Chapter Eighty-Six: A Charge in the Night
The commander of the Japanese brigade stationed in Zhongxiang received a telegram from Araki Shaosa asking for help, and after knowing that the puppet army in Dongqiao Town had defected en masse, he immediately sent a brigade to relieve the siege. In the opinion of His Excellency the Brigade Commander, sending a Japanese brigade of more than 1,000 people was more than enough to deal with 2,000 puppet troops, and it was simply impossible to exert all the strength.
In fact, if this brigade can reach Dongqiao Town, and it happens to meet Gao Desheng's troops, Gao Desheng, a puppet army division, can be defeated by the devil in one face. The actual situation is that there are too many people staring at this road, and there are a lot of hurdles that the devil needs to cross if he wants to reach Dongqiao Town.
After receiving the interception order from the military seat, the 201 Brigade set up a large pocket formation and waited for the devils to drill into it on the west side of Dongqiao Town. What Wang Dazhu means is that since he wants to ambush the devil, he must wait until the devil runs all the way and runs to the place, and when the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, and then fight this battle at ease, so that he can achieve a greater victory at a smaller cost. There was not the slightest mistake in this tactical thinking, but Deputy Division Commander Wang obviously did not take into account the enthusiasm of the various units in fighting the Japanese invaders.
In the pocket formation of the 201 Brigade Headquarters, while Zhang Wang was waiting for the devil, another unit that should not have appeared unexpectedly appeared.
The 501st Regiment of the 500th Brigade, the area in charge of this unit was not originally here, but their regiment commander, Colonel Jin Feilong, had his hands and eyes all over the sky, and he didn't know where to hit and heard that a group of devils were going to pass here. Commander Jin, who was waiting for the devil to wait anxiously, led more than 2,000 people of his regiment to march all the way and rushed dozens of miles to the highway between Dongqiao Town and Zhongxiang.
Originally, Jin Feilong still wanted to set up an ambush for the devil here, get a pocket or something, who knew that the devil was running too fast, when Captain Jin arrived, the devils had already passed more than half!
Is this still worth it? I can't even catch up with the soup when I'm a step late! After Jin Feilong saw the devils on the march, he couldn't care about the fatigue of the soldiers, so he directly gave the order and started the attack!
The soldiers were very tired from running on the mountain road in the middle of the night, but the moment they saw the devil, all the fatigue was suddenly gone! The sore legs were filled with strength again, and the sleepy eyes radiated excitement! They are a group of people who were born for war.
"Kill!" The running crowd suddenly let out an angry roar, and then the roar turned into a mountain and a tsunami, and it was no longer clear what the people were shouting, but they could only see countless torches moving quickly in the direction of the road in the darkness, and the noisy shouts rose all the way down the night sky, straight to the ethereal cosmic space.
The Japanese captain heard the shouts and gunfire behind him, and immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing and organize a counterattack on the spot! The Japanese army is a heavily armed brigade with quite strong combat capabilities, and since it can be sent out for reinforcements, it is of course not afraid of any enemy challenge! The attack of the 501st Regiment still surprised Shao Zuo, who led the team, he originally thought that he could only meet those rebellious puppet troops when he arrived in Dongqiao Town, but he didn't expect to be intercepted halfway.
The devils stopped, pulled the bolt in a hurry, raised their guns and fired at the people who rushed up. The devil with the machine gun took two steps back and lay down on the spot, picked up the machine gun and began to fire at the place where the shouts came from.
The soldiers of the 501st Regiment threw the torches in their hands on the way to the charge, and holding the torches in one hand and the gun in the other hand will distort the shooting action and seriously affect the shooting accuracy. The highway is brightly lit, and the devil can see it clearly, and he really doesn't need to use torches to illuminate it on his side. The original little firelight, as the soldiers threw the torches one by one, those dotted fires became less and less, and the targets that the devils could see were gradually decreasing, except for the thunderous shouting and killing sound, the devils' opponents seemed to have rapidly decreased.
"Throw away the torches!" Jin Feilong quickly judged from the direction of the devil's shooting where the flaws of our army were. Where the torches are extinguished the most, the devils shoot the fewest bullets. Since the devils are shooting at a place where there is a bright light, then simply let the soldiers throw torches, wouldn't the devils not be able to find the target to shoot?
Sure enough, as Jin Feilong's order spread rapidly, the casualties of our soldiers dropped rapidly. If the devils want to aim and shoot, they can only judge from the trajectory of the bullets fired from our side. And our fighters shot while running, and the position was constantly moving, and the devil shot at us, and our soldiers had already run to other positions, and the accurate shooting of the Japanese army soon turned into aimless random shooting.
Commanders can quickly recognize the situation on the battlefield, and a simple order can save the lives of hundreds or thousands of soldiers.
Jin Feilong's simple order made the already high fighting spirit of our soldiers even higher, and the pace of running forward was faster.
The devils lined up on the highway with their lights on, waiting for our fighters to fight like a target. The devils who were shooting were shot and fell to the ground, and more and more people died.
The Heavy was having a good time firing into the shadows when several bullets flew through the darkness and hit him almost simultaneously. The co-shooter next to him pounced forward, and he wanted to shoot again, but two more bullets nailed the guy who was panicking to grab the machine gun to the spot, and the bullets fired randomly also concentrated the other two riflemen next to the machine gun.
The devils around looked at it, it turned out that the war was so dangerous, and their lives would be lost at any time! The visibly frightened devils no longer dared to stand here stupidly and shoot, a few crawled to the ground and shot in a lying position, while the rest turned around and ran. Not far from that side is the cart squadron, and it must be safer to hide behind the cart than here! At the very least, it's safer to stay away and hide behind others, because the bullets are coming and the people in front of them are in front of them, rather than staying in front of this dangerous machine gun!
When machine guns and grenadiers became the main targets of our soldiers, the powerful firearms that the Japanese had always relied on soon became a burden. After the rapid death of the machine gunner, the riflemen around them not only did not risk their lives to operate these heavy weapons, but instead took refuge in the distance, as if it was a great danger to stay in the vicinity.
The attack power of the devil's heavy weapons was greatly reduced, and the pace of our soldiers' charge immediately accelerated, and soon, the vanguard of the 501st Regiment rushed to the Japanese army, the most cruel and bloody way of fighting in the war, hand-to-hand combat began instantly!
"Follow me and rush up, kill the devil!" Seeing that the warrior in front of him had already fought with the devil, Jin Feilong shouted, holding a ghost-headed broadsword in one hand and a box gun in the other, and ran quickly towards the road. As soon as the regiment commander moved, the guards around him naturally followed, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the 501st Regiment rushed to the highway and rushed to the devil like a flood that broke the embankment!
"The troops shrink their formation and block the Chinese army!" The devil Shaozo had already drawn his command knife, and he wanted to concentrate all his forces on the Chinese army that dared to attack him while it was dark.