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Under the frantic artillery fire and frenzied attack of the Japanese army, the defenders soon could not support it and fled behind the mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The avenged Yue army immediately rushed towards the mountain, but stepped on the mines laid by the defenders, and the more than 100 Yue soldiers at the front all fell in a pool of blood. By the time the sappers in the rear cleared the mines, the squadron was already in position on the hill a few kilometers to the south.

Feeling teased, the army immediately divided into three routes, outflanked the past, and at the same time requested that reconnaissance planes and bombers be dispatched to keep an eye on the squadron. However, before the vanguard arrived, the squadron withdrew from its position. Fearing another mine attack, the army asked the engineer unit to open the way in front and slowly advanced to the top of the mountain, but did not find a single mine!

The commander of the army completely lost his mind, and ordered the vanguard to abandon all the heavy equipment, carry only water bottles and light weapons, and advance at full speed, and must catch up with the squadron and bite them to death!

Just when the three main divisions of the Yue Army were frantically advancing southward, Gao Fei led troops other than the new Second Division to Huangshiyu, 30 kilometers northwest of Yangjialing, quietly waiting for his next prey, the Ninth Division.

Huangshiyu is located in the territory of Furong Town in the southwest of Pengze County, the west side is a high mountain with an altitude of about 300 meters, the mountain is steep, the east side is also a high mountain, but the mountain is relatively gentle, between the two mountains is a long canyon, a winding simple road extends to the valley mouth according to the mountain situation, after the valley is divided into two, the southwest direction leads to Duchang, the northwest leads to Fuliang, it is the only way for the army to go south. Huangshiyu is about five kilometers long, showing the shape of a narrow pocket at both ends and a wide pocket in the middle, with undulating hills in the valley and deep cliffs, which is very suitable for ambushes.

After inspecting the terrain, Bai Yuehai was overjoyed and strongly requested to lay a net here, annihilate the Ninth Division of the Army, and avenge the fallen soldiers. In the battle to annihilate the Ishihara detachment, the army chose the position of the 53rd Division as a breakthrough point, and attacked more than ten times in a row, because the enemy was a trapped beast fight, causing great casualties to the defenders, and two regiments suffered more than half of the casualties, so Bai Yuehai was worried about this.

Although Gao Fei could understand Bai Yuehai's feelings, he did not agree with his proposal: "Although the terrain here is favorable to our army, we can't set the goal too high!" The new 2nd Division is going south to lure the enemy, and the 167th Division still has to guard against the 3rd and 27th Divisions of the Japanese Army, and the only troops we can actually invest are the 60th and 61st and your 53rd Division, even if we add the heavy artillery brigade and other troops directly under the group army headquarters, the total strength is less than 60,000, while the strength of the 9th Division is more than 28,000 people, which is too reluctant to encircle and annihilate! ”

Ma Debi added: "It's okay that the battle went smoothly, if the resistance of the army is fierce, the duration of the battle will be extended, and the nearest 3rd Division and the 27th Division will definitely come to help in a big way, and the pressure on the 167th Division will be too great!" ”

Zhan Shutang looked at Ma Debi gratefully, and said: "One of my divisions is barely able to cope with the two divisions of the Yue Army, as long as we adopt the method of resisting one by one, we can drag them for a day or two, but after the ninth division finds out that it is in ambush, it will definitely ask for air support." As soon as the bombers arrive, they only need to retreat in the valley and hold on, and they can drag our army to death, and when the time comes, the Southern Route Army will find out that they have been fooled, and they will come to reinforcements desperately, so that not only will they not be able to encircle and annihilate, but they may even be difficult to get out! ”

Bai Yuehai said dissatisfiedly: "According to what you say, do you still need to fight the ambush battle?" After that, he glared at the exhibition hall in a huff. Even his old colleagues didn't support him, Bai Yuehai really couldn't figure it out.

