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Chapter 855: The big knife cuts off the heads of the Japanese (Part 2)

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    Reconnaissance revealed that most of the Japanese army was stationed in Huichun County. There was a cavalry regiment (the Japanese cavalry regiment numbered 452 people) and an infantry brigade in the north of the city, and there was an artillery brigade on the river bank in the south of the city.  The main force is stationed in the county town.  To this end, the People¡¯s Army has made the following deployments:

    With the starting point of destroying the enemy's cavalry units and heavy artillery units, the Broadsword Team was organized into Dong Shengtang Regiment and Wang Changhai Regiment respectively, and acted as planned.  Zhao Dengyu led the remaining regiment to respond. He was determined to take advantage of the Japanese army's inability to fight at night and attack at night!

    That night, before the big sword team set off, Zhao Dengyu personally saw off the 500 warriors.  Facing these fearless warriors, Zhao Dengyu was very moved.  Years of combat experience told him that not many of these 500 warriors would come back alive.

    Five hundred warriors passed by Zhao Dengyu one by one. Suddenly, a squad leader named Hou Wanshan knelt down in front of Zhao Dengyu, with tears streaming down his face.

    Damn it!  There is such a person?  Zhao Dengyu said sternly to the squad leader: "Why are you crying and kneeling? Are you a Chinese soldier or a man from the northwest? If you are afraid of death, just find someone else!"

    With tears in his eyes, Hou Wanshan said to Zhao Dengyu: "Commander, I am not afraid of death. We will not be ambiguous in fighting the Japanese. But my wife is about to give birth. If I die for the country this time, I beg the commander for his sympathy. I  I¡¯ll die with peace of mind!¡±

    After hearing this, Zhao Dengyu was moved and said to Hou Wanshan: "You can go with peace of mind. Your son is my son. The country and the 100th Division will never forget you."

    Then he said to the 500 warriors: "Brothers, go first, we will definitely take good care of your families!" Then he solemnly saluted the 500 warriors with a military salute.  Hou Wanshan had already stood up, returned a military salute to Zhao Dengyu and the others, and rushed to the front line without looking back.

    That night, the sky was bright and bright, which was a good opportunity for night fighting.  There is a Japanese cavalry unit camping here, the streets are full of horses, and the Japanese soldiers are sleeping soundly.

    The broadsword team quickly eliminated the Japanese sentries, brandished their broadswords, and rushed into the Japanese barracks.  First they threw a burst of hand grenades, and then took advantage of the chaos of the Japanese army to kill them with a machete. The Japanese army was caught off guard, and many people fell victim to the sword in a daze.  The Broadsword Team took advantage of the chaos to set fire again. Seeing the light of the fire, other Japanese troops came to reinforce them.

    However, at night, the Japanese heavy artillery was ineffective.  Although Japanese soldiers received assassination training from the time they joined the army, they could not take any advantage in front of the heroic broadsword team of the 100th Division.

    While Dong Shengtang's regiment was fighting a fierce battle with a large number of Japanese troops, Wang Changhai's regiment also rushed to the enemy's artillery position in the south of the city.  The Broadsword Team once again showed its prowess, seizing the enemy's position in one fell swoop, killing more than a hundred sleeping Japanese artillerymen, and capturing a large amount of artillery and ammunition.

    The attack by the two troops surprised the Japanese army. They quickly mobilized a large number of troops to counterattack, but they were mixed in the Japanese army circle and the Japanese army's light and heavy weapons were unable to fire.

    The Blade Team, which was at a numerical disadvantage, was not afraid and continued to fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army.  Subsequently, the Broadsword Team burned the Japanese army's supplies of food and grass, blew up the captured artillery and armored vehicles, and withdrew from the battlefield under the cover of follow-up troops.  The Japanese army suffered about 500 casualties, and the People's Army, led by the Broadsword Team, suffered 200 casualties (killed in action). Huichun won a complete victory in its first battle.

