The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 81 The Japanese Replace Generals
...New soldiers are afraid of artillery and old soldiers are afraid of machine guns. This is a saying that has been circulating on the Internet for a long time.

At first glance, it sounds like the veterans have some secret recipe for dodging artillery fire on the battlefield; it's simply that the anti-artillery holes were built more solidly, knowing that they couldn't run around when the Japanese were firing artillery.

If there is a big difference, it is that they will not throw away their weapons even under the heaviest fire.

If the anti-gun hole is blown down by artillery fire, blame your bad luck; if you can survive, then continue fighting with your weapons.

Otherwise? Few of them are literate and can't express any profound principles.

I don’t know how much our annual steel production is, and how many times more than ours the Japanese’s steel production is. What does this gap represent?
The truth they knew was quite simple and plain: if someone came to their house to attack them, they would smash his head even if it meant risking their lives...

...Excerpt from Hu Biao's diary collection "Hu Shuo"...

I don’t know if the Japanese had some problems with ammunition supply after several days of heavy bombing on the defenders on the Yunzaobang front line.

Relatively speaking, this time their artillery fire lasted for a shorter time, only 10 minutes.

But this does not mean that the people on the Dunwu Temple position can relax any more; on the contrary, with the addition of huge cannons of unknown caliber, the situation has become increasingly difficult and worse.

When Uncle Bo, holding a Type 38 rifle, struggled out of the loose soil like a groundhog.

They were horrified to discover that the position they had built last night had almost completely disappeared; along with it, Hu Biao and his companions, as well as a company of defenders, had also disappeared.

As far as the eye can see, all you can see are horrible huge pits and flying dust.

It seemed that after a bombardment, he was the only one left in this position, or even in this world.

Amidst the overwhelming loneliness and fear that suddenly surged, this middle-aged man, who was almost forty years old, couldn't help but break down, and he cried out in tears:
"Dead idiot, consumptive, Iron Man, Big Fool, Death Star, and fellow Sichuan Army soldiers from the 793rd Regiment, where are you? Are any of you still alive? If you are, please reply quickly."

After shouting several times in a row, just when Uncle Bo was almost in despair.

Suddenly, a head popped out from the soil, followed by more figures. One by one, figures emerged from the loose soil that had been blown into extremely soft soil, like bamboo shoots after a rain.

At this moment, they were covered in dust and their faces could not be seen at all.

Fortunately, after fighting side by side in life and death, Uncle Bo has become very familiar with other time travelers.

Therefore, it can be seen that the first guy who appeared and was spitting out mud and sand was Hu Biao, who they now called "Dead Stupid".

The guy who coughs like a tractor, just by listening to the characteristic rhythm, you can tell that he is a "consumptive" AT.

In addition to these two people, more than a dozen other soldiers crawled out from the central position.

This means that under the bombardment of the Japanese army's huge artillery of unknown caliber, there were 137 people in the position when they had breakfast, but now only 19 people survived.

Others are not dead yet, but they will die soon.

Given the cunningness of the Japs, they would certainly not miss such an opportunity. In the smoke and dust that had not yet completely settled, a large number of figures charging could be seen in the distance.

Therefore, we can only ignore the possibility that if we dig in the mud quickly, we might be able to rescue many brothers before they suffocate to death.

He bit his lips tightly, holding the weapons that he had held tightly in his hands even when they were buried before.

Lying in the craters that still carried the residual heat of the artillery shells, Hu Biao shouted "Fire" and started fighting again.

The following battle can be said to be one of the most dangerous in recent days.

If Captain Cai had not urgently sent a company of reinforcements, the position would have been almost taken down by the Japanese.

It was also from this attack that the artillery fire they had to withstand was of this kind of astonishing caliber, a terrifying firepower that no fortifications could withstand except by luck.

What to do? Try every possible means to continue to hold on. Hu Biao and his companions, their eyes red with anger, only had one thought in their minds:
Apart from stepping on their corpses or the body parts that were blown to pieces, they must never be allowed to set foot on the Enlightenment Temple position.

