Chapter Fifty-Eight: Escaping the Encirclement
At this time, Ye Tufei's department, which was stationed in Jiajiawang Town and did not act with Han Peng's two departments at the same time, also suffered an unprecedented crisis.
Takahashi Shin did not leave any flaws, and when Han Peng's two troops rushed out of Jiajiawang to carry out a breakthrough operation, he ordered the Japanese troops who were ambushed behind Jiajiawang's flank to search and advance towards Jiajiawang, "Don't miss any place where you can hide, and don't let go of any soldier who dares to hold a gun against the empire." ”
In the face of the approaching Japanese search team, Ye Tufei ordered the brothers to lose bullets with long guns, close the safety with short guns, and the whole team retreated in concealment.
But where can you retreat? There were Japanese troops all around, and the space of Ye Tufei's headquarters was getting smaller and smaller.
"Sixth master, you just give the order, let's rush over and fight with Little Japan!" Zhang Luohui took the lead in putting forward his opinions.
Feng Zhongliang also agreed with Zhang Luohui and said, "Sixth Master, it's not a way to retreat like this!" ”
Feng Zhongliang's words reached the hearts of the brothers, only Xiao Zhonghe disagreed, he said: "Don't make noise, listen to the sixth master, I believe in the sixth master, he will definitely be able to think of a way to wait for us to jump out of the encirclement of Little Japan." ”
Ye Tufei was silent, holding a pile of stones on the ground and placing them over.
After a while, Ye Tufei suddenly asked Luo Zhonggang: "Old Five, do you still have ** by your side?" ”
Luo Zhonggang replied: "There are several, but the materials are insufficient, and there is no way to make a manual detonation device." ”
Ye Tufei said: "No, it's good to detonate the lead, how long is the lead around you?" ”
Luo Zhonggang checked it and replied, "It's about more than a hundred meters!" ”
Ye Tufei nodded and said, "In this way, just here, bury the bomb, and then put the lead to the east, as far as you can put it, after putting it up, immediately light the lead, and then withdraw in the direction of due north, I will take everyone to the north as well, and we will meet on the road." ”
Luo Zhonggang didn't understand Ye Tufei's arrangement, and wanted to ask what was going on, but was stopped by Ye Tufei: "Don't ask, after we jump out of the encirclement of Little Japan, I'll tell you slowly." ”
After the arrangement, Ye Tufei led everyone to evacuate due north.
Luo Zhonggang and his team quickly set up the bomb and connected the lead, released a lead of more than 100 meters along the east, and then quickly evacuated due north.
It was only a matter of five minutes for the lead to burn more than 100 meters, and when Ye Tufei walked in the direction of due north for about half a mile, Luo Zhong just caught up with them, and Luo Zhong just wanted to report to Ye Tufei, when he heard an explosion from the south.
"No one is allowed to move, climb up!" Ye Tufei gave an order to everyone softly.
Ye Tufei's idea was that the breakthrough direction of Han Peng's two divisions was due east, and the Japanese army must have deployed heavy troops behind Han Peng's two divisions to prevent Han Peng's troops from suddenly turning back. The Japanese army facing Ye Tufei's department should be the peripheral forces arranged by the Japanese army, as long as they can jump out of the blockade of this peripheral force, then he and his brothers have hope to get rid of the Japanese army.
Ye Tufei used bombs to attract the attention of these peripheral Japanese troops, and put the lead to the east, giving the Japanese army the illusion that they were retreating while placing the lead, so as to lure the Japanese army into pursuing due east.
If the strategy is successful, the Japanese troops who are searching behind them will relax their search vigilance and quickly assemble towards the blast site. They hid in an inconspicuous bush, and they might be able to fool little Japan.
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The death squad led by Zheng Dazhu and the old Red Army suffered a devastating blow.
The Japanese placed at least eight heavy machine guns and another twenty or thirty light machine guns on the frontal position, and at the same time, about 500 meters behind the position, a mortar squadron was placed. These heavy fires did not show themselves during the first energetic contact of Han Peng's department, but when the death squad began to charge intensively, all the light and heavy machine guns and mortars opened fire at the same time.
The light and heavy machine guns formed a dense network of fire in front of the death squads, completely suppressing the momentum of the death squads' charge, while the Japanese mortars started from the rear of the death squads and gradually moved the explosion point forward.
The death squad of more than 200 people was firmly pressed into a narrow depression that was only about 50 meters in front and back, and only about 100 meters in the left and right.
Ten minutes later, the Japanese mortars stopped shelling, and the death squads suffered all the casualties, Zheng Dazhu died a heroic death, and the old Red Army was seriously wounded.
Han Hongxun's eyes were red, his sleeves were rolled up, and he howled: "Brother who is not afraid of death will rush with me!" ”
As he spoke, he was about to rush out of cover.
Yan Xiwen pounced on him, knocked Han Hongxun to the ground, and said, "If you die, you will die, but what about your two thousand brothers?" ”
Han Hongxun slammed his fist on the ground with all his strength and yelled at Yan Xiwen: "Then what do you say I should do?" Curled up here waiting for a small Japanese shell? ”
As soon as the words fell, a piercing sound was heard breaking through the air, and a bomb whizzed over their heads, landed in the rear of the troops, and exploded.
