Chapter 1135: Battle of the River Valley (4)
Ishida Inoue leaned on the cart and panted desperately, constantly peeking at the situation around him. His eyes were full of despair, but he had a glimmer of hope because of the choice he had just made.
Just two minutes ago.
He had already made a big mistake and crashed headlong into Nanshan, desperately rolling down the hill after retreating backwards.
The gunfire stopped, and the Chinese on the mountain ridge seemed to have disappeared and were never seen again.
There was a terrible silence on the battlefield.
It was as if what happened to the Japanese army was like a nightmare.
However, the corpses lying on the mountain road, and the moans that had gradually faded from the previous earth-shattering wails reminded Ishida Inoue that all this was true.
In only ten minutes, there were more than 80 big cats and kittens left with nearly 500 people and horses led by him. There were only two squads left of a strong infantry squadron, a brigade transport team that had been specially strengthened by borrowing troops from the baggage wing before departure, and a 50-man squad.
The wreckage he had previously chosen was doomed to tragedy in the face of the unexpected ferocity of the Chinese's firepower, but his luck was good, and most of his subordinates fell under the frenzied bullets and shells, especially light machine guns and grenadiers, the most reliable firepower points of the Japanese army, and in ten minutes, all of them were lost. The Chinese not only have fierce artillery fire, fierce firepower, but also unexpectedly accurate marksmanship.
He saw with his own eyes that at least three grenadiers had been killed by cold guns, and even one of them was hiding behind a tree less than five meters away from Ishida Inoue, and the extremely cautious grenadier just lay behind the tree and quietly stretched out his weapon, and his arm was slightly exposed, and he was hit by a bullet that looked like an eye.
The sudden sharp pain caused the grenadier to subconsciously dodge to one side, and his body was only half of his head exposed, when he was hit in the back of the head by another sudden bullet, and the fragile back of his head was like a blooming blood lotus blooming in front of the lieutenant's eyes.
It can be said that the once incomparably tenacious nerves of the Japanese lieutenant were severed at that moment, and he gave up the soldiers who were charging in vain in the rain of bullets, tore off the lieutenant's collar badge that he was once proud of, threw away the white gloves and the command knife that he once cherished, and wore a steel helmet that he had picked up, and ran wildly along the foot of the mountain in the ranks of more than 30 routs until he ran to the side of the cart.
Until two minutes ago, all the gunfire had stopped, and the Chinese seemed to have disappeared, and the voices of the hundreds of strong men under his command had long since disappeared.
The Japanese lieutenant had to painfully accept the fact that the army was about to be annihilated.
However, in the midst of such a deep, almost suffocating despair, he quickly smelled a breath that he might be able to survive from the fact that the cart had not been attacked too much.
The Chinese wanted to slaughter themselves, but they also wanted to seize the weight of supplies, and Lieutenant Ishida Inoue, who went down the mountain to hide in the gap of the big car on the mountain road, regained a glimmer of hope, and maybe he could also use the tactical concept of the Chinese to find life in the dead and gain a glimmer of life.
Of course, the baggage carts at the back of the team were not attacked by terrible fire, and it may be that they happened to be in a special terrain, and the section at the foot of the mountain was not close to the dense jungle like the previous one, but the mountain was abrupt, there were no mountains, only stone peaks, and it was difficult to hide troops to attack them.
But it didn't matter, the important thing was that the baggage cart was not attacked, and he now had a chance to breathe, and he still had time to think about how to use this opportunity to escape back.
The Japanese lieutenant, like his men, kept his frightened eyes on his surroundings to see where it would be best to escape.
The deep ravine on the other side of the mountain road had basically cut off all expectations, and all the previous ones, whether they had been squeezed down in panic or shocked by mortar shells, had become fertilizer for the bushes at the bottom of the ditch, and a corpse with an earthy yellow color lay on the green vegetation so clearly that not even a single one could move.
Even if you are lucky and only break your arm and leg, in such a mountain wilderness, you lose your ability to move, and the result is self-evident. There is a more than ninety-nine percent chance of being a delicious dinner for the beasts of the mountains, if no one finds them within ten hours.
However, the Japanese army, who has always been full of pride and confidence, walks with nostrils to the sky everywhere, lest others do not know that they are short and like to look up at people, and the Japanese army has to admit sadly that even if someone can come here, it should be Chinese.
Expect the infantry brigades in the river valley or even the other side of Qiqian Village to show the divine might of the imperial army and defeat the Chinese? After seeing the frantic firepower of the bayonet battalion, Sensei said that Lieutenant Ishida, who had been defeated, and even the baggage soldiers who had not been on the front line knew that it was impossible. The Chinese attack their small heavy team with such elite soldiers, so what army is attacking the main force? Maybe it's planes and artillery!
The terrible rumble of artillery on that side of the mountain was louder than the explosion of a 150-caliber howitzer.
And what about rescue? Don't be funny, Lao Tzu is the rescue, 3,000 of the last 4,000 people in Jingcheng County, and there are reinforcements for Baga?
Running back and forth? The stupidest person wouldn't do that. If the Chinese can ambush here, they will not wait for them in ambush on the mountain road back. That's almost 100% certain. Ishida Inoue dared to vouch with his head that as soon as he left the range of the cart, he would be targeted by Chinese gunmen who did not know where to hide, and then hunted him on a basically uncovered mountain road, just as he once hunted rabbits in the fields of the northeast.
Nowadays, there is only one way to go, to hide in the crevices of the rocky peaks on the side of the mountain road, and then look for an opportunity to escape into the mountains and survive this dangerous battle. As for whether there will be those dangers in the mountains and whether they will encounter terrible wolves, only the living are qualified to consider.
