The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 690 End
Xia Yuan arrived at the position. With his individual combat capabilities, he was almost unstoppable in such a street battle.

As long as the enemy doesn't have too many troops, there's basically nothing you can do against him.

In the house, a pot of salty soup was being cooked with a helmet. Niu Qian sat on the ground and watched, "Company commander, you are back, come here and have a taste. It tastes good."

"Hey, people outside are asking about this scent." Xia Yuan smiled and said, "Soldier, find three empty cans and scoop some out."

"Hey."

The wind outside the house poured into the house from the broken roof, blowing the flames under the helmet and swaying.

"The rain will not stop tonight." The veteran filled some hot soup with an empty can and drank it while holding it in his hand.

"It won't stop in the past two days." Xia Yuan sipped, listening to the raindrops falling outside, soaking half of the house. The three of them hid in a relatively dry place on the other side, thinking about the little Japanese devil. Take off your clothes and spread them out to form a bed.

After dinner, I lay down on it and got ready for bed.

The second idiot ran back and said excitedly: "Company Commander, Commander Wang and the others are here!"

When Xia Yuan heard this, he sat up from the ground. Wang Yaowu, wearing a raincoat, and the leader of the [-]st Regiment came in from outside. They took off their hats and saw the remaining three people in the room. Wang Yaowu said:

"Brother Xia Yuan, thank you for your hard work. Where are the others?"

"I asked them to stay in the south. If the Japanese can't open a breakthrough from here, I guess they will open a breakthrough from the south. As long as the breakthrough from the south is opened, they can threaten this side."

"It makes sense, it makes sense." Wang Yaowu nodded and turned to the leader of the [-]st Regiment: "You are sending some people over to help brother Xia Yuan guard the Du family house."

"Yes!" The leader of the [-]st Regiment looked at Xia Yuan and said happily: "Brother Xia Yuan is really powerful. After fighting the Japanese for so long, this is the first time I have seen them defeated. In the past, the Japanese were defeated After a day, we will lose a lot of positions."

The leader of the [-]st Regiment sincerely admired Xia Yuan and the combat situation of Dujiazhai. They were in the rear and received information from the front line at all times. The Japanese army invaded Dujiazhai twice, but they were all beaten by the people in front of them. After fighting, the combat capability is obvious to all.

Now that I see them, I feel particularly impressed. A team of four has been fighting the Japanese for so long.

This is something that even their own soldiers cannot do. Not to mention four people, even forty people may not be able to get in.

The combat capability of the Japanese was very terrifying. The training of the Central Army was good enough, and the battle loss ratio still reached a terrifying eight to one.

This shows how terrifying the combat capabilities of these people are.

"Commander Wang, I need some supplies." Xia Yuan was not polite to them, "Raincoat, grenades, Czech light machine gun. Please bring more grenades, two Czech style will be enough. Bring me more machine gun ammunition."

"no problem."

Wang Yaowu patted his chest. Xia Yuan had strong combat ability. He liked such soldiers very much. Even if they sent him more supplies, he would be happy to do so.

Those who were not strong in combat capabilities still kept asking for this and that, and sending supplies to them made him feel uncomfortable.When many companies arrived on the battlefield, they just messed around, and when fighting the Japanese, they also passively resisted.

Why did the [-]st Regiment set up its headquarters very close to the front line? It was just to keep an eye on the battle ahead, wondering which company could not fight well, and still talking about it. They just wanted supplies. Naturally, they were not happy to give them supplies, but no. It's not possible to give. After all, we are fighting on the front line. No matter whether we are concentrating on fighting or not, when we get to the front line, the Japanese invaders rush over. If we don't want to fight, we have to fight with them.

Commander Wang Yaowu naturally likes soldiers like Xia Yuan very much.

The 51st Division is a division-level combat unit under the 74th Army. When the 1937th Army was first established for the Songhu Campaign in 74, the 51st Division was one of its units, with Wang Yaowu as the division commander.Although the 51st Division at that time was a unit of the Central Army, many of its soldiers were former soldiers of the Northwest Army, so they did not belong to Chiang Kai-shek's core direct lineage.

But even in the 51st Division, many of them are from the Northwest Army, and there are still some soldiers who are just trying to make up the numbers.

