Chapter 124: A Thousand Miles to Kill Generals! (below)
Li Jie's choice of offensive angle can be described as very tricky, attacking from the direction of Jianshan, which happened to hit the weakest part of Sasaki United's position.
Sasaki's position was a long, narrow, oblique diamond-shaped formation, set up with heavy machine guns and mortars.
A heavy machine gun in the center responds, and two heavy machine guns are set up at the four corners. The two heavy machine guns at each vertex were arranged in a left-up-right and bottom-left manner, which ensured that a battalion in the town would have at least four heavy machine guns to respond immediately no matter which direction of the position was attacked.
The machine gun positions are arranged in such a way that they can ensure that the positions taken are foolproof, and then slowly advance according to this pattern, as long as there is enough time, in fact, there is no need for reinforcements, and Sasaki is enough to take the entire town, of course, it will take a certain amount of time.
However, what Sasaki Wan didn't expect was that the third battalion would attack from Jianshan and attack the northwest corner of the position!
All the arrangements of the positions were arranged in accordance with the "southwest-northeast" direction as the main fire area, but the northwest direction chosen by the 3rd Battalion was precisely perpendicular to this optimal direction of firefighting, that is, attacking in this direction would suffer the weakest fire impact.
Even if the devil reacted immediately and adjusted the aiming direction of various weapons, in nearly ten minutes, the three battalions would only be under the pressure of three heavy machine guns at most!
Ten minutes is enough time to do a lot of things.
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"Battalion commander, the third battalion has launched an attack on the devil from the direction of Jianshan!"
In the temporary battalion headquarters, listening to the report of his subordinates, Bai Lin's eyebrows suddenly danced.
"How? I knew that Li Monkey wouldn't look at it, his eyes were poisonous! It's impossible not to take this opportunity!
A company commander! Suppress all the remaining forces and leave no one behind! Bypass the firefight area where the second and third companies in front of you are entangled with the devil's vanguard troops, and go straight to the devil's main position! Respond to the second battalion! ”
"Yes!"
How could the commander of the first company not understand that this was the last trembling of the eighty-eight worshippers, and immediately had no objections, and mixed the last eighty people of the first company into a sharp knife death squad, and personally led the team to take the Sasaki United from the west by detour.
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"Brothers! Now we're only four of us left in this team! Starting with me, I take the lead! The head of the regiment said: It is called shame and courage!
This time, I definitely won't miss again! Definitely kill the captain of the devil wing, Sasaki Shiroku, in this Nanzhang Town! ”
The first battalion was about to shake off the aftermath, and the second detachment of the sharpshooter team also held a short meeting, Geng Shuangxi looked at the other three team members who still had combat effectiveness, and gritted his back molars and said hatefully.
It was he who shot and killed Koike at the entrance of the town before, but in fact, that shot was strictly a miss.
Dazuo, such a high-ranking target, Geng Shuangxi is the first time he has encountered it, and because of this, he hurriedly aimed and shot with a little excitement and nervousness, otherwise he would not be discovered by Xiao Chi, who was observing at will.
"Yes!"
As Geng Shuangxi finished speaking, the three snipers responded in unison, and quickly dispersed like night owls, disappearing from the battlefield.
Geng Shuangxi nodded silently and put on a camouflage suit for himself.
It is said that it is a camouflage suit, but in fact it is extremely simple, just a pile of gray and yellow cloth tied together, smeared with mud, and in some places a rope is worn to tie a few burnt wood chips. This is something Geng Shuangxi made on the battlefield temporarily, and it can be regarded as his wit in a hurry.
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"Battalion commander! You see, the town has also launched an assault on the devil's position! ”
Yao Gang's joyful words attracted Li Jie's attention, and he hurriedly cast his gaze to the south, and sure enough, he saw a company of death squads attacking across the devil's position.
"Good! Bai Lin's shot is always so timely! Let's gnaw this hard bone with the first battalion! ”
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"Wing Commander, both sides of the position were attacked by the Eighth Route Army at the same time, and their attack was very fierce."
Kato reported to Sasaki expressionlessly, and there was still a little doubt in his tone.
"It's really a terrible intuition, these Eighth Route Army may have felt that the battle has reached this stage, for them, it is equivalent to suicide if it drags on any longer, they are in a hurry to end the battle."
Sasaki didn't have as many doubts as Kato, but was a little emotional. In his opinion, no matter how the officers of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side can be said to be qualified commanders, although the reaction is a little slower, but they still steadily suppress the rhythm of the battle.
"It's a pity, if they hadn't met me, I'm afraid they would all be very good soldiers in the future."
Thinking of this, Sasaki couldn't help but sigh. Kato was on the side, but he was still talking about the scenery, disturbing Sasaki's "sentimentality".
