Chapter 67: A Difficult Choice
Before the demolition team could run out of grenades, reinforcements finally came up. The demolition team had already approached the barricades to drop their bombs, and the fighters knew what to do next.
In order to ensure the angle of shooting, the devils put the sack very high, even the tallest soldier in the company, stood on tiptoe outside, and his hand had just touched the edge of the sack on the top of the barricade. The demolition team threw bricks directly into the barricade across the barricade, just like throwing bricks through the wall. Fortunately, these people's skills are good, and if they were replaced by a slightly inferior person, they might not have thrown it into the wall, but fell outside and blew themselves up.
Throwers could throw themselves through the wall, but soldiers with rifles couldn't shoot through sacks. The sack is not a wall, there is a natural place in the middle that can be stepped on and grasped. The young soldiers, with their hands and feet, hung their rifle straps around their necks, and climbed through the gap in the middle of the sacks, and climbed to the barricade in three or five strokes.
The ground here must have been flat, and the devils were not as tall as our soldiers, and we couldn't reach the top of the barricades, so how could the devils climb to the top and shoot? The soldiers who climbed to the top of the barricade realized that the devils had made stairs with sacks inside the barricade, and the devils could climb to the top of the barricade to shoot. There are so many sacks in it, no wonder the devils can quickly repair the gap that was blown up by our mortars.
About ten meters behind the barricades, there was a low wall made of sack. The devils hid behind the wall to avoid the shells, and when they heard something wrong from this side, they were looking this way. When the two armies met, their eyes were very red, and our warriors roared like tigers descending from the mountains, and pounced! The devil immediately rose to meet him, and the soldiers of the two armies began hand-to-hand combat inside the small barricade.
Hand-to-hand combat is brutal and bloody, but the number of soldiers in our army is far beyond the reach of devils. How many people can a devil set up in a barricade? Ten? Twenty? Or thirty, forty? And what about us? A whole company! More than a hundred fighters, against no more than forty devils, this hand-to-hand combat with close combat, from the very beginning, was a one-sided slaughter.
Seeing that this main barricade had been breached, Wang Jiantang led his large army up later. The defensive ring on the periphery of the devil's headquarters was opened from here, and our soldiers swarmed in, and the devils inside fought back frantically, and the two armies fought face to face.
After all, the number of devils is too small, and they can't resist the attack of our soldiers at all. After leaving the dead bodies behind, the devils began to retreat towards the walls of the headquarters. This is already the last fortress of the devils, as long as they can enter this compound, the commander of the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Nokanichiro, will be in danger! The 500 divisions will also create a brilliant victory since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War!
However, victory is never so easy to achieve, and every great victory must be won after countless twists and turns and with countless blood. Opportunistic fluke success is really rare. Gao Quan today, apparently, does not have this kind of luck.
Just after he led the guard company, special service battalion, cavalry battalion and other troops directly under the division headquarters, as well as Qian Sixi's 500 brigade, to encircle and annihilate the Japanese stragglers in the city, and eliminated a Japanese reinforcement squadron that happened to arrive in Xinyang City from a nearby county town, the correspondent came to report that Wang Dazhu had driven the devil brigade guarding the city into the headquarters, and Ye Kanichiro was about to be captured alive!
At first glance, hearing such good news, even Gao Quan's heart couldn't help but throb for a while. As if to confirm that Major General Nokan's life should not be extinguished, almost at the same time that the correspondent who reported the good news had just finished reporting the good news, another correspondent ran over quickly with the telegram draft in his hand.
"Report, Independence Brigade Urgent Telegram!" Before the correspondent could stand firmly, after hurriedly saluting, he handed the telegram draft to Gao Quan's hand.
Gao Quan took the telegram draft and hurriedly swept it. Zhang Erxiao explained exactly in this telegram that the Ito United had arrived at the south gate of Xinyang, and it was now about five miles away from the city gate at most, that is, 2,500 meters! Counting the blocking at the city gate, that is to say, a wing of devils will be in fire with their own troops in the city within half an hour!
Now in Xinyang City, there are two main brigades on his side, plus the troops directly under the division headquarters, Gao Quan is not afraid of the devil's wing. It's a big deal that the troops will lose some manpower, and a regiment will be filled in the sky, which can completely withstand the devil's wing! Compared to the elimination of Kanichiro, the commander of the brigade of Major General, the loss of a regiment is completely within the range of bearability! It's just that the devil can come so quickly, it is still somewhat beyond Gao Quan's expectations, and a trace of gloom involuntarily appears in his heart.
Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular! The famous sentence handed down by our ancestors thousands of years ago has its own reason. Just when Gao Quan was about to mobilize Qian Sixi's troops to resist Ito Nobuyoshi, another urgent telegram completely confirmed the sentence that disaster is not a single line.
"That devil in Kaifeng has formed a brigade, he has already taken a train, passed through the Queshan, and will enter Xinyang City within three hours!"
Looking at this telegram, Gao Quan's brows furrowed. What he's been worried about all along, this mixed brigade of devils! These devils are the real big threat. The 500 Division's 29th Brigade and Regiment of the Devil Devil severely damaged its 18th Wing, and now it has broken through Xinyang and besieged the brigade headquarters of Nokanichiro.
After the 500 divisions occupied Yingshan, there were still about 15,000 troops, and this series of battles was defeated, although there was no specific troop statistics. According to the number of troop losses reported by various troops, the total strength of their own troops is now at most more than 10,000! With these hands, against the Ito United, if you can take down Kanichiro No, you will use all your strength! After this battle, there are more than 7,000 soldiers left on hand, which is enough to steal fun.
But now? Three hours! In just three hours, a whole brigade of devils has been killed! Gao Quan is confident that he can solve Kanichiro No's in three hours, but he is not confident that he can defeat or get rid of contact with Ito United in three hours!
If the 500 Division really killed Major General Nokan, will Ito Nobuyoshi fight with him? This assumption, Gao Quan doesn't have to guess at all, the result is certain! The loss of the commander of the brigade of major generals is something that no devil officer can afford! When a complete devil wing comes up with a desperate stance, what will the 500 divisions do to deal with?
At that time, the 500th Division will not be able to get rid of Ito Nobuyoshi, and the mixed brigade from Kaifeng will come over and block the door again, and the 500th Division will face a life-and-death crisis! Even if the war zone or the military commission showed great kindness, for the sake of destroying the field survey, and sent troops to help, it would be far from quenching the thirst of the near! The 500 divisions will be more than lucky! The life and death of these tens of thousands of soldiers are just in the moment of their own thoughts!
It's a tough choice!
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