Chapter 48: Ishida Kanzo

Xiao Siming's calculation was really accurate, the captain of the 119th Wing of the Japanese Army, Ishida Jinzo Daisa, really went to the opposite mountain beam and personally went to the line of fire to command the battle!

After the battle began, Ishida Jinzo Daisa set up the headquarters of the wing in Lujiazhuang, south of Nianzigou, and relied on radio and field telephones to communicate with the front.

After receiving the telegram for help from the 1st Infantry Brigade, Ishida Jinzo Daisa did not believe that how could an elite Japanese Army brigade be defeated by the blocking Eighth Route Army and lose its combat effectiveness?

Ishida Jinzo Daisa, who was puzzled, couldn't sit still in the command center, and ordered the headquarters to be transferred and go directly to the front line!

After giving the order, Ishida Jinzo rode his beloved snow-white Oriental war horse, led the wing headquarters and the transport team and communication team that accompanied the wing headquarters, and hurried towards the battlefield.

When they approached the mountain beam where the artillery position was located, the corpses of Japanese soldiers appeared on the side of the road, neatly arranged, and it was clear that the troops in front had collected the bodies of the war dead, and at the same time collected the weapons and ammunition carried by the war dead.

Ishida jumped off his horse in a decent manner, walked up to the corpse, took off his military hat, hung his head, and mourned in silence.

This part of the devils who were killed died under the guns of the reconnaissance platoon of the independent battalion!

There were too many corpses of the Japanese army, and Ishida Kanazo Daisa was in a hurry to rush to the line of fire, so it was naturally impossible to face the Japanese corpses on the road one by one, so he ordered the accompanying Japanese transport team to wait until the end of the battle, and be sure to cremate these warriors who were loyal to the emperor, transport the ashes back to the wing station, and then send them back to the mainland with the death notice.

Since the 119th Wing went on the battlefield of aggression against China, it has never suffered such a loss as today!

When the 119th Wing captured Jiyang in Shandong, because the battlefield commander's arm was wounded, the old devil Ishida Jinzo ordered a seven-day massacre in Jiyang, causing a bloody case.

Now that the little devil has died so many people, the evil Ishida Jinzang has already been angry in his heart, and he is ready to wait for the elimination of the blocking Eighth Route Army and the capture of the county seat of Yuxian, and give the troops a seven-day holiday, so that the soldiers can engage in killing competitions and carnivals in Yuxian for seven days, and rob all the food, livestock, property, and women. It's just that Ishida Jinzo is the captain of the wing, he is Dazuo, not those ordinary soldiers, what do you think in your heart, you won't say it at this time, he has to command the troops to eliminate the blocking force of the Eighth Route Army first.

Ishida Kanazo put on a straight face, rode a war horse, and went up to the mountain beam where the Japanese artillery position was located.

This mountain beam is the mountain beam that the reconnaissance platoon held when it blocked the attack, that is, the mountain beam opposite when Xiao Siming and Wang Meng led the third company and a platoon, a fire platoon, and a heavy machine gun platoon to block the attack, and the mountain beam southeast of the Nianzigou is separated from the mountain beam that Xiao Siming is holding on to now.

The Japanese army's wing artillery team and infantry artillery squadron were on this mountain beam, and the four mountain guns and four infantry artillery platoons were neatly platooning the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou where Xiao Siming and his men were defending.

Standing on the artillery position, if you observe it with a telescope, you can see the general situation of the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou, where the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army, which is much higher than this mountain beam, and the Japanese artillery team is completely organized, there are observers in front, and the 18-watt small radio station that captured the devil through the independent battalion can report the shelling parameters to the artillery position, direct the artillery to open fire, and the artillery will naturally hit very accurately.

It is a pity that there are rows of corpses of the war dead collected by the Japanese army on the mountain beams, and the smell of blood is too strong, and it is easy for people to have a kind of defeat mentality, which is not conducive to boosting morale. In addition, after all, this place was too far away from the rental position of the Eighth Route Army, and too far from the attack position of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, so Ishida Jinzo told the artillery team of the wing to pay attention to vigilance and strictly prevent the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army, and left the transport team behind, let them undertake the task of guarding and protecting the artillery position, and he took the wing headquarters, the communications team, and the third brigade that had been left in the artillery position to be responsible for vigilance and protection, and marched to the opposite mountain beam.

Xiao Siming and Wang Meng led a platoon of three companies, a fire support platoon, and a platoon of heavy machine gun teams to block the Japanese army here, which had been occupied by the Japanese army at this time. The 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 119th Wing of the Japanese Army had already established a position on the mountain beam, and the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 119th Wing of the Japanese Army even advanced to Nianzigou Village and launched the first attack on the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army, which was defeated.

Ishida Kanzo traveled all the way, and when he reached the bottom of the mountain beam occupied by the 2nd Brigade, the corpses of Japanese soldiers collected by the troops in front were placed on the road. Ishida Jinzo rode on his horse and did not dismount to mourn the battle dead, but he was silently counting the number of war dead in his heart, weighing whether the statement reported by the captain of the 1st Infantry Brigade on the telegram that his brigade had lost its combat effectiveness was true.

After calculating it, Ishida Jinzo's heart became irritable, and he felt that the captain of the first brigade should die, and he felt that these war dead were even more damned! They were killed by a unit of the Eighth Route Army that was not the main force of the Chinese army, the prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army made them ruined, and His Majesty the Emperor disgraced them, these unlucky bastards should have died a long time ago!

After going up the mountain beam and meeting with the second infantry brigade and the wing engineer team on the mountain beam, the old devil Ishida Jinzo, who was full of evil, climbed into the crater himself, held a telescope and observed it closely, and saw that there was silence on the beam opposite, and there seemed to be no Eighth Route Army, and he was immediately annoyed.