"Captain, you have a point, but I still don't understand the point of what they are doing. Maybe theoretically they should do it, but in practice their offense doesn't make sense at all!
The Eighth Route Army now has no advantage over us in terms of strength or equipment, and they are still attacking our positions as an attacker.
Even if they are attacking our weaknesses right now and making it a little difficult for us to restrain them, we will eventually react.
By that time, they will surely die. Although we may also lose a lot, we must be the ones who will survive in the end!
So, no matter what they do, the end result is going to be the same, and I don't understand why they're doing it. ”
After listening to Kato's point of view, Sasaki squinted his eyes and raised his eyebrows, looking relaxed.
"Makes sense, that's a problem. I don't know why.
But it doesn't matter, if they don't take the initiative, maybe I still have to wait for Matsuura-kun to arrive. You know, their defense is just too tough.
However, they wanted to take the initiative to attack. The moment they attacked, they had already lost ......"
"Wing Captain !!"
Before Sasaki's words were finished, a communication soldier ran over quickly, shouting loudly, disturbing Sasaki's mood that had just improved.
"Bastard! What are you yelling about?! ”
Sasaki immediately scolded angrily, but because the battle in front of him suddenly went smoothly, he didn't slap the soldier.
Hearing Sasaki's scolding, the communications soldier subconsciously dodged back, but still dutifully reported to Sasaki.
"Captain! I just received a telegram that the Dragon King Temple was attacked, the bus station was destroyed, and all the soldiers left behind were shattered. ”
With that, the communications soldier handed the message he had just translated to Sasaki with both hands.
“……”
Shake! Sasaki found his hands shaking. It's not the fear, it's the cold. Sasaki felt a chill spread from the soles of his feet to his spine and spread throughout his body, as if he was being targeted by the most ferocious beast.
"Impossible! No way! How could the Eighth Route Army still have reserve troops?! Could it be that they didn't use all their strength in the previous battle?! ”
Sasaki is like a crazy person dreaming, it is really the Dragon King Temple that is too important to him, it is not only his logistics channel, but also his back road! If the Dragon King Temple is lost, then it is very likely that he will not be able to get the deer back!
"It's a trap!"
It didn't take long for Sasaki to realize the seriousness of the problem.
"Bastard! Are you underestimating me? I'm not going to die here! We're going to get out of the fight right away! ”
Sasaki gritted his teeth and said that he finally understood why the Eighth Route Army in the town and Jianshan still attacked the position knowing that it was not his opponent. Because their own purpose is not to win, but to procrastinate!
Their purpose is to hold themselves back, and when the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army arrive, they will show a situation of encirclement against themselves!
"Find a way out of the fight! After the centralized automatic weapons are broken, we will move from the south and join up with Matsuura-kun! ”
Sasaki immediately gave the order to retreat, and at this time, even if he had a good face, he did not hesitate at all. He understood that a commander like Yue Siliang would not make meaningless arrangements. Since the other party dares to cut off his back road, it must be inevitable, and Sasaki will not be stupid to leave any luck.
However, Sasaki was still a bad move after all, just when he had just given the order for the team to move south, from the area of Donggou south of Nanzhang, a small force appeared to advance to the north, it was the eighth company that had retreated earlier!
After the Eighth Company came into contact with the regimental headquarters Di Hanming, it was equivalent to coming into contact with the overall situation of the entire battle situation, and Yue Siliang therefore improvisedly dispatched the Eighth Company to close the door and fight the dogs.
Although the number of the Eighth Company was small, less than a hundred. But at this time, even a force of twenty people is particularly crucial. As long as Sasaki can't solve the obstacle in front of him in an instant, then he can't jump out of Yue Siliang's encirclement!
"Captain! There is no other way to do it now! ”
Kato's eyes suddenly turned red at this time, and he excitedly asked Sasaki for help.
“……”
After being silent for a long time, looking at the soldiers who still didn't know that they were already under siege, thinking about the current situation that he had no way to retreat, Sasaki was also aroused.
"We have more than six hundred excellent Imperial soldiers here! I want to see why he has so much faith! Let's fight to the death! Ladies and gentlemen! Who is the prey and who is the hunter, it is not yet known! ”
On the way from the Dragon King Temple to Nanzhang, Yue Siliang can be said to be excited.
That's a wing captain! It is possible that you will have to leave it here today, and of course it is possible that you will be left by the other party. Thinking of this, Yue Siliang's chest swelled for a while.
So far, the 424th Regiment has suffered heavy losses, and he is finally going to wrestle with this old opponent!
"Battlegroups, get ready! Today is the day when our 424 regiment becomes famous! ”
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