Chapter 0188 Verdun in the East!
"Team Commander Liu, I have taken back the position of the Second Battalion. I immediately ordered your troops to defend the position to the death and not retreat."
When the phone was connected, Dragon Boat Festival spoke with Liu Peixu in an orderly tone.
Liu Peixu was surprised and asked, "Who are you? Where is Fang Shuping?"
"I am the Dragon Boat Festival of the 88th Division Independent Regiment, and now I am the supervisory team appointed by the Chairman himself.
The Chairman ordered that without his order, no one was allowed to retreat, otherwise military law would be carried out.
Commander Liu, I hope you can understand. This is the highest order of the Chairman.”
The Dragon Boat Festival raised the door several times, which forced Liu Peixu to believe that this was really the order of the Chairman.
But in fact, there was no such order at all. The Chairman's order would be issued on November 15. But at that time, it was too late. Some Japanese troops had crossed the Wufu Line and headed straight to the Xicheng Line.
The Wufu line was guarded for eight days, and the Xicheng line only had two days. I don’t know how these people defended the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chinese army is more than twice that of the Japanese army, but they only have one word to type, which is a 'miserable'.
The reason is that some officers are greedy and afraid of death, and some officers are in order to preserve their strength.
If a line of defense is torn apart, it will force other troops to retreat.
The Battle of Songhu was a mess, and the Wu Fu line was a mess, and when it arrived at the Xicheng line, it was even more messy.
Therefore, for the 40th Division, the Dragon Boat Festival, he must not take a step back, and at least have to buy two to three days for the Xicheng Line to deploy defense.
As for blocking the Japanese on the Wufu line, Dragon Boat Festival never thought about it. Liu Peixu was not the only one who was greedy for life and feared death. He could only stabilize the northern line first. The southern line had the 88th Division, the 87th Division, etc.
These direct troops have very strong combat power, and their weapons and equipment are not worse than those of the Japanese.
So if the northern line does not retreat, the southern line will be much easier.
But at the same time, Liu Peixu still wanted to run away. He asked tentatively: "You said it was the Chairman's order, why didn't I receive it?"
"Then you can call Lao Yang from the General Office to confirm. My 88th Division Independent Regiment came from the heart of the Japanese. When I arrived at the 672nd Regiment of the 112th Division, I rested for ten days and received an order from the commissioner.
To tell you the truth, the commissioner originally planned to let me go back to Nanjing to report his life. It was because Wu Fu's line was tight that he had to order me to supervise the battle. So Commander Liu, I think you should not be lucky, otherwise I can guarantee that you will move your head if you can't get to the Xicheng line."
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Liu Peixu was speechless, but at this time, he had already believed the words of Dragon Boat Festival 100%. Because in addition to the family orders, the words of Dragon Boat Festival were all true. And it was also true to call Secretary-General Yang from the 672nd Regiment.
But the most important thing is that Liu Peixu did not dare to call Secretary-General Yang to confirm the matter. Because he was about to escape at the last minute. If the chairman knew about his career, wouldn’t he have lost his career?
"Okay, the 40th Division can hold its position, but other divisions are going to retreat. Our 40th Division is fighting alone. What's the use of this?"
Liu Peixu was still a little hesitant.
The Dragon Boat Festival said: "Then convey the orders of the Commission for me. Those who leave the position without authorization will all follow the argument of escaping in the last battle and hold the position for two days. On the fifteenth day, the Commission for the Commission will issue new orders. Do you understand?"
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Liu Peixu was speechless again because he was the teacher. Who is you, Dragon Boat Festival? How dare you yell at me like this?
But thinking about it, there is no problem. Although the other party is just a leader of the regiment, he is holding the order of the chairman. In the old saying, it is an imperial envoy, who is a senior official.
Liu Peixu could only respond obediently, and then ordered his retreating troops to regain the lost positions. He also conveyed the orders of the chairman to the army and divisions he had contact with.
Although this order is fake, at that time, no one would have time to think about whether this order is true or not? What's more, who dares to pass on the Chairman's order? That would be the same crime as falsely passing on the imperial edict.
Moreover, many people speculated that this also demonstrates that the Chairman was going to fight the Japanese invaders to the end.
So after receiving the order, all front-line troops launched an extremely fierce counterattack.
The Japanese were stunned and thought to himself: What's wrong with this Chinese? What kind of elixir and spiritual medicine did you take? How could it be so fierce?
The commander of the 6th Division, Sesouo, could only order the Japanese army on the front line to temporarily withdraw and count the damage to the war. In more than four hours of battle, three thousand Japanese troops died on the Wu Fu line.
This battle was simply too tragic, and almost both sides were filling in the lives.
The Chinese army also suffered heavy losses. In addition to the 88th Division and the 87th Division, many combat troops lost one-half of their personnel.
This unprecedented battle can definitely be called Verdun in the East. It caused tens of thousands of casualties in a single day.
As night falls, both sides are resting and preparing for tomorrow's battle.
Needless to say, the Japanese army was suffering heavy losses, and the 6th Division and the 16th Division were also damaged respectively.
The morale of the Japanese army was sluggish for a while. On the 13th day alone, more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers died and countless injured people.
Although China suffered a little greater losses, the number of casualties was about twice that of the Japanese army. However, this result was already very good. Because the Wu Fu line was at least saved. No unit on the line retreated.
This is all caused by a fake order from Dragon Boat Festival.
If there were no such fake order, the consequences would be unimaginable. Once the Japanese landed in the northern defense zone, they would not only threaten the flank security of the 40th Division, but would force all Chinese troops to retreat.
Otherwise, once the Japanese army cut off the retreat route of each army, then what awaits them either encircle and annihilate or surrender.
Yes, it is surrender. Although there are so many lessons of the past, the Japanese will not treat prisoners of war preferential treatment and will execute all prisoners of war, but there are still many troops willing to surrender.
For example, in the Battle of Nanjing, tens of thousands of soldiers surrendered. They were then put on iron wire and executed one by one, which was simply a laughing stock.
Although they had fought with the Japanese invaders and were very brave, they had to say that the moment they put down their weapons and surrendered was really stupid.
Soldiers cannot put down their weapons at any time.
Maybe you have hundreds of reasons, not because the moment you put down your weapons, you become a lamb to be slaughtered.
As Dragon Boat Festival says, are you betting on the kindness of your enemies?
This is another joke. If your enemies are kind, there will be no war.
When the war begins, only the genius knows how many people will die.
Kindness? Don't joke. I know that many people will die, but I still have to start a war. Are you going to be on the side of Kindness?
Chapter completed!