Chapter 235: The Great Battle of Xiaohongshan (1)
"Have you explored further?"
Sun Yumin knew very well that these two guys were not the masters of peace, and when they saw the guard post running away, they would not follow to take a look.
"Go, we're both gone." Silly Bear grinned, "We also ran to the top of Xiaohong Mountain, and saw that there were several senior officials of the New Fourth Army in Shuikou Temple, and the few who drank with us on the first day of the Lunar New Year were there." ”
"You mean Commander They?"
Sun Yumin's eyes lit up, he was a little excited, if Gao Jingting came, it would mean that it was not only the Seventh Regiment that was blocking in Xiaohongshan, and with the strength and combat power of the four detachments of the New Fourth Army, it should not be difficult to hold this blocking position.
Since there is no need to go to the position to support himself, if he leads his troops to penetrate behind the enemy and launch a surprise attack from behind the enemy while the two sides are in full swing, then this blocking battle may turn into a war of annihilation.
Now the only variable is whether the devil puppet army in Lu'an will come to help, if it comes, according to common sense, it should be fought at this time, but now the surroundings of Xiaohongshan are still quiet; If they didn't come, the Seventh Regiment and their own companies and three companies, plus these brothers who had just surrendered, would have worked hard in vain.
"I don't understand, the devils and the puppet army haven't come so late, why are these New Fourth Army still preparing to block?"
Silly Bear said his question, he was not stupid, he was just too lazy to use his brain, he wiped the mud on his feet with hay, while waiting for Sun Yumin to answer.
"Who said the enemy wouldn't come?"
Sun Yumin's unintentional act of being wiped by a stupid bear inspired him at once, and he immediately understood why the enemy of Lu'an had not yet arrived, that is, the mud of the mountain road after the rain. The devils and the puppet army have trucks, but they are definitely not enough to transport all the troops to Huoshan, they also rely on two legs to march, such a muddy mountain road, it is inevitable that the marching speed will be slowed down.
"It's almost midnight, and I haven't heard any movement yet, how can I still come?" Silly Bear was a little unconvinced.
"Believe it or not, they're all coming." Sun Yumin didn't dare to play this package ticket, but suddenly found a bright light flashing in the night sky in front of him, which made him full of confidence that the enemy's convoy was not far away.
Seeing that the stupid bear was still carrying it with him, he hurriedly made a gesture to shut him up, and then said, "You two have a way to tell Commander Gao that we have arrived." It's better for me to meet him, or he can come and meet me. ”
"It's not a big problem, when I came back earlier, they were making a defensive position in this direction, obviously treating us as enemies." Zhou Shanjun is not like a stupid bear, he does things neatly and observingly, he continued: "As long as we are careful and don't let people misunderstand, it shouldn't be difficult to meet Commander Gao." ”
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The hastily arranged improvised defense of the pistol regiment made Gao Jingting feel a little more at ease. There are wolves in front and tigers in the back, and the seventh regiment and themselves are actually in danger, but fortunately, the dark night is the best cover, as long as you don't shoot on your side and let the enemy pass, you shouldn't be discovered.
The sound of the car's engine was already faintly audible, and the lights piercing the night sky could be seen from time to time, Gao Jingting had never been so nervous that he wanted to go to the position to see it for himself.
"Report to the commander, two people in national army uniforms came to the front of the pistol regiment position, saying that they were ordered by a man named Sun Dongjia to ask to see you."
A warrior hurried into the small temple, and without breathing, he uttered this large pile.
Hearing this, Gao Jingting suddenly understood that what was coming behind him was not an enemy, but his own friendly army. I was really taken aback before, and I was going to give up this blocking, but now it seems that I am fortunate that I did not withdraw my troops from the position in advance, otherwise it would have been too late to block it again.
"Let them in." Gao Jingting hurriedly said to the soldier who reported the news.
Silly Xiong and Zhou Shanjun, under the leadership of a New Fourth Army soldier, came to Shuikou Temple, told Gao Jingting what Sun Yumin meant, and asked: "Commander Gao, our host asks if he wants to come here to meet you, or ......."
