Chapter 394: Counterattack (1)
Don't say that he is a battalion commander, looking at these mortars and looking at them. Even if a regiment commander or even a brigade commander or a commander of a military subdivision, how can he be tempted when he sees these mortars? Li Ziyuan still remembers that in the first year of his eastward crossing of the Yellow River, his regiment captured a mortar, and although there were only more than ten shells, the regiment commander did not sleep all night when he was excited.
Now that there is an opportunity, it is strange that this battalion commander does not want to find a way to get his hands on these mortars. It's just that the battalion commander's idea is good, but Li Ziyuan, who has endured it until this time, can't give him too much time to touch the Japanese artillery position.
After the battalion commander rushed to the Japanese artillery position with his troops, Li Ziyuan, who was attacked by the Japanese puppet army for the last time. Ignoring the Japanese puppet army that was attacking, he did not hesitate at all and gave the order to attack on the whole line to the instructors of the battalion beside him.
As the loud military horn behind Li Ziyuan sounded, Li Ziyuan commanded a company that was blocking head-on, taking the lead in holding a rifle with a bayonet, and after a two-second pause* after throwing a batch of strings. Under the cover of the crossfire of the two light machine guns, it was mixed with the forces invested in the last round of the offensive of the Japanese puppet army.
After the frontal troops led by Li Ziyuan personally mixed with the attacking Japanese puppet army. The battalion instructor took a company, under the cover of dense fire from the heavy machine gun that Li Ziyuan had withdrawn before. Then he suddenly came out from the flank, and the Japanese puppet army, which was attacking in waves, came directly to cut it in two.
The Japanese puppet army, which was attacking in a wave-like straggler line, was caught off guard by Li Ziyuan's sudden counterattack. And according to Li Ziyuan's deployment, after cutting off the Japanese puppet army's attack formation. The instructor of the battalion took a company and went straight to the core position of the Japanese puppet army at the foot of the mountain.
The counterattack on the mountain was in full swing, and the entire Japanese puppet army had been alarmed. The battalion commander, who was bent on capturing mortars, could only reluctantly change the sneak attack to a strong attack. One of his reinforced companies, after quickly breaking up the Japanese mortars with only some pistols and a small number of rifles, launched an attack on the whole line from the outside to the inside according to Li Ziyuan's previous deployment.
However, he was a little unwilling, and left a squad to clear the remnants of the Japanese artillery positions and watch these mortars. He gave the squad leader a death order, and if he threw away even a cannonball, he had to settle accounts with him. Although most of the Japanese artillery was wiped out by him at the first time, and the rest was scattered, he was still worried about the destruction of these mortars.
After leaving a squad to look at a few captured mortars, he was relieved to divide the strength of a reinforced company in his hands into two. With the strength of two platoons, the company commander commanded the Japanese puppet army directly behind the Japanese puppet army, while he himself commanded the remaining troops and rushed towards the headquarters not far from the Japanese artillery position.
The three troops were like three sharp knives, smashing the entire formation of the Japanese puppet army. Although the Japanese army woke up from the attack in a very short time, except for the Japanese squad on the mountain, which had been attacked from both sides, the rest of the Japanese puppet army immediately moved as close as possible to the friendly forces around them, trying to establish a position and counterattack the eight-way confrontation.
But Li Ziyuan's timing was just right. It was precisely when the offensive of the first wave of the Japanese puppet army was repulsed, and the shock power of the second wave of the Japanese puppet army had not yet been brought into play. And because the frontal position in Dongshan is not open, the straggler line of the Japanese puppet army is very concentrated, and the distance between the front and rear is also a little large.
The Japanese puppet army under the mountain is adjusting its deployment, and is preparing for a third wave of impact according to the order of Hideo Ikeda's final blow. Li Ziyuan's focus can be said to be quite accurate. The company commanded by the battalion's instructor happened to be inserted into the Japanese puppet army's attack formation.
At this time, the Japanese puppet army under the mountain was opening the attack spacing according to the standard tactics of the Japanese army, and the firepower was arranged in a trapezoidal configuration. All the guns are pointed at the mountains. The company that suddenly inserted diagonally from the flank directly dispersed the Japanese puppet army under the mountain and cut off the connection between the mountain and the mountain.
Although it was not his own troops, and the command was a little uncomfortable, Li Ziyuan's focus was very accurate. The chosen moment of counterattack was the time when the Japanese puppet army was most caught off guard. In addition, the cadres of this battalion are still very resolute in obeying orders. Li Ziyuan's first tactical intention was still relatively successfully realized.
When the two forces in the fierce battle, one is always clenched into a fist, and the other is somewhat scattered for its own reasons, it is self-evident whose hands the initiative in this battle is in whose hands. And for the Japanese army, the puppet army, which is not strong in combat, has always been their weakness.
In particular, the company that came out from the flank, under the command of their instructor, clenched the whole company into a fist. After tearing apart the entire formation of the Japanese puppet army, it was pinched between the two Japanese puppet armies. In addition to inserting a force from behind to the back of the Japanese puppet army on the mountain.
He organized the rest of the troops, and the brother troops who rushed from behind, to rush into the formation of the second-line troops of the Japanese puppet army. And the first to be defeated on the entire battlefield was the Japanese puppet army that was making the last attack on the mountain. Under the attack from both sides and the enemy on the back and back, despite desperate struggles, they were soon in the stage of collapse without fire support.
