Chapter 20: Lieutenant Commander
On the battlefield, the enemy and our armies are fighting fiercely.
Chief of Staff Liu Dong was ordered to take the infantry company, reconnaissance company, supplementary company and directly subordinate troops of the cavalry brigade to stay in place and wait for Hu Fei. I didn't expect to wait for Hu Fei, but I waited for the devil!
It's a real encounter. Hundreds of devils came up and laid siege to our army!
Liu Dong led the troops to fight and retreat, and after retreating to the more defensible mountain pack, he let Yang Jinsheng's third company and Li San's supplementary company form a circular defensive circle. The brigade headquarters, artillery platoon, medical team and other directly subordinate units were placed in the defensive circle, and the carts of the baggage team were placed on the periphery of the defensive circle as a cover to resist the attack of the devils.
Liu Dong knew in his heart that Hu Fei would definitely be able to come back. He attracted the devil to the periphery of the ring defense circle, and when Hu Fei came back and rushed from the outside to the inside with the cavalry, he led the troops to launch a counterattack. Under the attack of the two sides inside and outside, the devils will inevitably not be able to take care of the head, and only then will our army have a chance to win.
When Hu Fei came with the cavalry troops, the two sides of the battle no longer knew how many rounds of fighting had arrived. The devil made another artillery bombardment, which filled the position of our army with gunsmoke, and the carts arranged on the periphery of the defensive circle as a bunker made the fight scattered, and basically lost its defensive function.
"Yo Xi, 1st Squadron, Charge!" Sasaki Osa excitedly pointed forward with his command knife, and nearly 100 devils from the first squadron who were named immediately held their rifles and started another round of new charges!
This time, Isamu Sasaki was ordered to lead the Sasaki Detachment, which was formed with the 69th Wing as the backbone, to carry out a public order and rectification operation in the Wutai area. In the past half a month, he has basically not encountered decent resistance from the Chinese army.
Two days ago, he was unexpectedly ambushed by Hu Fei's troops during the march, which made his spearhead squad almost die, and it was regarded as a blow to Sasaki, who was empty. Extremely angry, Sasaki Osa and the devil soldiers have been looking for the army that caused the accident, and found the army that did not catch up with him today.
Just when Sasaki thought that the cunning enemy had fled away after the ambush battle, he didn't expect to meet another Chinese army here!
Sasaki couldn't prove whether the Chinese army in front of him was the same group that ambushed the spearhead squad. In his mind, there are only two kinds of Chinese: one is submissive to the imperial army, such as the imperial army; The other is the rebels! No matter which way you rebel, you are an enemy that must be destroyed!
Sasaki was now surrounded by his wing headquarters, transport squadron, artillery squadron, and two infantry squadrons.
Although he didn't have a brigade-level field unit by his side, Sasaki thought that the fighter plane should not be lost! With the troops he has at hand, it is enough to defeat or even eliminate the group of Chinese soldiers in front of him!
More than 100 devils of the first squadron rushed up, but they were blocked more than 100 meters from the position, and the devils lay down to shoot at our troops. The devil has a machine gun and a grenadier; Our troops also returned fire with machine guns and grenadiers.
The weapons used by Hu Fei's troops were basically advanced among the Jin Sui army, mainly due to his previous seizures from the Japanese army, plus several times from the quartermaster depot of Commander-in-Chief Fu. Therefore, in addition to the fact that the artillery is inferior to the Japanese army on the battlefield, in terms of other weapons, the cavalry brigade is actually not much different from the devil.
After a stalemate between the two sides for a while, Liu Dong personally launched a surprise attack with the first company. Gou Tianxiao took two people to Hujia Village, but the first company didn't follow. The first company is a reconnaissance company, all cavalry! Liu Dong led the cavalry company to kill the devil in front of the position with only one charge, and the man fled back on his back and the wolf.
Seeing that the attack of the first squadron was blocked, Sasaki immediately sent his other squadron into the battlefield as well. Of course, before starting the offensive, the guy still let the artillery squadron carry out a round of shelling.
After the shelling ended, the devils gathered two squadrons, and nearly three hundred devils howled and rushed up again! The two company commanders, Yang Jinsheng and Li San, led the troops to respond calmly, and used grenades and rifles to nail the devil to a hundred and fifty meters away! The positions of our troops are like reefs on the coast, standing firm in the face of violent storms and rains!
"Sasaki, you rice bucket!"
Just as Sasaki was solemnly preparing to formulate the next offensive strategy, an extremely harsh voice was suddenly heard in his ears. His Excellency Dazuo frowned, and then a helpless smile appeared on his face. This must be that wing staff officer Lieutenant Ogasawara again, who dares to talk to His Excellency Osaa like this here except him?
"Ogasawara-kun, please speak politely!" Although it was a bit awkward to say this, Sasaki felt that Lieutenant Ogasawara should be corrected in his way of speaking. Now in the army, not in the homeland, you can't talk too presumptuously!
"What, am I wrong?" Lieutenant Ogasawara is still a master who refuses to admit his mistake, and this guy stalks his neck as a matter of course, "You've sent all the only two squadrons into battle, but you haven't achieved anything at all. At the very least, I don't see the slightest sign of victory. Why, do you still want to arm the transport squadron and send it to the battlefield? ”
"Isn't that okay?" Sasaki Yong did have this idea just now, but now he was broken by Ogasawara, which made him feel a little awkward. The chief's mind was guessed in advance by his subordinates, and whoever was the chief would feel uncomfortable.
"Of course not!" Lieutenant Ogasawara didn't intend to save face for His Excellency Osa, and what he said was punching and hard, which was really hard to accept! "What if the transport squadron goes up and still can't make a breakthrough? Are you retreating or are you also going to the battlefield with people from the wing headquarters? ”
"I said, can you have a little brain? You were a dead brain in the factory, why are you still like this in the army now? How did you become the captain of the Great Zuo Wing? Which idiot promoted you? ”
"Ogasawara-kun, please respect yourself!" Sasaki's brain jumped up at that time! The war is unfavorable, and if there is such a guy around him to stimulate him constantly, His Excellency Dazuo is about to go crazy!
"Huh? Sasaki, how dare you talk to me like that? Lieutenant Ogasawara looked at Sasaki in surprise, "Don't forget, how I took care of you when I was in the smelter!" At that time, you had just graduated from school, and you were still snotty on a cold day! Your father invited me to your house to drink and begged me to take care of you. Have you forgotten all this? ”
Ogasawara was still chattering about the past, and Sasaki's face had turned purple eggplant. Although these are all facts, in those years, Ogasawara, the head of the section, always taught him in public like a child, and he still does!
Seeing that no one around seemed to be paying attention to the two of them, Sasaki breathed a sigh of relief.
"What do you think you want to do?"