Immediately afterwards, a shell also fell from the front.
Han Hongxun stood up abruptly and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and find cover, the Japanese artillery bombardment has begun!" ”
The Japanese artillery made an estimate of the hidden point of Han Peng's department according to the charging route of the death squad just now, but this estimate was still somewhat biased, so they chose dozens of target points for testing like a cat and a mouse, in order to discover the precise location of Han Peng's department.
However, after all, Han Hongxun is also an excellent soldier who has seen a big scene, and after a few shells, he understood the intentions of the Japanese army, so he used the way of transmission to keep the team calm, so as not to be really discovered by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army ended a round of testing and did not reach the goal, but fortunately gave up the idea of continuing the trial, and there was a rare silence on the battlefield.
Han Peng's department seized the time to rest.
At this time, there was a contradiction at the top command of the Japanese army.
Ichiro Matsui insisted on changing the tactical arrangement, launching a deadly attack on the Chinese army, and completely destroying the will to fight of the Chinese army, and he finally concluded: "Only by destroying the will to fight of the Chinese army is the best way to reduce the casualties of our army." ”
Keigo Yamashita also agrees with Matsui Ichiro's thoughts, after all, this is a theory in the tactics textbooks of the Japanese army, and it is the experience summed up by many predecessors with blood.
But Takahashi Shin disagreed, he said: "Matsui Daisa's words are right, but we have a better way, Matsui-kun, please believe me, when the enemy army does not attack, let us the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire rest, everything will wait until dawn, wait until dawn, let our imperial artillery destroy the will of the Chinese!" ”
Matsui Ichiro was still not convinced, and continued to argue, saying: "The Shina army is now surrounded by us in a narrow strip of no more than a thousand meters in length and width, and it has not been rested for nearly three hours, it is the most exhausting moment for the army, Takahashi-kun, this is the best time for our army to attack, please think twice." ”
Nobunori Takahashi replied, "The division commander has given me the command of this battle, not Matsui-kun, so you must follow my orders." I repeat again that our army must not take the initiative to attack until the enemy has not taken offensive action, and all the soldiers are resting and on standby. ”
Nobu Takahashi moved out of the division commander at a critical moment, and Ichiro Matsui finally shut up.
At this time, the sound of an explosion suddenly came from the direction of Jia Jiawang behind him.
Soon, the Japanese troops in charge of the search on the periphery came with a message that about 500 meters east of Jiajiawang, the remnants of the Chinese army were found to be rushing towards the rear of our army.
Hearing the report, Takahashi Shin unconsciously narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself: "Ye Tufei, sure enough, it's Ye Tufei!" I knew he was going to have a backhand. ”
Smart people like to empathize with others, Takahashi Shin is a super smart person, he immediately regarded himself as Ye Tufei, and thought about Ye Tufei's next move.
In Takahashi's ideology, a good man like Ye Tufei would definitely not abandon the allied army, so he quickly made a judgment that Ye Tufei was indeed trying to attack the Japanese army from behind, as the report said, so as to rescue the besieged main force of China.
Takahashi Xin despised Ye Tufei in his heart, and he said to himself: "Ye Tufei, Ye Tufei, you are just a scholar and haven't been on the battlefield, right?" I'd like to see how you managed to get them out! ”
However, Takahashi Shin is Takahashi Shin, no matter what, he can't become Ye Tufei.
In other words, Takahashi Shin didn't know Ye Tufei at all, let alone guess Ye Tufei's thoughts.
At this moment, Ye Tufei was only thinking about one thing, that is, how to lead his brothers to jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. As for how to rescue Han Peng, or even whether to rescue them, Ye Tufei didn't have time to think about this kind of question at all.
He led his brother to lurk in the bushes, watching the Japanese troops rush past in front of him, everyone held their breath, and everyone thought that the sound of their heartbeat might startle little Japan.
After half an hour, more than 30 teams of Japanese troops rushed past before they completely stopped.
After waiting for about 20 minutes, Ye Tufei confirmed that there would be no more Japanese troops behind him, so he ordered everyone to continue to evacuate due north with gestures.
When marching at night, it is necessary to minimize movement, and can only reduce the speed of the march. It took Ye Tufei's department nearly an hour, but he walked less than five miles, but it was these five miles that pulled Ye Tufei's department out of the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army.
"Now, we should find a way to save Secretary Peng and Brigade Commander Han!" After determining the safety, Ye Tufei put forward his thoughts to several backbones, "To be honest, the main reason why we can successfully jump out of the encirclement of the Japanese army is that they are still fighting with Little Japan, Little Japan will not be negligent in guarding against us, and kindness will be repaid, this is the principle of our Jianghu people." Okay, I won't say more, if you are willing to follow me to save Secretary Peng and Brigade Commander Han, just stay, and if you don't want to take risks again, I won't force it. ”