Chapter 203: The Northwest Side Threat Lifted!
The equipment of the 162 division was excellent. As for the front-line combat units, Tian Zheng has already been equipped with all the standard weapons of the army in later generations, all automatic weapons. Of course, the ammo throughput of automatic weapons is also very impressive! Every unit must carry no less than two bases of ammunition for each combat mission. Moreover, units at the regimental level and above will have a unit roughly equivalent to the company level, which exists exclusively as a transport team. During the combat period, the ammunition supply of the troops, as well as the installation and security of ammunition depots, are guaranteed.
After Long Xin gave the order to open fire, the two regiments belonging to the 162nd Division tilted the ammunition with all their might. Mortar shells, various machine guns, and automatic rifle fire from the hillside were like a barrage of sloping barrages, strafing the enemy positions at the bottom of the hill! Suddenly, there was a burst of people in the enemy's position! This kind of firepower is so fierce that the enemy position has already lost more than two or three thousand people in less than ten minutes! And because this firepower is so powerful, it makes it difficult for the troops in the enemy position to assemble in the fastest time, organize resistance or retreat!
All of a sudden, the enemy troops, who had already been disorganized, began to flee towards the opposite hillside! Many soldiers even threw away all the weapons and ammunition in their hands! For them who are fleeing for their lives in a hurry, those weapons and ammunition are a burden, maybe if they drag on for a while, they will end up like the fallen comrades around them, and go to the Lord of Yama to report!
However, what they didn't expect was that the opposite hillside was also ambushed by two regiments of troops. These two regiments are two regiments under Wang Zhibang of the 110th Brigade, although the weapons and equipment are far inferior to those of the 162nd Division, but this is also a type A unit. It was the elite under Chiang Kai-shek. Otherwise, Lao Jiang would not have been relieved that the 29th Army would come to garrison the military important place of Lugou Bridge! Although the number of automatic weapons in Wang Zhibang's two regiments is not very large, they have plenty of grenades left. The enemy troops at the bottom of the hill were pinned down by two regiments led by Long Xin on the opposite side with ferocious fire. Wang Zhibang's two regiments immediately began to throw grenades down the mountain!
For a moment, the grenade was like a hail flying in the sky. Out of thin air. The enemy troops that have fallen at the foot of the mountain are exploding in a crowded place! It's just that there are too many enemies in a panic to flee for their lives, and basically everywhere there are many people crowded together trying to climb up the mountain. In this way, the power of the grenade will not be able to kill more people, but it can basically kill people near the explosion! Fortunately, there were a huge number of grenades on the mountain, which immediately caused huge casualties to the enemy below the mountain!
When the enemy troops who were crowding and fleeing saw that both sides of the mountain were full of life-harvesting death's calls, they immediately dispersed in a hurry and ran towards both ends of the road. They want to run through this barrage, but apparently their idea is not realistic! On each side of the hill there were two full formations in ambush. Although the two regiments of Wang Zhibang of the 110th Brigade were not quite the same as those of the 54th Army, each full regiment of the 54th Army was at least four or five thousand people. The regimental bar of the 110th Brigade is less than 2,000 people. But so many troops. Enough to form two long ambush lines! Where can the routs who are hoping to escape from both ends of the road outrun the speed of bullets?
Many of the enemy's routs were overwhelmed by this dense offensive, and they actually ran towards the positions where Zhao Qilong and Wang Zhibang were sitting on the opposite side, while most of the more clever routs fled to the rear! Some of them also knew that Lu Dao took the rifle in his hand and occasionally fired back two shots, but most of them had a direct psychological breakdown, where could they still take care of picking up a weapon to fight back, all of them ran away with their heads bored!
But after all, the enemy army had a total of eight divisions and 40,000 guns. Even at this moment, a large area was knocked down by the dense firepower. But it also gave them a chance to breathe. Li Shouxin was greedy for life and afraid of death, and when the troops were first attacked, he was immediately protected by several division commanders. In the effort of this meeting, these 40,000 troops have lost at least more than 10,000 people! The eight division commanders looked at the tragedy on the battlefield. I can only sigh helplessly, I can't say that they can only be the head of the regiment in the future!
However, this remnant of the army was also gathered by them. At this moment, about 10,000 troops were gathered. Begin to organize fire and return fire on the troops of the 162nd Division and the 110th Brigade who were lying in ambush on both sides of the hillside! While fighting back. They retreated the way they came!