In the following time, they left one squad to guard the position, and the other personnel were scattered about a hundred meters behind.

When they saw the Japanese advancing to 793 meters in front of their position and it was impossible for them to be feinting, they rushed to the position as fast as possible and engaged the Japanese in close combat. Did this method work? It worked, but the brothers of the rd Regiment suffered casualties at an alarming rate.

By around 3:25 p.m., Captain Cai had already sent his last reserve personnel to support; in a hurry, he had to send a signal flare to ask for help from the rear.

Fortunately, the top leaders of the National Army also realized that the Dunwu Temple position was a place that absolutely could not be lost, and the 794th Regiment of the Sichuan Army urgently sent a battalion to support the Dunwu Temple.

Unfortunately, half of the battalion was killed by Japanese planes on the way.

Thanks to the remaining half of the battalion reinforcements, Hu Biao and his men held out until dark.

So that night, Zhu Cong and a group of friends in the press, as well as a larger number of foreigners, saw Liu Xihan, commander of the 399th Brigade of the Sichuan Army, leading a reinforced regiment to replace the guard at Dunwu Temple at night.

Only 793 remnants of the 107rd Regiment who had held out during the day retreated, and Hu Biao and his colleagues were still missing among them.

They were extremely shocked and looked at each other, unable to speak.

At the same time, Colonel Kanenosuke Shimoeda of the Ninth Division of the Japanese army sat down on a small stool in a daze, as if all his bones had been pulled out.

Even with increased manpower and even the use of 305mm cannons today, we still failed to capture the Dunwu Temple.

So just now, he received the latest order that the 29th Infantry Brigade of the rd Division would take over the attack on the Dunwu Temple.

As for him, he will return to the island country and transfer to the reserve force.

According to the island nation's conventions, this is the greatest insult to a soldier, and it also means that Shimoeda Kinnosuke will be on the bench from now on, basically until retirement.

What he didn't know was that the Japanese Major General Riichiro Katayama who replaced him also took a deep breath after receiving the order.

If possible, he would rather fight against the German-equipped division of the National Army than against the Sichuan Army of Dunwu Temple.

Of course, this wasn't to say that the Nationalist Army's German-equipped divisions weren't brave enough, but rather that the opponents at the Dunwu Temple had too many unfamiliar and insane tactics...

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On the 17th, the Japanese still launched an attack on the Yunzaobang defense line, and the Dunwu Temple position was the focus of the battle between the two sides.

The intensity of the battle was even more intense than on the 16th.

At this point, this place has the attributes of a strategic point.

Under the propaganda of many domestic and even foreign newspapers and radios, this place has another attribute: it is a flag, representing that China will never surrender and will fight to the death in the face of the Japanese planes and artillery.

In order to pull out this flag, the Japanese added a new trick to the various methods they had already used: incendiary bombs.

The so-called incendiary bombs are actually incendiary bombs.

This thing is not an equipment and tactic first invented by Uncle Sam's soldiers.

It's just that they used it most fiercely and cruelly during World War II, and were the most famous; the Japanese had used incendiary bombs as early as the Luodian battlefield, causing considerable damage to the national army.

It's nothing more than the incendiary bombs currently used by the Japanese, which are smaller in power and not as terrifying in quantity.

But even so, the scene of stones, soil, and flesh burning on the battlefield still caused terrible casualties to the brothers on the battlefield.

But even so, no matter how many artillery shells, incendiary bombs, and poison gas bombs the Japanese dropped on the Dunwu Temple position.

Every time they launched an attack, there were creatures that did not look like humans and would always pull the trigger at them.

Throughout the day, the Japanese launched a total of 9 attacks, but they were defeated every time.

Because of the hasty retreat, many bodies were not taken away in time; most of these bodies were torn to pieces in the bombing, and after a long time they emitted a huge stench.

When the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, Hu Biao and the others all hated why humans had an organ like a nose...

(End of this chapter)