Chapter 567: Twenty-Four Fighters
Sakamoto watched as the three heavy cannons faded away from view, and waved his command knife to cut off the head of a cavalry company soldier who had died in the explosion.
"Yaga! Bastard! Dead, dead, dead! ”
He kept jumping and roaring on the spot, but to no avail.
The 115th Regiment and the Kasawara Task Force were encircled, and three heavy guns were forcibly taken away, and the situation of the original initiative was reversed in an instant;
And all this because of a cavalry that came out of nowhere.
Sakamoto Haruto reported the news to Tanaka Junji in frustration, but to his surprise, Tanaka Junji did not scold him, but just said lightly, "I know".
Moreover, Tanaka also denied Sakamoto Haru's plan to take the Sakamoto Wing to support the 115th Regiment and the Kasawara Task Force, and asked him to stay put.
Sakamoto Haru didn't dare to ask more, so he could only stand by in place according to Tanaka Junji's instructions with full doubts.
At this time, Hao Dabao had already returned to the position outside Xinghe County with a platoon dragging the three heavy guns.
As soon as Hao Dabao jumped off the horse, Tian Liuwa walked towards him quickly from a distance, and said loudly from a distance:
"Hao Dabao! The battalion commander told you to immediately return to Taolin with the cavalry company and the three captured heavy guns, you hurry up, leave it to me here! ”
As the addition of the cavalry company successfully turned the tide of the battle, Wang Zhibang's 110th Brigade also joined the battle.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Kasawara task force was very strong, it could not withstand the siege of the independent battalion and the 110 Brigade with several times their strength.
The repeated charging of the cavalry company had already caused them heavy losses, and now that the 110th Brigade was mixed in, the Kasahara task force was soon unable to withstand it.
Because they had fought too easily before, the Kasawara task force always followed the 115th Regiment and advanced slowly, and the formation was not scattered enough; After Wang Zhibang received the news of the scouts, he immediately sent a machine gun company and a battalion of soldiers to besiege them.
Hundreds of Czech light machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the Kasahara task force, no matter how strong its combat effectiveness, could only scatter and dodge.
The 115th Regiment of the Yuzhishan Division was even more miserable, after being disrupted by the repeated charging and killing of the cavalry company, it was no longer able to organize an effective defense, let alone attack.
In less than half an hour, the casualties of the 115th Regiment had already exceeded half.
In addition to the appearance of the cavalry company, the participation of the 110th Brigade in the battle was also crucial.
The 110th Brigade was subordinate to the 29th Army, and the Xifengkou Battle recorded in history was fought by the 29th Army;
That battle showed the momentum of the Chinese army and the determination of the Chinese people to resist the Japanese invaders!
The March of the Great Sword, which has been handed down in later generations, is also based on the battle of the 29th Army.
The performance of such a team in the white-knuckle battle is naturally remarkable.
The broadswords of the 110th Brigade were all tied with red silk on the handles, and the red silk flew and blood splashed during the waving, and the soldiers of the 115th Regiment of the puppet army had also heard of the prestige of the broadswords of the 29th Army;
As soon as the big knife appeared, before the fight, many puppet soldiers' legs and stomachs began to turn, how can the battle be won?
Kasahara Kawaki thought that the Sakamoto wing behind him would soon come to support, but as soon as he saw the cavalry who had left before dragging the three heavy cannons back, he immediately thought that the reinforcements might not come.
Therefore, he immediately ordered the Kasahara task force to retreat, and Shengsheng tore a hole in the encirclement set by Wang Zhibang, and ran away with more than 200 people.
But the 115th Regiment that was left on the position was not so lucky.
The puppet soldiers fell one by one, and the corpses soon covered the battlefield.
However, the soldiers of the Independent Battalion and the 110th Brigade became more and more courageous, and their eyes were covered with a layer of pale pink.
Killing stirs up ferocity in people's bones, which in itself is not a good phenomenon.
But on the battlefield, a team that is not fierce means not brave enough, and the chances of winning the battle are slim.
A warrior, the first thing he should have is bravery, and the means of killing the enemy must be with a touch of brutality, so that he can defeat the enemy spiritually.
Once one of the two sides of the battle is defeated mentally and in momentum, it is tantamount to stretching its neck and waiting for death.
This is the case with the current 115th Regiment.
The living soldiers are still fighting, but they have lost their fighting spirit.
Looking at their increasingly courageous opponents, cowardice and fear gradually took over their consciousness.
As the first desperate soldier threw away his gun and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy, the number of people who surrendered gradually increased.
But just when Tian Liuwa and Wang Zhibang saw the hope of victory, the sudden roar above their heads instantly shattered that glimmer of hope.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom......"
A series of explosions rang out, and the soldiers who were fighting were instantly swept away by the air waves generated by the explosion, blood intertwined in mid-air, corpses overlapped on the ground, and screams and exclamations quickly covered the entire battlefield.
This is the real reason why Tanaka-kun did not let the Sakamoto Wing support the 115th Regiment---- he wanted to carry out bombing, regardless of enemy and us!
More than a dozen warplanes circled over Xinghe County, bombs rained down like drops, and casualties of the Independent Battalion and the 110th Brigade began to climb rapidly.
Although Tian Liuwa gave the order to withdraw to the position at the first time, hundreds of lives were still left on the battlefield by those bombs.
However, when the warriors withdrew, they found that there were more flattering enemies around them.
After counting, a total of nearly 400 puppet soldiers of the 115th Regiment ran straight into the fortifications outside Xinghe City, strongly demanding surrender.
Tanaka's approach made these people finally understand that their position in the eyes of the Japanese is not as good as that of dogs.
In peacetime, he is a dog's leg, a cannon fodder in war, and a "Shina man" who is eliminated with the enemy at critical moments!
No matter how loyal they were and how brave they fought for the Japanese, at the end of the day, they were still wastes that could be sacrificed at any time.
In order to ensure safety, Tian Liuwa ordered the captives who surrendered to be disarmed and tied up, and let them stay in the trenches to avoid the bombs.
If they are still killed by the explosion, then they can only be blamed for their bad lives.
Like Xinghe County, Taolin was also bombed by Japanese fighters.
A bomb just landed less than ten meters away from Liu Cheng and exploded, if Liu Cheng hadn't hid in the bunker in time, he would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die.
Shaking off the dust and gravel on his body, Liu Cheng stood up from the trench with a disgraced face, staring gloomily at the Japanese fighters that were still flying overhead.
Although the tail fin is painted with an ugly sun flag, Liu Cheng still recognizes it at a glance from the shape and style of the plane, it is a plane that once belonged to the Zhang family!