The puppet Mongol army is nothing more than a ragtag puppet army, although it claims to be eight divisions. There are 40,000 guns, but less than 12 out of 10 have actually fought on the battlefield, and all of them are troop shelves that can only be pulled up by the former Northeast Army as the backbone. Coupled with the support of the Japanese army's arms and funds, this puppet Mongolian army also looks like a deterrent from the outside!
But the ragtag army is just a ragtag army after all, and it's okay for them to bully and bully the common people with guns on weekdays, but after they arrive on the battlefield, these ragtag armies immediately show their original form! The troops gathered are basically the original team of the Northeast Army, with combat literacy, and if they are in chaos at the moment, they can only die faster! The eight division commanders are all soldiers who do have some talents, and after looking at the battlefield situation at the moment, they hugged Li Shouxin and began to retreat towards the way they came!
The weapons and terrain of the puppet Mongolian army, and the situation on the battlefield were all ignored, although they retreated and returned fire, but the probability of those bullets hitting the officers and soldiers of the 162nd Division and the 110th Brigade was so small that it was almost negligible! But along the way, a lot of soldiers in their team were thrown down! Bullets and grenades on both sides, mortar shells are like ghost talismans, every shell that falls will cause the enemy to fall, and after each barrage, there will be a corpse of the enemy on the ground!
But after all, Li Shouxin has now gathered more than 10,000 soldiers, desperately trying to break through the siege along the way, and he has to stand out against this bullet rain and there are thousands of people. Seeing that Li Shouxin retreated far away with the remnants, Long Xin, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 162nd Division, immediately ordered the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment to take advantage of the victory to pursue! You must bite off another piece of meat from the enemy before you let them go! Obviously, Long Xin also knows that rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry. Although the pursuit of victory has the advantage of momentum, there is no need to waste the lives of the soldiers of your own troops! Tian Zheng taught them that the life of a soldier is the most precious! This viewpoint has long been deep in the hearts of commanders and fighters at all levels of the 54th Group Army!
The two regiments of the 110th Brigade, Long Xin did not let them continue the pursuit. First, because their equipment and combat quality are not as good as those of their own troops, they are afraid that they will only increase casualties. The second is that after all, it is not the troops under his own hands, so it is not good for them to go to danger together. And this messy battlefield all over the ground really needs troops to clean up the battlefield. Although the weapons and equipment of those puppet Mongolian armies are too poor to enter the eyes of the 54th Army, after all, this is also a huge amount of arms, which can also be exchanged for a fortune to enrich military spending.
After Ding Wen, who went to pursue, returned smoothly with two regiments and a batch of weapons and equipment obtained from cleaning the battlefield, Long Xin called the two regiments of the friendly army that had finished cleaning the battlefield, and the troops began to return to the command post of the defensive position on the northwest side of Nanyuan where Zhao Qilong and Wang Zhibang were located!
After Zhao Qilong heard the results of the battle, he couldn't help but pat Long Xin's shoulder excitedly, "Good boy, when I promoted you to be the head of a regiment, it was indeed because I didn't lose my eyes!" This battle was fought beautifully! The group of troops that came to us was about one or two thousand, and we killed all of them, and with the number of people you counted in this ambush battle, we killed at least twenty-six or seven thousand of the enemy in this battle. Of Li Shouxin's eight divisions, only two divisions remained! With Li Shouxin's character of being greedy for life and afraid of death, I am afraid that he will never dare to step forward again! The pressure on our northwest position has been completely lifted! In the future, we will have more space for activities! We can also withdraw from the northwest position and return to the front position to fight the little devils! ”
Wang Zhibang on the side was also excited, and there was a lot of envy in his eyes when he looked at Zhao Qilong. Although the two regiments under him this time can be regarded as the main force of the ambush battle, their combat effectiveness and results are far inferior to Zhao Qilong's two regiments! Moreover, Zhao Qilong's two regiments suffered less than 100 casualties, most of whom were slightly injured by stray bullets. And his two regiments suffered four or five hundred casualties! Most of them don't know how to protect themselves when they drop bombs, and they are hit by enemy bullets! In contrast, Wang Zhibang was a little envious of Zhao Qilong's soldiers' combat quality and powerful firepower of weapons and equipment!
However, Wang Zhibang is also very clear in his heart, after all, the two belong to different military sequences, and it is useless to be envious. Fortunately, Zhao Qilong obviously didn't look down on the weapons and equipment obtained from cleaning the battlefield, so he gave more than half to himself. That's a real benefit, isn't it?
After Zhao Qilong had a conversation with Wang Zhibang, he ordered the troops to march overnight and head towards the battlefield position facing Japan where Tian Zheng was located! (To be continued......)