Chapter 230: The Little Devil Evacuates
After listening to the advice of the infantry captain, Nobuo Kobayashi felt that it made sense,
However, Yamashita gave him an order to send three artillery brigades to support Nanzhuang Village, Tianjing Village, and Nantou Village respectively, and Kobayashi Nobuo put three 105MM field artillery brigades into the battle.
These three field artillery brigades are to support the front-line troops in combat, and he can mobilize only one mountain artillery brigade, and this mountain artillery brigade currently has only seven mountain artillery guns, and it is difficult to suppress the artillery units of the independent regiment with such a number of artillery.
Nobuo Kobayashi agreed with the infantry captain's battle plan, and he immediately sent a telegram to Yamashita to report the situation here.
Yamashita received a telegram directly from the roundabout troops, and without any hesitation, he directly approved Kobayashi Nobuo's plan.
He knew very well how much damage his artillery wing would bring to the independent regiment as long as he set up an artillery position on Naozhai Mountain.
Even Yamashita Fengwen felt that as long as the artillery wing captured Naozhai Mountain, and the artillery wing condescendingly shelled the independent regiment, maybe even if the independent regiment was stationed on the position, the garrison corps would be able to wipe them out.
In order to allow the artillery wing to capture Naozhai Mountain earlier, Yamashita Fumi, as the commander of the encirclement and annihilation of the independent regiment, not only agreed to Kobayashi Nobuo's battle plan, but he also immediately contacted the Provisional Aviation Regiment.
The Japanese detour troops began to make a detour, and they prepared to attack on the south side of Naozhai Mountain.
At the same time as they moved, the Temporary Air Corps directly under the North China Front dispatched six bombers, and their task was to carry out an air attack on Naozhai Mountain and assist the troops of the garrison corps to capture the position of Naozhai Mountain.
The artillery wing began to transfer under the command of Nobuo Kobayashi, and before the transfer of more than 40 artillery pieces, they focused on the shelling of Tianjing Village and Nanzhuang Village, and after firing hundreds of grenades, the artillery wing began to transfer.
On the top of the Naozhai Mountain position, Shi Shi, the commander of the artillery battalion, personally observed and commanded on the top of the mountain.
Under the command of Shi, two artillery batteries fired hundreds of shells from twelve mountain guns, and the barrels of the guns had already turned red.
Even though it was January and the weather was still cold, the shirtless artillerymen were covered in sweat and everyone was exhausted.
Unlike the Japanese artillery, two artillery batteries were much smaller in number, and often one artillery officer was responsible for many things.
Therefore, the artillery on the position is very hard, and if the stone gives the order to rest, these artillery will definitely lie down and pass out.
They are fighting with their own will, because they know that the mountain artillery they are responsible for cannot be stopped.
"Launch!" The voices of the two artillery company commanders, Li Jiaxin and Zheng Jingjing, were already hoarse, their lips were chapped, and blood began to flow out of their chapped lips.
The artillery positions were full of yellow bullet casings, and empty boxes filled the positions one by one.
The shirtless artillerymen continued to be busy, and they fired shells at the devil soldiers.
On the position of the second company on the top of the mountain, because of the advantage of the terrain, the second company only suffered casualties of two infantry squads after some fighting.
And these two infantry squads were killed only fifteen people, and the rest were wounded, so it can be said that the casualties of the second company were not very large.
Liu Xi's command was more flexible, and he was able to effectively stop the Japanese army while minimizing the casualties of the troops.
"Company commander, look, the little devils have retreated, they have run away." Wang Tieniu, the leader of the third platoon, pointed to the devil soldiers under the mountain, and he shouted loudly.
Liu Xi, the commander of the second company, heard Wang Tieniu's shout, and he raised his telescope to observe.
Seeing that the devil soldiers had indeed begun to evacuate, Liu Xi couldn't help but show a stunned expression on his face, but he didn't believe this fact in his heart.
"What kind of tricks are the devil soldiers doing, have they given up attacking the position of Naozhai Mountain?" Liu Xi muttered to himself.
He hurriedly picked up the telephone of the company headquarters and immediately got in touch with the regiment headquarters, and he wanted to report the situation to the regiment headquarters.
At this time, the position here in Naozhai Mountain became quiet, and after the artillery wing and infantry brigade were evacuated, the officers and men of the second company could rest.
Nanzhuang Village was temporarily defended by an armored company, and Okazaki Kiyozaburo, the commander of the Second Infantry Wing, did not dare to act rashly.
He did not have a special anti-tank gun in his hands, and his two infantry brigades suffered many casualties, and he also collected the remnants of the Japanese army on the southern route.
At present, Kiyozaburo Okazaki is in charge of readjusting the deployment, and at the same time, he has also asked for help from the Corps Headquarters, and the reinforcements have also set off.
Kiyozaburo Okazaki planned to adjust his deployment and then attack Nanzhuang Village.
Zhang Dajun's reconnaissance platoon had already begun to take action, and they were inquiring about the pilots.
Nanzhuang Village also became quiet here, and there was no exchange of fire between China and Japan.
And here in Tianjing Village, the two infantry brigades of the First Infantry Wing of the Devil's Garrison Corps transferred five infantry squadrons, one reinforced machine gun wing, three artillery squadrons, and one mountain artillery squadron, and began to attack Tianjing Village.
After the artillery wing shelled it, hundreds of devil soldiers began to rush towards Tianjing Village.
Eighteen heavy machine guns fired frantically at Tianjing Village, and the bullets rained down on the soldiers.
Due to the bombing of aircraft and artillery shelling, Tianjing Village was left without any fortifications, and the soldiers took refuge in the makeshift foxholes, which they relied on to fight.
However, the temporarily dug foxholes did not have much defense, especially under the frantic strafing of the Japanese heavy machine guns, the soldiers could only squat in the foxholes, and as soon as they showed their heads, they would be shot by bullets.
Sun Weiguo controlled a crooked light machine gun to hide in a temporarily dug trench, Chen Zhengwei and Guan Zhou and others of the guard squad were in front of Sun Weiguo, and the commander of the first company, Yin Jin, had been sent to the regiment headquarters by the soldiers for treatment.
There were only more than 40 people in Tianjing Village, and they faced hundreds of Japanese troops.
In terms of weapons, there are only three light machine guns, most of the rest are rifles, and Chen Zhengwei and others use Thomson submachine guns.
"Deputy Commander, let Guan Zhou cover your evacuation, and leave the position to me to guard."
Chen Zhengwei glanced at it secretly and saw that there were hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and his face was full of worry.
He is Sun Weiguo's guard squad leader, and his duty is to protect Sun Weiguo's safety.
At this time, seeing hundreds of Japanese soldiers rushing towards Tianjing Village, Chen Zhengwei's heart jumped to his throat.
He was very worried about Sun Weiguo's safety, if Sun Weiguo didn't have enough deterrence, Chen Zhengwei would have wanted to forcibly send Sun Weiguo to the regiment headquarters, but he didn't have the guts, and secondly, he also knew that the deputy head of the regiment, Sun Weiguo, was very strong.