Gao Fei smiled at Bai Yuehai and said, "Of course, the ambush battle still has to be fought, but it has to be played in a different way!" Then he expressed his thoughts and thoughts: "Although the ambush of the Ishihara detachment was successful, the casualties of the 53rd Division were also very large, and the main reason was that the will of the Japanese army to resist to the end was underestimated. Therefore, we must avoid this situation and reduce our own casualties while killing and wounding a large number of Japanese soldiers. In this ambush, I decided to adopt the method of 'encircling three and missing one' to fight, so that the army would have a way to retreat and would certainly not fight to the death; after it had broken and retreated, our three divisions would take turns to assault and not give the enemy a chance to breathe, and annihilate his vital forces in the constant pursuit. When the time comes, as long as we bite the Japanese army to the death, give full play to the superiority of our army's light weapons, and engage the enemy in close combat, even if the bombers come, they may not dare to attack. ”

Ma Debi nodded and said, "As long as we grasp the time well, there is still a chance to get rid of the plane, after all, the time they stay in the air is limited!" ”

Gao Fei said: "What Ma Debi said is very reasonable! The essence of our army's operation this time is to be quick and decisive, and to retreat immediately after killing and wounding a large number of soldiers. ”

There was not a single cloud in the sky, and the temperature rose with the sun and reached its peak in the afternoon. The sun had become as red as fire, radiating endless heat and baking the vast earth. The leaves trembled softly in the sunlight, and a thin layer of water vapor drifted through the air, blurring the distant scene; Bewildered flies swirled and fluttered in the middle of the woods, making a piercing buzzing sound; Crowds of intellectuals gathered on the branches, chirping tirelessly, as if to sing the whole of their short lives; Suddenly, the dry wind blew violently, whistling wildly, and rolled up dry leaves, bark, and branches from the ground, and swirled up in the valley, and threw them far away.

Wang Hai lay on the hot rock, his eyes fixed on the end of the mountain road, patiently waiting for the appearance of the army, and the other brothers in the platoon lay beside him without moving. Although he was already covered with a thick layer of branches, the heat of the sun still made him sweat, wet, and very uncomfortable, and his military uniform was stuck to his body, as if there was an extra layer of skin. Beads of sweat slowly ran down his forehead, with an itch that penetrated into his heart, and he couldn't help but want to wipe it with his hands.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day, the faint hum of car motors could be heard in the distance, and the soldiers were in high spirits and looked at the end of the mountain road.

A truck jolted into view, the open compartment filled with heavily loaded soldiers, a crooked sub-machine gun mounted on top of the cab, and the heavys vigilantly scanned the sides of the road, trying to spot something unusual. The rebuilt 9th Division was made up entirely of retired veterans of the former 9th Division, so although it had only been in force for a few months, it still showed a high level of tactical literacy: the temperature had exceeded 35 degrees, none of the soldiers in the truck had taken off their steel helmets on their heads, and the soldiers standing on the edge of the carriages held their rifles tightly and were ready to fight.

As the truck entered the valley, the machine gunners began firing into the high mountains and dense forests on either side, and after the gunfire rang out, dozens of birds rose into the sky, croaking and knowing and amuseingly, and the valley fell into a suffocating silence, except for the drowsy hum of motors echoing in the distance.

Seeing the bird flying high, the machine gunner confirmed that there was no danger and gave a signal to pass, followed by dozens of trucks full of soldiers coming from a distance, and behind the convoy were soldiers lined up in four columns. Tens of thousands of pairs of military boots were lifted and lowered at the same time, kicking up billowing smoke and dust, making the procession in khaki uniforms disappear from time to time, and behind the kilometer-long procession is a seemingly endless line of baggage wagons, slowly moving forward under the shroud of dust. The length of the line was staggering, and when the front convoy reached the exit of the valley, the baggage wagons behind had not yet entered.

Suddenly, there was an earth-shattering noise in the valley, dirt and stones slid down from the mountain, dry leaves also fell from the branches, and the truck in front rose into the air with a flame more than ten meters high, turned into a dazzling ball of light, and then scattered in all directions. Burning tires rolled down the mountain road, and steel parts smashed against the stone wall with a tinkling sound; The more than twenty soldiers on board were all blown to pieces, and a red rain fell from the sky. The huge force of the explosion blew a large crater more than 10 meters wide and more than 2 meters deep on the road surface, completely cutting off the route of the army's advance.

