Chapter 169: More than half of the casualties

"Yo Xi, the enemy's first line of blocking position has been taken by the 6th Infantry Wing! Chief of Staff, do you think the second line of enemy blocking positions can be captured by the 6th Infantry Wing in ten minutes? Ha ha! ”

Through the binoculars, I saw that the 6th Infantry Wing had taken the blocking position of the 1st Battalion within 10 minutes and pursued the victory, expanding the results of the battle.

Riichiro Katayama, the commander of the 5th Brigade, who coordinated and commanded the attack in the rear, finally stretched his brows and said with a smile to Kenjiro Saito, the brigade chief of staff on the side.

Kenjiro Saito maintained a keen sense of smell on the battlefield, but he didn't want to sweep away the excitement of Ichiro Katayama, so he organized some language before he said cautiously: "Brigade commander, according to the report sent by the 6th Infantry Wing, the first battalion under the command of General Zhang Dabiao under Li Yunlong is responsible for blocking the front. This battalion is the main battalion of the new regiment, and it is good at fighting tough battles, defensive positional warfare, etc., and is very difficult. The 6th Infantry Wing, although strong, was superior to the opposing side. However, it was too fast to take down the blocking position built by more than 2,000 people of the opponent in ten minutes. ”。

Seeing that Kenjiro Saito had something to say, he seemed to be worried, and Riichiro Katayama said in a condensed voice: "What does the chief of staff mean that Li Yunlong is luring the enemy deeper?" ”。

Thinking about it, Riichiro Katayama, who has been his partner Kenjiro Saito for many years, quickly knew what Kenjiro Saito didn't say in the subtext, but made Riichiro Katayama pay attention to it.

Kenjiro Saito secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Riichiro Katayama come back to his senses from his luck, "Yes, brigade commander. This battalion under the command of Li Yunlong must not know the strength of its combat power. Logically speaking, the combat strength of the enemy battalion on the opposite side is so strong, and the actual strength of the army is more than 2,000 people, which is extraordinary. How could it be possible that under the onslaught of the 6th Infantry Wing, it only held out for less than ten minutes and then withdrew from the battle and retreated in disarrays to the rear? This doesn't make sense! There is only one explanation, that is, the other party is deliberate, and there is a suspicion of luring the enemy to go deeper! ”。

Riichiro Katayama immediately picked up a telescope to observe the situation on the battlefield, only to see more than 3,000 devils of the 6th Infantry Wing roaring and rushing to kill, and the retreating battalion was killed.

"Command the 6th Wing now, pay attention to the rhythm of the attack! Beware of enemy attacks from both flanks! Order the 68th Infantry Wing to go up and attack with the 6th Infantry Wing! Hold on to the formation, lest the enemy really have an ambush! Chief of Staff, the brigade headquarters moves forward! Hurry up and drop! ”

When Kenjiro Saito heard this, he immediately paused and said, 'Hai, brigade commander! Humble duty understands! Then Kenjiro Saito sent someone to carry out the order.

At this time, more than 3,000 Japanese troops of the 6th Infantry Wing of the Devil, who had already chased the 1st Battalion to attack and advance, had already rushed to a place less than 300 meters away from the headquarters of Shen Qun, the 2nd Battalion of the New 1st Regiment.

"Da-da-da, da-da-da!"

"Boom, boom!!!"

Rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and artillery suddenly burst out at once, inflicting heavy casualties on the ghost soldiers of the 6th Infantry Wing, who were rushing to Xingtou.

"Bagaya Road, Bagaya Road, pay attention to concealment! Hidden! ”

Takeo Sato, the commander of the devil wing of the 6th Infantry Wing who followed the command of the rear of the attack force, saw that the three Japanese infantry brigades under his command rushed to the front of the second battalion blocking position more than 100 meters, and suddenly encountered a large-scale second battalion fire covering, and the devil soldiers were planted to the ground one by one, and the screams soon came one after another, and Takeo Sato, who was watching, roared and shouted!

