Chapter 861 Forcibly Crossing the Blockade Ditch (continued)

Fujii Sueyoshi Osa later succeeded Sasaki in history as the commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade and became a general. But now the situation has changed, and Sasaki Toichi and his independent mixed 3rd Brigade have been wiped out in Weicheng. It's hard to say whether Fujii Suekichi will be able to escape tonight. However, at this time, Fuji Sueyoshi Osa had no intention of becoming a general, and he was already shocked by the powerful firepower of the Eighth Route Army.

Fujii's original assumption was that as soon as the Eighth Route Army launched an attack, he commanded the troops to enter the position to block it, strangled the Eighth Route Army with firepower, and let the Eighth Route Army fill the blockade ditch with corpses. But now it seems that this idea is no longer possible, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army is fierce, and the machine gun fire is even more fierce, and the Japanese soldiers cannot raise their heads at all, let alone move forward into the blockade trench position. In particular, the reinforced concrete bunker built by Fujii Sueyoshi Osa with great effort was killed by the Eighth Route Army without knowing what kind of cannon to use, Amaterasu Okami, that is the impregnable fortress in Fujii's Sueyoshi Osa mind, how could it be knocked out by the Eighth Route Army with one cannon?

It was precisely because the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was too fierce and the casualties of the troops were too great that Fujii Sueyoshi Osa had to keep retreating his troops to avoid the artillery coverage of the Eighth Route Army. This time, the Japanese army was originally 200 meters away from the blockade ditch, and now it has retreated to 500 meters.

Fujii Sueyoshi Osa didn't have time to be surprised, the Eighth Route Army had already begun to climb the blockade ditch and seize the position.

Fujii Sueyoshi Osa pointed his command knife forward and ordered the troops to shoot to wipe out all the Eighth Route Army that had climbed the blockade ditch.

The Japanese soldiers were indeed tenacious, the covering fire of the Eighth Route Army was so fierce, and the little devils were ravaged under artillery fire. At this moment, under the order of Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa, the retreating devil soldiers actually began to crawl forward, jumped into the crater blown up by the shells of the Eighth Route Army, and began to shoot fiercely at the Eighth Route Army that had climbed the blockade ditch. Some little devils are even more cunning, directly pulling the corpses of their companions over, forming a human bunker, and directly placing their guns on the corpses and firing. The remnants of the devil's grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns also began to fire fiercely, intending to crush the Eighth Route Army that had climbed the blockade ditch.

The little devil counterattacked with all his might, and the soldiers who blocked the ditch on the first battalion of the 3rd Regiment were under great pressure, and while shooting at the devils, they shouted back to hurry up and let the heavy firepower come up.

Ren Qionglin, the commander of the first battalion, was so anxious that he kept urging the fire support company to shoot and shoot, cover the troops to consolidate their positions and repel the attacks of the devils. The heavy firepower of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, which followed up, also joined the covering ranks, and went all out to cover the strong attack of the 1st Battalion.

Shen Nantang, the commander of the 13th Regiment, was even more anxious, the first battalion was the sharp knife battalion of the whole brigade, and now it was stopped by Japanese fire, and the degree of casualties could be imagined. Therefore, Shen Nantang not only ordered the infantry artillery, grenadiers, mortars, and thunder guns of the whole regiment to smash in the direction of the Japanese fire, but also kept calling the brigade artillery regiment to personally visually measure the distance, report the bearing coordinates, and ask the artillery regiment to fire the artillery as soon as possible. Even the artillery fire of the artillery regiment on Maling Mountain arrived, and under the guidance of Shen Nantang's personal observation and guidance and the observation hands who followed the 1st battalion of the 13th Regiment over the blockade ditch, they fired ten salvos in one breath towards the main assembly place of the devils.

Under the cover of such high-intensity artillery fire, it is impossible for the little devil's counterattack to continue. If it continues, the Eighth Route Army will certainly suffer heavy casualties, and the Japanese army will probably be wiped out.

Fujii Sueyoshi was completely stunned by the shells, and understood how stupid his idea of relying on the blockade trench position to eliminate the Eighth Route Army was, or retreat to Xin'an Town, which is a Chinese town, and the Eighth Route Army will definitely not raze the town to the ground with artillery

Seeing that more and more Eighth Route Army climbed the blockade ditch, Fujii Sueyoshi decisively ordered the lightly wounded to stay behind to block the attack, and the main force quickly withdrew to Xin'an Town to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

At this time, if you want to withdraw to Xin'an Town, I'm afraid it's not so easy, right?

Just when the 13th Regiment and the Japanese army were entangled in Xin'an Town, under the cover of night, the 14th Regiment and the 15th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army took the new 14th Regiment, the New 15th Regiment and the brigade cavalry battalion to the Japanese Longhai Road defense line from the east and west, preparing to break through the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop, carry out an east-west flank attack on the enemy in Xin'an Town, and capture Xin'an Town.

Night is the world of the Eighth Route Army.

There are only two infantry brigades stationed in Xin'an Town of the 36th Wing of the Devils, and the main force is now concentrated in front of Xin'an Town to confront the Eighth Route Army. On the defense line of Longhai Road on the east and west sides of Xin'an Town, there were only a small number of troops to defend, relying on pillbox fortifications to block the front of the defense line with firepower.