Immediately afterwards, shells of various calibers fell from the sky and exploded in the middle and near the road, and the originally neat ranks were immediately blown to pieces. At the same time, light and heavy machine guns arranged on the high ground on both sides roared, covering the valley with a dense rain of bullets. The sudden blow caught the army off guard, and they hurriedly fell to the ground and raised their guns to return fire; The soldiers on the truck hurriedly turned over and got out of the car, some lying on the ground, some hiding under the car, and some simply lying behind the corpses, shooting indiscriminately; The infantry in the center was the first to regain their composure and, under the command of the officer, quickly seized the higher hills in the valley and returned fire with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

Yue Jun, who was driving a baggage truck, had just poked his head out of the window to see what was happening in front of him, when a bullet flew from the side and shot straight into his temple, his neck was crooked and lying on the window, and the car staggered more than ten meters away and hit his head against the mountain wall.

Wang Hai wiped the sweat from his face vigorously, turned the muzzle of the gun, and looked for the next target. At this time, several machine gun bullets hit the rocks next to him, and the flying stone chips scraped his face painfully. Wang Hai hurriedly lowered his body and looked in the direction where the bullet was fired, only to see a soldier lying behind a rock on the side of the road, strafing here with a light machine gun. Wang Hai held up the barrel of the gun with his left hand and fired four shots at the army, and the machine gunner immediately fell backwards, and a scarlet flower bloomed on the military uniform on his chest.

When more than 100 heavy guns of the heavy artillery brigade fired five consecutive salvos, the troops began to charge. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches, roared from the hillsides and dense forests, and slaughtered into the enemy's group, and the shouts of killing were heard all over the mountain.

The Chinese soldiers always rushed to the front, repelling the counterattack of the Japanese army with dense firepower, and drove the enemy north. At the same time, the observation posts guided artillery to continuously shell the densely populated areas, and almost every shell took more than a dozen lives. The army was quickly defeated in hand-to-hand combat, and retreated to the way they came, and the loose flow of people became more and more crowded, and despite the desperate shouting and scolding of the officers, it could not stop the soldiers from rushing to the only gap.

The squadron pursued the rear of the team without delay, always keeping the army within its own range, sweeping the enemy down in pieces with dense bullets, peeling off the layers of the army like peeling an onion. Whenever the officers of the army gathered their soldiers around and prepared to block the attack, the shells of the squadron always fell accurately, destroying its will to continue to resist with ruthless destruction. The army finally realized that the resistance was futile, and that there was a way out behind them, and finally even the lower-ranking officers joined the ranks of the rout, and the organized resistance was declared over.

Wang Hai had never fought such a happy battle: countless Yue troops were crowded on the mountain road 100 meters away, and any shot from here would hit more than one target! What is even more incredible is that none of the soldiers fired back, and neither the officers nor the soldiers were desperately pushing everyone around them to escape.

Wang Hai has already emptied five magazines, and the comrades-in-arms around him are estimated to be about the same, and the bullet casings all over the ground clearly illustrate this. He rolled over, took the bullet out of the bullet pouch, and looked into a magazine to press, while several nearby comrades were repeating the same action, only the light and heavy machine guns were still firing relentlessly.

"Battalion commander, how many shots did you take?" The warrior next to him asked.

"Fifty rounds, what about you?" Wang Hai said.

The fighter smiled and said: "I have only three magazines ready. I knew it was as easy as killing chickens, so why should I get a few more! ”

Wang Hai was about to speak, but he heard the squad leader's loud scolding: "You two don't play tricks, you're about to charge!" ”

Then the platoon leader shouted: "Brothers, get on the bayonet and rush with me!" Then he jumped out with his submachine gun in hand.

By the time Wang Hai had loaded the magazine and installed the bayonet, all the brothers in the platoon had rushed out, and he hurriedly jumped up and joined the charging team.

The battle in the valley had come to an end, and the army had finally escaped from the valley after leaving behind thousands of corpses and all the baggage, and the 19th Route Army pursued after it according to the predetermined plan, giving the enemy no respite.

