Except for the artillery shells, which could become a danger that could bury everyone at any time, were moved to the mountains and guarded by an infantry squad, the rest of the baggage was left in place.

Wang Shubin, the deputy battalion commander, was still cautious, and he was afraid that the Japanese army would run over from the mountains, so he specially suggested to Liu Dazhu that a platoon should be stationed here, so that he could block the fish that slipped through the net and take care of the baggage.

Liu Dazhu thought about it and did not refute his opinion, in addition to an infantry squad on the mountain, another infantry platoon was left to establish a blocking position on the mountain road and mountain ridge, with their firepower, as long as the Japanese army did not exceed one squadron, it would be no problem to block them, and the stragglers would naturally not be a problem.

In this battle, because of the terrain and the fact that the Japanese infantry squadron leader was stimulated to red eyes, he used an extremely rare decisive charge, but he brought the power of the "Hitler chainsaw" into full play, not only did the results glow and shoot more than 300 Japanese troops, but the losses of the bayonet battalion located on the mountain ridge were also very small. Except that there is a bit of a waste of bullets.

The officers and men of the whole battalion were only killed by the Japanese grenadiers, four were wounded, two were killed and three were wounded, and the whole battle only lost one infantry squad, although the commander of the second company, who suffered the greatest loss after counting the casualties, also had a black face, but compared with the killing of at least 470 Japanese soldiers and the huge capture, it was definitely a big victory.

After a brief trimming of ten minutes, Liu Dazhu led the remaining two companies and a platoon of nearly 400 people to run to the side of the river valley, and they had to carry out another important combat mission.

The successful completion of the ambush of the Japanese baggage troops did not mean that the river valley would be so easy.

You must know that in addition to the 200 Japanese squadrons before the river valley, and the one squadron behind the river valley plus nearly 500 baggage troops, there are more than 2,500 Japanese troops in the river valley.

Although they were surrounded by three infantry regiments and three infantry battalions, the strength of the Japanese army was almost three times that of them, but the Japanese army was not pigs, they also had guns, good tactical discipline, and a more playful bushido spirit.

The battle here lasted for more than fifty minutes and ended smoothly, and the gunfire in the valley has not stopped, and it is extremely fierce, and the Japanese army will not be willing to be poked in the neck.

Ryo Ikeda was 400 meters away from Mt. Soiwa, looking at the position ahead with a bitter face. His ideas, while somewhat selfish, were tactically fine.

Whether it's in front or behind, he has to open a passage. Otherwise, don't look at the river valley he has more than 2,000 troops, but under the fire pressure of the completely dominant terrain of the Chinese, the casualties under his command will only get bigger and bigger, and the forces that can defend will become fewer and fewer, and as time goes by, the final outcome can only be death.

Everyone, including himself.

Ryo Ikeda knew that he could no longer wait for rescue, or rather not so much time. Ever since the signal corps and field radio stations carrying radios were killed by the Chinese gunmen at the beginning of the war, he knew that he had fallen into a bureau, a bureau set up by the Chinese a long time ago.

The Chinese did not even give him a chance to call for help, and trapped him alone in this river valley. By the time the division headquarters realized that something was wrong, I am afraid, it would have been several hours.

His only choice now was to continue the assault on this passage with the hundreds of men he could still directly command, and open up this lifeline for all Japanese troops in the valley.

However, with nearly 1 hour of fighting, Ryo Ikeda, who launched three consecutive attacks at all costs, finally despaired.

On the mountain in front of him, the Chinese not only arranged their fire net in three rows from top to bottom, but also had so many troops that Ikeda almost brought tears to Ikeda's eyes. That's at least the strength of more than 2,000 men in an infantry regiment.

If it were in the North China Plain, it would be normal for an infantry brigade to attack the position of an infantry regiment of the Chinese. Not to mention a fully equipped infantry brigade, even the hundreds of troops he led often won victories, almost invincible.

However, it was a plain, and there was almost no danger to defend except for the trenches, and more importantly, they had 105 howitzers, 75 mountain guns, and bombers to help. First artillery bombardment, then aircraft bombing, and then infantry charges, these three axes are hardly able to be resisted by many Chinese troops.

But what about here? Not to mention planes and artillery, there are no two axes in the first two axes of the three-plate axe, and even the last axe, his number cannot be compared. Not only did he not have a gun, but he didn't even have a heavy machine gun at this time, and the most powerful heavy weapons were a light machine gun and a grenadier canister. The only two infantry guns and the 12 heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron were placed in the river valley by his strong man with broken wrists, helping the 1500 men of the three heavy squadrons to resist the attack of the Chinese from the mountains on both sides.

Without the help of those weapons, Ryo Ikeda dared to say that perhaps the No. 1500 heavy soldier would have been defeated by the Chinese. And without their containment in the river valley, the big guys would have finished playing a long time ago, so it would take an hour to grind?

In fact, the performance of these baggage soldiers who are considered supplementary soldiers is not too bad, and in three consecutive rounds of attacks, the 3rd Infantry Squadron dispatched a squad of 50 people as sharp knives, accompanied by a squad of 160 people and more than 200 troops to carry out an assault.

Then, after leaving more than 100 corpses behind, he was beaten back, and so on three times, leaving less than 300 of the baggage soldiers, and then he refused the fourth attack he organized, preferring to hold on to reinforcements rather than make a final struggle to the death.