"Don't waste this time, you tell Sun Dongjia that there are four detachments of troops in front of him, and he just needs to go around behind the enemy with confidence and boldness. After this battle, we invited him to drink, last time it was in Yangshupu, this time it was time to go to the headquarters of our four detachments. ”
Gao Jingting already understood Sun Yumin's plan, since he dared to go around behind the enemy's ass to attack, then he would buy them time, if he could really work with one blow, then he would launch a counter-charge at that time, and the enemy would be defeated with a flanking attack on both sides. He expected that the reason why Sun Yumin proposed a meeting was because he was worried that his frontal resistance would go wrong, or because he was worried that he would not do his best and wanted to reassure him, but in fact, there was no need for this.
Silly Xiong and Zhou Shanjun returned with satisfactory results, and also brought the news that the Japanese puppet army of Lu'an was about to arrive at Xiaohongshan, this news actually does not need to be said by them, everyone already knows that the sound of the car's engine and the snow-white light of the probe from time to time are the best warning.
"Cunxiang, Wenbin, it's time for you two to show your faces." When Sun Yumin said this, he was not as serious as when he issued the order before, but with a hint of a smile, but this faint smile made people feel palpitations even more under the light of the torch.
"Brothers, fire extinguishers, come with me." Dai Cunxiang said this sentence in a low voice, which was passed down one by one by the soldiers of the first company, and the few torches that were originally few were inserted into the mud, and the whole world fell into darkness at once, and the soldiers of the first and third companies, including hundreds of soldiers who surrendered from the Imperial Cooperative Army, disappeared from the road in an instant as if they were suddenly swallowed by darkness.
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The unusually muddy road made Miyamoto Junichi bitter, the original two or three hours away, now he walked for four or five hours, but there was still some distance from Huoshan.
The soldiers in the truck were better, but they were bumpy for a few hours, and the ones who walked were really tired, and they were so tired that they didn't want to move. This damn red clay is so slimy that it's almost impossible to walk an inch.
If he hadn't been in a hurry to rescue Huo Shan, he really wanted to let these soldiers who had been fighting with the mud all night rest.
Not long after the side of the road went out of the city, the wheels were blocked by the sticky mud, and they couldn't move forward half a step at all, so they could only use more than ten trucks full of soldiers to act as a march, this kind of marching army column Miyamoto Junichi was actually not satisfied, in his psychology, the precious army warriors of the Great Japanese Empire should be in the middle, but there is no way, he can't let the Imperial Army sit in a car, and let these elites under his command march on foot.
Sitting in the cab, Junichi Miyamoto was drowsy, the night was already very deep, if it wasn't for this sudden situation, why did he have to follow the sin of the car for these few hours. Not only him, but most of the soldiers in the rear compartment were also closing their eyes to recuperate, and even the soldiers who were lying on the roof of the cab with machine guns were hiding in the compartment because of the cold.
Except for the ghost soldiers on foot and the complaining shouts and scolding of the puppet army, the entire slowly marching team can hardly see the lifeless and lifeless appearance, which makes people hardly believe that this is the unit of the unstoppable devil puppet army that is usually arrogant.
Zhang Changde was also drowsy in the cab, he wanted to sleep for a while, but just squinted, he was awakened by the sudden bump, and glanced at the front of the car with his sleepy eyes, but in addition to seeing his embarrassed soldiers, there was only a long list of car lights at the front.
"How far is it to Huoshan?"
Zhang Changde couldn't help but ask, in fact, he had asked this question many times along the way, but every time the driver answered, it was like pouring a scoop of cold water on his heart.
But not this time, before the driver could answer his words, a strange cry suddenly came from outside.
It was the sound of a grenade thrown through the air, and as he sat in the cab with the glass window closed, the sound could be heard clearly, not to mention the soldiers who were marching on foot outside.
Zhang Changde looked around, only to see that the soldiers who were still fighting with the mud, after hearing this sound, either rolled into the drainage ditch on the side of the road, or directly fell into the thin mud on the road, no one cared about the mud and cold on the ground at this time. The veteran oilers, the grenade had not exploded yet, and they had already dodged when they heard this sound, leaving only some recruits or soldiers who had never fought in the war still looking curiously.
The driver who drove the car was obviously a veteran, and he directly stepped on the brakes, and when the car stopped, the person had already shrunk under the seat, and the action was so fast that Zhang Changde was dumbfounded.
This was nothing, and what shocked him even more was the fire and the sound of explosions outside, which was not at all the effect of the sound of those grenades just now.
The truck he was in was in the middle of the entire marching team, and the situation was better, the Japanese trucks at the front were simply caught in a sea of fire, and the continuous explosions and the light and heavy machine guns that began to sound were announcing to the devil puppet army on the highway that you were ambushed.