    In this campaign, Hou Wanshan was awarded second-class merit for his bravery in combat, was promoted to platoon leader and joined the party at the front line.

    Since its establishment, the Kwantung Army has never had a formal contest with the Fengjun or the People's Army. What they face every day are Chinese armed police, and the Chinese police will never find trouble with them first. Such a habit  Once it becomes a tradition, it can be deadly in times of war.

    Even though they invaded Huichun this time, they still took off their clothes to sleep at night, their security was lax, and they were extremely arrogant.

    This battle set a precedent for the broadsword team to attack the Japanese army at night, and dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.  After this attack, everyone in the Japanese army slept with their clothes on, and some even wore helmets at night to prevent being beheaded.

    ??Chinese heroes often say that if you die, your ears will die, "If your head falls off, it will only have a scar as big as a bowl."  The Japanese soldiers of this era were still very effective in combat. They were all deeply inspired by the spirit of Bushido. They were not afraid of death at all, but why were they afraid of beheading?  Could it be that beheading would be more painful than being shot to death?

    In fact, the Japanese are afraid of beheading, because it is said that the soul cannot return to their Yasukuni Shrine!

    This news from the political departments at all levels of the army made the People's Army participating in the war particularly excited. After hearing about the method of the Broadsword Team, other troops requested to add a Broadsword Team to their own army in order to facilitate the cutting down of Japan.  The head of a soldier cannot be reincarnated even if he dies!

    In fact, for fighting, isn¡¯t it faster and better to use guns and cannons?  This shows how much the Chinese army hates the Japanese!

    If the Japanese army knew that they lovedHow would you feel if Zhenbao¡¯s head turned out to be a morale-boosting weapon for the People¡¯s Army?

    Since all the Japanese scouts on the periphery were wiped out, the Japanese commander Colonel Oda could not effectively judge the situation of the People's Army. However, judging from the process of the night attack, the firepower of the "China Army" on the opposite side was not strong, and the people of Northeast China remained silent all night.  He believed that the sound of 75mm cannons often heard by the military was a sneak attack by local security forces under the Heilongjiang Military Region of China.

    It was such a misjudgment that caused irreparable destruction to his troops.

    In order to restore the dignity of the Japanese Locust Army and to relieve himself of his failure, early the next morning, he ordered a reconnaissance advance to the Mijiang River north of Huichun.  However, the forwards failed to go too far, and the intensive gunfire slowed down the Japanese soldiers.

    This is a temporary fortification that was urgently built by the people of the Third Regiment of the 100th Division in one day after the Broadsword Team delayed the Japanese movement.  Although the firepower is not fierce enough, against the Japanese army, which also does not carry heavy firepower, it is still a battle advantage to wait for work and defend against attack.

    One of the reasons why the Japanese army did not bring heavy firepower was that the water network here was dense and transportation was inconvenient; another reason was that they underestimated the enemy - they did not expect that Chinese soldiers would dare to attack them, and they did not expect that they would encounter hard problems.

    At night, the Broadsword team attacked again and gained again.

    The broadsword team of the 100th Division gave the Japanese army a headache. For this reason, they used every trick to equip each soldier with an iron bib.

    During the second battle at Mengziling, the Chinese army was surprised to find that all the Japanese soldiers were wearing iron scarves!  However, the thick iron scarf greatly weakened the Japanese's combat flexibility, and the casualties were even more severe.

    The Japanese generals repeatedly lamented that this battle had destroyed "the reputation of the Locust Army."  After the Japanese army returned to Huichun, when commemorating the fallen soldiers, they declared that this was an "unprecedented humiliation" since the Japanese army invaded China.

    A Japanese newspaper commented: "Since Emperor Meiji established his army, the reputation of the Locust Army has been completely lost outside Huichun City, and it has suffered an insult unprecedented in fifty years."

    One of the consequences of this battle was that the Imperial Order faction that later came to power abandoned the flashy Western-style command swords in 1934, and officers all switched to Japanese-style sabers to cope with the situation.  As a result, the magnetic saber caused many aircraft compasses to malfunction, causing many things to happen. This is a story later.

