the leading tank drove towards the woods. It seemed that it wanted to make way for the tank behind it. Otherwise, it would have to line up in a long line and the attack would not be possible.

Effect. A total of twelve armored vehicles were lined up on both sides of the pass, emitting white smoke. They were all light gasoline tanks. At 11:30, the Japanese tanks began to open fire and bombard the trenches.

The usual tactics used by the Japanese army were to blend in with the advance party, clear the way with artillery, charge with infantry, outflank on both sides, and penetrate on a large scale.

However, on this terrain, the Japs had no advantage at all. The commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force, Matsui Iwane, issued a death order and must hit Nanjing as soon as possible. Therefore, the Japs Division commander was ruthless on the battlefield, preparing to clear the way with tanks and overwhelming troops.

The advantages are straight forward.

The artillery platoon of the regiment continued to fire 150mmr mortars at the entrance. Each shell exploded and exploded. Unfortunately, the damage to the Japanese tanks was limited. The Japanese were also furious and unmoved. They continued to increase troops and foolishly changed the machine.

Amidst the sound, tanks advanced from the road. Each tank was followed by a detachment of 15 Japanese soldiers, and more attacked from the woods on both sides.

There are trigger grenades left by the national army everywhere in the forest, and they start to explode. Unfortunately, it takes 3-5 seconds for the grenade to explode. At first, it can kill and injure a few people. After being bombed, the Japanese will lie down as soon as they see smoke.

Down, there was not much of a threat, and it could only delay the Japanese attack. The Japanese invested nearly a thousand people in the attack this time, and the supplementary regiment only had two or three hundred people in the forest and could not withstand such a huge expenditure, so they retreated while fighting.

No matter how good an individual soldier is in a large-scale attack, it will be of little use.

The tank reached a row of 200 meters away. The road was blown up and people could pass through. The tank got stuck on the road that had been blown into a deep pit and stopped. The tracks rotated wildly and the tank kept shaking, but it could not move forward. The second tank could not move forward.

If you dare to go to the paddy fields, tanks are prohibited from entering according to the regulations. The 92 heavy machine guns on the tanks started firing. The mortars of the reserve and supplementary regiments had nothing to do with the tanks at this time. However, the distance was too close and the tanks were located low. There was nothing they could do.

After firing the artillery shells, there was no way to fight. The Japanese tank only had one base shell, and the attack was almost done all the way. Only the machine guns and the infantry behind kept firing, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

On a row of positions, the enemy's heavy machine gun bullets kept drilling into the mud and flying overhead. They didn't dare to take the lead at all. They had to move to another place after firing. The bullets hit the tanks unexpectedly, but there was no impact at all.

The meaning. The position of 200 meters is too far from the infantry behind the tank. Hitting it depends on luck.

The infantry behind the Japs began to increase their troops, and the Japs commander was also crazy. He had arranged for the infantry to advance to the 200-meter tank position, and began to enter the paddy fields, and formed an attack from the paddy fields. This would effectively defeat the first platoon's combat.

The pressure suddenly increased.

Li Yuan led a platoon of brothers to continuously pull the rifle bolts. The average in the nearly 400-meter-wide trench was about the same. There were only about fifty people left in the company, and there was only one person nearly eight meters away with a machine gun bullet on his head.

While flying, he called the Japanese in the paddy fields one by one.

The Japs themselves are not very tall and have short legs. It is very difficult to move forward in the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River. It takes a long time to pull them out after stepping on them. The large-headed leather that the Japs wear is stained with mud and fills up with a shoe of water.

It was not an ordinary heavy one. It took more than ten minutes to pull apart the formation at a distance of 400 meters. The turtles started at a position farther back 200 meters. They also had to coordinate with the machine gun grenades.

A platoon of soldiers must change positions after almost two shots. Otherwise, they will be bitten by Japanese machine gun bullets and need to be taken care of. The reserve supplementary group has dug trenches very successfully. So far, apart from being shelled, there have been no major casualties. The Japanese have not suffered any major casualties.

The heavy machine gun fire was very enjoyable, but there was no result at all. The Japs approached a brigade, and together with a small squadron in front, more than 1,200 Japs from the reserve squadron began to join the attack sequence. Isn't this a brigade of Japs entering the paddy field?