At this time, a dozen bombers coated with blood-red plaster appeared in the sky, whizzing and diving down, ready to support their own troops, but what came into the pilot's field of vision was a chaotic scene: tens of thousands of figures running wildly in the mountains, fighting, gunsmoke and fire everywhere, and the sound of guns and cannons was incessant. The gray uniforms of the [***] team have become almost the same color as the earthy yellow uniforms of the Chinese army after being stained with dust, and they can't be distinguished from the air at all, not to mention, in the pursuit, the two teams are staggered, you have me, I have you, it is completely chaotic.

After more than a dozen consecutive turns, the bomber still felt helpless and finally had to turn back.

In accordance with the established strategy, the three divisions of the 19th Route Army took turns to go into battle, pursued and attacked fiercely, and chased the army all the way out of more than ten kilometers. Although the commander of the 9th Division tried his best to restore order and get out of the rout, under the avalanche-like attack of the squadron [***], he quickly lost confidence and fled to Madang with unwillingness.

At first, the Yue army was still running along the road, but later found that they could not get rid of the pursuit, so they fled towards the surrounding mountains and forests, making it difficult for the Chinese [***] team to reunite and annihilate. After receiving the report from the front, Goofy decisively ordered the troops to stop the pursuit, turn back to clean up the battlefield, and prepare to withdraw from the battlefield.

At this time, the afterglow of the setting has already sprinkled the sky, and the fire on the battlefield reflects each other, forming a wonderful picture. Both sides of the road were full of abandoned supplies and equipment and wounded soldiers, some lying stiffly, some convulsive, and terrible screams coming out of their mouths. The compassionate Chinese soldiers ended their suffering by shooting at close range with rifles

In the Huangshiyu ambush, the squadron killed and wounded more than 8,600 soldiers, captured 12,000 rifles, more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, nearly 100 artillery pieces of various calibers, and a large amount of ammunition and materials, while its own casualties were only more than 300 people, which can be called a brilliant victory! If we simply compare the results of the battle, the Huangshiyu ambush battle is inferior to the Yangjialing battle of the total annihilation of the Shiyuan detachment, but the small price makes all the brothers involved in the battle understand this truth:

With the right planning, it's possible to save yourself as much as possible while smashing your enemies!

After cleaning up the battlefield overnight, Gao Fei commanded the troops to rush 40 kilometers in the direction of Duchang before dawn, and then took cover in the dense mountains and forests, and continued to march until dark, so as to avoid the aerial surveillance of the reconnaissance planes.

The 27th Division, which was closest to Huangshiyu, immediately rushed at full speed after receiving a distress telegram from the 9th Division, but the crisscrossing waterways made them suffer so much that they had to advance while building bridges and roads, and did not arrive at the battlefield until the next morning, and could only collect the bodies of their compatriots.

At the most intense moment of the battle at Huangshiyu, the Suzuki Wing, the vanguard of the 101st Division, thought that it had caught the tail of the middle [***] team, so it ignored the distress signal of the 9th Division and launched an attack on the position of the new 2nd Division

The position of the new 2nd Division was located on a high mountain with an altitude of about 300 meters, where the mountains were densely forested and the vegetation was abundant, which was very conducive to concealment, and behind the hillside was a small stream, which was originally only a few tens of centimeters deep and several meters wide, and the water level rose sharply because of the heavy rain that had fallen before, turning it into a raging river. According to the reconnaissance of the Suzuki Wing, there was no bridge over the creek, so the new 2nd Division had already been cut off from the back road, and there was no way to escape!

After the three divisions were gathered at the foot of the mountain, an unprecedented number of artillery pieces were concentrated and bombarded continuously for half an hour with nearly 10,000 shells, turning over the positions held by the defenders.

The commander of the army clearly saw through the binoculars that just a few minutes after the fierce shelling began, the squadron gave up the first line of trenches, leaving only some monitoring posts, and then gave up the second line of trenches and retreated to the third line of defense on the top of the mountain!

(To be continued)