The leader of the 51st Regiment, whose surname is Qiu, has the same surname as the leader of the [-]st Regiment, Qiu Weida. This man is also a general. He just received military education from Germany. After returning to China, he followed the [-]st Division. When he arrived at the front line, he was naturally good at leading troops in battle, but when it came to small group operations, it did not mean that he could bridge the gap with the Japanese army through tactics.

When fighting small groups of Japanese troops, the most important thing is to look at the combat capabilities of the small groups.

There is no doubt about Xia Yuan's combat ability. Both Wang Yaowu and Qiu Weida like this kind of soldier very much.

Qiu Weida immediately said: "I will send another company of soldiers to you and give it to you to command. In addition, I will equip you with three mortars, three Czech type, and one Type [-] water-cooled heavy machine gun."

Three Czech-type and one Type-[-] water-cooled heavy machine guns surprised Xia Yuan.However, street fighting does not just require investing more troops and luxurious weapons and equipment. On the contrary, the more invested, the greater the casualties will be.

Compared with the Japanese army, in order to capture the Du Family House, they invested a large amount of troops in combat in the afternoon. Instead of taking down the Du Family House, they caused huge casualties to themselves. Xia Yuan did not make detailed statistics, but Today, the number of casualties of the Japanese troops attacking Dujiazhai has reached at least 100.

More than 100 people may seem like a small number, but this is a very terrifying number. For several infantry brigades within a division, the average number of casualties per day is between [-] and [-], sometimes even less. .

And this brigade would sometimes attack multiple positions of the national army, resulting in a total of most casualties across the board.

At present, the number of casualties in just one Du family residence has reached more than 100, and the number of casualties across the board may be even higher.It is precisely because of this that Wang Yaowu and Qiu Weida are so interested in Xia Yuan. There are many people who can lead troops to fight, but few can actually defeat the enemy, let alone lead three people to defend the position for an entire afternoon. The fight was still more difficult street fighting.

Xia Yuan shook his head and said: "Commander Qiu, you don't need that many things to fight street fighting. The main thing is grenades. The more, the better."

The Japanese also used grenades during their attack. They destroyed the Japanese army, and the number of grenades they picked up from the Japanese army was really limited.

Today we hired a Japanese infantry squad and found only five grenades, which was no longer as many as the previous hunt.

"Hand grenades are easy to talk about. I'll get you a few boxes of grenades and put them in the back for supply." Qiu Weida nodded and said, "Do I still need to add more manpower to you?" "The battle casualties in the south are not small. Let's add another platoon. ." Xia Yuan thought for a while and continued: "I estimate that the Japanese have suffered such a big loss at Dujiazhai today, and they will definitely pay it back tomorrow."

Wang Yaowu thought to himself, nodded and said: "The Japanese are too small-minded. The Du family house was blown up like this by the Japanese again. There is no need to stop the enemy here. The second line of defense is basically ready. Give up the Du family residence and move back some distance."

After the establishment of the 51st Division, Wang Yaowu had three full combat regiments and a large number of troops directly under the division, which can be said to be a strong force.

There is no need to hold on to this position, the main purpose is to block it in the rear position.

Most of the rear positions were defensive positions built against the stone walls and trenches outside the village. He even dug a large number of tunnels underground to transfer troops.

This kind of tunnel combat was proposed by Qiu Weida, and it was much more flexible than the rigid defense of the national army.In addition, the Japanese army's offensive mode is very rigid. They only need to withstand a round of Japanese artillery fire and wait for the Japanese infantry to rush up.

"It takes a lot of time to dig tunnels, but the soldiers on the front line helped us get it."

Wang Yaowu walked up to Xia Yuan and looked at him: "Now follow me to the rear to stop the Japanese army."

Wang Yaowu was a famous anti-Japanese general, especially his 51st Division. He held on to the Songhu battlefield for two months without suffering serious losses. He was the absolute leader among the troops participating in the war at that time.

The defensive strategy adopted by the 51st Division was also very advanced among the national army, which had a rigid combat model at the time.

After the Luodian battle, the Chinese army retreated and began to defend. Wang Yaowu organized his troops to improve the previous relatively rigid position defense system of the Chinese army. First, he strengthened the protection intensity of the forward positions to cope with the bombardment of Japanese naval guns.

In addition, a three-dimensional tunnel defense system was established by building communication trenches. Each position had access to each other to facilitate the transfer of troops.

Secondly, the concealment of the positions and the deployment of troops have also been relatively strengthened. Soldiers are deployed in combat teams on various forward positions, and firepower points are set up reasonably.

