Chapter 283: Breakthrough
For this breakthrough battle, because of the chaotic entry of their three battalions, they attracted part of the attention of the devils, making the deployment of the devils' forces tilted in their direction.
This also makes the devil's strength in other directions appear to be much weaker, the division headquarters logistics personnel broke through the force in several ways, their side of the devil's strength due to their three battalions, the largest number of troops deployed, which led to the breakthrough of the troops from their southern line was very poor, blocked by the devils, and the other directions in the desperate cover of the guard troops of the various departments, finally broke out.
Zhang Yunfei took his three battalions and broke through to the place where the logistics personnel of the division headquarters were located.
However, for the current battle, with the death of fighters and the consumption of ammunition, they are losing more and more personnel, and the combat effectiveness of the troops is continuing to weaken, in order to ensure the continuous combat capability of the team, the supply of ammunition is guaranteed.
Sometimes they had to brave the rain of bullets on the battlefield to collect the ammunition of the devils, and many brave soldiers paid with their lives and blood.
The most effective way for them to break through the siege is to attack with powerful firepower, and this aspect is precisely what the Eighth Route Army lacks the most, always maintaining the combat style of firepower intensity, and their three battalions will soon join the breakthrough troops of the guard regiment of the division headquarters.
Their force of personnel, coupled with a large number of non-combatants, immediately attracted the attention of most of the devil's forces, except for a part of the devil's forces to pursue and intercept the troops that had broken through.
Now their division of the army has become the biggest target of the devils, but with the addition of the soldiers of the division headquarters guard regiment, they are no longer exposed to the enemy, and on the local battlefield, they have gained an advantage for the first time, repelling the attack of Lierao, and the devils temporarily retreated.
Joining up with the people of the guard regiment of the division headquarters, Zhang Yunfei immediately ordered the soldiers to immediately clean up the battlefield and collect as much ammunition as possible on the corpses of the devils, and the next battle was even more brutal.
"Brother, which part of you are from? I am Zheng Daming, the company commander of the Fifth Company of the Guard Regiment," the commander of the Guard Regiment looked at Zhang Yunfei and the others gratefully.
At this time, his face was very ugly, now the situation was critical, and he was still leading a large number of slow non-combatants, the longer the time dragged on, the slimmer their hope of breaking through, and the devil's forces would only accumulate more and more.
"I am Zhang Yunfei, the commander of the third battalion of the new 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade"
Zhang Yunfei answered his inquiry, did not greet him politely, directly took out the map, marked a route on the map and said: "There is not much time left for us, the devils are retreating now, they are just readjusting the formation and formation, I estimate that they will immediately re-launch the attack, and it will be easy to plug the gap in defense when the time comes." ”
"You are not safe here, you immediately take your personnel to transfer, take advantage of the enemy's strength at this time has not been adjusted in place, from this route to protrude, relative to this route should be relatively safe, on this route, in addition to the current devils, there are no other large Japanese puppet troops."
"After you rush out, move in the southeast direction, we will stay to cover you, and collect your stragglers, as well as the machinery and equipment you brought will be lost, with these bulky equipment, you can't quickly get rid of the pursuit of the devils."
Looking at the route marked by Zhang Yunfei on the map, Zheng Daming said: "Battalion Commander Zhang, I will hand over these personnel who have stood out with me to you, you take them to evacuate immediately, and I will take my troops to cover your evacuation." ”
"Company Commander Zheng, it is your duty to protect them, and the order I received from the division headquarters is only to assist you in breaking through and carrying out the order."
"Yes!" Zheng Daming solemnly saluted Zhang Yunfei.
Now the surrounding devil troops are encircling and reinforcing the cluster, and everyone understands that the longer they stay in the cluster, the greater the danger, and the slimmer the chance of being able to stand out.
At the moment, Zhang Yunfei stayed behind to continue to collect the separated people, and he had to lead them through the devil's line of fire, how could it be so easy to rush out.
Zhang Yunfei and the company commander Zheng parted ways and continued to march with the team towards the core.