Ryo Ikeda knew that he could no longer expect them to do better, and that without any heavy weapons fire support, launching three consecutive decisive attacks was their limit, and not only them, but also the remnants of the 3rd Infantry Squadron under his command of more than 120 people had despair written all over their faces.

The firepower of the Chinese on the mountain position is actually not very strong, but they have enough troops, more than a thousand rifles are spitting out bullets without hesitation, and there are at least more than 8 light machine guns and 4 heavy machine guns, which is basically enough to ensure that the 12 light machine guns he carries can be suppressed.

Although the 12 grenadiers can play a role in suppressing the enemy's fire points, the enemy also has mortars, although there are not many of them, but they are also terrible enough, in the three rounds of attack, at least 4 of the 6 light machine gun teams lost are mortar bombs into the sky, whether it is a man or a machine gun.

However, he must fight back, and Ikeda knows better than all the officers and men under his command what the consequences will be if he chooses to hold on and wait for help. The consequence is that the Chinese will try to remove all the firepower points little by little with their superior firepower, and at that time, it will completely become everyone's death.

His counterattack may not be able to capture the enemy's positions, but it can be delayed, and the Chinese continue to drag on the ridges. As a commander, he knew very well that the Chinese, who had completely gained the upper hand, would never rush down the mountain to fight him in a final battle until all the heavy firepower points on his side were cleared.

Because, through this hour of fighting, he has clearly observed that this part of the Chinese ammunition is very sufficient, not at all like what is written in the battle report of the group of fools of the Fifth Division: the soldiers of the Chinese Eighteenth Army have a strong will to fight, but the equipment is extremely poor, especially the ammunition is extremely scarce, as long as the battle is extended, they will have to be forced to charge, with white-knuckle combat instead of two sides shooting. Imperial soldiers, as long as they maintain sufficient firepower, will greatly increase their casualties.

The abundance of ammunition in the Chinese may have been an incomparably huge haze for Ryo Ikeda, but looking at the sky, Ikeda saw a glimmer of hope in his despair. As long as the Chinese spared the lives of their fighters because of the abundance of ammunition, he might have the opportunity to fight until after dark at 6 o'clock.

When night falls, the darkness of the night may give him and his men a chance to get out of the battlefield.

Besides, Ryo Ikeda also had a glimmer of hope for his forward 1st Infantry Squadron, if they could strike back and rush up the mountain to let the Chinese lose sight of each other, perhaps the 2nd Infantry Squadron could also break out of the valley, as long as the two infantry squadrons occupied a commanding height, the 1,500 heavy soldiers in the valley would continue to retreat from the gap, as long as they left this damn place, he had reason to believe that he and his men were still capable of fighting the Chinese, and at worst, he could retreat to the vast mountains with some soldiers.

This Japanese soldier Shaozuo's idea is good, and his thoughts are quite beautiful, but unfortunately, he doesn't know who the commanders against him are.

Not to mention the future military god who has commanded thousands of troops and horses at the rear, Liu Lang, who is in charge of front-line command, is far from being comparable to him as an infantry captain who has only commanded more than 1,000 people to fight.

The old Chinese saying "the higher you stand, the farther you can see" is not wrong at all. What the Japanese army Shaozuo thought of, Liu Lang thought of before the war.

The infantry squadron of the Japanese army, which was a mile out of the valley as sharp knives, was blocked by a battalion of more than 800 strong men in front of them, but there were also death battalions that were used as reserves.

With the firepower of the death battalion and the attack of more than 1,200 people, the so-called elite infantry squadron of the Japanese army barely lasted 25 minutes before it was crushed.

The Japanese troops, who could not form a decent fire network to block them, were driven like sheep to the barley by groups of soldiers of the Independent Regiment with terrible triangular stabs who came down from the mountains, into the dead corners, into the ravines, and then desperately surrounded by groups of three and nine soldiers, who were either killed by pistols and submachine guns, or stabbed to death by the opponent's military stabs.

The stabbing technique they are proud of, not to mention that they were swept down by the submachine gun on the way to charge without much chance to use it, even if they had the opportunity, they were not as desperate as they thought.

Among the officers and men of the independent regiment they faced, some practiced the least stabbing technique for two years, and some veterans practiced for five years and 1,800 days and nights. Moreover, they were well-nourished, not only taller than the Japanese army, but also had thicker arms and legs, but they were not the yellow-faced and lean-skinned and malnourished Chinese soldiers they met in North China.

Of course, there are very few opportunities to give them such a desperate effort, and the Japanese infantry squadron leader who pulled out his shiny command knife and wanted to show his last bravery had no time to find an opponent, when he was hit head-on by an infantry squad leader of an independent regiment who took out a pistol and shot him three times in a row.

The huge power of the Black Star pistol knocked the Japanese lieutenant backwards for five or six meters in a row until he lost all his strength and fell to the ground. By the way, give me his knife, and Lao Tzu will go back and give it to my son as a toy, and it should be good to cut a watermelon. ”

Then the Japanese lieutenant died of breath and was to death.

Ryo Ikeda's expectation of the 1st Infantry Squadron was actually finished when his second attack was repulsed.

At this time, the Japanese army in the valley was already surrounded by regiments, and they did not want to get the slightest help from the outside, and they were completely alone.

It was only a matter of time before the whole army was destroyed.

Liu Lang, of course, will not drag out the war until dark as Ikeda Liang thought.

It's not that he was afraid that the Japanese army would run away in the dark, but that he had more important things to do.