Chapter 865: Encountered a Minefield
After the 1st Japanese Garrison Brigade received the order from Tahara Kuohai, they immediately began to return in the direction of Hougou Rock, but they were attacked by the 2nd Battalion of Ye Zimin's Armor.
MORE THAN 40 VICS TANKS, WITH THE COOPERATION OF FOUR 37MM ANTI-TANK GUNS, FIRST DESTROYED FIVE JAPANESE TANKS, AND AT THE SAME TIME BROUGHT MORE THAN 100 CASUALTIES TO THE DEVIL SOLDIERS.
Subsequently, the troops of the 2nd Armored Battalion began to gradually encroach, and the 1st Independent Garrison Brigade has now suffered more than 300 casualties, and 7 of the 12 tanks have been destroyed.
"Launch grenades, interfere with the construction of fortifications by devil soldiers, attract Japanese tanks to expose their positions, and the anti-tank artillery battery advances to build anti-tank gun positions."
The 1st Garrison Brigade began to stop advancing, and they retreated into a village and began to defend in place, while Ye Zimin immediately issued a combat order according to the situation on the spot.
Vickers began firing grenades, disrupting the Devil Soldiers' fortifications, and dozens of Devil Soldiers were killed by grenades while building the fortifications.
The devil soldiers could only temporarily hide in the house, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive, but they themselves knew that even if the independent garrison sent reinforcements, I was afraid that the reinforcements would not dare to come for a while.
In the blink of an eye, it was eleven o'clock in the evening, and at this time, except for more than 100 people of the 2nd Japanese garrison brigade, all the rest of the troops were annihilated by the troops of the 1st armored battalion.
The independent garrison of the Japanese army also began to evacuate towards Baijiazhuang Town, but Yin Jinshan, the commander of the Honorary Fourth Regiment, would not let the devil soldiers evacuate easily.
More than 80 tanks of the 1st Armored Battalion and the 3rd Armored Battalion began to pursue the independent garrison, the armored artillery battalion began to advance with the troops, and the heavy artillery battalion units turned their guns to provide artillery support for the troops of the 2nd Armored Battalion of Ye Zimin.
"Boom, boom." Shells were fired from the tank guns, and these shells were fired at the fleeing devil soldiers.
Many of the devil soldiers were attacked by shells during the evacuation, and these ghost soldiers were either killed or injured on the spot.
Tahara Kuohai was evacuated under the protection of dozens of devil soldiers, and listening to the explosions that kept sounding around him, the expression on Tahara Kuohai's face became extremely pale.
He regretted it in his heart now, he regretted why he didn't follow Hattori Chiaki's advice to wait for the arrival of the 114th Division in Baijiazhuang Town and launch an attack.
With a "boom", a grenade began to fall not far from Tahara Kuohai, and the devil soldiers immediately pressed Tahara Kuohai under him.
"The tanks of the Eighth Route Army of China, quickly cover the evacuation of His Excellency the General."
"Oh no, the tanks of the Eighth Route Army are chasing after me, hurry up and prepare grenades immediately, and we must delay the tanks of China."
"We are surrounded, and there are tanks of the Eighth Route Army on both sides, what should we do now."
The devil soldiers began to scream in despair, and they seemed to be a little panicked at this time.
Ever since these devil soldiers fought with the Honor Fourth Regiment, they have always been at a disadvantage, and they have been beaten without any room to fight back.
The four garrison brigades lost contact with each other, the second garrison brigade was completely wiped out, and the whereabouts of the first garrison brigade were unknown, which made the morale of the devil soldiers extremely low.
They were full of distrust of Tahara Kuokai, and they felt that Tahara Kuokai would not command the troops to fight at all.
"Boom, boom."
Just as the devil soldiers were evading the tank attack and quickly retreating in the direction of Baijiazhuang Town, explosions began to be heard in the direction of the Fourth Garrison Brigade, which was the first to evacuate.
"What's going on, could it be that the troops of the Eighth Route Army have already captured Baijiazhuang Town?" Tahara Kuohai pushed away the devil soldiers who were protecting him, he looked at the direction of Baijiazhuang Town, and asked with a puzzled face.
The Fourth Brigade of the garrison was already very close to Baijiazhuang Town, and Tahara Kuohai knew that as long as his troops were stationed in Baijiazhuang Town, then it would become safer.
But what he never dreamed of was that there was an explosion from the Fourth Brigade of the garrison, and a bad premonition appeared in Tahara Kuohai's mind.
It's just that no one around Tahara Kuokai can answer his inquiry, and they don't know what happened to the Fourth Garrison Brigade at all.
"Your Excellency General, the third and fourth squadrons of our brigade fell into the encirclement of the Shina tank troops, they are about to be wiped out, now not only behind us, but also on our sides There are also Shina tank troops, now we must disperse and break through, otherwise our troops are likely to be all encircled!"
The captain of the third garrison brigade hurriedly ran in front of Tahara Kuohai, looking at Tahara Kuohai in front of him, Captain Shaozo immediately reported.
"Boom, boom."
"Da-da-da-da."
The sound of tank guns and tank machine guns kept coming around, and listening to the roar of tanks getting closer and closer, Tahara knew that there was not much time left for him.
"The troops dispersed and withdrew to Baijiazhuang Town, and told all the units that we would meet in Baijiazhuang Town, and we had made contact with the 114th Division, and they would immediately send troops to reinforce us to fight." Tahara Kuokai immediately gave an order and said.
At present, Tahara Kuokai only has the third and fourth garrison brigades and the artillery team, but now the artillery team is already in charge of the rear behind, and the situation is unknown.
And the two infantry squadrons of the Third Garrison Brigade fell into the encirclement of the tank troops of the Eighth Route Army, and Tahara Kuohai didn't have to think about it to know that it was not a simple matter for him to be able to save his life this time.
As for how many people these troops would be able to safely withdraw to Baijiazhuang Town, Tahara Kuohai himself did not dare to imagine.
"Your Excellency General, our brigade encountered a minefield on the way to Baijiazhuang Town, and the troops are currently clearing ......"
Shortly after the captain of the 3rd Garrison Brigade had just left, the 4th Garrison Brigade sent personnel to hurriedly come to Tahara Kokai to report.
Before he finished his report, the sound of tank guns and light and heavy machine gun fire began to be heard from the direction of Baijiazhuang Town, and hearing this sound, Tahara Kuohai instantly collapsed on the ground.
The sound of gunfire came from the direction of Baijiazhuang Town, which means that the troops of the Honorary Second Division of the Eighth Route Army have taken control of Baijiazhuang Town, which Tian Yuan Kuohai knows without thinking.
Indeed, Yin Jinshan put all the troops of the Honorary Fourth Regiment into the operation, and was responsible for the roundabout occupation of Baijiazhuang Town, which was the armored convoy directly under the regimental headquarters of the Honorary Fourth Regiment, as well as the Tianwu Combat Engineer Battalion and the 120th Independent Fifth Detachment, which had already begun to enter Baijiazhuang Town to build fortifications, and the Combat Engineer Battalion had buried mines on the road that the Japanese army had to pass.
The 4th Brigade of the garrison hurriedly withdrew towards Baijiazhuang Town, where would they have thought that there would be mines on the road.
When they were killed and wounded dozens of people, the devil soldiers had to demine, and while they were clearing, armored convoys and combat engineer battalions began to attack the Japanese troops.