Chapter 677: The Battle of Dongwuling
Battalion Commander Cai of the 253rd Battalion led the soldiers of the whole battalion to face the frantic attack launched by the Japanese army, and ordered all officers and men of the unit to launch a fire counterattack with the Japanese army with the most fierce firepower, and never lose their positions.
Qing Shui Cao Chang launched three consecutive charges on the high ground on the east side of Dongwuling occupied by the 253rd Battalion, but they were all repulsed. Angry and frustrated, Qing Mizu's Cao Chang ordered the Japanese soldiers to carry out cross-cover to disperse the counterattack fire of the troops occupying the highlands, and to advance alternately to the heights, which must be taken in this round of attacks.
The enemy changed the offensive formation and launched an attack on the high ground in a scattered manner, and Battalion Commander Cai saw that the enemy was approaching the high ground step by step under the cover of strong firepower, and the soldiers who bravely resisted the Japanese attack quickly suffered casualties, and the position was precarious.
Yamashita Nakasa found that Shimizu led his troops to never capture the eastern heights, so the positions of the Shina troops near the eastern heights took advantage of the terrain and attacked the devils on the road with the most fierce firepower, causing heavy casualties among the Japanese combat and non-combatants.
In order to seize this very important high ground, he immediately sent another battle squad to reinforce it, and ordered Qing Shui Cao Chang to seize the high ground within thirty minutes with the reinforcement of troops, otherwise he would die.
Qing Shui Cao Chang received a life and death order, and commanded the devils around him to eliminate the machine gun position of the 253rd Battalion on the high ground with the most fierce firepower, as long as the 253rd Battalion lost machine gun cover, the Japanese army would immediately seize the high ground.
In order to fight for the high ground on the east side of Dongwu Ridge, the enemy and us fought to the death, and the machine gun position of the 253rd Battalion was destroyed by the Japanese army, and the combat capability of the 253rd Battalion, which had lost the cover of machine guns, was greatly weakened.
Qing Shui Jun Cao found out that the machine gun position of the 253rd Battalion had been eliminated, and ordered the little devils to attack bravely and must capture this vital piece of high ground.
The 253rd Battalion was attacked by the enemy's strong firepower, and although the soldiers resisted bravely, they finally abandoned their positions and retreated to the rear because they were outnumbered.
The Japanese soldiers who seized the high ground used the light machine guns that the 253rd Battalion had too late to take away to suppress the surrounding positions of our troops, and quickly followed up with the follow-up units of the Japanese army, expanded the counterattack positions, and carried out counterattacks with the help of the favorable terrain occupied.
Although the follow-up troops of the 2nd Echelon Regiment of the Japanese Army followed up with reinforcements, our troops had an absolute advantage in terms of strength and firepower. The second echelon regiment vainly wanted to break through the important positions of our army and invested a large number of troops to carry out the offensive in an attempt to fight a bloody way.
However, under the strong firepower counterattack and attack of our army, it was unable to cross the thunder pool one step, but caused great casualties to the second echelon regiment of the Japanese army.
General Dong, who was ambushed at the entrance of Dongwuling and killed the third column, found that the Japanese transport convoy that had entered the ambush circle was in a mess by the light and heavy firepower of our army, and all the vehicles were blocked on the winding road and became the target of fire destruction.
He never gave the order to launch an attack on the Japanese transport convoy, but only ordered to use the favorable terrain to launch a fire strike to destroy the enemy's living forces.
Only by destroying the enemy's main combat forces and destroying the Japanese vehicles will it be successful, and it will not be blocked by the enemy's frenzied fire because of the attack, and then cause heavy casualties.
The 7th Captain saw that the front of the Japanese transport convoy and the middle of the convoy were in flames, and the vehicles kept making deafening explosions, and not only ran to General Dong and shouted: "General, you see that the friendly forces have destroyed a large number of Japanese transport vehicles, let's ......." ”
"Why can't you hold your breath? Don't worry, as long as we eliminate the Japanese troops with strong combat effectiveness at the tail, do you say that the Japanese convoy lying on the road will be destroyed? Odd book e-book
More importantly, our purpose is to set up an ambush to eliminate the devils of the Japanese transport convoy and capture a large number of trophies that are urgently needed by the troops. ”
When the 7th Captain heard General Dong say this, he immediately understood the advantages of this style of play, and happily ran back to the troops and ordered: "Only kill the little devils, don't destroy and detonate the Japanese transport vehicles for the time being, the good things on it are precious." ”
The decisive third column occupied the powerful terrain on the hillside and hit with maximum firepower the attempts of the Japanese to occupy the position, and then break out under the cover of fire.
After nearly two hours of fighting, most of the Japanese troops in the 81st and 83rd transport convoys were annihilated, and General Dong stood on the position and issued the order to attack the Japanese transport convoy.
The soldiers of the three columns who received the attack of the Japanese convoy on the road down the mountain, like tigers descending the mountain, rushed to the road with guns in hand-to-hand combat, and started hand-to-hand combat with the devils who resisted to the death.
When General Dong saw that the soldiers had seized a large amount of loot, he at first did not distinguish between the heavy and the bad, and as long as the troops used it, they carried it and ran to the position, but the result was that the weapons, ammunition, and important military materials loaded by the two transport squadrons of the Japanese army were very limited, and this situation aroused General Dong's attention.
He ordered the soldiers of the troops to sort and take away the captured booty, mainly weapons and ammunition and important military supplies urgently needed by the troops, and throw away all the rest.
Seeing so many good things being thrown away like this, the warriors not only regretted and begged for more time to take some more.
General Dong had already prepared in advance that once this ambush was successful, what should be done with the large amount of materials that could not be taken away, he looked at the minister of democracy movement beside him and asked: "Minister Zhang, where are the villagers in the surrounding villages you mobilized at this time?" ”
"Report to General Dong, the villagers of the nearby villages are hiding in the ravine behind us at this time, do you mean that you can ask the villagers to go down the mountain and distribute the loot that we have captured and cannot take away?"
"That's what I mean, you immediately arrange for the villagers to take as much of the captured loot as they can, and the rest that can't be taken away must not be left to the Japanese troops who are quickly reinforcing here, tell the villagers to move quickly."
After a short time, many villagers ran out of the ravine, some with cloth bags in their hands, some carrying baskets, and some with baskets, and saw the vehicles destroyed by the war loaded with rice and flour scattered on the road, and rushed onto the road frantically.
Their ancestors had never seen this white flowered rice, and they didn't know if they could eat it when they looked at it, and some soldiers smiled and told them that rice was the best food, how to eat it when they took it home, and how fragrant it tasted.
The three columns of the decisive death saw that the villagers would take as much food as they could, as well as what they thought was useful at home, but in this way, most of the loot was left and could not be taken away.
The devils of the 81st and 83rd transport squadrons of the Japanese army, under the powerful fire of the decisive three columns, suffered heavy casualties, and could not break through the positions of our troops to break through to the outside.
The various units of our army that had set up an ambush at Dongwuling launched the maximum firepower attack on the Japanese transport convoy on different fronts according to the advance operational deployment, and the vehicles in front and behind the 2nd and 1st echelons of the Japanese army were destroyed and were in a state of dilemma.
The battle lasted from 10:10 to noon, the second echelon of the Japanese army was blocked by our fire and cowered on the road, and many attempts to break through were hit by powerful fire, just when the enemy was in a dilemma, the commander of the 10th Division, Peng, ordered a general attack on the Japanese army.