1211. Ambush troops were set up on the banks of the Surabaya River
This is the same as gambling, even if several groups of people are sent out to search, but the Japanese army must withdraw to this side, if they don't retreat to this side, then everyone will definitely wait for nothing.
But Sangou would rather wait here for nothing, than run behind the devil's ass with everyone, it's boring, and he always fights some devil's logistics.
Besides, the devil's current rearguard troops are ruthless and cunning, if they don't fight you to the death, they will run away after a few shots, but you just can't catch them, they are so cunning that they want to die, and suddenly they will kill you again.
Sangou is unwilling to fight a cost-effective battle with such a devil, anyway, now the upper forces are encouraged to take the initiative to attack and create fighters independently and flexibly, so Sangou pulled people to come to this tomb village first and wait for the devil to come.
Of the search groups that were dispatched, the northern group was the first to return, and they had already made contact with the 58th Division, got their passwords, and learned where their defensive line was.
In fact, the defense line of the 58th Division is now very close to the grave village of Sangou and them, in Shanbei Village south of Guanqiao and Hongqiao.
Now that the three battalions have been in contact with them, the three dogs are very relieved, with such a strong backer, they can do it boldly with confidence.
However, the 58th Division is not very comfortable now, because it is under the desperate attack of the 33rd Division, and the two sides have been fighting for several days and nights, and they are still tugging at Guanqiao.
is also this, in order to replenish the weapons and ammunition of the 58th Division as soon as possible, the baggage regiment of the 74th Army has set up ammunition depots to the front line, which is also a little confused by Sangou before, but now I understand.
The 58th Division is now fighting continuously, with a lot of consumption, and originally the Fenkou Village was also their defense area, and personnel were also stationed.
Due to the continuous transfer of personnel and positions, all the defenders of Fenkou Village were withdrawn and transferred to the north of Guanqiao, so the 2nd Battalion of the Field Supplement Regiment of the 58th Division, which guarded the back of the mountain, was very happy to see the people of the 51st Division coming, and someone protected their flanks for them.
Although there is no fighting on the side of the mountain at present, the 34th Division in Sixi Town is now surrounded by Haibian and is running around, and it is very likely that it will rush to this side and flank the 58th Division with the 33rd Division.
The search team sent by Sangou to the west is also back now, there is no fighting in the west, there are a large number of Shanggao villagers there, transporting food, ammunition and wounded soldiers, and the 58th Division has a hospital located there.
The search team in the south almost didn't need to be sent, because everyone had just come from the south, but Sangou still sent a search from the south in order to be cautious.
However, they were told not to rush back, but to stay two miles away and keep an eye on them, and to fire flares or signal lights when there was news.
Now it is the search to the west, which is the most critical, although the west is the Surabaya River, and the opposite side is Zhujia Village, which is the only way for the Japanese army to come from the direction of Tianziling.
According to Sangou's prediction, even if the Japanese army can take Tianziling at present, it is estimated that it will not take a day or two to fight, and it will definitely go north around Tianziling to Guanqiao.
However, the 57th and 58th divisions of the Chinese army are not good at stubble, and they will definitely set up heavy troops or ambushes between Tianziling and Guanqiao.
At present, unless the Japanese army suddenly crosses Surabaya here in Zhujia Village and directly smashes the relatively empty southwestern position of the 58th Division, it is estimated that it will be easy to succeed, and as long as the official bridge is laid, the 34th Division will have its fate.
This is a conjecture drawn by Sangou who is very familiar with the geography of this side and knows the distribution of the entire battle situation, as for whether Oga Shigeru will think the same, then I don't know.
In most cases, we can only rely on analyzing and guessing the enemy's line, unless we have absolutely superior forces in our hands and drive the enemy into the encirclement, otherwise we can only wait for the day to eat.
However, now the search team in the west has finally sent an extremely important signal to the village, and on the Zhujia village side, the two members of the search team turned on the flashlight wrapped in red cloth towards the side of the village, and drew three circles in a dangling circle.
When the Japanese army came, the soldiers on the position immediately passed the news back to the side of Sangou in the village of Tomb, and Sangou immediately sent a signal to the west to reply.
Guarding the west side was Wu Dingli's seven companies and two platoons, and immediately all entered combat preparations, and soon, the Japanese army came over, facing the empty Zhujia Village, the Japanese army did not enter, but sent a few search soldiers to grope ahead.
When they arrived at the shore of Surabaya, it was the Japanese search soldiers who went first, and after crossing Surabaya, they touched the position of Wu Dingli, and under the flickering light and darkness of the Guanqiao in the distance, the soldiers of the Seventh Company watched the two Japanese search soldiers bend over and come over.
Wu Dingli made a gesture to Wang Xinjia, the leader of the fourth platoon, to wipe his neck, and Wang Xinjia immediately led three people to crawl towards the devil search soldiers.
Wang Xinjia adopted the tactics of attacking the east and west, and when it was almost time for the devil, he stopped, and waited for the devil to come, when the devil was hesitantly coming over.
Suddenly, there was a small noise behind them, which frightened the two devils, and they immediately turned back, holding their guns and pointing behind them.
It was just a stone, Wang Xinjia threw a stone behind them, and it scared the devil like this, and the devil is really like a lost dog now.
Just when the two devils turned back, the four people on Wang Xinjia's side quickly pounced, covering the devil's mouth, and the other person raised a knife and kept stabbing the devil's vital position.
In less than half a minute, Wang Xinjia quickly solved the two devils, Wang Xinjia took out the flashlight on the waist of one of the devils, turned it on, and shook it three times towards the opposite bank.
It seems that the devil's night signal is similar to that of the Chinese army, and it is impossible to say who learns from whom, anyway, on the battlefield, as long as there are good things and technologies, they will immediately learn from them.
Just now, Wang Xinjia had already seen the devil's search soldiers using flashlights to transmit signals in Zhujia Village, so now they are also drawing gourds.
The Japanese forward troops on the opposite bank believed it and immediately began to wade across the river.
The Surabaya River is not deep and not very wide, but in the early spring of March, it has rained for several days, and the river has opened up a bit, and the water temperature is much colder.
The devil had no choice, in order to survive, he had to go into the water, and when there was a sparse sound of wading through the water, Wu Dingli's seven companies, two platoons, and six squad machine guns all opened fire.
It is also normal to attack half-crossing for such a small river, and only in this way can the firepower be increased to the maximum.
For a time, a large number of Japanese troops crossing the river were caught off guard and were swept away by the dense crossfire of six light machine guns.
The devils who are still in the water now have no way to move forward or retreat, and they have nowhere to hide, so they can only passively suffer from machine gun bullets, and this section of the Surabaya River has taken the lives of at least dozens of devils at once.
The devil didn't understand until he died, why it was safe for the search soldiers to hit the signal just now, and now such a dense number of machine gun bullets suddenly appeared, it's really hell.
To hell with it, indeed.