Now the situation is critical, no one needs to be too hypocritical, everyone is in the encirclement of devils, who can stand out and see all fate.
Zhang Yunfei concentrated all the machine-gun firepower and took advantage of the fact that the main force of the devils did not rush up, looking for some logistics personnel who were separated under the pursuit and interception of the devils.
Facing the devil who is biting to the death, Zhang Yunfei's troops are like greedy snakes, becoming more and more bloated, although the people of this era, especially the Eighth Route Army, do not have a really delicate existence, but most of their physical fitness is still not comparable with the combatants.
As for those devils with strong physical fitness, the difference is even farther, and the fighters with real physical fitness and combat experience have long since rushed out with the large army.
The rest of these personnel, except for some organizational leaders, these stragglers, their physical fitness can be imagined.
The more people they gathered, the slower their force became, they had a limited number of troops, and they had only a limited number of people who could gather and protect, and after gathering hundreds of people, they reached their limit.
The entire force could no longer move, and was trapped on a ridge.
Zhang Yunfei had to deploy the defense of his troops to stop the force that was making a tentative attack on the mountain, and when he turned back to the rest place of the non-combatants, he found a familiar and pretty figure.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Yunfei looked at her in amazement and said.
"Why can't I be here, it's been a long time." Zhao Min sat on the stone and greeted him panting.
At this time, because of her uneven breath, her face was flushed, and her hairstyle was a little scattered, which was more rigorous than her usual, but there was a different style.
"I didn't mean that, I was you, you weren't supposed to be in the brigade, why did you appear here."
"You, didn't I listen to your opinion, didn't you come to the division headquarters, I didn't think about it, I encountered this kind of thing." Zhao Min gave him a blank look and said.
Zhang Yunfei: "......"
conscience, when did I give her such an opinion?
"I don't remember, the letter you wrote me." Zhao Min reminded.
"But I didn't ask you to come to the division headquarters in my letter." Zhang Yunfei said a little abruptly.
I used to accompany her for the New Year, which is a bit of a friendship, so when she returned to the army, she once sent a letter to herself.
In the previous stage, he happened to ambush the devil's convoy, seized some medical equipment and medicines, and sent her a letter back by the way when he sent it to the brigade headquarters.
But he only had some daily life in the letter, and he remembered clearly that he didn't give her any advice.
Of course, now is not the time to care about these, let alone chat, just a cursory chat with her.
He turned around and walked to the side to watch the lively Huzi Tiedan, took out the Browning pistol from Huzi's satchel, examined it carefully, and then handed it to her.
"Why, I'm going to fight too?" Zhao Min took the pistol and asked.
"No, it's just for you to defend yourself." Zhang Yunfei hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "You can also give yourself a shot at the critical moment, I don't think you want to be a prisoner of the devil." ”
Zhao Min: "......"
This style of painting changed too quickly, and it was just a little moved and suddenly disappeared.
Now that the situation is critical, Zhang Yunfei has no time to catch up with the stunned Dr. Zhao, and he no longer pays attention to Zhao Min, who is sitting there.
"Huzi, when you break through, you can help me watch more and help me protect Doctor Zhao." At this time, Zhang Yunfei naturally didn't care about Zhao Min, but he casually ordered Hu Zidao.
"Brother, don't worry, I will definitely protect my sister-in-law." Huzi solemnly agreed.
"What the hell, what sister-in-law? Don't mess with me, it's Dr. Zhao. Zhang Yunfei corrected.
After the unremitting spread of the iron egg, now that he admires Dr. Zhao, everyone knows it, and he can't explain it clearly, so he is too lazy to explain.
At present, their army is trapped, and it is very difficult to break out of the encirclement.
Their team is simply old, weak, sick and disabled, and the most troublesome thing for Zhang Yunfei is that the source of personnel is also very scattered, and they are originally scattered personnel, so this team basically includes the personnel of all the non-combat departments of the logistics force.
But there are not many combatants, and those who have combat personnel have already gone to the front line, and now Zhang Yunfei is one head and two big, so naturally he has no time to talk about love, ahh
Looking at the actual situation of the Rao that he had gathered, Zhang Yunfei had an urge to cry, the Eighth Route Army itself lacked guns and ammunition, so these logistics personnel.