According to the entire deployment of the Japanese puppet army, after the first wave of charging puppet troops was defeated, the puppet army took over the attack of the Japanese army, one of each reinforced rifle group and a machine gun group. The Japanese troops in this reinforced squad had just opened the straggler line, but they encountered a counterattack launched by Li Ziyuan.
The two rifle groups that were organizing the charge were heavily killed and wounded by Li Ziyuan*Yu, and were immediately drowned in the counterattack launched by Li Ziyuan. Two rifle crews plus a light machine gun were completely crushed without even a single wave.
Seeing the first wave of assault troops, they were a little unable to support the counterattack of the Eighth Road. The leader of the Japanese infantry squad who organized the second wave of Japanese attacks immediately commanded the second echelon to go up the mountain, but was caught off guard by a rain of heavy machine gun bullets that suddenly stopped him from the waist and directly knocked him down.
Before the rest of the Japanese could react, they were killed from the flank by the Eighth Road, cutting it off from the third wave, the two Japanese infantry squads behind them, who were ready to take over at any time. and ushered in the frontal counterattack troops that had already defeated his first batch of attacking troops, and swooped down directly along the mountain.
Despite facing the counterattack, the remnants of the Japanese army also tried to rally together to resist. But on the narrow front of the hillside, Li Ziyuan threw away his penetrating British-made rifle and raised his fast and slow machine. Coupled with the three shell guns in the hands of Da Li and the company commander and instructor, the alternating firepower directly dispersed the Japanese troops who tried to get close together.
For the counterattack forces that rushed out head-on, the conditions were created for three or two to one. After the scattered Japanese troops failed to break through to the bottom of the mountain, they were immediately drowned in the bayonet array. Although they were in an unfavorable situation, these Japanese troops were fierce and unabated. With a bayonet on his 38 rifle, he was still desperately trying to resist.
But the stabbing skills of this battalion have obviously been painstaking. With the cooperation of some of the troops who killed from behind, and with the help of several shell guns that kept pumping cold shots. The remnants of this squad only lasted less than ten minutes, and they became the first victims of Li Ziyuan's counterattack.
After clearing the Japanese puppet army on the hillside, Li Ziyuan took the captured crooked machine gun and personally acted as a machine gunner temporarily. With the cooperation of Da Li, who temporarily served as a secondary shooter by his side, he turned his guns on the spot and used accurate machine-gun fire to support the troops who continued to charge down the mountain.
Under Li Ziyuan's rapid impact, the Japanese puppet army that had been washed away under the mountain, although they were still resisting and trying to get closer to each other, but the puppet army could not withstand Li Ziyuan's rapid counterattack. In the direction commanded by the instructor of the battalion, the puppet army that was in the brunt of it was the first to break up when it could not bear the blow, some of them scattered and fled, and some of them directly disarmed and surrendered.
After defeating the puppet army on the right flank, the instructor did not pause in any way. Only one squad was left, and after disarming the surrendered puppet army, he took one of his own companies directly into the command position of the Japanese puppet army. At this time, a Type 92 heavy machine gun carried by this Japanese puppet army had been blown up by Li Ziyuan's frontal counterattack.
A Jin-made heavy machine gun carried by the puppet army also fell into his hands intact. After capturing this heavy machine gun, he did not politely use it directly. The heavy machine gunner who caught the puppet army, pointed his pistol at the guy's head, turned the muzzle of the gun and fired directly at the Japanese soldiers.
The two infantry platoons that came straight from behind the Japanese puppet army also rushed into the follow-up echelon of the Japanese puppet army at this time. After a while, he was mixed with the two Japanese infantry squads that remained behind, as well as some of the Japanese artillery scattered here, plus some of the puppet troops still under the control of the Japanese army.
And at this time, Hideo Ikeda was still arrogant before. Facing the eight roads rushing from three sides, he couldn't resist. After several attempts to regroup the forces that had been scattered had failed. Under the persuasion of the people around him, he could only take the command headquarters and retreat to the west while fighting. In a panic, he didn't even have time to send a telegram asking for help.
There was no way, and the Hachiro on the mountain suddenly launched a counterattack, and the amount of power invested was completely beyond Ikeda's expectations. After being taken by surprise and losing the artillery at the first moment. He had only one rifle group to guard the command of the force, which was already directly exposed to the attack route of the Eighth Road.
The two platoons of the Eighth Road, which had plunged straight into his headquarters, barely made much effort, rushed to a distance of less than a hundred meters from his headquarters, and had already cut off the connection between his position and the troops in front. Seeing that the Eighth Road, which had rushed to the close range, the troops around him could no longer be assembled, and Hideo Ikeda, who was moving closer to him, couldn't help but be a little flustered.
Because their mounts were tied to the pack horses of the artillerymen, they all fell into the hands of the Eighth Road. If we wait until the telegram is sent and we are evacuating, it is estimated that we will be surrounded by the Eighth Route and will never be able to withdraw again. In desperation under the persecution of reality, this Hideo Ikeda Shaozo could only give up asking for help.
On the one hand, he scolded the eight-way commander on the mountain for being cunning, first playing a trick with himself, then giving himself a snake into the hole, and finally giving himself a dark Chen Cang. On the one hand, with a few guards around him, taking advantage of a mountain pass on the left flank, he had not yet found that the Eighth Road was rushing out quickly.