    The reputation of the broadsword is the result of General Zhao Dengyu leading his troops to cut down the Japanese invaders with sword after sword and bloody swords!  After this battle, the heroic deeds of the Broadsword Division spread throughout the motherland, which greatly inspired the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of soldiers and civilians across the country. Ms. He Xiangning wrote several poems in succession to praise the achievements of the 100th Division, including "Ode to the Broadsword", saying:

    "Great skill is like clumsiness with a broadsword,

    The great new is as good as the old.

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    The enemy should not flee within ten steps.  "

    After Zhang Hanqing learned about the deeds of the Broadsword Team, he blurted out: "Long live the 100th Division!" This voice later made the reputation of the 100th Division "Long Live the Division" spread throughout the country.

    Zhang Hanqing, who was famous for his "frequent" famous poems in the poetry circles of the Republic of China, was not to be outdone, and composed a piece of music "improvised", which immediately became popular and spread all over the country. It has become another national anthem passed down through the ages.  The revolutionary song "March of the Broadsword":

    "The broadsword cuts off the heads of the devils. Brothers, fully armed, the day of the war of resistance has come, the day of the war of resistance has come!

    ¡°There are the People¡¯s Army of the Northeast in front, and the people of the whole country behind us. Our People¡¯s Army is not alone.

    ??Look at the enemy and destroy it!  Destroy it!  Go!  Slash the Japs on their heads with the big knife, kill them!  "

    This is the "March of the Broadsword", and its subtitle is - Dedicated to the Broadsword Team of the 100th Division.

    Thanks to the efforts of the 100th Division Broadsword Team, the main force of the 34th Army gained the opportunity to encircle the Japanese army.  After two unsuccessful charges, Colonel Oda was sensitively aware that the People's Army on the opposite side was far from being as simple as the local security forces. The entire battle was a planned and purposeful attempt to hold back his lone army.

    However, it was too late when he realized that the isolated Japanese army had been surrounded by the 34th Army on three sides. On the other side of the Tumen River, the south bank of the river was already densely covered with dark gun barrels¡ª¡ªHe knew that from then on  The possibility of withdrawing to North Korea on the river is almost zero - the artillery regiment of the 88th Division of the 30th Army has already succeeded in the west water of northeastern North Korea and succeeded in a roundabout way, and its retreat has been cut off.

    What followed was a completely one-sided battle. The record in Japan¡¯s postwar research on this battle is: ¡°The Japanese soldiers tenaciously withstood the Chinese side¡¯s 10 times their own manpower advantage and fierce artillery fire. Sometimes even a small hilltop turned back.  Repeatedly attacked by artillery shells dozens of times the number of our own troops. At the end of the battle, Colonel Oda resolutely committed suicide by caesarean section to show his last loyalty to the emperor. He was accompanied by dozens of physically disabled and strong-minded people.  A mid-level and junior officer.¡±

    Although the article tried its best to beautify the posthumous words, the defeat of the Japanese army is a certainty.

    In any case, the Zhanggufeng battle left the Japanese army with shock: according to post-war statistics, except for a few Japanese soldiers who crossed Zhanggufeng and fled to the Soviet Union's Poshet grassland, the Japanese and Korean troops  A total of 3,418 elite troops were almost wiped out!

    With absolute superiority, the People's Army threw the Japanese arrogance into the Tumen River.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)Although the article tried its best to beautify the posthumous words, the defeat of the Japanese army is a certainty.

    In any case, the Zhanggufeng battle left the Japanese army with shock: according to post-war statistics, except for a few Japanese soldiers who crossed Zhanggufeng and fled to the Soviet Union's Poshet grassland, the Japanese and Korean troops  A total of 3,418 elite troops were almost wiped out!

    With absolute superiority, the People's Army threw the Japanese arrogance into the Tumen River.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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