Ishida Jinzo, who finally broke out, grabbed the military uniform on the chest of the captain of the second brigade, crackled and slapped a few times, and the cheeks of the devil captain were swollen when he hit him!

After the slap, the anger in Ishida's chest was released a little, and he began to question why the second brigade had been delayed in fighting and supporting the first brigade in the battle.

The captain of the second brigade of the Japanese army was not unwilling to support the first brigade in the operation, but was afraid that his own brigade would repeat the mistakes of the first brigade!

The captain of the second brigade covered his red and swollen face with one hand, and reported that this Eighth Route Army was particularly cunning and best at concealment. Now seeing that the blocking position is quiet, the Eighth Route Army must have withdrawn behind the mountain beam. When the troops reach the mountain beam, they will suddenly burst out and fire fiercely, eliminating the Imperial warriors who have attacked the mountain beam!

The commander of the Second Brigade also explained that the enemy's situation was unknown, and he did not know at all the number and strength of the Eighth Route Army, and that the Second Brigade had to hold on to this mountain ridge to cover the operations of the First Brigade and ensure the connection with the artillery positions behind it and the Third Brigade.

This is indeed a relatively safe measure!

Ishida Jinzo didn't believe it, and asked suspiciously: "After attacking the mountain beam, with the accurate shooting, assassination, and bomb throwing skills of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army can still drive the imperial warriors down from the mountain beam?" ”

The captain of the Second Infantry Group of the Devil pointed to the corpses of the Japanese soldiers that had been cleaned up and placed at the end of the mountain beam and said, "Your Excellency Dazuo, these imperial warriors have all fallen on the mountain beam at our feet!" At that time, we could clearly see through the binoculars that the soldiers of the first brigade had rushed up the mountain beam, and also sent back the flag signal to occupy the mountain beam, but suddenly the gunfire rang out, and these soldiers who had just occupied the mountain beam fell backwards in rows as if pushed by the waves. The counterattack troops of the Eighth Route Army reoccupied the mountain beam, and before our artillery fire covered it, repelled the follow-up troops of the 1st Brigade that was advancing on the main road and on the hillside! ”

The situation is already very clear, but Ishida Jinzo is a murderer and an aggressive maniac, and he will not believe that his 119th Wing cannot defeat the Chinese army, thinking that the captain of the 1st Brigade is too much of a rice bucket and waste, and does not understand tactics, which leads to the troops being ambushed continuously and suffering a big loss.

As a result, Ishida Jinzo began to get busy, and ordered the radio to contact the brigade headquarters, asking His Excellency the brigade commander for urgent tactical guidance, so that the 136th Wing, which was responsible for attacking the county seat of Yuxian County on two roads, divided its troops to attack and advance to Nianzigou, and surrounded the Eighth Route Army that was blocking at Nianzigou.

Then, Ishida Jinzo asked the radio to contact the air force at Taiyuan Airport, asking them to increase their support for the front line of Nianzigou, carry out multiple sorties of uninterrupted bombing of the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou, cover the 119th Wing's capture of the mountain beam, and eliminate the Eighth Route Army that blocked the 119th Wing's march to Yuxian County.

To the surprise of Ishida Jinzang Daisa, the call back from Taiyuan Airport actually said that there was no Eighth Route Army on the northwest mountain beam of Nianzigou, and it was the troops of the first brigade of the 119th Wing, and this damn battle should have stopped, because this was an infighting in the 119th Wing. The Great Japanese Army Aviation does not intervene in the internal strife of the 119th Wing!

Ishida Jinzang is so angry with the old devil, his nose is crooked, and his mustache is up!

However, the statement of the aviation corps reminded Ishida of the awakening, and he remembered that the intelligence reported by the captain of the 1st Brigade of the 136th Wing said that the Eighth Route Army, which continuously ambushed and attacked them in Yuxian, was the best at stripping off the uniforms of the soldiers killed in the Imperial Army and camouflaging the Imperial Army's sneak attack!

Ishida Kanzo immediately understood who his opponent was, but he didn't know the opponent's number or commander's name!

Ishida Kinzo immediately sent a report to the commander of the 118th Brigade, Major General Honchuan Province, reporting that the 119th Wing that was blocking the 119th Wing in Nianzigou was the hateful Shina unit that ambushed and attacked the 136th Wing in Yuxian. I implore Your Excellency the Brigade Commander to instruct the aviation to immediately increase the bombardment of the positions of the Eighth Route Army in the mountains northwest of Nianzigou, and to carry out multiple sorties of uninterrupted bombardment to cover the 119th Wing to eliminate this damn Eighth Route Army!

Ishida's trick worked! At this time, the commander of the 118th Brigade of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army, who was sitting in Yangquan, immediately contacted the Japanese army aviation at Taiyuan Airport, explained the situation, and ordered them to immediately dispatch to carry out multiple sorties and non-stop bombardment of the Eighth Route Army's blocking position on the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou to support the 119th Wing's operation!

At the same time, the third province of Benchuan also sent a telegram to the commander of the 136th Wing, Matsui Setsudasa, informing them that the 119th Wing's plan to attack Yuxian County had failed, and ordered them to quickly defeat the enemy in front of them, and after capturing the county seat, they immediately sent troops to attack the front line of Nianzigou, and cooperated with the 119th Wing to encircle this damned Eighth Route Army unit that had caused the 136th Wing to suffer heavy losses in Yuxian!

For a time, the eyes of all the units of the 118th Brigade of the Japanese Army were all staring at the small Nianzigou!