In fact, there was no need for Takeo Sato to shout orders, and the commanders of the three Japanese infantry brigades of the attacking 6th Infantry Wing hurriedly ordered the devil soldiers under their command to pay attention to lying down and hiding on the spot and counterattack.

It is only about a hundred meters, which is already the fire coverage of the second battalion, especially Wang Chengzhu's artillery unit has concentrated most of its artillery fire to bombard the devils.

One after another, the shells roared, and the devils who were very excited to explode were already too late to dodge when they noticed the incoming artillery fire!

Fragments of artillery shells were splashed everywhere, in the smoke of gunpowder, the stumps and broken arms of the devils were flying everywhere, and in the dense forest, one by one the devil soldiers were blown up, and they were beaten by the light and heavy machine gun fire of the second battalion to cry dad and shout mother, and Takeo Sato, who was watching, clenched his palms.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that the various devil infantry battalions of the 6th Infantry Wing, under the command of their respective commanders, stabilized their positions.

However, he rushed too fast and was caught off guard by the blocking fire of the second battalion, which made Sato Takeo unbelievable when he heard the number of casualties and losses summed up by his subordinates.

"Nani? What did you say? Chief of Staff, my 6th Infantry Wing now has a total of almost two thousand casualties? How can it be? ”

Looking at the helplessness on the face of Takachi Kataki, the chief of staff of the wing who came up to report the loss of the 6th Infantry Wing, Takeo Sato still couldn't believe it.

At this time, the attack was still continuing, but the casualties of the various divisions were too large for Sato Takeo to believe. You must know that the total strength of his 6th Infantry Wing is only about 4,000 people.

In less than twenty minutes, the 6th Infantry Wing suffered more than half of the casualties, which was unacceptable to Takeo Sato.

Koichi Kataki smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, you have confirmed the number of casualties reported by various departments, and this is the case. Today, there are nearly 2,300 or so people in my 6th Infantry Wing, which is actually quite good! The pursuit of the new regiment and the first battalion just now was too hasty, and the troops could not stop and rushed to about 100 meters in front of the enemy's second blocking position, but were once again covered by the enemy's firepower, and suffered heavy casualties. ”。

"Bang !!"

Takeo Sato slammed his fist into a nearby tree, and the leaves fell.

"Baga, damn it! The troops were ordered to stabilize their positions and continue the attack. Report to the brigade commander immediately! "More than half of the casualties in the troops, even Sato Takeo knows that he must ask Katayama Riichiro for his guilt, otherwise Katayama Riichiro will not spare him at that time.

Of course Koichi Kataki knew, and said with a heavy pause: "Haiyi, co-captain, I understand my humble duties. ”。

At this time, the 1st Battalion, which was responsible for luring the enemy, had already withdrawn behind the 2nd Battalion's blocking position and drove directly to Weijiatun.

After getting that the first battalion had successfully dragged the devils to the second blocking position, Li Yunlong said with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad!" The first battalion immediately entered the ambush position east of Weijiatun. Order the second battalion to block the devil for me for at least fifteen minutes, lest it be bad if Ichiro Katayama doesn't fight. ”。

"Yes, Captain!" The herald took the order and departed.

At this time, Li Yunlong had already seen through his binoculars that the fierce battle in the direction of the second blocking position, the smoke of gunpowder from artillery fire, and the sound of fighting between the soldiers of the enemy and our army were very intense.

It can be known that the little devil is also attacking very fiercely!

At this time, the attack of the 6th Infantry Wing, which was covered by the fire of the 2nd Battalion and killed many people, did not stop, but was also blocked by the 2nd Battalion.

As the commander of the 5th Brigade arrived at the rear and commanded the commander, Riichiro Katayama, learned that the 6th Infantry Wing had suffered more than half of the casualties, and the old devil was angry!