The vast majority of them were unarmed, except for a few people, who came from other troops, a few grenades, grenades and other weapons ready for suicide.
Others, few with weapons in their hands, only a dozen pistols, and a dozen rifles with few rounds.
Moreover, most of these Rao weapons are ornaments, they are logistics personnel and local cadres, and there are few opportunities to use guns, so it is good to learn to shoot guns, and it is really a joke to expect them to kill the enemy.
Just such a few weapons, in terms of increasing combat effectiveness, are basically equal to zero, and there is no help in any way.
Looking in all directions, it has been closed by the swarming of devils, and the devils are moving fast.
Zhang Yunfei felt very helpless, with this group of hundreds of non-combatants, it was not very difficult to pass through the devil's firepower blockade, but he couldn't abandon them.
But with them, it is estimated that no more than one-third of them will survive, and if they are unlucky, it is not impossible that the whole army will be wiped out.
Now in the current situation, everything is not in their favor, and the only good news is that it is already dusk.
It's still spring, it's not too late to go dark, and if you break through after it's dark, maybe you'll lose less.
However, there were also some disadvantages, they hurried day and night, followed by the devil's troops to come here and immediately entered the battle.
After all, people are not machines, and after a long battle march, they are already sleepy and tired.
Their forces are already limited, they are at an absolute disadvantage, and they are not in the best state, so it is not so easy to break through the battle.
Now they can only gather a few hundred people to defend the current mountain.
As for other directions, they can only have a weak heart, and there are many captured people who were killed and injured by devil fire, or who were physically exhausted and left behind.
These people didn't even have a pistol in their hands to commit suicide, so they were captured without resistance by the devils who rushed up, and some people did not want to be captured in the face of the approaching devils, and jumped off the cliff dozens of meters high, leaving only a pile of corpses under the cliff.
Some of the wounded, because of their immobility, the devils were unwilling to keep them, so they could only watch them being stabbed to death with bayonets by the devils.
And at this moment, the devils under the mountain are also dividing their troops, in addition to leaving some troops to continue to search the mountain, they began to draw out most of their troops to pursue the people who have broken through.
After all, the rest of the mountain is now a few stragglers, there is no need to waste too many troops to stay here, they are in a few passes around Yantouling, arrange defensive forces, as long as they are trapped and defend Zhang Yunfei and others.
The devil's current purpose is also clear, that is, to recuperate and prepare for the second Ming, and once again give the stubborn Zhang Yunfei's department a fatal blow.
Anyway, now Zhang Yunfei's department has been trapped on a ridge, and the rest of the area has basically been cleaned up, and the stubborn troops can't set off too much wind and waves.
Therefore, before the dark, the devils adopted the strategy of trapping and defending, and no longer attacked Zhang Yunfei's troops, which also gave them a chance to breathe.
Zhang Yunfei was very clear about the devil's abacus, so they had to rush out tonight, this was Zhang Yunfei's determination, but he did not act hastily.
Instead, wait patiently for a little darker, for tonight's breakout operation, the devil will definitely strengthen his vigilance, and sooner or later it doesn't matter.
A little darker, they may take advantage of the darkness to get darker, and have a better chance of breaking through.
At midnight, Zhang Yunfei's subordinates took these non-combatants and quietly touched the southern foothills from the ridge.
Along the way, look at the abandoned equipment and bombed pack horses on the mountain, as well as the remains of cadres and fighters who died under the fire of the enemy blockade line.
Looking at the hundreds of staff members of the division headquarters and prefectural committee organs behind them, they also need to transfer their already small number of troops to protect them from falling behind.
Zhang Yunfei sighed slightly, in the current situation, with such a team, Zhang Yunfei has no confidence in breaking through
How can these people be brought out safely when they are already under enemy on all sides, and now he is a little resigned to his orders.
Zhang Yunfei took this miscellaneous team of eight four or five hundred rao, and the actual combat power was more than one hundred rao team, advancing towards the blockade line of the southern devils.