Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 709

Chapter 709 The light that breaks the ice

Tang Dao is sensible enough, and the independent battalion's withdrawal speed is also very fast.

The whole army retreated for less than an hour, and everyone was still in the mountains and forests. Hammer turned his head to the east vigilantly, and let out a low roar.

Within a minute, more than twenty small black dots appeared in the sky.

The Japanese Navy dispatched up to two squadrons of fighter planes to participate in the battle as soon as the dense fog subsided. Thanks to the precise location provided by the reconnaissance aircraft, nearly five tons of bombs were dropped by more than twenty fighter planes on the deserted Qinglongling Village. On that lonely ridge.

In front of the infantry artillery and mountain artillery, the rock-solid stone walls and the stone houses in the village were instantly wiped out in front of the 500-pound aerial bomb.

On the mountain ridge, I watched my home being destroyed by the eggs laid by the "big iron bird" that kept hovering in the sky. Even when the Japanese army was sieging the siege, I held the stone that my trembling little girl did not shed tears. The tears finally shed. Come down.

That was his home, where he was born and raised. His parents were there, and now they are gone.

"Don't worry, Xiao Shitou, you will go home. One day, you will come back." Leng Feng, who was helping Shi Shitou carry his little sister, had a look of pity on his face, and his rough palms gently stroked Shitou's little head.

“Uncle Leng, is it true? Can we still go home?” Shi Shi looked up at Leng Feng with tears in his eyes.

"Well! I promise you in the name of a soldier. You, grandpa, and sister will all go home." Leng Feng knelt down, looked at the brave little sheepherder with gentle eyes, and answered firmly.

“Yeah!” Shitou wiped the tears on his face with the dirty corners of his sleeves and nodded fiercely.

“Good boy!” Looking at the stubborn but strong stone, the cold edge was like a knife cutting an axe, and a smile broke out on his stern face.

The smile is so bright and warm.

If the old comrades from the Sixing Battalion were here, they would definitely be shocked.

Leng Feng was originally a person with a dull personality. After receiving the news that his family was massacred by the Japanese army, he became even more taciturn. When his younger brother died in Sihang Warehouse, his face was like an eternal glacier. I have rarely seen a smile.

Perhaps, only when killing Japanese soldiers will his soldiers see fire dancing in their commander's eyes, revealing his personal emotions.

Normally, he is like an iceberg. Even close comrades like Li Jijin feel cold when approaching him.

This is certainly not good, especially as a commander.

Tang Dao had tried to enlighten his general. However, Leng Feng, who had lost all his relatives, had completely blocked his heart. Tang Dao could only let it be like this, and could only worry secretly in his heart.

His unforgettable hatred for the Japanese may make him the most determined warrior, but full of hatred can also become a double-edged sword, especially for a commander, who will lose his cool due to hatred at some point. Bringing him and his warriors into despair.

However, Leng Feng has always been extremely restrained. After several consecutive battles, he strictly abided by military orders. The only time he violated the orders without permission was when he took the initiative to expose himself in advance and killed a Japanese infantry squad for the sake of a six or seven-year-old Chinese. children.

However, Tang Dao, who received Leng Feng's telegram, was unpunished for the first time. Not only was the alternative position Leng Feng was looking for, Qinglongling Village, strong enough, but Leng Feng's hard heart was finally opened.

With light that can warm his heart, he is a real human being and will not become a madman who just kills.

Yes, the so-called road has no end, Tang Dao's hidden worries were completely solved by Shitou, a child. Leng Feng had regarded Shitou as his younger brother, and finally there was a ray of sunshine in his mind filled with hatred. .

The Chinese soldiers and civilians retreated for nearly an hour and were almost 2 kilometers away from the battlefield. Even if the Japanese fighter planes finished their rampage over Qinglongling Village and then dropped the extra bombs on the nearby hills in a ventive manner, they did not cause any harm to the Chinese soldiers and civilians. damage.

Perhaps the most severely damaged was the main force of the retreating Kunisaki detachment. Watching a large number of fighter planes passing by in the sky overhead, it really hurt my heart!

If they had retreated an hour later, they could have watched the Navy and Maldives fighter planes tear into pieces the Chinese who dared to surround them. How pleasant it would be!

It's a pity that they have escaped.

Mainly because I really didn't expect that the navy and land forces would work so hard this time. They were originally scheduled to take off in the afternoon, but it turned out that they arrived even before lunch.

In fact, this group of Japanese soldiers who are somewhat frustrated are still a little too idealistic. If they really stay on the position and stalemate with the Chinese, do they really think that Tang Dao is a wooden man? Just waiting to be blown up by Japanese planes?

If the Japanese army unexpectedly persists and refuses to retreat, no matter how unhappy Tang Dao is, he will have to fight the Japanese to the death.

