Chapter 38: The Struggle (5)
Under the leadership of Xiao Mao, they walked through the messy backyard and came to the Yangzhou Hotel.
At this time, in front of the Yangzhou Hotel, the battle was still raging. The two sides were separated by a road, each with machine gun fire on the other. It was not easy for those devils to occupy this hotel on the southeast corner of this cross street; Comparatively speaking, it would not be easy for Amin and the others to rush across the road and occupy the northeast corner of the opposite cross street.
At this time, this ten-meter-wide street has become the Huangquan Road where both sides will step on it to death, and no one dares to pull back a few corpses thrown in the middle of the road.
When he met Amin, he was directing the repulsion of a group of devils along the side of the street, from the right side of the street. Of course, his own casualties were not small. His company, including the company commander, deputy company commander, and signal corps, has more than 150 people, and now there are less than 100 people who can fight normally.
"Did Lao Liang send the three of you?" Like Xiao Mao, when he saw that it was only Xiao Linghu and the three of them, Ah Ming was a little disappointed.
"With our three reinforcements, it's already a lot!" Xiao Linghu said leisurely.
Ah Ming was stunned, hearing the gunshots everywhere nearby, he also knew that with the strength of one of their battalions, scattering in the middle of this town would be a drop in the bucket, and it was indeed a shortage of troops. He could also understand Liang Yan's helplessness, so he had to nod his head and say, "Okay, it's good to come!" ”
"How's it going on your side?" Xiao Linghu asked.
When the ring position of Cross Street was first captured by them, in order to reduce casualties, when the devils attacked, they took the initiative to abandon the street center position, which was easily regarded as a bull's-eye, and instead occupied three of the four corners of Cross Street.
Ah Ming shook his head and said: "This night, we have been forced to retreat by the devils, two of the three street corners have been lost, and now the Yangzhou Hotel here is the last street corner, if we lose it, we can only let the devils in the cross street, do whatever they want." ”
Xiao Linghu frowned, he was also a company commander, and he knew that when Ah Ming said these words, he was helpless.
Indeed, Liang Yan's task for their company was to defend the three corners of the cross street, as long as they occupied even one street corner, the ring position of the devil's cross street, it was impossible to fight as much as they wanted. And now, the street corner that Amin is guarding is also the highest position among the four street corners, as long as he occupies this hotel, he can condescend from the upper floor to strike at the devil's ring position.
The reason why the devils didn't care about the four corners of the cross street was because they didn't believe that ** could smoothly enter Luodian Town. The camouflage of the 1st Battalion was relatively successful, and it was able to enter the town without any problems. The battle started too suddenly, so that the devils were not able to follow their plan, mainly based on the ring position of the cross street, relying on the four street corners on all sides, to carry out effective strikes and blockades, so that it was difficult for the ** who could attack the town.
Obviously, the Orientals managed to focus on the circular position, but they did not have time to rely on the four street corners and were preempted by the men of the first battalion.
Now, they were about to gradually resume their plans, so it was inevitable to seize the four corners of Cross Street.
"How did you get those two street corners?" Xiao Linghu couldn't help asking. In his opinion, if you fail undefeated, you are afraid that you will not sum up your experience if you fail, and you may make it again next time.
As soon as he mentioned the loss of that street corner, Ah Ming was a little angry, and he told Xiao Linghu: "The environment of those two street corners is not good, they are exposed on three sides, and the devils can easily copy from the three breads, and they all enter the house, if we don't retreat, we will be wiped out by them!" ”
Ah Ming didn't say much, and he didn't say much clearly, but Xiao Linghu already understood.
In fact, the environment of the two street corners mentioned by Amin is not good because the buildings on those two street corners are bungalows, and there is a small attic on top of them, which cannot hide people at all. It's just that your house is not next to the other houses, forming a lonely peninsula, so it can be raided by the enemy.
Obviously, Amin made almost the same mistake in organizing the battle at the Yangzhou Hotel. Because the two sides of the Yangzhou Hotel have been connected with other shops, the devil will go around a long way to the back of the Yangzhou Hotel.
"These devils fight, almost the same!" Xiao Linghu said: "The most common strategy they use is to outflank them, if you don't take precautions, you will definitely be attacked by devils!" ”
Ah Ming was stunned, he also knew the devil's tricks, but when he really had to crack it himself, it was not easy.
"Just now, when we came, we killed a small team of six devils!" Xiao Linghu told the truth: "Those six devils came around from the other side of the street. ”
Listening to Xiao Linghu's words, Ah Ming couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
I only heard Xiao Linghu continue: "This kind of building is easy to guard, as long as it is in the periphery, where the devil is likely to appear, two or three people can be ambushed, it can be cracked, but it cannot be eliminated, and the effect of early warning can be achieved!" ”
Ah Ming's face turned a little red, although he also fought a lot of battles, but they were all fought with the Red Army, bandits, etc. in rural areas, and this was the first time he had a head-on confrontation with the devil. In fact, many of the units in **, including the 11th Division, were also engaged in a confrontation with the Japanese for the first time. The devils' operational principles, as well as their tactical qualities, are naturally not comparable to those of the Chinese army and its officers and men.
"Now we have to hurry up before the sky is bright and drive away the devils in front of us, otherwise we really have to wait for the dawn, which is when we are unlucky!" Xiao Linghu was afraid that Ah Ming would not know the urgency of time, so he told him like this.
Ah Ming nodded, he also knew what Xiao Linghu meant.
Nowadays, the devils have not used mortars and grenadiers, and their troops have these weapons that can fire grenades at close range, and when the visibility is good after dawn, they can strike at fixed points, so that they want to defend it, but it is not easy to defend it.
"It's not easy to get rid of the devil!" Ah Ming was a little frustrated: "Just now we have repelled five attacks by the devils, and two of them were almost succeeded by them and stormed the house. Now, we are just guarding this street corner without losing it, we really have to fight back, where is the strength! ”
Xiao Linghu thought for a moment and said, "Offense is the best defense!" In this way, the three of us, touch the back of the devil, fight behind them for a while, after you hear the voice, you will immediately fight back from the front, let's fight from both sides, this devil can only retreat! ”
"Is that okay?" Knowing that he could, Ah Ming couldn't help but ask.
"Absolutely!" Xiao Linghu is sure of authenticity.
"Okay, then you have to be careful!" Armin admonished.
"Yes!" Xiao Linghu responded, greeted Yizhimei and Sha Wenhua, and returned from the same way and walked out of the back door of the Yangzhou Hotel.