This is night, the visibility is low, usually the little devils rely on searchlights and patrols to prevent the Eighth Route Army from sneaking across the Longhai Road, at this time the main force of the Japanese army is facing the Eighth Route Army in front of Xin'an Town, and the devils who defend the east and west sides of Longhai Road in Xin'an Town will not send patrols, so they can only stick to the fortifications and rely on searchlights to observe. When the sniper of the Eighth Route Army quietly knocked out the searchlight, the little devil became blind and was busy checking why the searchlight went out

As soon as the searchlight goes out, the little devil can't see anything. You must know that the distance between the devil's bunker and the bunker is generally 1,000 meters away, and the nearest one is about 500 meters away. Such a large gap was enough for the Eighth Route Army to pass through. Therefore, when the little devils in the bunker were still staring at the artillery fire on the main battlefield in a daze, the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the east and west had already arrived outside Xin'an Town, leaving only the new 14th Regiment and the new 15th Regiment to control the railway, ready to knock out the devil's bunker with a bazooka, eliminate the devils stationed there, and block the Japanese reinforcements that might arrive in the east and west.

Zhou Chunlin, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Fifth Brigade, is definitely called a hundred battles, and when he defended the Linqing Dynasty, he led the cavalry battalion to serve as a delayed devil and lure the enemy.

When Zhou Chunlin led the cavalry battalion of the 5th Brigade to the south gate of Xin'an Town, it was the time when the 13th Regiment forcibly broke through the blockade ditch. The small number of Japanese puppet troops left in Xin'an Town turned their attention to the front, and there were only sentinels and mobile posts of the Japanese puppet army on the wall of the south gate. The squad of the devil garrison squadron stationed at the south gate was transferred to the railway station to strengthen the garrison of the railway station, and it was the battalion of the puppet army Tian Liusuo who was stationed in the south of Xin'an Town to take over their defense. Now they are rushing to Xin'an Town at a rapid marching speed

Zhou Chunlin's task was to set up an ambush circle outside the south gate, preparing to ambush the Japanese puppet army that had escaped from Xin'an Town.

Zhou Chunlin sent scouts into the town to see the situation in the town.

The one who acted with the cavalry battalion was Yan Xuan. He was very familiar with Xin'an Town, and led the two scouts to turn around three times and two times, and found the dog hole where the traitors Zang Yinian and Zhou Qingxu escaped and got into it. When I entered, I found the reality of the south gate. An investigator returned and reported to Zhou Chunlin, and a word popped out of Zhou Chunlin's teeth: "Dry"

Soon, a platoon of cavalry dismounted, and as the scouts quietly entered the south gate of Xin'an Town through the dog hole. By the time the sentry at the south gate of the Japanese puppet army found out that someone had touched it, it was too late.

Under normal circumstances, the cavalry battalion could not have gone so smoothly. But this is not the right time.

The Eighth Route Army taught the cavalry battalion of the Fifth Brigade to enter Xin'an Town

The Japanese puppet army left in Xin'an Town was blessed, they encountered the bright sabre of the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, and after a knife was cut, a Japanese head rolled on the ground; With a knife, the devil will have two halves. The taste is much more refreshing than that of a shell or a bullet.

Fujii Suekichi had just finished giving the order to withdraw to Xin'an Town, and there was already a shout of killing in Xin'an Town. Immediately afterwards, the bunkers of the Japanese puppet army on the east and west sides of Xin'an County also sounded explosions one after another. Fujii Sueyoshi was completely stunned this time, he knew that he had fallen into the careful calculations of the Eighth Route Army and was surrounded.

Although Fujii Sueyoshi was not panicked, he ordered the radio station to immediately report the situation to the brigade commander and division commander, and said that he would organize troops to recapture Xin'an Town.

At this time, it is simply to say that he wants to recapture Xin'an Town, not to mention that Fujii Sueyoshi himself does not believe it, and even Lieutenant General Kiguchi Kiichiro, the commander of the Ninth Division, does not believe it.

Since the Eighth Route Army broke through the Battle of Longhai Road, Higuchi Jiichiro was ordered to lead the Ninth Division and troops drawn from eastern Henan to sweep the Suzhou-Anhui region. There is aircraft cover, there are tanks and artillery to open the way, and the progress is still very fast. After the Eighth Route Army started the counterattack on the Longhai Road, the 114th Division was disabled by the Eighth Route Army and had to drive back to Japan to make up for it.

After receiving Fujii Sueyoshi's telegram asking for help, Higuchi Jiichiro looked at the map for a while and felt that Xin'an Town was a big town, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as Fujii Sueyoshi calmed down and fought with the Eighth Route Army, there was no problem at all in holding on until dawn. As long as it is dawn, the aviation will blow up the Tuba Road to ashes. In addition, it is now night, and the Eighth Route Army is about using the night to ambush the imperial army reinforcements, and if you are not careful, you may fall into the trap of the Eighth Route Army.

It was precisely because of this consideration that the commander of the 9th Division, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi, did not order reinforcements, but only ordered all units of the 9th Division to urgently assemble and enter a combat state to prepare for the reinforcement of Xin'an Town. If the commander of the 36th Wing, Fuji Suekichi Osa, had known that his division commander had been deployed in this way, he might have taken Kiichiro Higuchi to court-martial. However, he also confessed that the Ninth Division has more than 20,000 horses, does that mean that the assembly can be assembled immediately? Relying solely on the Japanese puppet army from the nearest stronghold to Xin'an Town to reinforce it, the strength is obviously insufficient, and if it is not good, it will serve food to the Eighth Route Army. In the event of an accident with the reinforcements, who is to blame? Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi is cautious, and it makes sense.

After receiving the second telegram from Fujii Sueyoshi, Higuchi Jiichiro realized that Fujiiji Sueyoshi had pulled the main force outside Xin'an Town and lost Xin'an Town

Higuchi Jiichiro scolded Fujii Sueyoshi for being an unlucky guy, where he hit, where he lost. After scolding, he quickly gave an order to Fujii Sueyoshi and immediately organized troops to break through by night.

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