Chapter 540: Break through to the county seat
The 1st Brigade of the 132nd Wing lost contact, and after Momoyo Kunomura heard this report, he didn't have to think about it to know that the 1st Brigade of the 132nd Wing must be more than lucky.
"Convey the order, all units should speed up the operation, be sure to wipe out all the troops in China within half an hour, and at the same time order the departments that have not participated in the battle to prepare, and we will immediately withdraw to Xiyang County after half an hour." Kunomura Momoyo immediately began to give orders.
As soon as his order was given, a Japanese captain quickly came to the front of Kunomura Momoyo, and the expression on the Japanese captain's face became extremely solemn.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, Chief of Staff, the cavalry team has just sent news that the Chengjiazhuang Village Branch has begun to enter the Chouyuan Mountain, the Donghui Town Branch Force is rapidly marching towards Qianxiaochuan Village, and another branch of nearly 2,000 people is urgently going from the county seat of Pingding County to Baijing Town, and at present, these three branches of the China Army have formed a situation of encirclement against us."
The captain handed the telegram to Chiaki Hattori, and he reported in a heavy tone.
The Japanese army attaches great importance to intelligence, and before the Chinese and Japanese sides have even started a battle, the Japanese army can familiarize themselves with the detailed information of all the generals of the Chinese army at or above the division level, and before each battle, the Japanese army will also send a large number of plainclothes teams to conduct reconnaissance operations in advance.
Of course, this kind of intelligence work was aimed at the troops of local factions, and for the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese troops did not care at all at first. Even after they were attacked many times, the Japanese still did not pay attention to this, but Kunomura Momoyo paid attention to this, and he used the cavalry as a reconnaissance unit, and it achieved good results.
"Let the cavalry continue to scout." Kunomura Momoyo immediately gave an order and said.
Then he looked at the map, Baijing Town, Donghui Town, Chengjiazhuang Village, seeing that these three places were marked with the presence of Chinese troops, and seeing that his first brigade was in the encirclement of these three Chinese troops, Kunomura Momoyo's brows furrowed tightly.
"Ugly Mountain is a nearby high ground, we should have taken it down and garrisoned it first, damn it, it was my negligence." Looking at the highlands of Ugly Mountain, Momoyo Kunomura said in a solemn tone.
When passing by this highland, Kunomura Momoyo planned to send troops to garrison it, but at the beginning, the first brigade of the melee was carrying out a combat mission to rescue the 132nd Wing in Donghui Town, and the Chouyuan Mountain Heights did not make any sense for the Donghui Town operation, so Kunomura Momoyo gave up this highland.
But then the Chinese troops changed their tactics, the first brigade of the melee began to stop advancing, and Kunomura Momoyo had to quickly break out, so naturally they did not continue to capture the Chouyuan Mountain position, but now their troops were pinned down by the special service battalion, and the Chouyuan Mountain position became more and more important.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, if we continue to encircle and annihilate this branch of the army, I am afraid that the main force of our brigade will fall into the encirclement, I suggest that the troops immediately break out, at present, all the troops of the 132nd Wing have been annihilated by the China troops, and only our first brigade of melee is the only one in the entire Pingding County, and the China troops have gathered tens of thousands of people, and we must quickly break out."
Chiaki Hattori looked at Momoyo Kunomura, and he said in a worried tone, with an unusually excited expression on his face.
More than 300 people from the special battalion came to the first brigade of the melee, and Momoyo Kunomura was completely sure that they would eat them, but now the situation has become extremely delicate, the first brigade of the melee can eat the troops of the special battalion, but once they continue to encircle and annihilate the troops of the special battalion, then they will fall into the encirclement of tens of thousands of Chinese troops.
At present, Wang Naigui's detachment has not yet entered the predetermined location, and the mobile combat group of the second battle group has not yet assembled in Donghui Town.
It's just that if the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat continues to stay in the encirclement and wait until the units arrive at the predetermined location, at that time, it will be absolutely impossible for the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat to break out of the encirclement without paying a little price.
"The troops immediately stopped the attack, and the units quickly broke through in the direction of the county seat of Binh Dinh County, and at the same time contacted the regimental headquarters of the 25th Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery, and asked them to send troops to respond, the 2nd Brigade served as the vanguard, the 3rd Brigade and the artillery detachment followed, the 1st and 4th Brigades followed the brigade headquarters, and the armored detachment served as the reserve. The units received the order and the troops immediately began to move, and the whole brigade quickly broke out. ”
After Momoyo Kunomura heard Chiaki Hattori's suggestion, he didn't hesitate, and he immediately gave the order to break out.
If they were other Japanese commanders, they would definitely eat the troops of the special service battalion at all costs before breaking through, but Kunomura Momoyo was different, he had fought with Sun Weiguo, he knew that Sun Weiguo was extremely good at seizing fighters, and Kunomura Momoyo did not dare to risk thousands of troops with the entire brigade.
In Kunomura's view, there is no value in putting one of his brigades in danger in order to encircle and annihilate more than 300 Chinese troops.
Of course, if other commanders were to command the Chinese troops, what Kunomura Momoyo would do would definitely not be to break out, but Sun Weiguo was different.
At this time, the three words of Sun Weiguo, this one name, can already bring great deterrence to the Japanese army.
The Japanese troops quickly began to move, and the Japanese troops, who were almost about to break the positions of the special service battalion, began to withdraw from the battle, the artillery detachments began to fire artillery shells to suppress the special service battalion troops, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored detachments continued to fire shells and machine gun bullets.
The troops of the 1st Brigade of the melee began to withdraw, and they evacuated very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of troops quickly withdrew in the direction of the county seat of Pingding County.
Kunomura Momoyo deserved to be the wisest commander, he asked the troops to withdraw to the county seat of Binh Dinh County, which made the Japanese officers and soldiers realize that the place where they were evacuated was not very far, and the officers and soldiers did not have much psychological burden, they knew that the county seat of Binh Dinh County was not far away.
Of course, the withdrawal of the troops to the vicinity of the county seat of Pingding County was not the final destination, and he still had to withdraw to Xiyang County.
IT'S JUST THAT THE JAPANESE ARMY'S 105MM CANNON SET UP ON THE HIGH GROUND OF SHIJIASHAN IN XIYANG COUNTY HAS AN ULTRA-LONG RANGE, AND THEIR SHELLS CAN BE FIRED FROM SHIJIASHAN IN XIYANG COUNTY TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF PINGDING COUNTY, AS LONG AS THE FIRST BRIGADE OF THE MELEE IS WITHDRAWN TO THE COUNTY SEAT OF PINGDING COUNTY, THEN THEY CAN ENTER THE RANGE OF CANNONS, SO THAT THEY CAN GET LONG-RANGE FIRE SUPPORT FROM CANNONS.
"Battalion commander, the little devil is running away." On the position of the special agent battalion, Liu Ke, the commander of the first company, shook off the dust on his body, and he quickly ran to Wang Tieniu.
Liu Ke couldn't take care of the wounds on his body now, he held the shell gun and looked at Wang Tieniu with burning eyes.