Before all the infantry companies set off, he had ordered Master Zhuang to clear out all ammunition stocks. It seemed like a threat to be surrounded on all sides, but in fact he was also preparing for the worst-case scenario of a decisive battle with the Japanese.

If they really want to fight, Tang Dao will press their position towards the Japanese defense line before noon, shortening the distance between the two sides to a distance where Japanese fighters dare not drop bombs at will. Moreover, the two machine guns and more than a dozen heavy machine guns of the Cheng Tietsou Fire Support Company were equipped with anti-aircraft machine gun mounts. As long as the Japanese fighter planes dared to lower their bomb delivery altitude, the Fire Support Company would have no choice but to compete with them.

If they don't lower their altitude, the Japanese planes are no good. On the ground, the Chinese and Japanese armies are hundreds of meters apart. But if they drop the bombs, the error will be huge. As long as they dare to drop the bombs, they will probably fall on both sides. The odds on the battlefield are pretty much the same.

They also have to thank Kunizaki, who is still in a coma. If he hadn't ordered the withdrawal of troops after all his own thoughts, not more than a quarter of the people who could make it out of the mountainous area in southern Anhui alive.

Tang Dao was prepared for the worst-case scenario of bearing 80% of the battle losses. Including the 400 men led by Tong Yi, the strength of the Chinese army on the entire battlefield exceeded 2,500. In the case of a last-ditch battle, even if there were more than 2,000 Japanese troops, If the plane helps, nothing will happen.

Fortunately, this tragic scene did not happen because of the restraint of the commanders on both sides.

In other words, one side lost an infantry regiment, while the other side already had great success.

Tong Yi, who met Tang Dao again, held Tang Dao's hand and didn't let go for a long time.

To be honest, when he received a telegram from Tang Dao last night, telling him that most of the entire tactical plan had been successfully completed and more than 2,000 Japanese troops had been successfully annihilated, Tong Yi was as excited as a child and stayed up all night.

This battle was no longer fought by the Independent Battalion alone, but also with the participation of his 145th Division. If the news of the victory was spread back to his hometown, the faces of the elders in his hometown would be bright, and even if he, the brigade commander, died, it would not be a loss.

Yes, although there was a great victory on the battlefield in Laojinkeng, Tong Yi, who was trapped in the lonely territory, was actually ready to die in battle.

Because, the six to seven hundred of them have been completely surrounded by the Japanese army, with no escape route from the front, rear, left or right. Judging from the actual battlefield situation, there is no chance of survival.

Luring the enemy once, he really became the bait that was swallowed by the enemy.

It's a bit sad that I can't go back to my hometown, and I can't see my wife and children again, but I don't regret it!

That is a true portrayal of the brigade commander's mood that night.

He never thought that Tang Dao would send out all his troops overnight and surround the Japanese army from all sides with an attitude of fighting to the death.

As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, he knew very well that after a hard battle, the Tang Sword Division was actually at the end of its strength.

Let's not talk about how much troops were wasted, just talking about the loss of ammunition is probably unbearable. Even if the Japanese equipment was captured, the strongest weapon of the Tang Knife Department was not the rifles, but the large number of submachine guns and rifles equipped with them. The caliber of bullets required for those equipment could not be supplemented by the Japanese army's 6.5 Tomosaka small-caliber bullets.

With the loss of submachine guns and shell guns that can output a large amount of firepower, the Tang Dao Department's combat effectiveness has been reduced by at least half.

Moreover, they have to attack the defense lines that the Japanese army has established and use their own shortcomings to attack the other's strengths. That would almost mean sacrificing the lives of 2,000 Chinese soldiers in exchange for a few hundred of them.

But Tang Dao did just that, and it was miraculously successful. The hundreds of Chinese soldiers on the mountain, except for the dozens who were injured in the shelling and defensive battles yesterday afternoon, all escaped from the battlefield safely.

Although it only scared the Japanese away.

But that was enough to make the army brigade commander who took the initiative to participate in the war shed tears of gratitude.

Over there, Master Rao, who was also anxious and couldn't sleep at night, and hadn't closed his eyes for 24 hours, finally received a call back from his subordinates reporting victory.

With "Our army won a great victory, more than 2,000 Japanese troops under the command of Army Colonel Takeuchi Unzan were killed in Laojin Pit!" ' telegram, the Sichuan Army division commander looked up to the sky and smiled.

Thousands of Sichuan Army soldiers stationed in small towns in the plains waved their guns in salute to their comrades dozens of kilometers away.

They finally lived up to the trust of their fathers and fellow villagers who saw them off before leaving, and killed the Japanese invaders on their land.

That is the glory of all Sichuan troops!

(End of this chapter)

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