The equipment level of the 51st Division is already good. Such improvements can completely give the Chinese army a local advantage over the Japanese army in terms of unit firepower.

In the ensuing battle, Wang Yaowu continuously commanded his troops to attack the Japanese army at night, lured the Japanese pursuing troops to the kill zone set up in front of the Chinese army's position, and then used intensive firepower to attack the Japanese infantry.

Due to the rigid tactics of the Japanese army, the 51st Division succeeded repeatedly. Not only did it achieve fruitful results, it also made the 51st Division famous throughout the Songhu front line and participated in the subsequent defense of Jinling.

Xia Yuan also quite agreed with Wang Yaowu's method. When building the second line of defense required a lot of time, it was indeed necessary to send a small group of troops to block the Japanese army in order to gain time for the construction of the second line of defense.

Sun's house.

After a day of fighting, the new company, led by Platoon Leader Li, defended the Sun family home, but suffered heavy casualties. One of Platoon Leader Li's platoons was completely wiped out. He was disgraced, covered in blood, and drenched in heavy rain. With his clothes off, his whole body looked like it had been splashed with a layer of ink.

"Brother Xia, I'm sorry, team, I have to take care of you."

There are more than 80 people in the new company, close to 90 people. There are only a dozen people on the north side, and there are more than [-] people in the central part. On the south side, there are the most heavily defended troops, nearly two platoons. In a day's battle, the central part has Only eight people remained, and only one class remained on the south side.

"Company commander, Platoon Commander Li's entire platoon died. Don't blame him, it's the little Japanese devil who is too powerful."

"Yes, company commander, the little Japs used artillery fire to blow up all our positions. Many people died. The Japs came in. It was Platoon Commander Li and his men who took the position back."

When a group of soldiers saw Xia Yuan approaching in a hurry, they thought they wanted to punish Platoon Leader Li, and they all excused him.

They all saw whether Platoon Leader Li was serious about fighting, but the Japanese were too powerful in combat. Platoon Leader Li divided them into combat units and occupied the surrounding ruins to resist the Japanese attack. If the Japanese army wants to break in, they have to pull them out one by one, just like pulling out nails. Not only is it time-consuming, but most importantly, it consumes their vitality.

Platoon Leader Li put his platoon first, and his platoon was the first to be destroyed by the Japanese.

Then, the Japanese invaded the courtyard. It was Platoon Leader Li who led the suicide squad and fought with the Japanese with bayonets to drive them back.

Everyone agreed very much with the platoon leader of the 51st Division.

"How did you see that I wanted to punish Platoon Leader Li?" Xia Yuan felt sorry for those soldiers who sacrificed their lives. He also knew very well that fighting the Japanese in this way would inevitably lead to heavy sacrifices.

However, Xia Yuangao looked at the soldiers in the new company. He thought that as he fought several night attacks, the cooperation and combat capabilities of these soldiers would be improved. However, he was wrong. The Japanese army still spent a day. At that time, the new company was crippled, leaving only one platoon.

There were also more than a dozen wounded people. Xia Yuan found Wang Yaowu and asked him to make proper arrangements.

Wang Yaowu placed Xia Yuan's new company behind the second line of defense to rest. Xia Yuan took the new company and retreated to the second line of defense.

The second line of defense is mostly fortifications built by several villages around the town. The outer perimeter is a dwarf wall made of stones, about half a person high. There are mounds of dirt on both sides of the road. It has rained and the dirt road has become muddy. It's unbearable, so be careful when walking, it's very easy to slip. .

The surface position fortifications have basically been completed, and the underground tunnels are still being excavated. Late at night, soldiers can still be seen transporting soil. They must seize the time to build defenses.

The front position was not completely abandoned. After the new company came down, another new company came up. Xia Yuan's new company's task was to hold the last position for a day. Other companies might not be able to hold on.Secondly, Wang Yaowu also valued Xia Yuan's combat ability.

With this kind of combat ability, leading a company is the most suitable. Leading a battalion cannot bring out Xia Yuan's combat ability.

Wang Yaowu discussed the next battle plan in detail with Adjutant Sun and the Chief of Staff, which basically centered on the second line of defense to block the Japanese army. The forward position was the contact area with the Japanese army and could not be abandoned. A company must be dispatched appropriately to defend it. , at least for a half-day event.

They could not retreat without a fight, as this would easily arouse suspicion in the Japanese army.

(End of this chapter)