However, Ishida Inoue is smart enough to see this way of life, and there is no reason why the Chinese can't see it, but the Chinese just left them such a way out in this dangerous place.
Perhaps, this seemingly life-threatening road is even more terrifying than those death-ridden roads. Even if there were more than 70 of the remaining 80 people hidden in the cracks of those stone peaks, only Ishida Inoue and a small detachment of people hid on the mountain road with the cart as a barrier, but Ishida Inoue still did not dare to order the whole army to break through to the stone peak, but the cart made him feel more stable, although the cart was loaded with infantry artillery shells and mountain artillery shells that could blow him to nothing once he was killed, as well as 700,000 rounds of ammunition enough for 3,000 people to replenish twice.
At least for now, he seems to have made the right bet, since he led the remnants to retreat to the cart, the Chinese artillery not only stopped, but even the gunfire stopped.
It's just that what are the Chinese thinking? How could they guarantee to kill themselves and others at the same time, but also to ensure that they could capture this huge batch of baggage? Ishida Inoue desperately used his brain to think from the opponent's standpoint. This is now eager to transform into the legendary extremely smart Yixiu brother, as long as Ge draws a circle on his head, the idea comes.
People who don't think hard may not be qualified to think.
When Ishida Inoue was scanning the mountains and forests and scanning Shi Feng, in fact, countless pairs of eyes were also looking at the location where he was hiding.
It is no longer possible to move more than two dozen carts. In order to fear that the pack horse would be frightened and pull the baggage down the ravine, the bayonet battalion specially organized a team of sharpshooters to snipe the pack horse, but before they could do anything, the Japanese army also shot the pack horse at the first time because they were afraid that the pack horse would be frightened and drag the cart to cause damage to the infantry on the mountain road.
If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese commander was frightened and ordered the whole army to carry out a decisive charge on the hillside, the Japanese troops who resisted stubbornly by the bunkers on the side of the mountain road did not need to shoot much, and the pack horses who were frightened by the sound of gunfire and artillery could have killed them with a cart.
Of course, even then, there may be more people left of them than they do now.
However, there are no ifs in this world. After witnessing the frantic artillery fire of the bayonet battalion, the Japanese commander wisely chose the order for the whole army to counterattack up the mountain. This is the same as the red troops, who had no experience in fighting with the Japanese army, did not understand the combat effectiveness and equipment of the Japanese army at the beginning, so they suffered a big loss. Lieutenant Ishida, who gave the order to fight back to the death, could not have imagined that he would encounter dense fire that he had never encountered in his life, which led to such terrible consequences.
You must know that in the main battlefield of the river valley, the engineer company threw more than 400 explosives bags, and only killed and injured more than 400 people, which is about the same as the casualties of the Japanese army here, but it is nearly 3,000 kilograms of explosives! If they are all thrown here, the Japanese invaders here can be blown to ashes, and no one will want to stay.
Hiding in the grass with binoculars and scanning over and over again at the 300-meter-long queue of carts lined up along the mountain road, there were four soldiers, that is, Liu Dazhu, the deputy commander of the bayonet battalion, and the two infantry company commanders, almost all the high-ranking members of the bayonet battalion were here.
"What to do? Battalion commander? The little devils seemed to sense that we wanted to seize the baggage, so the dogs hid behind the cart and did not come out, nor did they run into the pile of stones we left for them. "The company commander of the first infantry company of the bayonet battalion was promoted by Liu Lang after the Battle of the Great Wall from one of the 1,300 veterans of the original 29th Route Army with mountain artillery.
"Don't panic, in this battle, we have basically achieved the strategic goal of the regimental commander, to completely annihilate the enemy army in the shortest time and at the lowest cost, the regimental commander has issued a military order, and it is best to capture the baggage, if the Japanese army cannot capture it due to stubborn resistance, the safety of the officers and soldiers themselves will be the first principle, and the total annihilation of the Japanese invaders will be the first goal." Wang Shubin, deputy commander of the bayonet battalion, shook his head with a smile on his face, not at all worried about the battle situation in front of him.
This is also an old man, one of the more than 20 officers who participated in the examination of the newly established independent regiment from the former 19th Route Army and passed the examination. It turned out to be a second lieutenant, and it has not been very conspicuous, the Great Wall was promoted to lieutenant and deputy company before the war, but the combat achievements were average, after the war, the military rank was promoted to captain, but the military rank was the security department, and the company-level cadres responsible for the protection of the scientific research department of the base left the front-line combat unit, and it was not until the establishment of the North Sichuan Security Regiment that the captain company commander was promoted to the captain battalion deputy and returned to the front-line troops.
The personality belongs to calm and cautious, and his thinking is extremely careful and he rarely makes mistakes, but he also lacks the momentum and blood of being a military commander, but he is still very competent as Liu Dazhu's deputy.
This remark made the two infantry company commanders' somewhat restless hearts calm down. As long as you don't violate military orders, everything is easy to say. The thunderous anger of the regimental commander before made the big guy's little heart still tremble!
To tell the truth, the Japanese army's batch of baggage, except for the bullets that can make them a little more excited and can make up for the previous crazy ammunition loss, what other shells, no one really cares about them, and that thing was captured and given to the 129th Division.
Let them exchange the lives of officers and soldiers for these things, and they are 10,000 unwilling in their hearts. Including Qiu Honghan, the commander of the second company from the red army, thought so.
This is a typical "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift"!