No, there is no ambush, if it is an ambush, it will definitely not only be attacked by the front convoy, it will definitely wait until most or all of it enters the ambush circle before firing guns, but this wave of attacks just now, although it is very fierce, is not enough to deal a fatal blow to this mixed combined force, but it seems to be blocking.
Zhang Changde came from the Sichuan army, and he has been marching and fighting for many years, so he can see at a glance what his opponent is doing.
The ghost soldiers on the more than ten trucks in front of them were attacked by this sudden attack, and the casualties were heavy. From afar, Zhang Changde could see that there were ghost soldiers jumping under the car in anger, he didn't have the slightest sympathy, but showed an undeserved smile on his face.
"My brethren have been trampling in the mud for hours, you have slept comfortably in the car for a few hours, and now the retribution is coming." Zhang Changde's muttering voice was not small, and the veteran driver hiding under the seat looked at Zhang Changde with a blank expression, how could he understand the thoughts of this commander with the rank of major general.
Gao Jingting personally gave the order to fire on several baby pimple artillerymen, and these grenadiers were specially brought over by him when he came over with the pistol regiment for reinforcements. The two mortars that Sun Yumin gave to the four detachments, Gao Jingting was not willing to bring them out, but only brought out the four grenadiers. Combined with the grenades of the fighters, the momentum of these four small cannons is also quite bluffing.
Neither the grenades nor the grenades hurt Junichi Miyamoto, but the machine-gun fire shattered the glass, and the splattered shards of glass embedded in his face, making him shiver with pain, almost forgetting that he was the supreme commander of the unit.
Fortunately, his driver helped open the car door, pulled him out of the car, and under the cover of several soldiers, he finally hid near Zhang Changde.
"What kind of place is this? How could there be an ambush position for the Shina army. ”
Jun Miyamoto's glass slag on his face had been pulled out by himself, and he pressed the not deep wound with a handkerchief, and asked angrily.
"Miyamoto-kun, this place is called Xiaohong Mountain, it is the remnant of Dabie Mountain, this mountain is not high, and there is a Shuikou Temple on the mountainside."
Zhang Changde told this place like a treasure, if the people on the side didn't know about this same question, he would have asked it first and knew the answer, and he would think that he was really familiar with it.
"Brigade Commander Zhang knows about this? Do you know who ambushed us? ”
Junichi Miyamoto's eyes have been looking at the situation in front with concern, he really regrets it at this time, he shouldn't have let his soldiers be at the front, and now he is ambushed, and most of the dead and wounded are the emperor's loyal warriors.
"Miyamoto-kun, you're wrong, this isn't an ambush position, it's just a blocking position, didn't you notice that these people didn't swallow our thoughts? They just want to stop us from rushing to the rescue in a short period of time. ”
As if to confirm his words, after a fierce attack, the battlefield, which had been as miserable as the Shura Field before, suddenly fell silent, not to mention grenades and grenades, and not even the sound of machine guns could be heard.
Junichi Miyamoto can actually see that this is just a blocking position, not an ambush position that wants to swallow himself, he didn't notice it for a while, but he was shocked by this sudden attack, and the pain on his face made him lose the ability to think for a short time.
"It's really too hateful, the Chinese army is so hateful, they blew up all my cars, and now I can't rescue Huoshan City quickly." Junichi Miyamoto scolded, but this was obviously not angry, and he said to Zhang Changde again: "Brigade Commander Zhang, what do you say we should do now?" Is it to knock out this blocking position? Or do you want to bypass here and go to Huoshan? ”
"Miyamoto-kun, how can we get around such a road? And if we don't defeat this blocking position, even if we get to Huoshan, it is not equivalent to having a knife behind us, ready to give us a fatal blow at any time. ”
Zhang Changde replied to Miyamoto without thinking about it, and immediately regretted it as soon as the words came out, he knew very well that Miyamoto Junichi was a person, and the reason why he asked like this was that he would definitely arrange for the troops of the Imperial Association Army to attack.
"Brigade Commander Zhang, what you said is very reasonable, you can't let a knife threaten behind your back, you can arrange an attack first. I want to see how many national troops are on the blocking position! ”
Sure enough, Junichi Miyamoto dug the pit early and waited for Zhang Changde to jump down.