They moved forward step by step, shooting as they advanced. Although the strength of one row was obviously insufficient, the soldiers on both sides had very high military and tactical qualities, and their marksmanship was also very accurate. Japanese soldiers continued to fall in the paddy fields, even though

In this way, the Japanese's attack speed was also very fast. The three machine guns in the second and third rows began to enter the first trench of the row. The machine guns began to spit out tongues of fire. No one was hiding their firepower. It was meaningless. This machine gun could

Unlike a rifle, the Japs can only squat in the field. If they lie down, the gun will be destroyed as soon as it gets wet. It will be like burning it into a stick, and it will become a living target. The machine gun has to change its position immediately after firing 20 rounds of bullets in a magazine. The Japs'

The grenade shot was very accurate. If you stayed in one place, you were simply looking for death. The Japanese mortars and the shells from the tank guns in the distance kept firing at the company's trenches.

News soon came from the two wings of the woods that the second and third companies could no longer hold up. The second battalion had begun to arrange troops to support them to withstand the Japanese attack. If any of the Japanese broke through the defense line, other resistance would be meaningless.

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The Japs' attack speed was not very fast, but there were so many people that they soon reached about 150 meters.

The first target of Li Yuan's bullets was the officer first, and then the sergeant. The mortars kept firing, and he had to listen to the sound to guard against the shells. Most of the Japanese grenadiers were behind the tanks, although the distance was only more than 200 meters.

Hard to hit.

The machine guns in the first, second and third rows spurted out tongues of flame, constantly attacking the bodies of the Japanese. Soon there were more than three to four hundred corpses of the Japanese fallen in the paddy field. But soon the offensive line had advanced to 100 meters.

Left and right. Even if one is equal to ten at this position, the pressure in the row is still quite high.

The Japanese were so fierce that they did not issue a retreat order despite such heavy casualties. The Japanese in the paddy field kept rushing forward. Nearly 800 people quickly rushed to a row of positions about 50 meters away. There were dozens of people in the first row and the second row.

, this time there was no advantage in the exchange of fire, because the number of people was too small. When the order from the company headquarters arrived, they all retreated to the second trench. Li Yuan's platoon retreated to the second trench while fighting, and the second and third platoons also retreated.

When I came back, I counted the number of people and found that there were eight brothers in a row who had died for the country. They were basically all blown up by Japanese tank guns and grenades, and there were sixteen more people.

Finally, they almost entered a position of about 30 meters, and the Japanese began to throw grenades. Although they suffered huge casualties every step forward, the warriors of the empire still beat back the Chinese from the front. However, the terrain was too unfavorable, even in the paddy fields.

It was very difficult to pull out one of his legs and take another step forward, but the Japanese's willpower was indeed very high. He took off the grenade from his chest, hit it on the head, and started throwing it into the trench in front.

Importantly, after finally getting close, we had to kill those Chinese soldiers no matter what. Some of them even lay down in the paddy field and faced forward.

In the second trench of the Second World War, Li Yuan listened to the explosion of grenades thrown by the Japanese from the first row of trenches. The Japanese also became furious and had a tendency to throw all the grenades on them into the trench. 123

The platoon's machine gun began to roll call the Japs in the paddy fields who had thrown away all their grenades. There was no need to aim at all. At such a close range, the Japs' cannons had already extended, and the two sides were almost entangled. If they continued to fight, they would have to hit their own people. The Japs still didn't hit.

That cruelty, after all, both sides are about to break through, and the front is close to attacking the Chinese position.

At this time, reinforcements from the fraternal troops of the 526th Regiment came up. They were bombed and chased by the Japanese along the way. Now in this situation of beating a drowned dog, the Chinese soldiers who had replenished their ammunition still did not spread their revengeful anger towards the paddy fields.

Hundreds of people shot at the sworn short-legged pigs that were struggling to advance. The Japs in the paddy fields howled, and a large piece fell immediately. The paddy fields that were divided into small pieces were dyed red, a sea of ​​blood. The Japs

A large group of Japanese troops have been thrown into the front, and now most of them have been killed and wounded, and not a single Japanese soldier can hold out to the Chinese position.

It's a pity that the 2nd and 3rd Battalions in the woods on both sides can no longer stop them, otherwise the front and rear trenches could have killed and wounded hundreds more Japs.

The Japanese continued to attack and advance from the woods. The personnel on both sides were very dense. According to the battlefield conditions, the tank troops had no way to provide support. Even so, the heroes could not fight against the large number of people, and the reserve regiment's small strength could not stop them at all, and

After retreating from the battle, Li Yuan touched the bullet bag and found that all 200 rounds of rifle bullets had been fired. Only now did he feel the recoil of the rifle impacting his numb shoulders, as if they no longer belonged to him, and his whole body ached.

The regiment headquarters issued an order to retreat from the woods on both sides to the next pass to the west. The bodies of the fallen comrades were gathered in the trenches in the woods at the rear, and they were simply buried. Marks were made on the trees. A row of officers and soldiers
Chapter completed!