Chapter 159: The division commander was annoyed
Takanohide's face turned blue with anger, and he hurriedly dispatched a signal corps to contact the roundabout troops.
After a while, the communications corps returned to Takano Shuichi and reported what had happened to the roundabout troops.
When he learned that there were anti-tank trenches inside Chengguan Town, he couldn't help but be taken aback, such a situation was completely unexpected.
"Takano Taijun, our appeasement army has more than 500 casualties, can you see if you can temporarily withdraw the troops and recuperate."
Zhu Shiqiang's brows furrowed tightly, he came to Takano Shuichi worriedly, and said softly.
The casualties of the puppet army were very heavy, they were first hit by mortars from the third artillery company, and then they were strafed by light and heavy machine guns.
Several times following the Japanese army to storm the position, the puppet army has killed more than 300 soldiers, and more than 200 soldiers have been wounded.
A thousand troops paid such casualties, Zhu Shiqiang's heart was about to break, if he didn't have the troops in his hands, he would be nothing.
Takano Shukai took a look at the situation, the puppet army troops suffered heavy casualties, and the losses of two infantry squadrons and one machine gun squadron of the Japanese army were also very large.
Two infantry squadrons suffered hundreds of casualties, a machine gun squadron currently has only three heavy machine guns that can continue firing, as for the artillery squadron, the two infantry guns of the artillery squadron are completely useless, and even the mortar brigade deployed behind has suffered casualties.
The roundabout troops encountered anti-tank trenches in Chengguan Town, and they would not participate in the battle for a short time, and Hideichi Takano thought for a while, and he ordered the attacking Japanese puppet army to temporarily stop attacking.
At the same time, Takano Shu raised his binoculars and looked towards Chengguan Town, with a contemplative expression on his face, obviously thinking about something again.
After a while, Takano Shuyi called the communication soldier over, and he muttered a few words softly in front of the communication soldier.
The signal soldier nodded, and he quickly ran towards Chengguan Town, apparently Hideichi Takano had re-ordered the roundabout troops.
At this time in Yangquan County, in the headquarters of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, the division commander Kawagishi Fumizaburo's brows were already tightly wrinkled.
After receiving Shuichi Takano's message, Kawagishi Fumizaburo was very annoyed, and he couldn't wait to slap Shuichi Takano directly.
Now that most of the troops of the 20th Division are resting, Kawagishi Bunzaburo is the last thing to want to fight.
But Takano Shuichi pulled the troops of Pingding County out to fight a decisive battle with Sun Weiguo, and when he heard the name Sun Weiguo, the muscles on Kawagishi Bunzaburo's face trembled, and the 80th Wing belonging to the 20th Division and the 40th Brigade was completely disabled by Sun Weiguo.
If it weren't for the captain Kenji Suzuki who secretly ran back with the wing flag, I'm afraid that the number of the 80 wing would have been canceled.
Sun Weiguo did not have many troops at his disposal, but Kawagishi Bunzaburo felt that if he wanted to completely annihilate him, he had to dispatch at least one brigade of troops.
"Yaga Road, Hideichi Takano disobeys the military order, and he must be severely punished." Kawagishi Fumizaburo frowned and said in a cold tone.
The chief of staff of the 20th Division, Kimura Hisazo, came to Kawagishi Bunzaburo with a telegram in his hand.
The telegram was sent by Yoshio Kamitsuki, commander of the 40th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Shouyang County, and the content of the telegram was a request for tactical guidance from the division.
The so-called tactical guidance is to ask for help, and the 40th Brigade has encountered a certain predicament.
Shuichi Takano sent a telegram to the 79th Wing asking for help, but the 79th Wing did not hesitate, and he sent an infantry brigade and an infantry artillery squadron to Pingding County to assist in the battle.
However, what made Mori Mu Ichiro very helpless was that the troops he sent out were blocked by the troops of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and they had not yet left Xiyang County.
Worried about the situation in Pingding County, Moriki Ichiro immediately sent a telegram to the 40 Brigade Headquarters stationed in Shouyang County.
After receiving the telegram from the 79th Wing, Yoshio last month hesitated for a long time, and he sent a telegram directly to Shuichi Takano to inquire about the situation.
When he learned that Shuichi Takano had entangled Sun Weiguo's troops and achieved a certain advantage, Yoshio Kamitsuki wanted to show it.
He also wanted to completely annihilate Sun Weiguo's troops, so he transferred more than 2,000 troops from the reorganized 80th Wing to reinforce Pingding County.
The 80th Wing of the Japanese Army in Shouyang County began to reinforce Pingding County, but what Liangfu did not expect last month was that he did not know which part of the Jin Sui Army was like eating gunpowder, and actually hit an ambush of the 80th Wing, causing the 80th Wing to pay more than 200 casualties.
was taught by Sun Weiguo's troops that the Japanese could only suffer dumb losses, but they were ambushed by the Jin Sui army, and the Japanese were furious.
Last month, Liangfu dispatched infantry artillery squadrons and mountain artillery squadrons to reinforce and fiercely bombarded the positions of the Jin Sui army.
However, to the surprise of Yoshio last month, the other party did not show weakness and directly pulled out eight mountain cannons to counterattack.
The Japanese army and the Jin Sui army launched a fierce battle in Shouyang County, the Jin Sui army changed the style of the weak army, they held their positions and did not retreat, and even counterattacked the Japanese army several times, and the Japanese 80 Wing did not have the slightest temper.
In the end, last month Liangfu noticed that the Jin Sui Army seemed to have begun to mobilize at least one army of troops to appear here in Shouyang County, last month Liangfu did not dare to fight hard, after all, the 80th Wing is a reorganized unit, he immediately reduced his forces in Shouyang County, and at the same time sent a telegram to the 20th Division requesting tactical guidance.
He threw the problem to Kawagishi Bunzaburo, at this time Kawagishi Bunzaburo not only had to face the reinforcement of the troops of Takano Shuichi in Pingding County, but also the troops of the 40th Brigade in Shouyang County, after all, there were already troops of the Jin Sui Army in Shouyang County.
"Immediately send a telegram to Shuichi Takano and ask him to lead the troops to evacuate and get out of the evacuation with Sun Weiguo's troops. The cavalry wing, the 3rd Brigade of the artillery wing, and the 39th Wing of the 78th Brigade Regiment were ordered to immediately reinforce Shouyang County and force back the Jinsui Army troops in Shouyang County. Kawagishi Bunzaburo gave the order in a cold tone.
At this time, he didn't want to start a war with Sun Weiguo's troops, after all, the North China Front had already begun to formulate an operational order to completely annihilate Sun Weiguo's troops, and he didn't need to be in the limelight at this time, the most important point was that the 20th Division was currently the capital that had no limelight.
They will not be able to draw out the combat troops to encircle and annihilate Sun Weiguo, and even if they do, they will inevitably encounter a major blow from Sun Weiguo.
If the crippled 80th Wing had not had to be concealed, Kawagishi Bunzaburo and others would have been punished long ago.
"Send a telegram to Shuichi Takano in my name, and if he acts on his own, I will remove him from his position and put him in the reserve."
Kawagishi Bunzaburo gritted his teeth, he looked at Kimura Kuzo in front of him, and said in a cold tone.
Hisazo Kizumura, who has been following Kawagishi Bunzaburo for a while, knows very well that Kawagishi Bunzaburo is already completely annoyed at this time.